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It's the Most Wonderful Time to Test Your Wind Knowledge
June 15th is packed with a theme. National Fly a Kite Day, National Electricity Day, and Global Wind Day all share the calendar today, each one tracing back to a single legendary moment in 1752, when Benjamin Franklin flew a kite into a thunderstorm to prove that lightning was a discharge of electricity. The holidays are all tied together, and so is today's pop quiz.
Weatherman Jerry Steffen put two wind-themed questions to the Morning News team, and if you think you know your music history and classic Hollywood, now is your chance to prove it.
1) Bob Dylan wrote "Blowin' in the Wind" as an early antiwar protest song, posing a series of rhetorical questions about peace, war, and freedom. Dylan's own 1963 recording never cracked the Billboard Hot 100, but another group took their version all the way to number two that same year. Who was it?
A) Crosby, Stills and Nash
B) Peter, Paul and Mary
C) Simon and Garfunkel
2) The epic Civil War romance "Gone with the Wind," released in 1939, made history the following year at the Academy Awards with 10 nominations and 8 wins. Among those wins, one made history when a "Gone with the Wind" actress became the first African American to ever take home an Oscar. Who was she?
A) Butterfly McQueen
B) Hattie McDaniel
C) Josephine Baker
Watch the video above to see how the control room scored, and find out if you did better than the morning team.
By: NBC Palm Springs
June 15, 2026


