Cookies, Golden Tickets & Hair-Raising Trivia: Your October 1st Pop Quiz Challenge

October 1st is packed with reasons to celebrate! From freshly baked treats to fabulous follicles, weatherman Jerry Steffen brought the fun for his Hashtag Holiday Calendar and Pop Quiz segment—though this episode had a bittersweet note as Jerry prepares to take medical leave for heart valve surgery. The team is wishing him a speedy recovery and looking forward to his return in about a month.

Today's Hashtag Holidays

National Homemade Cookies Day kicks things off deliciously! Whether you're team chocolate chip, peanut butter, or snickerdoodle, today's the perfect excuse to fire up those ovens. And yes, the real estate trick of baking cookies during an open house? Apparently it really works.

National Willy Wonka Day hands out golden tickets to everyone! The debate continues: Gene Wilder's classic flip or Johnny Depp's quirky take?

National Black Dog Day shines a spotlight on those beautiful dark-coated pups who often get overlooked at adoption centers. Black cats deserve love too!

Finally, National Hair Day celebrates your crowning glory—and it inspired today's hair-themed pop quiz questions!

Test Your Knowledge

Think you know your music history and fairy tales? Watch the video above and see if you can answer these two brain-teasers before the NBC Palm Springs team does:

1) The Broadway musical "Hair" featured unforgettable lyrics listing every hair type imaginable. Which group took the title song into the Billboard Top 5 back in 1968?

A) Buffalo Springfield
B) The Cowsills
C) Steppenwolf

2) In the Grimm fairy tale, Rapunzel gets locked in a tower with her famously long hair. But what inspired her unusual name?

A) Animal
B) Plant
C) Mineral

Watch the video to see if you got them right—and to catch all the laughs along the way!