Hashtag Trivia
Bad Luck, Good Cake, and Big Brains: Happy Holidays from Jerry Steffen!
Friday the 13th just got a whole lot more interesting. NBC Palm Springs weatherman Jerry Steffen kicked off the morning with a triple dose of holiday cheer on this week's Hashtag Holiday Calendar and Pop Quiz segment, and yes, one of those holidays involves tempting fate on the unluckiest day of the calendar year.
🌂 National Open an Umbrella Indoors Day
That's right, folks. Today is the day to throw caution (and apparently all superstition) to the wind and pop open that umbrella right in your living room. Landing on Friday the 13th makes this one extra spicy, and the whole point is to challenge those old superstitions head-on. Are you brave enough to try it?
🍰 National Coconut Torte Day
After all that superstition-busting bravery, you deserve a treat. National Coconut Torte Day is here to deliver, celebrating a gorgeous multilayered cake loaded with buttercream, jam, cream, and all the good stuff. Honestly, it looks pretty amazing, and no bad luck is going to ruin a good slice of cake.
✨ Smart and Sexy Day
The third holiday of the day challenges a very different kind of outdated thinking. Smart and Sexy Day pushes back against the notion that women cannot be both intelligent and beautiful at the same time. Spoiler alert: they absolutely can, and today is all about celebrating exactly that.
🎯 Pop Quiz Time: One Smart, One Sexy
In the spirit of Smart and Sexy Day, Jerry served up two perfectly themed multiple-choice questions. Think you know your classic TV trivia and your 90s music? Watch the video above to find out!
Question 1: The Smart One
Get Smart is a late-1960s comedy television series that parodied the secret agent genre. The show starred Don Adams as the hilariously bumbling top-secret government agent Maxwell Smart, working for a spy organization called Control. We all know Control's Agent 99, but what was Maxwell Smart's own secret agent number?
A. Agent 008
B. Agent 12
C. Agent 86
Question 2: The Sexy One
The post-grunge love song "Sex and Candy" was a solid Billboard Top 10 hit single in 1997. The band's lead singer and guitarist John Wozniak has shared the quirky story behind the song's title, which apparently came together after a spontaneous comment about a college dorm room. Which band scored a hit with "Sex and Candy"?
A. Blind Melon
B. Fastball
C. Marcy Playground
Think you know the answers? Test your knowledge by watching the video above to see how the NBC Palm Springs morning crew did, and find out if you can score a perfect 1000 just like Manny in the control room!
Catch Jerry Steffen every morning on NBC Palm Springs for the Hashtag Holiday Calendar and Pop Quiz, plus your complete weather forecast for the week ahead.
By: NBC Palm Springs
March 13, 2026
