History by Letter - M

It wouldn't have occurred to me to try. Hilarious!

In a famous episode of the TV show Seinfeld called ‘the Bubble Boy,’ George is playing trivial pursuit with an arrogant, obnoxious ‘boy’ who lives in a clean room (and goes unseen the whole episode). When the gloating ‘kid’ (he is deliberately voiced by one of the older writers to lessen sympathy for him) is about to win, the question is about who ruled Spain and the answer is ‘Moors.’ But the card has a misprint on it and says ‘Moops,’ and because the kid’s been so rude and obnoxious, George chooses to take the position that the kid is wrong and that, since the card says ‘Moops,’ it is the only acceptable answer. This leads to a huge fight.

It’s one of the best episodes of maybe the best sitcom of all-time.

In french, we call them the Mogols (or Moghols), so I had to check the english spelling (which is not cheating in my opinion). They are of course related with the Mongols.

I never knew "Ford T" began with an M.

They're still called Mormons in various places.

I just took a quiz today that called the movement Mormonism. Thus, it's still called that. Though more accurate would be to call it Smithism, as Mormon is a fictional character. So it's also accurate to say they are called Smithians. As I just called them that.