CHICAGO — In 2016, nobody beat the Cubs: not the Los Angeles Dodgers, not the Cleveland Indians, and certainly not Brangelina.
An AP poll asked 1,007 Americans about events of 2016, including ten under the heading of pop culture and sports. Memorable or not memorable?
Included in the list were the Olympics, the Broadway play "Hamilton," and Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize in literature.
The end of the 108-year-old championship drought scored highest, with some 55 percent saying the Cubs win was "memorable" or "very memorable."
In the Midwest, seven in 10 respondents called November's World Series win memorable.
Of nine other pop culture items tested, two were called memorable by about half of Americans: the deaths of Prince, David Bowie and Leonard Cohen; and the Olympic victories of the U.S. women's gymnastics team.
The two lowest scoring events: the divorce of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt and the "Pokemon Go" app game phenomenon.
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