The Frisbee began as a toy from the late 1930s, when Walter Morrison and his future wife Lucile tossed a popcorn can lid on a beach near Los Angeles. Morrison later sold the design to Wham-O, which renamed the disc the Frisbee in 1957. The name came from students at Yale who tossed empty pie tins from the Frisbie Pie Company, and Wham-O's marketing shifted the disc toward a sport. Ed Headrick redesigned the mold in 1964 with raised rings that improved stability, and his work led to disc golf. The Frisbee was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in 1998.

Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Karnataka, India, with more than 1,600 surviving remains spread over 4,100 hectares. It was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire from 1336 to 1565. Travellers from Persia and Portugal described it as a prosperous, wealthy and grand city with temples, markets and farms along the Tungabhadra River. By 1500 it was estimated to be the world's second-largest city after Beijing, and probably India's richest at the time. In 1565 a coalition of Muslim sultanates defeated the Vijayanagara Empire, its capital was conquered and destroyed, and the city was left in ruins. Hampi remains a religious centre, with the active Virupaksha Temple at its heart.