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100
This 2023 blockbuster completely took over pop culture with its bright pink aesthetic, existential dread, and Ken’s unforgettable "Mojo Dojo Casa House."
What is Barbie?
100
This iconic mockumentary sitcom follows the daily, chaotic lives of employees at the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.
(Hint: The boss is not "SUPERstitious" ... but a little stitious.)
What is The Office?
100
While working as a university professor and grading a pile of incredibly boring student exams, J.R.R. Tolkien flipped to a completely blank page and spontaneously scribbled down the random, historic sentence: "In a hole in the ground there lived a..."
What is The Hobbit?
100
This British powerhouse singer named her first four critically acclaimed, chart-topping studio albums (19, 21, 25, and 30) entirely after the exact age she was when she began writing the songs for them.
Who is Adele?
100
A still image from a 1967 friendly neighborhood cartoon episode titled "Double Identity" became one of the most widely used meme templates in history, perfectly deployed by the internet whenever two people, brands, or figures are caught calling each other out for the exact same behavior.
What is the Spider-Man Pointing meme?
200
After this 2001 animated movie was nearly complete, lead actor Mike Myers convinced the studio to let him re-record his entire vocal track using a distinct Scottish accent, costing the production an extra $4 million.
What is Shrek?
200
In Season 1 of this series, Joyce Byers strings up Christmas lights and paints the alphabet on her living room wall to communicate with her missing son, Will.
What is Stranger Things?
200
The iconic symbol of rebellion in this book series is a fictional hybrid bird that was accidentally created when the Capitol's genetically engineered "jabberjays" mated with regular female mockingbirds.
What is The Hunger Games?
200
Following the massive success of a 2003 hit song, the Polaroid company was forced to issue a public statement warning consumers that following the track's iconic instructions to "shake it" could actually distort and ruin their physical photos.
What is "Hey Ya!" by OutKast?
200
In February 2015, a poorly lit Tumblr photo of a casual lace dress completely broke the internet, sparking massive scientific debates on human color perception and dividing the world into two fiercely arguing camps. What were the colors of this dress that people were debating?
What is White & Gold vs. Blue & Black?
300
If you take the first letters of the main characters' names—Dom, Robert, Eames, Ariadne, Mal, and Saito—they form an anagram that spells out the exact word that describes the movie’s central concept.
(Hint: The director is Christopher Nolan)
What is Inception?
300
Pedro Pascal plays a tight-lipped bounty hunter who belongs to a strict creed, protects a mysterious child, and slowly upgrades his armor using a rare, blaster-resistant metal called Beskar in this series.
What is The Mandalorian?
300
Because the author always imagined the wise old Headmaster wandering around the castle hallways humming to himself in this book series, she chose his specific last name because it is an Old English dialect word for a "bumblebee."
What is Harry Potter? / What is Dumbledore?
300
The full Korean name for this record-breaking group translates literally to "Bulletproof Boy Scouts" – a concept chosen to signify their mission to block out the societal stereotypes, criticisms, and expectations aimed at young people like bullets.
Who is BTS?
300
This legendary prank was born in 2007 when web users hid links, instead redirecting millions of unsuspecting people to the music video for Rick Astley's 1987 hit "Never Gonna Give You Up."
What is Rickrolling?
400
A genuine pair of the famous ruby slippers used in this 1939 film was stolen from a Minnesota museum in 2005, sparking a massive 13-year investigation before the FBI finally recovered them in 2018.
What is The Wizard of Oz?
400
What is the name of the struggling team Ted Lasso manages?
What is AFC Richmond? (Or "The Greyhounds")
400
This legendary sci-fi/horror masterpiece was written by Mary Shelley after Lord Byron challenged his houseguests to a contest to see who could write the best ghost story.
What is Frankenstein?
400
This 2003 indie-rock track features one of the most recognizable riffs in modern music history. While it sounds like it's being played on a deep bass guitar, it was actually recorded using a regular semi-acoustic guitar routed through a pitch-shifting pedal—and it has since evolved into a universal, wordless chant sung by millions of sports fans globally.
What is "Seven Nation Army" by The White Stripes?
400
In the summer of 2014, global social media feeds were completely taken over by this viral charity phenomenon, which raised over $115 million for ALS medical research by daring participants to film themselves getting drenched in freezing water.
What is the Ice Bucket Challenge?
500
Despite being one of the most widely parodied lines in cinema history, the exact phrase "Play it again, Sam" is actually a pop-culture myth and is never spoken once by any character in this 1942 black-and-white masterpiece.
(Hint: Closing line "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.")
What is Casablanca?
500
Before settling on the iconic one-word title that defined 90s television, creators David Crane and Marta Kauffman originally pitched this sitcom under the working title Insomnia Cafe.
What is Friends?
500
Ray Bradbury famously wrote this iconic dystopian novel in the basement of a UCLA library using a coin-operated typewriter that charged 10 cents for every 30 minutes, totaling exactly $9.80 in dimes.
What is Fahrenheit 451?
500
This artist originally wrote her massive 2007 breakout country-pop hit "Our Song" entirely as an unreleased track just to perform for her 9th-grade high school talent show, with no initial plans to put it on an album.
Who is Taylor Swift?
500
Created in 1998 by a Canadian art student just to win a website traffic competition with her sister, this incredibly basic webpage featuring 392 identical dancing animated GIFs set to a sped-up country music loop became one of the very first true viral internet phenomena in history.
What is The Hampster Dance?