Thxgiving Rewind
According to the AAA, a record-breaking 82 million Americans did this over the holiday weekend, mostly by car.
What is travel?
Families flocked to theaters on Wednesday to see the sequel to this Disney movie about a rabbit cop named Judy Hopps and a fox named Nick Wilde.
What is Zootopia 2?
The United Kingdom officially submitted a bid this week to host the 2035 FIFA World Cup for this sport.
What is soccer (or women's soccer)?
Skywatchers were treated to a beautiful sight this week as these two brightest planets appeared very close together in the evening sky.
What are Venus and Jupiter?
As is tradition, this NFL team from Detroit played a football game on Thanksgiving Day, hosting the Chicago Bears.
Who are the Detroit Lions?
The 99th annual parade in New York City, famous for its giant balloons of characters like SpongeBob and Snoopy, was hosted by this department store.
What is Macy's?
This new movie musical, the second part of the story about the witches of Oz (Elphaba and Glinda), remained the #1 movie in the world for the second week in a row.
What is Wicked: For Good (or Wicked Part Two)?
World leaders have just left the city of Belém in this South American country, where the massive COP30 climate summit concluded last week.
What is Brazil?
Astronomers are tracking a "sun-diving" one of these icy space objects, named Lemmon, which is currently visible with binoculars.
What is a comet?
In a thrilling Thanksgiving Day matchup, Dak Prescott led this NFL team to a big 31-28 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs.
Who are the Dallas Cowboys?
Following the holiday, shoppers rushed to stores on Friday, November 28, for this major shopping event known for huge discounts.
What is Black Friday?
A new sci-fi action movie called Predator: Badlands was released, featuring a futuristic version of this famous alien hunter.
What is the Predator?
The FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup is currently taking place in this Asian island nation, with the final scheduled for next week in Manila.
What is the Philippines?
Stargazers this week have been enjoying incredible views of this gas giant, the largest planet in our solar system, which is currently shining brightly in the eastern sky all night long.
What is Jupiter?
In college football, this "Longhorn" team ruined Texas A&M's perfect season by defeating their in-state rivals 27-17 on Friday night.
Who are the Texas Longhorns (or University of Texas)?
As per tradition, the President "pardoned" two of these birds at the White House earlier in the week, sparing them from the dinner table.
What are turkeys?
To celebrate its 40th anniversary, this classic 1985 time-travel movie starring Michael J. Fox returned to theaters for a limited run over the holiday weekend.
What is Back to the Future?
In a historic moment for the church, Pope Leo XIV visited this continent to attend the closing ceremonies of the climate summit.
What is South America?
NASA announced a minor delay for the Artemis II mission, which plans to send four astronauts to fly around this celestial body next year.
What is the Moon?
The "Davis Cup," often called the World Cup of this racquet sport, held its "Final 8" tournament in Italy this past week.
What is tennis?
Travel records were broken this week as millions of people drove and flew home, marking the busiest travel period of the year according to this agency, the TSA.
What is the Transportation Security Administration?
Rumors swirled this week after a "leaked" trailer appeared online for the third movie in this franchise about blue aliens on the planet Pandora, coming out next month.
What is Avatar (or Avatar 3)?
Tensions remain high in Europe as this country, led by President Zelenskyy, continues to seek more air defense support from its allies.
What is Ukraine?
A new study published this week suggests that a mysterious object passing through our solar system, named 3I/ATLAS, might have come from another star system, making it "interstellar."
What is an interstellar object?
This NBA star, nicknamed "The Greek Freak," scored 40 points in a holiday game for the Milwaukee Bucks.
Who is Giannis Antetokounmpo?