Pop Culture
This artist’s 2023 album Guts features the hit single Vampire.
Who is Olivia Rodrigo?
This show about a chemistry teacher-turned-drug dealer premiered on AMC in 2008.
What is Breaking Bad?
This country has won the most FIFA World Cup titles in men’s soccer.
What is Brazil?
This landlocked European country is home to the cities of Geneva, Zurich, and Bern.
What is Switzerland?
The word Halloween comes from a contraction of this phrase, referring to the night before a Christian holy day.
What is All Hallows’ Eve?
This actor starred as Ken in the 2023 Barbie movie.
Who is Ryan Gosling?
This fantasy drama became HBO’s most-watched series ever, based on George R.R. Martin’s novels.
What is Game of Thrones?
Known as “The Great One,” this NHL player retired with 61 league records.
Who is Wayne Gretzky?
This Asian country, once known as Burma, changed its name in 1989.
What is Myanmar?
This ancient Celtic festival, marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter, inspired many modern Halloween customs.
What is Samhain?
This Colombian singer’s 2023 “BZRP Music Session” broke YouTube records with over 60 million views in 24 hours.
Who is Shakira?
This Netflix show about a 1980s kids’ group battling supernatural forces is set in Hawkins, Indiana.
What is Stranger Things?
This city hosted the 2016 Summer Olympics.
What is Rio de Janeiro?
This African lake, bordered by Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya, is the largest tropical lake in the world.
What is Lake Victoria?
In 17th-century Scotland and Ireland, people practiced this early form of trick-or-treating, where they went door to door performing songs or prayers in exchange for food.
What is “guising”?
This 2020 Netflix documentary miniseries captivated audiences with its eccentric cast of big-cat owners, including Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin.
What is Tiger King?
This HBO series about the Roy family revolves around their media empire.
What is Succession?
In 1973, this female tennis legend defeated Bobby Riggs in the “Battle of the Sexes.”
Who is Billie Jean King?
This country is the only one in the world that has no official capital city, even though its government operates primarily out of Amsterdam and The Hague.
What is the Netherlands?
This real historical figure, an Eastern European prince known for his brutal tactics, inspired Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula. This branch of physics studies the behavior of matter and energy at atomic and subatomic scales.
Who was Vlad the Impaler?
This actress won the 2022 Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Who is Michelle Yeoh?
This 2014 anthology crime series featured Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as detectives investigating ritualistic murders in Louisiana.
What is True Detective?
This sport, combining cross-country skiing and rifle shooting, is part of the Winter Olympics.
What is biathlon?
The city of Timbuktu, once a center of learning and trade, is located in this modern-day country.
What is Mali?
According to Irish legend, the first jack-o’-lantern was not carved from a pumpkin but from this root vegetable.
What is a turnip?