Lit
This Rebecca Yarros fantasy novel set at Basgiath War College became one of the most talked‑about books on TikTok in 2025, and is sadly the most popular book of this year.
What is Onyx Storm?
Scientists captured the first full-color images of this planetary neighbor’s surface during a flyby mission in 2025.
What is Venus?
The ongoing conflict between Russia & Ukraine and this A24 film
The Russo-Ukraining Warfare
In April 2025, the world mourned the passing of this long-serving religious leader, succeeded by Pope Leo XIV.
Who is Pope Francis?
A Shakespeare tragedy starring Hamlet merged with a popular board game involving hotels and railroad
What is Hamlet-opoly?
This Suzanne Collins novel expanded the Hunger Games universe with a prequel following Haymitch Abernathy in the Fiftieth Games.
What is Sunrise on the Reaping?
A 2025 experiment successfully grew miniature versions of this human organ in a lab to study disease and test medications safely.
What is the brain?
A Shakespearean tragedy about the premiere sandwich offered by an eatery known for its golden arches.
Big Macbeth (Ive ran out of ideas)
This notorious file was released in 2025, revealing long-hidden documents and sparking global media coverage.
What are the Epstein Files?
The city in Scotland hit by a mild earthquake merges with the site of the NATO summit in the Netherlands.
What is Scotland The Hague?
In this 2025 #1 UK and US bestseller, private detectives Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott return in a sprawling new crime story involving secrecy, corruption, and human trafficking.
What is The Hallmarked Man?
Researchers completed a personalized therapy using gene-editing technology to treat an ultra-rare metabolic disorder in record time.
What is CRISPR gene therapy?
The first American Pope took this name and the No kings protest took place on this date
Pope Leo the XIV of June
This social media platform faced regulatory debates in the US as lawmakers discussed banning it over national security concerns.
What is TikTok?
The 2025 Norwegian film “Sisu: Road to Revenge” joins forces with Taylor Swift’s chart-topping dance-pop single.
What is Sisu: Road to Revenge The Fate of Ophelia?
This 2025 nonfiction book by Cory Doctorow analyzes how major tech platforms decline in quality over time, coining a now‑viral term about digital services.
What is Enshittification?
Advances in qubit stability and error correction in 2025 brought practical machines in this field closer to reality.
What is quantum computing?
This Netflix original musical made waves worldwide and this son of a former president received a pardon
K-pop Demon Hunter Biden
A record-breaking auction in 2025 saw a self-portrait by this Mexican painter sell for the highest price ever for a female artist.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
The US president who began his second term in 2025 combined with the popular Marvel sequel starring Captain America.
Trump-america: Brave New World
Named a Booker Prize winner in 2025, this novel by David Szalay explores masculinity and the life of Hungarian protagonist István.
What is Flesh?
The Jiangmen Underground Observatory provided highly precise measurements of oscillations in these nearly massless, ghost-like particles.
What are neutrinos?
An absorbent, yellow, porous and fictional sea creature whose fibs are easily detected by his flaming slacks.
Who is Spongebob Squarepants on Fire?
This streaming giant was at the center of takeover negotiations and media headlines in 2025.
What is Netflix?
The 2025 blockbuster starring Ryan Gosling as an astronaut on a desperate mission to save humanity is called Project Hail Mary.
What is Project Hail Mary?