2025 Happenings
This viral collectible toy brand featuring blind-box monsters became a cultural phenomenon in 2025.
This WNBA expansion team made history in 2025 as the first expansion franchise to reach the playoffs in its inaugural season.
Who are the Golden State Valkyries?
This 1995 romantic film is the longest-running film in Indian cinema history, screening continuously at Mumbai's Maratha Mandir theater for over 27 years.
What is Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge?
This South Bay town is named after the numerous mountain lions and bobcats that used to populate the area at the base of the Santa Cruz mountains.
What is Los Gatos?
What famous art museum was robbed of priceless art in October 2025?
The Louvre
A concert by this band became a scandal when a "kiss cam" segment exposed a cheating involving the CEO and HR head of an AI company.
What is Coldplay?
This Giants pitcher threw a no-hitter against the Reds on August 2, 2024 - the first for the franchise since 2015.
Who is Blake Snell?
This 2001 Aamir Khan sports epic became the third Indian film ever nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards.
What is Lagaan?
This "Island City" is located just south of Oakland and is known for its Victorian homes and former Naval Air Station.
What is Alameda?
This animated kids movie spawned two fictional music groups that topped the Spotify charts for several weeks in 2025.
What is K-Pop Demon Hunters?
This pope was elected in 2025 and is the first American-born pope.
Pope Leo XIV (14th)
The Athletics began playing their 2025 season at this Minor League ballpark in West Sacramento after leaving Oakland.
What is Sutter Health Park?
This 2001 film is credited with revolutionizing the "urban cool" aesthetic in Bollywood and made the Fort Aguada in Goa a mandatory pilgrimage for friend groups.
What is Dil Chahta Hai?
This Peninsula town is consistently ranked as one of the most expensive zip codes in America and is located between Redwood City and Menlo Park.
What is Atherton?
The Chinese dim sumdish "turnip cake" is not made with turnips, but rather with this variety of radish.
What is Daikon radish?
This British music superstar completed both the Tokyo and Berlin marathons in secret this year, breaking the 3-hour mark in the latter.
Who is Harry Styles?
This Sharks rookie surpassed Wayne Gretzky’s teenage NHL point record in the 2025 season.
Who is Macklin Celebrini?
This 1998 Mani Ratnam thriller was the first Indian film to ever break into the UK Top 10 box office; it is famously known for a dance sequence filmed on a moving train without safety harnesses.
What is Dil Se?
This historic island in San Francisco Bay was once a quarantine station and ranching site.
What is Angel Island?
In 2024, this southeast Asian country began moving some government agencies to its newly constructed capital city.
What is Indonesia?
This phrase became the Oxford University Press's word of the year for 2025.
What is "rage bait"?
The 49ers signed this former Patriots and Jaguars first-round pick to be Brock Purdy's primary backup for the 2025 season.
Who is Mac Jones?
This 2016 sports drama remains the highest-grossing Bollywood film of all time, largely due to its unprecedented $190 million run in China.
What is Dangal?
Known as the "City of the Dead," this Peninsula town has a population of roughly 1,700 living residents and over 1.5 million "permanent" residents.
What is Colma?
The potato is native to this continent
South America, the Andes Mountains specifically.