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Final Jeopardy!
100
In the wake of the movie Conclave, a real papal conclave elected this man to become the first American pope in history.
Who is Robert Francis Prevost/Pope Leo XIV?
100
Los Angeles was struck by this type of natural calamity, leading to at least 31 deaths and massive property damage.
What are wildfires?
100
In March, The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg released US military plans to strike Houthi targets in Yemen which were inadvertently shared by top government officials on this encrypted messaging software.
What is Signal?
100
California passed this ballot measure in November, allowing state legislators to draw new congressional maps.
What is Proposition 50?
100
Travis Kelce and this team were prevented from an unprecedented Super Bowl "Three-Peat" by the Philadelphia Eagles.
Who are the Kansas City Chiefs?
100
After passing the "Baby Bar" on her fourth try back in 2021, this woman, a close personal friend of Lawyer Oyer's, failed on her first attempt of the regular Bar in 2025.
Who is Kim Kardashian?
100
He was the most streamed artist of 2025.
Who is Bad Bunny?
200
2025 saw the release of the fifth and final season of Stranger Things. Stay away from the Upside-Down, lest you run into one of these, the series' original monster.
What is the Demogorgon?
200
Paris, the daughter of this singer of Bad, accused her father's estate of mismanaging and illegally pocketing over $10 million, at the expense of her and her siblings.
Who is Michael Jackson?
200
President Trump cited this 1798 act in March as justification for the deportation of hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador.
What is the Alien Enemies Act?
200
This congresswoman-elect was prevented from being sworn in as part of a Republican plan to delay the release of the Epstein files.
Who is Adelita Grijalva?
200
The CEO of Astronomer, an AI company, was forced to step down after being exposed for having an affair by the Kiss Cam at one of this band's concerts.
Who is Coldplay?
200
This country made English an official language for the first time in 2025.
What is the United States?
300
This large island nation elected its first female prime minister in October.
What is Japan?
300
This social media giant set a dangerous precedent by removing fact checkers from all sites.
What is Meta?
(Also acceptable: Instagram, Facebook, Threads)
300
A six-year-old girl in Lubbock, Texas passed away in February from this illness, for which there has been a vaccine since 1963.
What is measles?
300
In November, a historic election saw Zohran Mamdani become the first Democratic Socialist mayor of New York City. Mamdani became the first NYC mayoral candidate to receive over 1 million votes since 1969, and won the closest election since 2009, when this former-Democrat-turned-Republican famously won re-election as an independent.
Who is Michael Bloomberg?
300
This song won both Song of the Year and Record of the Year at the 67th GRAMMYs.
What is Not Like Us?
300
The United Nations security council has five permanent members, as well as ten temporary ones who rotate every other year. In 2025, this was one such temporary member (i.e. name one).
What are Algeria, Denmark, Greece, Guyana, Pakistan, Panama, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Somalia, and South Korea?
400
This Asian country, also home to the world's most visited city in 2025, became the first in its region to legalize same-sex marriage.
What is Thailand?
400
In October, $100 million worth of jewels were stolen from the Louvre. Small wonder that there was a security flaw—sources revealed that this was the password to the entire Louvre surveillance system.
What is "Louvre"?
400
2025 is on track to be the third-hottest year on record, after 2024 and 2023. Of the five hottest years on record, only this year of the monkey was not in the 2020s.
What was 2016?
400
This center-left party, led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, won reelection in Australia in May.
What is the Labor Party?
400
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a single father and member of the revolutionary group the French 75, One Battle After Another, directed by this man, was one of the most highly-regarded films of the year.
Who is Paul Thomas Anderson?
400
Today is Christmas, December 25th, on the standard Gregorian calendar. On December 25th, 2025 of its lesser-known cousin, the Julian calendar, it'll be this year on our Gregorian calendar.
What is 2026?
500
In April, Colossal Biosciences, the Texas-based company striving to bring species back from extinction, claim to have replicated pups of this former inhabitant of the Americas which went extinct roughly 10,000 years ago.
What is the dire wolf?
500
January saw the country's deadliest aviation accident in over 20 years. The accident in question was a collision over the Potomac river between a commercial plane and this type of US army helicopter.
What is a Black Hawk?
500
A dog of this species was voted World's Ugliest Dog in 2025.
What is an English-French bulldog mix?
500
In November, Democrat Abigail Spanberger became Virginia's first female governor. Spanberger becomes the latest example of a long-standing trend: Virginia has elected a governor of the party opposite the current president every cycle since 1976 except once, when this man won in 2013.
Who is Terry McAuliffe?
500
This 2025 movie quickly became the all-time most watched movie on Netflix.
What is K-Pop Demon Hunters?
500
This was Oxford's word of the year in 2025.
What is "rage bait"?