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In November, the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia produced the last of this.
What is the penny?
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This team defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 in a dramatic, 11-inning Game 7 to capture the World Series.
Who are the Los Angeles Dodgers?
The final Stranger Things Season 5 aired in December. This is the decade in which the show takes place.
What is the 1980s?
President Trump claimed to have renamed this body of water "The Gulf of America".
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
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After two years of fighting, Israel reached a cease-fire with this Palestinian militant group.
What is Hamas?
The news extensively covered the murder of Charlie Kirk on September 10, 2025; this is the name of the organization he started.
What is Turning Point USA?
This team won the 2025 Super Bowl.
Who are the Philadelphia Eagles?
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This movie was a surprise mega-hit on Netflix this summer, with eight of its songs landing on the Billboard Top 100 chart.
What is KPop Demon Hunters?
This talk show host was pulled off the air for comments he made in September.
Who is Jimmy Kimmel?
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Jewels were stolen from this museum in October.
What is the Louvre?
Catastrophic floods and wildfires were part of 2025.
A flood struck this state July 4 weekend, killing 135, including dozens of children from a summer camp.
Wildfires in this urban area cost 30 lives and $150 billion in damages.
What is Texas and Los Angeles?
Eye injuries increasing in this sport in 2025. (There were 1,262 injuries taking person to the ER in 2024, and more in 2025.)
What is pickleball?
Australia recently became the first country to ban this. (Need to be specific)
What is social media for those under 16 years of age?
At the start of his second term, President Trump tasked Elon Musk with firing thousands of federal workers and cutting government waste. This is the name of the organization Musk led.
What is the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)?
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The U.S. just seized this leader of Venezuela.
Who is Maduro?
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President Trump signed an executive order on March 20th saying that he said would begin eliminating this cabinet “once and for all”.
What is the Department of Education?
This is the highest paid college football coach in 2025, earning $13.3. million.
Who is Kirby Smart (Georgia)
This streaming service recently bought Warner Bros TV and Movie Studies for $72 billion.
What is Netflix?
President Trump has talked about running for a third term, yet the Constitution does not allow it because of this amendment.
What is the 22nd amendment?
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On June 22, President Trump sent American warplanes and submarines to strike three nuclear facilities in this country.
What is Iran?
Zohran Mamdani is the recently elected and first Muslim and Asian American mayor in New York. This is the platform (idea) he won on.
What is affordability?
This woman won the U.S. women's tennis open.
Who is Aryna Sabalenka?
At the start of 2025, Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, announced this big change.
What is the end of fact-checking?
The longest federal shutdown in U.S. history came to a close on the night of November 12th. The shutdown lasted this many days.
What is 43?
This is the present-day population effect of China's previous one-child policy.
What is the fact that the population in China now has 30 million more males than females?