Pop Culture
This artist won her first every "Best Album" Grammy for the country album Cowboy Carter in 2025.
Who is Beyonce?
In January 2025, a rare winter outbreak of these disasters fueled by 100 mph Santa Ana winds caused over $100 billion in damage across Los Angeles and Malibu.
What are wildfires?
This NFC East team soared to victory in Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans, defeating the two-time defending champion Kansas City Chiefs.
Who are the Philadelphia Eagles?
In August 2025, OpenAI officially released this numbered version of its famous chatbot, which the company claimed possessed "PhD-level intelligence" and advanced reasoning skills.
What is GPT-5?
The 2025 musical sequel starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo becomes the solemn spring holiday that commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus.
What is Wicked: For Good... Friday?
In 2025, this best selling author, known for The Da Vinci Code, released his latest novel - The Secret of Secrets.
Who is Dan Brown?
This department, despite promises to cut fraud and government spending by $2T, was created in January and dismantled by November, after seeing federal spending increase by ~$250B.
What is D.O.G.E. (The Department of Governmental Efficiency)?
In a long-awaited moment, this golfer finally donned his first Green Jacket at the 2025 Masters, ending a decade-long major drought.
Who is Rory McIlroy?
In 2025, renewable energy surpassed energy produced by this fossil fuel, the largest electricity generator for decades.
What is coal?
What is Breaking Bad Bunny?
On August 26, 2025, this couple announced their engagement in a joint Instagram post captioned, “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” which quickly became the most liked social media post of the year.
Who are Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce?
In September 2025, this conservative activist and Turning Point USA co-founder was killed while speaking at a university event in Utah.
Who is Charlie Kirk?
In 2025, this Oklahoma City Thunder star became the first player since Shaq, 25 years ago, to win the Regular Season MVP, the Scoring Title, and the Finals MVP in a single season.
Who is Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (SGA)?
In 2025, doctors successfully customized this 6-letter gene-editing tool to treat a baby’s rare metabolic disorder; its name sounds like an adjective for crunchy fiesta strips in a Taco Bell burrito.
What is CRISPR?
The star of the 2025 sequel Another Simple Favor becomes the Super Bowl LIX headliner who swept the Grammys with the diss track "Not Like Us."
What is Anna Kendrick Lamar?
This romantasy novel by Rebecca Yarros, the third in her series following Fourth Wing and Iron Flame, spent the most weeks at #1 on The New York Times bestseller list in 2025.
What is Onyx Storm?
This Venezuelan opposition leader, who led the movement against Nicolás Maduro, was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize in October -- and later presented it framed to Donald Trump.
Who is Maria Corina Machado?
In April 2025, this hockey legend scored his 895th goal, breaking Wayne Gretzky's all-time record.
Who is Alex Ovechkin?
In 2025, for the first time, scientists at the Centre for Heart Lung Innovation (HLI) at St. Paul’s Hospital 3D printed living tissue resembling this organ.
What is the heart?
The 2025 Netflix animated hit about a girl group fighting monsters becomes the star of Euphoria who stunned on the 2025 Emmys red carpet in a custom McQueen gown.
What is KPop Demon Hunter... Schafer?
This movie, based on a 2011 video game and starring Jason Mamoa and Jack Black, topped the domestic box office with $424M in sales (~$1B worldwide) in 2025.
What is A Minecraft Movie?
This alliterative, two-word term describes the specialized bombs designed to penetrate 200 feet of earth and reinforced concrete before detonating used during June 2025’s "Operation Midnight Hammer" in Iran targeting their underground nuclear facilities.
What is a bunker buster?
This Japanese-born pitcher was named the 2025 World Series MVP after leading the Los Angeles Dodgers to their second consecutive title.
Who is Yoshinobu Yamamoto (Yoshi)?
This 8-letter Chinese startup released a model that plunged Nvidia’s stock by 17%, the largest single-day loss in market capitalization for any company in U.S. history (-$600B).
What is DeepSeek?
The circulating one-cent coin that the U.S. Mint officially stopped producing in November 2025 shares a name with this terrifying dancing clown who returned to haunt HBO in the prequel series It: Welcome to Derry.
What is the U.S. Penny...wise the clown?