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These toothy collectible creatures from Pop Mart became one of the biggest toy crazes of 2025.
What are Labubus?
This genre from South Korea continued its enormous worldwide cultural influence through groups such as BTS, BLACKPINK, and Stray Kids.
What is K-pop?
TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram Reels helped make this short, vertical format a dominant way young people consume video.
What is short-form video?
This NFL team defeated the New England Patriots 29–13 in Super Bowl LX in February 2026 to win its second Super Bowl championship.
Who are the Seattle Seahawks?
In 2025, pop star Katy Perry traveled beyond Earth's atmosphere aboard a spacecraft operated by this company.
What is Blue Origin?
This number combination became an enormously popular Gen Alpha/Gen Z meme during 2025.
What is 6-7 (67)?
This rapper's Super Bowl halftime performance became one of 2025's major cultural moments and continued his highly publicized feud with Drake.
Who is Kendrick Lamar?
Grow a Garden and Steal a Brainrot became major 2025 games within this user-generated gaming platform.
What is Roblox?
This NBA superstar, nicknamed "King James," continued playing for the Los Angeles Lakers into his 40s.
Who is LeBron James?
This enormously popular social-media platform briefly went offline in the United States in January 2025 amid a federal ban dispute.
What is TikTok?
A viral moment involving two executives attempting to hide from the camera occurred during a concert by this band.
Who is Coldplay?
This pop superstar released The Life of a Showgirl in 2025, following the record-breaking success of her Eras Tour.
Who is Taylor Swift?
This video platform celebrated its 20th birthday in 2025.
What is YouTube?
This WNBA star entered the league as the No. 1 overall draft pick and became known for her long-range shooting and record-setting college career at Iowa.
Who is Caitlin Clark?
In 2025, a highly publicized theft involving valuable objects occurred at this world-famous Paris museum.
What is the Louvre?
In 2025, users flooded social media with AI-generated images inspired by the visual style associated with this famous Japanese animation studio.
What is Studio Ghibli?
This artist's Short n' Sweet era continued its massive popularity into 2025, with songs such as “Espresso” and “Please Please Please” becoming major pop-culture hits.
Who is Sabrina Carpenter?
This battle royale game continued its pop-culture dominance through frequent collaborations with musicians, movies, superheroes, and other franchises.
What is Fortnite?
This Japanese superstar for the Los Angeles Dodgers is famous for being both an elite pitcher and an elite hitter.
Who is Shohei Ohtani?
In 2025, this NFL team defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX, preventing the Chiefs from winning a third consecutive championship.
Who are the Philadelphia Eagles?
This term became commonly used online for large amounts of low-quality, mass-produced AI-generated content.
What is AI slop?
This global superstar won Album of the Year at the 2025 Grammy Awards for Cowboy Carter, becoming the first Black woman to win the award since 1999.
Who is Beyoncé?
Released in 2025, this Nintendo console became the successor to one of the best-selling gaming systems of all time.
What is the Nintendo Switch 2?
These three MLB sluggers became symbols of baseball’s “Steroid Era.” Despite combining for more than 1,700 career home runs, none has been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the writers.
Who are Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, and Mark McGwire?
This social media personality and professional wrestler faced WWE star Cody Rhodes at WrestleMania 41 in 2025.
Who is Logan Paul?