POP GOES THE CULTURE
This animated Netflix film’s soundtrack produced a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, the first by a female group since Destiny’s Child and the first from an animated movie since Encanto.
What is KPop Demon Hunters?
This bridge, completed in 1957, connected Michigan’s Lower and Upper Peninsulas for the first time by roadway.
What is the Mackinac Bridge?
This dystopian trilogy by Suzanne Collins begins with a deadly televised competition in the nation of Panem.
What is The Hunger Games?
This scientist is famous for proposing the theory of natural selection as a mechanism for evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This fast-food chain, famous for its golden arches, is one of the largest food companies in the U.S. and worldwide.
What is McDonald’s?
On August 12, 2025, this superstar announced a surprise collaboration with Sabrina Carpenter for her next album.
Who is Taylor Swift?
This iconic Michigan football coach led the University of Michigan Wolverines to 13 Big Ten titles from 1969 to 1989.
Who is Bo Schembechler?
In this John Green novel, Hazel and Gus bond over a shared love of books and a trip to Amsterdam.
What is The Fault in Our Stars?
The process by which species change over time due to genetic variation and environmental pressures is called this.
What is natural selection?
This U.S. state is the largest producer of corn, a staple crop for both food and livestock feed industries.
What is Iowa?
Which animated action series premiered on Netflix in April 2025, based on a Capcom video game, and was renewed for a second season just one week after its debut?
Devil May Cry
Nicknamed “The Bad Boys,” this NBA team won back-to-back championships in 1989 and 1990.
Who are the Detroit Pistons?
In the Divergent series, what does it mean to be "Divergent?"
What is having aptitude for multiple factions?
Scientists generally recognize this many major stages or species in the evolutionary lineage leading directly to modern humans.
What is seven?
This type of meat accounts for the largest share of U.S. meat production and consumption.
What is poultry?
In 2025, this film adaptation of a popular video game grossed over $900 million worldwide, becoming a meme-fueled theatrical event with absurd humor and audience participation.
The Minecraft Movie
This 1937 sit-down strike at a General Motors plant in this Michigan city helped spark the modern labor union movement.
What is Flint?
In the first book of The Maze Runner series a group of teenagers wake up with no memories in a mysterious place surrounded by a deadly maze. The group of teenagers were given this title.
What are the Gladers?
This term describes the change in frequency of alleles in a population over generations, often leading to evolution.
What is genetic drift?
This 2017 law, passed to improve food safety standards in the U.S., is known by the acronym FSMA.
What is the Food Safety Modernization Act?
Which British psychological crime drama, released in March 2025 on Netflix, was uniquely filmed in single continuous shots, earned critical acclaim, and led Netflix and Plan B into talks for a second season?
Adolescence
The discovery of iron ore in this Upper Peninsula city in the 1840s led to a mining boom.
What is Marquette?
In Ender’s Game, Ender Wiggin is trained at Battle School to prepare for a war against what alien species?
What are the Formics (or “the Buggers”)?
This famous fossil species discovered in 1974 provided evidence of an early hominid walking upright about 3.2 million years ago is affectionately known as this.
What is Lucy?
This American company, among many other things, owns food brands like Gold Peak tea and Honest Tea.
What is The Coca-Cola Company?