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This short-form video app was forced to sell its U.S. operations in 2025 or face a national ban.
What is TikTok?
A word that’s spelled the same forward and backward.
What is a palindrome?
This city is home to the Mall of America.
What is Bloomington?
This is the term for a series of instructions that a robot follows.
What is an algorithm?
Tequila is primarily made from this plant.
What is agave?
This tech company recently announced its “Gemini 2” AI model.
What is Google?
This type of pun plays on two words that sound the same but have different meanings.
What is a homophone?
Minnesota is known as the “Land of” this many lakes.
What is 10,000? (Even though it’s actually ~11,842)
This common coding structure repeats a block of code until a condition is met.
What is a loop?
Hops are most commonly used in making this alcoholic beverage.
What is beer?
In 2025, this country hosted the Summer World Expo in Osaka, drawing millions of visitors.
What is Japan?
This 5-letter word changes one letter to become its opposite: “united” vs. “untied.”
What is “untie” → “unite”?
This famous beverage company began in St. Paul in 1885.
What is 3M?
This robotics competition, popular in high schools, is known for its acronym FIRST. What does FIRST stand for?
What is the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology?
This popular Minnesota brewery makes the beer “Castle Danger Cream Ale.”
What is Castle Danger Brewery?
This billionaire CEO stepped down from SpaceX’s board in early 2025 to “focus on long-term innovation.”
Who is Elon Musk?
This figure of speech gives non-human things human traits.
What is personification?
This river runs right through the Twin Cities.
What is the Mississippi River?
This sensor helps robots detect distance by using emitted light.
What is LIDAR?
This term describes wine aged in barrels to enhance flavor.
What is oaked wine?
This environmental phenomenon hit record highs in 2025, making it the hottest year ever recorded globally.
What is global warming / climate change?
This term describes a word formed by rearranging all the letters of another word.
What is an anagram?
This region of northern Minnesota is known for iron mining and the hockey-obsessed culture nicknamed “The Range.”
What is the Iron Range?
This coding concept allows an object to take on multiple forms — a key principle of OOP.
What is polymorphism?
This spirit, Scotland’s national drink, must be aged at least 3 years in oak barrels to legally qualify.
What is Scotch whisky?