MUSIC
This app, used by millions to identify a song playing nearby just by holding up your phone, was acquired by Apple in 2018.
What is Shazam?
This Spanish heist series, known internationally as "La Casa de Papel," became one of Netflix's most-watched non-English-language shows ever.
What is Money Heist?
Pittsburgh's NFL football team wears black and gold and is called this.
What are the Steelers?
This neural network architecture, introduced in a 2017 Google paper titled "Attention Is All You Need," underlies most modern large language models.
What is the Transformer?
This 2026 supernatural horror film became the fifth-highest-grossing horror movie of all time after earning $505.7 million worldwide on a budget of just $750,000
What is Obsession?
This British singer-songwriter's 2024 album became such a cultural moment that a shade of lime green is now associated with it.
Who is Charli XCX (album: Brat)?
This Japanese animation studio, co-founded by director Hayao Miyazaki, made films like "Spirited Away" and "My Neighbor Totoro."
What is Studio Ghibli?
This yellow, tent-shaped incline (a small train up a hill) gives a famous view of the city and is a popular tourist spot.
What is the Duquesne Incline?
This Chinese AI startup's release of a low-cost, high-performing open-source model in early 2025 briefly wiped out billions in US tech stock value, including Nvidia's.
What is DeepSeek?
This international sporting event, the biggest in football (soccer), was co-hosted by the US, Canada, and Mexico in the summer of 2026.
What is the FIFA World Cup?
This record label, headquartered in the Netherlands, is one of the "Big Three" companies (alongside Sony and Warner) that dominate the global music industry.
What is Universal Music Group?
This animated film about a K-pop girl group that secretly fights demons became a surprise global hit on Netflix in 2025.
What is KPop Demon Hunters?
Pittsburgh sits where two rivers meet to form a third one. Name any one of the three rivers.
What is the Allegheny, Monongahela, or Ohio River?
This Indian Space Research Organisation mission made India the first country to reach Mars orbit on its very first attempt, in 2014.
What is Mangalyaan (the Mars Orbiter Mission)?
In March 2026, this South Asian cricket team defeated New Zealand to win the Men's T20 World Cup for a third time.
What is India?
This artist became the first to win the Grammy for Album of the Year three separate times using entirely re-recorded versions of her earlier albums.
Who is Taylor Swift?
This 2019 South Korean film became the first non-English-language movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
What is Parasite?
This sandwich, invented in Pittsburgh, famously puts french fries and coleslaw inside the sandwich itself.
What is a Primanti Bros. sandwich?
This subatomic particle, confirmed at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in 2012, is associated with giving other particles mass.
What is the Higgs boson?
This Japanese city hosted the 2025 World Expo, themed "Designing Future Society for Our Lives," running from April to October.
What is Osaka?
This Latin music genre, popularized by artists like Bad Bunny, J Balvin, and Karol G, blends Jamaican dancehall with Spanish-language rap.
What is reggaeton?
This French film festival, held every May, is considered the most prestigious in the world and awards the Palme d'Or as its top prize.
What is the Cannes Film Festival?
This former steel mill site along the Monongahela River was redeveloped into a shopping and entertainment complex known by this name.
What is The Waterfront?
This vaccine technology, used by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, earned its two pioneering researchers the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
What is mRNA (messenger RNA) technology?
This viral phrase - popularized by NBA player LaMelo Ball - was named Dictionary.com's 2025 Word of the Year.
What is "6-7"?