Albums of the Year
Yey Deutschland
Tokyolympics
Mockbuster Video
Stuck in a Cell
400
This album by Taylor Swift named after her birth year took the award in 2016; it contained songs like "Welcome to New York" and "Style".
What is 1989?
400
Adolf Hitler saw the need for a mass-produced car for the new Autobahn in 1938, so he enlisted Ferdinand Porsche to create this bug-like car.
What is the Volkswagen Beetle?
400
This country won the most gold medals with 39. China came in second with 38 and Japan came in third with 27.
What is the United States?
400
"A Car's Life: Sparky's Big Adventure" (2006)
What is Cars?
400
This organelle is referred to as "the powerhouse of the cell" and is the site of cellular respiration.
What is the mitochondria?
800
The most recent album to win the award was in 2023 by this former One Direction member; it is titled after his house and contains songs like "As It Was" and "Music for a Sushi Restaurant".
Who is Harry Styles?
800
Germany won the FIFA World Cup most recently in 2014 marking their fourth title, defeating this country that had Lionel Messi at the helm.
What is Argentina?
800
This American gymnast who holds the record for most Olympic medals in gymnastics helped America win the team silver medal in women's all-around gymnastics alongside Jordan Chiles, Sunisa Lee, and Grace McCallum.
Who is Simone Biles?
800
"Little Panda Fighter" (2008)
What is Kung Fu Panda?
800
This is one of the only organelles to appear in all forms of cells and is the site of protein production.
What are ribosomes?
1200
This crooner is one of four people to win the award three times, those being throughout the 1960s for "Come Dance With Me", "September of My Years", and "A Man and His Music". The latter was a compilation including hits like "Fly Me to the Moon", "Luck Be a Lady", and "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning".
Who is Frank Sinatra?
1200
Germany was united in 1871 under this Prussian emperor who later had a WWII-era battleship named after him that was famously sunk by the British.
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
1200
Multiple schedule changes were requested by this American broadcaster who paid $7.75 billion to have exclusive rights over the Olympics until 2032 to maximize ratings in its home country.
What is NBC?
1200
"Ratatoing" (2007)
What is Ratatouille?
1200
This organelle is only found in plant cells and is used for storage, mainly of water.
What is the vacuole?
1600
One of two film soundtracks to win the award, it won in 1979 and featured songs from artists like KC and the Sunshine Band, Kool and the Gang, and the Bee Gees, most notably their hit "Stayin' Alive".
What is Saturday Night Fever?
1600
The "Battle of the Nations" took place in this German city in October 1813 and saw Napoleon's armies be defeated by the Sixth Coalition following his unsuccessful invasion of Russia.
What is Leipzig?
1600
This South American country won the gold medal in men's football, beating out Spain and Mexico, who won silver and bronze respectively. They previously won six other medals, even without Pele.
Who is Brazil?
1600
"Plan Bee" (2007)
What is The Bee Movie?
1600
This is the main source of energy in cells; it is a nucleic acid and it is produced during cellular respiration.
What is ATP (adenosine triphosphate)?
2000
This artist's 1994 song stated "I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me?" Turns out he wasn't a loser when his album Morning Phase won AOTY in 2015.
Who is Beck?
2000
This grocery store chain originating in Essen first opened in 1913, though it would later split into "Nord" and "Sud" versions. Its name is the shortened version of "Albrecht Diskont".
What is Aldi?
2000
This German won the gold medal in tennis for Men's Singles, defeating Russian Karen Khachanov in the final and Serb Novak Djokovic in the semifinals, though Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta won the bronze medal match against Djokovic.
Who is Alexander "Sascha" Zverev?
2000
"Little & Big Monsters" (2009)
What is Monsters vs. Aliens?
2000
The cell membrane is made of this, a selectively permeable casing around the cell that allows for easy entry of small, nonpolar molecules that has proteins embedded to allow for transport of other molecules.
What is the phospholipid bilayer/phospholipids?