2025 Culture
This animated Netflix film about a K‑pop girl group who secretly fight demons became one of the most streamed originals of 2025.
What is KPop Demon Hunters?
This U.S. state, nicknamed “The Garden State,” was one of the original thirteen colonies.
What is New Jersey?
This classic breakfast dish, literally “lost bread” in French, was invented to rescue stale bread by soaking it in eggs and milk before frying.
What is French Toast?
Major restaurant chains in 2025 underwent modern redesigns, with this classic diner scrapping its “Old Timer” logo after intense online reaction.
What is Cracker Barrel?
This Asian country celebrates Lunar New Year with red envelopes filled with money, symbolizing luck and prosperity.
What is China?
This Tom Holland–voiced mystery film—one of Netflix’s top movies late in 2025—involves detective Benoit Blanc solving a dangerous priest‑related murder.
What is Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery?
This popular sneaker brand is known for its swoosh logo and for being the choice of dads.
What is New Balance?
In Germany, a common toast is “Prost!” This word literally translates to this English phrase often used before drinking.
What is 'Cheers'?
Published in 1925, this F. Scott Fitzgerald novel marked its centennial in 2025.
What is The Great Gatsby?
In this South American country, people often wear yellow on New Year’s Eve to attract good fortune.
What is Brazil?
This British band’s 2025 concert went viral when an on-screen kiss-cam moment sent social media into a frenzy.
What is Coldplay?
This novel by Aldous Huxley imagines a futuristic society shaped by technology and conditioning.
What is Brave New World?
The phrase “raising a toast” comes from a 16th-century tradition of putting this aromatic ingredient into wine to enhance flavor.
What is a piece of spiced bread?
In 2025, this more-than-40-year-old American denim brand sparked online backlash with a Sydney Sweeney ad built around the line “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans,” making it one of the year’s most talked-about fashion controversies.
What is American Eagle?
This fruit is traditionally eaten at midnight in several countries because it symbolizes abundance and prosperity.
What are grapes?
Used to describe the overwhelming, often chaotic content that consumes your thoughts online, this phenomenon became associated with surreal AI creations and bizarre viral edits in 2025. (Shimpanzinni Bananinni)
What is Brainrot?
This creature typically sleeps 16–18 hours a day, cannot regulate its own body temperature, and communicates almost exclusively through reflexive cries.
What is a newborn?
In this Scandinavian country, people often sing a short drinking song called a snapsvisa before drinking snaps or aquavit.
What is Sweden?
NASA’s Perseverance rover made news in 2025 after finding unusual rock samples near Jezero Crater on this planet’s surface.
What is Mars?
The practice of making New Year’s resolutions can be traced to vows made to this Roman god during January festivals.
Who is Janus?
The atomic number of this element places it between dysprosium and holmium on the periodic table. (Children everywhere became obsessed with this "number" in 2025)
What is 67?
In this film about a teenage girl caught between love and danger with a centuries-old creature, she nearly dies cliff-diving after her immortal boyfriend leaves—a dramatic moment foreshadowing the Volturi’s arrival.
What is New Moon?
Believed by some to display the face of the Virgin Mary, this decade-old grilled cheese sandwich sold at auction for this eye-popping price.
What is $28,000?
In 2025, a biotech breakthrough made headlines when scientists announced the creation of animals resembling this long‑extinct Pleistocene predator.
What are genetically engineered dire wolves?
Until the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, England officially celebrated the new year on this March date.
What is March 25?