2025 Pop Culture
This "Cowboy" artist took home Album of the Year at the 2025 Grammys.
Beyoncé
"Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his..." this.
Wings
He cleared 6.30m in Tokyo to be named World Athlete of the Year (again).
Mondo Duplantis
Buddy the Elf’s four main food groups are candy, candy canes, candy corn, and this.
Syrup
This popular social media app was famously banned for exactly 12 hours in the US this year.
TikTok
The year the original Home Alone was released.
1990
This horror game franchise released its second movie in Dec. 2025, featuring animatronics.
Five Nights at Freddy's
"You'll shoot your eye out, kid!" is a warning given in this film.
A Christmas Story
This Spanish tennis phenom continued his dominance by winning Laureus Sportsman of the Year.
Carlos Alcaraz
Buddy travels through the seven levels of the Candy Cane forest and the sea of swirly-twirly this.
Gumdrops
In May 2025, a massive storm from this celestial body gave us unprecedented auroras.
The Sun
The year Elf premiered in theaters.
2003
He performed the Super Bowl LIX Halftime show, notably wearing Celine bootcut jeans.
Kendrick Lamar
"Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal" is a line from a gangster movie within this movie.
Home Alone
This F1 driver continued his reign, taking the Laureus World Sportsman award for Motor Racing.
Max Verstappen
The department store where Buddy gets a job (and creates a "snow" display).
Gimbles
A new "Zap-and-Freeze" method allowed scientists to capture clear images of these brain cells firing.
Neurons
The release year of It's a Wonderful Life.
1946
This fuzzy monster toy from "The Monsters" series became the unexpected viral collectible of 2025.
Labubu
"Bless this house and all who enter" is the toast given by Aunt Bethany in this chaotic comedy.
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
The city that hosted the 2025 World Athletics Championships, where Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone shone.
Tokyo
The name of the unseen character on the phone who Buddy calls an "angry elf."
Miles Finch
In a medical first, doctors successfully performed a transplant of this organ in May 2025.
The Bladder
The year Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas came out.
1993
The "Coldplay Incident" that went viral involved two people caught on the Jumbotron who were secretly this.
"The thing about trains... it doesn't matter where they're going. What matters is deciding to get on."
The Polar Express
This team was named the Laureus World Team of the Year for 2025.
Real Madrid (Men's Football)
The specific song Jovie is singing in the shower when Buddy joins in.
"Baby, It's Cold Outside"
Astronomers added two new moons to this planet in 2025, bringing its total count to 97.
Jupiter
The year Die Hard was released (making it a Christmas movie since then).
1988