Design lore
This was Pantone's 2026 Color of the Year, the first pick in the program's history that's essentially a non-color
Cloud Dancer
It's the only U.S. state that borders exactly one other state
Maine
Amy Poehler was married to this co-host of the popular 3-man podcast
Will Arnett
Kendall Jenner starred in a disastrous 2017 campaign for this fizzy brand
Pepsi
There are two potential formal names for these symbols: { }
Braces or curly brackets
Figma was founded in this year
2012
Botanically, a banana qualifies as one of these; a strawberry doesn't
Berry
Tom Holland was unaware of this hit song made by his (tall) wife
Replay by Zendaya
The famous blackout ad for this brand played during Super Bowl XLVII in 2013
Oreo
In 2011, the AP Stylebook dropped the hyphen from this very common word
Email (formerly e-mail)
This 1957 Swiss typeface is so popular that it got its own documentary in 2007
Helvetica
This is the technical name for the little plastic tube on the end of a shoelace
Aglet
This actor was born Nicolas Kim Coppola and changed his surname to try to avoid nepo status
Nicolas Cage
A famous 2010 campaign with Isaiah Mustafa birthed this tagline of a decades-old grooming brand
The Man Your Man Could Smell Like (Old Spice)
AP style famously omits a comma before the conjunction in a simple series — it goes by these two names
Serial or Oxford comma
Don Norman, then a cognitive scientist at Apple, used this title at Apple in the 1990s, thought to be the first official UX title
User experience architect
Thanks to its overseas territories, this European country spans more time zones than any other nation
France (12)
This artist holds the record for the most Album of the Year Grammy wins as of 2024
Taylor Swift
Betty White got tackled into a mud puddle in a 2010 Super Bowl ad that launched this candy brand's "you're not you when you're hungry" campaign
Snickers
Bell Labs engineers are credited with coining this jokey formal name for the "#" symbol
Octothorpe
Lorem ipsum is scrambled and modified Latin text from the writings of this Roman philospher
Cicero
The "ZIP" in ZIP code is an acronym for this
Zone Improvement Plan
CROSSOVER !! This artist headlined the famous blackout Super Bowl of 2013
Beyonce
After a 2018 supply chain failure left its UK restaurants out of chicken, this chain ran a full-page apology ad that rearranged three letters of its own logo
KFC ("FCK")
Advertising executive Martin Speckter invented this mark in 1962 to combine a question mark and an exclamation point
Interrobang (‽)