POTPOURRI
This four letter word describes the moon as it passes from full to new
Wane
Who did Anita Dunn think Future Forward were in October 2020?
Republicans
This song spent 22 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100, making it the longest streak ever. It pokes back in year after year..
All I Want For Christmas Is You
“He was a man who seemed to live in a state of permanent gloss. He would stand at his desk for hours, refusing to sit, as if a chair were a concession to the frailty he didn’t possess, frequently checking his own reflection in the windows of city hall to ensure the architecture of his hair hadn’t succumbed to the fog.”
Gavin Newsom/Young Man In A Hurry
He was the youngest U.S. President to take the oath of office. No, not the youngest to be elected
Theodore Roosevelt
This donor made largest individual donation in 2024 🤫
Bloomberg
She’s the most Oscar nominated actress of all time, first winning best supporting actress for Kramer vs. Kramer in 1980
Meryl Streep
“There is a kind of soul-deep satisfaction in a perfectly filled pothole. It is a small, asphalted victory over the entropy that threatens our shared spaces.”
Pete Buttigieg/Shortest Way Home
Tapestry, Inc., TPR is the ticker symbol for the parent company of what luxury brand?
Coach
How fast after the 2024 candidate switch did Future Forward go up?
100 hours
On the premiere of this emotional NBC drama series, Kate, Kevin, and Randall were all expecting triplets
This Is Us
"We must be cognizant that the moment we are in is a moment that is informed by the moments that came before it, and that those moments—if we truly see them—will lead us to the moment we are meant to inhabit together."
Kamala Harris/108 Days
This message was the first ever transmitted data on the internet’s predecessor, ARPANET, in 1969, when UCLA programmer Charley Kline was just trying to login..
"LO" (The system crashed!)
This children’s song is featured in one of Future Forward’s earliest, and maybe eeriest ads
If You’re Happy and You Know It
This show that premiered on February 1, 2013 was the first ever TV show produced specifically for Netflix. The main character famously likened proximity to power to real estate...location, location, location!
House of Cards
"America doesn't need more megaphones; we need more porch swings. We need a place where the creak of the wood and the cool of the evening remind us that we are all just folks, trying to do right by our kids and keep the lightning bugs of our dreams alive in a jar of collective hope."
Andy Beshear/Go and Do Likewise
The German name for this animal is ‘nilpferd’ or, ‘nile horse’
Hippopotamus
Name three menu-items for the 2025 Future Forward Donor Retreat leaked to, and subsequently reported on, by the New York Times
Mini lobster rolls, short rib tostones, heirloom tomato carpaccio, beef tenderloin, seared seabass
This artist is the only 2024 rock and roll hall of fame inductee to have also won an acting Oscar
Cher
“When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different.”
Trump/Crippled America