Snowflakes and Candles
This spinning top game of chance allows players to ante up, betting gold coins or chocolates in this common Hanukkah tradition.
What is dreidel?
This game was invented in 1968 as a hybrid of a variety of sports such as football, basketball, and soccer with an emphasis on sportsmanship and fair play and a lack of physical contact.
What is Ultimate Frisbee?
This classic detective series fully entered the public domain in January of 2023.
What is Sherlock Holmes?
This Disney sequel released in 2024 was originally slated for release as an animated series on Disney+.
What is Moana 2?
This portable music player, first introduced by Sony in 1979, revolutionized the way people listened to music on the go.
What is a Walkman?
This common colorful party favor isn’t just for kid’s birthday parties – it’s also a common Las Posdas (Mexican Christmas) tradition featuring seven points representing the seven deadly sins.
What is a pinata?
Pickleball originates from this Pacific Northwest area and is one of the fastest growing sports in the United States with over 36.5 million players. The game is seen as one of the most accessible sports and is suitable for players of all ages.
What is Bainbridge Island?
The American Library Association’s banned book list has ranked this book as the top banned book for the past 3 years, holding the top spot for almost as long as it’s been on store shelves.
What is Gender Queer by Mai Kobabe?
While 2024 has seen many successful (and not so successful) film sequels, sweeping 9 of the 10 ten top film releases of the year, one reigns atop them all as the highest grossing film of 2024.
What is Inside Out 2?
Popular through the 1980's, this storage device used magnetic tape to hold data and could store a whopping 1.44 megabytes in its latest iterations.
What is a Floppy Disk?
Decorating trees, feasting with loved ones, hanging mistletoe, caroling, and creating and hanging wreaths are all traditions originating from this holiday.
What is Yule/The Winter Solstice?
This unique Olympic sport has been part of the Olympics since 1896 and is one of only five sports to have been featured in every modern Olympic games.
What is Fencing?
YA author Suzanne Collins is back at it again with another addition in the Hunger Games series, this time focused on the 50th hunger games centered around Haymitch Abernathy entitled _______.
What is Sunrise on the Reaping?
If she wins for an Oscar for her new hit film Wicked, Cynthia Erivo will be the youngest winner of this prestigious and exclusive achievement.
What is the/an EGOT?
Common in classrooms and meeting rooms before digital displays, this device used mirrors and a bright light to display images from clear sheets onto a wall or screen.
What is an Overhead Projector?
This holiday involves the cultural tradition of gifting money in red envelopes, traditionally adorned with gold details and symbols gifted to children, elderly, and married couples, as a symbol of good luck and prosperity.
What is the Chinese New Year?
Parkour describes the practice of traversing objects in a man-made or natural environment through running, vaulting, and jumping between/over them. The term originates from the French phrase “le parcours du combattant”, which approximately translates to _________.
What is “the obstacle course”?
Released this year, Fourteen Days is a collection of stories about residents of an apartment building during the pandemic with each character’s story written by a different famous author, compiled and released by this best-selling Canadian novelist best known for their dystopian fiction works.
Who is Margaret Attwood?
The Oscar for best animated feature in 2024 was given to Hayao Miyazaki’s (supposed) swan song film, _____________, making it his second best animated feature Oscar winner, the first being the 2003 Oscar winning Studio Ghibli film, Spirited Away.
What is The Boy and the Heron?
Originating in Mesopotamia around 2500 BCE, this calculating device, still used in some parts of the world, relies on a framework of rods and movable beads to perform complex mathematical functions.
What is An Abacus?
This week-long holiday occurring in late December involves lighting seven candles to represent seven principles of the holiday: unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith.
What is Kwanzaa?
This multifaceted sport combines volleyball, football, gymnastics, and capoeira played on an inflatable court.
What is Bossaball?
This spy thriller released at the top of 2025 with a mystery all of it’s own – who is the Elly Conway? Due to the book’s unusual release with a film adaptation being announced and released before the book had ever hit shelves, people speculated who the author behind the pen name was with names from Taylor Swift to JK Rowling, the reality turned out to be much simpler than the fanfare and speculation.
What is Argyle?
This underrated 2024 film featuring former Disney actor and Riverdale lead, Cole Sprouse, is soon to be known as a cult classic inspired by a classic piece of gothic literature.
What is Lisa Frankenstien?
Released in 1972, this device is considered the first home video game console, featuring simple games like "Table Tennis" and requiring plastic overlays for your TV screen.
What is the Magnavox Odyssey?