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This Barbie was played by Kate McKinnon in the Barbie movie.
Who is Weird Barbie?
Oxford University Press has named this as its word of the year for 2023, used to describe someone’s ability to attract or seduce another person.
What is rizz?
According to a survey* of teens aged 13 - 17 reported this social media platform ranked lowest in both daily use and overall use.
Pew Research Centre, Sept - Oct 2023
What is Facebook?
In May, this org announced the coronavirus pandemic no longer a global emergency.
What is the World Health Organization?
More than 70,000 music fans gathered for this festival were stranded in the Nevada desert when torrential rain overwhelmed their campsites with ankle-deep mud.
What is Burning Man?
This fungal infection is what caused a global pandemic in the TV series The Last of Us?
What is Cordyceps?
This $2.3 billion immersive venue in Las Vegas opened in September with a 25-concert series starring U2.
What is The Sphere?
This newer trend on the social picked up steam earlier this year after several influencer uh-oh’s caused audiences and consumers to question influencer motives and the cult-loved products circulating social platforms. Instead, posts to socials tell audiences what NOT to buy, and often offer cheaper alternatives.
What is de-influencing?
This agency seized 1,475 kilograms of cocaine* between January 1 and October 31, 2023.
*including coca leaves, coca paste, cocaine and cocaine crack
What is the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA)?
in March, many people tuned in to a live-streamed trial in that became a pop culture fixation.
A jury decided this famous person wasn’t to blame for a 2016 collision with a retired optometrist on a beginner run at a posh Utah ski resort during a family vacation.
Who is Gwyneth Paltrow?
Hollywood actors and writers went on strike, bringing most film and TV productions to a standstill for several months before they agreed on new contracts. This person is the lead for SAG-AFTRA, the union for actors.
Who is Fran Drescher?
July 6th this year marked the 10th anniversary of the deadliest rail disaster in modern Canadian history in this town and province.
What is Lac-Megantic, Que?
This 2022 'documentary film', distributed by the Daily Wire, was made available for free via Twitter on June 1st. It amassed more than 177 million views in less than a week.
What is "What is a Woman?"
This tech company faced controversy over its use of facial recognition technology, raising concerns about privacy and surveillance.
What is Amazon?
BC's 2023 record-setting wildfire season followed a warm and dry fall 2022 and spring 2023. Notably, BC experienced temperatures six to 10 degrees above normal in May 2023, and rainfall amounts lower than historical levels. This contributed to accelerated snow melt, leaving high-elevation areas more susceptible to this.
What is lightening?
3 of the celebrities that died in 2023.
Who is:
Suzanne Somers
Matthew Perry
Raquel Welch
Alan Arkin
Paul Reubens
Jimmy Buffett
Sinéad O’Connor
David Crosby
Tony Bennett
Harry Belafonte
Bob Barker
Jerry Springer
Jeff Beck
As Russia’s war in Ukraine raged, a mercenary group attempted an insurrection against President Vladimir Putin. This leader of the Wagner Group later died in a plane crash.
Who is Yevgeny Prigozhin?
In 2023, this social networking service launched an AI-powered content moderation system to combat misinformation and hate speech.
What is Reddit?
Chaos reigned in the US House of Representatives, which elected Kevin McCarthy as speaker after 15 rounds of voting and then ousted him nine months later. This person is the new speaker of the House.
Who is Mike Johnson?
This deep-sea submersible captured international attention when it went missing in the North Atlantic Ocean. Days later, authorities said the sub had suffered a “catastrophic implosion” and all five people onboard were killed.
What is Titan?
2023 was a banner year for Taylor Swift - her concert tour broke this record.
What is the first concert tour to gross $2B
This longest-running show in Broadway history, closed April 16 after 13,981 performances over a 35-year run.
What is "The Phantom of the Opera".
The valuation of X (formerly Twitter) has dwindled by half during the tenure of Elon Musk as owner. Its ad revenue decrease by 89% and he received growing condemnation for racist and antisemitic posts on the platform. He did, however, make it into the Guinness Book of Records for this notable achievement in January.
What is the single biggest loss of net worth in financial history? (Around $200B)
Dale Spender, Australian author of this internationally acclaimed book written in 1980, died in November at the age of 80. In the book, she argued that language is highly gendered and both reflects and perpetuates a male worldview.
What is 'Man Made Language'?
The Indian Space Research Organization sent this spacecraft to the moon in August 2023.
What is Chandrayaan-3 (“moon craft”-3 in Sanskrit).