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Time magazine announced this week that their 2025 "Person of the Year" isn't just one person, but the "Architects of" this fast-growing technology.
What is AI (or Artificial Intelligence)?
On Sunday night, families around the world lit the first candle on this nine-branched candelabra.
What is a Menorah (or Hanukkiah)?
In the annual rivalry game played this weekend, the Navy Midshipmen narrowly defeated the Black Knights of this military branch, 17-16.
What is the Army?
Theater lobbies are already packed with blue decorations for the release of Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third movie in the franchise, coming out this Friday.
What is Avatar?
Skywatchers braved the cold Saturday night to watch the peak of the Geminids, which is the year's best shower of these.
What are meteors (or shooting stars)?
This massively popular open-world game by Rockstar (GTA VI) finally got a confirmed release date of "Fall 2026" in a new announcement this week.
What is Grand Theft Auto (or GTA)?
President Biden and other world leaders sent congratulations as this "Festival of Lights" began on Sunday evening, December 14.
What is Hanukkah?
The White House revealed its 2025 holiday theme, "A Winter Wonderland," featuring a massive 19-foot tree in the Blue Room from this state, known for its first.
What is North Carolina?
History was made Saturday night when Fernando Mendoza, the quarterback for this university (the Hoosiers), became the first player in his school's history to win the Heisman Trophy.
Who is Indiana University (IU)?
Middle schoolers flocked to theaters this weekend to see the spooky sequel Five Nights at Freddy's 2, based on the popular this.
What is a video game?
While looking for meteors, you can currently see this giant planet, the largest in our solar system, shining very brightly in the east.
What is Jupiter?
Time's "Person of the Year" cover featured the CEOs of major AI companies, including Sam Altman of OpenAI and Jensen Huang of this chip company.
What is Nvidia?
A new report showed that due to the popularity of GLP-1 medicines (like Ozempic), sales of this sugary beverage have dropped to their lowest level in 20 years.
What is soda (or soft drinks)?
To celebrate the season, the Postal Service released new stamps featuring these "spiced" cookie characters often made of gingerbread.
What are Gingerbread Men?
This NBA superstar, known as "King James," announced he will officially retire after the 2025-26 season ends.
Who is LeBron James?
The movie musical Wicked: Part Two is still soaring at the box office, telling the rest of the story of Elphaba and this "Good" witch.
Who is Glinda?
The Geminid meteors appear to "radiate" from the constellation Gemini, which is named after these "twins."
What are Castor and Pollux (or The Twins)?
This social media app, owned by ByteDance, launched a new "Study Mode" this week that filters out distracting videos for students.
What is TikTok?
The U.S. Mint released the final quarter in its "American Women" series this week, honoring this famous author of Little Women.
Who is Louisa May Alcott?
During Hanukkah, children often play a game with a four-sided spinning top called this.
What is a dreidel?
The "Army-Navy" game was played in this Maryland city, home to the Ravens and the Orioles.
What is Baltimore?
A new trailer dropped for the live-action version of How to Train Your Dragon, giving us our first look at this black dragon in "real life."
Who is Toothless?
Unlike most meteor showers that come from comets, the Geminids come from a rocky asteroid named this (starts with P).
What is Phaethon?
Apple released a software update (iOS 19.2) this week that allows you to unlock your iPhone just by using this biometric scan of your palm.
What is a palm scan (or hand scan)?
In a major medical breakthrough, the FDA just approved the first-ever vaccine to prevent this tick-borne illness that causes a "bullseye" rash.
What is Lyme Disease?
According to a new survey, the most wished-for gift by teenagers this year is simply this (often given in card form).
What is money (or gift cards/cash)?
In soccer, the draw was held this week for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, confirming that the USA will play its opening match in this California city.
What is Los Angeles (or Inglewood)?
This actor, who voices the character of Bowser, is hosting Saturday Night Live next week to promote the new Super Mario holiday special.
Who is Jack Black?
NASA's Voyager 1 probe, which is billions of miles away, successfully sent back data this week after a computer glitch had silenced it for months.
What is Voyager 1?
Scientists at MIT demonstrated a new robot skin this week that can "feel" this sensation, helping robots hold delicate objects like eggs without breaking them.
What is touch (or pressure)?