Waste, Fraud & Abuse
This federal agency spent $600,000 in 2016 to study why monkeys throw their feces, part of a pattern of questionable research grants.
What is the National Institutes of Health (NIH)?
This Southeast Asian country is where MindaRyn was born and raised, where she watched anime like Doraemon and Pokémon on TV.
What is Thailand?
This desert planet serves as the primary setting for the Borderlands series, where Vault Hunters search for alien technology and treasures.
What is Pandora?
This charity's hashtag was co-opted by QAnon conspiracy theorists to promote baseless theories about child trafficking rings.
What is #SaveTheChildren?
This 2024 anime was the first instance of Corey hearing the word "wincest" - an event that would change many things.
What is Alya Sometimes Hides her Feelings in Russian?
Barrel of pork "The Big Beautiful Bill" increases the US debt ceiling by this many trillions of dollars.
What is 5 trillion dollars?
"Blue Rose Knows" was MindaRyn's debut single in 2020, serving as the ending theme to this anime about a boy reincarnated with divine powers.
What is By the Grace of the Gods?
"Ain't No Rest for the Wicked" by this band serves as the intro song for the first Borderlands game.
Who is Cage the Elephant?
A 2024 X post alleged that this billionaire’s purchase of an island chain was a cover for building a secret base to control global communications.
Who is Elon Musk?
This artificial persona was developed by Mythra to seal away her own memories and destructive impulses after the tragedy at Torna.
Who is Pyra?
This infamous Alaska infrastructure project, nicknamed for its connection "to nowhere," became a symbol of government pork barrel spending before being canceled in 2015.
What is the Bridge to Nowhere?
This video platform is where MindaRyn started in 2015 by covering Japanese anime songs, eventually reaching over 900,000 subscribers.
What is YouTube?
This charismatic villain, introduced in Borderlands 2, is considered one of the most memorable antagonists in modern gaming and seeks to rule over Pandora.
Who is Handsome Jack?
X threads in 2025 suggested that this class of antidepressants, found in trace amounts in tap water, is part of a plot to pacify the public.
What are SSRIs?
This secret society's goal of breaking the "chains of causality" drives much of the conflict across multiple nations in the Trails series.
What is Ouroboros?
The GSA spent $823,000 on a lavish 2010 conference in this Nevada city, featuring a mind reader, commemorative coins, and a $75,000 bicycle building exercise.
What is Las Vegas?
"Like Flames" was used as the second opening theme to the second season of this popular isekai anime about a corporate worker reborn as a slime.
What is That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime?
This explosive-loving teenager became so popular she got her own fantasy-themed spin-off game.
Who is Tiny Tina?
According to X posts, this ancient structure’s precise construction is evidence of extraterrestrial architects, a theory boosted by a 2020 tech mogul’s tweet.
What are the Pyramids?
This is Alex's apartment number.
What is 326 (or whatever Alex answers)
This federal program accidentally sent $1.2 billion in duplicate payments to 160,000 deceased individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic.
What is the Economic Impact Payment program (or stimulus checks)?
MindaRyn chose her stage name because it sounds like this romantic English phrase that also appears in her song lyrics.
What is "My Darling"?
Gearbox internally pitched the original Borderlands concept as this memorable mashup of two popular game franchises.
What is "Halo meets Diablo"?
X posts claim this secretive annual meeting of global elites in Switzerland is where plans for a one-world government are hatched.
What is the World Economic Forum?
This catastrophic event ended the original version of FFXIV and served as the lore explanation for the game's complete relaunch as A Realm Reborn.
What is the Seventh Umbral Calamity (or the Fall of Dalamud)?