Memes and Brainrot
Primarily used by Gen Alpha and Gen Z to confuse adults, this 2025 meme involves shouting two specific numbers while moving hands up and down with palms facing up.
What is 6-7?
These intelligent marine mammals, known for their playful behavior, are sometimes spotted swimming in the waters around New York City.
What is a bottlenose dolphin?
Though its captain bragged of a Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs, this legendary freighter is best known to most for ferrying Luke Skywalker and his allies across the galaxy."
What is the Millenium Falcon?
Once a priestess in Athena's temple, this woman was transformed into a serpent-haired monster by Athena herself.
Who is Medusa?
One of this unit is equivalent to the distance from the Earth to the Sun in kilometers (around 150 million!)
What is an astronomical unit?
This popular 2010s meme, later labeled a hate symbol by Hillary Clinton, featured a sad, anthropomorphic frog and was often used to express feelings of loneliness or irony.
What is Pepe the Frog?
Also known as the rock dove, this ubiquitous New York City animal was recently commemorated with a public statue by former Mayor Eric Adams.
What is a pigeon?
To board this iconic scarlet train, witches and wizards must run directly at a solid masonry barrier between Platforms 9 and 10 at King's Cross Station.
What is the Hogwarts Express?
To reclaim his iconic weapon from the giant Thrym, this Norse thunder god famously disguised himself as the goddess Freya in a wedding dress.
Who is Thor?
This mission crewed by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins in 1969 was the first successful mission to put a man on the moon.
What is Apollo 11?
This popular Twitch streamer and TikTok influencer known for "looksmaxxing" was tragically framemogged by a frat leader from Arizona State University.
Who is Clavicular?
Despite heavy urbanization in the area, this terrifying apex predator has been recorded in the waters off the coast of Brooklyn and Long Island.
What is a great white shark?
After being abducted by desert-dwellers and sold to a traveling circus, this iconic six-legged beast with arrow-shaped markings was lured into a secret prison beneath Lake Laogai before being freed by an exiled prince.
Who is Appa?
In the Hall of Truth, this jackal-headed deity would place a deceased person's heart on a golden scale to weigh it against the feather of Ma'at.
Who is Anubis?
Hidden beneath thick clouds of sulfuric acid, this high-pressure planet experiences a runaway greenhouse effect that makes it the hottest in our solar system.
What is Venus?
The singer of this early 2026 viral SoundCloud meme claims, "Yeah, I think about it every time I hit the hookah" after his grandmother's tragic demise.
What is "RIP Granny, She Got Hit By a Bazooka"
Covering most of the state 20,000 years ago, this specific geographic formation created the Central Park boulders, the Finger Lakes, and Long Island.
What is a glacier?
Launched from the Hail Mary with life-saving Taumoeba samples by Dr. Ryland Grace, these probes were affectionately named after these four celebrities.
Who are John, Paul, George, and Ringo?
After waiting twenty years for his master's return to Ithaca, this faithful hound was the only one to see through Odysseus's magical disguise before dying of a broken heart.
Who is Argos?
This interstellar space probe carrying a Golden Record intended for any extraterrestrial life that might find it was launched in 1977 and left the solar system in 2012.
What is Voyager I?
Often appearing in TikTok "Italian Brainrot" videos, this AI generated character is a barefoot humanoid wooden drum with a baseball bat.
Who is Tung Tung Tung Sahur?
Once nearly wiped out by airborne toxins, this extremely fast bird of prey has returned to New York City, often nesting on skyscrapers and bridges instead of cliffs.
What is a peregrine falcon?
Boasting brushed stainless steel and gull-wing doors, this failed 1980s sports car became a cinematic legend when Doc Brown rigged it to travel through time at 88 miles per hour in the classic movie Back to The Future.
What is the DeLorean DMC-12? (Will accept DeLorean)
After famously declaring himself 'Great Sage, Equaling Heaven,' this stone-born trickster was imprisoned under a mountain by the Buddha for 500 years.
Though she was celebrated as a hero of the Space Race, this animal's mission to become the first living creature to orbit the Earth was never designed for a return trip, making her a one way pioneer of the stars.
Who is Laika?