Kpop
For the release of their 2023 EP Get Up, this K-pop girl group transformed themselves into animated characters for a massive collaboration with The Powerpuff Girls.
Who are NewJeans?
Going viral in South Korea, this trendy treat takes the crispy kataifi pastry and pistachio cream from a famous Middle Eastern chocolate bar and wraps it inside a chewy, cocoa-dusted marshmallow shell.
What is Dubai Chewy Cookie?
This hyper-popular beauty service in South Korea involves draping different fabrics over your shoulders to determine if you are a "Spring Warm," "Summer Cool," or another seasonal palette.
What is Personal Color Analysis?
Cici’s adorable white Samoyed is named Zimi, which translates to "purple rice." Ironically, if she were named after her actual fluffy white coat, her name would be this Chinese term for "white rice."
What is Baimi? (Also accept: Bai Mifan)
What is a K-pop group that is also a cake flavor
Red Velvet
When eating this iconic, creamy milk candy, you are actually supposed to eat the clear, inner wrapping because it's made of edible rice paper.
What is White Rabbit candy?
Often seen stuck to the back of phone cases, these viral, collectible mini cherub figures wear various headgear ranging from strawberries to animal ears.
What are Sonny Angels? (Also accept: Smiskis)
Often referred to as "Korean Thanksgiving," this major harvest festival is celebrated by returning to ancestral hometowns and eating half-moon-shaped rice cakes called songpyeon.
What is Chuseok?
Hunan Express is a beloved campus food place for many CMU students. One of their side menus is pork dumpling and you can get a certain amount of dumplings under a dinner block.
What is 12?
Twice is a popular K-pop group under JYP entertainment. How many comebacks did they have in their entire career.
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Known for its iconic rooster logo and green cap, this beloved hot sauce suffered massive global shortages after a bitter 2016 legal breakup with its chili supplier of 30 years.
What is Sriracha? (Also accept: Huy Fong Sriracha)
Commonly seen as a 'dexterity flex' on TikTok in 2025, this trend involves using two traditional wooden utensils to securely hold a smartphone—often to film a 'hands-free' vlog or a 0.5x selfie.
Every team has 90 seconds. The first team to successfully prop their phone up and take a group selfie using only two chopsticks wins 300 points!
This is the official internet "ship name" for CMU's very own Miss Korea runner-up, Park Hee-sun, and her endgame match, Lim Su-been, from Season 5 of Netflix's Single's Inferno.
What is HeeBeen?
K-pop fans on stan twitter (now X) use this term to describe a highly underrated or unknown group from a small entertainment company that hasn't hit mainstream success yet.
What is Nugu?
In a viral "Ruby-chan" TikTok audio featuring the Japanese idol group AiScReam, this classic ice cream flavor is the third and final one mentioned after Chocolate Mint and Strawberry.
What is Cookies and Cream?
Set to a 2006 track by the Black Eyed Peas, this viral TikTok makeup transition celebrates Y2K Filipina beauty, highlighting "morena" energy, glossy lips, and ultra-thin eyebrows.
What is Bebot Challenge?
Named after a long-legged bird, this traditional Philippine folk dance involves two people sliding and clapping bamboo poles on the ground while dancers intricately step in and out of them.
What is Tinikling?
Millies dropped their new spring flavors. These flavors are Irish Cream, Shirley Temple, Pina Colada, and which one is the last flavor?
What is Lemon Drop?
Jennie is a high-profile celebrity member of Blackpink, name of all her past official dating scandals (names and years).
Who are Kai (2019), GD (2021), V (2023)?
This viral TikTok "hand dance" features a high-speed remix of a Yunnan folk song. The lyrics reference a legendary story about a girl who disguised herself as a man to attend school, only to later throw herself into her lover's grave on a mountain.
What is the Midu Mountain Song? (Also accept: The Butterfly Lovers or Midu Shange)
Resnik Pavilion’s Manna recently refreshed its menu with two new Asian staples: one is Korean Bulgogi with rice, and the other is that of a Japanese Cuisine.
What is Chicken Katsu?