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This major NFL event just took place in February at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara.
What is Super Bowl LX (60)?
This singer, known for the hit song "Espresso," became one of the most popular pop stars for "Gen Alpha" and "Gen Z" in 2024 and 2025.
Who is Sabrina Carpenter?
This term refers to a risky house loan given to someone with a low credit score who might have trouble paying it back.
What is a subprime loan?
Known as the "Father of Economics," this man wrote about how the economy can guide itself.
Who is Adam Smith?
This superstar basketball player for the Indiana Fever broke almost every record for women's basketball in 2024 and 2025.
Who is Caitlin Clark?
You have $50, only a few free hours on Sunday, and a test the next day in your Economics class. You really want to buy a new pair of shoes, but your friends are all going to a theme park that also costs $50.
If you choose to go to the theme park, what is your Opportunity Cost?"
New shoes and possibly failing the test you did not study for.
This famous Bay Area bridge, known for its orange color, is a symbol of San Francisco.
What is the Golden Gate Bridge?
This genre of music from South Korea is incredibly popular, with groups like BTS and NewJeans releasing new albums this year.
What is K-Pop?
This was a major cause of the 2008 stock market crash, involving loans that many people ultimately could not pay back.
What are risky house loans (or subprime loans)?
In this economic system, the government makes most of the decisions and owns the factories and businesses.
What is Communism?
This major world tournament, which happens every four years, will be hosted across the U.S., Mexico, and Canada in the summer of 2026.
What is the FIFA World Cup (Soccer)?
This huge music festival takes place every August in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
What is Outside Lands?
This Disney live-action movie, released in May 2025, brought the story of a young Hawaiian girl and her blue "dog" alien to the big screen.
What is Lilo & Stitch?
During the 2008 crash, this happened to many people’s homes because they were unable to keep up with their loan payments.
What is foreclosure (or many people lost their homes)?
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In a Free Market or Capitalist system, this is the primary way that prices for goods and services are set.
This is currently the fastest-growing high school sport in California. It is a fast-paced version of football that was just officially sanctioned for girls' high school teams across the state.
What is Flag Football?
This massive social media company, famous for its "Like" button, has its headquarters in Menlo Park.
What is Meta (or Facebook)?
This Pixar movie, released in March 2026, features scientists who discover how to transfer human consciousness into robotic animals.
What is Hoppers?
Banks use this three-digit number to decide how likely a person is to pay back a loan and whether they should be trusted with one.
What is a credit score?
Adam Smith used this famous phrase to describe his theory that the economy can mostly guide itself without government interference.
What is the "Invisible Hand"?
This sport is the fastest-growing in the U.S. and is often described as a mix of tennis, badminton, and ping-pong.
What is Pickleball?
This Oakland-born actress starred in Euphoria and the Spider-Man movies, and she still visits her hometown often.
Who is Zendaya?
This upcoming sci-fi movie, starring Ryan Gosling and scheduled for release in 2026, is based on a popular novel by Andy Weir, the same author who wrote The Martian.
What is Project Hail Mary?
This specific term describes the act of failing to pay back a loan entirely.
What is defaulting?
While Capitalism focuses on private property and profit, this is the main goal of Communism regarding resources.
What is to create equality by sharing resources?
This is the name of the "Battle Royale" video game where players compete to be the last one standing and can buy "skins" of famous athletes and rappers.
What is Fortnite?