This game, known for its popularity in the pandemic year, features talking critters and a startling amount of debt.
What is Animal Crossing: New Horizons?
This 2021 trilogy features a bald protagonist most identifiable by his unnecessarily blue eyes and absurd tattoo on the back of his head.
What is Hitman World of Assassination? (Also acceptable: What is Hitman?)
For all of elementary school, I rode this bus, whose digits are consecutive integers.
What is Bus 23?
The Japanese music artist Ado performed live in this American city, much to my delight.
What is Chicago?
My band is named after this common phrase for something foolish or dangerous.
What is Recipe for Disaster?
Originating in Japan, this game centers around the capturing of animals, and is known for both its iconic mobile game version and expensive trading cards.
What is Pokémon?
Featured in iconic songs such as “World is Mine” and “Melt”, this blue-haired virtual pop-star has a large and dedicated fanbase.
Who is Hatsune Miku? (Also acceptable: Who is Miku Hatsune?) (Not acceptable: Who is Hasunemiku!?)
This day of the week, beloved by all students at North, is made special by the fact that school starts at 9:00 AM.
What is Wednesday?
Named after a Greek god, this Ace Attorney character with quite the on-the-nose name is my favorite lawyer in the series.
Who is Apollo Justice?
This person is known best for their noisy nature and love of all things Sanrio (the company that made Hello Kitty).
Who is Blue?
This Japanese RPG and social simulator blend features a protagonist known by a codename synonymous with Batman’s most famous nemesis.
What is Persona 5? (Also acceptable: What is Persona?)
This Japanese utaite (oo-ta-ee-tay) is known for chart-topping songs like “Usseewa” and “New Genesis”.
This activity, unfortunately for Mama and Papa, does not have many chances for parents to observe. Even more unfortunately for them, it is the only recent competitive club I have participated in.
What is Math Team?
This shopping service used to import foreign goods features the country it is based in along with some of its products in its name.
What is CDJapan?
A STEM expert and total nerd, I met this person at a volleyball camp in middle school and, much to my surprise, met them again through a mutual friend only a few weeks later.
Who is Avery?
This YouTuber, most known for his Minecraft let’s-plays, inspired thousands of young viewers and successfully ended his career without any allegations of grooming.
Who is DanTDM?
The first game of a legendary visual novel series by Capcom, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, details the courtroom adventures of defense attorney Phoenix Wright and this sharp prosecutor. (Or, for Cam: said prosecutor’s mentor, must provide full name)
Who is Miles Edgeworth? (For Cam: Who is Manfred Von Karma?)
This class was the only one in my entire academic career (from middle school to present day) to ever cause me to get a B.
What is Honors Math? (Also acceptable: What is math?)
The protagonist of video game series Hitman is most commonly known by Agent 47, but also goes by this grim but rather humorous alias.
Who is Tobias Rieper? (Last name only is acceptable)
I met this person, who I have mentioned only by name, in Honors Geometry. Said person is most known for having a stupid amount of geography and history knowledge.
I devoted my elementary-school life to this groundbreaking 2015 pixel-art indie game, and eventually wrote an entire non-fiction book on one of its antagonists.
What is Undertale?
The electrifying collaboration between iconic vocaloid Hatsune Miku and even more iconic franchise Pokemon, starting with the word "project", is known by this name.
What is Project Voltage?
This English teacher, who assigned me a creative project centered on Fahrenheit 451, forever changed my view of books in middle school.
Who is Ms. Bontkowski?
Virtual pop-star Hatsune Miku is known well, but what is not well-known is that she was developed by this Japanese company, best known for making musical instruments, but also semiconductors and motor vehicles.
What is Yamaha?
Inspired by video game Chants of Senaar, in which the protagonist learns languages of many civilizations over many eras from scratch, this was the initial name of my band.
What is Vulgar Man Speak?