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On April 6, 2025, Alex Ovechkin scored his 895th career goal, surpassing a 31 year old record held by this Canadian.

Who is Wayne Gretzky?

100

2025 Beyonce event

A professional pedalist nicknamed "Pogi," donned his fourth yellow jersey at this annual event

What is Cowboy Carter Tour de France?

100

Taylor Swift

Zendaya

Miley Cyrus


Who got engaged?

100

Falling short of his world record of 76 hot dogs, this perrenial gastronomic glutton regained his title in 2025 by consuming 70.5 hot dogs in 10 minutes.

Who is Joey Chestnut?

100

This 2025 stage adaptation of a legendary 1984 film made its world premiere at the State Theater in Prince's home town of Minneapolis.

What is Purple Rain?

100

In November, a scientific paper revealed a number of plants and fungi that have apparently adapted to using radiation as an energy source from this 1986 nuclear accident site.

What is Chernobyl?

100

Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan

Who is Loretta Switt?

100

In 2025 Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV and was the very first pope from this country.

What is the United States.

200

Highlighting the strength of US Women's Tennis, Madison Keyes and Coco Gauff won these two Grand Slams back to back to begin 2025.

What are the Australian and French Opens?

200

The late Redford's iconic western character 

This singer who was called out by the Special Olympics for using the offensive "R" word to describe his Halloween costume.

Who is Sundance Kid Rock?

200

Jeremy Alan White

Timothy Chalamet

Hugh Jackman

Who portrayed musical performers in film?

200

Forbes, on October 17, 2025 cited a record price of  $4,530 per troy ounce for this commodity.

What is gold?

200

In July 2025, this MCU veteran traded Black Widow's sting for dinosour tracking in the blockbuster sequel Jurassic World Rebirth.

Who is Scarlett Johansson?

200

Move over unicorns, this newly-discover "crystal jelly fish" glows in these arc of colors when disturbed.

What is a rainbow?

200

Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle

Who is Gene Hackman?

200

In a world's first, Australia developed and approved a vaccine to protect this cuddley creature from a deadly Chlamydia outbreak.

What is a Koala?

300

In December of 2025, this legendary QB played three games with a completion rate of 63%, threw for 554 yards and four touchdowns.

Who is Philip Rivers?

300

Golf's Ryder Cup host course in 2025 

The late Osborne's band

What is Bethpage Black Sabbath?

300

Eric Dane

Teddy Mellencamp

James Van Der Beek

Who announced they were fighting serious illnesses?

300

Since 1793 its estimated that over 300 billion of these were put into circulation.  But 2025 saw the final one created.

What is the penny?

300

On December 31, 2025 she had surgery to replace two discs in her neck telling her fans "Rock & Roll is a contact sport."

Who is Pink?

300

Colossal Bioscience announced in 2025 that it is working on several de-extinction projects including bringing back the Tasmanian Tiger, the Dodo Bird and this real life Snuffleupagus?

What is the Wooly Mammoth?

300

Dr. James Kildare

Who is Richard Chamberlain?

300

She received her first-ever Academy Award nomination for best actress at the 2025 Oscars for her role in The Substance.

Who is Demi Moore?

400

This contraversial bowling pin-shaped piece of lumber became a 2025 viral sensation after the Yankees used it to hit three home runs on the first three pitches against the Milwaukee Brewers.

What is a Torpedo Bat?

400

The late Keaton's signature role

Ichiro Suzuki, Sterling Sharpe and Joe Thornton achieved their ultimate recognition landing here in 2025

What is Annie Hall of Fame?

400

Pete Davidson

Kieran Culkin

Christian McCaffrey

Who became baby daddies in 2025?

400

This modern day Gilligan's Island saga turned a seven day tour into 286 days for Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aboard this tiny ship.

What is the International Space Station?

400

This punk trio spent much of 2025 on The Saviors Tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of American Idiot.

Who is Green Day?

400

This S.F. tech company announced that its A.I. System Claude Opus 4 resorted to blackmailing a fictitious employee during a testing exercise.

What is Anthropic?

400

Maureen Robinson

400

In June 2025 several cities in Alaska were issued this advisory for the first time by the National Weather Service.

What is a Heat Advisory?

500

This Las Vegas Aces star led her team to their third title in four years and became the first player in WNBA or NBA history to win League MVP, Finals MVP, and Defensive Player of the Year in a single season.

Who is Aja Wilson?

500

L. Frank Baum's reimagined cinematic adaptation part II 

The late Brian Wilson's hit song.

What is Wicked For Good Vibrations?

500

Haley Joel Osment

Kim Delaney

Zachary Ty Bryan

Who got arrested in 2025?

500

This team sold out all 22 home games in their 2025 inaugural season by drawing 397,408 in total attendance shattering the previous record help by the Indiana Fever. 

Who are the Golden State Valkyries

500

He won his third Emmy for his role as a secret service agent on the HULU political thriller Paradise.

Who is Sterling K Brown?

500

On September 9, 2025 the House Oversight Committee held a hearing to discuss more transparency surrounding the U.S. Military's encounter with these.

What are UFO's (or UAP's)?

500

The Spaceman or Space Ace

Who is Paul "Ace" Frehley?

500

Clever Carnivore held a private tasting in Palo Alto and S.F. in July 2025.  This was its first-ever exposure on the west coast to promote this product.

What is lab-grown meat or man-made real meat?