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This 2025 Super Bowl halftime performer sparked debate more for their song choices and staging than for surprise guests.
Who is Usher?
In Home Alone 2, Kevin accidentally boards the wrong flight and ends up in this U.S. city.
What is New York City?
This New York–based public university system is the largest comprehensive university system in the United States.
What is SUNY?
This 2019 film became the first non-English-language movie to win Best Picture at the Oscars.
What is Parasite?
This 18th-century movement emphasized reason, science, and individual rights.
What is the Enlightenment?
In 2025, this longtime late-night host officially stepped away, marking the end of an era in American television.
Who is Stephen Colbert?
In A Christmas Story, Ralphie wants this specific gift, despite repeated warnings that it’s dangerous.
What is a Red Ryder BB gun?
This North Carolina region is known for furniture manufacturing, banking headquarters, and cities like Winston-Salem and High Point.
What is the Piedmont (or Piedmont Triad)?
This music festival became infamous after a 2019 documentary revived interest in its disastrous planning years later.
What is Fyre Festival?
This ancient civilization is credited with developing one of the earliest writing systems, cuneiform.
Who are the Sumerians?
In 2025, this animated sequel became one of the highest-grossing films ever despite mixed reviews from adults.
What is Inside Out 2?
This 19th-century author wrote A Christmas Carol, helping shape modern Christmas traditions.
Who is Charles Dickens?
This California city is home to both Stanford University and the headquarters of several major tech companies.
What is Palo Alto?
This actor played the same Marvel character for over a decade before officially stepping away in 2019.
Who is Robert Downey Jr.?
This 1919 treaty formally ended World War I and imposed heavy penalties on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
In 2025, this tech device became instantly recognizable in public thanks to its oversized look and viral “first-time user” videos.
What is the Apple Vision Pro?
This Christmas song was the first to be broadcast from space in 1965
What is “Jingle Bells”.
This New York City park was designed by the same landscape architects as Central Park.
What is Prospect Park?
This musician’s 2013 surprise album release helped popularize the now-common practice of dropping music with little or no advance notice.
Who is Beyoncé?
This period in European history followed the fall of the Roman Empire and preceded the Renaissance.
What are the Middle Ages?
This 2025 consumer frustration involved paying more while receiving slightly less product.
What is shrinkflation?
This U.S. president made Christmas a federal holiday in 1870.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Before becoming the face of the Carolina Panthers, Cam Newton won a national championship while playing college football at this university.
What is Auburn University?
This phrase, shouted by Kendall Roy in the Succession finale, instantly became a meme despite being objectively untrue.
What is “I am the eldest boy”?
This war between England and France lasted from 1337 to 1453.
What is the Hundred Years’ War?