General
At the 2024 BRIT Awards, which artist smashed the all-time record with six wins in one night?
RAYE
hat viral portmanteau described the same-day double feature of Barbie and Oppenheimer in July 2023?
Barbenheimer
his fighting series made the quarter-circle-forward punch Hadouken! a household input
Street Fighter
Cats often “make biscuits,” rhythmically pressing their paws as a sign of comfort. This cozy behavior is called what?
kneading
This Port Talbot–born actor won an Oscar for playing Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs
Anthony Hopkins
In December 2023, which trailer set the YouTube 24-hour non-music view record (90M+), kicking off 2024’s hype cycle?
Grand Theft Auto VI – Trailer 1
In July 2024, this Pixar sequel became the highest-grossing animated film ever, topping Frozen II.
Inside Out 2
The classic cheat input that starts Up, Up, Downversity., Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A (Start) is known by this name.
Konami Code
What is a dog’s strongest sense?
Smell
Wales’s great festival of the Welsh language—crowning bards, chairing poets, and celebrating music and literature—is this.
Double points if you can say it in welsh
National Eisteddfod or Eisteddfod Genedlaethol
In May 2024, which country won Eurovision — with Nemo’s “The Code,” the contest’s first openly non-binary winner?
Switzerland
At the 2024 Oscars, this Japanese kaiju entry won Best Visual Effects — the first Oscar in its 70-year franchise history.
Godzilla Minus One
in Dark Souls, the joyous “Praise the Sun” meme is tied to this jolly co-operator.
Solaire of Astora
Those sudden pet zoomies have a science-y nickname rex—short bursts of wild laps known as this four-letter acronym.
double points if you guess both acroynym and meaning
FRAPs or Frenetic Random Activity Periods
This Welsh actor famously portrayed Tony Blair three times and faced off in Frost/Nixon as David Frost.
Michael Sheen
In 2024 the EU finalized the world’s first broad AI law; name it
EU Artificial Intelligence Act
In early 2025, this Chinese sequel leapfrogged Inside Out 2 to become the highest-grossing animated film worldwide.
Ne Zha 2
When a game shows interface elements inside the world—like Dead Space putting health on Isaac’s suit—that UI is called this.
diegetic UI or diegesis
In dog breeding two merles can produce pups with high risk of deafness/eye defects—this risky genotype is called what?
double Merle
A uniquely Welsh word for a deep, nostalgic longing for home and heritage—often said to be “untranslatable.”
hiraeth
Announced Oct 10, 2025: who won the Nobel Peace Prize for work advancing democracy in Venezuela?
María Corina Machado
At the 97th Academy Awards (March 2025), this Sean Baker film took Best Picture.
Anora
In this 2017 action-RPG, achieving Ending E means agreeing to erase your save to help another player during the credits shoot-’em-up.
NieR: Automata
Siamese cats and related breeds have darker “points” because of this temperature-sensitive enzyme variant affecting melanin production.what is called?
temperature-sensitive tyrosinase
This Anglesey village is famed for having Europe’s longest place name—tourists pose by the station sign to prove they survived pronouncing it.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
If you can spell it without any mistakes double points!!