2010's Music
This British boy-band formed after a performance on U.K. X-Factor
One Direction
He bought Twitter in 2022
Elon Musk
Captain James T. Kirk
Lyme disease is caused by this phenomenon
Tick bite
Oklahoma has the most starting QB's in the NFL in 2025, name one
Baker Mayfield, Jalen Hurts, and Kyler Murray are all acceptable
This single was the first song to reach 19 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100, thanks Billy Ray Cyrus
Old Town Road
Invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, this innovation made the modern Internet accessible to everyone it stands as www
World Wide Web
This director rebooted the Star Trek movies, you may know him from Lost or the Star Wars sequels
J. J. Abrams
Known as the "Black Death" wiped out over 1/3 of the populous of Europe, this is its true name
Bubonic Plague
Duke University was named for a British-born North Carolina magnate of this crop
Tobacco
She won the Big 4 Grammy's on her first award cycle in 2019
Billie Eilish
This blockchain-based digital currency, launched in 2009, was the first of its kind
Bitcoin
Spock was of this emotionless logic-driven race
Vulcan
He pioneered the principles of vaccination
Louis Pasteur
This Connecticut Ivy League school is known for their secret society "Skull and Bones"
Yale
Good Kid, Mad City lost Best Rap Album at the Grammy's to this artist's The Heist
Macklemore
This social media company opened to public trading in 2012, hyped too much and lost over 40% of its value
Facebook (at the time)
This race of hivemind drones who incorporated technology into their bodies were the bane of TNG and Voyager
The Borg
This viral disease, eradicated in 1980 was given to Native Americans on blankets by Sir Amherst in 1763, the first bioterror incident in the Americas
Smallpox
This founding father and third president founded the University of Virginia
Thomas Jefferson
This numbered Adele album is the highest selling album of the 2010's, it features Someone Like You and Rolling in the Deep
21
He is the current CEO of Apple
Tim Cook
The ending of Star Trek: TNG's intro changes one word from TOS's: "To boldly go where no man has gone before" to this (better) alternative
To boldly go where no one has gone before
He found the cure for polio and did not patent the vaccine making accessible for all
Jonas Salk
John Wooden was the 10x Men's Basketball NCAA Champion for this university
UCLA