War & Peace
Organization which awarded first ever Peace Prize to President Trump
FIFA
This agency, established in 2025 and recently dismantled, offered 2.4 million federal employees buyouts
DOGE (Dept. of Govt. Efficiency)
Baseball team which won the World Series in 2025
LA Dodgers
Most popular Halloween costume in 2025
Rumi from K-Pop Demon Hunters
Famous entertainment couple murdered in their home supposedly by their son
Michelle and Rob Reiner
These two countries clashed over an ancient temple in the mountain dividing them
Thailand and Cambodia
The highest market cap ever for a modern public company of $4.6 trillion in late 2025 belongs to this company
Nvidia
Football team which won the Superbowl in 2025
Philadelphia Eagles
Artist who had the most-streamed album of 2025
Bad Bunny (for - DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS)
Actor and activist who founded the Sundance Film Festival and starred in many movies
Robert Redford died at 89
These two countries signed a peace agreement after a decades long territorial and ethnic dispute
Azerbaijan and Armenia have been fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh populated with ethnic Armenians but officially part of Azerbaijan
First person from North America be elected after his predecessor died of a stroke early this year
(Pope Leo XIV or Cardinal Robert Prevost)
AP Male Athlete of 2025 who hit 3 homeruns and pitched 10 strikeouts in same game
Shohei Otani
Spotify’s most streamed song in 2025
Die with a Smile – Lady Gaga/Bruno Mars
Wrote Shakespeare in Love and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead among others.
Tom Stoppard who died at 88
As many as 400,000 people have died and more than twelve million have been displaced in this country’s 3 year civil war
Sudan
First female elected prime minister of Japan
Sanae Takaichi
Won the French Open after a record 5 ½ hour final match
Carlos Alcazar who beat Jannik Sinner
Top grossing movie of 2025 – $2.1billion worldwide
Ne Zha 2 (Zootopia came in 2nd)
His brand generated $2.4 billion last year and thought to be most influential fashion designers of the modern era and a defining architect of contemporary style.
Georgio Armani, died at 91
At least 105 people have been killed in 29 US strikes on 30 vessels in these two bodies of water
Caribbean and Eastern Pacific (Ocean spanning the west coast from Canada to Chile)
Israel becomes the first country to recognize this breakaway republic creating controversy
Somaliland
Received WNBA MVP this year—a record 4th time
A’ja Wilson
Book which spent most weeks as #1 on New York Times Best Seller List in 2025
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
Grammy winning R&B singer known for “Killing me Softly”
Robert Flack who died at 88