Music
This 1970s band is the only major rock group whose entire debut album has no choruses—every track is written strictly in through-composed form, a rarity for the genre.
What is Pink Floyd?
This iconic 1995 anime uses the same static shot of a ticking clock in five separate episodes—each time during a character’s emotional breakdown—symbolizing hedonic paralysis.
What is Neon Genesis Evangelion?
This move, introduced in Generation I, is the only one that can automatically end a wild battle without checking for success if used by a Ghost-type Pokémon.
What is Teleport?
This 1990s sitcom is the only one in which every main character appears in all 180 episodes, despite two actors originally being considered recurring.
What is Seinfeld?
This 1986 game contains the earliest known instance of a “New Game+”–style mechanic, accessible only after entering a specific button sequence on the title screen.
What is Metroid?
This composer’s signature motif, known as the “Three-Note Fate,” appears backwards in a single chamber piece he wrote at age 16—decades before it defined his most famous symphony.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
This 2006 anime contains a single frame of hidden binary code in its opening; when decoded, it references a real-world location that matches the protagonist’s birthplace.
What is Code Geass?
In the Pokédex, this Mythical Pokémon is listed before the Pokémon it canonically precedes in the lore—despite being created after it in-universe.
What is Mew?
This long-running sci-fi series used the exact same opening narration in every episode of its original run except one, in which the word “the” was missing due to a production error.
What is The Twilight Zone?
This 2001 game includes a fully functional physics demo hidden in its files that never appears in gameplay, originally built to test character ragdoll behavior.
What is Halo: Combat Evolved?
This hip-hop album is the only one to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with over 60% of its lyrical content delivered in the form of direct second-person narrative (“you”) rather than first or third person.
What is Kendrick Lamar’s good kid, m.A.A.d city?
This anime’s original storyboards reveal that its central twist was inspired by a scrapped 1980s novel idea titled “Project A20: The Child Who Returned As a God.”
What is Steins;Gate?
This Normal-type Pokémon is the only one in Generation II whose base friendship does not start at 70, instead beginning at a drastically lower value of 0.
What is Golbat?
This anthology series once aired an episode that was censored in three different countries because its villain used a phone number that belonged to an actual government crisis hotline.
What is Black Mirror?
In this RPG, the internal data lists one party member as “Guest #5,” revealing they were never intended to be permanent — a fact contradicted by the final narrative.
What is Final Fantasy VII (Red XIII)?
This legendary jazz musician once recorded a full 12-minute track on which his microphone failed for the first 90 seconds—yet the producer kept the take because the bassist adjusted his playing to “fill” the missing lead.
Who is Miles Davis?
This series uses an internal production rule that no two characters with the same eye color may appear in a climactic scene unless a major betrayal or shift in allegiance is about to occur.
What is Attack on Titan?
Among all move types, this type had the fewest damaging moves in Generation III, with only one attack of that type introduced in the entire generation.
What is the Dragon type?
This acclaimed series is the only TV show to win an Emmy for Outstanding Drama without receiving a single Acting nomination in the same year.
What is Lost?
This game’s AI director uses a hidden “tension budget,” which increases whenever the player turns their back on enemies — a mechanic discovered only through RAM inspection years after release.
What is Resident Evil 4?
Buried in the liner notes of its first vinyl pressing, this 1980s album contains an encoded acrostic that spells the name of a studio engineer who left mid-recording due to a contractual dispute.
What is Michael Jackson’s Thriller?
Before airing, this anime’s pilot included a prototype ending in which the antagonist quotes a real 19th-century mathematical proof; the scene was removed because the proof’s copyright holder declined permission.
What is Death Note?
This held item, introduced in Generation III, raises a Pokémon's Speed by 50% but only if its current HP is exactly one-third or less of its maximum, rounded down.
What is the Salac Berry?
In the TV show Breaking Bad, it foreshadows the death of a major villain through an object. This object is shown in a scene where Walt first mentions needing “time” before executing his final plan. What is this object?
What is the Los Pollos Hermanos mascot wearing a half-missing face on the wall poster in the nursing home?
This 1990s title contains an unused mechanic allowing NPCs to “remember” crimes you committed based on a local variable that resets only after a map-cell unload — a system far more advanced than what the game ultimately used.
What is The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall?