Pop Culture Lite
This green ogre starred in a 2001 animated film.
Shrek
This U.S. state is nicknamed the “Empire State.”
New York
Japanese rice wine for the guy who rides a racehorse.
Sake Jockey
A phrase whose meaning can’t be understood from the individual words, like “kick the bucket.”
Idiom
This fruit is technically a berry and is often paired with cream at Wimbledon. AI LLMs also struggle with spelling this word correctly.
Strawberry
This singer is known as the “Queen of Pop.”
Madonna
This city’s famous Opera House sits on Bennelong Point.
Sydney
Pilsner trepidation
Beer Fear
A word that sounds like another but has a different meaning, like flower and flour.
Homophone
This French dessert’s name means “burnt cream.”
Crème Brûlée
This Marvel superhero is also known as Tony Stark.
Iron Man
This European capital is known for waffles and the Atomium.
Brussels
A tiki tropical rum drink and another word for a man.
Mai Tai Guy
A word spelled the same forward and backward, like “level.”
Palindrome
This dish’s name means “cooked twice” in Italian and is often made with pasta and cheese.
Baked Ziti
This sitcom featured the phrase “How you doin?”
Friends
This South American country shares the world’s longest border with Brazil.
Argentina
A bubbly drink for New Years Eve and the part of the body that thinks.
Champagne Brain
A figure of speech that gives human traits to nonhuman things.
Personification
This tropical fruit’s name means “pine cone” in Spanish.
Pineapple
This 2023 film became the highest-grossing movie directed by a woman, featuring a famous doll come to life.
Barbie
This African lake, one of the Great Lakes of Africa, is the source of the White Nile’s headwaters.
Lake Victoria
Whiskey made in the middle of downtown Lexington or Louisville.
Urban Bourbon
A blend word made from two words, like smog from smoke + fog.
Portmanteau
This spice, once worth its weight in gold, comes from the dried stigma of a crocus flower.
Saffron