POP GOES THE CULTURE
COMMONLY CONFUSED
QUICK MATH, NO PRESSURE
SOUNDS MADE UP (BUT AREN’T)
How Old Is That?
100

This actor played Troy Bolton in High School Musical.

Who is Zac Efron?

100

The Pacific is this — an ocean or a sea?

What is an ocean?

100

What’s 10 + 15?

What is 25?

100

This popular fruit floats in water because 25% of it is air.

What is an apple?

100

This social media platform launched in 2010 and became famous for filters and selfies.

What is Instagram?

200

This reality show features roses, drama, and people “here for the wrong reasons.”

What is The Bachelor?*

200

Lightning or lightening: which one comes during a thunderstorm?

What is lightning?

200

What’s half of 100?

What is 50?

200

A group of flamingos is called this.

What is a flamboyance?

200

The first iPhone came out in this decade.

What is the 2000s? (2007, specifically)

300

This app made short-form dance videos wildly popular and is now used for just about everything.

What is TikTok?

300

This is the word for mixing up letters in words, not a lack of balance: dizziness or dyslexia?

What is dyslexia?

300

A baker has a dozen bagels and eats 3. How many are left?

What is 9?

300

This country has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.

What is Canada?

300

This building toy brand was invented in Denmark in 1932.

What are LEGOs?

400

This wizard series made “10 points for Gryffindor!” a household phrase.

What is Harry Potter?

400

This U.S. capital often gets mixed up with the name of a state.

What is Washington, D.C.?

400

What’s 8 x 7?

What is 56?

400

This is the only mammal that can truly fly.

What is a bat?

400

Email has existed since this century.

What is the 20th century?

500

Beyoncé began her music career as part of this girl group.

What is Destiny’s Child?

500

This term means “having two meanings,” not “vague or unclear.

What is ambiguous?

500

A sale cuts 25% off a $40 item. What’s the new price?

What is $30?

500

In ancient Egypt, servants were sometimes lathered in this to attract flies away from pharaohs.

What is honey?

500

This board game involving money and real estate was first released in 1935.

What is Monopoly?