Pop Culture
What social media platform rebranded itself as “X” in 2023?
Who directed Oppenheimer?
Christopher Nolan
Who is known as the “Queen of Pop”?
Madonna
Which American author wrote The Great Gatsby, a novel set in the Jazz Age?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
What show features characters named Eleven, Mike, and Hopper?
Stranger Things
Which celebrity launched the skincare brand “Rhode”?
Hailey Bieber
What 2023 film starred Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in a pastel-colored world?
Barbie
What artist released the album Midnights in 2022?
Taylor Swift
What 2020 novel by Brit Bennett explores the lives of twin sisters who live in separate racial identities?
The Vanishing Half
What HBO series is based on a video game and stars Pedro Pascal?
The Last of Us
What viral 2022 TikTok trend involved people dressing in suits and mimicking Minions?
Gentleminions
What 2019 South Korean film won Best Picture at the Oscars?
Parasite
Which Grammy-winning artist is known for blending country, pop, and rock in albums like Golden Hour and Star-Crossed?
Kacey Musgraves
What is the name of the fictional language created by Anthony Burgess for A Clockwork Orange?
Nadsat
What animated series features a character named BoJack Horseman?
BoJack Horseman
What artist’s 2023 album “Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd” was praised for its poetic lyricism?
Lana Del Rey
In Everything Everywhere All At Once, what food item becomes a central multiverse symbol?
Everything Bagel
What 1997 Radiohead album is often cited as one of the greatest of all time?
OK Computer
What 2023 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is set in a dystopian future where AI replaces human authors?
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
What long-running British sci-fi series features a time-traveling alien known as the Doctor?
Doctor Who
What 2020s meme originated from a 2007 interview with a man describing a UFO sighting and became a TikTok sound?
“Ain’t nobody got time for that” (Sweet Brown)
What obscure 1973 sci-fi film inspired the visual style of Dune: Part Two?
Zardoz
What classical composer’s unfinished 10th Symphony was completed using AI in 2021?
Ludwig van Beethoven
Which Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Toni Morrison explores themes of trauma, motherhood, and slavery through the story of Sethe and her haunted house?
Beloved
What 2023 Netflix miniseries, created by Mike Flanagan, adapts Edgar Allan Poe’s works into a gothic horror tale about a corrupt pharmaceutical dynasty?
The Fall of the House of Usher