The Screen
Joaquin Phoenix plays a short emperor with a funny hat in this two-and-a-half hour long historical epic.
What is Napoleon?
LeBron James became the NBA’s all-time leading scorer with the 38,388th point of his career in February, surpassing this previous record holder.
Who is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?
This K-Pop group was recently awarded honorary Members of the British Empire by King Charles at Buckingham Palace, as well as renewing their contracts with YG Entertainment.
Who is BLACKPINK?
What is USB-C?
In Asia, this country celebrated the successful lunar landing of their spacecraft on the south pole of the moon.
What is India?
This social media phenomenon took off thanks to the tonal juxtaposition of Margot Robbie and Cillian Murphy's films released on the same day.
What is Barbenheimer?
Commotio cordis caused this Buffalo Bills player to collapse on the field during a game against the Cincinnati Bengals at the start of the year.
Who is Damar Hamlin?
After winning another 4 Grammys this year, this female artist is the most-awarded and most nominated artist in Grammy history with 32 awards and 88 nominations.
Who is Beyonce?
Elon Musk's Twitter is now X, and with thousands of layoffs and hundreds of advertisers backing out, he's also had to deal with this new competing platform courtesy of Zuckerburg's Meta.
What is Threads?
In Eastern Europe, this private military company has been used as a proxy to continue Russia's """special military operation""" in Ukraine.
What is the Wagner Group?
This movie cleaned up at the Oscars by winning seven awards, including Best Picture.
What is Everything Everywhere All at Once?
This year’s Super Bowl game saw the Chiefs edge out the Eagles, with these two players being the first brothers to face off against each other in the big game.
Who are Travis and Jason Kelce?
This country music star had her highest-charting solo studio album this year at the age of 77.
Who is Dolly Parton?
In March, this global investment bank suffered a complete collapse after losing support from its largest investor, leading to an eventual buyout from its contemporary, the Union Bank of Switzerland.
What is Credit Suisse?
In the middle of the Atlantic, this deep-sea submersible mysteriously vanished, only to turn up days later with signs of a catastrophic implosion that killed all five aboard.
What is the Titan?
This kid's movie, based off a wildly popular video game, took theaters by storm and grossed more than twice the amount of Disney's Wish with just 10% of the budget.
What is Five Nights at Freddy's?
The Women’s World Cup, hosted jointly this year by Australia and New Zealand, saw this country claim its very first victory.
What is Spain?
Despite controversy, this artist/rapper/fashion visionary managed to win Top Gospel Artist at the Billboard Music Awards.
Who is Kanye West?
For reasons unknown, Sam Altman was removed and then quickly reinstated as CEO of this groundbreaking Silicon Valley company responsible for ChatGPT.
What is OpenAI?
In Africa, this country was rocked by a coup in August, which was heavily opposed by the Economic Community of West African States
What is Niger?
Cinema fans ate well this year with strong showings from Ridley Scott, Christopher Nolan, and Martin Scorcese, but one Japanese visionary returned after a ten year hiatus to bring this semi-autobiographical fantasy to life.
What is Hayao Miyazaki's The Boy and the Heron?
Shohei Ohtani has recently signed with the Dodgers, bumping the value of his now limited Angels memorabillia. What's even more limited is any merch from this previous team that he played for before coming to the US.
What is the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters?
This is the only artist to have TWO albums in the top 5 of the Billboard 200 this year.
Who is Morgan Wallen?
Cryptocurrency guru Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted of fraud, leveraging a $65 billion dollar line of credit to funnel money to this company out of his other venture, FTX.
What is Alameda Research?
In the Middle East, this Iran-backed Yemeni rebel group has recently started attacking ships in the Red Sea, prompting the start of Operation Prosperity Guardian.
What is the Houthi Movement?