The Big Brunch Quiz: Are you excited about 2025?

Tyla

Doechii

Selena Gomez

Taylor Swift

2. Cheers to women in film! Kiran Rao’s Lapaata Ladies was India’s official selection for the Oscars. Anuparna Roy won the Orizzonti Prize in Venice for Songs of Forgotten Trees. Payal Kapadia joins 2025 Cannes jury after winning Grand Prix in 2024 – for which film?

cinema closed

We imagine everything as light

great indian kitchen

girls will be girls

3. Stamps in India disappeared at the speed of sound. Resale value: up to 10 lakhs. A record 1.34 lakh people came to Ahmedabad. Jasleen Royal opened for him in Mumbai. A CEO and a coworker were caught having fun under A Sky Full of Stars at their American concert. Say an ode to the weekend, at whose concerts?

Oasis

Porcupine Tree

bad game

radiohead

4. Everyone looked like they had stepped into a Miyazaki frame. OpenAI’s 4o generator transforms photos into dreamy, magical, almost hand-drawn illustrations. It went viral and was named ______-style after Miyazaki Studio. The Italian word actually means the wind carrying the hot dust of the North African desert.

naruto

Mononoke

Kodama

Ghibli

5. Owen Cooper was amazing as a 13-year-old killer in his teens. Stephen Graham directed, wrote and starred. But Matthew Lewis’ cinematography stole the show. The behind-the-scenes footage attracted attention for the same reason Russian Ark did in 2002. Hitchcock’s Rope invented it. Four episodes. How much does it take per episode?

1

4

20

200

6. Surround the army. Keep stock of ARMY bombs. The Bulletproof Boy Scouts are out of the army. A new album has been recorded. A return visit has been planned. Apobangpo! If you make them purple, name the boy band.

seventeen

bts

EXO

street children

7. Well, Boomer, you gave way to Gen X – the forgotten generation. Millennials followed. Gen Z murdered with language, without any limits. Now there are new kids on the block. A demographic grouping began in 2025. They are the first generation that will live to the end of the century. Who comes after General Alpha?

kids in hats

General Beta

Gen Y

General Omega

8. Extroverted people are friendly. Introverted people remain confined to themselves. Some people don’t fit into any box. Emotional independence and original ideas define them. Think Frida Kahlo, Franz Kafka, and Albert Einstein. You too can be one. Thanks to Rami Kaminsky for coining a new term that perfectly describes these outliers?

controversial

antivert

subtravert

introvert

9. Speaking of outliers… Ne Zha II was the highest-grossing film of the year globally (and the highest-grossing animated film of all time). Kantara: A Legend – Chapter 1 made record-setting collections in India. Not Hollywood. Not Bollywood. Mention the two original languages ​​of these films.

Arabic and Khasi

Persian and Pali

Korean and Telugu

Mandarin and Kannada

10. They’re divorced but famous. She completed a four-year legal apprenticeship, but failed the bar examination. He was born as Kanye West. She launched a line of thongs with fake pubic hair. He released a song called Heil Hitler. They belong to North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm. Name the exiles.

This and Kim Kardashian

Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes

11. Kunafa Chocolate wasn’t the only green obsession. The trend of tea started in 2025 which made everything green. It was in cakes, cocktails and cosmetics. Made from tencha. Received from Japan. It gives you the caffeine boost without the jitters. But high demand, heat wave and US tariffs led to shortages. What did you eat this year?

rooibos

Chai latte

genmaicha

Matcha

12. This is a decade old feud. They’re bouncing verses, lifting each other up. About being the greatest first. Then about domestic abuse and secret families. A group of her former teammates – SZA and Serena Williams – teamed up in the Super Bowl. They don’t like us. So, who are they?

simon and garfunkel

Roger Waters and David Gilmour

drake and kendrick lamar

Nicki Minaj and Cardi B

13. Both are blondes with big smiles. But don’t mistake one for the other. A man’s best friend is the one who drinks espresso. Another claimed to have “fantastic jeans” and featured boxer Christy Martin. One’s name sounds like that of a teenage witch who is also a woodworker. Name the two women who dominate our screens?

gigi and bella hadid

Sabrina Carpenter and Sydney Sweeney

Miley Cyrus and Hannah Montana

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen

14. Rumi, Meera and Zoey lead double lives. Their girl group HUNTR/X overtook Blackpink on the US Spotify charts. Their voices: truly magical. Their goal: to strengthen Honeymoon. Their enemies: Saja Boys. Beware of Gwi-ma. What are we talking about?

trollhunters

k-pop demon hunter

my little Pony

K-Pop: Lost in America

15. The best-selling video game of all time was also the best-selling video game movie of all time with an opening weekend. Jack Black is Steve. Steve is an expert craftsman. All this happens in a cube world. The film grossed $957 million, but critics say it could have done even better. There is a lot of room for improvement in the sandbox. Which movie?

a minecraft movie

super mario bros movie

Jumanji

tetris

16. Wide eyes, bat ears and nine sharp teeth. These female elves are present everywhere, even with Naomi Osaka at the US Open. A life-size one sold for $150,000; Sony is making a film about him because he was very popular. They are actually characters from The Monsters of Casting Lung. What did he say to them?

lafufu

lego

chucky

lububu

17. Louis Vuitton launches a new 14,000 items this year. It has no pockets, no straps, no zipper. At least it’s refillable. Contains upcycled mimosa wax in 55 shades. Launched in August. Sold out in August. With which product did fans say goodbye to their money?

lipstick

Perfume

eyeliner

foundation

18. First announced in 2022. Then there was a delay, then a delay, and some more delay. There is no rockstar behind this video game. The manufacturers fired 30 workers to suppress their union efforts. It’s taking longer than the traffic jam in Vice City to get released. What do we get before we get a new year?

minecraft

the witcher 3

grand theft auto vi

resident Evil 4

19. Rode was sold to Elf Beauty for $1 billion. It makes pocket blush and peptide lip treatment. Its founder remains in the position of chief creative officer. She was born Baldwin. Rode is his middle name. He is an authentic believer. Don’t mention Selena Gomez. For whom?

Scarlett Johansson

hailey bieber

Rihanna

Selena Gomez

20. These two have announced that they are in a “non-demi-curious, semi-binary relationship.” It just means that they’re not actually a couple, but the possibility interests them. Wicked Label, Glinda and Elphaba! Defy gravity and name both.

Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin

George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo

21. Cambridge chose parasocial. Oxford chose the rage bat. The Economist chose negligence. These words of the year define the mood of our times, wouldn’t you say? Dictionary.com picked a number. Originating from the lyrics of a song, it was meme-filled and meaningless. No need for mathematics. What number?

67

69

99

13

22. Arsalan Nizami worked as a civil engineer near Leh. Faheem Abdullah went by The Imaginary Poet. Nizami left his job. Abdullah dropped his stage name. He went to Bollywood, where he wrote the first Indian song to reach the top 10 on the Billboard Global 200. which song?

Big Dogs

soldier

Raanjhanaa

strange friendship

23. Big year for Katy Perry. She went to space, left American Idol, announced a world tour. Then, they made their relationship Insta-official after a trip to Japan, where they both met former Japanese PM Fumio Kishida. Boyfriend: The recently divorced former Prime Minister of Canada. Who is it?

Bill Clinton

Tony Abbott

justin trudeau

Nicolas Sarkozy

24. For Spring/Summer 2026, Prada showcased a braided open leather shoe that cost 1 lakh. It was almost a copy of the handmade, GI-tagged sandal, which takes its name from a Maharashtrian city. No credit given. Perhaps you too might have worn these. what kind of slippers?

65’s

Kolhapuri

boats

shoes

25. Member of Delhi Capitals, but a Bandra girl at heart. She has been open about dealing with anxiety. She withdrew from the Women’s Big Bash League to support a teammate during a difficult time. Her Instagram is completely full of music and hearts. Who helped the women’s cricket team reach the World Cup final, which they won?

jemima rodrigues

Smriti Mandhana

Harmanpreet Kaur

Shafali Verma

Answer: 1. Taylor Swift 2. All We Imagine as Light 3. Coldplay 4. Ghibli 5. 1 6. BTS 7. Zen Beta 8. Otrovert 9. Mandarin and Kannada 10. Ye and Kim Kardashian 11. Matcha 12. Drake and Kendrick Lamar 13. Sabrina Carpenter and Sydney Sweeney 14. K-pop Demon Hunters 15. A Minecraft Movie 16. LaBooboo 17. Lipstick 18. Grand Theft Auto VI 19. Hailey Bieber 19. Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo 21. 67 22. Ciara 23. Justin Trudeau 24. Kolhapuris 25. Jemimah Rodriguez

From HT Brunch, December 27, 2025

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