Selects  •  December 2024

2024 Pop Culture

We look back on some of the best moments of 2024 in entertainment. We’re sorry, sport is not included.

Winners & Grinners

100% of the time they win all the time.

1

Which Australian artist took out both Album of the Year and Best Solo Artist at the 2024 ARIA Awards?

2

Sharing their name with a Pixar character, whose performance of the song "The Code" won the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest for Switzerland?

3

Developed by Team Asobi and announced as 2024’s Game of the Year, Astro Bot is a platform game published for which specific console?

4

Following six astronauts over 24 hours on a space station, what is the title of the 2024 Booker Prize-winning novel by Samantha Harvey?

5

Match these three Australian reality TV stars; Nat Thaipun, Mercedes Knox and Feras Basal, to the shows they won in 2024; Survivor, Love Island and MasterChef.

Winners & Grinners

Merged Movies

Hollywood may have not only saved money, but these films may have also been bigger hits. Can you name the two 2024 films we’ve merged into a single plot for each question?

We’ll give you the initials for the film titles, but we’ve left out any numbers used in sequel names.

6

A retired meteorologist and reckless social-media superstar are forced to re-enter the Colosseum after the powerful emperors of Rome conquer their home.

(T + G)

7

Tech billionaire Slater King invites a cocktail server to join him and his friends for a dream vacation on a deserted island where they build relationships with the native animals and develop a parental bond with an orphaned gosling.

(BT + TWR)

8

In a dystopian future America, a team of military-embedded journalists rap in their native Irish, leading a movement to save their mother tongue.

(CW + K)

9

A fading celebrity takes a black-market drug that temporarily turns her into a teenager. As she tries to adapt to puberty, her old emotions try to accept the possibility of being replaced.

(TS + IO)

10

A sex worker from Brooklyn gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and marries a variant of Wolverine. Together, they save the universe from extinction.

(A + D&W)

Merged Movies

Flops & Failures

Look, they all gave it a crack, but sometimes it just doesn’t work out.

11

When arrested for driving while intoxicated in June, singer Justin Timberlake was reported to say, “This is going to ruin the what”?

12

In what city was the unlicensed Willy Wonka Experience that went viral in February for all the wrong reasons?

13

What was the name of Katy Perry’s July single, for which she received criticism and generally negative reviews?

14

Which actor known for Waterworld and Field of Dreams sank millions of his own money to make Horizon: An American Saga before it flopped at the box office?

15

Which luxury company’s 30-second rebrand ad debuting on November 19 received criticism for not showing their product and for looking more like a “haute couture fashion shoot on the lunar surface drenched in LSD”?

Flops & Failures

Song Sums

We've got some calculations for you to do. Can you name the 2024 song from the following sums?

16

Quote from the film The Sixth Sense
+ dissing Drake
= ?

17

Closeted woman
+ making excuses
+ parting wish
= ?

18

Double shot of whiskey
+ party downtown
+ violin solo in chorus
= ?

19

Hoedown
+ parking a lexus
- Texas
= ?

20

The “magic word”
x 3
= ?

Song Sums

Memes & Moments

Let’s take a trip down meme-ory lane.

21

Off the back of her newfound fame, Haliey Welch, aka Hawk Tuah Girl, launched a podcast with what title?

22

Finish the lyrics of this viral song by TikToker @girl_on_couch: ‘I’m looking for a man in finance, trust fund…’

23

What type of animal is viral sensation Moo Deng?

24

According to journalist Tracy Gilchrist, people were “holding space” for the lyrics of what song?

25

Jeremy Allen White, Josh O’Connor, and Barry Keoghan were just some of the men dubbed the Hot what Boyfriends online in 2024?

Memes & Moments

What’s In An Episode Name

Can you name the television show that aired or streamed in 2024 based on the names of its episodes?

26

Just for Laughs
The Roast of Deborah Vance
Par for the Course

(Stan/HBO Max)

27

Servants of Two Masters
Ladies of the Willow World
Crimson Sky

(Disney+/Hulu)

28

A Hard Man To Find
La Dolce Vita
Narcissus

(Netflix)

29

A Shiksa Walks Into a Temple
The Ick
WAGS

(Netflix)

30

Identity Theft
A Stranger Comes to Town
Penny for Your Thoughts

(Apple TV+)

What’s In An Episode Name

Leaderboard

Top Scores

  • 25 Straight out of Canberra
  • 20 Bag and Eddy
  • 22 Priscilla
  • 24 T-pain
  • 24 R & S
  • 20 shink & baz
  • 24 Simone & Nick
  • 20 Meg and Bill

Random Scores

  • 16 Like & Subscribe
  • 12 Xander
  • 7 Ceeejay
  • 17 Choc Vanilla Swirl
  • 19 Milo and livo
  • 16 Matty Healy
  • 17 Bek & Ben
  • 13 Jemma

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