2025 Year in Review

Pub Quiz, Trivial Pursuits, and Game Night if You're Game

QUIZENTERTAINMENT

Amy A. DeCew

1/5/20262 min read

trash can overflowing with garbage on a cracked sidewalk
trash can overflowing with garbage on a cracked sidewalk

Vomitorious, blaspheming, and upchuckable, we bid an unfond farewell to a doozy of an annum. Answer key provided at the end of this fantastic fun quiz!

Question One

If 2025 were a predator, it would be…

A) Cocaine Bear

B) Liquor Store Raccoon

C) Meth Gator

D) Politics

Question Two

The United States had its longest government shutdown in what epoch?

A) The Jurassic

B) Always, whenever, and also on Tuesday

C) 2025

D) What “United States”?

Question Three

2025 was a confusing year for many, because…

A) No one could figure out why Canada was a problem

B) No one had the money to “just buy” Greenland

C) No one wanted to invade Panama again

D) Basically no one understood anything

Question Four

Cost of living has never been so low and jobs have never been more rewarding in which of the following scenarios?

A) 1910 with a 2010 income

B) When you were nine years old and you and your best friend had a lemonade stand

C) Star Trek

D) The price of eggs outweighs all other considerations

Question Five

2025-style tariffs were a saving grace for solving all deficit and economic woes in…

A) Last week’s crossword puzzle

B) Piraeus, Greece, circa early 5th century BCE

C) Who writes this frigging quiz, anyway?

D) Smoot this, it Hawley matters

Question Six

Americans can expect housing, healthcare, job market, and foreign policy solutions from 2025 to benefit them when…

A) Hell freezes over

B) Pigs fly

C) They buy a winning lottery ticket

D) Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em

Question Seven

2025 was a great great great supergreat megagreat ultragreat year of total extra greatness times greatathon squared into infinity for….

A) Caving media outlets

B) Subservient government officials

C) Hallucinating AI ChatBots

D) Pond scum

Question Eight

If 2025 were a recipe, it would be…

A) The fast track to irritable bowel syndrome

B) Chaos theory put into a plague blender served with a side of Silicon Valley ballroom

C) Solid gold crypto cake wrapped in fatty pork layers roasted over republic remains

D) Would you like fries with that?

Question Nine

2025 proved that the best way to manage governance in a nation of 330 million people is…

A) Chainsaws

B) Bathroom updates

C) Firing comedians

D) You don’t need any dolls

Question Ten

2025 was most effective as a real solutions-oriented year in which of the following ways?

A) Group chats with randos to shore up national security

B) Mortgage lawsuits to solve housing affordability

C) Fighting food colors for healthcare insurance fixes

D) Playing golf to enhance mental acuity, emotional balance, and keep in tip-top shape

Question Eleven

If someone weren’t familiar with the year, 2025 could best be described as…

A) Sewage

B) Dracula

C) The reason I now need my gallbladder removed

D) @#&!!% the *&#$% for @&^!?& and bleeeeeeeeep

Question Twelve

2026 is looking good because…

A) At long last, someone does invent an app for that

B) We’re suing 2025 for backpay

C) We invent a time machine, going back to completely alter the past ten years

D) Nope

Yes, it’s been a whopper of a wild ride through 2025! Find out how you scored on this test of both your tolerance and any knowledge of how most people feel in space and time with our handy answer key below.

Answer Key: All answers are both correct and completely incorrect, depending on whether you have a conscience.