The Nerve Quiz of the Year answers

Jeremy Allen White, the star of The Bear, starred as Bruce Springsteen in Bruce Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
Answer: In The Roses, Cumberbatch and Colman played the eponymous couple played by Douglas and Turner in the original adaptation of Warren Adler’s novel The War of the Roses
Elba played a fictional president of the US in A House of Dynamite, which all of those listed have also done: Douglas (The American President), Freeman (Deep Impact), Fonda (Fail-Safe), Pullman (Independence Day), Ford (Air Force One), Sellers (Dr Strangelove), Streep (Don’t Look Up), Kline (Dave), Nicholson (Mars Attacks!)
Brody won his second Academy Award for best actor in The Brutalist, equalling Nicholson (who also has a third Oscar for best supporting actor), while Streep has won three for best actress
Chase Infiniti

Coronation Street and Emmerdale
D) Zoe Kravitz
Alison Hammond
B) Owen Cooper (he became the youngest performer to win an Emmy at the age of 15)
Louise Kennedy

The 6–7 meme (‘Six Seven!’) generally shouted by Gen Alpha kids - along with accompanying hand gesture – which indicates approval, enthusiasm, surprise and more. (If you don’t understand why, you’re not alone.)
Slop, or to give it its full name, AI slop.
Parasocial
President Donald J Trump has used this curious sign-off to many of his Truth Social posts since the start of 2025.
‘Charlie Kirk’, the American right-wing political activist who was shot on May 10th. (This was followed by ‘Ozzy Osbourne’, the singer from Black Sabbath who died in July.)

Jaw
Women’s rugby
Florian Wirtz
Rory McIlroy
6-0, 6-0 (Iga Świątek beat Amanda Anisimova in the heaviest defeat of a female finalist in over 100 years)

Quarter-zip and matcha
“Ibiza Final Boss” (the nickname was given to clubber Jack Kay after a video of him dancing at a club in Ibiza went viral. “Final boss’’ is a gaming term which has evolved to mean “the ultimate”)
Sky Sports (the new channel was called “Halo”)
Marlon (he disappeared online for a week as a stunt … but it turned out no one really noticed)
“Performative”