TV Show Decades
Lost was a record breaking hit for ABC, averaging 16 million viewers in its first season when the show premiered in this decade.
What are the 2000s?
It was around 1936 that Jazz guitarist Charlie Christian began using an acoustic guitar with a pickup attached to the body, thus inventing this instrument.
What is the electric guitar?
Historical research has revealed that the first ice hockey games played on skates were played in this country.
What is England?
This is the legal drinking age in Quebec, Manitoba, and Alberta.
What is 18?
An automobile not in close proximity.
What is a far car?
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was a main catalyst to Will Smith's popularity when it premiered in this decade.
What are the 1990s?
DAILY DOUBLE!
In 2001, Apple unveiled this device, which made use of the recently invented portable MP3 format, in order to put, as they called it, "1000 songs in your pocket."
What is an iPod?
The original rubber hockey puck was this shape.
What is a square?
This is the amount of time it takes for the brain to begin reacting to alcohol.
What is six minutes?
A surgeon who oversees your exams.
What is a doctor proctor?
I Love Lucy, a sitcom in which Lucille Ball portrayed a middle class housewife trying to get into show business, premiered in this decade.
What are the 1950s?
In 1920, experiments in electronic sound led to the invention of this instrument, which is played by waving your hand near it.
What is the theremin?
This team in the NHL had a real animal from the zoo serve as their mascot in 1968.
Who are the Pittsburgh Penguins?
This percentage of top 100 country songs contain references to alcohol.
What is 20%?
A minor traffic accident.
What is a fender bender?
Welcome Back, Kotter, which starred Gabe Kaplan as a high school teacher, was cancelled after its fourth season in this decade.
What are the 1970s?
What is a synthesizer?
Before this NHL team played in the 1991-92 season, some of the finalists in their name-the-team contest included “Screaming Squids,” “Salty Dogs,” “Blades,” and "Rubber Puckies."
Who are the San Jose Sharks?
DAILY DOUBLE!
This is the name of the cocktail comprised of vodka, tomato juice, celery salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and lemon juice.
What is a Bloody Mary?
A highly politically biased and highly skilled craft maker.
What is a partisan artisan?
Ollie's Pack, the children's cartoon series produced by Canadian Nelvana Animation, in which Ollie controls and protects the Monster Realm, premiered in this decade.
What are the 2020s?
In 1940, before AutoTune was invented, a Bell Labs physicist invented this tool which manipulates a singer's pitch, and was later popularized by the likes of Kraftwerk and Daft Punk.
What is a vocoder?
In 1971, the first ever million dollar contract in NHL history was signed by this player.
Who is Bobby Orr?
This name is given to rough, dry and often strong cider brewed particularly in the West Country of England.
What is a scrumpy?
A minuscule spirit in a magic lamp.
What is a teeny genie?