90s Music
It's a naked fact that this 1999 #1 single from Southern California band Blink-182, originally called "Peter Pan Syndrome," established the band as a pop punk powerhouse.
What is "What's My Age Again?"
Produced by Mark Burnett, this hit reality show, debuting in North America in 2000, was adapted from a Swedish show called Expedition Robinson.
What is Survivor?
It took Margaret Atwood 34 years to write this sequel to her 1985 hit, The Handmaids Tale.
What is The Testaments?
This joke began a long time ago. On October 17, 1959, this Canadian comedian and SNL-alum was born.
Who is Norm MacDonald?
What a twist! According to a 2013 Barilla World Pasta Day survey, the 3 most popular types of pasta in North America are Penne, Spaghetti, and this pasta shape.
What is rotini?
While it sounded like generational cheerleading, Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" got its title from this unlikely source.
What is Teen Spirit deodorant?
Widely considered to be one of the worst best picture winners of all time, this Paul Haggis-directed film won that coveted Academy Award in 2006.
What is Crash?
This author of the bestselling The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns also runs a successful YouTube channel, The Vlog Brothers, with his actual brother, Hank.
Who is John Green?
On October 17, 1931, this renowned gangster and Scarface (1931) inspiration, was convicted of tax avoision.
Who is Al Capone?
This US founding father is credited with bringing pasta to North America in 1789.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Britpop became a cultural phenomenon in the UK in 1995 when "The Battle of Britpop," a chart battle between these two bands, became the subject of daily coverage in music publications like the NME.
Who are Blur and Oasis?
An infamous "Scream" dashed the Presidential chances of this former Governor of Vermont during the 2004 Democratic primary.
Who is Howard Dean?
E.L. James turned this Twilight character into Christian Grey, reaching pop-cultural immortality when she turned her fan-fiction version of that popular book series into the erotic Fifty Shades of Grey series.
Who is Edward Cullen?
On October 17, 1781, British Generals surrendered and thereby lost this key battle during the American Revolutionary War, a turning point much feted in the 2015 broadway musical, Hamilton.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
While certainly being a classic Italian staple, pasta originates from this Asian country.
What is China?
Dr. Dre's 1992 album, The Chronic, and Snoop Dogg's 1993 album, Doggystyle, popularized the hip-hop production style known as G-Funk, a subgenre largely associated with West Coast gangsta rap that relied heavily on samples from this 70s funk band.
This microblogging app and website, created in 2006, was originally intended to help musical festival attendees keep track of their friends. Fittingly, users were originally introduced to the platform at the 2007 SxSW festival in Austin, Texas.
What is Twitter?
Talk about a tough act to follow! Colson Whitehead followed up his 2016 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning novel, The Underground Railroad, with this 2019 novel based on a real-life reform school in Florida.
What is The Nickel Boys?
Sadly, this Polish composer and pianist had his career cut short when died at the relatively young age of 39 on October 17, 1849.
Who is Frédéric Chopin?
Pasta was traditionally kneaded with this part of the body. Those Italians are always a step ahead!
What are the feet?
This chart-topping hip-hop artist was sued by his own mother for slander in 1999.
Who is Eminem?
Originally seen as a sign of filmmaking to come. This science-fiction film was the highest-grossing movie of 2009. Marvel liked the 3-D, but had other plans for the medium.
What is Avatar?
In 2018, in-your-face feminist author Otessa Moshfegh wrote this follow-up to her 2015 bestseller and critical darling, Eileen.
What is My Year of Rest and Relaxation?
On October 17, 1091, London, England, was struck by this natural disaster. I hope they had basements back then!
What is a Tornado?
A 1957 British documentary spoof was so convincing, it caused viewers to believe that this pasta type grew on trees. Some even tried to purchase a pasta bush from their gardener.
What is spaghetti?