State capitals
The capital of Arizona.
What is Phoenix?
The year of the Loma Prieta earthquake.
What is 1989?
If a teenager in the 1950s told you to "cut a rug," they weren't destroying property—they were asking you to do this activity.
What is dancing?
The name of the multi-decades event which popularized space travel.
What is the Space Race?
The capital of Georgia.
What is Atlanta?
The year that Summer of Love (a massive implux of hippies in Haight Ashbury) took place.
What is 1967?
To "burn rubber" meant you were accelerating so fast in your hot rod that you left black marks on the pavement, a phrase meaning to do this.
What is speeding up/hurrying?
The name of the system that uses a satellite to determine your location.
What is GPS?
The capital of New York.
What is Albany?
The largest Native American tribe to have ever been in Bay Area.
Who are the Ohlone?
To "lay it on me" in the hippie era didn't mean carrying a heavy load; it meant you wanted the other person to do this.
What is "tell me"?
The company that owns the AI-based search tool known as ChatGPT.
What is OpenAI?
The capital of Oregon.
What is Salem?
The name of the mid-19th century event that prompted mass migration to California from all over the world.
Hint: golden
What is the Gold Rush?
If you were driving a "land yacht" in the 1970s, you weren't on the water; you were driving one of these types of vehicles.
What is a large car?
The project responsible for creating and testing the first nuclear weapons.
What is the Manhattan Project?
The capital of Missouri.
What is Jefferson City?
What the Golden Gate Bridge did in 1987 to mark its 50th anniversary.
What is completely closing the bridge to cars for a day and letting people walk in the roads?
If someone told you to stop "bumping gums," they wanted you to immediately cease doing this activity.
What is talking/gossiping/chattering?
The phone that was the first to popularize capacitive "multi-touch" technology (scrolling, pinching, etc.).
What is the original iPhone?