Big 10
This is the only Private University in the Big 10
What is Northwestern?
This condiment is considered a sin on hot dogs.
What is Ketchup?
This spiky-haired Saiyan warrior, originally named Kakarot, spends his life defending Earth from powerful villains in Dragon Ball.
Goku
pple introduces the first iPhone, the final Harry Potter book is published, and social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter launch globally during this decade.
The 2000s
Debuted in 2002 with her smash debut album Let Go and its chart-topping lead single "Complicated".
Avril Lavigne
The Big 10 currently has X members.
What is 18?
Though it was officially renamed the Willis Tower in 2009, local Chicagoans still almost universally refer to this 110-story skyscraper by its original moniker.
What is the Sears Tower?
This series follows Tanjiro Kamado on a quest to cure his sister Nezuko after she is transformed into a monster.
Demon Slayer
The first Crayola crayons hit store shelves
1900s
Starring opposite Brad Pitt in the action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Angelina Jolie
This stadium home of the Nittany Lions shares its name with a legendary local iron master rather than an actual animal.
What is Beaver Stadium?
This massive 1871 disaster was famously (and falsely) blamed on a lantern being knocked over by a cow belonging to Mrs. Catherine O'Leary.
What is the Great Chicago Fire?
Set in the year 2071, this space-western anime follows bounty hunters Spike Spiegel and Jet Black aboard their namesake spaceship.
Cowboy Bebop
The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, DNA's double-helix structure is discovered, and the polio vaccine is first successfully tested
1950s
She became the first woman—and only the second artist ever after Michael Jackson—to score five number-one singles from a single album
Katy Perry (Teenage Dream)
This massive, 98-pound trophy—the heaviest in college football—features a custom-designed tiered map of the United States and has been awarded to the winner of the Nebraska vs. Penn State game since 2011.
What is the Heros Trophy?
The official Chicago flag features four six-pointed red stars, each representing a historic milestone: Fort Dearborn, the 1871 Fire, and two of these massive global events held in 1893 and 1933.
What is the Worlds Fair?
This 1988 Hayao Miyazaki film follows two young sisters who move to the countryside and interact with friendly forest spirits, including a giant, furry creature.
My Neighbor Totoro
Great Britain witnesses a rare "Year of Three Kings" when King George V dies, King Edward VIII abdicates, and King George VI takes the throne, all within this single decade.
1930s
Iconic voice actor, also known from Spiderman and Whiplash
JK Simmons
Decades before it became a microwave staple, this popular, salty, theatre-style snack brand was created and marketed by a team led by a namesake 1930 Purdue graduate.
What is Orville Redenbacher?
Derived from an indigenous Miami-Illinois word meaning "wild onion" or "leek," this is the original Native American word that gave the city of Chicago its name.
What is Chicagoua?
Directed by Satoshi Kon, this 2006 sci-fi anime film features a device called the DC Mini that allows therapists to enter people's dreams, and heavily inspired Christopher Nolan's Inception.
Paprika
The continent of Antarctica is officially sighted for the first time in this decade.
The 1810s
Made the first ever all Spanish album to win album of the year
Bad Bunny