The Dot-com Bubble
Pass Me The Walkman
Take A Trip To Blockbuster
Primetime Television
I Read About It In The Physical Newspaper
After School Snack Attack
100
When this company IPO'd at $0.09 a share in 1997, few imagined that an online marketplace for books would grow into a cloud computing colossus worth $2.3 trillion in 30 years.
What is Amazon?
100
This impressive vocal performance by Whitney Houston was the single of the year in 1993 and details her undying passion for the subject of the song.
What is "I Will Always Love You"?
100
This non-linear Tarantino film is incredibly confusing but at least it taught its viewers that a Quarter Pounder is known as a Royale with Cheese in France.
What is Pulp Fiction?
100
This famous adult cartoon show is somehow still going after 37 seasons and its sheer quality of material has led many to falsely believe that it's capable of predicting the future.
What is The Simpsons?
100
This European governing body was founded in 1992 and its first major move was to unite all of its member countries under a single currency in 1999.
What is the European Union?
100
Despite its shape, it would be unwise to propose with this lollipop conveniently designed to rest on your knuckles.
What are ring pops?
200
Unlike NVIDIA and AMD, this semiconductor company has fallen upon hard times even though it was head honcho of the industry in the 90s. The current share price is less than half of what it was at its peak in September 2000.
What is Intel?
200
This song by Michael Bolton poses a simple yet heartfelt question following a breakup. Interestingly enough, his version came out eight years after Laura Branigan's version.
What is "How Am I Supposed To Live Without You"?
200
Have you ever felt like you're living the same day over and over again? Bill Murray has, at least he did in this film.
What is Groundhog Day?
200
The titular character of this show was forced to move from West Philadelphia to an affluent neighborhood in Los Angeles after getting into a fight at school.
What is The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?
200
Although it technically fell in 1989, the removal of this structure signaled the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union, which officially collapsed in December of 1991.
What is the Berlin Wall?
200
This popular drink taught you to "respect the pouch" or face the consequences.
What is Capri-Sun?
300
Sharing a name with an onomatopoeia, this tech conglomerate famously passed on buying Google for just $1 million in 1998 and has seen its search engine play second fiddle ever since.
What is Yahoo?
300
The title of this song by Boyz II Men may lead you to think it's about places with no through traffic but it really details a different kind of dead end.
What is "End of the Road"?
300
This movie is about a case of mistaken identity as Jeff Bridges, playing a bowler known as "The Dude," finds himself embroiled in a tangled web of crime.
What is The Big Lebowski?
300
This sitcom is known for its ensemble cast, its stand-up comedy cold opens, and garnering 76.3 million viewers for its final episode, the fourth-most of all time.
What is Seinfeld?
300
After spending 27 years in prison, this man became president of South Africa in 1994, just four years after he was released.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
300
This snack was just cookies and frosting, but the name made it seem so much more than the simple contents in the box.
What are dunkaroos?
400
Famous for the tagline "you've got mail," this tech company mailed millions of promotional CDs to incentivize people to register for its internet service.
What is AOL?
400
The duo Kris Kross came to fame for wearing their pants backwards but also for this song released in 1992 that was the lead single of their debut studio album.
What is "Jump"?
400
The poster for this film adorns the dorms of male college students around the country and is about a soap salesman with a violent but cathartic side hustle that must never be discussed.
What is Fight Club?
400
This show had unrealistic depictions of rent-controlled apartments in New York and constantly having your pals over for breakfast before work. One thing it did get right was the social ambiguity behind "taking a break" within a relationship.
What is Friends?
400
This sophisticated space telescope was launched by NASA in 1990 and is responsible for the vast majority of the deep space photographs we have today.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
400
Before being relegated solely to mints, this brand also used to package sour hard candy in their signature tins.
What are Altoids?
500
This company built the precursor to Internet Explorer and saw its share of the browser market fall from more than 90% in the mid-90s to less than 1% by 2006.
What is Netscape?
500
This whistle-toned earworm by Mariah Carey was appropriately featured in her fifth album, Daydream, and was featured in Rush Hour as the song on the radio right before Soo Yung's kidnapping.
What is "Fantasy"?
500
Martin Scorsese assembled the who's who of Italian-American actors including Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, and Joe Pesci to star in this all-time classic gangster film.
What is Goodfellas?
500
Sarah Michelle Gellar's character in this supernatural drama somehow balances high school with vanquishing immortal blood-sucking monsters.
What is Buffy The Vampire Slayer?
500
With the release of their breakout album Nevermind in 1991, Nirvana became one of the leading musical groups in this movement, characterized by an angsty sound and teenage fan base.
What is grunge?
500
This frozen confectionery swaps out a tortilla for a waffle cone and also contains vanilla ice cream, fudge, peanuts, and a chocolate coating.
What is a Choco Taco?
600
Before Chewy, there was this e-commerce company whose name told you exactly who their products were aimed at.
What is Pets.com?
600
Mark Morrison is best known for this hit single that was on his third studio album of the same name. The line "you lied to me" was so iconic, it became viral in 2022 after being mashed up with the Post Malone song "Cooped Up."
What is "Return of the Mack"?
600
While not quite as important to the plot as the mathematical proofs and a deep dive into the psyche of a troubled but brilliant young man in Boston, this film does include Matt Damon's character deploying the bizarre term "how do ya like them apples?" in triumph.
What is Good Will Hunting?
600
Tim Allen plays the main character in this hardware-centric family sitcom, but it's perhaps more responsible for kickstarting the career of future teenage heartthrob Jonathan Taylor Thomas.
What is Home Improvement?
600
Before ChatGPT and Claude, this computer, built by IBM, was seen as the epitome of artificial intelligence after it successfully beat Garry Kasparov in a game of chess in 1996.
What is Deep Blue?
600
9 times out of 10, a tin of these cookies will contain naught but sewing implements.
What are Royal Dansk Butter Cookies?