Video Game History
This 1980 arcade game introduced players to the yellow character who eats pellets while avoiding ghosts.
What is Pac-Man?
In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Edmund's betrayal is encouraged with an unlimited supply of this sweet treat.
What is Turkish delight?
Star Wars premiered in theaters during this decade.
What are the 1970s?
This author's first novel, A Study in Scarlet, introduced both Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
Who is Arthur Conan Doyle?
What came first: the invention of the telephone or the invention of the light bulb?
What is the telephone?
This 1985 game helped establish the modern platformer and introduced players to Mario's journey through the Mushroom Kingdom.
What is Super Mario Bros.?
This food from The Hunger Games is one of the few things Katniss associates with her childhood friend Peeta's family bakery.
What is bread?
The first iPhone was released during this decade.
What are the 2000s?
This author's first published novel introduced readers to the wealthy orphan Pip and his mysterious benefactor.
Who is Charles Dickens?
What came first: the sinking of the Titanic or the beginning of World War I?
What is the sinking of the Titanic?
This 1993 game is often credited with helping popularize the first-person shooter genre on PCs.
What is Doom?
In The Odyssey, this mythical food is consumed by Odysseus's men, causing them to forget their desire to return home.
What are the lotus flowers / lotus fruit?
The Berlin Wall fell during this decade.
What are the 1980s?
The Bluest Eye, about a young Black girl who longs for blue eyes, was this author's first novel.
Who is Toni Morrison?
What came first: the publication of The Hobbit or the first episode of The Wizard of Oz television series?
What is The Hobbit?
This 1993 fighting game became notorious for its graphic finishing moves and helped lead to the creation of the ESRB rating system.
What is Mortal Kombat?
In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, eating this baked item causes Alice to grow larger.
What are cakes?
The first human landed on the Moon during this decade.
What are the 1960s?
This author's debut novel, The Secret History, is set among an elite group of classics students at an American college.
Who is Donna Tartt?
What came first: the printing of Gutenberg's Bible or Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Americas?
What is Gutenberg's Bible?
This 1997 RPG for the original PlayStation follows Cloud Strife and a group of resistance fighters against the Shinra Corporation.
What is Final Fantasy VII?
In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the restaurant Milliways is better known by this name.
What is the Restaurant at the End of the Universe?
The Titanic sank during this decade.
What are the 1910s?
The Voyage Out, published in 1915, was the first novel by this modernist author who later wrote Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse.
Who is Virginia Woolf?
What came first: the publication of Newton's Principia Mathematica or the Salem witch trials?
What are the Salem witch trials?