Music
Gen Alpha: This song from the Encanto soundtrack went viral on TikTok in 2022.
What is We Don’t Talk About Bruno?
Gen Alpha: This 2017 toy craze involved spinners kids held between their fingers, claimed to help with focus.
What is the Fidget Spinner?
Gen Alpha: This global soccer star joined Inter Miami in 2023, bringing massive attention to Major League Soccer.
Who is Lionel Messi?
Gen Alpha: This Pixar movie from 2020 follows a jazz musician who gets stuck in "The Great Before."
What is Soul?
Gen Alpha: This YouTube channel, famous for nursery songs like Baby Shark, has billions of views.
What is Cocomelon?
Gen Z: This singer became the youngest artist to win all four major Grammy categories in 2020 with hits like Bad Guy.
Who is Billie Eilish
Gen Z: These chunky shoes, originally popular in the 2000s, came back in style when teens started decorating them with charms called Jibbitz.
What are Crocs?
Gen Z: This person became famous for gymnastics dominance and withdrew from events in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics for mental health concerns.
Who is Simone Biles?
Gen Z: This online game became hugely popular in 2017 for its battle royale mode.
What is Fortnite?
Gen Z: This video app, launched in 2016, became the defining social platform for Gen Z.
What is TikTok?
Millennials: This boy band’s 2000 hit Bye Bye Bye made them pop icons.
Who is NSYNC?
Millennials: In the late 1990s, these digital pets lived in a small handheld device that beeped constantly for attention.
What are Tamagotchis?
Millennials: This team won their first World Cup in 1999.
Millennials: This fantasy movie series, based on books by J.K. Rowling, began in 2001.
What is Harry Potter?
Millennials: This social media platform, launched in 2004, was originally exclusive to college students.
What is Facebook?
Gen X: This artist’s 1984 album Purple Rain produced hits like "When Doves Cry."
Who is Prince?
Gen X: This portable music player, introduced in the late 1970s, allowed kids and teens to make mixtapes and listen to music on the go with headphones.
What is the Walkman?
Gen X: This Chicago Bulls player, often called the GOAT, led his team to six NBA championships in the 1990s.
Who is Michael Jordan?
Gen X: This 1980s arcade game featured a yellow character eating pellets and avoiding ghosts.
What is Pac-Man?
Gen X: MTV, the first 24-hour music video channel, launched in this year.
What is 1981?
Baby Boomers: This British band released Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967.
Who are The Beatles?
Baby Boomers: This toy, introduced in the late 1950s, became a playground craze where kids spun it around their waist.
What is the Hula Hoop?
Baby Boomers: This boxer was nicknamed "The Greatest" and won the heavyweight title three times.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
Baby Boomers: In the original Star Wars (1977), this actor played Luke Skywalker.
Who is Mark Hamill?
Baby Boomers: This TV show about a blended family with six kids and a housekeeper debuted in 1969.
What is The Brady Bunch?