Okay Boomer
(1946-1964)
(1946-1964)
Raised by Cable TV
(1965–1980)
(1965–1980)
Only 90s Kids Get It
(1981-1996)
(1981-1996)
It's Giving Jeopardy
(1997–2012)
(1997–2012)
OG iPad Kids
(2013-2024)
(2013-2024)
100
Born at the tail end of the generation, Boomers remember exactly where they were on July 20, 1969, when this astronaut took "one small step for man."
Who is Neil Armstrong?
100
This Seattle grunge band, fronted by Kurt Cobain, blew up Gen X's musical landscape with their 1991 anthem "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
Who is Nirvana?
100
Millennials were famously accused by real estate moguls of being unable to afford home mortgages because they spent all their money on this trendy, green breakfast toast.
What is avocado toast?
100
Gen Z spent their middle and high school years dropping out of a flying bus and building wooden ramps in this massive, multi-billion-dollar battle royale video game.
What is Fortnite?
100
Pointing to a major infrastructure shift in their early childhood, schools spent roughly $30 billion replacing traditional paper textbooks with these two portable computing devices.
What are laptops and tablets (Also Accepted: iPads)?
200
You receive a message from a baby boomer;
"K."
Are they mad at you?
No
200
This iconic 1985 John Hughes film features a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal spending Saturday in detention.
What is The Breakfast Club?
200
You receive a message from a millenial;
"K."
Are they mad at you?
Yes.
200
Rather than typing "LOL" or using a crying-laughing emoji, Gen Z universally expresses that something is hilarious by typing emoji.
What is the Skull Emoji - 
200
This record-breaking American YouTuber became a foundational figure in Gen Alpha’s childhood media diet, famous for his extreme, multi-million dollar stunt videos and large-scale giveaway contests.
Who is MrBeast?
300
This massive geopolitical standoff and ideological conflict between the US and the Soviet Union dominated the entire childhood and young adulthood of Baby Boomers.
What is the Cold War?
300
To play video games at home, Gen X begged their parents for this 8-bit home console released in North America in 1985, featuring a gray rectangular controller.
What is the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System)?
300
Before Spotify, Millennials systematically destroyed the family desktop computer with viruses just to illegally download a single MP3 on this peer-to-peer file-sharing software.
What is Napster? (Also Accepted: Limewire or Kazaa)
300
Driven by massive internet meme culture, Gen Z poured millions into "memecoins," a highly volatile class of tokens headlined by Shiba Inus and this specific parody currency created in 2013.
What is Dogecoin?
300
Instead of playing with physical toys, Gen Alpha spend their daily screen time socializing and building virtual worlds inside this massive, user-generated 3D gaming platform launched globally on iOS in 2011.
What is Roblox?
400
This 1969 music festival in upstate New York became the defining cultural touchstone for the Baby Boomer counterculture.
What is Woodstock?
400
This single, sarcastic, 8-letter word is the ultimate Gen X verbal shrug, popularized by the movie Clueless.
What is "Whatever"?
400
Coined by Millennials in the 2010s, this slang verb describes the grueling process of performing basic, mundane responsibilities like paying bills, doing chores, or scheduling doctor appointments.
What is adulting?
400
Gen Z pioneered the cultural death of cash at restaurants and stores by relying almost entirely on mobile apps like Apple Pay or this peer-to-peer mobile payments platform launched in 2009.
Answer: What is Venmo?
400
Marking a massive global disruption to their early education, Generation Alpha's preschool and early elementary years were defined by this 2020 social reality that replaced physical classrooms with Zoom grids.
What is remote learning (Accept: online school / virtual learning)?
500
To listen to music on the go, Boomers used this portable audio format that famously required a pencil to manually wind the magnetic tape back up if it unraveled.
What is a cassette tape?
500
To record songs off the radio, Gen X spent hours hovering over the record button of a boombox to create these highly curated personal music collections.
What are mixtapes?
500
To chat after school, Millennials logged onto AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) and spent hours crafting the perfect, passive-aggressive text blurb known by this term to show when they weren't at their computer.
What is an Away Message?
500
Because their early childhood precisely tracked the post-9/11 security era, early sociologists explicitly labeled Gen Z with this geopolitical name before "Gen Z" took over.
What are Homelanders (Also Accepted: The Homeland Generation)?
500
Gen Alpha's early childhood media diet was heavily defined by this Australian animated puppy preschooler who lives with her sister Bingo, a show that famously captivated parents just as much as kids.
Who is Bluey?