When Radios Ruled (40s)
In 1941, this attack led the United States to officially enter World War II.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Some say it was filmed on a soundstage, but history says this 1969 mission landed humans on the Moon.
What is Apollo 11?
This dance-heavy music style became wildly popular in the late 1970s.
What is disco?
This fuzzy 90s toy came with a name, a birthday, and enough hype to cause store stampedes.
What are Beanie Babies?
These wide-eyed designer collectibles became wildly popular this year thanks to blind boxes and social media.
What are Labubus?
This female factory worker became a symbol of women working during WWII
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
So polluted it literally caught fire in 1969, this Ohio river became a national wake-up call.
What is the Cuyahoga River?
This environmental movement milestone was first celebrated in 1970.
What is Earth Day?
This 90s handheld game proved you didn’t need color—or a backlight—to have fun.
What is the Game Boy?
Once science fiction, this technology now writes, predicts, and occasionally scares people—and their jobs.
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This phrase was commonly used in the 1940s to describe something excellent or exciting.
What is “swell”?
This 1960s innovation helped enable the sexual revolution—one prescription at a time.
What is "The Pill" or Birthcontrol
This children’s toy, a colorful plastic disc, became wildly popular in the 1970s.
What is a Frisbee?
This 90s beauty trend made eyebrows disappear—and they’ve been trying to come back ever since.
What are thin eyebrows?
In 2025, kids inexplicably find this pair of numbers hilarious—with no punchline required.
What is 6 and 7?
This famous photo shows a sailor kissing a woman in Times Square in 1945.
What is V-J Day?
The hippie movement, student protests, and experimental art were all part of this broader 1960s phenomenon.
What is the counterculture?
Founded in 1975, this company helped open the “gates” to personal computing for the world.
What is Microsoft?
This 90s game tested reflexes, listening skills, and friendships.
What is Bop It?
Coined in 2025, this acronym described repeated tariff threats and reversals—ironically borrowing Mexican food imagery.
Trump Always Chickens Out (TACO)
What invention, originally developed for military use during the 1940s, later became common in home kitchens?
What is the microwave oven?
This bright pink “cure-all” for childhood scrapes stung, stained, and showed up in every medicine cabinet.
What is Mercurochrome?
This “King” proved in 1973 that women belonged on equal footing in professional sports.
Who is Billie Jean King?
Fifteen new nations replaced a Cold War superpower in 1991; name five of them.
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.
This animated musical fantasy became Netflix’s most-watched movie ever after debuting in June 2025.
What is KPop Demon Hunters?