Michigan
This massive bridge opened in 1957, connecting the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.
What is the Mackinac Bridge?
In 1996, this Spanish pop duo took the world by storm with a song and dance that everyone’s aunt still does at weddings.
Who is Los del Río? (The "Macarena")
The global panic at the turn of the millennium centered around fear that computers wouldn't understand the year 2000.
What is the Y2K bug (or the Millennium Bug)?
This brick-and-mortar video rental giant featured a bright blue and yellow awning and a strict "Be Kind, Rewind" policy.
What is Blockbuster Video?
This is the name of the planet we live on.
What is Earth?
If you are standing in Detroit and look directly across the Detroit River to the south, you are looking at this foreign country.
What is Canada?
This British group told us to "Bow wow wow yippi yo yippi yay" in 1997 when they let these domestic animals out.
Who is Baha Men? ("Who Let the Dogs Out")
In the spring of 2020, grocery store aisles were left bare due to unprecedented panic-buying of this specific household paper product.
What is toilet paper?
To get online in the 90s, you had to endure a loud series of beeps and static over your landline phone, a process known by this tech term.
What is dial-up internet?
In the Joint Army/Navy phonetic alphabet used heavily throughout World War II, this word was officially designated to represent the letter "E" before it was later replaced by "Echo" in 1956.
What is Easy?
This western Michigan beach town, located right on Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Pere Marquette River, shares its name with a famous 19th-century French explorer.
What is Ludington?
This band got knocked down in 1997, but they got up again—you're never gonna keep them down.
Who is Chumbawamba? ("Tubthumping")
On August 14, 2003, a software bug in Ohio triggered the largest widespread power outage in North American history, affecting 55 million people across this region and parts of Canada.
What is the Northeast blackout?
Before Spotify, millions of people risked destroying the family computer with viruses just to download MP3s on this peer-to-peer file-sharing network launched in 1999.
What is LimeWire?
If you mix the colors blue and yellow together, you get this color.
What is green?
Michigan has the longest freshwater coastline of any political subdivision in the world, bordered by four of the five Great Lakes. This is the only Great Lake that doesn't touch Michigan.
What is Lake Ontario?
This 2003 alt-rock track by Fountains of Wayne features a teenage boy infatuated with his friend's maternal figure.
What is "Stacy's Mom"?
In 2021, a massive container ship named the Ever Given completely paralyzed global trade for six days by getting wedged sideways in this vital waterway.
What is the Suez Canal?
If you wanted to know what time Seinfeld or The X-Files was on, you had to flip through a physical magazine or stare at this slow-scrolling cable network channel for ten minutes.
What is the TV Guide Channel?
This 1972 debut single by the Eagles, co-written by Jackson Browne and Glenn Frey, features the iconic opening line, "Well, I'm a-runnin' down the road tryin' to loosen my load, I've got seven women on my mind."
What is "Take It Easy"?
Founded in Midland, Michigan in 1897, this massive chemical corporation's name literally combines its founder’s last name with the primary element extracted from local brine.
What is Dow Chemical?
This Belgian-Australian singer had us all singing along to "Somebody That I Used to Know" in 2011 before he essentially became somebody that we used to know.
Who is Gotye?
In the mid-1990s, the global toy market descended into absolute madness, including parental brawls in store aisles, over the artificial scarcity of these pellet-stuffed plush toys.
What are Beanie Babies?
Released in 1996, this physical format was the first to give us interactive menus and bonus features, officially marking the beginning of the end for the VHS tape.
What is DVD?
Born Eric Wright, this influential West Coast rapper and member of N.W.A.
Who is Eazy-E?