2005
"George Bush doesn't care about black people."
Kanye West
BONUS QUESTION: Who was standing next to Kanye on the live telecast for Hurricane Katrina relief when he said those words?
By 2005 this site had over 100 million users. You've got a friend in Tom.
Myspace
In 2005 Hurricane Katrina's devastating effects were worsened when fatal engineering flaws caused this flood protection system to break.
Levees
Kids would roll on up with these sneakers.
Heelys

It's the first song in the movie.
"Start of Something New"
BONUS QUESTION: They sang this song at a kids party celebrating what holiday?
2006
"You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror."
George W. Bush
By 2004, the popularity of the iPod, one of these devices, skyrocketed past the competition.
MP3 player
In the 2006 World Cup Final between these two countries, Zinedine Zidane received a red card after the headbutt heard round the world.
France and Italy. ![]()
BONUS QUESTION: What was said to make Zidane headbutt Marco Materazzi?
In 2004 everyone young and old wore these rubber yellow bracelets with this word written on it, the same as the cancer foundation who made them.
Livestrong
BONUS QUESTION: Who was the founder of this foundation?

In "Stick to the Status Quo" the skater confessed to his clique that he likes to play this instrument.
Cello
BONUS QUESTION: Name one of the other confessions.
2005
“Psychiatry is a pseudoscience.... You don’t know the history of psychiatry. I do...Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don’t even -- you’re glib. You don’t even know what Ritalin is."
Tom Cruise
Sending your crush a personal playlist involved this process, a way to transfer songs from a CD into files.
burning CDs
On June 3, 2006 this country claimed independence from Serbia. No arguments here Serbia followed suit 2 days later.
Montenegro

Every girl just had to get their hands on this brand's matching tracksuit. Hint: the name was always plastered on the ahem backside.
Juicy Couture
Sharpay schemed to get these three school events to happen at the same time.
Championship game, Scholastic Decathlon, Final Callback audition
2005
“I wasn't going to let a little thing like a hurricane keep me from wearing my bathing suit.”
Eva Longoria
Twitter launched in 2006, allowing any and everybody to report on their daily activity in 140 characters or less, paralleling the character limit of this text.
SMS (short message service)
BONUS QUESTION: In 2005 the phone company Blackberry released this alternative to SMS texts.
HIV/AIDS

Low rise jeans were en vogue, commonly referred to with this two word phrase.
Hip Huggers
Despite its title, High School Musical barely mentions this name of the in-universe winter musical.
Twinkle Town
2006
"I wouldn't feel right wearing clothes covering my body."
Christina Aguilera
Before the launch of Youtube in 2006, streaming and downloading video in bulk was slow and inconvenient, due to this expensive and limited data transfer capacity.
Bandwidth
In 2004 John Kerry and this now disgraced running mate accepted the democratic nomination to run against President Bush.
John Edwards

This designer and eponymous clothing brand were all the rage, known for its over the top designs.
Ed Hardy
Zac Efron was shocked to find out his vocals, aside from the beginning and end lines of a song, were switched out in favor of this singer, who would later star in his own DCOM.
Drew Seeley