Back in My Day
Before Spotify or Apple Music, this peer-to-peer file-sharing program gave your family desktop computer 15 viruses just so you can download one song?
What is Limewire? (will accept napster, kazaa, or bearshare)
Known as the "Gentleman Pirate," he was a wealthy landowner from Barbados who traded a comfortable life for piracy out of a desire for adventure rather than money. He bought his own ship, The Revenge, and was later captured and hanged in 1718.
In 2015, the internet nearly went to war over whether a certain dress was white and gold or these two colors.
What are Blue and Black?
This 2004 teen comedy taught us that "on Wednesdays we wear pink" and warned us about the "Burn Book."
What is Mean Girls?
This man invented corn flakes with the intent to suppress sexual desires.
Who is John Harvey Kellog?
If you didn't blow into this object before inserting it into the system, your game probably wouldn't load.
What is a cartridge?
This pirate operated in the early 18th century, commanded the flagship Queen Anne's Revenge, and terrified ships across the Caribbean and the U.S. coast by lighting slow-burning fuses in his beard. He died in 1718 during a fierce battle against the British Navy.
Who is Blackbeard?
This majestic Gorilla became an eternal internet legend after an unfortunate incident at the Cincinnati Zoo in 2016.
Who is Harambe?
This rap artist famously proclaimed, "If you're havin' girl problems, I feel bad for you son / I got 99 problems but..."
Who is Jay-Z?
This animal is Scotland's official national animal.
What is a unicorn?
This handheld digital pet would die of neglect if you left it in your school desk for more than six hours.
What is a tamagotchi?
18th-century female pirates who sailed with Calico Jack Rackam in the Caribbean. When their crew was captured off Jamaica in 1720, the men were hanged, but these pirates managed to escape immediate execution by pleading pregnancy.
Who is Anne Bonny and Mary Reed?
This dog breed became the face of a famous 2013 meme and later inspired a cryptocurrency.
What is a Shiba Inu? (Doge)
In The Office, Dwight Schrute operates a beet farm that doubles as this type of lodging establishment.
What is a Bed and Breakfast? (Schrute Farms)
This tragedy took place in 1919 when a massive storage tank burst releasing 2.3 million gallon wave of liquid. Killing 21 people and injuring 150 people, it left the city smelling like sweet syrup for decades.
What is the Boston Molasses Flood?
Before smartphones, you had to press the number 7 key four times on a T9 keypad just to type this single letter.
What is an S?
A former Chinese prostitute who commanded the largest pirate confederation in history, controlling thousands of ships and tens of thousands of sailors in the South China Sea before eventually negotiating a peaceful pardon and retirement.
Who is Madame Cheng? Or Ching Shih?
Complete this iconic line from a viral Vine: "Look at all those..."
"...chickens!"
This pop star was the lead singer of No Doubt before launching a massive solo career with hits like "Hollaback Girl."
Who is Gwen Stefani?
This mammal does not fart.
What is a sloth?
This classic Disney Channel Original Movie stars Danielle Panabaker, Brenda Song, and Taran Killam. Where two teenage girls accidentally swap phones with a pop superstar and proceed to ruin his life (accidentally).
What is Stuck in the Suburbs?
An English Sea Dog and privateer licensed by Queen Elizabeth I to raid Spanish ships and settlements. He became the first captain to intentionally circumnavigate the globe and helped defeat the Spanish Armada.
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
In 2012, this South Korean artist broke YouTube's view counter with the first video to reach 1 billion views.
Who is PSY? ("Gangnam Style")
This reality TV series features housemates who stop being polite and start getting real—a staple of late 90s/2000s MTV.
What is The Real World?
Any mammal over 3 kilograms takes roughly this many seconds to empty its bladder.
What is 21?