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On January 1st, 1999 this currency, now used by 21 of the 27 member states of the European Union, was established.
What is the Euro?
Begins with T, a professional that works in education, usually in a school.
What is a teacher?
Lara Croft is the archeologist and treasure hunter star of this video game series.
What is Tomb Raider?
This crewed lunar flyby mission was the first crewed flight beyond low Earth Orbit since 1972 and returned to land on April 11th.
What is the Artemis II?
On March 28th, 1999 this animated comedy about a pizza delivery man sent 1000 years into the future premiered.
What is Futurama?
Begins with A; a person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft.
What is an astronaut?
Indiana Jones' first movie appearance had him searching for this relic.
What is the Arc of the Covenant?
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This film by George Lucas, released in May of 1999, was the highest grossing movie of the year.
What is Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace?
Begins with R; a keeper of a park, forest, or area of countryside.
What is a ranger?
Nathan Drake, the treasure hunting star of the Uncharted series, was played by this actor in the 2022 film adaptation of the series.
Who is Tom Holland?
This song by Cher was the #1 on the Top 100 songs of 1999.
What is 'Believe'?
Begins with L; a person skilled in foreign languages or who studies languages.
What is a linguist?
Tom Hanks portrayed the puzzle-solving and artifact hunting Harvard Professor of Religious Iconology and Symbology Robert Langdon in this 2006 adaptation of the book of the same name by Dan Brown.
What is The Da Vinci Code?
On June 1st, 1999, this music sharing website that would later be shut down due to copy-write issues, was established and became the first of many peer-to-peer file sharing sites.
What is Napster?
Begins with E; a person who studies or is an expert in the branch of zoology concerned with insects.
What is an Entomologist?
James (Jim) Hawkins goes from working at his family's inn to hunting down a pirate's hoard in this 1883 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson that has had over 50 film and TV adaptations.
What is Treasure Island?