The 80's
The 90's
The Aughts (2000's)
The 2010's
100
What popular 80s hairstyle was inspired by David Bowie and which has had a popular resurgence in the past few years?
The mullet!
100
Who had a hit with the song "Baby One More Time" in 1998?
Britney Spears
100
The Nintendo Wii, released in 2006, allowed gamers to create individualized avatars with what simple name?
Mii
100
Which 2013 Disney animated film featured the hit song “Let It Go”?
Frozen
200
Which 1982 movie featured a young boy and his alien friend?
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
200
Which 1997 movie features the song "My Heart Will Go On" and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet?
Titanic
200
Going live on August 1, 2003, this was the most widely used social media site from 2005 to 2009.
MySpace
200
Which Korean artist had the first YouTube video ever to reach 1 billion views?
Double points in you can guess what year the song and video were released.
PSY with Gangnam Style
Released 2012
300
Which band recorded “Don’t Stop Believin'” in 1981?
a. Journey
b. Bon Jovi
c. Wham!
d. Def Leppard
a. Journey
300
Which popular TV show, which aired 1994-2004, features characters Ross, Rachel, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe?
Friends
300
What is the term for the internet prank and meme in which an unexpected appearance of the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up" is "planted" into an unrelated link? The meme's popularity dates back to 2008.
Rickrolling
300
In what year did Instagram launch?
2010
400
What portable music device was introduced by Sony in 1979 but became huge in the 80s?
The Walkman
400
This video game console was released by Sony in 1994. Some popular games for this console were Final Fantasy VII (1997) and Crash Bandicoot (1996).
PlayStation
400
2003 was when Beyoncé Knowles become simply Beyoncé. That was the year she released her first solo album, “Dangerously In Love,” after splitting from which girl group that ruled the ‘90s?
Destiny's Child
400
What short form video (6 seconds!) social media platform shuttered in 2017 after Twitter purchased and then discontinued it?
Vine
500
Who was the U.S. President for most of the 1980s? He was in office from 1981-1989.
Double points (and massive kudos) if you know the term that refers to his administration's economic policies which still impact the US today.
Ronald Reagan.
Reaganomics.
500
The WWW (i.e. www.something.com), the leading information retrieval service of the Internet, was released to the public in 1992. What does WWW stand for?
World Wide Web
500
Fearing that most computers would crash due to a calendar data programming error that would cause machines to misread the year 2000 as "1900," many people were spooked by this bug that was predicted to cause over $400 billion in damage beginning on January 1, 2000. While that didn't actually happen, this term is now used to refer to fashion and pop culture from this era.
Y2K
500
What movement, started in 2013 after Trayvon Martin’s killer walked free, advocated against violence toward Black people?
Black Lives Matter