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This educational YouTube channel features animated nursery rhymes and songs, beloved by toddlers worldwide.
What is Cocomelon?
This 2018 song by Lil Nas X spent a record-breaking 19 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
What is Old Town Road?
This 2004 film launched a franchise about witchcraft and wizardry.
What is Harry Potter (and the Prisoner of Azkaban)?
This video game, released in 1980, was one of the first widely successful arcade games with a main character that went mainstream in regards to merch, lunchboxes, cartoons, and music.
What is Pac-Man?
This 1970s presidential spokesperson was known for his signature phrase, “I’m not a crook.”
Who is Richard Nixon?
This popular gaming platform, launched in 2017, allows users to create and play games made by other players.
What is Roblox?
This meme format features a boyfriend turning away from his girlfriend to stare at another woman.
What is the distracted boyfriend meme?
This social media platform, launched in 2003, originally focused on college students and was later opened to the public.
What is Facebook?
This cult-favorite ’90s TV show featured FBI agents investigating paranormal cases in the Pacific Northwest.
What is The X-Files?
This popular 1960s sitcom starred a talking horse voiced by Allan Young.
What is Mr. Ed?
This virtual assistant, launched in 2014, lives inside smart speakers and phones to answer questions and control devices.
What is Amazon’s Alexa?
This TikTok trend encouraged users to share before-and-after glow-ups with the audio of one of Megan Thee Stallion’s hits in 2020.
What is the “Savage” Challenge?
This 2007 smartphone changed the mobile industry with its multi-touch interface.
What is the IPhone?
These rappers’ debut album, Licensed to Ill, was the first rap album to top the Billboard 200 in 1986.
Who are the Beastie Boys?
This mid-century design movement influenced everything from furniture to architecture.
What is mid-century modern?
This bizarre viral YouTube series features disembodied heads popping out of toilets, battling humanoids with cameras and speakers for heads.
What is Skibidi Toilet?
This social justice movement gained renewed momentum in 2020 following high-profile police violence cases.
What is BLM?
This viral dance challenge featured a song by Silento and took over social media in 2015.
What is the Whip/Nae Nae Dance?
This film editor revolutionized jump cuts and MTV-style editing in Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X.
Who is Barry Alexander Brown?
Before the Walkman, this audio device popularized cassette tapes in the 1970s.
What is the Sony Walkman’s predecessor, the portable cassette player? (Bonus: The Sony TC-50 was one of the earliest)
This is the age range when many Gen Alpha kids first get access to a phone or personal smart device.
What is 6-7?
This phrase popularized on social media means rejecting toxic behavior by ceasing all contact.
What is “ghosting”?
This HBO series, debuting in 2011, chronicled political intrigue in a fantasy kingdom.
What is Game of Thrones?
This band’s 1987 album Appetite for Destruction remains the best-selling debut album in the U.S.
Who are Guns N’ Roses?
This famous band’s 1969 rooftop concert in London became a symbol of rock rebellion.
Who are the Beatles?