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Trends: This popular rubber band crafting device was a massive toy fad in 2013-2014.
What is Rainbow Loom?
Trends: Released in 2011, this videogame has sold over 200 million copies, becoming the most purchased game of all time.
What is Minecraft?
History: This event was predicted to crash the internet due to a programming glitch on New Year's in 1999.
What is Y2K?
Trends: These TV programs were typically run by major networks on Saturday mornings.
What are cartoons?
8th Grade World Studies: This is the name of District Attorney Harvey Dent's girlfriend in The Dark Knight.
Who was Rachel?
Social Media: This viral challenge in 2014 raised money for ALS research.
What is the Ice Bucket Challenge?
Entertainment: This 2012 song became the first video to reach 1 billion views on YouTube.
What is Gangnam Style?
Technology: This is the name of the popular portable media player released by Apple in 2001.
What is iPod?
Entertainment: Released in 1981, this popular tv program playing music 24/7 defined pop culture in the 80's
What is MTV?
7th Grade Civics: The right to Bear Arms is this amendment.
What is the Second Amendment?
Sports: The Chicago Cubs 2016 World Series championship broke this famous 1945 curse.
Entertainment: Perry the Platypus, also known as Agent P, worked as a spy for the OWCA (Organization Without a Cool Acronym) in this television series.
What is Phineas and Ferb?
History: As part of the Affordable Care Act, US fast food restaurants were required to add this information to their menus.
What is calorie count?
History: The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in this US state.
8th Grade English: Of the first 10 US presidents, 8 were slaveholders. These 2 were not.
Who were John Adams and John Quincy Adams?
Music: This artist performed at the Super Bowl LVII in 2023.
Who is Rihanna?
What was 2007?
Trends: This interactive arcade game has players match music and rhythm by stepping on arrow shaped sensor pads at the right time.
What is Dance Dance Revolution?
History: Nelson Mandela successfully fought to end this system of institutionalized racial segregation in South Africa.
What was apartheid?
Peterson: This is what Mr. Peterson's sweater said on Ugly Sweater day.
What is Lane Tech?
Sports: This country won the FIFA Men's World Cup in 2022.
What is Argentina?
Sports: This city hosted the 2008 summer Olympics.
What is Beijing?
Entertainment: This was the first movie to gross $1 billion dollars in 1998.
What is Titanic?
History: This person became the first woman to join the US Supreme court.
Who was Sandra Day O'Connor?
Who is Bear 32/ Chunk?