Pop Culture
Technology
Economy
Katrina
9/11
100
Combination of chill and relax, meaning to calm down
Chillax
100
Fliphones like Blackberries dominated the game until 2007 with the introduction of the
100
Major U.S investment bank that filed for bankruptcy in July of 2007
Bear Stearns
100
Hurricane Katrina peaked at this hurricane category.
What is category 5?
100
The perpetrator of the attack on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Shanksville
Osama Bin Laden
200
Released in 2008, this Marvel film kicked off the MCU and featured Robert Downey Jr. in a red and gold suit of armor.
Iron Man
200
When people were worried computers would interpret the year '2000' as '1900'
y2k scare
200
The investment bank that filed for the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history on September 15th, 2008
Lehman Brothers
200
Number of lives lost in Hurricane Katrina
1883
200
The first target of the attack
North tower
300
This social media platform launched in 2004 from a Harvard dorm room and would go on to define "poking" your friends.
300
Fastest evolving piece of technology in during the 2000's
home internet
300
The U.S. Federal reserve lowered its benchmark interest rate eleven times as a result of
The burst of the dot-com bubble
300
Cost in damages
$108 billion (2005)
300
People killed during the attack
2,977
400
In the early part of the decade, what fashion look took hold as more of a sophisticated take on the grunge look of the 90s
Bohemian/Boho
400
Piece of military technology used in the 80s that was once again popularized by the 2002 Iraq war
Stealth bombers
400
The bank that granted Bear Stearns a 28-day emergency loan in 2008
New York Federal Reserve Bank
400
Most rainfall occurred ____ of Katrina’s eye, along the coastline
East
400
Department of government added after the attack on September 11th
Department of homeland security
500
This reality TV show about a simple life premiered in 2003 and made Paris Hilton’s phrase “That’s hot” a catchphrase.
The Simple Life
500
Style popularized in the 2000s commonly used with new tech that blended glossy textures and nature
frutiger aero
500
A dollar in 2000 compared to 2009 is worth
$1.25
500
Percentage of flooded land in New Orleans
80%
500
The time the southern tower collapsed
9:59