The 70s
Which Swedish pop group won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 with the song "Waterloo"?
ABBA
Which tech company introduced the Macintosh personal computer in 1984 with a famous Super Bowl commercial?
Apple
What was the name of the 1990s TV show starring Will Smith as a fictionalized version of himself in Bel-Air?
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Which social networking website, launched in 2004, was originally exclusive to Harvard students?
Which British royal couple got married in 2011, drawing global media attention?
Prince William and Kate Middleton
Which music and dance craze, known for flashy clothes and disco balls, peaked in popularity in the late 1970s?
Disco
Which 1980s TV show centered around four older women living together in Miami?
The Golden Girls
What was the name of the virtual pet toy, created in Japan and hugely popular in the late ’90s?
Tamagotchi
Who interrupted Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, claiming Beyoncé had “one of the best videos of all time”?
Kanye West
What 2012 film won the Academy Award for Best Picture and was directed by Ang Lee?
Life of Pi
What video game, released in 1972, is often credited as one of the first commercially successful arcade games?
Pong
What catastrophic nuclear disaster occurred in the Soviet Union in 1986?
The Chernobyl disaster
Which fashion accessory, often worn on the wrist, became a huge trend among kids in the '90s and would "snap" into place?
Slap bracelet
Which 2004 indie film features a socially awkward teenager named Napoleon and his friend Pedro?
Napoleon Dynamite
What social media app, launched in 2011, is known for disappearing photos and videos?
Snapchat
Who resigned as U.S. President in 1974 following the Watergate scandal?
Richard Nixon
What British band released the hit song “Don’t You Want Me” in 1981?
The Human League
What 1993 computer game, set on a mysterious island with puzzle-based gameplay, became the best-selling PC game of the decade?
Myst
Which landmark Supreme Court case in 2000 decided the outcome of the U.S. presidential election?
Bush v. Gore
Who won the FIFA World Cup in 2014?
Germany
Which U.K. political leader became the first woman to head a major Western democracy in 1979?
Margaret Thatcher
What U.S. military operation in 1983 involved the invasion of a Caribbean island to oust a Marxist regime?
Operation Urgent Fury (Invasion of Grenada)
What agreement, signed in 1998, helped bring peace to Northern Ireland?
The Good Friday Agreement
Which major European legal treaty came into force in 2009, restructuring the European Union’s legal framework?
The Treaty of Lisbon
In 2012, which U.S. Supreme Court decision upheld the rights of corporations to spend unlimited money on political campaigns?
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission