2015–2025
This app became famous for short viral videos
What is TikTok?
This social media site started with college students.
What is Facebook?
This search engine launched in 1998.
What is Google?
This wall fell in 1989, symbolizing the end of the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This movie launched a massive sci-fi franchise in 1977.
What is Star Wars?
This global event shut down schools, travel, and sports in 2020.
What is the COVID-19 pandemic?
This Apple product combined phone, internet, and music.
What is the iPhone?
This sitcom followed six friends in New York City.
What is Friends?
This TV channel made music videos wildly popular.
What is MTV?
This economic problem caused long gas lines.
What is the energy crisis?
Inflation during this period made this everyday expense noticeably higher.
What is groceries / gas / rent? (accept reasonable)
This 2008 event caused massive job losses and foreclosures.
What is the Great Recession / financial crisis?
This event on September 11, 2001 reshaped global politics.
What is 9/11?
This device let families record TV shows to watch later.
What is a VCR?
This term describes high inflation and slow economic growth.
What is stagflation?
This type of work often involved pajama pants on the bottom.
What is working from home?
This phrase meant you were officially getting old.
What is “I can’t, I’m tired”?
This device always skipped at the worst moment.
What is a Discman?
Standing too close to this was said to “ruin your eyes.”
What is the TV?
This arcade game involved dots and ghosts.
What is Pac-Man?
This phrase became an excuse for almost everything after 2020.
What is “Because of COVID”?
This internet speed complaint was very common.
What is “The internet is so slow”?
This phrase meant you had official internet status.
What is “You’ve got mail”?
This global conflict officially ended in 1991.
What is the Cold War?
This counted as exercise.
What is walking to the TV to change the channel?