Fun & Games
1990s Hitmakers
Science
Phrases & Idioms
Pop Culture
iPhone Launch
100
Black & white pieces in this game are often called stones, which you want to get back home & then "bear off" to win the game
backgammon
100
In 1992, I hope you'll understand he hauled his "Achy Breaky Heart" to No. 4 on the Top 40
Billy Ray Cyrus
100
Cirriform describes icy these which have a wispy appearance
Clouds
100
you don't have to be a Marvel hero to have this awareness of danger introduced in a 1962 comic book
Spider-sense
100
Caroll Spinney was the original puppeteer for both Oscar the Grouch & this feathered resident of "Sesame Street"
Big Bird
100
this was the first word said in the first commercial for the first iPhone (it was actually said throughout the commercial)
Hello
200
A 2023 film pulled back the curtain on how this video game took over the world, one falling block at a time
Tetris
200
Sadly, on January 8, 1994, this group played its last ever U.S. show, in its hometown of Seattle
Nirvana
200
It's the term for a device used to speed up particles so that they can be collided & studied; it's also another name for a car's gas pedal
the accelerator
200
18th century essayist Richard Steele coined this phrase for a payment made to get someone to keep quiet
hush money
200
This playwright's "Biloxi Blues" came to Broadway in 1985
Neil Simon
200
This was the month and year of the first iPhone... extra points for the day
June 29, 2007
300
Ludo is another name for this board game, sometimes called India's national game
Parcheesi
300
Oasis sang, "Because maybe, you're gonna be the one that saves me, & after all, you're my" this
wonderwall
300
Much in the news, FRBs, fast these bursts, emanate from distant galaxies
radio
300
Jane Austen wrote in a letter, "It was 12 before we reached home. We were all" this hyphenated canine phrase
dog-tired
300
The last name of this Giants great includes "Cove", & a cove where home run balls splash down is named for him
McCovey
300
This was the first iPhone launch in this store (this new location)
iPhone 8 / 8 Plus
400
Bamboos & winds are names for some of the tiles called pais in this game
mahjong
400
In 1994, this R&B group's "I'll Make Love To You" remained at the top of the charts for 14 straight weeks
Boyz II Men
400
It's the time it takes for 50% of a given amount of a radioactive substance to decay
a half-life
400
The practice of putting ailing seamen below decks is a possible origin of this phrase meaning not feeling too good
under the weather
400
She's seen here around the time she released "Under the Pink", one the most influential albums of the '90s
Tori Amos
500
Cutthroat is one type of this card game that has a name derived from French for "two-eyed"
pinochle
500
The first 1990s hit for thisfemale vocal group was "Wannabe" in '97; their last was appropriately "Goodbye" in '98
The Spice Girls
500
His uncertainty principle states that events on the atomic level can't be predicted exactly, only their probability
Heisenberg
500
A James Thurber character who's full of expressions not only uses "the catbird seat" but "tearing up" this garden area
the pea patch
500
John Ford directed the Oscar-winning 1942 documentary "Battle of" this locale at which Ford himself was wounded
Midway