2010s Music
Song 1
Stereo Hearts - Gym Class Heroes
Driven by the booming dot-com bubble, this iconic Wall Street stock market index closed above 10,000 points for the first time ever in March 1999
What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
"I have a stage five clinger. I have a stage five virgin clinger."
Wedding Crashers
Waymo antagonists would place this object over the car sensors to prevent them from moving when they were first released in San Francisco
What is a traffic cone?
The first country to ban social media for children
What is Australia?
Song 2
Dark Horse - Katy Perry
Considered one of the best years for cinema, this movie debuted in 1999 with the protagonist known as "The One", wearing a black trench coat
What is The Matrix?
"You know, Lloyd, just when I think you couldn't possibly be any dumber, you go and do something like this... and totally redeem yourself!"
Dumb and Dumber
To make their vehicles easily identifiable to passengers in the mid-2010s, Lyft drivers famously attached a giant, furry version of this neon-colored item to their front grills
What is a pink mustache?
This country produces the most coffee in the world
What is Brazil?
Song 3
Sorry - Justin Bieber
Millions of people feared this numeric computer glitch would crash global infrastructure at midnight on December 31
What is Y2K (or the Millennium Bug)?
"No one knows what it means, but it's provocative. It gets the people going."
Blades of Glory
Unlike almost all electric cars on the road today, the Cybercab does not have a plug-in port; instead, it relies entirely on this method of transferring electricity wirelessly through the ground
What is inductive-charging?
This country has the longest coastline in the world.
What is Canada?
Song 4
7 Rings - Ariana Grande
An 11-member economic bloc officially introduced this new shared currency to world financial markets on January 1, 1999
What is the Euro?
"To be honest, when I found out the patriarchy wasn't just about horses, I lost interest."
Barbie
This term describes gig workers who log into three or four different apps at the same time to pick the highest-paying job
What is multi-apping?
Boasting the highest per-capita beer consumption, this nation borders Germany and Poland
What is the Czech Republic?
Song 5
Psycho - Post Malone
Heather Donahue starred in this ultra-low-budget indie horror hit that popularized the "found footage" genre
What is The Blair Witch Project?
Person #1: "You look really old. Were you held back?"
Person #2: "No. You look super young, were you held forward?"
21 Jump Street
The most expensive part of any rideshare company's budget is not tech development, but purchasing this specific financial protection to cover accidents on the road
What is commercial auto insurance?
This is the only Middle Eastern nation without a desert... Emerson's 6th-grade soccer coach is also from here, and he yelled at him so bad that he cried and quit playing for the season
What is Lebanon?