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100

2005

"George Bush doesn't care about black people."

Kanye West

BONUS QUESTION: Who was standing next to Kanye on the live telecast for Hurricane Katrina relief when he said those words?

100

By 2005 this site had over 100 million users. You've got a friend in Tom.

Myspace

100

In 2005 Hurricane Katrina's devastating effects were worsened when fatal engineering flaws caused this flood protection system to break. 

Levees

100

Kids would roll on up with these sneakers. 

Heelys

100

It's the first song in the movie. 

"Start of Something New"

BONUS QUESTION: They sang this song at a kids party celebrating what holiday?


200

2006

"You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror."

George W. Bush

200

By 2004, the popularity of the iPod, one of these devices, skyrocketed past the competition. 

MP3 player


200

In the 2006 World Cup Final between these two countries, Zinedine Zidane received a red card after the headbutt heard round the world. 

France and Italy. 

BONUS QUESTION: What was said to make Zidane headbutt Marco Materazzi?

200

In 2004 everyone young and old wore these rubber yellow bracelets with this word written on it, the same as the cancer foundation who made them. 

Livestrong

BONUS QUESTION: Who was the founder of this foundation?

200

In "Stick to the Status Quo" the skater confessed to his clique that he likes to play this instrument. 

Cello

BONUS QUESTION: Name one of the other confessions. 

300

2005

“Psychiatry is a pseudoscience.... You don’t know the history of psychiatry. I do...Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don’t even -- you’re glib. You don’t even know what Ritalin is."

Tom Cruise

300

Sending your crush a personal playlist involved this process, a way to transfer songs from a CD into files. 

burning CDs


300

On June 3, 2006 this country claimed independence from Serbia. No arguments here Serbia followed suit 2 days later. 

Montenegro

300

Every girl just had to get their hands on this brand's matching tracksuit. Hint: the name was always plastered on the ahem backside.

Juicy Couture

300

Sharpay schemed to get these three school events to happen at the same time. 


Championship game, Scholastic Decathlon, Final Callback audition

400

2005

“I wasn't going to let a little thing like a hurricane keep me from wearing my bathing suit.”

Eva Longoria

400

Twitter launched in 2006, allowing any and everybody to report on their daily activity in 140 characters or less, paralleling the character limit of this text.

SMS (short message service)

BONUS QUESTION: In 2005 the phone company Blackberry released this alternative to SMS texts. 

400
In July 2005, a revival of the 1985 live aid, Live 8 put on free concerts around the world to raise awareness of this. 

HIV/AIDS

400

Low rise jeans were en vogue, commonly referred to with this two word phrase. 

Hip Huggers

400

Despite its title, High School Musical barely mentions this name of the in-universe winter musical. 

Twinkle Town

500

2006

"I wouldn't feel right wearing clothes covering my body."

Christina Aguilera

500

Before the launch of Youtube in 2006, streaming and downloading video in bulk was slow and inconvenient, due to this expensive and limited data transfer capacity. 

Bandwidth

500

In 2004 John Kerry and this now disgraced running mate accepted the democratic nomination to run against President Bush. 

John Edwards

500

This designer and eponymous clothing brand were all the rage, known for its over the top designs. 


Ed Hardy

500

Zac Efron was shocked to find out his vocals, aside from the beginning and end lines of a song, were switched out in favor of this singer, who would later star in his own DCOM.

Drew Seeley