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This 1985 blockbuster starred Michael J. Fox as a teenager who travels back in time to the 1950s in a DeLorean.
What is Back to the Future?
The first Disney animated feature film, released in 1937, told the story of a princess and seven dwarfs.
What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
This cartoon series from the 1960s featured a modern Stone Age family, including Fred, Wilma, and their pet dinosaur Dino.
What is The Flintstones?
Before becoming an action movie star, this actor was a professional wrestler known as "The Rock."
Who is Dwayne Johnson?
This portable music player, introduced by Sony in 1979, allowed people to listen to cassette tapes on the go.
What is the Walkman?
Known for his distinctive white suit, this 1980s TV detective solved crimes in sunny Miami alongside his partner Tubbs.
Who is Sonny Crockett from Miami Vice?
This country was the first to host the modern Olympic Games in 1896.
What is Greece?
This classic 1988 film, featuring the animation of both Disney and Warner Bros. characters, includes the famous question, “Who framed this cartoon rabbit?”
What is Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Before becoming a Hollywood A-lister, this actor had a small role in Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) before hitting it big with Pirates of the Caribbean.
Who is Johnny Depp?
Before USB drives, this 3.5-inch square storage device was commonly used in the 80s and 90s to save files on personal computers.
What is a floppy disk?
This 1980s arcade game featured a yellow, ghost-chomping character navigating a maze, and became one of the most iconic video games of all time.
What is Pac-Man?
This African American baseball player broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947 when he played for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This animated TV series, set in the futuristic year 3000, features a delivery crew led by a slacker named Fry and includes a robot named Bender.
What is Futurama?
Before starring as Iron Man, this actor played Charlie Chaplin in the biopic Chaplin (1992) and was nominated for an Academy Award for the role.
Who is Robert Downey Jr.?
This 1980s video format war saw VHS beat out this rival technology, despite the latter having better picture quality and sound.
What is Betamax?
The original Blade Runner movie, released in 1982, was directed by Ridley Scott and starred this actor as the protagonist Rick Deckard.
Who is Harrison Ford?
The first feature-length film with synchronized sound, often referred to as the first “talkie,” was released in 1927 and starred Al Jolson.
What is The Jazz Singer?
This Japanese animated film by Hayao Miyazaki, released in 2001, tells the story of a young girl named Chihiro trapped in a magical bathhouse.
What is Spirited Away?
Before his role as Wolverine, this actor was known for his work on stage and in musicals like Oklahoma!.
Who is Hugh Jackman?
This 1982 gaming console from Atari introduced titles like Pitfall! and E.T. but was also blamed for the video game crash of 1983.
What is the Atari 2600?
This grunge band’s 1991 album Nevermind helped bring alternative rock into the mainstream, with hits like "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
What is Nirvana?
This Nobel Prize-winning scientist was the first person to discover radioactivity and later the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in 1903.
Who is Marie Curie?
In this animated 1978 film, a group of rabbits flee their warren to find a new home and face many dangers along the way.
What is Watership Down?
Before her breakthrough role as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games, this actress was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in Winter's Bone (2010).
Who is Jennifer Lawrence?
This 1984 Apple computer famously introduced the graphic user interface (GUI) to a wide audience and had a famous Super Bowl ad directed by Ridley Scott.
What is the Apple Macintosh?