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100
This author of The Remains of the Day won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017, but it was his 1995 novel The Unconsoled that left many readers and critics perplexed. Critic James Wood even said the novel had "invented its own category of badness".
Who is Kazuo Ishiguro?
100
This Britpop band, fronted by Damon Albarn, was part of a mid-90s rivalry with Oasis for the title of Britain's top band.
Who is Blur?
100
In 1995, the prototype of this search engine was launched. The final launch happened two years later.
What is google?
100
This Prime Minister was elected in 1997, bringing the Labour Party back into power after 18 years of Conservative government.
Who is Tony Blair?
100
In this year, (West) Germany wins the FIFA Worldcup for the third time.
What is 1990?
200
In this grounbreaking book, which was first published in 1990, Judith Butler famously argues that gender is performative, meaning that it is maintained, created and/or perpetuated by iterative repetitions when speaking and interacting with each other.
What is Gender Trouble? 
200
This British girl group released "Wannabe" in 1996, sparking an international pop phenomenon and the slogan "Girl Power".
Who are The Spice Girls?
200
This digital music file format, standardized in 1991, became synonymous with music sharing and downloading in the late '90s.
What is MP3?
200
This politician was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold the position. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. She resigned in 1990.
Who is Margareth Thatcher?
200
This transcontinental country was officially dissolved on 26 December 1991.
What is The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) / The Sovet Union?
300
In this autobiographical book, Nick Hornby tells the story of his relationship with football, and with Arsenal Football Club in particular.
What is Fever Pitch?
300
This Japanese media franchise began in 1996, involving creatures to be captured and trained for battle, later becoming a worldwide craze across various media.
What is Pokémon?
300
This handheld digital pet that was created in Japan by Akihiro Yokoi and Aki Maita It was released by Bandai on November 23, 1996 in Japan and in the United States on May 1, 1997.
What is Tamagotchi?
300
This pair of agreements signed on 10 April, Good Friday, 1998, ended most of the violence of the Troubles, an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland.
What is the Good Friday Agreement?
300
On this day, Princess Diana dies in a car crash in Paris.
What is August 31, 1997?
400
This British novelist and screenwriter, known for his dystopian themes and dark humor, published Crash in 1973, but his 1996 novel Cocaine Nights cemented his status as a cult literary figure of the 90s.
Who is J.G. Ballard?
400
1999, this film – starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes – won several Academy awards, including the one for best film.
What is Shakespeare in Love?
400
This medium was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan. It can store any kind of digital data and has been widely used to store video programs, software and other computer files.
What is DVD?
400
In this year, the Euro was launched; for the first three years it was an 'invisible' currency, only used for accounting purposes and electronic payments. Coins and banknotes were launched three years later.
What is 1999?
400
This European region experienced a series of conflicts and ethnic cleansing throughout the 1990s, following the breakup of Yugoslavia.
What are the Balkans? What is the Balkan Wars?
500
The early 1990s witnessed the publication of two major works of this author - a key thinker in the field of postcolonial studies. Among many others, he wrote Nation and Narration (1990) and The Location of Culture (1990), respectively.
Who is Homi K. Bhabha? 
500
In 1991, this artist created his artwork entitled The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living. It consists of a preserved tiger shark submerged in formalin in a glass-panel display case.
Who is Damien Hirst?
500
This animal was a female Finn-Dorset sheep and the first mammal that was cloned from an adult somatic cell. It was born 1996 and died, aged 6, in 2003.
Who is/was Dolly?
500
This is a series of riots in British towns and cities during protests against the Community Charge (commonly known as the "poll tax"), introduced by the Conservative government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The largest protest occurred in central London on Saturday 31 March 1990, shortly before the tax was due to come into force in England and Wales.
What are the Poll Tax Riots?
500
This devastating conflict in Africa, known for its brutal genocide, occurred in 1994.
What is the Rwandan Genocide?