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200

June. China. Protests.

What are the Tianmen Square Protests?

200

The highest grossing film of 1989, Harrison Ford hunts for lost treasure in the 3rd installment of this franchise.

What is Indiana Jones?

200

This machine learning architecture, first introduced as the "neocognitron" in the 80s, is popularly used for computer vision today.

What is a convolutional neural network?

200
First named the 'King of Pop' in 1989, his all-time best-selling album is popular around this time of year.

Who is Michael Jackson?

200

Taylor Swift's most popular album, first released in 2014 and selling over 14 million copies worldwide.

What is 1989?

400

November. Germany. It fell.

What is the Berlin Wall?
400

Disney first released this animated film in 1989 of a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, which had a live action remake in 2023.

What is The Little Mermaid?

400

The Mac II, released in the late 80s, boasted a whopping 1 of this unit of memory.

What is a megabyte?

400

This singer sang the national anthem at the 1989 SuperBowl, his name was referenced in Olivia Rodrigo's single Deja Vu.

Who is Billy Joel?

400

Taylor Swift was born on this date in 1989.

What is December 13th?

600

January. Washington DC. Inauguration.

What is the inauguration of George H.W. Bush?

600

Robin Williams plays an inspirational English teacher who encourages his students to 'seize the day' in this 1989 film.

What is Dead Poet's Society?
600

In 1989, Yann LeCun et al used this algorithm to learn convolutional kernel weights to recognize handwritten zip codes, a vast improvement upon manually designing kernel coefficients.

What is backpropagation?

600

This rapper left N.W.A. in December 1989, releasing his debut solo album the next year. Hint: man's not hot.

Who is Ice Cube?

600

This song is the last track on 1989 (Taylor's Version)[Deluxe Edition]. Hint: it is not "from the vault."

What is Bad Blood (ft. Kendrick Lamar)?

800

March. Alaska. Sad otters.

What is the Exxon Valdez oil spill?

800
Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal star in this hit 1989 rom-com, where their characters debate whether men and women can be 'just friends'.

What is When Harry Met Sally?

800

First developed by Chris Watkins in 1989, the Q-learning is an algorithm which learns the value of state-action pairs, and is a staple in this branch of machine learning.

What is reinforcement learning?

800

This Motown group disbanded in 1989, after releasing hit tracks including "I Want You Back" and "ABC".

Who are The Jackson 5?

800

Taylor Swift's 3 cats are named Meredith Grey, Olivia Benson, and ______, named after the Brad Pitt movie character.

What is Benjamin Button?

1000

April. England. Soccer stadium.

What is the Hillsborough Disaster?

1000

In this 1989 sci-fi comedy film, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter star as two high school students who travel through history in a phone booth time machine.

What is Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure?

1000

In addition to stereo cameras and bump sensors, these sensors helped with navigation in Stanford's Mobi robot developed in the 80's, which now sits on display in Gates.

What are ultrasonic sensors?

1000

This singer, drummer, and actor had the top track in the Billboard Top 100 in January 1989. You may know him for his songs in Disney's Tarzan.

Who is Phil Collins?

1000

The last scheduled venue of The Eras Tour, Taylor Swift will play 6 concerts in this stadium in November 2024.

What is the Rogers Centre?