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90s trivia questions
Tamagotchis, dial-up, boy bands, and blockbusters. Thirty questions from the decade of Windows 95 and the Macarena, with the years to prove it. All 30 come with four choices, a verified answer, and a fun fact to read out after the reveal — play a scored round first, or skip straight to the full list below.
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1. What egg-shaped virtual pet became a late-90s craze?
- Furby
- Tamagotchi
- Giga Pet
- Digimon
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Tamagotchi. Released by Bandai in 1996, it died if you forgot to feed it — often during school hours, to teachers' despair.
2. Which 90s sitcom was famously described as 'a show about nothing'?
- Frasier
- Friends
- Seinfeld
- Home Improvement
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Seinfeld. Its 1998 finale drew some 76 million U.S. viewers.
3. What was the Spice Girls' debut single?
- 'Spice Up Your Life'
- 'Say You'll Be There'
- 'Wannabe'
- '2 Become 1'
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'Wannabe'. Released in 1996, it hit #1 in more than 30 countries.
4. In what year did the Soviet Union dissolve?
- 1989
- 1990
- 1991
- 1993
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1991. The Soviet flag over the Kremlin came down for the last time on December 25, 1991.
5. Which Rolling Stones song did Microsoft license to launch Windows 95?
- 'Satisfaction'
- 'Start Me Up'
- 'Jumpin' Jack Flash'
- 'Paint It Black'
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'Start Me Up'. The song sold the new Start button — reportedly for millions of dollars.
6. What game console did Sony launch in the mid-90s?
- Dreamcast
- Nintendo 64
- PlayStation
- Sega Saturn
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PlayStation. It began as an abandoned CD add-on Sony was building for Nintendo before the partnership collapsed.
7. Who starred opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic (1997)?
- Gwyneth Paltrow
- Claire Danes
- Kate Winslet
- Nicole Kidman
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Kate Winslet. Titanic stayed the #1 movie at the U.S. box office for 15 straight weekends.
8. Who played the lead in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?
- Martin Lawrence
- Will Smith
- Jamie Foxx
- Chris Rock
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Will Smith. Smith took the role partly to pay off a massive tax bill from his rap career.
9. Which company made Beanie Babies?
- Mattel
- Hasbro
- Ty
- Fisher-Price
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Ty. Deliberate 'retirements' of designs fueled a speculative bubble — some sold for thousands of dollars.
10. Which U.S. city hosted the 1996 Summer Olympics?
- Los Angeles
- Atlanta
- Dallas
- Miami
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Atlanta. Muhammad Ali lit the Olympic cauldron at the opening ceremony.
11. In what year was Google founded?
- 1995
- 1996
- 1998
- 2000
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1998. Larry Page and Sergey Brin ran it out of a rented garage in Menlo Park.
12. What did the term 'Y2K' refer to?
- A boy band
- A computer date bug expected at the year 2000
- A video game
- A millennium festival
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A computer date bug expected at the year 2000. Programs storing years as two digits risked reading 2000 as 1900; billions were spent on fixes.
13. Who was the frontman of Nirvana?
- Eddie Vedder
- Chris Cornell
- Kurt Cobain
- Layne Staley
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Kurt Cobain. Nevermind knocked Michael Jackson's Dangerous off the #1 album spot in January 1992.
14. 'Life is like a box of chocolates' comes from which 1994 film?
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Forrest Gump
- Pulp Fiction
- Speed
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Forrest Gump. Forrest Gump won Best Picture over both Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption.
15. In what year did Friends premiere on NBC?
- 1992
- 1993
- 1994
- 1996
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1994. The 'Rachel' haircut became one of the most requested salon styles of the decade.
16. When did Pokémon Red and Blue reach the United States?
- 1996
- 1997
- 1998
- 1999
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1998. The games launched in Japan in 1996 — the trading card game and TV show hit the U.S. alongside them in 1998.
17. What was the first mammal cloned from an adult cell, in 1996?
- A mouse
- A pig
- A sheep
- A cow
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A sheep. Dolly the sheep was named after Dolly Parton — the cell came from a mammary gland.
18. In what year did the O.J. Simpson criminal trial reach its verdict?
- 1994
- 1995
- 1996
- 1997
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1995. An estimated 100+ million Americans stopped to watch the verdict live in October 1995.
19. What sport did Michael Jordan play during his first retirement from the NBA?
- Golf
- Baseball
- Football
- Tennis
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Baseball. He spent 1994 with the minor-league Birmingham Barons before returning with the fax: 'I'm back.'
20. Which band of brothers had a 1997 hit with 'MMMBop'?
- Hanson
- The Moffatts
- 98 Degrees
- The Jonas Brothers
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Hanson. The three Hanson brothers were 16, 13, and 11 when the song hit #1.
21. In Space Jam (1996), Michael Jordan teams up with which cartoon crew?
- The Simpsons
- The Looney Tunes
- The Animaniacs
- Tom and Jerry
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The Looney Tunes. A whole basketball court was built inside a Warner Bros. parking lot so Jordan could train between takes.
22. What furry, gibberish-speaking robot toy launched in 1998?
- Tickle Me Elmo
- Furby
- Poo-Chi
- Bop It
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Furby. Furbies 'learned' English over time, which spooked the NSA into briefly banning them from its offices.
23. In what year was Jurassic Park released?
- 1991
- 1992
- 1993
- 1995
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1993. It became the highest-grossing film ever at the time, passing E.T.
24. Which group released 'I Want It That Way' in 1999?
- NSYNC
- Boyz II Men
- Backstreet Boys
- Westlife
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Backstreet Boys. The songwriters have admitted the lyrics don't quite make sense — it hit #1 around the world anyway.
25. What space telescope launched in 1990?
- Kepler
- Spitzer
- Chandra
- Hubble
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Hubble. Its mirror was ground slightly wrong; astronauts installed corrective optics — glasses, effectively — in 1993.
26. Who starred as Buffy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)?
- Jennifer Love Hewitt
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
- Neve Campbell
- Alyssa Milano
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Sarah Michelle Gellar. The TV series was a do-over of a 1992 film the writer felt had missed the point.
27. In what year did the Nintendo 64 launch?
- 1994
- 1995
- 1996
- 1998
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1996. Super Mario 64 launched with it and set the template for 3D platformers.
28. Who starred as Kevin McCallister in Home Alone (1990)?
- Macaulay Culkin
- Jonathan Taylor Thomas
- Elijah Wood
- Haley Joel Osment
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Macaulay Culkin. It was the highest-grossing live-action comedy for decades.
29. The first Harry Potter book was published in what year?
- 1995
- 1996
- 1997
- 1999
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1997. The first print run of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was just 500 copies.
30. Which duo recorded the 'Macarena'?
- Milli Vanilli
- Los del Río
- OutKast
- Daft Punk
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Los del Río. The Spanish duo's hit spent 14 weeks at #1 in the U.S. in 1996 — decades into their career.
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