90s Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. A home computer makes electronic dialing and static-like sounds while connecting, and the household telephone line becomes busy. What technology is being used?
A dial-up modem
A cable modem
A Wi-Fi router
A satellite receiver
2. Which band released the 1995 Britpop song “Wonderwall”?
Blur
The Verve
Pulp
Oasis
3. A person learning Windows 95 is told to open programs from a newly prominent menu on the taskbar. Which button should they select?
Launch
Home
Control
Start
4. On a 1990s web page, clicking underlined colored text takes you directly to another page. What web feature did you use?
A hyperlink
A cookie
A bookmark
A search engine
5. A science-fiction film presents a choice between a blue pill and a red pill before revealing a simulated reality. Which film is it?
Dark City
Total Recall
The Fifth Element
The Matrix
6. Which 1990s sitcom begins with a fictionalized Will Smith moving from West Philadelphia to live with wealthy relatives in California?
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Martin
Living Single
Family Matters
7. In which 1999 film does a child tell a psychologist that he can see dead people?
Scream
The Blair Witch Project
The Sixth Sense
Ghost
8. Someone wants to play the original Pokémon Red or Pokémon Blue as they were released in North America in the 1990s. Which system should they use?
Sega Genesis
Game Boy
PlayStation
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
9. Which musical duo recorded the Spanish dance hit “Macarena”?
Ace of Base
Vengaboys
Los del Río
Right Said Fred
10. Who directed the 1997 film Titanic?
Steven Spielberg
Robert Zemeckis
James Cameron
Ridley Scott
11. A record-store display groups Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden under one defining 1990s movement. Which label best fits the display?
Grunge
Britpop
New jack swing
Trip-hop
12. A collector finds an original PlayStation console from the 1990s. Which company launched that console brand?
Nintendo
Sega
Sony
Atari
13. What was the name of the sheep whose cloning became major international news in the 1990s?
Polly
Dolly
Molly
Megan
14. You find a small egg-shaped 1990s toy whose pixelated creature needs feeding, play, and cleaning. What is it?
A Furby
A Talkboy
A Bop It
A Tamagotchi
15. In Friends, which coffeehouse serves as the group's regular meeting place?
The Peach Pit
Central Perk
Café Nervosa
Monk's Café
16. Clueless relocates the social matchmaking and misunderstandings of which classic novel to 1990s Beverly Hills?
Pride and Prejudice
Emma
Jane Eyre
Sense and Sensibility