90s Trivia Jeopardy

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90s Music

$200
This Seattle grunge band's 1991 album Nevermind, led by the single Smells Like Teen Spirit, pushed alternative rock into the mainstream.
Who is Nirvana?
$400
This girl group's 1996 debut single Wannabe introduced the world to their brand of Girl Power.
Who are the Spice Girls?
$600
This American rapper's 1996 death, following a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, remains one of hip-hop's most notorious unsolved cases.
Who is Tupac Shakur?
$800
This Canadian singer's 1997 ballad My Heart Will Go On served as the theme song for a blockbuster film about a sinking ocean liner.
Who is Celine Dion?
$1,000
This boy band, formed in Orlando in 1993, topped charts with hits like I Want It That Way and outsold many of their peers by decade's end.
Who are the Backstreet Boys?

90s Movies

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In this 1993 Steven Spielberg film, cloned dinosaurs run amok in a Costa Rican theme park.
What is Jurassic Park?
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This 1994 film follows a slow-witted but kind-hearted Alabama man who unwittingly influences several major historical events.
What is Forrest Gump?
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This 1997 James Cameron film about a doomed ocean liner became, at the time, the highest-grossing film ever made.
What is Titanic?
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This 1999 film reveals in its final act that the child psychologist's young patient has been seeing dead people all along.
What is The Sixth Sense?
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This 1994 crime film by Quentin Tarantino interweaves several nonlinear stories involving two hitmen, a boxer, and a mysterious briefcase.
What is Pulp Fiction?

90s Television

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This animated sitcom set in Springfield, created by Matt Groening, became Fox's longest-running series after debuting in 1989.
What is The Simpsons?
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This NBC sitcom set at a fictional Manhattan diner starred its namesake stand-up comedian and was famously described by its creators as a show about nothing.
What is Seinfeld?
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This teen drama, set at a fictional Beverly Hills high school, followed a pair of twins after they moved from Minnesota to California.
What is Beverly Hills, 90210?
$800
This animated series follows four foul-mouthed boys in a small Colorado town and premiered in 1997.
What is South Park?
$1,000
This medical drama, set in a Chicago hospital's emergency room, premiered in 1994 and helped launch the career of George Clooney.
What is ER?

90s Sports

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This basketball player led the Chicago Bulls to six NBA championships in the 1990s, retiring for the first time in 1993.
Who is Michael Jordan?
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This golfer won the Masters Tournament by a record twelve strokes in his professional debut there in 1997, at age twenty-one.
Who is Tiger Woods?
$600
This American gymnast, competing on an injured ankle, stuck her final vault to clinch team gold for the United States at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
Who is Kerri Strug?
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This boxer, a 1968 Olympic gold medalist, returned to the ring in his forties and won a share of the heavyweight title in 1994, becoming the oldest heavyweight champion in history.
Who is George Foreman?
$1,000
This Baltimore Orioles shortstop passed Lou Gehrig's consecutive-games streak in 1995, appearing in his 2,131st straight game.
Who is Cal Ripken Jr.?

90s Tech and Toys

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This children's virtual pet, a small egg-shaped digital toy that needed to be fed and cared for, was introduced by Bandai in 1996.
What is a Tamagotchi?
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This search engine and web portal, founded in 1994, was one of the first popular ways to navigate the growing World Wide Web.
What is Yahoo?
$600
This online retailer, founded in 1994, originally sold only books out of a Seattle garage.
What is Amazon?
$800
This plush toy craze, made by Ty Inc. beginning in 1993, turned small stuffed animals with heart-shaped tags into a nationwide collecting frenzy.
What are Beanie Babies?
$1,000
This instant messaging program, released by America Online in 1997, used a running yellow man icon and a signature door-opening sound.
What is AOL Instant Messenger?

90s Headlines

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In 1990, this South African activist was released from prison after twenty-seven years, later becoming his country's president.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
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This 1991 conflict saw a U.S.-led coalition expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait after Iraq's invasion the previous year.
What is the Gulf War?
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In 1997, this British royal died in a car crash in Paris, prompting a global outpouring of grief.
Who is Princess Diana?
$800
This Soviet leader's resignation in December 1991 marked the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
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In 1998, this U.S. President was impeached by the House of Representatives over charges related to a relationship with a White House intern, though the Senate acquitted him.
Who is Bill Clinton?

Final Jeopardy — 90s Television

Premiering on NBC in 1994, this sitcom followed six New Yorkers who gathered at a coffeehouse called Central Perk.

What is Friends?

How to run this board

The 90s crowd is now old enough to host parties and young enough to remember every theme song, which makes this an easy win for a game night. Categories cover the decade's music, movies, television, sports, tech and toys, and headlines.

All you need is a TV for the board and guests' phones for buzzing in. Teams by high school graduating class is a reliably funny way to split the room.

A tip: read the tech clues slowly. Half the room will need a second to remember that phones once hung on walls, and the pause builds suspense.

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