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Free 1990s quiz: 74 trivia questions and answers — Titanic, Nirvana & Tamagotchi. Easy to hard, with explained answers. No sign-up.
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From Titanic to Friends, by way of Nirvana, the Tamagotchi and the arrival of Windows 95, this quiz takes you back to the pop culture, music, movies and major phenomena of the 1990s. An unforgettable decade, between grunge and the dawn of the Internet.
This quiz currently has 74 questions, ranging from easy to hard, available in French, English and Spanish when the Spanish translation is available.
Warm up before the quiz with these 14 trivia questions and their explained answers: click a question to reveal the answer.
Answer: Titanic. Titanic, directed by James Cameron and released in 1997, dominated the global box office and won 11 Academy Awards.
Answer: The Spice Girls. The Spice Girls, formed in 1994, conquered the world with their debut single 'Wannabe', released in 1996.
Answer: Furby. Furby, launched in 1998 by Hasbro, sold millions of units as soon as it was released and became one of the must-have toys of the holiday season.
Answer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Created by Joss Whedon, it mixed horror, humour and teen drama. Academics have studied it so much that there are conferences devoted to the series.
Answer: Albertville. The opening ceremony, by Philippe Decouflé, became famous. Grenoble had hosted the 1968 Games, Chamonix the very first in 1924.
Answer: Euro Disney. Renamed Disneyland Paris in 1995, it became one of Europe's most visited tourist destinations.
Answer: Nokia. Preinstalled on Nokia phones from 1997, Snake was played by hundreds of millions of people. The idea of a snake that keeps growing came from a 1976 arcade game, Blockade.
Answer: Macarena. 'Macarena', released in 1996 by the Spanish duo Los del Río, triggered a global dance craze.
Answer: A sheep named Dolly. Dolly, born in July 1996 in Scotland, was the first mammal successfully cloned from an adult cell, a major breakthrough in biotechnology.
Answer: The Nokia 3210. The Nokia 3210, released in 1999, sold over 160 million units and remained a symbol of mass-market mobile phones of the late 1990s.
Answer: Madonna. Madonna confirmed her status as a global star throughout the 1990s, notably with the album 'Ray of Light' released in 1998.
Answer: La Cité de la peur. Subtitled 'A family comedy', it was directed by Alain Berbérian with Alain Chabat, Chantal Lauby and Dominique Farrugia. Its absurd lines have been quoted for thirty years.
Answer: Zarya. 'Zarya' means 'dawn' in Russian. Two weeks later, the US shuttle docked the Unity module to it: assembly of the ISS had begun.
Answer: The Oslo Accords. Negotiated in secret in Norway, they earned Rabin, Arafat and Shimon Peres the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize.
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