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Medium 90s Trivia Questions
The medium questions from our 90s set, 14 of them, each with the answer and an explanation below the game.
Keys 1-4 pick an answer, Enter moves on. Nothing is saved to an account.
The middle band trades names for specifics: which year Windows 95 shipped, who founded Google, where Dolly the sheep was cloned, which country hosted the 1994 World Cup. Most players know the story and stumble on the year, and that gap is where the round gets competitive.
14 medium 90s trivia questions with answers
Google was founded in 1998 by which pair?
Answer: Larry Page and Sergey Brin They built the first version as a research project while at Stanford.
Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell, was created at an institute in which country?
Answer: Scotland The Roslin Institute near Edinburgh announced her existence in 1997.
Which country hosted the 1994 FIFA World Cup?
Answer: The United States The final in Pasadena was decided by a penalty shoot-out.
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in which year?
Answer: 1990 A flaw in its main mirror was corrected by a servicing mission in 1993.
Microsoft released Windows 95 in which year?
Answer: 1995 It introduced the Start menu and the taskbar to mainstream computing.
The sitcom Seinfeld was set mainly in which city?
Answer: New York The characters lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Hong Kong was handed back to Chinese sovereignty in which year?
Answer: 1997 Britain's lease on the New Territories expired at midnight on 30 June 1997.
Which Tom Hanks film won the Best Picture Oscar for 1994?
Answer: Forrest Gump Hanks won Best Actor for it, a year after winning for Philadelphia.
The Soviet Union was formally dissolved in which year?
Answer: 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned on 25 December and the union ceased the next day.
Beanie Babies, the collectable plush toys of the late 1990s, were made by which company?
Answer: Ty Ty deliberately retired designs to drive a secondary collector market.
Which band released the 1995 single Wonderwall?
Answer: Oasis It appeared on the album (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Michael Jordan won his 1990s NBA championships with which team?
Answer: Chicago Bulls The Bulls took six titles in the decade, in two runs of three.
The Matrix was released in which year?
Answer: 1999 Its slow-motion camera-array effect was widely copied and nicknamed bullet time.
Tony Blair became British Prime Minister in which year?
Answer: 1997 Labour's win ended eighteen consecutive years of Conservative government.
Answer key
- Larry Page and Sergey Brin
- Scotland
- The United States
- 1990
- 1995
- New York
- 1997
- Forrest Gump
- 1991
- Ty
- Oasis
- Chicago Bulls
- 1999
- 1997
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- Pick a mode: multiple choice, true or false, a 60-second sprint, or the daily quiz.
- Answer with a tap, or press 1 to 4 on a keyboard. The right answer appears straight away with a line explaining it.
- Finish the round to see your score, copy the result grid, and step up a difficulty.
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