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If You Can Finish All 17 Of These ’80s & ’90s References, You’re Part Of The Best Generation

Armandas Lukoševičius and Erika Saikovskytė

The ’80s and ’90s are often considered the golden age of pop culture. From the rise of MTV and iconic music hits to bold fashion statements, unforgettable blockbuster movies, and classic childhood toys, these decades are impossible to beat. If you are a true ’90s kid or an ’80s pop culture fanatic, you can probably picture it all perfectly right now.

In this nostalgic trivia challenge, you will face 17 fill-in-the-blank sentences that are missing a key piece of pop culture history. Your job is to fill in the gaps using your memory of the most celebrated decades. Think you can get a perfect score of 17/17? Dive right in and test your memory!

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1980s arcade game Pac-Man graffiti on a concrete curb, with Pac-Man eating white dots.

Tiado

1.The famous 1980s arcade game Pac-Man featured four colorful enemies, which were shaped like ______.

Seinfeld sitcom stars Jerry Seinfeld and George Costanza looking surprised.

Castle Rock Entertainment

2.The hit sitcom Seinfeld was famously described as a show about _______.

A green Beanie Babies plush frog with yellow feet and a red heart-shaped tag, embodying the Beanie Babies craze.

Ty Inc

3.The ______ Babies craze exploded when the creator started deliberately retiring specific plush toys to create artificial scarcity.

Late 90s moviegoers watching a movie in a dark cinema, eating popcorn.

Pavel Danilyuk

4.In the late '90s, _______ became the first movie to gross over one billion dollars at the worldwide box office.

A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle character holding nunchucks, named after famous artists from the Renaissance period.

Fred Wolf Films

5.The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were named after famous artists from the ___________ period.

A person in the 80s listening to a Sony personal cassette player with blue headphones.

Beyzaa Yurtkuran

6.Before the iPod, Sony revolutionized portable music in the '80s with the release of the personal cassette player called the Sony _______.

Michael Jackson, co-writer of We Are the World, recording the charity single for African famine relief.

USA for Africa

7.The charity single "We Are the World" was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie to raise awareness and money for African ______ relief.

Geri Halliwell, also known as Ginger Spice, from the iconic 90s group The Spice Girls.

Columbia Pictures

8.The Spice Girls each had distinct personas, with Geri Halliwell famously known as ______ Spice.

Simba, Timon, and Pumbaa walking across a log in Disney's The Lion King, embodying a carefree philosophy.

Walt Disney Studios

9.The Disney animated film The Lion King featured a famous, carefree philosophy song titled .

A vibrant pile of classic 80s and 90s toy vehicles, many of which are from the Transformers line.

Jan van der Wolf

10.The toy line ____________ featured robots that could change into vehicles.

The Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv, from the 90s Christmas classic Home Alone, driving their van at night.

Twentieth Century Fox

11.In the Christmas classic Home Alone, the burglar duo are known as the ___ Bandits.

A LEGO figure of Mario, the famous character who first appeared in an '80s arcade hit.

Suki Lee

12.The very first video game appearance of the famous character Mario was in the '80s arcade hit __ , where he was called Jumpman.

A scene from the horror film The Blair Witch Project, showing the 'found footage' cinematic technique.

Haxan Films

13.The horror film The Blair Witch Project became a massive box office hit by pioneering the "found _______" cinematic technique and marketing strategy.

Bill and Ted celebrating, from the comedy film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, featuring a phone booth.

Orion Pictures

14.The comedy film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure featured two slackers traveling through time using a phone _____.

Michael Jackson

15.The music video for Michael Jackson's "Thriller" featured a legendary choreographed routine performed by people styled and dressed to look like _______.

80s & 90s Fill-In-The-Gaps: Part 2, A scene from the sitcom Cheers with characters in a bar.

Paramount Television

16.The hit sitcom Cheers was set in a bar where, according to the theme song, "everybody knows your ____."

80s & 90s Fill-In-The-Gaps: Part 2, Homer Simpson looking surprised in an iconic opening sequence.

Twentieth Century Fox

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