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1990s Decade Quiz

Do you have what it takes to guess these facts about the 1990s?
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First submittedJanuary 30, 2015
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The first black President of South Africa
Nelson Mandela
City where Princess Diana died
Paris
Famous person who died just 5 days after Princess Diana
Mother Teresa
The first democratically-elected President of Russia
Boris Yeltsin
Religious holiday on which an important Northern Ireland peace treaty was signed
Good Friday
Disease that infected 180,000 British cows
Mad Cow Disease
City in which you could find the Petronas Towers – the world's tallest buildings
Kuala Lumpur
The only thing that Amazon.com sold when it started in 1994
Books
Tribe which committed genocide against the Tutsis
The Hutus
In 1995, it became the first full-length CGI film to hit theaters
Toy Story
Prime Minister of the UK elected in 1997
Tony Blair
The name of the first cloned sheep in history
Dolly
City that experienced riots after the police officers who beat Rodney King were acquitted
Los Angeles
Nerve gas that killed 13 people in the Tokyo subway
Sarin
Country that gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993
Eritrea
Former American football player who allegedly killed his ex-wife and Ronald Goldman
O. J. Simpson
What was detected outside of the solar system for the first time
Planets
Terrorist (or to some, a freedom fighter) who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
after signing the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords
Yasser Arafat
British musical group who popularized the slogan "Girl Power"
Spice Girls
Groundbreaking film by Quentin Tarantino that lost out to "Forrest Gump"
at the 1994 Academy Awards?
Pulp Fiction
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40 Comments
texasforever
+5
Level 59
Dec 20, 2015
Surprised that Magic Johnson's 1991 HIV announcement isn't on this! I thought it would for sure be one of the top 10 things to happen in the 1990's!
lubi
+8
Level 78
Jan 2, 2020
Please accept "exoplanets", too.
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Jan 2, 2020
Okay
joeythelemur
+8
Level 82
Jan 2, 2020
Hutus requires the "s"? I scratched my head for a while wondering why "Hutu" didn't work.
Henceforth516
+4
Level 86
Jan 2, 2020
Agreed - it says "what tribe" and the tribe is called the Hutu tribe.
Quizmaster
+6
Level ∞
Jan 2, 2020
Hutu (singular) will work now.
jennywren21
+3
Level 63
Jan 4, 2020
I kept typing Hulu. SMH.
phalocrocorax
+7
Level 84
Jan 2, 2020
Georg Solti also died five days after Princess Diana.
Algernon
+7
Level 73
Jan 2, 2020
"famous" ;-)
Arp2600
+6
Level 88
Jan 4, 2020
Less famous than Mother Teresa, but still an eminent conductor.
martay
+3
Level 70
Mar 26, 2022
It's a crude metric to measure fame, but Googling "George Solti" returns 870,000 results. Meanwhile "Mother Teresa" returns nearly 10 times as many with "8,170,000".
PoetsCorner
+3
Level 87
Dec 9, 2022
It is true that Solti wasn't the LEGEND that Mother Theresa was, but it remains bizarre to claim that he wasn't famous. He was one of the most famous orchestral conductors of his generation!
IrisIris
+3
Level 60
Jan 21, 2020
Hutu should be called an ethnic group or a people but not a tribe.
Sifhraven
+4
Level 73
Mar 12, 2020
Perhaps accept Jeltsin? Using an Y never occured to me, couldnt figure out what was wrong
JamesVI
+4
Level 65
Mar 28, 2022
But that's not his name.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 81
Mar 26, 2020
All around better times.. except maybe for the quality of the comic book movies. And Internet speeds.
JWatson24
+3
Level 71
Mar 26, 2020
And memes
kalbahamut
+3
Level 81
Mar 26, 2020
The 90s was a time before the meaning of this interesting word and concept had been corrupted to mean something very silly, so I disagree. The 90s were a better time for memes.
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Jan 29, 2022
The peak of the American golden age.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 81
Jun 4, 2022
Definitely on the ascent. Not sure about the peak. The peak may have been sometime around 1997-1999 (and arguably up to 4 decades earlier), but I think it could have also been as late as 2008-2015. Depends on what factors you're looking at.
Xen0n
+2
Level 31
Apr 9, 2020
Should really be accepting dwarf planets or as someone said earlier, exoplanets. Just 'planets' is such a vague answer.

Also Foot and Mouth disease should work aswell for Mad Cow disease. Whilst they are different disseases both of them killed British cows in the 1990's, frustrated me that.

Oshawott
+2
Level 60
Mar 26, 2022
Planets and dwarf planets are not the same thing. Dwarf planets should not be accepted.
SahMat
+5
Level 67
Feb 22, 2021
I am surprised that the downfall of Yugoslavia wasn't mentioned at all..., especially what happened in Bosnia. Every life lost matters, but aren't thousands of lives lost more memorable than 13?

Anyways, not a bad quiz. I guess it is hard to summarize a decade

CardinalSin
+1
Level 80
Mar 5, 2021
Is it not curious that the two most inspiring people in this quiz are currently the most-guessed and the least-guessed?
JohnK
+9
Level 69
Jun 29, 2021
Mother Teresa wasn't inspiring.

She let people with curable diseases die in her hospices, because she thought treating those diseases was an affront to God's plans. She thought that suffering existed to provide a platform for compassion, to the point where she valued suffering so highly she would not allow it to be alleviated.

Any doctor who treated their patients as she did would be barred from practising medicine, and likely jailed.

Quizmaster
+4
Level ∞
Sep 4, 2024
Wait until you find out what Nelson Mandela did.
regalragabash
+3
Level 37
Mar 26, 2022
The Spice Girls and OJ Simpson aren't most or least guessed... What are you talking about?
Ferbin
+1
Level 78
Oct 9, 2024
XD
Alexquiz17
+6
Level 93
Nov 26, 2021
Also Kalbahamut, your definition of terrorist would have to include Mandela - who thinks that?
kalbahamut
+1
Level 81
Mar 26, 2022
and which definition for terrorist are you imagining that I gave that I did not give?

I honestly don't know enough about all of the activities that Mandela was involved in prior to becoming president for me to say he was or was not a terrorist. He may have been. He may not have been. Seriously, I don't know. But in either case, I still have not given a definition for terrorist in this comments section and you're the 2nd person who implied I had. Click on the linked quiz I left above and you can find a good (in fact, the best) definition for terrorism. By this definition, Yasser Arafat absolutely was a terrorist. And this is not controversial amongst serious persons who care what words mean.

I don't know about Mandela. I'd have to read more on the subject.

Koopa
+3
Level 83
Mar 26, 2022
"In fact, the best." That's rather oxymoronic, don't you think? "Best" is an opinion, no matter how much it's supported with evidence/justification, and therefore can never be a fact. Whereas you may think your definition of terrorist is the best, it doesn't make it so. In your opinion, it's the best. In others' opinions, it might not be, no matter how strongly you think otherwise. Conversely, there's also not a "worst" definition of terrorist out there.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 81
Mar 27, 2022
No, my definition is in fact the best. I could explain why at length if I felt like it, with logical proofs and mathematical formulas if you wanted me to.
Dimby
+2
Level 80
Mar 26, 2022
Fun fact, Kerensky was briefly president of Russia in the 1910s but was not elected to that position (i.e. the quiz is right).
gzx5
+3
Level 73
Mar 26, 2022
Can't a freedom fighter also be a terrorist at the same time?
ctleng76
+2
Level 65
Mar 28, 2022
Not quite sure why Pulp Fiction was in the running for anything. I have watched it twice now, and I don't see the appeal.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 81
May 22, 2022
It's one of my all-time least favorite Tarantino films, and as a teenager (when the film came out) I also thought it was very overrated, but as I grew up and matured I came to at least appreciate why it was generally so well regarded. If my development as a thinking individual had been completely arrested somewhere around sophomore year of high school I think I'd have a lot more in common with some of the posters on the site that disagree with me most ardently. That was when I was at my most religious and priggish, as well.
TigerNiger
+1
Level 68
Apr 26, 2025
Well, maybe that's because you're not the only person in the world, and for many ppl it was great? Just maybe...
loislois
+2
Level 27
Oct 3, 2024
For Boris Yeltsin, i tried Eltsine (French), Jelzin (German), Iéltsin (Portuguese)... nothing worked. i didn t know the English version of the name
Dariusbydarius
+1
Level 50
Oct 3, 2024
Wasn't it the 1995 Academy Awards where Forrest Gump won over Pulp Fiction? Both films were released in 1994, but the awards ceremony they competed in were the 67th Academy Awards. Schindler's List won in 1994.
Hashimi
+5
Level 59
Oct 16, 2024
Isn’t it possible to avoid saying terrorist or freedom fighter for Yasser Arafat, and just saying what did he won?
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