How it works
You were there for the dress, the ice buckets and the plastic horns of 2010. These 100 trivia questions for Gen Z run from 2005 to 2020 in five topics of 20: phones and the internet, fads, world events, space news and sport.
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From the emoji of the year to a tied final
Phones and the internet asks which emoji became a word of the year and what two pizzas have to do with digital money. Fads, words and everyday life has the dab, planking and the plastic five pound note. World events runs from Montenegro's independence to the Brexit date. Science has the Pluto flyby and the first black hole image. Sport has the 7-1 semi-final and a tied cricket final.
Out loud, or alone against the score
With friends, one player reads aloud and teams shout before anyone taps. Most questions give the year and ask for the place, the name or the score, so read the whole question. Alone, pick Scored round below the question, then Start the round: 20 questions, totaled by topic at the end.
- Mixed ages in the room? Open with Fads, words and everyday life. Parents remember the ice buckets too.
- For a pub-style night, choose a round under Start from, play it and press Print, then tick With answer key. Keep the key face down until the round ends.
- Science is the hardest topic: four hard questions, such as the constant that has defined the kilogram since 2019, and only four easy.
Questions and answers
Why are there no questions about shows, songs or apps?
On purpose. Every question is about an event, an invention, a word or a result, so nothing depends on which series you watched or which phone you owned. Selfies, hashtags, fidget spinners and hoverboards are here as words and objects.
Will the answers go out of date?
They should not. Record holders, tallest and longest titles and newest models were left out. Each question asks about a dated event, like the day the United Kingdom left the European Union, or a definition, like what NFC stands for.
Are these 2010s trivia questions?
Mostly. About two in three are dated 2010 to 2019, such as the Friday in December 2011 that Samoa skipped to cross the date line. The rest are earlier or later, or define a term such as NFC. No athlete or living person is named.