1-Abbreviations

Question 0

モガ

Answer 0

Modern girl (Taisho era)

Question 1

モボ

Answer 1

Modern boy (Taisho era)

Question 2

スパが

Answer 2

Spice girls

Question 3

ジミ・ヘン

Answer 3

Jimmy Hendrix

Question 4

シュワちゃん

Answer 4

Arnold Shwarzenegger

Question 5

インテリ

Answer 5

Intellectual (with some of the pejorative and belittling nuances of nerd or egghead)

Question 6

ブレスト

Answer 6

Brainstorm

Question 7

朝シャンする

Answer 7

To wash your hair with shampoo in the morning.

Question 8

脱サラする

Answer 8

To escape the salaryman life.

Question 9

億ション

Answer 9

A mansion apartment that costs more than 100 million (ichi oku) yen.

Question 10

スポ根

Answer 10

A really gutsy sportsman’s fighting spirit (konjou)

Question 11

外タレ

Answer 11

A foreign show business personality.

Question 12

OB

Answer 12

Old boy (alumnus)

Question 13

オフレコ

Answer 13

Off the record

Question 14

Gパン

Answer 14

Jean pants (jeans)

Question 15

ゼミ

Answer 15

Seminar (cram school)

Question 16

エンスト

Answer 16

Engine stoppage (stall)

Question 17

パトカー

Answer 17

Police patrol car

Question 18

ファミコン

Answer 18

Family computer (Nintendo or play station-type game machine)

Question 19

スノボー ／ スケボー

Answer 19

Snowboard / skateboard

Question 20

アメフト ／ バスケ

Answer 20

American football / basketball

Question 21

デパが

Answer 21

Departmental store girl

Somewhat old fashioned but still humorous

Question 22

プリクラ

Answer 22

Print club (instant mini photo booth)

Question 23

コーポ

Answer 23

Cooperative (squalid apartment)

Question 24

バーテン

Answer 24

Bartender