1990s

Question 1

In 1990…

Answer 1

• average college tuition: $8,238.00 per year
• The x-rating is replaced by NC-17 for movies. No ratings yet for TV
• U.S. tortilla sales go from 300 million in 1980 to 1.5 billion in 1990

Question 2

What percentage was George Bush’s approval rating?

Answer 2

91%

Question 3

What happened with Rodney King?

Answer 3

alleged high speed chase (100-110 mph) resisting in four LAPD officials beating him for resisting arrest

Question 4

What were the LA riots?

Answer 4

• riots began when the LAPD officer who beat Rodney King was proven not guilty
• 50 people killed, over 1 billion dollars in damage

Question 5

Who was Jeffrey Dahmer and what did he do?

Answer 5

carved up bodies of young men (ages 15-17) and stored skulls, heads and various body parts in his fridge, killed in prison in 1994

Question 6

creator of the World Wide Web

Answer 6

Tim Berners-Lee

Question 7

Who was Joseph Hazelwood?

Answer 7

captain of the Exxon Valdez oil tanker and proven not guilty of spilling 11 million gallons of oil

Question 8

Fads of the 90’s:

Answer 8

• Macarena
• game boy
• rollerblades
• Furby
• tickle me Elmo
• Ty Beanie Babies

Question 9

• stated on national TV that a black guy stole her kids
• vast nationwide search to find children
• later confessed she drowned the kids in a lake

Answer 9

Susan Smith

Question 10

Nancy Kerrignon’s top competition who planned to have her clubbed in the knee so that she couldn’t compete

Answer 10

Tonya Harding

Question 11

filed lawsuit against Clinton for sexual harassment in 1991; looking for $700,000 and a public apology, but got $850,000 and no apology

Answer 11

Paula Jones

Question 12

lead singer of Nirvana, committed suicide on April 5, 1994; he was 27 years old

Answer 12

Kurt Cobain

Question 13

What was the verdict in the OJ criminal/ civil cases?

Answer 13

Criminal: not guilty
Civil: found “responsible” and payed the victims’ families 33.5 million dollars

Question 14

two AP students who killed 13 people and wounded 24 at the Columbine Massacre; committed suicide before capture

Answer 14

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold

Question 15

woman that Bill Clinton had an affair with

Answer 15

Monica Lewinsky

Question 16

Why was Clinton impeached?

Answer 16

For committing perjury by lying under oath about his affair with Lewinksy

Question 17

responsible for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing

Answer 17

Timothy McVeigh

Question 18

Why was the Florida’s votes recounted in the 2000 election?

Answer 18

Bush was only winning by 537 votes out of 6 million votes cast