Click Yes or No and We'll Guess What Decade You Were Born In

By: Zoe Samuel
Estimated Completion Time
2 min
Click Yes or No and We'll Guess What Decade You Were Born In
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About This Quiz

For most of human history, people were more or less the same, decade after decade. Time moved slowly, and what we now think of as cultural traditions came into being, largely because when things don't evolve quickly, what you do is what your great grandparents did. Then came the printing press, and everything began to move faster. Knowledge and ideas could spread quickly, and if someone had a thought and access to a press, they could communicate that idea nearly anywhere in the world, in any language.

Following on the heels of the printing press: The Enlightenment, The Industrial Revolution, the World Wars. Then came radio and television. Radio and TV were different in that they were more supportive of a mono-culture wherein everyone knows the same stories (watching the same TV shows, etc.). Still, as of the 1990s, the Internet (more specifically the World Wide Web) came along and made information travel even faster. Now, the specific year one is born will likely determine much of one's outlook even more than the decade. The partitioning of media means people can go deep into a subculture while being deaf to everything else that happens in the broader culture. Thus, since TV and radio, the Web and now the smartphone, the decade of one's birth marks one out. Take this quiz, and we'll guess which decade was the one in which you were born!

1-TV Set
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Did your childhood's favorite TV show feature characters saying made-up words?
No
Yes

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2-Bellbottoms
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Were bellbottoms cool when you were a little kid?
No
Yes

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3-Record Store
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Did you have to leave your home to get your music when you were a teenager?
Yes
No

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4-Cable TV
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Did your household have cable TV when you were little?
No
Yes

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5-President
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Was the Presidency viewed with extreme suspicion when you were growing up?
Yes
No

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6-Library Computer
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Did you go online for the first time on a computer at an institution like a college or library?
Yes
No

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Padmé Amidala, Star Wars The Phantom Menace
1999 - Lucasfilm
Was "The Phantom Menace" the best "Star Wars" film?
No
Yes

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8-Beatles
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Do you voluntarily listen to The Beatles?
Yes
No

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9-Recession
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Have you seen the nation recover from more than one major recession?
Yes
No

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10-Student Loans
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Are you or will you be saddled with student loans you will never be able to repay?
No
Yes

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11-Foreign Currency
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Have you ever handled any of the following currencies: French Franc, Dutch Gilder, German Mark, Italian Lire?
Yes
No

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12-Mixtape
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Have you ever made a mix tape?
Yes
No

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13- Text Messaging
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Do you use any of the ephemeral messaging services around today?
No
Yes

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14-Text Messaging
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When sending texts messages, do you spell "you" as "u"?
No
Yes

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15-Accident
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Do you say "on accident" instead of "by accident"?
No
Yes

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16-No Worries
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Do you ever say "no worries" even though you aren't Australian?
No
Yes

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17-Bruce Willis
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Do you remember a time when Bruce Willis had hair?
Yes
No

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18-War
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Did you come of age during a war?
No
Yes

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19-Stay At Home
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Did you live at home past the age of 24?
No
Yes

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20-Vintage Telephone
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Did you ever have to stop talking on the phone to get on the Internet?
Yes
No

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21-MTV Logo
MTV
Have you ever seen a music video on MTV?
Yes
No

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22-Ipod
Pixabay by Mike Foster
Did you ever use the early peer-to-peer music-sharing services?
Yes
No

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23- DVD
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Do you own any DVDs?
Yes
No

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24-Swiss Army
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Do you remember seeing Swiss army knives for sale in airports?
Yes
No

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25-Liquid Television
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Do the words "Liquid Television" mean anything to you?
Yes
No

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26-Hallloween
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Were Halloween costumes any good when you were little?
No
Yes

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27-CDs
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Do you own any CDs?
Yes
No

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28-Rock And Roll
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Was rock 'n' roll the dominant form of pop music in your adolescence?
Yes
No

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29-Sampling
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Was hip-hop using sampling almost exclusively when you were a teenager?
Yes
No

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30-Tape Rewind
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Do you lament how much of your life you wasted rewinding videotapes before returning them?
Yes
No

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