Rewind: 90s & 2000s Nostalgia
This 90s nostalgia quiz rewinds to chunky phones, chat-room buzzes, cassette tapes and Doordarshan Sundays, with 15 questions on the 1990s and 2000s. Made for team socials and millennial-heavy rooms.
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This 90s nostalgia quiz is a trip back to the years between cassette tapes and smartphones: indestructible mobiles, instant messengers, early social networks, dial-up internet, Doordarshan favourites and the ads everyone could recite. The 15 questions cover the 1990s and early 2000s, with an Indian flavour throughout.
It was written for team socials, offsites and any room full of millennials, where it works as an icebreaker because everyone has a story to add after each answer. Younger colleagues can still play, since most questions carry enough clues to work out, and older ones get to explain how you rescued a chewed-up cassette.
The two decades covered here saw India move from one TV channel to hundreds, from landlines to mobile phones and from letters to email and chat. Many of the brands, gadgets and websites in this quiz have vanished since, which is exactly what makes them fun to remember together.
90s Nostalgia questions with answers
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It had Snake II, a battery that lasted for days, and a habit of cracking the floor instead of itself. Which phone?
- Nokia 3310
- Nokia Lumia
- Nokia N95
- Nokia 6600
Answer: Nokia 3310. The 3310 sold over 100 million units and is still the internet's word for unbreakable.
Off duty, Shaktimaan hid as a bumbling news photographer. What was his name?
- Raju
- Gajodhar
- Mukund
- Gangadhar
Answer: Gangadhar. Pandit Gangadhar Vidyadhar Mayadhar Omkarnath Shastri, all of it.
Send one word and your friend's chat window would shake on their screen. Which messenger had the BUZZ?
- Google Talk
- Yahoo! Messenger
- Skype
- Orkut
Answer: Yahoo! Messenger. BUZZ was Yahoo! Messenger's way of saying 'reply now'.
Scraps, testimonials, and a name borrowed from the Google engineer who built it. Name it.
- Orkut
- Hi5
- MySpace
- Friendster
Answer: Orkut. Orkut Büyükkökten named the site after himself; India and Brazil made it huge.
Siddharth Kak and Renuka Shahane's Doordarshan culture show once got about 14 lakh postcards in a single week, a Limca record. Name it.
- Rangoli
- Surabhi
- Chitrahaar
- Quiz Time
Answer: Surabhi. Surabhi, whose weekly viewer quiz flooded post offices. It ran on Doordarshan through most of the 1990s.
When a tape went slack, which everyday item did you stick in the spool to wind it back?
- A key
- A pencil
- A coin
- A spoon
Answer: A pencil. A pencil fit the spool perfectly and saved the Walkman's batteries.
The Y2K panic: computers might read 2000 as 1900. How many digits stored the year?
- Six
- Four
- Two
- Three
Answer: Two. Saving '99' instead of '1999' saved memory, until the calendar hit '00'.
This webmail hid HTML in its name and launched on 4 July 1996. Its Indian-born co-founder?
- Sabeer Bhatia
- Sundar Pichai
- Vinod Khosla
- Narayana Murthy
Answer: Sabeer Bhatia. HoTMaiL went live on Independence Day; Microsoft bought it in 1997.
Its name blends the Japanese for 'egg' with 'watch'. Which company hatched this pet?
- Sega
- Nintendo
- Bandai
- Sony
Answer: Bandai. Tamago means egg; Bandai launched the Tamagotchi in 1996.
In Kargil, 1999, Captain Vikram Batra radioed a cola ad line after capturing a peak. Whose line was it?
- Thums Up
- Coca-Cola
- Limca
- Pepsi
Answer: Pepsi. 'Yeh Dil Maange More' was Pepsi's 1998 slogan; Batra turned it into a war cry.
'Wherever you go, our network follows.' What kind of dog trotted after a little boy everywhere in Hutch's 2003 ads?
- A Labrador
- A Dalmatian
- A pug
- A beagle
Answer: A pug. A pug named Cheeka. The ads were made by Ogilvy Mumbai, and the pug stayed on after Vodafone bought Hutch.
Windows XP's default wallpaper, a green hill under a blue sky, was shot in California wine country. What is it called?
- Serenity
- Meadow
- Green Valley
- Bliss
Answer: Bliss. Bliss, photographed by Charles O'Rear in Sonoma County. It may be the most viewed photograph ever.
Public internet reached India on Independence Day 1995, as 9.6 kbps dial-up. Which state-run company launched it?
- BSNL
- VSNL
- MTNL
- ITI
Answer: VSNL. VSNL, Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited, starting in the four metros. It signed up over 10,000 users in six months.
YouTube's first video, 'Me at the zoo' (2005), is 19 seconds of a co-founder standing in front of which animals?
- Giraffes
- Penguins
- Elephants
- Lions
Answer: Elephants. Elephants at the San Diego Zoo. Jawed Karim's big observation is that they have 'really, really, really long trunks'.
In 1985 a German engineer typed out random messages on a typewriter, counted the characters and helped set the length of one text. How many characters?
- 100
- 128
- 140
- 160
Answer: 160. 160. Friedhelm Hillebrand found that almost all his test sentences, and most postcards, fitted inside it.
Frequently asked questions
When did Windows XP come out?
Microsoft released Windows XP on 25 October 2001. It became one of the most widely used versions of Windows and was supported until 2014.
What was the first video on YouTube?
'Me at the zoo', a 19-second clip of co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo, uploaded on 23 April 2005.
Is this 90s quiz good for an office team event?
Yes. It is light, needs no specialist knowledge and gets people sharing their own memories, which makes it a good icebreaker for mixed-age teams.