Friday, January 18, 2008

Hey, Remember the 90's?

It turns out there's a new crew writing trivia nights, and they're still working on coming up with ideas, so they built on last week's "90's sitcom trivia" with the slightly-more-general "90's trivia" night last night. The bad news for you: that stuff is pretty much right in our wheelhouse, so we didn't miss a question the whole night until the final. The bad news for us: it's right in everybody's wheelhouse, so the three teams that actually did answer the final question passed us. The first question is last night's final; the next three are bonus questions I came up with.

1. On April 1, 1990, minimum wage was raised from $3.35/hr to what new rate?
2. What venue hosted the first indoor game in FIFA World Cup history?
3. What talk show debuted on WLWT-TV in Cincinnati in September of 1991 as a replacement for The Phil Donahue Show?
4. Which Spice Girl announced her departure from the band on May 31, 1998?

4 comments:

bill said...

1. 3.55?
2. Pontiac Stadium, 1994
3. Jerry Springer
4. Old Spice.

Anonymous said...

1. $5.25 (?)
2. Pontiac Silverdome, 1994. I was at those games, USA v. Switzerland (Eric Wynalda with the tying goal on a direct free kick), Brazil v. Sweden, Romania v. Switzerland, Sweden v. Russia
3. Oprah
4. Geri Halliwell

--bad dad

Anonymous said...

d'oh - saw phil donohoe, mind read chicago.- Springer sounds right.

-- bad dad

J. Bowman said...

1. $3.80/hr. My first job started in 1990. I made $4 an hour. I had no idea how good I had it.
2. The first indoor game was the US/Switzerland matchup at the Silverdome.
3. The show hosted by former Cincy mayor Jerry Springer.
4. Geri Halliwell, aka Ginger Spice.