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Guess the Year Trivia Quiz
Year You Kidding? A song, a film, a phone, a meme or a big moment. Type the year it happened. Close only counts in horseshoes.
152 questions · 2 to 12 players, or solo · Typed answers, close enough counts
About this quiz
This Guess the Year Trivia Quiz has 152 questions: 54 easy, 60 medium and 38 hard. It is free. Play it with friends in a room for 2 to 12 players, on phones or in a browser, or play it solo. Type your answers: close enough counts, so a small typo still scores.
Sample questions
20 of the 152 Guess the Year questions in this pack. Think of your answer, then open it.
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James Cameron took us to Pandora with the blue Na'vi, and Avatar became the highest-grossing film of its time. What year did it come out?
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2009
It was the first film to make over $2 billion, and it has swapped the all-time crown with Avengers: Endgame more than once.
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Jenna Ortega worked out her own goth dance for Netflix's Wednesday, and TikTok copied it to a Lady Gaga song. What year did the show come out?
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2022
The dance was set to The Cramps, but the viral trend used Gaga's Bloody Mary instead.
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Groups all over the world filmed themselves doing the same dance routine to Master KG's South African gospel-house song Jerusalema. What year did the challenge go viral?
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2020
The song had first come out in late 2019; a Burna Boy remix followed as the dance spread.
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Rosé and Bruno Mars turned a Korean drinking game chant into APT. and it went straight to No. 1 on the global charts. What year?
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2024
IFPI later named it the world's biggest-selling single of the following year.
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People everywhere tipped buckets of ice water over their heads and nominated friends to do the same. What year was the Ice Bucket Challenge?
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2014
It raised about $115 million for ALS research that year alone.
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One photo split the whole internet: was the dress white and gold, or blue and black? What year did that argument take over?
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2015
The dress was really blue and black. Its sales surged, and the shop made a one-off white-and-gold one for charity.
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Reliance Jio launched with free 4G data and calls for months, and Indians queued outside shops for SIM cards. What year did it launch?
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2016
It signed up 16 million users in its first month, a world record at the time.
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Charli XCX's lime-green album made 'brat' Collins Dictionary's Word of the Year. What year was brat summer?
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2024
The album's cover was just the word in blurry lowercase on lime green, and it became a meme template.
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Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's Despacito got a Justin Bieber remix and took over the world. What year did it come out?
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2017
Its video hit 5 billion views and was briefly wiped by hackers the next year.
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Avengers: Endgame took about $357 million in its first US weekend and passed Avatar to become the highest-grossing film ever. What year?
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2019
Avatar took the crown back two years later with a re-release in China.
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Oxford named 'brain rot' its Word of the Year, though the phrase was first used by Henry David Thoreau back in 1854. What year was the award?
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2024
Use of the term jumped by 230% in a single year, Oxford said.
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People jumped out of moving cars to dance next to them, shouting 'Kiki, do you love me?' What year was Drake's In My Feelings challenge?
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2018
Comedian Shiggy started it with a street dance clip, and the song spent 10 weeks at No. 1 in the US.
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The Weeknd's Blinding Lights became the first song to spend a full year in the US Top 10. What year did it first come out?
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2019
It dropped on 29 November, months before its album After Hours, and only hit No. 1 the next spring.
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Before launch, everyone guessed Apple's tablet would be called the iTablet or iSlate. Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad instead. What year?
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2010
Apple sold 300,000 on its first day in the US that April.
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A sad Serbian song by Teya Dora gave India a meme: 'Moye Moye' played under every fail video. What year?
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2023
The song is really called Džanum; 'moye moye' is how Indian ears heard its line 'moje more'.
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Millions of musical.ly users opened their lip-sync app one morning to find it had turned into TikTok. What year did that happen?
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2018
ByteDance had bought musical.ly and merged it into TikTok, keeping every account and video.
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Apple dropped the headphone jack from the iPhone 7 and, at the same event, showed off AirPods. What year?
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2016
They were widely mocked for looking like EarPods with the wires cut off, then became a status symbol.
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A player called 'Let me solo her' became a legend for beating Elden Ring's toughest boss for strangers, in just a loincloth and a pot on his head. What year did Elden Ring come out?
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2022
Elden Ring came out that February and went on to win more than 300 Game of the Year awards.
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Manchester United were losing the Champions League final when 90 minutes were up, then scored twice in injury time to win the treble. What year?
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1999
Both goals came from substitutes, Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, at the Camp Nou.
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Ronaldo was left off the team sheet 72 minutes before the World Cup final, then put back in, and Zidane headed in twice as the hosts beat Brazil 3-0. What year?
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1998
It was France's first World Cup, won at the Stade de France, and Paris partied on the Champs-Élysées.
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Questions about this quiz
How many questions are in the Guess the Year Trivia Quiz?
152. Each game plays a round of them, so you can come back for more.
Can I play the Guess the Year Trivia Quiz with friends online?
Yes. Start a room with this quiz, share the room code or link, and 2 to 12 players join from the Braggit app or any browser. You can also play it solo.
Is the Guess the Year Trivia Quiz free?
Yes. Play it free in your browser or in the Braggit app for iPhone.
Do I have to spell the answers exactly?
No. You type your answers, and Braggit accepts close spellings, so a small typo still scores.
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