So for the past two weeks I have been participating in a Learned League “MiniLeague” about Generation X Pop Culture. It has been a lot of fun, and after some surprising ups, some heartbreaking downs, and a statistically improbable last minute rereversal, I find myself in the finals. So I’m going to write a round of Gen X trivia as sort of a last minute cram session.
Learned League takes trivia honor seriously (as do I), so I want to stress that at the time I am researching and writing this I have not yet looked at any of the final round questions for the Gen X MiniLeague.
- Shown below is the primary antagonist of a memorable episode of what 1980s TV series? Had the show lasted a few more years, maybe it would have done another “very special episode” incorporating its lead actress’s gigantomastia.
- During a short sequence in the 1985 movie Spies Like Us, the exact same word is repeated a total of 20 consecutive times by various characters. What is that word?
- What musical genre has been defined as “pop music usually performed by black musicians that combines elements of traditional jazz, electronica, smooth jazz, funk, rap, and rhythm and blues”? Artists and groups with notable performances in the genre include Janet Jackson, Bell Biv DeVoe, and Bobby Brown, but not Wesley Snipes or Judd Nelson.
- Though Coleco sold a lot Cabbage Patch Kids, if you were the kind of kid who preferred Canis familiaris to Homo sapiens you might have instead chosen to adopt a plush toy from what “Loveable Huggable” line introduced to the US market by Tonka in 1984?
- This man is playing the home version of an arcade game based on a popular movie franchise and apparently enjoying it very much. What’s the game?
Answers
- Punky Brewster
- doctor
- new jack swing
- Pound Puppies
- Star Wars (The Arcade Game)
