About this quiz

The 1990s brought us the PlayStation, the Spice Girls, Friends and the first Harry Potter book. This nostalgia quiz tests your memory of the decade's TV, films, music, games and big news stories across twenty questions.

Whether you kept a Tamagotchi alive or played Snake on a Nokia, you should recognise most of these. Each answer comes with a short fact to bring back the memories.

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  1. Which sitcom followed six friends who hung out at a coffee shop called Central Perk?

    Friends. Friends ran for ten seasons, from 1994 to 2004.

  2. Which 1995 film was the first ever fully computer-animated feature?

    Toy Story. It was made by Pixar, with Tom Hanks as the voice of Woody.

  3. Which Spice Girl was known as “Posh”?

    Victoria. Their debut single “Wannabe” went to number one in both the UK and the US.

  4. Which games console did Sony launch in the US and Europe in 1995?

    PlayStation. It became the first games console to sell over 100 million units.

  5. Which egg-shaped virtual pet from Japan became a craze in 1997?

    Tamagotchi. It launched in Japan in 1996 and arrived in the UK and US the following year.

  6. In which year was the first Harry Potter book published?

    1997. In the US it was renamed “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”.

  7. Which game came built into many Nokia phones from 1997?

    Snake. Snake first appeared on the Nokia 6110.

  8. Which band released the album “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?” in 1995?

    Oasis. It’s one of the best-selling albums in UK chart history.

  9. What was the name of the cloned sheep born in Scotland in 1996?

    Dolly. Dolly was the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.

  10. Which country hosted the 1994 FIFA World Cup?

    USA. Brazil won it, beating Italy on penalties in the final.

  11. Which 1997 film about a sinking ship became the highest-grossing film of its time?

    Titanic. It won 11 Oscars, equalling the all-time record.

  12. Which pocket monster game first came out in Japan in 1996?

    Pokémon. Pokémon Red and Green launched on the Game Boy.

  13. Which 1994 Disney film tells the story of a young lion called Simba?

    The Lion King. “Hakuna Matata” means “no worries” in Swahili.

  14. Which boy band had a 1995 number one with “Back for Good”?

    Take That. Robbie Williams left the band later that same year.

  15. Which TV show followed FBI agents Mulder and Scully?

    The X-Files. Its famous tagline was “The truth is out there”.

  16. Which furry talking toy was the must-have gift of Christmas 1998?

    Furby. Furbies started out speaking “Furbish” and seemed to learn English the more you played.

  17. What opened between England and France in 1994?

    The Channel Tunnel. Much of the tunnel runs under the seabed of the English Channel.

  18. In which 1999 film does Neo choose between a red pill and a blue pill?

    The Matrix. Its slow-motion “bullet time” scenes were copied for years afterwards.

  19. Which Britpop band beat Oasis to number one with “Country House” in 1995?

    Blur. The chart race against Oasis’s “Roll With It” was dubbed the Battle of Britpop.

  20. Which cartoon character lives in a pineapple under the sea?

    SpongeBob SquarePants. SpongeBob SquarePants first aired in 1999.