1990s Trivia Questions and Answers

1990s trivia questions and answers.

Free fun 90s trivia questions and answers.

What soul singer shocked animal rights activists by wearing full-length sable to Bill Clinton's 1993 inaugural festivities?
A: Aretha Franklin.

What Tomb Raiders heroine has been called the video gamers' "pin-up girl"?
A: Lara Croft.

Who said her favorite introduction was by a minister who called her the "Second Lady of Vice"?
A: Tipper Gore.

What legendary martial-arts filmmaker and his actor son are buried side-by-side in Seattle?
A: Bruce Lee and Brandon Lee.

What vice presidential candidate under Ross Perot was inducted into the Navy's Carrier Aviation Hall of Fame in 1993?
A: James Stockdale.

What attorney general declined to endorse "Al Gore's plan to merge the DEA with the FBI?
A: Janet Reno.

What restaurant chain known for big-breasted waitresses was ordered by the EEOC to hire men?
A: Hooters.

What restaurant chain cooked up the world's largest pot pie to launch its Chunky Chicken entree?
A: KFC.

Whose hair clippings did a Montana jail barber say she'd use to tie fishing lures called "Bombers"?
A: Ted Kaczynski's.

What Democrat ran for U.S. president under the slogan "Building a Bridge to the 21st Century"?
A: Bill Clinton.

What cooking contest did a man win for the first time in 29 years, with a macadamia fudge torte?
A: The Pillsbury Bake-off.

What NBC show prompted General Motors to sue and pull its ads due to a staged car explosion?
A: Dateline NBC.

Who was pictured on a Rolling Stone cover with boyfriend Rene Elizondao's hands covering her breasts?
A: Janet Jackson.

What talk-show host is enough of a car buff to write a monthly column for Popular Mechanics?
A: Jay Leno.

What slimy UC Santa Cruz mascot was voted the number-one nickname by the 1992 National Directory of Colleges?
A: The Banana Slug.

What pre-teen hip-hop duo is generally blamed for the fad of wearing clothes backwards?
A: Kriss Kross.

What nation's civil war casualties included Mrithi, the simian star of Gorillas in the Mist?
A: Rwanda's.

What controversial items did the New York City School system start supplying to students in 1991?
A: Condoms.

What war claimed Major Marie Rossi, the "First Female Combat commander to Fly into Battle"?
A: The Persian Gulf War.

What White House intern did a Chinese tabloid accuse of being a KGB agent since she was a little girl?
A: Monica Lewinsky.

What ABC political host penned the inspirational bestseller We Are Our Mothers' Daughters?
A: Cokie Roberts.

What casino game drained Philadelphia Eagles owner Leonard Tose of "about $25 million"?
A: Blackjack.

What six-foot-tall former alligator wrestler became Bill Clinton's top cop in 1993?
A: Janet Reno.

Who strolled down the aisle at Neverland Ranch with a man she'd met at the Betty Ford Clinic?
A: Elizabeth Taylor.

What tennis star's court battle with former flame Judy Nelson helped popularize the term "galimony"?
A: Martina Navratilova's.

What party did Mikhail Gorbachev suspend a day after returning from an ill-fated vacation?
A: The Communist Party.