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All right, it's Monday and time to check your pop culture IQ again. I graded the '80s quiz last week and decided that you deserve more questions this time around so we can grade on a curve. Some of you need all the help you can get. I hope you've been studying since last time.

This week we're jumping to the '90s. You remember the '90s, right? Ripped jeans, dirty hair, and lots of flannel. Ready? Here we go.

HONOR SYSTEM INSTRUCTIONS:

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2. Keep your own score
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1. Which 1995 Alanis Morissette song was inspired by a bad breakup?

a. "You Learn"
b. "You Oughta Know"
c. "Hand in My Pocket"

2. What was the name of Pearl Jam's 1991 debut album?

a. "Vs."
b. "Nevermind"
c. "Ten"

3. Drummer Bill Berry left which group in 1997 to become a farmer?

a. R.E.M.
b. Smashing Pumpkins
c. The Rolling Stones

4. What 1991 Nirvana video was inspired in part by the Ramones' "Rock 'n' Roll High School"?

a. "Lithium"
b. "Come As You Are"
c. "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

5. The rhythm track of which Notorious B.I.G. song is based on Herb Alpert's 1979 hit "Rise?"

a. "Hypnotize"
b. "Mo Money Mo Problems"
c. "Going Back to Cali"

6. The Gallagher brothers are members of which band?

a. The Black Crowes
b. Crowded House
c. Oasis

7. Icelandic singer Bjork was originally a member of which band?

a. Bow Wow Wow
b. UB40
c. The Sugarcubes

8. Which singer ripped up a picture of the Pope on "Saturday Night Live" in 1992?

a. Elvis Costello
b. Kurt Cobain
c. Sinead O'Connor

9. What 1991 single was Guns N' Roses' last Top 10 hit?

a. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
b. "November Rain"
c. "Hair of the Dog"

10. Which Nine Inch Nails song was famously covered by Johnny Cash?

a. "Gave Up"
b. "Hurt"
c. "Closer"

11. Which TLC song won a Grammy in 1996?

a. "Waterfalls"
b. "Creep"
c. "Diggin' on You"

12. Which 1993 Radiohead album contains the song "Creep"?

a. "Pablo Honey"
b. "OK Computer"
c. "The Bends"

13. Which Aerosmith video was directed by "Fight Club" director David Fincher?

a. "Love in an Elevator"
b. "Cryin'"
c. "Janie's Got a Gun"

14. What 1990 single was the last Top 10 hit for New Kids on the Block?

a. "Tonight"
b. "Hangin' Tough"
c. "Step by Step"

15. Which 1990 Bryan Adams song was featured in the film "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves"?

a. "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"
b. "Thought I'd Died and Gone to Heaven"
c. "It's Only Love"

16. Natalie Merchant left which band in 1993 to start a solo career?

a. "The Cranberries"
b. "10,000 Maniacs"
c. "The Bangles"

17. Geri Halliwell was a member of which group?

a. West End Girls
b. Seduction
c. Spice Girls

18. "1979" was the 1996 single from which Chicago-based alternative band?

a. Wilco
b. Smashing Pumpkins
c. Urge Overkill

19. What was the name of Jeff Buckley's debut 1994 album?

a. "Grace"
b. "New York"
c. "My Sweetheart the Drunk"

20. Which one of these albums is NOT by Public Enemy?

a. "Fear of a Black Planet"
b. "Poison"
c. "Greatest Misses"






ANSWERS:

1. b  2. c  3. a  4. c  5. a  6. c  7. c  8. c  9. b  10. b  11. b  12. a  13. c  14. a  15. a  16. b  17. c  18. b  19. a  20. b

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