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What is Ska
Reel Big Fish, Less Than Jake and Skankin' Pickle were all part of the "Third Wave" of this musical genre that was a precursor to Reggae
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What is "Space Jam"
Murray played himself in this 1996 film that co-starred Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny.
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Who is Johnny Carson
On May 22, 1992 this longtime host of "The Tonight Show" retired after a 30-year run.
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What is "My Heart Will Go On"
Canadian songbird Celene Dion scored a #1 hit in 1997 with this theme song from the movie "Titanic."
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Who is Bill Gates
Shortly after the release of Windows 95, this Microsoft co-founder's net-worth reached over $12.5 Billion, then making him the wealthiest man in the world.
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Who are the White Stripes
View Image This Detroit-based duo that was key to the Garage Rock revival movement released their self-titled debut album in 1999.
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Who is Harold Ramis
This former "Ghostbusters" co-star directed Murray in the 1993 film "Groundhog's Day."
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Who is Arsenio Hall
View Image During his 1992 Presidential campaign, Bill Clinton played the saxophone on this comedian's syndicated talk show.
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Who is Mike Myers?
"Groovy Baby!" This Canadian funnyman starred as both Austin Powers and his arch nemesis Dr. Evil in a classic comedy trilogy.
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What is the Talkboy
This audio recorder that allowed cassettes to be played backwards was featured prominently in the film "Home Alone 2"
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Who is Brian Setzer
During the height of the Swing music revival, a song by this former Stray Cats frontman and his Orchestra was featured in a popular commercial for The Gap,
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What is "What About Bob?"
In 1991, Murray starred alongside Richard Dreyfuss in this comedy about a patient who follows his psychiatrist on his vacation.
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Who is Paul Shaffer
View Image When David Letterman moved from he NBC to CBS, he brought with him the bandleader/sidekick seen here.
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What is "Ironic"
Linguists will warn you that most of the scenarios in this 1996 Alanis Morisette hit song would be more accurately described as "Unfortunate."
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What is www.google.com
This domain name was registered on September 15, 1997, for what would become the world's most popular internet search engine.
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What is Rockabilly
The music of the Reverend Horton Heat has often been labelled as "Psychobilly"- a genre that fuses punk and this 1950's music style.
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Who is Wes Anderson
Since his appearance in "Rushmore", Murray has had roles in 8 more movies by this director, including the lead in "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou."
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Who is Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog
View Image The puppet seen here made his first appearance on "Late Nite with Conan O'Brien" on February 13, 1997. It was a great appearance...for me to poop on!
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Who are "The Kids in the Hall"
This Canadian sketch comedy troupe ended their 5-season television run on April 15, 1995.
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What is the iMac
A 1998 commercial for this Apple product featured Jeff Goldblum describing how to connect it to the internet, then declaring "There's no step 3!"
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Who is Pérez Prado
In 1999, Lou Bega reached #3 on the US charts when he added words to "Mambo No. 5." The song was originally released in 1949 as an instrumental by this Cuban jazz musician.
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Who is Ernie "Big Ern" McCracken
In 1996's "Kingpin," Murray played this villain and rival bowler of Woody Harrelson's character Roy Munson.
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Who is Craig Kilborn
Before Jon Stewart became the host of "The Daily Show" in 1999 it had a two-and-a-half year run with this man as host, who left to take the 12:30 slot on CBS.
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Who are Our Lady Peace
This alt-rock band from Toronto released their hit single "Superman's Dead" in 1997.
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What is Dolly
Controversy reverberated throughout the scientific community in 1996 when researchers at the University of Edinburgh successfully cloned a sheep, before giving it this name.
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What is "The Ballroom Blitz"
In the hit 1992 comedy "Wayne's World", Wayne's girlfriend's band Crucial Taunt gains the attention of record producer "Mr. Big" by playing a cover of this '70's glam rock classic, originally by the band Sweet.
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