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What's Your Mindset? Trivia Quiz

Each August since 1998, Beloit College in Wisconsin, USA, has published its "Mindset List." This list gives us a glimpse of the world view of US students entering college as freshman each year. (Visit http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaf/mindset/)

A multiple-choice quiz by peachy_1. Estimated time: 6 mins.

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peachy_1

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6 mins

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242,385

Updated
Dec 03 21

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Question 1 of 10

1. According to the Beloit College Mindset List of 2006 (for students of the class of 2010, most of whom were born in 1988) which of the following is true?
Hint

They grew up wearing Swatch Watches

There has only been one Pope. They can only remember one other US president

They have known only three U.S. presidents

Richard Nixon, Kim Il-Sung, John Candy and Kurt Cobain have always been dead

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Question 2 of 10

2. According to Beloit College's 2003 Mindset List, if you belonged to that class, most of your classmates would have been born in 1981. What else would have been true for you and your classmates?
Hint

Rainbow Brite, Care Bears and Smurfs were SO last year!

There had always been a woman on the Supreme Court, and women had always been traveling into space

Your parents might have bought you a Cabbage Patch Kid for your first birthday.

By the time you were born, the first woman had been nominated as a US vice-presidential candidate on a major party ticket.

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Question 3 of 10

3. The Beloit College Mindset List states that for this class, "Andy Warhol, Liberace, Jackie Gleason, and Lee Marvin have always been dead."
Hint

Class of 2009 (born in 1987)

Class of 2004 (born in 1982)

Class of 2005 (born in 1983)

Class of 2002 (born in 1980)

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Question 4 of 10

4. According to Beloit College's Mindset List, for students of which class has "Google" always been a verb?

Hint

Class of 2002 (born in 1980)

Class of 2003 (born in 1981)

Class of 2005 (born in 1983)

Class of 2010 (born in 1988)

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Question 5 of 10

5. The Beloit College Mindset List observes that which of the following was true for students in the class of 2004 (born in 1983)?
Hint

The first test tube baby was born in their lifetime

We had always been able to reproduce DNA in the laboratory

Prince Charles was still a bachelor when they were born

Your parents probably used a cell phone to notify family and friends when you were born

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Question 6 of 10

6. Students born in 1986 could make which of the following observations, according to the Beloit College Mindset List for the class of 2008?
Hint

There have never been any Playboy Clubs

They enjoyed looking at pictures of their parents' trip to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, before they were born

They could recall watching Roseanne Roseannadanna live on Saturday Night Live

They remember enjoying 7-Up Gold and Apple Slice

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Question 7 of 10

7. According to the Beloit College Mindset List, students of which class can anticipate living until around 2060, with a life expectancy of 77 years?
Hint

Class of 2009 (born in 1987)

Class of 2010 (born in 1988)

Class of 2005 (born in 1983)

Class of 2002 (born in 1980)

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Question 8 of 10

8. The Beloit College Mindset List notes that students of this class were 11 when the Soviet Union broke up, and they have never known the Cold War.
Hint

Class of 2002 (born in 1980)

Class of 2005 (born in 1983)

Class of 2003 (born in 1981)

class of 2004 (born in 1982)

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Question 9 of 10

9. The class of 2006 (born in 1984) could say what about their world, according to the Beloit College Mindset List?
Hint

Apartheid in South Africa was history, but they had no personal recollection of how or when it ended.

"Trivial Pursuit" may have been played by our parents the night before we were born

Our parents may have been watching the Fox television network while waiting for our arrival.

Who ever heard of having computers in the classroom? That's absurd!

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Question 10 of 10

10. If you were in the class of 2007 (born 1985), according to the Beloit College Mindset List, which of the following would most likely have been true for you or your classmates?
Hint

"He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" was one of your favorite Saturday-morning cartoons

You remember playing Pong on your Atari game console

You never heard Howard Cosell call a game on ABC television

You remember going for rides in the family station wagon

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. According to the Beloit College Mindset List of 2006 (for students of the class of 2010, most of whom were born in 1988) which of the following is true?

Answer: They have known only three U.S. presidents

President George H. W. Bush was in office from 1989-1993; President William J. Clinton served from 1993-2001, followed by George W. Bush from 2001. (Though Ronald Reagan would still have been in office the year that they were born, presumably they were not yet watching television news just yet.) Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI have both served between 1988 and 2006; Richard Nixon, Kim Il-Sung, John Candy, and Kurt Cobain all died in 1994; Swatch watches debuted in the US in 1983, but their popularity had faded by the time this class was born.

Answer: There had always been a woman on the Supreme Court, and women had always been traveling into space

Sandra Day O'Connor was appointed to the US Supreme Court in 1981; in 1983 Sally Ride became the first American woman to reach outer space, but she had been preceded by two Soviet women in 1963 and 1982. Rainbow Brite, Care Bears and Smurfs were wildly popular during the mid-80's, but Cabbage Patch Kids were not available until 1983. Geraldine Ferraro ran as a Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 1984, becoming the first American woman to run for a top position on a major party ticket.

3. The Beloit College Mindset List states that for this class, "Andy Warhol, Liberace, Jackie Gleason, and Lee Marvin have always been dead."

Answer: Class of 2009 (born in 1987)

These celebrities all died in 1987.

4. According to Beloit College's Mindset List, for students of which class has "Google" always been a verb?

Answer: Class of 2010 (born in 1988)

Can you remember life before Google? Remember going to the library when you needed to look something up? The Oxford English Dictionary notes the question, "Has anyone Googled?" in the Usenet Newgroup alt.fan.british-accent on October 10, 1999 as the first recorded usage of the word.

5. The Beloit College Mindset List observes that which of the following was true for students in the class of 2004 (born in 1983)?

Answer: We had always been able to reproduce DNA in the laboratory

Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby", was born in 1978; Prince Charles married Diana Spencer in 1981; although the first hand-held mobile phones became commercially available in 1983, they were large and bulky and bore little resemblance to the pocket-sized phones much of this class brought to college with them.

6. Students born in 1986 could make which of the following observations, according to the Beloit College Mindset List for the class of 2008?

Answer: There have never been any Playboy Clubs

The last US Playboy club closed in 1988, so by the time this class was old enough to care, the clubs no longer existed. Roseanne Roseannadanna made her last appearance in 1980; the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opened in 1986; the soft drinks mentioned enjoyed a brief existence in the mid-80's, but this class would have been too young to remember them.

7. According to the Beloit College Mindset List, students of which class can anticipate living until around 2060, with a life expectancy of 77 years?

Answer: Class of 2005 (born in 1983)

This is an extrapolation based on life expectancy in about 2005. It could of course change.

8. The Beloit College Mindset List notes that students of this class were 11 when the Soviet Union broke up, and they have never known the Cold War.

Answer: Class of 2002 (born in 1980)

Do you remember the "Peace Dividend" we were told to expect as the Cold War came to an end?

9. The class of 2006 (born in 1984) could say what about their world, according to the Beloit College Mindset List?

Answer: "Trivial Pursuit" may have been played by our parents the night before we were born

"Trivial Pursuit" was released in 1981, and became wildly popular. Apartheid in South Africa ended in 1994 with the election of president Nelson Mandela and the rewriting of the constitution; computers in classrooms had become commonplace during these students' school years; the Fox Broadcasting Company was not launched until 1986.

10. If you were in the class of 2007 (born 1985), according to the Beloit College Mindset List, which of the following would most likely have been true for you or your classmates?

Answer: You never heard Howard Cosell call a game on ABC television

Howard Cosell parted ways with ABC Sports in 1985, though he continued to do some radio broadcasting until 1992. Atari game consoles and the Masters of the Universe had faded from popularity by the time this class would have been old enough to enjoy them, and the family station wagon had been replaced by the minivan by this time.

Source: Author peachy_1

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