More about the Big '90s Quiz Thing: NYC, Thursday, June 13

Only nine days till the first ever Big '90s Quiz Thing…wow. (Oh, sorry. I meant, "Whatever.") It's Thursday, June 13, at our old Brooklyn home of Littlefield, and tickets are going fast. As we told you last week, we have lots of multimedia quiz fun in store; just yesterday, I was working on a video four-parter, "Bill Clinton Was Such a Nice Gentlemen!," which resulted in me watching a lot of old clips of Slick Willie that I'm going to try my best to forget. America—land of second chances!

He's been a baaad little boy!

Now then: In the coming days I'm going to tell you all about the big prize haul for this, but for now, let's chat about some of the fun bonuses we have in store. One of the highlights of our Big '80s Quiz Thing in February was seeing various quizgoers in decade-appropriate costume. So we figured we'd offer a little carrot: The best '90s-themed attire wins an awesome, awesome prize (details TBD). So scour Buffalo Exchange for all the early-'90s flannel you can get your hands on, Mr. Vedder.

And without a doubt, the tastiest icing on the evening's quiz cake: live band karaoke! We're bringing in ace party-masters Rock Star Karaoke to pump up the volume, dance dance, preshow and between rounds, with you as their frontman/woman. RSK has got a panoply of '90s hits to choose from; see the list below. And yeah, yeah, strictly speaking, some of these ain't the 1990s; I figured it's your time to shine onstage, if you want to drift to '88 or '02, I'll keep my mouth shut…

Ace of Base–The Sign
Aerosmith–Sweet Emotion

The B-52’s–Love Shack

Beastie Boys–Sabotage

Bell Biv DeVoe–Poison

Blink-182–All the Small Things

Blink 182–Dammit

Boyz II Men–It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday

Boyz II Men–Water Runs Dry

Garth Brooks–Friends in Low Places

Mariah Carey–All I Want for Christmas Is You
Tracy Chapman–Give Me One Reason


Chicago (musical)–We Both Reached for the Gun
Coldplay-–Yellow

The Commitments–Mustang Sally

Counting Crows–Mr. Jones
Danzig–Mother
EMF–Unbelievable
Melissa Etheridge–Come to My Window

Extreme–More Than Words

Lita Ford–Kiss Me Deadly

4 Non Blondes–What’s Up?

Fresh Prince of Bel-Air–Theme Song

Green Day–Basket Case


Green Day–Longview

Green Day–When I Come Around


Hedwig and the Angry Inch–Wig In a Box

Hole–Celebrity Skin
Hootie and the Blowfish–Time
Lenny Kravitz–Fly Away

Avril Lavigne–Complicated

The Living End–Prisoner of Society

Lisa Loeb–Do You Sleep?
Lisa Loeb–Stay (I Missed You)

Madonna–Like a Prayer
Madonna–Ray of Light
Madonna–Vogue
Matchbox 20–3AM
Matchbox 20–Push

Edwin McCain–I’ll Be
Metallica–Enter Sandman

Alanis Morrisette–You Oughta Know
Alannah Myles–Black Velvet
Nirvana–Smells Like Teen Spirit
The Notorious B.I.G.–Big Poppa

‘N Sync–Bye Bye Bye

Oasis–Wonderwall

Pearl Jam–Black

Pearl Jam–Jeremy
Tom Petty–Free Fallin’
Tom Petty–You Don’t Know How It Feels
Pixies–Here Comes Your Man

Pretenders–I'll Stand By You

Queen-–Bohemian Rhapsody

Radiohead–Creep

Rage Against the Machine–Killing in the Name Of

Bonnie Raitt–Something To Talk About
Red Hot Chili Peppers–Higher Ground

Red Hot Chili Peppers–Otherside

Red Hot Chili Peppers–Soul to Squeeze

Red Hot Chili Peppers–Under The Bridge

R.E.M.–Losing My Religion
Rent–Finale B

Rent–Light My Candle

Rent– One Song Glory
Rent– Out Tonight

Rent–Rent

Roxette–It Must Have Been Love
Salt-n-Pepa– Shoop

Semisonic–Closing Time

Britney Spears–Oops I Did It Again

Stone Temple Pilots–Plush

Sublime–Santeria

Sublime–What I Got

Third Eyed Blind–Jumper
Third Eyed Blind–Semi-Charmed Life

Shania Twain–Any Man of Mine
Shania Twain–Man I Feel Like a Woman
Vanilla Ice– Ice Ice Baby

Weezer–Buddy Holly

Weezer–Say It Ain't So
White Stripes– Fell In Love with a Girl
Young MC–Bust a Move
Neil Young–Rockin’ in the Free World

Wow, someone sure liked Rent! Thursday, June 13, at Littlefield in Brooklyn. Tix right here; details on prizes in this space soon. You're the king of the world.