Do you remember what was going on 10, 20 and 30 years ago this week? Find out in this week’s decades of trivia quiz!
On the charts
The week of Aug. 8, 2009
What Black Eyed Peas’ song, the follow-up to “Boom Boom Pow,” was the No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 this week and was one of the top songs of 2009, topping the charts for 14 weeks?
At the movies
The week of Aug. 6, 1999
Which film by M. Night Shyamalan opened this week at No. 1 with domestic receipts of almost $44 million and would go on to be one of the surprise word-of-mouth hits of the year, thanks to a shocking twist ending?
On the field
Aug. 10-13, 1989
Held at Kemper Lakes Golf Club outside Chicago, the 1989 PGA Championship was the first major win for this golfer, who later died tragically in a plane crash at the age of 42.
Find the answers after the video for “Boom Boom Pow,” which is officially still a banger 10 years later.
Answers:
- On the Charts: “I Gotta Feeling”
- At the Movies: “The Sixth Sense“
- On the Field: Payne Stewart