Gen Z Try Not To Fail Challenge - Boomer Trivia!

Gen Z Try Not To Fail Challenge - Boomer Trivia! | Try Not To

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How well does Gen Z know the lives of Baby Boomers? We put that question to the test to see who knows US history the best with the help of an Elder! How many questions did you get right?
Content Featured:
4 Beatles
• Beatles introducing th...
Apollo 11
• Apollo 11: One Small S...
JFK Assasination
• From the archives: Wal...
The Godfather - Marlon Brando
• THE GODFATHER | Openin...
Watergate
• President Nixon Resign...
Mary Tyler Moore Show
• Mary Tyler Moore Show ...
Fall of Berlin Wall
• Flashback: The fall of...
Freddie Mercury / Queen
• Queen Live Aid 1985 -...
The Graduate / Dustin Hoffman
• The Graduate Starring ...
Ted Bundy
• Confession of Ted Bund...
George Carlin
• Monologue: George Carl...
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Rhoda
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#react #genz #trivia
Does Gen Z Know Boomer History? | Try Not To Fail
0:00 Intro
0:42 The Beatles
2:44 Man On The Moon
4:04 Presidential Assassination
5:17 The Godfather
7:01 Presidential Scandal
8:29 1970s TV Show
10:30 Berlin Wall
12:08 Classic Rock
13:04 1960s Movies
14:27 Serial Killers
15:32 Comedians
16:59 Results
17:21 Outro

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@btsinbda2547 11 ай бұрын

“It’s a dog and my ex-best friend.” S A V A G E!!! 💀💀💀

@paujabitha 10 ай бұрын

1:07 "we got... zayn" I'M HOLLERING

@ILOVEMARILYNMANSON89 11 ай бұрын

the clues the baby boomers are giving are perfect. i know the answer but they help spark it for me faster.

@sarcoboi12v3 11 ай бұрын

I didn’t get every single question right…. but I’m proud of say I knew who the comedian was 😆

@michellecbm4326 10 ай бұрын

I just can't express how much I love Jaxon! His little impressions are so cute and surprisingly good!

@JaimeCard 11 ай бұрын

"That's a dog and my ex best friend" 😂 I love Catherine

@baffawada2804 11 ай бұрын

Jaxon best thing here ngl

@jodimyers410 11 ай бұрын

Watching this as a GenXer I’m shocked how much isn’t known anymore.

@TheLauren87 11 ай бұрын

Same a lot of the questions were history and I'm surprised they didn't know it like the Watergate.

@tyneshacarriere2531 11 ай бұрын

Have I not already seen this video?

@Armillifer 11 ай бұрын

4 months ago, yes, on the original React channel.

@cookiepus 11 ай бұрын

Why do I feel like I’ve seen this before am I crazy ?

@meaganwatson2919 11 ай бұрын

I was literally just thinking the same thing

@jodyalaniz 11 ай бұрын

Yep, same.

@nach3589 11 ай бұрын

I realised at 14mins that i have already watched this awhile back and i still didnt know some of the answers haha

@LadyExecutioner13 11 ай бұрын

The amount of older episodes I'm seeing is unreal.

@OcusticClear92 11 ай бұрын

Jaxon’s impressions are (mostly) spot-on!

@tresaid1 11 ай бұрын

Is this a rerun… I feel like I’ve seen this already

@OlgaWhatserface 11 ай бұрын

Dude me too! I was gonna comment ask about it cuz it’s too much of a deja vu.

@blogsfred3187 11 ай бұрын

I agree

@bryanstoudenmire 11 ай бұрын

Yes it's a re run

@monicaguzman3048 11 ай бұрын

yes it is

@mamasaurusrex3832 11 ай бұрын

You might end up owing me money…. Why the f did I remember that 🤓

@ARMY_for_10_years 11 ай бұрын

Everyone this is a previously uploaded episode, the Fine brothers originally had it but now React has their own thing.

@rebeccans7729 11 ай бұрын

im from London and I honestly know most of this because I am such a history nerd and watch documentaries for fun but also I loved the show Timeless. Bring back shows based on history !! A fun way to teach the kids

@davidepling724 11 ай бұрын

This is older. They shouldn't advertise it as a new episode.

@sonjaisaacs1200 11 ай бұрын

I knew I had seen this before. Disappointed.

@a.pierce7623 11 ай бұрын

It is!!! I thought I was tripping cuz I knew I had seen it before!

@Blacksaphir3 11 ай бұрын

They're moving all the try not to videos from the react channel onto this one.

@britneysmall4975 11 ай бұрын

@Blacksaphir3 I swear I'm being genuine asking this, why? Is there a limit on how many videos a channel can have? I know this is common to have multiple channels when youre big on KZfaq but...?

@arina4 10 ай бұрын

Love the song in the background… gotta have that coffee

@colombiana3489 11 ай бұрын

I kept screaming the answers...how do they not know a few of these. Is there no more history classes in school?

@Robie212002 11 ай бұрын

I asked the same question.

@futuramabender2078 11 ай бұрын

@@Robie212002people don't have to know every little detail in history ok

@futuramabender2078 11 ай бұрын

@colombiana3489 What makes you think that is ok for you to comment this, not everyone knows every little detail that happens in history

@monicamason3414 10 ай бұрын

My grandma went back to East Germany when the wall fell in the 90's to see family and friends.

@lovecraft5878 11 ай бұрын

I get them not knowing pop culture questions but needing help on history ones just makes me wonder what they teach in schools now.

@futuramabender2078 11 ай бұрын

Dude, you lay off of them, most people don't have to know every little detail in history, why ya gotta be so harsh

@futuramabender2078 11 ай бұрын

keep school out of this, quit judging other people's education

@monicamason3414 10 ай бұрын

Haha...I'm a Gen Zer and I even recall Walter Cronkite-though in colour.

@nulle1968 11 ай бұрын

Is it a replay? Or do I have a deja vu?

@Necromancyyy 11 ай бұрын

This is more like a try not to Deja Vu

@forestcatkay14 11 ай бұрын

As a 94 baby i am so glad of how many of these i got right. Also extremely thankful for grandmother, mother for getting me into the older pop cultures and all my history teachers for the history lessons. Granted i though berlin wall was 98 because i kept thinking of 8 being in the number.

@papapanko 11 ай бұрын

Gary true OG. Love the guy.

@KitKat_95 11 ай бұрын

I'm a Millennial and I got most of the answers right. The only one I got wrong was Ted Bundy - only cause I was think Jeffrey Dahmer or Son of Sam.

@jenniferbotts1101 11 ай бұрын

What a really fun video.

@seirracruse5662 11 ай бұрын

Why are they reuploading so many videos?

@Kasemia13 9 ай бұрын

The fact I knew some of that stuff as a millennial made me proud of my self 😂

@KegOfMeat 2 ай бұрын

Jair said “Bush did it” 😂

@NatashaGraves555 5 ай бұрын

Awww i love this!!!!! ❤️

@katd9798 11 ай бұрын

Didn't ya'll already do this one? It's eerily familiar

@kristinewood7030 4 ай бұрын

The mary tyler moore show was taped in parts of MN

@CDKrenik 11 ай бұрын

15:40 GEORGE CARLIN! I've seen too many of his setup routines not to recognize him! But I had no idea he ever hosted SNL.

@laurelwhicker3857 16 күн бұрын

I’m 21 . I would have been left with $90 .

@christinachitchat959 11 ай бұрын

this video was aired a year or two ago. ive seen this before on the channel.

@StarGurl44 11 ай бұрын

I wish they would label that these are re-posts

@jewc_pusc 11 ай бұрын

Its sad kids don't know Queen but know the serial killers.

@futuramabender2078 11 ай бұрын

do you think that the kids were alive when Queen was popular think about it

@brucenatelee 10 ай бұрын

I just realized how bad I am at tests. Aside from Apollo 11 (thought it was 13), I knew them all and failed them all. I knew of Lennon and McCartney and didn't know Ringo was one of them, but didn't know who George was.

@LianariasMarie 10 ай бұрын

Its terrifying they don't know some of these historical ones.

@Eshabear1213 10 ай бұрын

My dad is a professor at a nursing college and he has adult students who didn’t know what D Day was and they thought Pearl Harbor was just a movie

@futuramabender2078 11 ай бұрын

True or False: Richard Nixion was like the Donald J. Trump of the 70s.

@glendawoodson8777 11 ай бұрын

Oh my gosh! I was thinking this!!!!

@shayneramsay1388 10 ай бұрын

i gotta say true

@Eshabear1213 10 ай бұрын

True except Nixon was a democrat and actually froze gas prices

@juanita_rocksteady2761 9 ай бұрын

@@Eshabear1213Stop with the bs info. We all know Nixon was a Republican. 🙄🤡 Go away with your lies troll.

@Zodia195 11 ай бұрын

It's crazy I don't remember the Berlin Wall coming down even though I remember alot of things from 1989 (like watching The Little Mermaid). I think the thing was, I didn't become aware of big World Wide events until like 1990/1991.

@daddyoca69 11 ай бұрын

I remember it.... but I was born in early 70s...

@mackenziemc 11 ай бұрын

My absolute favorite part of “Bohemian Rhapsody” was when the sound guy increased the volume before Queen came out to perform at Live Aid

@serjahren 11 ай бұрын

Did... did she just say queen Elisabeth? ...... 🥲

@lisettegarcia7013 10 ай бұрын

Yes she did. Just tear down 'Elizabeth' and leave 'Queen'. At least the heritage was right. I grew up listening to the song _We Will Rock You_ in P.E. and during assemblies when I was in elementary school.

@lukusblack6442 11 ай бұрын

"There's a Richie in there somewhere..." Half point for Richard Starkey. It was Apollo 11 that landed. 13 was built by Tesla... Jaxon does an incredible JFK... How? The Godfather was played by Jor-El of Krypton. Everyone should know that. The Nixon tapes are interesting... "How many things in the world are 18 minutes and 20 seconds long?”

@ChrissaTodd 11 ай бұрын

they should have told jair she was technically right

@johnny2003 11 ай бұрын

I learned the last 50 years of music when I was a kid.

@1989barker 11 ай бұрын

As a millennial, this was pretty easy.

@amberdean777 11 ай бұрын

I would ACE THIS QUIZ

@tattooedman42 11 ай бұрын

I went to Germany exactly one year after they tore down the wall. The next month our unit deployed to the Gulf War. When we came back, the whole base was moved to another base so they could refurbish Nellingen as a housing area for many of the East Germans who were coming in.

@kristinewood7030 4 ай бұрын

And if i remember right, george carlin was in one of the bill and ted movies, i believe as the reaper?

@phr00tpie Ай бұрын

Nah George Carlin was the guy from the future (Rufus?) the reaper was played by William Sadler

@kristinewood7030 Ай бұрын

@@phr00tpie ok. You're right. It's been ages since I seen the movie lol

@innebandyist 11 ай бұрын

isn't this an old video?

@amymahoney3513 11 ай бұрын

@innebandyist // 🤦🏼‍♀️ no

@shaneshepherd4010 11 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure I've seen this a long time ago

@Eemii-lv4lj 11 ай бұрын

Yup, its a repeat

@BabeExo 11 ай бұрын

It is. The original video from 4 months ago was recommended below this one 😭 It’s on the REACT channel though. Guess they just wanted it on the Try Not To one

@brandiwilliams7178 11 ай бұрын

Yes. But they're moving a lot of videos to the channel from their other channel

@hayleyparmelee7643 10 ай бұрын

OH MY GOD THESE GEN Z DO NOT KNOW HISTORY ANYMORE!! SMFH sorry for screaming I’m just shocked! 😂😅🤦🏼‍♀️

@zoeballard8545 10 ай бұрын

So true. Luckily I knew most (except the Beetles) because I am a history major and learned about many of these events in school

@TinaHam12 11 ай бұрын

this is a try not to get mad challenge for me and I failed at the George Carlin question.

@theemperorhoodie1845 10 ай бұрын

Mary Tyler Moore is the only one I didn't know without a hint

@SonOfMuta 11 ай бұрын

4:30 The Cold War was from 1945 - 1991. The end of WWII to the fall of the Soviet Union

@cynetr7431 9 ай бұрын

The only reason I can remember the JFK assassination, without thinking about it, is because of an amazing Stephen King book 😅

@Idontwant1 11 ай бұрын

What's up with these repeat episodes. Yesterday was one and now today. And y'all say it's new. Come on guys do better.

@futuramabender2078 11 ай бұрын

You need to do better, by not being a fucking idiot.

@j0hnn13K 9 ай бұрын

Fun fact, the cat on Marlon Brando's lap, was originally not part of the script, the cat was "just there, minding it's own business" and jumped onto Marlon's lap. Martin just rolled with it and kept the cat in the scene.

@sammylane21 11 ай бұрын

Mr. Feeney was in the movie THE GRADUATE. He was still looking very middle age. How exactly old is he exactly?

@mrskimtaehyung9095 11 ай бұрын

The sizzler that I live by just got shut down 😭😭😭😭It's been operational for over 30 years and they closed their doors for good. I miss them so much

@boosterbuster2297 11 ай бұрын

Damn... even I know these and I live in Europe...

@mackenziehunter4593 11 ай бұрын

Well, Europe is better educated than here in the states.

@SonOfMuta 11 ай бұрын

6:51 No, not marbles. Your elder is wrong. Brando put cotton balls in his mouth to get that look and sound

@Kpop96 11 ай бұрын

Why do I feel this is reup

@sherrybrown5295 11 ай бұрын

Gen X here and I only got one wrong because I wasn't sure if it was Bundy or Dahmer. I guessed wrong.

@ivylasangrienta6093 11 ай бұрын

As a fellow X'er I was only stumped on the last one.

@kingghost8872 11 ай бұрын

Hell nahh never put extra mayonnaise on my food

@ghazalghanavati2620 9 ай бұрын

dude I'm not even american and I knew 90% of the answers!! wth is wrong with this generation

@bryanstoudenmire 11 ай бұрын

Re run

@MuzzikLvr 11 ай бұрын

Did they get points for Richie and James...because technically those are Ringo and Paul's real first names.

@ivylasangrienta6093 11 ай бұрын

It's not Richie though, it's Richard.

@MuzzikLvr 11 ай бұрын

@@ivylasangrienta6093 His wife calls him Richie.

@lisettegarcia7013 10 ай бұрын

@@MuzzikLvr Which one? Maureen or Barbara?

@eleanordockery5423 11 ай бұрын

Mary Tyler Moore Was Also In A Change Of Habit With Elvis Presley.

@antoniomares4958 11 ай бұрын

IT TOOK 5 YEARS (1989-1994) FOR THE BERLIN WALL TO BE FULLY DEMOLISHED. I SAY 1992 STILL COUNTS.

@jordirenaud9438 11 ай бұрын

It was the 9th of November actually for the fall of the Berlin Wall not the 10th

@monicaguzman3048 11 ай бұрын

geez im a gen x and I KNOW ALL THE ANSWERS

@MatthewLenton 11 ай бұрын

Ringo Starr's real name is Richard Starkey so he could be a Richie

@Dwarfsaint 11 ай бұрын

As a xennial I knew all of these

@Tammy-bj3yx 11 ай бұрын

Same

@Jay_GT 8 ай бұрын

I think Jax should have gotten an extra 10 for the 1st one he knew each of their first and last name 🙂

@Eshabear1213 10 ай бұрын

I don’t know a lot of these because dropped out of school in 6th grade

@flordeloto944 11 ай бұрын

Aced it... But I'm a millennial 😁

@marluna36 4 ай бұрын

Love Rhoda

@user-cf6qs1dm2k 7 ай бұрын

revoke their high school diplomas

@debralazarus1809 11 ай бұрын

I’m a gen z but I feel like a boomer just like my mom

@johnny2003 11 ай бұрын

I hate that kids think use the excuse that they weren’t alive yet. As if history wasn’t a subject in school.

@futuramabender2078 11 ай бұрын

As if your mouth was running way too much, you are done talking for the day

@sherikoors201 11 ай бұрын

Sizzlers is NO LONGER around!!!!

@jamesmommy13 11 ай бұрын

They are, just in a smaller area than they used to be. The ones in my area closed years ago.

@aguilarjr 11 ай бұрын

We got one here in Ventura, CA

@futuramabender2078 11 ай бұрын

they still exist, what are you talking about

@candaceparra3678 11 ай бұрын

I swear I’ve seen this one before ? What is up with reposting old videos ? Is this because the writers strike ?

@Blessi85 11 ай бұрын

yep definetly seen this before

@melissacampbell8328 11 ай бұрын

They are moving videos from react to try not to channel

@melissacampbell8328 11 ай бұрын

@@dennis2966 dunno, you'd have to ask them

@futuramabender2078 11 ай бұрын

@@dennis2966it's called being organized look it up

@SilverScribe85 11 ай бұрын

Fun Fact I was born in 1985, which means the Berlin Wall fell four years after that. I was just a baby then

@jayczzzya 11 ай бұрын

Born in 1984. Really though it happened in 91

@waterdrager93 11 ай бұрын

That's the formal collapse of the USSR, not the Wall. Germany reunified in 1990.

@ChrissaTodd 11 ай бұрын

you should let Jair know she was half right and that ringos real name is richard starky

@beardedwonder73 11 ай бұрын

Cotton balls .. and the cat snuck on to set

@paulsmith8370 11 ай бұрын

i swear i just watched this the other day

@TheShadow8771 10 ай бұрын

Only couple Beatles songs I like not my type of music

@vampjager8586 11 ай бұрын

Generations lyric breakdown of the Cats in the Cradle by Harry Chapin

@QueenofWheels 11 ай бұрын

Who doesn't know the Beatles?

@lisettegarcia7013 10 ай бұрын

It's insulting if you don't know them. I know all four members, their manager, their music producer, their significant others, and children.

@yummy6592 11 ай бұрын

What IS wrong with them? I'm a 21 french woman and i know most of the answers.

@kristinewood7030 4 ай бұрын

Ive Never seen any of the godfather movies

@Eszra 27 күн бұрын

Recently watched the first Godfather for the first time. I have no urge to watch the others but the first one I would recommend to give it a try. The pacing is lovely.

@geezygee 11 ай бұрын

Whats the gen after Z? Are we still calling it alpha? I feel like we need to start including them now 😅 BTW, as a genx person who was a bartender for 20 years; at least 1 of your genZ commentators might have been underage served at some point. 😅😅😅