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Gifts for someone turning 50 who was born in 1976. Their teens and twenties were the late '80s and '90s: video stores, mixtapes, Saturday morning TV and the first home computers. These books are built around those years, so the person turning 50 knows the answers.
50th birthday · Trivia
Born 1976 · 200 questions
A party-ready trivia book for people born in 1976, with 13 rounds covering the 1970s to the 1990s, a scorecard, nostalgia prompts and a page for guests' messages.
A good choice if
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50th birthday · Word search
Born 1976 · 80 puzzles
Eighty word searches on a big 8.5 x 11 page, themed around the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, with every solution in the back.
A good choice if
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A trivia book is a group game for the party itself; a word search is a quiet solo activity for the weeks afterwards. Everything below is taken from the print files and the Amazon listings; where we have not measured something, we say so.
A trivia round takes about half an hour: one reader, two or three teams, two or three rounds of ten questions. Our hosting guide covers the details, and the gift guide helps you choose between a quiz and a puzzle book.
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