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80's Trivia

Quiz by Jodi Partridge

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13 questions
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  • Q1
    What does NKOTB are the initials for?
    A Sports Event
    A political Policy
    A 80's rap group
    A famous boys band
    30s
  • Q2
    What enormously popular 1981 arcade video game sequel was first made by a completely unauthorized manufacturer?
    Ms Pac-Man
    Super Mario Brothers
    Donkey Kong Jr
    Frogger 2
    30s
  • Q3
    What term, originating in West Coast surf culture, rose to popularity in the 80s and meant "totally awesome"?
    Radical
    Fresh
    Tubular
    To the max
    30s
  • Q4
    Name the 1985 landmark film starring the Brat Pack who were held in the school library for detention?
    Sixteen Candles
    Ferris Bueller's Day Off
    The Breakfast Club
    Pretty in Pink
    30s
  • Q5
    What 1980 film was shot at a Boy Scout Camp in New Jersey?
    Friday the 13th
    Meatballs
    Nerds
    Nightmare on Elm Street
    30s
  • Q6
    What band soared to the top of the charts with an album called Beauty and the Beat?
    B52's
    The Go-Go's
    Bangles
    Bananarama
    30s
  • Q7
    In 1982, what did "Lawn Chair Larry" attach to his lawn chair that allowed him to soar to 16,000 feet over California?
    Motorized helicoptor
    Weather balloons
    Umbrella's
    Wind Tunnel
    30s
  • Q8
    What was the name of the new geodesic attraction which opened in in 1982 at Disney World?
    Journey Into Imagination
    EPCOT Center
    Magic Journeys
    Star Tours
    30s
  • Q9
    What video game maker was Atari's biggest competitor in the 80s.
    Sega
    Arkanoid
    Nintendo
    Commodore
    30s
  • Q10
    What new and relatively unknown candy became quite popular from the movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial?
    Pop Rocks
    Mars Bar
    3 Muskateers
    Reese's Pieces
    30s
  • Q11
    What 90s talk show hostess played "Tracy Turnblad" in the 1988 John Waters move, "Hairspray"?
    Ricki Lake
    Sally Jesse Raphael
    Jenny Jones
    Oprah Winfrey
    30s
  • Q12
    Where did Martha Quinn and Mark Goodman work?
    Apple
    Cheers
    Enron
    MTV
    30s
  • Q13
    In the early 80s, the graffiti tag, "Boy Toy", belonging to what pop singer, was found all over the Big Apple?
    Cinde Lauper
    Madonna
    Susanna Hoffs
    Alanis Morrisette
    30s

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