Actor who played Han Solo in Star Wars
Harrison Ford
A video game wherein there are two plumbers who are brothers who are trying to save a princess.
Super Mario Bros
A war in the middle east which led to US intervention
The Iran-Iraq war
The event that marked the beginning of the fall of the USSR
The fall of the Berlin Wall and German Reunification
The character who said "I'll be back"
Terminator
Arnold Schwarzenegger
A video game wherein a little yellow ball eats white, smaller balls.
Pacman
The name of the rocket that blew up in launch
Challenger
Smallpox
The Shining
The actor who starred in Top Gun
Tom Cruise
A video game wherein a giant monkey throws flaming oil barrels at a man climbing a platform.
Donkey Kong
A disaster that happened in the 1980s which caused radioactive particles to spread across Europe and caused the US to increase nuclear safety measures.
Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
The first American female astronaut
Sally Ride
The character who said"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you might miss it."
A game where you are in a spaceship and shoot aliens
Galaga
The world superpower that invaded Afghanistan in the 1980's
The Soviet Union
The Russian Minister of Defence who made reforms and a shift towards openness and economic restructuring (hint: he had a birth mark on his forehead)
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mr. Miyagi
The actor who played Ferris Bueller
Matthew Broderick
A game where you play olympic games in a large field.
A short, bloody conflict in the south Atlantic between Argentina and Great Britain
The Falklands War
The first female president of Iceland
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
The character who said "Your'e going to shoot your eye out kid!"
Santa Claus in A Christmas Story