80s Music
This all-girl band attempted to teach its listeners to "Walk Like an Egyptian."
What is "The Bangles"?
The winningest baseball coach in NCAA Division I history, and head coach of the Seminoles for 39 years.
Who is Mike Martin?
The sport the Big Chill characters play to occupy themselves during halftime of the football game they were watching.
What is football?
Molly Ringwald played a teen facing a number of silly issues around the time of her 16th birthday in this 1984 film.
What is "Sixteen Candles"?
The ship that spilled thousands of barrels of oil off the coast of Alaska in 1989.
What is the Exxon Valdez?"
Sadly, this Rick Astley 1980s song was #1 in 25 countries.
What is "Never Gonna Give you Up"?
The FSU wide receiver whose name graces the NCAA award that is given to the best-performing Division I receiver each year.
Who is Fred Biletnikoff?
The gifts that Harold Cooper (played by Kevin Kline) gives to all of the group one morning, which he sold in the stores he owned and operated.
What are running shoes?
The exploits of Shoeless Joe Jackson and other baseball players were featured in this wildly popular 1980s film,
What is "Field of Dreams"?
It was in this year that the US Center for Disease control first identified an illness that was primarily observed in gay men, which later came to be known by the acronym, AIDS.
What is 1981?
This artist had not one, but two music videos in which he sang his chart topping songs in front of five dark-haired models, all of whom were fake-playing musical instruments and dressed in black cocktail dresses; something he probably couldn't get away with today.
Who is Robert Palmer?
Two of the three quarterbacks who guided the FSU football to national championships and won the Heisman trophy?
Who are Charlie Ward, Jamies Winston, and Chris Weinke.
This actor played the member of the group who had gone on to a successful career as a TV actor, playing a private investigator.
Who is Tom Berenger?
This 1985 film focuses on a group of friends immediately after they graduate from college, and features "Brat Pack" actors including Demi Moore, Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, and Andrew McCarthy.
What is "St. Elmo's Fire"?
The name of the mountain in Washington that violently erupted in 1980.
What is Mount St. Helens?
The 80s Dire Straits song on which Sting sang back-up, which occurred because the band and reggae artist were both at a recording studio on Monserrat
What is "Money for Nothing"?
The athletic conference in which FSU competed before entering the ACC.
What is the Metro Conference?
The city in which "The Big Chill" was filmed, which also served as the backdrop for "Forrest Gump," "the Great Santini," and "The Prince of Tides."
What is Beaufort, SC?
Using a Catskills resort as a backdrop, this 1987 film featuring Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze was as much about its music as its dancing.
What is "Dirty Dancing"?
The new technology device that was named Time magazine's "Man of the Year in 1982.
What is the computer?
The year in which the new cable channel, MTV, premiered.
What is 1981?
The first athletic conference in which FSU competed, from 1948-1951.
What is the Dixie Conference?
The actor who played the dead friend at the start of the movie, who had no lines and whose face was never seen.
Who is Kevin Costner?
This 1984 movie about an invasion of the US featured Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze, but no dancing was involved, dirty or otherwise.
What is "Red Dawn"?
The city which a nuclear reactor exploded in 1986.
What is Chernobyl?