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100
In the 1981 film "The Empire Strikes Back", Luke Skywalker discovers that this villain is actually his father.
Who is Darth Vader?
100
This cable television channel dedicated to playing music videos was launched on August 1, 1981.
What is MTV?
100

These Italian brothers who were plumbers by trade had to battle monsters, collect coins, and jump over bottomless pits to rescue a princess.

Who are the Super Mario Brothers?
100
Cowabunga, dudes!


These adolescent half-human half-reptile crime fighters were equally skilled in the martial arts and in consuming massive amounts of pizza.

Who were the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
100
He was elected president twice during the 1980s.
Who was Ronald Reagan?
200

In the 1986 film "Top Gun", Tom Cruise portrayed Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a naval officer with this job that regularly takes him into the "Danger Zone".

What is a fighter pilot?
200

In 1982 this former lead singer for the Jackson Five released "Thriller", which is the best-selling album of all time.

Who is Michael Jackson?
200
In this game developed by a Soviet computer scientist in 1984 and released for the Nintendo Gameboy in 1989, players need to carefully arrange differently shaped blocks that fall from the top of the screen into rows without any gaps.
What is Tetris?
200
Ted Danson is Sam "Mayday" Malone, a washed-up Red Sox pitcher-turned-bartender and proprietor of this fictional Boston watering hole in the sitcom of the same name.
What is "Cheers"?
200
This reusable NASA spacecraft, designed to shuttle back and forth between Earth's surface and orbit, was first launched in 1981.
What was the Space Shuttle?
300

Great Scott!

As Dr. Emmit Brown, Christopher Lloyd (no, not that one, the other one) built a time machine out of one of these in the 1985 film "Back to the Future".

What is a DeLorean?
300

Audio Daily Double!

The accordion playing parodist featured here has been delightfully skewering popular culture for nearly 40 years.


Who is Weird Al Yankovic?
300

Their names were Inky, Pinky, Blinky and Clyde.

Who were the ghosts in Pac-Man?
300
In "Family Ties", Michael J. Fox portrays Alex P. Keaton, a young Republican who frequently butts heads with his liberal parents Elyse, an architect, and Steven, who works for a public television station in this Ohio city.
What is Columbus?
300
Until November of 1989, this divided the largest city in Germany.
What is the Berlin Wall?
400

Ben Stein, once a speech writer for President Nixon, made a cameo in this 1986 film as a monotone-voiced history teacher who gave a lecture on--anyone? anyone?--the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act to a classroom full of bored high school students.

What is "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"?
400

The members of this band, whose 1980 hit "Whip It" attained #14 on the billboard charts, met while attending Kent State University.

What is Devo?
400

Video Daily Double!

The hero of this 1982 arcade game in which players avoided a snake by jumping around a pyramid built of multicolored cubes would famously "swear" whenever he lost a life.


What is Q*Bert?
400

During his successful 1984 bid for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, Walter Mondale zinged his opponent Gary Hart with this famous question borrowed from an advertisement for Wendy's hamburgers.

What is "Where's the beef"?

400
In October of 1987, Baby Jessica fell into and was rescued from this.
What is a well?
500

Who you gonna call?

These four characters were the "Ghostbusters", a team of paranormal investigators from the 1984 film of the same name.

Who are Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, Egon Spengler and Winston Zeddemore.
500
Tommy Tutone found this number on a wall and famously dialed it to talk to Jenny.
What is 867-5309?
500

At the beginning of the 1987 adventure game "The Legend of Zelda", the hero meets an old man in a cave who offers one of these to the player, saying "It is dangerous to go alone, take this."

What is a sword?

500
In the 1982 television series "Knight Rider", David Hasselhoff fights crime with the help of a talking car known as KITT, which is an acronym for this.
What is "Knight Industries Two Thousand"
500
When President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines was exiled in 1986, his wife Imelda reportedly left behind over 1000 of these.
What are pairs of shoes?
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