'80s HITS
WORD "UP"
SCIENCE GLOSSARY
AN "OK" CATEGORY
TRIPLE RHYME TIME
100
"Another Brick in the Wall" from this group was a No. 1 hit in 1980

Who is Pink Floyd?

100

To transfer information from your computer to another

upload

100

These rod-shaped structures in a cell's nucleus carry its genetic information

What are chromosomes?

100

Your matching percentage on this dating site is determined by a complicated algorithm

What is ok cupid?

100

Sacred place for your most exceptional bottle of Bordeaux

What is a fine wine shrine?

200

We're halfway there! Bon Jovi topped the charts with this tune in 1987; you'll make it, I swear!

What is "Livin' On A Prayer"?

200

It's the general cost of maintaining a home in decent condition

upkeep

200

Rocks that have been environmentally altered from other rocks make up this class, from Greek for "change" & "form"

What are metamorphic?

200

A 2019 New York Times article says this 2-word phrase "marks the end of friendly generational relations"

What is ok boomer?

200

A sedate date tree that's the subject of a Biblical poem

What is a a calm psalm palm?

300

A Blonde with a Heart of Glass topped the charts in 1980 with this song.

What is "Call Me"?

300

Nice! You got this free bump into first class for your flight! Enjoy the free drinks!

upgrade

300

Pass the this, defined as a substance produced by the reaction of a base & an acid

What is salt?

300

"Subterranean Homesick Alien" is on this Radiohead album

What is ok computer?

300

A flexible & enormous customer

What is a pliant giant client?

400

Rolling Stone's "20 Biggest ('80s) Songs of the Summer" had "The Power Of Love" by this group

Who is Huey Lewis and the News?

400

This theater direction can mean to take the focus from another actor & put it on your own performance

upstage

400

These subatomic particles are named for physicist Enrico

What are Fermions?

400

This group was at one point the house band for "This American Life" on public radio

What is ok go?

400

A congenial game bird under glass as a gift

a pleasant pheasant present

500

Taco had a top 5 hit covering this Irving Berlin song that says, "Why don't you go where fashion sits?"

What is "Puttin' On The Ritz"?

500

To censure or criticize someone, not start pigtails from the bottom

upbraid
500

This "theory" views subatomic particles as threadlike one-dimensional entities, not zero-dimensional points

What is string theory?

500

The best of the 4 possible positions used in transactional analysis is the title of this 1960s self-help book

What is I'm OK – You're OK?

500

In Papeete & the rest of the isle, a signed agreement to quit spray-painting.

a Tahiti graffiti treaty

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