Food 2
This product focused on its lack of stickiness. It pops all over your face and easily peels away!
Hubba Bubba
What is the addictive puzzle game that Erno Rubik created and the Ideal Toy Corporation licensed in 1980 and turned it into a worldwide sensation. Four decades later, a supergenius would solve it in 4.22 seconds.
The Rubik's Cube
What is the name of the shredded bubble gum that was an invention of a pitcher and a bat boy for the Portland Mavericks, an independent minor-league baseball team? It was used an alternative to chewing tobacco.
Big League Chew
Going into the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, no one thought the U.S. men’s hockey team, consisting of college students and amateurs, would have a chance against the full-time players of the USSR. The February 22 game has become known as the ______________as the U.S. won 4-3. .
"Miracles on Ice"
Now you could record TV and, wait for it, fast forward through the adverts. Bliss
The Video Cassette Recorder (VCR)
The bottle makes it look like an ancient traditional Vietnamese condiment, (often called "rooster sauce") but Huy Fong cooked up the chilis his brother grew in Vietnam, and after seeking asylum in the U.S., he founded his company Huy Fong Foods in 1980.
Sriracha sauce
What product was first test-marketed as "Press 'n Peel" in a handful of cities in 1977, but flopped. After changed the name to ______________?, sales picked up. In April 1980, the rebranded yellow pads we launched nationwide.
Post it Notes
Named after the Gold Rush, this potato, which was developed in the 1960s but not released to the public until 1980, has become one of the leading spud varieties in the States because of its versatility, creamy flavor and appealing color.
Yukon Gold
This famous female tennis star turns 40 this year, she is known for her grunting.
Venus Williams
Game developer Toru Iwatani ate a pizza and was inspired to create a video game centered around eating. The arcade game was released in Japan on May 22, 1980, where it received a lukewarm response.
Pac-man
It was a new store that resulted from a merger of two local natural food stores, Saferway and Clarksville Natural Grocery. The company was acquired by Amazon in 2017, and now has 500 locations employing 91,000 people.
Whole Food Market
In 1980, Turner launched a 24-hour news channel that required substantial investment because, unlike his other TV stations, it produced its own original content
The Cable News Network (CNN)
Sugary, lower in alcohol than the average glass of vino, and usually made with low-grade wine, brands such as Bartles & Jaymes were consumed in vast quantities until Congress upped the excise tax on wine allowing spirit-based coolers, such as Smirnoff, to take over.
Wine Coolers
One of the toughest athletes of all-time, and he played in the NFL past his 40th birthday. After spending a large part of his career with the Green Bay Packers he went to the Jets.
Brett Favre
What is the name of the palm-sized player that allowed listeners to take music with them into any environment and helped popularize mixtapes. Music suddenly became more personal and customizable.
Sony Walkman
Coke needed a competitor to Mountain Dew and thus dropped this soft drink. Originally dubbed "The World's Fastest Soft Drink,"
Mello Yellow
This active volcano in the Cascade Mountains of Washington state, had been peaceful since 1921. Then in the spring of 1980, seismologists detected increased activity, and an earthquake shook the mountain on March 20.
Mount St. Helens,
This product wasn’t invented in the 1980s – far from it. The recipe is likely to have derived from an ancient Roman one, and it has been enjoyed in Italy and France since the 19th century. However, it shot to fame in the US and UK in the '80s and has become a store cupboard essential for students and busy mothers.
Pesto
Summer 1980 Olympic Games, athletic festival held in this City took place July 19–August 3, 1980. The Games were the 19th occurrence of the modern Olympic Games. The countries invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979 led to the largest boycott in the history of the Olympic movement.
Moscow
Roomba are cool and all, but they can't crawl up the cabinets and suck crumbs up from kitchen counters. What Vacuum became a symbolic appliance of the '80s. No yuppie home was complete without one mounted on the kitchen wall like a cordless phone.
One of the great Halloween treats first slipped onto fingers, a decade after the invention of the Blow Pop. Tart and Sour Raspberry flavors soon followed as the giant gem candy became a kid favorite.
Ring Pop
This person is the creator of The Far Side ( a single-panel cartoon series that was syndicated internationally to more than 1900 newspapers for fifteen years), 40 years ago?
Gary Larson
This retro, delectable candy bar first came out in 1980. Thin and crisp chocolate bar made of brittle butter toffee, coated in milk chocolate.
Skor
This NHL sports team located in Calgary are turning 40 this year?
Calgary Flames
24 satellites owned by the U.S. Air Force that coordinate with each other to pinpoint the location of anything on earth that is within an unobstructed line to four or more satellites.
GPS