80s Music
The popular 80s song has the lyrics “Just a small-town girl, livin' in a lonely world”
What is Don't Stop Believin' by Journey?
This 1985 comedy-drama about a group of high schoolers in detention.
What is The Breakfast Club?
This hairstyle became increasingly popular among men in the 1980s, characterized by long hair on the top and sides of the head and short hair at the back.
What is the Mullet?
In 1980, this network first aired and soon became a major player in delivering U.S. and international news via satellite worldwide, 24 hours a day.
What is CNN (Cable News Network)?
The Prime Minister of Canada from 1980 to 1984.
Who was Pierre Elliot Trudeau?
This Billy Joel song featured over 100 different headlines from 1949 to 1989.
What is "We Didn’t Start the Fire?"
Doc Brown and Marty McFly are the main characters in this well-known classic film.
What is Back to the Future?
This major event in 1989 marked the end of German division and eventually led to the reunification of East and West Germany.
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
This sitcom featured a quartet of comedy greats and was nominated 68 times at the Emmys.
What is Golden Girls?
The elaborate 1981 wedding that was televised and watched by 750 million people worldwide.
Who are Prince Charles (Prince of Wales) and Princess Diana?
The name of George Michael’s debut album.
What is "Faith?"
This actor played Johnny Castle in the 1987 movie "Dirty Dancing"
Who is Patrick Swayze?
The 1980s acronym VHS stands for...?
What is Video Home System?
This show got it's name from a Boston drinking establishment "where everybody knows your name."
What is Cheers
IBM released the IBM Model 5150, the first IBM personal computer, to much fanfare in 1981. One year later, another personal computer debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
What is the Commodore 64?
The artists featured in the 1981 song "Under Pressure"
Who are Queen and David Bowie?
This film featured creatures that shouldn’t be fed after midnight.
What are Gremlins?
This arcade game was inducted into the Guinness Book of Records as the "Most Successful Coin-Operated Game" in 2005.
What is Pac-Man?
This popular actor played the uncle on Family Ties.
Who is Tom Hanks?
Reagan’s economic policies was known as...?
What is "Reaganomics?"
This British band was often compared to The Beatles, and stood out as another big band of the 1980s.
Who is Duran Duran?
Goose," "Jester," "Hollywood," and "Wolfman" are nicknames of navy pilots in this 1986 movie.
What is Top Gun?
The popular culture of the 1980s reflected the era's political conservatism in some respects. For many people, the embodiment of the decade was the young, urban professional - a baby boomer with a college education, a good-paying job and expensive taste.
What is the Yuppie Culture?
The car that is used as a time machine in Back to the Future.
What is the DeLorean?
In 1986, a catastrophic nuclear accident occurred at a power plant in this city, which lead to widespread radioactive contamination
What is Chernobyl?