Video Games
What video game came with the Nintendo Entertainment System when it was released in the late 1980s, and was meant to be played with the NES Zapper gun? It shared a cartridge with "Super Mario Bros."
Duck Hunt
The opening of a crate and revealing a "leg lamp" is a pivotal scene in what 1983 holiday classic movie?
A Christmas Story
Which former Beatle was shot dead outside his New York apartment in 1980?
John Lennon
The Seaver family, including Mike, Carol and Ben were on what show?
Growing Pains
What singer went from the massive success of her 1984 album “Private Dancer” to starring as the villain in the 1985 film “Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome?”
Tina Turner
Originally given the Japanese title “Puckman”, what 1980s arcade game was inducted into the Guinness Book of Records as the "Most Successful Coin-Operated Game" in 2005?
Pac-Man
According to the hit 1981 song by Tommy Tutone, if you dial 867-5309, you will reach a woman with what first name?
Jenny
Disney's futuristic park, EPCOT, was opened in 1982, what does EPCOT stand for?
Experimental Community of Tomorrow
Prague-born Jan Hammer composed the music for what 1980s TV series that starred Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as detectives in Florida?
Miami Vice
Babyland General Hospital was the "birthplace" of what line of collectible dolls that was a huge hit in the 1980s and included an individual birth certificate for each doll?
Cabbage Patch Kids
What 1985 video game begins with a planned departure from Independence, Missouri?
Oregon Trail
“Ghostbusters” director Ivan Reitman voiced Zuul the demonic dog and what ghost originally named the “Onion Head Ghost” in the 1984 comedy film?
Slimer
A 30-kilometer-wide "Zone of Alienation" around the ghost town of Pripyat was created after the April 1986 disaster at what highly radioactive site?
Chernobyl (Nuclear Power Plant)
What American TV show from the 1970s and 1980s still holds the record for the most watched finale ever with more than 100 million households tuning in?
M*A*S*H
“Joe Cool” and “The Comeback Kid” were two nicknames of what Notre Dame QB who would go on to win multiple Super Bowls as part of an 1980s dynasty with a west coast NFL franchise?
Joe Montana
What arcade game has you building hamburgers while being chased by a hotdog, a pickle and an egg?
Burger Time
What 1982 Toto song, whose title is a continent, experienced a resurgence in popularity in 2018 when Weezer covered the song?
Africa
In the 1980s, frustrated with limited City Council representation, which of NYC's 5 boroughs attempted to secede from NYC and become an independent city?
Staten Island
In the 1988 series finale of St. Elsewhere, it is heavily implied that the entire series was in the mind of Tommy Westphall, who spends all day staring at what object?
A snow globe
What rhyming brand of low-calorie meals did Stouffer's introduce in 1981 in response to consumers' desires for diet dinner options?
Lean Cuisine
Who was Mario's love interest in 1981's Donkey Kong
Pauline
A Nike shoe designer was involved in the design and production of a pair of character costume boots for a blockbuster 1980s movie starring Michael Keaton. What was the movie?
Batman
Ronald Reagan very briefly relinquished the U.S. presidency in 1985, during a surgery to remove cancerous polyps from what organ?
Colon / Large intestine
Wilmington-born Valerie Bertinelli played Barbara Cooper on what long-running sitcom of the 1970s and 1980s?
One Day at a Time
In a 1980s commercial, actress Kelly LeBrock advertised what haircare brand with the slogan "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful?"
Pantene