Trendy Toys of the 1980s
These popular dolls were “adopted” rather than purchased and came with their own birth certificates.
What are Cabbage Patch Dolls?
He got his start acting in films like 1963’s It Happened at the World’s Fair. He is also known for starring in movies like Overboard and Swing Shift with his longtime love.
Who is Kurt Russell?
The first U.S. manned sub-orbital flight launched from this state, with Alan Shepard inside the spacecraft.
What is Florida?
The Pillsbury Doughboy, introduced in 1965
What is white?
This mystery-solving cartoon pooch debuted in the fall of 1969.
Who is Scooby-Doo?
“When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.”
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
These cuddly stuffed toys “care a lot.”
What are Care Bears?
This childhood chess prodigy is known for his defeat of Soviet chess player Boris Spassky.
Who is Bobby Fischer?
Alcatraz, an island penitentiary off the coast of this state, closed on March 21, 1963.
What is California?
The outfit worn by Sir Charms, the Lucky Charms cereal mascot
What is green?
This is an educational cartoon from the 1970s that features songs like “I’m Just a Bill” and “Conjunction Junction.”
What is Schoolhouse Rock?
A classic Sylvia Plath novel begins, “It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they executed the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.”
What is The Bell Jar?
Originally marketed as a spherical paperweight, this fortune-telling toy became popular with children of the 1980s.
What is the Magic 8 Ball?
This actor and filmmaker got his start in acting as a child, with roles such as Opie on The Andy Griffith Show.
Who is Ron Howard?
On March 25, 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at a rally in Montgomery, this state’s capital.
What is Alabama?
The first-ever Post-It notes, invented at 3M in 1974
What is yellow?
This prehistoric cartoon series of the 1960s includes Fred, Wilma, and Pebbles.
What is The Flintstones?
This Capote true crime novel begins, “The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call ‘out there.’”
What is In Cold Blood?
A popular brainteaser in the 1980s, the object of this toy is to get six sides of matching colored tiles aligned.
What is a Rubik’s Cube?
This Spanish cubist painter is known for works like Guernica and The Old Guitarist.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
The 1962 World’s Fair, also called the Century 21 Exposition, opened in this state.
What is Washington?
The moon in a 1934 standard by Rodgers and Hart
What is blue?
A spinoff of Archie comics, this show stars a feline themed pop-music group solving mysteries as they tour the globe.
What is Josie and the Pussycats?
Author Gabriel García Márquez Nobel Prize winning novel “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”
What is One Hundred Years of Solitude?
Known as the world’s first action figure and an All-American hero, he debuted in 1964 from Hasbro toys.
Who is G.I. Joe?
This child prodigy is known for musical ditties like “My Cherie Amour” and “You Are the Sunshine of My Life.”
Who is Stevie Wonder?
This state was the site for the Greensboro sit-ins.
What is North Carolina?
The name of the Lone Ranger's horse.
What is silver?
This ’80s cartoon features reptilian warriors named after Renaissance artists.
What is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
A classic coming-of-age novel “When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.”
What is The Outsiders?
He was a talking teddy bear created by Ken Forsse, an animatronics enthusiast.
Who is Teddy Ruxpin?
This musician was known for “Back in the High Life” and for working with the musical groups Traffic and Blind Faith.
Who is Steve Winwood?
In 1960, these two states hit a record high with populations of over 15 million people, according to the census.
What are California and New York?
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The titular pet in a children's book series written by Norman Bridwell.
What is red?
Bob Kane created this animated cat-and-mouse series as a spoof of his Batman comics.
What is Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse?
Kurt Vonnegut's semi-autobiographical anti-war novel opens, “All this happened, more or less.”
What is Slaughterhouse-Five?