TV
This was Angela Bower's occupation in Who's the Boss.
What is advertising executive?
This character would burst through walls whenever you were thirsty and say, "Ohhhh yeah!"
Who was the Kool Aid Man?
Featured the iconic catchphrases of "No Whammies!" and "Big Bucks".
What is Press Your Luck?
This is the nickname of Tom Cruise's flying partner in Top Gun.
Who was Goose?
This actress was famous for saying nothing gets between her and her Calvins.
Who was Brooke Shields?
These Saturday morning animated shorts taught 80's kids how bills become law, why 3 is a magic number, among many other things and remember 'Knowledge is Power!'
What is Schoolhouse Rock?
This fast food chain had a hit when they featured an old lady with the catch-phrase, "Where's the beef?"
What is Wendy's?
You think everyone overbid on the item when you're in contestant row on The Price is Right so you bid this amount.
What is $1?
This was the city the Griswold's ran into a little trouble and got their hubcaps stolen.
What is St. Louis?
President Ronald Reagan told this man to "tear down this wall" in a famous speech given in West Berlin in 1987.
Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?
This 80's sitcom inspired the term "jump the shark" to imply when a show has gotten past it's prime and silly story lines are the mainstay.
What is Happy Days?
Everyone was shocked when this boy actually liked Life cereal.
Who was Mikey?
This dating game's main premise was to arrange dates for couples. A guest appeared on the show after going on a date with one of three contestants, having chosen on the basis of the contestants' videotaped profiles. After the date, they would discuss how it went with the host Chuck Woolery.
What is Love Connection?
This murderous villain begins killing teens in their nightmares because they were the descendants of the parents who burned him alive when he avoided prison on a technicality.
Who was Freddy Krueger?
Butterfly in the sky I can go twice as high... was part of the theme song for this educational show.
What is Reading Rainbow?
You had to have HBO to watch this Jim Henson show about muppets living a carefree existence in underground caves.
What was Fraggle Rock?
Muncha buncha, muncha buncha, muncha buncha - these go with lunch.
In the 1980's version of this game show contestants would get to 'shop' in a room to spend their prize money after they won a round. It would show a cutout of the contestant in the corner as they told what they chose, the host would then tell the contestant how much money they had left.
What is Wheel of Fortune?
In Back to the Future this is where Doc Brown got the plutonium to power the time traveling DeLorean.
What is Libyan terrorists? They wanted him to use it to make a bomb.
All the sugar and twice the caffeine was the premise for this new cola drink launched in 1985.
What is Jolt Cola?
On the Golden Girls, Rose enjoyed telling quaint stories from her childhood in this fictional Minnesota town.
What is St. Olaf?
Early 80's series of commercials for Godfather's Pizza that showed a tough mobster guy who always ended the commercial with this two word phrase.
What is, "Do it!"
On MTV's first game show that debuted in 1987 a trio of contestants would answer questions and compete in pop trivia games, plus they got to ride out on stage on cool recliners and throw popcorn at each other.
What is Remote Control?
In 'War Games' this is the name of Dr. Falken's son, which is also the password that Matthew Broderick's character uses to to hack into the computer system.
What is Joshua?
This 1985 concert organized by Bob Geldoff was held in both London and Philadelphia and it raised money and awareness for the famine in Ethiopia.
What was Live Aid?