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DAILY DOUBLE The opening of a crate and revealing a "leg lamp" is a pivotal scene in this 1963 Holiday classic movie. (HINT: Ralphie is a cute kid!)
What is A Christmas Story?
In 2001 this powder was sent through the mail to hurt people
What is Anthrax?
A January 11 report from Luther Terry in his capacity in this job said (finally), "Cigarette smoking is causally related to lung cancer."
What is the Surgeon General?
DAILY DOUBLE. This rhyming brand of low-calorie meals was introduced by Stouffer's in 1981 in response to consumers' desires for diet dinnner options.
What is Lean Cuisine?
Moe from The Three Stooges had one. It regained popularity in the U.S. for straight hair textures in the late 1980's and early 1990's. I'm talking about a mushroom cut, AKA a style named for this piece of dinnerware.
What is a Bowl Cut?
2003 was when Beyonce Knowles became simply Beyonce. That was the year she released her first solo album "Dangerously in Love", after spliiting from this girl group that ruled the 90's.
What is "Destiny's Child"?
A 30 kilometer wide "zone of Alienation" around the ghost town of Pripyat was created after the April 1986 disaster at this highly radioactive site.
What is Chernobyl? (Nuclear Power Plant)
DAILY DOUBLE This Apple music device was released in 2005. It replaced the iPod Mini.
HINT: The IPOD N_________?
What is the iPod Nano?
On March 27 a 9.2 Quake rocked this State's Valdez, forcing the town itself to be moved to the delta of mineral creek. HINT: Think Eskimo..
What is Alaska?
This 1985 John Hughes film features a group of uniquely different high school students all forced together for Saturday detention.
What is The Breakfast Club?
Babyland General Hospital was the "birthplace" of this line of collectible dolls that was a huge hit in the 1980's and included an individual birth certificate for each doll.
What was the Cabbage Patch Kids?
A Canadian actor began his acting career on the Mickey Mouse Club as a teen in 1993 and transitioned to adult stardom with the massively popular The Notebook in 2004. He is Ken!
Who is Ryan Gosling?
This American TV show from the 1970's and 1980's, still holds the record for the most watched finale ever with more than 100 million households tuning in.
What is M*A*S*H*?
DAILY DOUBLE After 60 years in business, this electronic retail company went bankrupt. (HINT: C City)
What is Circuit City ?
DAILY DOUBLE At the Academy Awards ceremony in 1964, he became the first black best actor winner.
Who is Sidney Poitier? He won for his role as Homer Smith, the lead in James Poe's film Lilies of the Field.
This fictional Atlanta interior decoaration firm of Sugarbaker and Associates was the center of the action of this sitcom of the 1980's and the 1990's.
What is Designing Women?
DAILY DOUBLE. Gordon Gekko famously uses a bulky Motorola 8000X Dynatac mobile phone in this 1980's movie named after a Manhattan street.
What is Wall Street?
The 2004 documentary Super Size Me chronicled the decline in health of filmmaker Morgan Spurlock as he spent 30 days eating food exclusely from this fast food chain.
What is McDonald's?
In a famous speech at the Brandenburg Gate in June 1987, President Ronald Reagan exhorted Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down this structure that symbolized the division of Germany.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This term was commonly used to refer to a widespread computer programing shortcut that was expected to cause extensive havoc as the year changed from 1999 to 2000. The change was expected to bring down computer systems infrastructures, such as those for banking and power plants.
What is Y2k?
DAILY DOUBLE The first mission of this post-mercury Nasa program launched on April 8, soon 2 men would fly in each mission. Hint: Think horoscope in June
What is Gemini?
DAILY DOUBLE. This Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, who served in that role for all of the 1980's, was played by Meryl Streep in the film Iron Lady and Gillian Anderson in Netflix's The Crown?
Who was Margaret Thatcher?
By the late 1980's, Walmart had quickly risen to become more profitable than it's two larger U.S. retail competitors, and by 1990 it had surpassed them as the largest U.S. retailer by revenue. One of these retailers was Kmart. This was the other.
What is Sears?
DAILY DOUBLE. David Brent was played by Ricky Gervais in the 2001-2003 British version of an iconic mockumentary TV series, but this actor played his counterpart Michael Scott in the 2005-2013 American version.
Who is Steve Carell?
DAILY DOUBLE. Originally given the Japanese title "Puckman", this 1980's arcade game was inducted into the Guinness Book of Records as the "Most Successful Coin-Operated Game" in 2005.
What is Pac Man?
DAILY DOUBLE This website was founded in 2005 to share visual media.
What is YouTube?
DAILY DOUBLE In a landmark case, the Supreme Court ruled that this newspaper had not libeled Alabama City Commissioner L. B. Sullivan.
What is the New York Times?
The Direwolves in the Game of Thrones TV series were played by Northern Inuit Dogs, a breed which has been in development since the 1980's. These dogs carry the genes of German Shepherds, Malamutes, and THIS Russian sled dog breed.
What are Siberian Huskies?
DAILY DOUBLE. This 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.
HINT: She recently passed away.
Who was Tina Turner?
DAILY DOUBLE. A little birdie told us that Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams were the founders of this social network that launched in 2006.
What is Twitter?