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Which band recorded the 1977 song We Will Rock You, known for its iconic stomp-clap beat?

Who is Queen?

100

Which iconic video game character made his debut in 1981's Donkey Kong?

Who is Mario?

100

Which iconic Valentine's Day candy was first produced in 1902?

What is are Sweethearts?

100

Who is the Kindergarten Cop?

Who is Arnold Schwarzenneger?

100

What event triggered the U.S. entry into World War II?

What is Pearl Harbor?

200

Which rap group’s 1986 collaboration with Aerosmith helped bring hip-hop into the mainstream?

What is Run DMC?

200

What was the highest-grossing movie of the 1980s?

What is E.T.?

200

What are you doing if you are shucking an oyster?

What is Opening It?

200

What do the letters B.B. stand for in B.B. King?

What is Blues Boy?

200

Who was the British Prime Minister for most of World War II?

Who is Winston Churchill?

300

Which rock band’s 1987 album Appetite for Destruction became the best-selling debut album of all time?

Who is Guns N Roses?

300

Which 1988 comedy film starred Eddie Murphy as an African prince searching for love in New York City?

What is Coming to America?

300

What is Japanese sake made from?

What is Rice?

300

What is Tina Turner's real name?

Who is Anne Mae Bullock?

300

What nuclear technology was developed in the 1940s?

What is the Atomic Bomb?

400

Which famous rock singer was known as the "Lizard King"?

Who is Jim Morrison?

400

Which hit TV show, featuring a wealthy oil family, made "Who shot J.R.?" a national obsession in 1980?

What is Dallas?

400

On Mount Rushmore, which one of the presidents is wearing a jacket?

Who is George Washington?

400

In what city was the movie Chinatown filmed?

What is Los Angeles?

400

Which actress starred in "Gone with the Wind"?

Who is Vivien Leigh?

500

Which singer became the first artist to win the Grammy for Album of the Year three times as a solo act?

Who is Taylor Swift?

500

Which long-running animated sitcom first appeared as a short on The Tracey Ullman Show in 1987?

What is The Simpsons?

500

What does the W at the start of a radio station's call sign typically indicate?

What is East of the Mississippi River?

500

In what movie does Ray Liotta play a ghost?

What is Field of Dreams?

500

What fabric was rationed during World War II?

What is Silk?

600

Which famous singer and songwriter was originally known as Robert Zimmerman?

Who is Bob Dylan?

600

Which groundbreaking portable device, introduced in 1983, helped revolutionize personal computing?

What is the Apple Lisa?

600

What Republican presidential nominee was famously impersonated on Saturday Night Live by Norm MacDonald during the 1996 election?

Who is Bob Dole?

600

What political event does not bother Lynyrd Skynyrd in their song "Sweet Home Alabama"?

What is Watergate?

600

Who directed "The Great Dictator"?

Who is Charlie Chaplin?

800

Which instrument is featured in the iconic intro of Baba O’Riley by The Who?

What is a synthesizer?

800

In 1982, what was the first album to be released on CD?

What is 52nd Street by Billy Joel?

800

What company's slogan is "Just Slightly Ahead of Our Time"?

What is Panasonic?

800

What 1975 #1 song by Van McCoy spawned a dance craze of the same name?

What is The Hustle?

800

What device did Percy Spencer invent in 1945?

What is Microwave oven?

1000

Which song, recorded in 1958, became the first rock and roll song to be transmitted into space by NASA in 1977?

What is Johnny B. Goode by Chuck Berry?

1000

What was the name of the nuclear power plant in the U.S. that suffered a partial meltdown in 1979 but led to major nuclear safety debates throughout the 1980s?

What is Three Mile Island?

1000

What year were the first Winter Olympic Games held?

What is 1924?

1000

Which rock group charted "Land of Confusion" in 1986?

Who is Genesis?

1000

What was introduced at the 1939 World's Fair and then made commercially available in the 1940s?

What is TV?