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This '80s arcade phenomenon is one of highest-grossing video games of all time, having generated more than $2.5 billion in quarters by 1990 and is on display at the Smithsonian. When the Bally people took control of it in 1980, they revised the original name of "Puck Man" to avoid vandalism to the letter "P."
What is Pac-Man?
100
Amid controversy, George Bush Sr. named this man to be his running mate in 1988, after which he became 44th vice-president of the U.S. In this role, he was widely ridiculed in the media and by many in the general public as an intellectual lightweight and generally incompetent public servant.
Who is Dan Quayle?
100
Back in the 1980s, The U.S. Army could have said, "To be or not to be" but then they would be quoting Hamlet. Instead, they fired out this similarly worded slogan to the public.
What is "Be all that you can be?"
100
This 1982 Alice Walker novel focused on female black life in the 1930s in the south and centered on Celie, an uneducated 14-year-old girl beaten and raped by her father. Steven Spielberg was considered an ill choice to direct the 1985 film version starring Whoopi Goldberg, and the movie was maligned for distorting the book's defense of lesbianism.
What is "The Color Purple?"
100
You can pick either the fifth book of Moses in the Holy Bible, or the 1996 film "Trainspotting," or most likely the 1984 Wham! video "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" and you will encounter these two words ... the latter effort led to a lot of t-shirts with both of them on it.
What is "Choose Life?"
200
This board game's popularity peaked in 1984, when the Genus edition of it was the only one being played. Since then, so many editions have followed that everyone can claim a wedge from many different categories.
What is Trivial Pursuit?
200
In 1981, President Reagan kept a campaign pledge by appointing Sandra Day O'Connor to this particular public office. In so doing, Reagan also made history by appointing the first woman to take her place in the office.
What is The Supreme Court?
200
We all know milk contains fat and cholesterol, but it is the protein, calcium and Vitamins A and D that prompted this ungrammatical five-word slogan that came gushing out during the eighties.
What is "Milk does a body good?"
200
Bob Woodard crafted this 1984 portrait of the late John Belushi, which utilized interviews with the comedian's widow, Dan Aykroyd and James Belushi. All of them later condemned the book as exploitive and unrepresentative of John, and then all of them boycotted the 1989 movie version, which was considered to be even worse.
What is "Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi?"
200
Earlier this year, this actress-activist-author mentioned the 30th anniversary of her fitness video on her website blog, adding, "The fitness industry has changed mightily. Fast bouncing and a lot of what we did back in the early 80s has gone out of favor. Core training is where it’s at ..."
Who is Jane Fonda?
300
Light Cycles, battle tanks, and an Input/Output Tower furnished the main obstacles in this video game, which actually made more money than the 1982 Disney movie on which it was based. Jeff Bridges might have felt better in a Big Lebowski video game.
What is Tron?
300
In 2011, President Obama said this woman "... will forever be remembered as a trailblazer who broke down barriers for women, and Americans of all backgrounds and walks of life. Since presidential candidate Walter Mondale named her as his running mate in 1984, Obama's words commemorated her appropriately.
Who is Geraldine Ferraro?
300
Oddly enough, this company credited the inspiration for its trademark slogan to Gary Gilmore, an executed murderer from the 1970s. Aptly, the three words of the slogan, created in 1988, consisted of "Just do it."
What is Nike?
300


Tom Robbins penned this effort in 1980, and it concerned a love affair between an environmentalist princess and an outlaw. It also encompassed a broad range of topics, from aliens and redheads to consumerism, the building of bombs, romance, royalty, the moon, and a pack of Camel cigarettes ... while continuously addressing the question of "how to make love stay."

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The prototype for this item was built in 1978 by audio-division engineer Nobutoshi Kihara for the then-Sony co-chairman, who wanted to be able to listen to operas during his frequent trans-Pacific plane trips. Billions of people were listening to more than operas on the item a few years after, which finally ended its cassette capability in 2010.
What is the Sony Walkman?
400
This fantasy role-playing game departs from traditional wargaming and assigns each player a specific character to play. Some Christian groups have protested the game's alleged devil worship, witchcraft, suicide, and murder, but through it all, the game's players have remained "the epitome of geekdom."
What is Dungeons & Dragons?
400
This former U.S. Senator from Colorado may be remembered for shocking many Democrats by coming out of nowhere to temporarily challenge Walter Mondale for the presidential nomination of 1984 ... and then for being an alleged womanizer caught having an affair with model Donna Rice three years later.
Who is Gary Hart?"
400
This slogan originated in a 1984 fast-food commercial where an old lady receives an enormous hamburger bun, but then inspects the inside of it and finds a miniscule amount of something. Since then, her screaming three-word question has become an all-purpose phrase questioning the substance of an idea, event, or product.
What is "Where's the beef?"
400
This 1984 existential novel by Milan Kundera illuminated the lives of two men, two women, a dog and their lives in Prague and later became a 1988 movie starring Daniel Day-Lewis. Original author Kundera denounced the film, which diluted many of the book's existential elements, and he vowed never again to have his works made into any movie.
What is "The Unbearable Lightness of Being?"
400
This street activity involved more than fancy footwork and actually originated in the 1970s and was known as "b-boying." When its popularity burgeoned in the '80s, many hip-hop artists lamented the fact that the mainstream media changed "b-boying" to the wrong term, for which it will be forever remembered.
What is break dancing?
500
Released by Nintendo in 1981, this was one of the first "platform games," (requiring the player to jump) and it was also one of the earliest to present a semblence of a game storyline. In this case, Mario goes into an epic battle of simian proportions.
What is Donkey Kong?
500
About this particular veggie, George Bush Sr. went on record to state his dislike of it: "I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more... " However, he also said wife Barbara "loves" it and "she has tried to make me eat it."
What is broccoli?
500
This deoderant used its name as an adjective in its slogan, one that told us to "raise your hand" ... but only do it if you are certain.
What is Sure?
500
This female author wrote teenage books such as "Iggie's House", "Are You There God?" and "It's Me, Margaret" for teenagers during the 1970s, but it was a decade later that censorship created a controversy around these and her other works ... the uproar pertained to age-appropriate reading concerns.
What is Judy Blume?
500


This type of footwear was made of PVC plastic, came in a large variety of brands and colors and the material was frequently infused with glitter. Legend has it that their creation took place after World War II, when there was a leather shortage in Europe.