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This movie, which is also highly regarded is one of the best-known scientific fiction movies, was the highest-grossing film of the '80s.
What is E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial?
This baseball team, which is from the largest city on the Delaware River, defeated the Kansas City Royals to win their first-ever World Series championship in 1980.
What is the Phillies?
This company, whose phones are now in the hands of the majority of the world's population, released its first computer in 1984 along with a well-known advertisement for this computer.
What is Apple?
This U.S president was in office for the majority of the '80s.
What is Ronald Reagan?
This disease swept across the United States and the world throughout the '80s.
What is HIV or AIDS?
This broad genre of music originated and hit its peak, so to speak, in the late '80s.
What is European electronic music or Eurodance?
At the end of the '80s, this sport had attracted over 50 million fans and earned over $1 billion in revenue in the United States.
What is baseball?
This number of years after the title of one of George Orwell's most famous novels was when the Adobe Photoshop graphics editing software was first released.
What is four?
This statement was launched as a part of a campaign First Lady Nancy Reagan to crack down on cocaine and other drugs.
What is "just say no"?
This famous wall in Europe was torn down towards the end of the '80s as a result of civil unrest and political turmoil in Eastern Europe.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This artist released this album in 1984, her second album which also became the first in history to sell over five million copies in the United States.
What is Madonna?
This city's football team won the most Super Bowls in the '80s, the same city that is surrounded by a bay and has Alameda island nearby.
What is San Francisco?
This year was when the first child resulting from a gestational surrogacy was born, the same year when "Higher Love" by Steve Winwood reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
What is 1986?
This NASA space shuttle made its maiden voyage in 1983 and exploded almost three years later.
What is Challenger?
This nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union exploded, leading to concerns about nuclear power, radiation exposure in many, and eventually, the collapse of the Soviet Union.
What is Chernobyl?
Renowned American musician Micheal Jackson, who released hit single "Beat It", among others, released this total number of studio albums in his career.
What is 10?
This renowned soccer player was born in 1985, the same soccer player who'd go on to score all three goals for his country against Spain in the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Who is Cristiano Ronaldo?
This American computer scientist first introduced the terminology of a "computer virus".
What is Fred Cohen?
This group of African American and Latino teens was incorrectly convicted as a result of the assault of a white woman, resulting in public outcry and displaying the inequities that were inherent to the criminal justice system.
What is the "Central Park Five"?
This country, which has Sarygamysh Lake at its northern border, shares much of its southern border with this country that held several Americans hostage in the early part of the '80s.
What is Turkmenistan?