The Art of the Possible
On July 1, 1984 Liechstenstein became the last country in Europe to do this.
What is grant women the right to vote?
Among many other professions they’ve held over the years, rats have been trained to diagnose this illness that largely seems to affect 19th century heroines and the guy from Red Dead Redemption.
What is tuberculosis?
No longer considered to be the worst installment in the series, this second Indiana Jones movie premiered on May 23, 1984.
What is Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom?
No elephants allowed! On June 16, 1984 this Canadian dance/entertainment company/circus was founded.
What is the Cirque du Soleil?
In 1984, Danish physiologist Steen Willadsen first successfully used embryonic cells to clone one of these animals by nuclear transfer.
What is a sheep?
Lord Buckethead, who has stood in four British general elections since 1987 and offered to lead the Brexit negotiations in Theresa May’s place, first made his debut in the 1984 science fiction film Hyperspace. The intergalactic villain has often been compared to this more famous lookalike.
Who is Darth Vader?
Like Gorilla gorilla and Pica pica, this scientific name for the black rat (also known as the house rat, roof rat, or ship rat) uses the same word for its genus and species.
What is Rattus rattus?
In this 1984 film, Ralph Macchio learned that the secret to the title sport lies not in the hands, but in the mind and heart.
What is The Karate Kid?
On May 31, 1984, 13-year-old Daniel Greenblatt of Sterling, Virginia won the 57th Scripps National Spelling Bee with this four-letter word for a small one- or two-person sled on which one sleds supine and feet-first.
What is "luge"?
This light switch alternative was first marketed in 1984. It’s the perfect gift for your couch potato friends!
What is the Clapper?
In the 1984 U.S. Presidential election, former Democratic Vice President Walter Mondale won this many states.
What is 1? (Minnesota, plus Washington D.C.)
Perhaps best known as Charles Dickens’ best friend in the greatest of all A Christmas Carol adaptations, this famous rodent was named after Dustin Hoffman’s character in the film Midnight Cowboy.
Who is Rizzo the Rat?
On September 30, 1984, the population of Cabot Cove, Maine began a slow and lengthy decline after the premiere of this long-running crime drama starring stage and screen legend Angela Lansbury.
What is Murder, She Wrote!?
No riots this year! But parents in December 1984 still waited in line for hours to snag these toys that originated in a field of cruciferous vegetables.
What are Cabbage Patch Kids?
This geometric video game was created in 1984 by Soviet speech recognition researcher Alexey Pajitnov while trying to recreate a favorite puzzle game from his childhood.
What is Tetris?
Following John Hinckley Jr.’s acquittal for attempting to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Reagan signed an act making it more difficult for defendants to plead not guilty by reason of this defense into law on October 12, 1984.
What is insanity?
Perhaps hinting at their rascally nature, this is the collective noun for a group of rats.
What is a mischief?
Like the sands of the hourglass, this series depicting the lives of the residents of Salem, Illinois swept every category of the first annual Soap Opera Digest Awards, held on February 2, 1984 with host David Hasselhoff.
What is Days of Our Lives?
This Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award nominee was crowned Miss America 1984, becoming the first Black woman to win the title. Thirty-two years later, the Miss America pageant offered her a public apology for the events that led to her resigning her title.
Who is Vanessa Williams?
On September 18, 1984 Colonel Joe Kittinger became the first person to complete a solo transatlantic flight in one of these.
What is a gas balloon?
On January 10, 1984, the U.S. re-established diplomatic relations with this place after nearly 117 years.
What is the Vatican?
When the people of this German town failed to pay the man who lured their rats away, he retaliated by kidnapping all but three of the town’s children. And that’s why you always pay your musicians!
What is Hamelin?
In the 1984 film Ghostbusters, professors Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler are fired after their paranormal encounter inside this lion-flanked New York City landmark.
What is the New York Public Library?
Not to be confused with the soy product purveyors, this financial services firm, whose name is taken from the final line of Thoreau’s Walden, was founded in Chicago in 1984.
What is Morningstar, Inc.?
In 1984, Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Lab carried out the first field tests of satellite transmitters on birds. These birds immortalized by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky were among the first test subjects.
What are swans?