80's trivia Part One

Which band got their name after the Jane

Fonda movie “Barbarella”?

A)Skid Row

B)Duran Duran

C)Blue Monday

D)Alphaville

What 1984 – 1986 game show featured

the “whammy”?

A)To Win A Million

B)Pictionary

C)Press Your Luck

Who are these

famous

wrestlers?

Hulk Hogan And Andre The Giant

What year was this soft drink commercial

released?

1983

What was the name of the Las Vegas Hotel that burnt down in

1980 due to a fire that started in the deli?

A) Caesar's Palace

B) Las Vegas Hotel

C) Treasure Island

D) MGM Grand

Name this Dirty Harry movie.

Sudden Impact

Name this Car

DeLorean

Who sang this hit song from the movie

Weird Science?

What is Reaganomics?

Reaganomics refers to the economic policies

promoted by the U.S. President Ronald

Reagan during the 1980s. These policies are

commonly associated with supply-side

economics, or pejoratively as trickle-down

economics or voodoo economics.

What was the first a cappella song to reach

#1 on the Billboard charts?

What was the name of the hit song written by

Michael Sembello after watching this movie?

What movie is this song

from?

Who turned down both the lead role

in Back to the Future as well as the

opportunity to perform the hit song

"Danger Zone" for the movie Top Gun?

A) Cory Hart

B) Nicholas Cage

C) John Cusack

What year did this happen?

1983

What man is Col. Trautman

describing?

Who was the first American woman in

space in 1983?

A) Sally Ride

B) Valentina Tereshkova

C) Leslie Armstrong

Sally Ride

Which singer played Don

Johnson’s wife in Miami Vice?

A)Madonna

B)Sheena Easton

C)Susanna Hoffs

D)Caitlin Davies

B) Sheena Easton

This singer stated

that his debut album

would be bigger than

St. Pepper’s Lonely

Hearts Club Band.

Who is he?

What was the first music video aired on

MTV?

“Video Killed the Radio Star”

by The Buggles

What 80s rock band trio agreed to

bleach their hair blonde in order to do

a chewing gum commercial?

A)The Police

B)Devo

C)Duran Duran

D)KISS

A) The Police

Who was the lead singer of Genesis before

Phil Collins?

A)Rick Springfield

B)Peter Gabriel

C)Sting

D)Billy Idol

B) Peter Gabriel

What pop queen got

her start on Star

Search, but did not

win (she came in

second)?

In 1989 pop sensation band had their Grammy

revoked for allegedly not singing the vocals on

their album?

Milli Vanilli

What are the names of the two robots fighting

in this 1987 hit action movie?