Part One of a 80's trivia game I created for the Carmike Convention 0f 2012.

2. Which band got their name after the Jane
Fonda movie “Barbarella”?
A)Skid Row
B)Duran Duran
C)Blue Monday
D)Alphaville

4. What 1984 – 1986 game show featured
the “whammy”?
A)To Win A Million
B)Pictionary
C)Press Your Luck

6. Who are these
famous
wrestlers?

7. Hulk Hogan And Andre The Giant

8. What year was this soft drink commercial
released?

9. 1983

10. 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

12. Name this Dirty Harry movie.

13. Sudden Impact

14. Name this Car

15. DeLorean

16. Who sang this hit song from the movie
Weird Science?

18. What is Reaganomics?

19. 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.

20. What was the first a cappella song to reach
#1 on the Billboard charts?

22. What was the name of the hit song written by
Michael Sembello after watching this movie?

24. What movie is this song
from?

26. 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

28. What year did this happen?

29. 1983

30. What man is Col. Trautman
describing?

32. Who was the first American woman in
space in 1983?
A) Sally Ride
B) Valentina Tereshkova
C) Leslie Armstrong

33. Sally Ride

34. Which singer played Don
Johnson’s wife in Miami Vice?
A)Madonna
B)Sheena Easton
C)Susanna Hoffs
D)Caitlin Davies

35. B) Sheena Easton

36. This singer stated
that his debut album
would be bigger than
St. Pepper’s Lonely
Hearts Club Band.
Who is he?

38. What was the first music video aired on
MTV?

39. “Video Killed the Radio Star”
by The Buggles

40. 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

41. A) The Police

42. Who was the lead singer of Genesis before
Phil Collins?
A)Rick Springfield
B)Peter Gabriel
C)Sting
D)Billy Idol

43. B) Peter Gabriel

44. What pop queen got
her start on Star
Search, but did not
win (she came in
second)?

46. In 1989 pop sensation band had their Grammy
revoked for allegedly not singing the vocals on
their album?

47. Milli Vanilli

48. What are the names of the two robots fighting
in this 1987 hit action movie?