Posts tagged with 80s
What was the first 24-hour news station?
News coverage in the '80s meant waiting for the evening broadcast or morning paper. But one media mo...
Who performed the theme song for the James Bond movie "A View to a Kill"?
Roger Moore's final outing as James Bond needed a theme song as bold as the '80s themselves. But whi...
What are the ghost-catching weapons called in “Ghostbusters”?
Armed with unlicensed nuclear accelerators strapped to their backs, the Ghostbusters revolutionized ...
What were Cabbage Patch Kids originally called?
Parents camped outside toy stores in sleeping bags during Christmas 1983, desperate to get their han...
What year was Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff" released?
Between the thumping bassline and an iconic guitar riff, "Hot Stuff" turned up the temperature on th...
Who directed "Raging Bull"?
In "Raging Bull," a boxer's ego tears his life apart while the camera catches every brutal moment in...
In "Cheers," what street is the bar on?
For eleven seasons on "Cheers," millions of viewers descended those familiar steps into a basement b...
What was the name of the android on the “Star Trek: The Next Generation” crew?
The original crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise was a mix of various alien races, sure, but we didn’t get...
What town do the Conners live in?
Few showed working-class life as authentically as "Roseanne" and its successor "The Conners." The fa...
What is the best-selling arcade game of all time?
Arcade games might not sound like a big deal to kids today, but we were paying a quarter for maybe 6...
What was the name of Daniel's mentor in "The Karate Kid"?
In 1984's "The Karate Kid," a bullied teenager discovers that sometimes the best mentors come in une...
What pseudonym does Stephen King use?
In the 1970s, Stephen King found himself with too many stories to publish and his publisher worried ...
What was Wayne Gretzky's first professional hockey team?
Before Wayne Gretzky became The Great One, some team took their first chance on him. Which organizat...
What is Indiana Jones' real name?
Indiana Jones was an icon of the ‘80s and remains a classic character to this day. Except Indiana is...
What was the first video game played in space?
It’s wild to think that we sent people into space before video games were really a thing. What was t...