Quiz 031007
1. You can be my wingman any time.
Top Gun
2. That’s not a knife…. That’s a knife
Crocodile Dundee
3. Wait a minute, Doc. Are you telling me you built a time machine out of a DeLorean?
Back To The Future
4. We’re all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that’s all.
The Breakfast Club
5. Cyborgs don’t feel pain. I do. Don’t do that again.
Terminator
6. I love you, but we only have fourteen hours to save the Earth!
Flash Gordon
7. I said, I’m not gonna hurt ya… I’m just gonna bash your brains in.
The Shining
8. Nobody puts Baby in a corner.
Dirty Dancing
9. We want the finest wines available to humanity, and we want them here, and we want them now.
Withnail And I
10. - Are you the police? - No, ma’am. We’re musicians
The Blues Brothers
11. “More human than human” is our motto.
Blade Runner
12. Man who catch fly with chopstick accomplish anything.
The Karate Kid
13. Rod didn’t kill Tina and he didn’t hang himself. There’s this guy. He’s after us in our dreams.
A Nightmare On Elm Street
14. My name is Drago. I’m a fighter from the Soviet Union. I fight all my life and I never lose.
Rocky IV
15. Snakes… Why’d it have to be snakes?
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Round 2 - In The News
1. Which U.S. President announced his country were boycotting the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow?
Jimmy Carter
2. In 1988, who became the first British golfer to win the US Masters?
Sandy Lyle
3. In 1986, who was Prince Andrew’s best man when he married Sarah Ferguson?
Prince Edward
4. Which British coin was introduced for the first time in June 1982?
20 pence
5. What was the name of the Space Station launched by the Soviet Union in 1986?
Mir
6. In the 1980s, who did Ronald Reagan famously describe as the “best man in England”?
Margaret Thatcher
7. Fluoxetine Hydrochloride was launched in the 1980s, but by what name is this drug better known?
Prozac (it’s an antidepressant)
8. What was the name of the I.R.A. terrorist, who died in prison in April 1981 after a 66 day hunger strike?
Bobby Sands
9. Which former entertainer was elected mayor of Palm Springs in California in 1988?
Sonny Bono
10. In which city is Tiananmen Square, where a large number of protestors were killed in 1989?
Beijing
Round 3 - Toys And Games
1. The Rubik’s cube became a worldwide sensation after being exported from which European country? Austria, Hungary or Czechoslovakia?
Hungary
2. What toy would you have bought in the 1980s if you received a unique birth certificate with it, signed by it’s creator Xavier Roberts?
A Cabbage Patch Kid
3. The video game character Pacman was inspired by which food item? A pizza (with a slice missing)
4. BMX bikes became popular in the 1980s, but what do the initials BMX stand for?
Bicycle Moto Cross
5. Which range of animal figures were voted Toy of the Year in 1987, 1988 and 1989?
Sylvanian Families
6. Which brand of toy was launched in 1982 with varieties called Blossom, Minty, Butterscotch, Cotton Candy, Blue Belle and Snuzzle?
My Little Pony
7. What was the sequel to the ZX Spectrum computer game Manic Miner?
Jet Set Willy
8. Released in 1982, how many “roll again” spaces are there on a standard Trivial Pursuit board?
12
9. Which line of toys from the 1980s came from the planet Cybertron?
Transformers
10. In the arcade game Mario Brothers, what were the first names of the two title characters?
Mario and Luigi
Round 4 - Connections
1. Kidnapped by terrorists in April 1986, who became Britain’s longest-held hostage in Lebanon and wasn’t released for over 5 years?
John McCarthy
2. Often referred to as the 80s fashion bible, which magazine was created by Nick Logan, who had previously created the magazine Smash Hits?
The Face
3. Which James Bond actor played a secret agent called J.B. in the 1983 TV movie The Return Of The Man From U.N.C.L.E.?
George Lazenby
4. Which fictional villain first appeared in the 1981 novel Red Dragon and was played on screen by Brian Cox in the 1986 film Manhunter?
Hannibal Lecter
5. The Power Station had a hit single in 1985 with a cover version of Get It On, but who originally had a hit with this song?
T Rex
6. In 1981, a series of 33 books called Little Miss were published as an accompanying series to which series of books from 10 years earlier?
Mr. Men
7. Who had a top ten hit in 1980 with To Be Or Not To Be and also wrote and performed on the Scotland’s 1982 World Cup song We Have A Dream?
B. A. Robertson
8. For 3 points, which 1980s TV show connects the previous 7 answers?
The A-Team - characters
Round 5 - Music
1. Which former soap star released the album Ten Good Reasons, which went on to become the biggest selling album in the UK in 1989?
Jason Donovan
2. In 1989, a charity version of Ferry ‘Cross The Mersey was released in aid of the victims of what disaster?
The Hillsborough
Disaster
3. Which group who had a top ten hit in 1987 were made up of 8 brothers and sisters from the Wolfgramm family?
The Jets (their hit was
called “Crush On You”)
4. Which 1980s number one single was based on an old African song called Mbube, which had earlier been adapted into a song called Wimoweh?
“The Lion Sleeps Tonight” (by Tight Fit)
5. Paul Young’s voice was the first heard on Band Aid’s song Do They Know It’s Christmas, but whose was the second voice to be heard?
Boy George’s
6. Do They Know It’s Christmas was the biggest selling single in the UK in the 80s, but which controversial song was the second biggest seller?
“Relax” by Frankie Goes To Hollywood
7. What groundbreaking roles did Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, J.J. Jackson and Martha Quinn have in music in the 1980s?
They were the original MTV VJs (Video Jockeys)
8. Banned by the South African government who said it incited riots among schoolchildren, what was the first UK number one hit of the 1980s?
Another Brick In The Wall (by Pink Floyd)
9. Who performed his song Looking For Freedom at the Berlin Wall on New Year’s Eve 1989, shortly after it had been dismantled?
David Hasselhoff
10. Which group recorded the song Have A Screw, an x-rated version of a number one hit they’d had earlier in the 1980s?
Black Lace (based on the song “Agadoo”)
Round 6 - Initial Letter Link
1. First shown in 1984, who hosted the TV show Surprise, Surprise?
Cilla Black
2. Which 1980s TV series was inspired by Sinclair Lewis’ novel It Can’t Happen Here and featured aliens who looked liked humans arriving on Earth?
V
3. What was the name of the lead singer of Joy Division who hanged himself in May, 1980?
Ian Curtis
4. Willy Russell wrote two plays in the 1980s with girls names in their titles that were adapted into films in the same decade. One was Shirley Valentine, but what was the other?
Educating Rita
5. Which team knocked England out of the 1986 football World Cup?
Argentina
6. Which country’s Prime Minister was assassinated on October 31st, 1984?
India’s (Indira Gandhi)
7. Which tennis player won more singles titles at Wimbledon in the 1980s than anyone else?
Martina Navratilova (6 ladies singles titles)
8. What was the name of the Irishman who managed to break into the Queen’s bedroom in Buckingham Palace?
Michael Fagan
9. Which 1984 film featured child actor Jonathan Ke Quan playing a character called Short Round?
Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom
10. The initial letters of the previous 9 answers can be rearranged to spell out the name of which popular 80s TV show?
Miami Vice
Round 7 - Stick Or Twist
1. Who won the World Snooker Championship more than any other player in the 1980s? Steve Davis or Stephen Hendry?
Steve Davis
2. What was the name of the Greenpeace ship that was bombed and sunk in 1985? Exxon Valdez, Vital Spark or Rainbow Warrior?
Rainbow Warrior
3. Who did Alex Ferguson succeed as Manchester United manager in 1986?
Ron Atkinson
4. First appearing on TV in the 1980s, which of the names of the four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles would score the least number of points if allowed in Scrabble?
Leonardo (9 pts, Raphael = 12 pts, Michelangelo = 20 pts, Donatello = 10 pts)
5. Who was Time Magazine’s Man Of The Year in 1987, and in 1989 was named as their Man Of The Decade?
Mikhail Gorbachev
Tie Breaks
1. Using the retail price index, £1 in 1980 would be the equivalent of how much money
in 2006?
£2.96
2. How many times is the “f” word used in the 1983 film Scarface?
207
