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In response to
"need to come up up with trivia questions for tomorrow"
by
znufrii
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I think some of this is incomplete, and you'll have to dig up the answers yourself.
Posted by
Mop (aka rburriel)
Dec 24 '11, 19:25
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80s Trivia
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Tin Machine is...
a) Crowded House before Neil Finn's brother Tim left the band
b) A band from the influential Manchester music scene of the 80s
c) An industrial rock band fronted by David Bowie
d) Pat Benetar's backing band
2. Each member of the Police had careers after the band broke up. Drummer Stuart Copeland formed what band with jazz musician Stanley Clarke?
a) The Jaybirds
b) Animal Logic
c) House of Love
d) The Church
3. What 80s band with limited success composed the soundtrack to William Friedkin's "To Live and Die in L.A."?
a) Mr. Mister
b) Roxette
c) A Flock of Seagulls
d) Wang Chung
4. What songstress and former member of the Weather Girls made a splash by scoring hits with Black Box and C+C Music Factory yet not appearing in their videos?
a) Martha Wash
b) Diana Ross
c) Izora Rhodes
d) Nenah Cherry
5. What music producer did not score a hit in the 80s by releasing a single under their own name?
a) Malcolm McLaren
b) Quincy Jones
c) Jellybean Benitez
d) Phil Spector
6. What NFL team had a novelty hit in 1985 with "The Super Bowl Shuffle"?
a) The Los Angeles Raiders
b) The San Francisco 49ers
c) The Chicago Bears
d) The Cincinnati Bengals
7. This song had the honor of being the first video ever played on MTV:
a) "Rock Me Amadeus" by Falco
b) "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits
c) "R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A." by John Mellencamp
d) "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles
8. John Hughes all but created the teen angst movie genre that became a trademark of 80s cinema. Which of these movies did he *not* direct?
a) Ferris Bueller's Day Off
b) Pretty in Pink
c) Sixteen Candles
d) The Breakfast Club
9. Vince Clarke was instrumental in forming no less than three of the seminal New Wave bands of the 80s. Which is *not* one those bands:
a) Depeche Mode
b) Thompson Twins
c) Yaz
d) Erasure
10. "Head Over Heels" was the title of a 1980s single by:
a) The Go-Go's
b) ABBA
c) Tears for Fears
d) all of the above
MATCHING
11. Who's that voice? Guest vocalists appeared often in 80's songs. Match the vocalist to the song:
i) Bryan Adams
ii) Ronnie Spector
iii) Sting
a) Glass Tiger, "Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)"
b) Money for Nothing, "Dire Straits"
c) Eddie Money, "Take Me Home Tonight/Be My Baby"
12. Often, members of one band would leave to form another - usually less successful - band. Sometimes it was permanent, sometimes it was only for a brief time before rejoining their old bandmates. Match the original bands with the new bands formed by members of the original (you will use some original bands more than once):
i) Duran Duran
ii) Petshop Boys
iii) English Beat
iv) Genesis
vi) The Police
v) The Housemartins
vii) The Smiths
viii) Depeche Mode
ix) New Order
a) Arcadia
b) Electronic
c) Mike and the Mechanics
d) The Power Station
e) General Public
f) The Other Two
g) Animal Logic
h) Beats International
i) Fine Young Cannibals
j) Eurasure
k) The Beautiful South
l) Revenge
13. Sometimes, losing the band's lead singer is the best thing that can happen in terms of a band's commercial success. Match the old band to the new band that came about with the departure (or death) of the lead singer:
i) Bauhaus
ii) Joy Division
iii) Split Enz
a) Love & Rockets
b) Crowded House
c) New Order
14. Musical "Where Are They Now?" Match the musician with their current activities:
i) Falco
ii) Nancy Wilson (of Heart)
iii) Robert Palmer
iv) Aimee Mann (of 'Til Tuesday)
v) Laura Branigan
vi) Cathy Dennis
a) Died in a car accident in 1998
b) Married "Almost Famous" director Cameron Crowe and writes and composes music for his movies
c) Died of a heart attack in 2003
d) Married Sean Penn's brother (and fellow musician) Michael and carries on a successful career as a singer-songwriter and composing music for movies
e) Continues a successful career with the producer who discovered her, Simon Fuller, which includes composing the theme to Pop Idol/American Idol
f) Died of a brain aneurysm in 2004
15. "Buddy movies" came into their own in the 80s. Match these pairs of actors to the buddy movie they appeared in:
i) Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin
ii) Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito
iii) Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter
iv) Emilio Estevez and Richard Dreyfuss
v) Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen
vi) Clint Eastwood and Charlie Sheen
vii) Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds
viii) Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis
ix) Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy
x) Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy
xi) Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi
xii) Matt Dillon and Adam Baldwin
xiii) Mel Gibson and Danny Glover
xiv) Mel Gilbson and Kurt Russell
xv) Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell
xvi) Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin
xvii) Bette Midler and Shelley Long
xviii) John Cusack and Tim Robbins
xix) Treat Williams and Joe Piscopo
xx) Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman
a) Thelma & Louise
b) Tango & Cash
c) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
d) Big Business
e) 48 Hrs.
f) Weekend at Bernie's
g) My Bodyguard
h) The Blues Brothers
i) Dead Heat
j) City Heat
k) Outrageous Fortune
l) Stakeout
m) Men at Work
n) The Rookie
o) Twins
p) Midnight Run
q) Tapeheads
r) Trading Places
s) Tequila Sunrise
t) Lethal Weapon
16. The 80s was the decade of the movie soundtrack. Match the hit song with the movie it appeared in (you will use some movies more than once):
i) The Heat is On
ii) Danger Zone
iii) Eye of the Tiger
iv) I'm Alright
v) It Must Have Been Love
vi) Take My Breath Away
vii) Crazy for You
viii) Axel F
ix) If You Leave
x) The King of Wishful Thinking
xi) Neutron Dance
xii) Holiday Road
xiii) Don't You (Forget About Me)
a) Caddyshack
b) National Lampoon's Vacation
c) Beverly Hills Cop
d) Pretty in Pink
e) The Breakfast Club
f) Pretty Woman
g) Rocky III
h) Top Gun
i) Vision Quest
SHORT ANSWER
17. Name the video that stars the celebrity...
i) Chevy Chase playing bongo drums
ii) Leonard Nimoy driving a car
iii) Courtney Cox dancing on stage
iv) Christie Brinkley at a service station
v) Donald Sutherland building a cloud seeding machine
vi) Wesley Snipes is a street tough
vii) Danny Aiello is an unapproving father
viii) Kim Basinger is dead
ix) Keith Carradine is a director
x) Johnny Depp is an aspiring rock star
xi) Benny Hill is a bumbling backstage security guard
xii) Patrick Macnee driving a car
xiii) Bill Paxton arguing
18. I will give you a series of images from 80s music. You must provide the band they're linked to.
i) A hockey goaltender's mask.
ii) Tawny Kitaen on the cover.
iii) Tawny Kitaen on the hood of a car.
iv) Sam Kinison handing out video cameras.
v) Guitarist with a top hat.
vi) David Fincher directs Betsy Lynn George as a seductive Lolita.
vii) A trip around the world in a music video. Sydney Opera House, Tower Bridge, etc.
viii) Keanu Reeves plays a rebel without a cause in her video.
ix) Matt LeBlanc plays a boyfriend who's just had a tiff with his girlfriend in her video.
x) Alicia Silverstone before she was fat.
Match the 80's Brat Pack movie with its signature song:
i)
ii) The Breakfast Club
iii) Pretty in Pink
a) If You Leave
b) Don't You (Forget About Me)
c)
80 Trivia Questions about the 80s
1. What was the British equivalent of "We Are The World?"
2. Name six members of the Brat Back
3. What Liverpool band popularized the Doors' "People Are Strange?" in the 80's?
4. Who had the trademark saying "Nanoo Nanoo?"
5. What was the original name of Duran Duran?
6. What was the name of ET's favorite candy?
7. What did people desperately tried to avoid getting on "Press Your Luck?"
8. Name 3 books by Judy Blume or Beverly Cleary
9. Who was the leader of the Transformers?
10. Where did the Super friends congregate and watch the latest happenings on a big screen TV?
11. What group did New Order evolve from?
12. What were the names of Kevin's best friend and girl friend on "The Wonder Years?"
13. What was the name of the mechanical bear on Battlestar Galactica?
14. What commercial was Michael Jackson singing for when his hair caught on fire?
15. Who was the 4th child on "Growing Pains?"
16. Name 3 Strawberry Shortcake characters (besides Strawberry Shortcake)
17. What, according to GI Joe, was "Half the battle"?
18. What was the name of the Bjork-fronted 80's band?
19. Who lamented about "No chocolate-covered candy hearts to give away and no wedding Saturday within the month of June"?
20. What famous Wham! frontman went on to record a multiplatinum record in 1987?
21. What was Dustin Hoffman's character's name in "Rain Man?"
22. Name all five New Kids On The Block
23. What was the name of the show that featured Larry Appleton and his zany foreign cousin?
24. Who played Sarah Connor in 1984's "Terminator"?
25. Name 8 Muppets from "The Muppet Show"
26. Who was the actress that played Ferris Bueller's sister? Hint: Patrick Swayze showed her "the time of her life" in a movie a couple years later
27. Who was the original singer of Los Lobos' 1987 hit "La Bamba"?
28. What was the name of the once Morrissey-fronted band in the 80's?
29. Who was the actress that made waves in 1984's "Splash"?
30. Who was the lead actress in the famous bomb "Grease 2"?
31. What craft toy involved cutting plastic figures, coloring them in, and then baking them in the oven?
32. Name 3 glam rock bands of the 80's
33. What planet was Spock brought back to life on?
34. Name 3 of the actors from "The Goonies"
35. What was the famous line uttered by an old woman in Wendy's ads?
36. Name the four ghosts from Pac-Man
37. What were the names of the Saturday morning cartoon critters who lived in air-vents and befriended a boy who kept their secret hidden?
38. Name Eddie Murphy's skit about vocabulary on Saturday Night Live
39. What was the name of Michael Knight's car?....now, what was the name of his boss?
40. What actor mouthed the line "Whatch you talkin' 'bout Willis?"
41. Who played Axel Foley's best friend in Detroit?
42. What was the name of the funky van Scooby Doo and friends rode in?
43. To what does the obscure song "Turning Japanese" refer?
44. Which red-head won Star Search and then went on a shopping mall singing tour that took America by storm in 1987 and 1988?
45. Which band had members Robert Palmer, Andy and John Taylor, and Tony Thompson?
46. What were the names of all five Huxtable kids on "The Cosby Show?"
47. What were the names of the four Golden Girls?
48. What was the claymation Domino's Pizza thing to avoid?
49. What oldies song was revived by the movie about a certain principal named Joe Clark?
50. What was the name of Ripley's ship in Aliens? (not Alien or Alien3)
51. What TV actress co-starred in 1986's "Howard The Duck"?
52. Name 5 movies made by John Hughes in the 1980's
53. What was the first video played on MTV?
54. What was the name of Garfield's teddy bear?
55. What was the name of the bartender on "The Love Boat"?
56. Who was the head villian on "The Smurfs" and what was his cat's name?
57. What was the name of the guy who couldn't enunciate on "The Fat Albert Show?"
58. What was the name of the hollow hole-covered plastic ball kids used to hit instead of a baseball?
59. What was the name of the singer who died in Robotech's first generation?
60. What was the name of Bo and Luke Duke's automobile?
61. Name 2 of the original 4 MTV VeeJays
62. What German siren sang "99 Luftballons" (known in the US as "99 Red Balloons")?
63. Name the 5th original member of Depeche Mode who left the band, formed Yaz, and then went on form a more-lasting group.
64. What group sang "Come On Eileen"?
65. What speed did Marty have to reach in order to activate the flux capacitor? (once you remember the movie, this should be easy)
66. Name the two mega-popular bands which got their start on college-radio in Athens, Georgia?
67. What was the name of the heroic boy in "The Never Ending Story?
68. So, who shot JR?
69. What kind of sword did Thundar the Barbarian have?
70. What was the name of He-Man's magician sidekick?
71. What band sang the theme song to "The Breakfast Club?"
72. Name the 4 girls from the "Facts of Life" and their chaperone
73. What gothic rock group did Tones on Tail become?
74. What were the names of the host and his sidekick on "Fantasy Island"?
75. Name Buck Rodgers' pal
76. What was the movie that starred the little furry creatures from "Return of the Jedi"?
77. What was Tom Cruise's call sign in the movie "Top Gun"?
78. Who got his 100-meter dash gold medal stripped away due to his steroid use in the 1988 Olympics?
79. Who sang "Shattered Dreams" in 1987?
80. Who played Ming of Mongo in "Flash Gordon"?
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