Quiz – The 1980s

How good is your 1980’s trivia knowledge? Answers below.

1. Which 1982 album became the best-selling album of all time?
2. Student-led demonstrations in China took place in which square?
3. In which city was the television series Luo Grant set?
4. Who became the 100 metres Olympic champion at the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics?
5. Mount St. Helens erupted in which American state?
6. In which year of the eighties did Halley’s Comet appear?
7. Who were court-martialed ‘for a crime they didn’t commit’?
8. In the eighties, Ray-Ban Aviator sunglasses were popularized by which film?
9. Which eighties hairstyle was short at the front and sides and long in the back?
10. Which flamboyant American businessman produced gull-winged sports cars in Northern Ireland?

Answers:

1. Thriller
2. Tiananmen Square
3. Los Angeles
4. Allan Wells
5. Washington
6. 1986
7. The A-Team
8. Top Gun
9. The mullet
10. John DeLorean