Question: Which one of the following could you NOT pop open a can or bottle of in the 80s?
Tab
Crystal Pepsi
Slice
Jolt
Last Question: What links these 3 things together?
Marc Summers
Slime
Obstacle Course
Answer: Double Dare
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Return to the ’80s Trivia – 10/15/20
Question: What are the 4 colors of the ghosts in the original Pac-Man?
(Extra Credit: What color was Blinky?)
Last Question: When he wasn’t defending Castle Grayskull, who was He-Man’s alter ego?
Answer: Prince Adam
Return to the ’80s Trivia – 10/14/20
Question: When he wasn’t defending Castle Grayskull, who was He-Man’s alter ego?
Last Question: What links these 3 clues together?
Gemini
Zap
Nitro
Answer: American Gladiators
Return to the ’80s Trivia – 8/27/20
Question: What movie had a “synthetic” named Bishop note: “I prefer the term ‘Artificial Person’ myself”?
Last Question: Who played a ditzy blonde on One Life to Live, before landing the ditzy blonde role on Newhart?
Answer: Julia Duffy
Return to the ’80s Trivia – 8/17/20
Question: Who directed Throw Momma From the Train?
Last Question: On Bosom Buddies, what female names did the lead male characters use?
Answer: “Buffy” and “Hildegard”
Return to the ’80s Trivia – 8/11/20
Question: What movie by the Coen Brothers employed babies to portray one set of quints?
Last Question: On Too Close for Comfort, what was the name of the cartoon character drawn by Henry Rush?
Answer: “Cosmic Cow”
Quote of the Day: Cheers
Sam: You are the nuttiest, the stupidest, the phoniest fruitcake I ever met!
Diane: You, Sam Malone, are the most arrogant, self-centered son-of-a-
Sam: Shut up! Shut your fat mouth!
Diane: Make me!
Sam: Make you?… My God I’m, I’m gonna… I’m gonna bounce you off every wall in this office!
Diane: Try it and you’ll be walking funny tomorrow… or should I say funnier?
Sam: You know… you know I always wanted to pop you one! Maybe this is my lucky day, huh?
Diane: You disgust me! I hate you!
Sam: Are you as turned on as I am?
Diane: More!
Sam: Bet me. [They kiss, fade to black]
Sam: Now I’m going to nibble on your ear.
Diane: Don’t tell me you’re going to nibble on my ear…
The season 1 finale of Cheers aired which included Sam & Diane’s first kiss aired on this day, 37 years ago (March 31, 1983)
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Quote of the Day: Moonlighting
Maddie and David: (overlapping) I am not speaking to you – Are too!- I am not. -Are too!!!- Am not!!- Are too!!- Am not!!!
Maddie: Not another word, not another sound, not another beep until we get back to the office!!
David: Beep.
Moonlighting debuted on ABC on this day, 35 years ago (March 3, 1985). It ran for 5 seasons and 66 episodes.
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Remember That Song – 12/2/19
Can you name the artist and song:
Now is the time
For you and I to cuddle close together, yeah
All through the night
I’ll save you from the terrors on the screen
I’ll make you see
Last Song: “Thank You For Being a Friend” by Andrew Gold from the album All This and Heaven Too (1978), but best known as the theme from The Golden Girls (September 14, 1985 – May 9, 1992), sung by Cynthia Fee
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And if you threw a party
Invited everyone you knew
Well, you would see the biggest gift would be from me
And the card attached would say
Thank You For Being a Friend
Here is the full Andrew Gold version:
Quote of the Day: The Day After
Jim Dahlberg: [Danny inadvertently turns towards a nuclear flash] Danny! Don’t look!
On this day 36 years ago, November 20, 1983, an estimated 100 million people watched the controversial ABC-TV movie The Day After.
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