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Ladies, slip on your legwarmers, shoulder pads and fingerless gloves. Men, dig out your pastel t-shirts to throw on under your blazers and your acid-washed jeans. Gel your hair into a mullet. Go on, we’ll wait here. In fact, while you’re changing, we’ll go ahead and put our Appetite for Destruction tape in our ghetto blaster. OK, now that you’re situated comfortably in the 80s, you’re in the mindset to remember some of the biggest fads of the decade.
Take the quiz: Totally Rad 80s Fads
This week’s lunchtime quizzes will be celebrating the 1980s. We kicked things off a little early with Brett Savage’s Nickelodeon quiz. Stay tuned for lots more, from Bob Ross to Back to the Future.
Comments (15)
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100%!! I’m amazed that I remembered that smurfs are only “three apples high”…..funny what random facts we can recall…
posted by Christian on 4-28-2008 at 11:38 am
so when did demi moore join the brat pack …?
posted by amanda on 4-28-2008 at 11:51 am
9/10, I didn’t think jellies were as soft and pleasant as rubber.
As for Demi Moore, I think she was considered part of the Brat Pack as of St. Elmo’s Fire. Same timeframe as Rob Lowe.
posted by EMStoveken on 4-28-2008 at 12:04 pm
9/10. Not too shabby. The only one I missed was Crocodile Dundee’s name. By including the actor’s name in the list, it through me off. Very sneaky, sis.
Fun quiz, though. I think maybe I should have been reading more books instead of watching so much TV in my youth, though.
posted by SpaceMonkeyX on 4-28-2008 at 12:18 pm
3 out of 10… sad…
But then, I was only born in ‘82, so I guess technically I’m a child of the ’90s.
posted by Pearl on 4-28-2008 at 12:27 pm
8/10!! I too can’t believe I remembered the 3 apples tall thing. Smurftastic!
posted by Tricia on 4-28-2008 at 1:17 pm
I got 8/10 pretty good seeing as I was born in 89′ =D
posted by Sam on 4-28-2008 at 1:43 pm
like, I did really well on that, ya know! I totally got eight of them right.
like, you know, whatever!
posted by the creature on 4-28-2008 at 3:47 pm
90% - I totally got tricked by the Corey Feldman question (Feldman, Haim - what’s the difference?).
posted by Jill on 4-28-2008 at 4:11 pm
JILL!! Bite your tongue!!! Feldman is sooooo superior to Haim.
posted by STACY on 4-28-2008 at 4:42 pm
I thought jellies were a weird plastic rubber hybrid. Anyway I did surprisingly bad on this quiz considering I have an 80s website. Stupid Teenage mutant Ninja Turtles!
posted by Shannon on 4-28-2008 at 6:44 pm
60% I knew the stuff that was within my age group (mid-teen in the early 80’s) or interest…didn’t know smurfs, croc. dundee, cory and turtles.
posted by lynn on 4-28-2008 at 7:48 pm
Crap! I only got 50% - and at the onset of the 80s, I was 11… so I should’ve done much better.
posted by Anonymous on 4-28-2008 at 10:41 pm
Speaking of Jellies, may I just say that I find it odd that I’m seeing them in stores again?
That belongs in my childhood.
posted by Bethany on 4-29-2008 at 8:16 am
9 out of 10. But I’m a guy, and if I knew the jellies question, that would be an issue in and of itself.
posted by kahootz on 4-29-2008 at 9:17 pm