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Stacy Conradt
Lunchtime Quiz: Rad 80s Fads
by Stacy Conradt - April 28, 2008 - 10:30 AM

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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.

Brett Savage
80s Week Preview: A Nickelodeon Quiz
by Brett Savage - April 26, 2008 - 4:51 PM

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Next week, the Daily Lunchtime Quizzes will be celebrating the 1980s. Here’s a sneak preview.

Nickelodeon programming taught me a lot about myself during my formative years. I learned that I could draw a simple picture relatively well as long as the drawing process took place under the masterful tutelage of Bill Cosby. I learned that I could sit upside-down on my friend Matt Hall’s couch for about twenty minutes in order to make the one scene where the image is inverted in You Can’t Do That On Television appear normal. I learned that my neighbors could end up on TV—as long as it was Nickelodeon. And I knew that if any rival family on the block wanted to resolve a dispute with a “physical challenge” we’d…well, we’d probably establish a lifetime shun on the spot, but at least we would know what they were talking about.

Half the fun of Nickelodeon was tuning in to find out what those kooky producers could dream up next. How often did you tune in? Take our quiz and show us what you know.

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