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1980s Decade Quiz - Statistics
General Stats
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This quiz has been taken 76,877 times
59,503 since last reset
- The average score is 14 of 20
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| City that was divided by a wall until 1989 | Berlin | 99%
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| Deadly disease that was first clinically observed in 1981 | AIDS | 83%
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| Prime Minister of the U.K. for the entire decade | Margaret Thatcher | 81%
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| Comet that came near Earth again in 1986 | {Halley}'s Comet | 80%
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| Who Diana Spencer got married to | Prince Charles | 78%
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| Drug which caused a crime wave in American inner cities | Crack cocaine | 77%
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| Director of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" | Steven Spielberg | 77%
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| World leader who had a prominent birthmark on his head | Mikhail Gorbachev | 73%
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| War fought between Argentina and the United Kingdom | {Falklands} War | 71%
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| Musician who was murdered in New York City shortly after the release of his final album "Double Fantasy" | John Lennon | 70%
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| Colombian drug lord who became one of the world's richest people | Pablo Escobar | 65%
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| Hugely-popular video game invented in 1984 in Russia | Tetris | 64%
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| 1982 musical album which remains the best-selling of all-time | Thriller | 63%
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| City where hundreds of democracy protestors were massacred in 1989 | Beijing | 62%
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| Product which was commercially released for the first time, cost $4000, and had the approximate shape and weight of a brick | Mobile phone | 61%
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| Player who scored "The Goal of the Century" in the 1986 World Cup | Diego Maradona | 56%
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| Deep-fried McDonald's menu item that was introduced in 1981 | Chicken McNuggets | 54%
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| Country in which a famine killed at least 300,000 people | Ethiopia | 54%
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| Country that was responsible for blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland | Libya | 46%
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| Stretchy synthetic fabric which became so popular that DuPont, its creator, had trouble meeting demand | Spandex | 43%
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