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The 1980s Quiz · Car Trip Trivia

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Speaker 1: Here at cart Trivia, we have listeners from a constellation
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Speaker 1: of generations. But there's something kind of cool about the
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Speaker 1: nineteen eighties, isn't there. It's the music, it's the movies,
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Speaker 1: it's the fashion, it's the politics. Look it's not the fashion,
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Speaker 1: let's be honest. But the politics. Well, look it's all
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Speaker 1: here in today's episode, I hope you enjoy. We've got
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Speaker 1: a few birthdays at a few For yesterday, in fact
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Speaker 1: American Independence Day, it was will from Newcastle living in
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Speaker 1: the UK turned twenty seven, Mitchell from Mandura turn twenty nine,
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Speaker 1: Nicole from Oakhurst was thirty two. Birthdays For tomorrow, Nathan
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Speaker 1: from San Antonio, Texas will be twenty five, Jacob from
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Speaker 1: Adelaide is ten. Tomorrow William from Inverel will be twenty three.
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Speaker 1: And today we have Hugo from Fletcher which is near Newcastle,
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Speaker 1: he's turning five, and Christian from Bowen Hills in Brezy
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Speaker 1: the Big three to zero. Today I'm Stephen Craye and
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Speaker 1: one of my faves from the eighties, Aerosmith with Run
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Speaker 1: DMC walk this Way. Question number one, what was the
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Speaker 1: last year of the nineteen eighties? It was nineteen eighty nine.
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Speaker 1: Question two, Which country won the nineteen eighty two fief
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Speaker 1: for World Cup, beating West Germany in the final Italy
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Speaker 1: they won three to one. Question three. Of the twins
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Speaker 1: Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, stars of the eighties sitcom
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Speaker 1: Full House, who was older? Ashley is two minutes older
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Speaker 1: than Mary Kate. Question four. The Strategic Defense initiative announced
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Speaker 1: by President Ronald Reagan in nineteen eighty three, got its
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Speaker 1: nickname from which science fiction star wars YEP. The concept
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Speaker 1: included lasers, ground and space based missile systems, and particle
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Speaker 1: beam weapons, whatever they are. Question five. Which all girl
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Speaker 1: pop rock band from the eighties was named after a
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Speaker 1: fashion accessory, The Bengals. Question number six. Which company with
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Speaker 1: a rhyming name started selling low calorie meals in nineteen
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Speaker 1: eighty one Lean Cuisine? Question seven. How many times did
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Speaker 1: el McPherson appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated during
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Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties. She was on the cover five times
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Speaker 1: in total, but three during the eighties eighty six, six
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Speaker 1: eighty seven, and nineteen eighty eight. Question eight. Before I
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Speaker 1: was released by Sony in nineteen eighty the only way
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Speaker 1: to listen to music on the Go was with a
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Speaker 1: giant boom box. What am I I am? The Sony Walkman?
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Speaker 1: Question nine? In which year of the eighties did the
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Speaker 1: Australian state of Victoria celebrate its one hundred and fiftieth
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Speaker 1: anniversary nineteen eighty five? Question ten. Which member of the
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Speaker 1: supergroup The Traveling Wilbury's died in December nineteen eighty eight,
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Speaker 1: just six weeks after the release of their debut album
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Speaker 1: Roy Orbison just didn't handle himself with enough care that bloke.
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Speaker 1: Question eleven. Was the Ford Falcon or the Holden Commodore
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Speaker 1: the best selling car in Australia in the eighties? It
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Speaker 1: was the Ford Falcon. The Holden Commodore got him in
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Speaker 1: the nineties. Question twelve made famous by David Bowie in
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Speaker 1: the nineteen eighty six movie Labyrinth. What was Jarreth the
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Speaker 1: King of the Goblins? Jarreth the Goblin King? Question thirteen.
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Speaker 1: Which NBA team won the most titles during the nineteen eighties,
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Speaker 1: The Los Angeles Lakers. They played in eight final series
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Speaker 1: and won five of them. Question fourteen. Who served as
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Speaker 1: Prime Minister of the UK for every year of the
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Speaker 1: nineteen eighties? Margaret Thatcher? Question fifteen before Excel. The state
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Speaker 1: of the art spreadsheet that set the standard throughout the
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Speaker 1: eighties was known as Lotus What, Lotus one, two three,
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Speaker 1: Question sixteen. During the nineteen eighties, who released both the
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Speaker 1: best selling album of all time and the fifth best
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Speaker 1: selling album of all time. I'll give you two bonus
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Speaker 1: points if you can name the albums. It was Michael Jackson.
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Speaker 1: The albums were Thriller in nineteen eighty two seventy million
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Speaker 1: copies sold, and Bad in nineteen eighty seven with forty
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Speaker 1: five million copies sold. Question seventeen played by Scott Bayo,
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Speaker 1: who was in charge in the nineteen eighties television sitcom Charles.
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Speaker 1: The show was Charles in Charge. Question eighteen, which structures
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Speaker 1: partial demolition, began on the ninth of November nineteen eighty nine.
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Speaker 1: The Berlin War Question nineteen, which talking Teddy Bear toy,
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Speaker 1: took the world by storm in the mid eighties and
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Speaker 1: helped launch the Nintendo entertainment system Teddy ruckspin. He was
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Speaker 1: distributed by Worlds of Wonder, which is the same company
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Speaker 1: that distributed the first Nintendo Question twenty, which of the
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Speaker 1: following was not a nineteen eighties fashion trend. Bubble skirts, scrunchies,
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Speaker 1: Safari suits or leg warmers. Safari suits. They were really
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Speaker 1: seventies thing, weren't they? Five to come. This is the
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Speaker 1: eighties edition Cartroup Trivia, long gone but not forgotten. It's
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Speaker 1: the eighties quiz. Question twenty one, starting with double What
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Speaker 1: was the name of the thieving villain on the eighties
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Speaker 1: TV game show Press Your Luck the Whammy? He was
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Speaker 1: the guy that came along and stole all your cash
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Speaker 1: that you'd banked. After answering the questions correctly. Question twenty two.
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Speaker 1: Who screamed you cannot be serious at the nineteen eighty
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Speaker 1: one Wimbledon Championships John McEnroe. Question twenty three. Complete this
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Speaker 1: telephone number from the hit eighties song by Tommy two
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Speaker 1: tone eight six seven five three to nine from the
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Speaker 1: song eight six seven five three oh nine Jenny. Question
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Speaker 1: twenty Which country once known as Little Russia was the
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Speaker 1: site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of nineteen eighty six Ukraine?
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Speaker 1: Question twenty five the last for today in which category
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Speaker 1: was Paul Hogan's nineteen eighty six comedy Crocodile Dundee, nominated
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Speaker 1: for an Academy Award Best Original screenplay. It lost to
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Speaker 1: Woody Allen for Hannah and her sisters. And we'll have
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Speaker 1: another special edition coming away on Monday of next week.
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Speaker 1: This time around, it'll be the wordplay edition. What's that
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