# 80's trivia
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-trivia/174868
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 13, 2003, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-trivia/174868 "2003-05-13T04:25:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@knarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knarf)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-trivia/174868/41 "2003-05-13T20:50:51Z")
82 - crap TV sitcoms did me in.
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### Author:  [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2003, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-trivia/174868/42 "2003-05-13T21:20:34Z")
1.
I thought catching a fly with chopsticks was from “Kung Fu,” not “The Karate Kid”?
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### Author:  [@Lyllyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lyllyan)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2003, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-trivia/174868/43 "2003-05-13T21:54:42Z")
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> \*Originally posted by World Eater \*
> \*\*Damn a 76.
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> My question is cliffy was in The Empire Strikes back?!?!? \*\*
According to IMDB he was “Major Derlin”, whoever the hell that is. Suprised me, as well.
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### Author:  [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2003, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-trivia/174868/44 "2003-05-13T22:04:42Z")
A 70. I stink at actors.
I never knew “Turning Japanese” (which I wouldn’t call “obscure”) was about masturbation! :eek: I must be naive.
> [@](#):
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> _Originally posted by Lyllyan_
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> According to IMDB he was “Major Derlin”, whoever the hell that is. Suprised me, as well.\*\*
He was a [Rebel major](http://www.starwars.com/databank/character/majorbrenderlin/index.html) on Hoth.
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### Author:  [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2003, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-trivia/174868/45 "2003-05-13T22:21:00Z")
46 Not being American did me in.
Rubbish on rubbish films, rubbish on rubbish sitcoms, rubbish on adverts.
Not too many questions about anything of any sense at all
Shite survey, I’d have got half my score if I hadn’t simply guessed, actually guessed is a bit strong, I just pointed and clicked.
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### Author:  [@Eman\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eman_Bruin)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-trivia/174868/46 "2003-05-13T22:47:49Z")
1. It helps to watch VH-1. 😛
I tanked on the movies. Although those were very nitpicky questions…
Of course if it would help if I actually SAW some of those movies. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-trivia/174868/47 "2003-05-13T22:49:00Z")
56, not being an American. About right, given the exposure to American TV and movies over here.
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### Author:  [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2003, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-trivia/174868/48 "2003-05-13T23:28:01Z")
76 for me.
Cliffy (John Ratzenberger) was also in _Superman II_. He’s a NASA technician, and he’s in that scene where the bad aliens show up on the Moon, and one of the astronauts on the Moon says “It looks like a girl” and they discuss if he said “Curl”, which the Russain old timers called a comet. He was also in _Firefox_ as one of the guys in charge of refueling the plane on the ice flow.
I had all three of these movies on tape, which is why I know this utterly worthless fact. Maybe if I’d been watching Thundarr the Barbarian instead I would have scored higher…
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### Author:  [@swannguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swannguy)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2003, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-trivia/174868/49 "2003-05-13T23:41:23Z")
65 - I was 16 when the 80s ended and I didn’t come to the States till '98…so for a foreigner I would say a pretty impressive score
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### Author:  [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2003, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-trivia/174868/50 "2003-05-13T23:59:18Z")
1. American. I spent that decade in bars, so I missed the television of the time; did fine on the music.
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2003, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-trivia/174868/51 "2003-05-14T00:03:36Z")
You just described my 90’s, Ringo. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2003, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-trivia/174868/52 "2003-05-14T04:10:05Z")
68! And the 80s was MY generation.
I got all the music questions, but tv, especially cartoons threw me off. I was only allowed to watch one hour of tv a week growing up.
And look at me now!
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### Author:  [@Tinkertoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinkertoy)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2003, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-trivia/174868/53 "2003-05-14T04:14:38Z")
for a laugh try the address with 70 instead of 80
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### Author:  [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2003, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-trivia/174868/54 "2003-05-14T04:36:48Z")
77, missed most of the music questions.
My co-worker got a 75, missing most of the TV ones.
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### Author:  [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2003, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-trivia/174868/55 "2003-05-14T05:17:28Z")
1. I knew very few of the TV questions – including “Who shot J.R.?” – and I was born in 1968!
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### Author:  [@pilot141](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pilot141)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2003, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-trivia/174868/56 "2003-05-14T06:56:37Z")
70 - and I missed most of the TV questions. Cartoons and lousy sitcoms did me in.
And **Hamadryad** the misspelled words irritated me too! Come on, how hard is dandruff to spell? Ugh - getting irritated over an internet 80s quiz.
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