# Test your 80s knowledge **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 9, 2006, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-80s-knowledge/339134 "2006-01-09T10:18:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-80s-knowledge/339134/1 "2006-01-09T10:18:40Z")
[http://www.liquidgeneration.com/content/a55hat.aspx?cid=425](http://www.liquidgeneration.com/content/a55hat.aspx?cid=425) I got 77/100, which earned me a silver cube and the rank of “Brat Packian.” Happy ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-80s-knowledge/339134/2 "2006-01-09T10:26:58Z")
Speaker warning: if you’re at church, there’s a brief musical intro when you click. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-80s-knowledge/339134/3 "2006-01-09T10:27:59Z")
Church, or work. :o ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-80s-knowledge/339134/4 "2006-01-09T11:35:56Z")
I got a 73. Then I took a bunch of other quizes and found out I’m a Bleeding Heart Liberal, a Punk Rocker and an Intellectual Drunk. Er…hardly a revelation. But they do seem to be accurate. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-80s-knowledge/339134/5 "2006-01-09T11:53:56Z")
1. ‘Spoon gagger’. Given that I only knew 13, I’m not ashamed. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-80s-knowledge/339134/6 "2006-01-09T11:57:50Z")
79/100. And what horrific spelling. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-80s-knowledge/339134/7 "2006-01-09T12:16:44Z")
I got a 65 with the advice: “No so good…Maybe you should play a little more Pac-Man?” Hey, I’m an 80’s girl all the way, but 50 of the questions were about 80’s TV, which I watched hardly any of. Some of the shows I hadn’t even heard of. I aced the music, though, and did pretty good on the movies. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-80s-knowledge/339134/8 "2006-01-09T12:35:38Z")
61/100 Level=Knight Rider “No so good…Maybe you should play a little more Pac-Man?” Ironic, that I just played Pac-Man last night…didn’t help. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-80s-knowledge/339134/9 "2006-01-09T13:16:52Z")
> [@BoBettie](#): > > I got a 65 with the advice: “No so good…Maybe you should play a little more Pac-Man?” > > Hey, I’m an 80’s girl all the way, but 50 of the questions were about 80’s TV, which I watched hardly any of. Some of the shows I hadn’t even heard of. I aced the music, though, and did pretty good on the movies. I got a 74, but the TV part killed me, especially kids shows. I’m not even sure I had a TV between 1980-1988. I only missed a handful in other parts. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-80s-knowledge/339134/10 "2006-01-09T13:33:14Z")
1. I got my ass handed to me by the TV section, especially the kids shows and sitcoms. I didn’t watch either one in those days. I still don’t watch sitcoms. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-80s-knowledge/339134/11 "2006-01-09T13:48:10Z")
1. And there were loads of questions about movies (like “St. Elmo’s Fire”) and TV shows (like “Three’s Company”) I never saw. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-80s-knowledge/339134/12 "2006-01-09T14:05:36Z")
83 - Silver Cube - “Brat Packian” ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-80s-knowledge/339134/13 "2006-01-09T14:53:21Z")
73–Silver Cube. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-80s-knowledge/339134/14 "2006-01-09T15:30:47Z")
84 points - Brat Packian. I was hurt by the fact that I’ve never seen any of the Brat Pack movies, but made up for it with my pathetically complete knowledge of bad TV and sci-fi. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-80s-knowledge/339134/15 "2006-01-09T15:47:51Z")
83, Same as **Hal**. And I aced the music section. Didn’t do so well with the cartoon shows. ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-80s-knowledge/339134/16 "2006-01-09T15:59:47Z")
76–Brat Packian Not bad considering that I still haven’t seen most 80’s movies ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-80s-knowledge/339134/17 "2006-01-09T16:13:06Z")
1. Like many others, the music was easy but the TV stuff was a little harder. Especially things that were on just one episode, like Micheal Knights real name. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-80s-knowledge/339134/18 "2006-01-09T16:14:15Z")
59, which kinda sucks because I graduated high school in 82. I figgered I’d ace the whole thing. Oh well, so much for thinking I was going to get any work done today. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-80s-knowledge/339134/19 "2006-01-09T16:16:50Z")
81 - Brat Packian. Some of the answers I didn’t realize I knew, I just punched whatever “seemed right” – and was. It’s amazing the extent to which culture pervades our adolescent subconcious, and persists. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-80s-knowledge/339134/20 "2006-01-09T16:19:17Z")
Did anyone else notice the Family Ties question that referred to “Michael P. Keaton?” I had to re-read that one 3 times to make sure it wasn’t a trick question. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-80s-knowledge/339134.md?page=2)