Are You an 80s Kid? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Knight Industries Two Thousand

"Knight Rider" first aired in the U.S. on September 26, 1982. There were a total of 4 seasons with the last episode airing on August 8, 1986. It starred future 'Baywatcher' David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight and William Daniels as the voice of K.I.T.T., a high-performance sports car, (a 1982 Pontiac Firebird Trans-Am), fitted with artificial intelligence battling forces of evil!

Answer: Punky Brewster

"Punky Brewster" aired in the U.S. from September 16, 1984 until May 27, 1988 with a total of 88 episodes. The song is called, "Every Time I Turn Around" and was written by Judy Hart Angelo and Gary Portnoy, who also sung it. The lyrics are: "Maybe the world is blind, or just a little unkind, don't know.
Seems you can't be sure, of anything anymore.
Although, you may be lonely and then, one day you're smiling again.
Every time I turn around,
I see the girl that turns my world around, standing there.
Everytime I turn around,
Her spirit's lifting me right off the ground, what's gonna be?
Guess we'll just wait and see." (Judy and Gary also wrote the "Cheers" theme, "Where Everybody Knows Your Name", with Gary singing the lyrics.)

Answer: walk in the sun

"I come home, in the morning light,
My mother says, 'When you gonna live your life right?'
Oh momma dear, we're not the fortunate ones,
And girls, they wanna have fun.
Oh girls just wanna have fun.

The phone rings, in the middle of the night,
My father yells, 'What you gonna do with your life?'
Oh daddy dear, you know you're still number one,
But girls they wanna have fun,
Oh girls just wanna have

That's all they really want,
Some fun,
When the working day is done,
Oh girls, they wanna have fun.
Oh girls just wanna have fun.
(Wanna have fun)
(Girls)
(Wanna have)

Some boys take a beautiful girl,
And hide her away from the rest of the world,
I wanna be the one to walk in the sun,
Oh girls, they wanna have fun.
Oh girls just wanna have

That's all they really want,
Is some fun,
When the working day is done,
Oh girls, they wanna have fun.
Oh girls just wanna have fun."

(Repeats and fades out)

Answer: Wham

"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" was released in the U.S. on 1984. It topped the Billboard charts on November 17 and remained there for three weeks. The song was thought up because Andrew Ridgeley had written a note to his parents and accidentally written it as, 'Wake me up up before you go' so he purposely wrote 'go' twice.

Answer: Remote Control

Colin Quinn was Ken Ober's sidekick on MTV's first non-musical program. It debuted on December 7, 1987 and ran for five seasons. Three contestants would sit in lounge chairs and select one of nine channels on a 'TV', (using an over-sized remote control). Each channel represented a topic related to pop culture.

The contestants would answer trivia questions to earn points. There were three questions in each channel/subject.

Answer: Like a Virgin

"Like a Virgin" was the first single to be released from the album of the same name on November 6, 1984. It reached #1 on December 22, 1984 on Billboard's Hot 100 and remained there for six weeks. Madonna performed "Like a Virgin" on September 14, 1984 at MTV's first Video Music Awards.

She wore a white wedding dress/bustier with a belt that read, 'Boy Toy'. During her performance, she rolled around on the floor, revealing lacy stockings and garters, and made a number of sexually suggestive moves.

Answer: Bonnie

Based on Japan's "Puc-Man", Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde were the names of the ghosts who tried to stop Pac-Man's pursuit of gobbling up dots and power pellets. All we had to do was keep him out of their way.

Answer: Gordon

"ALF" first aired in the U.S. on September 22, 1986 and ran until March 24, 1990. The title character, Gordon Shumway, is a small, furry, friendly but arrogant, alien with a long snout (and a taste for cats) from the planet Melmac. He crash lands in the garage of the Tanners, a suburban middle-class family.
Unsure what to do, they name him ALF (Alien Life-Form) and he becomes a part of the family. ALF's antics usually got him into trouble but he always came out on top.

Answer: Fast Times at Ridgemont High

"Fast Times at Ridgemont High" was written by Cameron Crowe based on his book, "Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A True Story". When he was 22, Cameron had gone undercover as a high school student named Dave Cameron at Clairemont High. He wrote about his experiences and turned them into a book.

The movie was released in the U.S. on August 13, 1982. It chronicled the lives of a handful of high school students, (a tough guy, a stoner surfer, a nerd, a sexual sophisticate and a middle-class brother and sister), as they dealt with typical teenage subjects.

Answer: Family Ties

Tom Hanks played the role of Elyse's younger brother, Ned Donnelly in three episodes of "Family Ties" between 1983 and 1984. He appeared in the first season's episodes, "The Fugitive: Part 1" (1.14) and "The Fugitive: Part 2" (1.15). He also appeared in season two's episode, "Say Uncle"(2.14).