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1. Before the age of Pay Per Views, the largest WWE events were held every few years at Shea Stadium and were called "Showdown at Shea". The third and most recent of these, held in 1980, featured a stacked card that included Bruno Sammartino, then WWE Heavyweight Champion Bob Backlund, and an up-and-coming star by the name of Hulk Hogan. Who was Hogan's opponent?
2. Before he got a theme song of his own, what song did The Junkyard Dog enter the ring to?
3. In October 1983, at Madison Square Garden, on a night on which he challenged for the Intercontinental Championship, Jimmy Snuka gave the wrestling world one of the iconic images of the era when he dove from the top of the steel cage and nailed a Superfly Splash squarely onto his opponent lying below. Who was his opponent?
4. Andre the Giant's appearance was forever changed on a December 1984 edition of "Championship Wrestling" in an infamous encounter that would become known as "The Haircut Match". Wrestling as part of a tag team, Andre was double teamed and beaten unconscious by Ken Patera and Big John Studd before having his hair cut off by Studd. Who was Andre's tag team partner for the match?
5. In the summer of 1986, Hulk Hogan and Paul Orndorff competed in what was arguably the most heated and intense feud of Hulk Hogan's first WWE Heavyweight Championship run. What did Orndorff do during the feud that particularly angered Hogan?
6. A decade before pitting Canada vs The USA at the 1997 "Survivor Series", the WWE created a tag team meant to appeal to the patriotism of fans in both of its largest national territories. Called the Can-Am Connection, the team was made up of both a Canadian and American wrestler. Respectively, who were they?
7. Which wrestler said that he would retire after his match at "Wrestlemania 3", regardless of the result?
8. How did the Genius "shock the wrestling world" on a November 1989 edition of "Saturday Night's Main Event?"
9. Which TV talk show host did Roddy Piper spray with a fire extinguisher on a special, in ring edition of The Piper's Pit, at "Wrestlemania 5"?
10. In 1989, Dusty Rhodes, one of pro-wrestling's most well-known and beloved performers, returned to the WWE after many years away, sporting a conspicuous, new look. What was the pattern that he dressed in?
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