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1. In what year did the space shuttle Challenger explode?
2. This man shot and killed John Lennon.
3. When did Pan Am flight 103 crash over Lockerbie, Scotland?
4. Why did John Hinckley Jnr try to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
5. Mount St Helens erupted on May 18, 1980 after being dormant for 120 years. Where is it?
6. Joseph Hazelwood was the captain of the Exxon Valdez.
7. Which of these networks first aired in June 1980?
8. In 1982, 264,000 bottles of extra-strength Tylenol were recalled because of seven cyanide poisonings in what city?
9. In 1980, what was the minimum wage in the US?
10. On August 20, 1989, these brothers murdered their parents with shot guns in Beverly Hills, CA.
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