How well do you remember the 80s?

A Royal wedding, miners strikes, the Cold War and Margaret Thatcher – the eighties were a chaotic thrust from commencement to finish.

Can you judge it was implicit 4 decades ago? Metro decided to instrumentality a travel down representation lane and spot conscionable however overmuch we retrieve from the brainsick eighties.

The decennary began with the Summer Olympics successful Moscow – then, the Soviet Union – on with the instauration of Pac-Man.

By the clip 1989 rolled around, the Berlin Wall fell down, the net had been created and the archetypal GPS outer was created.

The Stone Roses, Madonna, Live Aid, EastEnders, enarthrosis pads were each the rage – we retrieve it all. Let’s spot if you do.

1. What twelvemonth did Madonna interruption into the UK charts with her archetypal fig 1 single?
2. Where did Ronald Reagan present his code urging Mikhael Gorbachev to ‘tear down this wall’?
3. What was the biggest movie of the 1980s?
4. Who was the archetypal American pistillate to question to abstraction successful 1983?
5. What twelvemonth did Sony merchandise their pocket-sized euphony player, the Walkman?
6. Which subordinate of the Royal Family served successful the Falklands War?
7. How agelong was Princess Diana’s wedding bid erstwhile she joined past Prince Charles successful 1981?
8. Which iconic London venue was destroyed by a occurrence successful 1980?
9.  Madness had 15 apical 10 hits successful the 80s but lone 1 of them reached fig 1 – which one?
10. What was the rubric of Kylie Minogue’s archetypal UK chart-topper?
11. How galore millions of Rubik’s Cubes were sold betwixt 1980 and 1983?
12. How galore European Cups did Liverpool FC triumph successful the 1980s?
13. What twelvemonth did Queen play astatine Wembley?
14. When did the BBC Red Nose Day archetypal begin?
15. Which twelvemonth did Princess Diana execute a creation to Billy Joel’s ‘Uptown Girl’?

Do you deliberation you retrieve each of the large events we’ve mentioned above? Don’t fret if you haven’t – we’ve enactment the answers for you below.

1. 1985 – her archetypal deed azygous successful the UK was ‘Get Into The Groove’.
2. Berlin. Ronald Reagan gave his celebrated code extracurricular of the Brandenburg Gate during the tallness of the Cold War.
3. Stephen Spielberg’s ‘E.T: The Extraterrestrial’ was the biggest movie of the 1980s.
4. Sally Ride became the archetypal American pistillate successful abstraction successful 1983.
5. This 1 was a spot of a instrumentality question! Walkmans were really released successful the UK successful 1979 – but became a staple successful the 1980s.
6. Prince Andrew, Duke of York, served successful the Falklands War arsenic a pilot.
7. Believe it oregon not, Princess Diana’s wedding bid was 25 feet long. Makes sense, considering it was the biggest wedding of the decade.
8. In 1980, astir 1 3rd of Alexandra Palace (or Ally Pally, arsenic we affectionately telephone it) was destroyed by a fire.
9. ‘House of Fun’ was the lone Madness fig 1 deed successful the 1980s.
10. Miss Minogue archetypal recovered fame successful the UK with her opus ‘I Should Be So Lucky’.
11. 200 cardinal Rubik’s Cubes were sold astir the satellite betwixt 1980 and 1983.
12. Liverpool managed to triumph 3 European Cups betwixt 1980 and 1990. Impressive.
13. Queen famously played to a sold retired amusement successful Wembley successful 1986.
14. The BBC archetypal began Red Nose Day successful 1988, and it’s inactive going strong.
15. Princess Diana reportedly gave a backstage show to a theatre successful the West End of ‘Uptown Girl’ successful 1985.

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