Do you remember the 1980s? The decade of bad hair and even worse fashion, but great music and movies! If you think so, test your knowledge with these fun 80s trivia questions, with answers.
Table of contents
- 80s sports trivia questions.
- General 80s trivia questions.
- 80s music trivia questions.
- 80s movie trivia questions.
- 80s T.V. trivia questions.
80s sports trivia questions
Question 1
Who won the most NBA championships in the 80s?
Question 2
Which boxer had the nickname Marvelous?
Question 3
Which Spanish golfer won the 1980 Masters Tournament?
Question 4
In 1988, which horse became only the third filly in history to win the Kentucky derby?
Question 5
In which American city were the 1984 Summer Olympics held?
Question 6
Which baseball player hit the most home runs in the 1980s?
Question 7
Which soccer player scored the “Hand of God” goal against England in the quarter finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup?
Question 8
Which NFL team won 4 Super Bowls in the 1980s?
Question 9
Which tennis player won wimbledon in 1985 at the age of 17?
Question 10
Which ice skating duo won gold at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo with their Boléro routine?
Question 11
Which legendary racing driver made his Formula One debut in the Brazilian Grand Prix in 1985?
Question 12
Greg LeMond won the 1989 Tour de France by how many seconds?
Question 13
The first ever rugby union World Cup was jointly hosted by which two countries in 1987?
Question 14
Which tennis player won all four Grand Slams and the Olympic gold medal in 1988?
Question 15
Which Canadian sprinter was disqualified after winning the men’s 100 meters final at the 1988 Olympics?
Question 16
Which city’s inaugural marathon took place on March 29, 1981?
Question 17
In 1985, which team became the lowest seeded team ever to win an NCAA basketball title?
Question 18
Which was the only AFC team to win the Super Bowl in the 1980s?
Question 19
Which golfer won his only U.S. Open in 1982?
Question 20
The movie Cool Runnings tells the story of which nation’s bobsled team at the 1988 Winter Olympic Games?
General 80s trivia questions
Question 1
What was the top selling video game of the 80s?
Question 2
Which singer released a parody of the Michael Jackson song Beat It in 1984?
Question 3
Which actor died of Aids on October 2, 1985?
Question 4
Which puzzle, which went on to become the best-selling puzzle game ever, was first released in May 1980?
Question 5
Which Oscar-winning actress released an exercise video in 1982?
Question 6
Which video game console was first released in Japan in 1983 as the Family Computer (FC)?
Question 7
Which home computer, introduced in January 1982, is still the biggest-selling single computer model ever?
Question 8
The wreck of which ship was discovered on September 1, 1985?
Question 9
Which musical, based on a poetry collection by T. S. Eliot, made its Broadway debut on October 7, 1982?
Question 10
In what square were Chinese student protesters massacred in 1989?
Question 11
Which news network launched on June 1, 1980?
Question 12
Which famous suspense movie director died on April 29, 1980?
Question 13
Which Disney park, which opened on April 15, 1983, was the first to be built outside the United States?
Question 14
Who became General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1985?
Question 15
Which brand of sunglasses were popularized by the 1986 movie Top Gun?
Question 16
The first WrestleMania took place on March 31, 1985 at which arena?
Question 17
Who voiced the monologue on Michael Jackson’s song “Thriller”?
Question 18
In the original Pac-Man arcade game, what color did the ghosts have to be for Pac-Man to eat them?
Question 19
In what year was the Berlin Wall torn down?
Question 20
What was the biggest selling car in the USA in 1989?
80s music trivia questions
Question 1
Which model had a 1985 hit with the song “Slave to the Rhythm”?
Question 2
Vince Neil was the lead singer for what 80s rock band?
Question 3
How many albums did Prince release in the 80s?
Question 4
What was the top selling album of the 80s in the USA?
Question 5
Who had a huge worldwide hit in the 1980s with the song “Lady in Red”?
Question 6
Donnie Wahlberg was a member of which boyband in the 1980s?
Question 7
Which Ben E. King song, originally released in 1961, became a hit in 1986 after featuring on the soundtrack of a film with the same name?
Question 8
Who had a number 1 hit with the song “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)” in 1987?
Question 9
The rock band Queen wrote and performed the soundtrack to which 1980 film?
Question 10
Which Norwegian band had a worldwide hit with the song “Take On Me” in the mid 80s?
Question 11
Belinda Carlisle was a member of which girl group before embarking on her solo career in 1985?
Question 12
What 80s band was known for their crazy hair and the song “I Ran (So Far Away)”?
Question 13
Which duo had a 1982 number 1 hit with their song “Maneater”?
Question 14
What was the name of Prince’s band in the mid 80s?
Question 15
Which singer had huge hits in the 1980s with the songs “Gloria” and “Self Control”?
Question 16
Who reached number-one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart on March 15, 1986 with the song “Sara”?
Question 17
Which hip-hop group told us to “Push It” in 1987?
Question 18
Which Scottish band’s song “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” was featured in the movie The Breakfast Club?
Question 19
Whose debut album, released in 1983, was titled “She’s So Unusual”?
Question 20
Who hit the top of the US charts in 1985 with the song “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”?
80s movie trivia questions
Question 1
What 80s heartthrob made his big-screen debut in Wes Craven’s “A Nightmare on Elm Street” in 1984?
Question 2
Who played Superman in 3 movies in the 80s?
Question 3
Who was the 80s Canadian superstar actor who went “Back to the Future”?
Question 4
Which 80s movie helped popularize Vans footwear?
Question 5
What was the highest grossing movie of the 1980s?
Question 6
Jeff Bridges appeared in which 2010 sequel to a classic 1980s movie?
Question 7
What 1980s movie stars Jennifer Beals as an aspiring dance working as a welder in a steel mill?
Question 8
What type of car was the time travel machine in the movie “Back to the Future”?
Question 9
What musical movie about a giant man-eating plant was released in 1986?
Question 10
How many “A Nightmare on Elm Street” movies were made in the 1980s?
Question 11
What was the title of the first Rambo movie, released in 1982?
Question 12
Who played Annie in the 1982 movie of the same name?
Question 13
Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy all starred in which 1985 coming-of-age movie?
Question 14
Who starred as Teen Wolf in the 1985 movie?
Question 15
What was the title of the third Star Wars film, released on May 25, 1983?
Question 16
What is the name of the pirate whose treasure a group of kids set out to find in the 1985 movie The Goonies?
Question 17
What were the names of the Blues Brothers in the 1980 film?
Question 18
“Nobody puts Baby in a corner” is a famous line from which 1987 film?
Question 19
What was the title of the second Indiana Jones movie, released in 1984?
Question 20
Which actor starred in the 1980s movies Witness, Blade Runner and Working Girl?
80s TV trivia questions
Question 1
Who played Macgyver in the original 80s TV show?
Question 2
Which 1980s soap opera starred Blake Carrington, Linda Evans and Joan Collins?
Question 3
Who starred as Punky Brewster in the 80s sitcom of the same name?
Question 4
In what year was MTV launched?
Question 5
What TV science fiction sitcom featured a robot girl called Vicki?
Question 6
What was the title of the action TV series, in which Lee Majors played Steve Austin, a secret agent with bionic implants?
Question 7
Face and Hannibal were characters in which 1980s action TV show?
Question 8
In the show The Dukes of Hazzard, what did the P stand for in Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane’s name?
Question 9
Who shot J.R. Ewing in Dallas?
Question 10
Who played Jackie Templeton on General Hospital in the 1980s?
Question 11
What was the name of the Hart’s pet dog in the show Hart to Hart?
Question 12
What were the nicknames of the two main characters in Miami Vice?
Question 13
Which sitcom did Nancy Reagan make s cameo appearance on in 1983, as part of her Just Say No anti-drugs campaign?
Question 14
Angela Channing was the corrupt matriarch in which 1980s soap opera, that was described as “Dallas with grapes”?
Question 15
Which 1980s TV show, based on the film of the same name, followed the lives of the students and faculty at the New York City High School for the Performing Arts?
Question 16
What was the name of the artificially intelligent car in the show Knight Rider?
Question 17
In the sitcom ALF, what did ALF stand for?
Question 18
In the show Fantasy Island, what was the name of the mysterious Mr. Roarke’s assistant?
Question 19
What are the names of Higgins’ two Doberman dogs in Magnum P.I.?
Question 20
Who played the Incredible Hulk in the 80s TV show?
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