The 80s Quiz

Let’s be honest, being an eighties kid was the best. You could play outside because paedophiles hadn’t been formally invented yet. Computers couldn’t talk to each other: they had to live, silent but next to each other, in places called arcades.

Findus Crispy Pancakes, Viennetta, or perhaps signor would prefer some of Gino Ginelli’s Toffee Fooogee?

Playing games on Ceefax. Bagpuss, Fingermouse, Button Moon. Beat that. Looking at the world though your View-Master. Being stressed about acid rain and the hole in the ozone layer (which are both okay now?). Five hours of cartoons on a Saturday morning, most of which were reverse-engineered adverts for plastic toys. 0181 811 8181!

New Wave, post-punk. Madonna! Taping the radio. The air heady with the co-mingling scent of Cool Water and Obsession. Though admittedly it wasn’t a wholly positive thing long-term, smoking was stillcool.

Here, in quiz book form, is a celebration of those glorious years. There are more than 500 questions across Film, TV, Music, Arts & Culture, Current Affairs, Food and Drink, Games and Toys, Celebrities, Sport, Fashion and Design, Technology, Crazes & Fads, Idioms and Sayings, and Books and Magazines. And with one Super Duper Impossibly Hard question per round, there’s something for everyone.

And the best thing is, you don’t have to have that haircut this time around.