The Totally Awesome 80s! If you can name all the members of Duran Duran, lip synch with perfection to a song by Milli Vanilli, or out-dance Madonna in her “Lucky Star” music video, then this is the perfect book for you! It’s all here, from a-ha to ZZ Top. So, slip on your leg warmers or your “Frankie Says Relax” shirt, open a can of New Coke, and put on a Culture Club CD, it’s time to take a trip back to the Wild and Wacky 80s, the most totally awesome decade of all time! Open up this book and you’re sure to have a gnarly good time!!!

Take a fantastical journey through the 1980s, as we uncover every riveting storyline that dominated the "decedent decade." Revisit, or explore for the first time, the big stories and the forgotten facts of ten fast-paced years that would reshape the world, and lay the foundation for the way we live today. Discover the events that gripped the world through hijackings, bombings, and hostage standoffs, during a decade dominated by international terrorism. Read the stories of serial killers on the run, and military battles that transformed continents. Follow Madonna and Michael Jackson as they took their awe-inspiring acts to the top of the charts, surrounded by a new MTV culture. Take a joyride through a new age of cinema dominated by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, and their endearing heroes. Go to battle with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, and find out how Meryl Streep mesmerized audiences with six Oscar-nominated performances. You will also find the answers to the following questions: Why did President Reagan's would-be assassin put a bullet in his chest, and what "affair" discredited Reagan's administration? What prompted First Lady Nancy Reagan to ask America to "Just Say No." What catastrophic event sidelined the U.S. Space program? What toys and video games made every child's wish list? Why did Time magazine stray from their annual "Person of the Year" to award the "Machine of the Year", and how did Bill Gates and Steve Jobs become international icons? How did Oprah and Geraldo Rivera build a daytime talk show empire? What made Bill Cosby a national icon and America's dad, long before the sex scandal that would completely derail him?

Take a fantastical journey through the 1980s, as we uncover every riveting storyline that dominated the "decedent decade." Revisit, or explore for the first time, the big stories and the forgotten facts of ten fast-paced years that would reshape the world, and lay the foundation for the way we live today.Discover the events that gripped the world through hijackings, bombings, and hostage standoffs, during a decade dominated by international terrorism. Read the stories of serial killers on the run, and military battles that transformed continents.Follow Madonna and Michael Jackson as they took their awe-inspiring acts to the top of the charts, surrounded by a new MTV culture.Take a joyride through a new age of cinema dominated by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, and their endearing heroes. Go to battle with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, and find out how Meryl Streep mesmerized audiences with six Oscar-nominated performances.You will also find the answers to the following questions:- Why did President Reagan's would-be assassin put a bullet in his chest, and what "affair" discredited Reagan's administration?- What prompted First Lady Nancy Reagan to ask America to "Just Say No."- What catastrophic event sidelined the U.S. Space program?- What toys and video games made every child's wish list?- Why did Time magazine stray from their annual "Person of the Year" to award the "Machine of the Year", and how did Bill Gates and Steve Jobs become international icons?- How did Oprah and Geraldo Rivera build a daytime talk show empire?- What made Bill Cosby a national icon and America's dad, long before the sex scandal that would completely derail him?

Put your general knowledge to the test, and impress your family and friends with your astonishing brainpower and trivia genius. An addictive quiz book for all the family featuring 10,000 questions, The Big Quiz Book has something for everyone. With 10 different general knowledge categories - from Science & Technology, Art & Literature, and Natural History, to Food & Drink, Film & TV, and Sport & Leisure - and three increasing levels of difficulty, it offers a fresh and up-to-the-minute quizzing experience that will educate and entertain all the family. Bursting with fascinating facts to boost your trivia knowledge, whatever your specialist subject or your nemesis topic, The Big Quiz Book is perfect for home entertainment and virtual pub quizzes. You won't be able to put it down!

The Totally Awesome 80s TV Trivia Book! If you ever uttered the phrases "Kiss My Grits", "I Pity the Fool", "Well, Isn't That Special?" or "Whatchutalkin'bout?", then this is the perfect book for you! Take a trip back to the real Golden Age of Television: the 1980s! Do You Remember: Who shot J.R.? What was the name of the only female Smurf? What planet was Mork from originally? What was the name of the car on Knight Rider? If you can answer these questions, see how much more useless trivia you remember from the Reagan Era. So, grab your No. 2 pencils, gather around a group of your friends and have a Totally Awesome good time travelling back to the coolest decade of all: the 1980s! Who said watching television never taught you anything?

Knock back a brew and play a few rounds of the greatest, most fascinating, and hilarious pub trivia ever devised, written by 12-time Jeopardy! champion Austin Rogers, a longtime New York City bartender and pub trivia host for 15 years.

The 1980s--the decade that brought us Madonna and MTV, Smurfs and Michael Dukakis, yuppies and Nancy Reagan--are brought gloriously to life in Rambo Reagan an exhaustive compendium of the people, places, and events that made up that hedonistic, materialistic decade. The book features more than 1,400 clever and challenging questions. 29 photos.