How well do you remember the 80s?

A Royal wedding, miners strikes, the Cold War and Margaret Thatcher – the eighties were a wild ride from start to finish.

Can you believe it was over four decades ago? Metro decided to take a trip down memory lane and see just how much we remember from the crazy eighties.

The decade began with the Summer Olympics in Moscow – then, the Soviet Union – along with the introduction of Pac-Man.

By the time 1989 rolled around, the Berlin Wall fell down, the internet had been created and the first GPS satellite was created.

The Stone Roses, Madonna, Live Aid, EastEnders, shoulder pads were all the rage – we remember it all. Let’s see if you do.

1. What year did Madonna break into the UK charts with her first number one single?
2. Where did Ronald Reagan deliver his speech urging Mikhael Gorbachev to ‘tear down this wall’?
3. What was the biggest film of the 1980s?
4. Who was the first American woman to travel to space in 1983?
5. What year did Sony release their pocket-sized music player, the Walkman?
6. Which member of the Royal Family served in the Falklands War?
7. How long was Princess Diana’s wedding train when she married then Prince Charles in 1981?
8. Which iconic London venue was destroyed by a fire in 1980?
9.  Madness had 15 top ten hits in the 80s but only one of them reached number one – which one?
10. What was the title of Kylie Minogue’s first UK chart-topper?
11. How many millions of Rubik’s Cubes were sold between 1980 and 1983?
12. How many European Cups did Liverpool FC win in the 1980s?
13. What year did Queen play at Wembley?
14. When did the BBC Red Nose Day first begin?
15. Which year did Princess Diana perform a dance to Billy Joel’s ‘Uptown Girl’?

Do you think you remember all of the major events we’ve mentioned above? Don’t fret if you haven’t – we’ve put the answers for you below.

1. 1985 – her first hit single in the UK was ‘Get Into The Groove’.
2. Berlin. Ronald Reagan gave his famous speech outside of the Brandenburg Gate during the height of the Cold War.
3. Stephen Spielberg’s ‘E.T: The Extraterrestrial’ was the biggest film of the 1980s.
4. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space in 1983.
5. This one was a bit of a trick question! Walkmans were actually released in the UK in 1979 – but became a staple in the 1980s.
6. Prince Andrew, Duke of York, served in the Falklands War as a pilot.
7. Believe it or not, Princess Diana’s wedding train was 25 feet long. Makes sense, considering it was the biggest wedding of the decade.
8. In 1980, around one third of Alexandra Palace (or Ally Pally, as we affectionately call it) was destroyed by a fire.
9. ‘House of Fun’ was the only Madness number one hit in the 1980s.
10. Miss Minogue first found fame in the UK with her song ‘I Should Be So Lucky’.
11. 200 million Rubik’s Cubes were sold around the world between 1980 and 1983.
12. Liverpool managed to win three European Cups between 1980 and 1990. Impressive.
13. Queen famously played to a sold out show in Wembley in 1986.
14. The BBC first began Red Nose Day in 1988, and it’s still going strong.
15. Princess Diana reportedly gave a private performance to a theatre in the West End of ‘Uptown Girl’ in 1985.

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