The 80s QuizJamie Coleman Holly HerneLabel: MacmillanDescription: 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 still cool.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 Dooper 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.
