Can you solve these real Jeopardy! clues about the 1980s?

- Clue: The song "Kiss" says, "You don't have to watch" this ABC drama "to have an attitude," but many did watch those Carringtons.
- Category: Totally Awesome '80s TV
- Value: $1,200
- Date episode aired: April 30, 2020

"Dynasty" fans will never forget the cliffhanger of the fifth season featuring the infamous wedding massacre. This was the final episode of the season, and it was part of the only season to earn a #1 spot in the Nielsen ratings. No one, not even the cast, knew who survived.

- Clue: "I'm ten years burning down the road."
- Category: '80s Pop Lyrics
- Value: $800
- Date episode aired: Feb. 6, 2020

The prolific song is frequently interpreted to be about patriotism, but it is really about the struggle of Vietnam veterans trying to find work and support in America. President Ronald Reagan referred to the song in his campaign speech.

- Clue: Duuuude! You were a massive Spicoli wearing this brand's checkered slip-on sneakers!
- Category: The Totally RAD '80s
- Value: $400
- Date episode aired: Jan. 7, 2020

Sean Penn's portrayal of surfer Jeff Spicoli in the 1982 film 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High' made Vans checkerboard slip-ons a cultural phenomenon. According to Vans co-founder Paul Van Doren, the company's revenue doubled from around $20 million to $40-45 million after the film's release.

- Clue: This 1980s trio rapped, "It's Christmastime in Hollis, Queens, mom's cooking chicken and collard greens."
- Category: Christmas Rapping
- Value: $1,000
- Date episode aired: Dec. 16, 2019

The group has sold more than 40 million records worldwide and accumulated over a billion streams. Run-D.M.C. was the first rap group to have a gold-certified album with its 1984 self-titled album. In 2009, Run-D.M.C. was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 2016 received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

- Clue: Introduced in the 1980s, this Ferrari has a name that means "redhead."
- Category: Car Talk
- Value: $1,000
- Date episode aired: April 24, 2019

The car was priced at $181,000 in 1989, with an additional tax of $2,700 for gas-guzzling. Today, classic Testarossas average around $176,000, though prices can be much higher depending on condition and provenance.

- Clue: A V-kick & head spins are moves in this type of dancing popular in the 1980s
- Category: Get Your Kicks
- Value: $800
- Date episode aired: April 8, 2019

Breakdancing is also called breaking and B-boying. It started in the 1960s and 1970s in New York City. Breaking made its historic Olympic debut at the 2024 Paris Summer Games, becoming the first dancesport discipline to appear in Summer Olympic history. Japan's B-Girl Ami won gold in the women's event, while Canada's B-Boy Phil Wizard took gold in the men's competition.

- Clue: On a "Manic Monday," this group taught us to "Walk Like an Egyptian."
- Category: 1980s Music
- Value: $200
- Date episode aired: May 2, 2008

The hit soared to top the charts for the all-female band. Their other #1 title was "Eternal Flame."

- Clue: Introduced by Nintendo in 1989, this handheld device was for playing cartridge-loaded amusements.
- Category: The 1980s
- Value: $200
- Date episode aired: Oct. 19, 2018

Game Boy and Game Boy Color revolutionized the way people played games. Today you can find many emulators you can play on your device.

- Clue: A safari-wearing craze was inspired in part by this movie starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford.
- Category: We Love the '80s
- Value: $600
- Date episode aired: April 26, 2018

The movie was based on a book written in 1937 by Karen Blixen-Finecke, who wrote under the name Isak Dinesen. It won seven Oscars, including one for Best Picture.

- Clue: A feminist: "Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry."
- Category: The '80s: Who Said It?
- Value: $400
- Date episode aired: Jan. 2, 2018

Steinem co-founded Ms. magazine in 1972 and served as one of its editors for a decade and a half. Among her myriad accomplishments, she co-produced "Multiple Personalities: The Search for Deadly Memories" for HBO. The documentary won an Emmy award.

- Clue: "Maniac" starring Jennifer Beals
- Category: What '80s movie is that song from?
- Value: $800
- Date episode aired: April 14, 2017

The film was loosely based on the life of Maureen Marder. She received a check from Paramount for $2,300 for the story. "Flashdance" later grossed more than $150 million.

- Clue: His 1987 novel "Texasville" reintroduced the characters of "The Last Picture Show," all 30 years older.
- Category: 1980s Bestsellers
- Value: $1,600
- Date episode aired: Feb. 28, 2017

McMurtry is the author of more than 30 novels. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for "Lonesome Dove" and won an Academy Award in 2006 for co-writing the screenplay for "Brokeback Mountain." McMurtry died on March 25, 2021, at age 84.

- Clue: Back in the '80s, Billy Idol was doing this on the floors of Tokyo and down in London town to go-go.
- Category: Songs of "Myself"
- Value: $200
- Date episode aired: Jan. 19, 2017

Billy Idol was born Nov. 30, 1955. The name Billy Idol was inspired by one of his teachers, who described him as "idle."

- Clue: This first lady set the record straight with her memoir, "My Turn."
- Category: 1980s Books
- Value: $1,200
- Date episode aired: March 14, 2016

Reagan's birth name is Anne Frances Robbins. Her childhood nickname was Nancy, and her stepfather, Dr. Loyal Davis, adopted her when she was 16. She attended Smith College, where she obtained her BA in 1943. Nancy Reagan died on March 6, 2016, just days before this clue aired on "Jeopardy!"

- Clue: Like TV mom Henderson
- Category: Popular 1980s female baby names
- Value: $800
- Date episode aired: March 4, 2016

Florence Henderson was the first female guest host to be on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson." The youngest of 10 children, she could sing 50 songs by heart by age 2. Henderson, beloved as Carol Brady on "The Brady Bunch," died on Nov. 24, 2016, at age 82.

- Clue: Secretary Melanie Griffith tells Harrison Ford, "I have a head for business and a bod for sin," in this film.
- Category: Remember the '80s?
- Value: $1,200
- Date episode aired: May 13, 2015

The film was a big break for actress Melanie Griffith casting her in the spotlight and helping her get sober. Griffith received an Oscar nomination for her role as Tess McGill in the 1988 film directed by Mike Nichols.

- Clue: Tanya Roberts looked "heavenly" when she joined the cast of this series in November 1980.
- Category: 1980s TV
- Value: $400
- Date episode aired: Oct. 28, 2008

The show was slated to be named "Alley Cats" before Kate Jackson suggested a better moniker. The cast wore $20,000 worth of heavenly clothing each week. Roberts, who also starred as a Bond girl in 'A View to a Kill,' died on Jan. 4, 2021, at age 71.

- Clue: This group had 26 #1 country hits in the '80s, including "Feels So Right."
- Category: Musical States
- Value: $1,600
- Date episode aired: Jan. 1, 2009

The cousins sold 73 million albums, were inducted in the Country Music Hall of Fame, and cemented their spot on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The trio began their career at a bar in Myrtle Beach called The Bowery.

- Clue: "Brass Monkey" and "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" were songs on their hit 1986 debut album.
- Category: 1980s Rock
- Value: $600
- Date episode aired: July 21, 2008

Beastie Boy Adam Yauch, aka MCA, died of cancer in 2012. Band members Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz, aka Mike D and Ad-Rock, wrote "Beastie Boys Book" in 2018.

- Clue: "So hurry up and bring your jukebox money," this "is a little old place where we can get together."
- Category: '80s Song Lyrics
- Value: $200
- Date episode aired: April 17, 2008

The B-52's hit "Love Shack" is from their album "Cosmic Thing." "Love Shack" was the most recycled and reissued single from the B-52's.

- Clue: This '80s band's hit "Love Plus One" was a welcome addition to the Billboard charts.
- Category: Math Rock
- Value: $1,000
- Date episode aired: Jan. 11, 2008

The song was the first of four top 10 hits in the U.K. from the debut album of Haircut 100. American MTV fans loved the tribal motif of the song's video.

- Clue: In 1981, Sheena Easton sang, "My baby takes" this, "he works from 9 till 5, and then he takes another home again."
- Category: Yeah, it was the '80s
- Value: $800
- Date episode aired: Dec. 27, 2007

Songbird Sheena Easton had many hits and earned two Grammys. She also pursued acting and adopted two children.

- Clue: In 1986, he played Seth Brundle, whose teleportation experiment is set awry by a fly.
- Category: '80s Movies Memories
- Value: $200
- Date episode aired: May 24, 2007

"Saturday Night Live" fans are clamoring for Goldblum to return to the show to play the fly on Vice President Pence's head. Among his many talents, Goldblum can wiggle his ears one at a time. He demonstrated this knack on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien."

- Clue: This pop star who passed away in 2020 had his first #1 hit in 1980 with "Lady," written by Lionel Richie
- Category: '80s and '90s Hit Parade
- Value: $1,200
- Date episode aired: Oct. 14, 2020

Rogers recorded 24 #1 hits, including favorites like "Lady," "Lucille," "The Gambler," and "She Believes In Me." Kenny Rogers sold more than 120 million albums globally.

- Clue: This term became popular in the late '80s to describe products that aren't harmful to the environment
- Category: It's Hyphenated
- Value: $600
- Date episode aired: March 10, 2016

Along with not harming the environment, eco-friendly products don't add to air, land, and water pollution. People who develop eco-friendly habits tend to use fewer resources and make the most of what they have.

- Clue: Name shared by a 1980s secretary of the interior and a Scottish inventor who improved upon the steam engine.
- Category: James: The First or Last Name
- Value: $200
- Date episode aired: Jan. 7, 2016

The inventor who improved upon the steam engine was born in 1736. James Watt served under President Ronald Reagan and was born in 1938.

- Clue: They won 5 NBA titles in the 1980s
- Category: Sports Dynasties
- Value: $400
- Date episode aired: Nov. 16, 2015

The Lakers won their 17th NBA title in 2020, with LeBron James earning Finals MVP honors. The championship was dedicated to Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, who died earlier that year on Jan. 26, 2020, in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, along with his daughter Gianna and seven others.

- Clue: In "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom," it's the two-word name of Indy's tiny sidekick played by Ke Huy Quan.
- Category: 1980s Movie Characters
- Value: $2,000
- Date episode aired: March 30, 2009

He called George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, "bearded man one and bearded man two", in a phone call to his mother. " His brother was auditioning for the role, but the casting team picked Quan instead. After stepping away from acting for decades, Quan made a triumphant return and won the Academy Award for best supporting actor in 2023 for 'Everything Everywhere All at Once.'

- Clue: Too bad you didn't buy a Birkin one of these in the '80s; now the waiting list can take years.
- Category: Fashion Forward and Backward
- Value: $800
- Date episode aired: March 23, 2009

The ultimate Birkin is the Hermès Birkin. The uber-expensive handbag is spotted on celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Lady Gaga, Victoria Beckham, and Naomi Campbell.

- Clue: Nastassja Kinski unleashes the animal within: "C____ P____"
- Category: _____ In' '80s Movies
- Value: $1,600
- Date episode aired: March 13, 2009

Bo Derek was originally slated to play the lead role. Cougars were dyed black for the film because leopards were not able to be trained.

- Clue: Gnarled Nun
- Category: '80s Bands in other Words
- Value: $800
- Date episode aired: Dec. 7, 2006

Their hit "We're Not Gonna Take It" enraged parents, who brought their concerns to Congress in the 1980s. The song was used by Donald Trump (who stopped using it when asked) and striking teachers.

- Clue: Bette Midler's 1989 hit "Wind Beneath My Wings" was featured in this film co-starring Barbara Hershey.
- Category: The Musical '80s
- Value: $1,200
- Date episode aired: May 19, 2009

The original script was called "Remember Me." The storyline where Cece's husband is a pedophile was cut from the movie.

- Clue: In early 1981, assassination attempts were made on these two men, a U.S. president and a religious leader.
- Category: Ancient History: 1980s
- Value: $800
- Date episode aired: Feb. 12, 2007

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Drifter John Hinckley Jr. tried to assassinate President Reagan after he had addressed a labor meeting at the Washington Hilton. Mehmet Ali Agca shot Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City.

- Clue: William Hurt and Marlee Matlin had a real-life romance when they co-starred in this drama.
- Category: '80s Movies
- Value: $1,200
- Date episode aired: June 14, 2006

The estimated budget for the movie was $10.5 million. The film grossed more than $31.8 million.

- Clue: When Linda Evans decided to leave this series, her character Krystle Carrington slipped into a coma.
- Category: 1980's TV
- Value: $200
- Date episode aired: April 28, 2006

The original name of the show was "Oil." The show was one of the first television outlets that featured a gay character, Steven Carrington.

- Clue: Bailiff Bull Shannon's real first name on this '80s NBC sitcom was Nostradamus.
- Category: Order in the TV Courtroom
- Value: $1,600
- Date episode aired: April 18, 2006

The show was inspired by authentic New York judges. The series did not take on heavy issues intentionally.

- Clue: This Colombian author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.
- Category: The 1980s
- Value: $500
- Date episode aired: Nov. 20, 1985

Before penning novels, he studied law. The famous author died less than eight months before his wife, Mercedes Barcha Pardo.

- Clue: His autobiography was the bestselling hardcover book of the 1980s.
- Category: Non-fiction
- Value: Final Jeopardy!
- Date episode aired: Nov. 24, 1993

His parents immigrated to America from Italy, and in the 1980s, he saved Chrysler from bankruptcy.

- Clue: On Dec. 20, 1989, President Bush sent about 10,000 troops into this country as part of Operation Just Cause.
- Category: The 1980s
- Value: Final Jeopardy!
- Date episode aired: Sept. 30, 1988

Operation Just Cause ended on Jan. 3, 1990. Not since the Vietnam War was such a massive military invasion deployed.

- Clue: Of "Rad," "Rag," "Ram," "Ran," "Rap," and "Rat," the two that were theatrical releases of the '80s.
- Category: Potpourri
- Value: $500 Daily Double
- Date episode aired: Jan. 9, 1987

The original title for "Rad" was "Balls Out." It took two years to complete the making of several hundred costumes for "Ran."

- Clue: On "Newhart," it's the inn in which Dick and Joanna live.
- Category: '80s TV
- Value: $1,000
- Date episode aired: June 22, 1988

If you visit Middlebury, Vermont, you can actually stay at the inn called Waybury Inn. Bob Newhart's keen people-watching skills inspired the show.

- Clue: Divorce after which couples continue living together, it's named for an Aborigine's weapon.
- Category: Words of the '80s
- Value: $100
- Date episode aired: July 16, 1987

Statistics show divorce rates have been on the decline since the 1980s. However, divorce rates have not declined among baby boomers.

- Clue: Mary Wilson's autobiography "Dreamgirl" exposed the dark side of her life in this trio.
- Category: Books of the 1980s
- Value: $600
- Date episode aired: March 3, 1987

In 1988, Diana Ross, Mary Wilson, and Florence Ballard were elected to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. You can find their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in California.

- Clue: In 1984 films, Robert Ginty was "The Exterminator," and he was "The Terminator."
- Category: Films of the '80s
- Value: $200
- Date episode aired: Oct. 29, 1982

He was also a bodybuilder known as the Styrian Oak or Austrian Oak. He was crowned amateur Mr. Universe in 1967.

- Clue: 1989's "The Russia House" was written by this master of spy fiction.
- Category: '80s Lit
- Value: $200
- Date episode aired: Dec. 2, 1996

His real name is David Cornwell. He penned all his works by hand, and his wife subsequently typed them. Le Carré, considered one of the greatest novelists of the postwar era, died on Dec. 12, 2020, at age 89.

- Clue: Sonny Crockett in the '80s, he became Nash Bridges in 1996.
- Category: TV Cops
- Value: $100
- Date episode aired: Oct. 21, 1996

Don Johnson won a Golden Globe for his role as Sonny Crockett in "Miami Vice." The actor has been married four times.

- Clue: This '86 Whitney Houston hit was a remake of a '77 George Benson, not Muhammad Ali, hit.
- Category: Hits of the 1980s
- Value: $200
- Date episode aired: April 20, 1988

The iconic song was written by Linda Creed and Michael Masser. Whitney Houston's version skyrocketed to #1 in the first three weeks.

- Clue: This '80s first lady said, "A woman is like a teabag. It's only when she's in hot water that you realize how strong she is."
- Category: Quotations
- Value: $200
- Date episode aired: Feb. 26, 1997

One of Nancy Reagan's most famous quotes was, "Just say no to drugs." She also said, "Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do."

- Clue: It's the 2-word "clear barrier" keeping women from promotion into upper management
- Category: '80s Words and Phrases
- Value: $700 Daily Double
- Date episode aired: Jan. 30, 1997

The same barriers that held women from higher positions in the '80s exist today, and the definition has been expanded to include minorities as well as women. Reasons for the glass ceiling include sexism and racism, the "second shift" of child care and house work that falls disproportionately on women, lack of good parental leave, and the social forces that encourage men into higher-paying fields while pushing women into lower-paying ones. 

- Clue: Daryl Hannah played the title character in this Steve Martin film based on "Cyrano de Bergerac."
- Category: Films of the '80s
- Value: $300
- Date episode aired: Sept. 17, 1996

Steve Martin commented that the film was the first time he felt respected for his movie role rather than his signature stand-up comedy. The film was the debut of actor Kevin Nealon.