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- Which band from Camden Town spent a total of 214 weeks in the UK Singles Charts from 1980 to 1986?
- Which man produced some of the biggest TV hits of the '70s including Charlie's Angels, Fantasy Island and Starsky & Hutch?
- How was the 1980's fitness star Diana Moran better known?
- The popularity of which bike led to a range of smaller bikes with a similar design theme, icluding the Raleigh Chipper and Tomahawk models?
- Who made a brief appearance on Coronation Street as Ken Barlow’s girlfriend Elaine Perkins in 1973?
- Which card game was first published in 1978 with early titles including Battleships, Racing Cars, and Horror?
- Which panel game show hosted by Eamonn Andrews was originally aired on the BBC from 16 July 1951 to 1963?
- Which American prime time television soap opera was a spin-off of Dallas?
- In the UK, Snickers was sold under what brand name until 1990?
- Which popular TV show made Zack Morris a teen heartthrob?
- What was the highest-grossing film of the 1990s?
- The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling debuted in 1997 with which book?
- Which late 1970's television series featured the lead female character, Jaime Sommers?
- What was the four word catchphrase of the Smash Martians?
- Which British TV dance music show hosted by Pete Waterman and Michaela Strachan ran from 1988 until 1992 on ITV's Night Network?
- What did Watneys did launched in 1968 that sold for 15 shillings (or 75 pence in decimal currency)?
- The one pound note ceased to be legal tender on 11 March 1988, it showed portraits of Queen Elizabeth II and which other famous Briton?
- The British children's television series TISWAS aired on Saturday mornings, what did the letters stand for?
- British people stayed up to see Neil Armstrong step onto the surface of the Moon at 3:56 a.m. on a Monday in which month of 1969?
- Which character did Gary Coleman play in Diff'rent Strokes?
- Which company published its first FIFA World Cup sticker album for the 1970 World Cup?
- Jim Bowen would tell contestants that they would receive only their "BFH" if they lost - would did BFH stand for?
- Britain's Daily Mirror in 1980 speculated that which television presenter might have had a hand in the JR shooting?
- In 1999, it seemed everyone was worrying about The Year 2000 problem, to most of us how was this problem better known?
- Who had a serious rivalry with Jurgen Hingsen?
- What name was given to the '90s iconic hairstyle from the sitcom Friends?
- Which band known for their worldwide teen idol popularity were sometimes called the "tartan teen sensations from Edinburgh"?
- What were 18.5 million people in the UK watching in the early hours of Monday 29 April, 1985?
- What name was given to the multiple small units of sweets that Woolworths was well known for?
- In which year did the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer take place?
Answers:
- Madness
- Aaron Spelling
- Green Goddess
- Raleigh Chopper
- Actress Joanna Lumley
- Top Trumps
- What's My Line?
- Knots Landing
- Marathon
- Saved by the Bell
- Titanic (1997)
- The Philosopher's Stone
- The Bionic Woman
- 'For Mash Get Smash'
- The Hitman and Her
- Party Seven
- Sir Isaac Newton
- "Today Is Saturday: Watch And Smile"
- July
- Arnold (Arnold Jackson)
- Panini
- Bus Fare Home
- Terry Wogan
- Millennium Bug
- Daley Thompson
- The Rachel (from the character Rachel Green)
- The Bay City Rollers
- The World Snooker Final (between Dennis Taylor and Steve Davis)
- Pick 'n' mix
- 1981 (July)