Statistics for Movies by Year, 1970–1989

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Year	Clue	Answer	% Correct
1975	This horror movie makes people afraid to go in the water	Jaws	89%
1979	Sigourney Weaver stars as an action hero in this sci-fi movie	Alien	85%
1986	Paul Hogan makes his film debut as this iconic Australian character	Crocodile Dundee	82%
1973	This martial artist dies of mysterious causes in Hong Kong	Bruce Lee	79%
1981	This movie debuts, starring Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones	Raiders of the Lost Ark	77%
1977	This famous disco movie debuts	Saturday Night Fever	77%
1988	Eddie Murphy stars as an African prince in this movie	Coming to America	75%
1980	Audiences are shocked to learn that Darth Vader is this character's father	Luke Skywalker	72%
1989	Kevin Costner stars in this baseball movie, his second in as many years	Field of Dreams	71%
1971	Clint Eastwood stars in this movie about a hard-boiled San Francisco cop	Dirty Harry	69%
1982	This movie, better known as Rambo, hits theaters	First Blood	68%
1972	This movie, based on a Mario Puzo novel, hits theaters	The Godfather	66%
1970	George C. Scott stars as this famous WWII general	George S. Patton	64%
1985	Oprah Winfrey makes her film debut in this Steven Spielberg film	The Color Purple	63%
1984	Prince stars in this musical drama	Purple Rain	62%
1976	Damien is an antichrist child in this horror movie	The Omen	60%
1978	This independent film festival, chaired by Robert Redford, occurs for the first time	Sundance	55%
1987	This movie premieres. Little does the audience know that two of its actors would go on to become U.S. state governors.	Predator / The Running Man	48%
1974	Steve McQueen and O.J. Simpson star in this movie about a burning skyscraper	The Towering Inferno	47%
1983	The only winning move is not to play in this Cold War movie	WarGames	42%