Statistics for The 1980's: A to Z

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	Hint	Answer	% Correct
B	Devisive structure in Central Europe that came down in 1989	Berlin Wall	99%
C	1982 Broadway musical that ran for eighteen years.	Cats	89%
F	The U.K. and Argentina fought a war over this arcipelago in 1982.	Falkland Islands	86%
I	Australian rock band famous for the singles "Need You Tonight" and "Never Tear Us Apart."	INXS	84%
A	He was romantically and professionally linked with Mia Farrow for the whole of the decade. It ultimately didn't end well.	Woody Allen	81%
G	The last General Secretary of the Soviet Union.	Mikhail Gorbachev	78%
J	African-American civil rights leader who tried to gain the Democratic nomination for president in both 1984 and 1988.	Jesse Jackson	73%
Y	Acronym coined for status seeking go-getters of the Reagan years.	Yuppie	73%
D	Short lived, futuristic sports car imortalized in "Back to the Future."	DeLorean DMC-12	72%
O	Jane Fonda starred with Katharine Hepburn and her Dad in this 1981 movie.	On Golden Pond	72%
E	Lead singer of the Miami Sound Machine.	Gloria Estefan	71%
R	Sitcom that premired in 1988 about the blue colar Connor family of Landford, Illinois.	Roseanne	67%
X	Notoriously (and hillariously) bad roller skating movie with Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly.	Xanadu	65%
S	Host city for the 1988 Summer Olympics.	Seoul	62%
W	Nostalgic "dramadey" about a young boy named Kevin Arnold (Fred Savage) coming of age in the late 1960's.	The Wonder Years	61%
V	Like, they were total crimped haired, mall hopping, fast talking girls from Southern California and the name of a Julien Temple film, okayy.	Valley Girl	61%
T	Heavy Metal band that proudly (and loudly) proclaimed "We're Not Gonna Take It!"	Twisted Sister	57%
H	Her self-titled debut album was the best-selling LP of 1986.	Whitney Houston	56%
N	Retired Marines Corps Lieutenant Colonel convicted in the Iran-Contra Affair (his conviction was later reversed).	Oliver North	52%
L	Became Johnny Carson's "Permanent Guest Host" in 1987.	Jay Leno	49%
U	John Travolta movie that prompted many a tavern owner to purchase a mechanical bull.	Urban Cowboy	49%
M	Legal drama starring Andy Griffith.	Matlock	48%
Q	Video game about an odd looking little orange creature who hops around on a stack of cubes and is known to curse when attacked by a foe.	Q*Bert	39%
K	Mayor of New York City for the entire decade.	Edward I. Koch	33%
P	Economic policy set forth by Letter "G," the English translation of which is "restructuring."	Perestroika	28%
Z	In 1987, cartoonist Tom Wilson II has drawn this comic strip created by his father.	Ziggy	18%