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What city's 1983 crime commission listed
1,081 unsolved mob murders since 1919?Chicago's
What oil company did Chevron buy for more
than $13 billion in 1984?Gulf Oil Corporation
Who did "Fortune" magazine claim was the
world's richest woman in 1987?Queen Elizabeth II
What country imported $700 million worth of
Iranian oil during the summer of 1987?The U.S.
How many U.S. states legally allowed
cockfighting in 1987?Five
What country allowed its Baptist Union to
import 20,000 Bibles and hymn books in 1987?The Soviet Union
What dropped 508.32 points on October 19,
1987?The Dow Jones Industrial Average
How many men did Bernhard Goetz shoot?Four
Who was born last - Jessica Hahn, Fawn Hall
or Donna Rice?Jessica Hahn
What name was shared by all three candidates
for the South Korean presidency in 1987?Kim
What Reagan staff member's weight problems
earned him the nickname "The Heifer"?Howard Baker's
What magnate spent $2 million dredging a
channel to accommodate his 282-foot yacht?Donald Trump
What kind of weapon did James Barrett Drake
try to hijack an Air Canada jet with in 1987?An ax
What South Pacific country celebrated its
200th year of white settlement in 1988?Australia
What troubled U.S. automaker's British
subsidiary was renamed Talbot in 1980?Chrysler's
What was the world's largest debtor nation at
the end of 1988?The United States
What do stock market vets call October 19,
1987?
Black Monday
Whose 1,000th day as a hostage was December
10, 1987?Terry Anderson's
What country did Vietnam officials confirm it
lost 50,000 invaders in?Kampuchea (Cambodia)
Who said in 1988: "The Soviet people want ...
full-blooded and unconditional democracy"?Mikhail Gorbachev
What scandal was the Tower Commission chosen
to investigate?The Iran-Contra scandal
What year saw the Dow Jones Industrial
Average hit 2,000 for the first time?1987
What year marked the bicentennial of the
French Revolution?1989
What magazine is former Secretary of Defense
Caspar Weinberger publisher of?"Forbes"
What Latin leader was accused of selling U.S.
secrets to Cuba and the Soviet Union in 1987?Manuel Antonio Noriega
What former U.S. president blew out 75
birthday candles on July 14, 1988?Gerald Ford
What U.S. city endured more gang murders in
1988 than all the homicides in all of Europe?Los Angeles
What widow said no to major involvement in
Philippine politics, on September 4, 1983?Corazon Aquino
What's the first grade in which Georgia
school kids start receiving sex education?Grade One
What country did Iraq accuse of supplying
Iran with arms, way back in July, 1983?The United States
What president's autographed photo was worth
$350 in 1988?Ronald Reagan's
Who called Ronald Reagan's programs "voodoo
economics" in April, 1980?George Bush
What country builds Silkworm missiles?China
What does the U.S. Surgeon General refer to
as "STDs"?Sexually transmitted diseases
Who admitted, fifty years after the fact: "My
compass froze. I guess I flew the wrong way"?Wrong-Way Corrigan
What country did Pope John Paul II ask in
1983 to abolish martial law?Poland
Who introduced Teddy Kennedy at the 1988
Democratic National Convention?John Kennedy Jr.
What Charles Manson devotee was sent to a
women's prison in Marianna, Florida, in 1988?Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme
What country announced the results of the
largest census in history in 1982?China
Who angered Israel by according Yasir Arafat
a private audience in 1982?Pope John Paul II
Who amassed one percent of the vote at Iowa's
1988 Democratic Presidential Primary?Gary Hart
What U.S. agency finally caught up with the
Reverend Sun Myung Moon in 1982?The Internal Revenue Service
What Greek island did Michael Dukakis'
father leave to seek his fortune in 1912?Lesbos
Who once asked the free world to "leave
Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history"?Ronald Reagan
What city saw 241 Marines killed just two
days before 1900 of them stormed Grenada?
Beirut
Who began steering the Soviet ship of state
after Yuri Andropov dropped off?Konstantin Chernenko
What organization was outlawed in Poland in
1981?Solidarity
What was being processed in the 19 jungle
labs raided by Colombian cops in March, 1984?Cocaine
What country was the world's biggest lender
at the end of the 1980s?Japan
Which country invaded the other first in 1980
 - Iran or Iraq?Iraq
What drug brought huge riches to former
Colombian TV and whisky smuggler Fabio Ochoa?Cocaine
What was the first independent labor union in
the Soviet bloc?Solidarity
What country did Ronald Reagan claim was the
victim of a Sandinista "invasion" in 1988?Honduras
What "first" was achieved when Lee Roy Young
Jr. was sworn in as a Texas Ranger in 1988?The first black Texas Ranger
What's the FBI sting name "Abscam" short for?Arab scam
Who did Jimmy Carter hope would arrive home
on his last full day in office?The American hostages in Iran
What U.S. city was the first to aid blind
tourists with Braille maps?Washington, D.C.
What Pole did some 1.5 million Zaireans flock
to see in 1980?Pope John Paul II
What two nations went to war       in 1980 over the oil-rich province of Khuzistan?Iran and Iraq
What kind of plants did the U.S. Supreme
Court give states the power to ban in 1983?Nuclear power plants
Who called the assassination of Benigno
Aquino a "communist rub-out job"?Ferdinand Marcos
What group did the Boland Amendment nix
covert aid to?The Contras
What river's water flow was the greatest in
the U.S. in June of the hot summer of '88?The Columbia's
What gift did Palm Springs mayor Sonny Bono
take to Ed Koch on a 1988 visit to New York?A palm tree
What Latin leader's not-so-perfect complexion
earned him the nickname "The Pineapple"?Manuel Antonio Noriega's
What Marxist country has often closed down
its only opposition newspaper, "La Prensa"?Nicaragua
What reformed jewel thief addressed President
Reagan's 1987 National Prayer Breakfast?Jack "Murph the Surf" Murphy
What southern U.S. city elected Xavier
Suarez its first Cuban-born mayor?Miami
What court did Robert Bork quit before
hitting the lecture circuit in 1988?The Federal Court of Appeals
What country had Iraq sold 150 captured
Iranian tanks to by November, 1987?Iran
What pipe-puffer succeeded Robert McFarlane
as U.S. National Security Advisor?John Poindexter
What country became a debtor nation in 1985,
for the first time since 1914?The U.S.
What Reagan cabinet member testified before
grand juries 11 times in 1987?Ed Meese
Who was the youngest leader of the Soviet
Union before Mikhail Gorbachev took over?Joseph Stalin
Who was the only Reagan cabinet member to
sport a tiger tattoo on his buttocks?George Schultz
Who prophetically announced, on being
re-elected: "You ain't seen nothin' yet"?Ronald Reagan
What already troubled nation saw 392 killed
in Africa's worst-ever train wreck in 1984?Ethiopia
What was the deadliest war of the 1980s?The Iran-Iraq War
What did Jesse Jackson propose should be made
a state?Washington, D.C.
What politician repeatedly called Ted Koppel
"Dan" during a 1988 interview on "Nightline"?George Bush
What industry did the U.S. government impose
the Windfall Profits Tax on in 1980?The oil industry
What did NASA name the 85-ton orbiter built
to replace the "Challenger"?"Discovery"
What feverishly spiritual country demanded
$24 billion from the U.S. in December, 1980?Iran
What age did Mark David Chapman and John
Hinckley share when they shot to infamy?Twenty-five
What country was called an "aircraft carrier"
for Contra actions against Nicaragua?Honduras
What European power elected its first
Socialist president in 1988?France
What politician was Londell Williams arrested
for threatening to kill in 1988?Jesse Jackson
What breed of dog were seven U.S. citizens
killed by in 1986?The pit bull
What country's air force wiped out Iraq's
nuclear reactor in 1981?Israel's
What were 15 Wall Street workers arrested for
using as currency in financial deals in 1987?Cocaine
Who pleaded not guilty - Mark David Chapman
or John Hinckley Jr.?John Hinckley Jr.
What organization did 100,000 Italians
demonstrate against in Palermo in 1982?The Mafia
What scheme did Ronald Reagan call "a vision
of the future which offers hope"?The Strategic Defense Initiative
What child was William Stern awarded custody
of on March 31, 1987?Baby M
What company claimed to be the largest U.S.
employer of unskilled workers in 1987?McDonald's
What Nobel Prize winner landed a job at the
Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland?Lech Walesa
What did Aloha Flight 243 lose 18 feet of
while flying over Hawaii in 1988?Its fuselage
How much was Mary Beth Whitehead to be paid
for giving birth to Baby M?$10,000
What dioxin-containing defoliant did 20,000
Vietnam vets claim in 1983 to be infected by?Agent Orange
Who called Oliver North "every secretary's
dream of a boss"?Fawn Hall
What Reagan cabinet member was finally
succeeded by Richard Thornburgh?Ed Meese
What superpower did the Vatican finally
accord complete diplomatic links to in 1982?The U.S.
What state was the site of the Baby M trial?New Jersey
What war did the United Nations outline an
end to with Resolution 598?The Iran-Iraq War
Who was the only U.S. presidential hopeful to
meet with Fidel Castro in 1984?Jesse Jackson
What year in the '80s did the U.S. end
diplomatic ties with Iran?1980
What New England senator succeeded Cyrus
Vance as Secretary of State in 1980?Edmund Muskie
What company became the largest U.S. firm to
file for bankruptcy in April, 1987?Texaco
What was the Soviet Union's 94-year-old
Vyacheslav Molotov allowed to rejoin in 1984?The Communist Party
What African leader admitted in 1984 that
he'd sent arms to the Sandinistas?Muammar Khadafy
What Latin American leader's riot troops were
dubbed "The Dobermans"?Manuel Antonio Noriega's
What East Coast governor signed the first
U.S. bill to try to stop acid rain?Mario Cuomo
What state holiday did Arizona governor Evan
Mecham cancel?Martin Luther King Day
Who, in 1987, referred to the recently-bombed
warship "U.S.S. Stark" as a "plane"?Ronald Reagan
What country had the third-largest defense
budget at the end of the '80s?Japan
What crime family lost its head when "Big
Paul" Castellano was erased by bullets?The Gambinos
Which two seasons of 1987 saw Americans
watching the Iran-Contra hearings live on TV?Spring and summer
What country promised a memorial in 1988 to
13,000 troops killed in action?The Soviet Union
What Caribbean country's presidency did Henri
Namphy assume after a 1988 military coup?Haiti
Who won the most states in the 1984
Democratic presidential primaries?Gary Hart