Can you name the things that satisfy each category for the period from 1980-1989?

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Category	1980s answer
Olympic Host Cities [6]
Super Bowl Winning Team [6]
World Series Winning Team [9]
Stanley Cup Winning Team [4]
World Cup (soccer) Winning Nation [2]
New United Nations Member [7]
British Prime Minister [1]
Time Person of the Year [9]
Oscar Best Picture [10]
Oscar Best Actor [10]
Oscar Best Actress [10]
General Secretary of the USSR [4]
Roman Catholic Pope [1]
Oscar Best (dramatic) Score (composer) [12]
Tony Best Musical [10]

Category	1980s answer
English Football Champion [4]
Steven Spielberg Directed Movie [8]
New Artist Grammy Winner [10]
Emmy Best Comedy Winner [6]
Emmy Best Drama Winner [5]
Nobel Peace Prize Winner [10]
U.N. Secretary General [2]
Tour de France Winner [6]
American President [3]
#1 Ranked Boys Name (US) [1]
#1 Ranked Girls Name (US) [2]
Newly Discovered Element [3]
Best Selling Author (US) [8]
Artist With 30 Million + Selling Album [4]
Country Boycotting the 1984 Olympics [14]

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1980s Blitz Quiz

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Created Dec 1, 2011 in History
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	1906cubs:	Jan 31st, 2012 at 04:45 GMT		2 points
	Hairspray winning best musical would have fit the decade of hair perfectly. (in name only)

	Jerm:	Jan 31st, 2012 at 04:55 GMT		10 points
	Was so confident that Dexy's Midnight Runners was correct. Every now and then, a Simpson's-based worldview will cost me a point in Sporcle.

	WeaselKing1000:	Jan 31st, 2012 at 07:08 GMT		3 points
	That was great. Had no idea about the 'Best Actress' category, then decided to go for the most obscure Soviet leader and while typing that in, Cher came up for 'Best Actress'. Free answer, ta very much. If I'd gone for anyone other than Chernenko I wouldn't have got it (I'm pretty sure). ;)

	Big_E:	Jan 31st, 2012 at 09:07 GMT		6 points
	Good quiz! Finally a decade where I could type in NY ISLANDERS as a winner! Harder to remember a WS winner when it's not automatically Yankees...

	bedfordfalls:	Jan 31st, 2012 at 11:48 GMT		5 points
	Hey Jerm...I voted for the B-Sharps!

	koopa08:	Jan 31st, 2012 at 11:49 GMT		5 points
	At least I got the element. I'll take it!

	Tony_A:	Jan 31st, 2012 at 12:28 GMT		3 points
	Tried Prince for the Artist with 30 Mil+. never expected him to show up in the Oscar section!

	Tony_A:	Jan 31st, 2012 at 12:33 GMT		0 points
	@Big_E, the 80s were a forgettable period for the Yankees. After losing to the Dodgers in the 1981 WS, they were in a tailspin that wasn't righted until 1993 or so. I was happy that I was able to enter Orioles. I wish Peter Angelos would look to how The Boss was able to right the sinking ship.

	gwynn19:	Jan 31st, 2012 at 12:47 GMT		5 points
	@Tony - while the Yankees didn't make the playoffs from 1982 through 1994, they were the winningest team of the '80s. I wouldn't call that a tailspin.

	Khazar49:	Jan 31st, 2012 at 14:51 GMT		1 point
	I know I wouldn't have guessed the musical if not for the Niners.

	monstro:	Jan 31st, 2012 at 14:54 GMT		7 points
	@gwynn19: Any year the Yankees don't win the Series in four games, their fans call it a "tailspin."

	Tony_A:	Jan 31st, 2012 at 15:02 GMT		3 points
	@gwynn19, I was referring more to the state of the team itself and not the w-l. The Boss had 9 different managers during the decade and changed managers during the season 6 times. He called his best player, and probably the best player in the majors at the time, "The most unproductive .300 batter." He constantly meddled and was generally a horse's patootie.

	moviegoer74:	Jan 31st, 2012 at 15:35 GMT		3 points
	The Yankees did go into a tailspin in the 80s, it just really didn't catch up to them record-wise until 1989 when they went 74-87 and began a stretch of four years in a row of losing records (including going 67-95 in 1990. Imagine the Yankees losing 95 games today? It seems impossible). The seeds for that stretch from 89 through 92 were sown by the chaos throughout the 80s that Tony_A is talking about.

	Blimpyboy:	Jan 31st, 2012 at 15:38 GMT		4 points
	All those shows in the http address are now on Boomerang Saturday mornings. Having a 6-year-old has its advantages.

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	ScottLA:	Jan 31st, 2012 at 18:00 GMT		4 points
	Ugh...spent so long on the Tour de France question trying to think of "that Spanish guy's" name (Indurain), that I ignored a) the easy American answer, and b) the fact that Indurain won his Tours in the 90s anyway. :-P

	gwynn19:	Jan 31st, 2012 at 19:14 GMT		2 points
	I think we're just splitting hairs here. I agree that the Yankees began a rough patch in the late 80s that lasted until the mid-90s. I've just always found it an interesting bit of trivia that, despite the conventional wisdom that the Yankees had a "bad" decade in the 80s, they still finished with more wins than any other team. As you can tell from my avatar/name, I would take that kind of "bad" decade in a heartbeat.

	Statto2:	Jan 31st, 2012 at 19:43 GMT		7 points
	@jshorne - at the moment more people than have named a best picture winner, Soviet leader or best selling author in the US!

	eab21:	Jan 31st, 2012 at 20:04 GMT		2 points
	@jshorne: An apple?

	bcd103:	Jan 31st, 2012 at 21:04 GMT		3 points
	strange that kingsley is more guessed than king

	Funk_in_Trust:	Jan 31st, 2012 at 21:24 GMT		6 points
	is there a way to see all the possible answers?

	Hejman:	Jan 31st, 2012 at 22:29 GMT		1 point
	@Funk_in_Trust- There isn't, but if you email me I'd be happy to send them to you.

	HelloPossum:	Feb 1st, 2012 at 00:00 GMT		2 points
	@ScottLA: That was the easiest one for me, since I had a major crush on Greg LeMond at that time! :-D

	dancastro:	Feb 1st, 2012 at 00:25 GMT		0 points
	@Funk_in_Trust: to know all the possible answers (e.g. all the Oscar best actors of the '80s) is easy to do via Google. What would be really interesting is to know the percentage of each possible answer: how many of the 70.3% that guessed the World Cup (football/soccer) champions entered Italy (champion in 1982) and how many Argentina (champion in 1986)? Currently there's no way to know this.

	snurgery:	Feb 1st, 2012 at 00:57 GMT		2 points
	give us more time.

	JDK:	Feb 1st, 2012 at 01:26 GMT		2 points
	For Time's person of the year, who else thought of Peter Ueberroth before the slightly more obvious choices?

	mas1111:	Jul 7th, 2012 at 00:51 GMT		0 points
	needs more time