Vintage Slang 2
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15 questions · Published February 20, 2024
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. What sport popularized 1980s slang terms like "tubular," "gnarly," and "radical"?
Surfers popularized numerous slang phrases in the 1980s, including "dude," "grom," "gnarly," and "tubular."
- Multiple Choice
2. Which of these traditional men's names is also slang for vomiting?
FUN FACT
The first known use of "ralph" to mean vomiting came in the late 1960s.
- Multiple Choice
3. Which 1980s John Hughes classic introduced the phrase "Eat my shorts" years before Bart Simpson popularized it?
Bender's lengthy back-and-forth with Principal Vernon that results in two months worth of detention is initially started with a curt "Eat my shorts" from Bender in John Hughes's "The Breakfast Club" (1985).
- Fill In The Blank
4. In the 1980s, Southern California Valley girls commonly expressed their disgust with a sarcastic "Gag me with a __________."
Nothing expressed disgust from a Valley girl quite like a well timed "Gag me with a spoon."
- Multiple Choice
5. Which of these fist fight souvenirs would you have in 1800s London if you had "copped a mouse" during the melee?
In a Victorian London fist fight, to "cop a mouse" is to get a black eye.
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