Can You Answer These Questions About the Year 1985?

Do you remember DOS? Of course not, nobody does. That's because Windows came along and saved us from having to type in all sorts of codes.

The number is a lot higher now, relative to ... well, just about everything. If you wanted to buy a house in the USA, the '80s was the last time it was genuinely easy to do for a middle-class family on a single income.

Gibraltar is British but Spain wants it back. The people of Gibraltar don't want to go back, hence the issue. Things have been a lot better since 1985, though.

Calvin and Hobbes made their debut in November. At its peak the comic was in over 2,000 newspapers!

It sounds hard to believe, but the DGSE (French CIA) literally sent an agent undercover onto the Rainbow Warrior. They put limpet mines on the hull and blew it up!

Spanning 2,448 miles from Chicago to Santa Monica, Route 66 was iconic. It featured in thousands and thousands of songs.

Mikhail Gorbachev was the new Soviet leader, replacing Konstantin Chernenko. Only four years later, the Soviet Union fell and the Cold War was over.

Nintendo was just glorious to those who had never had videogames at home before. The first homes to get them could guarantee popularity for their child no matter what his or her personality - until the price came down enough for everyone else to get one.

Japan did not have its own space capacity, but it was working with allies using its NASDA agency. By 1992, Japanese astronauts were in space!

Coca Cola made a terrible mistake with this horrible stuff. It was undrinkable and awful, and swiftly withdrawn.

This movie based on Alice Walker's book was heavily accoladed but did not win the Oscar. However, it was the fourth highest grossing movie of the year!

Michael Jordan was the first true megastar in basketball. His endorsement deals set a new precedent for what top athletes could earn.

A monster 8.1 earthquake struck Mexico City. Mexico is a vastly wealthier nation now than it was then, and building codes are greatly improved, but at the time it was not very able to cope and thus 9,000 people died.

Becker was only 17 when he won Wimbledon. That made him the youngest player ever to clinch the men's title and launched a star.

Many members of the Ethiopian Jewish minority were in Sudan when civil war broke out and caused a famine. Israel sent an airlift to rescue them and bring them to Israel for a safer life.

A volcano erupted and killed 25,000 people. The volcano had been dormant 69 years and people assumed it would never go off again, resulting in them not heeding warnings that it was looking more active.

This hijacking resulted in 56 deaths during a commando raid to rescue passengers. The policy of non-negotiation was adopted, hence the raid.

The miners' strike was a very sad interlude. While the mines were doomed in the long run anyway, the government was heavy-handed and heartless, and it resulted in a generation of lost opportunity. The long term result was good for the climate and overall economy, but terrible for the economy of many northern towns.

Ernie Wise made the first mobile telephone call in the UK. The United Kingdom was a very fast adopter of cellphone technology, installing it considerably quicker than their US counterparts.

An American and French expedition located the wreck of the Titanic. The supposedly unsinkable ship had been on the bottom of the ocean undisturbed since 1912.

Ted Kaczynski was the Unabomber, an anarchist and serial killer. He murdered people by sending out bombs, rather unusual for a serial killer.

The Philly police wanted to get into a house occupied by MOVE, a Black Power group. They decided the best way was to drop a bomb onto the house from a helicopter. The resulting fire burned 53 houses.

Insurance companies bought into the myths going around about HIV at the time and started screening for it. It is worth noting that they have denied coverage to millions of people for all the above conditions and more (they are not currently permitted to do this, or charge those people more, though this law may change).

Gotti was a very famous mobster, which is an odd thing for a criminal to be, but he was. He wound up in prison for whacking a lot of people.

This was part of the generation-long (1966-1990) South African Border War. Angola, Zambia, Namibia, South Africa were involved and it resulted in the largest battles in Africa since World War Two.

Jackson bought the Beatles catalog for $47m. Given what it has generated since, this was an amazingly good investment.

A View To A Kill starred Walken as well as the supermodel Grace Jones. It was one of Roger Moore's highest grossing outings as Bond.

Dire Straits were a huge 1980s band. This song on their album Brothers in Arms is from the perspective of two working class men watching music videos.

The first .com was symbolics.com. This way of finding websites is now so common it bears little notice, but it was a huge step for the internet.

Prince Harry was born in 1985. He was the naughty prince for much of his youth until he grew up, joined the military, served honorably, then began doing philanthropy and married the incredibly popular and beautiful actress and fellow philanthropist, Meghan Markle.

The hole was caused by an industrial chemical called chloro-fluoro-carbons or CFCs. They were banned and it just recently healed up. This is good, because if the ozone layer goes away, so does our protection from being burned to death by the sun!

The CD was arguably better than the cassette, which came before it. However, it was fragile and it skipped and it was super expensive. Streaming is better, trust us.

Atlantis was launched in 1985 and flew into our hearts. It cost $196 billion and it was clearly cheap at the price!

The catalytic converter is a splendid device that stops a lot of grit getting out of the car and into the air. Before it came along, asthma, cancer and other diseases were much worse in areas with a lot of cars.

This song was a huge hit and featured basically every major star of the decade. Nowadays it is seen as a smidge patronizing, but it did raise a lot of money to help people.