Throwback Thursday Poll

georgia_bride09 · July 2010

You will probably have to use google for some of these:

Birth Year (BY):
Best Picture in your BY (per the Oscars):
Top pop song the week of your birth:
Album of the Year in your BY (per the Grammy's):
Biggest news story in your BY:
Three famous people who share your birthday:
Something interesting/ fun fact about your BY:
An event in your BY that you wish you'd witnessed firsthand:
An invention from your BY:

vallyhoo · July 2010

I am not telling you my age.

Best Picture - I thought it was Amadeus [edit] and I was right
Top pop song - "Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)," Phil Collins
(I like Mariah Carey's version better)
Album of the year - Thriller by MJ
Biggest news story - My birth, obvs
Three famous people - Al Pacino, Renee Zellweger and your mom
Something interesting - The first person executed by the guillotine was done on my birth date in 1792. morbid. I answered this question wrong. oh wells.
Event in BY - Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk. Thanks, wikipedia

Invention - Transformers, not sure if that counts

akhensley81 · July 2010

Birth Year (BY): 1981
Best Picture in your BY (per the Oscars): Chariots of Fire
Top pop song the week of your birth: Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) by Christopher Cross
Album of the Year in your BY (per the Grammy's): Michael Ormartian & Christopher Cross - self-titled album
Biggest news story in your BY: AIDS disease was identified
Three famous people who share your birthday: Shaggy, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd
Something interesting/ fun fact about your BY: Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female Supreme Court Justice
An event in your BY that you wish you'd witnessed firsthand: MTV was born that year!
An invention from your BY: Nutra Sweet

Whew I haven't had to work that hard for a poll in a while!!

alixzafiris · July 2010

Birth Year (BY): 1985

Best Picture in your BY (per the Oscars): Out of Africa

Top pop song the week of your birth: Part Time Lover - Stevie Wonder

Album of the Year in your BY (per the Grammy's): Can't Slow Down - Lionel Richie

Biggest news story in your BY: There were lots, so I'm going with the Bradford Football Stadium fire in England that killed a boatload of fans. More directly related to my life, it's the year South Africa subversively invaded Angola.

Three famous people who share your birthday: Hugh Jackman. Beat that suckers! Also Bode Miller and Luciano Pavarotti

Something interesting/ fun fact about your BY: On my birthday (strangely enough) it snowed for the first time in eighteen years where I was born. It was also the year the Titanic wreck was found.

An event in your BY that you wish you'd witnessed firsthand: The original Live Aid year, where 50 million pound was raised for famine relief in Ethiopia.

An invention from your BY: Compact discs.

btrflykate1230 · July 2010

Birth Year (BY): 1985
Best Picture in your BY (per the Oscars): Out of Africa
Top pop song the week of your birth: "Careless Whisper".....Wham! (for the year, I can't find week)
Album of the Year in your BY (per the Grammy's): Can't Slow Down performed by Lionel Richie
Biggest news story in your BY: I would say the inauguration of Ronald Regan+
Three famous people who share your birthday: Tiger Woods, LeBron James, Davy Jones
Something interesting/ fun fact about your BY: New Coke made its debut this year!
An event in your BY that you wish you'd witnessed firsthand: The premiere of Back to the Future
An invention from your BY: Microsoft Windows! That's pretty huge.

akhensley81 · July 2010

Alix I am so jealous that you share a birthday with Hugh Jackman! I have one of the Hanson brothers... want to trade?

georgia_bride09 · July 2010

Birth Year (BY): 1981
Best Picture in your BY (per the Oscars): Chariots of Fire
Top pop song the week of your birth: No idea, google was not my friend here.
Album of the Year in your BY (per the Grammy's): Double Fantasy- John Lennon and Yoko; Bette Davis Eyes won Song of the Year.
Biggest news story in your BY: Probably the release of the hostages from Iran during the Iran hostage crisis.
Three famous people who share your birthday: Frank Lloyd Wright, Joan Rivers, and Kanye West. All definite Geminis.
Something interesting/ fun fact about your BY: MTV started about two months after I was born.
An event in your BY that you wish you'd witnessed firsthand: Probably Reagan's first inaugural address, for history's sake.
An invention from your BY: IBM personal computer. I wonder how big that monster was.

Good Lord, my computer was slow during this search.

waltzingmatilda13 · July 2010

Birth Year (BY):1983
Best Picture in your BY (per the Oscars):Terms of Endearment
Top pop song the week of your birth:"Every Breath You Take" The Police
Album of the Year in your BY (per the Grammy's):Thriller, Michael Jackson
Biggest news story in your BY:Sally Ride Becomes First U.S. Woman in Space (June 18, 1983)
Three famous people who share your birthday:Sandra Bullock, Mick Jagger, George Bernard Shaw
Something interesting/ fun fact about your BY:"Crack" cocaine is developed in the Bahamas, apparently.
An event in your BY that you wish you'd witnessed firsthand: The tears of my sister when she realized that she had to share!
An invention from your BY:Cabbage Patch Kids!

georgia_bride09 · July 2010

Yeah, that was WAY harder than I thought it'd be. Hensley, our Album of the Year was different; apparently I used the 1982 Grammys.

georgia_bride09 · July 2010

[QUOTE]An event in your BY that you wish you'd witnessed firsthand: The tears of my sister when she realized that she had to share! Posted by waltzingmatilda13[/QUOTE]

Haha.

mandysmear · July 2010

Birth Year (BY): 1986
Best Picture in your BY (per the Oscars): Out of Africa
Top pop song the week of your birth: West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
Album of the Year in your BY (per the Grammy's): Graceland - Paul Simon
Biggest news story in your BY: Challenger Explodes 30 Seconds After Lift Off
Three famous people who share your birthday: Jason Biggs, Tony Hawk, Florence Nightingale
Something interesting/ fun fact about your BY: World Cup was in Mexico that year.
An event in your BY that you wish you'd witnessed firsthand: Montreal Canadiens winning Stanley Cup!
An invention from your BY: Kind of an invention... British Surgeons perform the worlds first triple transplant ( Heart, Lung and Liver )

Trifury2007 · July 2010

Birth Year (BY): 1969
Best Picture in your BY (per the Oscars): Oliver
Top pop song the week of your birth: "In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)" by Zager and Evans This was the top song that day. I couldn't find the week.
Album of the Year in your BY (per the Grammy's): Glen Campbell for By The Time I Get To Phoenix
Biggest news story in your BY:They landed and walked on the moon July 20 (my Aunt Em's birthday), Charles Manson, Chappaquiddick, Woodstock It was a busy year for events )
Three famous people who share your birthday: Robin Wright Penn (yay Princess Bride), Kofi Annan, Louis Armstrong
Something interesting/ fun fact about your BY: An event in your BY that you wish you'd witnessed firsthand:Vietnam protests, Woodstock
An invention from your BY: Couldn't find anything

mandysmear · July 2010

I should have gone to the REAL oscars website. It was PLATOON.

FutureMrsFezz · July 2010

Birth Year (BY): 1986
Best Picture in your BY (per the Oscars): Out of Africa (according to imdb.com)
Top pop song the week of your birth: How will I know - Whitney Houston
Album of the Year in your BY (per the Grammy's): No Jacket Required - Phil Collins
Biggest news story in your BY: Challenger explosion
Three famous people who share your birthday: Steve Jobs, Kristin Davis, Billy Zane
Something interesting/ fun fact about your BY: A gallon of gas was .89
An event in your BY that you wish you'd witnessed firsthand: Everyone walking like an Egyptian.
An invention from your BY: IBM unveils first laptop

GreenPepperBurger · July 2010

Okay, I'm an Oscars freak and some people are posting the wrong film for their BY. If the Oscars take place in 1986, let's say, then the films they honor are from the previous year, 1985. The Best Picture winner for 1986 was "Platoon," but it was honored in 1987.

Sorry. I'm just very anal about the Oscars.

waltzingmatilda13 · July 2010

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[QUOTE]Birth Year (BY): 1969 Best Picture in your BY (per the Oscars): Oliver Top pop song the week of your birth: "In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)" by Zager and Evans This was the top song that day. I couldn't find the week. Album of the Year in your BY (per the Grammy's): Glen Campbell for By The Time I Get To Phoenix Biggest news story in your BY: They landed and walked on the moon July 20 (my Aunt Em's birthday), Charles Manson, Chappaquiddick, Woodstock It was a busy year for events :o) Three famous people who share your birthday: Robin Wright Penn (yay Princess Bride), Kofi Annan, Louis Armstrong Something interesting/ fun fact about your BY: An event in your BY that you wish you'd witnessed firsthand: Vietnam protests, Woodstock An invention from your BY: Couldn't find anything
Posted by Trifury2007[/QUOTE]

the first (secret) internet, the artifical heart, the ATM machine (cha-ching!) and a barcode scanner.

TurtlesAllTheWayDown · July 2010

Birth Year (BY): 1982
Best Picture in your BY (per the Oscars): Ghandi (for the year 1982 - Chariots of Fire won for 1981 IN March of 1982).
Top pop song the week of your birth: I *thought* it was Ebony and Ivory, but it was the theme to Chariots of Fire.
Album of the Year in your BY (per the Grammy's): Toto IV by Toto. Random.
Biggest news story in your BY: Well, I know Princess Grace died.
Three famous people who share your birthday: Rosario Dawson, Billy Joel, Mike Wallace
Something interesting/ fun fact about your BY: The Equal Rights Amendment was defeated in June, 1982.
An event in your BY that you wish you'd witnessed firsthand: The opening of EPCOT center! Or, actually, the Miracle on Ice.
An invention from your BY: Well, the first CDs wer manufactured for public consumption - in Germany

FutureMrsFezz · July 2010

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[QUOTE]Okay, I'm an Oscars freak and some people are posting the wrong film for their BY. If the Oscars take place in 1986, let's say, then the films they honor are from the previous year, 1985. The Best Picture winner for 1986 was "Platoon," but it was honored in 1987. Sorry. I'm just very anal about the Oscars.
Posted by GreenPepperBurger[/QUOTE]

Duly noted.

MissLeahM · July 2010

Birth Year (BY):

1986
Best Picture in your BY (per the Oscars):

Platoon
Top pop song the week of your birth:

Thats What Friends Are For - Dionnie & Friends

Album of the Year in your BY (per the Grammy's):

No Jacket Required - Phil Collins
Biggest news story in your BY:

Challenger Exploding and the Chernobly disaster
Three famous people who share your birthday:

Eva Mendes, Rex Harrison and Andy Gibb
Something interesting/ fun fact about your BY:

The Montreal Canadiens won the Stanley Cup.. Woop Woop
An event in your BY that you wish you'd witnessed firsthand:

The Canadiens Winning the Stanley Cup
An invention from your BY:

Nicotine Patch

alixzafiris · July 2010

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[QUOTE]I should have gone to the REAL oscars website. It was PLATOON.
Posted by mandysmear[/QUOTE]

That movie made me want to shoot myself in the face. Seriously. It ranks right up there with Fargo for worse movies ever.

Stackeye210 · July 2010

1980 - I'm really busy at work so I can't research all these questions

Celebrities birthday - John Krasinski, Snoop Dogg, Mickey Mantle

Song of the week - Another one Bites the Dust

News Story - US boycotts summer Olympics

*BeachBride0410* · July 2010

Birth Year (BY): 1984
Best Picture in your BY (per the Oscars): Amadeus
Top pop song the week of your birth: Madonna- "Like a Virgin"
Album of the Year in your BY (per the Grammy's): Beat it- Michael Jackson
Biggest news story in your BY: Launch of shuttle Discovery
Three famous people who share your birthday: Bo Derek, Dierks Bentley & Joel McHale
Something interesting/ fun fact about your BY: Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
An invention from your BY: The invention of Tetris!!!

alixzafiris · July 2010

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[QUOTE]Birth Year (BY): 1982 Best Picture in your BY (per the Oscars): Ghandi (for the year 1982 - Chariots of Fire won for 1981 IN March of 1982). Top pop song the week of your birth: I *thought* it was Ebony and Ivory, but it was the theme to Chariots of Fire. Album of the Year in your BY (per the Grammy's): Toto IV by Toto. Random. Biggest news story in your BY: Well, I know Princess Grace died. Three famous people who share your birthday: Rosario Dawson, Billy Joel, Mike Wallace Something interesting/ fun fact about your BY: The Equal Rights Amendment was defeated in June, 1982. An event in your BY that you wish you'd witnessed firsthand: The opening of EPCOT center! An invention from your BY: Well, the first CDs wer manufactured for public consumption - in Germany
Posted by msmerymac[/QUOTE]

Whatchu mean "random"? My favourite song EVER is on that album, I own it!

pooh8402 · July 2010

Birth Year (BY): 1984
Best Picture in your BY (per the Oscars): Amadeus
Top pop song the week of your birth: Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) - Pink Floyd (sweeeeet)
Album of the Year in your BY (per the Grammy's): Thriller, MIchael Jackson
Biggest news story in your BY: 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles
Three famous people who share your birthday: Hugh Hefner, Dennis Quaid, Jenna Jameson. hmm, porn stars born on my birthday.
Something interesting/ fun fact about your BY: George Orwell wrote a book about this year that I have not read.
An event in your BY that you wish you'd witnessed firsthand: Mary Lou Retton winning gold in women's gymnastics. love. her.
An invention from your BY:genetic fingerprinting aka DNA profiling

stephl3055 · July 2010

Birth Year (BY): 1984

Best Picture in your BY (per the Oscars): Terms of Endearment

Top pop song the week of your birth: What's Love Got to Do With It - Tina Turner

Album of the Year in your BY (per the Grammy's): Thriller - Michael Jackson

Biggest news story in your BY: Space shuttle Discovery made it's maiden voyage

Three famous people who share your birthday: Barry White, Jennifer Hudson, Paul Walker

Something interesting/ fun fact about your BY: The Soviet Union boycotted the 1984 Olympics in LA

An event in your BY that you wish you'd witnessed firsthand: Debut of Transformers??? Not a lot of good things happened in 1984.

An invention from your BY: Apple released it's first Mac computer

TurtlesAllTheWayDown · July 2010

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[QUOTE]Birth Year (BY): 1969 Best Picture in your BY (per the Oscars): Oliver Top
Posted by Trifury2007[/QUOTE]

Which my FI was named after.

GreenPepperBurger · July 2010

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[QUOTE]Birth Year (BY): 1984 Best Picture in your BY (per the Oscars): The Killing Fields Top pop song the week of your birth: Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) - Pink Floyd (sweeeeet) Album of the Year in your BY (per the Grammy's): Thriller, MIchael Jackson Biggest news story in your BY: 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles Three famous people who share your birthday: Hugh Hefner, Dennis Quaid, Jenna Jameson. hmm, porn stars born on my birthday. Something interesting/ fun fact about your BY: George Orwell wrote a book about this year that I have not read. An event in your BY that you wish you'd witnessed firsthand: Mary Lou Retton winning gold in women's gymnastics. love. her. An invention from your BY: genetic fingerprinting aka DNA profiling
Posted by pooh8402[/QUOTE]

"The Killing Fields" did not win Best Picture. "Amadeus" won for 1984.

georgia_bride09 · July 2010

I am loving all these inventions.

vallyhoo · July 2010

I love how there are multiple answers for the same questions. Georgia your poll is hard!

that's what she said.

pooh8402 · July 2010

the websites I was using were giving me wrong information. I corrected.

vallyhoo · July 2010

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[QUOTE]An event in your BY that you wish you'd witnessed firsthand: Debut of Transformers??? Not a lot of good things happened in 1984. An invention from your BY: Apple released it's first Mac computer
Posted by steph13055[/QUOTE]

FALSE!

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