Green Mountain High School - Ramblings Yearbook (Lakewood, CO)

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11' 5 u Q THE TRIVIAL PURSUIT SURVIVAL Kl'l1 Q47 FF, f 1 TTI- as . . -, ,aw .gg gg, 7 1 -iff-we I T:-jkf A,S I What country is home to Heineken beer? fa Q kt, 2. ' I - h . A,-' , How many seconds usually elapsed before the R , , 2 IA ' tape selfsdestructed on Mission' Impossible? . R I ' - ' y , What date in 44 B.C. was lulius Caesar 1 . ' f' assassinated? if 'ffm' ' 'J , il WP ,- What heroic group did Dkrtagnan lead? ff N, f '- L g What's the term for opposition to an electrical X f,I'Z current in a conductor? 3. Y What's the main vegetable in vichyssoise7 N KY as as .2 52 LAT- . . , we 45 LQ I If I High Spirits on a Plastic Pulse The Using of Baby Fae i X Q '.Dx 8 .s If rv, , if Nb I The publicity on the Ethiopian famine was bigger this year than ever before. Helping out this year was a special group called Band Aid . It was a special group consisting of the rock stars and bands, the Police , Boy George , Wham , UZ , and many others. They banded together to raise money for Ethiopian funds. There is so much to remember about Current Events November. William Schroeder received his artificial heart. By February he was doing fine and was allowed to drink a beer, a Coors. Baby Fae lived for ahout a month after receiving a heart from a ba- boon shortly after birth. Reagan f Bush re-election occured in this particular month. During the cam- paign Reagan vowed not to raise taxes. He managed to win the election with the biggest electoral vote accumulation in his- tory. He won 49 out of the 50 states. In early fall of 1984 Clara Bellers most famous saying that swept the United States. Where's the beef? This saying was replaced by Parts is parts. What would we ever do for conversation with- out Wendy's?

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V Priminister of India, 'Ghandi', was killed in the early fall. This filled the air with fear and rage in India. What were the two most popular runaway fads of 1984? ..... If you guessed Cabbage Patch Kids and Trivial Pursuit you were right! Cabbage Patch Kids are still the number one best selling doll in the nation and stores just can't keep them in stock. It's the same story for the Trivial Pursuit game. They both started out out- rageously over-priced, around 350, but now they,ve gone down to about 320. This game has branched in different games such as Bible Trivia, Junior Trivia etc. Trivial Pursuit has been one of the fastest selling games in the nation. Over 60 million copies were sold in the U.S. alone. In 1984 Pope John Paul Il traveled to various places around the world. In May he went to South Korea, Thailand, Pa- pua, New Guinea, and the Solomon ls- lands, In June he visited Switzerland. In September he was in Canada and in the month of October he finished his tour in Spain, the Dominican Republic and Puer- to Rico. One nice thing about 1984 which many teens who started driving this year were aware of was the price of gasoline. Al- most all school year the price of gas was under a dollartregularl. lt even went as low as 82 cents in some places. The book titled L'1984 was a very popular book. It was written by George Orwell. This book included many predic- tions for 1984. Some of these predictions consisted of 'Big Brother' taking over, and everyone being watched through their television sets. Fortunately for us as we can see those predictions weren't even close. Sfiiirit. as l Y Hal ' ii Giving eace a Chance P Q-My ti f' , Current Events 213 9956