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80th Birthday Gifts

Gifts for someone turning 80. The music, films, radio and sport of the 1940s to the 1970s are the years most 80-year-olds remember best, and they make the best party material: the birthday person usually knows more than anyone else in the room.

Trivia for the party

Cover of the 80th Birthday Trivia Book: a large white 80 on a blue background with the label 254 questions.

80th birthday · Trivia

80th Birthday Trivia Book

1940s to 1970s · 254 questions

A quiz book for an 80th birthday. Every question has four choices, so nobody needs to remember an exact date to have a fair guess, and the answer key adds a short fun fact to get the stories going. Play alone, in pairs or as teams.

A good choice if

  • You want a game the whole room can play by reading questions aloud
  • The birthday person enjoys remembering music, films, TV and sport
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Opens the listing on Amazon. Full details, sample questions and inside pages.

What is in the 80th birthday books

For this age we have trivia only so far: it works best read aloud to a group, and the answers are in the back for playing alone. Everything below is taken from the print files and the Amazon listings; where we have not measured something, we say so.

80th Birthday Trivia Book
Trivia · 254 questions · 92 pages · 6 x 9 in · 13 pt (measured from the printed pages) · multiple choice, four answers. Written mainly from a North American point of view. Counting every question whose text, answer or fun fact names a Canadian place, person, team or institution: 35 of 254. By the same rule, 13 touch on Britain (for example Hockey Night in Canada and Roger Bannister's four-minute mile).

Free for this birthday

Planning the party

A trivia round takes about half an hour: one reader, two or three teams, two or three rounds of ten questions. Our hosting guide covers the details, and the gift guide helps you choose between a quiz and a puzzle book.

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