Misc: what is a hiatus?

Questions

Whose only loss in 1983 was to kathy horvath?

'I melt with you' was this band's signature hit, released on their after the snow album in 1982?

What geographic entity 'shrunk' more than 1300 feet in 1980?

After she recorded 'the nitty gritty' this lady released the rhyming 'name game'?

Who was the father of English poetry?