POP KWIZ Part 1

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This is a round of questions I have prepared for my work quiz on Weds. The theme is Number Ones. ALL TRU POPTIMISTS should find this peasy and not need Google, apart maybe from hilarious j/k qn 10. The official version of the charts in the GUINNESS BOOK is the one I'm using.

However I am screening all replies so I can announce later which Poptimist has the hugest brain. Try to do without Search Engines.


1. What is the current UK No.1?

2. The Beatles first got to No.1 in the UK in May 1963. With which single?

3. What do New Order, Status Quo and the Lightning Seeds have in common?

4. Elvis Presley has had most UK No.1s. The Beatles come second, and Cliff Richard third. Who's fourth?

5. Which of these bands has never had a No.1 single?

A: The KLF
B: Bon Jovi
C: Iron Maiden
D: Stereophonics

6. Who got to No.1 in the UK charts with the single "Take On Me"?

7. The controversial video for Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "Two Tribes" featured the American and Russian leaders wrestling. The American leader was Ronald Reagan - who was the Russian?

8. What is the biggest-selling UK single never to reach number one?

9. Not counting Band Aid releases, what was the last Christmas No.1 to actually mention Christmas in its lyrics?

10. In 1977 the Sex Pistols' "God Save The Queen" was kept off the top spot by Rod Stewart in the Queen's jubilee week. It was widely rumoured that the chart figures had been doctored to keep the Pistols off No.1. Which market research firm was in charge of running the charts at the time?


Answers TOMORROW!

Comments

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

1. The Sugababes - Push The Button

2. Strawberry Fields Forever?

3. Synchronised dancing on stage!

4. The Spice Girls?

5. B Bon Jovi

6. A1 or whoever did that godawful cover

7. Gorby

8. Something by Elvis I'll be bound.

9. Mistletoe & Wine by Teh Cliff.

10. Bloody hell I don't know. Gallup?

I am RUBBISH at this and am flouncing off to join a NINDIE community ;)

I haf not Googled At All or used the interweb

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

1. Oooh oooh I kno, because Playlouder were dead chuffed it wuz SUGABABES PUSH THE BUTTON and not Pussycat Dolls. Surprising choice of Chemical Brothers cover however.

2. I think it was either Pls Pls Me or Love Me Do. Lets go for, um, the latter, cos I think it was track 1 on my Beatles 1 cd. LOVE ME DOODELS.

3. They have all written footballist No 1s! One I am actually sure of! FOOTBALLISM.

4. Errrm Queen? Oh Noes its prob summat like Westlife innit. WESTLIFE.

5. Must be Bon Jovi, cos Livin On A Prayer didn't get to No1, and OH FECK, does The Timelords count as KLF? Arse. No lets stick with BON JOVI.

6. A1! They were flying on hoverboards.

7. Blimey, er, *thinks* Stalin Lenin Chaucescu NOT Gorbachev as he wouldn't have been around then. I don't know any other ones. However I CAN remember that the Bear from Russia in Richard Scarry's Busy Busy World was a BEAR DENTIST called Dr Krunchenchew. Do I get an xtra point?

8. Hmmm. Robbie Williams ANGELS?

9. (working backwards) Cliff Richard Mistletoe & Wine YES, not Mince Girls, not Boyzone, not Bob Teh Builder, Not Blobby, Not East17, guessing not Westlife, sod it lets go for CLIFF.

10. Wild guess, as I don't know any market research firms. CYBORGIA SYSTEMS.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

grrr I have work to do y'know. At least half of these are guesses

1. Sugababes, "Push The Button"
2. "From Me To You"
3. Football (tournament) related songs
4. ABBA
5. A, B and D
6. A-ha
7. Chernenko
8. "White Christmas"
9. "Mistletoe and Wine"
10. BMRB

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I forgot about Wham! No 8 is Wham Last Xmas! Is it too late to change?

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

1. Pussycat Girls
2. She Loves You
3. recorded official england anthems?
4. ABBA
5. BUM BOGEY!
6. A1 (wouldn't have got this 3 weeks ago)
7. Andropov?
8. either "my way" or "last christmas"
9. Mistletoe and Wine?
10. BRIB?

[steviespitfire.livejournal.com]

1. Push the Button
2. From Me To You
3. Football/Football-ish songs
4. Must be a boy band, so, guessing: Westlife!
5. B
6. A1
7. [Haha. "Controversial"]: Gorbachev? sp.?
8. God Save the Queen?
9. I don't know the name, but the Cliff one, is it "Misteltoe and Wine"?
10. ....

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

far too many of these are guesses

1 - sugababes - push the button
2 - from me to you (to you, to me, to you, to me)
3 - Unofficial football anthems
4 - Madonna?
5 - Bon Jovi
6 - A1
7 - NOT gorbachev, the other fella - chernenko? (brezhnev would be a 2nd guess)
8 - Blue Monday (nb i don't think this is right, but i don't know what is)
9 - Cliff - Mistletoe and Wine
10 - is it RI, mark?

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I hope that last sentence means that it's okay to post answers.

1. No idea.

2. Please Please Me

3. All their number ones have been sport/collaborations.

4. Um. Westlife?

5. D. (because 10 has been signalled as the trick question. If you are playing a deeper game, then B)

6. A1

7. Mikhail Gorbachev?

8. Common People?

9. Don't Let The Bells End?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

1. sugababes - push the button
2. all their singles are shit ("i don't know") (except 'eleanor rigby')
3. BOYS and GUITARS (i like new order though)
4. spice girls?
5. bon jovi
6. a1
7. oh fuck fuck fuck i know this. fuck. aargh. brezhnev? FUCK this is pissing me off.
8. AARGH.
9. i'm too young
10. for these questions

:( :(

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

I will have a krack.

1. Sugababes 'Push Teh Button'
2. 'From Me To You'
3. Football songs going to #1, I think you want here
4. West Life !
5. I guess by elimination it must be B: Bon Jovi
6. I think this is a TRICK ! A1.
7. Must have been Chernenko
8. I do not know
9. I think it's Slade
10. Haha

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

ha ha I am so rubbish at FACTS!!!

1. I don't actually know. Is it still the Pussycat Dolls?

2. Fuck knows. Love Me Do?

3. Is it something about world cup / football songs?

4. Madonna? Westlife?

5. D Stereophonics

6. Not AHa? This is a trick question, but I can't remember the right answer.

7. Breshnev?

8. Dunno.

9. Christmas time, misseltoe (sp?) and wine? Or was that called Christmas Prayer or something.

10. MORI?

ha!

[(Anonymous)]

I hope you don't think that #6 will still catch your readers here out, even if it does the job at work.
- Martin Skidmore

Failure!

[johnnyctunes.livejournal.com]

I will field potentially hilarious guesses in lieu of actually knowing the answers, since I am a) seventeen and b) lame.

1. Who knows?
2. "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"
3. All members are men.
4. Isn't it something ridiculous like Mariah Carey? Oh, wait, she's tied for most U.S. singles with The Beatles. (That's depressing.) I dunno, then. Robbie Williams?
5. I will say Bon Jovi based on nothing except I hate his new album's cover art and also the state he's from doesn't have a state song so this would be his luck, totally.
6. I KNOW THIS ONE! It's A-Ha! I WIN
7. I will guess "Gorbachev" since he is the Russian leader in the Ray Stevens video for "Back In The U.S.S.R."
8. I give up!
9. This quiz makes my heart hurt.
10. 8==D