Month: February 2022

Themed Quiz 7 –Oldies 4 the Oldies – FreeQuiz400

Oldies 4 the Oldies
1 What was the best-selling single in Britain in the year 1959 - Living Doll (Cliff Richard)
2 Who had a UK top ten in the fifties with See You Later Alligator - Bill Haley & His Comets
3 Which American crooner had a number one in the fifties with Magic Moments - Perry Como
4 Which fifties singer was billed as the girl with the giggle in her voice - Alma Cogan
5 Which group had a UK top ten hit with Oh Boy in 1957 - Crickets
6 Who had a UK top ten in the fifties with The Glow Worm - Mills Brothers
7 Who released an album in 1958 titled One Dozen Berrys - Chuck Berry
8 Who had a UK top ten in the fifties with The Great Pretender - The Platters
9 Who had a number one in the fifties with When - The Kalin Twins
10 Which future chart topper compered the Buddy Holly and the Crickets UK Tour in 1958 - Des O'Connor
11 Which female singer had a top ten hit in 1959 with Lipstick On Your Collar - Connie Francis
12 Who sang the theme to the 1950s film 3:10 to Yuma - Frankie Laine
13 Who had a UK top ten hit in the fifties with Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" - Jerry Lee Lewis
14 Which song first released in 1957 took twenty nine years to get to number one in the UK - Reet Petite
15 Who was the lead singer with fifties soul band The Soul Stirrers - Sam Cooke
16 Which British comedian had a chart entry in 1957 with Any Old Iron - Peter Sellers
17 Who had a UK top ten hit in the fifties with C'mon Everybody - Eddie Cochran
18 Which actor had a top twenty hit in 1954 with West of Zanzibar - Anthony Steele and the Radio Revellers
19 Who had a UK top ten hit in the fifties with All the Way - Frank Sinatra
20 Which American had a top ten hit in the fifties with Pretty Little Black Eyed Suzie - Guy Mitchell

Themed Quiz 6 – 80’s Music – FreeQuiz400

Eighties Music

1 Who had an eighties top ten hit with Puss 'n' Boots -- Adam Ant
2 Which song from the film Arthur won the Oscar for best song in 1981 -- Best That You Can Do
3 What was the name of Patsy Kensit's group with which they had a top ten hit in 1988 -- Eighth Wonder (I'm not Scared)
4 Which band was Eddi Reader with in the late eighties -- Fairground Attraction
5 Which eighties band recorded a song about Doctor Who actor Tom Baker -- Human League
6 Who had an eighties top ten hit with Happy Birthday -- Altered Images
7 Which arty eighties band used to be called 1919 -- Bauhaus
8 Who had an eighties top ten hit with Layla -- Derek and the Dominoes
9 Shostakovitch’s Prelude Number 15 was used as the theme for which eighties TV sitcom that starred Peter Egan and Richard Briers -- Ever Decreasing Circles
10 Who was the lead singer with the eighties Scottish band Hipsway -- Grahame Skinner
11 Heartsong by Gordon Giltrap was used as the theme for which TV series in the eighties -- Holiday
12 What song did Smokey Robinson release in the eighties to celebrate his silver anniversary in show business and it became a UK number one -- Being With You
13 Which American group taped the first 3-D rock video in 1983 -- Aerosmith
14 Which American musical first produced for Broadway in 1980 by David Merrick, tells the story of famed director Julian Marsh's attempt to stage a successful musical in the height of the Great Depression -- 42nd Street
15 Anne Dudley was a keyboards player with which eighties band -- Art of Noise
16 Who won the Eurovision song contest in 1988 with Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi -- Céline Dion (Switzerland)
17 Which eighties number one was about the love between a teacher and pupil -- Don't Stand So Close to Me
18 In which 1986 musical would we find the characters Crepes Suzette and Vendice Partners -- Absolute Beginners
19 Who launched the Really Useful Company in 1986 -- Andrew Lloyd Webber
20 Who had an eighties top ten hit with Rabbit -- Chas & Dave