Now That’s What I Call a Music Quiz

1 Which song spent the majority of 1984 on the UK charts despite being banned by the BBC?

2 Which chart artist took his stage name from a 1963 film adapted from a Henry Fielding novel?

3 What was Madonna’s first chart topping single in the UK?

4 Who was born Enrique Morales?

5 Which Bee Gees smash hit was the second song to be played on Radio One?

6 Which group took their name from the heraldic word for silver?

7 Which Radio One DJ announced his resignation live on air In August 1993?

8 Which chart topping group described their own music as “scrumpy and western”?

9 Who penned the autobiography Life is Just What You Make It?

10 What began on August 15, 1969 on a farm owned by Max Yasgur?

11 What alternative name for a reindeer is also the title of an album by Elton John?

12 Who were the first British sisters to top the UK singles charts?

13 Name the three Beatles number one hits that contain the word “you” in the title.

14 In 1985 which artist performed at the Live Aid concerts in London and Philadelphia?

15 The Little Foxes are the singing daughters of which famous trio?

16 Whose album Brainwashed was posthumously released in 2002?

17 Who did Sally Carr provide lead vocals for?

18 Which 1979 hit was inspired by the crimes of schoolgirl Brenda Spencer?

19 Which star of the film The Great Escape appeared on the album cover of Band on the Run by Wings?

20 Which singer was born Virginia Patterson Hensley?

21 Bobby Farrell was the only male member of which band?

22 Which musical features the song The Lusty Month of May?

23 Which singer songwriter’s autobiography is entitled Laughter in the Rain?

24 In which English city was the Two Tone record label founded?

25 Which composer officially opened the Abbey Road Record Studios in 1931?

26 Which is the only palindromic pop group to have a palindromic top 10 hit in the UK?

27 Which hit for Kate Bush has a palindromic title?

28 Who designed Madonna’s conical basque for her 1990 Blond Ambition Tour?

29 In 2005, which group released A Bigger Bang, their first studio album in eight years?

30 Which song was a hit for Madonna in 1996 and for Julie Covington twenty years earlier?

31 The pop group the Boo Radleys took their name from a character in which award winning novel?

32 Which song opens with the line “Sometimes you’re better off dead”?

33 Who married Trudie Styler in 1992?

34 The musical The Man of La Mancha is based on which classic novel?

35 Which was the first number one hit in the UK to feature bagpipes?

36 In which musical does Kim fall in love with Chris?

37 In 2003, which member of Girls Aloud stood trail for assault?

38 Which Stephen Sondheim musical tells the story of a murderous barber?

39 Who sang at the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana and was created a Dame the following year?

40 What is the last word in the lyrics of the song Rule Britannia?

Answers to Music Quiz

1 Relax by Frankie Goes To Hollywood
2 Tom Jones
3 Into the Groove
4 Ricky Martin
5 Massachusetts
6 Argent
7 Dave Lee Travis
8 The Wurzels
9 Donny Osmond
10 Woodstock
11 Caribou
12 Mel and Kim
13 She Loves You, From Me to You and All You Need is Love
14 Phil Collins
15 The Beverly Sisters
16 George Harrison
17 Middle of the Road
18 I Don’t Like Mondays
19 James Coburn
20 Patsy Cline
21 Boney M
22 Camelot
23 Neil Sedaka
24 Coventry
25 Edward Elgar
26 Abba with the song SOS
27 Wow
28 Jean Paul Gautier
29 Rolling Stones
30 Don’t Cry For Me Argentina
31 To Kill a Mockingbird
32 West End Girls by the Pet Shop Boys
33 Sting
34 Don Quixote
35 Amazing Grace in 1972
36 Miss Saigon
37 Cheryl Tweedy
38 Sweeney Todd
39 Kiri Te Kanawa
40 Slaves