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40 free Bucks Fizz trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Bucks Fizz were put together in January 1981 to sing one song at one contest. Three months later they had won Eurovision with Making Your Mind Up, helped by a dance routine that is still replayed every spring, and they went on to become one of Britain's best-selling groups of the decade. This quiz covers the whole story: the night of the win, the chart-topping singles that followed, the videos, the tour coach crash that nearly ended everything, the line-up changes and the long fight over who owns the name. A few questions turn to the brunch cocktail the group was named after. It is pitched for Eurovision fans, 1980s pop lovers and pub quizzers alike. Most questions are gettable with a little thought, and a handful are reserved for the real devotees.
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Q 01Which fastening let the men of Bucks Fizz rip off the women's skirts at Eurovision in 1981?
Velcro
Velcro held the long skirts in place until the men tore them away to reveal mini-skirts beneath. Cheryl Baker later said that strip of fastening had changed her life.
Q 02Bucks Fizz's The Land of Make Believe was, its lyricist said, a veiled attack on which political leader?
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher and her government's policies were the hidden target, lyricist Pete Sinfield later said. Listeners heard only a sugar-coated fairy tale about a child's dream.
Q 03The cocktail that gave Bucks Fizz their name mixes orange juice with which alcoholic drink?
Champagne
Champagne makes up two parts of a Buck's Fizz to one part orange juice. Creator Nichola Martin borrowed the name for her new group because it was her favourite drink.
Q 04Bucks Fizz shelved their recording of What's Love Got to Do with It after which singer released it first?
Tina Turner
Tina Turner released her version first and turned it into a worldwide hit, so the group's take was left off their 1984 album. It stayed in the vaults until a CD reissue in 2000.
Q 05In which city did Bucks Fizz win the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest with Making Your Mind Up?
Dublin
Dublin staged the contest in a showground pavilion normally used for agricultural and horse shows. The British group won by four points after five different songs had led the voting.
Q 06Which rock frontman echoed Bucks Fizz's skirt-rip by tearing at his duet partner's dress at Live Aid?
Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger ripped away part of his partner's dress in Philadelphia in 1985, leaving her to finish the song in what was effectively a leotard. The Eurovision original came four years earlier.
Q 07Which birds attacked Bobby G by the Serpentine as Bucks Fizz filmed their Now Those Days Are Gone video?
Swans
Swans set upon the singer as he walked beside the Hyde Park lake, and he had to be rescued. The wartime-themed video cast him in a love triangle with the group's two women.
Q 08Which long-running BBC children's show did Cheryl Baker of Bucks Fizz co-present from 1987 to 1997?
Record Breakers
Record Breakers made her a familiar face to a generation of children, first alongside Roy Castle. She stayed on after his death in 1994, having left the group the year before.
Q 09Which singer turned Heart of Stone, the last Bucks Fizz single to chart, into the title track of a 1989 album?
Cher
Cher recorded the song a year after the British group's version stalled at number 50 in the UK. Her album of the same name went on to sell more than four million copies.
Q 10Which Bucks Fizz singer spent three days in a coma after the group's tour coach crashed in December 1984?
Mike Nolan
Mike Nolan suffered the worst injuries of the four and was reported to have died on the operating table before pulling through. The crash left him with epilepsy and impaired vision.
Q 11Which brunch cocktail does the International Bartenders Association treat as the same drink as a Buck's Fizz?
Mimosa
The Mimosa takes its name from a yellow-flowered plant, while the British drink is named after the London club where it is said to have first been served in 1921.
Q 12Which country did Bucks Fizz beat into second place by just four points at the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest?
Germany
Germany finished runner-up for the second year running, this time with Lena Valaitis singing Johnny Blue. France came third, and the winners' final total was 136 points.
Q 13Bucks Fizz were Britain's most recent Eurovision winners for 16 years until which act triumphed in 1997?
Katrina and the Waves
Q 21After a sold-out concert in which English city did Bucks Fizz's tour coach collide with a lorry in 1984?
Newcastle
Newcastle is where the group returned 25 years later, playing a benefit concert for head-injury victims at the same hall they had left on the night of the crash.
Q 22Which singer was picked from 800 auditionees to replace Jay Aston in Bucks Fizz in 1985?
Shelley Preston
Shelley Preston, then 21, had spent six months singing at a hotel nightclub in Sri Lanka before the London audition. Her biggest hit with the group came a year later.
Q 23With which group had Cheryl Baker already sung for the UK at Eurovision, three years before Bucks Fizz won?
Co-Co
Katrina and the Waves ended the drought with Love Shine a Light. In between, British entries finished second four times, once losing by a single point.
Q 14Bucks Fizz songwriter Andy Hill later co-wrote Think Twice, a seven-week UK number one for which singer?
Celine Dion
Celine Dion took the ballad to the top of the UK chart in 1995, where it sold over a million copies. Hill wrote it with Pete Sinfield, his partner on several of the group's singles.
Q 15Which TV series used Bucks Fizz's Making Your Mind Up in its 2025 episode The Interstellar Song Contest?
Doctor Who
Doctor Who played the 1981 winner in a story set at a song contest in space. The recording had earlier turned up in the time-travel police drama Ashes to Ashes.
Q 16In which British soap did Cheryl Baker guest-star in 2023, helping characters perform Bucks Fizz's Eurovision winner?
EastEnders
EastEnders brought her in for a Eurovision-themed party episode in May 2023. That year's contest was being staged in the UK on behalf of Ukraine.
Q 17Which comic-book hero is name-checked alongside the pirate Captain Kidd in Bucks Fizz's The Land of Make Believe?
Superman
Superman appears in a lyric built around a child's dream, in which ghostly voices tempt the child outdoors. The single ends with an 11-year-old girl reciting a nursery rhyme.
Q 18On which BBC host's chat show did Bucks Fizz unveil Jay Aston's replacement to 14.5 million viewers in 1985?
Terry Wogan
Terry Wogan introduced the new line-up on his BBC One show in June 1985. One member later said they looked so awful that he wiped his own video of the appearance.
Q 19Which act were the last British winners of the Eurovision Song Contest before Bucks Fizz took the title in 1981?
Brotherhood of Man
Brotherhood of Man won in 1976 with Save Your Kisses for Me. The UK then waited five years for its fourth victory.
Q 20Which band's Don't You Want Me did Bucks Fizz's The Land of Make Believe knock off the UK number one spot?
The Human League
The Human League had held the Christmas number one before the fantasy-themed single overtook them in January 1982. It stayed top for two weeks and became the group's biggest UK seller.
Co-Co finished 11th in Paris in 1978, then the worst result a British entry had recorded. Baker said she felt she had let the country down.
Q 24Which 1982 single gave Bucks Fizz their third UK number one in the space of twelve months?
My Camera Never Lies
My Camera Never Lies topped the chart for one week in April 1982. Its video had the four re-enacting scenes from films including Bonnie and Clyde and Cleopatra.
Q 25Which 1981 single followed Making Your Mind Up and saved Bucks Fizz from the Eurovision one-hit-wonder tag?
Piece of the Action
Piece of the Action reached number 12, a contemporary pop song chosen to move the group away from the rock and roll style of their winner.
Q 26David Van Day, who joined Bucks Fizz in 1996 and later toured a rival version, was half of which pop duo?
Dollar
Dollar had made him a star alongside Thereza Bazar. His dispute with Bobby G over the group's name went to the High Court and became a BBC documentary, Trouble at the Top.
Q 27Bucks Fizz's Cheryl Baker and Jay Aston made cameos in the video for which act's 1983 hit Who's That Girl?
Eurythmics
Eurythmics cast the pair among the women escorting Dave Stewart through the video, alongside Kiki Dee and Hazel O'Connor. Annie Lennox played both a nightclub singer and a man in the audience.
Q 28Bucks Fizz's 1986 comeback hit New Beginning (Mamba Seyra) is sung partly in Spanish and which African language?
Swahili
Swahili lines sit beside a children's choir and a gospel choir on the heavily layered recording. It reached number eight, the group's best chart placing for four years.
Q 29Which pop magazine gave Bucks Fizz's second album, Are You Ready, a perfect ten out of ten in 1982?
Smash Hits
Smash Hits awarded full marks to the album, which went gold and became the group's only top-ten LP. The band were less keen on its sleeve, telling the art director the concept was naff.
Q 30In which London department store did the BBC film Bucks Fizz's Eurovision preview video for Making Your Mind Up?
Harrods
Harrods is where the four are seen strolling without miming a word, as was usual for the BBC's preview films. The clip was later left off the group's official video releases.