10 free The New Romantics trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
The New Romantic movement didn't just change fashion—it fundamentally rewired how pop music sounded in the 1980s. From Duran Duran's synthesizer swagger to the androgynous visual excess, this was pop as total art form. Ready to prove you're more than a casual fan? Take the quiz.
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Q 01Which Covent Garden nightclub's Tuesday club-night in 1979–1980 launched the New Romantic movement?
The Blitz
The nights were publicised solely by word of mouth, and the press dubbed the regulars the Blitz Kids.
Q 02New Romantic style drew on boutiques such as PX in London and Kahn and Bell in which other English city?
Birmingham
The scene grew up in the nightclubs of both cities, and Duran Duran formed in Birmingham in 1978.
Q 03Who was the lead singer of the New Romantic band Visage, known for their hit 'Fade to Grey'?
Steve Strange
Strange also worked the door at the scene's defining club-nights, and Visage's final album appeared in 2015, nine months after his fatal heart attack.
Q 04Which musical instrument became a defining characteristic of the New Romantics' sound?
Synthesizer
The resulting synth-pop, paired with the movement's visuals and MTV airplay, drove much of the Second British Invasion of the US charts.
Q 05Boy George rose to fame as the flamboyant lead singer of which New Romantic-associated band?
Culture Club
The band have sold more than 50 million records, and 'Karma Chameleon' was the UK's biggest-selling single of 1983.
Q 06Which of these songs is a well-known hit by the New Romantic band Duran Duran?
Hungry Like the Wolf
Russell Mulcahy shot its video in Sri Lanka, and MTV's heavy rotation of it finally broke the band in America, where the single reached No. 3 in March 1983.
Q 07The song 'True' is a signature hit for which New Romantic band?
Spandau Ballet
Gary Kemp wrote it about his feelings for Altered Images singer Clare Grogan, and it became the band's first entry on the Billboard Hot 100.
Q 08Who is credited with coining the term 'New Romantic'?
Richard Burgess
Burgess said the label fitted the scene around the Covent Garden club-nights, though most of the groups tried to distance themselves from it.
Q 09Men and women on the New Romantic scene wore eyeliner and lipstick and favoured what kind of dressing?
Androgynous
The heavy cosmetics were partly inherited from earlier punk fashions, even as the look rejected punk's austerity.
Q 10The New Romantic movement is sometimes seen as a reaction against which earlier subculture?
Punk rock
In style it rejected the anti-fashion stance taking hold in punk, looking back instead to 1970s glam stars such as David Bowie and Roxy Music.