Q 01/05

Which group recorded 'Come On Eileen', Britain's best-selling single of 1982?

A) Haircut One Hundred

B) Dexys Midnight Runners

C) The Undertones

D) The Boomtown Rats

Answer · why

B) Dexys Midnight Runners

Dexys Midnight Runners had switched to fiddles and a Celtic folk sound after topping the UK chart in 1980 with the soul single 'Geno'.

Q 02/05

Soft Cell's 1981 smash 'Tainted Love' covered a 1964 recording by which soul singer, later Marc Bolan's partner?

A) Gloria Jones

B) Martha Reeves

C) Barbara Lynn

D) Betty Everett

Answer · why

A) Gloria Jones

Gloria Jones's version flopped as a 1965 B-side but became a Northern soul favourite in Britain, which is how Soft Cell came to hear it.

Q 03/05

Soft Cell's 12-inch version of their 1981 hit segues halfway through into a cover of which Supremes song?

A) Baby Love

B) Where Did Our Love Go

C) You Can't Hurry Love

D) Stop! In the Name of Love

Answer · why

B) Where Did Our Love Go

Where Did Our Love Go was a song the Supremes were unhappy to be given, yet in 1964 it became their first No. 1 in the US.

Q 04/05

Balloons released at whose 1982 West Berlin concert inspired '99 Luftballons'?

A) Bruce Springsteen

B) The Rolling Stones

C) David Bowie

D) The Police

Answer · why

B) The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones released the balloons at that concert; guitarist Carlo Karges imagined them drifting over the Berlin Wall and being mistaken on rad...

Q 05/05

Which is the only German-language song ever to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100?

A) Rock Me Amadeus

B) Der Kommissar

C) Skandal im Sperrbezirk

D) Völlig losgelöst

Answer · why

A) Rock Me Amadeus

Rock Me Amadeus grew from Falco's idea, inspired by the film Amadeus, that if Mozart were alive today he would be a pop star.