Q 01/05

The Billboard Hot 100 chart launched in which year, with a teen TV star's single as its first number one?

A) 1955

B) 1956

C) 1958

D) 1957

Answer · why

C) 1958

'Poor Little Fool' topped the very first Hot 100 dated August 4; the song was written by a 15-year-old, Sharon Sheeley.

Q 02/05

Who sang 'Poor Little Fool', the first song ever to top the Billboard Hot 100?

A) Pat Boone

B) Paul Anka

C) Bobby Darin

D) Ricky Nelson

Answer · why

D) Ricky Nelson

Nelson was already a TV star on his parents' sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, which is why the song took off as a radio hit from an EP.

Q 03/05

Which future record executive was one of the three journalists credited with creating the Hot 100?

A) Ahmet Ertegun

B) Seymour Stein

C) Clive Davis

D) Berry Gordy

Answer · why

B) Seymour Stein

Stein went on to co-found Sire Records and sign the Ramones, Talking Heads and Madonna; he said he could not recall who picked the chart's name.

Q 04/05

In what year did Billboard discontinue its Most Played in Jukeboxes chart?

A) 1951

B) 1953

C) 1955

D) 1957

Answer · why

D) 1957

The jukebox chart had mattered because many radio stations refused to play rock and roll, so jukebox plays were one of the few measures of what teenag...

Q 05/05

Which song won Record of the Year at the very first Grammy Awards, held in May 1959?

A) Fever

B) Witchcraft

C) Volare

D) Catch a Falling Star

Answer · why

C) Volare

Domenico Modugno's Italian-language hit beat Sinatra, Peggy Lee and Perry Como; the ceremony was held simultaneously in Beverly Hills and New York.