Q 01/05

Which Culture Club single was the UK's biggest-selling record of 1983, spending six weeks at number one?

A) Miss Me Blind

B) It's a Miracle

C) Karma Chameleon

D) The War Song

Answer · why

C) Karma Chameleon

'Karma Chameleon' was Culture Club's only US number one, and its video cheats: the 1870 Mississippi riverboat scene was actually filmed on the River T...

Q 02/05

Which song opened MTV's first broadcast in August 1981?

A) Brass in Pocket by The Pretenders

B) You Better Run by Pat Benatar

C) Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles

D) Girls on Film by Duran Duran

Answer · why

C) Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles

Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles was already two years old, a 1979 UK number one that had only scraped the US top 40; Pat Benatar's 'You Bet...

Q 03/05

Which artist released the hit song "Like a Virgin" in 1984?

A) Cyndi Lauper

B) Whitney Houston

C) Pat Benatar

D) Madonna

Answer · why

D) Madonna

Madonna sang 'Like a Virgin' at the first MTV Video Music Awards in a wedding dress, rolling across the stage, weeks before the single came out; it be...

Q 04/05

Which band performed "Don't Stop Believin'"?

A) Foreigner

B) Boston

C) REO Speedwagon

D) Journey

Answer · why

D) Journey

Journey's keyboardist Jonathan Cain took the title from his father, who told him 'don't stop believing' when he was a struggling musician in Los Angel...

Q 05/05

Which 1984 single was the first to take Prince to number one on the Billboard Hot 100?

A) 1999

B) When Doves Cry

C) Little Red Corvette

D) Purple Rain

Answer · why

B) When Doves Cry

'When Doves Cry' has no bass line: Prince pulled it from the finished track at the last minute to make the song less conventional, and it still ended ...