Q 01/05

Whose video was the first ever shown on MTV?

A) The Buggles

B) Pat Benatar

C) Rod Stewart

D) The Who

Answer · why

A) The Buggles

The Buggles' Video Killed the Radio Star opened MTV on August 1, 1981, and in 2000 the channel chose it again as the one-millionth video it aired.

Q 02/05

Which 1985 film strands a teenager in 1955, where his own parents must still fall in love?

A) Time Bandits

B) Back to the Future

C) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

D) Peggy Sue Got Married

Answer · why

B) Back to the Future

Back to the Future's script was rejected more than 40 times before a studio agreed to make it, as co-writer Bob Gale has often recalled.

Q 03/05

What was the first music video ever played on MTV?

A) Thriller by Michael Jackson

B) Hungry Like the Wolf by Duran Duran

C) Take On Me by a-ha

D) Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles

Answer · why

D) Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles

MTV launched on August 1, 1981 with a song about a new medium killing the old one — about as on-the-nose as an opening number gets.

Q 04/05

Which Michael Jackson album became the best-selling album of all time?

A) Bad

B) Thriller

C) Off the Wall

D) Dangerous

Answer · why

B) Thriller

Thriller owes its rock edge to Eddie Van Halen, who played the guitar solo on 'Beat It' as an unpaid favour to producer Quincy Jones; the 1982 album w...

Q 05/05

Who directed the 1982 sci-fi film about an alien stranded on Earth who befriends a young boy?

A) Steven Spielberg

B) James Cameron

C) George Lucas

D) Ridley Scott

Answer · why

A) Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg's team first offered the alien's trail of sweets to M&M's, but Mars said no; Hershey's Reese's Pieces took the part instead, and thei...