Q 01/05

Which compilation series, launched in 1983, took its name from a 1930s Danish bacon poster featuring a pig?

A) The Hits Album Volume 1

B) Now That's What I Call Music!

C) Smash Hits Party Album

D) Top of the Pops Collection

Answer · why

B) Now That's What I Call Music!

Now That's What I Call Music! took its pig mascot from a poster Richard Branson found in an antiques shop, and the series passed 100 volumes in 2018. ...

Q 02/05

Which rap-metal band's 1992 single beat X Factor winner Joe McElderry to the 2009 Christmas number one?

A) Rage Against the Machine

B) Red Hot Chili Peppers

C) Nine Inch Nails

D) System of a Down

Answer · why

A) Rage Against the Machine

Rage Against the Machine's 'Killing in the Name' sold more than 500,000 copies that week, the first download-only single ever to take the Christmas to...

Q 03/05

Whose 16 simultaneous top-20 entries in March 2017 pushed the UK chart to cap each artist at three songs?

A) Drake

B) Ed Sheeran

C) Lewis Capaldi

D) Stormzy

Answer · why

B) Ed Sheeran

Ed Sheeran's album '÷' put all 16 of its tracks in the top 20 at once, and from July 2017 the Official Charts Company limited lead artists to three en...

Q 04/05

Which Welsh singer is the only artist to have performed more than one official James Bond theme?

A) Shirley Bassey

B) Bonnie Tyler

C) Katherine Jenkins

D) Cerys Matthews

Answer · why

A) Shirley Bassey

Shirley Bassey sang 'Goldfinger' in 1964, then returned for 'Diamonds Are Forever' and 'Moonraker', a Bond hat-trick no other artist has matched.

Q 05/05

Which pink, yellow-spotted Noel's House Party character had a UK Christmas number one in 1993?

A) Roland Rat

B) Zippy

C) Mr Blobby

D) Gordon the Gopher

Answer · why

C) Mr Blobby

Mr Blobby spent three weeks at number one and is regularly voted the worst single ever made.