Q 01/05

Percy Sledge is sometimes cited as the source of 'sledging', the trading of on-field insults in which sport?

A) Rugby union

B) Cricket

C) Ice hockey

D) Baseball

Answer · why

B) Cricket

Cricket picked up the word in 1960s Australia, and one tale has fielders taunting a batsman by singing a Percy Sledge hit. The duller theory traces it...

Q 02/05

What weekday job did Percy Sledge hold in the early 1960s while singing with a band on weekends?

A) Hospital orderly

B) Gas station attendant

C) School bus driver

D) Short-order cook

Answer · why

A) Hospital orderly

Hospital orderly was his weekday job, and he sang on the wards as he worked. A former patient is said to have passed his name to the producer who sign...

Q 03/05

Which singer took a cover of Percy Sledge's 'When a Man Loves a Woman' to No. 1 in America in 1991?

A) Luther Vandross

B) Bryan Adams

C) Michael Bolton

D) Peabo Bryson

Answer · why

C) Michael Bolton

Michael Bolton's version topped the Hot 100 in November 1991, some 25 years after the original, making the song one of the few to reach No. 1 for two ...

Q 04/05

Which clothing brand's 1987 TV advert sent Percy Sledge's 'When a Man Loves a Woman' back up the British charts?

A) Wrangler

B) Diesel

C) Guess

D) Levi's

Answer · why

D) Levi's

Levi's put the 1966 recording in a jeans advert, and the reissued single climbed to No. 2 in Britain, two places higher than it managed first time rou...

Q 05/05

Which Vietnam War film used Percy Sledge's 'When a Man Loves a Woman', prompting a 1987 reissue of the single?

A) Platoon

B) Hamburger Hill

C) Apocalypse Now

D) Coming Home

Answer · why

A) Platoon

Platoon, Oliver Stone's Best Picture winner, used the song, and the 21-year-old single was reissued in America to promote the film's soundtrack album.