Q 01/05

Top of the Pops magazine coined the famous individual nicknames of which pop group in a 1996 feature?

A) All Saints

B) Spice Girls

C) Eternal

D) Atomic Kitten

Answer · why

B) Spice Girls

Spice Girls members became Baby, Ginger, Posh, Scary and Sporty after editor Peter Loraine's team invented the labels following a lunch with the group...

Q 02/05

The only Beatles footage from Top of the Pops long thought to survive was a clip reused in which BBC series?

A) Doctor Who

B) Z-Cars

C) Blue Peter

D) Panorama

Answer · why

A) Doctor Who

Doctor Who borrowed a short clip of the band playing 'Ticket to Ride' for the 1965 serial The Chase, and that excerpt outlived the BBC's own copy of t...

Q 03/05

An instrumental cover of which rock band's song was the Top of the Pops theme tune for most of the 1970s?

A) Deep Purple

B) Black Sabbath

C) Led Zeppelin

D) Jethro Tull

Answer · why

C) Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin's 'Whole Lotta Love' became the theme in a version by the band CCS, a UK chart hit in 1970, and a remix of it returned to open the show f...

Q 04/05

Dexys Midnight Runners sang 'Jackie Wilson Said' on Top of the Pops beneath a photo of a namesake from which sport?

A) Snooker

B) Boxing

C) Golf

D) Darts

Answer · why

D) Darts

Darts star Jocky Wilson's face filled the screen behind the band in 1982, and frontman Kevin Rowland later said the swap was his own idea, not a BBC m...

Q 05/05

Which Radio 1 DJ pretended to play the mandolin behind Rod Stewart's 'Maggie May' on Top of the Pops in 1971?

A) John Peel

B) Tony Blackburn

C) Noel Edmonds

D) Kenny Everett

Answer · why

A) John Peel

John Peel joined Stewart and the Faces on stage, and near the end of the song the band began kicking a football around while the record played on.