Test your music knowledge with KEN BRUCE’S fabled quiz as the Pop Master tasks you with 40 fiendish questions to see how well you know the charts

For over two decades, DJ Ken Bruce has been testing music lovers’ knowledge with his famous quiz show PopMaster.

Since leaving the BBC in March, he has offered his favorite pop quiz show on Greatest Hits Radio, but the classic format remains the same, with contestants given a choice of bonus questions (worth six points instead of three for a regular question) to try to nudge them towards an answer. maximum score is 39 per round.

Here, exclusively for the The Washington News, the PopMaster himself has put together more than 40 devilish questions to test how well you really know the charts. . .

Round 1

Bonus Questions: Paper, Scissors, Rock.

1. What 1979 hit for Tavares made 911 his only number one in 1998?

2. In 1973, The New Seekers had a Top 20 hit with a medley of two songs from Pete Townshend’s rock opera Tommy – what were those two songs?

3. Bonus question: What was the name of the girl group whose only hit was the 1968 release Something Here In My Heart (Keeps-A-Tellin’ Me No)?

4. Name the band that had a top ten hit in 2004 with the songs Fit But You Know It and Blinded By The Lights?

5. Who wrote Rod Stewart’s ’90s hits, “Downtown Train” and “Tom Trauber Blues” (Waltzing Matilda)?

6. Bonus question: What was the name of The Scissor Sisters’ first top ten single in 2004?

7. Which former EastEnders actor made the top twenty in 2000 with Good Thing Going?

8. Name the band whose only Top 40 hit was their 1986 release Calling All The Heroes?

9. Bonus Question: Which band had a top ten hit in 1990 with Elephant Stone and One Love?

10. The band Hello was one of the top ten hits of the 70s. The first was Tell Him, but what was the name of the second?

Round 2

Bonus Questions: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

1. What color hat did Nick Hayward wear in his 1983 Top 20 hit?

2. Which British pianist reached the top twenty in 1958 with his composition “Trudy”?

3. Bonus Question: Name the brother and sister group that had top ten hits with “Only Yesterday” and “Yesterday Once More” in the 70s?

4. What was the name of Queen’s 1995 album, which included the singles Too Much Love Will Kill You and A Winter’s Tale?

5. In what year did these three hits top the charts: Give A Little Love by The Bay City Rollers, If by Telly Savalas and Hold Me Close by David Essex?

6. Bonus question: In 1997, Sheryl Crow made the top twenty with the theme song to which James Bond film?

7. Name the girl group that scored top ten hits in 2020 with Break Up Song, Sweet Melody and Confetti?

8. Annie Lennox had a top three hit in 1993 with her hit Little Bird and what other song?

9. Bonus question: Which group had top ten singles in the first decade of this century with titles Madame Helga and Maybe Tomorrow?

10. What was the name of Freddie And The Dreamers’ debut top three hit in 1963?

Round 3

Bonus questions: same title, different song.

1. Which singer made her top ten debut in 1991 with “Love And Kisses”?

2. Name two singers who topped the charts in 2021 with Merry Christmas and returned to the top 20 in 2023?

3. Bonus question: Despite the different songs, what hit title did Free share in 1973 and Terence Trent D’Arby share in 1987?

4. Which band topped the album charts in 1998 with This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours?

5. Which American rapper recently topped the UK charts with Lovin On Me?

6. Bonus Question: What song title was shared between Level 42’s top ten hits in 1985 and Jamelia’s in 2006?

7. Name the singer who co-wrote the 2016 Calvin Harris Top Three hit “This Is What You Came For” featuring Rihanna?

8. Which of these three Abba hits failed to top the charts: Money Money Money, Fernando or The Name Of The Game?

9. Bonus question: What title shared the top 20 hits between Icelandic band Mezzoforte and Marillion in 1983?

10. Which American singer-songwriter’s “Just When I Needed You Most” was a top ten hit in 1979?

Round 4

Bonus Questions: Christmas Treats

1. Name the American singer who topped the UK charts in 2021 with the single Drivers License?

2. Name the singer who sang a duet with Phil Collins on the 1985 Top 5 hit “Separate Lives”?

3. Bonus Question: First released in the 80s, who finally made it into the top ten in 2021 with Driving Home for Christmas?

4. Since 1978, Top Of The Pops was which Scottish band’s only top 20 hit?

5. Who wrote The Pretenders’ top ten hit “I Go To Sleep” in 1981?

6. Bonus question: Name the singer who returned to the top ten in 2023 with her 1962 hit Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree?

7. What are Dario G’s top five hits that became the official song of the 1998 FIFA World Cup?

8. Ace Of Base have only topped the charts once with their 1993 debut hit. What was the name?

9. Bonus question: “Hey Mister Christmas” was a top twenty hit in 1974 for which rock and roll revival group?

10. Name the group that had top ten hits in 1967 with On A Carousel and Stop Stop Stop?

Bonus round

Zodiac signs

1. In 1969, The Fifth Dimension had a top 20 hit with a mash-up of two songs from the musical Hair – can you name them?

2. In 1996, identical twins Michael and David Smallwood reached the Top 40 with their hit Steal Your Love Away. Under what collective name did they record the song?

3. Name the singer who made his chart debut in 1973 with the hit The Show Must Go On.