Round 1 - Freequizzes



Round 1 – Mixed Bag

1. Formed in 2001, how are Myleene, Suzanne, Kym, Noel and Danny better known?

2. Which Bangles song gave Atomic Kitten a follow-up number one to their chart-topping hit Whole Again?

3. Which band from Georgia, USA returned to form with their album Reveal and single Imitation of Life?

4. Name the young Irish band who had hits with Shining Light, Burn Baby Burn, Candy and the album Free All Angels.

5. Who re-invented himself by covering classic Rat Pack songs for his album Swing When You’re Winning?

6. Complete the title of the S Club 7 hit: Don’t Stop…what?

7. Who enjoyed critical acclaim with his album Songs From The West Coast?

8. Who caused controversy when she appeared with a live snake draped around her body while performing at an award ceremony?

9. Which nu-metal band led by Fred Durst topped the charts with Rollin?

10. Name the boy band featuring Jay, Ritchie, Abs, Sean and Scott who split in 2001.

1. Hear’Say

Eternal Flame

2. REM

3. Ash

4. Robbie Williams

5. … Movin

6. Elton John

7. Britney Spears

8. Limp Bizkit

9. Five

Round 2 – Mixed Bag

1. Which record company did Berry Gordy form?

2. What is the principal instrument played by U2’s The Edge?

3. What is the name of Nat King Cole’s singing daughter?

4. Where was Marc Cohn Walking in the title of his hit single?

5. In what year did Queen’s Freddie Mercury die?

6. Which classic single gave Simply Red their first top ten hit in 1986?

7. Which song title links Chris Montez, Chris Rea and Five?

8. And, which song title links Van Halen and the Pointer Sisters?

9. Which film song was the UK’s biggest-selling single of 1991?

10. Which song did Madonna provide for the film Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me?

1. (Tamla) Motown

2. Guitar

3. Natalie Cole

In Memphis

4. 1991

Holding Back the Years

5. Let’s Dance

6. Jump

7. (Every Thing I Do) I Do It For You by Bryan Adams (from Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves)

Beautiful Stranger

Round 3 - Manchester and Liverpool

1. How is Mancunian multi-instrumentalist Damon Gough better known?

2. Allan Clarke was lead vocalist with which great Manchester group during the 1960s and 1970s?

3. Peter Hook and Bernard Sumner are members of which Manchester band who reformed in 2001?

4. Johnny Marr was famously the guitarist with which influential group?

5. Name the band formed by Shaun Ryder after the break-up of Happy Mondays.

6. True or False: Gerry and the Pacemakers’ first three singles reached number one in the UK?

7. Cilla Black had a hit with the title song from which movie in 1966?

8. What was the name of the Beatles’ longest-lasting single?

9. Under what name did Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphries enjoy hits with their synthesizer-based pop?

10. What was the name of Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s follow-up single to Relax?

1. Badly Drawn Boy

2. The Hollies

3. New Order

4. The Smiths

5. Black Grape

6. True

7. Alfie

8. Hey Jude

9. OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark)

10. Two Tribes

Round 4 - General

1. Which female-led New Wave band released the albums Parallel Lines and Plastic Letters?

2. Which ageing rocker flopped with the solo album Goddess In The Doorway in 2001?

3. What is the name of ex-Blue Peter presenter Janet Ellis’s singing daughter?

4. Which veteran country singer is known as ‘The Man in Black’?

5. Name the band that backed Desmond Dekker.

6. Complete the title of the north-east band: Prefab… what?

7. Name the band made-up of the five also-rans from the Popstars TV series.

8. Which instrument does TV chef Jamie Oliver play in his pop group?

9. Which actor plays with the band Dog Star?

10. Who penned the song Freedom, written as a fund-raiser for New York police and firemen?

1. Blondie

2. Mick Jagger

3. Sophie Ellis Bextor

4. Johnny Cash

5. The Aces

6. Sprout

7. Liberty

8. Drums

9. Keanu Reeves

10. Paul McCartney

Round 5 - Lyrics

1. Which classic 60s song begins: “Dirty old river, must you keep rolling; flowing into the night”?

2. From which song does the following line come: “She was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene”?

3. Which 1960s number one begins: “I love the colourful clothes she wears, and the way the sunlight plays upon her hair”?

4. Name the Beatles single which begins: “Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book”

5. What song title completes the Marvin Gaye lyric: “When I get that feeling, I want …”?

6. Which Crowded House hit begins “Walking ‘round the room singing ‘Stormy Weather’ at 57 Mount Pleasant Street”?

7. Which show tune starts: “Isn’t it rich, are we a pair”?

8. Which Bowie classic contains the lines: “Sailors fighting in the dance halls. Oh Man! Look at those cavemen go!”

9. “The problem is all inside your head she said to me. The answer’s easy if you take it logically.” Is the beginning of which Paul Simon single?

10. “The morning sun when it’s in your face really shows your age”. Which classic song?

1. Waterloo Sunset (The Kinks)

2. Billie Jean (Michael Jackson)

3. Good Vibrations (The Beach Boys)

4. Paperback Writer

5. …”Sexual Healing”

6. Weather With You

7. Send In The Clowns

8. Life On Mars

9. 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover

10. Maggie May (Rod Stewart)

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