Will you be a champion of the charts? Try KEN BRUCE's fiendishly tough festive ... trends now
For over 20 years, I have pitted two music buffs against each other in a daily battle for PopMaster trivia supremacy on my Radio 2 show.
The contestants are offered a choice of bonus questions (worth six points to a normal question’s three) to try to inch them to the top score of 39 per round.
Here, exclusively for the Daily Mail, I have compiled 40 brain-tickling questions to test you and your family’s music knowledge.
Will you be a champion of the charts or a null points no-hoper?
KEN BRUCE: Here, exclusively for the Daily Mail, I have compiled 40 brain-tickling questions to test you and your family’s music knowledge. Will you be a champion of the charts or a null points no-hoper?
ROUND 1
Bonus questions: ‘Happy New Year’
1. Who were Smokie living next door to in 1976?
2. Which early 80s song by The Gap Band was often danced by a line of people rowing on the floor?
KEN BRUCE: Shoop Shoop Song by Cher, I’m Too Sexy by Right Said Fred and (Everything I Do) I Do It For You by Bryan Adams were all UK Number 1 hits in which year?
3. Bonus question
The 1980 ABBA song Happy New Year appeared on which of their albums?
4. With which single did Adele make her UK Chart debut, peaking at Number 2?
5. Shoop Shoop Song by Cher, I’m Too Sexy by Right Said Fred and (Everything I Do) I Do It For You by Bryan Adams were all UK Number 1 hits in which year?
6. Bonus question
Which rock band released the single New Year’s Day in January 1983?
KEN BRUCE: The 1980 ABBA song Happy New Year appeared on which of their albums?
7. Which 1960s producer was the subject of the film Telstar?
8. Which Blondie song did One Direction cover for Comic Relief in 2013?
9. Bonus question
Dina Carroll’s hit The Perfect Year, released in 1996, was originally written for which musical?
10. What was the name of the Bee Gees’s younger brother who had hits in the late 70s with An Everlasting Love and I Just Wanna Be Your Everything?
ROUND 2
BONUS QUESTIONS: ‘Real names’
1. Which pop superstar welcomed guests Dave Grohl and Bruce Springsteen on stage with him when he headlined Glastonbury 2022?
2. What type of face did Lady Gaga have in her 2009 UK Number 1 hit?
KEN BRUCE: What type of face did Lady Gaga have in her 2009 UK Number 1 hit?
3. Bonus question
Which singing superstar was born Thomas Woodward on June 7, 1940?
4. Which EastEnders actress had a UK Chart hit with Anyone Can Fall In Love, a reworking of the soap’s theme tune?
5. Red Red Wine by UB40, Too Shy by Kajagoogoo and Baby Jane by Rod Stewart were all UK Number 1 hits in which year?
6. Bonus question
Singer/songwriter Declan McManus is better known by what name?
7. Which Canadian rock band had a hit with the new wave song Echo Beach, which was later covered by Toyah?
8. Which Georgian singer released her debut album Call Off The Search in 2003?
9. Bonus question
Singer/songwriter and record producer Peter Gene Hernandez is known
