80s Ultimate Music Quiz

Test your 80s pop knowledge. 27 questions include song snippets, mystery voices and archive radio clips. Answers listed below.

Answers:

1. Video Killed the Radio Star was the first music video to air on MTV 2. True - the girl in the Take On Me video was Morten Harket's then girlfriend 3. Morrissey of The Smiths wanted to see an end to music videos 4. Madonna and John Oates (of Hall and Oates) were the New York seminar panelists 5. Sting wrote and sung the line "I want my MTV" in the Dire Straits song Money For Nothing 6. Live Aid was the event televised on 13 July 1985 6. Paul Young sings the opening lines of Do They Know It's Christmas? 7-10 It's all in a name: The Blow Monkeys (Digging Your Scene), Fun Boy Three (Our Lips Are Sealed), Pretty Poison (Catch Me I'm Falling), Haircut One Hundred (Love Plus One) 11. Billie Jean was a composite of the groupies who hung out with Michael Jackson's older brothers during The Jackson 5 years 12. Sheena Easton is the shortest at 1.54m or 5 feet (Prince is 1.58m/ 5.2 feet; Nik Kershaw is 1.63m/ 5.3 feet; and Madonna is 1.65m/ 5.4 feet) 13. Rick Dees is introducing Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears For Fears 14. Lionel Richie is the person saying "Outrageous" as he delivers the We Are The World single to the radio station 15. Neil Tennant of Pet Shop Boys is talking in 1987 about untrue rumours in the British press about the duo's demise 16. Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran survived an accident on his racing yacht 17. Grace Slick of Starship got her start in the psychedelic '60s 18. The much-maligned 1985 Starship song was We Built This City 19. David Lee Roth is talking about production values in rock music 20. Falco was the Austrian rock singer whose fame peaked with Rock Me Amadeus in 1986 21-25 Snippets: Another One Bites the Dust by Queen; I'll Tumble 4 Ya by Culture Club; Tunnel Of Love by Bruce Springsteen; Burning Down the House by Talking Heads 26. Boy George is talking to Barbara Walters about gender 27. Madonna wants to "conquer the world" in 1984, shortly before the release of her 2nd album Like A Virgin which did, indeed, rule the world.