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Another 1970’s Pop Quiz

1. “No Woman, No Cry” was recorded in 1974 by whom?
Bob Marley and the Wailers

2.  Which song by Kate Bush was based on an Emily Bronte novel?
Wuthering Heights

3. “One Step Beyond” was the debut album for which British group in 1979?
Madness

4. Ray Davies wrote the song “Lola” in 1970 for which group? 
The Kinks

5. The Tartan Teenagers Sensations from Edinburgh became famous as which mid-seventies band?
Bay City Rollers

6.  In which year did The Jam form, 1972, 1973 or 1974?
1972

7.  Who wrote and released “Kung Fo Fighting” in 1974?
Carl Douglas

8. D.I.V.O.R.C.E was a 1975 song by which comedian?
Billy Connolly

9.  'Lonely This Christmas' was a Christmas number 1 in 1974 for glam rock band Mud, but which of their singles was the UK's best-selling of 1974?
Tiger Feet

10.  Errol Brown was the lead singer in which band?
Hot Chocolate

11. “Le Freak” was a 1978 funk/disco song by which band?
Chic

12.  "Knock, Knock Who's There?" was originally sung and recorded by which Welsh singer as the United Kingdom's entry at the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest?
Mary Hopkin

13.  In 1975, the Carpenters had a hit with a remake of which Marvelettes' chart-topping 1961 single?
Please Mr. Postman

14.  Which song topped the UK Singles Chart for nine weeks in the summer of 1978?
You're the One That I Want (John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John)

15.  Which ballad performed by Elton John is also the title track on his 1973 album?
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

16.  Can you name the debut album by English musician and composer Mike Oldfield?
Tubular Bells

17.  "Bohemian Rhapsody" is a song from which 1975 Queen album?
A Night at the Opera

18. “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” was originally sung by whom?
Julie Covington - best known for recording the original version of "Don't Cry for Me Argentina",which she sang on the 1976 concept album Evita.

19. Whose 1974 World tour caused such mass hysteria that several countries including Australia and Japan threatened to throw him out of their country as a "Health Hazard"?
David Cassidy

20.  What was the biggest selling single of the 70s in the UK?  (5 points)
Mull of Kintyre by Wings


 

Another 1970’s Pop Quiz

1. “No Woman, No Cry” was recorded in 1974 by whom?

2.  Which song by Kate Bush was based on an Emily Bronte novel?

3. “One Step Beyond” was the debut album for which British group in 1979?

4. Ray Davies wrote the song “Lola” in 1970 for which group? 

5. The Tartan Teenagers Sensations from Edinburgh became famous as which mid-seventies band?

6.  In which year did The Jam form, 1972, 1973 or 1974?

7.  Who wrote and released “Kung Fo Fighting” in 1974?

8. D.I.V.O.R.C.E was a 1975 song by which comedian?

9.  'Lonely This Christmas' was a Christmas number 1 in 1974 for glam rock band Mud, but which of their singles was the UK's best-selling of 1974?

10.  Errol Brown was the lead singer in which band?

11. “Le Freak” was a 1978 funk/disco song by which band?

12.  "Knock, Knock Who's There?" was originally sung and recorded by which Welsh singer as the United Kingdom's entry at the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest?

13.  In 1975, the Carpenters had a hit with a remake of which Marvelettes' chart-topping 1961 single?

14.  Which song topped the UK Singles Chart for nine weeks in the summer of 1978?

15.  Which ballad performed by Elton John is also the title track on his 1973 album?

16.  Can you name the debut album by English musician and composer Mike Oldfield?

17.  "Bohemian Rhapsody" is a song from which 1975 Queen album?

18. “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” was originally sung by whom?

19. Whose 1974 World tour caused such mass hysteria that several countries including Australia and Japan threatened to throw him out of their country as a "Health Hazard"?

20.  What was the biggest selling single of the 70s in the UK?  (5 points)



 

Numbers - 11
60’s - 14


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18 today thanks zico.
Lucked out on She Loves You.

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Another 1960’s Pop Quiz

1. Which band sang “Under the Boardwalk” in 1964? 
The Drifters

2. “Baby Love” was performed by which girl group in 1964?
The Supremes

3.  How many UK no1 singles did The Beatles have during the 1960s, was it 15, 16 or 17?
17

4.  Which duo originally formed the Righteous Brothers?
Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield

5.  Who sang “These Boots are Made for Walkin” in 1966?
Nancy Sinatra

6.  In 1969 which Marvin Gaye song spent 3 weeks at No1 in the UK Charts?
I Heard It Through the Grapevine

7. “It's Now or Never” was the first 60s number one for which musical icon?
Elvis Presley

8.  Who sang the title track of 60s Bond film Thunderball?
Tom Jones

9.  Peter, Paul and Mary famously sang Leaving on a Jet Plane - but who wrote and sang the original version?
John Denver

10. Name the song: "All the leaves are brown, And the sky is grey..." 
California Dreamin by The Mamas and The Papas

11.  Which band had the lead vocalists, Paul Jones from 1962 to 1966, and Mike d'Abo from 1966 to 1969?
Manfred Mann

12.  Can you name the instrumental by The Shadows which topped the UK Singles Chart for five weeks in 1960?
Apache

13.  Which cover version of a Bobby and Shirley Womack song gave the Rolling Stones' their first No. 1 hit in the UK?
It's All Over Now

14.  Which band plays an important role in the careers of Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, and Eric Clapton?
The Yardbirds

15.  Which hit released in 1969 by Credence Clearwater Revival was featured in the 80’s movie “An American Werewolf in London”?
Bad Moon Rising

16.  In 1961, which famous singer established Reprise Records?
Frank Sinatra

17.  Who were the first act to reach number one in the UK Singles Chart with their first three single releases?
Gerry and the Pacemakers

18.  Which band were recording their first album at Abbey Road while The Beatles were recording Sgt. Pepper's Lonely-Hearts Band?
Pink Floyd

19.  Which UK comedian had the best-selling UK single of 1965?
Ken Dodd with Tears

20.  What was the biggest selling single of the 60s in the UK? (5 points)
She Loves You by The Beatles





 

Another 1960’s Pop Quiz

1. Which band sang “Under the Boardwalk” in 1964? 

2. “Baby Love” was performed by which girl group in 1964?

3.  How many UK no1 singles did The Beatles have during the 1960s, was it 15, 16 or 17?

4.  Which duo originally formed the Righteous Brothers?

5.  Who sang “These Boots are Made for Walkin” in 1966?

6.  In 1969 which Marvin Gaye song spent 3 weeks at No1 in the UK Charts?

7. “It's Now or Never” was the first 60s number one for which musical icon?

8.  Who sang the title track of 60s Bond film Thunderball?

9.  Peter, Paul and Mary famously sang Leaving on a Jet Plane - but who wrote and sang the original version?

10. Name the song: "All the leaves are brown, And the sky is grey..." 

11.  Which band had the lead vocalists, Paul Jones from 1962 to 1966, and Mike d'Abo from 1966 to 1969?

12.  Can you name the instrumental by The Shadows which topped the UK Singles Chart for five weeks in 1960?

13.  Which cover version of a Bobby and Shirley Womack song gave the Rolling Stones' their first No. 1 hit in the UK?

14.  Which band plays an important role in the careers of Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, and Eric Clapton?

15.  Which hit released in 1969 by Credence Clearwater Revival was featured in the 80’s movie “An American Werewolf in London”?

16.  In 1961, which famous singer established Reprise Records?

17.  Who were the first act to reach number one in the UK Singles Chart with their first three single releases?

18.  Which band were recording their first album at Abbey Road while The Beatles were recording Sgt. Pepper's Lonely-Hearts Band?

19.  Which UK comedian had the best-selling UK single of 1965?

20.  What was the biggest selling single of the 60s in the UK? (5 points)

 

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That's alright Gary, no apology required.  For some reason it reminded me a tad of the Fawlty Towers episode - "Napoleon didn't surrender at Waterloo, He retreated to Paris"  = "We didn't start it" - "Yes, you did, you invaded Poland!"  

Numbers Trivia Quiz

1.  How many different topics are there in a game of classic Trivial Pursuit?
Six

2.  How many people are there in each boat in the Cambridge and Oxford University Boat Race?
Nine - There are eight rowers and a cox.

3.  How many pieces of music are the castaways on "Desert Island Discs" allowed to take to the island?
Eight

4. How many inches in a foot?
Twelve

5.  How many playing squares are on a chessboard?
Sixty-Four

6.  In the 3000-metre steeplechase how many times does an athlete jump the water?
Seven

7.  How many innings in a standard Major League Baseball (MLB) baseball game?
Nine

8.  How many humans went into Noah’s Ark?
Eight - Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons

9.  Before decimalization how many pennies in an old pound?
Two Hundred and Forty (240)

10.  How many landlocked countries are there in South America?
Two - (Bolivia and Paraguay)

11.  How many possible first moves are there in standard chess?
Twenty

12.  A lustrum was a period of how many years in Ancient Rome?
Five years

13.  How many cards make up a typical tarot card deck?
Seventy-Eight (78)

14.  How many Infinity Stones are there in the Marvel Universe?
Six - Time, Space, Reality, Power, Mind, and Soul.

15.  How many paintings did Vincent Van Gogh sell in his lifetime?
One

16.  How many dancers perform the Dance of The Little Swans (Danses des Petits Cygnes) in Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake"?
Four

17.  In the bible, how many Plagues of Egypt were there?
Ten

18. What do the sum of all the numbers on a standard roulette wheel add up to? 
Six Hundred and Sixty-Six (666 (0 to 36)

19.  How many days do you have to claim a National Lottery prize?
One Hundred and Eighty (180 days)

20.  How many zeroes are in a Googol?
One Hundred


 

zico wrote: ↑13 Jan 2026, 10:25

Mr Anon" wrote: ↑13 Jan 2026, 08:24

the coming of gary" wrote: ↑12 Jan 2026, 17:21 Napoleon didn't surrender at Waterloo
He retreated to Paris
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AFTER what battle

I changed the phrasing of the question after Gary pointed it out.

Mr Anon" wrote: ↑13 Jan 2026, 08:24

the coming of gary" wrote: ↑12 Jan 2026, 17:21 Napoleon didn't surrender at Waterloo
He retreated to Paris
.

AFTER what battle

the coming of gary" wrote: ↑12 Jan 2026, 17:21 Napoleon didn't surrender at Waterloo
He retreated to Paris
.

Numbers Trivia Quiz

1.  How many different topics are there in a game of classic Trivial Pursuit?

2.  How many people are there in each boat in the Cambridge and Oxford University Boat Race?

3.  How many pieces of music are the castaways on "Desert Island Discs" allowed to take to the island?

4. How many inches in a foot?

5.  How many playing squares are on a chessboard?

6.  In the 3000-metre steeplechase how many times does an athlete jump the water?

7.  How many innings in a standard Major League Baseball (MLB) baseball game?

8.  How many humans went into Noah’s Ark?

9.  Before decimalization how many pennies in an old pound?

10.  How many landlocked countries are there in South America?

11.  How many possible first moves are there in standard chess?

12.  A lustrum was a period of how many years in Ancient Rome?

13.  How many cards make up a typical tarot card deck?

14.  How many Infinity Stones are there in the Marvel Universe?

15.  How many paintings did Vincent Van Gogh sell in his lifetime?

16.  How many dancers perform the Dance of The Little Swans (Danses des Petits Cygnes) in Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake"?

17.  In the bible, how many Plagues of Egypt were there?

18. What do the sum of all the numbers on a standard roulette wheel add up to? 

19.  How many days do you have to claim a National Lottery prize?

20.  How many zeroes are in a Googol?

 

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Napoleon didn't surrender at Waterloo
He retreated to Paris
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21. Thanks Zico. 

Military Themed Quiz

1.  After what battle in 1815 did Napoleon surrender to the British? (Apologies slight word change at start of question)
The Battle of Waterloo

2.  The Battle of Monte Cassino took place in which country?
Italy - also known as the Battle for Rome, was a series of four military assaults by the Allies against Axis forces in Italy during the Italian Campaign of World War II.

3.  What year was the Royal Air Force formed, was it 1918, 1928 or 1938?
1918 - formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918 through the merger of the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS).

4.  What is the name of the successful businessman and Dragon’s Den star who apparently was once dishonourably discharged from the Royal Navy for throwing an officer off a boat landing jetty?
Duncan Bannatyne

5.  Which former Army Sergeant won two gold medals at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens?
Dame Kelly Holmes

6.  Who starred as General Melchett in the TV series, “Blackadder Goes Forth”?
Stephen Fry

7.  In which English county is RAF Benson?
Oxfordshire - South Oxfordshire

8.  The remains of what U.S. battleship can be viewed from above the water at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial in Hawaii?
USS Arizona

6.  In which sea did the Battle of Jutland take place in 1916?
North Sea

7.  Who wrote the novels featuring the character Richard Sharpe which later became a successful television series on ITV with Sean Bean?
Bernard Cornwell

8.  A joint venture of Lockheed and Raytheon, the FGM-148 portable anti-tank launcher shares its nickname with what decathlon event?
Javelin

9.  Sharing a name with Captain Nemo's vessel in “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” what was the name of the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine?
USS Nautilus

10.  What was the name of the boat sunk by Opération Satanique in July 1985 by a French military action? The ship was at the Port of Auckland in New Zealand on its way to a protest against a planned nuclear test.
Rainbow Warrior

11.  Now the namesake of a class of aircraft carriers, what Texan commanded the US Pacific fleet during World War II and served as America's Chief of Naval Operations from 1945 to 1947?
Nimitz - Chester W. Nimitz

12.  Starring Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen and James Farentino can you name the 1980 American science fiction war film about a modern, nuclear-powered aircraft carrier that travels through time to the day before the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor?
The Final Countdown - It was set and filmed on board USS Nimitz (CVN-68)

13.  The sinking of which ship led to the greatest single loss of life at sea in the history of the U.S. Navy in 1945?
USS Indianapolis

14. The 2001 film “Blackhawk Down”, directed by Ridley Scott, centres on a military operation that took place in which East African country in 1993? 
Somalia

15.  Meaning roughly "strugglers or strivers, doers of jihād')," what M-word name was given to the various Afghanistan rebel groups that fought against the Soviet Union in the Soviet-Afghan War in the 1980s?
Mujahideen

16.  The shortest war in history took place in 1896. It lasted between 38 and 45 minutes when which African archipelago surrendered to the British Empire?
Zanzibar

17.  In the Sean Connery film “The Hunt for Red October” what is the name of the secret drive aboard the 'Red October' submarine that allows them to run very quiet in the water?
Caterpillar Drive

18.  'Richard the Lionheart' was a Christian leader during which crusade: The First, Second, Third, Fourth, or Fifth?
The Third Crusade

19. Which American battleship is best remembered as the site of the surrender of Japan at the end of World War II?
USS Missouri

20.  "Broadsword calling Danny Boy" is a famous line from the 1968 film "Where Eagles Dare," which has become iconic in popular culture. What were the surnames of the three double agents (traitors) Major Smith (Richard Burton) proved guilty with the undeliberate help of Colonel Kramer (Anton Diffring)?  Point fort each
Thomas, Christiansen, and Berkeley

 

Military Themed Quiz

1.  At what battle in 1815 did Napoleon surrender to the British?

2.  The Battle of Monte Cassino took place in which country?

3.  What year was the Royal Air Force formed, was it 1918, 1928 or 1938?

4.  What is the name of the successful businessman and Dragon’s Den star who apparently was once dishonourably discharged from the Royal Navy for throwing an officer off a boat landing jetty?

5.  Which former Army Sergeant won two gold medals at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens?

6.  Who starred as General Melchett in the TV series, “Blackadder Goes Forth”?

7.  In which English county is RAF Benson?

8.  The remains of what U.S. battleship can be viewed from above the water at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial in Hawaii?

6.  In which sea did the Battle of Jutland take place in 1916?

7.  Who wrote the novels featuring the character Richard Sharpe which later became a successful television series on ITV with Sean Bean?

8.  A joint venture of Lockheed and Raytheon, the FGM-148 portable anti-tank launcher shares its nickname with what decathlon event?

9.  Sharing a name with Captain Nemo's vessel in “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” what was the name of the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine?

10.  What was the name of the boat sunk by Opération Satanique in July 1985 by a French military action? The ship was at the Port of Auckland in New Zealand on its way to a protest against a planned nuclear test.

11.  Now the namesake of a class of aircraft carriers, what Texan commanded the US Pacific fleet during World War II and served as America's Chief of Naval Operations from 1945 to 1947?

12.  Starring Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen and James Farentino can you name the 1980 American science fiction war film about a modern, nuclear-powered aircraft carrier that travels through time to the day before the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor?

13.  The sinking of which ship led to the greatest single loss of life at sea in the history of the U.S. Navy in 1945?

14. The 2001 film “Blackhawk Down”, directed by Ridley Scott, centres on a military operation that took place in which East African country in 1993? 

15.  Meaning roughly "strugglers or strivers, doers of jihād')," what M-word name was given to the various Afghanistan rebel groups that fought against the Soviet Union in the Soviet-Afghan War in the 1980s?

16.  The shortest war in history took place in 1896. It lasted between 38 and 45 minutes when which African archipelago surrendered to the British Empire?

17.  In the Sean Connery film “The Hunt for Red October” what is the name of the secret drive aboard the 'Red October' submarine that allows them to run very quiet in the water?

18.  'Richard the Lionheart' was a Christian leader during which crusade: The First, Second, Third, Fourth, or Fifth?

19. Which American battleship is best remembered as the site of the surrender of Japan at the end of World War II?

20.  "Broadsword calling Danny Boy" is a famous line from the 1968 film "Where Eagles Dare," which has become iconic in popular culture. What were the surnames of the three double agents (traitors) Major Smith (Richard Burton) proved guilty with the undeliberate help of Colonel Kramer (Anton Diffring)?  Point fort each