80s Music Trivia Quiz # 63
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80s Music: New Wave / Vol. I - Which song by New Order was NOT featured in the 1986 film "Pretty in Pink"?
The correct answer is 'Bizarre Love Triangle'
"Bizarre Love Triangle" was featured in the 1988 film "Married to the Mob". The film "Pretty in Pink" featured "Shellshock", "Elegia", and "Thieves Like Us", all performed by New Order.
80s Music Question 2
80s Behind the Lyrics VI - Bananarama sings, "Goddess on the mountaintop/ Burning like a silver flame/ The summit of beauty and love/ And Venus was her name." Well, Venus was her Roman name, but what was her Greek name?
The correct answer is 'Aphrodite'
Aphrodite was the goddess of love in Greek mythology. She was married Hephaestus, the blacksmith of the gods and the ugliest among the Olympians. Hera was Zeus's jealous wife. Thetis is the mother of Achilles. Artemis is goddess of the moon and the hunt.
80s Music Question 3
80s Music UK - Who was the first band on at Live Aid?
The correct answer is 'Status Quo'
What else could open such a concert but the sound of "Rockin' All Over The World"?
80s Music Question 4
1980s Hip-Hop: "Who Sang?" - Who sang the song "Nightmares"?
The correct answer is 'Dana Dane'
This rapper was raised in the Walt Whitman housing project in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
80s Music Question 5
80s Music: Days Of Mousse & Plastic Pants - Name the song: "Search for you/You're hat pushed straight/Away from me, your measured step/Heads up, you win/Always too late."
The correct answer is '2 Late'
The B-side of the Cure single, "Lovesong".
80s Music Question 6
Totally 80s Lyrics - What SONG are the following lyrics from: 'In your lips I sense a danger...'?
The correct answer is ''Eyes Of A Stranger''
'In your lips I sense a danger...you've got the eyes of a stranger' - Eyes Of A Stranger by The Payola$ from the Valley Girl Movie Soundtrack - 1982
80s Music Question 7
Top 100 Songs of the 1980s (90 - 81) - Song Number 89: "You were the first, you'll be the last"
In the 1980s heartwrenching power ballads sung by rock bands had teen girls swooning. Cheap Trick used this tactic in the summer of 1988 to score their first number one hit. Do you know the song?
In the 1980s heartwrenching power ballads sung by rock bands had teen girls swooning. Cheap Trick used this tactic in the summer of 1988 to score their first number one hit. Do you know the song?
The correct answer is 'The Flame'
"The Flame" was released by Epic Records in the spring of 1988. It took a slow climb to number one where it peaked on July 9th, 1988 and held that spot for two weeks. It totaled 27 weeks on the Hot 100 before falling off the chart on October 15th, 1988. It was the first of four charted releases from the album "Lap of Luxury" including the Elvis Presley remake "Don't Be Cruel" which hit the top 10.
"I Want You To Want Me" was Cheap Trick's top ten hit from 1979. "Heaven" was a number two smash by the heavy metal band Warrant. "Livin' La Vida Loca" was the gutwrenching dance hit by Ricky Martin that had teen girls swooning in the 1990's.
FUN FACT: Cheap Trick has performed the theme songs to several TV shows including "That 70s Show" and "The Colbert Report".
"I Want You To Want Me" was Cheap Trick's top ten hit from 1979. "Heaven" was a number two smash by the heavy metal band Warrant. "Livin' La Vida Loca" was the gutwrenching dance hit by Ricky Martin that had teen girls swooning in the 1990's.
FUN FACT: Cheap Trick has performed the theme songs to several TV shows including "That 70s Show" and "The Colbert Report".
80s Music Question 8
Hits in the 80s - 'Head Over Heels', 'Everybody Wants To Rule The World'
The correct answer is 'Tears for Fears'
80s Music Question 9
1980s Hard Rock Singers - Twisted Sister
The correct answer is 'Dee Snyder'
80s Music Question 10
1980s Music 1st Lines : Volume 4 - 'Desolate loving in your eyes, you used to make my life so sweet.'
The correct answer is 'Culture Club'
'Karma Chameleon'