'80s Expert Trivia

Music Answers

1. Name the the artist of these ‘80s songs:

a) The Rain - Oran “Juice” Jones

b) Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell

c) I Know What Boys Like - The Waitresses

d) Big In Japan - Alphaville

e) Run, Runaway - Slade

f) Nobody - Sylvia

g) Captain Of Her Heart - Double

h) I Wanna Be A Cowboy - Boy's Don't Cry

i) Puttin' On The Ritz - Taco

j) Object Of My Desire - Starpoint

k) I Can Dream About You - Dan Hartman

l) Call To The Heart - Giuffria

m) 867-5309 (Jenny) - Tommy Tutone

n) Der Kommissar - After The Fire

o) We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off - Jermaine Stewart

p) Where Are You Now? - Synch

2. Name five songs of the ‘80s with parenthetical titles, as in 867-5309 (Jenny) above, and the artist for each.

Don’t You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds

(I Just) Died In Your Arms - Cutting Crew

(Keep Feeling) Fascination - Human League

(What’s On Your Mind) Pure Energy - Information Society

Birds Fly (Whisper To A Scream) - Icicle Works

Desire (Come And Get It) - Gene Loves Jezebel

Get It On (Bang A Gong) - The Powerstation

I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do) - Hall And Oates

Jukebox (Don’t Put Another Dime) - The Flirts

Love Changes (Everything) - Climie Fisher

No Parking (On The Dance Floor) - Midnight Star

Major Tom (Coming Home) - Peter Schilling

Master Blaster (Jammin’) - Stevie Wonder

Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots OF Money) - Pet Shop Boys

Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) - Squeeze

Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake) - Freddie Jackson

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) - Eurythmics

Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair) - Sheena Easton

Time (Clock Of The Heart) - Culture Club

You Gotta Fight (For Your Right To Party) - Beastie Boys

Close (To The Edit) - Art Of Noise

Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You) - A Flock Of Seagulls

A Girl In Trouble (Is A Temporary Thing) - Romeo Void

and many more...

3. Vocabulary - For each of the following words, name the artist(s) and song(s) from the eighties in which it appears:

a) Moot - “Jessie’s Girl” - Rick Springfield

b) Alabaster - “Wrapped Around Your Finger” - Police

c) Captain Kirk - “99 Luftballoons” - Nena

d) Kilroy - “Mr. Roboto” - Styx

e) Kosher - “Rock The Casbah” - The Clash

f) Eclectic - “Hello Again” - The Cars

g) Scylla - “Wrapped Around Your Finger” - Police

h) Vegemite - “Down Under” - Men At Work

i) Gary Cooper - “Puttin’ On The Ritz” - Taco

j) Nabakov - “Don’t Stand So Close To Me - Police

4. Name the 7 hits from Michael Jackson's Thriller.  

Beat It

Billy Jean

PYT

Human Nature

The Girl Is Mine

Thriller

Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’

5. Name the 5 hits from Huey Lewis and the News' Sports.  

If This Is It

Heart Of Rock ‘n’ Roll

Hear And Soul

I Want A New Drug

Bad Is Bad

6. Name the the artist of these ‘80s songs:

a) Love Plus One - Haircut One Hundred

b) Brand New Lover - Dead Or Alive

c) Whirly Girl - OXO

d) 19 - Paul Hardcastle

e) Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles

f) At This Moment - Billy Vera And The Beaters

g) Our House - Madness

h) The Belle Of St. Mark - Sheila E

i) Mexican Radio - Wall Of Voodoo

j) Tenderness - General Public

k) Voices Carry - 'til Tuesday

l) Obsession - Animotion

m) Let The Music Play - Shannon

n) Don’t Pay The Ferryman - Chris DeBurgh

o) Lawyers In Love - Jackson Browne

7. One hit wonders - Name the one hit (at least in the US) of the following artists:

a) Sly Fox - Let's Go All The Way

b) Timbuk3 - The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades

c) Opus - Live Is Life

d) JoBoxers - Just Got Lucky

e) Soft Cell - Tainted Love

f) Matthew Wilder - Nothing Gonna Break My Stride

g) Baltimora - Tarzan Boy

h) Romeo Void - A Girl In Trouble (Is A Temporary Thing)

i) Timex Social Club - Rumors

j) Diesel - Sausalito Summernight

8. Lyrically, what is the difference between the original version of The Police’s “Don’t Stand So Close To Me” and “Don’t Stand So Close To Me ‘86?”  

Original: Don’t Stand, Don’t Stand So, Don’t Stand So Close Too Me

'86: Please Don’t Stand So Close To Me

9. In Glass Tiger's 1986 hit "Don't Forget Me When I'm Gone,” what famous Canadian singer sings backup?

Bryan Adams

10. Who played the guitar solo in Michael Jackson’s “Beat It?”  

Eddie Van Halen

11. What famous actor/comedian appeared in the video for Bobby McFerrin's 1988 hit “Don't Worry Be Happy?”  

Robin Williams

12. Who was the lead singer of Genesis before Phil Collins?  

Peter Gabriel

13. Janet Jackson is a former cast member of what three TV shows?  

Good Times, Fame & Diff'rent Strokes

14. Who originally wrote and performed UB40's hit “Red Red Wine?”  

Neil Diamond

15. Who were they then? - What are the real names of these artists:

a) Sting’s real name? (Bonus: What is the origin of "Sting?") - Gordon Sumner - He wore a yellow and black striped sweater

b) Bono (Bonus: What is the origin of "Bono?") - Paul Hewson - Bono Vox means beautiful voice

c) Chaka Kahn - Yvette Marie Stevens

d) Sheena Easton - Sheena Shirley Orr

16. Name one of the two Eddie Murphy (musical) hits of the ‘80s.  

Party All The Time & Put Your Mouth On Me

17. Name the actress who sang backup on the 1985 Clarence Clemmons/Jackson Browne hit “You're A Friend of Mine.”  

Darryl Hannah

18. Name two Billy Joel videos that Christie Brinkley appeared in.  

Keeping The Faith & Uptown Girl

19. What group had an arcade game and an Atari 2600 game based on them in the early 80's. What was the name of the game?  

Journey - Journey Escape (Atari 2600) or Journey (Arcade)

20. What does LL Cool J stand for?

Ladies Love Cool James

21. Name the ‘80s group named after the inventor of the radio.

Tesla

22. Name the three charitable musical collaborations and their hit songs from the '80s. Name three musicians or groups who contributed to each.

    USA for Africa - “We Are The World”

    Dan Aykroyd, Harry Belafonte, Lindsey Buckingham, Kim Carnes, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Sheila E., Bob Geldof, Hall and Oates, James Ingram, Jackie Jackson, LaToya Jackson, Marlon Jackson, Michael Jackson, Randy Jackson, Tito Jackson, Al Jarreau, Waylon Jennings, Billy Joel, Cyndi Lauper, Huey Lewis and the News, Kenny Logins, Bette Midler, Willie Nelson, Jeffery Osborne, Steve Perry, The Pointer Sisters, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, Kenny Rogers, Diana Ross, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner, Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, Michael Boddicker, Paulinho da Costa, Louis Johnson, Quincy Jones, Michael Omartian, Greg Phillinganes, John Robinson

    Band Aid - “Do They Know It's Christmas?”

    Bananarama, Bob Geldof, Culture Club, David Bowie, Duran Duran, Eurythmics, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Heaven 17, Human League, Kool and the Gang, Midge Urge, Paul McCartney, Paul Young, Phil Collins, Spandau Ballet, Status Quo, Sting, The Style Council, U2, Wham! 

    Artists United Against Apartheid - “SunCity”

    Tina B, Afrika Bambaataa, Ray Barretto, Stiv Bator, Pat Benatar, Big Youth, Rubén Blades, Kurtis Blow, Bono, Duke Bootee, Jackson Browne, Ron Carter, Clarence Clemons, Jimmy Cliff, George Clinton, Miles Davis, DJ Cheese, Will Downing, Annie Brody Dutka, Bob Dylan, The Fat Boys, Peter Gabriel, Peter Garrett, Bob Geldof, Lotti Golden, Robert Gordon, Grandmaster Melle Mel, Daryl Hall, Herbie Hancock, Daryl Hannah, Nona Hendryx, Jam Master Jay, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Stanley Jordan, Kashif, Eddie Kendricks, Robbie Kilgore, Keith LeBlanc, Little Steven & the Disciples of Soul, Darlene Love, Michael Monroe, B.J. Nelson, Benjamin Newberry, John Oates, Sonny Okosun, Bonnie Raitt, Joey Ramone, Lou Reed, Keith Richards, David Ruffin, Run D.M.C., Richard Scher, Scorpio, Gil Scott-Heron, Lakshminarayana Shankar, Bruce Springsteen, Zak Starkey, Ringo Starr, Pete Townshend, Via Afrika, Steve Walker, Tony Williams, Doug Wimbish, Peter Wolf, Bobby Womack, Ron Wood, Zoe Yanakis

23. Identify the artist and song for these lyrics:

    a) They say I better get a chaperone because I can't stop messin' with the danger zone
    “She Bop,” Cyndi Lauper

    b) We don't have the time for psychological romance
    “Word Up,” Cameo

    c) Somewhere between the soul and soft machine is where I find myself again
    “Kyrie,” Mr. Mister

    d) I took a page out of my rule book for you
    “Perfect Way,” Scritti Politti

    e) I wanna take you to my cage, lock you up and hide the key
    “Jungle Love,” The Time

    f) Every day is Christmas, and every night is a New Year's Eve
    “The Sweetest Taboo,” Sade

    g) The evening had turned to rain, watch the water roll down the drain 

    “Life in a Northern Town,” Dream Academy

    h) Red roses, temptation, you make the most of an iffy situation
    “Don't Rush Me,” Taylor Dayne

    i) She got me rappin' to the beat then I knew that she was hot
    “Der Kommissar,” After The Fire

    j) A little flesh, a little history
    “One Night in Bangkok,” Murray Head

    k) You're about as easy as a nuclear war

    “Is There Something I Should Know?,” Duran Duran

    l) They gave you life and in return you gave them hell
    “Shout,” Tears for Fears

    m) I am the maker of rules, dealing with fools
    “Eye In The Sky,” Alan Parsons Project

    n) Tonight I need your sweet caress
    “Hands To Heaven,” Breathe

    o) I said to my reflection ‘Let's get out of this place’
    “Tempted,” Squeeze

    p) I'll be stretching my mouth to let those big words come right out
    “Big Time,” Peter Gabriel

    q) And incidents arose from circumstance
    “Heat Of The Moment,” Asia

    r) I know a good thing must come to an end but it's hard to take losing a friend
    “I Know There's Something Going On,” Frida

    s) Well Superman looked up at me, he said ‘You rock so naturally’
    “Jam On It,” Newcleus

    t) I turn the switch and check the number, I leave it on when in bed I slumber
    “Mexican Radio,” Wall of Voodoo

24. Name three hits by Weird Al Yankovic during the eighties.

Eat It, Fat, I Lost On Jeopardy, King Of Suede, Like A Surgeon, & Ricky

25. Who was the only artist to perform for Band Aid and Band Aid II?

Bananarama

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Last modified: 21 Jan 2000