Pop Professor
Pit your wits against David Heane's nightly cryptic pop question every Monday to Thursday on the Evening Show... and become a Pop Professor!
It could be an ingenious link between two songs, a little-known nugget of musical knowledge, a list of best-sellers... pretty much anything. Clues always available if necessary!
Here are the latest questions from the last 2 weeks... so how would you have got on?
Tuesday:
It's a number ones conundrum again!
This happened twice in the 50s, three times in the 90s and once so far in the noughties. Never in the 60s, 70s or 80s, although Queen, Wings and Frankie were among those who came close.
Rihanna was the last to do it..Bryan Adams, Whitney and Wet Wet Wet all did it in the 90s.
10 or more weeks at number one!
Monday:
Figures out this week show the hardest working bands in 2008, performing the most arena gigs in the UK in the past 12 months. Can you guess/name the top 3?
1. Status Quo, 2. Take That, 3. Kaiser Chiefs
Tuesday: (last one of 2008!)
Who are the oldest solo male and female artists to have UK number one hit singles?
Louis Armstrong with Wonderful World in 1968 and Cher with I Believe in 1998
Monday:
David played How Men Are from 1988 by Aztec Camera. What's the word Roddy Frame spells out several times during the song?
Perspective
Tuesday: (last one til after Christmas!)
Who sang Bono's epic Tonight thank God it's them instead of you line on Band Aid II and Band Aid 20, and who recorded it for Band Aid 20, without it being used in the end?
Matt Goss and Jason Donovan did it for Band Aid II, Bono returned for Band Aid 20, after Justin Hawkins from The Darkness had recorded an unused version
Monday:
In the last 50 years of Christmas number ones, this feat has only happened 3 times...It didn't happen at all til 1992, but has happened twice this century (including this year)
Female solo singers at number one (Whitney in 92, Leona in 06 and Alexandra in 08)
Thursday:
Clive Jackson, born in Knotty Ash, Liverpool, in 1961, featured on which 80s number one hit single in the UK?
He was the Doctor in Dr and the Medics, who had a number one in 1986 with Spirit In The Sky
Wednesday:
Name the two all female duets who had number ones in the 80s on the UK singles chart?
Mel and Kim (Respectable) and Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson (I Know Him So Well)
Tuesday:
Name the act who've never had a UK Christmas number one single, but did have the number one album at Christmas twice in the 80s...plus one of their songs has been covered as a Christmas number one..
Abba (Visitors and Super Trouper were the albums 1980 and 1981, I Have A Dream gave Westlife a Christmas number one!)
So there you have it... keep listening in to The Evening Show and you could become a Pop Professor.
Oh, and if you think you know plenty about pop... why not pitch a question to David Heane... he might be able to answer it and also feature it one night on the show!