80s-music Trivia Quiz # 13
This is 80s Music Quiz # 13, GOOD LUCK! You can head back to the main 80s Music Quiz index, or try your luck at a random quiz.80s Music Question 1
Billboard's #1's (1980s) - What album was the only chart-topper for Freddie Mercury's band?
The correct answer is 'The Game'
Hopefully, everyone knew that Queen was the band I was referring to. While they remain one of the most influential and popular bands of all time, "The Game" was their only #1, spending 5 weeks on top in 1980. The other possible selections were the band's three preceding albums.
80s Music Question 2
Albums and Song Titles - Who recorded the mid-1980s album 'State of Our Union'?
The correct answer is 'Long Ryders'
This one is probably pretty hard, about the only thing most people remember the Long Ryders for is their Miller Lite ad.
80s Music Question 3
Name that 80s Band - "Don't You Want Me": You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, when I met you.
The correct answer is 'Human League'
On the album "Dare", recorded in 1981.
80s Music Question 4
1980s Band: The Smiths - 'Others conquered love -- but I ran.'
The correct answer is 'Accept Yourself'
80s Music Question 5
More 80s Lyrics - What song do these lyrics come from: 'Day after day it reappears- Night after night my heartbeat shows the fear, ghosts appear and fade away'?
The correct answer is ''Overkill''
From 'Overkill', the 1983 hit by Australia's Men at Work.
80s Music Question 6
1980s-The Best Decade For Music #2 - What Movie featured the Huey Lewis and the News songs "The Power of Love" and "Back In Time"?
The correct answer is 'Back to the Future'
Huey Lewis made his acting debut in thet movie, teliing Michael J. Fox and his band, "I'm afraid you're just too darn loud".
80s Music Question 7
80s Behind the Lyrics I - Finally, in their hit "Cult of Personality," Living Colour sings, "Neon lights a Nobel Prize/ A leader speaks, that leader dies/ You don't have to follow me/ Only you can set you free." The Nobel Prizes are named for Alfred Nobel. Other than the prize that bears his name, for what is Nobel famous?
The correct answer is 'He invented dynamite'
It is rumored that Nobel was so distraught at the destruction upon human life caused by his invention (he wanted it to be used only for commercial uses) that upon his death he willed the money to fund the Nobel Prizes.
80s Music Question 8
80s Power Ballads! - Okay, this one should be a little easier. Finish this: "Don't know what you got..."
The correct answer is 'till it's gone'
"Don't know what you got" by Cinderella, off of "Long Cold Winter". I had the biggest crush on Tom Keifer all through high school!
80s Music Question 9
80s Metal Bands - Which band's biggest hit was "The Final Countdown"?
The correct answer is 'Europe'
This song was written for the movie Rocky 4, and turned out to be the band's only true hit.
80s Music Question 10
Match the Lyric to the Artist - 80s - I play along with the charade, there doesn't seem to be a reason to change,You know, I feel so dirty when they start talking cute.
The correct answer is 'Rick Springfield'
from 'Jesse's Girl'