Number One's Quiz...

[Colin Zeal EFM]

1. What feat was achieved by U2's "The Fly" in 1991??

 

2. What do "The Power Of Love" and "Tears On My Pillow" have in common??

 

3. What is the only single to be Number One in four different calendar years??

 

4. Who became the first person to score a British number one within 7 days of releasing their first ever single??

 

5. Which group spent almost a third of the year at number one in 1984??

[Laz]

A couple of shots in the dark...

 

3. Bohemian Rhapsody ??

 

5. Wham ??

[Colin Zeal EFM]

Bohemian Rhapsody is correct (1975, 1976, 1991, 1992)

 

Wham is incorrect.

[Guest]

1: First limited edition single release to go straight into the charts at number 1??

4:Will Young (or the other one) ??

[Colin Zeal EFM]

1. Not the answer I was looking for, although possibly correct.

 

4. Nope!

[Laz]

5. Duran Duran ?

[Colin Zeal EFM]

Nope.

[ESG]

1 it didn't go to No.1

2 they're not really any good

 

5 band aid?

[Colin Zeal EFM]

No, no, and err... no.

[Rob_the_Saint]

4. Hear'say? (sic)

5. Frankie goes to Hollywood? (Relax and Two Tribes)

[Colin Zeal EFM]

4. Incorrect

 

5. Correct (Relax - 6wks, Two Tribes - 9wks, The Power Of Love - 1wk)

[Rob_the_Saint]

2. Were they both hits for more than one person?

[Colin Zeal EFM]

Very close, but there's slightly more to it than that.

[Laz]

Number 2...

 

Almost anagrams of each other?

[Colin Zeal EFM]

Hmm... maybe not!

[Laz]

And as neither of them are palindromes, I'm a bit stumped.

[Colin Zeal EFM]

I'll stick the answers on in about half an hour before I go home.

[Rob_the_Saint]

OK, one last try...

 

No. 2 - both were two completely different songs that were hits for different people/groups. "Power of Love" was by Frankie g.t.h (again!) and Jenifer Rush and "Tears on my Pillow" was by Kylie and someone else. I must be right this time!

[Colin Zeal EFM]

Absolutely right!! The other "Tears On My Pillow" was by Johnny Nash.

[Colin Zeal EFM]

The other answers are:...

 

1. What feat was achieved by U2's "The Fly" in 1991??

The record that eventually knocked Bryan Adams' Robin Hood song off the top spot

 

4. Who became the first person to score a British number one within 7 days of releasing their first ever single??

It was Whigfield in 1994 with "Saturday Night". Not too surprised no-one got that really!!