Totally 80’s – The Ultimate 80s Music Quiz – Win £10
Step back in time with our Ultimate 80’s Music Quiz, that takes you on a nostalgic journey through the greatest decade of music!
Test your knowledge of iconic 80’s hits, from synth-pop to hair metal, with a series of multiple-choice questions that will transport you straight to the neon-lit dance floors and MTV music video marathons.
If you manage to find the answer that we are looking for, you will receive 2 entries into the draw. If you get it wrong, you will receive 1 entry (just for giving it a try). All entries will be pooled at the end of the month, and one winner drawn at random. Get ready to relive the glory days of 80’s music and prove that you’re the ultimate 80’s tunes master!
The competition started on 1st July 2025 and runs until the end of the month. The final question will be posted on 31st July 2025, with the winner announced here on 1st August 2025. The winner will then have 24 hours to claim their £10 cash prize. If the prize is not claimed by 11am on 2nd August 2025, it will be forfeited, and no late claims will be accepted.
Previous Answers
1. c) 1987
2. b) Stevie Wonder
3. c) The Loco-Motion
4. d) Air Supply
5. b) Human League
6. a) Time After Time
7. d) Escape
8. b) 1981
9. c) Livin’ On A Prayer
10. d) Start Me Up
11. a) 500
12. b) Flashdance
13. c) Danny Elfman
14. c) Band Aid – Do They Know It’s Christmas
15. b) 1981
16. a) Metallica
17. a) Wham!
18. b) Roxette
19. d) Van Halen
20. a) Dolly Parton
21. b) Africa
22. a) A-ha
23. c) Phil Collins
24. d) Every Rose Has It’s Thorn
25. b) Give You Up
26. c) Total Eclipse Of The Heart
27. c) 1985
28. c) Huey Lewis And The News
29. d) Magic
I can hear today’s song going around in my head lol. A great song.
My gut instinct was wrong with todays (27), I am glad I checked it before answering.
I missed a day again. I have been having a lot of trouble getting on the net. The Wi-Fi keeps going off on my laptop, but I can still use my tablet, which is strange. However, I get blocked from this site whenever I use a different device to log in. I had similar trouble on Wednesday as well. I checked Wednesdays yesterday morning.
Same here
None of them!
Exactly! It was ‘Open Up and Say Ahh’. I still have my copy.
Wrong on two counts – “its” should not have an apostrophe in it either 🤭
As far as I can see, the answer is a single on their 1988 album. Had to look this one up as I’d never heard of them, not my type of music!
It’s not mine either, but one did stand out over the other 3.
I just listened to it on YouTube, out of curiosity and I now vaguely recognise it, not what I was expecting from them though, I was expecting someone screaming at me until they made my ears and eyes bleed.
Do we have any Rock fans on here?
Poison are so good. I saw them live a couple of times in the 90s.
The facts supporting most of these questions relate mainly to the US charts. Today’s song No.4 in UK, but No.1 in US. I guess that’s where the quiz came from
That’s a shame 😕
China lol
Well today’s (21.07)is going to cause issues……
I thought I’d double check my answer and I’m not convinced I’ve got the right answer
I cannot see why it would cause any issues. My husband told me the answer straight away, but I double-checked, and his answer was the only one that came up.
Yes, I thought of the answer and that was the only one which came up for me. I looked at their discography and they had a no. 2 hit, do you remember it being no. 1 in a different category? Radio 1 and Capital did not always agree and there were other charts and chart shows which had different opinions.
I missed a day again. My excuse is that I went out with my husband.
I went out with my hubby too! But I didn’t miss yesterday… you must have had a better time than I did. 🤣
Where were these songs No.1 hits? It wasn’t in the UK, so what chart are we going by? I know it doesn”t make a difference to the answer, but after the ‘Locomotion’ confusion, we should be going by one specific chart, not different ones depending on where you are in the world.
After looking it up, they both got to no.1 in the US, but this is not an American site, otherwise today’s date would be 7.18.25. I am so glad it wasn’t the 8.8.25, as that would not have helped my point.
At least this question doesn’t point to the other answers being correct, along with the Locomotion we also had 0 – 1,000 Miles by the Proclaimers.
I think Daniel gets this quiz from an American site or something. But it’s okay. Doesn’t make it less fun to do.
Where does it say about No.1’s ? it’s just chart hits
It said it in the question about Roxette, which is the question I was referring to.
The same again with today’s answer, it only reached 7 in the UK.
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“Careless Whisper” wasn’t a group’s hit, it was a solo artist
“Careless Whisper” is a song recorded by English singer-songwriter George Michael. Released as the second single from Wham!’s second studio album Make It Big (1984), it was written by Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, with Michael producing the song.
But not sung by “Wham”, sung by George Michael. Call me pedantic if you like…!!…
That is right but you didn’t copy and paste the next bit; “Although the song was released as part of Make It Big, the single release is credited to either Wham! featuring George Michael (in the United States and several other countries) or solely to George Michael (in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and some nations in Europe).”
defo no need to google today!!!!
You do if you’re not from the UK
Even though I knew the answer, I still googled it to make sure I was right. I bet there are quite a few that had to look it up.
Or if you were born in 1987 lol…first one I’ve dared to take a guess at rather than look up though, not been the best topic for me this month!
Edit: I would SO love to know the reason for the downvote for my above comment…no problem with it in the least, I’m just really curious as to what was in my post that someone took against that much?! 🤣
I don’t see any problems with the comment you made either.
It’s just a tad frustrating when someone anonymously downvotes something seemingly innocuous, but doesn’t reply themselves (I don’t just mean my own comments here, it’s the same when it happens to other people)…just leaves you wondering WHY, what was the thinking behind it? 🤔😏
Question 11 answer is wrong it’s 1000. I nearly put 500 but if you double check the lyrics it says I will walk 500 and then walk 500 more making a total of 1000
google Ai agrees
Yes, that’s what I put. 500 + 500 = 1000
Absolutely – that’s a standard ‘trick’ question when you’re supposed to put 500 but the correct answer is 1000
I put 1000 too..
But he didn’t actually walk anywhere, he said he “would”, so the correct answer is actually 0.
I was tempted to put 0 as the answer, but decided just to go with the song title.
If this was a 1% Club question, I would have put 0, but these questions are not designed to trick you, so I put 500.
Surely they walked 500 then 500 more so a total of 1000?
The lyrics state that they would walk 500 miles and then 500 more, so you’d think that would make 1000, but it states would, not did, so you could also argue they didn’t walk a single mile!
I put zero, as the words say ‘I would walk 500 miles’, rather than ‘I did walk 500 miles’. I don’t think they actually walked anywhere!
I was thinking the same.
Nobody knows if they actually did or didn’t walk any miles?
I also put zero, as the lyrics state I ‘would’ walk 500 miles – meaning they hadn’t walked at all 🤷🏻♀️.
The question said ‘did walk’ and not ‘would walk’, so the correct answer is zero.
Maybe they flew 500 miles, that would’ve been the most practical and sensible solution.
So the answer could be 500, 1,000 and 0, at least we know they didn’t run anywhere, unlike the person who set this question and has suddenly run home with a migraine. 🏃♀️💨
Anyone else having to watch an ad every 24 hours in order to access the site? I don’t mind watching an ad however tonights one was Hatchery Horrors. I don’t want to watch 30 seconds of baby chicks being cruelly mistreated. Pick different ads please.
Yes every 24 hrs watch a video ad. Sometimes they are 10 seconds, sometimes 30 seconds. I don’t actually ‘watch’ it. It is playing but I usually look elsewhere until finished. (not navigating away though). Once I had to watch an extremely boring 30 sec ad and after 25 seconds it reloaded and started over three times until it then showed a different ad the 4th time. It utterly annoyed me.
If the first ad is 30 seconds I click back and Close the ad, rather than Resume. It pops up again, but for me it goes away when I click on it.
If I go to a different page it keeps coming back, but I keep clicking back and closing them until it shows me a 5 second ad, I will happily watch those ones.
That sounds really upsetting Karen. Thankfully that one hasn’t come up for me yet. I would hate to see it too.
I knew next to nothing about The Rolling Stones
You either know the answer or you don’t and if you don’t you cheat. 😊
Cheat……..
Expand your knowledge you mean 😉
I am so grateful for Google.
I had to look today’s up, I only bought the single!
Cyndi Lauper not Cindy Lauper
She’s absolutely fantastic, saw her live at one of her last concerts ever in the UK in February. Not bad for a woman in her 70’s!