Trivia Questions
From the Kaptain Kranch Dance Party!
>The Boss Bruce Springsteen had a hit in 1984 with Pink Cadillac. Where did Springsteen get the inspiration for the term Pink Cadillac? A hint, it was from thirty years prior to the Boss’s hit song.
David Bowie not only was a great musical talent, but a great actor as well starring in many feature films and playing many various characters. Of the following characters, which one did Bowie not play. Was it Pontius Pilate, Christopher Columbus or Nikola Tesla.
John Travolta and Olivia Newton John had a smash hit with You’re The One That I Want from the movie Grease. We all know that Grease is the word, but how many times is the word said in the movie Grease?
The Bay City Rollers were a Scottish band with a passion for tartan trousers and scarves. They hit number one with the song Saturday Night. The song debuted via a satellite link performance on a TV show. Can you name the show? And, while that might be easy, for extra credit who was the host that week?
Rick James, Super Freak, is a song about a very kinky girl, the kind you don’t take home to mother. The song has background vocals from a recording group from the same recording label as James, and whose bass singer was Rick James uncle. Do you know who the group is?
Moon River is an iconic song from Andy Williams. The song was written by Henry Mancini and won an Academy Award for Best Original Song in a rather famous movie. What was the name of the movie, and who was the actress who sang it?
Which song was Olivia Newton-John's biggest hit? Was it Morning Train, Physical, or You’re The One That I Want from Grease?
The name of the 80’s group The Go Gos first album is a take on a Disney Film. Is it Belinda and the Seven Blondes, Beauty and the Beat, or Go Gos in Wonderland?
Bruce Springsteen's song Dancing in the Dark spent four weeks at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold over one million singles in the US alone. Surprisingly, it had the most vinyl sales in 1984 in a category where Springsteen is not generally a big seller. Can you figure out what category that is?
Phil Collins song Sussudio is about a schoolboy crush on a girl at school, but where did the name Sussudio come from?
Cher's disco comeback hit in 1979 was Take Me Home. This song led to her first Vegas residency show in the early 1980’s. In the nineties, Cher’s hit song Believe featured the first use of a new technology, the use of which is somewhat controversial today. Do you know what that technology is?
Irene Cara had a hit with the theme song to the movie and TV show Fame. Cara also starred in the movie as an aspiring singer and dancer. Do you remember her character’s name?
Thomas Dolby'd hit She Blinded Me With Science was used as the theme song to a popular TV show currently on the air, but only for the pilot episode. Can you name this popular comedy?
Lionel Ritchie co-wrote a 1985 charity single with Michael Jackson, a song which sold over 20 million copies. What was the name of that song?
Australian Born Gertrude Wirschinger, better known as Penny Mclean, had a solo hit with Lady Bump. She recorded with a group prior to Lady Bump that had a few hits of their own. One of the hits – Fly Robin Fly. Can you name the group?
Toward the end of Love Shack by the B-52’s, lead singer Cindy Wilson utters a three word line that was actually an outtake added to the track. What are those three words?
The slow jam I Only Have Eyes For You was covered by Art Garfunkle, The Flamingos and many more. This song not only was first sung in a feature film in the 1930s, in 1989 it won an ASCAP Award as the "Most Performed Feature Film Standard" Can you name the actor that first sung the song, the year, and the name of the movie? You’ll be doing good if you get one of the three.
Berlin's No More Words was featured in the film Vision Quest. First released as a single in 1984, it was re-released after the film as a B side to a Madonna song also featured in the film. Can you name the Madonna song?
I Will Die For You, Baby I’m a Star and Purple Rain share a distinction in being a first for Prince in how they were recorded. What was that first?
Isaac Hayes co-wrote a song that was made a hit both in 1967 and 1978, and was recognized as one of the most influential songs of the past 50 years. Was is the title of the song?.
Who was the character, and the 1970's TV show he is from, who liked to sing Fats Domino’s Blueberry Hill everytime he got "lucky"?
Who Can It Be Now is a song by Australian band Men at Work, formed in Melbourne in 1978 with Colin Hay on lead vocals. Colin Hay's accent is not Australian. Where did Hay originally live before he emigrated to Australia in 1967?
Santa Esmeralda had a disco hit with the song Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood. This song was a cover of a transatlantic hit from 1965. What group had the original hit?
You Might Think by the Cars was video of the year at the MTV Video Music Awards in 1984. MTV was pretty new, but how new was it? Was this the First, Second or Third Video Music Awards?
Gloria Gaynor's hit Never Can Say Goodbye was written by an actor who starred in the 1970’s television shows That’s My Mama and Amen. Can you name him?