Test your music knowledge with KEN BRUCE’S fabled quiz as the Pop Master tasks you with 40 fiendish questions to see how well you know the charts

For more than twenty years, DJ Ken Bruce has been testing the knowledge of music fans in his legendary quiz segment PopMaster.

He took his beloved pop trivia challenge to Greatest Hits Radio after leaving the band BBC in March, but the classic format remains the same: competitors are given a choice of bonus questions (worth six points versus the three of a normal question) to try to get them to the top score of 39 per round.

Here, exclusively for the Ny Breaking, the PopMaster himself has put together more than 40 diabolical questions to see how well you really know the charts…

Round 1

Bonus questions: paper, scissors, rock

1. Which 1979 hit for Tavares gave 911 their only number one of 1998?

2. In 1973, The New Seekers reached the Top 20 with a medley of two songs from Pete Townshend's rock opera Tommy – what were those two songs?

3. Bonus Question: What was the name of the female act whose only hit was their 1968 release, Something Here In My Heart (Keeps-A-Tellin' Me No)?

4. Name the act that had top ten hits in 2004 with Fit But You Know It and Blinded By The Lights?

5. Who wrote Rod Stewart's '90s hits, Downtown Train and Tom Traubert's Blues (Waltzing Matilda)?

6. Bonus Question: What was the title of The Scissor Sisters' first single to reach the Top Ten in 2004?

7. Which former EastEnders actor had a Top 20 hit with Good Thing Going in 2000?

8. Name the group whose only Top 40 hit was 1986's Calling All The Heroes?

9. Bonus question: Which group reached the Top Ten in 1990 with Elephant Stone and One Love?

10. The group Hello had two Top Ten hits in the '70s, the first was Tell Him, but what was the title of the other?

Round 2

Bonus questions: yesterday, today and tomorrow

1. What color hat did Nick Heyward sing about during his 1983 Top 20 hit?

2. Which British pianist scored a Top 20 hit in 1958 with his composition Trudie?

3. Bonus Question: Name the brother and sister act that had top ten hits in the '70s with Only Yesterday and Yesterday Once More?

4. What was the title of Queen's 1995 album, which contained the singles Too Much Love Will Kill You and A Winter's Tale?

5. In what year did these three hits top the charts: Give A Little Love by The Bay City Rollers, If by Telly Savalas and Hold Me Close by David Essex?

6. Bonus question: In 1997, Sheryl Crow made the Top 20 with the title song to which James Bond film?

7. Name the female act who scored top ten hits in 2020 with Break Up Song, Sweet Melody and Confetti?

8. Annie Lennox reached the Top Three in 1993 with her double-A hit, Little Bird, and what other song?

9. Bonus Question: Which group had Top Ten singles in the first decade of this century with the titles Madame Helga and Maybe Tomorrow?

10. What was the title of Freddie And The Dreamers' 1963 debut top three hit?

Round 3

Bonus questions: same title, different song

1. Which singer made her Top Ten chart debut with Love And Kisses in 1991?

2. Name the two singers who topped the charts in 2021 with Merry Christmas and will return to the Top 20 in 2023?

3. Bonus Question: Which hit title was shared by Free in 1973 and Terence Trent D'Arby in 1987, even though they were different songs?

4. Which group topped the album charts in 1998 with This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours?

5. Which American rapper recently topped the UK charts with Lovin On Me?

6. Bonus Question: Which song title was shared by the top ten hits for Level 42 in 1985 and Jamelia in 2006?

7. Name the singer who co-wrote the 2016 Calvin Harris Top Three hit, This Is What You Came For, with Rihanna?

8. Which of these three Abba hits did not make the charts: Money Money Money, Fernando or The Name Of The Game?

9. Bonus Question: What was the title shared by the 1983 Top 20 hits by Icelandic band Mezzoforte and Marillion?

10. Just When I Needed You Most was a 1979 Top Ten hit for which American singer-songwriter?

Round 4

Bonus questions: Christmas treats

1. Name the American singer who topped the UK charts in 2021 with the single Drivers License?

2. Name the singer who duetted with Phil Collins on the 1985 Top Five hit Separate Lives?

3. Bonus Question: First released in the 80s, who finally made the Top Ten in 2021 with Driving Home For Christmas?

4. Which Scottish group was Top Of The Pops' only Top 20 hit from 1978?

5. Who wrote The Pretenders' 1981 Top Ten hit I Go To Sleep?

6. Bonus Question: Name the singer who returned to the Top Ten in 2023 with her 1962 Top Ten hit Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree?

7. Name Dario G's top five hit that became the official 1998 FIFA World Cup song?

8. Ace Of Base topped the charts only once, with their debut hit in 1993. What was the title?

9. Bonus Question: Hey Mr Christmas was a 1974 Top 20 hit for which rock 'n' roll revival group?

10. Name the group that scored top ten hits in 1967 with On A Carousel and Stop Stop Stop?

Bonus round

Star signs

1. In 1969, The Fifth Dimension reached the Top 20 with a medley of two songs from the musical Hair – can you name them?

2. In 1996, identical twins Michael and David Smallwood reached the Top 40 with their hit Steal Your Love Away. Under what collective name did they record the song?

3. Name the singer who hit the charts in 1973 with his top three hit The Show Must Go On.