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 two decades, DJ Ken Bruce has been testing the knowledge of music fans in his fabled quiz segment PopMaster.

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

Here, exclusively for the Daily Mail, the PopMaster himself has compiled more than 40 fiendish questions to see how well you really know the charts…

Round 1

Bonus Questions: Paper, Scissors, Stone

1. Which 1979 hit song for Tavares gave 911 their only number one in 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 90’s hits, Downtown Train and Tom Traubert’s Blues (Waltzing Matilda)?

6. Bonus question: From 2004, what was the title of the first single by The Scissor Sisters to make the Top Ten?

7. Which one-time EastEnders actor had a Top 20 hit in the year 2000 with Good Thing Going?

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

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

10. The group Hello achieved two Top Ten hits during the 70’s, the first was Tell Him but what was the title of the other?

Round 2

Bonus Questions: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

1. What colour hat did Nick Heyward sing about on his 1983 Top 20 hit?

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

3. Bonus question: Name the brother and sister act who had Top Ten hits during the 70’s with Only Yesterday and Yesterday Once More?

4. What was the title of Queen’s 1995 album that included 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 movie?

7. Name the female act that had 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 side hit, Little Bird and which 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. From 1963, what was the title of the debut Top Three hit for Freddie And The Dreamers?

Round 3

Bonus Questions: Same Title, Different Song

1. In 1991, which singer made her Top Ten chart debut with Love And Kisses?

2. Name the two singers who topped the charts in 2021 with Merry Christmas, returning to the Top 20 in 2023?

3. Bonus question: Although different songs, what hit title was shared by Free in 1973 and Terence Trent D’Arby in 1987?

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: What song title was shared by Top Ten hits for Level 42 in 1985 and Jamelia in 2006?

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

8. Which one of these three hits by Abba failed to top the charts: Money Money Money, Fernando or The Name Of The Game?

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

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 U.S. singer who topped the UK charts in 2021 with the single Drivers License?

2. Name the female 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. From 1978, Top Of The Pops was the only Top 20 hit for which Scottish group?

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

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

7. Name the Top Five hit by Dario G that became the official 1998 Fifa World Cup song?

8. Ace Of Base topped the charts on just one occasion, with their 1993 debut hit. 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 had Top Ten hits in 1967 with On A Carousel and Stop Stop Stop?

Bonus round

Star signs

1. In 1969, The Fifth Dimension made 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 made the Top 40 with their hit, Steal Your Love Away. By what collective name did they record the song?

3. Name the singer who made his chart debut in 1973 with his Top Three hit, The Show Must Go On.