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Posted: 10:27 a.m. Friday, Dec. 7, 2012

When the music was day-glo bright: it's the Big '80s Pop Music Quiz!



By Leslie Gray Streeter

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

The poppy, boppy music of the 1980s is like the most lovable zombie ever – it refuses to die and literally eats its way into your brain, but it’s so much fun, you don’t mind. The Safe Harbor Animal Shelter and Hospital’s Celebrity Dog Wash, benefiting the no-kill facility, has become an annual haven for some of the best acts of that era. The 25th annual edition, rocking out on Saturday at Carlin Park in Jupiter, is no exception, featuring Flock of Seagulls, Martha Davis and The Motels, Naked Eyes, When In Rome UK, Animotion and more.

In honor of all that neon, Spandex, Aquanet and melodramatic one-fingered keyboard playing, we present our TGIF Big ‘80s Pop Quiz. Everybody Wang Chung!

1) The Motels’ 1982 hit “Only The Lonely” shares a name with an unrelated classic by:

A) Dion and The Belmonts

B) Carl Perkins

C) Tiny Tim

D) Roy Orbison

2) When In Rome’s biggest hit, “The Promise,” was featured in the final scenes of what deliberately odd cult comedy movie?

A) “Office Space”

B) “Napoleon Dynamite”

C) “The Muppets Take Manhattan”

D) “Superbad”

3) Finish this line from Animotion’s “Obsession” – “My fantasy has turned to madness/And now my goodness has turned to…”

A) badness

B) sadness

C) gladness

D) nausea

4) In the “I Ran” video, Flock of Seagulls singer Michael Score appears to be cornered behind in his keyboard in a room where the walls are covered head to toe in…

A) Mirrors

B) Groupies

C) Dolla dolla bills, y’all

D) Seagulls

5) Who sang the original version of “Always Something There To Remind Me,” a huge, giant hit for Naked Eyes?

A) Dusty Springfield

B) Dionne Warwick

C) Alvin And The Chipmunks

D) Frank Sinatra

6) Three of the original (and unrelated) members of Duran Duran shared this last name:

A) Taylor

B) Jackson

C) DeBarge

D) Cowsill

7) Which UK band was responsible for the moody soundtrack of William Friedkin’s moody crime thriller “To Live And Die In L.A.?”

A) U2

B) Ultravox

C) Wang Chung

D) Genesis

8) In which order does New Edition singer Ralph Tresvant list his group mates as he’s telling them to shut the heck up about his dating life in “Cool It Now”?

A) Bobby, Ricky, Ronnie and Mike

B) Ronnie, Ricky, Bobby and Mike

C) Ricky, Bobby, Ricky Bobby and Mike

D) Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky and Mike

9) Madonna famously declared she intended to take over the world on what musical TV show?

A) The Mickey Mouse Club

B) Soul Train

C) American Bandstand

D) Solid Gold

10) Which was of these was never one of Prince’s protégé’s?

A) Stacy Q

B) Sheila E.

C) Vanity

D) Sheena Easton

11) Which of the following legendary performers was not in the Traveling Wilburys?

A) Glenn Frey

B) Tom Petty

C) Roy Orbison

D) Jeff Lynne

12) In Richard Marx’s incredibly creepy hit “Hazard,” what do the cops think the song’s protagonist did to his friend Mary?

A) Killed her

B) Got her pregnant

C) Robbed her

D) Gave her a mullet in her sleep

13) Which late singer and producer can we blame for Eddie Murphy’s unfortunate hit “Party All The Time?”

A) Smokey Robinson

B) Stevie Wonder

C) Rick James

D) Prince

14) Rebbie Jackson, the Jackson sister who’s not either Janet or Latoya, had a single hit named for what creepy-crawling creature?

A) “Caterpillar”

B) “Snake”

C) “TV Lawyer”

D) “Centipede”

15) The Go-Go’s wind up dancing in what watery feature on an L.A. street in their “Our Lips Are Sealed” video?

A) A birdbath

B) A fountain

C) A water hose

D) A broken fire hydrant

16) The Beastie Boys’ very first hit was named for what delicious Carvel treat?

A) Cookie Puss

B) Fudgie The Whale

C) Flying Saucers

D) Hug Me The Bear

17) True or false: There is actually a place called South Detroit, just like Journey insists in “Don’t Stop Believin’”

18) Billy Idol’s “Mony Mony” (without the obscene chorus you now hear chanted at college parties) was originally a hit for…

A) The Dave Clark Five

B) The Rolling Stones

C) Tommy James and the Shondells

D) Gerry and The Pacemakers

19) You might think it’s called “Just Like The White-Winged Dove Sings A Song Sounds Like She’s Singing Ooh, Ooh, Ooh” but that Stevie Nicks hit is actually called…

A) “Edge of Seventeen”

B) “Rhiannon”

C) “Landslide”

D) “Silver Springs”

20) According to Madness, “Our House” was located where?

A) Down the street

B) Up the hill

C) In the middle of the street

D) Up the junction

21) What controversial actor appears in Paul Simon’s “Call Me Al” video, insisting on lip-synching the song as the singer sadly plays the bongo next to him?

A) Mel Gibson

B) John Belushi

C) Tom Arnold

D) Chevy Chase

22) Which of the following is activities during which Sting promises to be stalking…um, “watching you” in The Police’s “Every Breath You Take?”

A) Every hip you break

B) Every claim you stake

C) Every test you fake

D) Every baby you wake

23) Squeeze was “Tempted” by the ——— of another?

A) Fruit

B) Butt

C) Money

D) Cake

24) What colors were like Boy George’s dreams in Culture Club’s “Karma Chameleon?”

A) Red, white and blue

B) Peach and black

C) Crimson and clover

D) Red, gold and green

25) What did Wham!’s George Michael give to his beloved “Last Christmas” that she gave away the very next day?

A) His comb

B) His heart

C) His day-glo short-shorts

D) His dignity

Answers: 1)D 2)B 3) A 4) A 5)B 6)A 7) C 8) D 9) C 10) A 11) A 12) A 13) C 14) D 15) B 16) A 17) False 18) C 19) A) 20) C 21) D 22) B 23) A) 24) D) 25) B

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