No. 1 Hits of the 80s Vol.12 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Sailing

"Sailing" was a number one tune for Christopher Cross off his debut album of the same name. It spent a week at the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts in the summer of 1980. It won the Grammy Award as "Song of the Year". Cross in perhaps best remembered for his rendition of "Arthur's Theme" from the 1981 film starring Dudley Moore and Liza Minnelli.

Answer: Air Supply

It was the combination of Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock who combined to form Air Supply, one of the biggest selling soft rock acts of the 1970s and 1980s. This song, "The One That You Love", was a 1981 chart topper which spent one week at the number one spot on the Billboard charts in the summer that year.

Answer: Chicago

Chicago, which was a top selling band of the 1970s suffered a tragic loss of original member Terry Kath in 1978. "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" was a comeback of sorts, as it was their first Top 50 song in four years and became their first number one since 1976 when it climbed to the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts for a two week stay in September of 1982.

This song propelled Chicago to their second incarnation so to speak, and they remained a powerful force in rock music throughout the 1980s.

Answer: Topo Gigio and Rodney Dangerfield

"Tell Her About It" was a number one Billy Joel hit which spent a week at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts. The song was off his album called "An Innocent Man". In the video, which imitated the Ed Sullivan as U.S. variety show of popular in the 1950s and 1960s, Joel's fictitious band is introduced by a Sullivan impersonator who thanks the prior act "Topo Gigio" (a talking mouse puppet who made many appearances on the show).

After the song Joel goes backstage and walks by Rodney Dangerfield (yes, the REAL Rodney Dangerfield was in the video) who tells Joel "Thanks for warming them up for me". Dangerfield prepares to go onstage next as he thinks Sullivan is introducing him, but Sullivan next introduced "Petrushka the Dancing Bear", much to the chagrin of Dangerfield. Funny stuff.

Answer: Ghostbusters

"Ghostbusters" was a 1984 comedy starring Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray and Sigourney Weaver. The theme from the motion picture was written and recorded by Ray Parker Jr. and spent three weeks at the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts in the summer that year. The song also went to number two in the U.K. and was nominated for an Academy Award.

Answer: Nothing. It's made up

"Sussudio" spent one week at the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts in the summer of 1985 and reached number 12 on the U.K. charts. The song was the first release from his album "No Jacket Required". According to Collins, he was improvising lyrics to go with a drum track he was laying down and "suss-sussudio" was a wording that scanned properly on his equipment.

After trying to find a better word or real word to fit the track, he decided just to leave it as it was, so "Sussudio" became the title of the song and well as its main lyric.

Answer: Live to Tell

"Live to Tell" was a Madonna tune that spent a week at the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts in the spring of 1986. The song was off an album called "True Blue". It was used as part of the soundtrack of the 1986 motion picture "At Close Range" starring Sean Penn, who was her husband at the time.

Answer: You Keep Me Hangin' On

"You Keep Me Hangin' On" was a number one tune on the Billboard Hot 100 charts for Diana Ross and the Supremes in 1966, and a number six tune as a cover by Vanilla Fudge in 1968. Covered by a multitude of artists during the following decades, the song found it's way to the top of the Billboard charts once again in 1987 when British singer Kim Wilde got to the top for one week in the spring that year.

Her version also went to number one in Canada and Australia and number two in her native U.K.

Answer: Seven straight number one U.S. hits

"Where Do Broken Hearts Go" spent two weeks at the top of the U.S. Billboard charts in the spring of 1988. This was Whitney's seventh straight number one U.S. tune, and was the first time this feat was accomplished by any act. She had been in a tie with The Beatles and The BeeGees who had accomplished six straight number ones, but this song put her over the top.

Answer: Bon Jovi

"I'll Be There For You" was the third release from the album "New Jersey", preformed by Bon Jovi who hail from, of course, New Jersey. The song spent a week at the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts in the spring of 1989. The other song with the same title was performed by the Los Angeles based group, The Rembrandts, and was used as the theme song from the American television series called "Friends".