No. 1 Hits of the 80s Vol.18 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Touch

It was "Out of Touch" which gave Hall and Oates their sixth and final number one hit in the U.S. and their fourteenth consecutive Top 40 hit when it reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts in December 1984. The song was a cut from an album called "Big Bam Boom".

Answer: Norway

a-ha formed in Oslo Norway in 1982. The group eventually left Norway, and moved to London to expand their musical careers. This resulted in wider airplay and eventually yielded "Take on Me" which became a number one tune in the U.S. on the Hot 100 charts during the fall of 1985.

Answer: Whitney Houston

It was Whitney Houston who took "Saving All My Love for You" to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts for a week in the fall of 1985. It was Houston's second release off her self titled debut album and her first number one tune.

Answer: True

Winwood, a veteran of groups such as The Spencer Davis Group, Blind Faith and Traffic, went solo in 1977 had had some success, but "Higher Love" was the song that propelled him to the top of the charts for the first time as a solo when it spent a week at number one on the Hot 100 during the summer of 1986.

Answer: Venus

Bananarama covered "Venus", a 1970 number one tune by the Dutch band Shocking Blue, and returned it to the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts for a week in the summer of 1986. The song reached number one in a number of other countries and reached number eight in the U.K.

Answer: False

Actually the song "Who's That Girl", which was the title track from the 1987 movie of the same name was never changed. "Slammer" was actually the original title of the movie and that's what was changed. The song was written and given to her with no title and she titled it herself. It went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 charts for a week in the summer of 1987.

Answer: Dirty Diana

A toughie here. All the songs listed here were from Jackson's "Bad" album which produced five number one Billboard singles. The only number one here was "Dirty Diana", which was the fifth number one from the album and spent one week at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts in the summer of 1988.

Answer: Cheap Trick

Cheap Trick had been around in various incarnations since the early 1970s, but the 1988 smash hit "The Flame" is the song that is most identified with the group. The song spent two weeks at the top of the U.S. Billboard charts in the summer that year.

Answer: Milli Vanilli

Milli Vanilli went to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts for one week in the summer 1989 with a song called "Baby Don't Forget My Number". They would have a number of other hits before it was discovered that they didn't actually sing the songs, but were lip synching that of studio musicians.

The duo were stripped of their Grammy Award and subsequently disappeared from the music scene.

Answer: Fine Young Cannibals

Fine Young Cannibals took "Good Thing" to the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts for a week's stay in the summer of 1989 as well as number seven on the U.K. charts. The song was the second release off an appropriately titled album called "The Raw and the Cooked".