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1. In 1998, "One Week" reached Number One for (appropriately) one week and quickly became a karaoke singer's nightmare due to the ridiculous speed of some of its lyrics. What Canadian band brought us "One Week"?
2. In March of 1972, this solo artist would forego some of his previous music groups and put out his album masterpiece "Harvest". From this came his only Number One, titled "Heart of Gold". Who was this singer/songwriter?
3. In 2012, a former "Canadian Idol" contestant brought a hit song to the US and everywhere else with the summer smash "Call Me Maybe". Who went from near obscurity to the darling of the summer of 2012 nearly overnight?
4. This Canadian singer has tallied three solo Number Ones between 1985 and 1995 with the likes of "Heaven", "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" and "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?". Totaling fourteen weeks at the top spot, who is this Canadian superstar?
5. This singer/songwriter from Canada took the Number One spot for a week in 1974 with "Sundown", continuing a big year for Canadians. Who was this Canadian?
6. This group took a full month at Number One in 2001 with "How You Remind Me". This was the first hit of many for what Canadian rock group?
7. One of few hip-hop acts from Canada to reach the top of the charts in the US, he would attain the pinnacle of success with the song "Informer". But his level of success would "precipitate" and he wouldn't see the US charts again. Who was this One-hit Wonder?
8. Perhaps a two-hit wonder (she reached top 20 with the song "Love Is"), her first hit in the US was the sultry 1990 hit "Black Velvet" which spent two weeks at Number One. Who is this Canadian singer?
9. This Canadian alto wowed everyone in the 1970s with her pure dulcet tones. She reached the Number One spot once with "You Needed Me" in 1978. Who was this Canadian with the lush voice?
10. This French Canadian has tallied four Billboard Number Ones in the decade of the 1990s, three as a solo artist. "The Power of Love", "Because You Loved Me" and "My Heart Will Go On" tallied a combined 12 weeks in the top spot in the US. Who is this worldwide superstar?
11. How can a "Bad Day" create a bunch of good days? When it's a song that not only makes Number One, but ends up the biggest song in the US for all of 2006. Who was the Canadian who brought us "Bad Day"?
12. "Rock Me Gently" was another one of the Canadian songs that made Number One in the US in 1974. He had a handful of hits, two of which made the Top Ten in the US (the other being "Baby I Love You"), but this would end up his only Number One in America. Who is this Canadian?
13. With a career lasting eleven years before ever having any mainstream success, you would think having a Number One song in multiple countries would be a good thing, but in the end, "Blurred Lines" would be a song that would create a backlash and require this artist to put his singing career on temporary hiatus. Who was it that brought us the 2013 smash "Blurred Lines"?
14. The oldest artist in our quiz hit Number One three times over an eighteen year period, beginning in 1957, with "Diana". He also hit Number One in America with "Lonely Boy" and in 1974 he reached the Hot 100 apex with a duet with Odia Coates titled "You're Having My Baby". Combining eight weeks at the peak of the Billboard chart, who was this singer?
15. "Rude" was a Number One single in 2014, a song about the tradition of asking a father for his daughter's hand in marriage. It comes from a group based out of Toronto. Who made it to Hot 100 Number One in the United States with "Rude"?
16. This band really took care of business when it released the song "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" in 1974. It would end up their only Number One. Who was this band with the stuttered title?
17. A Canadian artist now who found the top of the charts three times in the span of twelve months. Locking up seven combined weeks as the main singer, and two weeks as a collaborator, she had a good 2006 and 2007. Her two solo songs were titled "Promiscuous" and "Say It Right". Who was this solo artist?
18. A song originally recorded and released in 1983, "When I'm With You" would be a Top Ten single in Canada, but only a superficial hit in the US. Fast forward six years, and some small core of DJs began playing the song in their regular rotation, and the interest continued to grow until they reached Number One on the United States Billboard Hot 100 chart. Who was the group that brought us the eventual Number One hit "When I'm With You"?
19. Starting her chart success worldwide in 2002 as a seventeen-year old in the genre of "skater punk", this artist never reached the top spot until 2007 with the song "Girlfriend". Married to another artist on this quiz, who was the singer who reached Number One for one week with "Girlfriend"?
20. In 1970, singles were often released with an equally popular B-side, which meant the popularity of both songs would pump a single on the sales chart higher, but would still be charted separately in radio airplay. This Canadian band took advantage of this with the combo 45-single "American Woman/No Sugar" It would reach Number One on the American charts for three weeks. Who was it that gained fame as a Canadian group singing about an "American Woman"?
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