The People’s Playlist is an opportunity on the 6 Music website for you folks to submit cool (or otherwise) themed playlists. This book is our opportunity to do the same – and to test your knowledge with some quickfire quizzes in the process.
Here’s the first such quiz, and the theme here is All Around the World: all the questions or answers feature a location in the title or the name of the act. There are 40 questions – if you fancy an extra challenge, set yourself a time limit to complete it. Five or six minutes should do the trick.
Answers: here
1 Gary Daly and Eddie Lundon are the main men in which Liverpudlian band, who had their greatest successes in the eighties?
2 Which Scottish band released an album in 1997 called Songs from Northern Britain?
3 Who took a ‘Spanish Stroll’ in 1977?
4 Which city was the subject of a 20-minute suite by 10cc on their 1975 album Original Soundtrack?
5 What was the Smashing Pumpkins’ second album, their commercial breakthrough?
6 Which city lent its name to an instrumental track on David Bowie’s Low?
7 Where in Africa did Dylan wander on Desire?
8 What made ‘a hard man humble’, according to Murray Head on his hit from the musical Chess?
9 Which American band had only one UK Top 10 hit, ‘Africa’, in 1982?
10 Which Caribbean island was a big hit for the Gibson Brothers?
11 Which one-hit-wonder German band were ‘Big in Japan’ in 1984?
12 Who were ‘California Dreamin’’ on their version of a song first released by Barry McGuire in 1965?
13 Where did Odyssey state they were from in 1977?
14 And how, four years later, did they state they were returning there?
15 Which area of New York, sometimes known as ‘El Barrio’, is the subject of a Leiber and Stoller song that became a hit for Ben E King in 1960?
16 Where should you be sure to wear some flowers in your hair?
17 Which city ‘Got Blurry’ for Parquet Courts in 2016?
18 Who were the Passions in love with in 1981?
19 How long did it take Prince to go ‘Around the World’ in 1985?
20 According to a song from their first album, where did the Dead Kennedys take their holiday?
21 Which place was the subject of the Human League’s first single from Hysteria, their follow-up to Dare?
22 Who were ‘(Drawing) Rings Around the World’ in 2001?
23 Which classic eighties track was kept off the UK number-one spot by Joe Dolce’s novelty song ‘Shaddap You Face’?
24 What was the Jam’s first UK Top 20 single, released between their first and second albums?
25 Where did the lights all go out in the 1967 Bee Gees song?
26 Whose 2005 album Road to Rouen spoofed the title of Road to Ruin, an earlier Ramones album?
27 Which city took George Ezra into the UK Top 10 for the first time?
28 Who took a Rocket to Russia?
29 Which organisation went from ‘Miami 2 Ibiza’ in 2010, with Tinie Tempah along for the ride?
30 Who had a ‘China Girl’ in 1983?
31 Which principality lent its name to a 2007 album by Caribou?
32 Which country did Manic Street Preachers take into the British Top 10?
33 In which US state did the National find a ‘Bloodbuzz’ in 2010?
34 Who sang about Toulouse on their first album, Dagenham on their second, Sweden on their third and Los Angeles on their fourth?
35 Whose debut album, released in 1998, was Music Has the Right to Children?
36 ‘I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me.’ So begins which Beatles song?
37 The title of which Beastie Boys album nodded to New York in 2004?
38 What sort of mambo did Rosemary Clooney enjoy in 1955?
39 Which Oasis album saw them go ‘All Around the World’?
40 ‘New York, London . . .’ Where else was everyone talking about ‘Pop Muzik’ in 1979?