OMM's christmas quiz

Name the pop star parent of the following:

1.Chudney Lane

2. Phoenix Chi

3. Elijaah Bob Patricius Guggi

The following are the original names for which bands?

4.The Ravens

5. The Jennifers

6.Feedback

What hits do you get from the following maths?

7.Rick Wittter's band plus Travis' fourth album.

8.The Beautiful South's 'Perfect' number minus the Beatles' 'Revolution'.

Not all greatest hits sets are bursting with chart faves. How many bona fide smashes do the following contain?

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10.Greatest Hits by Tiffany

11. The Best of It Bites

ROUND 2

Up the brackets

Put the brackets in the correct places for the following songs:

12. 'I'm Always Touched By Your Presence Dear' - Blondie

13.'Don't You Forget About Me' - Simple Minds

14. 'Do The Hucklebuck' - Coast to Coast

Punctuate the following band names 'correctly':

15.Hearsay

16. Bewitched

17. Spinal Tap

Identify the following from their own books:

18.'On the day Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister, my father made me sit down and watch her speech on the steps of Number 10. I thought to myself, that's what I'll do when I grow up: Prime Minister. I could see myself standing on a soapbox or addressing my adoring subjects from a balcony, Evita style.'

19.'Maybe it's our mixed-up society that's conditioned us to suspect that any adult who's single and over 30 must be sexually abnormal. Even if I were some shadowy homosexual, which I'm not, I'm hardly likely to say so.'

20. 'My personal best is five chicks at once, in Nashville. It was so beyond the pale that all I could think of to do was play, like, volleyball and go "OK, Change!"'

21. 'Suze and I got to be pretty inseparable. Her mother, Mary, though, wasn't having it. Mary lived on the top floor of an apartment building on Sheridan Square and treated me like I had the clap.'

22. 'On our first tour, we supported Elvis Costello. I thought he was fat and boring and I wasn't a fan of his. When our gig was over and they were on stage we used to go into their dressing room and drink his blue label Smirnoff, champagne and the rest of it; they'd get really annoyed but we kept on doing it.'

ROUND 3

Who's next

23. Who played drums on 'Puss'n' Boots' by Adam Ant?

24.Who played on the all-time classic 'Leader of the Pack' but was never paid because he wasn't a member of the MU?

25.Who was credited as 'L'Angelo Mysterioso' on Cream's 'Badge'?

26.Who replaced an ill Ringo Starr for part of the Fab Four's 1964 Australian tour and received £500 and a gold watch as his fee?

27.Whose middle names are 'Peter George St John le Baptise De La Salle'?

28.Whose rendition of 'The Bells of St Marys' influenced many artists with his signature sound of mallet on rodent ?

29. Who told Whitney Houston on a live chat show that he would like to fuck her?

30. Who helped Homer Simpson to win his campaign against a sanitation engineer voiced by Steve Martin?

31. Whose album contains the backwards message 'the music is reversible but time is not ... turn back! Turn back! Turn back!'?

32.Which time-travel movie featured a guitar being played before the model even existed?

33. Which two parts of the body did Shane MacGowan immortalise in his band names?

ROUND 4

Au pairs

What links the following:

34. Stanley Kirk Burrell and Peter Gabriel?

35. Talking Heads, Chris Rea and Prince?

36. The Cure and Albert Camus?

37. A cover version of 'I'm Your Man' with the Sex Pistols?

38. Steve Harley and Brian Wilson?

39. Simple Minds and Oasis?

40. The band that went up to 11 with a family in Springfield?

41. Queen, Rod Stewart and Ben Elton?

42.What day of the week do Bob Geldof and Shaun Ryder have very differing opinions about?

43. Who links Marc Bolan, the Yardbirds and Wham!?

44.What is the fruity link between the Beatles and Coldplay?

ANSWERS:

CHRISTMAS quiz answers

ROUND ONE

1. Diana Ross
2. Spice Girl Mel B/G
3. Bono.
4. The Kinks
5. Supergrass
6. U2
7. Shed 7 + 12 (Memories) = '19' by Paul Hardcastle
8. 'Perfect 10' - 'Revolution No.9' = U2's 'One'.
9. Two
10. Four
11.One

ROUND TWO

12. (I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence Dear
13.Don't You (Forget About Me)
14. (Do) the Hucklebuck
15. Hear'Say
16.B*Witched
17. Spi¨nal Tap
18. Geri Halliwell
19. Cliff Richard
20.David Lee Roth
21.Bob Dylan
22. Shane MacGowan

ROUND THREE

23. Phil Collins
24. Billy Joel
25. George Harrison
26.Jimmy Nicol
27. Brian Eno
28. Arthur Ewing and His Musical Mice From Monty Python
29. Serge Gainsbourg
30. U2
31. 'Fire on High' by ELO
32.Back to the Future
33. Arse - Pogue Mahone ('kiss my arse' in Gaelic) and nipples in the Nipple Erectors

ROUND FOUR

34. Hammers (Stanley Kirk Burrell is the real name of MC Hammer, and Gabriel's 'Sledgehammer'
35. They all had hits with songs about roads: 'Road to Nowhere', 'The Road to Hell' and 'Alphabet Street'
36. Camus's existential classic inspired their 1979 song 'Killing an Arab'
37. Ritchie - Shane covered 'I'm Your Man' for Comic Relief and Sid Vicious rejoiced in the real name John Simon Ritchie
38. Smile - Cockney Rebel had a hit with 'Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) ' and Brian Wilson recently released his 'lost' masterpiece, Smile
39. Patsy Kensit married the singers from both bands - Jim Kerr and Liam Gallagher
40. Actor Harry Shearer who plays bassist Derek Smalls in Spinal Tap is a cast member of the Simpsons
41. Elton wrote the script for Queen's stage musical We Will Rock You and Rod Stewart's Tonight's the Night.
42. Monday. Bob 'don't like' it but it made Shaun 'happy'
43. Simon Napier-Bell, who managed them all
44. Apple. The Beatles company is called Apple, as is Chris Martin's child with Gwyneth Paltrow

· Quiz compiled for OMM by Simon Trewin, Tom Bromley and Michael Moran, authors of Rock and Pop Elevens - The Trivia Book That Goes One Louder (Michael O'Mara Books, £9.99)