1 Which boyband – with a current combined age of 360 – had a hit in Sweden with a song called Two Dirty Little Hands?
The Monkees
Westlife
Menudo
The Osmond Brothers
2 The Puerto Rican boyband Menudo took a ruthless line on staff turnover: as soon as a member turned 16, he was turfed out. How many members did Menudo go through in their 20-year career?
33
41
57
71
3 Which of the following classics of underground music was given its premiere during an episode of the TV show The Monkees?
White Light, White Heat by the Velvet Underground
Dark Star by the Grateful Dead
Song to the Siren by Tim Buckley
Hurricane Fighter Plane by the Red Krayola
4 The tartan army that was the Bay City Rollers were named after a town which can be found where …
Abderdeenshire, Scotland
New South Wales, Australia
Michigan, USA
Siberia, Russia
5 Which boyband went quadruple platinum in the UK in 1988 with an album whose songs were all credited to “The Brothers”, which turned out to be a pseudonym for their producer, Nicky Graham?
New Kids on the Block
Bros
New Edition
Brother Beyond
6 An advertisement in which local paper, seeking the young men who became the Backstreet Boys, began the career as a boyband svengali of Lou Pearman, who ended up in prison for running a Ponzi scheme?
Detroit Free Press
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Long Island Newsday
Orlando Sentinel
7 The unofficial boyband capital of the world might well be Boston, Massachusetts. Which of the following boybands did not originate in that city?
Boyz II Men
New Kids on the Block
Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
New Edition
8 Which boyband pioneered social media, when their record label set up a paid subscription service called Access All Areas, allowing their fans to interact with each other online?
Damage
A1
Another Level
5ive
9 All of these former boyband members have competed on I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! But which one didn’t win?
Jason “J” Brown from 5ive
Matt Willis from Busted
Dougie Poynter from McFly
Kian Egan from Westlife
10 Which former boyband member displayed his grasp of the politics of sexuality when he said: “Saying pink is a form of red is the same as saying homosexual is a form of male. In the old days there was no such thing as gay. It was frowned upon. The church would burn you at the stake. Modern day, if you are not gay, a man should not be wearing pink. Unless of course you’re in the Americas Cup and you’re one of these pansies who walk around with Gant T-shirts with your collars up, and you wear pink and you wear white trousers with those dirty brown slip-on shoes. Then you’re just an idiot.”
Antony Costa from Blue
Abz from 5ive
Bobby Brown from New Edition
Brian McFadden from Westlife
