Are you fair-weather or fanatical about music?!
I thought I would try my luck on the (relatively) new pop music quiz on BBC Radio 2 recently. It’s called Ten To The Top, hosted most weeks by Vernon Kay, and it’s the replacement mid-morning challenge for the legendary Pop Masters formerly presented by Ken Bruce.
Once you’ve gotten used to the scoring format (correct answers accumulate ascending scores) it’s a really good test of your overall pop music knowledge of the past 60 years. In the two weeks before my appearance on the show, I managed to astonish myself by scoring the maximum 65 points twice! ….however, this just served to give me false hope on the day…the tricky year question tripped me over and I never recovered! I still posted a very respectable score of 28, but my opponent on the day had an encyclopaedic knowledge of 80’s number one singles, which served him very well on his turn.
Never mind though, I still won a prized mug. Didn’t want the Bluetooth speaker anyway…..Ha! Ha!
My poor attempt will only be stored on the BBC Sounds for a couple of weeks, but click below to listen again to the most recent shows and have a go if you think you’re hard enough!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06q6h18/episodes/player