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1. According to Jeremy Joseph, owner of the GAY club in London – which Spice Girl has the largest British gay following: Posh or Baby?

   Posh

2. After Geri left, who was the oldest remaining Spice Girl?

   Victoria/posh

3. Apart from Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow – what were the names of the other three members of Take That?

   Mark Owen, Jason Orange, Howard Donald

4. Before they split up, Atomic Kitten had three number one hit singles in the UK charts: name any of them

   The Tide Is High, Whole Again, Eternal Flame

5. Beyonce is the main bird out of Destiny’s Child – what are the names of the other two?

   Kelly and Michelle

6. In 60s pop music, which band was made up from Mickey Dolenz, Davy Jones, Mike Nesmith and Peter Tork?

   Monkees

7. In pop music, which 90s girl group featured the Appleton Sisters?

   All Saints

8. In pop music, who was sporty spice: Mel B, Mel C or Mel G?

   Mel C (Melanie Chisholm)

9. In the ten years following the breakup of the Spice Girls, who is the only ex-Spice Girl to fail to get a number one hit single in the UK charts?

   Victoria Beckham (Posh Spice)

10. Name the boy band that Justin Timberlake was part of and who had hits called Pop and I’ll Never Stop

    N Sync

11. Name the five blokes out of 5ive

    Ritchie, Scott, Sean, Abs, J

12. Name the five boys in BOYZONE?

    RONAN, STEPHEN, MIKEY, SHANE, KEITH

13. Name the five members of Take That?

    Robbie Williams, Mark Owen, Gary Barlow, Jason Orange, Howard Donald

14. Pop band McFly are named after a Michael J Fox character called McFly. What set of films did this character appear in?

    Back to the Future

15. Ronan Keating headed up which mega-successful boyband of the 90s?

    Boyzone

16. Take That are going to reform for gigs next year- which is the only member of Take That other than Robbie Williams to have had a solo number one hit single?

    Gary Barlow (Forever Love and Love Won’t Wait)

17. There are three members of TLC. One's name begins with T, one's with L and one with C... name any one band member.

    T-Boz, Left Eye, Chili

18. What are the first names of the girls in Abba?

    Agnetha and Anni-Frid

19. What boy band did Justin Timberlake become famous with?

    N’Sync

20. What boy band released an album in 1998 called "Where We Belong"

    Boyzone

21. What country were The Cheeky Girls from?

    Romania (Transylvania)

22. What did Tam Paton (manager) do when The Bay City Rollers split up in the mid 70s? Did he take it all very calmly, did he take acid for five days or did he shoot his dog and then drive to the studio to burn all the Rollers’ master tapes?

    5 day acid binge

23. What do you get if you add up the total number of boys in Boyzone, Backstreet Boys and Bay City Rollers?

    15 (5 each)

24. What girl band included Esther and Vernie Bennett and had 15 top 20 hits in the 90s?

    Eternal

25. What girl’s name is also the name of track one on Franz Ferdinand’s debut LP Franz Ferdinand?

    Jacqueline

26. What is the only single by the Spice Girls which didn`t make it to number one?

    `Stop`

27. What million selling girl band of the 90s consisted of three members named T-Boz, Left-Eye & Chili?

    TLC

28. What other girl band was Heidi out of the Sugababes in before she joined the Sugababes: Cleaopatra, Atomic Kitten or Mys-teeq?

    Atomic Kitten

29. What was the name of the Spice Girls first number one hit single?

    Wannabe

30. What were The Spice Girls called before they were called The Spice Girls? Were they called Touch! or Safe! or The Sisters of Percy!

    Touch

31. Which 90s Boy Band came back with a number one hit album in 2006 called Beautiful World?

    Take That

32. Which American boy band recorded the first UK no.1 chart single of the 1990s?

    New Kids On The Block

33. Which boy band had a hit album in 2003 called A Present For Everyone before splitting up in 2005?

    Busted

34. Which boy band had a number one hit in the UK charts in 2003 with a cover verison of the Barry Manilow song Mandy?

    Westlife

35. Which boy band have had hit albums in the noughties called “Coast To Coast” and “Turnaround”?

    Westlife

36. Which girl band had hit singles in the 1990s called Aint 2 Proud 2 Beg and Unpretty?

    TLC

37. Which Girl Band has had hits including If You Come To Me and I Want your Love and See Ya?

    Atomic Kitten

38. Which girl band is made up of Heidi, Keisha and Amelle?

    Sugababes

39. Which girl band which split up in 2005 was made up out of members Alesha, Sabrina and Su-Elise?

    Mis-teeq

40. Which love song was Christmas number one in 1994 and was the only UK number one for pop band East 17?

    Stay Another Day

41. Which massively successful British R&B girl band from the 1990s included sisters called Easther and Vernie Bennett?

    Eternal

42. Which member of Backstreet Boys is the oldest

    Kevin (at least 31)

43. Which member of Busted went on to front a band called Fightstar: Charlie, James or Matt?

    Charlie

44. Which member of Westlife got married to the daughter of the Prime Minister of Ireland: Nicky, Shane or Stephen?

    Nicky (Nicky Byrne married Georgina Ahern, daughter of Bertie Ahern)

45. Which member of Westlife has admitted he is gay: Shane, Nicky or Mark?

    Mark

46. Which member of Westlife is gay: Kian, Nicky or Mark?

    Mark

47. Which member of Westlife was married to a former member of Atomic Kitten: Shane, Bryan or Paddy?

    Bryan (McFadden – who was married to Kerry Katona).

48. Which of the former spice girls has had most top 40 albums since the Spice Girls split in the late 90s?

    Melanie C (as of nov 23 2005)

49. Which of these boys bands only included 4 boys at the height of their fame as opposed to the regulation five: Boyzone, Boyz 2 Men or The Bay City Rollers?

    Boyz 2 Men

50. Which one out of Girls Aloud is the ginger one: is it Cheryl, Nadine or Nicola?

    Nicola

51. Which pop band from the nineties reformed in 2007 to perform a sell-out European tour called The Beautiful World Tour?

    Take That

52. Which Scottish band from the 1970s had their own TV series called Shang A Lang?

    The Bay City Rollers

53. Which Scottish singer sang with Take That on a number one record in 1993?

    Lulu

54. Which UK boyband of the late 90s consisted of Lee, Jimmy and Spike?

    911

55. Who was the eldest member of Westlife: Nicky, Mark or Shane?

    Nicky

56. Who was the oldest member of the Spice Girls?

    Geri Halliwell

57. Who was the youngest member of Westlife: Kian, Mark or Shane?

    Mark