d) YWCA

It is about half a century older than the other three groups.

Which is the oldest of the following organizations?

a) Camp Fire Girls
b) 4-H Club
c) Girl Scouts of America
d) YWCA

d) Wrote his first symphony

The prodigy needed another four years to compose Bastien and Bastienne, his first opera.

In 1764, which of the following was true of 8-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?

a) Could play 7 musical instruments
b) Married his stepsister
c) Wrote Bastien and Bastienne
d) Wrote his first symphony

1980s One-Hit Wonder Lyrics Answers

• A1) "Whip It" - Devo. "Working in a Coal Mine" received some airplay but just missed cracking the Top 40.
• A2) "Believe It or Not" - Joey Scarbury. Mike Post wrote this catchy theme song from The Greatest American Hero television show (1981-83).
• A3) "Pac-Man Fever" - Buckner & Garcia. This song was the title track of a 1982 album that also honored Frogger, Centipede, Donkey Kong, Asteroids, Defender, Mouse Trap, and Berzerk.
• A4) "Tainted Love" - Soft Cell. When this single was released in the U.S. in 1982, it set a record with 43 weeks in the Billboard Hot 100.
• A5) "Nobody" - Sylvia. Silvia Kirby's country crossover hit cleverly struck back against the "other woman".
• A6) "Come On Eileen" - Dexy's Midnight Runners. Marie Fahey, sister of Siobhan Fahey, posed as Eileen in the video and on the record jacket.
• A7) "Der Kommissar" - After the Fire. The German words that begin the song are actually "2, 3, 4", not "1, 2, 3".
• A8) "She Blinded Me With Science" - Thomas Dolby. The Englishman was born to a classical Greek archaelogy professor in Cairo, Egypt.
• A9) "Puttin' on the Ritz" - Taco. Taco Ockerse remade Irving Berlin's classic in 1982, reaching #4 on the charts early the next year.
• A10) "Far From Over" - Frank Stallone. Frank composed this song for his more famous brother Sylvester's 1983 movie "Staying Alive".
• A11) 99 Luftballons - Nena. The 1983 German version actually climbed higher up the charts (#2) than the 1984 English rendition, "99 Red Balloons".
• A12) "They Don't Know" - Tracey Ullman. The actress's brief singing career peaked with this single. She convinced Paul McCartney to make a video cameo because she was working on his Give My Regards to Broad Street at the time.