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A quiz about songs that made it the number 2 spot in the UK charts (compiled from BBC stats)
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Each song peaked at #2 in the UK official charts. Name the song title! 🎼🪕🎶🥁🎸🎹
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Name this iconic song that made it to number 2 in the UK billboard charts
American Pie
42% got this right
Reached number 2 in 1972
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This #2 song title is the capital city of which country?
19% got this right
Ultravox, "Vienna", UK #2 in 1982
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This iconic song peaked at UK number 2 in 1985. Name it.
Take On Me
67% got this right
A-Ha, "Take on Me" (1985)
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This Beatles song topped the charts in America and elsewhere, but only made #2 in the UK. Name it.
Penny Lane
73% got this right
"Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever" (1967) was kept off the UK #1 spot by Engelbert Humperdinck's "Release Me"
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This 1997 song only managed to reach #2. What is it?
Bitter Sweet Symphony
Bittersweet symphony
78% got this right
Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve (1997)
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This song has since become a cliché for amateur acoustic guitar players. It only reached #2 in the UK (& Irish) charts
Wonderwall
Wonder wall
80% got this right
Wonderwall - Oasis (1995)
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Going back a bit now: This 1969 Elvis hit only reached number 2 in the UK
Suspicious Minds
82% got this right
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Flash forward to 1984 (what a year), when this Christmas hit reached #2 in the UK.
Last Christmas
93% got this right
Wham! - Last Christmas (1984 - R.I.P. George Michael)
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Name this modern classic of a song, that only reached #2
Teen age dirtbag
Teenage Dirt bag
Teenage Dirtbag
Teenaged Dirtbag
91% got this right
Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag (2001)
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This 2011 hit reached #1 in the US, but perhaps oddly only #2 in the UK. Name the song.
Rollin in the deep
Rolling in the Deep
Rollin' in the deep
95% got this right
Adele - Rolling in The Deep (2011)
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This British classic made it #1 as far afield as New Zealand, & as close as in Ireland, but not in the UK. Name it.
Lola
95% got this right
The Kinks - Lola (1970)
