50 Radio Trivia Questions and Answers

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Radio Trivia Questions and Answers

1. What is the longest running radio show in history?

Answer: The Grand Ole Opry, which has been on the air since 1925.

2. What was the title of the debut album released by U2 in 1980?

Answer: Boy

3. Who was the first person to be heard on radio?

Answer: Reginald Fessenden, who transmitted the first radio broadcast on December 23, 1906.

4. What was the first radio station in the United States?

Answer: KDKA, which began broadcasting on November 2, 1920.

5. Who was the first woman to have her own radio show?

Answer: Fanny Brice, who starred in the radio program "The Baby Snooks Show" in the 1930s.

6. Who sang the hit song "Walking on Sunshine"?

Answer: Katrina and the Waves

7. What was the first radio station to play rock and roll music?

Answer: WDIA, which began playing R&B and rock and roll music in the 1940s.

8. What was the title of the album that contained the hit song "Take on Me" by a-ha?

Answer: Hunting High and Low

9. Who was the first radio DJ to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

Answer: Wolfman Jack, who was inducted in 1993.

10. What was the first radio station to broadcast in stereo

Answer: WGMS, which began broadcasting in stereo in 1961.

11. Who sang the hit song "Eye of the Tiger

Answer: Survivor

12. What was the first radio station to be licensed in the United States?

Answer: KFKB, which was licensed in 1922

13. What was the title of the album that contained the hit song "Sweet Child o' Mine" by Guns N' Roses?

Answer: Appetite for Destruction

14. Who was the first woman to be inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame

Answer: Mary Margaret McBride, who was inducted in 1995

15. What was the first radio station to broadcast 24 hours a day?

Answer: WBZ in Boston, which began 24-hour broadcasting in 1927.

16. Who was the first African American to host a radio show in the United States?

Answer: Alain Locke, who hosted the show "The New World A-Coming" in 1943.

17. What was the first radio station to broadcast in colour

Answer: W3XWT, which began broadcasting in colour in 1928.

18. Who was the first person to host a talk radio show?

Answer: Raymond W. Bernard hosted the show "Radio Roundtable" in the 1920s.

19. Who sang the hit song "The Power of Love"?

Answer: Huey Lewis and the News

20. What was the first radio station to broadcast a live music concert?

Answer: WJZ, which broadcast a live concert by the New York Philharmonic in 1922.

21. What was the first radio station to be licensed in Canada?

Answer: XWA, which was licensed in Montreal in 1919.

22. Who was the first person to host a music request show on the radio?

Answer: Martin Block, who hosted "Make Believe Ballroom" in the 1930s.

23. Who sang the hit song "Like a Virgin"?

Answer: Madonna

24. What was the first radio station to be licensed in the United Kingdom?

Answer: 2MT, which was licensed in 1922.

25. Who was the first person to host a radio news program?

Answer: Paul Harvey, who began hosting "The Rest of the Story" in 1951.

26. What was the first radio station to be licensed in Australia?

Answer: 2SB, which was licensed in Sydney in 1923.

27. What was the title of the album that contained the hit song "Jump" by Van Halen

Answer: 1984

28. Who was the first person to host a radio quiz show

Answer: Roger Stark, who hosted "Quiz Kids" in the 1940s.

29. What was the first radio station to be licensed in New Zealand?

Answer: 4ZB, which was licensed in Dunedin in 1922.

30. Who was the first person to host a radio sports talk show

Answer: Ted Husing, who began hosting "Sports Newsreel" in the 1930s.

31. What was the first radio station to be licensed in South Africa

Answer: ZS1A, which was licensed in Cape Town in 1922.

32. What was the title of the album that contained the hit song "Livin' on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi?

Answer: Slippery When Wet

33. Who was the first person to host a radio cooking show?

Answer: Dione Lucas, who began hosting "The Gourmet" in the 1940s.

34. What was the first radio station to be licensed in Japan?

Answer: JOAK, which was licensed in Tokyo in 1925.

35. Who sang the hit song "Footloose

Answer: Kenny Loggins

36. What was the first radio station to be licensed in India?

Answer: XZY, which was licensed in Bombay in 1923.

37. Who was the first person to host a radio financial advice show?

Answer: Lowell Thomas, who began hosting "The Lowell Thomas Show" in the 1930s.

38. What was the first radio station to be licensed in China?

Answer: XGOY, which was licensed in Shanghai in 1922.

39. Who was the first person to host a radio home improvement show?

Answer: John Gambling, who began hosting "The Home Show" in the 1930s.

40. What was the first radio station to be licensed in Brazil?

Answer: ZYJ, which was licensed in Rio de Janeiro in 1922.

41. What was the first radio station to be licensed in Argentina?

Answer: LZ1, which was licensed in Buenos Aires in 1923.

42. What was the title of the album that contained the hit song "Heaven" by Bryan Adams?

Answer: Reckless

43. What was the first radio station to be licensed in Mexico?

Answer: XEAW, which was licensed in Mexico City in 1922.

44. What was the first radio station to be licensed in Russia?

Answer: 4AK, which was licensed in Moscow in 1923.

45. What was the first radio station to be licensed in Venezuela?

Answer: YVQ, which was licensed in Caracas in 1923.

46. Who sang the hit song "We Are the World"?

Answer: USA for Africa

47. What was the first radio station to be licensed in Poland?

Answer: 4ZA, which was licensed in Warsaw in 1923.

48. What was the first radio station to be licensed in Czechoslovakia?

Answer: ZA, which was licensed in Prague in 1923.

49. Who was the first person to host a radio relationship advice show?

Answer: John B. Watson, began hosting "The Watson Relationship Advice Show" in the 1930s.

50. Who sang the hit song "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"?

Answer: Wham