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Can you name the U.K. Christmas #1 singles? Enter a song in the box below Correctly named songs will show up in the table below Answers do not have to be guessed in order You have 10 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today 4 Letter Capitals 3984 TV Shows (U.S.) 3017 Broadway Opening Lines 2961 You Do Know Jack 1310 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 1217 Same Last Name 1062 And more...
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Year	Song	Artist(s)
1952		Al Martino
1953		Frankie Laine
1954		Winifred Atwell
1955		Dickie Valentine
1956		Johnnie Ray
1957		Harry Belafonte
1958		Conway Twitty
1959		Emile Ford & The Checkmates
1960		Cliff Richard & The Shadows
1961		Danny Williams
1962		Elvis Presley
1963		The Beatles
1964		The Beatles
1965		The Beatles
1966		Tom Jones
1967		The Beatles
1968		The Scaffold
1969		Rolf Harris
1970		Dave Edmunds
1971		Benny Hill
1972		Little Jimmy Osmond
1973		Slade
1974		Mud
1975		Queen
1976		Johnny Mathis
1977		Wings
1978		Boney M
1979		Pink Floyd

Year	Song	Artist(s)
1980		St Winifred's School Choir
1981		The Human League
1982		Renée and Renato
1983		The Flying Pickets
1984		Band Aid
1985		Shakin' Stevens
1986		Jackie Wilson
1987		Pet Shop Boys
1988		Cliff Richard
1989		Band Aid II
1990		Cliff Richard
1991		Queen
1992		Whitney Houston
1993		Mr Blobby
1994		East 17
1995		Michael Jackson
1996		Spice Girls
1997		Spice Girls
1998		Spice Girls
1999		Westlife
2000		Bob The Builder
2001		Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman
2002		Girls Aloud
2003		Michael Andrews & Gary Jules
2004		Band Aid 20
2005		Shayne Ward
2006		Leona Lewis
2007		Leon Jackson

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	Alex:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 09:29 GMT	8 points
	Sooo...I guess that Bob the Builder guy is a big deal over there?

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	MikeHolmes:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 14:01 GMT	8 points
	its just meant to be what song was top of the charts on Christmas day

	chambers:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 14:03 GMT	10 points
	is it unfair to suggest allowing 'something stupid' because that is proper english after all...

	jackcos:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 14:09 GMT	8 points
	why wasn't something stupid allowed? I knew the answer but I guess I should have known better not to leave out the 'g'... I got 45/56, very pleased :D

	jism:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 14:17 GMT	5 points
	53/56 Missed out on Johnnie Ray, Frankie Laine and Winifred Atwell. And I want to start a campaign to make Merry Xmas Everybody by Slade the UK National Anthem for the month of December every year.

	Brunswick23Beast:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 16:39 GMT	3 points
	The #1 from 1958 is one of my all-time favorite songs - it was from before Conway was synonymous with Country.

	magicbadger:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 18:48 GMT	4 points
	Ditto re Something Stupid - and couldn't for the life of me work out why I couldn't remember the name of the Slade song, never thought of typing Xmas!

	Nathan Jones:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 19:29 GMT	4 points
	Got 24 right....not bad for an American.

	radiosilence:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 20:09 GMT	5 points
	Ah, the UK charts... where reissued songs, world cup anthems, school choirs and every incarnation of Band Aid can go #1. :+)

	Joe_Ball:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 20:24 GMT	8 points
	@Debbie: In the UK at least, the phrase 'Christmas Number One' is in common usage, anyone here would know what was meant - it's not a Sporcleism or anything like that. :P Although, Sporcle, the christmas number 1 is the Sunday before christmas, not after as it says on the main page.

	ChanandlerBong:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 20:48 GMT	1 point
	Why isn't the actual spelling of "Christmas" allowed in the Slade song, only "Xmas?"

	SixNapoleons:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 21:13 GMT	3 points
	@ChanandlerBong: It's the way they chose to spell it. I'd be interested to see how Sporcle handled a load of Prince songs.

	Lulu:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 21:24 GMT	7 points
	Oh, the good old days when the Christmas Number One spot was not dominated by X Factor winners...

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	magister:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 22:51 GMT	-2 points
	Isn't there a British Christmas songs contest too? I seem to remember the Pogues and The Darkness winning a couple of times. And then there is the whole Billy Mack yarn in "Love Actually."

	magister:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 22:53 GMT	3 points
	Nevermind, that was Christmas Number Two Songs.

	Tom:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 23:16 GMT	4 points
	Where is Alexandra?

	ntnon:	Dec 21st, 2008 at 23:32 GMT	3 points
	Is Sporcle not accepting just "GRANDMA" for 1980 and "I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND" for 1963...? Seems a bit harsh, although "Somethin'" and "XMas" aren't much friendlier.

	Catherine_F:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 00:15 GMT	4 points
	I failed to include the hyphen in "There's no-one quite like Grandma" and therefore didn't get the point. Severe. And yeah, as Joe Ball said, the Christmas Number 1 is the song already at number 1 by the time Christmas Day comes - so the Sunday beforehand.

	debbiedoesnothin:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 03:08 GMT	3 points
	@ Joe Ball - Thanks for the explanation. The description that's on the front page now wasn't there when I took the quiz. I wouldn't have been confused if it had been.

	Bray:	Dec 24th, 2008 at 18:18 GMT	4 points
	Alexandra Burke 'Hallelujah' acceptable as bonus answer pl0x0rs? :P

	The Snakes:	May 10th, 2009 at 22:17 GMT	1 point
	The fact that the most recent one was only got by just over 20% of people shows how irrelevent the charts are nowadays. EVERYONE knew what the most recent Xmas #1 was when I was a kid, and most people could have named the last few of them.

	cmav:	Jun 2nd, 2009 at 05:51 GMT	1 point
	well im new to this thing do the creators make the games or can regular ppl made these 2

	cjc:	Nov 15th, 2009 at 22:07 GMT	1 point
	needs an update for 2008