Let's have a pop quiz!

[PaulB]

Someone asks a question, you're honour bound not to Google it, and the person who gets the correct answer gets to ask the next question.

Ready?

I'll kick us off.

Who is the youngest person to have a UK number 1 hit single?

 

[Archie_tect]

It's not Jimmie Osmond is it? ....I feel decidedly queasy.

 

[PaulB]

It's not Jimmie Osmond is it? ....I feel decidedly queasy.

Indeedy doody.

Your go.

 

[Archie_tect]

What?... oh 'eck!

 

[Archie_tect]

Give me a minute... never got anything like that right before.

 

[Norm]

Indeedy doody.

Your go.

Coincidentally, a former colleague of mine called Ian Doody, aka Microbe, was the youngest to get into the top 40.

Who was the oldest to get a number 1 then?

 

[Archie_tect]

In desperation, having just googled the answer [but you can't!]:

Who is the oldest person ever to have a No.1 hit in the UK? Bonus point if you know the song.

[Oi... I could tell you Norm, but that'd be unfair now!]

 

[dan_bo]

Sir Cliff?

 

[Norm]

Hee hee... I'll absent myself from answering then.

 

[PaulB]

Bing Crosby?

 

[Norm]

Nope, and not Cliff either.

 

[PaulB]

Louis Armstrong?

 

[swee'pea99]

Clive Dunn

Grandad, Grandad, you're lovely
That's what we all think of yooooo

He was 87. Or something.

 

[Noodley]

Vera Lynn? - only saying this as she's just been on a TV advert.

 

[Speck]

[quote name='swee'pea99']Clive Dunn

Grandad, Grandad, you're lovely
That's what we all think of yooooo

He was 87. Or something.[/QUOTE]

He was only 50 when he made that record