I Want You Back

Question number one, Terry Nunn fronted what new wave band behind the hits Metro and Take My Breath Away? Question number two, one half of a duo, what grouchy Sesame Street character wears a shirt with vertical stripes and has a prominent monobrow? Question number three, named after a British overseas territory, what is the term for the semi-casual style of shorts with a hem just above the knee? Question number four, what former chair of the NASDAQ stock exchange and stockbroker was the admitted mastermind of the largest known Ponzi scheme in history worth an estimated $65 billion? He died in prison in 2021.

Question number five, with songwriting credits on countless songs, including the Jackson Five's ABC and I Want You Back, what music man founded Motown Records in 1959? Question number six, what Italian firearms brand has sold models including the Cheetah, the Cougar, and the Jaguar? Question number seven, what brittle alkaline earth metal occurs naturally only in combination with other elements to form minerals and is represented on the periodic table with the symbol Be and the atomic number four? Question number eight, what body of water separates Alaska and Eastern Russia? We'll give you a few seconds of music to wrap things up before we move on to the answers.

[relaxing music] Here are the answers for round one, the BERS.

Question number one, Terry Nunn fronted the new wave band Berlin.

And so you see, you see this video of him just dancing around on stage at Forest Hills, directing this orchestra and his band and stuff to start playing, um, different parts to, like, fill in the gaps of the music, and he's singing and stuff like that.

He tells Clyde at one point to play the I Want You Back keyboard line from the Jackson 5 song, um, and blends that and, like, has that blend seamlessly into what Luxury is and, like, how that goes.

Like, it is such, like...

The song itself is really good, but I want you to hear this version 'cause, like, you can hear...

Venus by the Shocking Blue was at number two.

And I Want You Back by the Jackson 5 was at number one.

Come to think of it, it was actually 52 years ago this week that that happened.

Whole Lotta Love ended up being Zep's only top 10 hit.

Yeah.

And you know, they were doing, you know I Want You Back and all that shit.

No, no, don't shit on-

Then he came back-

And kind of like a tribute show.

But obviously, when you're 14 and your voice breaks and you go back to sing I Want You Back and Ben, it just didn't work.

So yeah, but it does make people laugh when I say I was in Thriller Live as a kid.

Yeah, that, that, yeah.