# 🎶 “Take On Me” by a-ha Trivia Set

**Used:** 2025-06-13

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## 📌 REGULAR QUESTIONS

### 1. What band performs “Take On Me”?  
**Answer:** a-ha  
**Taglines:**  
- Lowercase name, uppercase vocals  
- The band that made Norway cool  
- Not just a sound—an expression  
- a-ha: surprise, it's stuck in your head  
- Rhymes with “drama” if sung high enough  

### 2. What year was “Take On Me” officially released as a hit single?  
**Answer:** 1985  
**Taglines:**  
- Peak hairspray era  
- The '80s called—they never stopped  
- 1985: when falsetto ruled  
- Synths, suits, and swoons  
- Back when music videos *meant something*  

### 3. What visual style made the “Take On Me” music video iconic?  
**Answer:** Pencil-sketch animation (rotoscoping)  
**Taglines:**  
- Sketchy in the best way  
- Flipping through romance and rebels  
- The notebook doodles of your dreams  
- Drawn into drama  
- Animation meets MTV fever dream  

### 4. What country is a-ha originally from?  
**Answer:** Norway  
**Taglines:**  
- Fjords and falsettos  
- Vikings with synths  
- Cold weather, hot beats  
- Scandinavia’s finest export after IKEA  
- Oslo says, “You’re welcome”  

### 5. Who directed the famous “Take On Me” music video?  
**Answer:** Steve Barron  
**Taglines:**  
- Music video MVP  
- The wizard behind the pencil curtain  
- Directed your childhood’s weirdest dreams  
- Barron: making pop surreal  
- Name a better video—I'll wait  

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## 🧩 FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS

### 1. The chorus of “Take On Me” contains the lyric “Take on me, take me ______.”  
**Answer:** On  
**Taglines:**  
- The prepositional anthem  
- Say it once, then scream it 50 times  
- Simple, yet emotionally destructive  
- On and on and on and—  
- Not off, not out, just *on*  

### 2. The iconic video features a woman pulled into a ______.  
**Answer:** Comic book  
**Taglines:**  
- Every nerd’s fantasy  
- Graphic novel, tragic romance  
- Pop art meets pop heart  
- One page turn from chaos  
- The original panel drama queen  

### 3. a-ha’s lead singer is ______ Harket.  
**Answer:** Morten  
**Taglines:**  
- Vocals sent from Valhalla  
- Morten: the man, the myth, the high note  
- The '80s answer to throat gymnastics  
- First name: swoon  
- Harket attack incoming  

### 4. The “Take On Me” video won ______ MTV Video Music Awards.  
**Answer:** Six  
**Taglines:**  
- Cleaning up like it’s art school  
- MTV was shook  
- Six statues, zero chill  
- Every frame a winner  
- And not one for “Most Inevitable Earworm”?  

### 5. a-ha re-recorded “Take On Me” ______ times before it became a hit.  
**Answer:** Three  
**Taglines:**  
- Third time’s the chart  
- Because perfection takes repetition  
- Take on me... again  
- From flop to bop  
- Persistence with synths  

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## 📝 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

### 1. [Difficulty: 1] What genre best describes “Take On Me”?  
A) Grunge  
B) Synthpop ✅  
C) Hard rock  
D) Jazz fusion  
**Taglines:**  
- Not a guitar solo in sight  
- More synth than sense  
- Pop with electric dreams  
- The genre your Walkman was made for  
- Synths that slap  

### 2. [Difficulty: 2] What visual element is central to the “Take On Me” music video?  
A) 3D CGI  
B) Claymation  
C) Rotoscoping ✅  
D) Stop-motion  
**Taglines:**  
- Drawn to danger  
- The sketch heard round the world  
- Every frame a pencil-fueled thrill  
- Animation that made history  
- “Take On Me”: now in doodle form  

### 3. [Difficulty: 3] What instrument drives the melody of “Take On Me”?  
A) Guitar  
B) Piano  
C) Synthesizer ✅  
D) Violin  
**Taglines:**  
- Keyboards doing cartwheels  
- Synths from another dimension  
- Airy, spacey, irresistible  
- No strings attached  
- Powered by pixels and pulse  

### 4. [Difficulty: 4] In what country did “Take On Me” first top the charts?  
A) United Kingdom  
B) United States ✅  
C) Norway  
D) Germany  
**Taglines:**  
- USA said yes before Europe caught up  
- America: one hit wonderland  
- Norway sings, America swoons  
- The falsetto invasion  
- Proof we had taste, briefly  

### 5. [Difficulty: 2] What is the primary theme of the “Take On Me” music video?  
A) Political protest  
B) Romantic rescue ✅  
C) Historical reenactment  
D) Science fiction  
**Taglines:**  
- Love scribbled in pencil  
- Art school heartthrob energy  
- She entered the comic, he entered our hearts  
- Rescuing with rotoscoping  
- Paper-thin romance, fully iconic
