Evening folks! We're kicking off this quiz season in the same way we started and ended the last one - with a round of Pointless

The rules, for anyone who hasn't played before, are to try and find the answer you think the fewest other people will go for. Of course everyone else will be looking to do the same thing, so there are some mind games as to whether you go for an obvious answer or an obscure one. You get one point for every other player who gave the same answer as you, and the person with the fewest points wins.

A note given we're in the Chart Forum: Whenever I refer to a 'Top 40' single, 'Number 1 album' or anything like that, I'm referring to the UK Official Singles Chart and UK Official Albums Chart. Any trying to loophole your way around that will get an incorrect answer and maximum points. Sorry!

Here are the questions for you to find answers for:

1. An artist who had their first UK Number 1 album in 2025

2. A Top 40 single whose title contains is made up of some, or all, of the letters of the phrase 'DREAMING OWL'

3. A Buzzjack member who started a thread in the UK Charts forum between the 14th and the 21st September 2025

4. A UK-born artist who has had a Top 5 single in 2025

5. A UK Top 40 single crediting an artist who has reached the final of the Eurovision Song Contest since 2020, excluding Eurovision songs themselves.

6. A song which peaked in the UK Chart in 2024 or 2025 but only spent a single week inside the Top 10

7. An artist who has been credited on a UK #1 single as a non-lead artist, but has never had a Top 100 single as a lead artist*

8. An artist who has had a Top 40 single and whose name contains at least two of the following letters - Q, V, X and Z

9. A pinned topic in the UK Chart forum, or a sub-folder of the Chart Vault

10. A song which has topped the Buzzjack Reshuffle Chart in 2025

* for the purposes of this question, 'lead artist' means the first artist listed on a song.

Answers on this google form please! You've got until 23:59 Sunday 28th September. Happy quizzing!

Entered! Nice set of questions. Some I could really only think of a couple of possible answers for.

Also entered! Love a bit of Pointless, hopefully I've done well 😁

Sent in some answers!

Decided to go with my gut feeling on all as overthinking this specific quiz format always backfires for me

Entered!

I'm confused by Q2, does that include every top 40 with an E in its title?

And for Q5, are you asking for the top 40 hits after 2020 regardless of when the artist competed, or songs by artists who participated in Eurovision after 2020?

Edited September 23Sep 23 by 1^∞

I take Q2 to mean a song whose title comprises only letters from the phrase, otherwise it's almost limitless?

2 hours ago, rio309 said:

I take Q2 to mean a song whose title comprises only letters from the phrase, otherwise it's almost limitless?

That's what I'm assuming but would be good to get clarification from @PeteFromLeeds!

If so, can the song title use those letters only once? (e.g. 'Imagine' is comprised from only those letters, but uses the 'I' twice)

4 hours ago, rio309 said:

I take Q2 to mean a song whose title comprises only letters from the phrase, otherwise it's almost limitless?

I interpreted the nearly limitless aspect that to be the point, as a kind of trick inclusion.

"A Top 40 single whose title contains some, or all, of the letters of the phrase."

'Some' suggests that as long it contains a couple of those letters, it should be fine.

If my assumption is wrong, I'd like to change my answer 😄

Edited September 23Sep 23 by gooddelta

25 minutes ago, gooddelta said:

I interpreted the nearly limitless aspect that to be the point, as a kind of trick inclusion.

"A Top 40 single whose title contains some, or all, of the letters of the phrase."

'Some' suggests that as long it contains a couple of those letters, it should be fine.

If my assumption is wrong, I'd like to change my answer 😄

And yet I interpreted it differently again, though I haven't yet answered the quiz, I concluded that for Q2 the letters from the song needed to come the words and in the order they are shown.

So for example;

DREAMING OWL

could include options like "READ MY MIND" by the Killers, "FAMILY MATTERS" by Skye Newman, "WINDOWLICKER" by Aphex Twin etc etc.

I must admit that I found Q2 to be a bit strange as a question - like others I thought well surely that means any song that just features any of the letters at some point

Although knowing my luck on these things, someone else will still pick the same one as me! (I will never forget White Town from last year )

Pete wins the prize for most ambiguously worded question

Ah crumbs, and yet it made perfect sense to me when I read through it in my half-awake mind

Question two is supposed to say A Top 40 single whose title is made up of some, or all, of the letters of the phrase 'DREAMING OWL'

I think I got 'contains' and 'consists of' mixed up in my head 😅 Everyone feel free to change your answer to that one! (I'll work out who that is when I get home)

18 hours ago, 1^∞ said:

I'm confused by Q2, does that include every top 40 with an E in its title?

And for Q5, are you asking for the top 40 hits after 2020 regardless of when the artist competed, or songs by artists who participated in Eurovision after 2020?

Q5 - it doesn't matter when the Top 40 hit itself was.

6 hours ago, jimwatts said:

If so, can the song title use those letters only once? (e.g. 'Imagine' is comprised from only those letters, but uses the 'I' twice)

No - can only use each letter once.

19 minutes ago, PeteFromLeeds said:

Ah crumbs, and yet it made perfect sense to me when I read through it in my half-awake mind

Question two is supposed to say A Top 40 single whose title is made up of some, or all, of the letters of the phrase 'DREAMING OWL'

I think I got 'contains' and 'consists of' mixed up in my head 😅 Everyone feel free to change your answer to that one! (I'll work out who that is when I get home)

So what you're basically saying is it can only use those letters and no other letters? For example 'DREAM' would be valid (assuming that's the name of a top 40 hit?) but 'DREAMER' would not?

15 minutes ago, Mangø said:

So what you're basically saying is it can only use those letters and no other letters? For example 'DREAM' would be valid (assuming that's the name of a top 40 hit?) but 'DREAMER' would not?

Yes that's right 👍

Ah ok, I will send a change to my answer, thanks!

@dandy* @AllStarBySmashMouth @gooddelta @gasman449 @paulgilb - think I've tagged everyone who might want to look at Q2 again now I've clarified my own vague words!

I've enabled response editing on the form now, but if it gives you a blank form then just answer Q2 and I'll combine it with your previous answers.

Submitted another response for question 2. Would've got it wrong if I didn't change!