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1) B. The most No 1s in the Eighties

WITH seven U.S. No 1s, Madonna was beaten to this title by Michael Jackson, who had nine. But she has sold more than 335 million records, making her the bestselling female recording artist. She was featured in Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Artists list above Tina Turner, Diana Ross, John Lennon and David Bowie. And she won the Worst Actress gong in 2000.

2) D. Boy toy

AFTER Madonna ‘ used the phrase ironically’ on a belt buckle she wore on the album cover for 1984’s Like A virgin, the OED added this new definition for the term: ‘A young and attractive woman regarded as a plaything for men.’

3) TRUE

IN A letter, aged 20, Madonna wrote: ‘By the fifth grade, I knew I either wanted to be a nun or a movie star. Nine months in a convent cured me of the first disease.’

4) 1A Madonna hit back in 1984, saying: ‘Who knows tacky better than Cher?’

2C That was how the vatican described Madge’s 1990 Blond Ambition world tour.

3B elton and Madonna had a long-running feud, but made up in 2012. 5) A. Lemon tart IT IS her favourite dessert, particularly if it is from French luxury bakery Laduree.

She is said to have whispered: ‘I loathe hydrangeas,’ after a fan gave her one in 2011. on the biopic Blond Ambition, she opined that anyone who tries to tell her story ‘is a charlatan and a fool’. In 2009, she said the nickname ‘Madge’ made her feel ‘boring and middle-aged’.

6) D. ‘. . . but I want to stay alive’

She said this to a U.S. radio station in 2007, where she also defended a crucifixion scene in her tour by saying: ‘For me, we all need to be Jesus in our time.’