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Free Music Quiz Questions & Answers - Section 1
Question 1: In August 1984, what was the first solo number 1 hit for singer George Michael?
Answer: Careless Whisper.
Question 2: Who first had a hit with the song "Beyond the Sea", Frank Sinatra or Bobby Darin?
Answer: Bobby Darin
Question 3: Which English comedy actor and musician was best known for creating the characters of John Shuttleworth and Jilted John
Answer: Graham Fellows
Question 4: “Money for Nothing” by Dire Straits was the first video shown on which TV channel?
Answer: MTV Europe
Question 5: On which television show did we first hear The Chicken Song
Answer: Spitting Image
Question 6: Which singer was the subject of the television documentary Tiaras & Tantrums?
Answer: Elton John
Question 7: What type of ‘Fever’ did the Bee Gees have?
Answer: Night Fever
Question 8: Which singer released the 2017 album, Human?
Answer: Rag'N'Bone Man
Question 9: How many ‘Seconds’ was a Number 1 hit for So Solid Crew in 2001?
Answer: 21 Seconds
Question 10: Which song starts: I don't want half-hearted love affairs, I need someone who really cares, Life is too short to play silly games.
Answer: Perfect - Fairground Attraction
Free Music Quiz Questions & Answers - Section 2
Question 1: "Billie Jean" was a number-one single from which Michael Jackson album?
Answer: Thriller
Question 2: Martin Fry was the lead singer of which 80’s pop group?
Answer: ABC
Question 3: Which member of the Beatles had the same Christian name as the inventor of the dental drill?
Answer: George Harrison
Question 4: Which female singer performed with the Miami Sound Machine?
Answer: Gloria Estefan
Question 5: What was the band U2's first number 1 hit in the UK?
Answer: Desire
Question 6: Which American city is the home of Motown?
Answer: Detroit
Question 7: Who was the only female TV presenter at the original Live Aid concert?
Answer: Janice Long.
Question 8: The Spice Girls recorded their early hits on which record label?
Answer: Virgin
Question 9: In the movie Grease, which is the first song, aftr the opening credits, sung by the movie's full cast?
Answer: Summer Nights
Question 10: Who had the 90s hit song Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm?
Answer: Perfect - Crash Test Dummies
Free Music Quiz Questions & Answers - Section 3
Question 1: Which singer had a UK number 1 hit with Sorry in 2015?
Answer: Justin Bieber
Question 2: Which pop group was the best-selling act in the UK during the 1970s?
Answer: ABBA
Question 3: Which 1978 song featured the line ‘Gordon is a moron’?
Answer: Jilted John by Jilted John.
Question 4: Which female singer featured on Take That’s hit Re-light My Fire?
Answer: Lulu
Question 5: Which group had a Number 1 hit in 1991 with Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Answer: The Clash
Question 6: What is the first Christian name mentioned in the Beautiful South hit "Song for Whoever"?
Answer: Shirley
Question 7: Which group took Aha’s hit Take On Me to Number 1 in 2000?
Answer: A1
Question 8: Who sang Band on the Run with Dave Grohl at Glastonbury 2022?
Answer: Paul McCartney
Question 9: In the song of the same name, where is Heartbreak Hotel?
Answer: Lonely Street
Question 10: Who had a 1984 hit with What’s Love Got to Do With It?
Answer: Tina Turner
Free Music Quiz Questions & Answers - Section 4
Question 1: Who sang the lead vocals on the Commodores' hit "Three Times a Lady"?
Answer: Lionel Richie.
Question 2: Musically, who was the Dandy Highwayman in the early 80s?
Answer: Adam Ant
Question 3: Which television cop actor had 4 UK top-ten hits in the 70’s?
Answer: David Soul
Question 4: What triangular-shaped instrument is the national instrument of Russia?
Answer: Balalaika
Question 5: The Dua Lipa number one UK hit Dance the Night featured in what 2023 movie?
Answer: Barbie
Question 6: What girl's name was the title of a Police hit song in 1979?
Answer: Roxanne
Question 7: What musical instrument did Animal play in the Muppets band?
Answer: Drums
Question 8: Which creature featured in the title of a Nelly Furtado hit from the year 2000?
Answer: Bird, from I'm Like a Bird
Question 9: Roland Gift was the lead singer of which pop group?
Answer: Fine Young Cannibals
Question 10: Manchild was a 2025 hit single for which female singer?
Answer: Sabrina Carpenter
Free Music Quiz Questions & Answers - Section 5
Question 1: What song did Katy Perry sing in space?
Answer: What a Wonderful World
Question 2: Who, according to the song, sold cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh?
Answer: Molly Malone
Question 3: The Show was a 2023 chart-topping album for which One Direction member?
Answer: Niall Horan
Question 4: Who sang Like a Virgin in 1984?
Answer: Madonna
Question 5: In what 80s hit does Cyndi Lauper sing about “The Phone Rings in the middle of the night”?
Answer: Girls just wanna have fun.
Question 6: Which of the Fab Four wrote the Beatles' hit song "All You Need Is Love"?
Answer: John Lennon
Question 7: Who was the famous blonde lady in ABBA?
Answer: Agnetha Faltskog
Question 8: What was the name of Rihanna’s debut single released in 2005?
Answer: Pon de Replay
Question 9: Which 2000s hit has the line "My loneliness is killing me..."?
Answer: Baby One More Time
Question 10: In what language was Shakira’s first full-length album released in the early 90s?
Answer: Spanish
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Free Music Quiz Questions & Answers - Section 6
Question 1: Colonel Tom Parker was the musical manager of which famous singer?
Answer: Elvis Presley
Question 2: What was singer Bing Crosby’s real first name?
Answer: Harry
Question 3:How many types of hair colour did McFly sing about?
Answer: Five
Question 4: Which female singer won the Eurovision Song Contest for England in 1969?
Answer: Lulu
Question 5: Which male singing voice is between Tenor and Bass?
Answer: Baritone
Question 6: Which Boomtown Rats hit was about an American girl who shot her school friends?
Answer: I Don't Like Mondays
Question 7: Which song returned to the Number One position in the UK 37-years after its release, after it was included on the TV show, 'Stranger Things' in 2022?
Answer: Running up that hill.
Question 8: Which member of the Beatles was the first to become a grandfather?
Answer: Ringo Starr
Question 9: Which female singer released the 2016 album entitled Lemonade?
Answer: Beyoncé
Question 10: Which boy's name took Sister Sledge to the top of the charts in 1985?
Answer: Franky
Free Music Quiz Questions & Answers - Section 7
Question 1: Who had a 2024 hit with the song Espresso?
Answer: Sabrina Carpenter
Question 2: What is the name of the family in the classic, 'The Sound of Music'?
Answer: Von Trap
Question 3: Which group had a hit in 1980 with Lip Up Fatty?
Answer: Bad Manners
Question 4: Which song contains the line; There is good and bad in everyone. We learn to live when we learn to give each other?
Answer: Ebony & Ivory
Question 5: Which singer became known as The Walrus of Love?
Answer: Barry White
Question 6: A famine in which country led to the Band Aid charity?
Answer: Ethiopia
Question 7: Who or what did Abba want after midnight in their hit Gimme Gimme Gimme?
Answer: A Man
Question 8: What was bad in the title of a Bon Jovi hit from 1988?
Answer: Bad Medicine
Question 9: Along with Tim Rice and Hans Zimmer, who did the music for the Disney movie The Lion King?
Answer: Elton John
Question 10: Who had a hit in 2000 with Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?
Answer: Moby
Free Music Quiz Questions & Answers - Section 8
Question 1: Complete the name of this 1980s group - Living In A…?
Answer: Box
Question 2: What type of "Lines" was an album by Blondie?
Answer: Parallel
Question 3: In what decade was Shakira's "Waka Waka" song used as the official World Cup song?
Answer: The 2010s - 2010
Question 4: Barbara Bach is the wife of which member of The Beatles?
Answer: Ringo Starr
Question 5: Who sang the theme to the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only?
Answer: Sheena Easton
Question 6: Northern Star was the first solo album by which of the Spice Girls?
Answer: Mel C
Question 7: Which country singing star is the subject of the book Not Dumb, Not Blonde?
Answer: Dolly Parton
Question 8: Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Jennifer Rush and Huey Lewis and the News all had different hit singles with which same title?
Answer: Power of Love
Question 9: Which 1982 single was the only UK number one hit for Madness?
Answer: House of Fun
Question 10: Which song contains the line - I said, "I'll see you later," and I give her some old chat?
Answer: Cool for Cats
Free Music Quiz Questions & Answers - Section 9
Question 1: Which Australian singer closed Radio 2’s Party in the Park in 2022?
Answer: Kylie Minogue
Question 2: Which singer is a huge fan of Heinz tomato ketchup and Ipswich Town football club?
Answer: Ed Sheeran
Question 3: Which UK band won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1976?
Answer: Brotherhood of Man
Question 4: Who sang about Daisies in the 2026 UK charts?
Answer: Justin Bieber
Question 5: Who was the first-ever artist to be heard on the NOW albums, NOW 1 Track 1?
Answer: Phil Collins -You Can't Hurry Love
Question 6: Which member of The Beatles formed the Dark Horse record label?
Answer: George Harrison
Question 7: Which group had a hit in 1994 with The Sign?
Answer: Ace of Base
Question 8: Both born in 1941, who is the oldest, Paul Simon or Art Garfunkel?
Answer: Paul Simon
Question 9: Which female singer performed with the Miami Sound Machine?
Answer: Gloria Estefan
Question 10: Which colourful song was a top 5 hit in the UK in 2000 for the band Coldplay?
Answer: Yellow
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Free Music Quiz Questions & Answers - Section 10
Question 1: ELO had which hit song with Olivia Newton-John?
Answer: Xanadu
Question 2: For which musical instrument did George Formby become famous?
Answer: Ukulele
Question 3: What was the name of All Saints' first Number 1 single?
Answer: NEVER EVER
Question 4: Which Bill Oddie song with The Goodies reached No. 4 in the charts in 1975?
Answer: The Funky Gibbon
Question 5: According to Jennifer Lopez in 2002, who came from the block?
Answer: Jenny
Question 6: In 1974, who sang about Bridget the Midget?
Answer: Ray Stevens
Question 7: In 2023, who brought us The Ballad of a Homeschooled Girl?
Answer: Olivia Rodrigo
Question 8: In what decade did Bucks Fizz win the Eurovision Song Contest?
Answer: The 1980s - 1981
Question 9: Who duetted with Michael Jackson on the 1982 hit The Girl is Mine?
Answer: Paul McCartney
Question 10: Which girl's name was a hit for The Police in 1978?
Answer: Roxanne
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Free Music Quiz Questions & Answers - Section 11
Question 1: Which group had a Number 1 hit with Under the Moon Of Love in 1976?
Answer: Showaddywaddy
Question 2: Whose autobiography was called Moonwalker?
Answer: Michael Jackson
Question 3: Which composer wrote The Moonlight Sonata?
Answer: Beethoven
Question 4: Who was the first member of the original Take That lineup to have a solo number 1 hit?
Answer: Gary Barlow
Question 5: Which brass instrument can play the lowest note?
Answer: The Tuba
Question 6: What is the name of the Barber of Seville in the opera of that name?
Answer: Figaro
Question 7: Who had a Number 1 hit in 1980 with Together We Are Beautiful?
Answer: Fern Kinney
Question 8: Which was the first James Bond theme song to be nominated for an Oscar?
Answer: Live And Let Die
Question 9: Which group was formed by David Byrne in 1975?
Answer: Talking Heads
Question 10: The first record released on the 2-Tone label was Gangsters, by which group?
Answer: The Specials
Free Music Quiz Questions & Answers - Section 12
Question 1: In which Yorkshire city was the group ABC formed?
Answer: Sheffield
Question 2: According to a hit song by Bonnie Tyler, she was lost where?
Answer: France
Question 3: Who died in 1994 and was the lead singer of the band Nirvana?
Answer: Kurt Cobain
Question 4: Who was the manager of the Beatles?
Answer: Brian Epstein
Question 5: Who sang the theme tune to the Bond movie Die Another Day?
Answer: Madonna
Question 6: Which Beatles song contains the line; When I'm home, everything seems to be right when I'm home, feeling you holding me tight?
Answer: Hard Days Night
Question 7: Which southern hemisphere band took their name from a cramped apartment they once shared?
Answer: Crowded House
Question 8: In what decade was the first NOW album released?
Answer: The 1980s - 1983
Question 9: What Miley Cyrus song was the best-selling hit of 2023?
Answer: Flowers
Question 10: Which No Doubt member has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
Answer: Gwen Stefani
Free Music Quiz Questions & Answers - Section 13
Question 1: Which Welshman had the UK’s best-selling single of 1966?
Answer: Tom Jones
Question 2: Which Oasis song became the fans' anthem for the England football team at the 2026 World Cup?
Answer: Wonderwall
Question 3: Elvis Costello sang about which flowers in 1981?
Answer: Roses
Question 4: Which band took their name from a character in the movie Barbarella?
Answer: Duran Duran
Question 5: Which band released the album Regatta de Blanc?
Answer: The Police
Question 6: Let's Dance was the only solo number 1 for David Bowie not to feature which character?
Answer: Major Tom
Question 7: Arpa is the Italian word for which instrument?
Answer: Harp
Question 8: What did Sandi Thom wish she had in her hair in 2005?
Answer: Flowers
Question 9: Generation Terrorists was the debut album for which band?
Answer: Manic Street Preachers
Question 10: Which group had a hit with Candy Girl in 1983?
Answer: New Edition
Free Music Quiz Questions & Answers - Section 14
Question 1: Which song by The Beatles starts with the lyrics, Got a good reason for taking the easy way out?
Answer: Day Tripper
Question 2: In a song by the Four Seasons, which month and year did they declare Oh, What a Night?
Answer: December 1963
Question 3: Which group had a hit in 1990 with ‘Groove Is in the Heart’?
Answer: Dee-Lite
Question 4: Who had hits with Torn and Big Mistake in the late 90s?
Answer: Natalie Imbruglia
Question 5: What boy band said: “Bye, bye, bye”?
Answer: *NSYNC
Question 6: What 1985 single brought together stars like Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, and Diana Ross?
Answer: We Are the World
Question 7: Who directed the groundbreaking 1983 music video for Thriller?
Answer: John Landis
Question 8: What song by Seal featured in the movie Batman Forever?
Answer: Kiss From a Rose
Question 9: In which film was the song Moon River first featured?
Answer: Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Question 10: What is the surname of the singer Beyoncé?
Answer: Knowles-Carter
Free Music Quiz Questions & Answers - Section 15
Question 1: Which group had a hit in 1991 with “Smells Like Teen Spirit”?
Answer: Nirvana
Question 2: In the lyrics of Oliver’s Army by Elvis Costello, where in the world was “Up for Grabs”
Answer: Hong Kong
Question 3: Give the nationality of composer Franz Liszt?
Answer: Hungarian
Question 4: What was a hit for Madness first, It Must Be Love or Our House?
Answer: It Must Be Love
Question 5: Who had a hit record in 2008 with All Summer Long?
Answer: Kid Rock
Question 6: In 1997, who replaced Phil Collins as lead singer of Genesis?
Answer: Ray Wilson
Question 7: What were Katrina & The Waves walking on in their hit song?
Answer: On Sunshine
Question 8: From which Tom Jones song do we get the lyrics - Down the lane I walk with my sweet Mary?
Answer: The Green Green Grass of Home
Question 9: Complete the title of this hit for Prodigy - Smack My........
Answer: Bitch Up
Question 10: Which duo had a hit in 1961 with Walk Right Back?
Answer: Everly Brothers
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