Adele Trivia
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44 free Adele trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
40 free Adele trivia questions with answers. Adele went from a three-song Myspace demo to the best-selling album of the 21st century, and this quiz follows the whole arc. It covers her Tottenham childhood and Spice Girls obsession, the BRIT School class that also produced Leona Lewis and Jessie J, the SNL night that made her a US star, why every album is named after a number, the producers behind Rolling in the Deep, Someone Like You, Hello and Easy on Me, the vocal surgery, the Skyfall Oscar, the record-breaking first week of 25, the Vegas residency and the 80,000-seat pop-up in Munich. Easy questions ask what her albums are called and which Bond film she sang for; the hard ones want the label that pressed 500 copies of her first single, the surgeon who fixed her vocal cords and the streaming record Hello broke. Written for fans, pub quizzers and anyone who has cried in a car to Someone Like You. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on Adele, her albums and her singles, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01In which part of London was Adele born?
Tottenham
Tottenham, in north London; her Welsh father left when she was small, and she was raised by her mother, a furniture maker.
Q 02What is Adele's surname?
Adkins
Adkins, her mother's surname; her father's was Evans, and after years of estrangement they made peace before he died in 2021.
Q 03Which group did Adele say made her who she is?
The Spice Girls
The Spice Girls: as a girl she used to impersonate them, and the singer Gabrielle too.
Q 04Which two singers, like Adele, went to the BRIT School in Croydon?
Leona Lewis and Jessie J
Leona Lewis and Jessie J; as a teenager Adele found her voice singing along to Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald CDs.
Q 05How did XL Recordings first come across Adele's demo?
It was posted on Myspace
It was posted on Myspace: XL heard her class-project demo there, got in touch, and signed the teenager to a record deal.
Q 06Which Bob Dylan song did Adele cover on her debut album 19?
Make You Feel My Love
Make You Feel My Love: her manager played it to her when her own break-up songs couldn't say what she felt, and it became her favourite track on 19.
Q 07'Hometown Glory', the first song Adele ever wrote, is about which south London district?
West Norwood
West Norwood; she wrote the song in ten minutes after her mother tried to persuade her to leave London for university.
Q 08Adele's debut single, 'Hometown Glory', first came out as a limited edition on which format?
7-inch vinyl
7-inch vinyl, on her friend Jamie T's Pacemaker Recordings label, even though Adele was already signed to XL.
Q 09How are Adele's studio albums named?
After her age when she made them
After her age when she made them: 19, 21, 25 and 30 reflect the age at which she wrote each album; 30 was actually released when she was 33.
Q 10'Chasing Pavements' was inspired by an argument in a club with whom?
An older ex-boyfriend
An older ex-boyfriend: after a row, she stormed out of a London club and ran down the street, but he never chased after her.
Q 11Adele was the first ever winner of which Brit Award, in 2008?
Critics' Choice
Critics' Choice: at that ceremony she also sang in Mark Ronson's medley alongside Amy Winehouse.
Q 12An October 2008 appearance on which US TV show made Adele an overnight sensation in America?
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live: the real Sarah Palin was on the same episode, and by the next day 19 had leapt to number one on iTunes.
Q 13Which Grammy did Adele win in 2009, a year after her debut album 19?
Best New Artist
Best New Artist; the win lifted 19 into the US top ten for the first time.
Q 21Accepting Album of the Year for 25 in 2017, Adele said which rival album deserved it instead?
Lemonade
Lemonade: as Adele praised it in her speech, a tearful Beyonce watched from the crowd.
Q 22Before agreeing to write the 'Skyfall' theme, what did Adele do first?
Read the film's script
Read the film's script: she even told director Sam Mendes she might be wrong for it, because her songs are personal.
Q 23At the 2012 Brits, Adele's British Album speech was cut short for which band's performance?
Blur
Blur. Host James Corden interrupted her speech for 21 so Blur could close the 2012 show; Adele answered with a middle finger aimed, she said, at 'the suits', not the fans.
Q 14Which American musical styles did Adele start listening to on tour, shaping the sound of 21?
Country and Southern blues
Country and Southern blues: her tour bus driver, a Nashville native, introduced her to artists like Wanda Jackson as she toured North America.
Q 15Adele's 21 spent 24 weeks at No. 1 in the US, the most since which 1980s soundtrack?
Purple Rain
Purple Rain: Prince's soundtrack also spent 24 weeks on top, and its title song was recorded live at a 1983 benefit show in a Minneapolis club.
Q 16Which soul legend covered Adele's first US No. 1 single on a 2014 album of diva classics?
Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin, who turned it into a medley with the Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell hit 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough'.
Q 17At the 2017 Grammys, Adele stopped and restarted her tribute to which late singer?
George Michael
George Michael: she halted her slowed-down 'Fastlove' after a shaky start because, she said, 'I can't mess this up for him.'
Q 18Which ballad shot to No. 1 in the UK after Adele sang it at the 2011 Brit Awards?
Someone Like You
Someone Like You: her label wanted it re-recorded with a full band, but Adele kept the bare voice-and-piano demo.
Q 19Which Columbia Records co-president produced several tracks on Adele's 21?
Rick Rubin
Rick Rubin cut most of the album with a hand-picked band in Malibu, but Adele scrapped most of those takes for earlier, rawer ones.
Q 20Why did Adele cancel her sold-out US tour in October 2011?
A vocal cord haemorrhage
A vocal cord haemorrhage: doctors ordered extended rest, and a Boston surgeon later removed a benign polyp with laser microsurgery.
Q 24At which 2013 ceremony did Adele sing 'Skyfall' live for the first time?
The Oscars
The Oscars: preparing for them kept Adele from attending the Brits, so she accepted her 'Skyfall' award by video.
Q 25Fans joked about which outdated gadget in the video for Adele's 2015 comeback single?
A flip phone
A flip phone: director Xavier Dolan said modern phones or cars on screen remind viewers they're in reality.
Q 26Adele's 25 sold 3.38 million US copies in its first week, beating which act's 15-year-old record?
NSYNC
NSYNC, whose No Strings Attached sold 2.4 million in a week in 2000; expecting a rush, Columbia shipped 3.6 million CDs of 25.
Q 27Which Swedish hitmakers wrote and produced 'Send My Love (To Your New Lover)' with Adele?
Max Martin and Shellback
Max Martin and Shellback: Adele tracked them down after hearing Taylor Swift's 'I Knew You Were Trouble' on the radio.
Q 28Whose rap verse did Adele perform in her January 2016 Carpool Karaoke?
Nicki Minaj
Nicki Minaj: Adele rapped Minaj's verse from 'Monster', and Minaj praised her online afterwards.
Q 29Adele headlined Glastonbury 2016 on which of the festival's platforms?
The Pyramid Stage
The Pyramid Stage; she had announced the booking from the stage of her own O2 Arena show that March.
Q 30At which London venue did Adele cancel the last two shows of her 2017 world tour?
Wembley
Wembley: she had called the first two nights there 'the biggest and best shows of my life'.