50 free Adele trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 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 in May 1988?
Tottenham
Her mother raised her alone after her Welsh father left when she was two. The family later moved to Brighton and back to south London.
Q 02What is Adele's surname?
Adkins
Her full name is Adele Laurie Blue Adkins. Evans was her father's surname.
Q 03Which girl group did Adele say 'made me what I am today'?
The Spice Girls
She impersonated them at dinner parties and by eleven her bedroom was 'essentially a Spice Girls shrine'.
Q 04Which two singers were Adele's classmates at the BRIT School in Croydon?
Leona Lewis and Jessie J
She graduated in May 2006 and at the time was more interested in working in A&R than performing.
Q 05How did Adele's demo reach her record label?
A friend posted it on Myspace
She recorded three songs for a class project. When XL's Richard Russell called, she thought it was a hoax and took a friend to the meeting.
Q 06With which independent label did Adele sign in September 2006?
XL Recordings
XL was also home to The White Stripes and Vampire Weekend. Columbia handles her US releases.
Q 07'Hometown Glory', the first song Adele ever wrote, is about which south London district?
West Norwood
She wrote it in ten minutes at 16 after her mother tried to persuade her to leave for university.
Q 08'Hometown Glory' was first released as a limited 7-inch single on whose label?
Jamie T's Pacemaker Recordings
Only 500 copies were pressed in 2007. Adele was a fan of Jamie T, which is partly why she signed with his manager.
Q 09How are Adele's studio albums named?
After her age when she made them
19, 21, 25 and 30. The last 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
It peaked at number two in the UK and won her the Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 2009.
Q 11Which Bob Dylan song did Adele cover on 19?
Make You Feel My Love
Dylan's version was on his 1997 album Time Out of Mind. Billy Joel and Garth Brooks had also recorded it.
Q 12Adele was the first ever winner of which Brit Award, in 2008?
Critics' Choice
The same year she topped the BBC's Sound of 2008 poll of music critics.
Q 13An October 2008 appearance on which US TV show made Adele an overnight sensation in America?
Saturday Night Live
Sarah Palin was in the building that night, which explains the audience. Bill Hader recalled the writers falling silent when she sang.
Q 21Which Columbia Records co-president produced part of 21 after Adele recorded a demo in two days?
Rick Rubin
Ryan Tedder, Jim Abbiss and Dan Wilson also worked on the album.
Q 22Why did Adele cancel two tours in October 2011?
A vocal cord haemorrhage
Boston surgeon Steven Zeitels removed a benign polyp with laser microsurgery that November. She returned at the Grammys three months later.
Q 23How many Grammys did 21 win at the 2012 ceremony, tying a record?
Six
Including Album of the Year, weeks after her throat surgery. 25 later won five more.
Q 14Which Grammy did Adele win in 2009 for her debut album era?
Best New Artist
She also took Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for Chasing Pavements the same night.
Q 15Which American musical styles did Adele start listening to on tour, shaping the sound of 21?
Country and Southern blues
Her tour bus driver introduced her to it during the North American leg of An Evening with Adele.
Q 16How many weeks did 21 spend at number one on the US Billboard 200?
24
That is the longest run since 1985 and the longest ever by a female solo artist. It is the best-selling album of the 21st century.
Q 17Which producer co-wrote 'Rolling in the Deep' with Adele, the day after her break-up?
Paul Epworth
She called it a 'dark blues-y gospel disco tune'. It won Record of the Year and Song of the Year at the 2012 Grammys.
Q 18How many weeks did 'Rolling in the Deep' spend at number one on the Billboard Hot 100?
Seven
It was her first US number one and Billboard's top single of 2011.
Q 19Who co-wrote 'Someone Like You' and plays the piano on the record?
Dan Wilson
He was the frontman of Semisonic, of 'Closing Time' fame. It made her the first British female solo artist with two US number ones from one album.
Q 20A performance at which 2011 event sent 'Someone Like You' to UK number one, up 46 places in a week?
The Brit Awards
It jumped over Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' and became her first UK number one, staying there five weeks.
Q 24Which British producer, called the most pop-minded of the 21 team, produced 'Set Fire to the Rain'?
Fraser T Smith
Billboard readers voted it their favourite number one of 2012, and the live Albert Hall version won a Grammy.
Q 25Adele's 2012 Bond theme won her an Oscar. Which film was it for?
Skyfall
It was released at 0:07 BST on Global James Bond Day, 5 October 2012, fifty years after Dr. No.
Q 26Adele's Bond theme was the first ever to win which honour, at the 2013 ceremony?
The Oscar for Best Original Song
It also took the Golden Globe, the Brit for British Single and a Grammy, a clean sweep no earlier Bond song managed.
Q 27Which royal presented Adele with her MBE at Buckingham Palace in December 2013?
Prince Charles
She was appointed in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to music.
Q 28Which producer co-wrote 'Hello' and 'Easy on Me' with Adele?
Greg Kurstin
On 'Hello' he played bass, guitar, drums, piano and keyboards, while Adele played drums.
Q 29Which Canadian filmmaker directed the 'Hello' video?
Xavier Dolan
It hit 27.7 million views in 24 hours and reached a billion in 87 days, both records at the time. Tristan Wilds co-stars.
Q 30How many copies did 25 sell in the US in its first week, a record since sales tracking began in 1991?
3.38 million
It sold over a million again in both its second and fifth weeks. The UK first week was 800,307.