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50 free Alice Cooper trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Alice Cooper turned rock concerts into horror theatre. Before shock rock even had a name, he was staging mock executions, wearing smeared black makeup and alarming parents, all while writing some of the catchiest hard rock singles of the 1970s. This Alice Cooper quiz follows the whole career: the school friends who started a band in Arizona, the classic albums and the stories behind their sleeves, the solo years, the 1980s comeback and the supergroup he formed later. Along the way you will meet famous fans, unlikely guest stars, film and television cameos and the people who built the stage tricks. It is written for longtime fans and for anyone who only knows School's Out from the last day of term. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so the questions suit a pub quiz night as well as a quick solo game.
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Q 01Which live bird did Alice Cooper throw into the crowd at a 1969 Toronto festival, expecting it to fly?
A chicken
A chicken had wandered on stage at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival, and Cooper assumed anything with wings could fly. The press coverage that followed helped create shock rock.
Q 02Which sport does Alice Cooper credit with helping him overcome alcoholism, naming his 2007 autobiography after it?
Golf
Golf was, by his own account, a case of replacing one addiction with another. He called the book Alice Cooper, Golf Monster.
Q 03In which 1992 comedy does Alice Cooper lecture two fans backstage on the history of Milwaukee?
Wayne's World
Wayne's World sends its two heroes to a Cooper concert with all-access tickets. On stage he performs 'Feed My Frankenstein', a song from his 1991 album Hey Stoopid.
Q 04Which musician signed Alice Cooper's band to his label after they showed up to audition at seven in the morning?
Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa had meant seven in the evening. Being woken by the band's psychedelic rock impressed him enough to offer a three-album deal on his new label, Straight Records.
Q 05Which horror film star delivers a spoken monologue on Alice Cooper's 1975 album Welcome to My Nightmare?
Vincent Price
Vincent Price speaks as a character called the Curator, leading into the song 'The Black Widow'. He also starred with Cooper in the television special built around the album.
Q 06Which artist saw an Alice Cooper show in 1973 and then made a hologram portrait of the singer's brain?
Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí described the show as surreal. Three of the band had been art students who admired his work, so the compliment came from one of their heroes.
Q 07What was the vinyl of Alice Cooper's 1972 album School's Out wrapped in, until it proved to be flammable?
Paper panties
Paper panties were only one gimmick of the packaging, which also had the band members' names carved into the cover like graffiti. The album reached No. 2 in the United States.
Q 08What part did Alice Cooper play as a 1978 guest on The Muppet Show, where he sang three of his songs?
A devil's henchman
A devil's henchman was the role, trying to dupe Kermit the Frog, Gonzo and Miss Piggy into selling their souls. One of the songs was his ballad 'You and Me'.
Q 09Alice Cooper paid for an O when the Hollywood Sign was rebuilt, in memory of which comedian friend?
Groucho Marx
Groucho Marx was a close friend, and Cooper gave more than $27,000 toward the letter. He also led other celebrities in raising money for the new sign.
Q 10Which magician designed Alice Cooper's stage guillotine and appeared on the 1973 tour as his executioner?
James Randi
James Randi, later famous for debunking psychics, also played a mad dentist in the show. He and Cooper met again at Dragon Con in 2012 to talk about their work together.
Q 11Which film star formed the rock supergroup Hollywood Vampires in 2012 with Alice Cooper and guitarist Joe Perry?
Johnny Depp
Johnny Depp and his bandmates borrowed the name from a celebrity drinking club Cooper ran in the 1970s. Its regulars included Keith Moon, Harry Nilsson and Micky Dolenz.
Q 12Which 1989 single gave Alice Cooper his first US top-ten hit since the ballad You and Me in 1977?
Poison
Poison climbed to number seven in the United States and number two in Britain. Its main guitar riff had been used two years earlier on a John Waite track.
Q 13In which city was Alice Cooper born in 1948, before childhood illnesses led his family to move to Arizona?
Detroit
Q 21Manager Shep Gordon signed Alice Cooper's band in 1968 after watching them do what to a Los Angeles club crowd?
Empty the room
Empty the room is just what they did, in about ten minutes, at the Cheetah club in Venice. Gordon saw a band that could provoke so strong a reaction as one he could sell.
Q 22Which producer of Pink Floyd's The Wall first worked with Alice Cooper on the 1971 album Love It to Death?
Bob Ezrin
Bob Ezrin shaped the group's sound so thoroughly that Cooper has called him their George Martin. The Canadian has also worked with Peter Gabriel and Deep Purple.
Q 23Which famous lyricist co-wrote Alice Cooper's 1978 album From the Inside, about his stay in a New York asylum?
Bernie Taupin
Detroit drew the band back in 1970. After Californians shrugged at their act, they moved to nearby Pontiac, Michigan, where they felt they fitted in far better.
Q 14Under which insect name did Alice Cooper's first group parody the Beatles at a 1964 high school talent show?
The Earwigs
The Earwigs were Cooper and four fellow cross-country runners in wigs and costumes, singing Beatles tunes rewritten about the track team. They soon renamed themselves the Spiders.
Q 15What was Alice Cooper's surname at birth, before he legally took the band's name as his own in 1975?
Furnier
Furnier became Alice Cooper by law once the original band had broken up, and he launched a solo career that same year. The band had used the name since 1968.
Q 16John Lydon is said to have auditioned for which punk band by miming to Alice Cooper's I'm Eighteen?
Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols singer Lydon later called Cooper's Killer the greatest rock album of all time. In 2002 he presented his own tribute programme to Cooper on BBC radio.
Q 17Which movie killer is the Man Behind the Mask in Alice Cooper's 1986 single He's Back, a horror sequel's theme song?
Jason Voorhees
Jason Voorhees returned in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, which used the song as its theme. Cooper has a cameo in the video as a deranged psychiatrist.
Q 18Alice Cooper appears in a 1991 horror sequel as the abusive man who raised which famous movie villain?
Freddy Krueger
Freddy Krueger gets his backstory in Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, where Cooper's character is named Edward Underwood. Roseanne Barr and Tom Arnold also make cameo appearances.
Q 19Which role did Alice Cooper sing in NBC's 2018 live broadcast of Jesus Christ Superstar, having recorded it in 1996?
King Herod
King Herod was his part when NBC aired the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical on Easter Sunday. The earlier version was the 1996 London cast recording of the show.
Q 20Which rock star called Alice Cooper's Elected a great record, but said Paul McCartney would have done it better?
John Lennon
John Lennon counted the 1972 single among his favourites, and Cooper agreed with his verdict. The song recycled the riff of 'Reflected', from the band's 1969 debut album.
Bernie Taupin, Elton John's writing partner, arrived with two of Elton's band, Davey Johnstone and Dee Murray. Each character in the songs was based on someone Cooper met during treatment.
Q 24Which British morality campaigner got flowers from Alice Cooper after campaigning against School's Out at the BBC?
Mary Whitehouse
Mary Whitehouse pressed the BBC to keep the song off television, but Cooper believed the publicity helped send it to number one in Britain, so he thanked her with a bouquet.
Q 25Alice Cooper's smeared black eye makeup was inspired by which actress in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Bette Davis
Bette Davis wore caked, smeared makeup in the 1962 film, a favourite of the whole band. The villain of Barbarella, played by Anita Pallenberg, shaped the rest of the look.
Q 26Which wrestler did Alice Cooper escort to the ring at WrestleMania III for a match against The Honky Tonk Man?
Jake Roberts
Jake Roberts, nicknamed The Snake, lost the match. Cooper then got involved himself, throwing the wrestler's pet snake Damien at the winner's manager, Jimmy Hart.
Q 27Which fantasy author wrote a three-part comic book series to go with Alice Cooper's album The Last Temptation?
Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman's comic follows a boy named Steven and a mysterious showman who tempts him to join a travelling show. Steven is also the boy whose bad dreams fill Cooper's 1975 album Welcome to My Nightmare.
Q 28Which star of stage and screen sang backing vocals on Alice Cooper's Teenage Lament '74, alongside Ronnie Spector?
Liza Minnelli
Liza Minnelli joined Ronnie Spector and the Pointer Sisters in the chorus. The single comes from Muscle of Love, the band's 1973 album.
Q 29Alice Cooper's band wrote a theme for which James Bond film, only to lose out to Lulu?
The Man with the Golden Gun
The Man with the Golden Gun went out with Lulu's song instead; by Cooper's account, the band's entry arrived a day too late. Their version is on the album Muscle of Love.
Q 30Which 1960s folk-pop star shares the vocals with Alice Cooper on the title track of Billion Dollar Babies?
Donovan
Donovan sang on the track during sessions at Morgan Studios in London, and described it as a horror story in song. The album reached number one in Britain and America.