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48 free Amy Winehouse trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
Amy Winehouse made two albums and changed what British pop sounded like. Frank, recorded with Salaam Remi in 2003, won an Ivor Novello for Stronger Than Me; Back to Black, cut in five months with Remi, Mark Ronson and the Dap-Kings, became the UK's best-selling album of 2007, swept five Grammys on a single night and has passed 20 million copies worldwide. These 48 questions stay with the music and the life around it: the Enfield childhood in a jazz household, the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, the Sylvia Young and BRIT schools, the Island signing through Darcus Beese, the Ivor Novello wins, Valerie with Ronson, the 3 a.m. Grammy performance by satellite, the Camden Town acceptance speech, Lioness Records and goddaughter Dionne Bromfield, the Fred Perry collection, the Tony Bennett duet Body and Soul, the Amy documentary and the Back to Black biopic. Easy questions stick to the hits; the expert tier asks about producers, festivals, chart numbers and the Ronettes-inspired beehive. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss. Play it solo or print it for a music quiz night.
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Q 01Which prize did the 2015 documentary Amy win in 2016?
An Oscar
An Oscar for Best Documentary Feature went to Amy in 2016, even though Winehouse's family had called the film misleading.
Q 02Beyoncé covered Back to Black for which 2013 film?
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby cover caught Mitch Winehouse off guard: he said Beyoncé hadn't told him and asked that its income go to the Amy Winehouse Foundation.
Q 03Which single was the first released from Back to Black?
Rehab
Rehab drew on Winehouse's own refusal to go to rehab after her management team urged her to, a firm she later dropped.
Q 04Which Brit Award did Winehouse win in February 2007?
British Female Solo Artist
British Female Solo Artist went to Winehouse in 2007, three years after Frank earned her a nomination in the same category, which Dido won.
Q 05Which New York band backed Winehouse on Back to Black and on tour?
The Dap-Kings
The Dap-Kings, Sharon Jones's Brooklyn soul band, were brought in by producer Mark Ronson to help Winehouse capture the 1960s girl-group sound she loved.
Q 06Which superstar lost the Best New Artist Grammy to Winehouse in 2008?
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift lost Best New Artist to Winehouse in 2008, then won Album of the Year two years later with Fearless.
Q 07Why did Winehouse perform at the 2008 Grammys by satellite from London?
Her visa was not processed in time
Her visa was not processed in time: US officials first refused it over her drug use, then relented too late for her to fly to Los Angeles.
Q 08Accepting Record of the Year in 2008, Winehouse declared which London district 'ain't burning down'?
Camden Town
Camden Town was on her mind after a fire swept Camden Market the night before, damaging one of her favourite pubs, the Hawley Arms.
Q 09Which Ronson single featured Winehouse on vocals and reached UK number two?
Valerie
Valerie was first a Zutons song, named for an American friend of singer Dave McCabe who had got into trouble with the law.
Q 10Which 2007 covers album by Mark Ronson featured Winehouse on vocals?
Version
Version grew, Ronson said, out of the fun he had turning Radiohead's Just into a funk jam for a 2006 tribute album, so he gave other acts' songs the same brassy treatment.
Q 11What was her father Mitch Winehouse's job?
Taxi driver
Her mother Janis was a pharmacist.
Q 12Which jazz saxophonist and club owner had dated Winehouse's grandmother Cynthia?
Ronnie Scott
Ronnie Scott once dated Cynthia, a singer who, with Amy's parents, nurtured her granddaughter's early love of jazz.
Q 13Which Croydon performing arts school, also attended by Adele, did Winehouse go to?
The Brit School
The Brit School didn't keep Winehouse long: she left before finishing her studies and went to work as a showbiz journalist.
Q 21Winehouse's debut album Frank was shortlisted for which album prize in 2004?
Mercury Music Prize
Mercury Music Prize judges shortlisted Frank, yet the acclaimed album climbed no higher than number 13 in the UK chart until after her death.
Q 22Winehouse's final concert, in June 2011, took place in which European capital?
Belgrade
Belgrade saw such an erratic set from Winehouse that the rest of her European comeback tour was cancelled.
Q 23In which US city did Winehouse marry Blake Fielder-Civil in May 2007?
Miami
Miami saw a wedding on impulse: Fielder-Civil had left Winehouse, the heartbreak behind Back to Black, before they reunited in early 2007.
Q 14Winehouse's childhood rap duo Sweet 'n' Sour was inspired by which hip-hop act?
Salt-N-Pepa
Salt-N-Pepa made Winehouse feel she had found her music, so she and her best friend formed a rap duo, Sweet 'n' Sour, with Amy as Sour.
Q 15Which actress played Winehouse in the 2024 biopic Back to Black?
Marisa Abela
Marisa Abela trained her voice for months and sang Winehouse's songs herself throughout the film.
Q 16Winehouse sang with which ensemble before her record deal?
National Youth Jazz Orchestra
The National Youth Jazz Orchestra suited a jazz-raised singer: several of her uncles on her mother's side played jazz professionally.
Q 17Winehouse was lined up to sing the theme for which James Bond film before the plan fell through?
Quantum of Solace
Quantum of Solace went instead to Jack White, who wrote Another Way to Die and recorded it with Alicia Keys.
Q 18What did two inquests find caused Winehouse's death in 2011?
Alcohol poisoning
Alcohol poisoning killed Winehouse rather than drugs, which she had given up: the inquest heard she was more than five times the drink-drive limit.
Q 19Which record label signed Winehouse in 2002?
Island
Island signed Winehouse after her friend, the singer Tyler James, passed her demo along.
Q 20Which Frank single won Winehouse her first Ivor Novello Award?
Stronger Than Me
Stronger Than Me railed at an ex-boyfriend for not being the stronger partner, and won Best Contemporary Song at the 2004 Ivor Novello Awards.
Q 24Whose album broke Back to Black's US chart-debut record a week later?
Joss Stone
Back to Black's number-seven entry was the best by a British woman until Joss Stone came in at number two a week later, a peak Winehouse's album only matched after her Grammy wins.
Q 25Which Carole King song closed Winehouse's private funeral in July 2011?
So Far Away
So Far Away was Winehouse's favourite song, which is why it ended her private funeral service.
Q 26Which rapper featured on the remix of Winehouse's You Know I'm No Good?
Ghostface Killah
Ghostface Killah's verses were added later: Winehouse recorded You Know I'm No Good solo, and the remix also sits on his own album More Fish.
Q 27Which Motown classic does Winehouse's song Tears Dry on Their Own borrow from?
Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Tears Dry on Their Own was first written and recorded as a ballad, a recording released only after her death; the uptempo hit borrows the music of Ain't No Mountain High Enough.
Q 28Winehouse's 2010 cover of Lesley Gore's It's My Party appeared on a tribute album to which producer?
Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones produced the original It's My Party in 1963, one of his first major pop production credits, long before his work with Michael Jackson.
Q 29Which ska band did Winehouse join on stage at the 2009 V Festival?
The Specials
The Specials invited Winehouse to guest after meeting her backstage, as she had missed their reunion tour while away in St Lucia.
Q 30Winehouse's live DVD I Told You I Was Trouble was recorded at which London venue?
Shepherd's Bush Empire
Shepherd's Bush Empire hosted the filmed concert, and the DVD's title comes from a line in her song You Know I'm No Good.