Backstreet Boys Trivia
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49 free Backstreet Boys trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
47 free Backstreet Boys trivia questions with answers. The Backstreet Boys are the best-selling boy band of all time, and this quiz covers the whole run: the Orlando Sentinel ad that assembled them, the flea market that named them, the Swedish sessions with Max Martin, the European breakthrough, the record-smashing Millennium, the Pearlman lawsuit, Kevin Richardson's departure and return, the Vegas residencies and their 2019 comeback to number one with DNA. The easy questions ask who the five members are and which album contains I Want It That Way. The hard ones want the first-week sales figure Millennium set, the venue of their very first show, which Disney characters Kevin played before the band, and how much Pearlman kept versus what the group earned. No lyrics are quoted, just the history and the numbers. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the group, its members and its albums, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Which Blink-182 music video spoofed the Backstreet Boys and other late-1990s boy bands?
All the Small Things
All the Small Things came from director Marcos Siega's boy-band parody idea, which Mark Hoppus resisted at first, yet the video became a hit.
Q 02Which two Backstreet Boys are cousins?
Brian Littrell and Kevin Richardson
Brian Littrell and Kevin Richardson are cousins: Kevin phoned Brian in Kentucky about joining, and Brian flew to Florida to take the fifth spot.
Q 03Which R&B vocal group did the Backstreet Boys say they modeled themselves on, rather than a boy band?
Boyz II Men
Boyz II Men was a model they named, and they wanted to be seen as a vocal harmony group, yet the boy band label they dreaded followed them to America anyway.
Q 04Which hip-hop star remixed a Backstreet Boys hit with the group for a 2019 Super Bowl ad?
Chance the Rapper
Chance the Rapper rapped over 'I Want It That Way' to sell a spicier version of a classic nacho chip while the group danced behind him.
Q 05Where did the Backstreet Boys play their first show, in May 1993?
SeaWorld Orlando
SeaWorld Orlando hosted that first show, and Pearlman soon handed the group's daily care to professional managers Johnny and Donna Wright.
Q 06Which 2013 apocalypse comedy ends in heaven with the Backstreet Boys leading an 'Everybody' dance-along?
This Is the End
This Is the End first closed as the heroes rose into heaven; wanting a better finale, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg added the Backstreet Boys performing there.
Q 07The Backstreet Boys flew to which country to record with Max Martin and Denniz PoP?
Sweden
Sweden is where they recorded their first single, 'We've Got It Goin' On', which stalled at No. 69 in America.
Q 08Before American radio embraced them, where did the Backstreet Boys first become stars in the mid-1990s?
Europe
Europe embraced them first, because American radio was still crowded with grunge, rock and rap when their early singles came out.
Q 09Which Backstreet Boys single reached No. 2 on Billboard's Hot 100 in 1997?
Quit Playing Games (with My Heart)
Quit Playing Games (with My Heart) was the group's pick; their label wanted 'If You Want It to Be Good Girl (Get Yourself a Bad Boy)' as the U.S. single, and they pushed back.
Q 10Which sitcom's cold open has a police lineup of suspects singing the Backstreet Boys' 'I Want It That Way'?
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Brooklyn Nine-Nine had the suspects sing so the victim's sister could identify her brother's killer, and the Backstreet Boys later filmed their own version.
Q 11Besides managing and producing the Backstreet Boys, Lou Pearlman was also paid as what?
A sixth member
A sixth member's cut went to Pearlman, which came out after Brian Littrell hired lawyers to learn why the group had received only about $300,000.
Q 12Lou Pearlman was later sent to prison over what?
A Ponzi scheme
A Ponzi scheme that cost investors more than $300 million sent him fleeing abroad, until a German tourist couple spotted him in Bali in 2007.
Q 13Which famous singer was Lou Pearlman's cousin?
Art Garfunkel
Art Garfunkel helped spark his cousin's interest in music, and Pearlman said he sank $3 million into the Backstreet Boys before seeing a profit.
Q 21What was unusual about the Backstreet Boys' 1999 tour tickets?
All dates at once
All dates at once: the Into the Millennium Tour skipped the usual test of a few markets, and all 53 shows sold out that day.
Q 22Why is 'Everybody' on the Backstreet Boys' U.S. debut subtitled 'Backstreet's Back'?
It came from their second album abroad
It came from their second album abroad, Backstreet's Back, since their U.S. debut combined songs from their first two international albums.
Q 23Which song was the first single from the Backstreet Boys' 2000 album Black & Blue?
Shape of My Heart
Q 14Which singer's debut album hid a preview of the Backstreet Boys' Millennium?
Britney Spears
Britney Spears shared their record label, which planted the preview after her album's last song as a coming attraction.
Q 15Millennium broke which country star's one-week U.S. album sales record?
Garth Brooks
Garth Brooks had set the SoundScan-era mark with Double Live in 1998, but NSYNC more than doubled Millennium's total less than a year later.
Q 16Which album beat Millennium for the Album of the Year Grammy?
Supernatural
Supernatural paired Carlos Santana with his longtime mentor Clive Davis as a producer and with contemporary guest stars such as Rob Thomas.
Q 17Why did the label order new 'I Want It That Way' lyrics?
Confusing
Confusing lyrics worried the label, which brought in Mutt Lange to help write new ones, but the group outvoted the rewrite and kept the original.
Q 18The Backstreet Boys' 'Everybody (Backstreet's Back)' video was inspired by which Michael Jackson video?
Thriller
Thriller inspired the haunted-mansion video, which the group fought the label to make and which won MTV's Video Music Award for Best Group Video.
Q 19What kind of place hosted the 'I Want It That Way' video?
An airport
An airport, Los Angeles International, was the set, and the song stalled at No. 6 on the Hot 100 because no commercial single was sold at its peak.
Q 20Which Millennium song became a single after a band member urged fans to vote for it?
The One
The One won the TRL vote over 'Don't Want You Back', which had been on track to be the next single until a member phoned in to back it.
Shape of My Heart led an album the group hoped would beat NSYNC's first-week record of 2.4 million; Black & Blue opened with 1.6 million instead.
Q 24What did the Backstreet Boys sing at Super Bowl XXXV in 2001?
The national anthem
The national anthem was theirs, sung a week into their Black & Blue world tour, the night after a concert in Atlanta.
Q 25Why did the Backstreet Boys postpone their 2001 North American tour?
A member entered rehab
A member entered rehab, as AJ McLean sought treatment for depression and alcohol abuse, so the tour was put on hold that July.
Q 26What was the Backstreet Boys' 2005 comeback album called?
Never Gone
Never Gone was their first album of new songs in five years, trading their late-1990s teen pop for an adult contemporary sound.
Q 27Which musical gave the Backstreet Boys' Kevin Richardson his Broadway debut in 2003?
Chicago
Chicago gave him his Broadway debut, years after he sang its songs in a dinner-theater revue.
Q 28Before joining the Backstreet Boys, Kevin Richardson played which character at Walt Disney World?
Aladdin
Aladdin was one of his park roles, and he was still working there when a friend's tip led him to the three singers he joined to form the group.
Q 29Which boy band teamed with the Backstreet Boys for a 2011 joint arena tour?
New Kids on the Block
New Kids on the Block first shared a stage with them at Radio City Music Hall in 2010, and that team-up led to the joint tour.
Q 30Which 2013 honor went to the Backstreet Boys?
Hollywood Walk of Fame star
A Hollywood Walk of Fame star honored their 20th year, when Kevin Richardson's return let the original five record together for the first time since 2005.