Barbra Streisand
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50 free Barbra Streisand trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Barbra Streisand has been a star for more than sixty years, as a singer, an actress, a director and a songwriter. Few performers have won so much in so many fields, or kept such firm control of their own work while doing it. This quiz covers the whole career: the nightclub years, Funny Girl and the films that followed, the chart-topping records and famous duet partners, the awards, and the films she directed herself. It also covers the life around the work, including her marriages, her politics and the lawsuit that gave the internet a new phrase. It is written for fans who know the albums by heart and for anyone who only knows the voice. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will leave with a few facts worth repeating.
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Q 01The term 'Streisand effect', coined after Barbra Streisand's 2003 photo lawsuit, describes what?
A cover-up that draws attention
A cover-up that draws attention: her bid to remove an aerial image of her home sent hundreds of thousands of visitors to a picture almost nobody had seen.
Q 02What unusual step did Barbra Streisand take after the death of her beloved dog Samantha?
Had the dog cloned
Had the dog cloned: she named the two puppies Miss Scarlett and Miss Violet after the red and lavender outfits she used to tell them apart.
Q 03Which tech CEO did Barbra Streisand phone to complain that a voice assistant mispronounced her surname?
Tim Cook
Tim Cook took the call, and Apple soon fixed Siri, which had been saying her surname with a 'z' sound instead of a soft 's'.
Q 04With which screen legend did Barbra Streisand share the Best Actress Oscar for 1968 in an exact tie?
Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn won for The Lion in Winter and Streisand for her film debut, prompting presenter Ingrid Bergman to gasp as she opened the envelope.
Q 05Barbra Streisand refused to take a stage name but made which small change at 18 to stand out?
Dropped an 'a' from Barbara
Dropped an 'a' from Barbara: that was her compromise after advisers floated stage names such as Joanie Sands, which she found too false.
Q 06Told early on that she was too ugly to be a star, Barbra Streisand refused which cosmetic procedure?
A nose job
A nose job was the advice she kept hearing in her nightclub days, yet she declined and was on the cover of Time magazine by 1964.
Q 07Which tennis champion, 28 years her junior, dated Barbra Streisand in the early 1990s?
Andre Agassi
Andre Agassi later wrote in his autobiography that the public outcry over their age gap only added spice to the relationship.
Q 08Which problem made Barbra Streisand hesitate over her 1994 return to touring after 27 years away?
Stage fright
Stage fright made her slow to commit, yet tickets for the tour sold out in under an hour and Time magazine billed it the music event of the century.
Q 09Barbra Streisand was among the celebrities named on which US president's political 'enemies list'?
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon's 1971 list named her, and a year later she headlined a benefit concert for his election opponent George McGovern.
Q 10Which of Barbra Streisand's four EGOT awards came as a special 1970 'Star of the Decade' prize?
Tony
Tony voters gave her the non-competitive honour after she had twice been nominated for Broadway roles without winning.
Q 11Which future hitmaker sang beside Barbra Streisand in the Erasmus Hall High School choir in the 1950s?
Neil Diamond
Neil Diamond remembered the two of them as poor kids smoking cigarettes outside the school, about two decades before their duet topped the US chart.
Q 12Which disco star joined Barbra Streisand on the 1979 chart-topping duet 'No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)'?
Donna Summer
Donna Summer and Streisand made it the first duet by two women to top the Billboard Hot 100, and it led the disco chart for four weeks.
Q 13Which hitmaker produced Barbra Streisand's 1980 album Guilty and sang with her on its title track?
Barry Gibb
Q 21In which 1969 musical, directed by Gene Kelly, did Barbra Streisand play a matchmaker opposite Walter Matthau?
Hello, Dolly!
Hello, Dolly! was shot amid open feuding, with Streisand clashing on set with both her co-star and her director.
Q 22Which 1972 screwball comedy teamed Barbra Streisand with Ryan O'Neal in a chase over four identical plaid bags?
What's Up, Doc?
What's Up, Doc? was director Peter Bogdanovich's homage to Bringing Up Baby and Bugs Bunny cartoons, and it became the third highest-grossing film of its year.
Q 23Which 2004 comedy sequel cast Barbra Streisand as Roz, a sex therapist and mother of Ben Stiller's character?
Meet the Fockers
Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees had planned to write only half the songs but ended up doing the whole album, which sold over 15 million copies worldwide.
Q 14Which real-life Ziegfeld Follies comedienne did Barbra Streisand play on Broadway and in the film Funny Girl?
Fanny Brice
Fanny Brice's stormy marriage to gambler Nicky Arnstein drives the story, and the film was produced by her own son-in-law, Ray Stark.
Q 15Which Hollywood star played Hubbell Gardiner opposite Barbra Streisand in the 1973 romance The Way We Were?
Robert Redford
Robert Redford played the athletic, good-looking writer in a story Arthur Laurents based on his own college days at Cornell.
Q 16Which country singer-songwriter played the fading rock star opposite Barbra Streisand in 1976's A Star Is Born?
Kris Kristofferson
Kris Kristofferson got the role after talks with Elvis Presley collapsed when Elvis's manager insisted on top billing and a large fee.
Q 17Which love theme from A Star Is Born made Barbra Streisand the first woman to win an Oscar as composer?
Evergreen
Evergreen set her melody to words by Paul Williams, and the single spent three weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100.
Q 18Which 1983 film made Barbra Streisand the first woman to write, produce, direct and star in a major studio picture?
Yentl
Yentl took her about fifteen years to get made: Orion cancelled it over its budget before United Artists backed her tale of a woman who poses as a man to study.
Q 19Which actor, Barbra Streisand's first husband, met her when both were cast in a 1962 Broadway musical?
Elliott Gould
Elliott Gould played the lead in I Can Get It for You Wholesale while she played his secretary, and they married in Nevada the following year.
Q 20Which star of TV's Marcus Welby, M.D. became Barbra Streisand's second husband in 1998?
James Brolin
James Brolin married her on July 1, 1998, the same year he received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Meet the Fockers ended her eight-year break from film acting, pairing her with Dustin Hoffman as the free-spirited parents of the groom.
Q 24Which comedy actor played Barbra Streisand's inventor son on a cross-country drive in 2012's The Guilt Trip?
Seth Rogen
Seth Rogen's role grew out of a real drive that screenwriter Dan Fogelman once took with his own mother from New Jersey to Las Vegas.
Q 25Which actor played a troubled South Carolina football coach opposite Barbra Streisand in 1991's The Prince of Tides?
Nick Nolte
Nick Nolte earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination, one of seven nods for the film, yet Streisand was left out of the directing category.
Q 26Which actor played gambler Nicky Arnstein opposite Barbra Streisand in the 1968 film Funny Girl?
Omar Sharif
Omar Sharif was nearly replaced when the Six-Day War broke out during production, but Streisand and her director threatened to quit if he went.
Q 27At which awards did Barbra Streisand become the first woman to win Best Director, a feat unmatched for 37 years?
Golden Globes
The Golden Globes honoured her 1983 directing debut, while the Oscars gave the same film no nominations for picture, actress or director.
Q 28Which record label signed Barbra Streisand in the early 1960s, granting full artistic control in exchange for lower pay?
Columbia
Columbia wanted to call her debut album Sweet and Saucy Streisand, and she used that contractual control to veto the title.
Q 29Which upbeat Democratic Party anthem did Barbra Streisand slow into a sad ballad on television in 1962?
Happy Days Are Here Again
Happy Days Are Here Again, a jaunty 1930s campaign tune, became the signature song of her early career in this mournful arrangement.
Q 30Which Hollywood legend hosted the TV variety show where a young Barbra Streisand joined her for a famous duet?
Judy Garland
Judy Garland called her one of the last great belters on air, and Ethel Merman then joined the pair for a three-way number.