Bee Gees Trivia
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47 free Bee Gees trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
Three brothers born on the Isle of Man, raised in Manchester and Queensland, and named after a speedway promoter and a radio DJ rather than "Brothers Gibb". The Bee Gees had a UK number one in each of three decades, wrote the Saturday Night Fever songs in a single weekend in a French château, and at one point in 1978 had written five of the US top ten at once. This quiz covers the early years (the Rattlesnakes, Spicks and Specks, the white-label single DJs mistook for the Beatles), the 1969 split and reunion, the Miami reinvention with Arif Mardin, the disco peak, the hits they gave away to Streisand, Dionne Warwick, Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, the comebacks, and the losses of Andy, Maurice and Robin. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so it works as a 70s music round, a pub quiz staple or a test for anyone who can hit the falsetto.
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Q 01Where were the three Gibb brothers born?
Isle of Man
The Isle of Man was their birthplace, in Douglas, but in 1955 the family returned to their father's home town of Manchester.
Q 02Which 1960s pop star married Maurice Gibb in 1969?
Lulu
Lulu married Maurice in 1969, but his heavy drinking broke up the marriage within four years.
Q 03What forced the young Gibbs to sing live at a Manchester cinema?
The record they'd mime to broke
The record they'd mime to broke, the story goes, and the crowd's warm response left the boys set on a life of singing.
Q 04In which Queensland town did the Gibb family settle after emigrating in 1958?
Redcliffe
Redcliffe's speedway gave the boys an early stage, where they performed for the crowds between races to earn pocket money.
Q 05Who first called the young Gibb brothers the 'BGs'?
A Brisbane radio DJ
A Brisbane radio DJ, Bill Gates, chose the name after initials he shared with driver Bill Goode and Barry Gibb.
Q 06Which 1966 song became the group's first major hit in Australia?
Spicks and Specks
Go-Set named it Best Single of the Year while the brothers were already at sea, sailing back to England.
Q 07In the Bee Gees' 1968 UK number one 'I've Gotta Get a Message to You', what fate awaits the singer?
Execution
Execution awaits him: he is a condemned murderer on death row, desperate to get a last message to the woman he loves.
Q 08Which trick helped launch 'New York Mining Disaster 1941'?
It was sent to DJs on a blank white label
It was sent to DJs on a blank white label hinting at an English group whose name began with B, so many took it for the Beatles.
Q 09Which soul singer did the Gibbs hope would record 'To Love Somebody'?
Otis Redding
Otis Redding was the singer they had in mind, but he died in December 1967 without recording it, and Barry's own lead on the Bee Gees' single stood.
Q 10Which song gave the Bee Gees their first UK number one in 1967?
Massachusetts
Massachusetts was written on a New York trip by brothers who had never been to the state.
Q 11Which Australian folk group was the Bee Gees' first UK number one originally intended for?
The Seekers
The Seekers never got the song: the brothers couldn't get it to them in London, so they recorded it themselves.
Q 12Which disaster did Robin Gibb commemorate in a requiem he composed with his son RJ?
The Titanic
The Titanic Requiem premiered in London in April 2012 for the centenary of the sinking, but Robin was too ill to attend and died that May.
Q 13Which Bee Gees song's melody came to Robin from the drone of an aeroplane's engines?
I Started a Joke
I Started a Joke grew from a drone that sounded to Robin like a church choir; he joked they forced the pilot to land to finish it, then admitted they hadn't.
Q 21Which 1975 album contained the first Bee Gees songs on which Barry sang falsetto?
Main Course
Main Course was where Barry found his falsetto: he recalled their producer asking whether he could scream in tune on 'Nights on Broadway'.
Q 22Which CSNY member, at Criteria making Long May You Run, added percussion to 'You Should Be Dancing'?
Stephen Stills
Stephen Stills also wrote a song with Barry Gibb around that time, but it has never been released.
Q 23Where were the Bee Gees recording when Stigwood asked them for songs for Saturday Night Fever?
A château studio in France
Q 14Which 1969 Bee Gees double album came in a red flocked cover stamped in gold?
Odessa
Odessa's first single sparked a row between Barry and Robin, and in March 1969 Robin announced he was going solo.
Q 15Which Robin-led song lost out to Barry's 'First of May' as a single, before Robin quit the group?
Lamplight
Lamplight became the B-side, Robin walked out, and Barry and Maurice made the next album, Cucumber Castle, without him.
Q 16Which song was the reunited Bee Gees' first single, released in 1970?
Lonely Days
Lonely Days was written in a single afternoon in Barry's London basement flat, along with the song that became their first US number one.
Q 17Which 1971 single was the Bee Gees' first US number one?
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart topped the US chart in 1971, yet it failed even to chart in the UK.
Q 18Which Atlantic Records producer did Stigwood pair the Bee Gees with for Mr. Natural?
Arif Mardin
Arif Mardin stuck with them even after Mr. Natural drew little interest, urging them further into soul.
Q 19Whose suggestion, as Barry tells it, sent the Bee Gees to Miami's Criteria Studios in 1975?
Eric Clapton's
Eric Clapton's advice followed his own album 461 Ocean Boulevard, made at Criteria, though Maurice recalled Stigwood suggesting Miami first.
Q 20Which Bee Gees hit took its rhythm from their car crossing Biscayne Bay?
Jive Talkin'
Jive Talkin' began as Drive Talking, until Barry sang 'jive talkin'' over the rhythm and the new title stuck.
A château studio in France was their base; Stigwood also wanted a song called Saturday Night, but they refused because too many songs already had that title.
Q 24With their drummer away, what did the Bee Gees use for the beat of 'Stayin' Alive'?
A loop from Night Fever
A loop from Night Fever was only a stopgap while the drummer was away, but they kept it, and the song opened the film under Travolta's strut.
Q 25Which singer took the Gibb-penned 'If I Can't Have You' to US number one in 1978?
Yvonne Elliman
Yvonne Elliman was handed the song by Stigwood although the Bee Gees had recorded it first, and their version became the B-side of 'Stayin' Alive'.
Q 26Which group recorded the other version of 'More Than a Woman' on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack?
Tavares
Tavares had the single, while the Bee Gees only finished their own version months later in Los Angeles, for the soundtrack album.
Q 27Saturday Night Fever won which Grammy?
Album of the Year
Album of the Year crowned the soundtrack, but within months a backlash against disco had turned on the Bee Gees.
Q 28Which ballad was the first single from Saturday Night Fever?
How Deep Is Your Love
How Deep Is Your Love later put the brothers in court, where a 1983 jury found they had copied an unknown writer's song before the judge threw the verdict out.
Q 29Which singer recorded Barry Gibb's title song for the 1978 film Grease?
Frankie Valli
Frankie Valli had no record contract when it hit, and quickly landed a Warner Bros deal.
Q 30Which rock star co-starred with the Bee Gees in Stigwood's 1978 Sgt Pepper film?
Peter Frampton
Peter Frampton played Billy Shears, but the soundtrack flopped so badly that millions of copies came back and RSO destroyed hundreds of thousands.