Bohemian Rhapsody Trivia
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60 free Bohemian Rhapsody trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Bohemian Rhapsody trivia quiz covers the 2018 Freddie Mercury biopic that became the biggest music film ever made at the time. The story questions run from Farrokh Bulsara at Heathrow and the pub where he first sees Smile, through the Top of the Pops debut, the row with EMI over a six-minute single, Paul Prenter, Munich, the HIV diagnosis and the twenty minutes at Live Aid that close the film. The harder half covers the long road to the screen: Sacha Baron Cohen's exit, the directors who came and went, why Bryan Singer was fired with two weeks to go and still kept the credit, who really sings on the soundtrack, the archivist who rebuilt every scene, the cameos by Adam Lambert and John Deacon's son, the four Oscars, and the fact-checkers who worked out exactly how much the film made up. Easy questions suit anyone who has seen it once; the expert ones will test Queen devotees. Every answer was checked against the film's Wikipedia article and its cited sources before publishing. For the band itself, try our Queen and Freddie Mercury quizzes.
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Q 01Who plays Freddie Mercury in the 2018 film Bohemian Rhapsody?
Rami Malek
Rami Malek won the Best Actor Oscar for the part, played in false teeth that copied Mercury's overbite; he spent hours each day studying footage of the singer with a movement coach.
Q 02What is Freddie Mercury's birth name, which he drops early in the film Bohemian Rhapsody?
Farrokh Bulsara
Farrokh Bulsara took his new name in two steps: he was already calling himself Freddie at boarding school in India, and legally became Mercury around the time Queen formed.
Q 03What is Freddie's job at the start of the story in the film Bohemian Rhapsody?
Baggage handler at Heathrow
Baggage handler at Heathrow is true to life, since Mercury really did work there, though the film skips the clothes stall he ran at Kensington Market with Roger Taylor.
Q 04In the film Bohemian Rhapsody, what is the name of the band Freddie joins before it becomes Queen?
Smile
Smile loses its singer on the very night Freddie turns up, and he talks his way in; in reality he had been friends with the band since 1969 and knew that singer, Tim Staffell, from art college.
Q 05Where does Mary Austin work when Freddie meets her in the film Bohemian Rhapsody?
The boutique Biba
The boutique Biba really was Mary Austin's workplace, but it was Brian May who dated her first; he recalls Freddie asking whether he was serious about her before asking her out himself.
Q 06In Bohemian Rhapsody, what does Freddie sell to pay for Queen's first album?
Their van
Their van. The real Queen cut their debut album in off-peak downtime at Trident Studios, moving in to record once the paying artists had gone home.
Q 07In Bohemian Rhapsody, which song are Queen made to lip-sync on Top of the Pops?
Killer Queen
Killer Queen. The real band disliked the show as well: Brian May has said the 'Bohemian Rhapsody' video was made expressly so Top of the Pops could screen it without them.
Q 08In the Queen biopic, which fictional EMI executive refuses to release "Bohemian Rhapsody" as a single?
Ray Foster
Ray Foster. He is loosely based on EMI chief Roy Featherstone, who did think the song too long for a single but was in reality a big fan of the band.
Q 09Which Wayne's World star plays the EMI executive who rejects the title song in Bohemian Rhapsody?
Mike Myers
Mike Myers. His character scoffs that teenagers will never bang their heads to the song in a car, a wink at the Wayne's World scene that sent it back up the US charts in 1992.
Q 10In the Queen biopic, which radio DJ gives "Bohemian Rhapsody" its first airplay?
Kenny Everett
Kenny Everett. This part is true: the Capital Radio DJ got hold of a copy before release and played it again and again, and the demand he stirred up pushed the single out uncut.
Q 11In Bohemian Rhapsody, which album are Queen recording when they fall out with EMI?
A Night at the Opera
A Night at the Opera. The film puts the whole band at the microphone for the title song's choir, but the real one was built from three voices: bassist John Deacon did not sing on it.
Q 12Who plays Mary Austin in Bohemian Rhapsody?
Lucy Boynton
Lucy Boynton. She and the film's leading man became a couple after meeting on set, and he told her from the Oscar stage: 'You have captured my heart.'
Q 13Who plays Paul Prenter, Freddie's manipulative personal manager, in Bohemian Rhapsody?
Allen Leech
Q 21In Bohemian Rhapsody, Freddie's father lives by "Good thoughts, good words, good deeds", the creed of which religion?
Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrianism. The film makes Freddie's Parsi roots a wedge between him and his father, but his mother said he was proud to be a Parsee, just not particularly religious.
Q 22Where was the Live Aid concert sequence in Bohemian Rhapsody actually filmed?
Bovingdon Airfield
Bovingdon Airfield. The stage was built on the main runway of the old RAF base in Hertfordshire, and the cast have said the Live Aid concert was the very first thing they shot.
Q 23Which song from Queen's real Live Aid set is missing from the concert in Bohemian Rhapsody's cinema cut?
Allen Leech. His character betrays Freddie in a TV interview, but the real Prenter sold his stories about Mercury's private life to a newspaper, and never went on air with them.
Q 14Which Game of Thrones actor plays Queen's manager John Reid in Bohemian Rhapsody?
Aidan Gillen
Aidan Gillen. In the film Freddie sacks Reid in a row over going solo, but the real parting in 1978 was amicable: Reid called it the gentlest split he ever had with an act.
Q 15Who plays Jim 'Miami' Beach, Queen's lawyer turned manager, in Bohemian Rhapsody?
Tom Hollander
Tom Hollander. He reportedly walked off the troubled shoot over the director's behaviour and had to be persuaded to come back.
Q 16Who plays guitarist Brian May in Bohemian Rhapsody?
Gwilym Lee
Gwilym Lee. The film's Freddie taunts his guitarist as 'Dr. Brian May', author of a thesis no one reads; the real May did go back and finish his astrophysics PhD, more than 30 years after shelving it.
Q 17Joe Mazzello, who plays John Deacon in Bohemian Rhapsody, was a child star of which Steven Spielberg film?
Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park. Spielberg had looked at Mazzello for Hook and found him too young, promised to get him into another film, and then cast him as Tim, the park owner's grandson.
Q 18Who plays drummer Roger Taylor in Bohemian Rhapsody?
Ben Hardy
Ben Hardy. The part was first lined up for Johnny Flynn in 2015, when the stalled film still had another script and another Freddie; Hardy took it once shooting was finally set.
Q 19In Bohemian Rhapsody, Freddie leaves Queen to make a solo album in which German city?
Munich
Munich. The film treats his $4 million solo deal as a betrayal, but drummer Roger Taylor had already released a solo album, Fun in Space, in 1981.
Q 20In Bohemian Rhapsody, the backlash to which Queen video comes just before Freddie leaves the band?
"I Want to Break Free"
"I Want to Break Free". The band dressed in drag to spoof the soap Coronation Street, a joke that landed in Britain but cost them airplay in America, where the film's Freddie fumes that MTV banned it.
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Crazy Little Thing Called Love. The cast re-enacted Queen's whole set, but this song and one more were trimmed in the edit; the complete performance was saved for the home release.
Q 24Who was first announced to play Freddie Mercury when plans for a Queen film were revealed in 2010?
Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Baron Cohen. He walked away in 2013, reportedly because he wanted a gritty, adult tell-all about Mercury while Queen wanted a family-friendly film about the band.
Q 25Which actor was announced in 2013 as the new Freddie Mercury for the long-delayed Queen biopic?
Ben Whishaw
Ben Whishaw. Within a year he was saying script problems had put the film on hold, and by the time it finally went before the cameras the part had gone to someone else.
Q 26Who is credited as the director of Bohemian Rhapsody?
Bryan Singer
Bryan Singer. He was fired with about two weeks of filming left, but Directors Guild rules allow a film only one credited director, and he had cast it and shot most of it.
Q 27Who finished directing Bohemian Rhapsody after its original director was fired in December 2017?
Dexter Fletcher
Dexter Fletcher. He had signed on to direct the same film in 2013 and left within months over creative differences, so he ended up finishing a project he had once walked away from.
Q 28When Bohemian Rhapsody's director failed to turn up on set, which crew member directed in his place?
The cinematographer
The cinematographer. Newton Thomas Sigel took charge on the days the director went missing, and the absences ended with the studio firing him with about two weeks of filming left.
Q 29Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor re-recorded which studio's famous fanfare to open the film Bohemian Rhapsody?
20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox. It was May's idea: the logo music arrives on his stacked, harmonised guitars with Taylor's percussion, and the same track opens the soundtrack album.
Q 30Whose voice was blended with Freddie Mercury's own recordings for the singing in Bohemian Rhapsody?
Marc Martel's
Marc Martel's. The Canadian rock singer sounds so like Mercury that producer Graham King said you could close your eyes and it's Freddie; his takes were mixed in with Queen's master tapes.