Eddie Money
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40 free Eddie Money trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Eddie Money never looked like a rock star and never pretended to. The raspy-voiced New Yorker gave American radio a run of singalong hits from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, survived a slump that nearly ended his career, and came back with the biggest record of his life. This quiz follows the whole ride: the debut album and the singles that still fill classic-rock playlists, the famous guest on Take Me Home Tonight, the music videos that MTV loved, and the films and TV shows that borrowed his voice or his face. You will also meet the man behind the jokes, from his first career plans to his late reality series. The questions start easy and get tougher, so casual listeners and devoted fans both have something to chew on. Every answer comes with a short explanation, which makes the set handy for a classic-rock trivia night as well as a solo play.
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Q 01Before music, Eddie Money trained for which career that his father and grandfather had followed in New York City?
Police officer
Police officer was the family trade, but Money never got past NYPD trainee: he left in 1968, saying the force would not let him grow his hair long.
Q 02Which 1960s girl-group singer came out of retirement to duet with Eddie Money on Take Me Home Tonight?
Ronnie Spector
Ronnie Spector was washing dishes when Money phoned to coax her back, and the hit relaunched her career so well that she made a new solo album the next year.
Q 03Which Irish family surname did Eddie Money shorten into his stage name as a joke about always being broke?
Mahoney
Mahoney lost two letters to become Money after he moved to California in 1968, a sarcastic nod to his empty pockets.
Q 04In a 2012 GEICO commercial, Eddie Money sang Two Tickets to Paradise while playing the owner of what business?
A travel agency
A travel agency was the setting: Money serenades a family trying to book a vacation, one of several late-career turns in which he spoofed his own image.
Q 05Eddie Money's father, angry that his son chose rock music, tore posters of which guitarist from the bedroom wall?
Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix came down off the wall, but the teenager kept playing in rock bands, partly because it helped him get dates with cheerleaders.
Q 06Which instrument does Eddie Money play alone on an empty stage in the black-and-white Take Me Home Tonight video?
Saxophone
Saxophone was the instrument Money took up at junior college, inspired by rock acts such as David Bowie and Van Morrison who sometimes used it.
Q 07In 2002 Eddie Money played himself and performed his hits on which blue-collar Kevin James sitcom?
The King of Queens
The King of Queens gave Money a guest spot because its star was a friend, and his working-class rock fitted a show about a parcel delivery driver.
Q 08Eddie Money sang the theme song for which 1996 Disney cartoon about Donald Duck and his teenage nephews?
Quack Pack
Quack Pack aged Huey, Dewey and Louie into adolescents, and its rocking opening theme put Money's voice in front of a new audience of children.
Q 09Eddie Money said Two Tickets to Paradise imagined taking a girlfriend to California's redwoods by which cheap transport?
Greyhound bus
Greyhound bus fare was all he could afford, about 62 dollars for the pair, but she dumped him before the trip and the song stayed a fantasy.
Q 10Which 1963 girl-group hit is echoed in the chorus of Eddie Money's comeback single Take Me Home Tonight?
Be My Baby
Be My Baby was a number two hit in 1963, and its original lead singer re-sang her famous line on Money's record 23 years later.
Q 11Which 1977 debut single, co-written with guitarist Jimmy Lyon, gave Eddie Money his first Top 40 hit?
Baby Hold On
Baby Hold On reached number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100, a higher peak than the follow-up single that became his signature song.
Q 12Which San Francisco concert promoter discovered Eddie Money, managed him and signed him to the Wolfgang label?
Bill Graham
Bill Graham, the promoter behind the Fillmore and Winterland, became his manager and mentor and praised Money as a natural performer.
Q 13On a 1999 episode of which sitcom did Eddie Money play the estranged first husband of Mimi Bobeck?
The Drew Carey Show
Q 21Which platinum 1986 album revived Eddie Money's career with Take Me Home Tonight and the single Endless Nights?
Can't Hold Back
Can't Hold Back ended a three-year slump that had followed a flop album, and it went platinum a year after its release.
Q 22Which 1982 Eddie Money hit had an early MTV video that cast the singer as a Dracula-style vampire?
Think I'm in Love
Think I'm in Love reached number 16, his first Top 40 hit in several years, and its spoof of old horror films became an early MTV favourite.
Q 23Which 1988 single, written by a former Sammy Hagar keyboardist, became Eddie Money's last Top 10 hit?
Walk on Water
The Drew Carey Show revealed that Mimi had married Money early in his career and that the pair had separated without ever getting a divorce.
Q 14Rolling Stone nicknamed wisecracking Eddie Money the rock-music version of which self-deprecating stand-up comedian?
Rodney Dangerfield
Rodney Dangerfield was the comparison because Money packed his interviews with dad jokes at his own expense and always had more fans than critical praise.
Q 15Eddie Money sang on the bridge of I'm Alright, the Caddyshack theme recorded by which soundtrack-hit specialist?
Kenny Loggins
Kenny Loggins wrote and recorded the theme of the 1980 golf comedy, and Money complained decades later that he was never credited for his part.
Q 16Which illness did Eddie Money reveal on his reality show Real Money only weeks before his death in 2019?
Esophageal cancer
Esophageal cancer at stage 4 was the diagnosis, and Money said he went public because hiding it from his fans would not have been honest.
Q 17Which 1982 Eddie Money single had a video starring Apollonia, two years before she appeared in Purple Rain?
Shakin'
Shakin' stalled at number 63 after Money slipped a rude word into the lyric, a joke that his manager said cost him a far bigger hit.
Q 18After leaving New York in 1968, Eddie Money built his career in which California college city near San Francisco?
Berkeley
Berkeley was where he studied with a vocal coach and became a regular in Bay Area clubs for years before landing a record deal.
Q 19Eddie Money's autobiographical stage musical was inspired by which Broadway show about the Four Seasons?
Jersey Boys
Jersey Boys showed him that hit records could carry a life story, and his own musical, named after his signature song, premiered in 2009.
Q 20Eddie Money's debut album included a cover of You've Really Got a Hold on Me, written by which Motown star?
Smokey Robinson
Smokey Robinson wrote it in a New York hotel room in 1962 for the Miracles, and Money's rock version became the third single from his debut.
Walk on Water climbed to number nine, and its guitar solo reunited Money with Jimmy Lyon, the co-writer of his earliest hits.
Q 24Eddie Money's 1982 album No Control includes a tribute song to which Saturday Night Live star who died that year?
John Belushi
John Belushi died in March 1982, three months before the album came out, and Money subtitled the track a song for John B.
Q 25Eddie Money recorded I Will Be Strong for which 1987 Sylvester Stallone film about a trucker who arm-wrestles?
Over the Top
Over the Top put Money on a soundtrack beside Sammy Hagar, and in some overseas versions of the film he sings a second song as well.
Q 26Eddie Money's Take Me Home Tonight lost the 1987 Grammy for male rock vocal to which Robert Palmer hit?
Addicted to Love
Addicted to Love took the award in February 1987, but the nomination still capped the comeback that the single had given Money.
Q 27Eddie Money was inducted in 2008 into the music hall of fame of which New York region where he grew up?
Long Island
Long Island claimed the boy who went to high school in Levittown, and he once said that paradise for him would be a trip back there.
Q 28As a teenager Eddie Money performed in a rock band named after which John Steinbeck novel?
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath was one of his teenage groups, and by then he had already been singing on street corners since the age of eleven.
Q 29Eddie Money's 1984 church wedding to Margo Lee Walker, crashed by screaming teenage fans, fell on which holiday?
Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day 1984 was also the day Elton John married, so the two rock weddings shared the next morning's news columns.
Q 30Eddie Money opened the concert season for over 20 years at Pine Knob, an amphitheater northwest of which US city?
Detroit
Detroit made his season opener a rite of summer, and Money joked that the amphitheater was his kingdom and he was the prince of rock.