Elvis
0Loading crowd target
0Loading crowd target
7correct to beat the crowd
122 free Elvis trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
56 free Elvis trivia questions with answers. How well do you know Elvis Presley? Put your knowledge of the King of Rock and Roll to the test with our comprehensive Elvis trivia quiz. From his iconic hits to his life story, this quiz covers everything about one of music's greatest legends.
30 of 122 questions with answers and explanations. Play the quiz
Q 01In what U.S. state was Elvis Presley born?
Mississippi
Elvis was born in Mississippi in a two-room shotgun house his father built; the family moved to Memphis, Tennessee, in November 1948, when he was 13.
Q 02What was the name of Elvis Presley's mother?
Gladys
Gladys Presley fell ill with hepatitis in August 1958; the Army gave Elvis emergency leave and he reached Memphis two days before she died, aged 46.
Q 03Which number-one hit was Elvis's first single after his discharge from the Army in March 1960?
Stuck on You
'Stuck on You' was cut two weeks after his discharge and rushed out within days in a generic sleeve; it took only three weeks to reach number one.
Q 04In which city did Elvis Presley make his first recordings for RCA Victor on January 10, 1956?
Nashville
Nashville hosted Elvis's first RCA session two days after his 21st birthday; the label added guitarist Chet Atkins and three backing singers to his usual road band.
Q 05What job was Elvis doing for Crown Electric when he cut his first single in 1954?
Driving a delivery truck
Driving a delivery truck for Crown Electric was still Elvis's day job when his first single came out; he kept it for about three more months, quitting that October to play music full time.
Q 06Elvis Presley's music blended country with what other major genre?
Rhythm and Blues
Rhythm and blues reached him through Black Memphis radio stations such as WDIA; fused with the country he grew up on, it became rockabilly, the fast, backbeat-driven style of his first singles.
Q 07Elvis's manager 'Colonel' Tom Parker was secretly an illegal immigrant who had slipped into the US from which country?
Netherlands
Netherlands-born Parker claimed to come from Huntington, West Virginia; the truth emerged only when relatives back in Breda recognised him in a news photo beside Elvis.
Q 08Who first found Graceland for Elvis in March 1957?
His parents
His parents saw the mansion first: fans were crowding the street outside the family's Memphis home, so Elvis had asked them to look for a place with room around it, and he paid $102,500 for it.
Q 09Which sitcom star played a nun opposite Elvis in Change of Habit (1969), his final feature-film role?
Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Tyler Moore played a nun working in plain clothes at a clinic run by Elvis's doctor, who falls for her; after it he gave up acting for the concert stage.
Q 10On which CBS variety show did Elvis Presley first appear on national TV, on January 28, 1956?
Stage Show
Stage Show, fronted by bandleaders Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, booked Elvis six times in two months from January 28, 1956; after the first he stayed in New York to record for RCA.
Q 11Which crooner's 1960 TV special welcomed Elvis home from the Army?
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra's ABC special, taped three weeks after Elvis's discharge, paid him $125,000 for a few minutes of singing; he did not face another live audience all year.
Q 12What rank had Elvis Presley reached by his honourable discharge from the US Army in March 1960?
Sergeant
Sergeant was the rank Elvis reached early in 1960, weeks before his discharge; he had chosen to serve as a regular soldier instead of joining the Special Services, where he could have kept performing.
Q 13In which country did Elvis Presley primarily serve during his overseas military deployment?
West Germany
Q 21Which Pearl Harbor memorial did Elvis's 1961 benefit aid?
USS Arizona
USS Arizona's memorial fund gained more than $60,000 from the show on March 25, 1961, and the memorial was built the next year; it was Elvis's last live performance for seven years.
Q 22Which US president, in office when Elvis died, said the loss 'deprives our country of a part of itself'?
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter, seven months into his term when Elvis died on August 16, 1977, added that he had 'permanently changed the face of American popular culture'.
Q 23In which film did Elvis Presley make his acting debut?
Love Me Tender
Love Me Tender began as The Reno Brothers and was retitled before release to cash in on his single; songs were added to what had been a straight acting role.
West Germany was Elvis's home from October 1958 to March 1960; rather than live in barracks he kept a house off base, shared with his father, grandmother and friends from Memphis.
Q 14Elvis Presley's family attended which church in his boyhood, where he found his first musical inspiration?
Assembly of God
The Assembly of God, a Pentecostal denomination, stayed the family's church after the move to Memphis, where the teenage Elvis also became a regular at all-night singings downtown.
Q 15Which fried sandwich filling was such a favourite of Elvis's that the sandwich is often simply called 'the Elvis'?
Peanut butter and banana
Peanut butter and banana, fried and sometimes topped with bacon, was his go-to snack; the 'Elvis sandwich' became shorthand for the rich Southern cooking he loved.
Q 16Bootleg Elvis records sold on Leningrad's black market in 1957 were cut on what discarded material?
X-ray plates
X-ray plates were recut as records because Elvis's music was not legally on sale in the Soviet Union; The New York Times reported in 1957 that they fetched high prices in Leningrad.
Q 17Which actress, Elvis's eldest grandchild, took charge of Graceland after her mother's death in 2023?
Riley Keough
Riley Keough, star of Daisy Jones & the Six, became Graceland's sole trustee in 2023 after settling a court challenge her grandmother had brought over the will.
Q 18Which 1960 Elvis hit set English lyrics to the Neapolitan song 'O Sole Mio'?
It's Now or Never
'It's Now or Never' grew from a 1949 American hit on the same tune, which Elvis heard during his Army service; he closed it on a full-voiced operatic cadence and it topped the US chart for five weeks.
Q 19Roughly how many viewers watched Elvis Presley's first Ed Sullivan Show appearance in September 1956?
60 million
About 60 million viewers, roughly eight in ten of those watching TV, tuned in; Sullivan had vowed never to book Elvis, then paid a record $50,000 once a rival show with him won the ratings.
Q 20Elvis's only daughter married which pop superstar in 1994?
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson married Elvis's daughter on May 26, 1994, just twenty days after her divorce from her first husband; the couple divorced in 1996.
Q 24What was the first name of Elvis Presley's only daughter?
Lisa Marie
Lisa Marie was born on February 1, 1968, nine months to the day after her parents' wedding; in 1975 Elvis bought a Convair jet and named it after her.
Q 25Elvis donated FDR's presidential yacht to which charity?
St. Jude
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis got the Potomac only after the March of Dimes turned the gift down; the hospital then sold the yacht to raise funds.
Q 26How did cameras frame Elvis on his final Ed Sullivan Show?
Waist up
Waist up only: the cameras stayed above his hips on January 6, 1957, yet Sullivan ended the show by calling him 'a real decent, fine boy'.
Q 27For what sum did RCA Victor buy Elvis's contract from Sam Phillips in November 1955?
$40,000
RCA paid $40,000, an unprecedented price for a singer's contract: $35,000 went to Sun and $5,000 to Elvis, whose father had to sign because at 20 he was still legally a minor.
Q 28How was Elvis Presley's middle name spelled on his birth certificate?
Aron
The doctor's ledger said Aaron but the birth certificate said Aron, and that single-A spelling followed him onto his high school diploma and RCA contract; he later favoured the biblical spelling, which is on his gravestone.
Q 29What was the name of Elvis Presley's identical twin brother, who was stillborn?
Jesse Garon
Jesse Garon was delivered stillborn shortly before Elvis, who grew up an only child; biographers trace his unusually close bond with his mother to the loss.
Q 30Elvis's 1961 concert-closing ballad borrows its melody from which 18th-century French song?
Plaisir d'amour
'Plaisir d'amour', composed by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini in 1784, supplied the melody; its French words lament that love's pleasure lasts only a moment while its sorrow lasts a lifetime.