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50 free Girl Groups trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Girl groups have shaped pop for the better part of a century, from close-harmony sister acts on the radio to the idol groups that fill stadiums today. Along the way they launched solo superstars, set chart firsts and recorded some of the most covered songs in the catalogue. This quiz covers the whole story: the sixties vocal groups, the all-female rock bands who played their own instruments, the R&B trios and British pop acts of the nineties, the TV talent show winners and the newest names from Seoul and Los Angeles. Expect questions on who sang what, which member did which, and how famous groups got started. The opening questions suit anyone who has ever sung along to a girl group chorus, while the later ones reward fans who know their B-sides. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a miss still teaches something worth repeating.
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Q 01Which girl group began in Houston as Girl's Tyme before signing to Columbia Records in 1996?
Destiny's Child
Destiny's Child took the new name in 1996 from a passage in the Book of Isaiah. As Girl's Tyme, the singers rehearsed at the Houston hair salon owned by Beyoncé's mother, Tina Knowles.
Q 02Which Motown girl group from Detroit scored twelve number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100?
The Supremes
The Supremes started out in 1959 as the Primettes, a sister act to the Primes, the male group that became the Temptations. The classic trio entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.
Q 03Which member of the Spice Girls wore a famous Union Jack dress at the 1997 Brit Awards?
Geri Halliwell
Geri Halliwell wore the dress a year before she quit the Spice Girls to go solo. Her first album, Schizophonic, produced three UK number-one singles.
Q 04Which hit girl group began in 1995 as a Los Angeles burlesque troupe founded by a choreographer?
Pussycat Dolls
The Pussycat Dolls were a stage revue for eight years, with guests such as Carmen Electra and Christina Applegate. Founder Robin Antin turned the troupe into a recording act with a 2003 record deal.
Q 05Which all-female band wrote and played the songs on Beauty and the Beat, a US number one in 1982?
The Go-Go's
The Go-Go's came out of the Los Angeles punk scene and held the top spot for six weeks. No all-female band writing and playing its own material had topped the album chart before.
Q 06Which superstar wrote the Bangles' 1986 hit Manic Monday under the pseudonym Christopher?
Prince
Prince then kept the Bangles off the top himself: his single Kiss held Manic Monday at number two in the United States. Christopher was a character he played in the film Under the Cherry Moon.
Q 07Which British girl group became the first group of any kind to win The X Factor UK, in 2011?
Little Mix
Little Mix competed at first as Rhythmix, then changed the name after a dispute with a children's music charity that already used it.
Q 08Which singer left Fifth Harmony in late 2016 and scored an international chart-topper with Havana?
Camila Cabello
Camila Cabello was born in Havana, Cuba, the city that gave the hit its title. Fifth Harmony's five members had auditioned as soloists for the American X Factor in 2012.
Q 09Blackpink became the first Asian act to headline which major American music festival, in April 2023?
Coachella
Coachella had first booked Blackpink in 2019, when the quartet became the first female K-pop group to play the festival. Four years later the same stage made the group headliners.
Q 10A court found George Harrison's My Sweet Lord subconsciously copied which 1963 Chiffons hit?
He's So Fine
He's So Fine had topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks, eight years before the lawsuit was filed. In 1975 the Chiffons recorded their own version of My Sweet Lord to cash in on the publicity.
Q 11Wilson Phillips singers Carnie and Wendy Wilson are daughters of a founder of which 1960s band?
The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson is their father, and the trio's third voice had famous parents too: Chynna Phillips is the daughter of two members of the Mamas and the Papas.
Q 12Which TLC single's video won Video of the Year at the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards?
Waterfalls
Waterfalls made TLC the first African-American act to win the award, one of four trophies for the video that night. The song also spent seven weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
Q 13Before the Black Eyed Peas, Fergie fronted which girl trio with a fellow Kids Incorporated star?
Wild Orchid
Q 21Which New Jersey girl group took the Goffin and King song Will You Love Me Tomorrow to number one?
The Shirelles
The Shirelles had formed for a talent show at their high school in Passaic. Their hit was the first Billboard number one by an African-American girl group.
Q 22Which British girl group had replaced all three founding members by 2009 while keeping the name?
Sugababes
Sugababes lost the last founder, Keisha Buchanan, in September 2009. The original trio regrouped as Mutya Keisha Siobhán, then regained the rights to the old name in 2019.
Q 23Which global girl group did Hybe and Geffen Records form through the 2023 contest Dream Academy?
Katseye
Wild Orchid made two albums with Fergie out front, but the label declined to release a third and she left in 2001. Bandmate Renee Sandstrom had acted beside her on the children's TV series.
Q 14Which 2025 Netflix animated film features a fictional girl group whose song Golden topped real charts?
KPop Demon Hunters
KPop Demon Hunters follows the trio Huntrix and ended 2025 as the most-watched original title in Netflix history. Its soundtrack was the first to place four songs in the Billboard Hot 100 top ten at the same time.
Q 15Blackpink rapper Lisa was born in which Southeast Asian country before training in South Korea?
Thailand
Thailand is where Lisa auditioned at 13 for a K-pop label, the only one of 4,000 applicants to qualify. A fortune teller advised her to change her name from Pranpriya to Lalisa.
Q 16Which New York girl group recorded Be My Baby and later opened the Beatles' 1966 American tour?
The Ronettes
The Ronettes joined what proved to be the Beatles' final tour, a year before splitting up. Be My Baby peaked at number two and entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.
Q 17Which British trio topped the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1986 with a cover of Shocking Blue's Venus?
Bananarama
Bananarama later entered Guinness World Records for the most chart entries by an all-female group. The trio first drew notice in 1982 as guest vocalists on a top-five hit by Fun Boy Three.
Q 18Which Girls Aloud singer replaced Sharon Osbourne as a judge on The X Factor UK in 2008?
Cheryl Cole
Cheryl Cole was the winning mentor in each of her first two years, with Alexandra Burke and then Joe McElderry. Girls Aloud had been created on a TV talent contest in 2002.
Q 19Which debut single by the Spice Girls reached number one in 37 countries after a 1996 release?
Wannabe
Wannabe spent seven weeks atop the UK chart and four weeks at number one in the United States. The group had been assembled two years earlier through an advert in the trade paper The Stage.
Q 20Wilson Phillips and En Vogue each had a different 1990 US top-two hit with which shared title?
Hold On
Hold On by Wilson Phillips reached number one in June 1990 and was the year's most successful US single. En Vogue's unrelated debut single of the same name peaked at number two a month later.
Katseye's formation is told in the Netflix docuseries Pop Star Academy. The group went on to a Best New Artist nomination at the 68th Grammy Awards.
Q 24Which Los Angeles rock band of three sisters released the debut album Days Are Gone in 2013?
Haim
Haim grew out of Rockinhaim, a covers band in which the three sisters played as children behind their parents, with their father on drums and their mother on guitar.
Q 25Which 1970s all-female rock band launched the careers of guitarists Joan Jett and Lita Ford?
The Runaways
The Runaways never broke big at home but became a sensation in Japan with the single Cherry Bomb. Kristen Stewart later played Jett in a film about the band.
Q 26Which country band from Dallas, Texas, dropped the word Dixie from the name in June 2020?
The Chicks
The Chicks made the change in the same year as Gaslighter, the trio's first album in 14 years. The old name had been borrowed from the title of a rock album, Dixie Chicken.
Q 27Which Marvelettes debut single became Motown's first number one on the Billboard Hot 100?
Please Mr. Postman
Please Mr. Postman went to number one a second time in 1975, when the Carpenters' cover also topped the Hot 100. The Beatles had recorded a version of their own in 1963.
Q 28Which Shangri-Las number one, about a doomed biker romance, was refused airplay by the BBC?
Leader of the Pack
Leader of the Pack ends with the narrator's boyfriend dying in a motorcycle crash. To capture a real engine, a bike was reportedly driven through the hotel lobby and up to the studio.
Q 29Which Motown star co-wrote and drummed on Dancing in the Street by Martha and the Vandellas?
Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye wrote it with William Stevenson and Ivy Jo Hunter, and the single reached number two in 1964. David Bowie and Mick Jagger took a duet version to number one in Britain in 1985.
Q 30Which 1970s trio took Lady Marmalade to number one, decades before the Moulin Rouge! cover?
Labelle
Labelle wore space-age glam costumes and were the first contemporary pop group to perform at the Metropolitan Opera House. The single topped the Billboard Hot 100 for one week.