Gwen Stefani Trivia
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49 free Gwen Stefani trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Gwen Stefani was named after a stewardess in a 1968 airport novel, joined her brother's ska band in 1986, and became its only singer after tragedy struck the following year. Tragic Kingdom then sold sixteen million copies, and a decade later her solo debut turned 1980s nostalgia into 'Hollaback Girl', the first million-selling download in the US. This quiz covers it all: the Anaheim upbringing and the Yamaha-exec dad whose Japan trips seeded the Harajuku obsession, the Tony Kanal breakup behind 'Don't Speak' and 'Cool', the Eve and Moby collaborations, Jean Harlow in The Aviator, The Sweet Escape with Akon, L.A.M.B. and GXVE, the bindi and the platinum hair, Gavin Rossdale and three sons, Blake Shelton and the Oklahoma chapel, the Voice seasons, the Vegas residency, Bouquet, and the No Doubt reunions at Coachella and FireAid. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for a music quiz night.
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Q 01Which lipstick colour completes Gwen Stefani's trademark look of platinum blonde hair?
Red
Red. She sang about her make-up ritual on No Doubt's 'Magic's in the Makeup', and in 2022 she turned the look into a business with a cosmetics line of her own.
Q 02Gwen Stefani was born in Fullerton and raised in which neighbouring Southern California city?
Anaheim
Anaheim. She finished high school there in 1987, by which time she and her brother were already rehearsing their new band in the family garage.
Q 03Before she had a fashion label, where did most of Gwen Stefani's No Doubt stage outfits come from?
She made them herself
She made them herself. Stefani comes from a long line of seamstresses and learned to sew from her mother, a skill that later grew into a clothing label of her own.
Q 04Gwen Stefani's father Dennis was a marketing executive for which company?
Yamaha
Yamaha. The job sent him back and forth to Japan for 18 years, and the stories he brought home, of street performers dressed as Elvis and women with brightly coloured hair, gave his daughter a lifelong fascination.
Q 05Gwen Stefani's older brother Eric left No Doubt to work as an animator on which show?
The Simpsons
The Simpsons. He had been drawing for it since its days as a short on The Tracey Ullman Show, and he once slipped his sister and her bandmates into a crowd scene in the episode 'Homerpalooza'.
Q 06No Doubt shared the 2003 Super Bowl halftime show with Sting and which country-pop star?
Shania Twain
Shania Twain. She opened the show, No Doubt followed, and Stefani then joined Sting midway through 'Message in a Bottle' for the finale.
Q 07Records played by her brother Eric first hooked a teenage Gwen Stefani on which style of music?
Ska
Ska. The records were by British 2 Tone bands such as Madness and The Selecter; Eric formed a ska band of his own in 1986, and his sister dressed the part, wearing only black and white.
Q 08Before either band broke big, Gwen Stefani sang on 'Saw Red' for which fellow Southern California band?
Sublime
Sublime. The two-minute duet on their 1994 album Robbin' the Hood borrows a line from 'She's Mine', a reggae song by Barrington Levy.
Q 09Which No Doubt album sold more than 16 million copies worldwide?
Tragic Kingdom
Tragic Kingdom. Stefani took one semester off college to tour it; the tour ran for two and a half years and she never went back.
Q 10Which No Doubt song topped US radio airplay for 16 weeks without ever entering the Hot 100?
Don't Speak
Don't Speak. It was never sold as a single in American shops, and the chart rules of the day kept the country's most-played song off the Hot 100 altogether.
Q 11Gwen Stefani's 2002 Grammy for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration came for which song with Eve?
Let Me Blow Ya Mind
Let Me Blow Ya Mind. The rock singer's first Grammy came for a hip-hop hit, a year before her own band won one, and the detour pointed the way to her solo career.
Q 12Gwen Stefani's 'South Side' collaboration was with which electronic musician?
Moby
Moby. Production problems forced him to leave her vocal off the version on his album Play, so listeners heard the duet only when it was restored for the single.
Q 13No Doubt's 2003 greatest hits included a cover of which Talk Talk song?
It's My Life
It's My Life. Recorded as the band headed into a long break, the cover reached No. 10 in America, where Talk Talk's 1984 original had stalled at No. 31.
Q 21A member of which British band co-wrote 'Early Winter' for Gwen Stefani?
Keane
Keane. Stefani rang pianist Tim Rice-Oxley asking for a ballad in the mould of 'Time After Time'; the next day he played her 'Early Winter' almost complete, the first song he had written outside his band.
Q 22Which OutKast star plays 'Johnny Vulture' on 'Bubble Pop Electric', from Gwen Stefani's debut album?
André 3000
André 3000. Hiding behind the alias, he co-wrote and produced the electro track as well, and plays Stefani's date for a night at the drive-in.
Q 23Gwen Stefani's entourage of four backing dancers, named for a Tokyo district, were known as what?
The Harajuku Girls
Q 14What was the title of Gwen Stefani's 2004 debut solo album?
Love. Angel. Music. Baby.
Love. Angel. Music. Baby. began as a small side project and grew into a full album, built to sound like the 1980s dance records she had loved in high school.
Q 15Which Gwen Stefani single was the first US download to sell a million copies?
Hollaback Girl
Hollaback Girl. It is widely read as her answer to Courtney Love, who had dismissed her as 'the cheerleader': Stefani wrote a playground chant and played one in the video.
Q 16Gwen Stefani's 'Rich Girl' adapts a 1990s song that itself reworked a tune from which musical?
Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof. The tune is 'If I Were a Rich Man'; to rewrite the lyric Stefani went back to see the show on Broadway, and came away with its moral that love makes even the poor rich.
Q 17Which songwriter co-wrote 'What You Waiting For?', Gwen Stefani's first solo single?
Linda Perry
Linda Perry. Stefani arrived blocked and tearful, so Perry stayed up all night building a track, then threw the title question at her; Stefani took it as a dare.
Q 18Gwen Stefani made her film debut as Jean Harlow in which Martin Scorsese film?
The Aviator
The Aviator. For a part of only a few lines she read two Harlow biographies and watched 18 of the star's films.
Q 19'Wind It Up' featured yodeling and an interpolation of which musical?
The Sound of Music
The single reached the top 10 in the US and UK.
Q 20Which singer features on Gwen Stefani's 'The Sweet Escape', earning her a Grammy nomination?
Akon
Akon. He co-wrote and produced the song as well as singing its 'woo-hoo, yee-hoo' hook, and the pair performed it on American Idol when she was a guest mentor.
The Harajuku Girls. The four dancers shadowed her through videos, interviews and concerts, appeared on her debut album's cover, and had a song on the record named for and dedicated to them.
Q 24Michelle Pfeiffer's character in which film inspired Gwen Stefani's 2006 image makeover?
Scarface
Scarface. A peach 1970s-style dress spotted on a video shoot set her thinking of Pfeiffer's Elvira Hancock, and the icy look ended up on the cover of her second solo album.
Q 25Stefani started wearing a bindi in the 1990s after attending family gatherings with whom?
Tony Kanal
The bassist is of Indian heritage; she briefly popularised it as an accessory.
Q 26For the cover of No Doubt's 2000 album Return of Saturn, Gwen Stefani swapped her platinum hair for which colour?
Pink
Pink. She said the bright dye job was her reaction to a temporary break-up, and she has joked that she has not seen her real hair colour since ninth grade.
Q 27Gwen Stefani married Gavin Rossdale, frontman of which band, in 2002?
Bush
Bush. The couple married twice within a fortnight, first in London's Covent Garden with Stefani in a John Galliano gown, then all over again in Los Angeles.
Q 28What is the name of Gwen Stefani's eldest son, born in 2006?
Kingston
Kingston. His arrival reshuffled her career: with a baby on the way she put her second solo album on hold and released one more single from her debut instead.
Q 29Which country singer did Gwen Stefani marry in July 2021?
Blake Shelton
Blake Shelton. They met as rival coaches in the spinning chairs of The Voice, and married in a chapel on his ranch in Oklahoma.
Q 30Which duet with her future husband gave Gwen Stefani her first chart-topper on country radio in 2020?
Nobody but You
Nobody but You. Her part on the record was kept secret until a week before its release, and a second duet, 'Happy Anywhere', topped the same country chart a few months later.