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50 free Just Dance trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Just Dance is three things at once. It is the party game that got millions of people off the sofa and copying a dancer on the screen, the single that launched Lady Gaga's career, and a solo track that BTS fans know as Trivia: Just Dance. This quiz covers all of them. Most of the questions follow the game series: where the idea came from, how the scoring works, the spin-offs, the songs on the track lists and the machines it has been played on. The rest look at the Lady Gaga hit, from the studio session to the charts and the video, and at the BTS song, its performer and the record it belongs to. It is written for players who have worn out a few wrist straps, for pop fans, and for anyone setting a music or gaming round. Every question comes with a short explanation, so you can play it straight through or print it for a group.
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Q 01Just Dance had sold over 90 million by late 2024, behind only which other Ubisoft series?
Assassin's Creed
Assassin's Creed is the only Ubisoft series to outsell it. The first Just Dance got there despite scoring 49 out of 100 on Metacritic and being doubted inside its own studio.
Q 02Which BTS member, once part of an underground dance crew, performs the solo Trivia: Just Dance?
J-Hope
J-Hope recorded it for a 2018 BTS compilation, a decade after winning a national dance competition as a teenager. He co-wrote the track.
Q 03Which Lady Gaga debut album was launched in 2008 by its lead single, Just Dance?
The Fame
The Fame nearly went out without it: she has said she almost left Just Dance off the album, anxious that it was too pop. It became her first US chart-topper.
Q 04Which pop star's hits fill The Experience, a Just Dance spin-off released for the Wii in 2010?
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson: The Experience arrived with Thriller, Beat It and Billie Jean, though nothing from his Motown years. The Wii version sold 2 million copies in two months.
Q 05What does Just Dance call the bonus-scoring steps that replaced remote-shaking in the second game?
Gold Moves
Gold Moves usually mark a routine's hardest step or a big pose. Hit one cleanly and the game awards a Yeah rating and extra points; fluff it and you get an X.
Q 06Which viral K-pop hit reached Just Dance 4 as a download just weeks after the game's 2012 launch?
Gangnam Style
Gangnam Style went on sale for the game on November 21, 2012, less than two months after its release. Psy's follow-up single was on the disc of Just Dance 2014.
Q 07By her own account, roughly how long did Lady Gaga take to write Just Dance, working while hungover?
Ten minutes
Ten minutes was all it took, she says, on her first visit to a Hollywood studio. She later credited the song with saving her life after a dark spell in New York.
Q 08Which Swedish pop group got a Just Dance spin-off of its own, You Can Dance, for the Wii in 2011?
ABBA
ABBA: You Can Dance packed 26 of the group's songs onto one disc. It added a karaoke mode, so two players could sing while two others danced.
Q 09Which camera sensor let players dance empty-handed when Just Dance 3 moved beyond the Wii in 2011?
Kinect
Kinect tracked the whole body on Xbox 360, while PlayStation 3 owners danced holding a Move wand. Just Dance 2022 was the last known game to support the sensor.
Q 10Which song from Disney's Frozen is in Just Dance 2015, with a sing-along version added later?
Let It Go
Let It Go appears in a cover version credited simply to Disney's Frozen. The sing-along routine followed as a download in January 2015.
Q 11Which party game series contained the dancing minigame that was expanded into the first Just Dance?
Raving Rabbids
Raving Rabbids: TV Party had a pose-matching dance minigame that proved popular in demonstrations. Ubisoft rebuilt the idea as a stand-alone game without the Nunchuk.
Q 12Which Jungkook solo opens the 2018 BTS compilation album, one track before Trivia: Just Dance?
Euphoria
Euphoria starts the record, though its video appeared four months before the song itself was released. It was later heard in the first-season finale of the HBO drama that shares its name.
Q 13Which follow-up to Just Dance gave Lady Gaga a second straight US number one in 2009?
Poker Face
Q 21Which Belgian comic characters got a 2011 Dance Party spin-off from the Just Dance Kids line?
The Smurfs
The Smurfs Dance Party put players beside Papa Smurf, Smurfette and even Gargamel on the Wii, with a story mode that followed that year's film.
Q 22Lady Gaga's Just Dance lost the Grammy for Best Dance Recording to a live track by which act?
Daft Punk
Daft Punk won with a live version of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger from their Alive 2007 album. The nomination was still her first at the Grammys.
Q 23Which company, rather than Ubisoft, published the first three Japan-only Just Dance games with their J-pop songs?
Nintendo
Nintendo published and edited all three, starting in 2011 with a release that mixed 16 J-pop songs with an unlockable routine set to Super Mario Bros. music.
Poker Face topped the Hot 100 in April 2009, making her the first new artist since Christina Aguilera to send her first two charting singles to the top.
Q 14What name is given to the small scrolling silhouettes that preview each upcoming move in Just Dance?
Pictograms
Pictograms scroll along the bottom of the screen just ahead of each step. One early reviewer complained that they sometimes contradicted the dancer above them.
Q 15What does the mobile spin-off Just Dance Now use as its controller in place of a console remote?
A smartphone
A smartphone held in the hand stands in for the Wii Remote while the routine plays on any web-connected screen. There is no limit on how many players can join.
Q 16What does Just Dance call the costumed on-screen dancers whose routines players mirror?
Coaches
Coaches is the series' own word for them. Guest stars have filled the role too: Todrick Hall dances to his own song in Just Dance 2022.
Q 17Which singer took the guest verse on Lady Gaga's Just Dance after a label dispute sidelined Akon?
Colby O'Donis
Colby O'Donis was a labelmate on Akon's KonLive imprint and stepped in when Universal blocked Akon from being featured. Akon's backing vocals stayed on the record.
Q 18Which 2018 BTS compilation album, the finale of its series, contains the solo Trivia: Just Dance?
Love Yourself: Answer
Love Yourself: Answer debuted at number one in the United States and in 2019 became the first Korean album to spend a full year on the Billboard 200.
Q 19Which disco group's Rasputin, from Just Dance 2, came back for the series' tenth anniversary?
Boney M.
Boney M. supplied the 1978 hit picked to represent Just Dance 2 when Just Dance 2020 gathered one routine from each earlier game. That edition was also the series' last on the Wii.
Q 20What brightly coloured accessory have Just Dance's on-screen dancers worn since the second game?
Gloves
Gloves in a bold colour arrived with Just Dance 2. The same sequel added Duet routines and the Just Sweat workout mode.
Q 24BTS's solo track Trivia: Just Dance, a funky hip-hop number, uses dancing as a metaphor for what?
Romance
Romance is the theme, with dancing standing in for the feeling of falling for someone. Its performer co-wrote the track with the producer Hiss Noise.
Q 25World Dance Floor, added in Just Dance 2014, was the series' first mode of which kind?
Online multiplayer
Online multiplayer arrived with it: players everywhere danced to the same song at once, compared scores as they went and sometimes voted on the next track.
Q 26Lady Gaga's Just Dance took five months on the Hot 100 to reach the top, making it what kind of hit?
A sleeper hit
A sleeper hit is one that succeeds slowly. Just Dance entered the chart at number 76 in August 2008 and needed 22 weeks to reach the summit the following January.
Q 27Which rank, awarded at 12,000 points, did Just Dance 2018 add above the Superstar rank?
Megastar
Megastar sits one step above Superstar, which had arrived a year earlier at 11,000 points. The same game added a Super rating between Good and Perfect.
Q 28In 2022 the BTS member behind Trivia: Just Dance headlined the main stage of which US festival?
Lollapalooza
Lollapalooza made him the first South Korean artist to headline a main stage at a major US music festival. He closed its final day two weeks after his debut album came out.
Q 29Which classic puzzle game's theme tune is a routine on the Just Dance 2015 track list?
Tetris
Tetris lent its theme, the Russian folk song Korobeiniki, which the game credits to an act called Dancing Bros.
Q 30Which Moroccan-Swedish producer co-wrote and produced Lady Gaga's Just Dance at a Hollywood studio?
RedOne
RedOne wrote it with her and Akon in January 2008. He went on to co-write and co-produce much of her debut album and its reissue.