Lego Rock Band
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40 free Lego Rock Band trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Lego Rock Band took the plastic-instrument craze of the late 2000s and rebuilt it in bricks. Released in 2009, it paired the note-matching play of the Rock Band series with customisable minifigure musicians and a soundtrack chosen to suit younger players as well as their parents. This quiz is built around that soundtrack. Most questions ask who recorded a song from the setlist or what made it famous, from seventies glam and disco to noughties pop-punk and indie, with stops at Ghostbusters and The Final Countdown along the way. The rest cover the game itself: its modes, its helping hands for beginners, and the real rock stars who turn up in Lego form. It suits anyone who played the game when it came out, and anyone who simply knows their rock and pop. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will pick up the story behind each track as you go.
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Q 01Which rock singer voices the tutorials in Lego Rock Band and appears as a shirtless minifigure?
Iggy Pop
Iggy Pop also has a song on the setlist, The Passenger, which he first released on the 1977 album Lust for Life.
Q 02Which singer's Let's Dance video inspired a venue in Lego Rock Band, where he is a minifigure?
David Bowie
David Bowie made Let's Dance the title track of his 1983 album and hired a then-unknown Stevie Ray Vaughan to add its bluesy guitar.
Q 03Which member of Queen insisted that his Lego Rock Band minifigure reproduce his real hairstyle?
Brian May
Brian May, the group's guitarist, required the developers to match his hair style on his Lego caricature.
Q 04Which musician wrote the Ghostbusters theme, a US number one playable in Lego Rock Band?
Ray Parker Jr.
Ray Parker Jr. wrote it for the 1984 film, and Huey Lewis later received a settlement after claiming the melody copied one of his hits.
Q 05Counting Crows wrote Accidentally in Love, a Lego Rock Band track, to open which animated film?
Shrek 2
Shrek 2 opens with the song, which went on to earn an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song.
Q 06Rascal Flatts covered Life Is a Highway, a Lego Rock Band track, for which Pixar film's soundtrack?
Cars
Cars used the country trio's version in 2006, fifteen years after Canadian rocker Tom Cochrane released the original.
Q 07Europe, the band behind The Final Countdown in Lego Rock Band, comes from which country?
Sweden
Sweden produced the band, whose singer Joey Tempest based the 1986 hit on a keyboard riff he had written years before.
Q 08Which singer joined Mark Ronson on a hit cover of Valerie, a Zutons song in Lego Rock Band?
Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse sang on the Ronson version, which reached number two on the UK Singles Chart in 2007.
Q 09What does a struggling band lose in Lego Rock Band, where a song can never be failed outright?
Studs
Studs are the points of the Lego games, and poor playing drains ones already earned, though they can be won back before the song ends.
Q 10Which pianist scored his first US number one with Crocodile Rock, a song in Lego Rock Band?
Elton John
Elton John plays the Farfisa organ riff that drives the song, a nostalgic look back at early rock and roll.
Q 11Which English band appears as minifigures in Lego Rock Band, where their hit Song 2 is playable?
Blur
Blur's Song 2 was one of only five tracks confirmed when the game was officially announced in April 2009.
Q 12Which spoof metal band has minifigures in Lego Rock Band and supplies the song Short and Sweet?
Spinal Tap
Spinal Tap recorded it for the 2009 album Back from the Dead, with guest guitar solos from John Mayer, Steve Vai and Phil Collen.
Q 13Which difficulty setting, unique to Lego Rock Band, ignores which fret a guitarist is holding?
Super Easy
Super Easy reuses the simplest note charts but also ignores drum pads and vocal pitch, so young players only need to keep the rhythm.
Q 21Which band's You Give Love a Bad Name, a Lego Rock Band track, is from the album Slippery When Wet?
Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi wrote it with songwriter Desmond Child, and in November 1986 it became the group's first US number one.
Q 22Which band's Breakout, a Lego Rock Band track, comes from the album There Is Nothing Left to Lose?
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters made a video for it that tied in with the comedy film Me, Myself & Irene, where the song also appears.
Q 23Which band's Lego Rock Band track Aliens Exist grew from guitarist Tom DeLonge's interest in UFOs?
Blink-182
Blink-182 put it on the 1999 album Enema of the State, and DeLonge's company later helped release military footage of unidentified aircraft.
Q 14Which handheld's version of Lego Rock Band has one player switch between all four instruments?
Nintendo DS
Nintendo DS players keep four band members happy by hopping between their note tracks, a system borrowed from Rock Band Unplugged.
Q 15Which band's Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic can be cut by Lego Rock Band's Short Song Mode?
The Police
The Police track is one of those with a long intro or outro, which the mode trims so that younger players stay interested.
Q 16Lego Rock Band was nominated for which prize at the 13th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards?
Family Game of the Year
Family Game of the Year went instead to a Beatles edition of the same series, in a field that also included Guitar Hero 5.
Q 17Which animation method used in earlier Rock Band games did TT Fusion drop for Lego Rock Band?
Motion capture
Motion capture gave way to hand-set key frames, which let the animators give the minifigures bigger, more exaggerated moves.
Q 18Which Queen anthem in Lego Rock Band did Freddie Mercury write with audience participation in mind?
We Are the Champions
We Are the Champions arrived in 1977 on the album News of the World and became an anthem for victories at sporting events.
Q 19Which American rocker wrote Free Fallin', a Lego Rock Band track, in two days with Jeff Lynne?
Tom Petty
Tom Petty opened his first solo album, Full Moon Fever, with the song, and it became his highest-charting single.
Q 20Which Canadian singer recorded Summer of '69, a Lego Rock Band track from his album Reckless?
Bryan Adams
Bryan Adams wrote the song with his longtime collaborator Jim Vallance, and it reached number five in the US in 1985.
Q 24Which Motown group had its first number one with I Want You Back, a song in Lego Rock Band?
The Jackson 5
The Jackson 5 released it as their debut single on the label in 1969, and it has since sold over six million copies worldwide.
Q 25Which guitarist wrote Fire, a Lego Rock Band track often called a duet with drummer Mitch Mitchell?
Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix recorded it with the Experience in early 1967 and made it a regular part of his concerts.
Q 26Which singer based So What, a Lego Rock Band track, on her split from motocross rider Carey Hart?
Pink
Pink took the song to number one in the US, her first chart-topper there as a solo artist.
Q 27Which English band's Ruby, a Lego Rock Band track, was the lead single from Yours Truly, Angry Mob?
Kaiser Chiefs
Kaiser Chiefs scored their first UK number one with it in February 2007, and it ended the year as Britain's tenth-biggest seller.
Q 28Which band played A-Punk, a Lego Rock Band track, for its network television debut on the Late Show?
Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend's song also turns up in Guitar Hero 5, Just Dance 2 and the comedy film Step Brothers.
Q 29Which band behind Walking on Sunshine, a Lego Rock Band song, later won the Eurovision Song Contest?
Katrina and the Waves
Katrina and the Waves won the 1997 contest in Dublin with Love Shine a Light, twelve years after this sunny hit charted.
Q 30Which group's Two Princes, a Lego Rock Band track, came from the album Pocket Full of Kryptonite?
Spin Doctors
Spin Doctors earned a Grammy nomination for the song, which VH1 ranked among the best of the 1990s and Blender among the worst ever.