Little Mix Trivia
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99 free Little Mix trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Little Mix went from a talent-show line-up assembled at bootcamp to the biggest British girl group of their era, and the decade in between left a trail of chart records, awards, collaborations and tours worth remembering. These 99 questions cover the X Factor run, the debut that broke a US chart record, the chart-toppers, the rappers and DJs who guested on the singles, the Brit Awards nights, the tours, the line-up change in 2020, the trio years and what each member did next. It suits anyone who sang along in the 2010s, plus trivia hosts who want an accurate pop round. Every answer comes with a short explanation and a source.
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Q 01Which Damien Rice song did Little Mix cover as their X Factor winner's single in December 2011?
Cannonball
Cannonball topped the UK chart as the group's first number one, though Damien Rice had no involvement in the cover. It later appeared on the expanded edition of their debut album.
Q 02Which X Factor judge, in her first series on the panel, mentored Little Mix to their 2011 win?
Tulisa
Tulisa, of N-Dubz, lost three of her four acts in the opening weeks, yet Little Mix avoided every sing-off and became the first band ever to win the show.
Q 03Which Little Mix single, their first original release, debuted at UK number one and went Gold in the US?
Wings
Wings drew on the hardships the four faced as X Factor contestants, and they co-wrote it so their first original single would sound like them. It reached number 79 on the US Hot 100.
Q 04Which Little Mix single held UK number one for three weeks, a girl-group first since Sugababes in 2007?
Black Magic
Black Magic led the album Get Weird after the group scrapped most of an earlier batch of songs as not good enough. Its Director X video, shot at the University of Southern California, has passed a billion YouTube views.
Q 05Which Little Mix single debuted at UK number one in 2016 and won British Single at the next Brit Awards?
Shout Out to My Ex
Shout Out to My Ex was first performed on The X Factor's 2016 results show, with cheerleaders wearing the names of exes on their T-shirts. It sold 95,000 combined copies in its first week.
Q 06Which Little Mix single reached UK number one in January 2021, three months after its release?
Sweet Melody
Sweet Melody was the group's last video to feature all four members, and MNEK has said it was first written at a Demi Lovato songwriting camp three years earlier.
Q 07Which founding member announced in December 2020 that she was leaving Little Mix after nine years?
Jesy Nelson
Jesy Nelson announced her departure on 14 December 2020, a month after the group's sixth album, leaving Little Mix to finish their run as a trio.
Q 08Which Brit Award did Little Mix win in 2021, the first girl band ever to take it?
British Group
British Group had never gone to an all-female act before Little Mix, who used their speech at The O2 to call out white male dominance in the industry and pay tribute to the girl groups nominated before them.
Q 09Which Little Mix album entered the US Billboard 200 at number four, a record start for a British girl group's debut?
DNA
DNA started two places above the number-six entry of the Spice Girls' Spice, the old record for a British girl group's debut. Spice later climbed to number one in America, though, while DNA never bettered its first week.
Q 10Glory Days was the fastest-selling girl-group number one in the UK since which 2001 Destiny's Child album?
Survivor
Survivor held that mark for 15 years. Glory Days also had the biggest opening week for a UK girl group's number one since Spiceworld, and took Little Mix to the top after three albums that stalled at three, four and two.
Q 11Which 2021 greatest-hits album marked a decade of Little Mix and added four new songs to 18 singles?
Between Us
Between Us reached number three in the UK, and within weeks of its release the trio announced a hiatus to follow their 2022 tour. Its deluxe CD closes with their 2011 winner's single.
Q 12After leaving Simon Cowell's Syco in November 2018, Little Mix moved within Sony to which label for future releases?
RCA
RCA took over after Syco said it would no longer work with the group's management company, Modest, days before their fifth album came out. RCA handled that album's promotion at Simon Cowell's request.
Q 13Which 2022 arena shows, Little Mix's first as a trio, were billed as their last before an open-ended hiatus?
Confetti Tour
Q 21Little Mix were formed at X Factor bootcamp from two members each of which pair of rejected groups?
Faux Pas and Orion
Faux Pas and Orion were among six groups the judges built from failed soloists, then trimmed to a four-piece that reached judges' houses under a name the show later had to drop.
Q 22Little Mix's 2011 win was the UK X Factor's first by a group; which country's version had already crowned one?
Australia
Australia's first X Factor series, in 2005, was won by a group called Random. Groups also won in Italy and Spain in 2008, so Little Mix were a first for Britain rather than for the format.
Q 23Which Take That singer took Simon Cowell's seat on the X Factor panel in the series Little Mix won?
Gary Barlow
The Confetti Tour, delayed a year by the pandemic and two members' pregnancies, closed at The O2 Arena on 14 May 2022 with a night live-streamed as The Last Show (For Now...).
Q 14Which English-Irish band won Little Mix The Search in 2020 despite ranking third before the public vote?
Since September
Since September won the prize of opening for Little Mix on their 2022 farewell shows, plus access to the group's vocal coaches, songwriters and producers.
Q 15Which 2021 single with Galantis and David Guetta gave Little Mix their 100th week inside the UK top ten?
Heartbreak Anthem
Heartbreak Anthem sat at number seven that week in July 2021, the same week the group's waxworks were unveiled at Madame Tussauds. Their 100 weeks left the next girl group, Girls Aloud on 61, far behind.
Q 16Which ceremony did Little Mix host in November 2020?
MTV EMAs
The MTV EMAs had only three of the four as hosts that night, after illness ruled one member out the day before. By 2021 Little Mix had also won the show's Best UK & Ireland Act prize six times, more than any other act.
Q 17Which Kylie Minogue album pipped Little Mix's sixth studio album to UK number one in November 2020 by 5,000 copies?
Disco
Disco sold roughly 5,000 more copies than Little Mix's album, which still opened as the fastest-selling album of 2020 by a British act.
Q 18Under which name did Little Mix begin the X Factor live shows, before a children's charity objected?
Rhythmix
Rhythmix was also the name of a children's music charity, which pushed back when the show tried to trademark it. A few weeks into the live shows the group became Little Mix.
Q 19Which 2018 outing, Little Mix's first in stadiums, ran for 15 shows with Rak-Su and Germein in support?
Summer Hits Tour
Summer Hits Tour was announced in November 2017 with 15 stadium dates, after an arena era in which their 2016 run was honoured as the year's highest-selling UK arena tour.
Q 20Which former Eton Road singer joined Amelia Lily and Little Mix as the third finalist of The X Factor 2011?
Marcus Collins
Marcus Collins had joined boyband Eton Road after their 2006 X Factor run; after the 2011 final he released a cover of Seven Nation Army and toured in Hairspray.
Gary Barlow was confirmed on 30 May 2011 after Simon Cowell left to launch the American version, and sat beside Louis Walsh and two fellow newcomers, one of them Little Mix's mentor.
Q 24Two of Little Mix's four members grew up in which Tyneside town, where one later opened a cocktail bar called Arbeia?
South Shields
South Shields raised two of the four; one was granted the freedom of the borough there in 2025, and the other spent part of her childhood in Weymouth before moving back.
Q 25Leigh-Anne Pinnock made her acting debut in which 2021 Christmas romcom, written and directed by Aml Ameen?
Boxing Day
Boxing Day drew on Aml Ameen's own family, and he has said he did not know who Little Mix were when his co-writer put Pinnock forward to play pop star Georgia.
Q 26Which 2024 Jade Thirlwall single, her solo debut, samples Sandie Shaw's Eurovision winner 'Puppet on a String'?
Angel of My Dreams
Angel of My Dreams earned Bill Martin and Phil Coulter, who wrote the 1967 Eurovision winner, a writing credit for the sample. It entered the UK chart at number seven, and Jade performed it at the 2025 Brits.
Q 27Which April 2024 single launched Perrie Edwards's solo career and peaked at number ten in the UK?
Forget About Us
Forget About Us was sent to Perrie by Ed Sheeran, and she has said she asked to rework its lyrics with him so the song fitted her own life. Her self-titled debut album followed in September 2025 and reached number three.
Q 28Which June 2023 single, released through Warner, was the first solo release by Leigh-Anne Pinnock?
Don't Say Love
Don't Say Love entered the UK chart at number eleven while topping the sales chart, and a month later Skepta and Jammer's Más Tiempo project put out a remix featuring both MCs.
Q 29Jade Thirlwall's 2025 Brit Award, her first as a solo artist, came in which category?
Best Pop Act
Best Pop Act went to Jade on a night when her debut single was also up for Song of the Year. She tearfully thanked her Little Mix bandmates in her speech, six months before her first album, That's Showbiz Baby!, came out.
Q 30Which grime MC, shown having a haircut in the video, featured on the 2017 single version of Little Mix's 'Power'?
Stormzy
Stormzy's verse took 'Power' to number six in the UK, the group's eleventh top-ten single, six months after the track first appeared on Glory Days. WWE later chose it as the theme of its first women's Royal Rumble.