Love Song Trivia
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100 free Love Song trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free love song trivia questions with answers. Every wedding playlist and slow-dance mix leans on the same few dozen songs, and this quiz is about the stories behind them. Fifty love song trivia questions cover who actually wrote the classics (Dolly Parton, Prince, Bob Dylan and Van Morrison all turn up in unexpected places), who the songs were written for, the films that turned album tracks into number ones, the samples and borrowed melodies hiding inside them, and the chart records they set. The easy questions ask which movie revived "Unchained Melody" or who duets on "Die with a Smile"; the hard ones want the poet behind "Layla", the saxophonist on "Just the Way You Are" and the soul group sampled on "Crazy in Love". It works for a date night, a pub quiz round or a wedding-week game with the bridal party. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's article on the song itself, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up. No lyrics are quoted, so nothing here is a finish-the-line test; it is a quiz about the songs, not the words.
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Q 01Who wrote and originally recorded "I Will Always Love You" in 1973?
Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton wrote it as a goodbye to her mentor Porter Wagoner, then turned down an Elvis Presley cover when his camp demanded a share of the publishing rights.
Q 02Which actor pushed for Whitney Houston to open 'I Will Always Love You' with no music behind her?
Kevin Costner
Kevin Costner, her co-star in The Bodyguard, said that singing the first lines without music would show how much her character loved his.
Q 03Which Beatles song did Frank Sinatra call "the greatest love song of the past 50 years"?
Something
Something was written by George Harrison, yet Sinatra, who sang it for years, is said to have introduced it on stage as a Lennon and McCartney song.
Q 04Eric Clapton wrote 'Layla' about which woman, then married to his friend George Harrison?
Pattie Boyd
Pattie Boyd turned Clapton down at first, but she divorced Harrison in 1977 and married Clapton in 1979, and the two guitarists stayed good friends.
Q 05'Unchained Melody' takes its name from Unchained, a 1955 film set in what kind of place?
A prison
A prison. The song voices an inmate longing for the wife waiting outside, and Todd Duncan sings it on screen as one of the prisoners.
Q 06Which duo's 1965 hit 'Unchained Melody' is really a solo, sung by only one of them?
The Righteous Brothers
The Righteous Brothers let Bobby Hatfield sing it alone, and the label tucked it away on a B-side until radio DJs chose to play it instead.
Q 07'Unchained Melody' returned to the charts in 1990 thanks to which film?
Ghost
Ghost played it over the pottery-wheel scene with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore, and the 25-year-old recording went to number one in the UK.
Q 08Who wrote and produced "Endless Love", the 1981 duet with Diana Ross?
Lionel Richie
Lionel Richie was first asked only for an instrumental theme; director Franco Zeffirelli then decided he wanted lyrics, and Diana Ross to sing them.
Q 09Who composed the music for Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On"?
James Horner
James Horner wrote it for Titanic, but Celine Dion did not want to record it until her husband, René Angélil, persuaded her to sing a demo.
Q 10Ed Sheeran wrote 'Perfect' for which old school friend, whom he later married?
Cherry Seaborn
Cherry Seaborn was working in New York when he wrote it; he says the chorus came from dancing barefoot on the grass at James Blunt's house in Ibiza.
Q 11Ed Sheeran won a 2023 court case over claims that 'Thinking Out Loud' copied which Marvin Gaye classic?
Let's Get It On
Let's Get It On. Sheeran argued that the chord progression the two songs share is a common building block of many pop songs, and the jury found that he had created his own independently.
Q 12Which singer performed 'At Last' for Barack and Michelle Obama's first dance on inauguration night in 2009?
Beyoncé
Beyoncé sang it at the Neighborhood Ball, having just played the song's best-known singer in the film Cadillac Records, and that singer grumbled in public about being passed over.
Q 13Whose 1960 recording turned "At Last" into her signature song?
Etta James
Q 21Which Cure single did Robert Smith write as a wedding present for his fiancée, Mary Poole?
Lovesong
Lovesong. Smith had met Mary Poole at school when they were about 14; the gift he wrote before their 1988 wedding became The Cure's biggest American hit.
Q 22Billy Joel says he nearly left which song off The Stranger until Linda Ronstadt and Phoebe Snow praised it?
Just the Way You Are
Just the Way You Are. Joel wrote it for his first wife, Elizabeth, but thought little of it; it then won the Grammys for Record and Song of the Year.
Q 23Whose 1983 comeback single was a cover of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together"?
Tina Turner
Etta James's version peaked at only number 47 on the US pop chart, yet it went on to become a standard at weddings.
Q 14Elvis Presley recorded "Can't Help Falling in Love" in 1961 for which film?
Blue Hawaii
Blue Hawaii gave him the ballad he went on to close most of his concerts with; it was the last song he ever sang on stage, in Indianapolis in June 1977.
Q 15'Can't Help Falling in Love' borrows its melody from a 1784 love song from which country?
France
France. The tune is 'Plaisir d'amour', a French romance whose composer, Jean-Paul-Égide Martini, was a German-born musician with an Italian-sounding name.
Q 16Which reggae band's 1993 "Can't Help Falling in Love" spent seven weeks atop the Hot 100?
UB40
UB40's cover was the lead single from the Sharon Stone thriller Sliver; the band topped the US chart only twice, and neither song was its own, the other being Neil Diamond's 'Red Red Wine'.
Q 17Who wrote the lyrics to Elton John's "Your Song"?
Bernie Taupin
Bernie Taupin says he scribbled the words over breakfast at the flat where he was staying with Elton's family, and denies the popular story that he wrote them on a London rooftop.
Q 18Who wrote "Nothing Compares 2 U", the 1990 hit for Sinéad O'Connor?
Prince
Prince gave it to The Family, a band on his own label, whose 1985 version was never a single; it went almost unheard until O'Connor covered it five years later.
Q 19Sinéad O'Connor said her real tears in the "Nothing Compares 2 U" video were for whom?
Her mother
Her mother had died in a car accident in 1985; O'Connor said she had not planned to cry on camera but thought, 'I should let this happen.'
Q 20Which 2003 number one is built on a horn blast sampled from the Chi-Lites' 'Are You My Woman'?
Crazy in Love
Crazy in Love. Its singer at first found the horn sample too old-fashioned, but producer Rich Harrison, who had long been saving it for the right artist, won her over.
Tina Turner recorded it in London with producers from the synth-pop band Heaven 17, and the hit was followed a few months later by her album Private Dancer.
Q 24Which 1984 ballad was a George Michael solo single in the UK but billed in the US as 'Wham! featuring George Michael'?
Careless Whisper
Careless Whisper. George Michael thought it up at 17 on a bus ride to work, and about ten saxophonists tried the opening riff before one satisfied him.
Q 25Seal's "Kiss from a Rose" became a US number one after being featured in which 1995 film?
Batman Forever
Batman Forever played it under the end credits a year after the single first came out; Seal had written it years earlier and tossed the tape aside.
Q 26Which song did the Beatles perform as Britain's entry in Our World, the first live global TV broadcast, in 1967?
All You Need Is Love
All You Need Is Love. The brief was a message that viewers in every country could understand, which is why John Lennon kept the words so simple.
Q 27John Legend dedicated "All of Me" to which person?
Chrissy Teigen
Chrissy Teigen was his fiancée and stars in the video, shot in Italy just before their Lake Como wedding; it ends with footage of the real ceremony.
Q 28Adele's "Make You Feel My Love" is a cover of a song written by whom?
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan's song reached her through her manager; Adele said its lyrics summed up what she had been trying to say, and it became the only cover on her debut album.
Q 29The Goo Goo Dolls wrote 'Iris' for which 1998 film?
City of Angels
City of Angels. John Rzeznik wrote it in the voice of the film's hero, who gives up immortality to feel human love; the title came from singer Iris DeMent's name, spotted in print.
Q 30Savage Garden, who took "Truly Madly Deeply" to number one in 1998, come from which country?
Australia
Australia. The duo spent eight months in Sydney recording their debut album, where Darren Hayes reworked an old demo with a lyric about 'magical kisses' into this song.