Maroon 5 Trivia
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68 free Maroon 5 trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
This Maroon 5 trivia quiz spans three decades, from four Brentwood School kids calling themselves Kara's Flowers to a Las Vegas residency and Super Bowl LIII. Easy questions cover the band's home city, their debut album, the singer on Moves like Jagger, the rapper on Payphone and the concept of the Sugar video. Medium questions get into the lineup: the drummer who left in 2006, the keyboardist who stepped in for Jesse Carmichael, the bassist who departed in 2020, and which member came from Phantom Planet. The hard and expert questions reward real fans: the failed 1997 single that nearly ended the band, the singer who beat them at a UCLA talent contest, the country where Hands All Over was recorded, the Snapple flavour and the Coca-Cola song written in 24 hours, the video directors, and Adam Levine's day job on a CBS drama while he wrote Songs About Jane. Every answer was checked against a reference page and each question carries its citation. Difficulty is shown on every question, so you can pick a round for a pub quiz or play the lot in one sitting. Try our other pop and rock band quizzes when you are done.
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Q 01In which city was Maroon 5 formed?
Los Angeles
Los Angeles is where four of the five grew up and first played together as schoolboys; by the time the fifth joined in 2001, the others had already won and lost a record deal.
Q 02Under what name did the future members of Maroon 5 first play together in 1994?
Kara's Flowers
Kara's Flowers made one major-label album of guitar pop while its members were still teenagers; when it flopped they went quiet, then regrouped with a soul-tinged sound and a new name.
Q 03Where did the band that became Maroon 5 get its original name?
A girl they all had a crush on
A girl they all had a crush on lent the band her name, which it kept until a change of sound in 2001 brought a change of name.
Q 04Maroon 5's "She Will Be Loved" video echoes which 1967 film?
The Graduate
The Graduate was the band's own idea: Levine said he wanted to restage its triangle of Mrs Robinson, her daughter Elaine and himself, and Kelly Preston took the older woman's part.
Q 05Rob Cavallo, who signed Maroon 5's teenage forerunners and produced their 1997 album, was best known as which band's producer?
Green Day
Green Day were Cavallo's great success, and one review at the time tipped his teenage signings to be radio's next overplayed smash; instead their album sank and the label dropped them.
Q 06What upends the working day of Adam Levine's character in Maroon 5's "Payphone" video?
A bank robbery
A bank robbery: he grabs a gun from one of the gang to play the hero, is taken for a robber himself and spends the rest of the clip on the run from the law. The plot, Levine said, was his own idea.
Q 07Which singer won the sweepstakes award at UCLA's 2000 Spring Sing, where the future Maroon 5 lost the band prize?
Sara Bareilles
Sara Bareilles, then a UCLA student, won with her own song Gravity, while the band lost its category to a Barry Manilow parody act; they became friends, and she later toured as their opening act.
Q 08Which guitarist joined Maroon 5 in 2001 as its fifth member, freeing Adam Levine to front the band?
James Valentine
James Valentine was in another band, Square, and in the crowd when his future bandmates first tried out their new sound, "like Timbaland, but by a rock band", he said; he soon jumped ship.
Q 09Which piano-playing star learned the secret of Maroon 5's name from Adam Levine at a restaurant early in the band's fame?
Billy Joel
Billy Joel sat down at their table and asked where the name came from; too starstruck to refuse, Levine told him alone, and years later still would not repeat what he called the dumbest story in the world.
Q 10What is the title of Maroon 5's 2002 debut album?
Songs About Jane
Songs About Jane started out selling a few hundred copies a week and needed more than two years of steady touring to climb into the US top ten.
Q 11Who inspired the title and lyrics of Maroon 5's debut album?
Adam Levine's former girlfriend
Adam Levine's former girlfriend. He said he spotted her at a gas station, wrote a song about her and played it in the store where she worked, and that every track has a line about her.
Q 12Which musician was so impressed by Maroon 5's debut album that he invited them to open his 2003 tour?
John Mayer
John Mayer. He had studied at Berklee with the band's guitarist in 1996, ran into him again at a radio session and, after hearing their CD, gave them his opening slots.
Q 13Which first single from Maroon 5's debut album did Adam Levine write in anger at his label's demands?
Q 21Which Maroon 5 song was re-recorded in 2008 as a duet with Rihanna?
If I Never See Your Face Again
If I Never See Your Face Again. The song was already finished when the band asked Rihanna to add her parts, and the duet went on both acts' reissued albums.
Q 22Which AC/DC producer made Hands All Over with Maroon 5?
Mutt Lange
Mutt Lange. The band recorded at his base in Switzerland, where Levine found nothing to distract them but scenery; he later joked that Swiss neutrality had infected the album.
Q 23What was the first single from Maroon 5's 2010 album Hands All Over?
Misery
Harder to Breathe
Harder to Breathe. With the album nearly finished, the label asked for more songs, and Levine said this one came from wanting to throw something, though he was later glad of the push.
Q 14Which Grammy Award did Maroon 5 win at the 2005 ceremony?
Best New Artist
Best New Artist. The "new" band had been playing together for more than a decade, since four of them were teenagers, and had already been dropped by one record label.
Q 15For which song did Maroon 5 win the 2006 Grammy for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals?
This Love
This Love. The award went to a live recording of it, and its steamy video, shot with Levine's real partner, was also issued in a second, censored cut.
Q 16Around 2000, between record deals, Adam Levine took an assistant's job on which CBS drama?
Judging Amy
Judging Amy. Its writer-producer Barbara Hall was a family friend, and the job was one of several odd ones Levine took after his first band lost its record deal.
Q 17Original member Ryan Dusick left Maroon 5 in 2006 after wrist and shoulder injuries stopped him playing what?
Drums
Drums. Years of near-constant touring aggravated an old sports injury, and by 2004 he was treating his tendinitis with giant ice packs after every gig.
Q 18Maroon 5's 2019 Super Bowl halftime show briefly teased "Sweet Victory", a song from which cartoon?
SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob SquarePants. After its creator Stephen Hillenburg died, over a million fans petitioned for the song from the show's own halftime episode, but only a short clip was shown.
Q 19Adam Levine wrote and sang the hook of which rapper's 2005 single "Heard 'Em Say"?
Kanye West
Kanye West. Levine had just written the hook when West played him the track on a flight to Rome, and he later reused the chorus in Maroon 5's own Nothing Lasts Forever.
Q 20Which Maroon 5 single leapt from number 64 to number one on the Hot 100 in one week, then a record jump?
Makes Me Wonder
Makes Me Wonder. Its break-up lyric carries a second meaning: Levine said he reworked it around his frustration with American politics and the war in Iraq.
Misery. Its video turns the usual pop romance around: the model Levine chases, Anne Vyalitsyna, keeps trying to kill him, first with her fists and later with artillery.
Q 24Which singer features on Maroon 5's 2011 hit "Moves like Jagger"?
Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera. The duet rescued a band whose third album had stalled: Levine said the song "saved us" and totally revived them.
Q 25"Moves like Jagger" lost its 2012 Grammy category to Tony Bennett's duet with which late singer?
Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse. They recorded Body and Soul at Abbey Road four months before she died, and Bennett gave the single's royalties to the charity her father set up in her name.
Q 26Maroon 5's video for "Don't Wanna Know", with the band in creature costumes, spoofs which gaming craze?
Pokémon Go
Pokémon Go. Levine, in a creature suit, can't drive, work out or mope over his ex, played by Sarah Silverman, without phone-wielding players chasing him.
Q 27What was the name of the Snapple flavour Maroon 5 launched in 2011 to support Feeding America?
Tea Will Be Loved
Tea Will Be Loved, a pun on She Will Be Loved. Each band member chose a fruit for the blend, and the limited edition helped pay for 1.75 million meals.
Q 28In 2011, Maroon 5 teamed up with which soft-drink brand to write and record a song in just 24 hours?
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola. Fans tweeted suggestions during the session, and the finished song was given away free, with each of the first 100,000 downloads triggering a clean-water donation in Africa.
Q 29Maroon 5 was a late addition to Rock in Rio 2011, filling the slot vacated by which artist?
Jay-Z
Jay-Z. He pulled out for personal reasons five weeks before the show, and Maroon 5 were among the acts fans had asked for most on the festival's social networks.
Q 30Which keyboardist replaced Jesse Carmichael when he took a break from Maroon 5 in 2012?
PJ Morton
PJ Morton. He had been touring with the band since 2010, and when Carmichael came back two years later Morton stayed on, turning the five-piece into six.