Movie Soundtrack Trivia
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100 free Movie Soundtrack trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
41 free Movie Soundtrack trivia questions with answers. Some soundtracks outsold the films they came from, and a few outsold almost everything else. This soundtrack trivia quiz covers the biggest of them: Whitney Houston and The Bodyguard, the Bee Gees and Saturday Night Fever, Prince's Purple Rain, James Horner's Titanic and 'My Heart Will Go On', Grease, Flashdance, Top Gun, Dirty Dancing, The Lion King, Frozen and Encanto, Trainspotting, Pulp Fiction, O Brother Where Art Thou, 8 Mile, Guardians of the Galaxy, A Star Is Born, Black Panther and Barbie. There are questions on the scores too: John Williams' two-note shark, Vangelis and his synthesizer, Isaac Hayes' Oscar for Shaft, and the Simon & Garfunkel songs in The Graduate. Easy questions ask who sang 'Let It Go' and which film gave us 'Eye of the Tiger'; the hard ones want the band that was supposed to record 'Danger Zone', the number of weeks Dirty Dancing sat at number one and the only three soundtracks ever to win the Grammy for Album of the Year. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the albums, songs and films, and each question carries the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01Which soundtrack is the best-selling of all time?
The Bodyguard
The Bodyguard. Its signature ballad was a late swap: Whitney Houston was due to cover 'What Becomes of the Brokenhearted' until another film used it, so she sang Dolly Parton's 'I Will Always Love You' instead.
Q 02Which actor insisted on Whitney Houston as his co-star for her acting debut in 1992?
Kevin Costner
Kevin Costner. To get her, he held the production back for about a year, until her world tour had finished.
Q 03Which group wrote and sang the biggest hits on the 1977 John Travolta disco film's soundtrack?
The Bee Gees
The Bee Gees were only brought in during post-production: on set, John Travolta had been dancing to Stevie Wonder and Boz Scaggs.
Q 04Which John Travolta film hit did its label want retitled 'Saturday Night'?
'Stayin' Alive'
'Stayin' Alive'. Its writers said too many songs were already called 'Saturday Night', and told their producer they would keep it for their own album if he disliked the new title.
Q 05Which album held the title of best-selling album in history until Michael Jackson's Thriller?
Saturday Night Fever
Saturday Night Fever. The film behind it was based on a magazine report on Brooklyn's disco dancers that its author, Nik Cohn, admitted in the 1990s he had largely made up.
Q 06Which two Purple Rain singles topped the Billboard Hot 100?
'When Doves Cry' and 'Let's Go Crazy'
'When Doves Cry' and 'Let's Go Crazy'. Prince pulled the bass line out of the first at the last minute to make it less conventional, and it became the biggest US single of 1984.
Q 07Who composed the orchestral score for the 1997 film Titanic?
James Horner
James Horner. The director wrote the script listening to Enya and approached her first; when she declined, Horner kept a Celtic sound, with Norwegian singer Sissel supplying the wordless vocals.
Q 08Who initially opposed putting a pop ballad like 'My Heart Will Go On' in Titanic?
James Cameron
James Cameron feared that ending the film on a pop song would look commercial, so the composer had Celine Dion record a demo and waited for him to be in a good mood before playing it.
Q 09Who sang the title song of Grease, written for the film by Barry Gibb?
Frankie Valli
Frankie Valli. By his account he was offered a choice between singing the title song and appearing in the film; he took the song, and another Frankie, Avalon, played the Teen Angel.
Q 10Which group plays the dance band in Grease and has six songs on its soundtrack?
Sha Na Na
Sha Na Na appear as Johnny Casino and the Gamblers. The 1950s revival act had won a slot at Woodstock nine years earlier with Jimi Hendrix's help, playing just before he closed the festival.
Q 11Who recorded 'Danger Zone' for Top Gun after plans for Toto to sing it fell through?
Kenny Loggins
Kenny Loggins. The song had done the rounds first: he says REO Speedwagon's Kevin Cronin told him he passed on it because the notes were too high for his voice.
Q 12Which Top Gun song won both the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Original Song?
'Take My Breath Away'
'Take My Breath Away'. It was Berlin's biggest hit and its undoing: founder John Crawford had no hand in writing it, and the band split the following year.
Q 13Which 1987 film's soundtrack spent 18 weeks atop the Billboard 200?
Dirty Dancing
Q 21Who sings 'Let It Go' within the film Frozen?
Idina Menzel
Idina Menzel. Her character, Elsa, was first written as a villain, and only after the song was composed did the directors rewrite her as one of the film's heroines.
Q 22'We Don't Talk About Bruno' was Disney animation's first Hot 100 number one since which song?
'A Whole New World'
'A Whole New World', from Aladdin, reached number one in 1993, and no song from a Disney cartoon matched it until 'Bruno', which the studio had not even put forward for the Oscars.
Q 23Which surf-guitar track opens Pulp Fiction and its soundtrack?
'Misirlou'
Dirty Dancing. Few who saw it early expected a hit: one producer told its makers to burn the negative and collect the insurance.
Q 14Which film star sang the 1987 soundtrack hit 'She's Like the Wind'?
Patrick Swayze
Patrick Swayze co-wrote it in 1984 for another of his films, Grandview, U.S.A., which turned it down, and he later played the demo to the producers of his new one.
Q 15Which composer produced Flashdance's music and shared the Oscar for its title song, 'What a Feeling'?
Giorgio Moroder
Giorgio Moroder composed and produced it, while Irene Cara, who co-wrote the words with Keith Forsey, sang a lyric in which the word 'Flashdance' never once appears.
Q 16'Eye of the Tiger' was written for Rocky III after Queen refused Stallone the use of which song?
'Another One Bites the Dust'
'Another One Bites the Dust' was still on the rough cut Stallone sent to Survivor, who slashed out their guitar chords in time with the punches on screen.
Q 17Which musician sued Ray Parker Jr., claiming the Ghostbusters theme copied 'I Want a New Drug'?
Huey Lewis
Huey Lewis settled out of court in 1985 on terms that barred both men from discussing the case, so when he raised it on VH1's Behind the Music in 2001, Parker sued him.
Q 18Which song beat 'Ghostbusters' to the 1984 Oscar for Best Original Song?
'I Just Called to Say I Love You'
'I Just Called to Say I Love You', from The Woman in Red. Stevie Wonder accepted the Oscar in the name of the jailed Nelson Mandela, and South Africa banned his music from its radio the next day.
Q 19Which film's soundtrack was the first made up entirely of older songs to top the Billboard 200?
Guardians of the Galaxy
Guardians of the Galaxy. Its 1960s and 70s hits play from a mixtape in Peter Quill's Walkman, his one link to the Earth and family he lost, and the album was later reissued on cassette to match.
Q 20Which composer scored The Lion King, with songs by Elton John and Tim Rice?
Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer. Disney hired him on the strength of two earlier scores for films set in Africa, and he brought in the South African composer Lebo M to arrange its choirs.
'Misirlou'. Dick Dale's 1962 surf version reworked a folk tune from the eastern Mediterranean, and its use in the film relaunched his career with new albums and world tours.
Q 24Which Neil Diamond song did Urge Overkill cover on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack?
'Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon'
'Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon'. Urge Overkill had put the cover out on a 1992 EP, two years before Tarantino picked it up and the film carried the band into the Hot 100.
Q 25Which Coen film's soundtrack won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 2002?
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
O Brother, Where Art Thou? George Clooney only mimed its hit 'I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow': the lead voice of his Soggy Bottom Boys belonged to bluegrass singer Dan Tyminski.
Q 26Which singer's James Bond theme became the first to win the Oscar for Best Original Song, in 2013?
Adele
Adele. 'Skyfall' ended a fifty-year wait in which nominated themes such as 'Nobody Does It Better' had all lost, and the next two Bond songs went on to win as well.
Q 27'Lose Yourself', which won the Oscar for Best Original Song, came from which film's soundtrack?
8 Mile
8 Mile. Eminem skipped the Oscars, sure he had no chance, and was asleep at home when 'Lose Yourself' became the first rap song to take the award.
Q 28Which song from A Star Is Born (2018) won the Academy Award, the Golden Globe and two Grammys?
'Shallow'
'Shallow' began as an end-credits song. Co-writer Mark Ronson has said an early script had the hero drowning, which is where its lines about diving in off the deep end came from.
Q 29Which rapper curated Black Panther: The Album and duetted with SZA on 'All the Stars'?
Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick Lamar was asked by director Ryan Coogler for only a few songs, but after seeing an early cut of the film he decided to produce a whole album instead.
Q 30Which Barbie the Album track won the Grammy for Song of the Year?
'What Was I Made For?'
'What Was I Made For?'. Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas wrote it after Greta Gerwig showed them a rough cut, ending a long spell of writer's block, and it went on to win the Oscar too.