Queen Band Trivia
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110 free Queen Band trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Queen band trivia quiz runs from a Truro fundraiser in 1970 to the Platinum Jubilee stage outside Buckingham Palace. It covers the four members before Queen (a dental student, a physics student who built his own guitar, an electronics whiz from Leicester and an art-college kid from Zanzibar), the albums from Queen II to Made in Heaven, and the moments everyone remembers: Kenny Everett playing Bohemian Rhapsody fourteen times in a weekend, Live Aid, the Wayne's World headbang, and the 2018 biopic that won Rami Malek an Oscar. Roughly a third of the questions are warm-ups any casual fan will get, a third need a bit of album knowledge, and the rest reward people who know why the early sleeves said No Synthesisers or which member fronted a side band called the Cross. Expect Brian May's asteroid, the Queen crest's zodiac signs and the record that Greatest Hits still holds in the UK. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and band records before publishing, and each question carries the sentence that establishes it. If you think one is wrong, use the report button and we will look again.
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Q 01Before Queen, May and Taylor played together in which band?
Smile
Smile's singer Tim Staffell quit in 1970; his art-college friend Freddie Bulsara took over the microphone and suggested a new name.
Q 02In his will, Freddie Mercury left his London mansion, Garden Lodge, to whom?
Mary Austin
Mary Austin, his girlfriend in the early 1970s, stayed his closest friend, and he told her, 'You would have been my wife, and it would have been yours anyway.'
Q 03Mercury was born on which island?
Zanzibar
Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara in Stone Town, Zanzibar, and his family fled to England after the 1964 revolution.
Q 04Which Queen hit took its title from a phrase Roger Taylor's young son used for a song he disliked?
Radio Ga Ga
Taylor's son Felix called a song on the radio 'ca-ca', and Taylor turned the insult into the celebration Radio Ga Ga.
Q 05A statue of Freddie Mercury faces Lake Geneva in which Swiss town where Queen owned a recording studio?
Montreux
Queen bought Montreux's Mountain Studios and recorded several albums there, and Mercury's statue stands in the town's lakeside market square.
Q 06Queen guitarist Brian May holds a PhD in which subject?
Astrophysics
Brian May's astrophysics PhD came from Imperial College London, and an asteroid is named after him.
Q 07What is the name of the guitar Brian May built with his father in 1963?
Red Special
Brian May and his father built the Red Special from salvaged materials, carving its neck from an old fireplace mantel.
Q 08Which song gave Queen their first UK hit single, reaching number 10 in 1974?
Seven Seas of Rhye
Seven Seas of Rhye broke through after Queen mimed it on Top of the Pops in February 1974, filling a slot another act couldn't make.
Q 09"Killer Queen", the band's first US hit, was written about what kind of person?
A high-class prostitute
Mercury said Killer Queen is about a high-class prostitute, telling NME he wanted to show that classy people can be call girls too.
Q 10A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races both take their names from films by which comedy act?
The Marx Brothers
Both titles come from Marx Brothers films, and Groucho Marx later invited Queen to his Los Angeles home, where they sang '39 for him.
Q 11After nine weeks at UK number one, 'Bohemian Rhapsody' was finally knocked off the top by which ABBA hit?
Mamma Mia
Mamma Mia took over on 31 January 1976, ending the run that had made Bohemian Rhapsody the 1975 Christmas number one.
Q 12Which Capital Radio DJ played "Bohemian Rhapsody" fourteen times in one weekend?
Kenny Everett
Kenny Everett aired his advance copy before release, and his repeated plays helped get the long song out as a single.
Q 13Roughly how long did it take to shoot Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" music video?
Four hours
Four hours or so: accounts range from three hours to just over four, and its success made promo videos a standard way to sell singles.
Q 21Queen recorded the soundtrack for which 1980 science-fiction film?
Flash Gordon
Queen's Flash Gordon soundtrack mixes the film's dialogue into its songs, unlike most soundtrack albums.
Q 22"Under Pressure", Queen's 1981 UK number one, was a collaboration with which artist?
David Bowie
David Bowie's studio visit became an impromptu jam, and Under Pressure grew from the scat singing he and Mercury improvised.
Q 23As of 2025, which Queen album was the best-selling album of all time in the UK?
Greatest Hits
Greatest Hits, released in 1981, had sold more than 7.8 million copies in the UK by 2026, making it the country's best-selling album.
Q 14Which 1992 film gave "Bohemian Rhapsody" a second life in the US with a car headbanging scene?
Wayne's World
Mike Myers insisted on Bohemian Rhapsody for the Wayne's World car scene, and the 1992 re-release climbed to number two in the US.
Q 15Which football anthem did a Stafford crowd sing back to Queen, inspiring Brian May's stomp-and-clap hit?
You'll Never Walk Alone
You'll Never Walk Alone rang out at Bingley Hall, so May wrote We Will Rock You for crowds to stamp, clap and sing along to.
Q 16"Bicycle Race" and "Fat Bottomed Girls" were released as a double-sided single from which 1978 album?
Jazz
To promote Jazz, Queen filmed 65 models racing bicycles nude at Wimbledon Stadium, and the bike hire firm reportedly made them pay for new seats.
Q 17Which song was Queen's first US number one, topping the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks?
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Mercury wrote Crazy Little Thing Called Love in a Munich hotel bath as a tribute to Elvis Presley.
Q 18Which pop star suggested backstage that "Another One Bites the Dust" be released as a single?
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson urged Queen backstage after a Los Angeles concert, and the single went on to top the US chart.
Q 19Which member wrote "Another One Bites the Dust" and "You're My Best Friend"?
John Deacon
John Deacon also built the Deacy Amp from a radio circuit board he found in a builder's skip, and Brian May used it to mimic orchestral instruments.
Q 20The Game (1980) was the first Queen album to use what instrument, despite earlier sleeve notes?
A synthesiser
The Game was the first Queen album with a synthesiser, an Oberheim OB-X, after earlier sleeves had proudly noted that no synthesisers were used.
Q 24Which 1982 funk-and-disco album, recorded mostly in Munich, split the band and confused fans?
Hot Space
Hot Space chased the dance success of Another One Bites the Dust, and some fans came to concerts with 'Disco Sucks' signs.
Q 25The cross-dressing video for "I Want to Break Free" spoofed which British soap opera?
Coronation Street
Roger Taylor's then-girlfriend suggested the Coronation Street spoof, and MTV banned the video in the US.
Q 26Queen's 1984 concerts at Sun City drew outrage because the venue was in which country?
South Africa
South Africa's apartheid drew a UN-backed cultural boycott, and the British Musicians' Union fined Queen for playing Sun City.
Q 27Queen's celebrated Live Aid set was played at which venue on 13 July 1985?
Wembley Stadium
Queen's 21-minute set at Wembley Stadium was voted the greatest live performance in rock history in a 2005 industry poll.
Q 28Mercury's sustained "Aaaaaay-o" during the Live Aid a cappella section became known by what nickname?
The Note Heard Round the World
The Note Heard Round the World inspired another nickname that day: Simon Le Bon's cracked high note became 'The Bum Note Heard Round the World'.
Q 29The 1986 album A Kind of Magic reworked songs written for which fantasy film?
Highlander
Highlander's hero Connor MacLeod says 'it's a kind of magic', and Roger Taylor turned the line into a song for the film.
Q 30Where did Mercury give his final concert with Queen, on 9 August 1986?
Knebworth Park
Knebworth Park drew an official crowd of 120,000, and it was the classic line-up's final show.