130 free The Eagles Trivia (Band) trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This is the big Eagles trivia quiz: 130 questions on the country-rock band that formed in Los Angeles in 1971 and went on to sell more than 200 million records. It covers all seven official members from Glenn Frey and Don Henley to Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit, every studio album from the 1972 debut to Long Road Out of Eden, and the singles that made them the biggest American band of the 1970s. The easy questions are for anyone who has heard Hotel California or Take It Easy on the radio; the hard ones are for people who know which Eagle sang lead on which song, who poured a beer over whose head, and how many edits were spliced together to make the Hotel California master. There are questions on the making of Hotel California, the record-breaking Their Greatest Hits, the Long Night at Wrong Beach, the 14-year vacation and Hell Freezes Over, the Don Felder lawsuit, the members' solo hits, the History of the Eagles documentary and the Sphere residency. No lyrics are quoted anywhere; the questions are about the songs, the people, the charts and the stories behind them. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries for the band, its members, its albums and its songs before publishing, and the supporting sentence is stored with each question. If you enjoy this one, try our Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin and 1970s music quizzes next. Looking for the Philadelphia Eagles instead? We have a separate NFL quiz for that.
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Q 01In which city did the Eagles form in 1971?
Los Angeles
The four founders had all been playing behind the same singer, and played live together behind her only once, at Disneyland.
Q 02Which singer's backing band brought the four founding Eagles together?
Linda Ronstadt
Frey credited her with suggesting the band's banjo player; all four played on her self-titled 1972 album.
Q 03Which label, newly started by David Geffen, signed the Eagles in 1971?
Asylum Records
Geffen bought out Frey and Henley's contracts with Amos Records and sent the band to Aspen to develop.
Q 04Under what name did the band play its first show in Aspen in October 1971?
Teen King and the Emergencies
They had not yet settled on a name; the Eagles idea came on a peyote-and-tequila trip in the Mojave Desert.
Q 05Which comedian, a Troubadour friend, claims he suggested calling them "the Eagles"?
Steve Martin
Frey insists the group's name is simply "Eagles", with no "the".
Q 06Which of these was NOT one of the four founding members?
Joe Walsh
He arrived in 1975 as Leadon's replacement; Don Felder had joined as the fifth Eagle in 1974.
Q 07Which instrument did Henley play in the band?
Drums
He sang lead on "Hotel California", "Desperado", "Witchy Woman" and "The Long Run" from behind the kit.
Q 08Who produced the Eagles' first two albums in England?
Glyn Johns
He is credited with shaping them into the country-rock band with those high-flying harmonies.
Q 09At which London studio was the debut album Eagles recorded?
Olympic Studios
It reached number 22 and gave the band three Top 40 singles.
Q 10Who co-wrote "Take It Easy" with Frey?
Jackson Browne
Browne had stalled on the second verse; Frey finished it, and Browne then completed the song.
Q 11Which Arizona town, name-checked in "Take It Easy", built a statue and park in the song's honour?
Winslow
Frey said the verse referred to a long day Browne spent there after his car broke down on a trip to Sedona.
Q 12What chart position did "Take It Easy" reach on the Billboard Hot 100?
12
"Witchy Woman" then went to 9 and "Peaceful Easy Feeling" to 22.
Q 13Who wrote "Peaceful Easy Feeling"?
Jack Tempchin
He wrote an early version on the back of a gig poster after sleeping on the floor of a club in El Centro.
Q 14Which Eagle co-wrote "Witchy Woman" with Henley?
Q 21What position did the Desperado album peak at on the Billboard chart?
41
Its singles "Tequila Sunrise" and "Outlaw Man" only reached 64 and 59.
Q 22Which producer took over from the English producer during On the Border?
Bill Szymczyk
He wanted a harder-edged guitarist for "Good Day in Hell", which is how Don Felder came in.
Q 23What nickname did Frey give Felder at their first backstage jam?
Fingers
Felder was Leadon's childhood friend from Gainesville High School.
Q 24Which song became the Eagles' first US number-one single in March 1975?
Bernie Leadon
He had started it while still in the Flying Burrito Brothers; it was Henley's only writing credit on the debut.
Q 15Which British prog band did the Eagles support on the Close to the Edge tour?
Yes
Don Felder first jammed with the band backstage at one of those shows, in Boston in 1972.
Q 16What theme runs through the second album, Desperado?
Old West outlaws
The band drew comparisons between outlaw gangs and rock stars, and posed as a gang on the cover.
Q 17Which outlaw's age during the Coffeyville raid gave the Desperado song "Twenty-One" its title?
Emmett Dalton
He was shot 23 times in the 1892 raid and survived; Leadon wrote the song.
Q 18What is unique about the Desperado cover among Eagles albums?
The band members appear on the front
They are dressed as an outlaw gang; the back shows them lying dead and bound before a posse.
Q 19How high did the title track "Desperado" climb on the Hot 100?
It never came out as a 45
Even so, it became one of the band's best-known songs and their most-performed live.
Q 20Whose recording of "Georgia On My Mind" inspired the piano introduction of "Desperado"?
Ray Charles
Henley based the song on one he had started in 1968 in the style of Stephen Foster, originally about a friend named Leo.
Best of My Love
Frey found the tune while fooling with a guitar tuning Joni Mitchell had shown him.
Q 25Which Tom Waits song did the Eagles cover on On the Border?
Ol' '55
The album also included "James Dean", left over from the anti-heroes concept that became Desperado.
Q 26Who filled in on piano and guitar when Felder missed the 1974 California Jam for his son's birth?
Jackson Browne
The festival drew more than 300,000 and was billed as the Woodstock of the West Coast.
Q 27Which album became the Eagles' first US number-one album in 1975?
One of These Nights
It made them international superstars and was the first of four consecutive chart-toppers.
Q 28Which song won the Eagles their first Grammy?
Lyin' Eyes
It reached number 2 and was also their only Top 40 country hit until "How Long" in 2007.
Q 29At which LA bar did Frey and Henley get the idea for their song about a cheating wife?
Dan Tana's
They spotted a beautiful young woman with a much older wealthy man, and Frey supplied the title.
Q 30Which is the only Eagles single to feature Meisner on lead vocals?
Take It to the Limit
His struggle to hit its high notes on stage led directly to his leaving the band.