The Eagles Trivia (Band)
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127 free The Eagles Trivia (Band) trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This is the big Eagles trivia quiz: 127 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
Los Angeles was home base: Frey, Henley, Meisner and Leadon met on the city's club scene and played together only once as a backing band, at Disneyland in 1971.
Q 02Which singer's backing band brought the four founding Eagles together?
Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt's touring band was where Frey, Henley, Meisner and Leadon first played together in 1971; all four then played on her self-titled 1972 album.
Q 03Which label, newly started by David Geffen, signed the Eagles in 1971?
Asylum Records
Asylum Records, founded by David Geffen and Elliot Roberts in 1971, signed the Eagles after Geffen bought out Frey and Henley's Amos Records contracts 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
Billed as Teen King and the Emergencies, the as-yet-unnamed band played The Gallery club in Aspen in October 1971; the Eagles name came later 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
Steve Martin, a Troubadour friend, wrote in his memoir that he suggested 'the Eagles', but Frey insisted the group's name was simply 'Eagles', with no 'the'.
Q 06Which of these was NOT one of the four founding members of the Eagles in 1971?
Joe Walsh
Joe Walsh 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
Drums and lead vocals at once: Henley sang '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
Glyn Johns produced Eagles (1972) and Desperado (1973) in London, shaping the country-rock harmony sound before the band parted with him during their third album.
Q 09At which London studio was the debut album Eagles recorded?
Olympic Studios
Olympic Studios in Barnes, London, hosted the February 1972 sessions; the album reached number 22 in the US and yielded three Top 40 singles.
Q 10Who co-wrote "Take It Easy" with Frey?
Jackson Browne
Jackson Browne had stalled on the second verse; Frey finished it, and Browne then completed the song, which became the Eagles' first single.
Q 11Which Arizona town, name-checked in "Take It Easy", built a statue and park in the song's honour?
Winslow
Winslow's Standin' on the Corner Park, dedicated in 1999, marks the verse Jackson Browne wrote after a long day stuck in the town while driving across Arizona.
Q 12What chart position did "Take It Easy" reach on the Billboard Hot 100?
12
'Take It Easy' peaked at number 12 on the Hot 100 in July 1972; 'Witchy Woman' then went to number 9 and 'Peaceful Easy Feeling' to number 22.
Q 13Who wrote "Peaceful Easy Feeling"?
Jack Tempchin
Jack Tempchin wrote 'Peaceful Easy Feeling' in 1970, sketching an early version on the back of a gig poster after sleeping on a club floor in El Centro, California.
Q 21Which producer took over from the English producer during On the Border?
Bill Szymczyk
Bill Szymczyk replaced Glyn Johns midway through On the Border (1974), pushing the band toward a harder rock sound; Don Felder was brought in to play slide on 'Good Day in Hell'.
Q 22What nickname did Frey give Felder at their first backstage jam?
Fingers
Frey dubbed him 'Fingers' after that jam; Felder and Leadon had played together as teenagers in Gainesville, Florida, in the Maundy Quintet.
Q 23Which song became the Eagles' first US number-one single in March 1975?
Best of My Love
'Best of My Love' topped the Hot 100 on 1 March 1975; Frey found the tune while fooling with a guitar tuning Joni Mitchell had shown him, and JD Souther co-wrote it.
Q 14Which Eagle co-wrote "Witchy Woman" with Henley?
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
The Eagles opened for Yes on the Close to the Edge tour in 1972; Don Felder first jammed with the band backstage at one of those shows, in Boston.
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
Emmett Dalton was 21 at the Dalton Gang's October 1892 raid on Coffeyville, Kansas; he was shot 23 times and survived. Bernie 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 19Which Eagles standard was never released as a single?
Desperado
'Desperado' was never issued as a single yet became a signature song, covered by Linda Ronstadt on her 1973 album Don't Cry Now; the other three were all hit singles.
Q 20What position did the Desperado album peak at on the Billboard chart?
41
Desperado peaked at number 41 on the Billboard album chart in 1973; its singles 'Tequila Sunrise' and 'Outlaw Man' only reached 64 and 59.
Q 24Which 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 25Which 1974 festival at Ontario Motor Speedway did the Eagles play alongside Deep Purple and ELP?
California Jam
California Jam drew some 200,000 to the Ontario Motor Speedway on 6 April 1974; the Eagles played with Jackson Browne sitting in for Don Felder, who was away for his son's birth.
Q 26Which album became the Eagles' first US number-one album in 1975?
One of These Nights
One of These Nights reached number one in July 1975, the band's first chart-topping album and the first of four consecutive Eagles number ones.
Q 27Which song won the Eagles their first Grammy?
Lyin' Eyes
'Lyin' Eyes' won Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group at the 1976 Grammys; it had reached number 2 on the Hot 100 and was the band's first country Top 10.
Q 28At which LA bar did Frey and Henley get the idea for their song about a cheating wife?
Dan Tana's
At Dan Tana's, an Italian restaurant in West Hollywood, they spotted a beautiful young woman with a much older wealthy man; Frey remarked that she couldn't hide those lyin' eyes.
Q 29Which is the only Eagles single to feature Meisner on lead vocals?
Take It to the Limit
'Take It to the Limit' reached number 4 in 1976 with Meisner's lead vocal; his refusal to sing its high finale at a 1977 show sparked the fight with Frey that ended his time in the band.
Q 30Which Leadon instrumental became the theme for the BBC's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
Journey of the Sorcerer
'Journey of the Sorcerer', Leadon's banjo-led instrumental from One of These Nights (1975), was picked by Douglas Adams as the theme for the 1978 BBC radio Hitchhiker's Guide.