Quizzes have become pretty popular during lockdown, thanks in no small part to the fact that pubs remain firmly shut as other businesses start to reopen. But from this, the virtual pub quiz has been born.

When it comes to trivia, we've all got our specialities - and if your area of expertise happens to be music then this quiz will be right up your street.

But we've tried to get a good range of genres and eras in here, so it would be extremely impressive if you could get all of these right.

Besides, we're still in lockdown, and the nice weather looks like it's going away, so what better way to spend the time than with a virtual pub quiz, right?

So grab a cold drink from the fridge, log into Zoom with your mates and see how many of these you can answer. And when you're done, why not check out our other quizzes?


1. Which Drake song broke No.1 records in summer 2016?

Rapper Drake (R) and Sandi Graham attend the Songwriters Hall of Fame 42nd Annual Induction and Awards at The New York Marriott Marquis Hotel

2. Hayley Williams is the lead singer of which rock band?

3. How many strings does a traditional bass guitar have?

4. Which legendary singer-songwriter is set to release his 39th studio album next month? Clue: He also holds a Nobel Prize in Literature.

5. You'll Never Walk Alone, which is now known as the anthem of several football clubs including Liverpool, was featured in which musical?

6. Which DJ married Zoe Ball in 1999?

7. Which singer was born Harry Rodger Webb and is currently the third highest selling musician in the history of the UK singles chart?

8. Where was Love in the 1994 hit by Wet Wet Wet?

Wet Wet Wet perform their The Big Picture Tour at the Metro Radio Arena.

9. Who was younger when their debut album was released: Lorde or Billie Eilish?

10. Which group wrote the rock opera “Tommy”?

11. What year was Eminem's iconic The Real Slim Shady released? (closest answer wins)

Eminem performed at Reading and Leeds last year
Eminem performed at Reading and Leeds last year

12. Johnny Cash covered which Nine Inch Nails song, which was famously used for the movie trailer for Logan?

13. What decade was The Cure's Friday I'm in Love released?

14. Which legendary producer worked on Michael Jackson's Off the Wall, Thriller and Bad albums?

15. Paranoid Android was the lead single from which groundbreaking Radiohead album?

16. Who sang lead vocals on Fleetwood Mac's Gypsy?

17. Which American metal band released One as their first ever music video?

18. In which track by The Smiths did Morrissey sing: "Punctured bicycle / On a hillside desolate / Will nature make a man of me yet?"

The Smiths frontman, Morrissey

19. Who pioneered the genre of dubstep with tracks like Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites and First of the Year (Equinox)?

20. True or false: At many Beatles concerts, the cheering from fans was so loud the band couldn't hear themselves play?

21. In which city in Sweden was ABBA formed?

22. Who was the most streamed artist on Spotify in 2019?

23. Which legendary soul singer died in 2018 at the age of 76?

24. How many members of Led Zeppelin are still alive?

25. Krist Novoselic was the bass guitarist in which band that also featured Dave Grohl?


  1. One Dance
  2. Paramore
  3. Four
  4. Bob Dylan
  5. Carousel
  6. Fatboy Slim (Norman Cook)
  7. Sir Cliff Richard
  8. All around (Love is All Around)
  9. Lorde - she was 16 when Pure Heroine was released. Billie Eilish was 17 when When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go? was released
  10. The Who
  11. 2000
  12. Hurt
  13. The 1990s
  14. Quincy Jones
  15. OK Computer
  16. Stevie Nicks
  17. Metallica
  18. This Charming Man
  19. Skrillex
  20. True
  21. Stockholme
  22. Post Malone
  23. Aretha Franklin
  24. Three - Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones
  25. Nirvana