Music trivia quizzes

Music quizzes

• Bollywood Songs: Hook Step Hits Bollywood songs · 257 questions Name the Bollywood song from the hook step, the stars, the remake or the reel, from Chaiyya Chaiyya and Kajra Re to now. Humming allowed, lyrics not.
• Desi Hip Hop: Bars Pe Bars Desi Hip Hop · 111 questions Divine to Hanumankind, Honey Singh to Seedhe Maut: India's rap story, from the gully to the globe.
• Hip-Hop: Mic Drop Hip-Hop · 123 questions Rappers, albums, beefs and records: fifty years of hip-hop, from Bronx block parties to the Super Bowl stage.
• K-Pop: Bias Check K-pop · 160 questions BTS, BLACKPINK, Stray Kids, NewJeans and more: fandoms, lightsticks, comebacks and lingo. Who's your bias?
• Pop Hits on Repeat Pop songs · 322 questions The biggest pop hits from Britney to now, hidden in their back stories. Crack the clue, name the song.
• Pop Stars: Main Pop Girls Pop stars · 238 questions Sabrina, Olivia, Billie, Ariana, Chappell, Charli, Dua, Gaga, Beyoncé and Rihanna: the roots, eras, tours and records. Taylor sits this one out.
• Punjabi Music: Volume Full Punjabi Music · 102 questions Diljit, Aujla, AP Dhillon and the bhangra legends, from pind to Coachella to Wembley. Turn it up.
• Rock Legends: Know Your Band Tee Rock bands · 171 questions The Beatles to Linkin Park: albums, members, reunions and wild tour stories. Prove you know the band on your T-shirt.
• Taylor Swift: Easter Egg Hunt Taylor Swift · 154 questions Eras, albums, Taylor's Versions, tour records and the Easter eggs Swifties never miss. Are you ready for it?

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1. Bollywood Songs: Hook Step Hits

   Shantanu Moitra made this 3 Idiots rain duet with Aamir and Kareena as a retro tribute to classic Hindi film love songs. Name it.

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   Zoobi Doobi

   It's Pia's daydream; Sonu Nigam and Shreya Ghoshal sang it.

2. Desi Hip Hop: Bars Pe Bars

   Which 2021 Badshah song with Nikhita Gandhi set off a hook-step challenge that Alia Bhatt and Katrina Kaif joined?

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   Jugnu

   Badshah said he had worked on its retro-synth sound for a while, and was overjoyed when the dance went viral.

3. Hip-Hop: Mic Drop

   Since 2019 the NFL's partner for the Super Bowl halftime show has been an entertainment company founded by Beyoncé's husband. Name it.

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   Roc Nation

   That's why Jay-Z's team has helped produce every halftime show since, Kendrick Lamar's included.

4. K-Pop: Bias Check

   SM's 2019 supergroup took stars from SHINee, EXO, NCT and WayV and sold them as "the Avengers of K-pop". What was it called?

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   SuperM

   They went straight to No. 1 in the US with their first EP. Even a real Avengers comic book deal followed.

5. Pop Hits on Repeat

   Nirvana's 1991 anthem Smells Like Teen Spirit is named after words a friend scrawled on Kurt Cobain's wall. Teen Spirit was really a brand of what?

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   Deodorant

   Cobain thought the phrase sounded like a rebel slogan; his girlfriend had just found the product in a grocery store.

6. Pop Stars: Main Pop Girls

   Beyoncé's whisky SirDavis honours an ancestor, Davis Hogue, who was what kind of illegal drink-maker?

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   Moonshiner

   He was a farmer in the South during Prohibition, and she sings about being the grandbaby of a moonshine man.

7. Punjabi Music: Volume Full

   Talwiinder's 2024 love song 'Tu' reunited an 80s Bollywood screen couple after three decades: Neelam Kothari and which actor?

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   Jackie Shroff

   The video opens with the pair on a bike ride, and fans flooded the comments with nostalgia.

8. Rock Legends: Know Your Band Tee

   In the 2004 documentary Some Kind of Monster, Metallica hire what kind of expert to stop the band falling apart?

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   A therapist

   Phil Towle, billed as a 'performance enhancement coach', sat in on their sessions until the band began to reject his methods.

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