Music Trivia

80s Music Trivia Quiz Questions with Answers

• May 16, 2022

The 80s was one of the best eras in modern music. The golden era is known for electronic dance music and Modern Rock. The 80s music trivia quiz is the best option for hosting on House Party, Google Hangouts, Zoom, or Messenger. The 80s music trivia quiz takes your friends and family back to the era of massive hairdos and cassette players.

1. In what year did Michael Jackson release the Bad album?

2. Who duetted with Madonna on Love Song on her Like A Prayer album?

3. Who told us to Relax?

4. What was the biggest selling single of the 80s in the UK?

5. Who just called to say they loved you?

6. What was the theme song for the 1982 film Rocky III?

7. Name the band fronted by the singer Sting.

8. Which British ska band sang about their Baggy Trousers?

9. Mick Jagger and David Bowie had a hit with which song?

10. Who sang the hits Locomotion, I Should Be So Lucky, and Hand on Your Heart?

11. Which Lionel Ritchie song is also a salutation?

12. Which famous Beatle wrote We All Stand Together for the film Rupert and the Frog Chorus?

13. Which Journey song from the 80s saw a revival in popularity thanks to the tv show Glee?

14. Who sang Girls Just Want To Have Fun?

15. What was the first music video aired on the brand new MTV channel launched in 1981?

16. Little Lies was a hit for which band?

17. Kenny Loggins's song Danger Zone is the theme song for what film?

18. Which Irish band released the albums War, The Unforgettable Fire, and The Joshua Tree?

19. Straight Outta Compton was a game-changing album in hip-hop by which group?

20. Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel knocked his former band off the number 1 spot of the billboard hot 100. What was the name of the band?

21. What is Love Got To Do With It was a Grammy-award-winning song for which artist?

22. Who wrote and sang the hit 9 to 5 and starred in the film of the same name?

23. Who wanted to fight for your right to party?

24. Which rocketman had a hit with I am Still Standing?

25. Which artist was the most charted British female solo act of the 1980s and famed for singing Kids in America?

26. The song Aint' Nobody was a hit for which funk band and singer?

27. Which Rick Astley song became number one in 25 countries?

28. Which Simple Minds song features in the opening and closing credits of the film The Breakfast Club?

29. Which Motown legend had a hit in the 80s with Chain Reaction?

30. Which band had the hit Atomic?

31. In what year did The Bangles release Eternal Flame?

32. 'The Power of Love by Huey Lewis and The News was the theme song to which blockbuster film in 1985?

33. Which band sang about Money for Nothing?

34. Who sang the hit Celebration in 1981?

35. The Motown group The Four Tops had a surprise UK hit in 1988 singing about having fun in which Mexican city?

36. Which hip hop group did a cover and collaboration on the Aerosmith song Walk This Way?

37. Which famously reclusive artist is known for the hits Babooshka, Army Dreamers, and Cloudbusting?

38. Which Irish woman gave us Orinoco Flow?

39. Fast Car and Baby Can I Hold You were hits for which singer-songwriter?

40. Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe from which English synth-pop duo?

41. Who sang the title track of the late 80s James Bond film license to kill?

42. Who told you that they were, In The Army Now?

43. Who fronted Culture Club?

44. Graham McPherson of Madness was known as what?

45. Which Kim reached No.2 in 1981, 24 years after dad Marty?

46. Which Spanish singer had the UK's first chart-topper in Spanish?

47. David Sylvian was part of which Asian-sounding band?

48. David Bowie and Mick Jagger had a hit after which Concert?

49. Who was the oldest man on the charts with New York?

50. Who joined Cliff Richard for his 80s Living Doll?

51. Which TV puppets sand The Chicken Song?

52. Which red-haired Royal liked Lady in Red?

53. Which future England coach joined Waddle on Diamond Lights?

54. Who had a Xmas No.1 in 88 after 30 years in the charts?

55. Who sang backing vocals on Dire Straits' song (Money For Nothing)?

56. Who performed in the video of Always Something There to Remind Me:

57. Who dances on the sand in the Duran Duran song?

58. Who just called to say I love you?

59. Madness sing that their house located where?

60. Who went straight to the No.1 in 81 with Stand and Deliver?

61. What color Door gave Shakin' Stevens an 80s hit?

62. Which ex Beatle had a hit with Stevie Wonder in 1982?

63. Whose album did Thriller provide several hit singles?

64. Who was KC's backing Band?

65. Which Scot had a chart success after Esther Rantzen's The Big Time?

66. Which BBC Radio station banned Relax?

67. Ravel's Bolero carted because of which skaters' Olympic success?

68. The Bananarama song title has the name of which actor?

69. Which Superstar Rat sang Love Me Tender?

70. Which Alison's nickname was Alf?

71. Which Elaine and Barbara topped the charts in 1985?

72. Which Mrs. Andrew Lloyd Webber had a hit with Pie Jesu?

73. Who had hits as part of Visage and Ultravox?

74. Who sang Fade to Grey?

75. Which of these songs did Weird Al Yankovic NOT parody?

76. Which Australian band recorded the theme for the movie (Crocodile Dundee)?

77. What town did the group Lipps Inc. sing about in 1980?

78. Who sang (Swords of a Thousand Men) in 1981?

79. Name the song: I never meant to be so bad to you. One thing I said that I would never do:

80. Name the song: Put me in coach I am ready to play today:

81. Name the song: I had a friend who was a big baseball player back in high school:

82. Name the song: See yourself, give your free will a chance you have got to work to succeed:

83. Name the song: One likes to believe in the freedom of music:

84. Name the song: Making love to you was never second best:

85. Name the song: I have got to run away from the pain you drive into the heart of me:

86. Name the song: So wild so free so far from me you are all I want, my fantasy:

87. Name the song: If you got the money, honey! We got your disease:

88. Name the song: My baby may not be rich he is watching every dime:

89. Take your passion, and make it happen:

90. Name the song: I think they got the alias that you have been living under:

91. Name the song: Had a premonition that he should not of gone alone:

92. Name the song: And when the night is cold and dark, you can not see light:

93. Name the song: Don't drink, Don't smoke, what do ya do?

94. Name the song: Don't wanna be a girl like that, do you wanna see a grown man cry?

95. Name the song: Oceans apart, day after day, and I slowly go insane:

96. Name the song: Guess, I shoulda known by the way you parked your car sideways that it would not last:

97. Name the song: You are all the things I have got to remember:

98. Name the song: Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be:

99. Name the song: Sleight of hand and a twist of fate, on a bed of nails she makes me wait:

100. Name the song: She is so fine, she is all mine, the girl is all right!

101. Name the song: And your friends don't dance and if they don't dance well they are no friends of mine:

102. Name the song: Your feet are going to be on the ground, your head is there to move you around:

103. Name the song: Tin roof…… Rusted

104. Name the song: You are giving me the chills baby, please baby don't:

105. Name the song: I knew he must a been about seventeen:

106. Name the song: With the touch of a velvet glove:

107. Name the song: It is just another Sunday, in a tired old street:

108. Name the song: You got to roll with the punches to get to what is real:

109. Name the song: Just a look at that girl with the lights coming up in her eyes:

110. Name the song: It is gonna take a lot to drag me away from you, it is nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do:

111. Name the song: And heart to heart you win, if ya survive:

112. Name the song: Play the guitar on the MTV:

113. Name the song: Strange voices are saying, ah! What did they say? Things. I can not understand:

114. Name the song: Been working so hard. I am punching my card:

115. Name the song: I know just how to whisper, and I know just how to cry:

116. Name the song: At this moment, you mean everything!

117. Name the song: Tried my imagination, but I was disturbed:

118. Name the song: With every breath, I am deeper into you:

119. Name the song: Distant eyes, losing ground I am reaching for you, you, you:

120. Name the song: Music does the talking, says the things you wanna hear:

121. Name the song: And I have never been a loser and, I just can not lose tonight:

122. Name the song: And she is loving him with that body, I just know it:

123. Name the song: I am on the hunt, I am after you:

124. Name the song: Who needs a heart? When a heart can be broken:

125. Name the song: Let me tell you about the girl I met last night:

126. Who sang Senses Working Overtime in 1982?

127. Which band sang (Why Me) in 1983?

128. Who was behind (Crazy) and (You Sure Fooled Me?)

129. Who was the male vocalist with Paul McCartney in Ebony and Ivory in 1982?

130. Which band released songs in the 80s called Bodytalk and Just An Illusion?

131. With which song did Bucks Fizz win the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest?

132. In 1986, which Billboard Hot 100 Number One song was by Bangles?

133. Andy McCluskey was the frontman for which band?

134. Who was behind Kokomo from the movie Cocktail?

135. What is the opening line to Diana Ross's 1986 hit song Chain Reaction?

136. From which band does James Het field belong?

137. Gordon Matthew Sumner is better known as which singer?

138. Which member of Queen wrote Who Wants To Live Forever?

139. Born In The USA was sung by who?

140. Did the BBC ban which music videos of Duran Duran in 1981?

141. What year did George Michael release Careless Whisper?

142. What is the opening line to Duran Duran's song Save A Prayer?

143. What was the title of Guns N' Roses best-selling album of 1987?

144. Which band is the maker of The Harder I Try?

145. Which American pop group abbreviated their name to NKOTB?

146. Who is the lead singer of the rock band Def Leppard?

147. Who sang Islands In The Stream with Kenny Rogers?

148. What was the title of Bon Jovi's best-selling US album of 1987?

149. Mark King Belong to which band?

150. Z – Who sang Legs?

151. What is the opening line to Our House by Madness?

152. The famous singer Billy Ocean comes from which country?

153. Who is the lead singer of the Pet Shop Boys?

154. What is the opening line to Club Tropicana by Wham?

155. Which rock band released an album called Brothers In Arms?

156. Who topped the UK Charts with If I Was in 1985?

157. Name the first album of Dweezil?

158. Who sang Oh Yeah in 1985?

159. Eye of the Tiger song belongs to which movie?

160. Don't You (Forget About Me) song belongs to which movie?

161. The Touch song belongs to which movie?

162. The Glory of Love song belongs to which movie?

163. Nothing is Gonna Stop Us Now song belongs to which movie?

164. Danger Zone song belongs to which movie?

165. The Heat is On song belongs to which movie?

166. Cruel Summer song belongs to which movie?

167. In the Air, Tonight song belongs to which movie?

168. Party man song belongs to which movie?

169. Up Where We Belong song belongs to which movie?

170. Need you tonight was released by which rock band?

171. Which Pet Shop Boys' song was about the lead singer's Catholic upbringing?

172. How many singles were released from the Prince album Love sexy?

173. Which British band had the massive hit Fools Gold?

174. Which one of these songs by The Police did not chart in the 80s?

175. Name the band that scored the mid-80s a good hype?

176. Which Norwegian group sang Take On Me in 1984?

177. Rich Girl was the first US number one hit for which pop duo?

178. In 1982/83, who told us they were gonna party like it is nineteen ninety-nine?

179. The Magic Number was a 1989 hit for the band De La Soul of their which album?

180. Which 80s Clash song, when re-released in 1991, went straight to number one in the UK?

181. Which Duran Duran song opened with a sample of laughter from the keyboardist's girlfriend?

182. The pencil-sketch animation technique used in the A-ha video Take on Me was known as what?

183. Which Grace Jones video featured excerpts from the experimental documentary film Koyaanisqatsi?]

184. The French song Joe le Taxi, by Vanessa Paradis, charted at what position on the UK chart?

185. Which Eurythmics song featured the lead singer entering a derelict cottage in a nightgown?

186. Which male artist sang the lyrics, How can you leave me standing? Alone in a world that is so cold?

187. Which Irish rock band sang the lyrics, And when I go there, I go there with you, it is all I can do?

188. Chris Rea's 1989 song; The Road To Hell song was written about which UK motorway?

189. Which song earned Madonna the number one spot in 1989 in both the US and the UK?

190. Which famous female singer were cousin to Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick and goddaughter to Aretha Franklin?

191. Prince's (Purple Rain) album, released in 1984, spent how many weeks at number 1 in the US?

192. In 1980, who had the Billboard Top 40 Pop Singles Number One hit (Funky Town)?

193. In 1983, Elton John released a popular song called (I'm Still ________.)

194. Daryl Hall and John Oates scored a number on a single in 1984 with (Out of ____)

195. Christopher Cross went to the top of the charts in 1980. Can you name the tune?

196. Madonna sang Just try to understand, I have given all I can cause you got the best of me in which song/video?

197. Which Michael Jackson video is listed in Guinness World Records as the Most Successful Music Video?

198. If someone had asked her who she and her friends were, this young woman would have said defiantly: (We are the kids in America!) Who is she?

199. Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Starship. Whatever you call them, they had a number one song in 1985. Which was it?

200. Miami Vice Theme was a big hit in 1985 for this gentleman. Can you name him?