Music Quiz

The Music Quiz: What’s the best Oasis song of all time, according to Rolling Stone?

Plus: questions about The Supremes before they were supreme, Kate Bush covers Elton John, Wendy Erskine on Rod Stewart, and the only two-time British Mercury prize winner

The Music Quiz: Carole King sang which Taylor Swift tune at the first Swifties for Kamala event?

Plus: Who’s that with a tattoo of Jesus Christ on his leg?

The Music Quiz: Which rapper has paid $6 million for the naming rights to a Florida football stadium?

Plus: Who is the Irish singer duetting with Julian Lennon on his 1998 song Faithful?

The Music Quiz: Which Coldplay album cover became a Royal Mail postage stamp?

Ahead of their four shows at Croke Park, a deep dive into all things Chris Martin & co

The Music Quiz: Which of AC/DC’s early 1990s songs is all about Donald Trump?

In honour of the mighty metalheads Saturday concert at Croke Park, an electrifying query into all things AC/DC

The Music Quiz: Which Kylie Minogue song contains ‘one of pop music’s most violent and distressing lyrics’?

Ahead of her appearance at Electric Picnic 2024, an exhaustive trivia trawl through all things Kylie

The Music Quiz: What was named the worst album cover of all time by Rolling Stone?

Plus: What was the first hip-hop song beamed into outer space?

The Music Quiz: Which Irish act knocked Sgt Pepper’s off the UK #1 spot?

Plus: What nabbed top position in Rolling Stone’s recent Best Album Covers of All Time list?

The Music Quiz: Which Taylor Swift song recently surpassed one billion streams on Spotify?

Plus: Can you name the first rap group to win a Grammy?

The Music Quiz: Stevie Nicks adapted the words from which writer for her song Annabel Lee?

Plus: Which rapper recently ran a 200m race at the Olympic Trials?

The Music Quiz: The Rolling Stones once performed a jingle TV ad for which breakfast cereal?

Plus: Who is the first woman to be inducted twice into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?

The Music Quiz: Colombia-born Shakira is fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French and ... ?

Plus: What is the name of the wine brand owned by pop star Pink

The Music Quiz: Which music legend has lauded Taylor Swift as her ‘professional granddaughter’?

Plus: As Taylormania gathers pace, a trivia-packed questionnaire to stump even the most fanatical Swiftie

The Music Quiz: Red Right Hand has been covered by which rapper for Peaky Blinders?

Plus: Who is the Irish rapper born Alexander Anyaegbunam?

Mercury Rev’s Jonathan Donahue: ‘I got a very quick but intense focus on the Troubles in the 1980s. I was frightened, there’s no doubt’

Linking back to Ireland is critical to Jonathan Donahue, singer of Mercury Rev, who occupy a special place in alternative pop

The Music Quiz: Netflix’s Bridgerton has given a classical makeover to which song by Pitbull?

Plus: What was the name of future PM Tony Blair’s 1970s rock’n’roll band?

The Music Quiz: What is the name of the made-up boyband in Anne Hathaway’s romcom The Idea of You?

Plus: Who recently asked Rolling Stone magazine to ‘write the most horrific article about me’?

The Music Quiz: Which all-female pop group released a trio of fragrances called Tempt, Tease and Touch?

Plus: Lorde covers which Talking Heads song on new tribute album Everyone’s Getting Involved?

The Music Quiz: Which well-known board game has been branded with ‘The Beatles’?

Plus: Who was the first British female artist to win five Grammys at the one ceremony?

The Music Quiz: How many times has Bruce Springsteen performed in Ireland?

In honour of the unstoppable Boss’s upcoming Irish gigs, a special quiz on all things Springsteen

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