Avicii Trivia
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50 free Avicii trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Avicii trivia quiz covers the life and music of Tim Bergling, the Swedish DJ and producer who helped carry electronic dance music onto Top 40 radio before his death in 2018 at 28. The easy questions cover the hits and the basics: Levels, Wake Me Up, Hey Brother, the albums True and Stories, the meaning of his stage name and where he was born. The harder ones dig into the collaborators, from Aloe Blacc and Dan Tyminski to Chris Martin, Nile Rodgers, Madonna and Rita Ora, the Eurovision anthem he wrote with two members of ABBA, the FIFA World Cup song, the Coca-Cola campaign, the Leona Lewis sampling dispute and the Spotify records. It also covers, carefully, the story behind the music: the pancreatitis and opioid prescriptions, the retirement from touring in 2016, the final show in Ibiza, the posthumous album Tim, the Tim Bergling Foundation, the arena renamed in his honour and the documentaries. Questions are written about the songs, not with their lyrics. Every answer was checked against the encyclopaedia entry before publishing. For more, try our EDM, 2010s music and Swedish music quizzes.
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Q 01What was Avicii's real name?
Tim Bergling
Tim Bergling filled arenas as Avicii, yet he called himself shy and said he had never liked being recognised or being in the spotlight.
Q 02In which city was Avicii born?
Stockholm
Stockholm mourned him in the open: the day after he died, thousands of fans filled the Sergels Torg plaza for a memorial that became a dance party to his songs.
Q 03What does Avīci, the word behind Avicii's stage name, mean?
The lowest level of Buddhist hell
The lowest level of Buddhist hell is how he explained it; he needed a new name because his own was already taken on Myspace.
Q 04Which music production software did the 16-year-old Avicii download and teach himself to use?
FL Studio
FL Studio let him build tracks alone in his bedroom, and he posted the results on Dutch DJ Laidback Luke's online forum to ask strangers for feedback.
Q 05Which 2011 single launched Avicii into the mainstream?
Levels
Levels was already a fan favourite from his shows before a label released it, and within months Flo Rida had borrowed its hook for 'Good Feeling', a US top-five hit.
Q 06Which singer's 2011 single 'Collide' used Avicii's 'Fade into Darkness' without credit, sparking a legal dispute?
Leona Lewis
Leona Lewis's label settled hours before a High Court hearing, and 'Collide' came out credited to both her and Avicii.
Q 07Which French DJ shared Avicii's first Grammy nomination, for their 2011 instrumental 'Sunshine'?
David Guetta
David Guetta and Avicii lost that award to Skrillex, and when Avicii was nominated on his own a year later for his breakthrough hit, Skrillex beat him again.
Q 08Avicii became the first DJ to headline which New York venue in September 2012?
Radio City Music Hall
Radio City Music Hall had never had a DJ top the bill; he used his two nights there to preview 'Stay with You', an unreleased song with Mike Posner.
Q 09Which collaboration with Nicky Romero gave Avicii his first UK number one?
I Could Be the One
I Could Be the One began as an instrumental nicknamed 'Nicktim'; once a vocal was added it entered the UK chart at number one, a first for both DJs.
Q 10What was the 'Avicii X You' project?
A crowdsourced hit song made with Ericsson
A crowdsourced hit song made with Ericsson: producers around the world sent in melodies, basslines, beats and effects, and Avicii stitched the winning parts into the single 'X You'.
Q 11Which two ex-ABBA members co-wrote the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 anthem with Avicii?
Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson
Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson came back to the contest that made them: ABBA won it in 1974 with their song 'Waterloo', and in 2013 a choir opened the final with the anthem they wrote with Avicii.
Q 12Who sings on Avicii's 'Wake Me Up'?
Aloe Blacc
Aloe Blacc thought up the words on a plane and sang them, yet the single carried only Avicii's name, and many listeners never learned whose voice it was.
Q 13What was Avicii's 2013 debut album called?
True
Q 21Which 2014 Avicii single features the voice of Robbie Williams?
The Days
The Days was first recorded with Brandon Flowers of The Killers singing; Robbie Williams took over for the single, and the Flowers take surfaced online the following year.
Q 22Which fellow DJ co-produced 'Waiting for Love'?
Martin Garrix
Martin Garrix co-produced it and premiered it with Avicii at Ultra 2015, yet the single carried neither his name nor that of its singer, Simon Aldred of Cherry Ghost.
Q 23Whose version of 'Feeling Good' did Avicii rework in 2015?
Nina Simone's
Nina Simone's soul classic was a favourite of his, so he remade it with new vocals and a restrained beat as the centrepiece of a Volvo campaign called 'A New Beginning'.
True set dance beats to country, soul and bluegrass, with unlikely partners such as Mac Davis, the veteran who wrote 'A Little Less Conversation' for Elvis Presley.
Q 14Which 2013 hit lost its UK record for the year's fastest-selling single to Avicii's 'Wake Me Up'?
Blurred Lines
Blurred Lines lost the record when 'Wake Me Up' sold about 267,000 copies in a week and knocked Robin Thicke's hit off number one.
Q 15In February 2014 Avicii's 'Wake Me Up' became the first song to reach 200 million streams on which service?
Spotify
Spotify saw it pass Imagine Dragons' 'Radioactive' as its most-played song, less than a year after the song's live debut sent part of the Ultra festival crowd off to other stages.
Q 16Which bluegrass singer, George Clooney's singing voice in a Coen brothers film, provides the vocals on Avicii's 'Hey Brother'?
Dan Tyminski
Dan Tyminski was in the live band Avicii brought on at Ultra 2013, whose acoustic songs sent part of the dance crowd off to other stages.
Q 17Which Coldplay song did Avicii co-write and co-produce, playing the piano parts himself?
A Sky Full of Stars
A Sky Full of Stars has Avicii at the keys because Chris Martin asked him to play the piano part, then admitted he felt he had cheated on his bandmates by not playing it himself.
Q 18Avicii co-produced the official anthem of which sporting event, alongside Carlos Santana and Wyclef Jean?
The 2014 FIFA World Cup
The 2014 FIFA World Cup closing anthem was named 'Dar um Jeito' for a reason: the Brazilian phrase means finding a way round any obstacle, the message its writers wanted to send.
Q 19Which American Idol runner-up sings Avicii's disco-flavoured 'Lay Me Down', with Nile Rodgers on guitar?
Adam Lambert
Adam Lambert also co-wrote the song, and he sang it live with Avicii and Nile Rodgers at a Long Island charity concert weeks before the album came out.
Q 20Which pop star introduced Avicii's set at Ultra 2012 and later had him co-write songs for her 2015 album?
Madonna
Madonna walked on stage to introduce him, and he opened his set with his own remix of her single 'Girl Gone Wild'.
Q 24Which step did Avicii take in September 2014, months after surgery?
Cancelled his shows
Cancelled his shows: he pulled out of every date left in 2014 to recover, yet Forbes still ranked him sixth among the world's highest-paid DJs of 2015, on about $19 million.
Q 25Which brand's global campaign song, 'Taste the Feeling', did Avicii make with Conrad Sewell in 2016?
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola came to him for an anthem to carry its new slogan into football's Euro 2016, and paired him with Conrad Sewell, then a little-known newcomer.
Q 26How did Avicii announce his 2016 retirement from touring?
Open letter
An open letter to fans on his website said the road had left him 'too little' for 'the life of a real person behind the artist'; he was 26.
Q 27Where did Avicii play his final show, on 28 August 2016?
Ushuaïa Ibiza Beach Hotel
Ushuaïa Ibiza Beach Hotel was home ground, the club where he held a summer residency, and that week he told fans the night was 'far from' his last in music.
Q 28Which illness put Avicii in a New York hospital for 11 days in 2012?
Acute pancreatitis
Acute pancreatitis, most likely triggered by his drinking, struck in the middle of an American tour, and the opioids he was prescribed for the pain later became an addiction.
Q 29Which two organs did Avicii have removed in 2014?
Appendix and gallbladder
Appendix and gallbladder came out together after his appendix burst: he had put off the operation a year earlier, and it now cost him his headline set at Ultra.
Q 30Who sings on 'Without You' and 'Lonely Together' from Avicii's 2017 EP Avīci (01)?
Sandro Cavazza and Rita Ora
Sandro Cavazza and Rita Ora each took one: 'Without You' was written with Cavazza on a road trip across America that Avicii took with friends just before he announced his retirement.