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40 free BarlowGirl trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
BarlowGirl were three sisters from Illinois who turned a family act into a chart-topping Christian rock band. Between 2004 and 2012 they sent a string of singles up the Christian radio charts and became known as much for what they stood for as for how they sounded. This quiz covers the songs first: the radio hits, the album tracks, the covers, the holiday record and the guest appearances. It also asks about the people behind the songs, from the trio's early days and record deal to their farewell. It is written for fans who wore out the CDs in the 2000s and for anyone rediscovering the band now. Most questions are friendly; a few are for listeners who read the liner notes.
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Q 01Which BarlowGirl single was Christian Hit Radio's longest-running No. 1 song of 2004?
Never Alone
Never Alone was written by the three sisters in about 45 minutes, built on phrases from a journal. It was named Song of the Year on the Christian hit radio and rock charts alike.
Q 02Which band opened its 2001 debut album with a tribute song named after the sisters of BarlowGirl?
Superchick
Superchick praised the sisters' stand for purity in the song Barlow Girls, which made the family name known three years before the trio released a record of their own.
Q 03BarlowGirl started out in the late 1990s as the touring backup band for which family member?
Their father
Their father, Vince Barlow, made youth CDs at Willow Creek Community Church and was hired for events across the country. His daughters wrote their own songs to play at his shows.
Q 04Which BarlowGirl single from Another Journal Entry was Christian Hit Radio's most played song of 2006?
I Need You to Love Me
I Need You to Love Me logged more than 30,000 plays that year and held No. 1 on the R&R Christian Hit Radio chart for nine weeks.
Q 05In BarlowGirl's song Average Girl, the sisters compare themselves to the heroine of which fairy tale?
Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty suits the song's message: the sisters picture resting in a deep sleep until God sends a prince, their answer to the pressure to date.
Q 06Lauren Barlow, the youngest BarlowGirl sister, shared lead vocals while playing which instrument?
Drums
Drums were Lauren's job while she split lead vocals with Alyssa, who played bass and keyboards. Eldest sister Rebecca played guitar and sang backup.
Q 07BarlowGirl's It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year cover promoted whose 2009 White House TV special?
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey interviewed Barack and Michelle Obama for Christmas at the White House, and the trio licensed their holiday cover to the program.
Q 08BarlowGirl's first composition, a live-only song called You Know, was modeled on which Hanson hit?
MMMBop
MMMBop, the 1997 chart-topper by three Hanson brothers, was the template for the first song the three Barlow sisters wrote, before the band even had its name.
Q 09BarlowGirl formed in which Illinois city, where the trio played a hometown holiday concert in 2011?
Elgin
Elgin sits about 35 miles northwest of Chicago, and the trio came back in December 2011 to sing their carols album live for a hometown crowd.
Q 10BarlowGirl sang an a cappella cover of I Will, by which band, during their 2012 farewell webcast?
The Beatles
The Beatles shaped the trio's sound: the sisters grew up on 1950s and 60s records and said I Will was the first song they ever learned to sing in parts.
Q 11The capital G in the middle of BarlowGirl's one-word name is an example of which writing style?
Camel case
Camel case is named for the hump a mid-word capital makes, and the trio used it for branding, the way YouTube and iPhone do.
Q 12BarlowGirl's 2006 radio single Enough was first recorded by which worship leader?
Chris Tomlin
Chris Tomlin wrote Enough with Louie Giglio for his 2002 album Not to Us; the trio's version surfaced on a worship compilation months before their own second album.
Q 13As children, the sisters of BarlowGirl came home one Christmas Eve to find which surprise gift?
A baby grand piano
Q 21Which single from BarlowGirl's debut album earned a Dove Award nomination in 2006?
Mirror
Mirror peaked at No. 3 on the R&R Christian Hit Radio chart, with Alyssa and Lauren trading the lead vocal between them.
Q 22BarlowGirl's 2004 single Clothes was added to the playlist of which nationwide broadcaster?
Radio Disney
Radio Disney gave the trio airplay beyond Christian stations with the song, the shortest track on the debut album at under two and a half minutes.
Q 23Which BarlowGirl rock anthem, recorded with a choir, named the trio's 2008 headlining tour?
Million Voices
Million Voices features the New Song Ensemble choir and earned a Dove nomination for Rock Recorded Song of the Year. The tour set out to raise money for a women's home.
A baby grand piano was moved in while their mother kept the girls out shopping all day. That night began a family tradition of singing carols with four cousins.
Q 14BarlowGirl's sound was known for mixing rock guitars with which vocal trademark sung by the sisters?
Three-part harmony
Three-part harmony came from the records the sisters grew up on: they named the Mamas & the Papas as a major influence because of that group's blended vocals.
Q 15BarlowGirl sang guest vocals on You're Worthy of My Praise, a 2005 radio hit for which band?
Big Daddy Weave
Big Daddy Weave shared a record label with the trio, and the sisters sang lead and backing parts on the track for the album What I Was Made For.
Q 16BarlowGirl's recording of For the Beauty of the Earth appeared on a companion album of songs for which 2006 film?
The Nativity Story
The Nativity Story: Sacred Songs, an album of songs inspired by the film, carried an alternate mix of the hymn, and the trio's recording became a top 20 hit on Christian adult contemporary radio.
Q 17Which BarlowGirl single passed 200,000 downloads as iTunes' free Single of the Week in 2005?
Let Go
Let Go was the lead single from the trio's second album, and the giveaway ran during the very week that album reached stores.
Q 18Which Nashville label signed BarlowGirl in October 2003 and released all of the trio's albums?
Fervent Records
Fervent Records was only two years old when it signed the sisters, having been founded in 2001; Word Records bought the label in 2005.
Q 19Which BarlowGirl album, released in July 2007, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Christian albums chart?
How Can We Be Silent
How Can We Be Silent also reached No. 40 on the Billboard 200, the trio's best showing there, and it arrived in five different editions on the same day.
Q 20BarlowGirl paired Sing We Now of Christmas in a medley with which other seasonal classic?
Carol of the Bells
Carol of the Bells anchored the medley, which ranked among the 20 most downloaded songs in the iTunes holiday section in 2008 and was reissued a cappella a year later.
Q 24Which lead single from BarlowGirl's final studio album earned a Dove nomination for its video?
Beautiful Ending
Beautiful Ending reached No. 3 on Christian hit radio in 2009, and the trio built a website where fans could submit endings of their own.
Q 25Which final BarlowGirl song did the sisters perform acoustically during their farewell online chat in October 2012?
Hope Will Lead Us On
Hope Will Lead Us On was recorded that August, and the sisters played it in an acoustic set five days after announcing they were retiring the band.
Q 26On which Home for Christmas hymn does BarlowGirl's Rebecca take a rare lead vocal?
What Child Is This?
What Child Is This? was one of two favorites Rebecca picked for the album. The quietest of the sisters, she normally played guitar and sang backup.
Q 27BarlowGirl reached the finals of a 2002 industry seminar, unaware it was a contest, in which state?
Colorado
Colorado hosted the Gospel Music Association's Music in the Rockies seminar at Estes Park, and word of mouth from it brought record companies to the unsigned sisters.
Q 28Lauren Barlow of BarlowGirl edited a 2011 book of essays inspired by which Christian author?
A. W. Tozer
A. W. Tozer, a pastor and author who died in 1963, inspired the book's 59 contributors, who included Lauren's two sisters and both of their parents.
Q 29All three BarlowGirl sisters, each starting in a different grade, were schooled through which route?
Homeschooling
Homeschooling began for Lauren in first grade, for Alyssa in fourth and for Rebecca in seventh, so the youngest sister spent the least time in a classroom.
Q 30Which singer, known for Grace Like Rain, guests on BarlowGirl's Psalm 73 (My God's Enough)?
Todd Agnew
Todd Agnew, a Dallas-born worship artist, joins a track on the trio's second album where Alyssa and Lauren split the lead vocal.