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100 free Boy Bands trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
93 free Boy bands trivia questions with answers. Boy bands have been screaming-teenager business for sixty years, from the Jackson 5 and the Monkees through New Edition, Menudo, New Kids on the Block, Take That, Boyz II Men, the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC, and on to One Direction, the Jonas Brothers and BTS. This quiz covers the whole lineage: the managers who built them (Maurice Starr, Lou Pearlman, Louis Walsh, Simon Cowell), the record-breaking first weeks, the members who quit, the ones who came back, and the odd detours into cosmonaut training and blimp advertising. It works as a music round for a pub quiz, a nostalgia game for anyone who owned a Millennium CD or a One Direction poster, or a K-pop fan looking to test their history. The easy questions are ones any fan will fly through; the hard ones dig into original band names, chart records and the fine print of the Pearlman lawsuits. Every answer has been verified against a primary reference and each question carries its citation, so when a friend insists NSYNC's first US No. 1 was 'Bye Bye Bye', you can settle it.
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Q 01The Jackson 5 formed in 1964 in which Indiana city?
Gary
The five brothers were Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael; the group signed a seven-year Motown deal in March 1969, a day before Marlon's 12th birthday.
Q 02The Jackson 5's first four singles all hit No. 1 on the Hot 100. Which came first?
I Want You Back
The other three all followed in 1970, and Motown's publicity team spun a story that Diana Ross had discovered the group.
Q 03Why did the Jackson 5 have to become The Jacksons when they moved to Epic Records in 1975?
Motown owned the name
Motown sued for breach of contract but let the group record for Epic under a new name.
Q 04Which Jackson brother stayed at Motown when his siblings left for Epic in 1975?
Jermaine
He had married Hazel Gordy, daughter of Motown's founder, and younger brother Randy took his place.
Q 05Which studio produced the Saturday-morning cartoon Jackson 5ive?
Rankin/Bass
The same studio made the stop-motion Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer special.
Q 06The Monkees were conceived in 1965 for a sitcom on which US network?
NBC
Producers Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider dreamed up the show, which ran from 1966 to 1968.
Q 07Who wrote the Monkees hit 'I'm a Believer'?
Neil Diamond
Their first chart-topper, 'Last Train to Clarksville', hit No. 1 in November 1966 under music supervisor Don Kirshner.
Q 08Which future folk-rock star recommended Peter Tork to the Monkees producers at his own audition?
Stephen Stills
Michael Nesmith later falsely claimed the Monkees outsold the Beatles and Rolling Stones combined in 1967.
Q 09How did the Scottish group that became the Bay City Rollers choose the 'Bay City' part of their name?
By throwing a dart at a map of the US
The dart landed near Bay City, Michigan; the band had started out in Edinburgh in 1964 as a trio called the Ambassadors.
Q 10Which Bay City Rollers song reached No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100?
Saturday Night
'Bye Bye Baby' was the best-selling single of 1975 in the UK, but it was this one that cracked America.
Q 11Which producer formed the Puerto Rican group Menudo in 1977?
Edgardo Díaz
He later bought the group a Lockheed JetStar that had belonged to Richard Nixon and the Shah of Iran.
Q 12Menudo famously replaced its singers once they reached roughly what age?
17
The rule was about permanent voice changes, and it churned through more than fifty members over the group's history.
Q 13How old was Ricky Martin when he joined Menudo in 1984?
12
He debuted on the album Evolución and stayed until 1989.
Q 14New Edition formed in 1978 in which Boston neighborhood?
Q 21Bass singer Michael McCary left Boyz II Men in 2003 because of which illness?
Multiple sclerosis
The remaining trio later settled into a multi-year Las Vegas residency at the Mirage.
Q 22New Kids on the Block originally went by what name?
Nynuk
Pronounced 'na-nook', it was Maurice Starr's first idea for the group he built after New Edition.
Q 23Donnie Wahlberg's younger brother was briefly a New Kid. Which brother?
Mark
He went on to Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch and then Hollywood.
Q 24Which song gave New Kids on the Block their first Hot 100 No. 1, in June 1989?
Roxbury
Their big break came at Maurice Starr's Hollywood Talent Night at the Strand Theatre in 1982.
Q 15Which singer was voted into New Edition in 1987, two years after Bobby Brown's exit?
Johnny Gill
Brown had left in late 1985 to start his solo career.
Q 16Bell Biv DeVoe's quadruple-platinum 1990 debut album shares its title with which hit single?
Poison
The trio spun off from New Edition while the parent group was on a break.
Q 17Boyz II Men sang 'Can You Stand the Rain' a cappella for which New Edition member, leading to their Motown deal?
Michael Bivins
They had been searching for someone else backstage and bumped into him instead.
Q 18Boyz II Men formed at a high school for the creative and performing arts in which city?
Philadelphia
They started in 1985 under the name Unique Attraction, before renaming themselves after a New Edition song.
Q 19'End of the Road' set a record in 1992 by spending how many weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100?
13
Boyz II Men beat their own record two years later when 'I'll Make Love to You' managed 14.
Q 20'One Sweet Day', the 1995 Boyz II Men duet, held the Hot 100 record with how many consecutive weeks at No. 1?
16
The record stood for 23 years and was eventually reclaimed by the same duet partner with 'All I Want for Christmas Is You'.
I'll Be Loving You (Forever)
The Hangin' Tough album had come out to modest fanfare the previous September before exploding.
Q 25Which studio animated the New Kids on the Block Saturday-morning cartoon?
DIC Entertainment
The group shortened its name to the initialism NKOTB in 1993 after splitting from Maurice Starr.
Q 26Which Manchester manager put Take That together in 1990?
Nigel Martin-Smith
Howard Donald, at 22, was one of the oldest to audition and only got in after securing time off work.
Q 27Before settling on Take That, the group briefly used which name?
Kick It
Robbie Williams, at 16, was the last member added to round out the five-piece.
Q 28Shortly before leaving Take That in 1995, Robbie Williams was photographed partying with which band?
Oasis
He was out of the group within weeks, and Take That split entirely in February 1996.
Q 29Which charity set up hotlines to counsel distraught fans when Take That split in February 1996?
Samaritans
Teenage girls were reported lining streets in tears across the UK.
Q 30Which song was Take That's first UK No. 1 single?
Pray
It came from the Everything Changes album; 'Back for Good' later topped charts in the UK, Germany, Australia and Norway.