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99 free Electronic Music trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
50 free electronic music trivia questions with answers. Dive into the world of electronic music with our comprehensive trivia quiz. From the pioneering days of synthesizers to modern EDM festivals, test your knowledge of the artists, tracks, and innovations that shaped this electrifying genre. Whether you're a seasoned electronic music fan or just discovering the beat, this quiz will challenge your expertise.
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Q 01Which Kraftwerk album, built around a 22-minute title track, became a surprise US top-five hit in 1975?
Autobahn
Autobahn reached number five in America after radio took to a three-minute edit of the title track, whose German chorus 'Fahren, fahren, fahren' was often misheard as the Beach Boys' 'Fun, fun, fun'.
Q 02Whose 1968 album Switched-On Bach, performed on a Moog synthesizer, became the record that put the instrument on the charts?
Wendy Carlos
Wendy Carlos built the album one note at a time, because the Moog could sound only a single note at once; it took about a thousand studio hours and then topped Billboard's classical chart from 1969 to 1972.
Q 03Which 1980-83 drum machine flopped commercially but became a cornerstone of hip-hop production?
Roland TR-808
The Roland TR-808 ran to only about 12,000 units before Roland could no longer restock the faulty transistors behind its sizzling sound; cheap secondhand machines then became a hip-hop staple.
Q 04Who teamed up with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo in Paris in 1993 to form Daft Punk, the duo who performed as robots?
Thomas Bangalter
Thomas Bangalter, and the duo's name came from a bad review of their earlier indie band Darlin', which Melody Maker dismissed as 'a daft punky thrash'.
Q 05Which American city is considered the birthplace of house music?
Chicago
Chicago, where DJs in the city's queer Black underground clubs reworked disco records with drum machines in the early 1980s. Detroit answered with techno a few years later.
Q 06What is the real name of the influential electronic music artist known as Aphex Twin?
Richard D. James
Richard D. James has said he was named after an older brother, also Richard, who died at birth; a memorial to that brother is pictured on the sleeve of his Girl/Boy EP.
Q 07IDM, the 1990s label for brainy, experimental electronica from the likes of Aphex Twin and Autechre, stands for what?
Intelligent Dance Music
Intelligent Dance Music, a name many of its artists rejected, since it implies the rest of dance music is stupid; Aphex Twin's label Rephlex pushed 'braindance' instead.
Q 08Which Spanish island is famed for its electronic dance music scene and superclubs?
Ibiza
Ibiza: DJ Alfredo's sets at the club Amnesia inspired British DJs on holiday in 1987, Paul Oakenfold and Danny Rampling among them, to start the club nights behind Britain's rave boom.
Q 09Which producer's synthesizer-driven work with Donna Summer helped launch electronic dance music?
Giorgio Moroder
Giorgio Moroder produced Donna Summer's 1977 'I Feel Love', built almost entirely on a Moog synthesizer, and won an Academy Award for his Midnight Express score.
Q 10Which French electronic composer is famous for huge outdoor concerts with light shows and fireworks?
Jean-Michel Jarre
Jean-Michel Jarre drew about a million people to Paris's Place de la Concorde in 1979; at his 1986 Houston show, astronaut Ron McNair was to have played saxophone from orbit, but he died aboard Challenger.
Q 11Which British musician pioneered ambient music with 1978's "Ambient 1: Music for Airports"?
Brian Eno
Brian Eno's influential work, particularly his 1978 album "Ambient 1: Music for Airports," established the concept and sound of ambient music as a distinct genre.
Q 12Which electronic artist's 1999 album 'Play' had every track licensed for films, TV or ads?
Moby
Moby was turned down by every major label he approached, and his team hoped Play might sell 250,000 copies; with every track licensed, it sold over 12 million.
Q 13Which fairy-tale-themed electronic music festival is held annually in Boom, Belgium?
Tomorrowland
Tomorrowland, held in Boom since 2005, lost its storybook main stage to a fire two days before the 2025 edition was due to open.
Q 21Which UK drum and bass pioneer released the influential album 'Timeless' in 1995?
Goldie
Goldie, a graffiti artist turned producer, opened Timeless with a 21-minute three-part title suite, and the album took drum and bass to number seven in the UK chart.
Q 22The experimental electronic duo Autechre consists of Rob Brown and whom?
Sean Booth
Sean Booth and Rob Brown, both from Rochdale, met in 1987 through Manchester's graffiti and breakdancing scene, and have said most of the name Autechre came from keys bashed at random.
Q 23Which strict-door Berlin techno club occupies a former power plant?
Berghain
Berghain takes its name from the two districts it sits between, Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain; it opened in 2004 when the founders of an earlier gay club moved into the power station.
Q 14Which 1983 standard lets a keyboard from one maker play a synth from another, by sending note messages rather than audio?
MIDI
MIDI, the Musical Instrument Digital Interface, was agreed by rival manufacturers in 1983; Dave Smith of Sequential Circuits and Roland's Ikutaro Kakehashi shared a 2013 Technical Grammy for creating it.
Q 15Which mid-1980s house subgenre is defined by the squelching bassline of one cheap Roland box, the TB-303?
Acid House
Acid House, and the TB-303 was a flop meant to stand in for a bass guitarist until producers twisting its knobs found the squelch. The smiley face became its logo in Britain's 1988 'Second Summer of Love'.
Q 16Besides Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson, who is the third of Detroit techno's 'Belleville Three'?
Derrick May
Derrick May befriended Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson at school in Belleville, a small town about 30 miles from Detroit, where the three were among the few Black students.
Q 17Which DJ, often called the "Godfather of House Music", was the resident at the club called the Warehouse?
Frankie Knuckles
Frankie Knuckles was resident DJ at the Warehouse from 1977 to 1982, and the club's name is generally thought to be where 'house' music got its name.
Q 18Which studio device records and plays back note data rather than sound, so a pattern can be programmed once and looped forever?
Sequencer
Sequencer, which stores instructions, not audio, the way a player-piano roll does, so one musician can set a whole band's worth of parts playing at once.
Q 19Which DJ played a virtual concert inside the video game Fortnite in February 2019, drawing more than ten million players?
Marshmello
Marshmello, whose white marshmallow-shaped helmet hid his identity until Forbes named him as Chris Comstock in 2017, started a run of in-game Fortnite concerts by other stars.
Q 20Which 1997 Prodigy album, with a crab on its cover, topped the British and American charts?
The Fat of the Land
The Fat of the Land was the first Prodigy record with contributions from Keith Flint, until then the band's dancer, and Guinness listed it as the UK's fastest-selling dance album.
Q 24Which French composer pioneered musique concrète, using recorded sounds as raw material?
Pierre Schaeffer
Pierre Schaeffer, a French radio engineer, made what is counted as the first musique concrète piece in 1948 from recordings of trains: the Étude aux chemins de fer, or railway study.
Q 25Who invented the instrument, patented in 1928, that is played without being touched, by moving the hands near two antennas?
Leon Theremin
Leon Theremin, and the instrument carries his name. The antennas are not aerials but position sensors, one for pitch and one for volume, and Moog started out building theremin kits before his synthesizers.
Q 26Which Japanese electronic group, formed in 1978, influenced techno and hip-hop with synths and drum machines?
Yellow Magic Orchestra
Yellow Magic Orchestra scored a surprise hit abroad with 'Computer Game', built on the bleeps of the arcade games Space Invaders and Circus; it sold over 400,000 copies in America.
Q 27Which Greek composer scored "Chariots of Fire" and "Blade Runner"?
Vangelis
Vangelis never learned to read or write music, and skipped the 1982 ceremony where Chariots of Fire won him the Oscar for best score, partly out of a fear of flying.
Q 28The iconic track "Born Slippy .NUXX" is a signature song by which British electronic music group?
Underworld
Underworld first put 'Born Slippy .NUXX' out as a B-side in 1995; only after the film Trainspotting used it in 1996 was it reissued, reaching number two in the UK.
Q 29Which British house and techno DJ is known for his energetic three-deck mixing?
Carl Cox
Carl Cox made his name in Britain's early rave scene by mixing on three turntables at once, and ended a 15-year residency at the club Space in 2016 with a nine-hour final set.
Q 30The Canadian electronic music artist Richie Hawtin is also widely known by which of his aliases?
Plastikman
Plastikman is Richie Hawtin, who was born in England and raised near Windsor, Ontario, across the river from Detroit, whose techno scene he joined in its second wave.