Fleetwood Mac Trivia
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99 free Fleetwood Mac trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free Fleetwood Mac trivia questions with answers. Thunder only happens when it's raining. This quiz covers the whole of Fleetwood Mac's history, from Peter Green naming a blues band after his rhythm section in 1967 through Albatross, the LSD-scarred exits of Green, Spencer and Kirwan, Bob Welch's American years, the fake Fleetwood Mac tour of 1974, the arrival of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, Rumours and its four broken relationships, Tusk, Mirage, Tango in the Night, the Clinton inauguration reunion, The Dance and the skateboarding cranberry-juice video that sent Dreams back up the charts in 2020. Fifty questions cover the band's members, albums, singles, chart records and feuds. The easy questions ask which album won the 1978 Grammy for Album of the Year and which song is the band's only US No. 1; the hard ones want the Beatles song built on Albatross, the studio where Rumours was recorded, the marching band on Tusk, the guitarist who fell out with Fleetwood over Silver Springs and who replaced Buckingham in 2018. It suits fans of every era, from Green Manalishi to Everywhere. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the band, its members, albums and songs, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Fleetwood Mac was formed in London in 1967 by which guitarist, fresh from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers?
Peter Green
Peter Green took over from Eric Clapton in the Bluesbreakers in 1966 and played so well that he was nicknamed 'the Green God', then left in 1967 to start a blues band of his own.
Q 02Fleetwood Mac's name combines the surnames of which two members?
Mick Fleetwood and John McVie
Mick Fleetwood and John McVie gave their names first to an instrumental the founder recorded with them, then to the band itself, though McVie only joined after its first few gigs.
Q 03Which 1968 instrumental gave Fleetwood Mac their only UK No. 1 single?
Albatross
Albatross topped the UK chart in early 1969, then climbed back to No. 2 when it was reissued in 1973, three years after the guitarist who wrote it had quit the band.
Q 04Which Abbey Road track did George Harrison say began as the Beatles imitating Fleetwood Mac's 1968 instrumental hit?
Sun King
Sun King: Harrison recalled the Beatles saying 'Let's be Fleetwood Mac' and borrowing its reverb-heavy guitar to get going, before John Lennon sang lines of made-up Spanish over the top.
Q 05Which early Fleetwood Mac song became a much bigger hit when Santana covered it?
Black Magic Woman
Black Magic Woman, a 1968 Fleetwood Mac single that reached No. 37 in Britain, became a US No. 4 hit for Santana in 1970; its writer played it with Santana at the 1998 Hall of Fame induction.
Q 06Bandmates traced the decline of Fleetwood Mac's founding guitarist to a 1970 LSD party at a commune near which German city?
Munich
Munich: on a March 1970 tour he was taken to a commune outside the city and given LSD. Bandmates said he was never the same, and he quit that May while pressing them to give their money away.
Q 07Guitarist Jeremy Spencer walked out of Fleetwood Mac's Los Angeles hotel in 1971 and joined which religious group?
The Children of God
The Children of God took in Jeremy Spencer after he left the band's hotel on an errand in February 1971. Found days later, he refused to come back, so the band's founder flew in to finish the tour.
Q 08Christine McVie sang in which British blues band before joining Fleetwood Mac?
Chicken Shack
Chicken Shack gave her a UK hit with I'd Rather Go Blind in 1969, but she quit to be a housewife after marrying Fleetwood Mac's bassist, until his band asked her to join in 1970.
Q 09What was Christine McVie's maiden name?
Perfect
Perfect was her name until she married the band's bassist in 1968. As Christine Perfect she made a solo album in 1970, but she couldn't stand life as a solo act and joined Fleetwood Mac.
Q 10Which American guitarist joined Fleetwood Mac in 1971 and later had a solo hit re-recording 'Sentimental Lady'?
Bob Welch
Bob Welch first recorded Sentimental Lady with the band for 1972's Bare Trees. When he remade it for his 1977 solo debut, two members of the band he had left sang backup on the hit.
Q 11Guitarist Bob Weston was fired in 1973 after an affair with whose wife?
Mick Fleetwood's
Mick Fleetwood's wife Jenny Boyd, whose sister Pattie was married to George Harrison, had an affair with Weston. When it came out mid-tour he was sacked and the remaining dates were scrapped.
Q 12In early 1974, manager Clifford Davis sent a completely different lineup on tour under what name?
The New Fleetwood Mac
Davis claimed he owned the name and sent out 'The New Fleetwood Mac' in January 1974 with none of the real members; audiences rebelled, and the ensuing lawsuit kept the genuine band idle until it moved to California.
Q 13Mick Fleetwood discovered his future guitarist after hearing the track Frozen Love from which 1973 album?
Q 21Which Rumours track is the only Fleetwood Mac song credited to all five members of that line-up?
The Chain
The Chain is the one Rumours song with a writing credit for all five band members; it was assembled from separate fragments, including the bass-riff outro the band had jammed on.
Q 22Which sport's British TV coverage made a Rumours track its famous theme?
Formula One
Formula One: the BBC opened its Grand Prix coverage with the song's bass-led finale for nearly two decades from the late 1970s, and brought it back when the races returned to the BBC in 2009.
Q 23Which Stevie Nicks song was recorded for Rumours but relegated to a B-side?
Silver Springs
Buckingham Nicks
Fleetwood heard Frozen Love from the duo's 1973 album Buckingham Nicks while touring Sound City studios in Van Nuys; Buckingham agreed to join only if Stevie Nicks came too.
Q 14Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks were recruited to Fleetwood Mac on which holiday in 1974?
New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve 1974 brought the pair into the band. Songs they had demoed for a second album of their own, such as Monday Morning, went onto Fleetwood Mac's next record instead.
Q 15Fans gave Fleetwood Mac's self-titled 1975 album what nickname?
The White Album
The White Album, as fans came to call it, was a slow burner: released in July 1975, it was still climbing the US chart when the band started recording its follow-up early the next year.
Q 16Which Stevie Nicks song from Fleetwood Mac's 1975 album first became a single over twenty years later, in a live version?
Landslide
Landslide was only an album track in 1975, and a live recording finally reached the Hot 100 in 1998. Nicks wrote it in Aspen, Colorado, while deciding whether to stay in music or go back to school.
Q 17Rumours beat which Eagles album to Album of the Year?
Hotel California
Hotel California lost Album of the Year to Rumours at the 1978 Grammys, but its title track took Record of the Year on the same night.
Q 18Rumours was recorded in early 1976 at the Record Plant in which Californian town?
Sausalito
Sausalito's Record Plant was the band's base for the first two months of the sessions. The men all lived together in the studio's own house while two couples in the band were breaking up.
Q 19Which Rumours single is Fleetwood Mac's only US No. 1?
Dreams
Dreams was written on a day Stevie Nicks wasn't needed at the sessions: she carried an electric piano into a side studio used by Sly Stone and wrote the song sitting on the bed in it.
Q 20Which Rumours single did Lindsey Buckingham write as a pointed message to Stevie Nicks about their break-up?
Go Your Own Way
Go Your Own Way was his message to her. She asked him to cut a line accusing her of shacking up, he refused, and the song went out as the album's first single.
Silver Springs was squeezed off Rumours for lack of room and left on a B-side. Twenty years later a live version from the band's reunion concert earned it a Grammy nomination.
Q 24Which college ensemble plays on the title track of Fleetwood Mac's 1979 double album Tusk?
The USC Trojan Marching Band
The USC Trojan Marching Band, 112 strong, played its part in an empty Dodger Stadium while the Dodgers were away. The drummer pushed the idea through and had the session filmed for the video.
Q 25Fleetwood Mac's Tusk held what distinction on its release in 1979?
Most expensive rock album ever recorded
Most expensive rock album ever recorded at the time: the bill for Tusk ran past $1 million, much of it spent fitting out a Los Angeles studio room to the band's own taste.
Q 26Fleetwood Mac's drummer blamed Tusk's weaker sales on what?
A radio chain airing the whole album early
A radio chain airing the whole album early was his culprit: he argued that the full broadcast, just before release, let listeners tape all of Tusk at home instead of buying it.
Q 27Fleetwood Mac began recording 1982's Mirage at a château studio in which country?
France
France: the band moved into the Château d'Hérouville, where Elton John had made Honky Château, hoping that living together again would bring back the closeness of the Rumours sessions.
Q 28Fleetwood Mac headlined the 1982 US Festival, bankrolled by which computer pioneer?
Steve Wozniak
Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, paid for the US Festival out of his own pocket and lost millions on it. Fleetwood Mac closed the first one on 5 September 1982.
Q 29Which 1987 album, begun as a Lindsey Buckingham solo project, gave Fleetwood Mac the hits Little Lies and Big Love?
Tango in the Night
Tango in the Night started life as his third solo album until the band talked him into making it theirs. He finished producing it, then quit rather than go out on tour.
Q 30Christine McVie co-wrote Little Lies with whom?
Her new husband Eddy Quintela
Her new husband Eddy Quintela shared the credit on Little Lies, released months after their 1986 wedding, yet it is no newlyweds' song: its singer asks to be lied to rather than told the truth.