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60 free Hard Beyoncé trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This is the hard Beyoncé quiz. If you already know she was born in Houston, fronted Destiny's Child and married Jay-Z, these 60 questions dig deeper: the label that dropped Girl's Tyme, the 1970 soul record inside the 'Crazy in Love' horns, the singer 'Irreplaceable' was written for, the poet whose words run through Lemonade, and why the Renaissance horse has a nickname. The set runs from her school talent show to the Cowboy Carter Tour, with questions on chart records, samples and songwriters, film roles, tours, business ventures like Ivy Park and Cécred, and the family members who show up in her work. It is pitched at fans who have watched every visual album and read the liner notes. Every answer was checked against a primary or encyclopedic source before publishing, and each question carries its citation. If you want a warm-up, start with the main BrainPickle Beyoncé trivia quiz and then come back for this one.
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Q 01Beyoncé won her first school talent show at age seven, beating teenagers, by singing which song?
Imagine
The John Lennon ballad beat competitors aged fifteen and sixteen. Two years later she enrolled at Parker Elementary, a Houston music magnet school.
Q 02On which national TV talent show did Beyoncé's childhood group Girl's Tyme lose in 1993?
Star Search
The loss prompted her father Mathew to start managing the group; he trimmed it to four members and added LeToya Luckett.
Q 03The name Destiny's Child was taken from a passage in which book of the Bible?
Isaiah
The group adopted the name in 1996, the year they landed their Columbia Records deal with help from talent scout Teresa LaBarbera Whites.
Q 04Before Columbia signed them, Beyoncé's group was briefly signed and then dropped by which label?
Elektra Records
The tension around the failed deal contributed to a six-month separation of Beyoncé's parents; Mathew had quit his job to manage the group, halving the family income.
Q 05Destiny's Child's debut single followed their spot on which 1997 film's soundtrack?
Men in Black
Their self-titled 1998 debut album was only a moderate success; The Writing's on the Wall a year later sold 13 million copies.
Q 06Which singer joined Destiny's Child with Michelle Williams in 2000 but quit within months?
Farrah Franklin
The two new members were revealed to the departing LeToya Luckett and LaTavia Roberson only when the 'Say My Name' video premiered.
Q 07Before managing his daughter's group, Mathew Knowles was a sales manager for which company?
Xerox
He left the job in 1995 to manage the group full-time. Tina Knowles, meanwhile, ran the Houston hair salon where Beyoncé had her first job sweeping hair.
Q 08The fashion label House of Deréon, launched by Tina Knowles and Beyoncé in 2004, was named after whom?
Her mother, a seamstress
Agnès Deréon was Beyoncé's grandmother. A clerical error on Tina's birth certificate is why her maiden name is spelled 'Beyoncé' rather than 'Beyincé' like her siblings.
Q 09Beyoncé's solo breakthrough came as featured artist on which 2002 Jay-Z single?
'03 Bonnie & Clyde
The track from The Blueprint 2 peaked at number four in the US. She later said the pair started dating when she was nineteen, after a year and a half of friendship.
Q 10The horn hook of 'Crazy in Love' samples a 1970 song by which soul group?
The Chi-Lites
The sample of 'Are You My Woman (Tell Me So)' earned the group's Eugene Record a writing credit. Producer Rich Harrison had sat on the beat because friends did not get it.
Q 11How many consecutive weeks did 'Baby Boy' spend at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2003?
Nine
That beat the eight-week run of 'Crazy in Love' earlier the same year; both came from Dangerously in Love, which sold 317,000 copies in its first week.
Q 12Beyoncé sang the national anthem at which Super Bowl, played in Houston in February 2004?
XXXVIII
Nine years later she headlined the halftime show itself at Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans, and in 2016 she guested at Super Bowl 50 with 'Formation'.
Q 13Which actor's character was Beyoncé's love interest in The Fighting Temptations (2003)?
Cuba Gooding Jr.
She played a single mother in the gospel-choir comedy, released the same year as Dangerously in Love.
Q 21'Halo' was written by Evan 'Kidd' Bogart and the frontman of which band?
OneRepublic
Ryan Tedder wrote it while sidelined by a torn Achilles tendon. Simon Cowell was upset, having wanted the song for Leona Lewis.
Q 22Which singer claimed 'Halo' reused the arrangement of her own 2009 song 'Already Gone'?
Kelly Clarkson
Both songs were co-written by Ryan Tedder. 'Halo' went on to become her first YouTube video to pass a billion views.
Q 23Which actor plays Beyoncé's love interest in the 'Halo' music video?
Michael Ealy
Philip Andelman directed it; an alternative cut shows Ealy's character being chased by police.
Q 14B'Day was released internationally on September 4, 2006, to coincide with what?
Her 25th birthday
Hence the title. It sold 541,000 copies in its first week and won Best Contemporary R&B Album at the 2007 Grammys.
Q 15'Irreplaceable' was originally written by Ne-Yo and Stargate for which other singer?
Chrisette Michele
It began life as a country record and was first cut with a male vocalist before an A&R person suggested a woman should sing it.
Q 16With 'Check on It' and which 2006 film did Beyoncé become the first woman to top the US film and singles charts at once?
The Pink Panther
'Check on It' was the comedy's theme song and topped the Hot 100 for five weeks; it later appeared on the Destiny's Child compilation #1's.
Q 17Beyoncé's Dreamgirls character was a pop singer modelled on which real Motown star?
Diana Ross
The film adapted the 1981 Broadway musical; her portrayal earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.
Q 18'Beautiful Liar', added to the 2007 re-release of B'Day, was a duet with which singer?
Shakira
It peaked at number three in the US during the Beyoncé Experience, her first worldwide tour, which visited 97 venues.
Q 19Beyoncé and Jay-Z married in a small private ceremony on which date?
April 4, 2008
Jay-Z only confirmed the wedding in an interview later that year; the marriage inspired I Am... Sasha Fierce.
Q 20'If I Were a Boy' missed the US number one but topped the singles chart in which country?
Britain
It came from the I Am... disc of ballads; the Sasha Fierce disc held the uptempo electropop tracks.
Q 24'Single Ladies' mixed Bob Fosse's moves with which Southern lead-and-follow dance style?
J-Setting
Beyoncé said she saw the 1969 Fosse routine 'Mexican Breakfast' on YouTube. Jake Nava shot the video in black and white right after 'If I Were a Boy'.
Q 25Which song beat 'Single Ladies' at the 2009 VMAs, prompting Kanye's stage invasion?
You Belong with Me
West grabbed Taylor Swift's microphone to declare the Beyoncé clip one of the best videos of all time; it did win Video of the Year that night.
Q 26In the 2009 thriller Obsessed, which actress plays the stalker Beyoncé's character fights off?
Ali Larter
Idris Elba played the husband. Critics panned the film, but it earned $68 million on a $20 million budget.
Q 27Beyoncé's ten 2010 Grammy nominations tied whose record for most in one year by a woman?
Lauryn Hill
She won six that night, including Song of the Year for 'Single Ladies', a record haul for a female artist in a single ceremony.
Q 28Beyoncé made her runway modelling debut in September 2010 at which designer's Spring/Summer 2011 show?
Tom Ford
It came during her nine-month career break, when she also travelled to the Great Wall and the pyramids and wrote an Essence cover story called 'Eat, Play, Love'.
Q 29In June 2011 Beyoncé became the first solo woman in over two decades to headline the Pyramid Stage at which festival?
Glastonbury
The set came two days after 4 debuted at number one; three months later she revealed her pregnancy on stage at the VMAs.
Q 30'Run the World (Girls)' is built on a heavy sample of which Major Lazer track?
Pon de Floor
Santigold says she was the one who first showed Beyoncé the video. Diplo and Switch, the men behind Major Lazer, share writing and production credits.