Louis Tomlinson
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50 free Louis Tomlinson trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Louis Tomlinson went from a rejected solo hopeful on The X Factor to one fifth of One Direction, and then had to work out who he was without the band. The answer turned out to be a guitar-loving songwriter with a taste for Britpop, a fiercely loyal following and a habit of doing things his own way. This quiz covers the whole journey: his childhood and early acting jobs, the television contest that changed everything, the songs he wrote for One Direction, and the solo singles, albums, videos and world tours that followed. There are also questions on his documentary, his festival and clothing label, his time as a television judge, his football adventures and his charity work. It is pitched at fans, whether you have followed him since 2010 or found him through his solo records. Every answer comes with a short explanation that adds a detail the question left out.
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Q 01How does Louis Tomlinson, born in South Yorkshire in 1991, pronounce his first name?
Loo-ee
Loo-ee is how he says it, though the surname came later: he was born Louis Troy Austin and only later took the name Tomlinson.
Q 02Which DJ teamed up with Louis Tomlinson on Just Hold On, his debut solo single in December 2016?
Steve Aoki
Steve Aoki got the request over Twitter after Tomlinson watched him play Las Vegas, and the single became the DJ's highest-charting song in both Britain and America.
Q 03Which singer joins Louis Tomlinson on Back to You, his 2017 single that reached the UK top ten?
Bebe Rexha
Bebe Rexha joined him for a video filmed around his Yorkshire home town, with scenes shot inside its football stadium.
Q 04Which football club, where Louis Tomlinson once waited tables, signed him as a player in 2013?
Doncaster Rovers
Doncaster Rovers, the club he had supported all his life, took him on non-contract terms after he impressed in a charity game, and he turned out for the reserves.
Q 05Which Louis Tomlinson song, the lead single from his debut album, is a tribute to his late mother?
Two of Us
Two of Us honours Johannah Deakin, who died of leukaemia in 2016. He put off writing it, wanting a few more years of experience as a songwriter before he tried.
Q 06Which guest judge at Louis Tomlinson's X Factor audition later claimed the idea of forming One Direction?
Nicole Scherzinger
Nicole Scherzinger was filling in for an absent regular judge, and footage released in 2022 showed she played a significant part in putting the five of them together.
Q 07On which festive date was Louis Tomlinson born in 1991, under the birth name Louis Troy Austin?
Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve was the day, and his mother Johannah was only 18 when he arrived.
Q 08Which outdoor venue lost a 2023 Louis Tomlinson concert when hail injured more than 90 fans?
Red Rocks
Red Rocks, the Colorado amphitheatre, was battered by apple-sized hail before he was due on stage, and the show could never be rescheduled.
Q 09Which actor did Louis Tomlinson befriend as a child extra on the ITV drama Fat Friends?
James Corden
James Corden played Jamie in the slimming-club drama and stayed a friend, later hosting the first TV performance of Tomlinson's single We Made It on his American chat show.
Q 10Playing the lead in which school musical spurred Louis Tomlinson to audition for The X Factor?
Grease
Grease cast him as Danny Zuko, the leather-jacketed T-Bird, and the taste of a lead role gave him the nerve to try out for television.
Q 11In a 2019 Louis Tomlinson video, a widower's bucket list includes giving the singer what?
A tattoo
A tattoo was on the list drawn up by Richard, who also flew a helicopter, drove a race car and sang to a live audience, and the film urges viewers to donate to three charities.
Q 12Which 2023 documentary follows Louis Tomlinson from One Direction's hiatus into his solo career?
All of Those Voices
All of Those Voices is narrated by Tomlinson himself, and it mixes archive footage with interviews with members of his family.
Q 13Which One Direction bandmate was Louis Tomlinson's main songwriting partner, second to him in credits?
Liam Payne
Q 21Which One Direction song co-written by Louis Tomlinson did fans push as their own unofficial single in 2015?
No Control
No Control became a fan-run campaign to back Tomlinson after his Twitter feud with the producer Naughty Boy, and it topped Billboard's Twitter Real-Time chart.
Q 22Which indie music festival did Louis Tomlinson found with a free show at Crystal Palace Bowl?
Away From Home
Away From Home began as a free gig to celebrate the return of live music after lockdown, then went abroad, with the next two editions held in Spain and Italy.
Q 23Which band's song 505 did Louis Tomlinson cover on tour, having named them an influence on his debut?
Arctic Monkeys
Liam Payne worked with him on most of the album Four, though Tomlinson ended up with more credits than anyone else in the band, on 38 of its songs.
Q 14Which song co-written by Louis Tomlinson was One Direction's final single before their hiatus?
History
History came from Made in the A.M., the only album the group recorded as a four-piece after Zayn Malik left.
Q 15Louis Tomlinson voiced a cartoon version of himself in a 2016 episode of which animated sitcom?
Family Guy
Family Guy drew him into the episode Run, Chris, Run, in which Simon Cowell also turned up to voice himself.
Q 16Which X Factor category did Louis Tomlinson mentor as a judge in 2018, producing that year's winner?
The Boys
The Boys were his charges in his only series on the panel, and he took them to Ibiza for the judges' houses round.
Q 17Which acoustic 2000s hit earned Louis Tomlinson three yeses at his 2010 X Factor audition?
Hey There Delilah
Hey There Delilah, the Plain White T's ballad, was his second attempt of the day, sung after Simon Cowell stopped his first song and asked for another.
Q 18From which relative did Louis Tomlinson, born Louis Troy Austin, take his famous surname?
His stepfather
His stepfather Mark Tomlinson supplied the name, which the singer went on to make legal, after his birth father left when he was a baby.
Q 19Louis Tomlinson played in Soccer Aid, the celebrity football match that funds which organisation?
UNICEF
UNICEF benefits from every Soccer Aid, and in 2016 Tomlinson found himself up against a bandmate who was playing for the Rest of the World.
Q 20Which squad number from Louis Tomlinson's football days is also the name of his streetwear brand?
28
28 was on his back for the 2013–14 season, and the clothing line also works the White Rose of York into its branding as a nod to his home county.
Arctic Monkeys also shaped his single Out of My System, which he said drew on their songs Teddy Picker and Dancing Shoes.
Q 24Louis Tomlinson was once a teenage extra in which BBC school drama?
Waterloo Road
Waterloo Road was one of a few screen jobs he picked up as a teenager, along with a small part in the ITV drama film If I Had You and a spell at an acting school in Barnsley.
Q 25Which singer, a childhood idol of Louis Tomlinson, later judged The X Factor alongside him?
Robbie Williams
Robbie Williams was the hero he once praised as cheeky enough to get away with anything, and the pair judged alongside Ayda Field, who is married to Williams.
Q 26Louis Tomlinson wanders a desert in the video for Walls, filmed in which North African country?
Morocco
Morocco supplied the dunes for a surreal film in which he steps through a mysterious door and ends up among masked strangers in a ballroom.
Q 27Which Britpop songwriter has a credit on Louis Tomlinson's Walls because it borrowed from his band's songs?
Noel Gallagher
Noel Gallagher earned the credit because Tomlinson admitted lifting parts of three Oasis songs, among them Cast No Shadow and Acquiesce.
Q 28Which Louis Tomlinson single opens his debut album and led MTV to call him a born Britpop star?
Kill My Mind
Kill My Mind was the song on which he said he had finally found his lane, and he wanted its video to look like the Oasis performance clips he loved.
Q 29Which lead single from Louis Tomlinson's third album was trailed by cryptic posters in cities worldwide?
Lemonade
Lemonade has a dreamlike video in which a sock puppet opens a drinks stand, before Tomlinson dives fully clothed into a swimming pool.
Q 30In which position did One Direction, with Louis Tomlinson, finish in the 2010 final of The X Factor?
Third place
Third place went to the band in a series won by Matt Cardle, yet Simon Cowell still signed them to a reported £2 million record deal.