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50 free Ozzy Osbourne trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Ozzy Osbourne went from a two-bedroom house in Aston to a throne on the Villa Park stage, and the 57 years in between contain more trivia than almost any other rock life. He co-founded Black Sabbath, got fired from it, built a bigger solo career with Randy Rhoads and Zakk Wylde, became a reality television star with his family, and played his last show in his home city 17 days before he died in July 2025. These 50 questions run the whole way. The easy tier covers the nickname, the band, the wife and manager who rescued his career, the MTV show and the bat. The middle asks about Blizzard of Ozz, the guitarists who followed Rhoads, Ozzfest, the quad bike, the Post Malone single and the duet with his daughter that finally gave him a UK number one. The hard end digs into the early bands before Sabbath, the prison in Birmingham, the Alamo, the Grammy, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame dates and what was carved into his knuckles as a teenager. Every answer is cited to a page we checked and comes with a short explanation. Play it solo or print it for a metal night.
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Q 01What nickname was Ozzy Osbourne widely known by?
Prince of Darkness
He adopted the title and absorbed the accusations of Satanism into his stage persona rather than fight them.
Q 02Which English city did Osbourne grow up in?
Birmingham
The family home was 14 Lodge Road in Aston; his 2025 funeral cortege passed the house on its way through the city.
Q 03What was Osbourne's real first name?
John
Born John Michael Osbourne, he picked up the nickname Ozzy as a child.
Q 04In what year did Black Sabbath fire Osbourne?
1979
Tony Iommi insisted on it, with Butler and Ward's support; the official reason was unreliability and substance abuse.
Q 05Who replaced Osbourne as Black Sabbath's singer in 1979?
Ronnie James Dio
Dio came from Rainbow; his first Sabbath album was Heaven & Hell, later the name of a touring band with Iommi.
Q 06What was the title of Osbourne's 1980 debut solo album?
Blizzard of Ozz
The name had been suggested by his father years earlier, for a brief solo project while he was still in Sabbath.
Q 07Which guitarist, formerly of Quiet Riot, co-wrote Osbourne's first two solo albums?
Randy Rhoads
Rolling Stone ranked him the 85th greatest guitarist of all time in 2003 on the strength of those two records.
Q 08How did Osbourne's guitarist die in March 1982, a week before a Madison Square Garden date?
A light aircraft crash
The plane was buzzing the band's tour bus in Florida when a wing clipped the bus; the pilot was the bus driver.
Q 09Which Night Ranger guitarist finished the 1982 tour after Rhoads's death?
Brad Gillis
Gillis was chosen at a hotel room audition after Bernie Tormé left to finish a solo album in England.
Q 10What animal did Osbourne bite the head off on stage in Des Moines in January 1982?
A bat
He thought it was rubber; he was vaccinated against rabies afterwards and sold a plush version with a detachable head in 2019.
Q 11In 1981, Osbourne bit the head off which bird at a meeting with CBS Records executives?
A dove
He had planned to release doves as a gesture of peace, then bit a second one as security escorted him out.
Q 12Osbourne was banned from which Texas city for a decade after a 1982 arrest at the Alamo?
San Antonio
The arrest record says public intoxication; he paid a forty dollar fine after 15 minutes in a holding cell.
Q 13On what date did Ozzy and Sharon marry in 1982?
4 July
He said he chose Independence Day so he would never forget the anniversary.
Q 21Osbourne's 2019 feature on which Post Malone song gave him his first US top ten in 30 years?
Take What You Want
It peaked at number 8, and Watt, who co-produced it, went on to produce Ordinary Man and Patient Number 9.
Q 22What was the title of Osbourne's 1991 album featuring "Mama, I'm Coming Home"?
No More Tears
Motörhead's Lemmy helped write it, and the retirement tour that followed was punningly called No More Tours.
Q 23Osbourne's 1994 Grammy for Best Metal Performance was for which track?
I Don't Want to Change the World
Q 14Who was Sharon's father, the Black Sabbath manager who signed Ozzy to Jet Records?
Don Arden
Arden wanted to call the new band Son of Sabbath, which Osbourne hated.
Q 15Which of Ozzy's children did NOT appear in The Osbournes?
Aimee
Louis, from his first marriage, made occasional cameos; Aimee sat the whole series out.
Q 16With which daughter did Osbourne score his first UK number one single, a duet on "Changes"?
Kelly
It came in December 2003 while he was in hospital after a quad bike crash, 33 years after Paranoid first charted.
Q 17How many years passed between Osbourne's first UK chart hit and his first UK number one?
33
That gap between Paranoid in August 1970 and Changes in 2003 was a record for any artist.
Q 18What was Osbourne riding when he broke his collarbone, eight ribs and a neck vertebra in 2003?
Quad bike
His bodyguard resuscitated him after he stopped breathing on his Buckinghamshire estate.
Q 19Which guitarist joined Osbourne in 1988 and became his most enduring collaborator?
Zakk Wylde
Wylde debuted on No Rest for the Wicked and later led his own band, Black Label Society.
Q 20Osbourne's 1988 duet "Close My Eyes Forever" reached No. 8 on the Hot 100 with which singer?
Lita Ford
It stayed his only US top ten for 30 years until Post Malone's Take What You Want in 2019.
The winning version was the live take from Live & Loud, not the studio recording.
Q 24Which Sabbath guitarist knocked Osbourne out with one punch during a 1970s hotel fight?
Tony Iommi
Iommi remembered Osbourne as a pest from their school days; the two later fought over the Sabbath trademark in court.
Q 25What name did Black Sabbath use just before settling on Black Sabbath in 1969?
Earth
They changed it after being accidentally booked in place of another band called Earth.
Q 26Which bassist formed Rare Breed in 1967 and recruited Osbourne as singer?
Geezer Butler
Rare Breed played two shows and split; Butler and Osbourne regrouped with Iommi and Ward in Polka Tulk Blues.
Q 27What did the flyer Osbourne posted in a record store say he needed?
A gig
It read Ozzy Zig Needs Gig, has own PA; Iommi and Ward turned up at the address and recognised him from school.
Q 28Where did the 17-year-old Osbourne spend six weeks after he could not pay a fine for a shop robbery?
Winson Green Prison
His father refused to pay the fine to teach him a lesson.
Q 29Which Beatles song did Osbourne credit with inspiring him to become a musician?
She Loves You
He was 14 when he heard it; he later covered Beatles and Lennon songs on his Under Cover album.
Q 30What did the teenage Osbourne tattoo across the knuckles of his left hand with a sewing needle?
O-Z-Z-Y
It was the first of more than 15 tattoos, done with pencil lead for ink.