Quiz on Queen

Who was the lead singer of Queen?

• Freddie Mercury ✓ (Correct answer)
• Roger Taylor
• Brian May
• John Deacon

Source: Freddie Mercury fronted the band, but every member except him wrote a number-one hit.

What instrument did Brian May famously play in Queen?

• Drums
• Bass
• Guitar ✓ (Correct answer)
• Keyboards

Source: Brian May built his own guitar, the 'Red Special', with his father using a fireplace mantel.

Which sports anthem by Queen is chanted at stadiums worldwide?

• We Will Rock You ✓ (Correct answer)
• Radio Ga Ga
• Under Pressure
• I Want to Break Free

Source: Its stomp-stomp-clap beat was designed so crowds with no instruments could join in.

Which Queen song features the lyric 'Is this the real life?'

• Somebody to Love
• Bohemian Rhapsody ✓ (Correct answer)
• Killer Queen
• We Are the Champions

Source: That opening line launches a six-minute song with no chorus that still topped the charts twice.

Which stadium event is widely seen as Queen's greatest live performance?

• Glastonbury
• Woodstock
• Monterey Pop
• Live Aid ✓ (Correct answer)

Source: Queen's 20-minute Live Aid set in 1985 is regularly voted the best live gig in rock history.

Which 2018 film told the story of Queen and Freddie Mercury?

• Rocketman
• Bohemian Rhapsody ✓ (Correct answer)
• A Star Is Born
• Yesterday

Source: Rami Malek won an Oscar playing Mercury, though many fans confuse it with the Elton John biopic Rocketman.

Queen drew union fines for a controversial 1984 tour of which country?

• Argentina
• Australia
• South Africa ✓ (Correct answer)
• Japan

Source: Their Sun City shows drew heavy criticism and a fine from the British musicians' union.

Freddie Mercury was famous for cutting off his microphone stand to what length?

• Full height
• Half a stand ✓ (Correct answer)
• Ankle height
• Shoulder height

Source: His half-mic became a trademark prop after the bottom snapped off early in his career and he kept it.

Which Queen song was released as a double A-side with 'Fat Bottomed Girls'?

• Don't Stop Me Now
• Somebody to Love
• We Are the Champions
• Bicycle Race ✓ (Correct answer)

Source: The 1978 single's nude bike-race video had to use rented bicycles the shop refused to take back.

Which Queen song shares its title with a 1980 superhero film soundtrack they recorded?

• Flash ✓ (Correct answer)
• Don't Stop Me Now
• The Show Must Go On
• Hammer to Fall

Source: Queen scored the entire 'Flash Gordon' film, a rare full soundtrack for a rock band.

Which Queen song was co-written and sung with David Bowie?

• Radio Ga Ga
• One Vision
• Under Pressure ✓ (Correct answer)
• A Kind of Magic

Source: Its famous bassline was nearly lost because nobody wrote it down during the jam session.

In which Queen video did the band dress in drag as housewives?

• Radio Ga Ga
• I Want to Break Free ✓ (Correct answer)
• Bohemian Rhapsody
• Killer Queen

Source: The cross-dressing parody of a British soap opera got the video banned by MTV in America.

What was Freddie Mercury's birth name?

• Frederick Bulmer
• Faisal Mercury
• Fareed Bandar
• Farrokh Bulsara ✓ (Correct answer)

Source: Born in Zanzibar to Parsi parents, he adopted the stage name Freddie Mercury at university.

Which Queen member wrote the band's hit 'Another One Bites the Dust'?

• John Deacon ✓ (Correct answer)
• Freddie Mercury
• Brian May
• Roger Taylor

Source: Bassist John Deacon, the quietest member, wrote their best-selling US single, inspired by funk band Chic.

Which Queen member holds a PhD in astrophysics?

• Roger Taylor
• John Deacon
• Freddie Mercury
• Brian May ✓ (Correct answer)

Source: Brian May finished his doctorate on interplanetary dust in 2007, decades after starting it.

Which surviving members reunited Queen with singer Adam Lambert in the 2010s?

• Brian May and Roger Taylor ✓ (Correct answer)
• Roger Taylor and John Deacon
• Brian May and John Deacon
• All three survivors

Source: John Deacon retired from music entirely, so only May and Taylor tour as Queen today.

Which 1979 Queen hit was Freddie Mercury's rockabilly tribute to Elvis?

• Don't Stop Me Now
• Somebody to Love
• Crazy Little Thing Called Love ✓ (Correct answer)
• Fat Bottomed Girls

Source: Freddie wrote it in about ten minutes in a bathtub and played rhythm guitar on it himself.

Which word is sung three consecutive times in 'Bohemian Rhapsody'?

• Bismillah
• Galileo ✓ (Correct answer)
• Beelzebub
• Scaramouche

Source: The mock-opera section layered around 180 vocal overdubs, wearing out the recording tape.

Which Queen album shares its name with a Marx Brothers film?

• The Game
• Sheer Heart Attack
• A Night at the Opera ✓ (Correct answer)
• Jazz

Source: Queen loved the Marx Brothers so much they named two albums after their films.

Where was Queen's final concert with Freddie Mercury held in 1986?

• Wembley
• Hyde Park
• Milton Keynes
• Knebworth ✓ (Correct answer)

Source: Around 120,000 fans packed Knebworth Park for what became Mercury's last-ever live show.