In the 70’s, music was everywhere. From disco, funk, jazz, soul, and many songs that were popular back then are still known to many today. Songs like the “Y.M.C.A,” “Stayin Alive,” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” can still be heard playing. The real question is, how well do you know these songs personally?
Whether you grew up in the 70’s or are a big fan of artists from the time like the Bee Jees, The Beatles, and more, this 70’s music quiz is for you. Even if you’ve never listened to 70’s music on purpose, you never know how much you could secretly have stored in your memory.
These 70’s music trivia questions and answers will put your memory to the test and ask you all kinds of questions about 70’s music, artists, and more from the era.
If you’re looking for more music trivia to try, check out our 60’s music and 80’s music trivia quizzes.
Who found a hit with ‘Tiny Dancer’ in the 1970’s?
Michael Jackson
Billy Joel
Elton John
Paul McCartney
What did the New Seekers say they’d like to ‘Teach the World’ to do in 1971?
Shout
Cry
Sing
Laugh
What song was hit for The Undertones in the 1970s?
Dirty Ol’ Man
Teenage Kicks
She’s Not There
I’d Rather Go Blind
What song was a big hit for Marvin Gaye in the 1970s?
Everlasting Love
Let’s Get It On
Blinded By The Light
Lean On Me
Which 70s group were singing about taking the ‘Trans Europe Express’?
The Police
Dr Feelgood
Bachman Turner Overdrive
Kraftwerk
What song was a bit hit in the 1970’s for the group Gang of Four?
We’re An American Band
Damaged Goods
Hanging On The Telephone
Dark Lady
What crooner sang the hit song ‘The Candy Man’?
Dean Martin
Frank Sinatra
Sammy Davis Jr.
Tommy Dorsey
Who sang the disco hit ‘I’m So Excited’?
Sylvester
The Village People
Pointer Sisters
KC & The Sunshine Band
Who scored gold with the song ‘Heart of Gold’?
Elton John
Neil Young
Bruce Springsteen
Billy Joel
Who had a hit in the 1970s with ‘Psycho Killer’?
Talking Heads
The Ramones
Blondie
The Sex Pistols
What was the ‘Army’ described as in the lyrics of a 1978 World Cup hit?
Emerald
French
Football
Tartan
What group had a hit with ‘Midnight Train to Georgia’?
Tony Orlando And Dawn
Wild Cherry
Gladys Knight And The Pips
Peaches And Herb
Which female artist sang ‘Because the night belongs to lovers, Because the night belongs to lust’?
Patti Smith
Blondie
Chrissie Hynde
Olivia Newton-John
What Beatle had a solo hit with ‘You’re Sixteen’?
John Lennon
Ringo Starr
Paul McCartney
George Harrison
Who sang the disco hit ‘Sugar Pie Guy’?
The Joneses
The Trammps
Edwin Starr
Rose Royce
Who sang the song ‘Heroes’?
Carole King
Donna Summer
Roberta Flack
David Bowie
Which artist sang ‘My love must be a kind of blind love’ in 1975?
Paul Simon
Marvin Gaye
Art Garfunkel
Gloria Gaynor
What song was a big hit for the group Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band?
Kiss You All Over
A Fifth Of Beethoven
Baby Come Back
Boogie Oogie Oogie
Which artist sang ‘Farewell is a lonely sound, When told to someone you love’?
Stevie Wonder
Elvis Costello
Neil Diamond
Jimmy Ruffin
Which artist sang ‘My Maseratti does one-eighty-five, I lost my license, now I don’t drive’?
Andy Williams
Elton John
James Brown
Joe Walsh
Where did the angels sprinkle the moon dust according to the lyrics of ‘Close To You’?
Eyes
Face
Hands
Hair
Who sang the hit song ‘Too Much Heaven’?
The Ramones
Neil Diamond
Barry White
The Bee Gees
Which artist said ‘I’ll be fine when you’re gone, I’ll just cry all night long’?
Olivia Newton-John
Crystal Gayle
Donna Summer
Bonnie Tyler
Which group had a 1979 hit singing ‘Talk about, Pop muzik’?
P
M
Q
R
Who performed the hit song ‘Baby, I Love Your Way’?
Billy Joel
Jim Croce
Harry Chapin
Peter Frampton
Which country hit has the line ‘And something warm to come to, When nights are cold and lonely’?
Jolene
Stand By Your Man
The Gambler
Lucille
What song fronted by Paul McCartney sang ‘Band on the Run’?
Wings
The Clash
Aerosmith
The Eagles
What country star had a hit in the 1970’s with ‘Rhinestone Cowboy’?
Loretta Lynn
Dolly Parton
Glen Campbell
Conway Twitty
What metal band sang the hit song ‘Paranoid’?
AC/DC
Judas Priest
KISS
Black Sabbath
Which artist sang ‘Long nights crying by the record machine, Dreaming of my Chevy and my old blue jeans’?
Michael Jackson
Paul McCartney
Elvis Costello
Elton John
Who sang the hit song ‘Maggie May’?
Andy Gibb
Rod Stewart
Don McLean
Johnny Taylor
What singer had a big hit in the 1970’s with ‘Do Ya Think I’m Sexy’?
James Taylor
Elton John
James Brown
Rod Stewart
Which country star sang ‘Honey, come back I just can’t stand’?
Tammy Wynette
Glenn Campbell
Kenny Rogers
Dolly Parton
What funk group had a hit with ‘Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll’?
The Doobie Brothers
Electric Light Orchestra
Earth, Wind And Fire
Ian Dury And The Blockheads
Who sang the song ‘Up the Junction’?
The Presidents
The Staple Singers
Squeeze
The O’Jays
Which group advised you to ‘Take the Long Way Home’?
Led Zeppelin
Bee Gees
Boomtown Rats
Supertramp
Who sang ‘Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough’?
Billy Joel
Michael Jackson
David Bowie
Johnny Nash
What one-letter group had a hit with the song ‘Pop Muzik’?
F
M
Q
X
Which group sang ‘Feel the need, oh, feel, feel the need in me’?
Detroit Emeralds
Four Tops
The Jam
New Seekers
Which character in Copacabana ‘lost her youth and she lost her Tony, Now she’s lost her mind’?
Lola
Angie
Maria
Patti
Who sang the hit song ‘American Woman’?
The Rolling Stones
The Who
The Guess Who
AC/DC
Which group sang ‘But she can really do the brontosaurus, And she can scream the heeby jeeby for us’?
The Jam
The Move
The Clash
The Kinks
Which group sang ‘Did they get you to trade, Your heroes for ghosts’?
Pink Floyd
Rolling Stones
The Kinks
Bee Gees
What song was the biggest hit for Blondie in the 1970s?
Stayin’ Alive
Heart Of Glass
American Pie
Disco Lady
Which group said ‘Sing baby sing the world is getting better’?
The Stylistics
Bee Gees
Four Tops
Hot Chocolate
Which group sang ‘Come and see, Oh January, Don’t go Don’t go’?
Bee Gees
Squeeze
Pilot
Sister Sledge
Which artist sang ‘I am flying, Passing high clouds’?
Rod Stewart
Neil Diamond
Paul McCartney
John Denver
Which group had an early hit singing ‘So come on, now let’s try it, I love you, can’t deny it’?
Roxy Music
Abba
Bee Gees
Blondie
What group had a hit with ‘Rock Lobster’?
The B-52s
Three Dog Night
The Osmonds
The Carpenters
AC/DC had a hit in the 70’s with what metal classic?
Highway To Hell
Hotter Than Hell
Made In Japan
Welcome To My Nightmare
What group found fame with the disco hit ‘Le Freak’?
ABBA
Chic
Lipps Inc.
Donna Summer
Which group sang ‘Give a little bit, Give a little bit of your love to me’?
Fleetwood Mac
The Pretenders
Supertramp
Queen
Who sang the hit song ‘Who Are You’?
The Cramps
The Who
The Rolling Stones
AC/DC
Which female artist sang ‘And I think I’m gonna love you for a long long time’?
Barbra Streisand
Bonnie Tyler
Diana Ross
Linda Ronstadt
Which artist sang ‘Then I guess she had to crash, Valium would have helped that bash’?
Neil Diamond
Barry Manilow
James Brown
Lou Reed
Which group advised ‘Whatever you say, You pay your money, You take your choice’?
ELO
Status Quo
AC/DC
The Pretenders
Which group sang ‘Do you, do you want my love, woman’?
Stranglers
Squeeze
ELO
10cc
Which group encouraged you to ‘Dance away the heartache, Dance away the tears’?
The Clash
10cc
Boney M
Roxy Music
Gloria Gaynor performed what hit song in the 1970’s?
Best Of My Love
Don’t Pull Your Love
I Will Survive
Do It Again
Which adjective does Meat Loaf use to describe his silver-black bike in ‘Bat out of Hell’?
Phantom
Dangerous
Diabolical
Ghostly
Who sang the hit song ‘Rise’?
Herb Alpert
Gary Wright
Thelma Houston
Anita Ward
Which female singer asked ‘Do you get What you’re hoping for’ in a 1970s hit?
Barbra Streisand
Diana Ross
Carly Simon
Carole King
Which artist sang ‘Got me so blind I can’t see, That she’s a black magic woman’?
Michael Jackson
Barry White
Gloria Gaynor
Santana
Which artist sang ‘Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean, Yours are the sweetest eyes I’ve ever seen’?
Elton John
Paul McCartney
Barbra Streisand
Olivia Newton-John
Which group sang ‘Did you catch his face, was it 10538’?
ELO
Queen
Roxy Music
Bee Gees
What duo sang the hit song ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’?
Simon & Garfunkel
Seals & Crofts
The Brothers Johnson
Donnie & Marie
What disco group had a hit in the ’70s with ‘Dancing Queen’?
ABBA
The Bee Gees
The Trammps
KC & The Sunshine Band
What band scored a spot on the charts with ‘Comfortably Numb’ from their soundtrack for ‘The Wall’?
Pink Floyd
The Ramones
The Rolling Stones
The Undertones
What was the aristocratic title of D’Arbanville in the Cat Stevens song?
Princess
Duchess
Countess
Lady
The song ‘A Horse With No Name’ was a big hit for what group?
The Guess Who
America
The Doobie Brothers
The O’Jays
What TV star found a space on the charts with their hit song ‘The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia’?
David Cassidy
Steve Martin
David Soul
Vicki Lawrence
Who found a place on the charts with the disco hit ‘Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love’?
Stevie Wonder
Barry White
Al Green
Marvin Gaye
Which group sang ‘F-foxy, foxy on the run and hideaway’?
Sweet
Slade
Wizzard
ELO
What singer scored a hit with ‘Superstition’?
Bruce Springsteen
Stevie Wonder
Michael Jackson
Billy Joel
Which artist said ‘I was proud to go and do my patriotic chore’?
Marvin Gaye
Barry White
Elton John
Kenny Rogers
What punk band scored a hit in the 70s with the 10-minute song ‘Marquee Moon’?
The Dead Kennedys
Television
The Dictators
New York Dolls
What group performed the hit song ‘My Sharona’?
The Rolling Stones
The Chi-Lites
The Clash
The Knack
Who sang the hit novelty song ‘The Streak’?
Rick Dees
Dickie Goodman
Ray Stevens
Loudon Wainwright III
Which color is used to describe Jolene’s skin in the song by Dolly Parton?
Beige
Hessian
Cream
Ivory
Where can you ‘Play in sports and skin dive, Study oceanography’?
At high school
In the Navy
At the YMCA
At University
What song was a big hit for Prince when it was first released in the 1970s?
I Wanna Be Your Lover
When Doves Cry
Purple Rain
Darling Nikki
Which artist sang ‘Don’t you know that it (hurts so good)’?
Shirley Bassey
Bonnie Tyler
Susan Cadogan
Amii Stewart
Which act sang ‘Hello Hooray Let the show begin’?
Alice Cooper
Supertramp
Bee Gees
Fleetwood Mac
Where was Bonnie Tyler ‘Lost’ in the ’70s?
In Paradise
In Music
In the City
In France
Which group asked ‘Brown sugar, how come you taste so good’?
Rolling Stones
Wings
Police
Bee Gees
What song was a big hit for Eric Clapton?
Emotion
Hot Child In The City
I Go Crazy
Lay Down Sally
Who sang the one-hit wonder ‘American Pie’?
Vicki Lawrence
Carl Douglas
Don McLean
Minnie Ripperton
Which group said ‘Sail on down the line, Bout a half a mile or so’?
Fleetwood Mac
Supertramp
The Police
Commodores
Which group sang ‘And you come to me on a summer breeze, Keep me warm in your love, then you softly leave’?
Night Fever
How Deep is Your Love
Jive Talkin’
More Than a Woman
Who sang the song ‘Police & Thieves’?
Helen Reddy
Junior Murvin
Deep Purple
Looking Glass
Which band sang ‘We used to kiss hello remember’?
Four Tops
Bay City Rollers
Carpenters
Osmonds
Which artist sang ‘Yellow river, yellow river is in my mind and in my eye’?
Christie
Susie
Caroline
Donna
Which female artist had a hit in 1971 singing ‘Surrender your love baby, Surrender your love’?
Donna Summer
Barbra Streisand
Diana Ross
Marie Osmond
Where did 10cc keep your picture, in the lyrics of ‘I’m Not in Love’?
Drawer
Shelf
Wall
Where do yoy ‘go to town on Saturday, But go to church every Sunday’ according to Tina Turner?
Wheatbush
Nutbush
Appletree
Orangetree
What one-word band was responsible for the hit song ‘Angel in Your Arms’?
Hot
Stuff
Nilsson
Chicago
Who sang the hit ‘Blitzkrieg Bop’?
The Ramones
The Cure
The Sex Pistols
The Clash
Johnny Nash released what hit song in the 1970s?
Take It Easy
Dancing In The Moonlight
I Can See Clearly Now
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
Which group sang ‘And if young Nigel says he’s happy, He must be happy’?
ELO
Bee Gees
10cc
XTC
Which artist sang ‘Time in New England, Took me away’?
Barry Manilow
James Brown
Lou Reed
Marvin Gaye
Which group sang ‘Get yourself a constitution, Come join the revolution now’?
Sweet
Kiss
Status Quo
Slade
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