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101 70’s Music Trivia Questions To Ring Your Bell

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’?

Pocket

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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