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Music Quiz

📻 Which Decade Is the Song?

Which decade did the song come out in? Thirty famous tracks, fifteen questions per round.

Guess how old the song really is

The more familiar a song sounds, the worse we are at guessing when it came out. This game is built on exactly that blind spot. A famous track appears and you choose the decade it was released in, from the 1960s all the way to the 2020s. Sixties rock sits next to disco, grunge, and streaming-era pop, so Bohemian Rhapsody and drivers license end up in the same quiz.

A trivia round that starts arguments

Play it in a group and you will hear the same sentence over and over: there is no way that song is that old. Everybody anchors on the year they first heard a track rather than the year it was recorded, which is why teenagers and their parents miss the same questions for opposite reasons. Fifteen questions are drawn from a pool of thirty each round, so a rematch never feels identical.

Free music trivia in your browser

No sign-up, no download, and no app store. The game runs straight in your browser on a phone or a laptop, which makes it an easy party game to hand around a table. Team it up with the other music games on the site if you want to build a full trivia night without any preparation.