Test your knowledge of ABBA's biggest hits, deep cuts and iconic moments.
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That piano run into 'Dancing Queen' is unmistakable, and so is the mournful sweep of 'The Winner Takes It All'. The catch in this round is how many of ABBA's brightest hooks are quietly hiding a broken heart.
Behind every hook sits a fact a quiz can spring on you: a Eurovision win in 1974, a number one written during a real divorce, a comeback staged by digital avatars forty years later.
Their songbook runs from pure-joy dancefloor hits to euphoric-sounding breakup songs and open ballads, so the score depends on whether you can hear the heartbreak under the melody.
Start with the euphoria no ABBA quiz can catch you on: 'Dancing Queen', 'Mamma Mia', 'Waterloo' and 'Take a Chance on Me'. These are the singalongs built for pure joy, and most players name them from the opening chord, so they are the free points early in the round.
Here is the trap. 'Knowing Me, Knowing You', 'SOS' and 'Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)' bounce along like party songs, but the lyrics are about breakups and loneliness. A quiz question can ask what a track is really about, and the bright melody will lead you the wrong way.
Some ABBA songs wear the sadness openly. 'The Winner Takes It All', which Björn Ulvaeus wrote as his marriage to Agnetha ended, plus 'Slipping Through My Fingers' and 'Chiquitita', are the ballads that reveal what the group was living through. Placing these is where real fans separate.
Superfans pull ahead on the tracks that never became radio staples: 'Eagle', 'Summer Night City' and 'Under Attack', plus the 2021 comeback songs 'I Still Have Faith in You' and 'Don't Shut Me Down'. Name one of these from a short clip and you are in the top tier of any ABBA guess-the-song round.
Play an ABBA quiz on Songtrivia and find out. Guess the song from a short clip, then catch whether the bright hook is hiding a breakup. Score 8 out of 10 and you are a real fan; hearing the sadness under every hit is rare.
Because they often are. As both couples in the group divorced, they wrote 'The Winner Takes It All', 'Knowing Me, Knowing You' and 'One of Us', breakup songs set to euphoric pop. A quiz will test whether you can hear the story under the melody.
'Dancing Queen', 'Mamma Mia', 'Waterloo', 'Take a Chance on Me' and 'The Winner Takes It All' are among the most-guessed in the songs round.
The dancefloor hits are easy points, but the deep cuts and the 2021 'Voyage' songs, plus telling the euphoric breakup tracks apart, are what separate the superfans.
ABBA is an acronym of the members' first names: Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. They formed in Stockholm in 1972.
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