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16 Coldplay quizzes and 165 Coldplay trivia questions.
1.
  Mylo Xyloto   best quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Released in 2011, this Coldplay concept album follows the story of Mylo and Xyloto, two figures of a dystopian cityscape who meet, fall in love, and search for freedom. See what you know about this CD. Good luck!
Easier, 10 Qns, kyleisalive, Nov 02 11
Easier
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  10 Question Coldplay Lyrics Quiz   best quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Since 2000, Coldplay has emerged as one of the most popular alternative rock bands out of Britain. See if you know some of their lyrics from "Parachutes" (2000) to "Prospekt's March" (2009). Good luck!
Average, 10 Qns, kyleisalive, Aug 29 09
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kyleisalive editor
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  Coldplay Songs In Other Words   top quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Someone has tampered with my Coldplay song collection - all the titles have been rewritten in different words! Please help me figure out which songs are which. Songs come from "Parachutes" to "Viva La Vida".
Average, 10 Qns, eburge, Oct 19 11
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4.
  More Coldplay Songs In Other Words   best quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Back again for another installment. Please decipher the Coldplay songs that are written in other words. Songs come from the first four albums, and also the EP "Prospekt's March".
Average, 10 Qns, eburge, Jul 21 13
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eburge gold member
813 plays
5.
  Coldplay Lyrics Quiz for Experts    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a pretty standard quiz on the Coldplay CD "A Rush of Blood to the Head", a great album... I'll give you a part of the song, and you give me the name of the song. Have fun!
Average, 10 Qns, Mariah8138, Oct 12 03
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Mariah8138
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  Coldplay's "X&Y" Lyrics    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
This is a quiz on Coldplay's third album, "X&Y". I give the lyrics and you name the song. Since there are only thirteen songs (including hidden track 13), two songs will be used twice.
Average, 15 Qns, augusta123, May 20 06
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augusta123
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7.
  Coldplay    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
How well do you know Coldplay?
Average, 10 Qns, Lagunathemoron, Sep 07 21
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Lagunathemoron
Sep 07 21
2348 plays
8.
  And That Was When I Ruled the World    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Thank you! Thank you! No, I'm not Coldplay. I'm just singing their songs. Are you a true fan of this British rock band? If so, I'll sing a song and you tell me which one it is. Are you up to the challenge?
Average, 10 Qns, superfan123, Apr 11 21
Average
superfan123
Apr 11 21
252 plays
9.
  Coldplay Song Lyrics    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Coldplay are my favourite band and I think that the lyrics are really brilliant. This quiz is about songs from all three of Coldplay's albums: "Parachutes", "Rush of Blood to the Head" and "X & Y". Enjoy!
Tough, 10 Qns, 02hicksone, Feb 26 10
Tough
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10.
  Coldplay "Parachutes" Lyrics    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a fairly standard quiz on the lyrics from Coldplay's CD "Parachutes".
Average, 10 Qns, Mariah8138, Oct 12 03
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trivia question Quick Question
Please Refrain From Becoming Overwhelmed By Sudden Fear

From Quiz "Coldplay Songs In Other Words"




11.
  "God Put a Smile Upon Your Face" Video    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
A quiz on Coldplay's "God Put a Smile Upon Your Face" music video. Questions taken from official video, so you better know what happens! Also, for lack of a better name, I will refer to the main character in the video as 'X'.
Average, 10 Qns, Mercenary_Elk, May 29 10
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Mercenary_Elk
222 plays
12.
  Coldplay, "A Rush of Blood to the Head"    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Coldplay's music has a lot to it, not just words; you've got to really understand the lyrics to enjoy it too. This should be an easy quiz, though!
Average, 10 Qns, sweetfreek91, Feb 12 08
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1189 plays
13.
  Coldplay "A Head Full of Dreams"    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Coldplay fans! Coldplay came to the end of their "A Head Full of Dreams" tour in November 2017. Check out if you know Coldplay's adventure of a lifetime. Ready! Here it goes up and up!
Tough, 10 Qns, AHFOD, May 21 20
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AHFOD
May 21 20
89 plays
14.
  Coldplay Song Lyrics 2    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
More questions about the lyrics from songs on Coldplay's three fantastic albums!
Tough, 10 Qns, 02hicksone, Feb 13 09
Tough
02hicksone
802 plays
15.
  10 Coldplay Lyrics Questions    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz is about a great band named Coldplay. Find the song these lyrics are taken from!
Average, 10 Qns, veggiekitten, Oct 12 03
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veggiekitten
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  B-Sides, it's Coldplay    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz is designed to test your knowledge of the lyrics to some of Coldplay's B-Sides. It will include B-Sides from the 'Parachutes' through 'X & Y' era.
Difficult, 10 Qns, surferdave, Aug 02 06
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Coldplay Trivia Questions
1. For which song does the music video feature Coldplay as apes?

From Quiz Coldplay "A Head Full of Dreams"

Answer: Adventure of a Lifetime

Coldplay never fail to amuse. The music video for "Adventure of a Lifetime", with its upbeat, uplifting, amazing lyrics was so good it will live forever. Released as lead single to the album on 6th November 2015. It's so much fun to see the four as apes! Got to be one of the band's best music videos and songs.

2. "See the arrow that they shot, trying to tear us apart. Take the fire from my belly and the beat from my heart." In which fast-paced song did Coldplay sing those words?

From Quiz And That Was When I Ruled the World

Answer: Hurts Like Heaven

"Hurts Like Heaven" is the second of Coldplay's songs on their fifth album, "Mylo Xyloto". The lead singer, Chris, said that this song is "all Jonny", as there are only two chords for Jonny Buckland, the guitarist, to play, and that he is "coming out of his cocoon". "Oh, you... ooh, ooh... cause you do... Oh, you use your heart as a weapon, and it hurts like heaven."

3. What Coldplay album is "God Put a Smile Upon Your Face" from?

From Quiz "God Put a Smile Upon Your Face" Video

Answer: A Rush of Blood to the Head

Same album as a couple of other hits like "Clocks", "The Scientist" and "In My Place". Fun fact: This album was released August 26th, 2002.

4. "Bittersweet, I could taste in my mouth." What song notes these lyrics?

From Quiz Coldplay Lyrics

Answer: The Hardest Part

Counted as the fourth single on the band's third album, "X & Y", "The Hardest Part" after "Speed of Sound", "Fix You", and "Talk". Released as a single in 2006, the song did not reach as high on the charts as its predecessors had (though it fared better than the band's fifth single from the CD, "What If"). "X & Y" became the top-selling album of 2005 (sixth in U.S. sales) while "The Hardest Part" only hit #37 on one of the Billboard charts. The band's music video for "The Hardest Part", filmed at a yacht club, featured an eighty year old gymnast and her partner performing extremely dangerous stunts onstage while the band played in the background. The video is set up as though it is being filmed for an American TV show.

5. Which lyric is next in the song "A Message"? "On a platform I'm gonna stand and say"

From Quiz Coldplay Song Lyrics 2

Answer: That I'm nothing on my own

"A Message" is my second favourite song from Coldplay's newest album: "X & Y". I especially like the ending: "My song is love, is love unknown and I've got to get that message home".

6. Which song does the following lyric come from? "Love; I hope we grow old, I hope we can find a way of seeing it all"

From Quiz B-Sides, it's Coldplay

Answer: Easy to Please

'Easy To Please' was included on the rare 1999 'Brothers and Sisters' 7".

7. What lyric comes next? "Come out with things unsaid, shoot an apple off my head..."

From Quiz Coldplay Song Lyrics

Answer: Trouble that can't be named, a tiger waiting to be tamed.

This is from the song "Clocks", which is from the album "A Rush of Blood to the Head". Despite the title, this song only contains the word "Clocks" once!

8. Which song does this lyric come from, "Where do we go nobody knows..."?

From Quiz Coldplay, "A Rush of Blood to the Head"

Answer: God Put a Smile Upon Your Face

"Don't Panic" is not on the "Rush of Blood to the Head" album, "Unknown" is not a real song on the album, and "Politik" is not the right answer. "God Put a Smile Upon Your Face" is about a guy telling someone to smile and to show their stuff since they deserve to show off and he doesn't.

9. What song is this from? "See it in a new sun rising, see it break on your horizon"

From Quiz Coldplay's "X&Y" Lyrics

Answer: White Shadows

Coldplay originally planned their release date for the third album much earlier. Then they changed their minds and came up with whole new songs for "X&Y".

10. Complete the line from the song "Yellow": "I drew a line, I drew a line for _____."

From Quiz Coldplay

Answer: you

This song was one of the first songs Coldplay released. The song was about the colour yellow, and made references to the sea and sky.

11. "Oh no, I see a spider web and it's me in the middle."

From Quiz Coldplay "Parachutes" Lyrics

Answer: "Trouble"

I put this song first on the quiz because, in my opinion, it's the best song on the album. This was the third commercial single from the album "Parachutes" The music is so incredibly beautiful. It makes me really appreciate the talent of the lead singer Chris Martin (he plays the piano).

12. "I am nothing in the dark."

From Quiz Coldplay Lyrics

Answer: "Daylight"

"Yellow" is from their first CD, "Parachutes".

13. "I never meant to do you harm".

From Quiz Coldplay Lyrics

Answer: Trouble

"I never meant to cause you trouble, And I never meant to do you wrong, And I, well if I ever caused you trouble, Oh no, I never meant to do you harm". Oh no, I never meant to do you harm.

14. Which song featured Beyoncé?

From Quiz Coldplay "A Head Full of Dreams"

Answer: Hymn for the Weekend

"Hymn for the Weekend" is a colorful positive music video shot in India at Holi festival time.

15. "When I was a young boy, I tried to listen, and I wanna feel like that. Little white shadows, blink and miss them, part of a system I am." What song did these lyrics originate from?

From Quiz And That Was When I Ruled the World

Answer: White Shadows

"White Shadows" is a track from Coldplay's third album, "X&Y". The song was in memory of Bruce Paltrow, the father of Gwyneth Paltrow, who is Chris Martin's wife. One of Bruce's shows was "The White Shadow", which inspired the title for this. "Maybe you'll get what you wanted, maybe you stumbled upon it, Everything you ever wanted, in a permanent state."

16. According to the first single released from "Mylo Xyloto", what is 'Every Teardrop'?

From Quiz Mylo Xyloto

Answer: A waterfall

Released as a single in June 2011, "Every Teardrop is a Waterfall" set the tone for "Mylo Xyloto" quite quickly. Charting at number fourteen on the Billboard Hot 100, showing at higher spots on three of five other Billboard listings, and peaking at number six on the UK Singles Chart, the song is an upbeat song about rising to a revolution. Although "Every tear a waterfall" is mentioned in passing in a previous song, the track itself appears around the midway point of the album, shortly after the instrumental piece "M.M.I.X.". The single was released with "Moving to Mars" as a B-side and it was played at the memorial of Apple founder Steve Jobs, whose affiliation with Coldplay dates back to the mid-2000s.

17. What is slightly bizarre about the man that the main character of the video(X) walks into?

From Quiz "God Put a Smile Upon Your Face" Video

Answer: He is barefoot

The man has a shirt and a tie, but is fairly clean-shaven and doesn't have gloves. You can tell that the barefoot trait was bizarre, because they pan down to show you and then zoom in. They don't actually mention why this man is barefoot, but I have my theories which I will mention later on.

18. "Soldiers, you've got to soldier on." This is instructed in which song?

From Quiz Coldplay Lyrics

Answer: Lovers in Japan

"Lovers in Japan" was the fourth and final single released from the fourth Coldplay album, "Viva la Vida", in late 2008. Although the single appeared on the "Viva la Vida (or Death and All His Friends") CD upon its initial release, it was bundled as a full song with "Reign of Love". Nonetheless, when announced as a stand-alone single, the song performed extremely well on the charts. In November 2008, the "Osaka Sun Remix" of "Lovers in Japan" was released as a track on the EP "Prospekt's March". The band claims this to be more reminiscent of the live version of the song. The music video for "Lovers in Japan" features the band performing and writing words from the song with neon lights, and then using elements from their concert. This video first premiered on iTunes.

19. The Lord Places A Positive Expression On The Front Of Your Head.

From Quiz More Coldplay Songs In Other Words

Answer: God Put a Smile Upon Your Face

"God Put a Smile Upon Your Face" is the third track on "A Rush of Blood to the Head". Its uptempo drumming and catchy sound made it a success. It was released as the fourth single from the album.

20. The Person Who Increases Human Understanding of the World

From Quiz Coldplay Songs In Other Words

Answer: The Scientist

"The Scientist" is the fourth track on Coldplay's second album, "A Rush of Blood to the Head". It reached number 18 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks in the US, and number 10 on the UK Singles Chart. The music video also won 3 MTV Music Video Awards.

21. What song are the following lyrics from? "The sign that I couldn't read, or the light that I couldn't see...some things you have to believe but others are puzzles, puzzling me"

From Quiz Coldplay's "X&Y" Lyrics

Answer: Speed of Sound

"Speed of Sound" is the first single released from "X&Y". The chorus goes: "Birds go flying at the speed of sound, to show you how it all began. Birds came flying from the underground. If you could see it, then you'd understand."

22. Which song mentions a spider web in which the main singer is caught in the middle?

From Quiz Coldplay

Answer: "Trouble"

"Trouble" is the most tear-jerking track on the "Parachutes" album.

23. "And it's you I see but you don't see me."

From Quiz Coldplay "Parachutes" Lyrics

Answer: "Shiver"

This is Coldplay's first commercial single, and it's a worthy song for such a task. "I'll always be waiting for you" is a line in this song that's repeated a lot, so it would be easy to mistake that for the title.

24. "Come back and look for me, look for me when I am lost."

From Quiz Coldplay Lyrics

Answer: "A Whisper"

"I hear the sound of the ticking of clocks. Come back and look for me, look for me when I am lost." Ironic how the song is called "A Whisper" when the music is so loud and somewhat menacing. "We Never Change" is from "Parachutes."

25. "We've been living life inside a bubble".

From Quiz Coldplay Lyrics

Answer: High Speed

"Can anybody stop this thing, before my head explodes or my head starts to ring, we've been living life inside a bubble, we've been living life inside a bubble".

26. What was the name of the 13th century poet who Coldplay are inspired by, played on the seventh track in the album?

From Quiz Coldplay "A Head Full of Dreams"

Answer: Rumi

"The Guest House" is a poem that lead vocalist Chris Martin found life changing. The seventh track on the album is a shortened version of the poem.

27. "Climb up the ladder, look up and you see birds. Blind as each other, how long can we suffer?" Which oddly-named piece of music did these words emerge from?

From Quiz And That Was When I Ruled the World

Answer: 1.36

"1.36" is a song released in 2002 that accompanied "The Scientist", and it has almost never been sung live. It is said that it got its name because the original length was one minute, 36 seconds. "On the cloud that you're sitting, there's one born every minute. So much to discover, I've become a believer."

28. "Hear those crocodiles ticking 'round the world. Hear those crocodiles ticking, they go ticking 'round the world." In what song from "Mylo Xyloto" does Chris Martin claim that they've "got one eye on the road and one on you"?

From Quiz Mylo Xyloto

Answer: Major Minus

"Major Minus" appears directly after "Every Teardrop is a Waterfall" on both the "Mylo Xyloto" album and as a b-side on the "Every Teardrop is a Waterfall" EP released in June 2011. Despite not being released as an official single at that time, the song climbed to number ninety-two on the Billboard Hot 100 due to exceptional online sales. Likewise, the b-side "Moving to Mars" reached number ninety on the same chart even though it was a much more scaled-back number. "Don't believe a word. It's just us against the world And we just gotta turn up to be heard."

29. What is gradually happening to X throughout the video?

From Quiz "God Put a Smile Upon Your Face" Video

Answer: X is starting to disappear

My primary theory about Mr. Barefoot is that his feet disappeared, causing him to lose his shoes/socks and then they reappeared. Like a flickering disappearance. I think that it is possible that Mr. Barefoot somehow passed on the disappearance trait when they collided. If you have your own theory, please send me a message. I am quite interested.

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