ABBA

Question: What was the group called prior to becoming known as ABBA?

Answer: The quartet debuted as the cabaret act Festfolk, a name chosen to play on two words with nearly identical pronunciations in Swedish: festfolk and fästfolk.

Question: In what year did ABBA disband?

Answer: The breakup of Benny and Anni-Frid proved to be too much for the group, which disbanded in 1982.

Question: Who gave the band its name?

Answer: ABBA—an acronym derived from the members’ first names—was suggested by the group’s manager, Stig Anderson.

Question: Which member of ABBA was not born in Sweden?

Answer: Anni-Frid Lyngstad was born in Narvik, Norway, on November 15, 1945.

Question: Who did Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson collaborate with to produce the 1988 stage musical Chess?

Answer: Ulvaeus and Andersson collaborated with lyricist Tim Rice to create the stage musical Chess (1988).

Question: What was ABBA’s only number 1 hit in the U.S.?

Answer: ABBA’s sole U.S. number 1 single was the catchy and undeniably club-friendly “Dancing Queen.”

Question: Which album featured the hit “The Winner Takes It All”?

Answer: The album Super Trouper (1980) most notably featured “The Winner Takes It All,” which betrayed a melancholic undercurrent that was absent in previous recordings.

Question: Who was the singer who briefly replaced Agnetha while she was busy with her first child?

Answer: Inger Brundin, a local singer and friend of Anni-Frid, joined the group for a few performances after Agnetha gave birth to her first child.

Question: In 1974 ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest with “Waterloo.” Where was the contest held?

Answer: ABBA won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with “Waterloo” at The Dome in Brighton, England.