Ariana Grande Trivia
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110 free Ariana Grande trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
48 free Ariana Grande trivia questions with answers. Ariana Grande went from a Broadway teen and a red-haired Nickelodeon sidekick to one of the biggest pop stars of her generation, then picked up an Oscar nomination for good measure. This quiz covers the whole run: the early Nickelodeon years, the 2014 chart takeover, the Manchester benefit concert, the Pete Davidson chapter that produced 'Thank U, Next', the Wicked films and the perfumes that outsell most of her rivals' records. It works for a fan quiz, a pop-music round or a car ride with someone who knows all the words to '7 Rings'. The easy questions are ones any Arianator will breeze through; the hard ones dig into featured artists, chart records and album trivia. Every answer has been checked against a primary reference and each question carries its citation, so if a friend swears Dangerous Woman went to number one, you can prove it stopped at two.
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Q 01In which Florida city was Ariana Grande born in 1993?
Boca Raton
Her father ran a graphic design firm there and her mother is CEO of a family marine-communications company founded in 1964.
Q 02Ariana Grande was born with a hyphenated surname. What is its second half?
Butera
She was credited under it in the Wicked films, because that was her name when she first saw the stage musical at age ten.
Q 03Ariana Grande's professional career began in 2008 in which Broadway musical?
13
She played cheerleader Charlotte; her Victorious castmate Elizabeth Gillies was in the same show.
Q 04What was the name of the character Ariana Grande played on Nickelodeon's Victorious?
Cat Valentine
The role required her to dye her hair red for years, which damaged it badly enough that she later relied on extensions.
Q 05What was the name of the fictional Los Angeles high school where Victorious was set?
Hollywood Arts
The show ran from 2010 to 2013 and won Favorite TV Show at the Kids' Choice Awards two years running.
Q 06Sam & Cat paired Grande's character with Jennette McCurdy's Sam Puckett from which show?
iCarly
The roommates run an after-school babysitting business; the show was cancelled in July 2014 after one season.
Q 07What was Ariana Grande's first role as a young child, with the Fort Lauderdale Children's Theater?
Annie
She later played Snow White in a pantomime-style Christmas show at the Pasadena Playhouse alongside Neil Patrick Harris.
Q 08Which talent manager did Ariana Grande sign with in early 2013?
Scooter Braun
His firm SB Projects also handled Justin Bieber, on whose Believe Tour she soon appeared as a guest.
Q 09What was the title of Ariana Grande's 2013 debut studio album?
Yours Truly
A doo-wop-flavoured pop and R&B record, it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 138,000 first-week copies.
Q 10Which rapper featured on 'The Way', the lead single from Ariana Grande's debut album?
Mac Miller
He later taught her to produce her own vocals in Pro Tools; the two dated from 2016 to 2018.
Q 11Which Australian rapper features on Ariana Grande's 2014 hit 'Problem'?
Iggy Azalea
The song stalled at number two on the Hot 100, blocked from the top spot by the featured rapper's own single 'Fancy'.
Q 12Whose uncredited whispered vocals appear in the chorus of 'Problem'?
Big Sean
He had also featured on 'Right There' from her debut album, and the two briefly dated.
Q 13Which German DJ and producer featured on the 2014 single 'Break Free'?
Zedd
It reached number four in the US and opened the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards, where she won Best Pop Video for 'Problem'.
Q 21Where was the One Love Manchester benefit concert held on 4 June 2017?
Old Trafford Cricket Ground
55,000 people attended and Liam Gallagher made a surprise appearance near the end.
Q 22Which producer did Ariana Grande begin working with in 2016 on what became the album Sweetener?
Pharrell Williams
He co-wrote and produced the title track, the first song made for the record.
Q 23Sweetener won Ariana Grande her first Grammy in 2019, in which category?
Best Pop Vocal Album
She skipped the ceremony after a dispute with producers over a planned performance.
Q 14Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj's 2014 hit 'Bang Bang' was the lead single from whose album?
Jessie J
It has since gone diamond in the US, one of only two Grande songs to do so alongside '7 Rings'.
Q 15Ariana Grande matched which artist in 2014 as only the second woman with three simultaneous top-ten leads?
Adele
Adele had done it in 2012 with 'Rolling in the Deep', 'Someone Like You' and 'Set Fire to the Rain'.
Q 16Ariana Grande's first worldwide concert run, launched in February 2015, went by what name?
Honeymoon
It promoted My Everything, and one of its backup dancers, Ricky Alvarez, became her boyfriend for a year.
Q 17Which of Ariana Grande's studio albums did NOT debut at number one on the Billboard 200?
Dangerous Woman
It opened at number two in May 2016; every other studio album through Positions and Eternal Sunshine topped the chart.
Q 18Ariana Grande played Penny Pingleton in which NBC musical broadcast in December 2016?
Hairspray Live!
She had already made her SNL hosting debut earlier that year, performing 'Dangerous Woman'.
Q 19In the Fox horror-comedy Scream Queens, Ariana Grande played which character?
Chanel #2
Her character Sonya Herfmann was killed off early in the first season, but kept turning up in flashbacks.
Q 20How many people were killed in the bombing after Ariana Grande's Manchester Arena concert in May 2017?
22
More than a thousand were injured; Grande later became the first honorary citizen of Manchester and reportedly declined a UK damehood.
Q 24Which comedian was Ariana Grande engaged to for a few months in 2018?
Pete Davidson
A song named after him appears on Sweetener; the break-up inspired 'Thank U, Next'.
Q 25The 'Thank U, Next' video pays homage to four early-2000s films. Which of these is NOT one of them?
Clueless
The fourth is 13 Going on 30; the video set a record for the most-watched YouTube premiere ever at the time.
Q 26'7 Rings' interpolates which showtune, giving 90 percent of royalties to the Rodgers and Hammerstein estate?
My Favorite Things
Grande called it a 'friendship anthem' about treating her friends after the Davidson split.
Q 27In 2019 Ariana Grande became the youngest artist ever to headline which festival?
Coachella
She was also only the fourth woman to top the bill there.
Q 28With which artist did Ariana Grande record the 2020 pandemic duet 'Stuck with U'?
Justin Bieber
It made her the first artist whose first three number ones all debuted at the top of the Hot 100.
Q 29'Rain on Me', Ariana Grande's 2020 hit with Lady Gaga, appears on which Gaga album?
Chromatica
It was the first all-female collaboration to debut at number one on the Hot 100 and later won a Grammy.
Q 30Ariana Grande's Netflix concert film 'Excuse Me, I Love You' documented which of her tours?
Sweetener World
It was released on 21 December 2020.