Avril Lavigne Trivia
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50 free Avril Lavigne trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Avril Lavigne was singing country covers in a Kingston bookstore when her first manager found her, and a year later a fifteen-minute audition got a sixteen-year-old a $1.25 million deal with Arista. Let Go became the best-selling album of the century by a Canadian artist, 'Complicated' and 'Sk8er Boi' made her the pop-punk princess and the 'anti-Britney', and 'Girlfriend' became the most-downloaded song in the world in 2007. This quiz covers the whole run: Napanee, hockey MVP, the Shania Twain contest, the Matrix, the UK chart record, Under My Skin and the Kreviazuk feud, 'Breakaway' for Kelly Clarkson, the Rubinoos lawsuit, the Malaysia ban attempt, Sum 41 and Nickelback marriages, the Lyme diagnosis, Love Sux on Travis Barker's label, Glastonbury, the Order of Canada and the body-double conspiracy she calls 'so weird'. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for a music quiz night.
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Q 01In which Ontario city was Avril Lavigne born?
Belleville
Belleville. She was born there in 1984, but the family moved to a much smaller farming town when she was five, and that town is the one known as her hometown.
Q 02Which accessory, worn over a tank top, was Avril Lavigne's signature look when she broke through in 2002?
A necktie
A necktie. Teenage girls around the world copied the loose tie over a tank top, a look she put together herself after refusing the label's plans to style her like other teen pop stars.
Q 03In which small Ontario town did Lavigne grow up from age five?
Napanee
Napanee. Her father filled the basement there with a drum kit, a keyboard and guitars to make a music room, and she said it was where she spent all her time after school.
Q 04Which sport did Lavigne play in a boys' league from the age of ten?
Ice hockey
Ice hockey. She joined the boys because she insisted on doing whatever her older brother did, and she only hung up her skates at 16 when she signed her record deal.
Q 05As a teenager, Lavigne won a contest to sing on stage in Ottawa with which Canadian star?
Shania Twain
Shania Twain. Walking out in front of 20,000 people, she said she had never smiled so much in her life and decided there and then that performing was what she would do.
Q 06Lavigne's first manager discovered her singing country covers in which kind of store?
A bookstore
A bookstore. Cliff Fabri, who became her first manager, said he liked her voice at that small performance, but it was her confident attitude that sold him.
Q 07Which label boss signed a 16-year-old Lavigne after a 15-minute audition?
L.A. Reid
L.A. Reid. He arrived in a rotten mood and had nearly cancelled, but said his mood changed within 30 seconds of hearing her sing, and he offered her a two-album deal on the spot.
Q 08Which production team co-wrote 'Complicated' with Lavigne in Los Angeles in 2001?
The Matrix
The Matrix. After months of sessions in New York that were not clicking, she told the trio she was 16 and wanted to rock out, and they wrote the song together that same day.
Q 09What was the title of Lavigne's 2002 debut album?
Let Go
Let Go. She left high school at 16 to make it, and the label's first idea, a set of country songs, was dropped when she pushed for a rock record.
Q 10In 2003, Lavigne's debut album made her the youngest female soloist yet to top which country's album chart?
The UK
The UK. British buyers gave her debut the No. 1 it never reached in America, where it stalled at No. 2.
Q 11Which song did Lavigne want as her second album's lead single instead of 'Don't Tell Me'?
My Happy Ending
My Happy Ending. By her own account she told the label she had the first single and was overruled; released second, it peaked higher than their choice, reaching No. 9 in America.
Q 12At MTV's 2003 Icon tribute, an 18-year-old Lavigne covered 'Fuel' in honour of which band?
Metallica
Metallica. Covers were a habit that spring: with only one album to her name, she was also stretching her first arena shows with Green Day's 'Basket Case'.
Q 13Which Canadian singer-songwriter was Lavigne's main writing partner on her 2004 album Under My Skin?
Chantal Kreviazuk
Q 21Lavigne wrote and sang the end-credits song for which Tim Burton film?
Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland. She was at Disney discussing clothing designs tied to the film when she asked to write for it; Burton agreed, and she wrote 'Alice' at her piano straight away.
Q 22Which Rihanna song sampled Lavigne's 'I'm with You'?
Cheers (Drink to That)
Cheers (Drink to That). Its producers looped her 'yeah, yeah' vocal as the hook, which earned Lavigne a writing credit, and she cameos in the video being pushed into a pool.
Q 23Which Goodbye Lullaby track began as advert music for Lavigne's first fragrance, which shares its name?
Black Star
Chantal Kreviazuk. They met at a Toronto after-party, secretly wrote a song a night for two weeks, and then recorded them at the home studio Kreviazuk shared with her husband in Malibu.
Q 14Which Kelly Clarkson hit, heard in The Princess Diaries 2, was co-written by Lavigne?
Breakaway
Breakaway. Lavigne wrote it for her own debut but left it off, and Clarkson swapped its falling snow for rain because her native Texas sees so little of it.
Q 15Lavigne recorded the theme song for which 2004 animated film?
The SpongeBob Movie
The SpongeBob Movie. Her take on the cartoon's theme opens a soundtrack odd enough to include Motörhead, who reworked their own 'You Better Run' as 'You Better Swim'.
Q 16Lavigne's 'Keep Holding On' was written for which fantasy film?
Eragon
Eragon. Written for the dragon film's end credits, the ballad outlasted it: she carried it over as the closing track of her next album, The Best Damn Thing.
Q 17'Complicated' stalled at No. 2 in America, so which single gave Lavigne her first Hot 100 No. 1?
Girlfriend
Girlfriend. To sell it worldwide she re-recorded the chorus in seven other languages, including Mandarin and Japanese for her big Asian fanbase.
Q 18In 2008 the video for Lavigne's 2007 chart-topper overtook which clip as YouTube's most watched?
Evolution of Dance
Evolution of Dance. Her glossy video passed a motivational speaker's low-budget dance routine in a race towards 100 million views, helped by a coordinated fan campaign that drew accusations of dirty tricks.
Q 19The Rubinoos sued Lavigne in 2007, claiming one of her hits copied which of their songs?
I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend. The band's songwriters said her single bore striking similarities to it; her manager replied that a musicologist had found none, and the case was settled out of court.
Q 20Which country's Islamic opposition party tried to ban Lavigne's 2008 concert as 'too sexy'?
Malaysia
Malaysia. Women's and rights groups attacked the call for a ban as a threat to free expression, and the government approved the Kuala Lumpur concert a week before the date.
Black Star. She wrote the lullaby-like tune for the perfume's TV adverts, then expanded it into the short introduction that opens the album.
Q 24Which member of Nickelback duetted with Lavigne on 'Let Me Go' and married her in 2013?
Chad Kroeger
Chad Kroeger. They bonded while writing songs for her fifth album and, as two Canadians, chose Canada Day for the wedding, held at a castle on the Mediterranean.
Q 25Which 2014 Lavigne video sparked accusations of racism that she denied?
Hello Kitty
Hello Kitty. Critics called its four expressionless backing dancers insensitive; she replied that she had flown to Tokyo to shoot it with a Japanese director and choreographers for her fans there.
Q 26Lavigne revealed in 2015 she had been diagnosed with which illness after her 30th birthday?
Lyme disease
Lyme disease. Bedridden and at one point certain she would die, she began writing her comeback album Head Above Water from her bed.
Q 27Which rapper features on Lavigne's 2019 single 'Dumb Blonde'?
Nicki Minaj
Nicki Minaj. Lavigne wrote the song after a man called her a dumb blonde and she liked the phrase as a title; it was finished as a solo track before Minaj's verse was added.
Q 28Whose label, DTA Records, did Lavigne sign with in 2021 for Love Sux?
Travis Barker
Travis Barker. Signing to the Blink-182 drummer's label took her back to her pop-punk roots: he drums on the album himself, and his bandmate Mark Hoppus duets on one track.
Q 29Which English singer joined Lavigne on 'I'm a Mess' in 2022?
Yungblud
Yungblud. Because the song is about missing someone far away, the video keeps them apart, her skateboarding in sunny California and him in a gloomy London, until they meet at the end.
Q 30Lavigne's 2025 single 'Young & Dumb' reunited her with which band from her first tour?
Simple Plan
Simple Plan. She called it a full-circle moment: they had opened for her in 2003, when, she said, they were all just kids from small Canadian towns with debut albums out.