This Billie Eilish trivia quiz has 160 free questions with answers and follows her from a homeschooled kid in Highland Park uploading Ocean Eyes to SoundCloud, through the bedroom-recorded debut album that swept the Grammys, the James Bond theme, Happier Than Ever, the Barbie ballad and Hit Me Hard and Soft. It covers Finneas, her family, her records and firsts, tours and festivals, and the songs' stories, from the Invisalign click on Bad Guy to the monster under the bed in Bury a Friend. It is made for fans who know the lyrics and want to test the deep cuts. About a third of the questions are easy, a third medium and the rest are hard enough to separate casual listeners from people who have watched the documentary twice. Every answer has been checked against a primary source and each question links to the page that confirms it.
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Q 01Which of these is one of Billie Eilish's real middle names?
Pirate
Her full name is Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell.
Q 02Billie Eilish grew up in which Los Angeles neighbourhood?
Highland Park
She still recorded much of her early music in the family's small house there.
Q 03Billie and her brother Finneas were educated how as children?
Homeschooled
Their parents chose it so the children had freedom to pursue their own interests.
Q 04Eilish has said she was diagnosed with which condition at age 11?
Tourette syndrome
She has spoken openly about her tics and also has synesthesia.
Q 05What ended Eilish's dance training in 2016?
A growth plate injury
After the injury she focused entirely on recording music with Finneas.
Q 06Eilish's debut single 'Ocean Eyes' was first uploaded in 2015 to which platform?
SoundCloud
Finneas had written it for his own band before giving it to his sister.
Q 07Why did Finneas hand 'Ocean Eyes' to Billie in the first place?
Her dance teacher wanted a song to choreograph
Fred Diaz at the Revolution Dance Center asked the siblings for a track for a routine.
Q 08Which record executive signed Eilish to Darkroom and Interscope in August 2016?
Justin Lubliner
He had noticed her the year before when he first heard 'Ocean Eyes'.
Q 09Eilish's 2017 song 'Bored' appeared on the soundtrack of which Netflix series?
13 Reasons Why
It arrived the same year as her debut EP.
Q 10What was the title of Eilish's 2017 debut EP?
Don't Smile at Me
Finneas produced the whole thing; it later passed a billion Spotify streams.
Q 11Eilish's debut album title asks 'When We All Fall Asleep...' what?
Where Do We Go?
She said the record was inspired partly by lucid dreaming and night terrors.
Q 12The album track 'My Strange Addiction' samples dialogue from which sitcom?
The Office
The clips come from the episode 'Threat Level Midnight'.
Q 13'Bury a Friend' is sung from the perspective of what?
A monster under the bed
Eilish described the lyrics as dark and violent by design.
What inspired Eilish to write 'Xanny'?
Q 21'Everything I Wanted' grew out of a dream in which Eilish did what?
Jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge
The song won Record of the Year at the 63rd Grammys.
Q 22'No Time to Die' made Eilish the youngest artist ever to do what?
Record a 007 title song
She was 17 when she recorded it.
Q 23Which film composer provided the orchestration on 'No Time to Die'?
Hans Zimmer
Johnny Marr of the Smiths played guitar on it too.
Friends getting sick from drinking at a party
She wanted to be the sober one in the room watching everyone become 'completely not who they were'.
Q 15'Bad Guy' opens with the sound of Eilish removing what?
Her Invisalign brace
The click and laugh became one of pop's most recognisable intros.
Q 16'Bad Guy' hit number one in the US by ending the record 19-week run of which song?
Old Town Road
At 17 she was the youngest chart-topper since Lorde's 'Royals'.
Q 17Which singer joined Eilish on a remix of 'Bad Guy'?
Justin Bieber
Bieber was a childhood idol; a Dove Cameron cover also exists.
Q 18Which R&B singer duetted with Eilish on the 2018 ballad 'Lovely'?
Khalid
The track was written for the second season of 13 Reasons Why.
Q 19At the 62nd Grammys, Eilish became the first woman to do what?
Win all four general-field awards in one night
Record, Album, Song of the Year and Best New Artist all went to her that evening.
Q 20Which award did Finneas personally win at that 2020 Grammy ceremony?
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
The album also took Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.
Q 24'No Time to Die' was the third consecutive 007 theme to take which prize?
Academy Award for Best Original Song
Adele's 'Skyfall' and Sam Smith's 'Writing's on the Wall' were the first two.
Q 25'What Was I Made For?' was written for which 2023 film?
Barbie
It became her second UK number one and won her a second Oscar.
Q 26'What Was I Made For?' was the first film song to win Song of the Year at the Grammys since which track?
My Heart Will Go On
Celine Dion's Titanic ballad had won in 1999.
Q 27Eilish's second album, Happier Than Ever, was released in which year?
2021
She announced the tracklist on Instagram and it debuted atop the Billboard 200.
Q 28The video for 'Therefore I Am' was shot in an empty version of what?
A shopping mall
The Glendale Galleria was closed to the public because of the pandemic.
Q 29In March 2021 Eilish set a record for the fastest Instagram post to reach a million likes with a photo of what?
Her new blonde hair
It took about six minutes; she had dyed her hair since age nine, starting with blue.
Q 30Eilish's 2021 concert film 'Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles' was filmed where?
The Hollywood Bowl
It was shot without a live audience because of COVID-19.