Britney Spears Trivia
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This Britney Spears trivia quiz has 47 free questions with answers and runs from Kentwood, Louisiana to the end of the conservatorship. The early rounds cover Star Search, the Mickey Mouse Club cast, the song Max Martin wrote for TLC that became her debut single, the schoolgirl video she pitched herself, and the Oops!... I Did It Again era of Mars, red catsuits and Titanic dialogue. Then come the albums and moments every fan argues about: the python at the 2001 VMAs, Crossroads, the Madonna kiss, Toxic's Bollywood sample and lone Grammy, the 55-hour Vegas marriage, Blackout and 'It's Britney, bitch', Womanizer's record chart leap, Femme Fatale, the Piece of Me residency, Scream & Shout, Hold Me Closer with Elton John, #FreeBritney, the 2021 court testimony and The Woman in Me. Difficulty starts easy and climbs to questions only a lifelong Britney Army member will get. Every answer has been checked against a reference page and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01In which Mississippi city, near her Louisiana hometown, was Britney Spears born?
McComb
McComb is where Britney was born, and as a girl in nearby Kentwood she trained in gymnastics, even attending Béla Károlyi's training camp.
Q 02Before joining The All-New Mickey Mouse Club, Britney competed on which TV talent show?
Star Search
Star Search came first: The Mickey Mouse Club had turned Britney down at age eight, and she was finally cast at 11.
Q 03Which future star auditioned for The All-New Mickey Mouse Club alongside Britney but was turned down?
Jessica Simpson
Jessica Simpson reached the final audition, but watching Christina Aguilera perform first rattled her nerves, and she didn't make the cut.
Q 04Which record label signed Britney Spears as a teenager?
Jive Records
Jive Records signed her, then sent the teenager to Sweden to record her debut album.
Q 05Which R&B girl group turned down '...Baby One More Time' before it went to Britney?
TLC
TLC passed on the song, and when Britney recorded it she deliberately stayed up late the night before so her voice would sound rusty.
Q 06Which Swedish songwriter from Stockholm's Cheiron Studios wrote '...Baby One More Time'?
Max Martin
Max Martin's demo was titled 'Hit Me Baby One More Time', and 'Hit Me' was dropped over fears the line would be read as condoning domestic violence.
Q 07Whose idea was the Catholic-schoolgirl concept for the "...Baby One More Time" video?
Britney's own
It was Britney's own idea: she rejected the first video concept and asked for a school setting with boys and dancing.
Q 08On which planet does Britney dance in the 'Oops!...I Did It Again' video?
Mars
Mars is where the video is set, and the shoot drew blood: camera equipment fell on Britney's head, and she got four stitches before returning to work.
Q 09The 'Oops!...I Did It Again' bridge features spoken dialogue referencing which 1997 film?
Titanic
Titanic is the film: in the bridge, a lovestruck astronaut gives Britney the Heart of the Ocean, the blue diamond Rose dropped into the sea.
Q 10Britney and which boyfriend both studied through the University of Nebraska High School's distance-learning program?
Justin Timberlake
Justin Timberlake and Britney both took classes from the University of Nebraska's online high school, which let busy teens study without a normal school timetable.
Q 11What was draped over Britney's shoulders for 'I'm a Slave 4 U' at the 2001 MTV VMAs?
A white python
The Britney album that followed debuted at number one and has sold 10 million copies worldwide.
Q 12Britney's 2002 film debut as a lead, Crossroads, was written by which future TV super-producer?
Shonda Rhimes
Shonda Rhimes wrote the script, and although critics panned Crossroads, it was a box-office success that grossed more than $60 million.
Q 13Which future Guardians of the Galaxy star played Kit, one of Lucy's road-trip friends in Crossroads?
Zoe Saldaña
Zoe Saldaña played Kit, and in 2023 Crossroads returned to cinemas for fan screenings timed to the release of Britney's memoir.
Q 21Britney's first perfume, released with Elizabeth Arden in 2004, was called what?
Curious
Curious was her first Elizabeth Arden scent, aimed at teens and young women at a time when few fragrances appealed to them.
Q 22Kevin Federline was working as what when he began dating Britney in 2004?
A backup dancer
A backup dancer, Federline had just split from actress Shar Jackson, who was pregnant with their second child, so the romance drew intense media attention.
Q 23In February 2007, what did Britney Spears do at a Los Angeles-area hair salon?
Shaved her head
She shaved her head at the salon, and in the following weeks she admitted herself to treatment facilities.
Q 14Co-writer Annet Artani says 'Everytime' was largely Britney's answer to which song by her ex-boyfriend?
Cry Me a River
Cry Me a River's video featured a blonde Britney lookalike, and Artani says she and Britney wrote the reply side by side at Britney's piano.
Q 15Britney and Christina Aguilera opened the 2003 VMAs with which Madonna song, before Madonna kissed them both?
Like a Virgin
Like a Virgin had been Madonna's own VMA moment in 1984: when a shoe slipped off atop a giant wedding cake, she rolled across the stage instead.
Q 16'Toxic' samples high-pitched strings from a 1981 song from which country's film industry?
India
India's Bollywood supplied the strings, and co-writer Cathy Dennis says 'Toxic' was originally written specifically for Janet Jackson.
Q 17Which Grammy Award category did 'Toxic' win Britney in 2005?
Best Dance Recording
Best Dance Recording was the win, and a year earlier MTV had moved the racy 'Toxic' video to late-night rotation after the Super Bowl halftime scandal.
Q 18Which Australian singer turned down 'Toxic' before it went to Britney?
Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue passed on 'Toxic', although its co-writer Cathy Dennis had also written Kylie's own smash 'Can't Get You Out of My Head'.
Q 19Britney's collaboration with Madonna, the lead single from In the Zone, was titled what?
Me Against the Music
Me Against the Music was finished before Madonna joined: Britney played her the track while rehearsing for the 2003 VMAs, and Madonna's vocals were added later.
Q 20How long did Britney's January 2004 Vegas marriage to Jason Alexander last before annulment?
55 hours
55 hours was all it lasted, and in 2022 the same Jason Alexander was arrested for trying to crash her wedding to Sam Asghari.
Q 24Besides singing, what did Britney do for her 2007 album Blackout?
Serve as its executive producer
Britney did serve as its executive producer, and despite her 2007 turmoil, Blackout still debuted at number two on the Billboard 200.
Q 25Which three-word phrase opens 'Gimme More'?
It's Britney, bitch
It's Britney, bitch opens the song, which still climbed to number three on the Hot 100 weeks after her panned VMA show.
Q 26'Womanizer' jumped from 96 to number one, a Hot 100 record broken months later by which singer?
Kelly Clarkson
Kelly Clarkson's 'My Life Would Suck Without You' leapt 97 to 1 in early 2009, in its first week on sale as a download.
Q 27Why was December 2, 2008, when Circus came out, a special day for Britney?
It was her 27th birthday
It was her 27th birthday, and three months later she launched a world tour in support of Circus, opening in New Orleans.
Q 28On the Circus tour, Britney sang 'Everytime' while suspended on what?
A giant umbrella
James Franco covered the song at a poolside piano in the 2013 film Spring Breakers.
Q 29'Hold It Against Me' made Britney the second artist, after whom, to debut more than one song at number one?
Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey did it first, and 'Hold It Against Me' was originally meant for Katy Perry until its writers decided it wasn't a Katy Perry record.
Q 30'Till the World Ends', from Britney's 2011 album Femme Fatale, was co-written by which pop star?
Kesha
Kesha co-wrote it, then added new vocals of her own, alongside a Nicki Minaj rap verse, on the song's Femme Fatale Remix.