Calvin Harris Trivia
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69 free Calvin Harris trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Calvin Harris trivia quiz follows Adam Wiles from a fish factory in Dumfries to the top of the Forbes DJ rich list. The easy questions cover his real name, his birthplace, his debut album and the songs everyone knows: We Found Love, Summer, Sweet Nothing and One Kiss. The medium and hard questions dig into the record-breaking run of nine UK top-10 singles from 18 Months, the collaborators behind Blame, Under Control, Slide, Promises and Giant, his Love Regenerator alias, and the moment he crashed The X Factor with a pineapple on his head. The expert questions are for real fans: the Amiga computer and OctaMED tracker he made his first album on, the Stouffer alias from his 2002 club singles, the Kia hamster advert, his own Fly Eye label and the 2025 Chicane copyright row. Every answer was checked against a reference page and each question carries its citation, so it is safe to use for a pub quiz, a music night or a car ride. Difficulty is shown on every question. If you enjoy it, try our other pop and dance music quizzes next.
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Q 01What is Calvin Harris's real name?
Adam Wiles
Adam Wiles: he calls 'Calvin Harris' an alter ego for the stage and says he finds it horrible to be called Calvin by anyone who knows him.
Q 02In which Scottish town was Calvin Harris born and raised?
Dumfries
Dumfries: after a failed spell away trying to break into the music business he moved back to his parents' house there and made his debut album in his bedroom.
Q 03Before his breakthrough, Calvin Harris spent a miserable spell trying to launch his career in which city?
London
London: he found so little work and money there that he gave up and went home to Scotland, which is where the songs that made his name were written.
Q 04Under what alias did Calvin Harris release three EPs of house music in 2020?
Love Regenerator
Love Regenerator: he said the alias let him rediscover the way he first made music as a teenager, and he has since used it for club tracks kept apart from his pop singles.
Q 05In 2008 Calvin Harris claimed his unreleased second album was lost in the chaotic opening of which airport terminal?
Heathrow Terminal 5
Heathrow Terminal 5: a year later he admitted the story was a lie, told to buy himself more time from his record label to finish the album.
Q 06What was the title of Calvin Harris's 2007 debut album?
I Created Disco
I Created Disco: behind the tongue-in-cheek boast was an album he wrote, performed and produced entirely on his own in his bedroom at his parents' house.
Q 07On what kind of computer was Calvin Harris's 2007 debut album entirely recorded and produced?
An Amiga
An Amiga: the machine was a hand-me-down from his older brother, who had moved on to a PC, and he had been making dance tracks on it in his bedroom since he was about 14.
Q 08Fresh from his first hit in 2007, Calvin Harris toured the UK as the support act for which dance group?
Faithless
Faithless: the invitation came within weeks of his debut single, when he was still being described in the press as an unknown former shelf-stacker.
Q 09Which 2007 single gave Calvin Harris his first UK top-ten hit?
Acceptable in the 80s
Acceptable in the 80s: his affectionate tribute to the decade's style peaked at number ten, although Harris, born in 1984, was only five when the 80s ended.
Q 10On which social networking site was Calvin Harris discovered before signing his 2006 record deals?
Myspace
Myspace: the home-made tracks he posted there took an unknown supermarket shelf-stacker from his bedroom to writing songs for Kylie Minogue.
Q 11Calvin Harris says he first wrote Dizzee Rascal's number one Holiday for which girl group?
The Saturdays
The Saturdays turned it down: 'they didn't like it, or their A&R guy didn't like it, but Dizzee liked it,' Harris shrugged, and Holiday went on to top the UK chart in 2009.
Q 12Where did Calvin Harris work after leaving school in order to buy DJ equipment?
A fish processing factory
A fish processing factory kept him for about a year after school, until, he says, he was laid off on his birthday; he also stacked supermarket shelves and put the wages into his bedroom studio.
Q 13Which 2008 Dizzee Rascal single with Calvin Harris topped the UK chart for four weeks?
Dance wiv Me
Q 21Whose record for the most UK top-10 singles from one album did Calvin Harris break in 2013?
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson had sent seven singles into the top 10 from both Bad and Dangerous; Harris passed him with an album whose first hit had arrived in June 2011, well over a year before the album itself came out.
Q 22Which artist surpassed Calvin Harris's UK top-10-singles-from-one-album record in 2017?
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran did it almost at a stroke: nine tracks from ÷ sat in the top 10 in a single week of March 2017, a sweep that led the chart's compilers to cap every lead artist at three songs.
Q 23Which Calvin Harris production topped the US Hot 100 for ten weeks?
We Found Love
Dance wiv Me was made without the two men ever sharing a studio: Dizzee Rascal said they swapped numbers and sent their parts back and forth over the phone, with Harris producing and singing the chorus.
Q 14Which 2015 hit did Calvin Harris make with the English production trio Disciples?
How Deep Is Your Love
How Deep Is Your Love has an uncredited voice: Norwegian songwriter Ina Wroldsen sang the demo in a single take, and Harris kept that take when he made the track his own single.
Q 15Which song gave Calvin Harris his first UK number one as a lead artist, in 2009?
I'm Not Alone
I'm Not Alone went straight in at number one in April 2009, knocking Lady Gaga's Poker Face off the top; his only earlier chart-topper had been a guest spot on a Dizzee Rascal single.
Q 16In his YouTube series Jam TV, what did Calvin Harris have Goldie and Katy Perry try to do?
Open pots of jam
Open pots of jam: Harris made the spoof series after an online interviewer kept asking him to open a jar that had been glued shut, an item he told her was the worst feature he had ever seen.
Q 17What was Calvin Harris holding on his head when he invaded The X Factor stage in 2009?
A pineapple
A pineapple, worn during Jedward's performance, got him escorted out of the studios and dropped from that night's spin-off show, where he had been booked as a guest; he apologised on Twitter.
Q 18Which Chris Brown hit did Calvin Harris accuse of copying one of his UK number ones?
Yeah 3x
Yeah 3x made Harris tweet that he had choked on his cornflakes; he ruled out suing, yet he ended up with a writing credit on the song, and a year later called the pair best mates.
Q 19What was the title of Calvin Harris's third studio album, released in 2012?
18 Months
18 Months was built on guest singers because Harris had vowed in 2010 that zero per cent of his time would go on singing, preferring, as he put it, people who can sing well.
Q 20Which Cheryl number one from 2012 did Calvin Harris write and produce?
Call My Name
Call My Name arrived just as Cheryl dropped her married surname, Cole, and began releasing music under her first name only; Harris wrote and produced it but took no artist credit.
We Found Love nearly had another voice: Leona Lewis says she recorded it first but held out for a different lead single, and Harris later said it would not have been a hit with anyone else singing.
Q 24Which vocalist features on Calvin Harris's 2012 UK number one "Sweet Nothing"?
Florence Welch
Florence Welch already owed him a chart-topper: three months earlier, Harris's remix of Spectrum had given Florence and the Machine their first UK number one.
Q 25Which 2011 Calvin Harris single was a collaboration with Kelis?
Bounce
Bounce arrived the year after he announced he was done with singing, with Kelis at the microphone; the retirement was brief, and he sang the follow-up single himself ten weeks later.
Q 26Which rock band had Calvin Harris remix one of their hits for their 2013 best-of album?
The Killers
The Killers gave him When You Were Young; Harris called it a real honour to be asked by one of his favourite modern bands, and said the challenge was updating a classic for the dancefloor in a tasteful and respectful way.
Q 27Which singer-rapper joined Calvin Harris on the 2012 single We'll Be Coming Back?
Example
Example and Harris play robbers on the run in the video; in the chart the single spent two weeks stuck behind Wiley's Heatwave, making it Harris's fourth lead single in a row to peak at number two.
Q 28Which Calvin Harris track was one of Spotify's three most-streamed songs of 2014?
Summer
Summer was the service's most-played song over the season it is named for, and those first 160 million streams alone were worth an estimated million dollars or more in royalties.
Q 29Which singer features on the 2014 UK number one "Blame"?
John Newman
John Newman wrote Blame with Harris and with his own brother James, who had rougher luck in front of the microphone: representing the UK at Eurovision in 2021, James scored nul points.
Q 30Calvin Harris's 2013 UK number one "Under Control" was made with Alesso and which synth-pop duo?
Hurts
Hurts take the credit, though only their singer, Theo Hutchcraft, is on the record; he had already turned up that year in a cameo in another Calvin Harris video.