50 free Camila Cabello trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Camila Cabello was born in Havana, raised between Cuba and Mexico, and arrived in Miami aged six after a 36-hour Greyhound ride, told she was going to Disney World. A decade later she auditioned for The X Factor with an Aretha Franklin song the show could not clear, was put into Fifth Harmony at boot camp, and left the group in 2016 to become the first artist to top the Mainstream Top 40 and Adult Top 40 with the first two singles from a debut album. These 50 questions follow the solo run and what came before: the Syco and Epic deal, the Shawn Mendes duets, Bad Things with Machine Gun Kelly, Havana and Young Thug, Romance, Familia and Bam Bam, C,XOXO, the Cinderella film, The Voice chair and the Champions League final performance. Easy questions stick to the hits; the expert tier asks about collaborators, chart peaks and her family's story. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss. Play it solo or print it for a pop quiz night.
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Q 01In which year was Fifth Harmony formed on The X Factor?
2012
The group finished third and signed with Syco and Epic.
Q 02In which fishing town east of Havana was Cabello born?
Cojímar
It sits in the Habana del Este district.
Q 03What is Cabello's first given name?
Karla
Her younger sister is named Sofia.
Q 04Cabello's father was born in which country?
Mexico
She identifies as Cuban-Mexican.
Q 05Cabello's great-great-grandfather fought in the Mexican Revolution alongside whom?
Emiliano Zapata
Proculo Capistran was a guerrilla fighter.
Q 06How long was the Greyhound bus ride that brought young Cabello to Miami?
36 hours
Her mother told her they were going to Walt Disney World.
Q 07What did Cabello's mother promise they were going to see, to coax her to the US?
Walt Disney World
They moved in with a colleague of Cabello's grandfather.
Q 08Cabello's mother, a trained architect, first worked stacking shoes at which US store?
Marshalls
She then learned AutoCAD in a week to land an architecture job.
Q 09In which year did Cabello acquire American citizenship?
2008
Her father had joined the family about 18 months after she arrived.
Q 10Which song did Cabello sing at her X Factor audition in Greensboro?
Respect
The audition never aired because the show lacked the rights.
Q 11Where did Fifth Harmony finish on The X Factor?
Third
They signed with Syco Music and Epic Records afterwards.
Q 12Who owned Syco Music, the label Fifth Harmony signed with?
Simon Cowell
Epic Records, run by L.A. Reid, was the joint partner.
Q 13What was Fifth Harmony's 2013 EP called?
Better Together
Their studio albums Reflection and 7/27 followed.
Q 14Which Fifth Harmony single came from the album 7/27?
Q 21What was Cabello's debut solo single?
Crying in the Club
It peaked at number 47 in the US.
Q 22Whose 24K Magic World Tour did Cabello open for in 2017?
Bruno Mars
She was also the face of Guess's 2017 Fall campaign.
Q 23Which rapper featured on her 2017 breakthrough single?
Young Thug
The song hit number one in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and more.
Q 24How many weeks did her breakthrough single spend atop the US Mainstream Top 40?
Work from Home
Worth It came from Reflection the year before.
Q 15With which Canadian singer did Cabello record I Know What You Did Last Summer?
Shawn Mendes
The pair wrote the song together and later reunited on Señorita.
Q 16Bad Things, a number-four US hit, paired Cabello with which rapper?
Machine Gun Kelly
It was released in October 2016, two months before she left Fifth Harmony.
Q 17On what date did Fifth Harmony announce Cabello's departure?
December 18, 2016
Both sides gave contradictory accounts of the exit.
Q 18Which Norwegian DJ's song Love Incredible featured Cabello in 2017?
Cashmere Cat
It leaked online before its official February release.
Q 19Hey Ma, with Pitbull and J Balvin, appeared on the soundtrack of which film?
The Fate of the Furious
Spanish and English versions were released a month apart.
Q 20What was the original announced title of Cabello's debut album?
The Hurting. The Healing. The Loving.
It was renamed Camila after Havana's success changed the plan.
Seven
IFPI named it the best-selling digital single of 2018.
Q 25Where did the album Camila debut on the Billboard 200?
1st
It opened with 119,000 album-equivalent units.
Q 26Which Camila single peaked at number six on the Hot 100?
Never Be the Same
It was released the same day as Real Friends.
Q 27Which top prize did her debut single win at the 2018 MTV VMAs?
Video of the Year
Cabello later opened the 2019 Grammys with the song.
Q 28Which single gave its name to Cabello's first headlining solo trek in 2018?
Never Be the Same
She opened for Taylor Swift between its European dates.
Q 29Whose Reputation Stadium Tour did Cabello open in 2018?
Taylor Swift
She also cameoed in Maroon 5's Girls Like You video that May.
Q 30Cabello's first arena headline show, in July 2018, was in which state?
Connecticut
The venue was the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville.