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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 01Cabello's group Fifth Harmony named the album 7/27 after what?
Formation date
Formation date: on July 27, 2012, The X Factor put five rejected soloists, Cabello among them, together as a group.
Q 02Cabello sang on Almost Like Praying, a 2017 charity single for hurricane-hit Puerto Rico, written by whom?
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda built the lyric from the names of all 78 towns in Puerto Rico so that, he said, no one's home town would feel forgotten after Hurricane Maria.
Q 03What is Cabello's first given name?
Karla
Karla is her first name, and she gave it to the shy, telenovela-loving version of herself she plays in the Havana video.
Q 04Cabello's father was born in which country?
Mexico
Mexico: her father is from Mexico City, and as a small child she lived back and forth between there and Havana.
Q 05At the 2020 Grammys, Cabello sang a ballad to which relative, seated in the front row?
Her father
Her father wept in the front row as she sang First Man, and she came down from the stage to finish the ballad holding his hand.
Q 06About how long was the Greyhound bus ride that took young Cabello from the border to Miami?
36 hours
36 hours on a Greyhound followed just one day's wait at the border, where other families spent weeks, and she says the ride holds her most vivid memories of the move.
Q 07What did Cabello's mother promise they were going to see, to coax her to the US?
Walt Disney World
Walt Disney World was the promise, and when officials finally waved them through after a day's wait she remembers shouting that they were all going to Disney.
Q 08Cabello's mother learned AutoCAD in a week to return to which profession?
Architect
Architect: her Cuban degrees did not count in the US, so she stacked shoes at Marshalls until two women asked if she knew AutoCAD; she said 'of course', having only ever drawn with pencil and paper.
Q 09Cabello voiced a long-lost sister named Viva in which 2023 animated film?
Trolls Band Together
Trolls Band Together cast her as Viva, the sister Queen Poppy never knew she had, who has spent years hiding out in an abandoned mini-golf course.
Q 10Which song did Cabello sing at her X Factor audition in Greensboro?
Respect
Respect, Aretha Franklin's signature hit, got her through, but viewers never saw it because the show had not cleared the rights to the song.
Q 11Which singer went from The X Factor into Fifth Harmony alongside Cabello?
Normani
Normani stayed on when Cabello left, and Fifth Harmony carried on as a four-piece until the group announced an open-ended hiatus in 2018.
Q 12Who owned Syco Music, the label Fifth Harmony signed with?
Simon Cowell
Simon Cowell signed the group to Syco in a joint deal with L.A. Reid's Epic Records even though they had not won his show.
Q 13What was Fifth Harmony's 2013 EP called?
Better Together
Better Together reached number six on the Billboard 200 less than a year after the group had finished only third on The X Factor.
Q 21What was Cabello's debut solo single?
Crying in the Club
Crying in the Club, written with Sia and Benny Blanco, stalled at number 47 and was left off the album it had been meant to lead.
Q 22Which star's 2017 arena tour had Cabello as an opening act?
Bruno Mars
Bruno Mars had her open North American dates of his 24K Magic World Tour that July and August, and midway through the run she released Havana, her first number-one single.
Q 23Which hitmaker co-wrote Cabello's Havana and can be heard singing backing vocals on it?
Pharrell Williams
Pharrell Williams sings in the background and shares the writing credit, though the other songs the two made together were cut from her album.
Q 14Which Fifth Harmony single came from the album 7/27?
Work from Home
Work from Home was first called simply Work, and the group added two words so it would not be confused with Rihanna's single of that name.
Q 15With which Canadian singer did Cabello record I Know What You Did Last Summer?
Shawn Mendes
Shawn Mendes says the two wrote its chorus in about half an hour while jamming on a guitar backstage, four years before their duet Señorita.
Q 16Bad Things, a number-four US hit, paired Cabello with which rapper?
Machine Gun Kelly
Machine Gun Kelly built it around a reworked chorus from Fastball's 1999 hit Out of My Head, sung by Cabello, and it gave both of them a first top-ten single as solo acts.
Q 17Fifth Harmony's December 2016 statement said the group learned Cabello was leaving how?
Through her representatives
Through her representatives, the group said; Cabello answered the next day that she was shocked by the statement and that its account of her exit was 'simply not true'.
Q 18Which Norwegian DJ's song Love Incredible featured Cabello in 2017?
Cashmere Cat
Cashmere Cat's track was recorded months before she left Fifth Harmony, and after it leaked online it became the first new song she released following her exit.
Q 19Hey Ma, with Pitbull and J Balvin, appeared on the soundtrack of which film?
The Fate of the Furious
The Fate of the Furious got the Spanish version first, with a video of the trio dancing through Miami streets dressed up to evoke Cuba, intercut with clips from the film.
Q 20What was the original announced title of Cabello's debut album?
The Hurting. The Healing. The Loving.
The Hurting. The Healing. The Loving. went when she scrapped most of its songs; she renamed the album Camila because, she said, the story had ended with her finding her way back to herself.
Q 24In June 2018, Cabello's Havana became the most-streamed song by a solo female artist on which service?
Spotify
Spotify's record capped the rise of a song whose surprise success led her to delay her debut album and scrap much of what she had recorded for it.
Q 25Which actor played Cabello's ghostly ex in the video for Consequences, the last single from Camila?
Dylan Sprouse
Dylan Sprouse, a friend of Cabello's, appears as a see-through former lover playing a grand piano on a path covered in autumn leaves.
Q 26Which British pop star co-wrote OMG, the Quavo collaboration Cabello released on the same day as Havana?
Charli XCX
Charli XCX helped write OMG, which was dropped from the finished album, and the following year the two were sharing a bill as the opening acts on a stadium tour.
Q 27Which prize did Cabello's Havana win at the 2018 MTV VMAs?
Video of the Year
Video of the Year went to Havana, and Madonna handed it over after her own tribute speech to Aretha Franklin, who had died days earlier.
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 29In 2018 Cabello broke off her own first headline tour to open stadium shows for which star?
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift had been a poster on Cabello's bedroom wall when she was 14, and Cabello called the opening slot a dream come true as a fan.
Q 30Which singer opened shows on Cabello's first headline tour and then had her on a remix of his song Beautiful?
Bazzi
Bazzi's Beautiful had only bubbled under the Hot 100 until the version with Cabello, his tourmate, carried it to number 26.