Celine Dion Trivia
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50 free Celine Dion trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Celine Dion trivia quiz follows the youngest of 14 children from a piano bar in Charlemagne, Quebec, to the best-selling Canadian recording artist of all time. The easy questions cover the landmarks most fans know: the Titanic theme, the Beauty and the Beast duet, the Eurovision win and the Las Vegas residency at Caesars Palace. From there it digs into her French-language career, the record-breaking D'eux, the Grammy wins for Falling into You, her chart records in the UK and Canada, and the numbers behind the highest-grossing residency in history. The hard and expert questions are for people who have followed her for decades: her first song written at 12, the manager who mortgaged his house, the vocal ultimatum of 1989, the Chrysler deal, the Order of Canada honours, the 2022 stiff-person syndrome diagnosis and the 2024 Paris Olympics comeback from the Eiffel Tower. Every answer was checked against Celine Dion's encyclopaedia entry before publishing, so the dates, chart positions and sales figures are the ones you can rely on at quiz night. If you enjoy this one, try our 90s music and Canada quizzes next.
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Q 01Celine Dion was born in Charlemagne, a small town about 24 km northeast of which city?
Montreal
Montreal is the metropolis nearest Charlemagne, a town of about 6,000 on the north shore opposite the island's eastern tip; her parents ran a piano bar there, Le Vieux Baril, where she sang as a child.
Q 02Dion was the youngest of how many children?
14
Her eldest sister was already married and pregnant with her first child while their mother was pregnant with Celine.
Q 03Dion's signature song 'My Heart Will Go On' was the love theme of which 1997 film?
Titanic
Titanic's end-credits song, composed by James Horner with lyrics by Will Jennings, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and four Grammys, including Record of the Year.
Q 04Dion won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1988 representing which country?
Switzerland
Canada does not compete in Eurovision, so she sang 'Ne partez pas sans moi' for the Swiss and won by a close margin.
Q 05Which man discovered Dion, became her manager and later her husband?
René Angélil
He was 26 years her senior, and the couple kept their romance secret at first for fear the public would find it inappropriate.
Q 06What did her manager do in 1981 to pay for Dion's first record?
Mortgaged his home
He mortgaged his home to pay for the recording after her brother Michel mailed him a demo tape of 'Ce n'etait qu'un reve', a song written within the family.
Q 07Dion's first duet hit, the title song of a 1991 Disney film, was recorded with which singer?
Peabo Bryson
Peabo Bryson shared the Disney title song with Dion; 'Beauty and the Beast' won the 1993 Grammy for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group and was her first UK top-ten hit.
Q 08Dion's Las Vegas residency A New Day... was staged at which casino resort?
Caesars Palace
Caesars Palace built the 4,100-seat Colosseum for the show at a cost of about 95 million dollars; A New Day... ran from March 2003 to December 2007 for over 700 performances.
Q 09Which director, known for Cirque du Soleil's O, staged Dion's show A New Day...?
Franco Dragone
Franco Dragone, the Belgian-Italian director behind Cirque du Soleil's O and Mystere, created A New Day... after Dion saw O during her career break; Mia Michaels choreographed the show.
Q 10Dion's 1990 album Unison was her first in which language?
English
English was new territory: after eight French-language albums in the 1980s she took Berlitz English lessons in 1989, and Unison gave her the first US top-five hit 'Where Does My Heart Beat Now'.
Q 11Which 1996 Dion album won the Grammy for Album of the Year?
Falling into You
Falling into You took Album of the Year and Best Pop Album at the 1997 Grammys; it sold over 30 million copies worldwide and carried 'Because You Loved Me' and 'It's All Coming Back to Me Now'.
Q 12Dion's 1995 album D'eux, the best-selling French-language album ever, was mostly written and produced by whom?
Jean-Jacques Goldman
Jean-Jacques Goldman wrote and produced D'eux, which sold around ten million copies; its single 'Pour que tu m'aimes encore' spent twelve weeks at No. 1 in France and reached the UK top ten.
Q 13'The Power of Love', Dion's first US No. 1 single, was a remake of a 1985 hit by which singer?
Q 21Dion recorded 'I'm Your Angel', her fourth US No. 1, as a duet with which R&B singer?
R. Kelly
R. Kelly wrote and produced 'I'm Your Angel' and sang it with Dion on her 1998 Christmas album These Are Special Times; it spent six weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100.
Q 22'The Prayer', Dion's duet with Andrea Bocelli, was written for which 1998 animated film?
Quest for Camelot
Quest for Camelot, Warner Bros.' animated Arthurian tale, featured 'The Prayer' in separate solo versions by Dion and Bocelli; the song, by David Foster and Carole Bayer Sager, won the 1999 Golden Globe for Best Original Song.
Q 23Which Italian tenor duetted with Dion on 'I Hate You Then I Love You' from Let's Talk About Love?
Luciano Pavarotti
Jennifer Rush
Jennifer Rush co-wrote and first recorded 'The Power of Love', a UK No. 1 in 1985; Dion's 1993 cover topped the US Hot 100 for four weeks in early 1994.
Q 14At which Summer Olympics opening ceremony did Dion perform 'The Power of the Dream'?
Atlanta 1996
Atlanta 1996 featured 'The Power of the Dream', written by David Foster, Linda Thompson and Babyface; Dion sang it at the 19 July opening ceremony before a worldwide audience.
Q 15Which song did Dion perform from the Eiffel Tower to close the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony?
Hymne à l'amour
It was her first public performance in four years, following her 2022 diagnosis.
Q 16In December 2022 Dion announced she had been diagnosed with which rare neurological disease?
Stiff-person syndrome
Stiff-person syndrome, an autoimmune disorder causing muscle rigidity and spasms, affects about one person in a million; it forced her to cancel the remaining Courage World Tour dates in 2023.
Q 17Dion co-wrote her first song, 'Ce n'était qu'un rêve', at what age?
12
She was 12 when she, her mother Therese and brother Jacques wrote 'Ce n'etait qu'un reve' ('It Was Only a Dream'); the 1981 demo tape reached her future manager and launched her career.
Q 18Dion was named after a song by which French singer, who had recorded 'Céline' two years before her birth?
Hugues Aufray
Hugues Aufray released 'Celine' in 1966, a ballad about a devoted elder sister; her mother Therese chose the name for her last child, born in March 1968.
Q 19Dion sang 'Because You Loved Me', written by Diane Warren, as the theme to which 1996 film?
Up Close & Personal
Up Close & Personal, a 1996 drama starring Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer, used the Diane Warren ballad as its theme; it earned an Oscar nomination and spent six weeks atop the Hot 100.
Q 20Which single spent a then-record 21 straight weeks atop the US Adult Contemporary chart in 2002?
A New Day Has Come
'A New Day Has Come', title track of her 2002 comeback album, logged 21 weeks at No. 1 on Adult Contemporary, beating the nineteen-week mark shared by Phil Collins and her own 'Because You Loved Me'.
Luciano Pavarotti recorded 'I Hate You Then I Love You' with Dion for Let's Talk About Love in 1997; the album also paired her with Barbra Streisand on 'Tell Him' and the Bee Gees on 'Immortality'.
Q 24Dion's 1992 hit 'If You Asked Me To' was a cover of a Patti LaBelle song from which James Bond film?
Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill (1989), Timothy Dalton's second Bond film, used Patti LaBelle's version over its end credits; Dion's 1992 cover of the Diane Warren song became her first Canadian No. 1 and reached No. 4 in the US.
Q 25Dion's wedding on 17 December 1994 was broadcast live where?
On Canadian television
Canadian television carried the ceremony live from Notre-Dame Basilica; she had revealed the romance a year earlier in the liner-note dedication of The Colour of My Love.
Q 26Which single from The Colour of My Love spent seven weeks at No. 1 in the UK?
Think Twice
'Think Twice' spent seven weeks at UK No. 1 in early 1995 and sold over a million copies there; single and album topped both British charts together for five weeks, a feat last managed by the Beatles in 1965.
Q 27Let's Talk About Love's first-week Canadian sales, then a record, were how many copies?
230,212
230,212 copies sold in Canada in the week of its November 1997 release, the country's first-week record until Adele's 25 in 2015; worldwide the album sold over 30 million copies.
Q 28Dion's 2003 album One Heart was tied to an endorsement deal with which car maker?
Chrysler
Chrysler signed Dion to a three-year endorsement deal in 2002 tied to its 'Drive & Love' campaign; One Heart's lead single fronted the ads, and critics accused her of catering to sponsors.
Q 29Dion's 2004 album Miracle, themed on babies and motherhood, was a joint project with which photographer?
Anne Geddes
Anne Geddes, the Australian photographer famed for baby portraits, shot the images for Miracle; the album included 'What a Wonderful World' and John Lennon's 'Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)'.
Q 30Dion gave a free outdoor concert for the 400th anniversary of Quebec City in 2008 at which historic site?
The Plains of Abraham
The Plains of Abraham, site of the 1759 battle for Quebec, hosted her free show on 22 August 2008 before a crowd estimated at over 200,000; it was released as the DVD Celine sur les Plaines.