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50 free Charlie Puth trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Charlie Puth went from posting covers and comedy clips online to co-writing one of the most-watched songs on the internet in a few short years. He is a rare pop star who is also his own producer: a trained musician who builds hits out of odd sounds and is happy to show fans exactly how he does it. This quiz covers the whole career. There are questions on his early years and his training, the film ballad that made his name, the singles and albums that followed, and the long list of stars he has sung with or written for, from pop and country to K-pop and heavy metal. You will also find his television work and a few surprising places where his name has turned up. It is written for casual listeners as well as devoted fans. Most questions are pitched so that anyone who knows the big hits can play, with some deeper cuts for people who follow every release, and each answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Which late actor is honoured by See You Again, the 2015 film ballad co-written and sung by Charlie Puth?
Paul Walker
Paul Walker died in a single-vehicle crash in November 2013, and the song was commissioned for the Furious 7 soundtrack as a tribute to him.
Q 02What left a permanent scar in Charlie Puth's right eyebrow when he was two years old?
A dog bite
A dog bite did the damage, in an attack described as nearly fatal, and the gap it left in his eyebrow has been part of his look ever since.
Q 03Which heavy metal singer's 2020 album Ordinary Man features Charlie Puth playing keyboards on four tracks?
Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne's Ordinary Man credits Puth with keyboards on four songs, on an album whose other guests include Post Malone and Travis Scott.
Q 04Which singer recorded her vocals for the duet We Don't Talk Anymore inside Charlie Puth's closet?
Selena Gomez
Selena Gomez had met Puth at an after-party following the MTV Video Music Awards, and he played her the song months after he began it.
Q 05Which talk-show host signed Charlie Puth and Emily Luther to her record label eleveneleven in 2011?
Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen DeGeneres signed the pair after seeing their cover of an Adele ballad, which they then performed on her daytime show.
Q 06Which viral hit did See You Again, featuring Charlie Puth, overtake in 2017 as YouTube's most-viewed video?
Gangnam Style
Gangnam Style, by the South Korean rapper Psy, lost the top spot on July 10, 2017. Despacito then took it from See You Again less than a month later.
Q 07Which Jurassic Park actor guests with his jazz orchestra on Whatever's Clever!, Charlie Puth's 2026 album?
Jeff Goldblum
Jeff Goldblum, an accomplished jazz pianist, brings his Mildred Snitzer Orchestra to the track Until It Happens to You.
Q 08Which superstar name-checks Charlie Puth in the title track of her 2024 album?
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift mentions Puth on The Tortured Poets Department alongside the poets Dylan Thomas and Patti Smith, and the shout-out encouraged him to release the single Hero weeks later.
Q 09What did Charlie Puth perform at Super Bowl LX, played at Levi's Stadium in California in February 2026?
The national anthem
The national anthem was Puth's part of the day in Santa Clara, while the halftime show belonged to Bad Bunny, with Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin as guests.
Q 10Which K-pop group is home to Jung Kook, who sings with Charlie Puth on the 2022 hit Left and Right?
BTS
BTS had been on Puth's mind for months: he tweeted about dreaming that the group featured on the song before Jung Kook was confirmed as his guest.
Q 11Which rapper performs the verses of See You Again, the 2015 number one whose chorus Charlie Puth sings?
Wiz Khalifa
Wiz Khalifa wrote the rap verses himself, while the hook came from Puth, whose label first tried the chorus with more established singers.
Q 12Which basketball star did Charlie Puth honour by performing See You Again at a Los Angeles arena in January 2020?
Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others had died in a helicopter crash five days earlier, and the tribute came at halftime of a Lakers home game.
Q 13Which Fast & Furious star sang See You Again, co-written by Charlie Puth, live at the 2015 MTV Movie Awards?
Vin Diesel
Q 21Which gospel-tinged song, the second single from Charlie Puth's debut album, reached number 12 in America?
One Call Away
One Call Away later gained a Coast to Coast Mix that turned it into a four-way duet with Brett Eldredge, Sofia Reyes and Ty Dolla Sign.
Q 22In which country was Charlie Puth travelling when he created the guitar line of We Don't Talk Anymore?
Japan
Japan supplied the guitar line, after which Puth built the beat in the Philippines and recorded his own vocals back in Los Angeles.
Q 23Which 2018 Charlie Puth release, almost entirely self-produced, earned a Grammy nomination for Best Engineered Album?
Voicenotes
Vin Diesel sang it on stage in memory of his late co-star, in the year the song spent twelve weeks on top of the US Hot 100.
Q 14Which singer duetted with Charlie Puth on his 2015 debut single and kissed him at the American Music Awards?
Meghan Trainor
Meghan Trainor met Puth at a party where they swapped music, and on hearing the song she decided it should be a duet and asked to sing on it.
Q 15Which soul legend's name is the title of Charlie Puth's debut single, where it is used as a verb?
Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye gave the doo-wop-styled duet its title, and the single went to number one in Britain, Ireland and New Zealand.
Q 16Which 2017 single became Charlie Puth's signature song, reaching the top ten in more than twenty countries?
Attention
Attention peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100, and its melody began as a voicemail Puth recorded while on tour.
Q 17On which app did Charlie Puth tease nearly all of his 2022 album Charlie, sending several songs viral before release?
TikTok
TikTok became Puth's workshop after he scrapped an earlier version of the album in 2020, and he posted clips of songs taking shape from random noises.
Q 18Which British star recorded the duet After All with Charlie Puth for a 2021 album of lockdown collaborations?
Elton John
Elton John made The Lockdown Sessions after the pandemic paused his farewell tour, and After All became the album's second single.
Q 19Which 2021 number one by the Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber did Charlie Puth co-write and co-produce?
Stay
Stay grew out of a melody Puth played on a keyboard at a fellow producer's house, and it became his first chart-topper as a producer for other artists.
Q 20In which US state did Charlie Puth grow up and go to school, in the borough of Rumson?
New Jersey
New Jersey was home through high school: Puth graduated from Rumson-Fair Haven Regional in 2010, after years in a pre-college music programme in Manhattan.
Voicenotes arrived four months late because Puth wanted to perfect it, and he even reshot the cover before letting it go.
Q 24Which R&B singer is the guest vocalist on Done for Me, the third single from Charlie Puth's second album?
Kehlani
Kehlani came to mind as soon as Puth played a B-minor chord on a keyboard he had got that night, a sound that reminded him of Wham! and 1988.
Q 25At which 2018 protest rally in Los Angeles did Charlie Puth give the first performance of his song Change?
March for Our Lives
March for Our Lives is a student-led movement for gun control, formed after the Parkland school shooting, and Puth released the song as a single days later.
Q 26Which 1990s vocal group joins Charlie Puth on the a cappella track If You Leave Me Now?
Boyz II Men
Boyz II Men sing on a track with no instruments at all, built around a passage borrowed from a song on NSYNC's album No Strings Attached.
Q 27The vocals that swing between speakers in Charlie Puth's Left and Right have been likened to which Queen classic?
Bohemian Rhapsody
Bohemian Rhapsody pans its vocals from side to side in the same way, and Puth advised fans to wear headphones to get the full effect of his own track.
Q 28Which famous school awarded Charlie Puth his 2013 degree, for which he majored in production and engineering?
Berklee College of Music
Berklee College of Music is in Boston, and Puth arrived there after years of jazz piano and classical study at a pre-college programme in Manhattan.
Q 29A cover of which Adele ballad won Charlie Puth and Emily Luther an online video contest in 2011?
Someone like You
Someone like You was sung as a duet for a competition called Can You Sing?, and the win led to a television performance and a record deal.
Q 30On which TV singing contest did Charlie Puth mentor Alicia Keys's team during the 2016 battle rounds?
The Voice
The Voice brought him back twice more as an adviser, to Adam Levine's team in 2019 and to Camila Cabello's in 2022.