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50 free Doja Cat trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Doja Cat was born Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini in Tarzana, spent part of her childhood at an ashram run by Alice Coltrane, dropped out of a performing-arts high school at 16, and taught herself to rap and use GarageBand while sleeping on the floor. So High on SoundCloud got her signed at 17; a homemade video about being a cow got her noticed; Say So with Nicki Minaj gave her a first number one. These 50 questions run from Rye, New York to the Met Gala: her father's role in Sarafina!, the stage name borrowed from a cat and a cannabis strain, Purrr!, Amala, Mooo! and Tia Tamera, Hot Pink, the Candy TikTok challenge, Kiss Me More with SZA and its Grammy, Planet Her's three weeks at number two, hosting the 2021 VMAs, the Taco Bell Hole cover at the Super Bowl, the Paraguay meltdown, Scarlet and Paint the Town Red, the Triple J Hottest 100 first, Scarlet 2 Claude, Vie and Jealous Type, plus the influences she names. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so a miss still teaches you something. Play it solo or print it for a hip-hop night.
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Q 01In which US city was Doja Cat born?
Los Angeles
Los Angeles. She was born in Tarzana, a suburb named after Tarzan because the jungle hero's author, Edgar Rice Burroughs, once owned a ranch there.
Q 02Doja Cat's father Dumisani Dlamini starred as Crocodile in which musical?
Sarafina!
Sarafina!. He played Crocodile on Broadway and again in the 1992 film, then went home to South Africa, and Doja Cat has said she grew up without ever meeting him.
Q 03Which jazz musician was spiritual director of the ashram where Doja Cat lived as a child?
Alice Coltrane
Alice Coltrane. The jazz star led the Sai Anantam Ashram in the Santa Monica Mountains, where Doja Cat wore head scarves and sang devotional songs but found life "a little too controlled".
Q 04At the 2023 Met Gala, Doja Cat came dressed as the pet cat of which late fashion designer?
Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Lagerfeld. She arrived as his cat Choupette in a prosthetic nose and a cat-eared gown, and answered a red-carpet interviewer in meows.
Q 05Doja Cat dropped out of high school at 16, citing her struggles with what?
ADHD
ADHD. "It felt like I was stuck in one spot and everybody else was progressing constantly," she said of the school she left in eleventh grade to make music.
Q 06Which 2012 SoundCloud upload first drew label attention to Doja Cat?
So High
So High. She recorded it at home, and after it took off on SoundCloud it was repackaged as her first commercial single.
Q 07Which software did Doja Cat teach herself to make music on after leaving school?
GarageBand
GarageBand. She ripped beats from YouTube, tracked her vocals over them at home and posted the songs to SoundCloud.
Q 08Under which label executive did Doja Cat sign with Kemosabe Records at 17?
Dr. Luke
Dr. Luke. He signed her after a home-made SoundCloud track caught his attention, but her managers say the label then put little behind her for years.
Q 09What was the title of Doja Cat's 2014 debut EP?
Purrr!
Purrr!. The Fader heard "spacey, eastern-influenced R&B" in it, and she has said the Hindu imagery around its single drew on her childhood on an ashram.
Q 10During a spell of writer's block, Doja Cat turned down a verse on which 2017 Billie Eilish song?
Bellyache
Bellyache. Eilish asked her in their SoundCloud days, but Doja Cat "just couldn't think of anything to write" and later said she was glad to see the song blow up.
Q 11What was the title of Doja Cat's 2018 debut album?
Amala
Amala. She gave it her own first name, then disowned it: "I don't think it was a finished album," she said of a record made while she was partying.
Q 12Which self-made 2018 novelty video turned Doja Cat into a viral meme?
Mooo!
Mooo!. A cow-print costume sparked the joke, which she wrote live on Instagram and filmed in her bedroom, and its success convinced her label she was marketable.
Q 13Which rapper features on Doja Cat's 2019 single "Tia Tamera"?
Rico Nasty
Rico Nasty. The hook namechecks twin sitcom stars Tia and Tamera Mowry, and the video sends both rappers onto a '90s game show against their own lookalikes.
Q 21Which oldie was mashed up with Doja Cat's "Streets" for a viral 2021 TikTok challenge?
Put Your Head on My Shoulder
Put Your Head on My Shoulder. A TikTok user spliced Paul Anka's 1959 ballad onto "Streets" for the Silhouette Challenge, and the craze sent the 2019 album track to number 16.
Q 22Who features on Doja Cat's 2021 single "Kiss Me More"?
SZA
SZA. Its chorus borrows the melody of Olivia Newton-John's 1981 hit "Physical", which earned that song's two writers a credit.
Q 23Which Grammy did Doja Cat's "Kiss Me More" win at the 2022 awards?
Best Pop Duo Performance
Q 14Which 2018 Doja Cat single became a sleeper hit after a TikTok dance challenge in late 2019?
Candy
Candy. The challenge lifted a song from her overlooked debut album onto the Hot 100 more than a year and a half after its release.
Q 15Which rapper's verse on the "Juicy" remix gave Doja Cat her first Hot 100 entry?
Tyga
Tyga. The week the remix charted, her debut album also reached the Billboard 200 for the first time, almost a year and a half after its release.
Q 16What was the title of Doja Cat's second album, released in November 2019?
Hot Pink
Hot Pink. Its track "Say So" went viral on TikTok after the album came out and became her first number one hit.
Q 17In May 2020 Doja Cat's "Say So" remix topped the Hot 100 ahead of which Megan Thee Stallion remix?
Savage
Savage. With Beyoncé on its remix, it made the first chart on which four Black women held the top two places, and two weeks later it took number one itself.
Q 18The video for Doja Cat's "Say So" is styled after which musical era?
Disco
Disco. The glittering '70s-themed clip also gave a cameo to Haley Sharpe, the TikToker whose dance routine had turned the song into a hit.
Q 19Doja Cat's "Boss Bitch" appeared on the soundtrack of which film?
Birds of Prey
Birds of Prey. "Boss Bitch" opens the Harley Quinn film's soundtrack album, which features only women vocalists to match its all-female gang.
Q 20At the 2020 MTV Europe Music Awards, Doja Cat reworked her hit "Say So" in which genre?
Metal
Metal. The guitar solo lifted a passage from Australian guitarist Plini's "Handmade Cities" without permission, and she later sent him an apology.
Best Pop Duo Performance. The award, in full Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, was announced while Doja Cat was in the bathroom, and she ran back to join her duet partner, who was on crutches.
Q 24What is the title of Doja Cat's third studio album?
Planet Her
Planet Her. She invented the planet as a place where, in her words, all the species of space can live in harmony, and built the album's visuals around it.
Q 25Which artist joined Doja Cat on "You Right"?
The Weeknd
The Weeknd. She had finished the song alone, but he became "obsessed" with it and took over one of her verses, a year after she guested on his "In Your Eyes" remix.
Q 26Which award show did Doja Cat host in 2021, her first presenting gig?
MTV Video Music Awards
MTV Video Music Awards. She took a break from hosting to perform suspended in mid-air, and went home with two awards of her own.
Q 27In which TV series did Doja Cat guest-star as Lil Dicky's romantic interest?
Dave
Dave. In the 2021 episode "Somebody Date Me" she plays herself, the pop star he matches with on an exclusive dating app and then texts all day.
Q 28Doja Cat's 2021 Pepsi ad reenacted a song from which musical film?
Grease
Grease. She played "Bad Sandy" in a glittering black leather jacket and re-recorded "You're the One That I Want" with a slicker R&B feel.
Q 29Doja Cat's Super Bowl LVI Taco Bell ad featured her cover of which Hole song?
Celebrity Skin
Celebrity Skin. Courtney Love helped rewrite the lyrics for the ad, in which Doja Cat and friends break out of a clown college.
Q 30Doja Cat's song "Vegas" was the lead single for which 2022 film?
Elvis
Elvis. "Vegas" is built on "Hound Dog" as Big Mama Thornton first recorded it in 1952, sung by Shonka Dukureh, who plays Thornton in the film.