Dua Lipa
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49 free Dua Lipa trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
Dua Lipa's grandmother picked her name, which means "love" in Albanian, and a primary-school choir teacher once told her she could not sing. Born in London to Kosovo Albanian parents, she moved to Pristina at 13, came back alone at 15, waited tables in a cocktail bar, and signed to Warner in 2014 partly because the label had no big female pop star. New Rules made her the first British woman to top the UK chart since Adele; Future Nostalgia made her the face of the 2020 disco revival. These 49 questions cover the lot: her father's Kosovan rock band Oda, the X Factor advert, New Love and Be the One, the five Brit nominations of 2018, One Kiss with Calvin Harris and its afterlife as a Liverpool anthem, Electricity, Don't Start Now's chart records, Levitating's Diamond certification and lawsuits, Cold Heart with Elton John, Mermaid Barbie, Houdini and Radical Optimism, Glastonbury 2024, Service95, the Sunny Hill Foundation, the Albanian and Kosovar passports, the Callum Turner wedding and the Wendy Williams mispronunciation that became a nickname. 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 pop-music night.
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Q 01What does the name Dua mean in Albanian?
Love
Love is the sense she gives her name, from a verb that covers both wanting and loving. Her grandmother chose it, and as a London schoolgirl she longed to be a Hannah or a Sarah instead.
Q 02Dua Lipa's father Dukagjin fronted Oda, a Kosovan band playing which genre?
Rock
Rock was Oda's sound, though fame in Kosovo never made it a full-time living for him. He kept playing at home, and Lipa credits a house that always had music on for setting her on her way.
Q 03Dua Lipa took weekend singing lessons at which London stage school?
Sylvia Young
Sylvia Young Theatre School took her on at weekends from the age of nine. A teacher there told her she could sing, after her school choir teacher had said she could not.
Q 04Which instrument did Lipa learn at primary school?
Cello
Cello was her pick at primary school, and she gave it up for a practical reason: she was so small that the case on her back kept whacking her head and legs. She called it a health hazard.
Q 05Dua Lipa's parents moved the family from London back to which city?
Pristina
Pristina is where her parents resettled, but Lipa lasted only a few years there. At 15 she talked them into letting her move back to London alone to chase a music career.
Q 06Lipa sang a Sister Sledge cover in a 2013 ITV advert for which show?
The X Factor
The X Factor used her cover of Lost in Music to sell its 2013 series, yet she was never a contestant on the show.
Q 07What job was Dua Lipa working when she signed her first management deal in 2013?
Waitress in a cocktail bar
Waitress in a cocktail bar was the job. Her new managers put her on a monthly salary so she could quit and spend the time recording.
Q 08Dua Lipa's "Physical" borrows its title and a chorus line from a 1981 hit by which singer?
Olivia Newton-John
Olivia Newton-John sang Let's get physical first, in 1981. Lipa's chorus repeats the line on purpose, a wink that fits an album she named Future Nostalgia.
Q 09What was Lipa's first single, released in August 2015?
New Love
New Love drew little attention when it came out in August 2015. Tastemakers noticed anyway, and it helped put her on the BBC Sound of 2016 longlist before she had a hit.
Q 10Which 2015 Dua Lipa single reached number one in Belgium?
Be the One
Be the One was written by others, and she hesitated to record a song she had no hand in. It spread slowly across Europe after German radio picked it up, then reached No 9 at home.
Q 11Lipa featured on which Sean Paul single in 2016?
No Lie
No Lie was written with Emily Warren, whose demo vocal Sean Paul thought nobody could match. Someone in his management suggested Lipa, and her own demo won him over.
Q 12Which Dutch DJ collaborated with Lipa on "Scared to Be Lonely"?
Martin Garrix
Martin Garrix built the track and Lipa supplied the vocal. Weeks after its release the pair stripped it back and performed it with a full orchestra.
Q 13Which single gave Lipa her first UK number one in 2017?
New Rules
New Rules climbed slowly, carried by a much-shared video of women keeping each other away from the phone. At the top it ended almost two years without a solo woman at number one, since Adele's Hello.
Q 21Dua Lipa's "Kiss and Make Up" was a collaboration with which K-pop group?
Blackpink
Blackpink came aboard after Jennie and Lisa turned up at Lipa's Seoul concert. She offered them the song straight afterwards, and they went into the studio and translated lyrics into Korean.
Q 22Dua Lipa's 2019 single "Swan Song" was written for which film?
Alita: Battle Angel
Alita: Battle Angel, produced by James Cameron, also shaped the video, in which director Floria Sigismondi sends Lipa through the film's Iron City.
Q 23Dua Lipa said her second album would feel like what?
A dancercise class
A dancercise class was how she described it to the BBC in July 2019, and she later filmed a 1980s-style aerobics workout video for "Physical".
Q 14Dua Lipa's "Break My Heart" gave a writing credit to members of which Australian band, for echoing "Need You Tonight"?
INXS
INXS's Andrew Farriss and Michael Hutchence got the credit after Lipa played the track back and heard their 1987 riff in it. She handed over a share willingly, joking that she was not trying to get sued.
Q 15Lipa recorded a 2017 charity cover of "Bridge over Troubled Water" for the victims of what?
The Grenfell Tower fire
The Grenfell Tower fire struck west London on 14 June 2017, and the single was on sale a week later. Dozens of artists recorded it over three days in a studio half a mile from the tower.
Q 16Dua Lipa's first Brit Awards were British Female Solo Artist and which other prize?
British Breakthrough
British Breakthrough Act completed her double. She went in with five nominations, the most any woman had ever had in one year, yet lost Album, Single and Video to Stormzy, Rag'n'Bone Man and Harry Styles.
Q 17Which DJ partnered Dua Lipa on "One Kiss", her second UK number one, in 2018?
Calvin Harris
Calvin Harris and Lipa knocked Drake off the top even though Drake had more streams that week. They had sold more downloads, which the chart formula weighted more heavily.
Q 18Lipa performed at the opening ceremony of the 2018 UEFA Champions League Final in which city?
Kyiv
Kyiv staged the 2018 final, and her pre-match set left a mark on the Liverpool end. Their fans turned One Kiss into a victory anthem, and she now calls herself an honorary Liverpool supporter.
Q 19"Electricity" paired Lipa with Silk City, the duo of Diplo and whom?
Mark Ronson
Mark Ronson and Diplo are Silk City. In the video Lipa dances the lights back on at a loft party during New York's 2003 blackout, while the two producers sit stuck in a lift.
Q 20Which Grammy did Lipa win in 2019 along with the dance-recording award for "Electricity"?
Best New Artist
Best New Artist gave her a microphone, and she used it. Praising her fellow female nominees, she said women had really stepped up this year, a dig at the Grammys chief who had told them to step up.
Q 24What was the lead single of Dua Lipa's Future Nostalgia?
Don't Start Now
Don't Start Now peaked at number two in the UK, kept off the top for three straight weeks by Tones and I's "Dance Monkey".
Q 25Dua Lipa's Future Nostalgia debuted at number two in the UK behind which band's album Calm?
5 Seconds of Summer
5 Seconds of Summer won the week by just 550 chart sales, and Future Nostalgia climbed to number one seven days later.
Q 26Which two artists featured on the August 2020 club remix of Dua Lipa's "Levitating"?
Madonna and Missy Elliott
Madonna and Missy Elliott, whom Lipa called her idols, joined the remix that launched her Club Future Nostalgia album.
Q 27Which rapper featured on the October 2020 remix of Dua Lipa's "Levitating"?
DaBaby
DaBaby's verse was dropped by many radio stations after his remarks at a July 2021 festival, which Lipa said left her "surprised and horrified".
Q 28Which Belgian singer joined Dua Lipa on the 2020 single "Fever"?
Angèle
Angèle added French verses to a song Lipa had held back from Future Nostalgia because its tropical beat did not fit the album.
Q 29Dua Lipa featured on "Prisoner" from which Miley Cyrus album?
Plastic Hearts
Plastic Hearts arrived a year after Cyrus headlined Sunny Hill, the Kosovo festival Lipa founded with her father.
Q 30What was the title of Dua Lipa's November 2020 livestream concert?
Studio 2054
Studio 2054 took its name from New York's Studio 54, a club Lipa said had always fascinated her, and was taped on a London warehouse soundstage.