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40 free Hunter Hayes trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Hunter Hayes was performing before most children start school, and by his teens he had already made several independent albums and sung on national television. When his major-label debut arrived in 2011 he had written or co-written every song and played every part on it himself, and within a year he was setting chart records and collecting Grammy nominations. This quiz follows the whole story. There are questions on his Cajun upbringing and early screen appearances, the albums from the self-titled debut to his independent releases, the hit singles and the people who wrote and sang them with him, the tours he opened and headlined, and the awards, world record and television surprises along the way. It is written for fans who know the albums track by track and for casual listeners who remember the radio hits. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will pick up something new even on the ones you miss.
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Q 01Which actor attended Hunter Hayes's fifth birthday party and gave the future country star his first guitar?
Robert Duvall
Robert Duvall wrote, directed and starred in the 1997 film The Apostle, in which the young Hayes had a small part as a child musician. The gift was a beginner guitar.
Q 02For which US president did a seven-year-old Hunter Hayes perform at a White House lawn party?
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton invited Hayes to play when the boy was seven. By then he had been appearing on national television since he was four.
Q 03Which costumed character did Hunter Hayes perform as on the third season of The Masked Singer in 2020?
Astronaut
Astronaut was Hayes's disguise, and the role had him covering pop hits by Ed Sheeran and Shawn Mendes.
Q 04Which rock band held the Guinness record for most concerts in multiple cities in 24 hours before Hunter Hayes?
The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips set the mark in 2012 with Hayes as their opening act at the Hattiesburg stop. He took the record for himself two years later.
Q 05Which 2012 ballad made Hunter Hayes the youngest solo male artist to top Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart?
Wanted
Wanted sold more than 3.5 million copies and crossed over, reaching the top 15 of both the Adult Pop Songs and Adult Contemporary charts.
Q 06Which superstar had Hunter Hayes open ten dates of a world tour in the summer of 2011, before his debut album?
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift put him on her Speak Now World Tour, months after he had toured radio stations to introduce his own songs.
Q 07Which pop singer joined Hunter Hayes on the re-recorded duet version of 'Everybody's Got Somebody but Me'?
Jason Mraz
Jason Mraz was invited because the songwriters felt the tune already sounded so much like his own music.
Q 08On Jimmy Kimmel Live in November 2016, Hunter Hayes shared the stage with four of what, each one of himself?
Holograms
Holograms let Hayes perform beside four copies of himself, fitting for a musician who played every instrument on his debut album.
Q 09Which instrument did six-year-old Hunter Hayes play as a contestant on a Nickelodeon game show in 1998?
Accordion
Accordion and singing were the talents he showed the panel, four years after he first started performing at the age of two.
Q 10Which Cajun-country town, styled the Crawfish Capital of the World, is the birthplace of singer Hunter Hayes?
Breaux Bridge
Breaux Bridge is where Hayes grew up as an only child, before he left for Nashville, Tennessee, as a teenager to work as a songwriter.
Q 11Which Carrie Underwood tour had Hunter Hayes as the opening act for its North American leg from September 2012?
Blown Away
Blown Away crowds saw Hayes on more than 90 dates, and a few months in he introduced Underwood's performance at the Grammy Awards.
Q 12Which 2011 debut single by Hunter Hayes has a video showing him play guitar, drums and banjo as he sings?
Storm Warning
Storm Warning reached number 14 on Hot Country Songs and was certified Gold, but it took his next single to make him a chart-topper.
Q 13Which song did Hunter Hayes premiere live at the 2014 Grammy Awards ceremony, months before his second album came out?
Invisible
Q 21Which third single from Hunter Hayes's debut album topped Country Airplay and has a video filmed in Vancouver?
Somebody's Heartbreak
Somebody's Heartbreak mixes footage of his concert at the Rogers Arena with clips from autograph signings, and the single went Platinum.
Q 22Which Nashville-born producer, founder of the rock band Giant, co-produced Hunter Hayes's 2011 debut album?
Dann Huff
Dann Huff shared the producer's chair while Hayes wrote or co-wrote every song and played every instrument himself.
Q 23Which streaming service got Hunter Hayes's 2015 single '21' as an exclusive before it reached digital stores?
Spotify
Invisible drew on bullying Hayes faced growing up, and he sang it in front of projected quotes from John Lennon and Steve Jobs.
Q 14Which country trio recorded 'Play', a song co-written by Hunter Hayes, on the 2010 album Nothing Like This?
Rascal Flatts
Rascal Flatts cut the song with a producer who went on to co-produce Hayes's own debut, and Hayes opened their Thaw Out tour in early 2012.
Q 15Which Nickelodeon actress sang a duet with Hunter Hayes on the soundtrack of the 2011 Footloose remake?
Victoria Justice
Victoria Justice and Hayes covered the love theme that Mike Reno and Ann Wilson had taken into the charts from the original 1984 film.
Q 16What title did Hunter Hayes give the 2013 deluxe reissue of his debut album, which added five new tracks?
Encore
Encore pushed the album to a new peak of number seven on the Billboard 200 in its 71st week on the chart.
Q 17Which cause did Hunter Hayes highlight in 2014 by playing a record-setting run of concerts within 24 hours?
Child hunger
Child hunger was the cause, and the stunt, billed as a 24 Hour Road Race, doubled as promotion for his second album.
Q 18Which organisation's awards show crowned Hunter Hayes its top newcomer in 2012, the year after his major-label debut?
CMA
CMA voters gave him a prize that was known as the Horizon Award until 2007 and honours acts tipped for great success.
Q 19Which 2014 Hunter Hayes album, his second, shares its name with a track and features steel guitarist Paul Franklin?
Storyline
Storyline debuted at number one on Top Country Albums, and Hayes had written more than 60 songs before narrowing it down to 14 tracks.
Q 20Which single from Hunter Hayes's second album did he debut at the CMT Music Awards in June 2014?
Tattoo
Tattoo became his first UK release that October and lent its name to one of the tours he headlined that year.
Spotify got the song first because Hayes hoped to nudge country music towards digital distribution. It was also his first single with no official writing credit for him.
Q 24Which Hank Williams classic did a young Hunter Hayes perform on the TV contest America's Most Talented Kids?
Hey, Good Lookin'
Hey, Good Lookin' suited a boy who was already a stage veteran: he had been performing since the age of two and made his first album at nine.
Q 25Which Nickelodeon panel game show, hosted by Summer Sanders, had a six-year-old Hunter Hayes as a contestant?
Figure It Out
Figure It Out welcomed him in April 1998, one of several national television spots of his childhood alongside the talk shows Maury and The Rosie O'Donnell Show.
Q 26Which 2023 album did Hunter Hayes describe as his first fully independent release after more than a decade of waiting?
Red Sky
Red Sky was more than three years in the making, and he took it on a 22-show American tour that opened in San Diego.
Q 27Which singer beat Hunter Hayes's 'I Want Crazy' to the Grammy for Best Country Solo Performance at the 56th ceremony?
Darius Rucker
Darius Rucker won with 'Wagon Wheel', in the second of three straight years that Hayes was nominated in the category without a win.
Q 28Which historic American guitar maker named Hunter Hayes its newest brand ambassador in May 2012?
Martin
Martin has built guitars since 1833 and is based in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. Hayes called the ambassador title an absolute honor.
Q 29Which group guested on Hunter Hayes's 'Where It All Begins' and had him along on their 2015 Wheels Up Tour?
Lady Antebellum
Lady Antebellum's three members also co-wrote the track with Hayes, and live recordings from that tour fill out his album The 21 Project.
Q 30On which TV show did Hunter Hayes surprise fans in August 2019 by revealing an album would be out within days?
Today
Today viewers heard it first: the album had been planned for October 11, the eighth anniversary of his debut, but arrived on August 16 instead.