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50 free Jessie J trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Jessie J spent years writing songs for other people before anyone knew her name, then scored a run of hit singles from a single debut album that no British woman had managed before. Few pop careers have taken as many turns since: talent-show coaching on two continents, a surprise win on a contest thousands of miles from home, film soundtracks, a Christmas record and a comeback album made on her own terms. This quiz covers all of it. Expect questions on Price Tag, Bang Bang, Flashlight and the rest of the singles, the Who You Are era and the albums that followed, her collaborators and co-writers, the big televised performances, and the life story behind the voice. It is written for fans who want to test how well they really know her, and for anyone putting together a pop music round. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will pick up a few stories along the way.
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Q 01Jessie J co-wrote Party in the U.S.A. for her own debut album, but which singer made it a hit?
Miley Cyrus
Miley Cyrus took the song after Jessie J decided it was not edgy enough for her to perform. Its lyrics about moving to Los Angeles were rewritten to fit a girl arriving from Nashville.
Q 02Jessie J wrote Do It like a Dude with which star in mind, sending it to her own label first?
Rihanna
Rihanna was the target because her hit Rude Boy had partly inspired the song. Jessie J's label thought it was amazing and insisted it become her own debut single.
Q 03Jessie J had her head shaved live on television in March 2013 to raise money for which charity?
Comic Relief
Comic Relief got the shave during Red Nose Day 2013, a promise she had first made to fans in 2011. "It's hair, it will grow back," she told them.
Q 04Which singer was the first to record Bang Bang, before Jessie J and Nicki Minaj joined the track?
Ariana Grande
Ariana Grande was offered the song first and did not like how her original recording turned out. In 2024 it became the first all-female collaboration certified diamond in the US.
Q 05In 2018 Jessie J became the first foreign winner of the televised contest Singer in which country?
China
China crowned her on Hunan TV's contest for professional singers, where she finished first in five of the opening ten rounds. No overseas act had won in the show's six seasons.
Q 06Jessie J graduated from the BRIT School in 2006 in the same class as which future superstar?
Adele
Adele was in the same class of 2006. Jessie J had enrolled at 16, and a year later joined a girl group that she left after deciding it was going nowhere.
Q 07Jessie J voiced Brooke, a sloth who becomes Sid's love interest, in which animated film series?
Ice Age
Ice Age: Collision Course, the fifth film in the series, gave her the role in 2016. She also recorded a theme song, My Superstar, that was left off the soundtrack.
Q 08Jessie J fronted which rock band for one song at the London 2012 Olympics closing ceremony?
Queen
Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor were joined by Jessie J for We Will Rock You. She wore a long yellow jacket in homage to Freddie Mercury.
Q 09After rupturing tendons in her foot in June 2011, Jessie J performed at Glastonbury seated on what?
A throne
A throne, gilded for the occasion, first carried her through the Summertime Ball at Wembley Stadium. She was still using it, leg in a cast, at that year's MTV Video Music Awards.
Q 10Which American rapper features on Price Tag, Jessie J's first UK number one single?
B.o.B
B.o.B added the rap verse, and the single became his third UK number one. Jessie J often performs it live with his part removed or sung by someone else.
Q 11Jessie J was an original coach on The Voice UK beside Danny O'Donoghue and which Welsh singer?
Tom Jones
Tom Jones and Jessie J coached side by side for the first two series. She left in 2013 along with O'Donoghue, both saying touring and their own music had to come first.
Q 12Jessie J recorded the ballad Flashlight, co-written by Sia, for the soundtrack of which 2015 film?
Pitch Perfect 2
Pitch Perfect 2 also has Hailee Steinfeld sing a version of the song on screen. Jessie J's single topped the charts in Malaysia and the Philippines and reached number 13 in the UK.
Q 13Which Jessie J single, co-written with Max Martin, became her first top ten hit in the US?
Domino
Q 21Which Black Eyed Peas member sang I Gotta Feeling with Jessie J at the 2012 Diamond Jubilee Concert?
will.i.am
will.i.am was her fellow coach on The Voice UK, and the show's coaches had already recorded the song together. The pair followed it outside Buckingham Palace with his single This Is Love.
Q 22Jessie J made her American television debut in March 2011 by performing on which show?
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live booked her as musical guest on an episode hosted by Zach Galifianakis, weeks after Price Tag came out in the US.
Q 23What does Jessie J call her fans, a name shared with her world tour of 2011 and 2012?
Heartbeats
Domino reached number six on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one in the UK. She said it grew from listening to Whitney Houston and Prince and wanting a song that felt timeless and uplifting.
Q 14Which French DJ, whose track Repeat she had sung on, features on Jessie J's single Laserlight?
David Guetta
David Guetta offered to return the favour after her guest vocal, so the pair wrote it together. It made her the first British woman with six UK top-ten singles from one album.
Q 15Jessie J was born in 1988 and won a TV talent prize at 15 under which real name?
Jessica Cornish
Jessica Cornish won Best Pop Singer on Britain's Brilliant Prodigies in 2003. At school she was the youngest of three sisters, and the two elder ones had both been head girl.
Q 16Which American actor did Jessie J date from 2018, with one split and reunion before parting in 2020?
Channing Tatum
Channing Tatum was widely assumed to be the subject of her 2025 song Threw It Away, a claim she called untrue. She said she corrected it because he would have done the same for her.
Q 17A foot injury in 2011 forced Jessie J to withdraw as the opening act on which pop star's tour?
Katy Perry
Katy Perry, a personal friend, had booked her for the autumn 2011 leg of the California Dreams Tour. Doctors ordered Jessie J to cancel, and Ellie Goulding took the support slot instead.
Q 18Which pop star joined The Voice UK with Ricky Wilson for series three, taking Jessie J's old chair?
Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue stayed for a single series before her own tour clashed with filming, and Rita Ora took the chair next. Jessie J had coached for the first two series.
Q 19In the Price Tag video, Jessie J appears as which figure inside a giant jewellery box?
A ballerina
A ballerina shares the video with an oversized teddy bear and a money tree. Listeners who called the lyric hypocritical misread it, she has said: it mocks showing off, not earning a living.
Q 20Which Jessie J single, aimed at her detractors, shares its title with a 1963 hit by Lesley Gore?
It's My Party
It's My Party was her answer to online haters, who she said "need love more so than anyone else". It reached the UK top five as the second single from her album Alive.
Heartbeats share their name with the Heartbeat Tour of 2011 and 2012. "Without them I wouldn't be here," she said of fans who tattoo her lyrics and cut their hair like hers.
Q 24Jessie J calls herself a girl from which county, home to her birthplace Chadwell Heath until 1965?
Essex
Essex gave up the area to London more than twenty years before she was born, but she still calls herself an Essex girl. She went to school nearby at Mayfield High in Redbridge.
Q 25Which Brit Award for 2011, announced weeks before her debut album came out, went to Jessie J?
Critics' Choice
Critics' Choice goes to the British act judged most likely to make an impact in the coming year. Within weeks she had also topped the BBC's Sound of 2011 poll.
Q 26Jessie J's Do It like a Dude was named Best Song of 2011 at which British music ceremony?
MOBO Awards
MOBO Awards judges also named her Best Newcomer and Best UK Act that year, and gave Who You Are the prize for Best Album.
Q 27Which English singer co-wrote Jessie J's 2015 ballad Flashlight alongside Sia and two other writers?
Sam Smith
Sam Smith shares the credit with Sia, Christian Guzman and Jason Moore. The single was a top-ten hit in New Zealand and earned a Best British Video nomination at the 2016 Brit Awards.
Q 28On which country's version of The Voice did Jessie J coach Ellie Drennan to victory in 2015?
Australia
Australia's fourth season made Jessie J the first female coach to win the show there. She had joined the panel that year and stayed for one more season.
Q 29Which 1980s pop star had a then-unknown Jessie J as the support act on her UK tour dates in 2008?
Cyndi Lauper
Cyndi Lauper invited her back on stage each night to help sing Girls Just Want to Have Fun. Jessie J was working as a songwriter at the time, after her first record label went bankrupt.
Q 30Jessie J's album R.O.S.E. stands for four themes, but she then noticed it also spelled whose name?
Her mother's
Her mother's name is Rose, which she said only struck her after writing out Realisations, Obsessions, Sex and Empowerment. The four parts came out on consecutive days in May 2018.