Kacey Musgraves Trivia
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50 free Kacey Musgraves trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Kacey Musgraves trivia quiz covers the East Texas girl who won yodelling championships, sang the national anthem at the Winter Olympics as a teenager, played Hannah Montana at birthday parties to pay rent, and then rewrote what mainstream country was allowed to talk about. The easy questions cover the landmarks: her hometown, her debut single, the album that swept its four Grammy categories, and the Zach Bryan duet that gave her a Hot 100 No. 1. From there the quiz moves through Pageant Material, the Christmas records, Star-Crossed and Deeper Well. The harder half is for the fans who own the Triple Pop EP: the guitar teacher she shared with Miranda Lambert, the duo Texas Two Bits, the season of Nashville Star, the Frozen II end-credits song, the Flaming Lips collaboration, the Met Gala Barbie look and 2026's Middle of Nowhere. Nothing here quotes a lyric; the questions are about the woman, the records and the stories. Every answer was checked against Kacey Musgraves' encyclopaedia entry before publishing. If you enjoy this, try our country music and Grammy Album of the Year quizzes next.
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Q 01In 2018, Kacey Musgraves was a guest judge on an All Stars season of which reality competition?
RuPaul's Drag Race
RuPaul's Drag Race. A longtime fan of the show, she judged in bedazzled denim chaps, then brought the season's two winners onstage with her at a Los Angeles concert.
Q 02Which Golden Hour ballad did Musgraves sing at the 2019 Grammys, where she won four awards?
Rainbow
Rainbow. It began years earlier as an encouraging note to herself after she read her horoscope, and grew into an anthem for anyone living under a dark cloud.
Q 03What was Musgraves' 2012 debut single for Mercury?
Merry Go 'Round
Merry Go 'Round. It began when a co-writer's mother wondered aloud whether a neighbor was 'selling Mary Kay or Mary Jane', and grew into a song about keeping up small-town appearances.
Q 04Kacey Musgraves's Same Trailer Different Park debuted at No. 2 in 2013, behind which singer's comeback album?
Justin Timberlake
Justin Timberlake. The 20/20 Experience sold 968,000 copies that week, more than twenty times her total, yet her debut still opened at No. 1 on the country albums chart.
Q 05Musgraves' first Hot 100 No. 1 came in 2023 as a featured artist on 'I Remember Everything' by whom?
Zach Bryan
Zach Bryan. Their breakup duet debuted at No. 1, though Musgraves had never before climbed higher than No. 60 on the Hot 100.
Q 06On which TV singing competition did Musgraves finish seventh in 2007?
Nashville Star
Nashville Star. She was the fourth singer eliminated from the USA Network contest, and later said she was thankful for the years it gave her to develop as a writer.
Q 07Musgraves took guitar lessons at 12 from John DeFoore, who also taught which future country star?
Miranda Lambert
Miranda Lambert. Musgraves planned 'Mama's Broken Heart' as her own debut single, but it was pitched to Lambert without her knowledge, and Lambert asked her for it at her wedding rehearsal dinner.
Q 08What was the first instrument Musgraves learned, before guitar?
Mandolin
Mandolin. Her mother took her to local festivals to sing western swing, and she wrote her first song, 'Notice Me', for her elementary-school graduation.
Q 09Kacey Musgraves recorded much of Golden Hour in a studio above which singer's horse stable?
Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Crow. Musgraves wanted to escape what she called the rat race of Music Row studios, and some mornings she rode horses with Crow before going upstairs to record.
Q 10At which event was Musgraves chosen to sing the national anthem as a teenager?
The 2002 Winter Olympics
The 2002 Winter Olympics. The eighth-grader sang the anthem at a skiing event, and remembered being thrilled that the trip got her out of middle school for three weeks.
Q 11Before her record deal, Musgraves says she played children's birthday parties dressed as which character?
Hannah Montana
Hannah Montana. She had signed up hoping to play a princess but was booked as the Disney Channel character instead; she says the children tried to pull off her wig and that she was paid in change.
Q 12In 2008 Musgraves recorded an acoustic cover of which OneRepublic hit for an Austin indie label?
Apologize
Apologize. The voice-and-guitar recording resurfaced on an EP as her major-label debut arrived, and it reached a Billboard sales chart in 2014 once she was famous.
Q 13Which Musgraves single championing same-sex love won CMA Song of the Year in 2014?
Follow Your Arrow
Q 21Musgraves covered 'All Is Found' for the end credits of which 2019 film?
Frozen II
Frozen II. In the film the song is a lullaby that Queen Iduna, voiced by Evan Rachel Wood, sings to her daughters Anna and Elsa, before Musgraves reprises it over the credits.
Q 22At the 2019 Met Gala, Musgraves arrived dressed as what?
A Barbie doll
A Barbie doll. To match the gala's 'Camp' theme she wore a hot-pink Moschino dress and a big blonde wig, carried a hairdryer-shaped clutch and pulled up in a matching pink convertible.
Q 23Who duetted with Musgraves on 'I'll Be Home for Christmas' for her 2019 Amazon special?
Lana Del Rey
Lana Del Rey. Musgraves called the special a 'Wes Anderson-inspired reimagining of the holidays' and said she made it to bring her old holiday album to life on screen.
Follow Your Arrow. A year earlier the awards telecast had muted its line about rolling a joint, and on winning she asked the crowd: 'Do you guys realize what this means for country music?'
Q 14At the 2019 Houston Rodeo, Kacey Musgraves sang 'Como la Flor' in tribute to which Latin music star?
Selena
Selena. The Tejano star had played her final concert at the same rodeo almost exactly 24 years earlier, and Musgraves asked the crowd to honor her by singing as loudly as they could.
Q 15Musgraves' 2015 album Pageant Material was led by which single?
Biscuits
Biscuits. Its hook, about minding your own biscuits so that life will be gravy, was tossed out during the writing session for an earlier single and saved for a song of its own.
Q 16'Forever Country', the 2016 medley featuring Musgraves, weaves in which Dolly Parton song?
I Will Always Love You
I Will Always Love You. Its producer says he feared Parton would feel a medley cheapened her song, but she approved and sings the record's final line herself.
Q 17Musgraves' 2016 holiday album, with eight traditional and four original songs, was titled what?
A Very Kacey Christmas
A Very Kacey Christmas. She said she wanted a whimsical throwback record that evoked nostalgia and simpler times, and it runs from western swing to the Hawaiian-flavored 'Mele Kalikimaka'.
Q 18Which two songs were released together as Golden Hour's first singles in February 2018?
Butterflies and Space Cowboy
Butterflies and Space Cowboy. The first celebrates falling for her future husband; the second is a breakup song whose title hides a pun, telling a departing man he can have his space.
Q 19Musgraves opened the second North American leg of whose 2018 tour?
Harry Styles
Harry Styles. At the tour's Madison Square Garden stop the two surprised the crowd with a duet of Shania Twain's 'You're Still the One'.
Q 20The concert run supporting Golden Hour, launched in Oslo in October 2018, took its name from which song?
Oh, What a World
Oh, What a World. In 2020 she re-recorded the song as a stripped-back Earth Day single to raise money for the World Wildlife Fund.
Q 24Musgraves sang on three tracks of American Head, a 2020 album by which band?
The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips. Frontman Wayne Coyne said the opening line of 'Flowers of Neptune 6', about taking acid and watching lightning bugs glow, grew out of psychedelic experiences he and Musgraves had discussed.
Q 25Musgraves voiced the heroine's mother in the English dub of which Studio Ghibli film, its first in full 3D animation?
Earwig and the Witch
Earwig and the Witch. Musgraves did more than act in it: she also sang the English-language version of the film's theme song, 'Don't Disturb Me'.
Q 26Musgraves' 2021 album Star-Crossed came with a 50-minute film streaming exclusively on which service?
Paramount+
Paramount+. While planning the album she found herself thinking about Greek tragedies, so record and film alike unfold as a modern tragedy in three acts about her divorce.
Q 27On Saturday Night Live in 2021, Musgraves performed nude behind her guitar in homage to which film?
Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump. She was recreating the scene in which Robin Wright's Jenny performs behind nothing but a guitar, and her representative said it was the first nude performance in the show's history.
Q 28Musgraves executive-produced the 2023 series My Kind of Country alongside which actress?
Reese Witherspoon
Reese Witherspoon. The Apple TV+ contest grew out of a conversation in which the two asked why country music was so closed off, so its scouts searched the world for new acts.
Q 29Which song from Musgraves's 2024 album won the 2025 Grammy for Best Country Song?
The Architect
The Architect. A quiet song asking who designed the world, it won over Beyoncé's 'Texas Hold 'Em', and Musgraves admitted she had not expected to win.
Q 30Musgraves and Sabrina Carpenter duetted on which Nancy Sinatra song at Outside Lands 2024?
These Boots Are Made for Walkin'
These Boots Are Made for Walkin'. Carpenter, headlining in place of Tyler, the Creator, introduced her surprise guest as an artist she had loved her entire life.