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50 free Kesha trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Kesha arrived at the end of 2009 sounding like nobody else on pop radio: half sung, half rapped, covered in glitter and apparently unbothered by anything. Her first single broke sales records, and within a year she had a run of hits that still fill dance floors. There is far more to her story than the party, though. She grew up around songwriters, wrote hits for other stars, fought a long and very public battle for control of her career, and came back with some of the most admired music she has made. This quiz covers all of it: the songs and what inspired them, the videos, the collaborators, the albums, the television appearances and the odd facts from her life before fame. It is written for fans who know every word of Tik Tok and Take It Off, and for anyone hosting a 2010s pop night who wants questions with a short explanation behind every answer.
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Q 01Which rap mogul, name-checked in the opening line of Kesha's 'Tik Tok', also speaks two short lines on the track?
P. Diddy
P. Diddy phoned her producer four hours after the song was written and came to the studio that same day to add his lines. Since 2023 Kesha has sung a changed opening line on stage.
Q 02Which country star's 1980 number one, co-written by Kesha's mother, became a duet with Kesha in 2017?
Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton took the ballad to the top of the country chart two years after Joe Sun's original. Kesha had already covered it alone on an acoustic EP.
Q 03Kesha has said she was born with which unusual body part, which she says was then cut off?
A tail
A tail, a quarter of an inch long and vestigial, is what Kesha says she arrived with. She has called the story of losing it a sad one.
Q 04Which animated sitcom opened a 2010 episode with its entire cast lip-syncing to Kesha's hit 'Tik Tok'?
The Simpsons
The Simpsons built the whole opening of the season 21 episode To Surveil with Love around the song, matching each gag in the sequence to its lyrics.
Q 05Which symbol did Kesha drop from the spelling of her stage name in 2014 after leaving a treatment center?
A dollar sign
A dollar sign had replaced the S since her days scraping by as a waitress, when she adopted it as an ironic gesture. After rehab she went back to her birth name, plain Kesha.
Q 06Which rapper's 2009 number one 'Right Round' features Kesha singing the hook without a credit on its US release?
Flo Rida
Flo Rida's single spent six weeks at number one, yet Kesha took no money for her part. She also refused to appear in the video, wanting to make her name on her own terms.
Q 07Kesha co-wrote the 2011 dance hit 'Till the World Ends' for which pop star, later joining a remix of it?
Britney Spears
Britney Spears brought Kesha and Nicki Minaj onto the Femme Fatale Remix, which pushed the single into the US top five. Kesha had sung backing vocals for her back in 2008.
Q 08Kesha's family hosted Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie at home for a 2005 episode of which reality series?
The Simple Life
The Simple Life had advertised for an eccentric family, and Kesha's mother answered. In the episode the two guests try to plan a wedding and set her mother up on a date.
Q 09Which 1990s teen-drama star plays Kesha's nemesis in a laser gunfight in the music video for 'Blow'?
James Van Der Beek
James Van Der Beek ends the video as a trophy head mounted on a wall, after a laser gunfight that takes out several unicorns.
Q 10Kesha said her hit 'Take It Off' was inspired by a night out watching which kind of performance?
A drag show
A drag show gave her the idea, she told Esquire, and the finished song became the fourth top-ten hit from her debut album.
Q 11To which Tennessee city did Kesha's songwriter mother move the family in 1991 after landing a publishing deal?
Nashville
Nashville is where her mother took Kesha along to recording studios and encouraged her to sing. Kesha had been born in Los Angeles four years earlier.
Q 12Kesha appeared in the music video for which friend's 2008 breakthrough single, a year before her own first hit?
Katy Perry
Katy Perry cast her friend in the video for I Kissed a Girl. Back in 2005 the two had sent demos to the same producer, long before either was famous.
Q 13Which 2017 Kesha album, her first in nearly five years, entered the Billboard 200 at number one?
Rainbow
Q 21Which 2010 Kesha song became a viral dance trend on the video app TikTok a decade after its release?
Cannibal
Cannibal, the title track of her first EP, took off in early 2020 and climbed into the Canadian top 40. A new lyric video was released to mark the revival.
Q 22Which lead single from Kesha's second album, co-written with Nate Ruess of Fun, peaked at number two in the US?
Die Young
Die Young was written after Kesha travelled the world on what she called a spiritual journey, feeding baby lions and swimming with great white sharks along the way.
Q 23Which rap trio did Kesha credit with inspiring the half-rapped vocal delivery of her debut single 'Tik Tok'?
Beastie Boys
Rainbow brought Kesha her first Grammy nominations, for Best Pop Vocal Album and for its lead single, the ballad Praying.
Q 14Which rapper co-headlined a 2013 North American tour with Kesha, then topped the Hot 100 with her on 'Timber'?
Pitbull
Pitbull scored his second US number one with it, and Kesha her third. The single was the first Hot 100 chart-topper of 2014 and stayed on top for three weeks.
Q 15Which Kesha single, written after a wave of gay teen suicides in 2010, debuted at number one in the US?
We R Who We R
We R Who We R was meant as a Pride anthem, a celebration of anyone made to feel like an outsider. It was only the 17th song ever to debut at the top of the chart.
Q 16Which rapper featured Kesha on the 2017 single 'Good Old Days' before the pair co-headlined a 2018 tour?
Macklemore
Macklemore said he and Kesha became friends almost the instant he walked into the room. Their summer tour was billed as The Adventures of Kesha and Macklemore.
Q 17Kesha's trademark glitter makeup around her right eye was inspired by which Stanley Kubrick film?
A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange gave her the look, and film also shaped her first headlining concerts, which were described as having a post-apocalyptic Mad Max vibe.
Q 18Which producer signed an 18-year-old Kesha to his publishing company in 2005 after hearing her demo?
Dr. Luke
Dr. Luke was won over by a demo on which she ran out of lyrics and simply started rapping. Their long legal dispute, begun in 2014, was settled out of court in June 2023.
Q 19Which instrument, played by Paul Harrington, runs right through Kesha's 2013 collaboration 'Timber'?
Harmonica
Harmonica player Harrington was told to emulate Lee Oskar, whose 1978 single San Francisco Bay the dance track interpolates.
Q 20The animated sequence in Kesha's 'Your Love Is My Drug' video was inspired by which 1960s film?
Yellow Submarine
Yellow Submarine, the Beatles' 1968 cartoon, inspired the sequence. Kesha said she wrote the song itself on an airplane in about ten minutes, with her mother among the co-writers.
Beastie Boys were her model for youthful, irreverent anthems, she told Newsweek. She called her whole debut album a homage to their record Licensed to Ill.
Q 24In the 'Tik Tok' music video, Kesha is driven around in her own gold 1978 model of which American car?
Trans Am
Trans Am ownership stuck with her: the car in the video really was hers, and her second album includes a song titled Gold Trans Am, co-written with her mother.
Q 25In the first music video for Kesha's 'Take It Off', what do the partygoers turn into as they shed their clothes?
Stardust
Stardust in bright colours is all that remains by the end. Kesha said the point was that once everything comes off, inhibitions included, we are all made of the same thing.
Q 26Which electronic act features on Kesha's 2010 single 'Blah Blah Blah' and performed it with her on American Idol?
3OH!3
3OH!3 member Sean Foreman also co-wrote the song, which grew out of a studio argument over whether men or women talk more. Kesha returned the favour on their hit My First Kiss.
Q 27The cover of Kesha's 2020 album High Road shows a 3D scan of her own head as which melting object?
A candle
A candle, its designer explained, stood for the idea that nothing is permanent. Kesha sold replicas of it as merchandise for the album.
Q 28Which producer co-produced the whole of Kesha's 2023 album Gag Order and, she said, created a safe space for her?
Rick Rubin
Rick Rubin never once raised singles or radio play with her, Kesha said. It was the last album she owed under the recording contract she had signed at 18.
Q 29Kesha's sixth studio album, her first on her own label, takes its title from which single punctuation mark?
A period
A period, written as one dot and pronounced as the word, is the whole title. The deluxe edition that followed four days later is subtitled with an ellipsis.
Q 30Kesha's 2022 Discovery+ reality series followed her and celebrity guests as they went hunting for what?
Ghosts
Ghosts were a long-running theme for her: the show grew out of her podcast on the paranormal, and a song on her second album describes a romantic encounter with one.