Lady Gaga Trivia
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This Lady Gaga quiz has 59 free questions with answers and runs the whole career, from Stefani Germanotta's early Def Jam signing and the origin of the stage name through The Fame, The Fame Monster, Born This Way, Artpop, Joanne, Chromatica and Mayhem. It also covers the acting years (A Star Is Born, House of Gucci, Joker), the Super Bowl LI halftime show, the meat dress and her two jazz albums with Tony Bennett. It is built for Little Monsters who want a real challenge, plus anyone hosting a pop-music trivia night. Questions range from easy warm-ups to details only devoted fans will know, like which cut of beef made the meat dress or whose studio Chromatica was recorded in. Every answer was checked against primary sources, so you can argue with your friends, not with the quiz.
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Q 01What is Lady Gaga's real first name?
Stefani
Stefani Germanotta left NYU's Tisch School in her second year to focus on music.
Q 02Lady Gaga's stage name came from a song by which band?
Queen
Queen's 'Radio Ga Ga' inspired the name, and producer Rob Fusari claimed his phone's spell check turned 'Radio' into 'Lady' in a text.
Q 03Gaga and Diane Warren wrote 'Til It Happens to You' for a documentary about what?
Campus sexual assault
Campus sexual assault is the subject of The Hunting Ground, and when Gaga sang the song at the 2016 Oscars, dozens of survivors joined her onstage.
Q 04In 2006 Gaga was signed to, and then quickly dropped by, which record label?
Def Jam Recordings
Def Jam Recordings let her go, and years later she turned the day she was dropped into the story of her 'Marry the Night' video.
Q 05Which music executive called dropping Gaga 'the biggest mistake I ever made in my life'?
L.A. Reid
L.A. Reid had approved signing her before he changed his mind and let her go.
Q 06Gaga modeled her creative team, the Haus of Gaga, on which pop artist's studio collective?
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol's Factory was the template when she moved to Los Angeles to finish The Fame and gathered designers and artists to build her shows.
Q 07Which Gaga single was the world's best-selling single of 2009?
Poker Face
Poker Face sold 9.8 million copies in 2009, and Gaga said the song is about being with a man while fantasizing about a woman.
Q 08Which 2011 Gaga song went viral in 2022 when fans set Jenna Ortega's Wednesday dance to it?
Bloody Mary
Bloody Mary isn't in the show: the scene uses The Cramps' 'Goo Goo Muck', and fans swapped in Gaga's song on TikTok.
Q 09Gaga first wrote 'Telephone' for which singer's 2008 album, before recording it herself?
Britney Spears
Britney Spears turned it down for Circus, and a demo said to feature her vocals leaked online in 2010.
Q 10Interscope first refused one of The Fame Monster's two covers because it looked too what?
Gothic
Gothic was the label's worry, but Gaga won Interscope over, and both covers were shot by photographer Hedi Slimane.
Q 11Which song was The Fame Monster's lead single?
Bad Romance
Bad Romance came first, and Gaga premiered it at Alexander McQueen's Paris Fashion Week show before its release.
Q 12Gaga's documentary Five Foot Two showed her struggling with chronic pain from which condition?
Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia was the diagnosis she revealed as the film came out, and in 2018 severe pain forced her to cancel the rest of her Joanne World Tour.
Q 13Gaga's meat dress partly protested which US military policy?
Don't ask, don't tell
Don't ask, don't tell was repealed in December 2010, three months after Gaga rallied against it in Portland, Maine.
Q 21Which artist created the Artpop album cover, featuring a nude sculpture of Gaga with a blue gazing ball?
Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons also built a larger-than-life version of the sculpture, and Gaga performed in front of it at her artRave launch party.
Q 22Gaga played a character called La Chameleon in which Robert Rodriguez film?
Machete Kills
Machete Kills was promoted with her Artpop song 'Aura', whose lyric video is built from scenes of the film.
Q 23Which Artpop track was pulled from streaming in 2019 after the documentary Surviving R. Kelly?
Do What U Want
Do What U Want featured R. Kelly, and when Gaga pulled it, she said its title showed how explicitly twisted her thinking was at the time.
Q 14To display Gaga's meat dress, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame hired what kind of specialist?
Taxidermist
Taxidermist Sergio Vigilato found the beef had begun to decompose, so he preserved it and dyed it dark red.
Q 15Who handed Gaga her Video of the Year award while she was wearing the meat dress?
Cher
Gaga joked she never thought she would be asking Cher to hold her meat purse.
Q 16Born This Way's million-copy first week got a boost when which retailer sold the album for 99 cents?
Amazon
Amazon sold it at that price for two days as a loss leader, paying full wholesale on every copy, and moved more than 440,000 downloads.
Q 17The Born This Way album cover shows Gaga fused with what?
A motorcycle
A motorcycle makes up half her body on the cover, which Gaga revealed on Twitter weeks before the album's release.
Q 18Critics compared Gaga's 'Born This Way' to which Madonna hit?
Express Yourself
Express Yourself was the song critics heard in it, and Madonna later mashed the two together in rehearsals for her MDNA Tour.
Q 19Which E Street Band member played on Gaga's album Born This Way?
Clarence Clemons
Clarence Clemons plays the sax solo on 'The Edge of Glory', and he joined Gaga to play it live on the 2011 American Idol finale.
Q 20What is the name of the male alter ego Gaga performed as at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards?
Jo Calderone
Jo Calderone was a way to explore what she was looking for in men, Gaga said, and also what she was maybe lacking in herself.
Q 24Which 2014 album with Gaga made Tony Bennett the oldest living act to top the Billboard 200?
Cheek to Cheek
Cheek to Cheek was made to show Gaga's young fans those old standards, Bennett said, and it went straight to number one.
Q 25Gaga's first recording with Tony Bennett, 'The Lady Is a Tramp', appeared on which of his albums?
Duets II
Duets II paired Bennett with 17 stars, and after their song together he and Gaga began talking about recording a whole jazz album.
Q 26Protests by hardliners forced the cancellation of Gaga's 2012 Born This Way Ball concert in which country?
Indonesia
Indonesia's police would permit the Jakarta show only if Gaga toned her act down, and she canceled it rather than agree.
Q 27Every song on Love for Sale, Gaga's second album with Tony Bennett, was written by which songwriter?
Cole Porter
Cole Porter wrote all of it, and Bennett recorded the album after an Alzheimer's diagnosis that his family kept secret for four years.
Q 28Gaga's aunt Joanne, namesake of her 2016 album, died at 19 from complications of which disease?
Lupus
Lupus complications took Joanne's life in 1974, more than a decade before Gaga was born, and Gaga has the date tattooed on her arm.
Q 29Who served alongside Gaga as executive producer of Joanne?
Mark Ronson
Mark Ronson later helped write 'Shallow' for A Star Is Born, and the song won the Golden Globe for best original song.
Q 30Where was Gaga standing when her Super Bowl LI halftime show opened?
The roof
The roof of NRG Stadium was her perch, and she then appeared to leap from it down into the arena to start the show.