Lana Del Rey Trivia
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59 free Lana Del Rey trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
52 free Lana Del Rey trivia questions with answers. Lana Del Rey has spent fifteen years turning melancholy into stadium-sized pop, and there is a lot of story packed into those albums. This quiz starts with the girl from Lake Placid who studied philosophy at Fordham and recorded under names like May Jailer, then follows the webcam video that went viral, the Saturday Night Live night everyone argued about, and every album from Born to Die to the country record that keeps changing its name. Expect questions on producers (Dan Auerbach, Jack Antonoff, Rick Nowels), collaborators (The Weeknd, Taylor Swift, Stevie Nicks, Quavo), chart records, Grammy nominations, film songs from Gatsby to Maleficent, and the odd stray fact like the Waffle House shift. It suits fan quizzes, music trivia nights and anyone who has ever cried in a car to Video Games. Every answer was checked against the Wikipedia articles on Del Rey, her albums and her singles, and each question shows the sentence that supports it once you answer. Free, no signup.
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Q 01In 2024 Lana Del Rey married Jeremy Dufrene, an alligator-tour boat captain, in which US state?
Louisiana
Louisiana. The pair first met in 2019, when she took one of his swamp tours, and they married at the bayou in Des Allemands where he works.
Q 02In which upstate New York town did Lana Del Rey grow up from the age of one?
Lake Placid
Lake Placid. Her parents left advertising careers in New York City for the Adirondack village, twice a Winter Olympics host, when she was a baby.
Q 03Why did Lana Del Rey's parents send her to a Connecticut boarding school as a teenager?
To get sober
To get sober. She has said she was drinking heavily by her early teens; boarding school was not a complete cure, but she has been sober since she was 18.
Q 04What did Del Rey major in at Fordham University?
Philosophy
Philosophy. Music was already taking over: she signed her first record deal while still a student, then finished the degree in 2008.
Q 05Lana Del Rey's uncle taught her which instrument during a year on Long Island?
Guitar
Guitar. She began writing songs soon after and took them to open-mic nights and clubs around New York.
Q 06Lana Del Rey spent her first record advance on what kind of New Jersey home?
A trailer
A trailer. She was still a senior at Fordham when indie label 5 Points signed her, and she moved to a New Jersey mobile home park and began recording with producer David Kahne.
Q 07The 'Lana' in Lana Del Rey's stage name is said to be a tribute to which actress?
Lana Turner
Lana Turner, the Old Hollywood star. Accounts of 'Del Rey' differ, from a Ford sedan sold in 1980s Brazil to a Los Angeles neighbourhood; she said the name evoked seaside glamour for her and her Cuban friends in Miami.
Q 08How was Lana Del Rey's name spelled on her self-titled debut album, released in 2010 and quickly withdrawn?
Lana Del Ray
Lana Del Ray, with an 'a': she had not yet settled on the spelling. The album was sold only online and vanished within months, when she and her new managers bought her out of the deal.
Q 09Which single, posted with a homemade clip of vintage footage and webcam shots, was Lana Del Rey's viral breakthrough in 2011?
Video Games
Video Games. She said she only posted it because it was her favourite and it was never meant to be the single; the response won her a record deal and, later, an Ivor Novello award.
Q 10Which songwriter co-wrote Lana Del Rey's 2011 breakthrough single with her?
Justin Parker
Justin Parker, an English songwriter she teamed up with after moving to London. The song made his name as well as hers, and he went on to co-write several more tracks on Born to Die.
Q 11Lana Del Rey's January 2012 performance on which TV show drew widespread criticism for being vocally shaky?
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live. NBC anchor Brian Williams called it one of the worst outings in the show's history, yet the album she was promoting became one of 2012's five best sellers worldwide.
Q 12Lana Del Rey's Born to Die debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 behind which album?
Adele's 21
Adele's 21, then a year old and in its 19th week at number one. Born to Die sold 77,000 copies that week and topped the UK chart, but it has never reached number one in the US.
Q 13Lana Del Rey's Born to Die set which Billboard 200 record in December 2025?
Q 21Lana Del Rey's cover of Once Upon a Dream was recorded for which Disney film?
Maleficent
Maleficent. Del Rey was reportedly hand-picked by its star, Angelina Jolie, to rework the old Sleeping Beauty song, and her version made its debut in a TV spot aired during the Grammys.
Q 22Which two acts opened for Lana Del Rey on 2015's Endless Summer Tour?
Courtney Love and Grimes
Courtney Love and Grimes. Love teased the team-up on Twitter and played the first run of shows, the Hollywood Bowl among them, and Grimes took over once the tour moved east.
Q 23Which of these was a single from Lana Del Rey's 2015 album Honeymoon?
High by the Beach
Longest-charting album by a woman
Longest-charting album by a woman: that month it logged its 618th week on the chart, close to 12 years in all, despite never having spent a single week at number one.
Q 14Which DJ's remix made Lana Del Rey's Summertime Sadness a US top-ten hit and won a Best Remixed Recording Grammy?
Cedric Gervais
Cedric Gervais, a French DJ. The Grammy went to him alone, because the remix award honours the remixer and not the original artist, so her first US top-ten hit left Del Rey without a trophy.
Q 15Lana Del Rey's Young and Beautiful features on the soundtrack of which 2013 film?
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby. Director Baz Luhrmann worked on the song with her, and it brought Del Rey a Grammy nomination for best song written for visual media.
Q 16What was the lead single of Lana Del Rey's 2012 EP Paradise?
Ride
Ride, produced by Rick Rubin. Del Rey scripted its 10-minute video, in which she plays a drifter riding with a biker gang, and premiered it at a cinema screening in Santa Monica.
Q 17Lana Del Rey's cover of Blue Velvet was recorded for an advertising campaign by which retailer?
H&M
H&M, which made her the face of its autumn 2012 collection. Critics called the eerie, low-lit advert 'Lynchian', after David Lynch, whose film Blue Velvet took its name from the same 1950s song.
Q 18Which 2013 musical short film, set to songs from her Paradise EP, did Lana Del Rey write and star in?
Tropico
Tropico. She had billed the Bible-themed film as her 'farewell project', then used its Hollywood premiere to announce the title of her next album.
Q 19Which rock frontman produced most of Lana Del Rey's 2014 album at his Nashville studio?
Dan Auerbach
Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys. A get-together planned for a couple of days at his Easy Eye studio grew into a whole album, with Del Rey singing live in front of a seven-piece band.
Q 20Which album gave Lana Del Rey her first number one on the US Billboard 200?
Ultraviolence
Ultraviolence, in June 2014. Born to Die had stalled at number two, and only months before the follow-up was announced she was telling interviewers she didn't hear another album in her.
High by the Beach, whose video ends with Del Rey fetching a rocket launcher from the sand and blowing up the paparazzi helicopter that has been hovering outside her house.
Q 24Lana Del Rey sang lead vocals on Stargirl Interlude, a track on which artist's 2016 album?
The Weeknd
The Weeknd, on Starboy. She also co-wrote and sang on Party Monster from the same record, and he returned the favour months later by guesting on the title track of her next album.
Q 25Which veteran rock singer guests on Lana Del Rey's 2017 album Lust for Life?
Stevie Nicks
Stevie Nicks, who co-wrote and sings on Beautiful People Beautiful Problems. Del Rey felt the album needed another woman's voice, and said Nicks was the one name she kept coming back to.
Q 26In January 2018 Lana Del Rey said which band was suing her over similarities between Get Free and one of its songs?
Radiohead
Radiohead, over their hit Creep. Their publisher denied there was any lawsuit, though it did want a writing credit; Creep itself credits the writers of The Air That I Breathe after a similar claim.
Q 27Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019) was the first Lana Del Rey album made with which producer?
Jack Antonoff
Jack Antonoff, who co-wrote and produced most of it with her. The partnership stuck: he went on to work on her next studio album and on her spoken-word poetry record.
Q 28Lana Del Rey's Norman Fucking Rockwell! lost both its 2020 Grammy nominations, Album and Song of the Year, to which artist?
Billie Eilish
Billie Eilish, who took all four major categories that night with her debut album and Bad Guy. Rolling Stone later ranked Norman Fucking Rockwell! among the 500 greatest albums of all time anyway.
Q 29Whose grandson poses with Lana Del Rey on a sailboat on the cover of Norman Fucking Rockwell!?
Jack Nicholson's
Jack Nicholson's grandson Duke. Del Rey's sister, Chuck Grant, took the photograph, and the album title is lettered across it in the style of a comic-book panel.
Q 30Doin' Time, a single from Lana Del Rey's Norman Fucking Rockwell!, is a cover of a song by which band?
Sublime
Sublime. Del Rey, who said not a day goes by without her playing one of their songs, recorded it for a documentary about the band; its video pays homage to Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.