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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 01What is Lana Del Rey's birth name?
Elizabeth Woolridge Grant
She was born in Manhattan on June 21, 1985, to two advertising executives.
Q 02In which upstate New York town did Lana Del Rey grow up from the age of one?
Lake Placid
Her father worked for a furniture company there before becoming a domain investor, and her mother was a schoolteacher.
Q 03Why did her parents send her to Kent School, a Connecticut boarding school, at 14 or 15?
To get sober
She has said she has been sober since 2003.
Q 04What did Del Rey major in at Fordham University?
Philosophy
She chose it with an emphasis on metaphysics because it 'bridged the gap between God and science'.
Q 05Under which stage name did she record the acoustic album Sirens in 2005-06?
May Jailer
The album leaked online in mid-2012, after she was famous.
Q 06How much was the recording contract 5 Points Records offered her in 2007 while she was still at Fordham?
$10,000
She spent it moving into a trailer park in North Bergen, New Jersey.
Q 07Her stage name was partly inspired by actress Lana Turner and a sedan sold in which country?
Brazil
The Ford Del Rey was sold there in the 1980s; she said the name reminded her Cuban friends of the glamour of the seaside.
Q 08How was her name spelled on her self-titled debut album, released in January 2010 and quickly withdrawn?
Lana Del Ray
She later bought back the rights to the album.
Q 09Which 2011 single, with a self-made clip of vintage footage and webcam shots, was her viral breakthrough?
Video Games
It reached number one in Germany, Iceland and Luxembourg and was named Song of the Decade at the 2019 Q Awards.
Q 10Who co-wrote her 2011 breakthrough single with her, ahead of production by Robopop?
Justin Parker
It was produced by Robopop and won an Ivor Novello award for Best Contemporary Song in 2012.
Q 11Her January 2012 performance on which TV show drew widespread criticism for being vocally shaky?
Saturday Night Live
She noted that Lorne Michaels knew she had been singing for a long time and it was not a fluke decision.
Q 12Born to Die debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 behind which album?
Adele's 21
It went on to sell 3.4 million copies in 2012, the fifth-best-selling album of that year.
Q 13Born to Die holds what record on the Billboard 200?
Longest-charting album by a woman
Q 21Her version of Once Upon a Dream was recorded for which 2014 film?
Maleficent
The same year she sang the title song for Tim Burton's Big Eyes, which earned a Golden Globe nomination.
Q 22Which two acts opened for her on 2015's Endless Summer Tour?
Courtney Love and Grimes
Courtney Love later appeared alongside her and Jared Leto in Gucci Guilty fragrance ads.
Q 23Which of these was a single from Honeymoon (2015)?
High by the Beach
The album returned to the baroque pop of Born to Die after the guitar-driven Ultraviolence.
By December 2025 it had logged 618 weeks on the chart.
Q 14Which DJ's remix made Summertime Sadness a US top-ten hit and won a Best Remixed Recording Grammy?
Cedric Gervais
The remix peaked at number six on the Hot 100, then her highest-charting solo single in the US.
Q 15Young and Beautiful was written for the soundtrack of which 2013 film?
The Great Gatsby
Director Baz Luhrmann said 'we are very lucky that the song found a film', suggesting it was written before the movie.
Q 16What was the lead single of her 2012 EP Paradise?
Ride
The EP was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 56th Grammys and also came bundled as Born to Die: The Paradise Edition.
Q 17Her cover of Blue Velvet from the Paradise era was used in a commercial for which retailer?
H&M
The 1950s standard was released as a promotional single alongside Burning Desire.
Q 18Which musical short film, paired to tracks from Paradise, did she write and star in in 2013?
Tropico
Anthony Mandler directed it, and its soundtrack was released that December.
Q 19Which Black Keys frontman produced her third album at his Nashville studio?
Dan Auerbach
They were meant to work together for three days and ended up spending six weeks recording a whole album.
Q 20Her third album, released in June 2014, debuted at number one in how many countries?
12
Its 880,000 first-week copies worldwide made it the best-selling debut week of her career.
Q 24Del Rey sang lead vocals on Stargirl Interlude from which artist's 2016 album Starboy?
The Weeknd
She also co-wrote and sang backing vocals on Party Monster from the same record.
Q 25Which veteran rock singer guests on Lust for Life (2017)?
Stevie Nicks
Sean Lennon, A$AP Rocky and Playboi Carti also appear.
Q 26In January 2018 Del Rey said which band was suing her over similarities between Get Free and one of theirs?
Radiohead
The band's publisher denied there was a lawsuit or a demand for 100% of the royalties.
Q 27Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019) was the first album on which she worked with which producer?
Jack Antonoff
He went on to co-produce Chemtrails over the Country Club and her spoken-word album too.
Q 28For which two Grammy Awards was Norman Fucking Rockwell! nominated?
Album of the Year and Song of the Year
Rolling Stone later placed it on its 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
Q 29Whose grandson poses with Del Rey on a sailboat on the cover of Norman Fucking Rockwell!?
Jack Nicholson's
Duke Nicholson appears with the album title written in a comic-inspired style.
Q 30Doin' Time, a single from Norman Fucking Rockwell!, is a cover of a song by which band?
Sublime
It was one of five singles from the album, alongside Mariners Apartment Complex and Venice Bitch.