50 free Norah Jones trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Norah Jones trivia quiz follows the Texas-raised daughter of Ravi Shankar from a Manhattan lounge gig to Come Away with Me, the diamond-selling debut that swept the 2003 Grammys and made her the top jazz artist of the 2000s. The easy questions cover the basics: her famous father, her label, the song that won Record of the Year and the album that started it all. From there the quiz gets into her later records, from Feels Like Home and Not Too Late to the Danger Mouse collaboration Little Broken Hearts and the Grammy-winning Visions. The hard and expert questions are for people who own the side projects: the Little Willies, Puss n Boots, the anonymous rock band El Madmo, the Everly Brothers duets album with Billie Joe Armstrong, her Wong Kar-wai film debut, and the guest spots with everyone from OutKast and the Foo Fighters to Keith Richards and Seth MacFarlane. Every answer was checked against Norah Jones's encyclopaedia entry before publishing. If you enjoy this, try our jazz and 2000s music quizzes next.
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Q 01Norah Jones is the daughter of which Indian sitar master?
Ravi Shankar
She was born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar in Manhattan; her mother, Sue Jones, was a concert producer.
Q 02After her parents separated, Jones grew up mainly in Grapevine, a suburb in which state?
Texas
She sang in the local Methodist church and later transferred to Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas.
Q 03What was the title of Jones's 2002 debut album?
Come Away with Me
It debuted at No. 139, climbed to No. 1, and was eventually certified diamond for ten million US sales.
Q 04Which single from her debut won Jones the Grammy for Record of the Year in 2003?
Don't Know Why
Its writer, Jesse Harris, took Song of the Year the same night.
Q 05How many Grammys did Jones win at the 2003 ceremony, tying the record for a female artist in one night?
Five
She had been nominated for eight, and became the first person of South Asian descent to win five at a single show.
Q 06Jones signed to which storied jazz label, then owned by EMI, after moving to New York?
Blue Note
Her three-track demo reached label president Bruce Lundvall via the wife of the bandleader she was singing for.
Q 07Jones's debut has sold over 27 million copies, making it which best-selling album of the 21st century?
Third
Billboard named her the top jazz artist of the 2000s decade and ranked the album its No. 1 jazz album of the decade.
Q 08Jones won Record of the Year again in 2005 for 'Here We Go Again', a duet with which legend?
Ray Charles
The same night 'Sunrise' won her Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
Q 09Jones majored in jazz piano at which school?
University of North Texas
A chance meeting there with Jesse Harris, who started mailing her lead sheets, shaped her debut album.
Q 10At what age did Jones officially change her name from Geethali Norah Jones Shankar?
16
Both parents consented; she had already been singing solos at church for years.
Q 11Jones's 2007 album Not Too Late was the first on which she did what?
Wrote or co-wrote every song
It was made at her home studio without a deadline; label executives reportedly did not know she was recording an album.
Q 12Which producer, who died in 2006, worked on Jones's first two albums and won Producer of the Year for one?
Arif Mardin
Not Too Late was her first record without him.
Q 13Jones made her feature-film acting debut in 2007 in which Wong Kar-wai movie?
My Blueberry Nights
It opened the Cannes Film Festival that year and she wrote the song 'The Story' for it.
Q 21Jones played piano and sang on 'Virginia Moon', a 2005 track by which rock band?
Foo Fighters
The In Your Honor track earned a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals.
Q 22Jones's 2006 vocal on 'Sucker', for Mike Patton's Peeping Tom project, drew attention for what novelty?
Her first use of profanity on record
Patton is best known as the frontman of Faith No More.
Q 23Jones's ninth Grammy came as a featured artist on which Herbie Hancock album, the 2008 Album of the Year?
River: The Joni Letters
Q 14What breed of dog is Ben, pictured on the cover of Jones's 2009 album The Fall?
St. Bernard
The Fall was her first album not to reach No. 1 in the US, but its lead single 'Chasing Pirates' still charted.
Q 15Which producer collaborated with Jones on her 2012 album Little Broken Hearts?
Danger Mouse
They had first worked together on the Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi album Rome.
Q 16What is Jones's alt-country band, formed in 2003 with Richard Julian and Jim Campilongo, called?
The Little Willies
They released a self-titled album in 2006 and For the Good Times in 2012.
Q 17Under the alias 'Maddie' and wearing a blond wig, Jones sang and played guitar in which rock band?
El Madmo
The trio with Daru Oda and Richard Julian released a self-titled album in 2007.
Q 18Jones's all-female country trio with Sasha Dobson and Catherine Popper is named what?
Puss n Boots
Their album No Fools, No Fun came out in 2014.
Q 19Jones's 2013 duets album Foreverly, with Billie Joe Armstrong, covered an album by which act?
The Everly Brothers
It reworked Songs Our Daddy Taught Us in full.
Q 20Jones sang on 'Take Off Your Cool' from which group's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below?
OutKast
She was not credited on that Grammy; her guest spot with Q-Tip came later, on his Renaissance LP.
She sang the opening track, 'Court and Spark'.
Q 24Jones's 2024 record Visions won her tenth Grammy in which category?
Best Traditional Pop Vocal
Producer Leon Michels handled drums and bass while Jones played guitar herself; the LA Times called it 'gently psychedelic garage-soul'.
Q 25Jones co-wrote 'Everybody Needs a Best Friend', an Oscar-nominated song, for which 2012 film?
Ted
Seth MacFarlane's comedy also gave her a cameo; she had sung 'Two Sleepy People' on his debut album.
Q 26Jones's cameo in Two Weeks Notice, the 2002 Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock comedy, shows her doing what?
Singing at a piano for a charity benefit
She appears briefly as herself.
Q 27Jones's 2019 release Begin Again was what kind of record?
A compilation of recent singles
It gathered singles from 2018 to 2019, including collaborations with Jeff Tweedy and Thomas Bartlett.
Q 28Where did Jones's 2020 album Pick Me Up Off the Floor debut on the Billboard 200?
87
Her next studio release was the Christmas album I Dream of Christmas.
Q 29Jones's half-sister, with whom she sang on the 2013 album Traces of You, is which musician?
Anoushka Shankar
Anoushka has also appeared as a guest on Jones's podcast.
Q 30Jones played a three-song tribute in October 2011 at which company's campus, for its late co-founder?
Apple
She closed with Bob Dylan's 'Forever Young' because Steve Jobs liked Dylan.