Norah Jones Trivia
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42 free Norah Jones trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Sep 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 musician?
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar's younger daughter, sitar player Anoushka Shankar, is her half-sister, and Jones sings three songs on Anoushka's 2013 album Traces of You.
Q 02Jones attended a Dallas arts high school named after which Black American leader?
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts is where she won three DownBeat student awards, two for jazz vocals and one for composition, her first national notice.
Q 03What was the title of Jones's 2002 debut album?
Come Away with Me
Come Away with Me, released in February 2002, entered the Billboard 200 low, climbed to No. 1 a year later and was certified diamond for ten million US sales.
Q 04Which song from her debut album won Jones the Grammy for Record of the Year in 2003?
Don't Know Why
Don't Know Why wasn't hers to begin with: its writer had recorded it with his own band in 1999, and he collected Song of the Year for it on the same night.
Q 05Jones's five Grammys in 2003 tied a one-night record for a woman first set in 1999 by which singer?
Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill won five for The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and never made a second solo studio album; in 2021 she said nobody at her label had ever called to ask how they could help.
Q 06Jones signed to which storied jazz label, then owned by EMI, after moving to New York?
Blue Note
Blue Note's bosses heard her on a three-song demo passed along by a colleague in the royalties department, and signed her despite doubts about which direction her music would take.
Q 07Which Hank Williams song did Jones cover on her 2002 debut album?
Cold, Cold Heart
Cold, Cold Heart had crossed genres before: Tony Bennett's 1951 cover was the record that got Hank Williams recognised as a pop songwriter, not just a country one.
Q 08Jones won Record of the Year again in 2005 for 'Here We Go Again', a duet with which legend?
Ray Charles
'Here We Go Again', Jones's duet with Ray Charles from his final album Genius Loves Company, won Record of the Year in February 2005, eight months after Charles died.
Q 09Jones majored in jazz piano at which school?
University of North Texas
Jones spent two years majoring in jazz piano at the University of North Texas in Denton, then dropped out and moved to New York in 1999.
Q 10Jones's 'Turn Me On' plays in which 2003 romantic comedy?
Love Actually
Love Actually borrowed a song she didn't write: 'Turn Me On' began as the flipside of a 1961 single and was covered by Nina Simone decades before Jones revived it on her debut album.
Q 11Jones's 2007 album Not Too Late was the first on which she did what?
Wrote or co-wrote every song
Wrote or co-wrote every song: she made Not Too Late in her home studio and wrote much of it on the acoustic guitar she carried on tour, the first time she played guitar on one of her albums.
Q 12Which producer of Aretha Franklin and Bee Gees hits also produced Jones's first two albums?
Arif Mardin
Arif Mardin won Producer of the Year for his work on her debut, and his death in June 2006 made Not Too Late the first album she recorded without him.
Q 13Jones made her feature-film acting debut in 2007 in which Wong Kar-wai movie?
My Blueberry Nights
Q 21Jones played piano and sang on 'Virginia Moon', a 2005 track by which rock band?
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl had sat on the song for eight years until the band made an acoustic disc; he heard one of her records, decided the tune was "her vibe", and she cut her part in three hours.
Q 22Jones has a cameo as herself in which 2002 romantic comedy?
Two Weeks Notice
Two Weeks Notice puts her at a piano at a charity ball, singing 'The Nearness of You'; the film opened in December 2002, a month before her debut album reached No. 1.
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
My Blueberry Nights was conceived as a vehicle for Jones, who had never acted: Wong Kar-wai told her not to take acting lessons, and the film opened the 2007 Cannes festival.
Q 14What breed of dog is Ben, pictured on the cover of Jones's 2009 album The Fall?
St. Bernard
St. Bernard Ben was a stranger's pet from Brooklyn: the photographer had planned a swarm of 15 dogs, but he looked so good that he got solo shots with her instead.
Q 15Which producer collaborated with Jones on her 2012 album Little Broken Hearts?
Danger Mouse
Danger Mouse kept Russ Meyer film posters in his Los Angeles studio, and the one for Mudhoney, hanging over the couch where Jones sat each day, became the model for the album's cover.
Q 16What is Jones's alt-country band, formed in 2003 with Richard Julian and Jim Campilongo, called?
The Little Willies
The Little Willies were five friends who bonded over Willie Nelson and Hank Williams songs; a New York club night squeezed between their regular gigs grew into two albums, mostly of covers.
Q 17Under an alias, Jones sang and played electric guitar in which rock band?
El Madmo
El Madmo is named for its three members' aliases, El, Maddie and Mo, and released a single self-titled album on Team Love Records in 2008.
Q 18Jones's all-female country trio with Sasha Dobson and Catherine Popper is named what?
Puss n Boots
Puss n Boots began in 2008 as a way for Jones and Sasha Dobson to learn guitar in front of friends in New York bars, with each member taking up a new instrument for the band.
Q 19Whose 1958 album Songs Our Daddy Taught Us did Jones and Billie Joe Armstrong remake?
The Everly Brothers
The Everly Brothers' 1958 original was itself a set of traditional country songs made famous by others, which makes Foreverly, the 2013 remake, a covers album of a covers album.
Q 20Jones sang on 'Take Off Your Cool', a track on a 2003 album by which hip-hop group?
OutKast
OutKast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below won Album of the Year in 2004, taking the prize over from Jones's own debut, which had won it the year before.
River: The Joni Letters beat Kanye West and Amy Winehouse to become the first jazz album to win since Getz/Gilberto over 40 years earlier; Jones sings its opening track, "Court and Spark".
Q 24Jones's 2024 record Visions won her tenth Grammy in which category?
Best Traditional Pop Vocal
Best Traditional Pop Vocal went to a record Jones herself called "kind of garage-y but also kind of soulful", built from jam sessions with her producer on drums.
Q 25Jones sang 'Everybody Needs a Best Friend', an Oscar-nominated song, for which 2012 film?
Ted
Ted opens with Jones singing over the credits and later brings her on as herself; the song earned Seth MacFarlane an Oscar nomination at the very ceremony he hosted.
Q 26Jones's 2019 release Begin Again was what kind of record?
A compilation of recent singles
A compilation of recent singles: after touring Day Breaks she stepped off the album cycle, put out one-off songs from short sessions with changing collaborators, and gathered seven of them here.
Q 27Which country legend duets with Jones on 'Creepin' In' from Feels Like Home?
Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton and Jones had crossed paths months earlier, when Jones sang "The Grass Is Blue" on a tribute album of Parton's songs; their duet went on to a Grammy nomination.
Q 28Jones played a three-song tribute set in October 2011 on the campus of which company?
Apple
Apple staff gathered in Cupertino to remember Steve Jobs two weeks after his death; Jones told the crowd he was a Bob Dylan fan, then sang "Forever Young".
Q 29Jones's 2017 cover of 'Unchained Melody' was made for the soundtrack of which Amazon TV series?
The Man in the High Castle
The Man in the High Castle is set in an alternate early 1960s, so its companion album, Resistance Radio, had modern artists cover hits of those years, Jones's among them.
Q 30Jones sang 'American Anthem' for The War, a documentary by which filmmaker?
Ken Burns
Ken Burns used her recording of Gene Scheer's song in his PBS series on the Second World War, and in 2021 Joe Biden quoted a verse of it in his inaugural address.