Olivia Rodrigo
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This Olivia Rodrigo trivia quiz has 54 free questions with answers and follows her whole story so far: the Temecula kid in an Old Navy commercial, Paige on Bizaardvark, Nini on High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, and then the January 2021 week when "drivers license" broke Spotify records and made her the youngest artist ever to debut at number one on the Hot 100. From there it digs into Sour and Guts track by track — the Taylor Swift and Paramore writing credits, the Sour Prom film, the secret vinyl tracks, the iPhone-shot "get him back!" video, the $20 Silver Star tickets on the Guts World Tour and the Netflix concert film — plus her Grammys, the White House vaccine visit, "Can't Catch Me Now" for The Hunger Games and her Fund 4 Good charity. It is built for fans who have the lyrics memorized and casual listeners alike, with easy openers and some genuinely hard deep cuts. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and primary sources and each question carries its citation, so you can trust what you learn.
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Q 01Olivia Rodrigo was born in which Southern California city?
Murrieta
Olivia Rodrigo was born on February 20, 2003, at Rancho Springs Medical Center in Murrieta, Riverside County, and attended elementary and middle school in the city before moving to Los Angeles for acting work.
Q 02What was the name of Rodrigo's character on the Disney Channel series Bizaardvark?
Paige Olvera
Rodrigo played Paige Olvera, half of the video-making duo with Madison Hu's character, across all three seasons of Bizaardvark, which ran on Disney Channel from 2016 to 2019.
Q 03Which character did Rodrigo play on High School Musical: The Musical: The Series?
Nini Salazar-Roberts
Rodrigo played Nini Salazar-Roberts, a theatre kid at East High, from the show's November 2019 Disney+ premiere through its third season before departing to focus on music.
Q 04In High School Musical: The Musical: The Series season one, Rodrigo's character is cast as whom?
Gabriella Montez
In season one Nini wins the part of Gabriella Montez, the female lead in East High's staging of High School Musical, opposite Ricky Bowen as Troy Bolton.
Q 05Which song did Rodrigo write and perform as a 2019 promotional single for HSM: The Musical: The Series?
All I Want
Rodrigo wrote 'All I Want' alone for the series' first season; released in November 2019, it reached number 90 on the Billboard Hot 100 more than a year before her own debut single.
Q 06Rodrigo made her acting debut at age 12 in the lead role of which direct-to-video American Girl film?
Grace Stirs Up Success
Grace Stirs Up Success, a 2015 American Girl film, cast the 12-year-old Rodrigo as Grace Thomas, a girl who visits her aunt's Paris bakery; it was her first acting role.
Q 07Rodrigo's first onscreen appearance, at age seven, was in a commercial for which retailer?
Old Navy
Rodrigo's first screen appearance was an Old Navy commercial that aired in 2010, when she was seven, five years before her first acting role in an American Girl film.
Q 08Which producer co-wrote "Drivers License" with Rodrigo and went on to produce her albums?
Dan Nigro
Dan Nigro, formerly frontman of As Tall as Lions, messaged Rodrigo on Instagram in 2020, co-wrote and produced 'Drivers License,' and went on to produce Sour and Guts.
Q 09Rodrigo signed her first record deal in 2020 with which label?
Geffen Records
Rodrigo signed with Geffen Records, part of Interscope Geffen A&M, in 2020 in a deal that let her keep ownership of her master recordings.
Q 10How many consecutive weeks did "Drivers License" spend at number one on the Billboard Hot 100?
8
'Drivers License' debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 2021 and held the top spot for 8 consecutive weeks, making the 17-year-old Rodrigo the youngest artist to debut atop the chart.
Q 11What sound opens "Drivers License" before the piano comes in?
A car engine starting
'Drivers License' opens with a car engine starting and a door-ajar chime recorded from Rodrigo's mother's car, which fade into the song's pulsing piano pattern.
Q 12Before it became her debut album, Sour was originally planned to be released as what?
An EP
Rodrigo had planned Sour as an EP, but after 'Drivers License' went viral in January 2021 she expanded it into a full-length debut album released that May.
Q 13How many weeks in total did Sour spend at number one on the Billboard 200?
5
Sour debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 dated June 5, 2021, and returned to the top repeatedly that summer for 5 weeks in total at the summit.
Q 21How many of Sour's 11 tracks charted in the Hot 100 top 30 in the same week in June 2021?
11
Every one of Sour's 11 tracks placed inside the Hot 100's top 30 on the chart dated June 5, 2021, the album's first tracking week.
Q 22Which Sour album track hit number nine on the Hot 100 and is rumoured to be about Joshua Bassett?
Traitor
'Traitor', the second track on Sour, climbed to number 9 on the Hot 100 in 2021, and listeners widely read its lyrics as aimed at her HSMTMTS co-star Joshua Bassett.
Q 23The concert film Rodrigo premiered on YouTube in June 2021 was themed as what kind of event?
A prom
Sour Prom, streamed on YouTube on June 29, 2021, staged the album as a prom night: Rodrigo sang from the back of a limousine, on a dance floor and with a marching band on a football field.
Q 14Which song opens Sour?
Brutal
'Brutal' opens Sour; Rodrigo wrote it last, finishing it about two weeks before the album was due, and its Petra Collins-directed video was shot on an iPad Pro.
Q 15Which song closes Sour?
Hope Ur OK
'Hope Ur OK' is Sour's final track; Rodrigo wanted to close an angry record on a hopeful note, and its lyrics draw on people she had known growing up rather than her own story.
Q 16The Sour track "1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back" interpolates the piano line from which Taylor Swift song?
New Year's Day
The piano figure comes from Swift's 2017 track 'New Year's Day'; Rodrigo sang her lyric over its chords, so Swift and Jack Antonoff received co-writing credits on '1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back.'
Q 17Members of which band were retroactively given co-writing credits on "Good 4 U"?
Paramore
Paramore's Hayley Williams and Josh Farro were added as co-writers in August 2021, three months after release, because the chorus of 'Good 4 U' resembles their 2007 hit 'Misery Business.'
Q 18In the "Good 4 U" music video, Rodrigo plays what kind of character out for revenge?
A cheerleader
Rodrigo plays a cheerleader taking fiery revenge on an ex in the Petra Collins-directed 'Good 4 U' video, which nods to Jennifer's Body and The Princess Diaries.
Q 19"Deja Vu" credits Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff and St. Vincent because it interpolates which Swift song?
Cruel Summer
Rodrigo said the bridge of 'Deja Vu' drew on Swift's 2019 track 'Cruel Summer,' so Swift, Jack Antonoff and St. Vincent were added as co-writers in July 2021.
Q 20Where was the "Deja Vu" music video filmed, a place also referenced in the song's lyrics?
Malibu
The Allie Avital-directed 'Deja Vu' video was shot in Malibu, the coastal town the lyrics name in the line about car rides; the song debuted at number eight on the Hot 100.
Q 24Which magazine named Rodrigo its Entertainer of the Year for 2021?
Time
Time named Rodrigo its 2021 Entertainer of the Year in December 2021, the year 'Drivers License' and Sour made her pop's breakout star; Billboard separately made her Woman of the Year in 2022.
Q 25How many Grammy Awards did Rodrigo win at the 64th ceremony in 2022?
3
Rodrigo won 3 of her seven nominations at the 64th Grammys in April 2022: Best New Artist, Best Pop Vocal Album for Sour and Best Pop Solo Performance for 'Drivers License.'
Q 26In July 2021, Rodrigo visited the White House to promote what?
COVID-19 vaccination
On July 14, 2021, Rodrigo met President Biden and Dr. Anthony Fauci at the White House and recorded videos urging young Americans to get COVID-19 vaccination shots.
Q 27Rodrigo's 2022 documentary Driving Home 2 U follows her road trip to Los Angeles from where?
Salt Lake City
Rodrigo wrote much of Sour in Salt Lake City while filming her Disney+ series there, and Driving Home 2 U retraces her drive from that city to Los Angeles, premiering in March 2022.
Q 28Which Avril Lavigne song did Rodrigo cover at every date of her 2022 Sour Tour?
Complicated
'Complicated' was a fixture of the Sour Tour setlist, and Avril Lavigne joined Rodrigo on stage to duet on it at the Toronto show in May 2022.
Q 29Which Guts song grew from Olivia Rodrigo's homework for a 2022 USC poetry class?
Lacy
'Lacy' began as a poem Rodrigo wrote for a 2022 USC poetry class; the Guts ballad addresses an envied rival she calls a 'dazzling starlet.'
Q 30On what date was Guts released?
September 8, 2023
Guts arrived on September 8, 2023, two years after Sour, and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 302,000 units, about 7,000 more than her debut.