This Olivia Rodrigo trivia quiz has 60 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
She was born at Rancho Springs Medical Center and grew up in neighboring Temecula, where she attended school in Murrieta 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
She played the role for all three seasons alongside Madison Hu, and the show's title is a mash-up of the words "bizarre" and "aardvark."
Q 03Which character did Rodrigo play on High School Musical: The Musical: The Series?
Nini Salazar-Roberts
She left the show at the end of its third season to focus on music, and her character exits on a road trip to California to chase a songwriting career.
Q 04In High School Musical: The Musical: The Series season one, Rodrigo's character is cast as whom?
Gabriella Montez
The show is set at a fictionalized East High, the real Salt Lake City school where the original High School Musical films were shot.
Q 05Which song did Rodrigo write and perform as a 2019 promotional single for HSM: The Musical: The Series?
All I Want
The self-written ballad reached number 90 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified Gold, more than a year before her debut single arrived.
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
She played Grace Thomas in the 2015 film, a year before landing her Bizaardvark role and moving to Los Angeles.
Q 07Rodrigo's first onscreen appearance, at age seven, was in a commercial for which retailer?
Old Navy
The commercial aired in May 2010, a couple of years after her parents signed her up for vocal lessons at age five.
Q 08Which producer co-wrote "Drivers License" with Rodrigo and went on to produce her albums?
Dan Nigro
He reached out to her over Instagram after hearing her High School Musical soundtrack songs, and the two started working together in isolation during the pandemic.
Q 09Rodrigo signed her first record deal in 2020 with which label?
Geffen Records
She negotiated the deal so that she would own the masters of her music, and picked the Interscope-affiliated label because its CEO praised her songwriting rather than her star potential.
Q 10How many consecutive weeks did "Drivers License" spend at number one on the Billboard Hot 100?
8
It debuted at the top, making Rodrigo the youngest artist ever to debut at number one on the chart, and became only the seventh single in Hot 100 history to open at the summit and stay there for at least eight weeks.
Q 11The "Drivers License" music video was filmed in which city?
Provo, Utah
Directed by Matthew Dillon Cohen, the video has Rodrigo aimlessly cruising suburban side streets after finally getting her license.
Q 12What sound opens "Drivers License" before the piano comes in?
A car engine starting
The engine belongs to her mother's car, followed by a "door ajar" chime that fades into the pulsing piano.
Q 13Before it became her debut album, Sour was originally planned to be released as what?
An EP
After the viral success of her first single she decided only a full-length record would be truly reflective of what she could do.
Q 21Where was the "Deja Vu" music video filmed, a place also referenced in the song's lyrics?
Malibu
Allie Avital directed the video, and the song debuted at number eight on the Hot 100, making Rodrigo the first artist to open her first two singles in the top 10.
Q 22How many of Sour's 11 tracks charted in the Hot 100 top 30 in the same week in June 2021?
11
That made Rodrigo the first female artist, and only the fourth act ever, to simultaneously chart 11 or more songs in the chart's top 30.
Q 23Which Sour album track hit number nine on the Hot 100 and is rumoured to be about Joshua Bassett?
Traitor
Set in a slow 6/8 waltz feel, it received its debut live performance in the Sour Prom concert film.
Q 14How many weeks in total did Sour spend at number one on the Billboard 200?
5
That made it the longest-reigning number-one album by a female artist in 2021, and it later logged 52 weeks in the top 10, the most for a debut album this century.
Q 15Which song opens Sour?
Brutal
It was the last song written for the album, finished two weeks before the record was due, and its music video was shot on an iPad.
Q 16Which song closes Sour?
Hope Ur OK
Rodrigo wanted to end a sad, angry record on a hopeful note, and the song draws on secondhand stories from her friends rather than her own life.
Q 17The Sour track "1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back" interpolates the piano line from which Taylor Swift song?
New Year's Day
Rodrigo had been singing her lyric over the chords of the Swift track, and Swift and Jack Antonoff received writing credits; the chirping birds at the start were recorded through a window at the producer's house.
Q 18Members of which band were retroactively given co-writing credits on "Good 4 U"?
Paramore
Hayley Williams and Josh Farro were credited three months after release for the chorus's resemblance to "Misery Business," reportedly earning them a combined 50% royalty share.
Q 19In the "Good 4 U" music video, Rodrigo plays what kind of character out for revenge?
A cheerleader
Directed by Petra Collins, the video nods to the films Audition, The Princess Diaries and Jennifer's Body, and Rodrigo later said she came up with the song's hook in the shower.
Q 20"Deja Vu" credits Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff and St. Vincent because it interpolates which Swift song?
Cruel Summer
The bridge was influenced by the 2019 track, and the credits were added in July 2021; the song's whole idea came from a note on Rodrigo's phone that read "When she was with you do you get deja vu?"
Q 24The concert film Rodrigo premiered on YouTube in June 2021 was themed as what kind of event?
A prom
She sang from the back of a limo, on a dance floor and with a marching band on a football field, and Time named her Entertainer of the Year three days after it aired.
Q 25Which magazine named Rodrigo its Entertainer of the Year for 2021?
Time
Billboard separately crowned her Woman of the Year in 2022, and Rolling Stone later called her "Gen Z's preeminent rock star."
Q 26How many Grammy Awards did Rodrigo win at the 64th ceremony in 2022?
3
From seven nominations she took Best New Artist, Best Pop Vocal Album for Sour and Best Pop Solo Performance for "Drivers License," but lost Album, Record and Song of the Year.
Q 27In July 2021, Rodrigo visited the White House to promote what?
COVID-19 vaccination
She met President Biden, Vice President Harris and Dr. Anthony Fauci and agreed to record videos answering young people's questions about getting the shot.
Q 28Rodrigo's 2022 documentary Driving Home 2 U follows her road trip to Los Angeles from where?
Salt Lake City
That is where she began writing Sour while filming her Disney+ series; the film won Best Music Documentary at the 2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards.
Q 29Which Avril Lavigne song did Rodrigo cover at every date of her 2022 Sour Tour?
Complicated
Lavigne herself joined Rodrigo on stage in Toronto to sing it together for the first time; Gracie Abrams and Holly Humberstone opened the North American dates.
Q 30Which Guts song grew from Olivia Rodrigo's homework for a 2022 USC poetry class?
Lacy
The soft ballad has her admiring a rival as a "dazzling starlet," and on the Guts World Tour she performed it inside a retractable circle surrounded by dancers.