Selena Gomez Trivia
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46 free Selena Gomez trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
Selena Gomez was named after a Tejano legend, learned what 'camera right' meant on Barney & Friends, and became a teen idol as Alex Russo before she could drive. Then came a band with her name on it, three No. 1 solo albums, a kidney from a friend, a cooking show shot over Zoom, a deadpan turn beside Steve Martin and Martin Short, a Cannes acting prize and a cosmetics company worth two billion dollars. This quiz covers the whole arc: Grand Prairie and the dollar-store spaghetti years, Hannah Montana and Princess Protection Program, Spring Breakers and Mavis Dracula, 'Come & Get It' and 'Good for You', the lupus diagnosis, Kygo and Zedd, 13 Reasons Why, 'Lose You to Love Me', Blackpink, Revelación, Rema's 'Calm Down', Emilia Pérez, Benny Blanco, Rare Beauty, Wondermind, UNICEF at 17 and the horchata Oreo. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for a pop-culture quiz night.
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Q 01In which Texas city, a Dallas suburb, was Gomez born?
Grand Prairie
Grand Prairie was her birthplace, and her teenage parents named her after Tejano music icon Selena Quintanilla.
Q 02Gomez began her acting career in 2002 on which children's series?
Barney & Friends
She appeared in 13 episodes and says she 'learned everything from Barney'.
Q 03What was the name of Gomez's character on Wizards of Waverly Place?
Alex Russo
The role won her five straight Kids' Choice Awards for Favorite TV Actress.
Q 04Gomez played Mikayla, a rival pop star, in a 2007 recurring role on which Disney series?
Hannah Montana
She had guest-starred on The Suite Life a year earlier.
Q 05Gomez's debut single, 'Tell Me Something I Don't Know', came from which 2008 film?
Another Cinderella Story
Another Cinderella Story paired her with Drew Seeley, the original singing voice of Troy Bolton in High School Musical.
Q 06Which Selena Gomez & the Scene single did Billboard rank the biggest US hit ever to peak at No. 22?
Love You Like a Love Song
The band went on hiatus in 2012 and never reunited.
Q 07Gomez co-starred with which friend in the 2009 TV film Princess Protection Program?
Demi Lovato
Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie that year drew 11.4 million viewers.
Q 08Gomez played Beezus Quimby opposite Joey King in a 2010 film based on books by which author?
Beverly Cleary
Beverly Cleary started writing after a boy at her library asked for books about 'kids like us' and she couldn't find any.
Q 09In Monte Carlo (2011), Gomez played dual roles including which British heiress?
Cordelia Winthrop-Scott
Leighton Meester and Katie Cassidy co-starred; critics split on her posh accent.
Q 10Which director's film Spring Breakers gave Gomez a turning-point role as Faith?
Harmony Korine
It made $31.7 million on a $5 million budget and became a cult classic.
Q 11Gomez voices which character in the Hotel Transylvania films?
Mavis Dracula
Mavis Dracula was originally Miley Cyrus's role, until Gomez replaced her in 2012.
Q 12What was Gomez's first solo album, released in 2013?
Stars Dance
Stars Dance followed a 2012 break from music, when Gomez shelved her band and declared that year 'all about films and acting.'
Q 13Which 2013 single gave Gomez her first US top-ten hit?
Come & Get It
Come & Get It drew criticism from religious groups when she wore a bindi while performing it.
Gomez revealed in 2015 that she had been diagnosed with which autoimmune disease?
Q 21On 'Taki Taki', Gomez joined DJ Snake, Cardi B and which Puerto Rican singer?
Ozuna
It topped charts in Spain and Latin America and hit No. 11 in the US.
Q 22Which Gomez single became her first US No. 1 in 2019?
Lose You to Love Me
It led the album Rare, her third straight No. 1 album.
Q 23Gomez's 'Ice Cream' collaboration was with which K-pop group?
Blackpink
Blackpink's collab came with a real treat: Gomez launched a Serendipity ice cream flavor called 'Cookies & Cream Remix'.
Q 24What was the title of Gomez's 2021 Spanish-language EP?
Lupus
Lupus forced her to cancel tour dates in 2013, and years later it led to a kidney transplant.
Q 15Which actress donated a kidney to Gomez in 2017?
Francia Raisa
Francia Raisa gave the kidney, and Gomez then suffered a complication when one of her arteries ruptured.
Q 16Which rapper features on 'Good for You', the lead single from Revival?
ASAP Rocky
Its 179,000 first-week downloads were the biggest sales week of her career for a single.
Q 17Which German DJ made 'I Want You to Know' with Gomez in 2015?
Zedd
The pair also briefly dated that year.
Q 18Gomez's 2017 single 'Bad Liar' broke new ground on Spotify how?
Its vertical music video
Its vertical music video launched a song that borrows Talking Heads' 'Psycho Killer' bassline, and David Byrne praised it.
Q 19Which Norwegian DJ teamed with Gomez on 'It Ain't Me'?
Kygo
It hit the top ten in the US and UK and the top five in Australia, Canada and Germany.
Q 20Gomez executive produced which Netflix series adapted from a Jay Asher novel?
13 Reasons Why
She was originally set to play Hannah Baker in a film version.
Revelación
Revelación came from a Spanish-language project Gomez said she had wanted to make for 10 years, out of pride in her heritage.
Q 25What is the name of Gomez's character in Only Murders in the Building?
Mabel Mora
Steve Martin praised her grasp that 'quiet acting is powerful acting'; the trio won a SAG ensemble award in 2025.
Q 26On which streaming service did Only Murders in the Building set a comedy premiere-day record?
Hulu
Gomez has five Primetime Emmy nominations as its executive producer.
Q 27What was the name of Gomez's 2022 documentary about her mental health?
My Mind & Me
Alek Keshishian directed; it premiered at AFI Fest before streaming on Apple TV+.
Q 28Gomez's cooking show, filmed remotely at first during the pandemic, was called what?
Selena + Chef
It donated $10,000 per episode to charity and earned three Daytime Emmy nominations.
Q 29In Emilia Pérez, Gomez played the wife of a former what?
Cartel leader
Cartel leader Manitas's story began as an opera libretto that director Jacques Audiard wrote before turning it into the film.
Q 30At which festival did Gomez and her Emilia Pérez co-stars jointly win Best Actress?
Cannes
Cannes honored all four actresses, but months later co-star Karla Sofía Gascón faced a backlash over resurfaced old posts.