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160 free Taylor Swift trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
120 free Taylor Swift trivia questions with answers. From her country debut to the record-shattering Eras Tour, Taylor Swift has redefined what a pop career can look like. This quiz covers all 12 studio albums, the Taylor's Version re-recordings, iconic music videos, Grammy records, surprise songs, the masters dispute, her cats, and everything in between. It starts easy and ends with a genuinely hard Taylor Swift trivia round: soundtrack songs she wrote for other films, the working title she nearly gave Speak Now, who really features on Coney Island, and the number of Eras Tour shows. Whether you're a casual listener or a die-hard Swiftie who decodes every Easter egg, these 160 questions will put your knowledge to the test.
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Q 01What is the name of Taylor Swift's debut single, released in 2006?
Tim McGraw
"Tim McGraw" was Taylor Swift's debut single, released in June 2006. She wrote it during her freshman year of high school about a senior she was dating who was heading off to college.
Q 02Which musician did Swift approach to collaborate on the 1989 song "Clean"?
Imogen Heap
Imogen Heap helped Swift finish the song in one day at a London studio; Swift wrote it after realising she had spent two weeks in the same city as an ex without once thinking of him.
Q 03Who broke Taylor Swift's record in 2020 as the youngest lead artist to win Album of the Year?
Billie Eilish
Billie Eilish recorded her winning debut album with her brother Finneas, who produced it in his small bedroom studio.
Q 04At which Nashville venue did label founder Scott Borchetta first watch a teenage Taylor Swift perform?
The Bluebird Cafe
The Bluebird Cafe: Swift played a showcase at the tiny songwriters' club in 2004, and Borchetta, who was about to launch a new label, invited her to join it.
Q 05Which Taylor Swift song begins with the lyrics "We were both young when I first saw you"?
Love Story
Love Story: Swift wrote it on her bedroom floor in about 20 minutes after her parents objected to a boy she liked.
Q 06Which hit did Taylor Swift write for her ninth-grade talent show before it topped the country chart?
Our Song
Our Song: Swift wrote it for a ninth-grade talent show, and when classmates were still singing it back to her months later she pushed to put it on her debut album.
Q 07Which artist duets with Taylor Swift on "Fortnight", the opening track of The Tortured Poets Department?
Post Malone
Post Malone co-wrote the song with Swift, and she wrote and directed its black-and-white video, casting him as her love interest.
Q 08What is the opening track on Taylor Swift's "Reputation" album?
...Ready for It?
"...Ready for It?" opens Reputation; fans first heard it in a teaser aired before a college football broadcast, the night before the full track came out.
Q 09Which former Eras Tour opener duets with Taylor Swift on the title track of The Life of a Showgirl?
Sabrina Carpenter
Sabrina Carpenter and Swift both sing as Kitty, a showgirl who tells an admirer bringing her a bouquet that she will never know that life; by the end of the song the admirer is a showgirl herself.
Q 10What are the names of Taylor Swift's three cats?
Meredith, Olivia, and Benjamin
Meredith, Olivia, and Benjamin are named after Meredith Grey, Olivia Benson and Benjamin Button; animal-welfare experts have urged fans not to copy her Scottish Folds, whose folded ears come from a gene linked to lifelong pain.
Q 11Travis Kelce was playing tight end for which NFL team when he began dating Taylor Swift in 2023?
Kansas City Chiefs
Kansas City Chiefs: Kelce announced his crush on his podcast in July 2023 after failing to meet Swift at her concert; the couple got engaged in August 2025.
Q 12What sets the standard edition of Speak Now apart from every other Taylor Swift studio album?
She wrote every song alone
She wrote every song alone: Swift later said it was her reply to critics who doubted that she really wrote her own songs.
Q 13Which Stranger Things actress plays the female lead in Taylor Swift's All Too Well: The Short Film?
Sadie Sink
Q 21Which act duets with Taylor Swift on "exile" from the Folklore album?
Bon Iver
Bon Iver's Justin Vernon recorded his half at his Wisconsin studio while Swift sang hers in Los Angeles, after she had first demoed the duet singing both parts herself.
Q 22Fans at which 2023 tour stop caused shaking equivalent to a 2.3-magnitude earthquake, the 'Swift Quake'?
Seattle (Lumen Field)
Seattle (Lumen Field): a seismologist compared the readings with the 2011 'Beast Quake', set off by Seahawks fans celebrating a Marshawn Lynch touchdown there, and found Swift's crowd shook harder.
Q 23What did Taylor Swift say would let her repeat an Eras Tour surprise song?
Messing it up
Sadie Sink plays the younger half of a couple undone by their age gap; Swift wrote and directed the film herself, and both leads were her first choices.
Q 14What was the name of the businessman who acquired Taylor Swift's original master recordings in 2019?
Scooter Braun
Scooter Braun's company bought her former label in June 2019 and with it her first six albums; Swift called the sale her 'worst case scenario' and vowed to re-record them.
Q 15Which Taylor Swift music video shows her lying in a bathtub filled with diamonds?
Look What You Made Me Do
Look What You Made Me Do: the video ends with a line-up of her past selves, teenage country Taylor among them, bickering and calling one another 'so fake'.
Q 16Why does the number 13 keep turning up in Taylor Swift's lyrics, videos and release dates?
She considers it lucky
She considers it lucky: born on December 13, she turned 13 on a Friday the 13th and has called it her lucky number ever since.
Q 17As a teenager, Taylor Swift moved with her family to which state to pursue her music career?
Tennessee
Tennessee: her father transferred to Merrill Lynch's Nashville office and the family bought a lakeside house in Hendersonville; she later walked away from an RCA deal that kept her waiting.
Q 18Which producer co-wrote or produced most of the songs on Taylor Swift's Folklore?
Aaron Dessner
Aaron Dessner co-wrote or produced 11 of the album's 16 songs, working remotely during lockdown after Swift asked him to write with her.
Q 19Which Taylor Swift "Taylor's Version" re-recording was released first?
Fearless (Taylor's Version)
Fearless (Taylor's Version) came out in April 2021 as the opening move in Swift's plan to remake her first six albums and regain control of her recordings.
Q 20Which label, founded by Scott Borchetta, released Taylor Swift's first six albums?
Big Machine Records
Big Machine Records was brand new when it signed the teenage Swift; its sale in 2019 put her first six albums in another owner's hands and set off her re-recordings.
Messing it up: on opening night Swift said each acoustic pick would be played only once unless she botched it; in 2024 she scrapped the rule and began mixing songs into mashups.
Q 24Which Taylor Swift single from Speak Now won Best Country Song at the 2012 Grammy Awards?
Mean
"Mean" won Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance; Swift wrote it about critics who, she said, had gone past constructive criticism and were "just being mean".
Q 25Taylor Swift's 2018 stadium tour concert film premiered on New Year's Eve exclusively on which service?
Netflix
Netflix: shot on the final night of the US run in Arlington, Texas, the film arrived on New Year's Eve, apt for an album that closes with a song called 'New Year's Day'.
Q 26In which movie did Taylor Swift play the character Bombalurina?
Cats
Cats: Swift had screen-tested for director Tom Hooper's Les Misérables and missed out, but for his 2019 musical she was handed Bombalurina without an audition.
Q 27Announcing her engagement in 2025, Taylor Swift wrote that "your English teacher and your" what "are getting married"?
Gym teacher
Gym teacher: the Instagram caption cast lyricist Swift as the English teacher and her football-playing fiancé as the gym teacher, above photos of the proposal in a rose garden.
Q 28Which album won Taylor Swift a record fourth Album of the Year Grammy in 2024?
Midnights
Midnights broke a four-way tie on three wins with Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon; earlier that night Swift had used another acceptance speech to announce her next album.
Q 29Which Ed Sheeran collaboration appeared on Taylor Swift's "Red" album?
Everything Has Changed
"Everything Has Changed": Swift and Ed Sheeran wrote the duet while sitting, and sometimes bouncing, on a trampoline in her backyard.
Q 30What was Taylor Swift's reason for removing her music from Spotify in 2014?
Objection to ad-supported free streaming
Objection to ad-supported free streaming: Swift said she would not feed the idea that music has no value and should be free; her catalog stayed off Spotify until June 2017.