Taylor Swift Trivia for Kids
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50 free Taylor Swift Trivia for Kids trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Taylor Swift trivia quiz is written for kids. If you know the words to 'Shake It Off', have watched the Eras Tour movie or have a favourite era, you already know a lot of these answers. The questions cover her childhood on a Christmas tree farm, her move to Nashville as a teenager, her albums from Fearless to The Life of a Showgirl, her biggest songs, her three cats, her lucky number, her record-breaking tour and her movies. Everything here is a fun fact a Swiftie aged eight and up can enjoy: which singer she was named after, what her brother does, which album she wrote entirely by herself, how many shows the Eras Tour played and which Disney movie she wrote a song for. There is nothing about grown-up gossip, just music, records and friendship bracelets. Grown-ups who want a tougher test can try our main Taylor Swift trivia quiz. Every answer was checked against a reliable source before publishing, so you can trust the results when you play with friends, family or a classroom.
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Q 01Taylor Swift made her name in Nashville, but in which US state was she born?
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania. She was born in West Reading, and her parents later sold up and moved the whole family to Tennessee to give her music a chance.
Q 02Swift's parents named her after which famous singer-songwriter?
James Taylor
James Taylor. Her mum also liked that 'Taylor' on a business card could be a boy or a girl, hoping it would help her get ahead in business.
Q 03The farm where Taylor Swift spent her early childhood grew what?
Christmas trees
Christmas trees. She later turned those memories into the song 'Christmas Tree Farm', whose video is stitched together from her family's home movies.
Q 04What does Taylor's younger brother, Austin Swift, do for a living?
An actor who manages her film projects
An actor who manages her film projects: Austin appeared in films such as Live by Night, then moved behind the scenes to handle how her songs are used on screen.
Q 05Which number does Taylor Swift call her lucky number?
13
13. She was born on the 13th, turned 13 on a Friday the 13th, and her first album went gold in 13 weeks.
Q 06A computer repairman taught 12-year-old Taylor Swift her first chords on which instrument?
Guitar
Guitar. As Taylor tells it, Ronnie Cremer had come to fix the family computer; he was also a local musician and went on to give her lessons.
Q 07After Nashville record labels turned down 11-year-old Taylor's karaoke demo, what did she decide to do?
Write her own songs
Write her own songs. She reasoned that everyone in that town wanted to do what she did, so she had to find a way to be different.
Q 08Which hit did Taylor Swift write for her ninth-grade talent show?
'Our Song'
'Our Song'. Her classmates took to it so strongly that she put it on her first album, and it went on to top the country chart for six weeks.
Q 09Which record label released Taylor's first album in 2006?
Big Machine Records
Big Machine Records was brand new: its founder, Scott Borchetta, spotted her playing a Nashville showcase and signed her to the label he was just starting up.
Q 10Taylor's hit 'Love Story' was inspired by which Shakespeare play?
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet. Taylor swapped Shakespeare's tragic ending for a happy one: her version of the story ends with Romeo proposing.
Q 11Taylor plays both cheerleader and girl next door in which video?
'You Belong with Me'
'You Belong with Me'. When the video won an MTV award, Kanye West interrupted her speech, and Beyoncé later invited her back on stage to finish it.
Q 12Which album did Taylor Swift write entirely on her own, without a single co-writer?
Speak Now
Speak Now. She wrote every song by herself while on tour, building the album around the things she wished she had said to people at the time.
Q 13Taylor's album 1989 is named after what?
The year she was born
The year she was born. She has said the album was inspired by the pop music of the late 1980s, and it marked her full switch from country to pop.
Q 21What inspired Taylor to write 'Anti-Hero'?
Her own insecurities
Her own insecurities. A song about everything she dislikes in herself, right down to a nightmare about her future family, went on to spend eight weeks at number one in the US.
Q 22Which song from Lover became a US number one in 2023, four years late, after going viral on the Eras Tour?
'Cruel Summer'
'Cruel Summer'. It was a fan favourite that was never put out as a single in 2019, so when it took off on tour her label finally released it, and it went to the top.
Q 23What was the double edition released two hours after The Tortured Poets Department called?
The Anthology
Q 14What is the message of 'Shake It Off'?
Not caring what critics say about her
Not caring what critics say about her. She wrote it after years of scrutiny in the gossip pages, and it launched the first album she made purely as pop.
Q 15Which song knocked Taylor Swift's own 'Shake It Off' off number one in the US?
'Blank Space'
'Blank Space'. It made her the first woman to replace herself at number one, with a song that pokes fun at how the gossip pages portrayed her love life.
Q 16Which singer duets with Taylor on her 2019 single 'Me!'?
Brendon Urie
Brendon Urie, the frontman of Panic! at the Disco. In the video he wins her over by handing her a cat, which Taylor then adopted and named Benjamin Button.
Q 17During the 2020 lockdown, where did Taylor record her vocals for the surprise album Folklore?
Her home studio in Los Angeles
Her home studio in Los Angeles. She worked remotely with producers Aaron Dessner and Jack Antonoff, who sent her music from their own studios on the other side of the country.
Q 18Taylor wrote 'Cardigan' from the point of view of which made-up character?
Betty
Betty. Taylor invented a teenage love triangle and told it from all sides: Betty's in 'Cardigan', the other girl's in 'August', and James's apology in the song 'Betty'.
Q 19In the music video for 'Willow', what guides Taylor on her journey?
A golden thread
A golden thread. It picks up where the 'Cardigan' video left off and pulls her through one magical scene after another until it leads her to her lover.
Q 20Songs from which Taylor Swift album were the first to fill the entire US top 10 at once?
Midnights
Midnights. Before it came out she revealed the song titles one by one on TikTok, rolling numbered balls out of a lottery cage to pick which to announce.
The Anthology added a 15-track second half as a surprise in the middle of the night, and all 31 songs went on to enter the US Hot 100 at the same time.
Q 24In which country did Taylor record The Life of a Showgirl with Max Martin and Shellback?
Sweden
Sweden. She fitted the sessions into breaks in the European leg of the Eras Tour, working with the Swedish duo who had produced 'Shake It Off' a decade earlier.
Q 25Taylor's hit 'The Fate of Ophelia' is named after a character in which Shakespeare play?
Hamlet
Hamlet. Shakespeare's Ophelia drowns after losing her mind with grief, but Taylor's song is about being rescued from that fate by someone who loves her.
Q 26Which was the first album Taylor Swift re-recorded and released as a 'Taylor's Version'?
Fearless
Fearless. She remade it so that she would own the recording herself, and it became the first re-recorded album ever to top the US chart.
Q 27Taylor re-recorded her albums after which music manager bought her old label?
Scooter Braun
Scooter Braun. He later sold the recordings of her first six albums to an investment firm, and in 2025 Taylor finally bought the originals back herself.
Q 28In which US city did the Eras Tour begin in March 2023?
Glendale, Arizona
Glendale, Arizona. The city renamed itself Swift City for the opening weekend, starting a run of host cities paying tribute to her.
Q 29The Eras Tour was the first to earn over what?
$1 billion
$1 billion. It ended on roughly double that after 149 shows, and crowds in cities such as Seattle and Edinburgh danced hard enough to register on earthquake sensors.
Q 30What did fans make by hand and swap with strangers at Eras Tour shows?
Friendship bracelets
Friendship bracelets. The craze grew out of a single line in her song 'You're on Your Own, Kid', and fans even traded them with Taylor herself.