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Q 01Which production duo co-wrote and produced 'Shake It Off' with Taylor Swift?
Max Martin and Shellback
Max Martin and Shellback built the melody of 'Shake It Off' with Swift, who wrote the lyrics alone to shrug off her detractors; it led the album she billed as her first official pop record.
Q 02Which track opens Taylor Swift's 2020 album 'folklore'?
the 1
'the 1' opens the record yet was one of the last two songs written for it; Swift made the album in lockdown and announced it only 16 hours before it came out.
Q 03Which of Taylor Swift's re-recorded albums was the first 'Taylor's Version' released, in April 2021?
Fearless (Taylor's Version)
Fearless (Taylor's Version) arrived on April 9, 2021, the first of the re-recordings she made to regain control of her masters.
Q 04In 'All Too Well (10 Minute Version)', what clothing item is left at a sister's house?
Scarf
Scarf: left behind in the first verse, it returns in the last, where the ex has kept it ever since; the detail drew so many readings that it became a pop-culture talking point of its own.
Q 05Who is the featured act on Taylor Swift's 'exile' from 'folklore'?
Bon Iver
Bon Iver's Justin Vernon was the voice Swift wanted after drafting the song with herself singing both parts; sent the track, he added lyrics of his own and recorded the other half.
Q 06'Anti-Hero' was the lead single from which Taylor Swift album?
Midnights
Midnights was led by 'Anti-Hero', a song Swift drew from her own insecurities and set to a 1980s-style drum-machine loop; it spent eight weeks at number one in the US.
Q 07Which of these songs comes from Taylor Swift's album Red rather than 1989?
I Knew You Were Trouble
'I Knew You Were Trouble' gave Red a dubstep-style drop far from her country sound; its seven weeks atop pop radio pushed Swift to go fully pop on her next album.
Q 08What animal is prominently featured in Taylor Swift's 'Blank Space' music video?
Horse
Horses carry Swift and her on-screen boyfriend around a Long Island estate before the romance sours; the video sends up her tabloid image and has her take a golf club to his car.
Q 09Which of Swift's albums is home to 'You Belong with Me'?
Fearless
Fearless, her second album, includes 'You Belong with Me', which Swift wrote after overhearing a bandmate on the phone trying to placate his girlfriend.
Q 10Taylor Swift wrote 'Love Story' using which Shakespeare play as a reference point?
Romeo and Juliet
Swift rewrote Romeo and Juliet's ending so 'Love Story' closes with a proposal instead of a tragedy, the happy ending she felt they deserved.
Q 11The song 'Mean,' an anthem against critics, is from which Taylor Swift album?
Speak Now
Speak Now includes 'Mean', her banjo-led reply to detractors; it won two Grammys in 2012, and at the ceremony she changed a line to say she was singing it at the Grammys.
Q 12What was the title of Taylor Swift's debut single, released in June 2006?
"Tim McGraw"
"Tim McGraw" came out when Swift was 16, and she spent that summer sealing promo copies into envelopes for country radio stations, hoping each one would play it just once.
Q 13Which producer recorded Swift's self-titled debut album with her over four months in late 2005?
Nathan Chapman
Q 21Which two 1989 singles made Swift the first woman to replace herself atop the Hot 100?
"Shake It Off" and "Blank Space"
"Shake It Off" and "Blank Space" did it in late 2014, when the second, written to send up Swift's tabloid image as a serial dater, took the top spot from the first.
Q 22Alongside Jack Antonoff, which musician produced Taylor Swift's 2020 albums Folklore and Evermore?
Aaron Dessner
Aaron Dessner of the National worked apart from Swift during lockdown: he sent a folder of instrumental sketches, she sent back songs as voice memos, and Folklore took shape through traded files.
Q 23Which album, led by 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together', was Swift's first UK number one?
Nathan Chapman had only made demos in a converted garage and had never produced a released album, so the label was wary; Swift insisted, and he stayed on through her country records.
Q 14Which Speak Now song did Swift debut at the 2010 VMAs, a year after Kanye's interruption?
Innocent
'Innocent' answers the interruption with sympathy rather than anger; Swift sang it at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, a month before the album came out.
Q 15Under what pseudonym was Swift credited on Calvin Harris's 'This Is What You Came For'?
Nils Sjöberg
Nils Sjöberg kept Swift's name off the Rihanna-sung hit for months; she has said she did not want the song overshadowed by her fame, and recalled Prince hiding his hand in 'Manic Monday'.
Q 16Joe Alwyn co-wrote several Folklore and Evermore songs under which pseudonym?
William Bowery
William Bowery borrows the first name of Alwyn's great-grandfather, the composer William Alwyn, and the Bowery district of New York; Swift later confirmed who was behind it.
Q 17Which single gave Swift her first UK number one?
"Look What You Made Me Do"
"Look What You Made Me Do" spent two weeks on top of the UK chart in 2017; three years earlier "Shake It Off", a US number one, had stalled at number two there.
Q 18What chart record did 'All Too Well (Taylor's Version)' set in 2021?
Longest song ever to top the Hot 100
Longest song ever to top the Hot 100: Swift had whittled a far longer draft down to about five minutes for the 2012 album, and the uncut version took a record 'American Pie' had held since 1972.
Q 19Whose record of nine Hot 100 top-10 songs did Swift beat by filling all ten?
Drake
Drake had put nine songs in the top 10 the year before Swift took all ten; two weeks after her sweep he posted the new chart with her name and number-one song hidden behind emojis.
Q 20Which Swift album spent eleven weeks at number one on the Billboard 200?
1989
1989 logged eleven weeks at number one and a full year in the top 10; Swift named it after the year she was born and left country behind for 1980s-style synth-pop.
Red
Red topped the UK albums chart in 2012; its lead single began when a studio visitor repeated a rumour that Swift and her ex were reuniting, and her retort became the song.
Q 24Swift's duet with Zayn Malik, 'I Don't Wanna Live Forever', was recorded for which film's soundtrack?
Fifty Shades Darker
Fifty Shades Darker's duet began with a phone call from Zayn inviting Swift onto the song; she recorded her vocals in Brooklyn and he recorded his in Los Angeles, and it reached number two.
Q 25Swift's 'Safe & Sound', co-written with the Civil Wars, appeared on the soundtrack of which 2012 film?
The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games soundtrack carried 'Safe & Sound', written in a two-hour session at producer T Bone Burnett's house after Swift had spent two days reading the novel.
Q 26Which song did Swift write and record for the 2022 film Where the Crawdads Sing?
"Carolina"
"Carolina" was recorded in a single take using only instruments that existed before 1953, around when the film's story unfolds in the marshes of North Carolina.
Q 27Which character did Taylor Swift play in the 2019 film Cats?
Bombalurina
Bombalurina, the flirtatious cat who sings 'Macavity', came to Swift without an audition: she had once tested for a part in the same director's Les Misérables and not been cast.
Q 28Which MTV Video Music Award did 'The Man' win in 2020?
Best Direction
'The Man', the first music video Swift directed alone, won Best Direction at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards; she also stars in it in prosthetics as the title character.
Q 29Which 2010 music video, co-directed with Roman White, was Swift's directorial debut?
"Mine"
"Mine" put Swift behind the camera for the first time, beside Roman White; its heroine, haunted by her parents' fights, marries anyway, and it won Video of the Year at the 2011 CMT Music Awards.
Q 30Which 1989 (Taylor's Version) vault track hit number one, giving Swift three chart-toppers from three albums in a year?
"Is It Over Now?"
"Is It Over Now?" debuted at number one in November 2023 by knocking Swift's own 'Cruel Summer' off the top, the second time she had replaced herself there.