50 free Taylor Swift: the Eras Tour trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
The Eras Tour started in Glendale, Arizona in March 2023 and ended in Vancouver in December 2024, 149 shows later, as the first tour ever to gross $1 billion and then $2 billion. Taylor Swift built it as a trip through every album she had made, ten acts in 3 hours 15 minutes, and the world responded with crashed ticketing sites, a Thai prime minister complaining about Singapore, a Real Madrid match moved for a second night at the Bernabeu and a photo book that outsold every other book of 2024. These 50 questions cover the announcement on Good Morning America, the 3.5 million Verified Fan registrations, the Capital One and UOB presales, the creative director, the choreographer recommended by Emma Stone, the act-by-act staging from the Lover cubicles to the Midnights cloud, the Tortured Poets rework, the surprise songs, the Los Angeles concert film that skipped the studios, the Disney+ finale, the Rio heat, the Vienna cancellations and the $197 million Swift paid her crew. Easy questions stick to the headline numbers; the expert tier asks about bonus-track variants and venue capacities. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss.
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Q 01In which Arizona city did the Eras Tour open on March 17, 2023?
Glendale
The city temporarily renamed itself 'Swift City' for the weekend.
Q 02In which city did the Eras Tour play its final show in December 2024?
Vancouver
The final night was filmed for the Disney+ concert film The Final Show.
Q 03How many shows did the Eras Tour play in total?
149
They spanned 51 cities in 21 countries on five continents.
Q 04Which album's promotion was Swift doing when she announced the tour on November 1, 2022?
Midnights
She made the announcement on Good Morning America and her social accounts.
Q 05What number concert tour of Swift's career was the Eras Tour?
Sixth
Her planned Lover Fest had been cancelled by the pandemic.
Q 06Which company, an AEG partner, promoted the tour?
Messina Touring Group
AEG's CEO said Swift flatly refused dynamic pricing for her fans.
Q 07Which card company's partnership gave US fans presale access in November 2022?
Capital One
Face-value tickets ranged from $49 to $449, with VIP packages up to $899.
Q 08How many Verified Fan registrations did Ticketmaster report for the US presale, a record?
3.5 million
Live Nation said it had prepared for 1.5 million fans but 14 million turned up.
Q 09How many tickets did the tour sell on the first day of the US presale, a single-day record?
2.4 million
Robbie Williams had held the record with 1.6 million for his 2005 Close Encounters Tour.
Q 10Roughly what share of Canada's population registered for the Toronto presale?
77 percent
That was about 31 million registrations.
Q 11Who opened the Latin American leg of the tour?
Sabrina Carpenter
Argentine singer Louta was added as an extra opener in Buenos Aires.
Q 12Which band opened the European leg?
Paramore
They had also shared the very first US dates with Gayle.
Q 13Which football club asked La Liga to move a match so a second Bernabeu show could be added?
Real Madrid
The game moved from May 26 to May 25, 2024, freeing the Bernabeu for May 29.
Q 14Which two Asian countries were the only ones on the Eras Tour itinerary?
Q 21How did Swift rehearse her vocals for the 3-plus-hour show?
Singing the set list on a treadmill
She also trained in dance for three months and gave up alcohol.
Q 22How many acts was a standard Eras Tour show divided into?
10
Each represented an album 'era' with its own colours, costume and stage design.
Q 23Which 1964 Dusty Springfield song played over the countdown clock before the show?
You Don't Own Me
The Lover act then opened the show.
Which album's act opened the 2023 show?
Japan and Singapore
Thailand's prime minister complained that Singapore had paid for regional exclusivity.
Q 15Which bank's cardholders got presale access for the Singapore shows?
UOB
Fans across Southeast Asia reportedly scrambled to sign up for its cards.
Q 16How were all seats sold in Japan?
As lottery tickets
Lawson's Loppi system ran the draws, and a second lottery was added for demand.
Q 17Which Australian state declared its Eras shows a 'major event' to penalise scalping?
Victoria
Ticketek said it blocked over 500 million bot purchase attempts during the presale.
Q 18Who served as the tour's creative director?
Ethan Tobman
Architectural Digest called it Swift's most ambitious set design.
Q 19Roughly how many trucks hauled the tour's staging and costumes?
90
Swift later gave each of the 50 truck drivers on the US leg a $100,000 bonus.
Q 20Who choreographed the Eras Tour's 15 backup dancers?
Mandy Moore
Emma Stone recommended her after working together on La La Land.
Lover
She performed 'The Man' and 'You Need to Calm Down' on a set of office cubicles.
Q 25Which act used a moss-covered piano beneath an oak tree?
Evermore
It also featured 'Willow' performed as a witchy seance with glowing orange orbs.
Q 26Which 1941 film did the 'Tolerate It' dinner-table staging evoke?
Citizen Kane
Swift sang to a male dancer across a long table.
Q 27What animals slithered away on screen to close the Reputation act?
A snake and an elephant
Snake visuals and dimming lights had opened the act.
Q 28What did Swift hand to a pre-selected fan near the end of '22' each night?
Her black hat
The fedora, designed by Gladys Tamez, echoed the song's music video look.
Q 29What structure sat on stage during the Folklore act?
An A-frame cabin
It echoed her 2021 Grammys performance, and she sang from its roof.
Q 30What did dancers smash with blue golf clubs during 'Blank Space'?
An animated Shelby Cobra
Other dancers rode neon bicycles around the mid-stage.