Q 01/05

What is Lana Del Rey's birth name?

A) Elizabeth Woolridge Grant

B) Lizzy May Jailer

C) Lana Rey Del Mar

D) Caroline Grant

Answer · why

A) Elizabeth Woolridge Grant

She was born in Manhattan on June 21, 1985, to two advertising executives.

Q 02/05

In which upstate New York town did Lana Del Rey grow up from the age of one?

A) Saratoga Springs

B) Lake Placid

C) Woodstock

D) Ithaca

Answer · why

B) Lake Placid

Her father worked for a furniture company there before becoming a domain investor, and her mother was a schoolteacher.

Q 03/05

Why did her parents send her to Kent School, a Connecticut boarding school, at 14 or 15?

A) To be near relatives

B) To study music

C) To learn French

D) To get sober

Answer · why

D) To get sober

She has said she has been sober since 2003.

Q 04/05

What did Del Rey major in at Fordham University?

A) English literature

B) Music

C) Philosophy

D) Film

Answer · why

C) Philosophy

She chose it with an emphasis on metaphysics because it 'bridged the gap between God and science'.

Q 05/05

Under which stage name did she record the acoustic album Sirens in 2005-06?

A) Lana Del Ray

B) Lizzy Grant

C) Sparkle Jump Rope Queen

D) May Jailer

Answer · why

D) May Jailer

The album leaked online in mid-2012, after she was famous.