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70 free Alanis Morissette trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Alanis Morissette trivia quiz follows the Queen of Alt-Rock Angst from Ottawa kids' TV and Canadian dance-pop to Jagged Little Pill, the 33-million-selling album that made her the youngest Album of the Year winner, and on to Broadway. The easy questions cover the album, "Ironic", Glen Ballard, God in Dogma and Ryan Reynolds. Medium questions dig into the Chili Peppers on "You Oughta Know", the India trip behind "Thank U", the Juno bathrobe stunt, the Starbucks exclusive and the "My Humps" prank. The hard and expert questions are for people who own the deluxe editions: the stolen Geffen demo, Lahr, "Too Hot", the Hungarian and French Prayer Cycle vocals, Willie Nelson's rhythm guitar, the 469,000 first-week record and the double-diamond certification. Every answer was checked against a reference page and each question carries its citation, so the dates, chart positions and names can be trusted. Difficulty is shown on every question, which makes it easy to build a round for a 90s music quiz night or play the whole set. When you finish, try our other 1990s alternative rock quizzes.
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Q 01In which Canadian city was Alanis Morissette born?
Ottawa
She was born at Riverside Hospital on June 1, 1974, twelve minutes after her twin brother Wade.
Q 02Alanis has a twin brother. What is his name?
Wade
He is a musician and was born 12 minutes before her.
Q 03What was the title of Alanis Morissette's breakthrough 1995 album?
Jagged Little Pill
It sold 33 million copies worldwide, second only to Shania Twain's Come On Over among albums by women.
Q 04Which producer co-wrote and produced her 1995 breakthrough album?
Glen Ballard
They wrote "Ironic" in under 15 minutes as a warm-up.
Q 05The title of her 1995 album comes from a line in which of its songs?
You Learn
The album's fifth single kept it in the Billboard top 20 for over a year.
Q 06Which label, founded by Madonna, released her 1995 breakthrough album?
Maverick
According to her manager, every other label they approached turned her down.
Q 07Which two Red Hot Chili Peppers played on "You Oughta Know"?
Flea and Dave Navarro
KROQ in Los Angeles broke the song, and the video went into heavy rotation on MTV.
Q 08Which Full House actor claimed in 2008 to be the ex who inspired "You Oughta Know"?
Dave Coulier
Morissette denied it was about him in the 2021 documentary Jagged.
Q 09Which single was Alanis's biggest hit and her highest-charting on the Billboard Hot 100, at No. 4?
Ironic
Its lyrics were widely criticised for describing situations that are not actually ironic.
Q 10In the video for her biggest hit, Alanis drives through a winter landscape while playing whom?
Multiple passengers in the car
French director Stéphane Sednaoui shot it; it won three MTV Video Music Awards.
Q 11Which Joni Mitchell homage did Alanis perform, instead of her biggest hit, at the 1996 MTV VMAs?
Your House
"Your House" is the hidden a cappella track at the end of Jagged Little Pill.
Q 12How many Grammys did Alanis win for her 1995 album at the 1996 ceremony?
Four
Album of the Year made her the youngest winner of the category at the time.
Q 13Alanis became the first Canadian artist to earn which certification at home for her 1995 album?
Double diamond
The RIAA certified it seventeen times platinum.
Q 14Which future Foo Fighters drummer played on her 1995–96 world tour?
Q 21Alanis played which role in Kevin Smith's 1999 film Dogma?
God
She also wrote and performed the song "Still" for the film.
Q 22Which Police song did Alanis cover on her 1999 MTV Unplugged album?
King of Pain
The set also debuted "No Pressure over Cappuccino", written with guitarist Nick Lashley.
Q 23In which two languages, honouring her roots, did Alanis sing on Jonathan Elias's The Prayer Cycle?
Hungarian and French
Her mother fled Hungary in 1956; her father is of French and Irish descent.
Taylor Hawkins
Radiohead joined as the opening act in mid-1996.
Q 15Which band opened for Alanis in mid-1996 on the Can't Not Tour?
Radiohead
The 18-month tour started in small clubs and ended in arenas.
Q 16Where did Alanis travel for six weeks after the tour, inspiring "Thank U"?
India
She went with her mother, two aunts and two friends and took up Iyengar yoga.
Q 17What was controversial about the "Thank U" music video?
Alanis appeared nude in the streets
The song was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 2000 Grammys.
Q 18"Uninvited", which won two Grammys, was recorded for the soundtrack of which 1998 film?
City of Angels
It was never released commercially as a single but got huge US radio play.
Q 19What was the title of Alanis's 1998 follow-up to her breakthrough album?
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
Its wordy, personal lyrics alienated some fans and it was called a sophomore jinx.
Q 20Her 1998 album set a record for a female artist with how many first-week US sales?
469,000
The label had merely hoped to sell a million copies over the whole release.
Q 24With which singer-songwriter did Alanis co-headline the 5 and a Half Weeks Tour in 1999?
Tori Amos
It supported Amos's album To Venus and Back.
Q 25Which 2002 album was the first Alanis wrote and produced entirely on her own?
Under Rug Swept
It won her the Juno for Producer of the Year for "Hands Clean" and "So Unsexy".
Q 26What did Alanis wear to host the 2004 Junos as a protest against US censorship after the Super Bowl halftime incident?
A flesh-coloured bodysuit under a bathrobe
She told the crowd she was glad to be back in "the true North, strong and censor-free".
Q 27US radio refused to play "Everything" until which word in its first line was changed to "nightmare"?
Asshole
Canadian radio played the unaltered version.
Q 28Her 2005 acoustic re-recording of the 1995 album was sold exclusively through which coffee chain?
Starbucks
HMV Canada retaliated by pulling her other albums from its shelves for the duration.
Q 29Alanis's 2005 song "Wunderkind" earned a Golden Globe nomination for which film?
The Chronicles of Narnia
It was her second nomination for Best Original Song after "Uninvited".
Q 30Alanis's April Fools' Day 2007 viral video was a mournful piano cover of which Black Eyed Peas song?
My Humps
Fergie responded by sending her a cake shaped like a pair of buttocks.