Ariana Grande Trivia
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110 free Ariana Grande trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
48 free Ariana Grande trivia questions with answers. Ariana Grande went from a Broadway teen and a red-haired Nickelodeon sidekick to one of the biggest pop stars of her generation, then picked up an Oscar nomination for good measure. This quiz covers the whole run: the early Nickelodeon years, the 2014 chart takeover, the Manchester benefit concert, the Pete Davidson chapter that produced 'Thank U, Next', the Wicked films and the perfumes that outsell most of her rivals' records. It works for a fan quiz, a pop-music round or a car ride with someone who knows all the words to '7 Rings'. The easy questions are ones any Arianator will breeze through; the hard ones dig into featured artists, chart records and album trivia. Every answer has been checked against a primary reference and each question carries its citation, so if a friend swears Dangerous Woman went to number one, you can prove it stopped at two.
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Q 01In which Florida city was Ariana Grande born in 1993?
Boca Raton
Boca Raton became home just in time: her mother moved from New York to Florida while pregnant with her, and her parents separated when she was eight or nine.
Q 02What is the second half of the hyphenated surname Ariana Grande was born with?
Butera
Butera completes the name she chose for her Wicked film credit, Ariana Grande-Butera, because that was her name when she first saw the stage show at age ten.
Q 03Ariana Grande's professional career began in 2008 in which Broadway musical?
13
13 closed after barely three months on Broadway, but its all-teenage cast also launched her future Victorious co-star Elizabeth Gillies.
Q 04What was the name of the character Ariana Grande played on Nickelodeon's Victorious?
Cat Valentine
Cat Valentine's red hair meant bleaching and dyeing her own every other week, which damaged it so badly that she wore a wig for the spin-off series.
Q 05What was the name of the fictional high school where Nickelodeon's Victorious was set?
Hollywood Arts
Hollywood Arts admits the show's heroine after she unexpectedly takes her older sister's place on stage at the school's big showcase.
Q 06Jennette McCurdy's Sam Puckett, who shared a 2013 spin-off with Ariana Grande's character, first appeared on which Nickelodeon show?
iCarly
iCarly's Sam and Grande's Victorious character become unlikely roommates in the spin-off and start their own after-school babysitting business.
Q 07Ariana Grande's first stage role, with a Florida children's theater, was the title character of which musical?
Annie
Annie came when she was eight, and by her own account she never stopped: she stayed in Florida community theater, moving on to The Wizard of Oz and Beauty and the Beast.
Q 08Which talent manager signed Ariana Grande early in her pop career?
Scooter Braun
Scooter Braun later drew headlines when his company bought the label that owned Taylor Swift's first six albums, after which she began re-recording them.
Q 09What was the title of Ariana Grande's 2013 debut studio album?
Yours Truly
Yours Truly followed a false start: she disowned her 2011 first single, the bubblegum 'Put Your Hearts Up', and steered the album toward the R&B she grew up on.
Q 10Which rapper featured on 'The Way', the lead single from Ariana Grande's debut album?
Mac Miller
Mac Miller also taught her to work Pro Tools, the software she uses to produce her own vocals; the two became a couple in 2016 and dated for about two years.
Q 11Which rapper features on Ariana Grande's 2014 hit 'Problem'?
Iggy Azalea
Iggy Azalea kept the song from number one herself: 'Problem' spent five weeks at number two on the Hot 100, stuck behind her own single 'Fancy'.
Q 12Whose uncredited whispered vocals appear in the chorus of Ariana Grande's 'Problem'?
Big Sean
Big Sean had been a billed guest on her earlier single 'Right There', but here he whispers the hook with no credit; the two later dated for eight months.
Q 13Which German DJ and producer featured on Ariana Grande's 2014 single 'Break Free'?
Zedd
Zedd's collaboration leapt from number 18 to number four on the Hot 100 in the week after its music video premiered.
Q 21Where was the One Love Manchester benefit concert held on 4 June 2017?
Old Trafford Cricket Ground
Old Trafford Cricket Ground's crowd included thousands of fans from her bombed concert, who were offered free tickets to the benefit.
Q 22Which producer did Ariana Grande begin working with in 2016 on what became the album Sweetener?
Pharrell Williams
Pharrell Williams produced nearly half the album and said she opened up in the studio as few artists do: 'This record, she really unzipped.'
Q 23Ariana Grande won her first Grammy Award in 2019 in which category?
Best Pop Vocal Album
Q 14Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj's 2014 hit 'Bang Bang' was the lead single from whose album?
Jessie J
Jessie J's single was first cut by Grande, who hated it, a Republic Records executive later said; after hearing it with Jessie J and Nicki Minaj, she asked for it back.
Q 15In 2014 Ariana Grande became the second woman with three top-ten Hot 100 hits at once as lead artist, after which singer?
Adele
Adele did it in March 2012 with 'Set Fire to the Rain', 'Rolling in the Deep' and 'Someone Like You'; Ashanti had tripled up in 2002, but twice as a featured guest.
Q 16What was the name of Ariana Grande's first world tour, launched in February 2015?
Honeymoon
The Honeymoon Tour promoted her album My Everything, and one of its backup dancers, Ricky Alvarez, became her boyfriend for about a year.
Q 17Which Ariana Grande album broke her run of number-one debuts by opening at number two on the Billboard 200?
Dangerous Woman
Dangerous Woman arrived in May 2016 while Drake's Views was spending a fourth straight week at number one, so it had to settle for second place.
Q 18Ariana Grande played Penny Pingleton in which NBC musical broadcast in December 2016?
Hairspray Live!
Hairspray Live! cast her as Tracy's best friend, whose strict mother ties her up in her bedroom until her sweetheart Seaweed comes to the rescue.
Q 19In the Fox horror-comedy Scream Queens, Ariana Grande played which character?
Chanel #2
Chanel #2, real name Sonya Herfmann, is murdered by the Red Devil killer in the very first episode, managing to send out one last tweet as she dies.
Q 20Which song did Ariana Grande sing to close One Love Manchester?
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Somewhere Over the Rainbow ended the night after the whole cast joined her for 'One Last Time'; her live version was then released as a charity single for the victims' fund.
Best Pop Vocal Album went to Sweetener in her absence: she skipped the ceremony after a dispute with its producers over which songs she would perform.
Q 24Which comedian was Ariana Grande engaged to for a few months in 2018?
Pete Davidson
Pete Davidson has a Sweetener track named after him from their whirlwind engagement, and she thanks him by name in 'Thank U, Next', released weeks after they split.
Q 25Ariana Grande's 'Thank U, Next' video recreates Mean Girls, Bring It On, Legally Blonde and which other film?
13 Going on 30
13 Going on 30 completes the set, and stars of the originals joined in: Jennifer Coolidge reprised her Legally Blonde role opposite Grande's Elle Woods.
Q 26Ariana Grande's '7 Rings' borrows its melody from which song in The Sound of Music?
My Favorite Things
My Favorite Things earns Rodgers and Hammerstein's publisher 90 percent of the hit's songwriting royalties, under a deal struck weeks before its release.
Q 27At 25, Ariana Grande became the youngest artist yet to headline which festival in 2019?
Coachella
Coachella's crowd got a surprise too: she brought out four members of NSYNC to sing 'Tearin' Up My Heart' with her.
Q 28With which artist did Ariana Grande record the 2020 pandemic duet 'Stuck with U'?
Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber and Grande gave the single's proceeds to the First Responders Children's Foundation, raising $3.5 million for frontline workers' families by 2021.
Q 29'Rain on Me', Ariana Grande's 2020 hit with Lady Gaga, appears on which Gaga album?
Chromatica
Chromatica's hit duet grew out of the two singers talking over their lives and how to keep going; Gaga called it a 'celebration of all the tears'.
Q 30Ariana Grande's Netflix concert film 'Excuse Me, I Love You' documented which of her tours?
Sweetener World
The Sweetener World Tour film was shot mostly at her London O2 Arena show in October 2019 and came out a year later, when the pandemic had shut concerts down.