Bridgit Mendler
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40 free Bridgit Mendler trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Bridgit Mendler spent her teens as one of Disney Channel's most familiar faces, then released Hello My Name Is..., a debut album she co-wrote from start to finish. Its singles travelled further than most people remember, and the record still has a loyal following more than a decade on. This quiz covers the album in detail: the singles, the videos, the collaborators, the chart story and the songs that inspired it. It also follows her acting career from her earliest parts through her sitcom years and voice work, and the music she made once she went independent. Then comes the twist that makes her story unusual: the degrees, the research and the company she went on to build. The questions suit fans of the album and anyone curious about where a former child star ended up. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Northwood Space, the startup Bridgit Mendler co-founded as chief executive, was set up to mass-produce what?
Ground stations
Ground stations are the Earth-side links that send and receive satellite data, and Northwood wants to build them in bulk. The company launched with $6.3 million from investors including Founders Fund.
Q 02Bridgit Mendler's aunt, Christine Blasey Ford, testified to the Senate in 2018 about which Supreme Court nominee?
Brett Kavanaugh
Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed the following month by a Senate vote of 50 to 48. Ford is a professor of psychology at Palo Alto University.
Q 03After leaving show business, Bridgit Mendler earned a law degree in 2024 from which Ivy League university?
Harvard
Harvard Law School awarded her a Juris Doctor in May 2024, the same year she went public as chief executive of a space startup.
Q 04Bridgit Mendler's album Hello My Name Is... takes its title from a line in which of its songs?
Ready or Not
Ready or Not gave the album its name and was its lead single too. Mendler described it as a song about a lifelong wallflower who decides to take charge.
Q 05Which 1960s folk songwriter has pop singer Bridgit Mendler named as her biggest musical influence?
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan was the first musician who made her pay attention to songwriting, she has said. Her favourite song of his is Don't Think Twice, It's All Right.
Q 06What is the name of Bridgit Mendler's character in Good Luck Charlie, who films video diaries for her little sister?
Teddy Duncan
Teddy Duncan signs off each diary with the words of the show's title. Mendler played her for all four seasons and in a Christmas TV movie.
Q 07Bridgit Mendler's debut solo single borrows its chorus from a 1996 hit by which hip-hop group?
Fugees
Fugees had themselves borrowed the hook from a 1968 soul record by the Delfonics. That is why the two writers of that soul original share the songwriting credit on Mendler's track.
Q 08On Wizards of Waverly Place, Bridgit Mendler's character Juliet van Heusen is which kind of supernatural being?
A vampire
A vampire whose parents run a rival sandwich shop on Waverly Place, Juliet becomes Justin Russo's main love interest. Mendler played her across three seasons.
Q 09Which Lemonade Mouth co-star plays Bridgit Mendler's best friend in the music video for Hurricane?
Naomi Scott
Naomi Scott joined her for the shoot in London in March 2013. Scott later played Princess Jasmine in Disney's live-action Aladdin.
Q 10At which university did Bridgit Mendler earn a master's degree in media arts and sciences?
MIT
MIT awarded her the degree in 2020 for a thesis on technology that helps settle disputes. She had first joined the Media Lab three years earlier as a Director's Fellow.
Q 11In the Disney Channel movie Lemonade Mouth, Bridgit Mendler's character Olivia White fills which role in the band?
Lead singer
Lead singer Olivia has to beat a panic attack before the band's first show at a Halloween dance. The film drew 5.7 million viewers on its premiere night.
Q 12Bridgit Mendler's debut solo single peaked at 49 at home but debuted in the top ten in which country?
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom sent the song straight in at number seven, its peak, and kept it in the top ten for four consecutive weeks.
Q 13Which veteran film star played Bridgit Mendler's controlling father in the Netflix sitcom Merry Happy Whatever?
Dennis Quaid
Q 21Bridgit Mendler joined which NBC sitcom in its second season, playing the unlucky yet optimistic Candace?
Undateable
Undateable went fully live for its third season, with every episode broadcast as it was performed. NBC cancelled the comedy when that run ended.
Q 22Bridgit Mendler voiced the title character in the American dub of a 2010 film made by which Japanese company?
Studio Ghibli
Studio Ghibli made The Secret World of Arrietty, in which Mendler plays a tiny girl whose family lives hidden beneath a human home. Will Arnett, Amy Poehler and Carol Burnett joined her in the dub.
Q 23Which subject did Bridgit Mendler study at the University of Southern California while still acting and touring?
Anthropology
Dennis Quaid played Don Quinn, a deputy sheriff who disapproves of every partner his children bring home. The series ran for eight episodes set around one Christmas.
Q 14Which Good Luck Charlie co-star, cast as on-screen boyfriend Spencer, did Bridgit Mendler date in real life?
Shane Harper
Shane Harper and Mendler were a couple from 2011 to 2015. The pair also sang a duet, My Song for You, in one of the sitcom's Christmas episodes.
Q 15Bridgit Mendler's sitcom Good Luck Charlie was taped in Los Angeles but is set in which US city?
Denver
Denver is home to the show's family, though the family home seen on screen actually stands in Pasadena, California.
Q 16Which mythical lost city gives its name to Bridgit Mendler's 2016 single featuring the rapper Kaiydo?
Atlantis
Atlantis was the first single of her independent era, and MTV called it a radical departure from her previous record. Mendler said she wrote it about feeling numb after heartbreak.
Q 17Bridgit Mendler played the younger sister of which star's character in the 2009 comedy Labor Pains?
Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Lohan starred as an assistant who fakes a pregnancy to keep her job. The film skipped American cinemas and premiered on ABC Family instead.
Q 18With whom did Bridgit Mendler found the space startup Northwood, an idea hatched during the COVID-19 lockdowns?
Her husband
Her husband, Griffin Cleverly, started Northwood with her. The idea came while the couple sat out lockdown in New Hampshire, building their own radio gear from hardware-store parts.
Q 19On which TV talent show did Bridgit Mendler sing her debut single in 2012, nervous to perform for Britney Spears?
The X Factor
The X Factor booked her for its semi-final results show that December. Mendler admitted afterwards that the whole performance had made her nervous.
Q 20Which Bridgit Mendler song became the third single from Hello My Name Is... in July 2013?
Top of the World
Top of the World followed the album's first two singles in July 2013. Mendler later shot an acoustic video for it in Griffith Park, made on her own without her record company.
Anthropology became her choice in 2013, after she had started out taking one class at a time between tours. Her courses included medieval visual culture.
Q 24In Lemonade Mouth, where do Bridgit Mendler's character and the four other future bandmates first meet?
In detention
In detention, the five tap out a beat while the supervising teacher is out of the room, and she urges them to enter a music competition. The film is based on a 2007 novel by Mark Peter Hughes.
Q 25Why did Bridgit Mendler have to rewrite the whole of her planned second album in the mid-2010s?
Her computer failed
Her computer failed and took every draft with it, so she began the songs again. A full second album never appeared: her next release was an EP in 2016.
Q 26Which record label signed Bridgit Mendler in 2011 and released her debut album Hello My Name Is... the next year?
Hollywood Records
Hollywood Records signed her in March 2011, the month her first single appeared. She left the label in 2015 and put out her next music independently.
Q 27Which famous couple gets a name-check in the words of Bridgit Mendler's debut solo single from 2012?
William and Kate
William and Kate had married at Westminster Abbey in April 2011, little more than a year before the song came out.
Q 28Which Lemonade Mouth cast member raps on Determinate, the Bridgit Mendler single that reached number 51 in America?
Adam Hicks
Adam Hicks, who played keyboard player Wen in the film, also co-wrote the song. Determinate was the most successful of the soundtrack's three singles.
Q 29Which promotional single from Bridgit Mendler's Hello My Name Is... did Idolator praise for its witty metaphors?
Forgot to Laugh
Forgot to Laugh premiered on Idolator a few weeks ahead of the album. The site's reviewer said its metaphors would give Taylor Swift a run for her money.
Q 30On which long-running soap opera did a 13-year-old Bridgit Mendler land her first on-screen acting role?
General Hospital
General Hospital cast her as a child who appears in a dream of the character Lulu Spencer. By then she had already voiced parts in an animated film and a video game.