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This Lady Gaga quiz has 60 free questions with answers and runs the whole career, from Stefani Germanotta's early Def Jam signing and the origin of the stage name through The Fame, The Fame Monster, Born This Way, Artpop, Joanne, Chromatica and Mayhem. It also covers the acting years (A Star Is Born, House of Gucci, Joker), the Super Bowl LI halftime show, the meat dress and her two jazz albums with Tony Bennett. It is built for Little Monsters who want a real challenge, plus anyone hosting a pop-music trivia night. Questions range from easy warm-ups to details only devoted fans will know, like which cut of beef made the meat dress or whose studio Chromatica was recorded in. Every answer was checked against primary sources, so you can argue with your friends, not with the quiz.
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Q 01What is Lady Gaga's real first name?
Stefani
She was born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta in Manhattan in 1986, and 'Joanne' later became an album title.
Q 02Her stage name was derived from a song by which band?
Queen
The song was 'Radio Ga Ga', and producer Rob Fusari claimed to be the first to call her Lady Gaga.
Q 03According to Rob Fusari, a phone autocorrected which word to 'Lady', creating her stage name?
Radio
He said he tried to text her 'Radio Ga Ga' and the autocorrect did the rest.
Q 04In 2006 Gaga was signed to, and then quickly dropped by, which record label?
Def Jam Recordings
She was signed in September 2006 and gone by the end of the year, before Interscope picked her up.
Q 05Which music executive called dropping Gaga 'the biggest mistake I ever made in my life'?
L.A. Reid
Reid had approved her signing to Def Jam only months earlier.
Q 06Gaga's creative team, the Haus of Gaga, was modeled on which artist's studio, The Factory?
Andy Warhol
She set up the Haus after relocating to Los Angeles to finish The Fame in 2008.
Q 07Which Gaga single was the world's best-selling single of 2009?
Poker Face
It also spent a record 83 weeks on Billboard's Digital Songs chart.
Q 08Which song was announced as The Fame's second single, then demoted to a promo single?
Beautiful, Dirty, Rich
ABC even cut a video for it to promote the show Dirty Sexy Money.
Q 09'Telephone' was originally written for which singer's album Circus?
Britney Spears
After the label passed, Gaga recorded it herself with Beyonce for The Fame Monster.
Q 10Who photographed the two covers of The Fame Monster?
Hedi Slimane
Interscope initially rejected the brunette cover as too gothic until Gaga sold them on the yin-and-yang idea.
Q 11How many new songs does The Fame Monster contain?
8
Interscope originally asked for just three tracks for the reissue.
Q 12Who designed the raw-meat dress Gaga wore to the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards?
Franc Fernandez
Formichetti styled the look, and Gaga had to be stitched into the dress backstage.
Q 13The 2010 meat dress was made from which cut of beef?
Flank steak
The meat came from the designer's family butcher and was chosen because it would keep well.
Q 14How much did the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame pay a taxidermist to preserve the meat dress?
Q 21Which artist created the Artpop album cover, featuring a nude sculpture of Gaga with a blue gazing ball?
Jeff Koons
The background collages fragments of Bernini's Apollo and Daphne and Botticelli's Birth of Venus.
Q 22In Robert Rodriguez's Machete Kills, Gaga played an assassin with what name?
La Chameleon
The film earned less than half of its $33 million budget.
Q 23Which Artpop track was pulled from streaming in 2019 after the documentary Surviving R. Kelly?
Do What U Want
It had reached number 13 in the US as the album's second single.
$6,000
Sergio Vigilato treated it with bleach, formaldehyde and detergent, then dyed it dark red so it looked fresh again.
Q 15Who handed Gaga her Video of the Year award while she was wearing the meat dress?
Cher
Gaga joked she never thought she would be asking Cher to hold her meat purse.
Q 16Roughly how many copies did Born This Way sell in the US in its first week?
1.1 million
It was the highest first-week total since 50 Cent's The Massacre in 2005.
Q 17The Born This Way album cover shows Gaga fused with what?
A motorcycle
Her name does not appear on the cover, only the chrome album title across the top.
Q 18'Born This Way' debuted at number one as which milestone number-one single in Billboard Hot 100 history?
1,000th
It also sold more than a million copies in five days, a Guinness record for iTunes at the time.
Q 19Which E Street Band saxophonist played on Born This Way?
Clarence Clemons
His solo closes 'The Edge of Glory', one of the last recordings before his death in 2011.
Q 20What is the name of the male alter ego Gaga performed as at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards?
Jo Calderone
In 2025 she said the character was 'no longer with us'.
Q 24How old was Tony Bennett when Cheek to Cheek made him the oldest to top the US album chart?
88
He beat his own record, set three years earlier with another duets album.
Q 25Gaga's first recording with Tony Bennett, 'The Lady Is a Tramp', appeared on which of his albums?
Duets II
They had met earlier in 2011 at a Robin Hood Foundation gala in New York.
Q 26Gaga first met Tony Bennett in 2011 at a gala after performing which Nat King Cole song?
Orange Colored Sky
Bennett was impressed enough to invite her onto his next duets album.
Q 27Every song on Love for Sale, Gaga's second album with Tony Bennett, was written by which songwriter?
Cole Porter
It was Bennett's sixty-first and final studio album.
Q 28Gaga's aunt Joanne, namesake of her 2016 album, died at 19 from complications of which disease?
Lupus
Gaga has the date of her aunt's death tattooed on her left bicep.
Q 29Who served alongside Gaga as executive producer of Joanne?
Mark Ronson
The two grew up near each other on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
Q 30How many drones formed the American flag behind Gaga in the Super Bowl LI halftime opening?
300
The rooftop segment was filmed earlier in the week because the FAA would not allow the swarm over a live crowd.