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60 free Miley Cyrus trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Miley Cyrus trivia quiz follows the whole career, from the Disney Channel kid who became the 'Teen Queen' of the 2000s to the Grammy-winning singer of 'Flowers'. It opens with the basics: her birth name, her godmother, the town she was born in, the Hannah Montana characters and theme song. Then it moves through each era: 'See You Again' and 'Party in the U.S.A.', Bolt and The Last Song, the Vanity Fair shoot, Can't Be Tamed, the 2013 VMAs, 'Wrecking Ball' and Bangerz, the Flaming Lips album, The Voice, Younger Now, Plastic Hearts, Endless Summer Vacation and Something Beautiful. Along the way there are questions on chart records (which song blocked 'Wrecking Ball' for nine weeks, how long 'Flowers' ruled the Adult Contemporary chart), collaborators like Mark Ronson, Dua Lipa and Beyoncé, her Black Mirror role, her Happy Hippie charity, her Disney Legends honour and her family. Every answer has been verified against Wikipedia's articles on Cyrus, her albums and her singles, and each explanation adds one extra detail worth knowing. Play it with fellow Smilers or use it to settle who really knows the discography.
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Q 01What first and middle names was Miley Cyrus given at birth?
Destiny Hope
Her parents nicknamed the smiley baby 'Smiley', which shrank to 'Miley'; she made it legal in 2008, taking Ray as a middle name after her grandfather.
Q 02Miley Cyrus was born in November 1992 in which Tennessee town?
Franklin
Her father Billy Ray was riding high on 'Achy Breaky Heart' that year; she is the middle of five children if you count her mother's two from an earlier relationship.
Q 03Which country legend is Miley Cyrus's godmother?
Dolly Parton
She defended Miley through the 2013 controversies with 'the girl can write', and Miley later starred in her NBC film Mountain Magic Christmas.
Q 04When she legally changed her name to Miley Ray Cyrus in 2008, whom did the middle name honour?
Her grandfather
Ronald Ray Cyrus was a Democratic politician from Kentucky; her father Billy Ray also carries the name.
Q 05Hannah Montana premiered on Disney Channel in March of which year?
2006
It ran four seasons and became a billion-dollar franchise, earning its star the honorific 'Teen Queen' of 2000s pop culture.
Q 06What is the everyday name of Cyrus's Hannah Montana character, the girl behind the wig?
Miley Stewart
The character was originally going to be called something else; the first name was changed to match the actress to limit confusion about the show's premise.
Q 07Billy Ray Cyrus played her father on Hannah Montana. What was the character's name?
Robby Ray Stewart
He was only asked to audition after his daughter had won the lead; the character is a retired country star who manages her career.
Q 08On Hannah Montana, what alias does best friend Lilly Truscott adopt to hang out with Hannah?
Lola Luftnagle
Oliver Oken, the other friend in on the secret, goes by Mike Stanley III.
Q 09What is the title of the Hannah Montana theme song, sung by Cyrus?
The Best of Both Worlds
It also gave its name to her 2007-08 arena tour and the 3D concert film that followed.
Q 10What was Miley Cyrus's debut single under her own name, released in 2007?
See You Again
She was credited as a co-writer under her birth name, and the song reached number 17 on the Hot 100 in early 2008.
Q 11Which actor voiced the title dog in Bolt (2008) and duetted with the voice of Penny on 'I Thought I Lost You'?
John Travolta
The song earned her a Golden Globe nomination at 16; she has since picked up two more in the same category.
Q 12Which singer turns up at the barn party in Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009) to perform 'Crazier'?
Taylor Swift
The film was shot largely in Columbia, Tennessee, and its soundtrack gave the world 'The Climb' and the 'Hoedown Throwdown'.
Q 13'The Climb' (2009) topped Billboard's Hot Adult Contemporary chart for how many consecutive weeks?
15
Its Grammy nomination for song written for visual media was later withdrawn on the label's request because the song had not been written specifically for the film.
Q 21What did Miley Cyrus score in 2013 when Bangerz and 'Wrecking Ball' topped the UK charts in the same week?
A chart double
'Wrecking Ball' had entered the US Hot 100 at number 50 before its video sent it to number one; nine weeks later it returned to the top, then the biggest gap in a single chart run.
Q 22Who directed the 'Wrecking Ball' music video, complete with sledgehammer-licking?
Terry Richardson
It set a Vevo record with 19.3 million views in 24 hours, and Cyrus later joked she would 'never live down' licking the sledgehammer.
Q 23Which song kept 'Wrecking Ball' at two or three for nine weeks before it returned to number one?
Royals
Q 14Which future star co-wrote 'Party in the U.S.A.' but initially decided not to record it?
Jessie J
She eventually did cover it. The song debuted and peaked at number two, held off the top by 'I Gotta Feeling', and has sold six million copies in the US.
Q 15'Party in the U.S.A.' was kept off number one in 2009 mainly by which Black Eyed Peas hit?
I Gotta Feeling
It also spent a week behind Jay Sean's 'Down', but its 226,000 first-week downloads made it the fastest-selling single Hollywood Records had ever released.
Q 16Which photographer took the 2008 Vanity Fair shoot of a 15-year-old Cyrus that caused a media storm?
Annie Leibovitz
The scandal actually boosted her fame; afterwards a single paparazzi photo of her could reportedly fetch up to $2,000.
Q 17The Last Song (2010), filmed on Tybee Island, Georgia, was based on a novel by which author?
Nicholas Sparks
It was her bid for a more grown-up image, and it is where she met co-star Liam Hemsworth, beginning a decade-long on-off relationship.
Q 18The one track Cyrus didn't co-write on Can't Be Tamed was a cover of which Poison ballad?
Every Rose Has Its Thorn
The album was her last for Hollywood Records; she moved to RCA in early 2013.
Q 19Miley Cyrus's notorious 2013 VMAs performance paired 'We Can't Stop' with 'Blurred Lines' alongside which singer?
Robin Thicke
The foam finger and twerking made it the most talked-about TV moment of the year; a year later she won Video of the Year at the same show.
Q 20'We Can't Stop' interpolates which 1985 hip-hop classic by Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick?
La Di Da Di
Bangerz was full of borrowed hooks: 'SMS' lifts from Salt-N-Pepa's 'Push It' and 'My Darlin'' from 'Stand by Me'.
Lorde's breakthrough blocked it until December, when a viral parody helped push Cyrus back to number one.
Q 24How did Cyrus make her entrance each night on the 2014 Bangerz Tour?
Sliding down a giant tongue
The tour's outfits and stagecraft drew constant headlines; critics nonetheless gave the show largely positive reviews.
Q 25Who accepted Cyrus's 2014 VMA for Video of the Year on stage on her behalf?
A homeless young man
Jesse Helt spoke for 'the 1.6 million runaways and homeless youth' in America, a cause that became her Happy Hippie charity the same year.
Q 26In 2013 Cyrus hired manager Larry Rudolph, best known for guiding which other pop star's career?
Britney Spears
The hire came as she reinvented herself with Bangerz, working with Mike Will Made It and Pharrell Williams.
Q 27Which psychedelic band made the surprise 2015 album Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz with her?
The Flaming Lips
She announced it during her stint hosting the 2015 VMAs and put it up for free streaming; Elton John called the collaboration the kind of leftfield thing that 'would have happened during the '60s'.
Q 28Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz streamed free on which platform right after the 2015 VMAs?
SoundCloud
She hosted that year's show, the first openly pansexual host in its history, and closed it with a surprise performance of 'Dooo It!'.
Q 29Which coach did Cyrus replace when she joined The Voice for season 11 in 2016?
Gwen Stefani
She did two seasons and then declined to return for season 14, around the time she stopped promoting Younger Now.
Q 30What was the lead single from 2017's Younger Now, named after the California beach city where she then lived?
Malibu
It reached number ten on the Hot 100 and went double platinum, but she later admitted the album's country-pop direction 'wasn't exactly the home' for her.