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43 free Norah Jones trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Norah Jones trivia quiz follows the Texas-raised daughter of Ravi Shankar from a Manhattan lounge gig to Come Away with Me, the diamond-selling debut that swept the 2003 Grammys and made her the top jazz artist of the 2000s. The easy questions cover the basics: her famous father, her label, the song that won Record of the Year and the album that started it all. From there the quiz gets into her later records, from Feels Like Home and Not Too Late to the Danger Mouse collaboration Little Broken Hearts and the Grammy-winning Visions. The hard and expert questions are for people who own the side projects: the Little Willies, Puss n Boots, the anonymous rock band El Madmo, the Everly Brothers duets album with Billie Joe Armstrong, her Wong Kar-wai film debut, and the guest spots with everyone from OutKast and the Foo Fighters to Keith Richards and Seth MacFarlane. Every answer was checked against Norah Jones's encyclopaedia entry before publishing. If you enjoy this, try our jazz and 2000s music quizzes next.
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Q 01Norah Jones is the daughter of which Indian sitar master?
Ravi Shankar
Her father was sitar master Ravi Shankar; she was born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar in 1979 to Shankar and American concert producer Sue Jones, who raised her.
Q 02After her parents separated, Jones grew up mainly in Grapevine, a suburb in which state?
Texas
Grapevine is a Dallas–Fort Worth suburb in Texas, where Jones sang in the local Methodist church before transferring to Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas.
Q 03What was the title of Jones's 2002 debut album?
Come Away with Me
Come Away with Me, released in February 2002, entered the Billboard 200 low, climbed to No. 1 a year later and was certified diamond for ten million US sales.
Q 04Which single from her debut won Jones the Grammy for Record of the Year in 2003?
Don't Know Why
'Don't Know Why' won Record of the Year at the February 2003 Grammys, beating Nelly's 'Dilemma' and Eminem's 'Without Me'; its songwriter took Song of the Year the same night.
Q 05How many Grammys did Jones win at the 2003 ceremony, tying the record for a female artist in one night?
Five
Jones won five Grammys that night: Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Best New Artist, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Best Pop Vocal Album, matching Lauryn Hill's and Alicia Keys's single-night hauls.
Q 06Jones signed to which storied jazz label, then owned by EMI, after moving to New York?
Blue Note
Blue Note, then part of EMI, signed Jones in January 2001 after her three-track demo reached label president Bruce Lundvall; she had been singing with jazz and funk groups around New York.
Q 07Which Hank Williams song did Jones cover on her 2002 debut album?
Cold, Cold Heart
Jones covered Hank Williams's 'Cold, Cold Heart' on her debut, giving the 1951 country hit a slow piano-trio reading; Tony Bennett had turned the same song into a pop standard that year.
Q 08Jones won Record of the Year again in 2005 for 'Here We Go Again', a duet with which legend?
Ray Charles
'Here We Go Again', Jones's duet with Ray Charles from his final album Genius Loves Company, won Record of the Year in February 2005, eight months after Charles died.
Q 09Jones majored in jazz piano at which school?
University of North Texas
Jones spent two years majoring in jazz piano at the University of North Texas in Denton, a school famed for its jazz program, before moving to New York in 1999.
Q 10At what age did Jones officially change her name from Geethali Norah Jones Shankar?
16
At 16, with both parents' consent, she legally shortened Geethali Norah Jones Shankar to Norah Jones; she had been singing solos in church since childhood.
Q 11Jones's 2007 album Not Too Late was the first on which she did what?
Wrote or co-wrote every song
Not Too Late was the first album on which Jones wrote or co-wrote every song; she cut it at home with bassist Lee Alexander, with no deadline, and her label reportedly did not know it existed.
Q 12Which producer, who died in 2006, worked on Jones's first two albums and won Producer of the Year for one?
Arif Mardin
Arif Mardin produced Jones's first two albums and won Producer of the Year, Non-Classical at the 2003 Grammys; he died in June 2006, so Not Too Late was her first record without him.
Q 13Jones made her feature-film acting debut in 2007 in which Wong Kar-wai movie?
Q 21Jones played piano and sang on 'Virginia Moon', a 2005 track by which rock band?
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters' 'Virginia Moon', a bossa-nova-tinged song on the acoustic disc of In Your Honor, features Jones on vocals and piano and was nominated for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals.
Q 22Jones's 2006 vocal on 'Sucker', for Mike Patton's Peeping Tom project, drew attention for what novelty?
Her first use of profanity on record
Patton is best known as the frontman of Faith No More.
Q 23Jones's ninth Grammy came as a featured artist on which Herbie Hancock album, the 2008 Album of the Year?
River: The Joni Letters
My Blueberry Nights
My Blueberry Nights, Wong Kar-wai's first English-language film, opened Cannes in May 2007 with Jones starring opposite Jude Law; she wrote 'The Story' for it.
Q 14What breed of dog is Ben, pictured on the cover of Jones's 2009 album The Fall?
St. Bernard
The big dog on The Fall's cover is a St. Bernard named Ben; the 2009 album peaked at No. 3, the first of hers not to top the Billboard 200.
Q 15Which producer collaborated with Jones on her 2012 album Little Broken Hearts?
Danger Mouse
They had first worked together on the Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi album Rome.
Q 16What is Jones's alt-country band, formed in 2003 with Richard Julian and Jim Campilongo, called?
The Little Willies
The Little Willies — Jones, Richard Julian, Jim Campilongo, Lee Alexander and Dan Rieser — began as a one-off Willie Nelson tribute and released a self-titled album in 2006 and For the Good Times in 2012.
Q 17Under the alias 'Maddie' and wearing a blond wig, Jones sang and played guitar in which rock band?
El Madmo
El Madmo was the punk-pop trio of Jones as 'Maddie', Daru Oda and Richard Julian; its self-titled album came out in 2008 on Conor Oberst's Team Love label.
Q 18Jones's all-female country trio with Sasha Dobson and Catherine Popper is named what?
Puss n Boots
Their album No Fools, No Fun came out in 2014.
Q 19Whose 1958 album Songs Our Daddy Taught Us did Jones and Billie Joe Armstrong remake?
The Everly Brothers
Foreverly (2013) remakes the Everly Brothers' Songs Our Daddy Taught Us track for track, with Jones and Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong taking the brothers' close harmonies.
Q 20Jones sang on 'Take Off Your Cool' from which group's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below?
OutKast
OutKast's 2003 double album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below features Jones on 'Take Off Your Cool', a hushed acoustic duet with André 3000 on The Love Below disc.
River: The Joni Letters, Herbie Hancock's Joni Mitchell tribute, took Album of the Year in February 2008; Jones sings its opening track, 'Court and Spark', earning a share of the award.
Q 24Jones's 2024 record Visions won her tenth Grammy in which category?
Best Traditional Pop Vocal
Visions won Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album at the February 2025 Grammys, Jones's tenth win; she played guitar and piano on the record and co-wrote its songs with her producer.
Q 25Jones sang 'Everybody Needs a Best Friend', an Oscar-nominated song, for which 2012 film?
Ted
Jones performs 'Everybody Needs a Best Friend' over Ted's opening credits; written by Walter Murphy and Seth MacFarlane, it was nominated for the Best Original Song Oscar, and she cameos in the film.
Q 26Jones's 2019 release Begin Again was what kind of record?
A compilation of recent singles
It gathered singles from 2018 to 2019, including collaborations with Jeff Tweedy and Thomas Bartlett.
Q 27Which country legend duets with Jones on 'Creepin' In' from Feels Like Home?
Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton duets with Jones on 'Creepin' In', a bluegrass-flavored track on Feels Like Home; the 2004 album debuted at No. 1 and sold over a million copies in its first week.
Q 28Jones played a three-song tribute in October 2011 at which company's campus, for its late co-founder?
Apple
Apple held its memorial for Steve Jobs on the Cupertino campus on 19 October 2011; Jones and Coldplay performed, and she closed with Bob Dylan's 'Forever Young', a Jobs favorite.
Q 29Jones's 2017 cover of 'Unchained Melody' was made for the soundtrack of which Amazon TV series?
The Man in the High Castle
Resistance Radio: The Man in the High Castle Album (2017) was a 1960s-style companion record to the Amazon series, and Jones's 'Unchained Melody' sits among its period covers.
Q 30Jones sang 'American Anthem' for The War, a documentary by which filmmaker?
Ken Burns
Ken Burns's seven-part PBS documentary The War (2007) featured Jones's recording of Gene Scheer's 'American Anthem' as one of its signature pieces.