Olivia Rodrigo
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This Olivia Rodrigo trivia quiz has 54 free questions with answers and follows her whole story so far: the Temecula kid in an Old Navy commercial, Paige on Bizaardvark, Nini on High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, and then the January 2021 week when "drivers license" broke Spotify records and made her the youngest artist ever to debut at number one on the Hot 100. From there it digs into Sour and Guts track by track — the Taylor Swift and Paramore writing credits, the Sour Prom film, the secret vinyl tracks, the iPhone-shot "get him back!" video, the $20 Silver Star tickets on the Guts World Tour and the Netflix concert film — plus her Grammys, the White House vaccine visit, "Can't Catch Me Now" for The Hunger Games and her Fund 4 Good charity. It is built for fans who have the lyrics memorized and casual listeners alike, with easy openers and some genuinely hard deep cuts. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and primary sources and each question carries its citation, so you can trust what you learn.
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Q 01Olivia Rodrigo was born in which Southern California city?
Murrieta
Murrieta is where Rodrigo was born on February 20, 2003, though she grew up in the town next door, the only child of a teacher and a family therapist.
Q 02What was the name of Rodrigo's character on the Disney Channel series Bizaardvark?
Paige Olvera
Rodrigo played Paige Olvera, the guitar-playing half of the show's video-making duo, and had to learn the instrument for the part.
Q 03Which character did Rodrigo play on High School Musical: The Musical: The Series?
Nini Salazar-Roberts
Rodrigo played Nini Salazar-Roberts from the show's November 2019 premiere, and when its producers learned she wrote her own songs, they asked her to write for the series too.
Q 04In High School Musical: The Musical: The Series season one, Rodrigo's character is cast as whom?
Gabriella Montez
Gabriella Montez is the lead her character wins in East High's staging of High School Musical, while her ex-boyfriend auditions only to win her back and lands Troy opposite her.
Q 05Which song did Rodrigo write and perform as a 2019 promotional single for HSM: The Musical: The Series?
All I Want
'All I Want' came about when the showrunner asked Rodrigo to write her character a song; three days later she had it, and it reached the Hot 100 a year before her debut single.
Q 06Rodrigo's first acting role was the lead in which direct-to-video American Girl film?
Grace Stirs Up Success
Grace Stirs Up Success (2015) cast Rodrigo as Grace Thomas, a young baker who trains in her uncle's Paris patisserie and then enters MasterChef Junior to save her grandparents' bakery.
Q 07Rodrigo's first job as a child performer was a commercial for which retailer?
Old Navy
Old Navy hired Rodrigo for a commercial, her first job; she had been in voice lessons since she was five, and it was she, not her parents, who pushed to go to auditions.
Q 08Which producer co-wrote "Drivers License" with Rodrigo and went on to produce her albums?
Dan Nigro
Dan Nigro, once frontman of the indie band As Tall as Lions, was won over by an Instagram clip of Rodrigo singing and met her a week before the March 2020 lockdown.
Q 09Rodrigo signed her first record deal in 2020 with which label?
Geffen Records
Rodrigo signed with Geffen Records, part of Interscope Geffen A&M, in 2020 in a deal that let her keep ownership of her master recordings.
Q 10Which show had men reciting "Drivers License" lyrics in 2021?
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live aired the sketch on February 20, 2021, Rodrigo's 18th birthday, with host Regé-Jean Page among the men; three months later she was the show's musical guest.
Q 11What sound opens "Drivers License" before the piano comes in?
A car engine starting
'Drivers License' opens with a car engine starting and a door-ajar chime recorded from Rodrigo's mother's car, which fade into the song's pulsing piano pattern.
Q 12Before it became her debut album, Sour was originally planned to be released as what?
An EP
Sour was first planned as an EP, but after 'Drivers License' took off in January 2021 Rodrigo pushed for a full album, saying only that would truly show what she could do.
Q 13Three months after release, Sour returned to number one when it came out in which format?
Vinyl
Vinyl copies of Sour did not arrive until August 20, 2021; the rush to buy them sent the album back to number one in the US and, the same week, in the UK.
Q 21Sour's roughly 385 million first-week streams set a record for an album by a woman on which platform?
Spotify
Spotify counted about 385 million streams of Sour in seven days, its biggest opening week for an album by a woman, from a singer whose debut single was only four months old.
Q 22Which Sour album track hit number nine on the Hot 100 and is rumoured to be about Joshua Bassett?
Traitor
'Traitor' entered the Hot 100 at number nine in Sour's first week before it was ever a single; it was only sent to radio that August.
Q 23The concert film Rodrigo premiered on YouTube in June 2021 was themed as what kind of event?
A prom
Sour Prom, streamed on YouTube on June 29, 2021, staged the album as a prom night: Rodrigo sang from the back of a limousine, on a dance floor and with a marching band on a football field.
Q 14Which song opens Sour?
Brutal
'Brutal' opens Sour, though it was the last song written: Rodrigo and her producer finished it about two weeks before the album had to be turned in.
Q 15Which song closes Sour?
Hope Ur OK
'Hope Ur OK' closes Sour because Rodrigo wanted a sad, angry record to end on a hopeful note; she calls it a deeply personal song about people she loves.
Q 16The Sour track "1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back" interpolates the piano line from which Taylor Swift song?
New Year's Day
The piano figure comes from Swift's 2017 track 'New Year's Day'; Rodrigo sang her lyric over its chords, so Swift and Jack Antonoff received co-writing credits on '1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back.'
Q 17Members of which band were retroactively given co-writing credits on "Good 4 U"?
Paramore
Paramore's Hayley Williams and Josh Farro were added as co-writers in August 2021, three months after release, because the chorus of 'Good 4 U' resembles their 2007 hit 'Misery Business.'
Q 18In the "Good 4 U" music video, Rodrigo plays what kind of character out for revenge?
A cheerleader
Rodrigo plays a cheerleader taking fiery revenge on an ex in the Petra Collins-directed 'Good 4 U' video, which nods to Jennifer's Body and The Princess Diaries.
Q 19"Deja Vu" credits Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff and St. Vincent because it interpolates which Swift song?
Cruel Summer
'Cruel Summer' echoes in the bridge of 'Deja Vu'; the credit was missing at release and was added months later, after listeners pointed out the likeness.
Q 20Where was the "Deja Vu" music video filmed, a place also referenced in the song's lyrics?
Malibu
Malibu's coast road opens the video, with Rodrigo driving to watch her ex's new girlfriend; it ends with her smashing the televisions with a sledgehammer.
Q 24Which magazine named Rodrigo its Entertainer of the Year for 2021?
Time
Time named Rodrigo its 2021 Entertainer of the Year that December, eleven months after 'Drivers License' turned a Disney actor into a chart-topping pop star.
Q 25Rodrigo won which 2022 general-field Grammy?
Best New Artist
Best New Artist was her one win in the general field; Jon Batiste took Album of the Year, and Silk Sonic's 'Leave the Door Open' beat 'Drivers License' for both record and song.
Q 26In July 2021, Rodrigo visited the White House to promote what?
COVID-19 vaccination
On July 14, 2021, Rodrigo met President Biden and Dr. Anthony Fauci at the White House and recorded videos urging young Americans to get COVID-19 vaccination shots.
Q 27Rodrigo's 2022 documentary Driving Home 2 U follows her road trip to Los Angeles from where?
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City is where Rodrigo began writing Sour while filming her Disney+ series, so the film retraces her familiar drive from there to Los Angeles, with songs played along the way.
Q 28Which Avril Lavigne song did Rodrigo cover nightly on her 2022 Sour Tour?
Complicated
'Complicated' was a nightly cover on the Sour Tour, and at Toronto's Massey Hall in April 2022 Avril Lavigne walked on stage to sing it with her.
Q 29Which Guts song grew from Olivia Rodrigo's homework for a 2022 USC poetry class?
Lacy
'Lacy' began as a poem about all-consuming envy, written at her kitchen counter for a class assignment; she liked it so much that she turned it into a song.
Q 30At which 2023 awards show did Rodrigo stage a fake on-stage mishap?
MTV VMAs
The MTV VMAs fell four days after Guts came out: fireworks wrecked her forest set and a handler led her off, a stunt echoing the 'Vampire' video, before she returned to sing 'Get Him Back!'