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50 free Shania Twain trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Shania Twain went from singing in Timmins bars at eight years old to selling more than 100 million records and owning the best-selling country album of all time. Along the way she changed her name, lost both parents in a car crash, married and split from the producer who co-wrote her biggest hits, lost her voice to Lyme disease and dysphonia, and came back with three Las Vegas residencies and a Glastonbury Legends slot. This quiz covers all of it: her early life and name, the Mercury Nashville years, The Woman in Me, Come On Over and Up!, the videos and singles, awards and honours, her personal life, and the 2017 to 2026 comeback albums. Easy questions cover the hits everyone knows; the hard ones dig into chart positions, release dates and her teenage cover band. Every answer has been checked against documented sources and the source is shown after each question. Questions are about the songs and the story, not the lyrics.
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Q 01What was Shania Twain's birth name?
Eilleen Regina Edwards
She took the surname Twain from her adoptive father Jerry, and adopted the first name Shania in the early 1990s.
Q 02In which Ontario city was Shania Twain born?
Windsor
Her parents divorced when she was two and her mother moved the girls north.
Q 03In which northern Ontario mining town did Shania Twain grow up?
Timmins
She started singing in local bars at eight to help pay the family's bills, earning about CA$20 a night after last call.
Q 04Her adoptive father Jerry Twain was a member of which First Nation?
Ojibwe
Media reports have often incorrectly described her as sharing that heritage because of the connection.
Q 05The name 'Shania' was widely rumoured to be an Indigenous phrase meaning what?
On my way
Her biographer Robin Eggar wrote that there is 'continuing confusion' over whether it is really a word from that language at all.
Q 06How did Shania Twain's mother and adoptive father die in November 1987?
A car accident
The crash happened about 50 km north of Wawa, Ontario; she moved home to raise her younger siblings.
Q 07After her parents died, Twain supported her siblings by singing at which venue near Huntsville?
Deerhurst Resort
When her siblings moved out she cut a demo and her Huntsville manager set up a showcase that led to a record deal.
Q 08Which record label signed Shania Twain in the early 1990s?
Mercury Nashville
Before her debut she sang backing vocals for labelmates Jeff Chance and Sammy Kershaw.
Q 09Where did Shania Twain's 1993 debut single 'Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?' peak on the country chart?
No. 11
She had little writing input on that self-titled debut, but producer Mutt Lange noticed her distinctive songwriting voice.
Q 10Which AC/DC and Def Leppard producer co-wrote and produced her breakthrough albums and became her husband?
Robert John 'Mutt' Lange
They married on 28 December 1993 and separated in 2008.
Q 11Which 1995 album was Shania Twain's commercial breakthrough?
The Woman in Me
It spawned eight singles and won the Grammy for Best Country Album.
Q 12What was Shania Twain's first No. 1 country single?
Any Man of Mine
It also cracked the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100.
Q 13Which of her songs appeared on the soundtrack of the 1996 film 'Twister', a first for Twain?
No One Needs to Know
It was one of three more No. 1 country hits from her second album.
Q 21Which achievement is Twain the only female artist in history to hold, according to the RIAA?
Three consecutive Diamond-certified albums
Her second, third and fourth albums each passed 10 million US copies.
Q 22Which two health conditions did Twain say weakened her voice and forced her mid-2000s hiatus?
Lyme disease and dysphonia
She has said she had to learn to navigate a 'new voice' in order to keep performing.
Q 23Twain headlined the halftime show of which January 2003 NFL championship game?
Super Bowl XXXVII
Q 14Roughly how many copies has 'Come On Over' (1997) sold worldwide?
40 million
That makes it the best-selling studio album by a female solo artist and the best-selling country album of all time.
Q 15How many singles were released from 'Come On Over'?
Twelve
The album has 16 tracks and runs just over an hour, unusually long for a country record of its era.
Q 16Which 'Come On Over' single sent sales 'skyrocketing' and won Grammys including Best Country Song?
You're Still the One
It was the album's third single and also cracked the UK Top 10.
Q 17The music video for 'Man! I Feel Like a Woman!' is a role-reversed homage to videos by which singer?
Robert Palmer
Twain dances in front of a line of blank-eyed male models, flipping the concept of 'Addicted to Love'.
Q 18Which Hollywood actor is name-checked as an unimpressive suitor in 'That Don't Impress Me Much'?
Brad Pitt
Radio versions swapped in the name of each station's morning-show host instead.
Q 19How many weeks did 'Come On Over' spend at No. 1 on the UK album chart?
11
A pop remix of the album with less country instrumentation was issued for Europe in 1998 and delivered her breakthrough there.
Q 20Which colour disc of Shania Twain's 'Up!' carried the country/acoustic mixes?
Green
Red was pop/rock and blue was world/dance; the album debuted at No. 1 with 874,000 first-week US sales.
She shared the San Diego stage with No Doubt and Sting.
Q 24Twain's first Las Vegas residency, 'Still the One', ran from 2012 to 2014 at which venue?
The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
She announced it at a press conference at the Country Music Hall of Fame in June 2011.
Q 25What was the name of her second Las Vegas residency, which opened in December 2019?
Let's Go!
Postponed repeatedly by the pandemic, it finally closed in September 2022.
Q 26Twain's 2008 split from Mutt Lange followed his affair with her best friend. Whom did Twain later marry?
That woman's ex-husband, Frédéric
Thiébaud was a Nestlé executive; the engagement was reported in December 2010.
Q 27What is the name of Shania Twain's son, born in 2001?
Eja
The name is pronounced 'Asia'; he was born in Europe, where Twain has long lived.
Q 28Twain's 2017 comeback album, her first in 15 years, was titled what?
Now
It debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, her second album to do so.
Q 29What was the title of the 2022 Netflix documentary about Twain's career?
Not Just a Girl
A companion compilation of 17 hits plus the new title track was released alongside it.
Q 30Twain's sixth studio album, released in February 2023, was called what?
Queen of Me
With it she became only the third woman with US top-ten albums in the 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and 2020s.