Shawn Mendes Trivia
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106 free Shawn Mendes trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Shawn Mendes trivia quiz follows the whole story: a 13-year-old in Pickering, Ontario, teaching himself guitar from YouTube, the six-second Vine covers that got 10,000 likes overnight, the manager who found him online, and the run of number-one albums that started with Handwritten in 2015. It covers the singles too, from "Life of the Party" and "Stitches" to "Treat You Better", "In My Blood", "If I Can't Have You" and "Señorita", the duet that finally gave him a Hot 100 number one. There are questions on the tours (including the one that ended in Copenhagen), the Netflix documentary, the singing crocodile he voiced, his brand deals with Armani and Tim Hortons, the Shawn Mendes Foundation and Wonder Grants, and the folk turn of the 2024 album Shawn. Easy questions ask about his home town and first single; the hard end gets into chart records, remixers, tour opening cities and who directed his 2018 documentary. Every answer was checked against the Wikipedia biography of Shawn Mendes, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01Besides soccer, which sport did Mendes play at school?
Ice hockey
Ice hockey and soccer were his school sports before music took over: when he graduated from high school in June 2016, he was in the middle of a world tour.
Q 02In which Ontario town did Shawn Mendes grow up?
Pickering
Pickering is where he was raised and where he graduated from Pine Ridge Secondary School in 2016, more than a year after his debut album had topped the Billboard 200.
Q 03Shawn Mendes's father comes from which country?
Portugal
Portugal is his father's homeland, and Mendes once re-recorded one of his hits partly in Portuguese as the national football team's official World Cup song.
Q 04What is the name of Shawn Mendes's younger sister?
Aaliyah
Aaliyah is his only sibling; she and their parents appear alongside him in the 2020 Netflix documentary about him.
Q 05Where did Mendes learn guitar as a young teenager?
YouTube
YouTube was his teacher: he typed in searches like 'how to play beginner songs on guitar', then practised for hours a day because he never felt good enough yet.
Q 06On which app did Mendes first build a following in 2013?
Vine
Vine's six-second loops suited his chorus-only covers, and one clip drew 10,000 likes overnight; Twitter shut the app down in January 2017, by which time he had two number-one albums.
Q 07A cover of whose 'As Long as You Love Me' won Mendes 10,000 likes and followers overnight?
Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber's 'As Long as You Love Me' was the cover that went viral for Mendes in 2013; the two Canadians later recorded 'Monster' together in 2020.
Q 08Which record label signed the 15-year-old Mendes in May 2014?
Island Records
Island Records signed him after manager Andrew Gertler found his covers online and persuaded Mendes and his parents to travel to New York to meet the label.
Q 09With which song did Mendes win Ryan Seacrest's "Best Cover Song" contest in April 2014?
"Say Something"
"Say Something", the A Great Big World ballad, was the winning cover; he signed officially with Island Records the following month, in May 2014.
Q 10What was the title of Shawn Mendes's first single, released in June 2014?
"Life of the Party"
"Life of the Party" arrived in June 2014, a month after he signed his record deal; its lyrics about being happy with yourself inspired a DoSomething.org campaign against low self-esteem.
Q 11What chart record did Mendes's debut single set in July 2014?
Youngest top-25 debut
Youngest top-25 debut, at 15: his label put the song on sale with no radio promotion to see what his online fans would do, and their downloads carried it straight to number 24.
Q 12Before he was signed, Mendes toured alongside other social media stars as part of which tour?
Magcon
Magcon, short for meet and greet convention, sold fans tickets to meet teenage social media stars at hotel events; Mendes played its Dallas stop in November 2013 and by the next summer had a single in the Hot 100.
Q 13Mendes was an opening act on which singer's nationwide tour in 2014?
Austin Mahone
Q 21What was the title of Mendes's first collaboration with Camila Cabello, released in late 2015?
"I Know What You Did Last Summer"
"I Know What You Did Last Summer" was released in November 2015 and appeared on a reissue of his debut album; it reached the US top 20, and the pair would not record together again until 2019.
Q 22When she first recorded with Mendes in 2015, Camila Cabello was still a member of which group?
Fifth Harmony
Fifth Harmony, formed on The X Factor USA in 2012, remained Cabello's group until she left in December 2016; the band later went on hiatus.
Q 23Mendes made his live-action acting debut in January 2016 in the season three premiere of which CW series?
The 100
Austin Mahone had him open his summer 2014 tour solo, starting in Mahone's hometown of San Antonio; three days into the run Mendes's debut EP came out, and it entered the Billboard 200 at number five.
Q 14Mendes's debut EP peaked at what position on the Billboard 200 in 2014?
5
The Shawn Mendes EP debuted at number 5 on the Billboard 200 with 48,000 copies sold in its first week, a big number for a 15-year-old known mostly for six-second covers.
Q 15"Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart)", featuring Mendes, was a 2014 single by which British band?
The Vamps
The Vamps built the track on the chorus of Simon & Garfunkel's 1970 hit 'Cecilia', which is why Paul Simon shares the writing credit; the version with Mendes was their album's fifth single and made the UK top ten.
Q 16What was the title of Shawn Mendes's debut studio album, released in April 2015?
Handwritten
Handwritten went to number one on the Billboard 200 in April 2015, when Mendes was a 16-year-old high-school student: he toured it while keeping up his coursework away from the classroom and graduated with his class in 2016.
Q 17Which 2017 single, added to his second album's reissue, gave Mendes a US top-ten hit?
"There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back"
"There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back" reached number six on the Hot 100; its video was shot in Paris, Amsterdam and Britain while he toured Europe, because he wanted it to stand for adventure.
Q 18"Stitches" peaked at number four in the US and ten in Canada, but topped the chart in which country?
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom was a slow burn for 'Stitches': after months of climbing the chart, it edged out 'Love Yourself' in a week-long race for number one in January 2016.
Q 19In 2015 Mendes opened North American dates on which artist's world tour, alongside Vance Joy?
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift had him open North American dates of her 1989 World Tour, sharing the bill with Vance Joy and Haim; he started writing his next single backstage at one of the stops.
Q 20Mendes recorded the song "Believe" for the soundtrack of which Disney Channel Original Movie?
Descendants
Descendants began as a concept with no music at all; director Kenny Ortega said the story was tweaked once songs were added, and Mendes's 'Believe' plays over the end credits.
The 100 cast him as Macallan in 'Wanheda: Part One', where he performs the Violent Femmes' 'Add It Up' for the survivors: a rare burst of song in a drama whose characters are usually too busy fighting.
Q 24"Treat You Better" and "Mercy" were singles from which of Mendes's albums?
Illuminate
Illuminate debuted at number one in the US and Canada in September 2016; his first top-ten hit had been written without him, but on this record Mendes co-wrote every track.
Q 25Mendes's December 2016 live album was recorded at which famous venue?
Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden sold out for his one-night show on September 10, 2016, a month after he turned 18; he announced the live album that December only four days before releasing it.
Q 26Mendes received the International Achievement Award at which 2022 ceremony?
Juno Awards
Juno Awards night was a homecoming: Mendes returned to Toronto to collect the prize at the first in-person ceremony since 2019, and won the fan choice award the same evening.
Q 27Which lead single from his 2018 self-titled album openly addressed Mendes's struggles with anxiety?
"In My Blood"
"In My Blood" came out in March 2018, and within weeks Mendes was telling interviewers how therapy helped his anxiety; the song earned a Song of the Year Grammy nomination.
Q 28Which singer featured on the 2018 Mendes track "Youth"?
Khalid
Mendes and Khalid performed the song together at the 2018 Billboard Music Awards with the Stoneman Douglas High School choir.
Q 29Which DJ's remix of "Lost in Japan" did Mendes perform at the 2018 American Music Awards?
Zedd
Zedd got the job because Mendes wanted an exciting remix once the song was chosen as his next single and asked a friend; the new version came out twelve days before the awards show.
Q 30Which YouTube star directed the 2018 documentary Shawn Mendes – Artist Spotlight Stories?
Casey Neistat
Casey Neistat, the New York vlogger and filmmaker, directed the short for YouTube's Artist Spotlight Stories series, following Mendes on the road; it premiered to selected fans before its online release later that year.