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50 free Tim McGraw trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Tim McGraw has been one of country music's biggest names since the mid-1990s, with more than twenty number-one singles, a long partnership on stage and on record with his wife Faith Hill, and a second career on screen. His life story has plenty of surprises too, starting with the way he found out who his father was. This quiz covers the songs and albums that made him, including Highway Don't Care, his 2013 duet with Taylor Swift, and the story its music video tells. There are also questions on his tours, his awards, his film and television roles, and the fun facts fans like to trade: famous friends, unlikely collaborations and his life away from the stage. It is written for casual listeners and devoted fans alike. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so even the questions you miss leave you with a new story about him.
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Q 01At 11, Tim McGraw learned who his real father was after finding what in his mother's closet?
His birth certificate
He found his birth certificate, which named star pitcher Tug McGraw as his father. Tim had only been hunting for money to buy sweets, and until then he believed his stepfather was his dad.
Q 02Tim McGraw was arrested in Buffalo in 2000 after which fellow country star took a ride on a police horse?
Kenny Chesney
Kenny Chesney would not get off the horse, and McGraw stepped in when officers thought it was being stolen. Both singers were acquitted the following year.
Q 03Tim McGraw scored a 2004 pop crossover hit as the guest singer on Over and Over by which rapper?
Nelly
Nelly wrote the lyrics himself, and the unlikely country-rap pairing topped the singles charts in both the UK and Ireland.
Q 04Which Tim McGraw song about a county-fair first love was the most-played radio single of the 2000s in any genre?
Something Like That
Something Like That logged 487,343 radio spins between 2000 and 2009, more than any other song. McGraw had to push his label to release it as a single at all.
Q 05Which country star plays lead guitar on Highway Don't Care, Tim McGraw's 2013 duet with Taylor Swift?
Keith Urban
Keith Urban is credited as the featured guitarist and appears in the video with both singers. McGraw and Swift recorded their own vocal parts separately.
Q 06Which label, home of Taylor Swift's debut single titled Tim McGraw, signed McGraw himself in 2012?
Big Machine
Big Machine released Swift's single in 2006, six years before McGraw joined its roster. She built the song around a summer romance and her favorite McGraw track.
Q 07In The Blind Side, Tim McGraw plays Sean Tuohy, husband of a character played by which Oscar-winning actress?
Sandra Bullock
Sandra Bullock won the Best Actress Oscar for the role of Leigh Anne Tuohy. The film tells how the couple took in future NFL lineman Michael Oher.
Q 08Tim McGraw and Faith Hill play pioneers James and Margaret Dutton in 1883, a prequel to which TV drama?
Yellowstone
Yellowstone follows the modern Dutton ranch, and 1883 shows how the family reached Montana by wagon train. McGraw's James Dutton is the great-grandfather of John Dutton III.
Q 09Which Tim McGraw song, released months after his father Tug McGraw died, was 2004's top country song?
Live Like You Were Dying
Live Like You Were Dying spent seven weeks at number one and won the Grammy for Best Country Song. Its writers drew on friends whose outlook changed after a serious diagnosis.
Q 10Which 1995 Tim McGraw hit did the NHL's Nashville Predators adopt as their goal song?
I Like It, I Love It
I Like It, I Love It has greeted Predators goals since the team's first season, in a version with a line rewritten for the team. It was McGraw's third number-one country hit.
Q 11Which danger does the video for Tim McGraw's Highway Don't Care, built around a young woman's car crash, warn against?
Texting while driving
Texting while driving causes the wreck: the driver drops her phone, reaches for it and drifts into oncoming traffic. Shane Drake directed the clip, which premiered in May 2013.
Q 12In the video for Highway Don't Care, viewers assume Tim McGraw plays the boyfriend until he is revealed as whom?
A hospital physician
He is a hospital physician: the messages he keeps receiving are pages calling him in to treat the crash victim. She is flown in by a Vanderbilt LifeFlight helicopter.
Q 13Highway Don't Care comes from which 2013 Tim McGraw album, his first after leaving his label of twenty years?
Q 21Which 1994 ballad, which follows a couple from childhood to becoming parents, was Tim McGraw's first number one?
Don't Take the Girl
Don't Take the Girl topped the country chart and crossed over to number 17 on the Hot 100. It was only the fifth single of his career.
Q 22Which 1994 Tim McGraw single became his breakthrough hit even though some radio stations refused to play it?
Indian Outlaw
Indian Outlaw drew criticism for its stereotyped portrayal of Native Americans, but the controversy helped sales. It reached number eight on the country chart and 15 on the Hot 100.
Q 23During the 2005 NFL season, Tim McGraw sang weekly rewritten versions of one of his hits for which TV broadcast?
Two Lanes of Freedom
Two Lanes of Freedom arrived in February 2013 and reached number two on the Billboard 200. It also produced the singles Truck Yeah, One of Those Nights and Southern Girl.
Q 14Tim McGraw's Highway Don't Care won which honor at the 2014 Academy of Country Music Awards?
Video of the Year
Video of the Year was its one win that night; it lost in the Single Record and Vocal Event categories. The CMA had already named the duet its Musical Event of the Year.
Q 15Tim McGraw's father Tug McGraw struck out the final batter of the 1980 World Series for which team?
The Phillies
The Phillies won their first championship on that strikeout. In 2008 Tim scattered a handful of his dad's ashes on the pitcher's mound at their ballpark during another World Series.
Q 16Tim McGraw quit college and left for Nashville on the day in 1989 that which country singer, his hero, died?
Keith Whitley
Keith Whitley was McGraw's idol, and the news pushed him to drop out and chase a music career. Within about a year a Nashville label had noticed him.
Q 17Tim McGraw went to college on a baseball scholarship while preparing for which career?
A lawyer
A lawyer was the plan: he was a pre-law major and a Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity member before music took over. He quit college in 1989 to chase a singing career in Nashville.
Q 18Tim McGraw was born in the town of Delhi in which state, where his teenage mother was sent to live with relatives?
Louisiana
Louisiana is where his mother's parents sent her once she became pregnant. She had met Tug McGraw as a high school student living in the same apartment building.
Q 19Which 2006 tour by Tim McGraw and Faith Hill became the highest-grossing tour in country music up to that time?
Soul2Soul II
Soul2Soul II grossed almost $89 million in 2006 and won Pollstar's Major Tour of the Year award. The couple gave the profits from their New Orleans show to Hurricane Katrina relief.
Q 20Which 1997 Tim McGraw and Faith Hill duet, with a video shot while she was pregnant, spent six weeks at number one?
It's Your Love
It's Your Love was the first chart-topping country duet by a married couple in the modern tracking era. Hill was expecting the pair's first daughter, Gracie, during the shoot.
Monday Night Football
Monday Night Football played the song at halftime over highlights of the weekend's games. The words changed every week to mention the latest plays.
Q 24Which Tim McGraw single set a 1990s record by spending 42 weeks on Billboard's country chart?
Just to See You Smile
Just to See You Smile also spent six weeks at number one and was Billboard's top country single of 1998. It was his third straight chart-topper from one album.
Q 25Which Elton John classic did Tim McGraw cover on the 2002 album he recorded with his own touring band?
Tiny Dancer
Tiny Dancer was sent only to adult contemporary radio, yet it reached the country chart from unsolicited airplay. The album was cut in a mountaintop studio in upstate New York.
Q 26What is the name of Tim McGraw's longtime touring band, which he used in the studio for a 2002 album?
The Dancehall Doctors
The Dancehall Doctors got the job because McGraw wanted to recognize their part in his success. Country albums are normally cut with session players, not a singer's road band.
Q 27The video for Tim McGraw's Humble and Kind uses worldwide footage from a documentary series by which TV host?
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey supplied scenes from her series Belief after McGraw saw its trailer while running on a treadmill. She publicly praised the finished video the day after its release.
Q 28Humble and Kind, a 2016 number one for Tim McGraw, was written by which songwriter for her five children?
Lori McKenna
Lori McKenna wrote it alone as a list of everything she wanted her kids to know. It won the Grammy for Best Country Song and the CMA's Song of the Year.
Q 29Which label, Tim McGraw's home since 1990, sued him in 2011 over the timing of his album Emotional Traffic?
Curb Records
Curb Records claimed he had recorded the album too early. McGraw countersued, and that November a judge freed him to record for another company.
Q 30What is the title of Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's first full duets album, released in 2017?
The Rest of Our Life
The Rest of Our Life came out through a new deal with Sony after two decades of occasional duets. Its lead single, Speak to a Girl, reached number six on the country chart.