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Pop Hits on Repeat Trivia Quiz
The biggest pop hits since 2012, hidden in their back stories. Crack the clue, name the song.
220 questions · 2 to 12 players, or solo · Typed answers, close enough counts
About this quiz
This Pop Hits on Repeat Trivia Quiz has 220 questions: 78 easy, 88 medium and 54 hard. It is free. Play it with friends in a room for 2 to 12 players, on phones or in a browser, or play it solo. Type your answers: close enough counts, so a small typo still scores.
Sample questions
20 of the 220 Pop songs questions in this pack. Think of your answer, then open it.
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The video for this 2018 Drake song opens by saying its entire budget, $996,631.90, was given away to people in Miami. Name the song.
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God's Plan
He paid for shoppers' groceries, handed out cash and gave a student a university scholarship on camera.
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Ed Sheeran's 2017 waltz-time love song got two famous duet versions: one with Beyoncé and one with opera star Andrea Bocelli. Name the song.
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Perfect
He wrote it for his old school friend and girlfriend Cherry Seaborn.
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Ed Sheeran first pictured this 2017 smash as a song for Rihanna, until his label boss talked him into keeping it. Name the song.
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Shape of You
It was first written for Little Mix, then planned as a Rihanna and Rudimental duet, before he kept it himself.
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Taylor Swift gave songwriting credits to Right Said Fred on this 2017 comeback single, because its hook follows the rhythm of I'm Too Sexy. Name the song.
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Look What You Made Me Do
Its lyric video alone drew over 19 million YouTube views in its first 24 hours, a record for a lyric video.
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Pharrell met Daft Punk at a Madonna party and offered to work with them. The result was this 2013 hit, with Nile Rodgers on guitar. Name it.
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Get Lucky
It was first teased in two 15-second TV ads on Saturday Night Live, and won Record of the Year at the Grammys.
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After six weeks at number one, this dancehall-pop song with Sean Paul and Anne-Marie became the UK's Christmas number one in 2016. Name it.
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Rockabye
It beat Little Mix, Louis Tomlinson and even Mariah Carey's Christmas classic to the festive top spot.
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Which 15-year-old New Zealander named her 2013 hit Royals after a word on a baseball player's shirt in an old National Geographic photo?
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Lorde
The 1976 photo showed George Brett of the Kansas City Royals signing baseballs. She wrote the song in half an hour.
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Justin Bieber tweeted that this Carly Rae Jepsen song was possibly the catchiest he'd ever heard. Name it.
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Call Me Maybe
She first wrote it as a folk song while on tour; producer Josh Ramsay turned it into pop.
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A dance challenge that began with dancers in Angola made this South African song a worldwide lockdown hit in 2020. Name it.
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Jerusalema
Its lyrics are in Zulu, and it grew from African dance videos into a craze from Australia to the US.
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Rema's 2022 Afrobeats hit reached number three in the US after Selena Gomez joined a remix. Name it.
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Calm Down
It was Rema's first top-ten hit in the US.
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Nirvana's 1991 anthem Smells Like Teen Spirit is named after words a friend scrawled on Kurt Cobain's wall. Teen Spirit was really a brand of what?
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Deodorant
Cobain thought the phrase sounded like a rebel slogan; his girlfriend had just found the product in a grocery store.
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Camila Cabello put this song out as a mere promo track alongside one called OMG. Fans loved it so much it became her lead single. Name it.
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Havana
Its telenovela-style video, with her playing herself as shy Karla, won Video of the Year at the 2018 VMAs.
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Arizona Zervas was unsigned when this 2019 song blew up on TikTok and sparked a label bidding war. Name it.
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Roxanne
It reached number 4 on the Hot 100, and he signed with Columbia Records.
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Calvin Harris recorded this 2018 Dua Lipa duet at his own house. It spent eight weeks at UK number one, the longest run for either star. Name it.
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One Kiss
Harris said it was one of the very few sessions he did at home, as he wanted to make house music again.
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Which Norwegian DJ became the first house producer to perform at an Olympic closing ceremony, at Rio 2016?
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Kygo
He played his song Carry Me with Julia Michaels at the Maracanã Stadium; she says she blacked out from nerves.
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Justin Timberlake's 2013 ballad, inspired partly by his grandparents' marriage, runs about eight minutes, the longest UK number one since 1998. Name it.
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Mirrors
The last UK chart-topper that long was Oasis's All Around the World, back in 1998.
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Which masked, hooded Norwegian producer turned his free instrumental Fade, posted on the NoCopyrightSounds channel, into the 2015 global hit Faded?
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Alan Walker
Sony Music picked up the track after Fade went viral, and Faded passed 700 million YouTube plays within months.
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For this 2002 Coldplay video, filmed and then played in reverse, Chris Martin had to learn to sing the whole song backwards. Name it.
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The Scientist
The reverse-motion video won three MTV Video Music Awards.
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After leaving her label, which had held back her album for years, Raye got her first UK number one as an independent artist with which song featuring 070 Shake?
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Escapism
In 2024 she won a record six Brit Awards in one year.
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A real couple were legally married on stage during which star's 2026 Super Bowl halftime show?
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Bad Bunny
It was the first halftime show sung almost entirely in Spanish; the couple had invited him to their wedding.
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Questions about this quiz
How many questions are in the Pop Hits on Repeat Trivia Quiz?
220. Each game plays a round of them, so you can come back for more.
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