110 Lana Del Rey Trivia Questions & Answers

Put on your reddest lipstick and take the long way down the coast, because this quiz has serious cinematic atmosphere.

These 110 Lana Del Rey trivia questions travel from “Video Games” and Born to Die through Ocean Blvd, with albums, collaborators, films, and poetry along the way.

Elizabeth Grant Before Lana Del Rey

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1. What is Lana Del Rey's birth name?
   Answer: Elizabeth Woolridge Grant.
2. In which city was Lana Del Rey born?
   Answer: New York City.
3. In what upstate New York community did she spend much of her childhood?
   Answer: Lake Placid.
4. Which university did she attend in the Bronx?
   Answer: Fordham University.
5. What subject did she study at Fordham?
   Answer: Philosophy, with an interest in metaphysics.
6. What stage name did she use before Lana Del Rey?
   Answer: Lizzy Grant, a shortened version of her birth name.
7. What does the name Lana Del Rey evoke?
   Answer: Old Hollywood glamour and coastal Americana, fitting her cinematic style.
8. Which instrument did she learn as a teenager?
   Answer: Guitar, which helped her begin writing songs.
9. In which New York City borough did she perform in clubs early in her career?
   Answer: Brooklyn.
10. What broad style is Lana Del Rey known for blending with pop?
    Answer: Dreamy, cinematic Americana with baroque, rock, and alternative influences.

Video Games and the Breakthrough

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11. What was the title of her 2010 album released as Lana Del Ray?
    Answer: Lana Del Ray A.K.A. Lizzy Grant.
12. Which spelling appeared in the title of that 2010 album?
    Answer: “Del Ray” with an “a,” unlike her later “Del Rey” stage name.
13. Which homemade-looking video became her online breakthrough in 2011?
    Answer: “Video Games.”
14. Who edited the original “Video Games” video?
    Answer: Lana Del Rey herself, using vintage and found footage.
15. Which song was paired with “Video Games” as an early single?
    Answer: “Blue Jeans.”
16. What visual era helped establish her image before Born to Die?
    Answer: A collage of vintage Americana, Hollywood imagery, and intimate webcam footage.
17. Which label released Born to Die internationally?
    Answer: Polydor, with Interscope handling the United States.
18. What performance show became part of the conversation around her early breakthrough?
    Answer: Saturday Night Live in January 2012.
19. Which two songs did she perform on that SNL appearance?
    Answer: “Video Games” and “Blue Jeans.”
20. What made “Video Games” unusual beside faster pop hits of 2011?
    Answer: Its slow tempo, orchestral sadness, and restrained vocal delivery.

Born to Die

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21. What is the title of Lana Del Rey's major-label debut album?
    Answer: Born to Die.
22. In what year was Born to Die released?
    Answer: 2012.
23. Which song opens Born to Die?
    Answer: The title track, “Born to Die.”
24. Which album song became a dance-remix hit in the United States?
    Answer: “Summertime Sadness,” remixed by Cedric Gervais.
25. Which track pairs a national symbol with complicated romance?
    Answer: “National Anthem.”
26. Which song title names a soft drink?
    Answer: “Diet Mountain Dew.”
27. Which song follows “Video Games” on the standard Born to Die track list?
    Answer: “Diet Mountain Dew.”
28. Which Born to Die song is named after a woman's first name?
    Answer: “Carmen.”
29. Which track celebrates hearing the narrator's music on the air?
    Answer: “Radio.”
30. What two words complete the album title Born to ___?
    Answer: Die, forming one of the decade's most recognizable pop album names.

Paradise and Tropico

31. What 2012 EP expanded the Born to Die era?
    Answer: Paradise.
32. Which Paradise song received an Anthony Mandler-directed short film?
    Answer: “Ride.”
33. Which Paradise track shares its name with an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood?
    Answer: “Bel Air.”
34. Which song did Del Rey cover for the Paradise EP?
    Answer: “Blue Velvet,” popularized by Bobby Vinton.
35. Which sprawling short film incorporates “Body Electric,” “Gods & Monsters,” and “Bel Air”?
    Answer: Tropico.
36. Who directed Tropico?
    Answer: Anthony Mandler.
37. Which Paradise track references a classic American soft drink brand in its title?
    Answer: “Cola.”
38. Which song begins the Paradise EP?
    Answer: “Ride.”
39. What is the title of the closing standard Paradise track?
    Answer: “Bel Air.”
40. In which Grammy category was Paradise nominated?
    Answer: Best Pop Vocal Album.

Ultraviolence

41. What is Lana Del Rey's 2014 album called?
    Answer: Ultraviolence.
42. Who produced much of Ultraviolence?
    Answer: Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys.
43. Which city hosted much of the album's recording?
    Answer: Nashville, Tennessee.
44. Which song opens Ultraviolence?
    Answer: “Cruel World.”
45. Which track shares the album's title?
    Answer: “Ultraviolence.”
46. Which single's title invokes a color and a shade?
    Answer: “Shades of Cool.”
47. Which song name-checks Brooklyn and jazz in its title?
    Answer: “Brooklyn Baby.”
48. Which track is named after a Florida place and a weight measure?
    Answer: “Florida Kilos.”
49. Which song takes its title from a Nina Simone standard?
    Answer: “The Other Woman.”
50. How did Ultraviolence differ sonically from Born to Die?
    Answer: It leaned further into live-band psychedelic rock and guitar-heavy production.

Honeymoon

51. Which 2015 album followed Ultraviolence?
    Answer: Honeymoon.
52. Which Honeymoon single takes its title from a desire to be above the shoreline?
    Answer: “High by the Beach.”
53. Whose voice appears in the sampled spoken interlude “Burnt Norton”?
    Answer: Poet T. S. Eliot, reading from his own work.
54. Which poem supplies the words of the “Burnt Norton” interlude?
    Answer: T. S. Eliot's “Burnt Norton,” from Four Quartets.
55. Which Honeymoon song title describes a day in the darkest possible terms?
    Answer: “The Blackest Day.”
56. Which track has an Italian man's name?
    Answer: “Salvatore.”
57. Which song closes Honeymoon with a cover?
    Answer: “Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood,” associated with Nina Simone and the Animals.
58. What is the title track of the album?
    Answer: “Honeymoon.”
59. Which Honeymoon track is named for a 1920s and 1930s design style?
    Answer: “Art Deco.”
60. What cinematic quality defines much of Honeymoon?
    Answer: Slow, lush orchestration with noir-like atmosphere.

Lust for Life

61. Which 2017 album features Lana Del Rey smiling on its cover?
    Answer: Lust for Life.
62. Which artist joins her on the title track?
    Answer: The Weeknd.
63. Which rapper appears on “Summer Bummer”?
    Answer: A$AP Rocky, alongside Playboi Carti.
64. Which rapper joins her on “Groupie Love”?
    Answer: A$AP Rocky.
65. Which singer appears on “Beautiful People Beautiful Problems”?
    Answer: Stevie Nicks.
66. Which musician appears on “Tomorrow Never Came”?
    Answer: Sean Ono Lennon.
67. Which song references the famous Hollywood sign?
    Answer: “Lust for Life,” whose video places the singers atop the sign.
68. Which track title describes people dancing during wartime?
    Answer: “When the World Was at War We Kept Dancing.”
69. Which festival is named in one Lust for Life song?
    Answer: Coachella.
70. What Grammy category nominated Lust for Life?
    Answer: Best Pop Vocal Album.

Norman Fucking Rockwell!

71. Which 2019 album is commonly shortened to NFR!?
    Answer: Norman Fucking Rockwell!
72. Who co-produced much of NFR! with Lana Del Rey?
    Answer: Jack Antonoff.
73. Which painter is named in the album title?
    Answer: Norman Rockwell.
74. Which song opens NFR!?
    Answer: The title track, “Norman Fucking Rockwell.”
75. Which NFR! track title is styled as a lowercase superlative?
    Answer: “the greatest.”
76. Which sprawling single has “Venice” in its title?
    Answer: “Venice Bitch.”
77. Which song is named after a Sublime hit that Del Rey covers?
    Answer: “Doin' Time.”
78. Which track has a long title beginning “hope is a dangerous thing”?
    Answer: “hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have – but i have it.”
79. Which album track references a Los Angeles apartment complex?
    Answer: “Mariners Apartment Complex.”
80. Which two Grammy general-field nominations did the NFR! era receive?
    Answer: Album of the Year for the album and Song of the Year for its title track.

Two Albums in 2021

81. Which 2021 album title mentions aircraft trails?
    Answer: Chemtrails over the Country Club.
82. Which song opens Chemtrails over the Country Club?
    Answer: “White Dress.”
83. Which Joni Mitchell song closes that album?
    Answer: “For Free,” performed with Zella Day and Weyes Blood.
84. What was Lana Del Rey's second studio album released in 2021?
    Answer: Blue Banisters.
85. Which three words form that album's title?
    Answer: Blue Banisters.
86. Which Blue Banisters track has the same name as the sound after lightning?
    Answer: “Thunder.”
87. Which singer is featured on “Dealer”?
    Answer: Miles Kane, with additional collaborators from the Last Shadow Puppets sessions.
88. Which song opens Blue Banisters?
    Answer: “Text Book.”
89. Which title track names a household architectural feature?
    Answer: “Blue Banisters.”
90. What distinguishes the two 2021 albums?
    Answer: Chemtrails arrived in March, while Blue Banisters followed in October.

Ocean Blvd

91. What is Lana Del Rey's 2023 album called?
    Answer: Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.
92. How many studio albums had she released by the arrival of Ocean Blvd?
    Answer: Nine, counting Lana Del Ray A.K.A. Lizzy Grant.
93. Which song opens the Ocean Blvd album?
    Answer: “The Grants.”
94. Which initials form the title of the album's second single?
    Answer: “A&W.”
95. Which artist plays piano and appears on “Candy Necklace”?
    Answer: Jon Batiste.
96. Which song features Father John Misty?
    Answer: “Let the Light In.”
97. Which producer's band appears on “Margaret”?
    Answer: Bleachers, led by Jack Antonoff.
98. Which Japanese art of repairing pottery gives one track its name?
    Answer: Kintsugi.
99. Which song closes the album by revisiting an earlier melody?
    Answer: “Taco Truck x VB,” which incorporates “Venice Bitch.”
100. How many Grammy nominations did the Ocean Blvd era receive at the 2024 ceremony?
     Answer: Five, spanning album, song, performance, and collaboration categories.

Soundtracks, Poetry, and Collaborations

101. Which song did Lana Del Rey write for The Great Gatsby?
     Answer: “Young and Beautiful.”
102. Which Disney villain's song did she cover for Maleficent?
     Answer: “Once Upon a Dream.”
103. Which film inspired her songs “Big Eyes” and “I Can Fly”?
     Answer: Big Eyes, directed by Tim Burton.
104. What is the title of her 2020 poetry book?
     Answer: Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass.
105. Was the poetry project also released as spoken-word audio?
     Answer: Yes, with Del Rey reading the poems over music by Jack Antonoff.
106. Which famous musical couple are Sean Ono Lennon's parents?
     Answer: John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
107. Which Taylor Swift album features Lana Del Rey on “Snow on the Beach”?
     Answer: Midnights.
108. Which Miley Cyrus and Ariana Grande collaboration also features Del Rey?
     Answer: “Don't Call Me Angel,” recorded for Charlie's Angels.
109. How many Grammy nominations did Lana Del Rey have through the 2024 ceremony?
     Answer: 11 nominations, according to the Recording Academy's artist profile.
110. Which recurring locations make Lana Del Rey trivia especially map-friendly?
     Answer: New York and California, joined by highways, beaches, clubs, and imagined American landscapes.

Sources and Further Reading

• Grammy artist profile: Lana Del Rey
• Grammy: Born to Die's influence
• Official Lana Del Rey website
• Grammy: 2024 Album of the Year nominees