Taylor Swift

Question: Why did Taylor Swift’s performance with Stevie Nicks at the 2010 Grammy Awards receive negative reviews?

Answer: Technical problems may have been partly to blame. Swift also won four Grammy awards that night including album of the year for Fearless. Take that, haters.

Question: What sort of crops were grown on the farm where Taylor Swift lived as a child?

Answer: Taylor Swift grew up on a small Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania. She has said that one of her jobs on the farm was to check the trees for bugs, especially praying mantis eggs.

Question: When she was 11, Taylor Swift sang the national anthem at a game for which professional sports team?

Answer: Swift’s performance in was probably the highlight of the evening as the 76ers lost to the Detroit Pistons with a final score of 92-88.

Question: What country music star’s name was the title of Taylor Swift’s first single?

Answer: “Tim McGraw” was released in 2006. It’s about the singer’s memories of a summer fling, which come back to her whenever a certain unnamed Tim McGraw song is played.

Question: How old was Taylor Swift when she was signed an artist development deal with RCA Records?

Answer: Swift left RCA at the end of her one-year contract and then signed with the newly-formed Big Machine Records.

Question: In what year was Taylor Swift born?

Answer: Taylor Swift was born on December 13, 1989. 1989 was also the title of her fifth studio album, released in 2014.

Question: What is the first name of Taylor Swift’s real-life childhood best friend, the inspiration for the song “Fifteen”?

Answer: Taylor Swift and Abigail Anderson met in a high school English class and remained friends into adulthood.

Question: About how many albums did Taylor Swift’s 2014 album 1989 sell in its first week of release?

Answer: 1989 went on to become the best-selling album of 2014.

Question: On which TV police procedural did Taylor Swift make a guest appearance in 2009?

Answer: Swift, a devout fan of the show, played a young murder victim.