Dua Lipa Quiz: Guess the Song & Test Your Trivia

A Dua Lipa quiz tests two things at once: naming the song, and placing the era it pretends to be from. Guess the Dua Lipa song from the disco-pop of 'Don't Start Now', 'Levitating' and 'Physical', then test your trivia on the borrowed hooks, since 'Break My Heart' lifts INXS, 'Love Again' rides a 1932 melody, and 'Cold Heart' stitches Elton John classics together. Catch the 'New Rules' throwback and the giant 2023 'Barbie' smash 'Dance the Night' to see how well you really know Dua Lipa.

Main genrePop (dance-pop and disco revival)

ActiveSince 2015 (2020s)

Best-known songs to guessDon't Start Now, Levitating, New Rules, Physical, Break My Heart

Deep cuts fans missHallucinate, Pretty Please, Cool, Good in Bed, Boys Will Be Boys

Eras in the quiz2017 electropop debut, 2020 disco-pop peak, 2024 Radical Optimism

Borrowed hooks to spotBreak My Heart (INXS), Love Again (1932 sample), Cold Heart (Elton John)

Real nameDua Lipa (her given name; 'Dua' means 'love' in Albanian)

Related artistsElton John, The Weeknd, Olivia Rodrigo

Quiz difficultyEasy on the singles, hard on the guess-the-year round

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Name as many tracks as you can from short audio clips. The faster you answer, the more you score.

10 questions4 answers each

Guess the Dua Lipa Song: From New Rules to Levitating

Her biggest singles give themselves away from the opening groove, from the 'New Rules' hook to the 'Levitating' bounce. These retro-pop bangers are the easy points before the trickier throwbacks arrive.

Don't Start Now

Levitating

New Rules

Physical

Break My Heart

Hallucinate

Pretty Please

Cool

Dua Lipa Trivia: The Hooks She Borrowed

Half her biggest hits smuggle in an older record: an INXS riff under 'Break My Heart', a 1932 melody behind 'Love Again', a stack of Elton John songs inside 'Cold Heart'. Spotting the source is the tiebreaker.

✦'Break My Heart' interpolates the guitar riff from INXS's 1987 hit 'Need You Tonight', which is why the members of INXS share a writing credit on it.

✦'Love Again' is built on a hook from White Town's 'Your Woman', a sample that traces all the way back to a 1932 big-band recording.

✦'Cold Heart', her 2021 hit with Elton John, is a PNAU remix that mashes several older Elton songs together, including 'Rocket Man' and 'Sacrifice'.

✦'Dance the Night', her contribution to the 2023 'Barbie' soundtrack, was written to sound like a Future Nostalgia cut and became one of the year's biggest singles.

✦Her first name, Dua, means 'love' in Albanian; she was born in London in 1995 to Kosovar Albanian parents.

How Well Do You Know Dua Lipa's Eras?

Her catalog splits by difficulty, not by year: the radio-proof Future Nostalgia singles, the vintage disguises that fool a guess-the-year round, the borrowed hooks and the soundtrack outliers. Find your level.

The Future Nostalgia wall (where casual fans score)

Start here and the points come fast. 'Don't Start Now', 'Levitating', 'Physical' and 'Break My Heart' were everywhere in 2020, and most players name them from the opening groove. If a Dua Lipa clip sounds instantly familiar, it is almost certainly one of these four.

The vintage disguise (where the year fools you)

This is where a guess-the-year round falls apart. Everything on Future Nostalgia was built to sound like late-70s disco or early-80s synth-pop, so a brand-new single can read as a lost 1979 record. The trap is trusting the sound: it is designed to point at the wrong decade.

The borrowed hooks (where superfans pull ahead)

Several of her hits hide an older song inside. 'Break My Heart' interpolates INXS's 'Need You Tonight', 'Love Again' rides a hook that dates back to a 1932 recording, and the Elton John team-up 'Cold Heart' mashes several of his classics together. Name the source, not just the single, and you are in the top tier.

The team-ups and the Barbie hit (the curveballs)

The last points sit at the edges of the catalog. 'One Kiss' with Calvin Harris, the Silk City single 'Electricity', and 'Dance the Night' from the 2023 'Barbie' soundtrack are the tracks casual fans forget are hers. A thorough Dua Lipa quiz saves these for last.

Dua Lipa Quiz FAQ

How well do you know Dua Lipa?

Play a Dua Lipa quiz on Songtrivia and find out. Name her songs from a short clip and answer trivia across her disco-pop run. The singles are quick points; telling a brand-new track from the throwback it imitates is what separates real fans.

Which Dua Lipa songs are in the quiz?

The radio staples 'Don't Start Now', 'Levitating', 'New Rules', 'Physical' and 'Break My Heart', plus deeper Future Nostalgia cuts and the collaborations 'One Kiss', 'Cold Heart' and 'Dance the Night'.

Why is the Dua Lipa quiz tricky?

Her music is built as deliberate nostalgia, so a 2020 single can sound like a 1979 disco record. The sound points at the wrong decade, which makes a guess-the-year round much harder than the guess-the-song one.

Which Dua Lipa hits borrow from older songs?

'Break My Heart' interpolates INXS's 'Need You Tonight', 'Love Again' uses a hook that goes back to a 1932 recording, and 'Cold Heart' with Elton John mashes several of his classics together. Spotting the source is the tiebreaker.

Where is Dua Lipa from and what does her name mean?

She was born in London in 1995 to Kosovar Albanian parents and spent part of her childhood in Kosovo before returning to London at 15. Her first name, Dua, means 'love' in Albanian.

Is the Dua Lipa quiz free?

Yes. The Dua Lipa quiz is free to play on Songtrivia, with no signup and no Spotify account needed. Just pick a round and start guessing.

📚 Sources & methodology

Sources consulted

Wikipedia · AllMusic · Pitchfork · Billboard · Songtrivia editorial team.

Our methodology

Each topic is curated by a Quiz Master with category expertise. Selection crosses cultural impact, chart performance, recognition potential and era variety.