How the Swiftie Finale Works

Unofficial fan trivia. Boston Made is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by Taylor Swift or her team. Every fact below comes from her public career.

The Swiftie Finale is a single round of trivia about Taylor Swift’s public career, and it goes live on Friday, November 13 at 1:13 p.m. ET at bostonmade.com/swiftie-finale/. Here is exactly how it works, what kinds of questions to expect and how to get ready for it.

The format

The finale is 13 questions long. At 1:13 p.m. ET, the finale page opens with all 13 questions on it. Each question is a tap-to-reveal card: read it, lock in your answer in your head or on paper, then tap to see the correct answer.

• 13 questions, numbered 1 through 13.
• Answers appear with the questions at 1:13. There is no waiting period between rounds.
• A score guide at the bottom tells you what your total means, from a casual listener to a perfect 13 out of 13.
• No prizes. Nothing is for sale and nothing is collected. You play for bragging rights.

The rules

1. Answer before you tap. The whole game depends on it. Decide your answer first, then reveal.
2. No searching. Put the phone’s search bar away while you play. The point is to find out what you know.
3. Close answers count when they are close. If the answer is “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” and you said “the 1989 re-recording,” give yourself the point. If the answer is 2021 and you said 2020, you missed it.
4. Keep your own score. We trust you. Write your number down before you check the score guide.
5. Play once. Your first run is your real score. Replay all you want for fun, but the first try is the one to brag about.

Fair play: how we write the questions

Every question in the finale is based on her public record: album releases, tours, awards, chart milestones, re-recordings and announcements that were widely reported. There are no questions about her private life, no trick wording and no questions that depend on rumor or fan theory.

Every answer can be found in the warm-up posts that run on bostonmade.com before the finale. If you read every warm-up, you will have seen all 13 answers. Some questions are easy wins for any fan. Others test the details, like a date, a number or which album came first.

For recent events, we check the facts against published reporting before they go into a question. If a detail could not be confirmed, it was left out.

To give you a feel for the range, here are the kinds of questions you can expect, at three levels:

• Warm-up level: Which came first, Red or 1989? (Red, in 2012.)
• Fan level: Which album won her first Album of the Year Grammy? (Fearless.)
• Expert level: In which state did the Eras Tour open in March 2023? (Arizona, in Glendale.)

None of those exact questions will appear on Friday, but the finale mixes all three levels. A fan who has followed the warm-ups should be able to land most of the 13.

How to study

You do not need to memorize twenty years of liner notes. Focus on the backbone.

• The studio albums, in order. Taylor Swift (2006), Fearless (2008), Speak Now (2010), Red (2012), 1989 (2014), reputation (2017), Lover (2019), folklore (2020), evermore (2020), Midnights (2022), The Tortured Poets Department (2024) and The Life of a Showgirl (2025).
• The four Taylor’s Version re-recordings. Fearless and Red in 2021, then Speak Now and 1989 in 2023.
• The big awards. She has won Album of the Year at the Grammys four times, a record: Fearless, 1989, folklore and Midnights.
• The tour numbers. The Eras Tour ran from March 2023 to December 2024 and played 149 shows.
• The year’s headlines. 2026 brought new No. 1 singles, a Songwriters Hall of Fame induction and a record night at the VMAs. The warm-ups cover them.

A good method: read a warm-up, take its quick check, and come back the next day to see whether you still remember the answers. Repetition beats cramming.

Playing with friends? Have everyone write answers on paper first, then reveal the cards one at a time and read the answers out loud. It turns a solo quiz into a small game night, and it keeps everyone honest.

One more note on fairness: the finale is a celebration of her work, not a test of how closely anyone follows celebrity news. You will not be asked about anything outside her public career, and you will never need to know a rumor to get a question right.

What is coming before the finale

The warm-ups each take a theme. Next up is the songwriting story: how a teenager signed a publishing deal in Nashville, wrote her way onto country radio and made an entire album with no co-writers. After that come records and firsts, the surprise albums of 2020, the re-recordings, fan traditions, music videos and directing, the two most recent albums, the Eras Tour setlist, and a final cram sheet the day before.

Then, on Friday the 13th at 1:13, it is your turn.

The Swiftie Finale opens Friday, Nov. 13 at 1:13 p.m. ET.