Swiftie Trivia Is Coming to Boston Made

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.

Starting today, bostonmade.com is running a Swiftie trivia countdown. It is a fan-made, just-for-fun series about Taylor Swift’s public career: the albums, the tours, the awards, the records and the little details fans love to spot. It all builds to one big moment, the Swiftie Finale, on Friday, November 13 at 1:13 p.m. ET.

There is nothing to buy and nothing to sign up for. Read along, test yourself and see how much of the catalog you really know.

What the trivia countdown is

Between now and the finale, we will publish warm-up posts. Each one takes a single theme and walks through the facts you need for it: her songwriting beginnings in Nashville, the records she has broken, the surprise albums of 2020, the re-recordings, the music videos she has directed, the most recent albums and the Eras Tour. Every warm-up ends with a short quick check, three questions you can tap to reveal the answers.

The warm-ups get more frequent as Friday the 13th gets closer. Here is the plan:

• Mid-October: how the finale works, then the songwriting story and the Nashville years.
• Late October: records and firsts, followed by the surprise albums of 2020.
• Early November: the Taylor’s Version re-recordings, fan traditions like Easter eggs and friendship bracelets, and her work as a music video director.
• Finale week: a daily warm-up starting Monday, November 9, covering the eras album by album, her two most recent albums and the Eras Tour setlist.
• Thursday, November 12: a full cram sheet that pulls every theme together, with a practice round.

You can join at any point. Each post stands on its own, so if you find the countdown halfway through, start with the newest warm-up and work backward.

Everything in the series sticks to her public work. We cover what she has released, performed, won and announced. We do not cover her private life, and we do not put words in her mouth. When a fact is recent, we check it against published reporting before it goes in.

How the finale works, in brief

• When: Friday, November 13, 2026, at 1:13 p.m. ET.
• Where: bostonmade.com/swiftie-finale/.
• What: 13 questions about her public career, with the answers published alongside them at 1:13.
• Prizes: none. This is for bragging rights only.
• Scoring: you keep your own score. Tap each question, check your answer and count them up.

We will publish a full rules post in a few days, including how we write the questions and how to study for them.

Why 13, and why Friday the 13th

Taylor Swift was born on December 13, 1989, and she has called 13 her lucky number for most of her career. Fans have tracked it ever since. When the concert film of her Eras Tour opened in theaters, the date was Friday, October 13, 2023. So when we looked at the calendar for this fall and saw a Friday the 13th in November, the plan made itself: 13 questions, on the 13th, at 1:13 in the afternoon.

The year she was born matters, too. Her fifth studio album, released in 2014, is titled 1989.

Why now

Her career has kept making news all year. In February, “Opalite” became her 14th No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. In June, “I Knew It, I Knew You,” her song for Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story 5, debuted at No. 1, and she was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame as the youngest woman ever to join it. On September 25 she released The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore, an expanded edition of her 2025 album with four new songs. Two days later, at the MTV Video Music Awards, she won Video of the Year for “The Fate of Ophelia” and received the show’s first Artist Director Honors, which made her the most-awarded artist in VMA history. Then “Patient Zero,” one of the new Encore songs, debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100, her 16th chart-topper.

That is a lot of material for a trivia game, and it sits on top of twenty years of albums. Her debut came out on October 24, 2006. The countdown is our way of celebrating the whole run.

How to get ready

• Read the warm-ups. Every finale question can be answered from the warm-up posts. If you read them all, you will have seen every answer.
• Take the quick checks. They are short on purpose. If you miss one, reread that section.
• Know the order. The sequence of her studio albums, from Taylor Swift in 2006 to The Life of a Showgirl in 2025, comes up again and again.
• Bring a friend. Trivia is better with company. Compare scores after the reveal.

You do not need to be a lifelong fan to play. If you know a handful of the hits and want to learn the rest, the warm-ups are written for you, too. Each one starts with the basics and then adds the details that separate a good score from a perfect one. And if you have been listening since “Tim McGraw” in 2006, consider this your chance to prove it.

The first warm-up arrives later this week. Until then, here is a taste.

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