Are You A Mastermind? Try The Ultimate Midnights Lyrics Quiz

What if I told you none of it was accidental, and I created the trickiest Midnights lyrics quiz that only die-hard Swifties can pass?

I’m your Swiftie English teacher, and if you’re as obsessed with Taylor Swift lyrics as I am, you can face this labyrinthian quiz.

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail, so keep your wits about you and you’ll come out on the other side a mastermind.

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Midnights Lyrics Quiz

There are three general categories of questions: complete the lyric, fill-in-the-blank, and more general thematic questions that cover imagery, metaphors, and song connections.

Strategy sets the scene for this tale: some of the questions are easy, some are awfully tricky, and some have more than one right answer. Pay close attention.

At the end of the quiz, you’ll be able to see explanations for both right and wrong answers.

There’s no extra credit, and you won’t be graded on a curve, but each time you attempt the quiz, the questions will be different.

Dear reader, are you ready?

If it feels like a trap, you’re already in one…

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Taylor Swift Midnights Lyrics Quiz

1. Which song on Midnights uses several different flower metaphors?

The Great War

Bejeweled

Bigger Than The Whole Sky

You're Losing Me

2. Fill in the blanks:

“And I ______

I'm only _______ and ________’cause I care”

Promise, honest, brutal

Swear, cryptic, opportunistic

Swear, cryptic, Machiavellian

3. Fill in the blanks:

“Somewhere in the ______

Got a sense I'd been ________

Your finger on my _________

Soldier down on that icy ground”

War, unmoored, buttons

Battle, shackled, longest gun

Haze, betrayed, hairpin trigger

Field, your shield, holster

4. Fill in the blanks:

“If clarity's in death, then why won't this die?

Years of tearing down our _______, you and I

Living for the thrill of hitting you where it ______

Give me back my ________, it was mine first”

Treasures, hurts, heartbeat

Love spells, counts, magic

Memories, counts, innocence

Banners, hurts, girlhood

5. How many songs on Midnights use the color gray?

1

none

2

3

6. Complete the lyrics:

“It was one drink after another

Fuckin' politics and gender roles

And you're not sure and I don't know…”

"Got swept away in the gray"

"I have to say, I just may"

"Half-moon eyes, bad surprise"

"Fuckin' situations, circumstances"

7. How many songs on Midnights have a color in the title?

2

3

4

1

8. Complete the lyrics (pick as many as apply):

"High infidelity, put on your..."

"Headphones and burn my CDs"

“Records and regret me”

“Headphones and burn my city”

“Records and regret meeting me”

9. How many songs on Midnights actually use the word ”midnight” or “midnights”?

3

4

5

2

10. Complete the lyrics:

“So I peered through a window

A deep portal, time travel

All the love we unravel….”

"But for him it's every day"

"And the life I gave away"

"The rubies that I gave up"

"'Cause he was sunshine, I was midnight rain"

11. How many songs on Midnights use galaxy, planetary, or star imagery or metaphors?

6

4

8

5

12. Which song on Midnights references a classic song by Tommy James and the Shondells?

Hits Different

The Great War

Sweet Nothing

High Infidelity

13. Complete the lyrics:

“Did you hear my covert narcissism

I disguise as altruism…”

"Like some kind of weatherman"

"A tale as old as time"

"Like some kind of candyman"

"Like some kind of congressman?"

14. Complete the lyrics:

“Life is emotionally abusive

And time can't stop me quite like you did…”

"I've never seen someone lit from within"

"Spilling out my heart for a few quid"

"I'm unglued, thanks to you"

"And my flight was awful, thanks for asking"

15. Which iconic musician likely inspired these lyrics:

“On the way home

I wrote a poem

You say, "What a mind"

This happens all the time”

James Taylor

Stevie Nicks

Paul McCartney

Imogen Heap

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