Can You Pass This Test? Take the Ultimate Tortured Poets Department Lyrics Quiz

I was supposed to be sent away, but then I made another tricky Taylor Swift lyrics quiz.

I’m your Swiftie English teacher, and nothing makes me feel more alive than quizzing my fellow Tortured Poets.

Are you a real tough kid? You’ll have to be to take on my TTPD lyrics quiz. It’s fearsome, and wretched, and wrong, but I know you can pass this test.

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TTPD 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.

Some of these questions are easy, some are really, really tricky, and some have more than one correct answer, so pay close attention!

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

Each time you take the quiz, the questions will be different, so if you don’t pass on the first try, give it another valiant roar.

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The Tortured Poets Department Lyrics Quiz

1. Complete the lyrics:

"Could it be enough to just float in your orbit?..."

"Will that make your memory fade from this scarlet maroon?"

"Can we watch our phantoms like watching wild horses?"

"So if I sell my apartment"

"Cooler in theory, but not if you force it"

2. Fill in the blanks:

“The goddess of _______

Once found us ______

She said she was ______

Peter, was she ______?”

Timing, beguiling, trying, lying

Fate, great, pleased, teasing

Romance, a slow dance, happy, fibbing

Jet streams, our own team, flying, trying

3. Complete the lyrics: “Small talk, big love….”

"I'm an Aston Martin you drove straight into a ditch"

"I'll make you wanna think twice"

“Act like I don't care what you did”

"I hear the whispers in your eyes"

4. Fill in the blanks:

“You're in __________ mode, throwing ________ down on the road

But I've seen this ________ and still loved the _______”

Suicide, chains, one, fun

Self-sabotage, spikes, episode, show

Havoc-wreaking, bombs, season, show

Full-throttle, tires, chapter, book

5. Which song on TTPD has a lyrical parallel to New Romantics?

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Fresh out the Slammer

Florida!!!

Down Bad

6. How many song titles on TTPD & The Anthology begin with lowercase letters?

5

4

6

3

7. Complete the lyrics:

“Dancing phantoms on the terrace

Are they second-hand embarrassed

That I can't get out of bed…..”

"Still arguing in my head"

“’Cause something counterfeit's dead?"

"And I can't see what's ahead"

"I'll just lay here instead"

8. Fill in the blanks: “Ditch the _______, get the ______, baby, I'm the one to ______”

Lies, prize, meet

Clowns, crown, beat

Jokers, Queen, beat

Bros, trophy, see

9. Complete the lyrics:

“If the glint in my eye traced the depths of your sigh

Down that passage in time

Back to the moment I crashed into you

Like so many wrecks do….”

"Too despaired by my truth to know what to do"

"Too high a horse, to see what to do"

"Will that make your memory fade from this scarlet maroon?"

"Too impaired by my youth to know what to do"

10. Complete the Lyrics:

“You know you're good, and I'm good

'Cause I'm miserable!

And nobody even knows!....”

"Try and come for my job"

"'Cause I can do it with a broken heart"

"Try to do my job"

"I was grinning like I'm winning"

11. Fill in the blanks:

“God save the most judgmental creeps

Who say they want what's best for me

_________ performing ________ I'll never see"

Sanctimoniously, soliloquies

Ceremoniously, soliloquies

Erroneously, sinning sermons

Harmoniously, silly speeches

12. Fill in the blanks:

“The _______ was contained

The bullet had just _______

At all costs, keep your good ______

You don't get to tell me you feel _______”

Fallout, ricocheted, blame, mad

Scandal, grazed, name, bad

Calamity, strayed, fame, lame

Disaster, aimed, name, sad

13. Complete the lyrics: “He was chaos, he was revelry

Bedroom eyes like a remedy....”

"Dutiful daughter, all my plans were laid"

"Soon enough the elders had convened down at the city hall"

"We came back when the heat died down"

"All the wine moms are still holding out"

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

“And for a fortnight there...."

"We were fair-weather"

"We were together"

"We were forever"

"We were birds of a feather"

15. Complete the lyrics:

“I’m so afraid I sealed my fate

No sign of soulmates

I'm just a paperweight….”

"Destined to my own fates"

"But even statues crumble if they're made to wait"

"In shades of greige"

"Last among my school mates"

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