Song by Song: "Crazy in Love" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Dangerously in Love

The single was released from "Dangerously in Love" on May 14, 2003 with "Summertime" on the B-Side. Beyoncé's debut album peaked at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200.

Answer: Shawn Carter

The song had many contributors. It was written by American record producer Rich Harrison, who borrowed the hook's instrumentation from Eugene Record's song "Are You My Woman? (Tell Me So)." Beyoncé wrote the bridge, while Shawn Carter (Jay-Z) improvised the rap verse. "Jay-Z's killer verse was added at the last minute," Rolling Stone magazine reported in its 2021 article on the greatest songs of all time. "Bey and Jay had just started dating at the time."

Answer: Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

"Crazy in Love" won Grammy awards for Best R&B Song and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration at the 46th Annual Grammy Awards held on February 8, 2004. It was also nominated for Record of the Year but did not win in that category. ("Clocks" by Coldplay won instead.) "Crazy in Love" was rated number sixteen on Rolling Stone magazine's 2021 list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time."

Answer: incredibly

"Yes
It's so crazy right now
Most incredibly, it's ya girl, B
It's ya boy, young."

The popular Kidz Bop series of children's music albums included a cover version of "Crazy in Love" on the 5th Kidz Bop album released in February of 2004. UK pop duo Patrick & Eugene released a cover of the song on their 2004 album "Postcard from Summerisle."

Answer: Fifty Shades of Grey

Beyoncé re-recorded a slowed-down version of the song for "Fifty Shades of Grey." The new version, which was produced by Boots, did not include Jay-Z and featured violin arrangements by Margot. The movie, starring Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Jennifer Ehle, and Marcia Gay Harden, was released in 2015.

Answer: Tony Soprano

"I'm warmed up now, let's go
Young 'Hov, y'all know when the flow is loco
Young B and the R-O-C, uh oh (oh)
Ol' G, big homey, the one and only
Stick bony, but the pocket is fat like Tony
Soprano (oh no)."

Tony Soprano was a main character on the HBO television gangster drama "The Sopranos," which aired January 10, 1999 to June 10, 2007.

The Magic Numbers covered "Crazy in Love" for the March 2007 album "Sounds Eclectic - The Cover Project."

Answer: PepsiCo

Beyoncé signed her contract with the soda company in 2002 and appeared in several of its subsequent advertising campaigns, one of which used "Crazy in Love." The song was also used in the soundtracks of several movies, including "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason," a romantic comedy released in 2004.

Answer: pride

"Such a funny thing for me to try to explain
How I'm feeling and my pride is the one to blame
'Cause I know I don't understand
Just how your love can do what no one else can."

The Vitamin String Quartet released an instrumental version of "Crazy in Love" on the November 2003 album "The String Quartet Tribute to Beyonce." Their version of the song also incorporated other parts of Eugene Record's "Are You My Woman? (Tell Me So)."

Answer: page

"Got me looking so crazy right now (your touch)
Got me hoping you'll page me right now, your kiss
Got me hoping you'll save me right now
Looking so crazy, your love's
Got me looking, got me looking so crazy in love."

Beyoncé's and Jay-Z were married in a secret wedding on April 4, 2008, which Jay-Z revealed in a Vibe magazine interview in August of the same year. He told Vibe that they kept the wedding quiet because, in the business, "You have to have something that's sacred to you and the people around you."

Answer: Ringo

"The genuine article, I do not sing though
I sling though, if anything, I bling yo
A star like Ringo, war like a Green Beret
Crazy bring ya whole set."

Ringo Starr played drums and sang for the Beatles. In the 1970s, he began a solo career.

"Crazy in Love" was number 40 on the decade-end US Billboard Hot 100 chart for the 2000-2009 decade. The record was certified gold by RIAA in the U.S. and 3X platinum by BPI in the United Kingdom.