5SOS Trivia: 5 Seconds of Summer
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86 free 5SOS Trivia: 5 Seconds of Summer trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
5 Seconds of Summer started as three schoolmates posting covers on YouTube in 2011 and became the first Australian act with three number-one albums on the Billboard 200. This 5SOS trivia quiz covers the whole story: the Annandale Hotel show played to a dozen people, Ashton joining as drummer, the One Direction tours that broke them worldwide, She Looks So Perfect going to number one in four countries, and the two-year break that nearly ended the band before Youngblood. It also covers each member and each era: Luke Hemmings, Michael Clifford, Calum Hood and Ashton Irwin, the meaning of CALM, Teeth with Tom Morello, the Chainsmokers collaboration, going independent for 5SOS5, the Royal Albert Hall show, the solo albums and Everyone's a Star!. Forty-five questions run from easy for anyone who has heard Youngblood on the radio to expert for fans who know their EPs. Every answer is checked against documented sources rather than fan accounts, so it works for a fan-club night or a pop music round.
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Q 01In which Australian city did 5 Seconds of Summer form in 2011?
Sydney
Sydney's outer suburbs are where the members grew up, and they built an audience by posting cover songs to YouTube before they had played a single gig.
Q 02How is the abbreviation 5SOS officially pronounced?
Five sauce
Five sauce is how the band says it; guitarist Michael Clifford came up with the full name, which the band says was picked with no deeper meaning in mind.
Q 03Which instrument does Calum Hood play in 5 Seconds of Summer?
Bass guitar
Bass guitar won out over football: he had been to a training camp in Brazil with a career in mind, then gave the sport up when the band moved to London in 2012.
Q 04Which member of 5SOS was the last to join, completing the line-up before their first gig?
Ashton Irwin
Ashton Irwin was invited in by the other three, who had been posting covers online as a trio, just in time for the band's first show.
Q 05Members of which pop-punk band co-wrote 5SOS's 'Amnesia' and 'She's Kinda Hot'?
Good Charlotte
Good Charlotte's Benji and Joel Madden also co-wrote 'Hey Everybody!', and 5SOS count their band among the pop-punk acts that shaped their sound.
Q 06How many people watched 5SOS's first show, at the Annandale Hotel pub?
12
12 people is the reported crowd; in 2020 the band restaged that pub gig with child actors in the video for 'Old Me'.
Q 07Which boy band did 5SOS support on a 2013 world tour, launching them internationally?
One Direction
One Direction took them around the world before 5SOS even had a major-label deal, which came only that November, and then booked them again for 2014.
Q 08What was 5SOS's first single, released in November 2012?
Out of My Limit
Out of My Limit came out a full year before the band had a major-label deal, and its video still drew more than 100,000 views in its first 24 hours.
Q 095SOS signed to which major label in November 2013?
Capitol Records
Capitol Records signed them after a year spent opening arenas for a bigger act, and went on to release the band's first three albums.
Q 10What was 5SOS's debut major-label single in 2014?
She Looks So Perfect
She Looks So Perfect soon had a famous fan: within months Ed Sheeran was singing his own cover of it on Britain's Capital FM.
Q 11In 2014, 5SOS became only the fourth Australian band to top the singles chart in which country?
The United Kingdom
The United Kingdom gave them a number one although the single led the iTunes chart for only a day; no Australian band had managed it since Madison Avenue in 2000.
Q 12Billboard compared 5SOS's 'Don't Stop' to Green Day's 'She' and which Blink-182 song?
All the Small Things
All the Small Things was Billboard's pick; Digital Spy went further, calling 5SOS Blink-182's 'loyal understudies' for jolting new life into pop punk.
Q 13Which cover was the first single from 5SOS's 2014 live album LIVESOS?
What I Like About You
Q 21Youngblood made 5SOS the first Australian act to score what on the US Billboard 200?
Three number-one albums
Three number-one albums, in fact from their first three: Youngblood edged out Beyoncé and Jay-Z's Everything Is Love in a week forecasters could not call.
Q 22Which singer featured on 5SOS's December 2018 rendition of 'Lie to Me'?
Julia Michaels
Julia Michaels turns the song into a two-sided story: in the new version the lyrics were reworked so that both people in the break-up get their say.
Q 235SOS's 'Who Do You Love' was a 2019 collaboration with which DJ duo?
The Chainsmokers
What I Like About You, first a hit for the Romantics, got a prime-time launch: 5SOS played it at the American Music Awards, where they were also named New Artist of the Year.
Q 14What was the name of 5SOS's first headlining world tour, in 2015?
Rock Out With Your Socks Out Tour
The Rock Out With Your Socks Out Tour had a scare at London's Wembley Arena that June, when a pyrotechnic burned guitarist Michael Clifford's face and hair.
Q 15What was the lead single from 5SOS's album Sounds Good Feels Good?
She's Kinda Hot
She's Kinda Hot gave the album its rallying cry: a phrase from its lyrics, the New Broken Scene, became the name of the fan movement the band built around the record.
Q 165SOS's single 'Hey Everybody!' reuses part of which Duran Duran hit, earning that band a writing credit?
Hungry Like the Wolf
Hungry Like the Wolf supplied the borrowed elements, so Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes and the three Taylors are all listed among the 5SOS song's writers.
Q 175SOS's 'Girls Talk Boys' appeared on the soundtrack of which 2016 film?
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters carried the song on its soundtrack in July 2016, and it turned out to be the band's last new single for more than eighteen months.
Q 18Which Japanese band featured 5SOS on the 2017 track 'Take What You Want'?
One Ok Rock
One Ok Rock had spent the summer of 2016 opening 5SOS's North American shows, and then invited the Australians onto their own next album.
Q 19Which rock frontman was among the co-writers on 5SOS's album Youngblood?
Rivers Cuomo
Rivers Cuomo of Weezer co-wrote 'Why Won't You Love Me' with Jake Sinclair, who links the two bands: he produced 5SOS's breakthrough single and, later, Weezer's White Album.
Q 20Which song was the lead single from 5SOS's album Youngblood, released in February 2018?
Want You Back
Want You Back came with a surprise for an arena band: a run of intimate club shows, where 5SOS road-tested the album's unreleased songs.
The Chainsmokers then took 5SOS out on their World War Joy Tour, and the two acts even faced each other on Celebrity Family Feud that June.
Q 245SOS's 'Teeth' ends with a guitar riff from which guest guitarist?
Tom Morello
Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine supplies the riff, and the video matches its menace: the four band members play test subjects in a lab experiment that goes wrong.
Q 255SOS's 'Teeth' appeared on the soundtrack of which Netflix series?
13 Reasons Why
13 Reasons Why put it on its third-season soundtrack; Luke Hemmings said the lyrics came out of a tumultuous stretch in his own relationship.
Q 26What does the title of 5SOS's album CALM stand for?
Calum, Ashton, Luke, Michael
Calum, Ashton, Luke, Michael: the title is the members' first initials, which is why the cover styles it as four spaced letters, C A L M.
Q 27Why did 5SOS's album CALM miss out on a US number one in 2020?
Copies shipped a week early
Copies shipped a week early by mistake, so CALM charted before its real release week and then stalled at number two behind The Weeknd's After Hours.
Q 285SOS played a fifteen-minute set before Queen at which February 2020 benefit concert?
Fire Fight Australia
Fire Fight Australia was a televised stadium concert, and Queen and Adam Lambert followed 5SOS by recreating Queen's 1985 Live Aid set.
Q 295SOS's Ashton Irwin released a second solo album in July 2024, titled what?
Blood on the Drums
Blood on the Drums is, he said, a metaphor for how much he has given to his music; it came out in two halves weeks apart, The Thorns and then The Roses.
Q 30Luke Hemmings of 5SOS released a 2021 solo debut that entered which chart at number one?
The ARIA Albums Chart
The ARIA Albums Chart had When Facing the Things We Turn Away From at number one; he wrote and recorded it during the 2020 lockdown, when the pandemic stopped the band's touring.