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41 free Blink-182 trivia questions with answers. Blink-182 started in a bedroom in Poway, California in 1992 and ended up as the band that dragged pop-punk onto MTV, then broke up, reformed, swapped a guitarist, and reformed again around a cancer diagnosis. This quiz covers all of it: how the name got its number, the Cargo Records years, the drummer who learned the set in 45 minutes, Enema of the State and the nurse on the cover, the untitled album, Box Car Racer and Angels & Airwaves, the plane crash, the Skiba era and One More Time... It is written for people who actually listened, not just people who remember 'All the Small Things', so expect questions on the label bidding war, why the Warped Tour founder was told to sign them, which album was the first punk record to top the Billboard 200, and what Tom DeLonge did with UFO footage. There are easy warm-ups too, on the members' names, hometowns and biggest hits. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the band, its albums and its members and carries its source. No lyrics are quoted; this is about the band, not the karaoke.
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Q 01Blink-182 formed in 1992 in which Southern California suburb?
Poway
Poway, a suburb north of San Diego, is where Hoppus, DeLonge and their first drummer started playing together in August 1992, naming the band Blink before the number was added.
Q 02Mark Hoppus was introduced to Tom DeLonge in August 1992 by whom?
The bassist's sister, Anne
The bassist's sister, Anne Hoppus, was dating DeLonge's friend Kerry Key and introduced them in August 1992; Mark had just moved from Ridgecrest to work in a record store.
Q 03Why did the trio tack '182' onto their original moniker in 1995?
An Irish group already called Blink objected
An Irish group already called Blink objected and threatened legal action, so in 1995 the band added 182, a number Hoppus has described as essentially random.
Q 04Which drummer played on Cheshire Cat and Dude Ranch before being replaced in 1998?
Scott Raynor
Scott Raynor, the original drummer, played on Cheshire Cat and Dude Ranch; the band dismissed him mid-tour in 1998, partly over his drinking.
Q 05Travis Barker was drumming for which tour-mate band when he first filled in for Blink-182?
The Aquabats
The Aquabats were touring with Blink-182 in early 1998, and their drummer Travis Barker learned the set in about 45 minutes to fill in; he became a full member later that year.
Q 06The band's early demo Flyswatter was recorded in May 1993 where?
Scott Raynor's bedroom
Scott Raynor's bedroom held the four-track on which Flyswatter was taped in May 1993, mixing originals with punk covers; the band counted 1994's Buddha as its first real release.
Q 07How long did it take to record the debut album Cheshire Cat at Westbeach Recorders?
3 days
Cheshire Cat was cut in just 3 days in late 1994 at Westbeach Recorders in Los Angeles, mixing new songs with re-recorded demo tracks; 'M+M's' became the first single.
Q 08Which independent San Diego label released the band's first two albums via Grilled Cheese?
Cargo Records
Cargo Records, a San Diego independent, signed the band on a 'trial basis' and issued Cheshire Cat through its Grilled Cheese imprint in February 1995.
Q 09Which country embraced the band early on, so much that they toured there before they could afford the flights?
Australia
Australia took to the band first, through skate and surf videos that used their songs; their first overseas tour was there in 1996, playing with Pennywise.
Q 10The 1996 bidding war for the band came down to Interscope, Epitaph and which label, which won?
MCA Records
MCA Records won the 1996 bidding war by promising the band complete artistic freedom, though parts of the punk scene accused them of selling out anyway.
Q 11Who produced Dude Ranch over about a month in late 1996?
Mark Trombino
Mark Trombino, the former Drive Like Jehu drummer, produced Dude Ranch at Big Fish Studios in Encinitas in late 1996; 'Dammit' became the band's first mainstream hit.
Q 12Which producer worked with the band from Enema of the State until his death in 2008?
Jerry Finn
Jerry Finn produced Enema of the State, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket and the 2003 untitled album; he died in August 2008 after a brain hemorrhage, aged 39.
Q 13Who appears in a nurse's uniform on the cover of Enema of the State?
Adult film actress Janine Lindemulder
Q 21In what year did a press statement announce the band's 'indefinite hiatus'?
2005
2005 is when a February press statement from Geffen called the split an 'indefinite hiatus'; DeLonge and Hoppus barely spoke until Barker's plane crash in September 2008 brought them back together.
Q 22Which band did DeLonge form after quitting Blink-182, describing it as a 'multimedia project'?
Angels & Airwaves
Angels & Airwaves, which DeLonge launched after leaving the band and billed as a 'multimedia project' of music and film, released We Don't Need to Whisper in 2006; Hoppus and Barker answered with one album as +44.
Q 23The 2008 plane crash Travis Barker survived left how many survivors in total?
Two
Adult film actress Janine Lindemulder posed as the nurse on the Enema of the State cover; later pressings changed her red-cross insignia after the Red Cross objected.
Q 14Roughly how many copies has Enema of the State sold worldwide?
15 million
15 million worldwide copies is the figure usually cited for Enema of the State, which went five-times platinum in the US and made Blink-182 a mainstream act.
Q 15'What's My Age Again?' was originally titled what?
Peter Pan Complex
The song catalogues Hoppus's refusal to grow up; the label thought the original title too obscure.
Q 16Which Enema of the State track reflects Tom DeLonge's fascination with UFOs and government cover-ups?
Aliens Exist
Aliens Exist, on Enema of the State, came straight from DeLonge's UFO obsession; in 2017 his To the Stars Academy published Navy cockpit footage the Pentagon formally released in 2020.
Q 17Take Off Your Pants and Jacket (2001) achieved which chart milestone?
First punk album to top the US Billboard 200
Take Off Your Pants and Jacket became the first punk album to top the US Billboard 200, opening with about 350,000 copies in June 2001.
Q 18Which post-hardcore side project did DeLonge and Barker release an album with in 2002?
Box Car Racer
Box Car Racer, DeLonge's darker side project with Barker and guitarist David Kennedy, released its only album in May 2002; leaving Hoppus out bred lasting tension.
Q 19The 2003 untitled album introduced which new band logo on its cover?
A smiley face
A smiley face with arrow eyes and a dashed mouth was designed for the 2003 untitled album's cover and became the band's lasting emblem, reused on 2023's One More Time...
Q 20Which two singles led the untitled album's more emo direction?
Feeling This and I Miss You
Feeling This and I Miss You opened the untitled album's campaign in late 2003; the same touring cycle included a show for troops on an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf.
Two people survived, Barker and DJ AM Adam Goldstein, both badly burned; the four others aboard the Learjet died when it crashed on takeoff in South Carolina in September 2008.
Q 24Where did the reunited trio first appear together in public in February 2009?
Presenting at the Grammy Awards
Presenting at the Grammy Awards on 8 February 2009, Hoppus, DeLonge and Barker walked out together and told the crowd they were playing music together again; a reunion tour followed that summer.
Q 25Which 2011 album was the band's first after the 2009 reunion?
Neighborhoods
Neighborhoods, released in September 2011, was Blink-182's first album after the reunion; the band produced it themselves, recording largely in separate studios and trading files.
Q 26Which Alkaline Trio frontman replaced DeLonge from 2015 to 2022?
Matt Skiba
Matt Skiba was brought in to 'fill in' for three Musink festival shows in March 2015 and stayed for the California and Nine albums until DeLonge's return in 2022.
Q 27Who produced California (2016), the band's first new producer in years?
John Feldmann
John Feldmann, the Goldfinger frontman, produced California in 2016 in sessions that yielded dozens of songs, and returned for 2019's Nine, which added outside co-writers.
Q 28California earned the band its first what?
Grammy nomination
Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album at the 2017 ceremony was a first for the band; California also gave them a second US number one and a first UK number one.
Q 29Which spin-off duo did Hoppus form in 2018 with All Time Low's Alex Gaskarth?
Simple Creatures
Simple Creatures, the duo Hoppus and All Time Low's Alex Gaskarth unveiled in early 2019, released the EPs Strange Love and Everything Opposite that year; All Time Low began as a Blink-182 covers band.
Q 30Which major label released the band's 2019 album Nine?
Columbia
Columbia Records signed the band in 2019 after California's run on BMG; Nine came out that September, and the label also released One More Time... in 2023.