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40 free I Dont Know How but They Found Me trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
I Dont Know How But They Found Me, usually shortened to iDKHOW, began as a secret. Dallon Weekes and drummer Ryan Seaman played small shows for months while denying the band existed, then released Choke, the 2017 single that became their first hit. This quiz covers the whole story: Choke and its retro video, the debut EP, Razzmatazz and the album that followed it, the covers and holiday songs, the tours and television appearances, and the bands both musicians came from. It is written for fans who know every song by heart and for newer listeners who found the band through a single track. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you pick up the backstory as you play.
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Q 01Which band did Dallon Weekes leave in December 2017 to focus on I Dont Know How But They Found Me?
Panic! at the Disco
Panic! at the Disco had Weekes for eight years, first as a touring player and then as a full member, before he announced his exit on Instagram.
Q 02The name I Dont Know How But They Found Me was inspired by a line in which 1985 film?
Back to the Future
Back to the Future supplied the name, an idea Dallon Weekes had carried since 2009, years before the duo played a note in public.
Q 03I Dont Know How But They Found Me played a 2025 rally on which senator's Fighting Oligarchy Tour?
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders brought the tour to the project's Utah hometown in April 2025, where IDKHOW shared the bill with Talia Keys.
Q 04Where in Utah is I Dont Know How But They Found Me, the indie pop project fronted by Dallon Weekes, based?
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City is home base, and the band announced a holiday-themed hometown show there for the end of 2023.
Q 05Which Razzmatazz lead single gave IDKHOW its first number one on Billboard's Alternative Airplay chart?
Leave Me Alone
Leave Me Alone topped the chart after starting life as a January 2020 demo; Weekes called its title the last civil thing you say in a toxic situation.
Q 06Drummer Ryan Seaman left which post-hardcore band in 2017 while secretly playing shows with IDKHOW?
Falling in Reverse
Falling in Reverse had Seaman behind the kit from 2011. Neither side announced the split; Alternative Press reported in April 2017 that the two appeared to have parted ways.
Q 07On which late-night talk show did IDKHOW make its television debut in January 2021?
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jimmy Kimmel Live! came first, followed a month later by a performance for The Ellen DeGeneres Show and, in April, a CBS Saturday Sessions set.
Q 08Whose 1979 single Boys Don't Cry did IDKHOW cover for the deluxe edition of Razzmatazz?
The Cure
The Cure first released it as a stand-alone single; IDKHOW's cover arrived in November 2021 beside a demo, a remix and live recordings.
Q 09Which 2024 album was IDKHOW's first as a solo project, after drummer Ryan Seaman was fired?
Gloom Division
Gloom Division followed five months after the firing was announced; one reviewer credited the change with letting Weekes get more personal than ever.
Q 10Ryan Seaman first drummed for Dallon Weekes after joining which Utah-formed indie pop band in 2008?
The Brobecks
The Brobecks, formed in 2002, were Weekes's main outlet before IDKHOW, and the newer project still plays several of their songs live.
Q 11Which label signed IDKHOW in August 2018 and released the duo's debut EP that November?
Fearless Records
Fearless Records announced the deal with a double A-side single; before that, the duo had self-released every song.
Q 12Which magazine's March 2018 cover called IDKHOW the hottest unsigned band in the world?
Rock Sound
Rock Sound ran the line while the duo was still self-releasing music; a record deal followed five months later.
Q 13Which self-released debut single did IDKHOW put out in August 2017, two months before Choke?
Modern Day Cain
Modern Day Cain reached number 8 on the iTunes alternative chart on its release day, helped by a music video out the same day.
Q 21Which musician first recorded Debra, the song IDKHOW covered alongside a 2021 Ellen DeGeneres Show performance?
Beck
Beck built the funk original around an exaggerated falsetto, which is exactly what Weekes wanted to perform.
Q 22Which singer and former YouTube vlogger joined IDKHOW on a 2021 remix of New Invention?
Tessa Violet
Tessa Violet added co-lead vocals over piano and a choir, and felt her voice turned the song into a conversation.
Q 23Which band co-headlined the 2022 Welcome to Hellvetica Tour of North America with IDKHOW?
Joywave
Joywave shared top billing, and its singer Daniel Armbruster later earned co-writing credits on two songs from IDKHOW's 2024 album.
Q 14When Choke was re-released in August 2018, which new IDKHOW song shared the double A-side single?
Do It All the Time
Do It All the Time was written as a sarcastic send-up of a do-as-you-please philosophy, and it closes the debut EP.
Q 15The Choke music video presents IDKHOW on a short-lived early-1980s music show from which region?
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the fictional setting: director Raúl Gonzo staged the 2019 video as a lost music television programme.
Q 16A 2019 acoustic version of Choke reworks the IDKHOW single in which musical style?
Cabaret
Cabaret was the makeover chosen for the acoustic take, released as its own single in April 2019, a year and a half after the original.
Q 17IDKHOW's debut EP topped which Billboard chart on its release in November 2018?
Heatseekers Albums
Heatseekers Albums was where the six-track EP hit number one, while it peaked at number 148 on the Billboard 200.
Q 18Which 2019 holiday EP by IDKHOW takes its title from a song Dallon Weekes first wrote in 2007?
Christmas Drag
Christmas Drag began as a 2007 recording on an 8-track cartridge; the EP pairs the re-recorded song with a cover of a 1970s hit and a new original.
Q 19IDKHOW's 2019 holiday EP covers Merry Christmas Everybody, a 1973 UK number one for which British rock band?
Slade
Slade beat Wizzard's rival festive single to the 1973 Christmas number one; Weekes called it a crime that the song isn't as popular in the States.
Q 20Through which British TV series did Dallon Weekes discover the 1970s hit covered on IDKHOW's 2019 holiday EP?
Doctor Who
Doctor Who led Weekes to the song, and his cover got a one-take video in which Ryan Seaman lies motionless in a chair.
Q 24IDKHOW made its live debut in December 2016 at the two-year anniversary of which event?
Emo Nite
Emo Nite hosted the secret set, and for months afterward Weekes and Seaman denied the band existed, even when shown photos and videos.
Q 25IDKHOW played the Main Stage of which British festival during a run of UK dates in August 2021?
Reading and Leeds
Reading and Leeds had first booked the duo in 2018; the 2021 return came beside sold-out shows in Glasgow and London.
Q 26Which 1980 horror film inspired the mansion setting and style of IDKHOW's Social Climb music video?
The Shining
The Shining shaped the look of the 2019 video, shot in just eight hours at a Utah mansion full of lifeless party guests.
Q 27The plastic cells in IDKHOW's 2020 video for the Razzmatazz lead single were inspired by a scene from which film?
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial inspired the cells, which doubled as a nod to social distancing in a video shot with a compliance officer on set.
Q 28Dallon Weekes said his distaste for all things in which city shaped the general tone of Razzmatazz?
Los Angeles
Los Angeles had been his home for a decade, and the isolation he felt there also drove the earlier IDKHOW song Social Climb.
Q 29Singer Dallon Weekes plays which instrument, his main role in his previous band, on IDKHOW songs such as Choke?
Bass guitar
Bass guitar was his job for eight years in his previous band, and a picked bass line was the starting point for Bleed Magic.
Q 30Which producer known for the Flaming Lips and MGMT co-produced IDKHOW's second studio album with Dallon Weekes?
Dave Fridmann
Dave Fridmann, a founding member of Mercury Rev, produced every track with Weekes and helped the record range across styles.