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40 free Lemon Demon trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Lemon Demon is the one-man musical project of Neil Cicierega, an internet original whose songs turn cryptids, folk remedies and half-forgotten pop culture into strangely catchy pop. His music has gone viral more than once, years apart. This quiz starts with Sweet Bod, the Spirit Phone track built on one of history's grisliest cures, then moves through The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, Touch-Tone Telephone, Cabinet Man and the albums that came before. There are questions on the real stories behind the songs, the releases and reissues, and the web projects Cicierega made along the way. It is written for fans who know the deep cuts and for newcomers who found one song and want the story behind it. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Lemon Demon's Sweet Bod is about a legendary medicine made by steeping a human corpse in which substance?
Honey
Honey is what preserves the 'mellified man', a legendary remedy said to mend broken limbs. In the tale, the donor ate nothing else until the diet killed him.
Q 02Who is the only fighter left standing at the end of Lemon Demon's The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny?
Fred Rogers
Fred Rogers, the gentle children's television host, outlasts every action hero in the song. The brawl he survives drags on for about a century.
Q 03Lemon Demon's song Bill Watterson is about a fan obsessed with the creator of which comic strip?
Calvin and Hobbes
Calvin and Hobbes ran in newspapers from 1985 to 1995, after which Watterson moved back into private life. The song is a track on the album View-Monster.
Q 04Lemon Demon released Spirit Phone, its first full album in eight years, on which unusual date in 2016?
Leap Day
Leap Day, February 29, was the release date, so the album's exact anniversary comes round only once every four years. Neil Cicierega had announced it just a month earlier.
Q 05In Lemon Demon's song Cabinet Man, the narrator turns himself into a half-human version of what?
An arcade machine
An arcade machine is what he becomes, adored by players and then abandoned and destroyed. Neil Cicierega likened the tale to an old horror anthology such as Creepshow.
Q 06Neil Cicierega of Lemon Demon also created which web series, best known for The Mysterious Ticking Noise?
Potter Puppet Pals
Potter Puppet Pals began as web cartoons in 2003 before switching to real puppets, every one of them made by Cicierega's mother.
Q 07Lemon Demon's Touch-Tone Telephone made the official birthday playlist of which McDonald's mascot?
Grimace
Grimace, the purple McDonald's character, gave the song an unlikely corporate nod. It has passed 100 million streams across Spotify and YouTube.
Q 08Which US president rises from the dead to join the brawl in Lemon Demon's The Ultimate Showdown?
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln climbs out of his grave and opens fire on Batman with an AK-47. He runs for it when Optimus Prime turns up.
Q 09How is Ming Doyle, who made the cover art for Lemon Demon's Spirit Phone, related to Neil Cicierega?
His wife
His wife is the answer: Doyle, whose work has been published by Marvel and DC, married Cicierega in 2015, the year before the album appeared.
Q 10Lemon Demon's Neil Cicierega tied his four mashup albums together with samples of All Star, a hit by which band?
Smash Mouth
Smash Mouth's signature song runs through the whole series, sometimes only as hidden Easter eggs. Cicierega released the mashups under his own name.
Q 11The century-long battle in Lemon Demon's The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny breaks out in which city?
Tokyo
Tokyo is where Godzilla is ambushed by Batman, who opens the fight with a Bat-Grenade. Dozens of historical and pop-culture icons then pile in.
Q 12Lemon Demon's bonus track While My Keytar Gently Weeps is a remix of a song by which band?
The Beatles
The Beatles recorded the original, While My Guitar Gently Weeps. The remix is one of the bonus tracks on View-Monster, Lemon Demon's sixth studio album.
Q 13Which NBA star steps in to block a monster's counterattack in Lemon Demon's The Ultimate Showdown?
Shaquille O'Neal
Q 21On which website did Lemon Demon's animated video for The Ultimate Showdown first appear in December 2005?
Newgrounds
Newgrounds users made the video their User's Choice, and it racked up 6.5 million views in six months. Animator Shawn Vulliez was credited under the name altffour.
Q 22Lemon Demon's The Ultimate Showdown topped the Funny Five countdown on which radio host's program?
Dr. Demento
Dr. Demento, the broadcaster who brought 'Weird Al' Yankovic to national attention, also logged it as his most-requested song of 2006.
Q 23A re-recorded version of Lemon Demon's The Ultimate Showdown became a playable track in which music game series?
Rock Band
Shaquille O'Neal blocks the blow with his 'Shaq Fu', then gets attacked by pop singer Aaron Carter before the Batmobile runs them both over.
Q 14Lemon Demon's Neil Cicierega wrote two unused opening themes for which Disney cartoon series?
Gravity Falls
Gravity Falls did use one of his songs, Goat and a Pig, over the end credits of the episode The Love God. Parts of the rejected themes became Spirit Phone bonus tracks.
Q 15Which holiday is the theme of the EP Lemon Demon released in 2012, later reissued on vinyl and cassette?
Christmas
Christmas gets the Lemon Demon treatment on I Am Become Christmas, an EP that came out just four days before the holiday itself.
Q 16In which US state did Neil Cicierega, born in the town of Bridgewater, start Lemon Demon in 2003?
Massachusetts
Massachusetts is home: he grew up in nearby Kingston, where he was home-schooled from the fourth grade and recorded his early albums at the family house.
Q 17What kind of animal was Gef, the talking creature of 1930s legend celebrated in Lemon Demon's Eighth Wonder?
A mongoose
A mongoose was what Gef claimed to be, telling a farming family he had been born in New Delhi in 1852. Britain's tabloid press covered the story heavily.
Q 18Which actor is the star of a viral 2010 Lemon Demon video that comically follows him through his daily life?
Adrien Brody
Adrien Brody first saw the video when his father showed it to him, and liked it enough to use the music as his ringtone for a while.
Q 19The guitar solo on Lemon Demon's Sweet Bod is by Dave Kitsberg of Time Crash, a group devoted to which TV series?
Doctor Who
Doctor Who was the Chicago group's whole subject, a style known as Time Lord rock. Kitsberg also played guitar in Lemon Demon's live line-up.
Q 20Lemon Demon's 2006 song Fine found a huge new audience when it became a trend on which app in late 2022?
TikTok
TikTok pushed the song past Touch-Tone Telephone as Lemon Demon's most-streamed track in July 2024, eighteen years after it first came out.
Rock Band took the song in July 2010 through its Rock Band Network, a service that let artists and labels turn their own music into playable tracks.
Q 24Lemon Demon's The Ultimate Showdown video blends Cowboy Curtis with Morpheus because which actor played both?
Laurence Fishburne
Laurence Fishburne was Cowboy Curtis on Pee-wee's Playhouse long before he was Morpheus in The Matrix, so the animators merged the two looks.
Q 25Lemon Demon's Touch-Tone Telephone is sung from the viewpoint of a devoted caller who keeps phoning what?
A radio show
A radio show is the narrator's outlet, and he is certain he has everything figured out. Cicierega described the song as a rant by someone who never follows through.
Q 26In 2023 Lemon Demon's Touch-Tone Telephone was issued as a single on which antique recording format?
Wax cylinder
Wax cylinder is a format from the earliest days of recorded sound. The same month, the bonus track The Oldest Man on MySpace got one too.
Q 27Lemon Demon's Spirit Phone was the best-selling album during its first week on which online music store?
Bandcamp
Bandcamp was where the album first went on sale, as a digital release. Vinyl, CD and cassette editions did not follow until 2018.
Q 28A 2006 Boston Globe profile compared Lemon Demon's quirky songwriting to the style of which musical duo?
They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants were the Globe's comparison for Cicierega's quirky songwriting. His album Dinosaurchestra, released weeks later, sold enough CDs to support his career.
Q 29The corpse medicine in Lemon Demon's Sweet Bod is described in the Bencao Gangmu, a 16th-century text from where?
China
China is where the Bencao Gangmu was compiled; it reports the remedy only as a second-hand story and calls it mìrén, or 'mellified man'.
Q 30Lemon Demon founder Neil Cicierega's early web cartoon Hyakugojyuuichi!! is set to the credits music of which anime?
Pokémon
Pokémon supplied the Japanese song, and the 2001 cartoon quickly became an internet phenomenon that other animators imitated.