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50 free My Chemical Romance trivia questions with answers. My Chemical Romance started in a New Jersey basement in the weeks after September 11, 2001, and within five years had a concept album about a dying cancer patient sitting at number two on the Billboard 200. These 50 questions follow the whole arc: the Eyeball Records debut Frank Iero barely played on, the Marc Webb videos that made Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge a platinum record, the haunted mansion where The Black Parade was written, the Killjoys of Danger Days, the shelved Conventional Weapons sessions, the 2013 break-up and the Halloween 2019 reunion announcement. There are also questions on the people around the band: Bob Bryar's arrival from The Used's road crew, Liza Minnelli's cameo, Grant Morrison as a video villain, and Gerard Way's second career writing The Umbrella Academy. Side projects, chart peaks, awards and the 2025 stadium tour are all in here. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and primary references, so the dates, chart positions and credits are accurate. It works as a solo test for longtime fans or as a music round for a pub quiz.
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Q 01Gerard Way was interning for which company in New York City on September 11, 2001?
Cartoon Network
He had pitched the network an animated series called The Breakfast Monkey, which it declined; the attacks pushed him toward music instead.
Q 02Mikey Way worked at which store when he saw the Irvine Welsh title that inspired the band's name?
Barnes & Noble
He later worked at Eyeball Records, the New Jersey indie label that would put out the band's first album.
Q 03The band's name comes from the subtitle of which Irvine Welsh book?
Ecstasy
The 1996 collection is subtitled Three Tales of Chemical Romance; Mikey had to sharpen his bass skills in about a week after being asked to join.
Q 04Which Thursday frontman produced the debut album I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love?
Geoff Rickly
The band befriended him while playing New Jersey shows; the record was cut at Nada Recording Studio in New Windsor, New York.
Q 05Which band did Frank Iero front before joining My Chemical Romance in 2002?
Pencey Prep
The name nods to Holden Caulfield's prep school in The Catcher in the Rye.
Q 06Which song did Gerard Way write to express his feelings about 9/11?
Skylines and Turnstiles
An early demo of it later surfaced on the 2014 greatest hits collection.
Q 07Who produced the band's major-label debut, their 2004 second album?
Howard Benson
Benson also produced The All-American Rejects and Daughtry; the record was cut at Bay 7 Studios and Sparky Dark Studios in California.
Q 08Which album's liner notes describe 'a man, a woman, and the corpses of a thousand evil men'?
Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
The loose narrative continues 'Demolition Lovers' from the debut, with the couple separated between heaven and hell.
Q 09'Helena' was written after the death of which relative of Gerard and Mikey Way?
Their grandmother
Elena died the same day the band finished touring; the song's subtitle is 'So Long & Goodnight'.
Q 10Which future (500) Days of Summer director made the videos for all three singles from the band's 2004 album?
Marc Webb
He also returned to shoot the 'Teenagers' clip in 2007.
Q 11Which Wes Anderson film inspired the movie-trailer-style second video for 'I'm Not Okay (I Promise)'?
Rushmore
Gerard Way described the song itself as a cry for help trapped in a pop song.
Q 12The video for 'The Ghost of You' cuts between a USO dance and the band charging into which battle?
The D-Day landings
Its budget of just over $1 million made it one of the most expensive music videos ever produced at the time.
Q 13In the World War II video for 'The Ghost of You', which band member's character is shot and killed?
Mikey Way
The director cited Saving Private Ryan and Memphis Belle as inspirations for the clip.
Q 21Which actor plays The Patient in the 'Welcome to the Black Parade' video?
Lukas Haas
In 2017 MTV viewers voted the clip the greatest music video of the 21st century.
Q 22What was the working title of 'Welcome to the Black Parade'?
The Five of Us Are Dying
Several critics compared the finished song to Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody'.
Q 23What position did 'Welcome to the Black Parade' reach on the Billboard Hot 100?
9
It also topped the UK Singles Chart, the band's only number one there.
Q 14Which singer guests on 'You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison'?
Bert McCracken
He was one of Gerard Way's closest friends in the scene at the time; the two also duetted on a cover of 'Under Pressure'.
Q 15Bob Bryar met the band while working as a sound technician for which group?
The Used
Bryar, a Chicago native, had worked crew jobs since 2000 and had never been in a signed band before.
Q 16Which original drummer was replaced by Bob Bryar a month after the second album's release?
Matt Pelissier
He co-founded the band with Gerard Way and played on the first two albums.
Q 17Most of The Black Parade was recorded in which reputedly haunted location?
The Paramour Mansion
The isolation there took a heavy toll on the bassist, who left the sessions for a time to recover.
Q 18Which producer, best known for his work with Green Day, produced The Black Parade with the band?
Rob Cavallo
The band went on to reunite with him for the follow-up album in 2010.
Q 19The Black Parade's protagonist, known as 'The Patient', is dying of what?
Cancer
The concept has death arriving in the form of his fondest childhood memory, a parade.
Q 20The Black Parade debuted at number two on the Billboard 200. Which album kept it from the top spot?
Hannah Montana
It sold 240,000 US copies in its first week, more than six times the best week of the band's previous album.
Q 24Which showbiz legend performs on 'Mama' from The Black Parade?
Liza Minnelli
She plays the voice of Mother War in the album's storyline.
Q 25How did Gerard Way break his foot during filming of the 'Famous Last Words' video?
Frank Iero tackled him
Bob Bryar fared worse, suffering third-degree burns to his leg that later became infected.
Q 26What is the hidden track after 'Famous Last Words' on The Black Parade called?
Blood
The music-hall style number is not listed in the album's liner notes.
Q 27Which Black Parade song, inspired by Gerard Way's fear of teens on the subway, did executives want as lead single?
Teenagers
Way admitted it almost did not fit on the record; it ended up as the fourth single and went 6x Platinum in the US.
Q 28What is the title of My Chemical Romance's 2008 live DVD/CD of their final 2007 Mexico show and a Maxwell's gig?
The Black Parade Is Dead!
The Black Parade World Tour ran to 133 shows, with the band playing the album in full as its alter-ego group.
Q 29Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys is set in California in what year?
2019
The band's real-life reunion was announced in the very year the album's story takes place.
Q 30On Danger Days, the Killjoys fight which evil corporation?
Better Living Industries
Its agents include masked Draculoids and the exterminator Korse.