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50 free Panic! at the Disco trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
A Blink-182 cover band from a Las Vegas living room signed a record deal before playing a single show, then made one of the most polarizing debuts of the 2000s on an $11,000 budget. These 50 questions follow Panic! at the Disco from Bishop Gorman High School and a LiveJournal demo to Pete Wentz's Decaydance label, the College Park sessions for A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, the diamond single and the VMA, the Nothing Rhymes with Circus tour, the scrapped Cricket & Clover, the exclamation point that vanished for Pretty. Odd., the 2009 split that produced the Young Veins, Dallon Weekes and Vices & Virtues, Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!, Brendon Urie's solo era with Death of a Bachelor and Pray for the Wicked, Kinky Boots on Broadway, High Hopes, Viva Las Vengeance on 8-track tape and the 2023 goodbye in Manchester. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, and each explanation adds one more detail. Play it solo or print it for an emo night quiz.
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Q 01Before writing originals, the band started out covering which group?
Blink-182
Ross originally sang lead, but the group switched to Urie after hearing him in rehearsal.
Q 02Which Fall Out Boy member signed the unsigned band to his Decaydance label?
Pete Wentz
He drove from Los Angeles to Las Vegas after hearing a demo sent through LiveJournal, and they became the label's first act.
Q 03Founders Ross and Smith met at which Las Vegas high school?
Bishop Gorman
They began playing together in ninth grade; Urie and Wilson came from Palo Verde across town.
Q 04Where did Urie work to pay the rent on the band's practice space?
Tropical Smoothie Cafe
He sang for customers there, and tips were part of the income.
Q 05The band took its moniker from a line in a song by which group?
Name Taken
The track is simply called "Panic".
Q 06In which city was A Fever You Can't Sweat Out recorded?
College Park, Maryland
Four members shared a one-bedroom apartment with bunk beds for the whole session.
Q 07Who produced the band's debut album?
Matt Squire
The label had hoped they would pick Mike Green, who had just made Paramore's debut.
Q 08What was the recording budget for A Fever You Can't Sweat Out?
$11,000
It was finished in about three and a half weeks, including mixing and mastering.
Q 09Which song from the debut was certified diamond by the RIAA?
I Write Sins Not Tragedies
It peaked at No. 7 on the Hot 100 and pushed the album to 1.8 million US sales by 2011.
Q 10What did the band's breakout clip win at the 2006 MTV VMAs?
Video of the Year
The debut album went platinum the same month.
Q 11Lyrics on the debut quote novels by which author, a favourite of Ryan Ross?
Chuck Palahniuk
"Time to Dance" retells his novel Invisible Monsters.
Q 12The title of "Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have..." was taken from which 2004 film?
Closer
The song itself was based on a true story of a cheating lover that Ross experienced.
Q 13The debut's closing track interpolates a song from which musical?
The Sound of Music
"Build God, Then We'll Talk" borrows from "My Favorite Things".
Q 21The strings and horns on Pretty. Odd. were recorded at which London studio?
Abbey Road Studios
The band called the trip a dream come true; the rest was cut at the Palms in Nevada.
Q 22Who produced Pretty. Odd.?
Rob Mathes
He had previously worked with the band on a cover of "This Is Halloween".
Q 23How many US copies did Pretty. Odd. sell in its first week?
139,000
It debuted at No. 2, the band's biggest sales week to that point.
Q 24The band retreated to a cabin in which Nevada mountain area to write in 2007?
Q 14Where did A Fever You Can't Sweat Out peak on the Billboard 200?
13
It entered at No. 112 and spent 88 weeks on the chart.
Q 15Who replaced original bassist Brent Wilson in 2006?
Jon Walker
Smith later revealed that Wilson played none of the bass on the debut; Urie recorded those parts.
Q 16What knocked Urie unconscious during the band's 2006 Reading Festival set?
A thrown bottle
The band finished the set once he recovered.
Q 17What was the name of the band's theatrical headlining run in late 2006?
Nothing Rhymes with Circus
A six-member troupe with a contortionist and a ribbon dancer acted out the songs.
Q 18What was the working title of the album the band scrapped in 2007?
Cricket & Clover
Ross said it was three-quarters done; one track, "Nearly Witches", resurfaced on Vices & Virtues.
Q 19What did the band drop from its name in January 2008?
The exclamation point
It returned in July 2009, days after Ross and Walker left.
Q 20What was the lead single from Pretty. Odd.?
Nine in the Afternoon
It was a hold-over from the scrapped record and went triple platinum.
Mount Charleston
They later returned to their old Las Vegas rehearsal studio and started over.
Q 25Which sponsored tour did the band headline across North America in 2008?
Honda Civic
Motion City Soundtrack, the Hush Sound and Phantom Planet opened.
Q 26What band did the two departing members form after the 2009 split?
The Young Veins
They released a single album, Take a Vacation!, in a retro-rock style.
Q 27"New Perspective" was recorded for the soundtrack of which 2009 film?
Jennifer's Body
It was the first song made without Ross and Walker.
Q 28Dallon Weekes fronted which indie band before joining?
The Brobecks
He later left to lead I Dont Know How but They Found Me.
Q 29Which pair produced Vices & Virtues?
Butch Walker and John Feldmann
Weekes appears masked on the cover but did not play on the record.
Q 30What was the lead single from Vices & Virtues?
The Ballad of Mona Lisa
It arrived digitally on February 1, 2011, with the video a week later.