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50 free Twenty One Pilots trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
47 free Twenty One Pilots trivia questions with answers. Twenty One Pilots built a decade-long story across five albums and a fanbase that decodes every clue. This quiz covers the duo from the Columbus basement where the first album was recorded to Breach in 2025: the Arthur Miller play behind the name, the two original members who left, the Fueled by Ramen signing, Vessel and Blurryface, the Grammy they accepted in their underwear, the world of Trench and Dema with its nine bishops, the anagram in Scaled and Icy and the Clancy finale. The easy questions ask which city the band comes from and which film soundtrack Heathens appeared on. The hard ones want the peak chart position of Stressed Out, the record Level of Concern's video set, which member turned down a basketball scholarship and what Josh Dun played before he taught himself drums. No lyrics are quoted; it is all about the band and its lore. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the duo, its members and its albums, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Twenty One Pilots come from which city?
Columbus, Ohio
Nationwide Boulevard was temporarily renamed Twenty One Pilots Boulevard for two hometown shows in 2019.
Q 02Where did Tyler Joseph get the band's name?
An Arthur Miller play
All My Sons, from 1947, concerns a manufacturer whose faulty parts cause the deaths of 21 pilots.
Q 03Besides Tyler Joseph, who were the two founding members in 2009?
Nick Thomas and Chris Salih
Both left in 2011 and Josh Dun took over on drums.
Q 04How did Tyler Joseph and original bassist Nick Thomas first meet?
Playing youth basketball
Thomas later transferred to Joseph's middle school; he now handles the band's merchandise.
Q 05Where was the band's self-titled first album recorded?
The basement of a house they shared
It came out on 29 December 2009 and they toured Ohio to support it.
Q 06How did Tyler Joseph's mother help with the band's early marketing?
Handing out tickets outside Ohio State
She was a maths teacher who later became a high school basketball coach.
Q 07Josh Dun replaced Chris Salih on drums in which year?
2011
Nick Thomas left the following month, leaving the duo.
Q 08Where was Josh Dun working when he met Chris Salih, who introduced him to Tyler Joseph?
Guitar Center
He also toured as a fill-in drummer for House of Heroes in 2010.
Q 09Which instrument did Josh Dun take lessons in before teaching himself drums?
Trumpet
He learned by imitating records on an electronic kit.
Q 10Tyler Joseph turned down a basketball scholarship to which school?
Otterbein
He changed his mind after seeing a songwriter perform at a club on High Street.
Q 11Tyler Joseph was educated how as a child?
Homeschooled
His first musical exposure was the Christian rap-rock group DC Talk.
Q 12What was the band's second, self-released album, later taken out of print?
Regional at Best
Several of its songs were re-recorded for Vessel.
Q 13Which label signed the duo in 2012?
Fueled by Ramen
The Atlantic subsidiary announced the deal at a show at Lifestyle Communities Pavilion.
Q 14What was the duo's major-label debut album, released in January 2013?
Q 21Which was the first single released from the fourth album, in March 2015?
Fairly Local
Tear in My Heart came next, then Stressed Out.
Q 22The fourth album sold how many US copies in its first week?
134,000
It was the band's first number one on the Billboard 200 and came out two days early.
Q 23What was Stressed Out's peak position on the Billboard Hot 100?
Number two
The sleeper hit gave the duo their first US top ten and is certified 13 times platinum.
Q 24Who produced Stressed Out?
Vessel
Joseph has said he views it as the band's real first record.
Q 15What was the band's first charting single?
Holding On to You
It was one of five songs from the previous self-released album re-recorded for Vessel.
Q 16The duo's 2013 label debut became only the second album ever to achieve what?
Every track certified gold
Blurryface later did the same, making them the only band with two such albums.
Q 17Twenty One Pilots and Panic! at the Disco opened for which band on 2013's Save Rock and Roll tour?
Fall Out Boy
Their late-night debut, on Conan, came that August.
Q 18What was the name of the band's first headlining outing in 2014?
Quiet Is Violent
It ran from September to November and drew on fan requests for the cities.
Q 19The character who gave the fourth album its name was described by Tyler Joseph as representing what?
Everyone's insecurities
Joseph applies black paint to parts of his body to get into character on stage.
Q 20Where did Tyler Joseph wear black paint for that character on the Blurryface tour?
His hands and neck
The paint appears in the Stressed Out video too.
Mike Elizondo
Ricky Reed produced most of the rest of Blurryface, including Ride.
Q 25Which Grammy did Stressed Out win in February 2017?
Best Pop Duo/Group
It was also nominated for Record of the Year.
Q 26What did the duo do before walking on stage to accept their Grammy?
Stripped to their underwear
Joseph said it fulfilled a promise they made while watching the Grammys as unknowns in Columbus.
Q 27Heathens was released in 2016 as the first single from which film's soundtrack?
Suicide Squad
It plays over the end credits and leaked a day before its early release.
Q 28Heathens made Twenty One Pilots the first alternative act in history to do what?
Two top-five singles at once
Ride was in the top five at the same time.
Q 29Where did Ride peak on the Hot 100?
Number five
It earned the duo their third diamond certification.
Q 30Which My Chemical Romance song did the duo cover for a 2016 tribute album?
Cancer
It appeared on Rock Sound Presents: The Black Parade.