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50 free Twisted Sister trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Twisted Sister spent a decade as the loudest bar act on Long Island before one video made them famous everywhere. The clip for We're Not Gonna Take It, with its bellowing father and a kid who answers back with a power chord, turned five men in make-up into MTV fixtures, and it still drives most of the questions people ask about the group. This quiz covers the stories behind that video and its sequel, the guest-packed Come Out and Play album and the cult film its title track salutes, Dee Snider's day in front of a Senate committee, and the long club years and line-up changes that came first. There are questions on the albums, the producers, the side projects and the places the songs have turned up since, from campaign rallies to cartoons. It suits anyone who grew up with glam metal on the television, and anyone who only knows the chorus. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will leave with a few stories worth retelling.
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Q 01Which carol, recorded by Twisted Sister in 2006, does Dee Snider cite as an influence on We're Not Gonna Take It?
O Come, All Ye Faithful
O Come, All Ye Faithful came full circle on A Twisted Christmas, where the band played the carol exactly in the style of their own hit.
Q 02Which folk singer testified beside Twisted Sister's Dee Snider and Frank Zappa at a 1985 Senate hearing on rock lyrics?
John Denver
John Denver surprised those who expected him to back the campaigners by calling the proposed warning labels censorship, noting that his own Rocky Mountain High had been misread.
Q 03Which actor, later the Maestro on Seinfeld, plays the shouting father in Twisted Sister's We're Not Gonna Take It video?
Mark Metcalf
Mark Metcalf was hired to revive his best-known screen bully, and he came back as the villain of the band's I Wanna Rock video later in 1984.
Q 04The father in Twisted Sister's We're Not Gonna Take It video revives a bullying ROTC officer from which 1978 comedy?
Animal House
Animal House villain Doug Neidermeyer is the model, and the video even gives the father the same first name and middle initial.
Q 05Which pop star played piano on Twisted Sister's Be Chrool to Your Scuel, a song with a Clarence Clemons sax solo?
Billy Joel
Billy Joel was one of several star guests on the 1985 track, which also carries a guitar solo by Brian Setzer of the Stray Cats.
Q 06The intro to Twisted Sister's song Come Out and Play pays homage to a villain's taunt in which 1979 gang film?
The Warriors
In The Warriors, the villain Luther clinks empty bottles together as he taunts the title gang, and the opening track of the 1985 album salutes the scene.
Q 07Twisted Sister are filming a mock video for Burn in Hell when a chase scene bursts through in which 1985 comedy?
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Pee-wee's Big Adventure got its cameo after the film's star and Dee Snider hit it off at an MTV New Year's Eve party, and the comedian asked for that song by name.
Q 08Twisted Sister's I Wanna Rock was reworked as Goofy Goober Rock for a 2004 film based on which cartoon series?
SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob SquarePants also gave Dee Snider a voice role of his own, as Angry Jack in the episode Shell Shocked.
Q 09Which future thrash metal giants toured as a young support act to Twisted Sister during the Stay Hungry era?
Metallica
Metallica opened for a band at its commercial peak, as Stay Hungry went on to sell more than three million copies.
Q 10Dee Snider told a 1985 Senate hearing that Twisted Sister's Under the Blade was about a bandmate's fear of what?
Surgery
Surgery was the theme, as guitarist Eddie Ojeda had faced a throat operation, and Snider told senators that any bondage in the song existed only in his accuser's mind.
Q 11Which shock-rock star shares lead vocals on Twisted Sister's Be Chrool to Your Scuel and stars in its video?
Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper was Dee Snider's hero, but the cameo backfired when MTV refused to show the video on the grounds that it was offensive.
Q 12Twisted Sister's 1985 single Leader of the Pack remade a chart-topping 1964 hit by which girl group?
The Shangri-Las
The Shangri-Las sang it from the girlfriend's side, while the cover flips the story so that the biker tells it and his girlfriend is the one in the accident.
Q 13Which future Beverly Hills, 90210 heart-throb appears in the 1985 video for Twisted Sister's Be Chrool to Your Scuel?
Luke Perry
Q 21Which director, later the creator of HBO's Hard Knocks, made Twisted Sister's We're Not Gonna Take It video?
Marty Callner
Marty Callner cast his own son as the boy whose guitar chord blasts the father out of the bedroom window.
Q 22In the 2012 election, Dee Snider asked which Republican to stop playing Twisted Sister's We're Not Gonna Take It?
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan was told that the singer did not support him, although Snider had happily performed the song at Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign events in 2003.
Q 23Which Long Island magician was given Twisted Sister's We're Not Gonna Take It as the anthem for his HELP charity?
Criss Angel
Luke Perry turned up in the zany clip five years before the role of Dylan McKay made him a teen idol.
Q 14Which future Second Lady co-founded the group that named Twisted Sister's We're Not Gonna Take It in its Filthy Fifteen?
Tipper Gore
Tipper Gore started the Parents Music Resource Center in 1985 with other well-connected Washington wives, among them the wife of Treasury Secretary James Baker.
Q 15Under which heading did the PMRC's Filthy Fifteen list file Twisted Sister's We're Not Gonna Take It?
Violence
Violence was the complaint, and Dee Snider answered that the charity United Way had happily used the video's opening scene to talk about family communication.
Q 16Which country's courts awarded $1.5 million against a politician who reworded Twisted Sister's We're Not Gonna Take It?
Australia
Australia was where Clive Palmer argued in vain that he owed nothing, since he had written new words for his campaign ads and the tune echoed an old carol.
Q 17Spanish-speaking fans famously sing Twisted Sister's We're Not Gonna Take It as a phrase about which food?
Eggs
Eggs with oil and lemon is what the Spanish soundalike means, and the band has sung it that way itself at concerts in Spanish-speaking regions.
Q 18Which British glam band, famed for Cum On Feel the Noize, does Dee Snider cite as an influence on Twisted Sister?
Slade
Slade, whom Snider names as a model for We're Not Gonna Take It, saw that single enter the UK chart at number one in 1973.
Q 19The actor who plays the father in Twisted Sister's We're Not Gonna Take It video returns in I Wanna Rock as what?
A teacher
A teacher is his role this time, tormenting a pupil who has drawn the band's logo on a textbook until the boy and four classmates turn into Twisted Sister.
Q 20Which actor, Flounder in a 1978 college comedy, plays the principal in Twisted Sister's I Wanna Rock video?
Stephen Furst
Stephen Furst ends the video by turning a seltzer bottle on the villain, having suddenly decided that he approves of the band.
Criss Angel got the song free of charge in 2016, and Dee Snider recorded a stripped-down acoustic version in the desert outside Las Vegas for the cause.
Q 24Which Canadian superstar recorded The Magic of Christmas Day, a song written by Twisted Sister's Dee Snider, in 1998?
Celine Dion
Celine Dion put it on her album These Are Special Times and, by Snider's account, had no idea at the time who had written it.
Q 25In 2010 Dee Snider joined the Broadway cast of which jukebox musical with Twisted Sister songs, as bar owner Dennis?
Rock of Ages
Rock of Ages gave him an 11-week run as the owner of the Bourbon Room, in a show built on hits by acts such as Journey, Bon Jovi and Poison.
Q 26Twisted Sister's Dee Snider calls himself an anti-rock star because he has shunned what since one bad night at age 14?
Alcohol
Alcohol has been off limits ever since, and he credits staying clean for the lasting power of his voice in a band that enforced its own ban on drink and drugs.
Q 27Twisted Sister made its name in Long Island clubs but was formed in 1972 in Ho-Ho-Kus, a borough in which state?
New Jersey
New Jersey gave the group its start as a glitter act modelled on the New York Dolls, years before it became one of the most popular bar bands around New York.
Q 28In which 2002 video game does Twisted Sister's I Wanna Rock play on the fictional radio station V Rock?
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City was not the song's only game outing, as Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s later used the band's 2004 re-recording.
Q 29On Celebrity Wife Swap in 2012, the wife of Twisted Sister's Dee Snider traded places with the fiancée of which rapper?
Flavor Flav
Flavor Flav's household hosted Suzette Snider, the costume designer who has long shaped the look of her husband's stage outfits.
Q 30Which performer improvised the bottle-clinking taunt that Twisted Sister echo at the start of Come Out and Play?
David Patrick Kelly
David Patrick Kelly came up with the chant in his debut film after director Walter Hill, underwhelmed by the scripted version of the scene, asked him for ideas.