5SOS Trivia: 5 Seconds of Summer
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90 free 5SOS Trivia: 5 Seconds of Summer trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
5 Seconds of Summer started as three schoolmates posting covers on YouTube in 2011 and became the first Australian act with three number-one albums on the Billboard 200. This 5SOS trivia quiz covers the whole story: the Annandale Hotel show played to a dozen people, Ashton joining as drummer, the One Direction tours that broke them worldwide, She Looks So Perfect going to number one in four countries, and the two-year break that nearly ended the band before Youngblood. It also covers each member and each era: Luke Hemmings, Michael Clifford, Calum Hood and Ashton Irwin, the meaning of CALM, Teeth with Tom Morello, the Chainsmokers collaboration, going independent for 5SOS5, the Royal Albert Hall show, the solo albums and Everyone's a Star!. Forty-five questions run from easy for anyone who has heard Youngblood on the radio to expert for fans who know their EPs. Every answer is checked against documented sources rather than fan accounts, so it works for a fan-club night or a pop music round.
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Q 01In which Australian city did 5 Seconds of Summer form in 2011?
Sydney
Three of the four attended Norwest Christian College together.
Q 02How is the abbreviation 5SOS officially pronounced?
Five sauce
Michael Clifford came up with the band name, which Calum Hood says has no deep meaning.
Q 03Who is the band's lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist?
Luke Hemmings
Luke was the youngest of three boys, raised in Freemans Reach in the Hawkesbury district.
Q 04Which member was the last to join, completing the lineup in December 2011?
Ashton Irwin
The original trio had been posting cover songs on Luke's YouTube channel.
Q 05Which member came up with the band's name?
Michael Clifford
Calum said the name was arbitrary and not meant to mean anything.
Q 06Roughly how many people watched the band's first show at the Annandale Hotel pub in December 2011?
12
They recreated the gig in the 2020 'Old Me' video.
Q 07Which boy band's Take Me Home Tour did 5SOS support in 2013, launching them internationally?
One Direction
They rejoined 1D for the Where We Are Tour in 2014.
Q 08What was the band's first single, released in November 2012?
Out of My Limit
Its video passed 100,000 views in 24 hours.
Q 095SOS signed to which major label in November 2013?
Capitol Records
They later moved to Interscope for Calm and went independent with BMG for 5SOS5.
Q 10What was 5SOS's debut major-label single in 2014?
She Looks So Perfect
It topped the charts in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the UK.
Q 115SOS's 2014 debut single made them the first Australian band in how many years to top the UK chart?
14
They were only the fourth Australian band ever to do it.
Q 12Which two members co-wrote the 2014 major-label debut single with producer Jake Sinclair?
Michael Clifford and Ashton Irwin
It won Song of the Year at the 2014 ARIA Awards and was later covered by Ed Sheeran.
Q 13Billboard compared 'Don't Stop' to Green Day's 'She' and which Blink-182 song?
All the Small Things
The single peaked at number one in four countries and number two in the UK.
Q 21What was the lead single from Youngblood, released in February 2018?
Want You Back
The follow-up promo tour, 5SOS III, sold out in about three minutes.
Q 22How many consecutive weeks did 'Youngblood' spend at number one on Australia's ARIA chart?
Eight
It was the biggest-selling single of 2018 in Australia and is the eleventh best-seller in the country's history.
Q 23With Youngblood, 5SOS became the first Australian act to achieve what in the US?
Three number-one albums on the Billboard 200
They were also the first band, as opposed to vocal group, to debut their first three albums at number one there.
Q 14Which cover was the first single from the 2014 live album LIVESOS?
What I Like About You
The Romantics' original dates from 1979.
Q 15What was the name of the band's first headlining world trek in 2015?
Rock Out With Your Socks Out Tour
Michael Clifford was singed by pyrotechnics at Wembley Arena during it.
Q 16What was the lead single from Sounds Good Feels Good?
She's Kinda Hot
The album was their first UK number one and second in Australia.
Q 17Sounds Good Feels Good contains the band's longest song, titled what?
Outer Space/Carry On
At just under 53 minutes the album is also their longest.
Q 18'Girls Talk Boys' appeared on the soundtrack of which 2016 film?
Ghostbusters
It came out during a break that stretched to nearly two years.
Q 19Which Japanese band featured 5SOS on the 2017 track 'Take What You Want'?
One Ok Rock
It was their first release after the post-2016 hiatus began.
Q 20Which Weezer frontman was among the co-writers on the Youngblood album?
Rivers Cuomo
Andrew Watt and Ali Tamposi were also key collaborators on the record.
Q 24'Youngblood' topping US top 40 radio made 5SOS the first Australian band to do so in how many years?
21
It was also their first Hot 100 top ten and their first Canadian top five.
Q 25Which singer featured on the December 2018 rendition of 'Lie to Me'?
Julia Michaels
The band won three ARIA Awards that same month.
Q 26'Who Do You Love' was a 2019 collaboration with which DJ duo?
The Chainsmokers
5SOS then joined the duo's World War Joy Tour later that year.
Q 27'Teeth' features a guitar part from which Rage Against the Machine musician?
Tom Morello
The song was on the season 3 soundtrack of Netflix's 13 Reasons Why and won the 2020 ARIA Song of the Year.
Q 28'Teeth' appeared on the soundtrack of which Netflix series?
13 Reasons Why
Its instrumental samples an unreleased Juice Wrld song, 'So What'.
Q 29What does the album title CALM stand for?
Calum, Ashton, Luke, Michael
It was released on 27 March 2020 and topped charts in Australia and the UK.
Q 30Why did CALM miss out on a fourth straight US number one?
A shipping error released copies a week early
Roughly 15,000 copies went out early, so it charted a week ahead and peaked at number two.