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50 free Breaking Benjamin trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Breaking Benjamin have been a fixture of American rock radio for over twenty years, with a sound fans can pick out in seconds: heavy riffs, big choruses and lyrics left vague enough for listeners to make their own. Behind that steady sound is a surprisingly bumpy story of lineup changes, courtroom fights, a long silence and a comeback that beat every expectation. This quiz covers the whole run. There are questions on how the band got its name, the albums and their cover art, the singles and their music videos, and the songs that found a place in films and video games. Others look at the people: the founder who writes nearly everything, the members who came and went, and the guests and producers who helped along the way. You will not be asked to finish a lyric; instead, songs are identified by their stories, their videos and their place in the band's history. It is written for casual listeners and real fans alike, so the set opens with facts most rock fans can reason out and then moves to deeper cuts. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a missed guess still leaves you knowing the band a little better.
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Q 01Which fear of Benjamin Burnley kept Breaking Benjamin from touring overseas and inspired the Phobia cover?
Flying
Flying is the fear behind the winged man hovering over a runway on the Phobia sleeve. For the band's first European dates, in 2016, Burnley crossed the Atlantic by ship instead.
Q 02Breaking Benjamin got its name when Benjamin Burnley broke which borrowed item, to its owner's annoyance?
A microphone
A microphone he had borrowed broke, and its owner sarcastically thanked Benjamin for breaking it. Burnley revived the name for a later band because he still had the old promotional stickers.
Q 03Which Breaking Benjamin song was written for the Halo 2 soundtrack and plays during the game's Gravemind level?
Blow Me Away
Blow Me Away was gamer Benjamin Burnley's own idea, and the band took no payment for it. Halo 2 plays an instrumental cut as Master Chief fights through a Covenant civil war.
Q 04Which Breaking Benjamin single was the fastest-added in its label's history and plays in Step Up 2: The Streets?
The Diary of Jane
The Diary of Jane hit radio playlists faster than any single in the label's history and went four times platinum. Its video follows a woman who cannot find her reflection in any mirror.
Q 05The cover of the Breaking Benjamin album Dear Agony shows which medical image of frontman Benjamin Burnley?
A brain scan
A brain scan from an MRI of Burnley's own head fills the sleeve. The same image turns up in the video for one of the album's singles, hanging in a hospital room.
Q 06Which album gave Breaking Benjamin a first Billboard 200 number one after a hiatus and a complete lineup change?
Dark Before Dawn
Dark Before Dawn opened with 141,000 album-equivalent units, the band's best sales week. Burnley wrote about 95 percent of it alone, with the new members yet to play a note together.
Q 07Breaking Benjamin come from which Pennsylvania city, where radio station WBSX championed the band early on?
Wilkes-Barre
Wilkes-Barre is where the band formed in 1999, and its rock station WBSX stayed loyal. In 2009 it aired a new single ahead of the label's planned premiere.
Q 08Breaking Benjamin frontman Benjamin Burnley has published mods for Fallout 4 and which other role-playing game?
Skyrim
Skyrim mods sit beside his Fallout 4 ones under the username killemloud. Burnley is an avid gamer, and the band's songs have turned up in wrestling and racing titles.
Q 09Breaking Benjamin and singer Diamante released a cover of Iris in 2020, a song originally by which rock band?
Goo Goo Dolls
Goo Goo Dolls had the original hit, and the remake arrived in July 2020 with Burnley and Diamante sharing the vocals. She had toured as the band's support act the year before.
Q 10Which rock frontman co-wrote Rain, Forget It and Follow with Benjamin Burnley for a Breaking Benjamin album?
Billy Corgan
Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins spent six days in December 2003 writing with Burnley for We Are Not Alone. Burnley was nervous going in but called it a highlight of his career.
Q 11Which Breaking Benjamin single plays over the end credits of the Bruce Willis film Surrogates?
I Will Not Bow
I Will Not Bow was chosen from a batch of songs Burnley had sent his label, not written for the film. It became the band's first top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
Q 12Which Breaking Benjamin single, inspired by the film 28 Days Later, has a video set in early American history?
So Cold
So Cold has a video in which a man shackled to a heavy stone is marched to a swamp as punishment for infidelity. The single spent 62 weeks on the Mainstream Rock chart without reaching number one.
Q 13Which record label signed Breaking Benjamin after a two-night showcase for more than a dozen companies?
Hollywood Records
Q 21Which lead single from Breaking Benjamin's 2015 comeback album spent nine weeks atop the Mainstream Rock chart?
Failure
Failure ended a five-year silence when it arrived in March 2015, trailed by a teaser only 15 seconds long. It was the band's third chart-topper on rock radio.
Q 22Which debut single by Breaking Benjamin took off after DJ Freddie Fabbri put it in rotation on local radio?
Polyamorous
Polyamorous became the most requested track on the station, so Fabbri paid for the band's first EP and later managed them. The song went on to feature in several wrestling video games.
Q 23Which producer worked with Breaking Benjamin on three straight albums: We Are Not Alone, Phobia and Dear Agony?
David Bendeth
Hollywood Records won out after scouts from over a dozen labels watched the band play two showcase nights in early 2002. It stayed the band's home for six studio albums.
Q 14Which founding drummer of Breaking Benjamin sued the band after being let go following a paternity leave?
Jeremy Hummel
Jeremy Hummel filed a federal suit claiming wrongful dismissal and unpaid royalties, which the band's manager called frivolous. It was settled for an undisclosed sum in April 2006.
Q 15Which band first recorded Enjoy the Silence, covered by Breaking Benjamin for a shelved European release?
Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode wrote the original, and the cover sat on the shelf once the European edition was scrapped. It finally came out in 2011 on a deluxe greatest-hits set.
Q 16Which Phobia single gave Breaking Benjamin a first Mainstream Rock number one, holding it for seven weeks?
Breath
Breath reached a summit that the album's bigger pop hit had missed. Its video was cut from footage of a homecoming concert filmed in Pennsylvania in February 2007.
Q 17Which problem affecting Benjamin Burnley forced Breaking Benjamin into an extended hiatus from 2010?
Recurring illness
Recurring illness that doctors could not diagnose stopped Burnley touring in 2010. He eventually gave up chasing an answer and poured his energy into writing the next album.
Q 18Which guitarist co-wrote Dear Agony songs with Benjamin Burnley five years before joining Breaking Benjamin?
Jasen Rauch
Jasen Rauch was in another band when he wrote on four of the album's tracks, and Burnley said the pair were like the same person as writers. He became lead guitarist in 2014.
Q 19Which debut album by Breaking Benjamin, produced by Ulrich Wild, takes its title from a lyric in Wish I May?
Saturate
Saturate arrived in August 2002 and climbed no higher than number 136 on the Billboard 200. It still went gold, though the certificate took thirteen years to arrive.
Q 20Which dancer and actor sings on the Breaking Benjamin album Ember after covering Ashes of Eden in a dance video?
Derek Hough
Derek Hough adds backing vocals to one track after Burnley saw his choreographed cover and got in touch. Hough called the invitation a dream come true.
David Bendeth produced the band's run of albums from the 2004 breakthrough to 2009. After that Burnley took the producer's credit himself, saying he had always done much of the work.
Q 24Which original lead guitarist of Breaking Benjamin was fired by email alongside bassist Mark Klepaski?
Aaron Fink
Aaron Fink and Klepaski had approved a remix and a greatest-hits album for $100,000 while the band was on hiatus, without telling Burnley. He sued, and kept the sole right to the band name.
Q 25Which name, taken from a 1950s sci-fi film, did Benjamin Burnley's trio use before becoming Breaking Benjamin?
Plan 9
Plan 9 nodded to Plan 9 from Outer Space, but people kept calling the trio Planet 9. Burnley gave up and went back to the name of his first band.
Q 26Which 2020 Breaking Benjamin album reworks older songs with acoustic guitars and strings and adds one new track?
Aurora
Aurora gathers guest singers from across rock radio for its remakes, and its one new song was released as the lead single. It was the band's last album for its first label.
Q 27Which rock singer guests on Breaking Benjamin's 2020 acoustic remake of Dance with the Devil?
Adam Gontier
Adam Gontier of Three Days Grace and Burnley go back years: their bands toured together repeatedly and the two singers wrote an unreleased song together. Dance with the Devil first appeared on Phobia.
Q 28The first band Benjamin Burnley called Breaking Benjamin played soft covers of Weezer and which British group?
The Beatles
The Beatles and Weezer covers made that 1998 group nothing like the heavy band that followed, Burnley has said. It split when he left for California.
Q 29Breaking Benjamin is a Pennsylvania band, but in which New Jersey resort town was founder Benjamin Burnley born?
Atlantic City
Atlantic City was his birthplace, and he grew up on the Jersey shore before his family moved to Pennsylvania when he was 12. His own recording studio is back on that coast.
Q 30The Breaking Benjamin logo, seen on a heavy stone in one video and a tombstone in another, is which design?
A Celtic knot
A Celtic knot is the band's emblem, and its videos hide it in plain sight. It marks the stone a condemned man drags through one clip and the grave where another ends.