Brendon Urie
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40 free Brendon Urie trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Brendon Urie joined a band of Las Vegas teenagers as a guitarist and ended up as its voice, its face and, in the end, its only member. Over nearly two decades with Panic! at the Disco he went from theatrical emo breakout to chart-topping pop star, picking up some unlikely side jobs along the way. This quiz follows him well beyond the band. There are questions on his childhood and school days, the videos and singles that made his name, his turn on Broadway, the film soundtracks and guest spots, the duets with some of the biggest names in pop, and the causes he has put his money behind. It is written for fans who know the albums by heart and for anyone who mostly knows the hits. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you can play it straight through, settle an argument or print it for a quiz night.
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Q 01Brendon Urie spent the summer of 2017 on Broadway playing Charlie Price in which Cyndi Lauper musical?
Kinky Boots
Kinky Boots cast Urie as the heir who saves his family's shoe factory by teaming up with a drag queen called Lola. He played the part from late May to early August 2017.
Q 02Which pop star picked Brendon Urie as duet partner and co-writer for her 2019 single 'Me!'?
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift opened the 2019 Billboard Music Awards with Urie at her side, and their duet reached No. 2 on the Hot 100, higher than any single by his own band.
Q 03At which English rock festival in 2006 was Brendon Urie knocked unconscious on stage by a thrown bottle?
Reading
Reading greeted the band with a hail of bottles, and one caught Urie in the face. Once he came round, he got back up and the band carried on with the set.
Q 04Brendon Urie earned a 2018 Tony nomination by writing a song for which family Broadway musical?
SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob SquarePants earned Urie a nomination for Best Original Score, shared with the show's other songwriters. The musical tied with Mean Girls for the most nominations that year.
Q 05Brendon Urie's version of 'Into the Unknown' plays over the end credits of which Disney animated sequel?
Frozen II
Frozen II gives the song to Idina Menzel and the Norwegian singer Aurora inside the film, then hands it to Urie's band as the credits roll.
Q 06In which song's video does Brendon Urie play a ringmaster who disrupts a circus-themed wedding?
I Write Sins Not Tragedies
I Write Sins Not Tragedies won Video of the Year at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards, and it was the first video the band ever made.
Q 07Brendon Urie, raised in Las Vegas from the age of two, was born in which neighboring state?
Utah
Utah was home only briefly: Urie was born in St. George, the fifth and youngest child in his family, and they left for Nevada while he was a toddler.
Q 08Brendon Urie sang 'Big Shot' at the 2013 Kennedy Center Honors as a tribute to which songwriter?
Billy Joel
Billy Joel, one of that night's honorees, was watching from the audience with President Obama, so Urie, then 26, had to belt the songwriter's own hit back at him.
Q 09Which single gave Brendon Urie's band its biggest US hit, peaking at No. 4 on the Hot 100?
High Hopes
High Hopes climbed three places higher than the band's 2006 breakout ever managed, then spent 65 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Rock Songs chart.
Q 10Brendon Urie joined CeeLo Green and Janelle Monáe on a 2009 all-star single made for which brand?
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola commissioned the song for a worldwide ad campaign, and Urie, who sings its chorus, also turns up in the video as an overjoyed news reporter.
Q 11Which crooner, whose 100th birthday fell in 2015, did Brendon Urie salute with the song Death of a Bachelor?
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra's records ran through Urie's childhood, from Christmas mornings to his grandparents teaching the family to swing dance. The song sets that old-fashioned croon to a modern beat.
Q 12Brendon Urie joined Panic! at the Disco as a guitarist, then took over lead vocals from which bandmate?
Ryan Ross
Ryan Ross was the band's singer until Urie filled in for him at a rehearsal. The others were so impressed by the newcomer's voice that he kept the microphone.
Q 13Brendon Urie worked at which chain as a teenager to pay the rent on Panic! at the Disco's practice space?
Tropical Smoothie Cafe
Q 21In the 'Me!' video, which gift from Brendon Urie finally wins his co-star over after flowers and a ring fail?
A cat
A cat does the trick, and the animal got a real home out of it: the pop star adopted him after the shoot and named him Benjamin Button.
Q 22Brendon Urie's band covered the opening number of which movie musical for a 2018 'Reimagined' album?
The Greatest Showman
The Greatest Showman had its whole soundtrack re-recorded by pop acts in 2018. Urie's band took the first track, and Pink and her daughter Willow both sang on the album too.
Q 23In the 'Hey Look Ma, I Made It' video, Brendon Urie's rise to fame and fall are acted out by what?
A puppet
Tropical Smoothie Cafe got more than a counter hand: Urie has said he sang for customers' tips while working there, in the Las Vegas suburb of Summerlin.
Q 14Which instrument does frontman Brendon Urie play on every track of Mike Viola's 2023 album Paul McCarthy?
Drums
Drums put the famous singer at the back of the stage: Urie joined his friend's trio in 2022 and is pictured on the album's cover.
Q 15Which bassist signed Brendon Urie's band to his own label after receiving a demo through LiveJournal?
Pete Wentz
Pete Wentz drove from Los Angeles to Las Vegas to hear the teenagers rehearse and made them the first act on his new label. He then plugged them by wearing a T-shirt punning on their name on stage.
Q 16Brendon Urie sang uncredited guest vocals on two tracks of Folie à Deux, a 2008 album by which band?
Fall Out Boy
Fall Out Boy put Urie in the closing medley of a piano ballad, where a line of guests, Elvis Costello among them, each sing a snatch of the group's older songs.
Q 17On which platform did Brendon Urie raise over $134,000 for charity during a single 24-hour stream in 2019?
Twitch
Twitch hosted the marathon in November 2019, and with the help of guest appearances and giveaways it sailed past its original goal of $100,000.
Q 18Brendon Urie pledged $1 million in 2018 to which group, to start gay–straight alliance clubs in US schools?
GLSEN
GLSEN received the pledge as the first gift from the human-rights foundation Urie had just set up, and the group gave him its Inspiration Award the following year.
Q 19Brendon Urie was raised in which faith, which he has said he left at around the age of 17?
Latter-day Saint
Latter-day Saint teaching shaped Urie's childhood, but he has said he gave up the faith in his teens because he was unhappy with the church and no longer believed in it.
Q 20Brendon Urie's cover of Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' appeared on the soundtrack of which 2016 film?
Suicide Squad
Suicide Squad placed the six-minute cover on a soundtrack album that debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and went on to win a Kids' Choice Award.
A puppet version of Urie signs with a shady manager, slides into addiction and slowly recovers. When the real singer finishes the song, his audience turns out to be puppets too.
Q 24Which late rapper shared the 2018 single 'Roses' with producer Benny Blanco and guest singer Brendon Urie?
Juice Wrld
Juice Wrld, Blanco and Urie made such an unlikely trio that Rock Sound compared the announcement to an ambitious crossover event. The song appears on Blanco's album Friends Keep Secrets.
Q 25Brendon Urie revived Panic! at the Disco in 2025 to play the debut album in full at which Las Vegas festival?
When We Were Young
When We Were Young booked the reunion to mark 20 years of A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, two years after the band had been wound up, with Blink-182 as the other headliner.
Q 26Which fellow singer reintroduced Brendon Urie to his future wife, eight months after they first met?
Hayley Williams
Hayley Williams of Paramore brought the pair back together. When they first met, at one of Urie's concerts in Detroit in 2009, his future wife had been seeing someone else.
Q 27Which Vices & Virtues song did Brendon Urie write to impress the woman he went on to marry in 2013?
Sarah Smiles
Sarah Smiles dates from the start of the romance: Urie told Spin he was infatuated, wrote the song to impress her, played it for her, and they had been together ever since.
Q 28Brendon Urie told Rolling Stone in 2016 that which trait shapes how he connects ideas when writing songs?
Synesthesia
Synesthesia means Urie sometimes sees a song as colors or as words circling him. He said the album he had just finished looked like bright yellows and reds.
Q 29Brendon Urie wrote 'New Perspective', his band's first single as a duo, for which 2009 horror comedy?
Jennifer's Body
Jennifer's Body came along just after half the band had walked out, so its soundtrack single became the first release by Urie and Spencer Smith on their own.
Q 30In which English city did Brendon Urie play the last show of his band's farewell tour in March 2023?
Manchester
Manchester's AO Arena hosted the finale on March 10, 2023, about six weeks after Urie announced that the band would end so he could concentrate on his family.