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40 free Car Seat Headrest trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Car Seat Headrest started as one teenager uploading home-made albums faster than most bands write songs, and became one of the most argued-over indie acts of its generation. Will Toledo's long, wordy, self-questioning songs found a following on the internet years before any label was involved, and the 2016 album Teens of Denial carried them to a much wider audience. This quiz covers the whole story. It begins with the early lo-fi releases and how the band came to be called what it is, then moves through Teens of Denial and its best-known song, Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales: the television performance, the reworked version put out later that year, and the recall that nearly derailed the album. From there it carries on through Twin Fantasy and its remake, Making a Door Less Open and The Scholars, with questions on the members, the influences, the covers and the side projects along the way. It is written for fans who know the catalogue beyond the hits, but the opening questions are ones a casual listener can reason out, and every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Will Toledo recorded early Car Seat Headrest vocals in the back seat of his family's car in search of what?
Privacy
Privacy was hard to find at home, so he sang into his laptop's built-in microphone there and did not buy a separate one for the project's first three years.
Q 02Members of which hip-hop band backed Car Seat Headrest on 'Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales' on The Tonight Show in 2016?
The Roots
The Roots, the show's house band, added horns and organ, giving the six-minute song a new arrangement for television.
Q 03Which new wave songwriter refused Car Seat Headrest the use of 'Just What I Needed', forcing an album recall?
Ric Ocasek
Ric Ocasek of the Cars said no days before release, after learning Will Toledo had changed a line of the original, so Toledo wrote a replacement track.
Q 04The recalled first pressing of Car Seat Headrest's Teens of Denial was destroyed at the label's warehouse using what?
A garbage truck
A garbage truck compactor crushed the discs and vinyl in the first recall in the label's history, while downloads went ahead and shops waited until July.
Q 05On which music platform did Will Toledo self-release a dozen Car Seat Headrest projects before signing a label deal?
Bandcamp
Bandcamp hosted all twelve between 2010 and 2014, and Toledo chose the site after seeing the band Cults find an audience there.
Q 06Which illness, caught on tour in 2022, left Will Toledo bedridden and made Car Seat Headrest cancel its remaining shows?
COVID-19
COVID-19 turned into a long-lasting form of the illness and a histamine intolerance, and the band weighed splitting up before he was well enough to work again.
Q 07Car Seat Headrest's 2025 album The Scholars, set at a fictional university, was promoted as which kind of work?
A rock opera
A rock opera with a cast of eight characters, it was also the first of the band's albums to credit every member as a writer on all of its songs.
Q 08For Making a Door Less Open, Will Toledo of Car Seat Headrest performed as Trait wearing which headgear with LED eyes?
A gas mask
A gas mask with blinking lights and floppy, rabbit-like ears covered his head, a persona Toledo said he took on because of performance anxiety.
Q 09Car Seat Headrest's 2021 covers EP includes 'Running Up That Hill', a song first recorded by which English singer?
Kate Bush
Kate Bush released it in 1985, and the band's cover sits on MADLO: Influences, a four-song EP issued the same day as a set of remixes.
Q 10Car Seat Headrest began in Leesburg, the hometown of Will Toledo, which lies in which US state?
Virginia
Virginia is where Toledo was born and raised, and he stayed in the state for college before taking the project west.
Q 11Which New York indie label, the home of Pavement and Liz Phair, signed Car Seat Headrest in 2015?
Matador
Matador began in founder Chris Lombardi's apartment in 1989, and its first Car Seat Headrest release reworked songs from Will Toledo's solo years.
Q 12After college, Will Toledo moved to which Pacific Northwest city, where Car Seat Headrest became a full band?
Seattle
Seattle became the band's base in 2014, and a decade later its first show after two years off the stage was held at the city's Woodland Park Zoo.
Q 13Where did Will Toledo find a drummer and a bassist when Car Seat Headrest grew from a solo project into a band?
Craigslist
Craigslist brought in both players for the first label album, and the guitarist who joined soon afterwards met the group at an open mic.
Q 21In Minneapolis in 2016, Will Toledo began Car Seat Headrest's 'Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales' alone on which instrument?
Piano
Piano carried the opening before the others joined in, and the group posted the performance online straight after the show.
Q 22How does Car Seat Headrest's December 2016 single version of 'Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales' differ from the album cut?
It is shorter
It is shorter: the band went back and cut a new single-length take of the six-minute song, released the same week as its Tonight Show performance.
Q 23Teens of Denial, the album with 'Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales', was the first Car Seat Headrest record to be made where?
A studio
Q 14Car Seat Headrest's 'Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales' was the second Teens of Denial single, after which seven-minute song?
Vincent
Vincent arrived with a video in February 2016, a month before the follow-up premiered on the day Will Toledo announced when the album would come out.
Q 15Which crooner's life influenced Car Seat Headrest's Teens of Denial and is named in the subtitle of 'Connect the Dots'?
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra also shaped an earlier song: Will Toledo drew on him for the chord progression of the fourteen-minute opener of How to Leave Town.
Q 16Which cruise ship, wrecked off Italy in 2012, is named in the title of an eleven-minute Car Seat Headrest ballad?
Costa Concordia
Costa Concordia ran aground after leaving its route for a sail-past of an island, and the song named after it borrows from Dido's hit White Flag.
Q 17Which electronic Radiohead song from Kid A was a noted influence on Car Seat Headrest's Making a Door Less Open?
Idioteque
Idioteque, built on a drum-machine pattern, pointed the way to an album the band made twice: once with guitars and drums, once with synthesized sounds.
Q 18Which 1990s hitmakers covered Car Seat Headrest's 'Something Soon' and had their song 'Fallen Horses' covered in return?
Smash Mouth
Smash Mouth, the band behind All Star, got there first, and Car Seat Headrest answered with its cover the day before a new album came out in 2018.
Q 19Car Seat Headrest's 2018 full-band remake of the album Twin Fantasy carries which subtitle in brackets?
Face to Face
Face to Face marks the remake, and the lo-fi 2011 original was renamed Mirror to Mirror only once the new one existed.
Q 20Alongside Audacity, which Apple music program did Will Toledo use to make early Car Seat Headrest albums on a laptop?
GarageBand
GarageBand cost nothing, which suited a project he began straight after high school and released anonymously after earlier aliases found no audience.
A studio and an outside producer were both firsts for the band after years of home-made albums, and Will Toledo had promised a totally different sound.
Q 24Car Seat Headrest's 'Cute Thing' borrows part of 'Ana Ng', a 1988 single by which alternative duo?
They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants were among the acts Will Toledo named as inspirations for Twin Fantasy, alongside Pink Floyd, of Montreal and Destroyer.
Q 25Which website, along with Reddit, helped Car Seat Headrest's Twin Fantasy build its early online cult following?
4chan
4chan and Reddit users spread an album that only about 100 people downloaded at first; by 2018 the count had passed 33,000.
Q 26Which Car Seat Headrest epic in three parts, over twelve minutes long, returned as a surprise remake in late 2017?
Beach Life-in-Death
Beach Life-in-Death took shape as Will Toledo walked around his college town working out how its sections fit, and it set the palette for Twin Fantasy.
Q 27Which Car Seat Headrest drummer makes comedy dance music with Will Toledo as the side project 1 Trait Danger?
Andrew Katz
Andrew Katz performs in the duo as Stoney, and its experiments fed the electronic turn of Making a Door Less Open.
Q 28Car Seat Headrest's The Scholars drew on David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and the album Tommy by which British band?
The Who
The Who built that 1969 double album around a character named Tommy Walker, and Shakespeare, Mozart and Biblical texts fed into The Scholars too.
Q 29Which Making a Door Less Open single took Car Seat Headrest into the top 30 of Billboard's Alternative Songs chart?
Hollywood
Hollywood pairs the drummer's shouts with Will Toledo's soft delivery, and Toledo said it is about people who exploit others to keep a fantasy alive.
Q 30Born with the surname Barnes, Will Toledo of Car Seat Headrest took his stage surname from which source?
His mother's maiden name
His mother's maiden name gave him Toledo; before that he had released music under two other aliases while still at high school.