Daft Punk Trivia
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48 free Daft Punk trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
This Daft Punk trivia quiz covers the whole career of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, from a short-lived indie band called Darlin' to the Epilogue video that ended it all in 2021. The easy questions cover the albums and the hits: Homework, Discovery, Human After All, Random Access Memories, Around the World, One More Time, Get Lucky and Starboy. The harder ones dig into the Melody Maker review that named them, the EuroDisney rave, Roulé and Crydamoure, Stardust, the Leiji Matsumoto film Interstella 5555, Electroma at Cannes, the Alive 2007 pyramid, the Tron: Legacy score, the Grammy night with Stevie Wonder and the Kanye West and Weeknd collaborations. It also covers the robots themselves: why they wore the helmets, the Phantom of the Paradise connection, the French knighthood, the Grammys performance that was their first on TV, and what each of them has done since the split. Questions are about the songs and their history, never their lyrics. Every answer was checked against the encyclopaedia entry before publishing. For more, try our EDM, 2000s music and French music quizzes.
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Q 01Which Daft Punk single features the heavily Auto-Tuned voice of house singer Romanthony?
One More Time
One More Time: Bangalter brushed off complaints about its Auto-Tune, comparing them to French musicians in the late 1970s trying to ban the synthesizer.
Q 02Which band's 2005 dance hit is called 'Daft Punk Is Playing at My House'?
LCD Soundsystem
LCD Soundsystem: James Murphy played nearly every part himself, and its video spoofs Daft Punk's own famous 1990s music videos.
Q 03Which British music magazine's negative review gave Daft Punk their name?
Melody Maker
Melody Maker: critic Dave Jennings dismissed their earlier band Darlin' as 'a daft punky thrash', and the pair adopted the insult as their name.
Q 04Which piece of studio gear did Daft Punk claim exploded in 1999, turning them into robots?
Their sampler
Their sampler: they said the blast on 9 September 1999 needed 'reconstructive surgery', a tale that explained the robot costumes they wore for Discovery.
Q 05Which Scottish label released Daft Punk's first singles?
Soma
Soma: its 'Da Funk' single made a slow start, until the Chemical Brothers began working it into their live shows.
Q 06Daft Punk's Homework track 'Revolution 909' nods to a drum machine made by which company?
Roland
Roland: its TR-909 was a commercial failure, dropped after about 10,000 units, yet it became a cornerstone of house music.
Q 07Which was the most successful single from Homework?
Around the World
Around the World: in its video each group of dancers acts out one instrument, with robots as the voice, skeletons on guitar and mummies on drums.
Q 08Which director made Daft Punk's 'Da Funk' video about a dog-headed man with a crutch in New York?
Spike Jonze
Spike Jonze: he called it 'Big City Nights', and its hero Charles is finally stopped from boarding a bus by a 'No radios' sign.
Q 09Who managed Daft Punk from 1996 to 2008?
Pedro Winter
Pedro Winter: he ran the Hype club nights at the Folies Pigalle before managing the duo, and stepped away around 2008 to focus on his own label and DJing as Busy P.
Q 10What was the name of the one-off group Bangalter formed with Alan Braxe and Benjamin Diamond?
Stardust
Stardust: 'Music Sounds Better With You' sold over two million copies, yet Bangalter turned down Virgin's $3 million offer for an album and the trio never released anything else.
Q 11What were the record labels that Bangalter and Homem-Christo each started?
Roulé and Crydamoure
Roulé and Crydamoure: Bangalter scored Gaspar Noé's film Irréversible and put the soundtrack out on Roulé, the label's only album.
Q 12What did Daft Punk say Discovery aimed to reconnect with?
The playful, open-minded attitude of childhood
The playful, open-minded attitude of childhood: Bangalter said Homework told rock kids electronic music was cool, and Discovery told electronic kids rock was cool.
Q 13Which Discovery single reached number one on the US club play chart in 2004?
Face to Face
Q 21Which Kanye West single is built on vocals borrowed from a Daft Punk song?
Stronger
Stronger: West went through 75 mixes of the song, working hard on its kick drums so it would hit in clubs.
Q 22Where was Daft Punk's first televised live performance?
The 2008 Grammy Awards
The 2008 Grammy Awards: Kanye West brought the helmeted duo out as a surprise guest at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Q 23Which 2010 film did Daft Punk score?
Tron: Legacy
Tron: Legacy: the duo also appear in the film itself, as helmeted DJ programs in the virtual nightclub run by Castor.
Face to Face: Daft Punk had failed to win Todd Edwards over for Homework while they were unknown, but he went on to sing and co-produce this song.
Q 14Which Japanese manga artist supervised Interstella 5555, the animated film set to Discovery?
Leiji Matsumoto
Leiji Matsumoto: the Captain Harlock creator said he had in turn been inspired by French cinema.
Q 15What did Daft Punk wear for promotional appearances before the robot helmets?
Halloween masks or bags
Halloween masks or bags: Bangalter said they didn't believe in the star system and wanted the focus to be on the music.
Q 16Which film did Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter call 'the foundation for a lot of what we're about artistically'?
Phantom of the Paradise
Phantom of the Paradise: the duo later brought in its star, Paul Williams, to sing on Random Access Memories.
Q 17How long did it take to write and record Human After All?
Six weeks
Six weeks: most of that time went on mixing rather than recording, and critics were split over its stripped-down, repetitive sound.
Q 18Where did Daft Punk premiere their film Electroma in 2006?
Cannes
Cannes: the film has no dialogue, and in 2021 the duo recut its ending, where one robot explodes, into the video announcing their split.
Q 19What structure did Daft Punk perform from on the Alive 2006/2007 tour?
A giant LED pyramid
A giant LED pyramid: the Guardian compared the tour's US impact to the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, and Resident Advisor said it all but created the blueprint for American EDM.
Q 20Which city's show was released as the live album Alive 2007?
Paris
Paris: the album captures the Bercy show, but the live single's video was cut from footage fans shot on 250 cameras at the duo's Brooklyn gig.
Q 24Which actress turns up at the end of Daft Punk's arcade-game video for 'Derezzed'?
Olivia Wilde
Olivia Wilde: the duo play a game named after the song, and the program that wins turns out to be her film character.
Q 25During whose Madison Square Garden encore did Daft Punk make a surprise appearance in 2010?
Phoenix's
Phoenix's: guitarist Laurent Brancowitz had played in a band with Bangalter and Homem-Christo before Daft Punk existed.
Q 26Which label released Random Access Memories after Daft Punk left Virgin?
Columbia
Columbia: after the deal was announced online, a 15-second ad during Saturday Night Live teased the album with the duo's helmets and logo.
Q 27Which two guests feature on 'Get Lucky'?
Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers
Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers: Pharrell joined after hearing about the project at a party hosted by Madonna, and the song became the duo's first UK number one.
Q 28Which Strokes frontman sings on 'Instant Crush'?
Julian Casablancas
Julian Casablancas: in Warren Fu's video a wax soldier who resembles him melts together with a wax peasant girl in a fire.
Q 29Which Grammy did Random Access Memories win in 2014, beating Taylor Swift's Red?
Album of the Year
Album of the Year: Daft Punk had launched the album at the Wee Waa Show, a farm fair in rural Australia, in May 2013.
Q 30Which Kanye West album did Daft Punk co-produce four tracks on in 2013?
Yeezus
Yeezus: executive producer Rick Rubin then stripped many of West's tracks back, often removing parts that had already been recorded.