Death Grips
0Loading crowd target
0Loading crowd target
6correct to beat the crowd
50 free Death Grips trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Death Grips built one of the strangest careers in modern music. The trio paired shouted vocals with punishing drums and distorted electronics, then treated the business around the music as part of the act: albums given away without warning, a contract broken, shows the band never turned up for, and a breakup that did not stick. This quiz covers the whole story: who is in the band and where it came from, the mixtape and the studio albums, the fallout with its label, the famous faces who turned up on its tracks, the samples, the videos and the live stunts that made headlines. It also looks at the musicians and television shows that have borrowed from the band since. The opening questions are fair game for anyone who follows music news, and the later ones are for fans who know the discography track by track. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you can play straight through on your own or print the set for a group.
30 of 50 questions with answers and explanations. Play the quiz
Q 01Which English actor's guitar riff, recorded on an iPhone, did Death Grips sample for the single Birds?
Robert Pattinson
Robert Pattinson played the riff into the drummer's phone, and the band cut the recording up to build the 2013 track around it.
Q 02Which singer's vocal samples appear on every track of the first disc of Death Grips' The Powers That B?
Björk
Björk recorded original vocal samples for the band after it remixed two of her songs in 2012. Her contribution to the disc is credited as a 'found object'.
Q 03Which rock star was inspired by Death Grips while making his final album, according to his saxophonist?
David Bowie
David Bowie was listening to the trio during the sessions for Blackstar, which came out on his 69th birthday, two days before he died.
Q 04Andrew Adamson, who speaks the intro to Death Grips' Dilemma, directed which hit animated film?
Shrek
Shrek won the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature under Adamson, a New Zealander who went on to direct the first two Narnia films.
Q 05Death Grips announced a breakup in July 2014 by posting a message handwritten on which everyday item?
A napkin
A napkin carried the note, which cancelled every live date, including a support slot with Nine Inch Nails. The split did not last: new music followed within months.
Q 06Death Grips appeared in a viral 2013 photo taken backstage at a concert by which pop superstar?
Beyoncé
Beyoncé met the trio backstage at one of her own concerts, and the picture also included a film actor who had played guitar for the band.
Q 07Hackers replaced the homepage of which country's Constitutional Court with Death Grips' Guillotine video?
Thailand
Thailand's court site was defaced in 2021 in protest at rulings against pro-democracy activists, and the hackers also renamed it 'kangaroo court'.
Q 08Death Grips' self-leaked second album topped a chart of legal downloads on which file-sharing service?
BitTorrent
BitTorrent put the band at the top of its list of most legally downloaded music after the trio gave the album away against its label's wishes.
Q 09Death Grips' System Blower samples the on-court grunt of which tennis champion?
Venus Williams
Venus Williams's grunt opens a recurring section of the track, one of several odd sounds on a record that also samples a city transit train.
Q 10The executive who signed Death Grips to a major label had earlier championed which future pop star?
Katy Perry
Katy Perry was 17 and unreleased when Angelica Cob-Baehler became one of her earliest supporters. Cob-Baehler later ran marketing at the label that signed the trio.
Q 11Death Grips formed in which California city, where two of its members lived next door to each other?
Sacramento
Sacramento is where the vocalist and the drummer had lived on the same street for several years before starting the band in 2010.
Q 12Which major label dropped Death Grips in 2012 after the band leaked its own album online for free?
Epic
Epic had wanted to hold the record back until the following year. After the leak, the band also posted the label's confidential emails on Facebook.
Q 13Stefan Burnett, the vocalist of Death Grips, performs under which stage name?
MC Ride
MC Ride formed the band in 2010 with his next-door neighbour. Before that he had rapped in a local trio with his brother and pursued a career as a painter.
Q 21Guillotine, one of Death Grips' best-known songs, was the lead single from which free 2011 mixtape?
Exmilitary
Exmilitary was given away through the band's website in April 2011, a month after a self-titled EP that shared three of its tracks.
Q 22Which Death Grips album, the band's studio debut, includes Get Got, Hacker and I've Seen Footage?
The Money Store
The Money Store arrived in April 2012 on a major label, after the band had already sold it on cassette at a festival and put it out on vinyl.
Q 23Which Death Grips album did the band give away online in October 2012 against its label's wishes?
No Love Deep Web
Q 14Though not its frontman, which drummer is credited as the driving creative force behind Death Grips?
Zach Hill
Zach Hill co-produces the trio's music as well as drumming on it, and set out to write and direct a feature film while working on its 2013 album.
Q 15Death Grips' debut studio album was the first record that which YouTube music critic rated a 10 on release?
Anthony Fantano
Anthony Fantano, who runs the channel The Needle Drop, had never before given a newly released album his top mark.
Q 16In Death Grips' Guillotine video, where does the vocalist rap as white noise slowly corrupts the picture?
In a car
He raps the whole clip in a car, a setting the drummer felt suited an anxious, claustrophobic song.
Q 17Death Grips' 2013 slot at which festival was cancelled after the band skipped its own after-party show?
Lollapalooza
Lollapalooza dropped the trio after it left a playlist running at a Chicago club instead of appearing. The band later said the stage set and the recorded music were the show.
Q 18Death Grips' Bubbles Buried in This Jungle plays in the third-season premiere of which television series?
Westworld
Westworld used the track in Parce Domine, which opened its third season in March 2020 with much of the action set in Los Angeles.
Q 19Death Grips walked off stage mid-show in Arkansas in 2023 after fans kept throwing what at the band?
Glowsticks
Glowsticks hit the band several times in Fayetteville before it cut the set short, during its first North American tour in four years.
Q 20Death Grips' drummer skipped a 2013 SXSW show in person and played his part over which video service?
Skype
Skype carried the drumming into the venue from elsewhere, and footage of the show became the music video for Lock Your Doors.
No Love Deep Web had been promised for that month, but the label would not commit to a date before 2013, so the trio released it without permission.
Q 24At which California festival did Death Grips sell its debut studio album on cassette days before release?
Coachella
Coachella crowds could buy the tape on April 20, 2012, four days before the official release and a day before a vinyl edition.
Q 25Which music website gave Death Grips' debut studio album its Best New Music label in 2012?
Pitchfork
Pitchfork awarded the same Best New Music tag to another of the trio's albums the following year.
Q 26Justin Chancellor, who plays bass on the Death Grips track Disappointed, is the bassist of which rock band?
Tool
Tool's English bassist was one of several unexpected guests the trio announced for its 2018 album, alongside a film director and a noise artist.
Q 27Among Death Grips' notorious live antics, the band's drummer has performed while wearing what?
Handcuffs
Handcuffs are part of a stage reputation that also includes drumming to the point of severe injury.
Q 28The drums fans smashed after Death Grips failed to appear at a 2013 club show were later revealed to be what?
A children's kit
A children's kit, sold for learning, stood in for the drummer's real one, so the angry crowd never touched his actual drums.
Q 29Just before a 2011 label meeting, what did Death Grips vocalist Stefan Burnett do to a Sony Music bathroom?
Tagged it with graffiti
He tagged it with graffiti, and the stunt unexpectedly sold the label on the band: a deal was struck within five hours.
Q 30In its 2014 breakup note, Death Grips claimed that the group had always been what, rather than simply a band?
An art exhibition
An art exhibition, and a conceptual one anchored by sound and vision, was how the note put it, adding that the trio was stopping while at its best.