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50 free Fall Out Boy trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Fall Out Boy came out of the Chicago hardcore scene as a side project that was meant to be easy and escapist, got its name shouted at it from a crowd, and ended up with four number-one albums, a stadium show at Wrigley Field and a place in every 2000s playlist. Along the way there was a tabloid-era frontman who didn't sing, a painful hiatus, and a comeback announced with a bonfire of their own records. These 50 questions run from the Borders bookstore where Patrick Stump corrected a stranger about Neurosis to So Much (for) Stardust and the Billy Joel rewrite. They cover Take This to Your Grave and Smart Studios, the Cork Tree singles, Infinity on High's chart debut, the Folie à Deux backlash, Mark Hoppus shaving Pete Wentz's head at Madison Square Garden, Soul Punk, Black Cards, The Damned Things, the Young Blood Chronicles, the Big Hero 6 song, Uma Thurman, the llama puppet lawsuit and the Hella Mega Tour. Easy questions stick to the lineup and the big hits; the hardest ask about the first drummer, the producer of the demo, the author behind a viral campaign and who shaved whose head. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss. Play it solo or print it for an emo night.
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Q 01In which Illinois suburb was Fall Out Boy formed?
Wilmette
Wilmette. Pete Wentz and Joe Trohman, both regulars of Chicago's hardcore scene, started the band in the suburb as a pop-punk side project meant to be "easy and escapist".
Q 02Patrick Stump sings the chorus of which band's 2007 hit "Cupid's Chokehold"?
Gym Class Heroes
Gym Class Heroes. The chorus Stump sings is lifted from Supertramp's 1979 song "Breakfast in America", reworked for a rap-rock single that reached the US top five.
Q 03Fall Out Boy wrote the song "Immortals" for which Disney animated film?
Big Hero 6
Big Hero 6. Disney asked the band for a song to play over the sequence in which Hiro's brainy friends turn into a high-tech crime-fighting team.
Q 04Which drummer joined Fall Out Boy for good in 2003, after the band had cycled through a string of stand-ins?
Andy Hurley
Andy Hurley. Pete Wentz had wanted his old bandmate from the start, but Hurley only signed on after filling in on a tour that two other drummers had dropped out of.
Q 05Fall Out Boy's "Uma Thurman" samples which TV theme?
The Munsters
The Munsters. Listeners kept saying the guitar sample sounded like a Quentin Tarantino soundtrack, so the band built the lyrics around the star of his Pulp Fiction.
Q 06Fall Out Boy took its name from a character in which animated show?
The Simpsons
The Simpsons. Fallout Boy is the sidekick of the comic-book character Radioactive Man, and the name stuck after an audience member shouted it out at the band's second show.
Q 07Which John Hughes film does Fall Out Boy name-check in the title of a single about unrequited love?
Sixteen Candles
Sixteen Candles. "A Little Less Sixteen Candles, a Little More 'Touch Me'" nods to the director whose teen films are set around the Chicago suburbs where the band grew up.
Q 08Which rapper burns Fall Out Boy's old albums in the band's 2013 "Light Em Up" comeback video?
2 Chainz
2 Chainz. He lights the bonfire that swallows the band's own records and instruments, and the follow-up video, "The Phoenix", shows the four musicians being kidnapped.
Q 09Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump first met Joe Trohman by correcting him about the band Neurosis in what kind of shop?
A Borders bookstore
A Borders bookstore. Stump butted into Trohman's conversation with a friend to put them right, and the chat soon turned to the new band Trohman was putting together.
Q 10Patrick Stump won his place in Fall Out Boy by playing songs from which band's album Through Being Cool?
Saves the Day
Saves the Day. Stump had turned up meaning to audition as a drummer, until Joe Trohman urged him to get out his acoustic guitar and sing.
Q 11What was Fall Out Boy's debut album, released in May 2003?
Take This to Your Grave
Take This to Your Grave. Six years on, the band picked its song "Saturday" to close the last show it played before going on hiatus.
Q 12Which independent label released Fall Out Boy's debut album?
Fueled by Ramen
Fueled by Ramen. It was the band's only album for the label before a move to the major Island, yet they returned to it twenty years later for So Much (for) Stardust.
Q 13Which rushed early release did Fall Out Boy try to stop its label putting out?
Evening Out with Your Girlfriend
Q 21Which rapper delivers the spoken intro that opens Fall Out Boy's 2007 album?
Jay-Z
Jay-Z. Then president of Def Jam, and so the band's label boss, he uses the intro to take a swipe at their critics and salute their fans.
Q 22Which Fall Out Boy single hit No. 2 in both the US and UK?
This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race
This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race. Its lyric vents Pete Wentz's frustration at being made king of the emo scene, and he chose it as a single because it "had the right message".
Q 23Which R&B producer worked on two tracks of Fall Out Boy's 2007 album?
Babyface
Evening Out with Your Girlfriend. It was thrown together in two days, and the band disliked the songs so much that it no longer counts the record as its debut.
Q 14Fall Out Boy recorded its debut album at Smart Studios in which Midwestern city?
Madison, Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin. Smart Studios was producer Butch Vig's base, and the band returned there with engineer Sean O'Keefe after cutting a three-song demo in the same rooms.
Q 15What was Fall Out Boy's 2005 major-label breakthrough album?
From Under the Cork Tree
From Under the Cork Tree. The title is a line from The Story of Ferdinand, the children's book about a bull who would rather sit under a cork tree smelling flowers than fight.
Q 16Which Fall Out Boy single became the band's breakthrough hit, reaching No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2005?
Sugar, We're Goin Down
Sugar, We're Goin Down. It was a last-minute arrival: two weeks before recording began, the band scrapped ten songs and wrote eight new ones, this one among them.
Q 17Patrick Stump wrote and sings the theme song of a Disney Junior cartoon about which Marvel character?
Spider-Man
Spider-Man. Stump, a lifelong Marvel fan, said it took him about ten minutes to say yes to Spidey and His Amazing Friends, and he composes the preschool show's score as well.
Q 18Which British singer-songwriter guests on Fall Out Boy's 2008 ballad "What a Catch, Donnie"?
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello. He sings a line from the band's own "Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet", one of a string of guests who quote old Fall Out Boy songs as the ballad closes.
Q 19For which Grammy category was Fall Out Boy nominated in 2006?
Best New Artist
Best New Artist. The band was hardly new, having already toured for years and released two albums, and the award went to John Legend.
Q 20Which album gave Fall Out Boy its first Billboard 200 number one in 2007?
Infinity on High
Infinity on High. The title is borrowed from a letter Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother in 1888, describing his renewed health and what it was doing for his painting.
Babyface. The band sought him out because they loved his soundtrack for the 2001 film Josie and the Pussycats, and one of his two tracks was the hit "Thnks fr th Mmrs".
Q 24Fall Out Boy's 2007 arena tour borrowed its name and stage design from which children's book?
Where the Wild Things Are
Where the Wild Things Are. Billed as the Young Wild Things Tour, it had sets by artist Rob Dobi, and Pete Wentz said that as a kid he had wanted to be Max, the book's pint-size protagonist.
Q 25Which guitarist played the solo on Fall Out Boy's 2008 cover of Michael Jackson's "Beat It"?
John Mayer
John Mayer. The cover began by accident when Patrick Stump started playing the riff at a soundcheck, and Mayer took the solo that Eddie Van Halen played on the original.
Q 26Which dystopian novel inspired the viral campaign for Fall Out Boy's album Folie à Deux?
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four. Pete Wentz invented an overbearing Big Brother-style group, Citizens for Our Betterment, which appeared to hack his record label's website.
Q 27Which celebrity plays Pete Wentz's love interest in Fall Out Boy's chimpanzee-filled "Thnks fr th Mmrs" video?
Kim Kardashian
Kim Kardashian. Apart from her and the band, every part in the video is played by a chimpanzee, and she recalled being warned on set not to look the animals in the eye.
Q 28Where did Fall Out Boy play its final show before going on hiatus in 2009?
Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden. One member later admitted he cried before going onstage, thinking "maybe this is it", and the band did not play another show for more than three years.
Q 29Which Blink-182 member shaved Pete Wentz's head at Fall Out Boy's last show before its 2009 hiatus?
Mark Hoppus
Mark Hoppus. Rolling Stone called the haircut a symbolic cleansing of the past, and also the start of what turned out to be a very dark chapter for the band.
Q 30What is the title of Patrick Stump's 2011 solo album, on which he played every instrument?
Soul Punk
Soul Punk. Stump spent most of his savings touring it, and wrote a blog post titled "We Liked You Better Fat" about the fans who turned up to heckle him.