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50 free Gorillaz trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Gorillaz began as a comment on manufactured pop and became one of the most inventive bands of the century. Musician Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett invented a group of cartoon musicians, gave them a backstory that reads like a long-running soap opera, and then filled their records with real guests from hip-hop, rock, reggae and pop. This quiz covers the whole story: 2-D, Murdoc, Noodle and the rest of the animated line-up, the albums from the self-titled debut to Demon Days, Plastic Beach, Humanz and beyond, the singles and their videos, the collaborators, and the tours and stunts that put a virtual band on real stages. It mixes gentle openers with questions for the biggest fans, so casual listeners who know 'Clint Eastwood' and 'Feel Good Inc.' can play alongside people who have followed every twist of the lore. Each answer comes with a short explanation, so you can play it straight through or print it for a group.
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Q 01Damon Albarn was already the frontman of which Britpop band when he co-created Gorillaz in 1998?
Blur
Blur made Albarn a Britpop star, but Gorillaz let him try hip-hop, dub and Latin music. He said he had rhythms he never thought he could use with his first band.
Q 02Which pop superstar opened the 2006 Grammy Awards performing beside 3D projections of Gorillaz?
Madonna
Madonna swapped places on stage with the projected cartoon band as their song gave way to her hit 'Hung Up'. The illusion needed such low volume that Damon Albarn later called the performance tough.
Q 03Which hip-hop group raps on Gorillaz's hit 'Feel Good Inc.' and supplies its famous manic laugh?
De La Soul
De La Soul arrived at the studio messing around and trying to make each other laugh, and the tape was rolling. The cackle that made the record belongs to member Vincent Mason.
Q 04Which Hollywood action star chases the band's car through the desert in Gorillaz's 'Stylo' video?
Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis hunts the band in a red 1968 Chevrolet El Camino. The chase ends when their Camaro plunges into the ocean and turns into a shark-shaped submarine.
Q 05Damon Albarn recorded the Gorillaz album The Fall on tour in 2010 mainly using which Apple device?
An iPad
An iPad served as his studio on the North American leg, and he released the songs untouched as a tour diary. The album appeared as a Christmas Day download that same year.
Q 06Gorillaz guitarist Noodle was designed as a ten-year-old martial arts expert from which country?
Japan
Japan became Noodle's home after Damon Albarn rejected the first guitarist design. Jamie Hewlett's original, a 17-year-old named Paula Cracker, looked too much like his usual characters.
Q 07Gorillaz headlined Glastonbury 2010 in place of which band, whose singer needed back surgery?
U2
U2 pulled out a month before the festival after Bono's back surgery, and Gorillaz stepped in the next day. The cartoon band ended up topping the bill beside Muse and Stevie Wonder.
Q 08Which veteran British singer joins 2-D and 6lack on Gorillaz's 2020 track 'The Pink Phantom'?
Elton John
Elton John recorded his part in London during the pandemic while Damon Albarn sang from Devon. He later included the song on his own 2021 album, The Lockdown Sessions.
Q 09Gorillaz's Humanz was written as a party for the night which politician won a presidential election?
Donald Trump
Donald Trump's victory was still a 'dark fantasy' when Damon Albarn began the album in 2015. Co-producer the Twilite Tone summed up the mood they wanted as joy, pain and urgency.
Q 10Ace, who filled in on bass for Gorillaz in 2018, was borrowed from which Cartoon Network series?
The Powerpuff Girls
The Powerpuff Girls lent Gorillaz a member of the green-skinned Gangreen Gang as a stand-in bassist. Damon Albarn said he and Jamie Hewlett were massive fans and knew creator Craig McCracken.
Q 11Flatmates Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett conceived Gorillaz while watching which TV channel?
MTV
MTV struck the flatmates as manufactured and empty, so they invented a cartoon band to comment on it. Hewlett said watching the channel for too long was 'a bit like hell'.
Q 12Which Gorillaz member's backstory of possession by dead musicians inspired the band's use of guests?
Russel Hobbs
Russel Hobbs, the drummer, was conceived as the embodiment of the band's hip-hop side. In the story, the blue phantom who raps on the first single is a spirit hiding inside him.
Q 13Mick Jones and Paul Simonon, reunited on Gorillaz's Plastic Beach, both came from which punk band?
The Clash
Q 21Which Latin superstar joined Gorillaz on 'Tormenta', the first song finished for Cracker Island?
Bad Bunny
Bad Bunny recorded the song with Damon Albarn in 2021, when it was meant to launch a second season of Song Machine. That plan was shelved, and it landed on the 2023 album instead.
Q 22Gorillaz joined the tenth season of the rhythm game Festival in 2025, part of which hit online game?
Fortnite
Fortnite Festival added the band in August 2025, during their 25th anniversary year. That same month they opened a London exhibition where they played their first three albums live.
Q 23What is the name of Gorillaz's fictional home and studio, once explorable on the band's website?
Kong Studios
The Clash's guitarist and bassist finished their part of the album's title track in a single day. Simonon then stayed on as bassist for the world tour, where the live band wore naval attire.
Q 14Which rapper voices the blue phantom who delivers the verses of Gorillaz's 'Clint Eastwood'?
Del the Funky Homosapien
Del the Funky Homosapien wrote his verses in about 30 minutes, leaning on a book called How to Write a Hit Song. When the single went platinum, he gave the plaque to his mother.
Q 15During Gorillaz's Plastic Beach era, what kind of stand-in replaced the missing guitarist Noodle?
A cyborg
A cyborg version of Noodle took over guitar for that one album cycle. In the 'Stylo' video she shoots at a pursuing police car, then malfunctions and collapses in the passenger seat.
Q 16Which pendant does Murdoc Niccals, the self-declared Satanist of Gorillaz, usually wear?
Inverted cross
An inverted cross hangs from the neck of the band's 'unpleasant villain', as Jamie Hewlett once described him. His other trademark is a two-word salute to the devil.
Q 17In Gorillaz's '19-2000' video, which giant animal sneezes Murdoc's missiles back at the band?
A moose
A moose looms over the road at the end of the band's joyride in their 'Geep'. The trip also takes in a loop-the-loop and a UFO chase, and ends with all four covered in ash.
Q 18Which song gave its name to Gorillaz's first release, a 2000 EP that introduced the cartoon band?
Tomorrow Comes Today
Tomorrow Comes Today came out in November 2000, four months before the debut album, with the band's first video. It was reissued as the album's fourth and final single in 2002.
Q 19Gorillaz repeated their Demon Days Live residency in 2006 at which famous New York City venue?
Apollo Theater
Apollo Theater in Harlem hosted five nights, matching the run at the Manchester Opera House. The band played in silhouette beneath a screen, with nearly all of the album's guests on stage.
Q 20In Gorillaz lore, the island Plastic Beach floats at which remote real-world spot in the ocean?
Point Nemo
Point Nemo lies in the South Pacific, as remote as the sea gets. A portal drops the band's car into the water there at the end of the video for 'The Valley of the Pagans'.
Kong Studios was presented online as an interactive tour, with games to play and rooms to poke around. Jamie Hewlett led the design of the website himself.
Q 24Murdoc Niccals of Gorillaz was partly based on which rock guitarist, as seen in a 1968 photograph?
Keith Richards
Keith Richards, as shot by David Bailey with the Rolling Stones, gave Murdoc his look. Jamie Hewlett's other ingredients were Victor Frankenstein and Creeper from Scooby-Doo.
Q 25Gorillaz's video for the Beck collaboration 'The Valley of the Pagans' was filmed inside which game?
Grand Theft Auto V
Grand Theft Auto V hosts Noodle's high-speed drive, a first for a major studio music video. The original upload was set to private within days, and a version without the gameplay replaced it.
Q 26Which producer, known for the mash-up The Grey Album, was hired to produce Gorillaz's Demon Days?
Danger Mouse
Danger Mouse got the job after Damon Albarn heard his mash-up, and said the pair never had an argument. Their album topped the UK chart and went on to sell eight million copies.
Q 27Which Hollywood actor narrates 'Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head' on Gorillaz's Demon Days?
Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper agreed after a shy Damon Albarn bumped into him at an awards ceremony; his son was a fan. An unused take from the session resurfaces on the title track of 2026's The Mountain.
Q 28In Gorillaz lore, Murdoc Niccals was born in which English city, also the home of Robbie Williams?
Stoke-on-Trent
Stoke-on-Trent, the home of England's pottery industry, is the birthplace in Murdoc's constructed biography. Actor Phil Cornwell provides the bassist's speaking voice.
Q 29In 2016 Gorillaz guitarist Noodle became the global ambassador for which car maker's racing team?
Jaguar
Jaguar Racing signed up the cartoon guitarist in October 2016 and put her in a short commercial. The campaign arrived before any new music: the band's comeback album was still six months away.
Q 30Which Gorillaz release has the group Spacemonkeyz remixing the debut album in dub and reggae style?
Laika Come Home
Laika Come Home borrows its title from the Soviet space dog and the film Lassie Come Home. It reworks most of the songs on the first album, and Terry Hall of the Specials guests.