Lucy Dacus
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40 free Lucy Dacus trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Lucy Dacus went from writing songs around a day job to filling theaters, first as a solo artist and then as one third of Boygenius. Her first single, "I Don't Wanna Be Funny Anymore", introduced the dry wit and plain-spoken honesty that run through everything she has made since. This quiz starts with that song and its video, then moves through her solo albums, the covers she released along the way, her guitar playing and the Boygenius years, from the debut EP to the Grammy stage. A few questions cover her life offstage and the causes she has spoken up for. It suits new listeners who found her through the band as well as fans who have followed her from the start. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you pick up the stories behind the songs as you play.
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Q 01After a near-fatal scare following her debut album sessions, Lucy Dacus stopped doing what?
Driving a car
Driving a car ended for her after a spinout on a four-lane highway beside a cliff: her vehicle spun three times and stopped undamaged. Minutes later a phone call revealed she was being cheated on.
Q 02Lucy Dacus's debut album was recorded at guitarist Jacob Blizard's request for what purpose?
A school project
A school project for Blizard is why the album exists. Its songs were drawn from about 30 that Dacus wrote while holding down a day job at a camera shop.
Q 03Which Twilight star directed three Boygenius videos that were combined into one promotional short?
Kristen Stewart
Kristen Stewart directed all three clips, and the combined short premiered at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles with a live Q&A from the band.
Q 04Lucy Dacus called which politician a war criminal after he recommended a Boygenius song in 2023?
Barack Obama
Barack Obama had put the trio's song on his annual summer playlist. Dacus quote-tweeted the list with two words and a frowning face.
Q 05At a Tennessee show, how did Lucy Dacus and Boygenius protest a law signed by Governor Bill Lee?
Performed in drag
They performed in drag because the law restricted drag shows in public. Two months earlier the band had used its Coachella set to speak up for trans rights.
Q 06Lucy Dacus bought her first guitar, a three-quarter-scale Ibanez, as a youngster from which website?
Craigslist
Craigslist supplied the small Ibanez. Her adoptive mother is a professional pianist and music teacher, so music was part of the household long before the guitar arrived.
Q 07Lucy Dacus has said Forever Is a Feeling is about her feelings for which fellow songwriter?
Julien Baker
Julien Baker had joked to Dacus years earlier about a pipe dream of starting a band together. Dacus told The New Yorker the album is about coming to terms with falling for a bandmate.
Q 08Which Lucy Dacus breakup song kicks off Historian and made NPR listeners' top 25 of the decade?
Night Shift
Night Shift sprawls across six and a half minutes, and Dacus put it first on purpose: she wanted the record to start with heartbreak and spend the rest of its length rebuilding.
Q 09Which Boygenius single won Grammys for Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance in 2024?
Not Strong Enough
Not Strong Enough made Boygenius the first all-female band to win either rock prize. The trio wrote it in secret while fans wondered whether they would ever record together again.
Q 10"I Don't Wanna Be Funny Anymore" was the first single from which Lucy Dacus debut album?
No Burden
No Burden was first issued by a small Virginia label in February 2016. One critic who scored it nine out of ten named this opening track the highlight of the whole record.
Q 11Lucy Dacus grew up in Mechanicsville, a suburb of which Virginia city, home of EggHunt Records?
Richmond
Richmond scientists and sculptors fill the audience in the video for her first single, and her third album, Home Video, is built from stories of her teenage years there.
Q 12Lucy Dacus recorded her debut album in a single day in which city, far from her Virginia home?
Nashville
Nashville hosted the one-day session with a band that had barely learned the songs. She returned there for Historian, this time taking a full week.
Q 13Which independent label signed Lucy Dacus and re-released her debut album in September 2016?
Matador
Matador went on to release her next two solo albums and the first Boygenius EP. The deal came within months of her debut's quiet first release on a tiny hometown label.
Q 21Which guest singer duets with Lucy Dacus on "Bullseye", a track from Forever Is a Feeling?
Hozier
Hozier shares the vocal on the album's eleventh track and is credited in the liner notes under his full name, Andrew Hozier-Byrne.
Q 22Boygenius covered "The Parting Glass" in November 2023 as a tribute to which late singer?
Sinéad O'Connor
Sinéad O'Connor had died that July. The trio recorded the cover with the band Ye Vagabonds and gave all proceeds to a charity chosen by her estate.
Q 23Lucy Dacus sang the labor anthem "Bread and Roses" at the inauguration of which New York City mayor?
Zohran Mamdani
Zohran Mamdani's public swearing-in at City Hall in 2026 featured the song, which grew out of a 1911 poem and is tied to the 1912 textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Q 14Which label released Forever Is a Feeling, Lucy Dacus's major-label debut as a solo artist?
Geffen
Geffen released it in March 2025 after three solo albums on an indie. It reached the top 20 of the Billboard 200, something none of her earlier solo records had done.
Q 15What did Lucy Dacus study at Virginia Commonwealth University before leaving to avoid student debt?
Film
Film was her subject until she walked away from the program. The interest stuck: her third album is named after home movies and uses family footage in its videos.
Q 16Which vintage TV format inspired the look of Lucy Dacus's "I Don't Wanna Be Funny Anymore" video?
1960s talk shows
1960s talk shows inspired the set, where nearly 40 extras sit in as the studio audience and mouth along to the words. The director wanted it heartfelt and a little campy, with no irony.
Q 17Which magazine named Lucy Dacus's "I Don't Wanna Be Funny Anymore" the 17th-best song of 2016?
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone later ranked Dacus herself: in 2023 it placed her 213th on its list of the greatest guitarists of all time.
Q 18Lucy Dacus has called the opening track of Historian her only breakup song; who inspired it?
Her former bassist
Her former bassist was also her ex: the two split up right after finishing the tour for her debut album. She placed the song first because a breakup is so immediately relatable.
Q 19On which TV show did Boygenius appear in a sketch with Timothée Chalamet in November 2023?
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live booked the trio as that week's musical guest, so they played two songs as well as joining the sketch. Three months later they announced a hiatus.
Q 20Lucy Dacus was a supporting act in 2025 on which pop star's Hit Me Hard and Soft tour?
Billie Eilish
Billie Eilish took her out as an opener in the same year Dacus headlined her own Forever Is a Feeling tours of North America and Europe.
Q 24After a restrictive Texas law took effect in 2021, Lucy Dacus pledged her earnings there to what?
Abortion funds
Abortion funds received all the money from her Texas dates, and she told fans coming to the Houston and San Antonio concerts to bring extra cash to donate too.
Q 25The cover of Boygenius's 2018 debut EP is a nod to which folk-rock supergroup's 1969 debut album?
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Crosby, Stills & Nash were photographed on a battered sofa outside an abandoned West Hollywood house. When they went back to reshoot, the house had been demolished.
Q 26For Halloween 2019, Lucy Dacus covered which Phil Collins hit she called the best eerie bop ever?
In the Air Tonight
In the Air Tonight was one of seven singles she put out that year to mark dates on the calendar, from Valentine's Day to New Year's Eve, later gathered on one EP.
Q 27Which Home Video song did some Lucy Dacus fans first receive in the mail on a VHS tape?
Thumbs
Thumbs had long been a staple of her concerts before the tapes went out in February 2021. Dacus said writing it made her feel weird, almost sick.
Q 28Raised in a Baptist church, Lucy Dacus later took up which practice that she says feels religious?
Tarot card reading
Tarot card reading suits her because it can be taken as seriously or as lightly as you want, and she says reading for people is a fast way to get to know them deeply.
Q 29Lucy Dacus released a 2019 cover to mark the birthday of which rock star, a date her father shares?
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark" was the song she chose. Pitchfork called it the strongest cover of her 2019 series for recasting the hit as a celebration of lesbian love.
Q 30Boygenius sang backing vocals on "Roses/Lotus/Violet/Iris", a 2020 solo single by which rock frontwoman?
Hayley Williams
Hayley Williams of Paramore featured the trio on Petals for Armor II, one of two EPs that led into her first solo album.