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40 free Monstercat trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Monstercat started in 2011 as two students' way of sharing their friends' electronic music, and grew into one of the most recognisable independent labels in the scene. Along the way it gave the internet a crab-themed meme, soundtracked hit video games and released songs by everyone from bedroom producers to film actors and sports stars. This quiz covers the whole story: the founders and the first releases, the numbered compilations and the brands that replaced them, the breakout singles and their videos, the gaming partnerships, the radio shows and awards, and the artists from around the world who put out music on the label. It is written for fans who grew up on the label's uploads as much as for newer listeners. Every question comes with a short explanation, so you will leave with a few stories worth retelling.
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Q 01Which retired NBA star released the album Gorilla Warfare on Monstercat in 2023 under the name DJ Diesel?
Shaquille O'Neal
Shaquille O'Neal already had a platinum record to his name: his hip-hop debut, Shaq Diesel, earned that certificate in 1993, three decades before he made a dubstep album.
Q 02On which annual occasion in 2018 did Monstercat release Crab Rave, the Noisestorm single that became a worldwide meme?
April Fools' Day
April Fools' Day suited what was meant as a small joke, but the video of partying crabs spread online and the song reached number 14 on the US electronic songs chart.
Q 03Marshmello's Monstercat breakout hit a new US chart peak in 2019 after his virtual concert in which video game?
Fortnite
Fortnite staged the show in February 2019, and the three-year-old song then climbed to number 28 on the Hot 100, well above its original peak of 60.
Q 04In the video for Marshmello's Monstercat hit, a caged rat labelled Joel pokes fun at which rival producer?
Deadmau5
Deadmau5, whose first name is Joel, had attacked Marshmello's music in a string of tweets, then deleted them after Marshmello jokingly proposed settling it with a basketball game.
Q 05Monstercat supplied the music for the 2017 second-anniversary update of which Psyonix video game?
Rocket League
Rocket League got an 18-song album from the label that July, the first of a long series, after staff from the two companies met during E3 in 2016.
Q 06Which Oscar-nominated Cape Fear actress sang on Stickup, a 2015 Monstercat single by Karma Fields and Morten?
Juliette Lewis
Juliette Lewis was no novice at the microphone: she had fronted the rock band Juliette and the Licks for years before releasing a solo album in 2009.
Q 07Which virtual reality rhythm game sold ten Monstercat songs in 2019 as its first paid music pack?
Beat Saber
Beat Saber, from Czech studio Beat Games, priced the pack at $12.99, and in the same year the studio was bought by Oculus Studios.
Q 08To which Canadian city did Monstercat move its offices in 2012, once its two founders had finished university?
Vancouver
Vancouver has been the label's base ever since, and its website has also listed offices in Los Angeles and Singapore.
Q 09Which Scandinavian duo, a Monstercat regular, has a name that is an anagram of the surnames Odden and Parsberg?
Pegboard Nerds
Pegboard Nerds are a Norwegian and a Dane who met in 2005, and their EP Pink Cloud was released to fund breast cancer research.
Q 10Monstercat FM, a round-the-clock stream of the label's music, debuted in December 2014 on which streaming service?
Twitch
Twitch was just moving into music broadcasting at the time, and the station opened with a DJ set by label artist Stephen Walking.
Q 11Which 2016 Marshmello single became the first Monstercat release to earn a US platinum record?
Alone
Alone was certified in November 2017, and that year Vice ranked it the eighth best EDM song of all time.
Q 12Which online game platform partnered with Monstercat in 2020 so developers could use the label's catalog in their games?
Roblox
Roblox announced the deal as its chief executive set out plans for a 'metaverse' of interconnected virtual worlds built by its users.
Q 13Monstercat began in July 2011 as a channel on which platform, set up to promote its founders' friends and their music?
YouTube
YouTube is where the label was born, and by October 2011 the channel had settled into uploading new songs three times a week.
Q 21Which English rock band featured on Kneel Before Me, a 2018 single Monstercat issued jointly with Sumerian Records?
Asking Alexandria
Asking Alexandria were named as an inspiration by Slander, the DJ duo who made the song with fellow American producer Crankdat.
Q 22Which Dutch duo from Groningen released the 2016 single Nevada on Monstercat with actress and singer Cozi Zuehlsdorff?
Vicetone
Vicetone found a far bigger audience in 2020, when their remix of Astronomia became the soundtrack to the coffin-dance meme.
Q 23Which Israeli psytrance duo released the 2018 album Head of NASA and the 2 Amish Boys through Monstercat?
Infected Mushroom
Q 14In August 2014, Monstercat published a manifesto urging the reform of which area of law affecting musicians?
Copyright
Copyright was the target because the label wanted musicians to have more freedom to sample one another's recordings.
Q 15On which basis has Monstercat traditionally signed artists, an approach that leaves them free to move between labels?
Track by track
Track by track signing means nobody is tied to an exclusive contract, so the same artist can turn up on rival labels and across Monstercat's own brands.
Q 16Noisestorm, the producer behind Monstercat's viral hit Crab Rave, comes from which European country?
Ireland
Ireland's capital, Dublin, is where he was born Eoin O'Broin, and he later turned his crustacean hit into a video game, Crab Champions.
Q 17Noisestorm made the thousands of computer-generated crabs in Monstercat's Crab Rave video using which video game engine?
Unreal
Unreal Engine 4 powered the video, and its maker Epic Games later rewarded Noisestorm with a development grant for the work.
Q 18Which Chicago-area group fronted by two sisters put out its first label single, Killin' It, on Monstercat in 2011?
Krewella
Krewella went on to top the US dance albums chart in 2013 with the debut album Get Wet, home of the hit Alive.
Q 19In January 2018, Monstercat split its catalogue into two brands: the bass-heavy Uncaged and which other?
Instinct
Instinct focuses on melodic styles such as house and future bass, and the split came with a move from three releases a week to four.
Q 20Which progressive house label did Monstercat acquire in February 2021 to form the third brand in its family?
Silk Music
Silk Music kept its director, Jacob Henry, after the deal, and the enlarged label moved to six releases a week, two for each brand.
Infected Mushroom, formed in Haifa in 1996, had released the single Spitfire on the label a year earlier.
Q 24Monstercat's 2017 release Saving Light was voted Tune of the Year by listeners of which weekly radio show?
A State of Trance
A State of Trance, Armin van Buuren's show, had reportedly never given the prize to a label from outside the genre before Gareth Emery and Standerwick's song won.
Q 25Which American music magazine named Monstercat one of the five best independent dance labels of 2017?
Billboard
Billboard's nod came a month after the label collected its first platinum record.
Q 26Monstercat was founded in 2011 by two students who met at the university in which Ontario city?
Waterloo
Waterloo is where the co-founders bonded over music and business, spotting the rise of online video platforms alongside a booming electronic scene.
Q 27Which name did Monstercat give its live radio show, syndicated to more than 30 networks including SiriusXM?
Call of the Wild
Call of the Wild even went virtual in 2019, when a live edition was staged inside the social VR platform Sansar for the label's eighth anniversary.
Q 28Which title did Monstercat give its very first compilation album, numbered 001 and released in July 2011?
Launch Week
Launch Week began a run of 30 numbered compilations whose cover art told the continuing story of the label's mascot.
Q 29Which former Wanna One singer featured on State of Wonder, a 2021 Monstercat single by producer Inverness?
Kang Daniel
Kang Daniel, who rose to fame by winning the second season of Produce 101, shared the song with singer Anthony Russo.
Q 30Monstercat has been among the brand partners with character skins in which battle arena game from Hi-Rez Studios?
Smite
Smite casts players as gods and other mythological figures, and its skin partners have also included Bob Ross, Slipknot and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.