Muse (Band)
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50 free Muse (Band) trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Few bands have chased excess as cheerfully as Muse. Three school friends from the English seaside turned falsetto vocals, fuzz bass and classical piano into some of the biggest rock shows on the planet, picking up arguments with pop stars, record labels and advertisers along the way. This quiz covers the whole story: the early years and odd first band names, the studio albums and the ideas behind them, the singles that crossed over into films and sport, the record-setting concerts and the awards. It is written for anyone who has shouted along from the back of an arena, and for quiz hosts who need a reliable music round. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so even the questions you miss leave you with a story to tell.
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Q 01Which singer did Muse threaten to sue in 2002 over the planned name of her Las Vegas show?
Celine Dion
Celine Dion offered $50,000 for the right to call her residency 'Muse', and the band turned it down, fearing Americans would take them for her backing band.
Q 02Which Muse single plays over the vampire family's baseball game in the 2008 film Twilight?
Supermassive Black Hole
Supermassive Black Hole was a deliberate swerve into dance-rock, inspired by Belgian bands such as dEUS and Soulwax, and it climbed to number four on the UK singles chart.
Q 03Which Muse single was the official song of the London 2012 Olympics?
Survival
Survival was written after organisers asked Matt Bellamy for a song, and it was played as athletes entered the stadium and before medal ceremonies.
Q 04Which Almost Famous star had a son with Muse frontman Matt Bellamy in 2011?
Kate Hudson
Kate Hudson and Bellamy got engaged in April 2011, three months before the birth, and announced the end of the engagement in December 2014.
Q 05Kyle Lambert, who drew Muse's Simulation Theory cover, made posters for which Netflix show?
Stranger Things
Stranger Things fitted the brief: the album's sleeve and videos pay homage to 1980s pop culture, including Teen Wolf and Michael Jackson's Thriller.
Q 06Muse were the first act to sell out which rebuilt London venue, over two nights in 2007?
Wembley Stadium
Wembley Stadium was dressed up as HAARP, a US government research station in Alaska, and the two nights became a live album of the same name.
Q 07Which charity got Muse's winnings after the band sued Nestlé over a coffee advert?
Oxfam
Oxfam was handed the money after a Nescafé advert used the band's recording without permission, a case Muse won in 2003.
Q 08Which actor and former NFL player zaps gremlin-like creatures in the video for Muse's 'Pressure'?
Terry Crews
Terry Crews plays a chaperone armed with a Ghostbusters-style proton pack, while the band perform at a school dance modelled on Back to the Future.
Q 09Muse frontman Matt Bellamy entered Guinness World Records for doing what 140 times on a single tour?
Smashing a guitar
Smashing a guitar was close to a nightly ritual on the tour behind Muse's third album, and the feat was listed in the 2010 edition of the record book.
Q 10Which pop superstar ran Maverick, the American record label that signed Muse on Christmas Eve 1998?
Madonna
Madonna's label later asked Muse to re-record a single because it found Bellamy's falsetto not radio-friendly; the band refused and walked away.
Q 11In which Devon seaside town did the three members of Muse meet at school?
Teignmouth
Teignmouth got its homecoming in September 2009, when Muse opened a world tour there with shows billed as A Seaside Rendezvous.
Q 12What did Muse, then called Rocket Baby Dolls, win in 1994 with a set meant as a protest?
A battle of the bands
A battle of the bands was the last thing the goth-glam trio expected to win, and Bellamy said the shock made them start taking the group seriously.
Q 13Which band, also produced by John Leckie, were the young Muse constantly compared with?
Radiohead
Radiohead comparisons were waved away by Leckie, who said any passionate British guitar band of the late 1990s got the same treatment.
Q 21Which Muse single, influenced by Michael Jackson's 'Billie Jean', was their first UK top-ten hit?
Time Is Running Out
Time Is Running Out reached number eight, and its video, partly based on the film Dr Strangelove, has the band playing on a table ringed by military officials.
Q 22Which Muse single, named after a region of Mars, has a video styled as a spaghetti western?
Knights of Cydonia
Knights of Cydonia won Australian station Triple J's Hottest 100 poll for 2007, edging out Silverchair by just 13 votes.
Q 23In the video for which Muse single do the band perform on the deck of a cargo ship?
Starlight
Q 14At which festival were Muse the first act to have headlined the Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights?
Glastonbury
Glastonbury completed the set in 2016, when Muse topped the bill for a third time after headlining in 2004 and 2010.
Q 15Which guitarist joined Muse on stage in 2010 after his own band's headline slot was cancelled?
The Edge
The Edge stepped in after Bono's back injury forced U2 to pull out, and played 'Where the Streets Have No Name' with the trio.
Q 16Which Muse album, inspired by George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, won the band's first Grammy?
The Resistance
The Resistance took Best Rock Album in 2011, and was the first record the trio produced themselves, working in their own studio in Italy.
Q 17Which band's debut beat Muse's Black Holes and Revelations to the 2006 Mercury Prize?
Arctic Monkeys
Arctic Monkeys won with Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, which had become the fastest-selling debut album in British chart history.
Q 18Storm Thorgerson, designer of two Muse album covers, is best known for sleeves for which band?
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon sleeve is his most celebrated design; for Muse, his team photographed hardboard cut-outs in a chalk pit rather than use Photoshop.
Q 19The title of Muse's 2012 album The 2nd Law refers to a law from which branch of physics?
Thermodynamics
Thermodynamics is quoted directly on the track 'Unsustainable', where a voice argues that an economy based on endless growth cannot last.
Q 20Which electronic genre in the 2012 trailer for Muse's album The 2nd Law divided the band's fans?
Dubstep
Dubstep producer Skrillex was the influence Bellamy named for the track 'Unsustainable', and the trailer drew mixed reactions before the album was even out.
Starlight was filmed aboard a bulk carrier, the MS Ocean Chie, with the trio carrying flares in the hope of a rescue that never comes.
Q 24Which Muse single became the band's first number one on the US alternative chart, in 2009?
Uprising
Uprising stayed on top for 17 weeks, and its video features a giant teddy bear destroying buildings.
Q 25Which Muse single has an opening riff that Total Guitar readers voted the best of the 2000s?
Plug In Baby
Plug In Baby opens with a run that has been likened to Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor and to Barber's Adagio for Strings.
Q 26Which Muse song was the lead single from the soundtrack of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse?
Neutron Star Collision
Neutron Star Collision was the first lead single the band made for a film, and the news broke on Twilight author Stephenie Meyer's own website.
Q 27Which song recorded by Nina Simone in 1965 did Muse cover on their second album?
Feeling Good
Feeling Good was written by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse for a stage musical, and Muse's version has been voted among the greatest covers of all time.
Q 28Which Muse single has a bassline voted among the greatest of all time by MusicRadar readers?
Hysteria
Hysteria grew out of a soundcheck jam in Doncaster, and one of its two videos has the actor Justin Theroux destroying a hotel room.
Q 29Which Muse single took a Billboard alternative chart record from Foo Fighters' 'The Pretender'?
Madness
Madness spent 19 weeks at number one, a week longer than the Foo Fighters hit, and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Song.
Q 30Muse's funk-rock single 'Panic Station' features musicians who played on which Stevie Wonder hit?
Superstition
Superstition veterans joined the session for the band's funkiest single, whose video was shot on the streets of Shibuya in Tokyo.