OutKast Trivia
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50 free OutKast trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This OutKast trivia quiz covers the Atlanta duo who made the South something hip hop had to take seriously: André 3000 and Big Boi, from a meeting at Lenox Square mall through Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, ATLiens, Aquemini, Stankonia and the diamond-selling double album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. The easy questions cover the hits and the basics: the two members' real names, the city, the No. 1 singles and the album that won Album of the Year. The harder half is for people who know the Dungeon Family tree: the group's original name, the stage names they first used, the producers behind their debut, the zodiac signs in Aquemini, the Rosa Parks lawsuit, why André added the 3000, the Idlewild film, the 2014 Coachella reunion and their 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. Nothing here quotes a lyric; the questions are about the people, records and stories. Every answer was checked against OutKast's encyclopaedia entry before publishing. If you enjoy this, try our 90s hip hop and 2000s music quizzes next.
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Q 01At which Atlanta shopping mall did the two future members of OutKast first meet as teenagers?
Lenox Square
Lenox Square was a chance meeting for the two 16-year-olds; back at school they tried to out-rhyme each other in cafeteria battles before deciding to join forces.
Q 02What is Big Boi's real name?
Antwan Patton
Antwan Patton, the oldest of five children, has André as a middle name, the same as his partner's first name; away from music he breeds pit bulls.
Q 03What did OutKast first call themselves before a similarly named singing group forced a change?
2 Shades Deep
2 Shades Deep had to go because of a singing group called 4 Shades Deep; the new name fitted two teenagers whose clothes already made them feel like outcasts at school.
Q 04OutKast's first recorded appearance came on a 1992 remix for which R&B group, their labelmates?
TLC
TLC's 'What About Your Friends' was the song: the producers had two unknown teenagers rap on the remix, and it helped win the pair a record deal of their own.
Q 05Which production trio produced every track on OutKast's debut album?
Organized Noize
Organized Noize worked out of Rico Wade's unfinished basement, known as the Dungeon, the room that gave the wider Dungeon Family collective its name.
Q 06OutKast were the first hip hop act signed to which Atlanta label, home of Toni Braxton and Usher?
LaFace Records
LaFace Records, named for founders L.A. Reid and Babyface, had been a pop and R&B house until Reid signed the two rappers when both were 17.
Q 07What was OutKast's first single, released in 1993, which topped the Hot Rap Tracks chart?
Player's Ball
Player's Ball began as a Christmas single, an idea label boss L.A. Reid admits was never supposed to work; it spent six weeks on top of the rap chart.
Q 08Which Atlanta rap group guests on OutKast's 1994 debut album?
Goodie Mob
Goodie Mob, with a young CeeLo Green, join in on 'Git Up, Git Out', a call to stop getting high and get moving; one fan told Big Boi it got him to class and through college.
Q 09At which 1995 ceremony did OutKast's André declare, to boos, that 'the South got something to say'?
The Source Awards
The Source Awards crowd in New York, caught up in the East Coast-West Coast feud, jeered the Atlanta newcomers' win; the retort is now remembered as the moment rap turned south.
Q 10OutKast's 1996 second album, with a dub-influenced sound, was titled what?
ATLiens
ATLiens followed a platinum debut that won them more creative control: for the first time the pair produced songs themselves, recasting themselves as space-age outsiders.
Q 11What production company did OutKast set up to make their own beats?
Earthtone III
Earthtone III was the three of them as producers: under that name André, Big Boi and Mr. DJ could make their own beats, 'B.O.B.' among them, without hiring outside help.
Q 12Which OutKast album includes the horn-led 'SpottieOttieDopaliscious'?
Aquemini
Aquemini joins Big Boi's Aquarius to André's Gemini, and the album leans on how unlike the two partners are, billed in those years as 'the player' and 'the poet'.
Q 13Which civil-rights icon sued OutKast in 1999 over a song bearing her name?
Rosa Parks
Q 21In 2023 OutKast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below passed which album as hip hop's highest-certified ever?
The Eminem Show
The Eminem Show had gone 12 times platinum the year before; a fresh count for the Atlanta duo's 20th anniversary, streams included, put their set on 13.
Q 22Which OutKast single replaced 'Hey Ya!' atop the Hot 100?
The Way You Move
The Way You Move, Big Boi's own single from the same release, took over for a week in February 2004; few acts have ever replaced themselves at the top of the chart.
Q 23In OutKast's 'Hey Ya!' video, André plays every member of a band restaging whose Ed Sullivan Show debut?
The Beatles
Rosa Parks objected that the single traded on her name while its lyrics never mention her; the chorus only nods to her with a line about moving to the back of the bus.
Q 14Which celebrated attorney argued the civil-rights icon's 2001 appeal in her lawsuit against OutKast?
Johnnie Cochran
Johnnie Cochran, famous for defending O.J. Simpson, came in after a judge had thrown the suit out; in 2003 the appeals court revived part of the case.
Q 15Whose 1999 US tour did OutKast open for while promoting Aquemini?
Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill led the 1999 Grammy field with ten nominations when the American leg of her tour opened in Detroit that February; OutKast warmed up her crowds with a live band.
Q 16Which Stankonia single became OutKast's first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100?
Ms. Jackson
Ms. Jackson started as an acoustic guitar song André was playing at home; reworked for the album, it carried the duo to the top of the pop chart for the first time.
Q 17What does the 'B.O.B.' in the title of Stankonia's first single stand for?
Bombs Over Baghdad
Bombs Over Baghdad struggled for radio play in 2000, then came back in 2003 as an unofficial Iraq war anthem, a reading its writers never intended.
Q 18OutKast's 'Ms. Jackson' was inspired by André's breakup with which singer?
Erykah Badu
Erykah Badu says her mother, the real Ms. Jackson, loved the sung apology so much that she bought herself a 'Ms. Jackson' licence plate, mug and headband.
Q 19Which company answered OutKast's 'Hey Ya!' by warning customers against shaking its pictures?
Polaroid
Polaroid pointed out that its modern film dries behind a clear plastic window, so shaking does nothing and can even damage the picture.
Q 20Which rapper debuted on OutKast's 'Snappin' & Trappin'' and later joined them on the Grammy-winning 'The Whole World'?
Killer Mike
Killer Mike was unknown when he recorded that one verse in 2000; it won him a deal with the duo's own label soon after.
The Beatles' 1964 arrival is turned around: in the video an American band invades England and sets British fans screaming.
Q 24OutKast's 'Hey Ya!' was the No. 1 song on the last weekend of American Top 40 hosted by whom?
Casey Kasem
Casey Kasem had co-created the countdown in 1970; when he handed over in January 2004, Ryan Seacrest's first show a week later had the same song on top.
Q 25The video for OutKast's 'Roses' is a modern retelling of which classic musical?
West Side Story
West Side Story: André's Love Below gang and Big Boi's Speakerboxxx crew stand in for the Jets and Sharks, brawling in a school auditorium over a girl called Caroline.
Q 26OutKast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below won which Grammy at the 2004 ceremony?
Album of the Year
Album of the Year was the night's last award; André then closed the show with 'Hey Ya!' in feathers and war paint, and CBS apologised to offended Native Americans days later.
Q 27OutKast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below was certified diamond in 2004 partly because of what RIAA rule?
Double-album sales count double
Double-album sales count double: the RIAA tallies each disc of a long two-disc set as a unit, so about five million copies were enough for a ten-million diamond award.
Q 28OutKast's 2006 musical film Idlewild was set in which era?
Prohibition
Prohibition drives the plot: André's shy pianist and Big Boi's showman fight to keep their speakeasy, a club called Church, out of the hands of gangsters.
Q 29OutKast's Idlewild single 'Morris Brown' takes its name from what?
An Atlanta college
An Atlanta college, Morris Brown, lent the single more than a name: the school's marching band plays on it, tubas and trombones carrying the beat.
Q 30OutKast's 2006 single 'Mighty O' borrows its hook from which Cab Calloway song?
Minnie the Moocher
Minnie the Moocher, Calloway's famous crowd sing-along, is credited on the single, so the swing-era bandleader shares a songwriting credit with OutKast.