Panic! at the Disco
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98 free Panic! at the Disco trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
A Blink-182 cover band from a Las Vegas living room signed a record deal before playing a single show, then made one of the most polarizing debuts of the 2000s on an $11,000 budget. These 98 questions follow Panic! at the Disco from Bishop Gorman High School and a LiveJournal demo to Pete Wentz's Decaydance label, the College Park sessions for A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, the diamond single and the VMA, the Nothing Rhymes with Circus tour, the scrapped Cricket & Clover, the exclamation point that vanished for Pretty. Odd., the 2009 split that produced the Young Veins, Dallon Weekes and Vices & Virtues, Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!, Brendon Urie's solo era with Death of a Bachelor and Pray for the Wicked, Kinky Boots on Broadway, High Hopes, Viva Las Vengeance on 8-track tape and the 2023 goodbye in Manchester. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, and each explanation adds one more detail. Play it solo or print it for an emo night quiz.
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Q 01Before writing its own songs, Panic! at the Disco started out covering which band?
Blink-182
Blink-182. Ryan Ross sang lead in those days, until the others heard Brendon Urie in rehearsal and handed him the microphone; in 2009 the band toured with its old heroes.
Q 02Which Fall Out Boy member signed Panic! at the Disco to his Decaydance label before the band had played a show?
Pete Wentz
Pete Wentz. He drove out from Los Angeles after the band sent him a demo link through LiveJournal, heard a few songs at practice and made them his new label's first act.
Q 03Where did Panic! at the Disco first rehearse?
A grandmother's living room
A grandmother's living room. It belonged to drummer Spencer Smith's grandmother, and the four teenagers went on to sign a record deal before they had played a single show.
Q 04Where did Brendon Urie work to help pay the rent on Panic! at the Disco's practice space?
Tropical Smoothie Cafe
Tropical Smoothie Cafe. He sang for customers while he worked, taking requests that ran to Scorpions and W.A.S.P. anthems, and the tips went toward the rehearsal room.
Q 05Panic! at the Disco is said to have borrowed its moniker from a lyric by which pop-punk band?
Name Taken
Name Taken. The Californian band's song Panic contains the words "Panic at the disco", and the teenagers, who admired the group's long song titles, are said to have lifted the phrase.
Q 06In which city did Panic! at the Disco record its debut album, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out?
College Park, Maryland
College Park, Maryland. The four teenagers drove across the country after high school and shared a one-bedroom apartment with bunk beds there, working without a day off.
Q 07Which video-game company sponsored the 2005 tour on which Panic! at the Disco opened for Fall Out Boy?
Nintendo
Nintendo. Its Fusion Tour, with gaming kiosks in every lobby, opened one day after the debut album came out, and the band had played its first ever live show only that summer.
Q 08Roughly what did Panic! at the Disco's debut album cost to record?
$11,000
$11,000. The shoestring sum covered the mixing too, yet the album went on to sell two million copies in the United States.
Q 09Which song from Panic! at the Disco's debut album was certified diamond by the RIAA?
I Write Sins Not Tragedies
I Write Sins Not Tragedies. The single pulled an album that had entered the chart at No. 112 into the top 20, and diamond status means ten million units for the song alone.
Q 10What did Panic! at the Disco's breakout video win at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards?
Video of the Year
Video of the Year. The wedding clip beat videos by Madonna, Shakira and Christina Aguilera, and was the first winner of the top prize since 1989 to take home nothing else that night.
Q 11Lyrics on Panic! at the Disco's debut album quote novels by which author, a favourite of Ryan Ross?
Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk. Time to Dance retells the plot of his novel Invisible Monsters, and another track on the album lifts lines from Diary.
Q 12Panic! at the Disco's song title "Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have..." quotes which 2004 film?
Closer
Closer. Natalie Portman's character says the line, which ends "but it's better if you do", and the band made that half the title of another single from the same album.
Q 13The closing track of Panic! at the Disco's debut album interpolates a song from which musical?
The Sound of Music
Q 21The strings and horns on Panic! at the Disco's second album were recorded at which London studio?
Abbey Road Studios
Abbey Road Studios. The band made most of the record in a studio inside a Nevada casino resort, then flew to London to add the orchestra to an album often likened to the Beatles.
Q 22Which B-52's hit is sampled in Panic! at the Disco's Don't Threaten Me with a Good Time?
Rock Lobster
Rock Lobster. The sample runs under a morning-after tale of a party gone wrong, and five members of the B-52's share the songwriting credit as a result.
Q 23The video for Emperor's New Clothes, in which Brendon Urie turns into a demon, continues the story of which earlier Panic! video?
This Is Gospel
The Sound of Music. Build God, Then We'll Talk twists My Favorite Things into a list of a seedy affair's least favourite things, with roaches in place of the raindrops on roses.
Q 14Which track splits Panic! at the Disco's debut album into its electronic and vaudeville halves?
Intermission
Intermission. It starts as a techno loop and turns into a piano solo, the hinge of an album that entered the Billboard 200 at No. 112 and climbed to No. 13.
Q 15Who replaced original bassist Brent Wilson in Panic! at the Disco in 2006?
Jon Walker
Jon Walker. He had been touring with The Academy Is... as a guitar tech when the call came that May, and at 20 he became the oldest member of a band whose debut was already a hit.
Q 16What knocked Brendon Urie unconscious during Panic! at the Disco's 2006 Reading Festival set?
A thrown bottle
A thrown bottle. It struck him seconds into the first song; he came round, told the crowd they couldn't take him out, and the band restarted the song at the point where it had stopped.
Q 17What was the name of Panic! at the Disco's theatrical headlining tour of late 2006?
Nothing Rhymes with Circus
Nothing Rhymes with Circus. A six-member troupe with a contortionist and a ribbon dancer acted out the songs, a year after the band had been the opening act on a five-band bill.
Q 18Panic! at the Disco's single-shot video for Girls / Girls / Boys pays homage to a famous clip by which R&B singer?
D'Angelo
D'Angelo. Brendon Urie said the clip was inspired by Untitled (How Does It Feel), and it copies that video's black backdrop and its single slow pull-back from the singer's bare torso.
Q 19What did Panic! at the Disco drop from its name in January 2008?
The exclamation point
The exclamation point. Guitarist Ryan Ross said it had never been part of the name to the band and was annoying to type; it was restored in July 2009, days after he quit.
Q 20What was the lead single from Panic! at the Disco's second album, released in 2008?
Nine in the Afternoon
Nine in the Afternoon. The band called it the first song written for the album, a spur-of-the-moment number that came together in a couple of hours and was meant to be got on first listen.
This Is Gospel. That 2013 clip ends with Urie's character dying and heading for a white light; the sequel, by the same director, drops him through a trap door into Hell.
Q 24Panic! at the Disco retreated to a cabin in which Nevada mountain area to write in 2007?
Mount Charleston
Mount Charleston. The songs written there, for an album to be called Cricket & Clover, were about three-quarters recorded when the band scrapped the lot and started again back home.
Q 25Which sponsored tour did Panic! at the Disco headline across North America in 2008?
Honda Civic
Honda Civic. The band swapped the debut era's costumes and dancers for woodsy sets and mic stands wrapped in flowers, and travelled between dates on a biodiesel bus.
Q 26Which band did the two members who left Panic! at the Disco in 2009 go on to form?
The Young Veins
The Young Veins. Ryan Ross and the band's bassist wanted retro-flavoured rock where Brendon Urie leaned to polished pop; their new group made one album, Take a Vacation!, before going on hiatus.
Q 27Panic! at the Disco recorded "New Perspective" for the soundtrack of which 2009 film?
Jennifer's Body
Jennifer's Body. It was the band's first single as a duo, begun two years earlier after a lucid dream of Urie's and released the very day its two departed members unveiled their own new song.
Q 28Dallon Weekes fronted which indie band before joining Panic! at the Disco?
The Brobecks
The Brobecks. By 2009 the Utah band had shrunk to his solo project, and after eight years with Panic! he left to front I Dont Know How but They Found Me.
Q 29Which pair produced Panic! at the Disco's third album, Vices & Virtues?
Butch Walker and John Feldmann
Butch Walker and John Feldmann. They worked with a band reduced to two members: the masked third figure on the cover, touring bassist Dallon Weekes, designed the artwork but did not play on the record.
Q 30What was the lead single from Panic! at the Disco's third album, Vices & Virtues?
The Ballad of Mona Lisa
The Ballad of Mona Lisa. Its video, a steampunk wake, is full of nods to the band's first hit, down to the same top hat, now covered in cobwebs, on a church pew.