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40 free Scissor Sisters trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Scissor Sisters came out of the downtown New York club scene in the early 2000s and found their biggest audience an ocean away, in Britain. Their mix of glam rock, disco and sharp, funny songwriting sent a debut album to the top of the UK chart, and in 2006 I Don't Feel Like Dancin' gave them a worldwide hit. This quiz covers the whole story: how the members met, the albums and the singles, the stars who wrote, sang and played with them, the videos, the television moments and the famously wild concerts. There are questions on the stories behind the songs, and on what Jake Shears, Ana Matronic, Babydaddy and Del Marquis have done away from the band. It is written for fans who wore out the first album and for anyone who only knows the big hit. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still leaves you with a story worth repeating.
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Q 01Which pop legend co-wrote I Don't Feel Like Dancin' with Scissor Sisters and played its piano part?
Elton John
Elton John fulfilled one of the band's dreams by joining the session, yet Jake Shears admitted he barely knew his music before the group's debut came out.
Q 02Which US retail giant refused to stock the debut Scissor Sisters album, calling one song an attack on conservatism?
Walmart
Walmart would not sell the album, and the band refused to make a clean version for it. Babydaddy called the parental warning sticker they had to add completely absurd.
Q 03Which Pink Floyd song did Scissor Sisters remake as a disco track that earned a Grammy nomination?
Comfortably Numb
Comfortably Numb began as the B-side of their single Electrobix, then outshone it in dance clubs and won over Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and Nick Mason.
Q 04Which British actor speaks the guest vocals on the Scissor Sisters single Invisible Light?
Ian McKellen
Ian McKellen came back for an encore fifteen years later, joining the band on stage at Glastonbury in 2025 to perform the song live.
Q 05Which BBC series sent the Scissor Sisters track I Can't Decide into the UK chart in 2007?
Doctor Who
Doctor Who played it as the Master strode onto the bridge of the Valiant in Last of the Time Lords, and downloads alone then took the song to number 64.
Q 06Which rock star called Scissor Sisters the best pop group in the world in their debut year, 2004?
Bono
Bono gave the verdict as the band's first album became the UK's biggest seller of the year, an unlikely feat for a group born in underground clubs.
Q 07Which TV series covered Let's Have a Kiki by Scissor Sisters with guest star Sarah Jessica Parker?
Glee
Glee mashed it up with the Broadway number Turkey Lurkey Time for its Thanksgiving episode, sung by Parker with Lea Michele and Chris Colfer.
Q 08Which pop star sings uncredited backing vocals on the Scissor Sisters single Any Which Way?
Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue already owed the band a hit: Jake Shears and Babydaddy co-wrote and produced her single I Believe in You.
Q 09Which chart-topping star took Scissor Sisters on the road as her opening act in early 2011?
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga brought the band along for select dates on the third leg of her Monster Ball Tour, while they were promoting the album Night Work.
Q 10On which ITV contest did Jake Shears of Scissor Sisters compete in early 2020?
The Masked Singer
The Masked Singer hid him inside a unicorn costume for its first British series, by which time he had launched a solo career.
Q 11In which musical did Jake Shears of Scissor Sisters make his 2018 Broadway debut, playing Charlie?
Kinky Boots
Kinky Boots has songs by Cyndi Lauper, one of Shears' musical heroes, and he returned to the part at the Hollywood Bowl in 2022.
Q 12For Halloween 2004, Scissor Sisters asked a London crowd to dress as characters from which musical?
The Rocky Horror Show
The Rocky Horror Show suited them: its creator Richard O'Brien is among the acts the band is often compared to, and they wore the costumes too.
Q 13The punning stage name of Ana Matronic of Scissor Sisters is said to reflect a deep love of what?
Robots
Q 21Which British label signed Scissor Sisters after their Pink Floyd cover caught its attention?
Polydor
Polydor first tested the band with a limited release of Laura, which stalled at number 54 before a reissue the next summer took it to number 12.
Q 22Jake Shears of Scissor Sisters made his West End debut in 2023 as the Emcee in which musical?
Cabaret
Cabaret kept him in London's West End until March 2024, and a casting director who saw him there then offered him his first film role.
Q 23Which rapper guests on Shady Love, the Scissor Sisters track billing Jake Shears as Krystal Pepsy?
Azealia Banks
Azealia Banks went uncredited, and the planned single release was cancelled, so only 300 fans received it on vinyl.
Robots fascinate her so much that in 2015 she published a book about them, tracing automatons and androids from the ancient world to the distant future.
Q 14At which ceremony did Scissor Sisters win three prizes in 2005, including Best International Album?
BRIT Awards
BRIT Awards voters gave the band more trophies than any other act that night, all in international categories because the group is American.
Q 15Which hitmaking DJ co-produced the Scissor Sisters single Only the Horses in 2012?
Calvin Harris
Calvin Harris helped it enter the UK chart at number 12, and the video shows horses hauling ropes until fountains of paint burst out.
Q 16Which honour did I Don't Feel Like Dancin' win Scissor Sisters in the Most Performed Work category?
Ivor Novello Award
The Ivor Novello Award honours songwriting, so the trophy recognised Jake Shears, Babydaddy and their famous co-writer rather than the performance.
Q 17Critics likened I Don't Feel Like Dancin' by Scissor Sisters to a 1976 falsetto hit by which singer?
Leo Sayer
Leo Sayer topped the US chart with You Make Me Feel Like Dancing, and reviewers heard its falsetto and its title answered three decades on.
Q 18Which band's Hopes and Fears lost to Scissor Sisters as the UK's top album of 2004 by 582 copies?
Keane
Keane came that close, and both albums went on to be certified nine times platinum in the UK.
Q 19Which Scissor Sisters song did Jake Shears base on coming out to his Southern Baptist parents?
Take Your Mama
Take Your Mama pictures a gay man showing his mother the nightlife so they can bond, and its chorus first came to Shears in the shower.
Q 20For whom did Jake Shears write Mary, the ballad on the debut Scissor Sisters album?
His best friend
His best friend was Mary Hanlon, and the song is about his deep platonic love for her. She died of a brain aneurysm in April 2006.
Q 24Which newcomer, fresh from her number one Smile, supported Scissor Sisters at Wembley Arena in 2006?
Lily Allen
Lily Allen played all three nights as the band closed a UK tour, only months after Smile had topped the singles chart.
Q 25Which Scottish band joined Scissor Sisters at V Festival to cover David Bowie's Suffragette City?
Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand shared the stage while the band headlined, and both acts later covered songs for the same War Child charity album.
Q 26Which producer of Madonna's Confessions on a Dance Floor helped Scissor Sisters make Night Work?
Stuart Price
Stuart Price joined after the band scrapped about 18 months of earlier sessions, and the liner notes credit him with everything in between.
Q 27Whose 1980 photograph of dancer Peter Reed fills the cover of the Scissor Sisters album Night Work?
Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Mapplethorpe shot the dancer from behind, and guitarist Del Marquis likened the sleeve to the back of the Rolling Stones album Sticky Fingers.
Q 28Where in London did Scissor Sisters play a free charity concert for ballot winners in September 2006?
Trafalgar Square
Trafalgar Square hosted the show in aid of the Red charity, two days before the band's second album arrived in British shops.
Q 29Which original Scissor Sisters drummer left amicably in 2008 and later ran a record store?
Paddy Boom
Paddy Boom, who is straight, once reassured his mother that it was not a gay band but one about the music and the performance.
Q 30Jake Shears of Scissor Sisters wrote songs for a 2011 San Francisco stage musical of which book?
Tales of the City
Tales of the City is Armistead Maupin's much-loved saga of life in the 1970s, and Shears wrote the score with touring keyboardist JJ Garden.