Twenty One Pilots Trivia
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99 free Twenty One Pilots trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
47 free Twenty One Pilots trivia questions with answers. Twenty One Pilots built a decade-long story across five albums and a fanbase that decodes every clue. This quiz covers the duo from the Columbus basement where the first album was recorded to Breach in 2025: the Arthur Miller play behind the name, the two original members who left, the Fueled by Ramen signing, Vessel and Blurryface, the Grammy they accepted in their underwear, the world of Trench and Dema with its nine bishops, the anagram in Scaled and Icy and the Clancy finale. The easy questions ask which city the band comes from and which film soundtrack Heathens appeared on. The hard ones want the peak chart position of Stressed Out, the record Level of Concern's video set, which member turned down a basketball scholarship and what Josh Dun played before he taught himself drums. No lyrics are quoted; it is all about the band and its lore. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the duo, its members and its albums, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Twenty One Pilots come from which city?
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus, Ohio, is Tyler Joseph's birthplace, and the band formed there in 2009, first playing clubs and venues around the city.
Q 02Which Arthur Miller play gave Twenty One Pilots their name?
All My Sons
All My Sons follows a businessman who knowingly ships faulty plane parts that kill 21 pilots, and Joseph said its moral dilemma inspired the band's name.
Q 03Tyler Joseph started making music after finding which instrument, an old Christmas gift, in his closet?
Keyboard
Keyboard: the forgotten Christmas gift from his mother got Joseph started, and he taught himself by mimicking melodies he heard on the radio.
Q 04How did Tyler Joseph and original bassist Nick Thomas first meet?
Playing youth basketball
Playing youth basketball as kids, they became friends, and Joseph invited Thomas to join as bassist just before the band's first performance.
Q 05Where did Twenty One Pilots record their self-titled debut album?
The basement of a house they shared
The basement of a house they shared served as the studio, and after the album's December 2009 release the band began touring their home state.
Q 06How did Tyler Joseph's mother help with the band's early marketing?
Handing out tickets outside Ohio State
Handing out tickets outside Ohio State was the band's grassroots marketing, and it began as they toured to support their first album.
Q 07Josh Dun nearly moved to which city before joining Twenty One Pilots?
Nashville
Nashville was the plan until drummer Chris Salih, leaving the band to focus on work, offered Dun his spot in 2011.
Q 08Where was Josh Dun working when he met Chris Salih, who introduced him to Tyler Joseph?
Guitar Center
Guitar Center is where Dun met drummer Chris Salih, and in 2010 Dun also toured as a fill-in drummer with House of Heroes.
Q 09Which instrument did Josh Dun take lessons in before teaching himself drums?
Trumpet
Trumpet lessons came first at school; Dun then taught himself drums by imitating records on an electronic kit, and he still plays trumpet in the band.
Q 10Josh Dun of Twenty One Pilots married which former Disney Channel star in 2019?
Debby Ryan
Debby Ryan, star of Disney Channel's Jessie, married Dun in Austin, Texas, on 31 December 2019, years after the pair first dated.
Q 11How was Tyler Joseph educated as a child?
Homeschooled
Homeschooled as a child, Joseph got his first real taste of music from the Christian rap-rock group DC Talk.
Q 12What was Twenty One Pilots' second self-released album, later taken out of print?
Regional at Best
Regional at Best has been out of print since 2012, after the band signed, and several of its songs were re-recorded for their major-label debut.
Q 13Which label signed Twenty One Pilots in 2012?
Fueled by Ramen
Fueled by Ramen, an Atlantic Records subsidiary, announced the signing during one of the band's shows at Lifestyle Communities Pavilion.
Q 21Which was the first single from Twenty One Pilots' fourth album, released in March 2015?
Fairly Local
Fairly Local arrived the same day the album was announced, about six weeks before Stressed Out came out as a promotional single.
Q 22Which Justin Bieber single kept Stressed Out from reaching number one on the Hot 100?
Love Yourself
Love Yourself held the top spot, so Stressed Out stalled at number two, still the duo's first US top ten hit.
Q 23Who produced Stressed Out?
Mike Elizondo
Mike Elizondo recorded Stressed Out with the duo at Can Am studios in Los Angeles and later co-produced their 2025 album.
Q 14What was the duo's major-label debut album, released in January 2013?
Vessel
Vessel re-recorded five songs from the band's self-released 2011 album, a record Joseph called a 'glorified mixtape'.
Q 15What was Twenty One Pilots' first charting single?
Holding On to You
Holding On to You got the band's first official music video, a black-and-white clip directed by Jordan Bahat.
Q 16In September 2021, Twenty One Pilots played an interactive virtual concert inside which online game?
Roblox
Roblox players voted in real time on the order of the songs, and Joseph and Dun joined fans in a live chat after the show.
Q 17Twenty One Pilots opened for which band on its 2013 Save Rock and Roll arena tour?
Fall Out Boy
Fall Out Boy were back from a hiatus that began at the end of 2009, and that 2013 arena tour took their comeback album on the road.
Q 18What was Twenty One Pilots' 2014 headlining world tour called?
Quiet Is Violent
Quiet Is Violent ran from September to November 2014, and the band blended fans' show requests from different cities into its route.
Q 19The character who gave the fourth album its name was described by Tyler Joseph as representing what?
Everyone's insecurities
Joseph applies black paint to parts of his body to get into character on stage.
Q 20During the Stressed Out era, where did Tyler Joseph wear black paint on stage and in videos?
His hands and neck
His hands and neck got the black paint, which also shows up in the Stressed Out video.
Q 24Which Grammy did Stressed Out win in February 2017?
Best Pop Duo/Group
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance was the win, while Stressed Out lost Record of the Year to Adele's Hello.
Q 25What did Twenty One Pilots do before walking on stage to accept their 2017 Grammy?
Stripped to their underwear
Stripped to their underwear, they kept a promise the pair had made to each other in their early days as a local band.
Q 26Heathens was released in 2016 as the first single from which film's soundtrack?
Suicide Squad
Suicide Squad's soundtrack single leaked online, so the label released it on 16 June 2016, ahead of its planned 24 June date.
Q 27In 2016, Twenty One Pilots became the third rock act with two simultaneous Hot 100 top fives, after Elvis and which band?
The Beatles
The Beatles and Elvis Presley had done it before; Twenty One Pilots managed it with Heathens at number four and Ride at number five.
Q 28Twenty One Pilots made their late-night TV debut in 2013 on which host's show?
Conan O'Brien
Conan O'Brien's show hosted the duo on 8 August 2013, and they played House of Gold.
Q 29Which My Chemical Romance song did Twenty One Pilots cover for a 2016 tribute album?
Cancer
Cancer, a piano ballad on My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade, got electronic textures and reordered verses in the duo's cover.
Q 30What was the name of Twenty One Pilots' 2016 tour that opened in Cincinnati that May?
Emotional Roadshow
Emotional Roadshow World Tour was the band's second tour for their fourth album, and it ended in June 2017 with five hometown shows.