Why Don't We Trivia
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This Why Don't We trivia quiz has 100 free questions with answers about the boy band that formed in Los Angeles in September 2016 and released two albums and six EPs before a lawsuit ended it in 2025. It covers the five members (Jack, Corbyn, Zach, Jonah and Daniel), where they came from and what they did before and after the band, the singles from "Taking You" to "How Do You Love Somebody", the song-a-month run of 2019, both albums and their chart positions, the tours, and the management fight that cancelled The Good Times Only Tour and eventually cost the group its name. It is written for Limelights who know the words but maybe not the details: which song was written by Ed Sheeran, what "Fallin'" samples, which YouTuber's vlogs the band kept turning up in, and which member was on American Idol at 15. Difficulty runs from easy fan questions to a few that only someone who has read every credit will get. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and its cited sources before publishing. Play it, share your score, and see who in the fandom really paid attention.
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Q 01The name Why Don't We comes from the five singers asking 'Why don't we' do what?
Start a band
Start a band. All five were solo singers when the idea came up, and the question became a motto they reused months later as the title of an EP, Why Don't We Just.
Q 02What was Why Don't We's debut single, released in October 2016?
Taking You
Taking You. Daniel Seavey called it the perfect opener for taking fans on a journey with the band, and their first headlining tour, in 2017, borrowed its name.
Q 03What was the title of Why Don't We's debut EP, released two months after the band formed?
Only the Beginning
Only the Beginning. The title proved apt: four more EPs followed within a year, all before the band had made a single album.
Q 04What name do fans of Why Don't We go by?
Limelights
Limelights. Each of the five had built his own following as a solo singer, and Jonah Marais called it 'crazy' to watch those separate fan bases 'come together as a family'.
Q 05Which major label signed Why Don't We in 2017, a year after the band formed?
Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records. The deal followed a private set for label chief Craig Kallman, who sat stern-faced through every song and then told the band's manager one word: 'Amazing.'
Q 06Why Don't We's fifth EP, released in 2017, was themed around what?
Christmas
Christmas. The band put the EP out on Thanksgiving Day, mixing originals such as 'Kiss You This Christmas' with carols like 'Silent Night'.
Q 07Why Don't We featured on which YouTuber's 2017 single 'Help Me Help You'?
Logan Paul
Logan Paul. All five members share a writing credit on the song, which went platinum in the US even though it stalled just outside the Hot 100.
Q 08What was the title of Why Don't We's debut studio album, released August 31, 2018?
8 Letters
8 Letters. The title counts the letters in 'I love you', the words the singer of the title track can't quite bring himself to say.
Q 09Billboard wrote in 2017 that Why Don't We 'may look like the next' which boy band?
One Direction
One Direction. The magazine added that the newcomers were more than they seemed: between the five of them, they could play 25 instruments.
Q 10Which of these songs was a single from Why Don't We's debut album?
Hooked
Hooked. Its video sends the five on fantasy dates: one plays a special agent, another a video-game avatar, and one has to rescue his date from a giant octopus.
Q 11Which EDM producer worked on 'For You', a track on Why Don't We's second album?
Skrillex
Skrillex. The band grew up on his music, and wrote the song on tour the night they watched a Travis Scott documentary; Jonah Marais calls it the album's most festival-ready track.
Q 12Whose album did Why Don't We's surprise EP knock off the top of the iTunes pop chart in June 2017?
Harry Styles
Harry Styles. The EP had been announced only a day before it came out, and Corbyn Besson says the band slept through the moment and woke up to find themselves on top.
Q 13Which song opened Why Don't We's 2019 run of monthly releases, on January 16?
Big Plans
Big Plans. It began a year of monthly releases that the band kept up to the end: eleven new songs, plus an unplugged version of 'What Am I' in September.
Q 21Which orchestral instrument does Daniel Seavey call his favourite and play on stage in his solo shows?
Cello
Cello. He singled it out among the many instruments he plays because 'it's just really unique sounding', and he has performed one of the band's ballads on it live.
Q 22Why Don't We's 2020 comeback single is built on a sample of which track from Kanye West's Yeezus?
Black Skinhead
Black Skinhead. Because the original was co-written with both members of Daft Punk, the French duo share the boy band's songwriting credits alongside Kanye West himself.
Q 23What was the title of Why Don't We's second and final studio album, released in 2021?
The Good Times and the Bad Ones
Q 14Why Don't We timed the release of their 2019 single 'Cold in LA' to which occasion?
Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day. The video followed two days later, and the song gave Daniel Seavey one of his first production credits, two years before he produced most of the band's second album.
Q 15Which rapper features on Why Don't We's 2019 single 'I Don't Belong in This Club'?
Macklemore
Macklemore. In the video his arrival turns a miserable modern night out into a 1970s disco, and the band end up doing a routine in full period costume.
Q 16Why Don't We's 2019 song 'Don't Change' appeared on the soundtrack of which animated film?
UglyDolls
UglyDolls. The title fits the plot: the film follows imperfect toys who travel to a town called Perfection, hoping to become good enough for a child to take home.
Q 17Which country's fans flooded Why Don't We's social media with pleas to visit, inspiring a 2019 single?
Brazil
Brazil. Jonah Marais said 'Come to Brazil!' greeted him every time he logged on, so when the song's love interest needed a home, the phrase 'just clicked'.
Q 18Which British singer-songwriter co-wrote both 'Trust Fund Baby' and 'What Am I' for Why Don't We?
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran. He was the one hero all five shared: Jack Avery credits him with making him pick up a guitar, and Sheeran already knew who they were when they met at the 2017 VMAs.
Q 19Which song did Why Don't We release in the last days of December 2019 to close their song-a-month year?
Chills
Chills. Its video, a romantic winter wonderland, arrived a week later; soon afterwards the band logged off social media and released nothing more for nine months.
Q 20Which single ended Why Don't We's 2020 hiatus and led off their second album?
Fallin' (Adrenaline)
Fallin' (Adrenaline). It was the last song written for the album and came together in about 45 minutes, yet it led the record and gave the band their first Hot 100 hit.
The Good Times and the Bad Ones. It was the first album the band largely wrote and produced themselves, a leap Corbyn Besson called 'a lot scarier than what we've done before'.
Q 24Why Don't We's 2020 single 'Slow Down' is built around the guitar riff of '1979' by which band?
Smashing Pumpkins
Smashing Pumpkins. The band's mixer suggested writing over the famous loop, and the single could only come out once Billy Corgan had heard their version and approved it.
Q 25Which of these producers worked on Why Don't We's second album?
Timbaland
Timbaland. He added a little production to the closing track, 'Stay', with beatboxing layered under the drums, which Corbyn Besson called 'the cherry on top'.
Q 26Which YouTube Originals docuseries followed Why Don't We as they finished their second album?
30 Days With
30 Days With. Why Don't We were the first act to get the format, and its four episodes showed them writing and producing an album by themselves for the first time.
Q 27In late 2021, Why Don't We released a cover of which modern holiday hit?
Mistletoe
Mistletoe. The cover arrived a decade after the original and a month after the single 'Love Back'; less than a year later the band had stopped releasing music altogether.
Q 28Why Don't We's January 2022 single 'Don't Wake Me Up' was a collaboration with which British DJ?
Jonas Blue
Jonas Blue. He produced the track and called it a song about finding your true love in a dream; it carried the boy band onto Billboard's dance chart, where it opened at No. 13.
Q 29A 2025 jury ordered four former members of Why Don't We to pay their ex-managers how much each?
$1
$1. The management company had sued for $50 million; the jury did find a breach of contract, but set the damages at a symbolic dollar apiece.
Q 30What did the members of Why Don't We lose the right to use after a 2025 court verdict?
The band's name
The band's name. It stayed with their former management company, so if the five ever tour together again they must be billed as 'formerly of Why Don't We'.