Zach Bryan Trivia
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59 free Zach Bryan trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
Zach Bryan went from uploading iPhone recordings while serving in the U.S. Navy to headlining the largest ticketed single-artist concert in American history, and this quiz follows the whole road. It covers his birth on a naval base in Japan and his Oklahoma hometown, the two self-produced albums he made before signing with a major label, the triple album that broke him nationally, the self-titled record that debuted at number one, The Great American Bar Scene, With Heaven on Top and the live albums in between. The questions run from easy (who sings with him on "I Remember Everything"?) to fan-level (which track on the 2023 album was the only one he did not produce himself, and which airport-sized crowd he played to at Michigan Stadium). Chart peaks, collaborators, awards, tours and a few personal-life facts are all in the mix, with difficulty marked on every question. Every answer has been checked against the Wikipedia articles for Zach Bryan, his albums and his singles, and each question shows its citation, so you can settle arguments in the group chat with a link rather than a hunch.
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Q 01Oklahoma's Zach Bryan was born in 1996 in which country, where his parents were posted with the Navy?
Japan
Japan was his parents' Navy posting when he was born in April 1996. He kept up the family trade, enlisting at 17 as his father and grandfather had, until his songs pulled him out of uniform.
Q 02Which small Oklahoma town does Bryan call his hometown?
Oologah
Oologah became home when his family moved there in his eighth-grade year. The small town already had one famous son: the humorist Will Rogers was born on a ranch just outside it.
Q 03In which hit TV drama did Bryan appear as himself in 2022, playing three songs at a county fair?
Yellowstone
Yellowstone had already put his songs on its soundtrack, starting with "Condemned", before it gave him the stage in season five.
Q 04Shut out of the 2022 nominations, Bryan said he never wanted to be considered by which awards show?
The CMA Awards
The CMA Awards left him off their 2022 ballot in his breakout year. He answered "with every ounce of respect" for other country artists that he never wanted their honors, adding that "establishments will always be weird".
Q 05What was Bryan's rating in the Navy?
Aviation Ordnanceman
Aviation Ordnanceman was his rating throughout his service: the sailors who assemble, repair and load aircraft weapons. He reached second class, writing and recording songs in his off-duty hours.
Q 06Bryan served overseas tours in Djibouti and which Persian Gulf country?
Bahrain
Bahrain is where the U.S. Navy bases its Fifth Fleet, which makes the small Gulf kingdom a regular posting for American sailors. Bryan kept writing songs through his deployments.
Q 07Which track from Bryan's 2022 EP Summertime Blues became its breakout hit?
Oklahoma Smokeshow
Oklahoma Smokeshow, he said, tells the story of small-town bar scenes and "the longing to be with someone you might never have". In 2025 a spot in the CBS drama Tracker sent it to the top of Billboard's TV songs chart.
Q 08Which song, recorded outside his Navy barracks, was Bryan's first to go viral?
Heading South
Heading South was filmed on a phone outside his barracks in 95-degree heat, minutes after he had finished writing it. The sweat-soaked clip drew millions of views with no industry help.
Q 09What is Bryan's 2019 debut album, named for his late mother, called?
DeAnn
DeAnn was his mother's middle name; she died in 2016, three years before the album. He made it with Navy friends while still on active duty, and it spread with no promotion behind it.
Q 10Where was Bryan's debut album recorded?
An Airbnb in Jacksonville, Florida
An Airbnb in Jacksonville, Florida, stood in for a studio while the Navy had him stationed there. He and his friends lined the walls with mattresses to improve the sound.
Q 11Bryan says his first paid gig was nine hours of covers for a $60 check at which sandwich chain?
Potbelly
Potbelly invited the young sailor to come and play all day. When the $60 check arrived, he later recalled, he thought: "Oh, I'm a professional musician now."
Q 12Bryan's 2020 album Elisabeth is named after whom?
His wife at the time
His wife at the time shared the name and was pictured on the cover, though he has never confirmed the link himself. After their divorce he pulled the title track from streaming and changed the artwork.
Q 13Where did Bryan record his second album?
In a repurposed barn behind his home
Q 21Which actor stars as a pool-hall father in the video for Bryan's "Nine Ball"?
Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey plays the betting-man father as the video follows him and his son through twenty years in a small-town pool hall. Bryan thanked the actor publicly for his kindness and advice.
Q 22Which former One Direction member covered "Something in the Orange" for a SiriusXM live series in 2023?
Niall Horan
Niall Horan sang a stripped-down version at SiriusXM's studios in June 2023. Bryan gave it his blessing, recalling how kind the pop star had been to him and his band when they met in London.
Q 23Which singer-songwriter featured on Bryan's 2022 EP Summertime Blues?
Charles Wesley Godwin
In a repurposed barn behind his home, while he was still a full-time sailor. The setup suited him: he went back a few months later and recorded his next EP there too.
Q 14What was the title of Bryan's first EP, released in November 2020?
Quiet, Heavy Dreams
Quiet, Heavy Dreams came out while he was still an active-duty sailor. He said singing its songs felt like dreaming up strangers' lives and imagining how their stories tie together.
Q 15Which major label released Bryan's 2022 breakthrough album and the three that followed?
Warner Records
Warner Records released all four, alongside his own imprint. A January 2025 teaser billed his next record as a final major-label album, yet that May he reportedly re-signed with Warner for at least two more.
Q 16Bryan announced his discharge from the Navy in October 2021 just ahead of which tour?
Ain't For Tamin'
Ain't For Tamin' was his first headlining tour, due to open days later in St. Louis. He wrote that he would never have chosen to leave "the world's greatest Navy", which discharged him honorably to go play music.
Q 17Bryan's 2022 major-label debut was a 34-track triple album called what?
American Heartbreak
American Heartbreak came out seven months after the Navy discharged him. On its first day it drew more streams than any other country album of 2022 on both Spotify and Apple Music.
Q 18Which fellow Oklahoman, who had died four days earlier, did Bryan honor with a cover in Las Vegas in February 2024?
Toby Keith
Toby Keith had lost a long fight with stomach cancer that week. At a Super Bowl weekend show Bryan led the crowd through "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue", one Oklahoma boy honoring another.
Q 19Bryan says he wrote "Something in the Orange" where?
In a cabin in Wisconsin
In a cabin in Wisconsin, he said, watching a sunset and turning over the word orange, not living through "some deep, dark thing". On stage in 2024 he gave it another origin: a date who stood him up.
Q 20Which actor plays a man chasing down his wayward brother in Bryan's 2024 "Oak Island" video?
Casey Affleck
Casey Affleck's character nurses their ailing mother and works a hard factory job until he finally spots his brother in a bar and drags him home.
Charles Wesley Godwin sings on "Jamie". He says Bryan FaceTimed him in January 2022 with one verse and asked him to co-write it, then told him months later that he would finish the song alone.
Q 24Bryan's Christmas Day 2022 live album, recorded at Red Rocks, has what pointed title?
All My Homies Hate Ticketmaster
All My Homies Hate Ticketmaster repeats a line he kept tweeting about ticket prices. The show itself was played through a surprise blizzard, and he sang "Snow" as it fell.
Q 25Bryan's first Grammy nomination, for "Something in the Orange", came in which category?
Best Country Solo Performance
Best Country Solo Performance went instead to Willie Nelson's "Live Forever". Bryan's song had the longer run: by July 2023 it was the longest-charting country single by a male artist in Hot 100 history.
Q 26Bryan's January 2023 single "Dawns" was a collaboration with which singer?
Maggie Rogers
Maggie Rogers co-wrote the song, and her verse turns it around: after his side of the breakup she answers with her own, which changes what the chorus means.
Q 27Which Academy of Country Music Award did Bryan win in May 2023?
New Male Artist of the Year
New Male Artist of the Year soon looked modest. Three months later his album and its lead single both debuted at number one in the same week, a double only Taylor Swift, BTS, Drake and Future had managed.
Q 28Which singer duets with Bryan on "Holy Roller" from his self-titled 2023 album?
Sierra Ferrell
Sierra Ferrell's duet was followed by a bigger stage: she joined his 2024 arena and stadium tour as an opening act, on a bill that also included Sheryl Crow and Jason Isbell.
Q 29Which artist duets with Bryan on "I Remember Everything"?
Kacey Musgraves
Kacey Musgraves answers his fond memories with a bleaker account of the same romance. The duet debuted at number one on the Hot 100, a first for both singers.
Q 30Bryan considered changing the title "I Remember Everything" because it matched a ballad by which songwriter?
John Prine
John Prine's song of that name was the last he recorded, released after his death in 2020. Bryan said he first changed his own title out of respect, but it "just didn't sit right", so the title stayed.