Q 01/05

Arcade Fire formed in which Canadian city?

A) Montreal

B) Toronto

C) Vancouver

D) Halifax

Answer · why

A) Montreal

Montreal adopted its Texas-raised frontman for good: Win Butler became a Canadian citizen in 2019, saying he had lived in the city for half his life.

Q 02/05

Arcade Fire's album The Suburbs draws on the Butler brothers' childhood on the edge of which Texas city?

A) Dallas

B) Houston

C) Austin

D) San Antonio

Answer · why

B) Houston

Houston: the family moved from a small California mountain town to its planned suburb The Woodlands, which Win Butler remembered as 'a pretty big cult...

Q 03/05

The cover of Arcade Fire's Reflektor shows a sculpture of Orpheus and Eurydice by which artist?

A) Gian Lorenzo Bernini

B) Antonio Canova

C) Auguste Rodin

D) Michelangelo

Answer · why

C) Auguste Rodin

Auguste Rodin's doomed lovers suit an album steeped in the Orpheus myth, which the band also drew from the 1959 film Black Orpheus.

Q 04/05

In 2011 The Suburbs beat Eminem's Recovery to win Arcade Fire which Grammy?

A) Record of the Year

B) Best Rock Album

C) Album of the Year

D) Best Alternative Music Album

Answer · why

C) Album of the Year

Album of the Year, handed over by Barbra Streisand, came on a night when The Suburbs lost the Best Alternative Music Album category to The Black Keys.

Q 05/05

Win Butler and co-founder Josh Deu first met as students at which New Hampshire prep school?

A) Phillips Academy Andover

B) Deerfield Academy

C) Choate Rosemary Hall

D) Phillips Exeter Academy

Answer · why

D) Phillips Exeter Academy

Phillips Exeter Academy took Butler from Texas at fifteen; when his schoolfriend Deu later left for college in Canada, Butler followed him north, and ...