Q 01/05

Arcade Fire formed in which Canadian city?

A) Montreal

B) Toronto

C) Vancouver

D) Halifax

Answer · why

A) Montreal

Early members lived together in the Mile End neighbourhood, and the band later bought a church studio outside the city.

Q 02/05

Which married couple sat at the core of Arcade Fire until their 2025 separation?

A) Will Butler and Sarah Neufeld

B) Richard Reed Parry and Régine Chassagne

C) Win Butler and Régine Chassagne

D) Tim Kingsbury and Sarah Neufeld

Answer · why

C) Win Butler and Régine Chassagne

Butler and Josh Deu met Chassagne, a music student, while rehearsing at McGill University.

Q 03/05

Funeral was released in Canada in September of which year?

A) 2004

B) 2005

C) 2006

D) 2007

Answer · why

A) 2004

Britain had to wait until February 2005, which is why the album turned up on best-of lists for two different years.

Q 04/05

The Suburbs debuted at No. 1 in the US in 2010. Roughly how many copies did it sell in its first week?

A) 56,000

B) 106,000

C) 156,000

D) 256,000

Answer · why

C) 156,000

It also opened at No. 1 in the UK, Ireland and Canada, and two weeks after its Grammy win it leapt from No. 52 back to No. 12.

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

They later attended McGill and Concordia respectively; Deu left in 2002 but kept working on the band's visuals.