Q 01/05

Blink-182 formed in 1992 in which Southern California suburb?

A) Encinitas

B) Oceanside

C) Poway

D) Escondido

Answer · why

C) Poway

Poway. Tom DeLonge remembers skateboarding from one end of the suburb to the other with his friends, knocking over department-store displays on the wa...

Q 02/05

Who introduced Mark Hoppus to Tom DeLonge in August 1992?

A) Hoppus's record-store boss

B) A skate-shop owner

C) A high-school music teacher

D) Hoppus's sister, Anne

Answer · why

D) Hoppus's sister, Anne

Hoppus's sister, Anne. She was dating one of DeLonge's best friends, heard that he was looking to start a band, and brought her newly arrived brother ...

Q 03/05

Why did Blink add '182' to their name in 1995?

A) It was Tom's high-school locker number

B) It was Mark's lucky number

C) It was the tempo of their first single

D) An Irish group already called Blink objected

Answer · why

D) An Irish group already called Blink objected

An Irish group already called Blink objected, and rather than fight a legal battle the trio tacked on a number that, by Hoppus's account, was picked m...

Q 04/05

Which drummer played on Blink-182's Cheshire Cat and Dude Ranch before being replaced in 1998?

A) Mike Krull

B) Scott Raynor

C) Brooks Wackerman

D) Cam Jones

Answer · why

B) Scott Raynor

Scott Raynor, the band's drummer from its first rehearsals. He left in 1998 amid heavy drinking; by some accounts he was fired, while Hoppus's memoir ...

Q 05/05

Travis Barker was drumming for which tour-mate band when he first filled in for Blink-182?

A) Pennywise

B) The Aquabats

C) Unwritten Law

D) Goldfinger

Answer · why

B) The Aquabats

The Aquabats were Blink-182's tour-mates in 1998, and their drummer Travis Barker learned the whole set in under an hour before his first show; he joi...