Q 01/05

Brand New's "Okay I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don't" takes its title from which family film sequel?

A) Gremlins 2

B) Ghostbusters II

C) Home Alone 2

D) Toy Story 2

Answer · why

C) Home Alone 2

Home Alone 2 supplied the line, one of several film nods among the song titles on the album Deja Entendu. Billboard later ranked the track among the b...

Q 02/05

Before forming Brand New, Jesse Lacey was the founding bassist of which other Long Island band?

A) Taking Back Sunday

B) From Autumn to Ashes

C) Straylight Run

D) Crime in Stereo

Answer · why

A) Taking Back Sunday

Taking Back Sunday lost Lacey after a falling-out with a bandmate, and the two groups went on to trade barbs in songs and on rival T-shirts.

Q 03/05

Which Brand New album, surprise-released in 2017 after eight years away, became the band's first US number one?

A) Daisy

B) Science Fiction

C) Deja Entendu

D) Your Favorite Weapon

Answer · why

B) Science Fiction

Science Fiction first reached fans as an untitled, numbered CD holding the whole album as a single long track. A week after topping the chart it sank ...

Q 04/05

Brand New's second album Deja Entendu, a wry comment on originality, has a French title that translates as what?

A) Never heard before

B) Already seen

C) Heard too late

D) Already heard

Answer · why

D) Already heard

Already heard was a tongue-in-cheek shrug at critics: Lacey reasoned that every record gets called derivative, so the title simply agrees in advance.

Q 05/05

Jesse Lacey taped a greeting to his guitar for Brand New's 2003 live television debut, saluting which singer?

A) Robert Smith

B) Morrissey

C) Ian Curtis

D) Michael Stipe

Answer · why

B) Morrissey

Morrissey, nicknamed Moz, fronted The Smiths, a band Lacey said he was obsessed with while making Deja Entendu. The taped greeting, "Hi Moz", came on ...