Q 01/05

Matt Maltese's As the World Caves In imagines Donald Trump romancing which British prime minister?

A) Margaret Thatcher

B) Theresa May

C) Liz Truss

D) Boris Johnson

Answer · why

B) Theresa May

Theresa May was in Downing Street when the song came out in 2017, and Maltese hoped the pairing would feel romantic, sinister and stupid all at once.

Q 02/05

Which Last of Us star sings under an alias on a 2025 version of Matt Maltese's Cure for Emptiness?

A) Bella Ramsey

B) Pedro Pascal

C) Kaitlyn Dever

D) Isabela Merced

Answer · why

A) Bella Ramsey

Bella Ramsey records as Bello, and Maltese said the two had been making music together for about a year before the duet appeared.

Q 03/05

As a teenager, Matt Maltese funded his move to a small room in Camden by buying and selling what?

A) Vintage clothes

B) Concert tickets

C) Vinyl records

D) Used guitars

Answer · why

C) Vinyl records

Vinyl records paid his way to the capital at 17 or 18, where he worked in a café while writing his early songs.

Q 04/05

Matt Maltese says he missed a university place by one mark after getting a D in which subject?

A) Music Technology

B) Business Studies

C) Media Studies

D) Music Performance

Answer · why

D) Music Performance

Music Performance, of all things, cost him the place, a detail the now-professional performer recalled with an eye-roll.

Q 05/05

Which Matt Maltese album, home to Curl Up & Die, is named after shop signs he saw from London buses?

A) Krystal

B) Jupiter

C) Florence

D) Mystery

Answer · why

A) Krystal

Krystal is not a real person: Maltese said he kept seeing the name on shopfronts near his home off the Old Kent Road in South London.