Q 01/05

Pentatonix's five original members first met as a complete group at what point ahead of their Sing-Off audition?

A) The day before

B) A week before

C) A month before

D) A year before

Answer · why

A) The day before

The day before was all the time the full line-up had, because the show wanted groups of five or more and the trio had to recruit two strangers. They w...

Q 02/05

Kevin Olusola caught Pentatonix's eye with a viral video of himself beatboxing while playing which instrument?

A) Violin

B) Piano

C) Cello

D) Saxophone

Answer · why

C) Cello

Cello and beatboxing at once is a style Kevin Olusola calls celloboxing, and his 2011 clip of the piece Julie-O went viral. Scott Hoying saw it and as...

Q 03/05

Pentatonix won its first Grammy for an a cappella medley of songs by which French electronic duo?

A) Justice

B) Daft Punk

C) Cassius

D) Polo & Pan

Answer · why

B) Daft Punk

Daft Punk got the tribute in a 2013 video that drew ten million views in its first week. The arrangement made Pentatonix the first a cappella act to w...

Q 04/05

Pentatonix won a country Grammy for an a cappella version of which song, recorded with its writer Dolly Parton?

A) Joshua

B) Applejack

C) The Seeker

D) Jolene

Answer · why

D) Jolene

Jolene earned Dolly Parton a Grammy more than four decades after she first released it, having been nominated for the same song twice in the 1970s wit...

Q 05/05

Scott Hoying and Mitch Grassi of Pentatonix launched which comedy and music YouTube channel as a duo?

A) Superfruit

B) Us the Duo

C) Rhett & Link

D) Dan and Phil

Answer · why

A) Superfruit

Superfruit began after the two sat in an IHOP planning separate channels and decided to share one instead. Hoying says the name came from his bandmate...