Q 01/05

Which System of a Down single, renamed from Suicide under record-label pressure, has passed a billion YouTube views?

A) Prison Song

B) Chop Suey!

C) Hypnotize

D) Toxicity

Answer · why

B) Chop Suey!

Chop Suey! is the old title cut in half, as the band's bassist explained it: suicide, chopped. Its video, shot outside a Los Angeles motel, hit the bi...

Q 02/05

All four members of System of a Down share which ancestry, the heritage behind their early song P.L.U.C.K.?

A) Armenian

B) Lebanese

C) Iranian

D) Macedonian

Answer · why

A) Armenian

Armenian roots run through the whole band: each member was born to immigrant parents or emigrated himself, and P.L.U.C.K. addresses the 1915 genocide ...

Q 03/05

System of a Down's album Toxicity was sitting at number one in America during the week of which event?

A) The Columbine shooting

B) Hurricane Katrina

C) The Columbia shuttle disaster

D) The September 11 attacks

Answer · why

D) The September 11 attacks

The September 11 attacks struck a week after Toxicity's release, and radio group Clear Channel soon put one of its singles on a list of songs deemed i...

Q 04/05

System of a Down picked a name that would be shelved alphabetically close to which metal heroes in record stores?

A) Sepultura

B) Sodom

C) Slayer

D) Saxon

Answer · why

C) Slayer

Slayer were the band's heroes, so Victims of a Down, the title of a Daron Malakian poem, became System of a Down to sit nearer them on the racks.

Q 05/05

Which documentary filmmaker directed System of a Down's video for Boom!, built from footage of 2003 anti-war marches?

A) Morgan Spurlock

B) Michael Moore

C) Oliver Stone

D) Errol Morris

Answer · why

B) Michael Moore

Michael Moore built the Boom! video from the worldwide protests of February 15, 2003, and MTV Europe banned it shortly after its release.