Q 01/05

What is The Weeknd's real name?

A) Jahron Brathwaite

B) Aubrey Graham

C) Daystar Peterson

D) Abel Tesfaye

Answer · why

D) Abel Tesfaye

Abel Tesfaye has said he is thinking of retiring the Weeknd persona while continuing to record music.

Q 02/05

In which Toronto suburb was The Weeknd raised by his mother and grandmother?

A) Brampton

B) Scarborough

C) Mississauga

D) Etobicoke

Answer · why

B) Scarborough

Scarborough got half a million Canadian dollars from him in 2020, a gift to its hospital network's COVID-19 relief fund.

Q 03/05

Why is 'Weeknd' spelled without the second 'e'?

A) A record-label typographical slip

B) It fit a ten-character Twitter handle

C) A Canadian band owned the name

D) It means 'end' in Amharic

Answer · why

C) A Canadian band owned the name

A Canadian band owned the name 'the Weekend', so he cut a letter; the word marks the weekend he left home at 17 and never went back.

Q 04/05

Which star's blog first pushed The Weeknd's anonymous YouTube songs to a wide audience?

A) Rihanna

B) Drake

C) Pharrell

D) Diddy

Answer · why

B) Drake

Drake's OVO blog posted the songs, though The Weeknd says Drake's manager was the one vouching for him, not yet Drake himself.

Q 05/05

Which mixtape closed out 2011, the year The Weeknd began with House of Balloons?

A) Echoes of Silence

B) Kiss Land

C) My Dear Melancholy

D) After Hours

Answer · why

A) Echoes of Silence

Echoes of Silence opens with a cover of Michael Jackson's 'Dirty Diana', listed only as 'D.D.'; Pitchfork called his vocal an eerily accurate copy of ...