Emo Music Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. While sorting tracks by album, where should you place Paramore’s “Misery Business”?
“All We Know Is Falling”
“Brand New Eyes”
“After Laughter”
“Riot!”
2. A track combines intensely screamed vocals, abrupt dynamics, and a raw sound rooted in emo and hardcore. Which label is most specifically associated with that style?
Emo pop
Screamo
Power pop
Pop punk
3. A lyric clue encourages the listener not to write themselves off yet. Which Jimmy Eat World song does it identify?
“Pain”
“Sweetness”
“The Middle”
“A Praise Chorus”
4. A Dashboard Confessional song describes a particular day as the best one the narrator can remember. Which song is it?
“Vindicated”
“Screaming Infidelities”
“Hands Down”
“Stolen”
5. You hear clean, interlocking guitar lines, shifting rhythms, and introspective vocals. Which emo-related style best fits those traits?
Horror punk
Emo pop
Metalcore
Midwest emo
6. You recognize “The Taste of Ink” on a 2000s scene playlist. Which artist should be credited?
Thursday
The Used
Senses Fail
Silverstein
7. Which song repeatedly frames the narrator’s emotional state as an insistence that they are not okay?
“I’m Not Okay (I Promise)”
“MakeDamnSure”
“The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows”
“The Artist in the Ambulance”
8. Which band released the influential 1994 album “Diary”?
Jawbreaker
Texas Is the Reason
The Promise Ring
Sunny Day Real Estate
9. Which band recorded “Cute Without the ‘E’ (Cut from the Team)”?
Senses Fail
Brand New
Taking Back Sunday
The Starting Line
10. Which album-and-artist pairing is accurate?
“American Football (LP1)” — Saves the Day
“Stay What You Are” — The Get Up Kids
“Something to Write Home About” — American Football
“The Moon Is Down” — Further Seems Forever
11. Which band released “Ohio Is for Lovers”?
Hawthorne Heights
From First to Last
Armor for Sleep
Silverstein
12. Only one of these artist-and-song pairings is correct. Which one?
Thursday — “Understanding in a Car Crash”
The Used — “Hands Down”
Jimmy Eat World — “Ohio Is for Lovers”
Dashboard Confessional — “The Taste of Ink”
13. Rites of Spring, often associated with emo’s early development, emerged from which music scene?
The Manchester post-punk scene
The Seattle grunge scene
The Washington, D.C. hardcore scene
The Los Angeles glam metal scene
14. A record-store display includes the album “Full Collapse.” Which band belongs on its label card?
Finch
Thursday
Glassjaw
Thrice
15. Dashboard Confessional began primarily as the project of which singer-songwriter?
Chris Carrabba
Chris Conley
Geoff Rickly
Blake Schwarzenbach
16. Which of these albums was released earliest?
“Full Collapse” by Thursday
“Nothing Feels Good” by The Promise Ring
“Deja Entendu” by Brand New
“Take This to Your Grave” by Fall Out Boy