Question 1

Which Phish studio album was released in July 2024?

Accepted Answer

Evolve. Evolve arrived on July 12, 2024, Phish's first studio album in four years, on the band's own JEMP Records.

Question 2

In April 2024, Phish played four shows at which futuristic Las Vegas venue?

Accepted Answer

Sphere. Phish's four Sphere shows grossed about $13.4 million, and the band came back for a nine-show Sphere residency in April 2026.

Question 3

Phish brought the full Gamehendge saga back for the first time in 29 years at which New Year's Eve show?

Accepted Answer

Madison Square Garden, 2023. On December 31, 2023 at Madison Square Garden, Phish staged Gamehendge with live actors, dancers and puppets, its first complete telling since 1994.

Question 4

Mondegreen, Phish's 2024 festival, took place at the Woodlands near a motor speedway in which state?

Accepted Answer

Delaware. Mondegreen ran August 15-18, 2024 in Dover, Delaware. It was Phish's 11th self-produced festival and its first in nine years.

Question 5

What was the title of Trey Anastasio's Goddard College senior project, the song cycle that grew into the Gamehendge saga?

Accepted Answer

The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday. The concept album has never been officially released, though the full Gamehendge story has been performed live only a handful of times, most recently in 2023.

Question 6

Trey Anastasio and Page McConnell surprise-released a duo album called December on Christmas Eve 2020. What was its 2023 follow-up called?

Accepted Answer

January. Both duo records find Trey and Page in a more intimate setting than a Phish show.

Question 7

Which Phish Gamehendge performance was recorded by WGBH and was the only complete one officially released until December 2023?

Accepted Answer

July 8, 1994 at Great Woods. The Great Woods show in Mansfield, Massachusetts was added to LivePhish in August 2020 after a Dinner and a Movie webcast.

Question 8

Which Montreal studio created the visuals for Phish's 2024 Sphere shows?

Accepted Answer

Moment Factory. The four shows grossed about $13.4 million and drew more than 65,000 fans.

Question 9

Whose painting "Exploration of Gravity" appears on the cover of Evolve (2024)?

Accepted Answer

Mehdi Ghadyanloo. Mehdi Ghadyanloo painted both Evolve's cover and its inside art, titled Shared Future.

Question 10

Phish.net's jam chart nicknames the 43-minute "Tweezer" of April 17, 2023 the "Greek Tweezer." In which California city was it played?

Accepted Answer

Berkeley. The nickname comes from the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, and at over 43 minutes it ran even longer than the famous 2013 Tahoe version.

Question 11

Which song opened Phish's first-ever show at Sphere in Las Vegas on April 18, 2024?

Accepted Answer

Everything's Right. The band kicked off the Sphere era with a 2017-written song, and later that night played "Tweezer" and "Fluffhead" in a stacked second set.

Question 12

At Sphere on April 18, 2024, the 25-minute "Tweezer" was entered via segue from which second-set opener?

Accepted Answer

Sand. The jam chart calls this Sphere "Tweezer" must-hear: it peaks around the 17-minute mark and then slowly breaks apart into "My Friend, My Friend."

Question 13

Phish.net's jam chart lists a nearly 40-minute "Tweezer" from July 30, 2024, after which the crowd applauded for about 90 seconds. In which city was it played?

Accepted Answer

St. Louis. At 39:48 it runs through a string of peaks, and the crowd's long ovation afterward is mentioned right in the jam chart write-up.

Question 14

When Phish played Sphere in Las Vegas in April 2024, they were the second music act at the venue after which band?

Accepted Answer

U2. U2 opened the venue with a long residency; Phish followed with four nights of eye-popping visuals.

Question 15

Phish played its first post-pandemic concert on July 28, 2021, at the Walmart AMP in which state?

Accepted Answer

Arkansas. The Rogers, Arkansas, show ended the band's pandemic break from touring and kicked off a summer of reunions with fans.

Question 16

As fans walked into Phish's Halloween 2021 show in Las Vegas, they got a handout explaining the "Sci-Fi Soldier" story. What was it?

Accepted Answer

A comic book. The comic cast the band as heroes from the year 4680, with Trey playing a character called Clueless Wallob.

Question 17

"Oblivion" and "Hey Stranger" were released as singles from which album?

Accepted Answer

Evolve. The album had four singles ahead of its July 2024 release: "Evolve," "Oblivion," "Hey Stranger" and "Life Saving Gun."

Question 18

Phish earned its first Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nomination for which induction class?

Accepted Answer

Class of 2025. The 2025 nomination came 15 years after Phish played the 2010 Hall of Fame ceremony, where Trey inducted Genesis.

Question 19

In August 2023, Phish moved into second place for the most concerts ever at Madison Square Garden by passing which artist?

Accepted Answer

Elton John. With that milestone, only Billy Joel had played the Garden more often than Phish.

Question 20

Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in New York, a Phish summer stop, sits on the site of which famous 1969 event?

Accepted Answer

Woodstock. When Phish played Bethel Woods in July 2022, it was the band's first show there since 2011. The first set that night was made up entirely of 1.0-era songs.

Question 21

Phish's Las Vegas Halloween shows in 2014 and 2021 took place at which arena?

Accepted Answer

MGM Grand Garden Arena. In 2014 Phish played songs inspired by a 1964 Disney haunted-house record. In 2021 they appeared as the made-up band Sci-Fi Soldier. Both shows were at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.

Question 22

In a 2025 sketch for Netflix's Everybody's Live with John Mulaney, Phish played the cast of which sitcom?

Accepted Answer

Seinfeld. Trey played Jerry, Mike played George, Page played Kramer, and Fishman, wearing a dress, played Elaine. Mike also recreated the show's famous bass theme.

Question 23

Phish.net's jam chart says the 26-minute Halloween 2021 "Ghost" in Las Vegas was the longest version of the song since which event?

Accepted Answer

The IT festival. That Halloween "Ghost" locks in around the 10-minute mark and gives Mike's bass the spotlight, the longest the song had run since the 2003 festival in Maine.

Question 24

Which bluegrass guitarist sat in with Phish on "Carini" and "Blaze On" in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in August 2024?

Accepted Answer

Billy Strings. Both songs made the jam chart with the guest on second guitar, including a "Blaze On" the chart describes as blazing and shredding.

Question 25

Phish's New Year's Eve 2022 gag marked the band's 40th anniversary. After a singing telegram asked Trey to make a wish, what did he wish for?

Accepted Answer

A time machine. The time machine brought back callbacks to past gags, including Father Time, the Famous Mockingbird, and a dancing wombat from Halloween 2013, which broke the machine.

Question 26

At the 2022 New Year's Eve show, which Queen song returned for the first time since 12/31/1996, a gap of 852 shows?

Accepted Answer

Bohemian Rhapsody. It came during the time-machine gag, with the Late Show Gospel Choir singing from risers and some lyrics swapped for "Ghost" quotes.

Question 27

When Phish took the stage as the fictional band Sci-Fi Soldier on Halloween 2021, Trey said the band came from which year?

Accepted Answer

4680. Fans got a 14-page comic book about the group saving the planet, and all twelve songs in the costume set were debuts.

Question 28

Phish.net's jam chart bills a 40-minute version from July 27, 2024 in East Troy, Wisconsin (Alpine Valley) as the longest version ever of which song?

Accepted Answer

Simple. At 40:20, this jam topped every earlier version of a song that started life as a short pop tune about saxophones and skyscrapers.

Question 29

Where was the nearly 40-minute "Chalk Dust Torture" of February 23, 2024 played?

Accepted Answer

Cancun, Mexico. The 39:54 destination-show jam moves from familiar calm to alien-sounding tension before slipping into "Beneath a Sea of Stars Part 1."

Question 30

During the 2026 "Phish In Five" MSG run, each night revisited a year. Night four on 7/27/26, the band's 95th MSG show, focused on which year?

Accepted Answer

1995. The run lined up its themed years with the Garden show count, starting with 1992 on the 92nd show.

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