NICHOLAS, EXPLAIN YOURSELF
Long before guitar became part of his image, Nick has said this was actually his first instrument.
What are the drums?
Joe's childhood obsession with Beauty and the Beast ran so deep that he has said this character's name was practically his first word.
Who is Gaston?
Kevin met the woman he would eventually marry while both families were vacationing in this island nation.
What are the Bahamas?
Kevin has recalled that the Jonas household didn't actually have this channel when the brothers were growing up.
What is Disney Channel?
Nick and Joe got matching versions of this symbol tattooed on their arms so that when positioned together, each brother's design points toward the other.
What are arrows?
Nick's entertainment career began when someone overheard six-year-old Nick singing while his mother was doing this.
What is getting her hair done at a hair salon?
When his brothers were asked to identify Joe's hidden talent, neither got this surprisingly convincing Sesame Street impression
What is an Elmo impression?
Asked what profession he'd choose if he weren't a performer, Kevin landed in this field—specifically describing himself as a home builder.
What is architecture/home building?
Before tour buses became luxurious, Kevin Sr. recalled his sons quite literally growing up in one of these while their parents traveled with Christian singing groups.
What is a van?
Asked which brother would be most likely to disappear backpacking for a month without telling anyone, the brothers settled on this Jonas.
Who is Joe?
When asked what he drove in 2017, Nick gave this extremely specific answer: a red convertible of this year and model.
What is a 1960 Ford Thunderbird?
Before Disney, DNCE or stadiums, young Joe hosted a pretend late-night talk show for his friends in his parents' basement under this extremely creative title.
What is “The Joe Show”?
One brother jokingly suggested Kevin could have done this professionally; Kevin then revealed that he genuinely participated in this track-and-field event in high school.
What is pole vaulting?
Describing just how different life had been before their breakthrough, Kevin once summarized their living situation with the phrase “four brothers in” this.
What is one bedroom?
Kevin has apparently developed a habit when staying at his brother's house: abandoning half-finished cans of this sparkling-water brand everywhere.
What is LaCroix?
As a child obsessed with Les Misérables, Nick would take desks, chairs and other furniture around the house and construct these.
What are barricades?
Joe once identified his favorite childhood memory as staying in a Florida hotel room where the beds had this extremely kid-friendly setup
What are triple bunk beds, each with its own video-game system?
Kevin named this very specific Turkey Hill flavor as his favorite childhood snack—and even said he'd unsuccessfully DM'd the company trying to find a tub.
What is marshmallow ice cream?
I'll also accept Turkey Hill chocolate marshmallow depending on how strict you're being.
After their father's church situation collapsed and the family had to leave the church-owned home in Wyckoff, they relocated to a small house in this New Jersey town.
What is Little Falls, New Jersey?
The brothers described a takeoff superstition so ingrained that one said he'd perform it even half-asleep if he felt the plane leaving the ground; they call the ritual this.
What is “going to the Matrix”?
Nick once said his mom pointed out that he eats hamburgers in this oddly methodical way instead of biting straight across them.
What is eating all the way around the edges in a circle first?
In an old Seventeen interview, when the brothers were asked for the last thing they'd listened to on their iPods, Joe gave this deeply unserious answer.
What are Barney sing-along songs?
At twelve, Kevin had strep for about a week, admitted to faking it for another week, became bored at home, and finally picked up a “Teach Yourself Guitar” book after getting sick of watching this 10 a.m. television show.
What is The Price Is Right*?
Frankie has recalled that while his older brothers were hustling between auditions, Broadway and commercials, he and his mother attended Mommy-and-Me classes partly so the struggling family could receive this form of assistance.
What are food stamps?
The brothers invented a gambling-style dice game on tour in which a player gets eight rolls to produce two fours; naturally, arguments arose over whether somebody had secretly taken extra rolls. The game has this one-word nam
What is “Toronto”?