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Rock Legends Trivia Quiz
Know Your Band Tee The Beatles to Linkin Park: albums, members, reunions and wild tour stories. Prove you know the band on your T-shirt.
171 questions · 2 to 12 players, or solo · Typed answers, close enough counts
About this quiz
This Rock Legends Trivia Quiz has 171 questions: 60 easy, 69 medium and 42 hard. It is free. Play it with friends in a room for 2 to 12 players, on phones or in a browser, or play it solo. Type your answers: close enough counts, so a small typo still scores.
Sample questions
20 of the 171 Rock bands questions in this pack. Think of your answer, then open it.
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In 1995's 'Battle of Britpop', Oasis's Roll with It lost the race to No. 1 to which rival band's Country House?
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Blur
Blur sold about 274,000 copies to Oasis's 216,000 that week, but Oasis's album went on to sell far more.
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Slash's famous intro to which GNR hit began as a silly 'circus' warm-up he played while pulling faces at the drummer?
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Sweet Child O' Mine
Axl heard it from upstairs and wrote the words. The video has passed 1.7 billion YouTube views.
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On the 2021 tribute album The Metallica Blacklist, which pop star covered Nothing Else Matters with Elton John on piano?
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Miley Cyrus
The album had 53 artists covering every song on the Black Album, with the money going to charity.
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Fans raged over 'dynamic pricing' when the Oasis reunion tickets went on sale in 2024. Which ticket site was blamed?
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Ticketmaster
Prices jumped while fans waited in queues. Oasis then said their North American shows wouldn't use dynamic pricing.
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Oasis's 1994 debut album has a two-word title whose words seem to cancel each other out. What is it?
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Definitely Maybe
It became the fastest-selling debut album in British history at the time, and went on to sell over three million in the UK.
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Before forming Metallica, Lars Ulrich moved to California at 16 to train to go pro in which sport, like his dad and grandad?
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Tennis
He took up drums instead, then put an ad in the LA paper The Recycler, which is how he met James Hetfield.
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On their famous 1993 acoustic TV show, Nirvana covered The Man Who Sold the World, a song by which British rock star?
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David Bowie
Bowie's 1970 song had never been a single; it only became a standard after Nirvana's cover.
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Slash, top hat and all, was a 'boss' you had to beat in a guitar duel in the third game of which video game series?
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Guitar Hero
Axl Rose later sued the game's maker for $20 million over Slash's part in it.
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The Oasis reunion tour opened on 4 July 2025, the brothers' first show together in 16 years, in which Welsh city?
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Cardiff
It was at the Principality Stadium. The tour went on to play 41 shows in 14 countries, ending in Brazil.
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In January 2025, Nirvana's surviving members played a surprise reunion at a benefit for wildfire victims in which city?
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Los Angeles
St. Vincent, Kim Gordon, Joan Jett and Dave's daughter Violet took turns on vocals at FireAid.
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In the 2004 documentary Some Kind of Monster, Metallica hire what kind of expert to stop the band falling apart?
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A therapist
Phil Towle, billed as a 'performance enhancement coach', sat in on their sessions until the band began to reject his methods.
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In 1996, about 2.5 million people applied for tickets to Oasis's two nights at which English country estate?
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Knebworth
About 125,000 went each night. In 2026 the band announced a return there for their Live '27 tour.
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Guns N' Roses' name joins two earlier LA bands: Hollywood Rose and which other?
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L.A. Guns
L.A. Guns was guitarist Tracii Guns's band; he was a founding member of GNR in March 1985.
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The 2026 film about Oasis's reunion tour, made by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, is named after which of their 1996 hits?
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Don't Look Back in Anger
It premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September 2026. The same month, Oasis announced their Live '27 tour.
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After a Delhi-area show was called off, Metallica played their first ever India gig on 30 October 2011 in which city?
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Bengaluru
The Gurgaon show was cancelled hours before it began, so the Palace Grounds crowd saw the band's India debut instead.
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In May 2025, Guns N' Roses played India for the first time in 13 years, and the first time there with Slash. Which city?
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Mumbai
The show was at Mahalaxmi Racecourse. Their last India gig had been in Gurgaon in 2012, before Slash came back.
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Oasis split in 2009 after a backstage bust-up between the Gallagher brothers before a festival gig near which city?
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Paris
Noel quit that night at Rock en Seine. The brothers didn't play together again until July 2025.
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In 2008, Dr Pepper promised every American a free can, except two ex-GNR guitarists, if which long-delayed album finally came out that year?
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Chinese Democracy
It arrived that November after about 15 years, and at a reported $13 million it was called the most expensive album ever made.
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Oasis took the title Wonderwall from a 1968 solo album by which Beatle?
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George Harrison
Harrison's album was the soundtrack to a film called Wonderwall. Noel first planned to record the song by a wall outside the studio.
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At the 1989 Grammys, the first-ever metal award went not to favourites Metallica but to which flute-playing prog band?
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Jethro Tull
Metallica stood off-stage ready to collect it. A year later they won the new Best Metal Performance award, for One.
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Questions about this quiz
How many questions are in the Rock Legends Trivia Quiz?
171. Each game plays a round of them, so you can come back for more.
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