British Music Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. You are building a playlist about the Bristol trip-hop scene. Which group is the strongest fit?
Arctic Monkeys
The Stone Roses
Franz Ferdinand
Massive Attack
2. In the story told by Pulp’s “Common People,” what is notable about the woman the narrator meets?
She is a Greek student studying sculpture at Saint Martin’s
She is a French fashion student working in Soho
She is an American singer visiting London
She is a German photographer attending an exhibition
3. Which album was released earliest?
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols by Sex Pistols
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars by David Bowie
A Hard Day’s Night by The Beatles
Parklife by Blur
4. Which song is known for moving through ballad, operatic, and hard-rock sections within one recording?
“Baba O’Riley” by The Who
“Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen
“A Day in the Life” by The Beatles
“Kashmir” by Led Zeppelin
5. Which Adele album is named for her age and includes “Rolling in the Deep”?
19
25
30
21
6. A curator needs a Manchester post-punk album featuring the stark cover associated with pulsar data. Which album should be selected?
The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths
Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division
Architecture & Morality by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Ocean Rain by Echo & the Bunnymen
7. A music fan travelling to the traditional home of the Glastonbury Festival should head to which English county?
Kent
Cumbria
Norfolk
Somerset
8. Which band recorded both “Anarchy in the U.K.” and “God Save the Queen”?
The Clash
The Damned
Buzzcocks
Sex Pistols
9. A festival programme groups Oasis, Blur, and Pulp under one 1990s movement. Which label best fits all three?
New Romantic
Trip-hop
Britpop
Two-tone
10. Which Amy Winehouse album includes the songs “Rehab” and “You Know I’m No Good”?
Back to Black
19
Rockferry
Frank
11. Who was Queen’s lead vocalist during the band’s best-known 1970s and 1980s recordings?
Roger Daltrey
Robert Plant
Freddie Mercury
Mick Jagger
12. Which British musician created the stage persona Ziggy Stardust?
Marc Bolan
David Bowie
Elton John
Peter Gabriel
13. Which band released the 1994 album “Parklife”?
Suede
Blur
Oasis
Pulp
14. Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights” draws its characters and story from a novel by which author?
Emily Brontë
Jane Austen
Virginia Woolf
Daphne du Maurier
15. Which British synth-pop duo recorded “West End Girls”?
Pet Shop Boys
Soft Cell
Erasure
Eurythmics
16. In which English city did The Beatles form?
Birmingham
Manchester
Liverpool
Newcastle upon Tyne