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40 free Foghat trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Foghat turned British blues-rock into an American arena staple. The founders crossed the Atlantic in the early 1970s, and 'Slow Ride' has been rattling car speakers, film soundtracks and video games ever since. This quiz covers the whole story: how the band got its odd name, who played on which records, the stunts behind the record sleeves, the blues standards the group reworked, the chart singles, and the newer lineup that keeps the name alive. It suits classic rock fans, pub quiz hosts building a 1970s music round, and anyone who knows the signature hit and wants the stories behind it. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01On Foghat's Fool for the City album cover, what is Roger Earl doing at an open New York manhole?
Fishing
Fishing down a manhole on East 11th Street soon drew a police patrol car, and the officers posed for photos handcuffing him. The album's producer suggested the stunt because Earl loved to fish.
Q 02Foghat's 'Slow Ride' plays over the closing scene of which film about 1970s teenagers?
Dazed and Confused
Dazed and Confused ends with freshman Mitch pulling on headphones to the song while the older kids drive off to buy Aerosmith tickets. The film's soundtrack album carries two Foghat recordings.
Q 03The name Foghat is a nonsense word Dave Peverett made up as a child while playing which game?
Scrabble
Scrabble with his brother John produced the word, and young Dave then dreamed up an imaginary playmate called Junior Foghat. A cartoon head wearing a 'foghat' sits on the back of the first album.
Q 04Foghat's 'Slow Ride' is in the opening tier of the career setlist of which 2007 music video game?
Guitar Hero III
Guitar Hero III lists the 1975 hit in its opening tier, 'Starting Out Small'. Later tiers pit players against guitar bosses Slash and Tom Morello.
Q 05Foghat's founding singer Dave Peverett was billed on stage with which word in front of his first name?
Lonesome
Lonesome Dave carried the tag before the band existed, having toured with a Swiss blues group as 'Lonesome Dave Jaxx'. Album credits still listed him that way in 1994.
Q 06Roger Earl, the one Foghat founder still in the band at its 50th anniversary, plays which instrument?
Drums
Drums keep him at the back of the stage, yet he is the face of the band's best-known album cover, photographed on a Manhattan street. His brother Colin has guested on piano.
Q 07Foghat built its career in America, but the band formed in 1971 in which English city?
London
London is where the four founders came together in January 1971, three of them fresh from the same blues band. A record deal soon took them across the Atlantic for good.
Q 08Foghat's best-selling release, with more than two million copies sold, is what kind of record?
A live album
A live album from 1977 outsold every studio record the band made, capturing a single May show in Henrietta, New York. It holds just six songs, two of them longer than eight minutes.
Q 09Fool for the City, the Foghat album with 'Slow Ride', was the band's first to earn which sales award?
Platinum
Platinum was a step up from the gold awards that earlier Foghat albums such as Energized had collected. The record holds only seven tracks, one of them more than eight minutes long.
Q 10Foghat guitarist Bryan Bassett first found fame in which 1970s funk band?
Wild Cherry
Wild Cherry took 'Play That Funky Music' to number one on both the pop and R&B charts in 1976, with Bassett on electric guitar. He stepped into Foghat in 1999 when Rod Price left.
Q 11Three of Foghat's four founders had played together in which British blues band until December 1970?
Savoy Brown
Savoy Brown made the 1970 album Looking In as a four-piece with all three of them, and it reached the American top 40. Within a month of quitting, the trio had started Foghat.
Q 12Foghat first charted with 'I Just Want to Make Love to You', a 1954 blues song by which writer?
Willie Dixon
Willie Dixon's song was first cut by Muddy Waters, and Foghat charted with it twice: a 1972 studio take, then an edit of an eight-minute concert version that climbed fifty places higher.
Q 13Foghat's debut album covers 'Maybellene', the 1955 first hit for which rock and roll pioneer?
Chuck Berry
Q 21Foghat released all its 1972–1983 albums on which record label, founded in 1970 by Albert Grossman?
Bearsville
Bearsville shared its name with a hamlet in Woodstock, New York, where Grossman also ran a recording studio. Foghat's run on the label ended with Zig-Zag Walk in 1983.
Q 22Which producer of Foghat's Fool for the City also played bass on the album after Tony Stevens left?
Nick Jameson
Nick Jameson also played keyboards, engineered the sessions and co-wrote the closing track. He later made another record with the band under the pseudonym 'Franz Leipkin'.
Q 23Founding member Tony Stevens quit Foghat in the mid-1970s after tiring of what part of band life?
Constant touring
Chuck Berry adapted the song in part from a western swing fiddle tune called 'Ida Red'. Foghat's sleeve spells the title 'Maybelline'.
Q 14Foghat's Night Shift album covers 'Take Me to the River', a 1974 song co-written by which soul singer?
Al Green
Al Green wrote it with guitarist Teenie Hodges, and the song went on to give hits to Syl Johnson, Talking Heads and Delbert McClinton. Foghat revisited it on a 1994 album.
Q 15Foghat covered 'Terraplane Blues' and 'Sweet Home Chicago', both by which 1930s Delta blues legend?
Robert Johnson
Robert Johnson recorded 'Terraplane Blues' in San Antonio in 1936, and as his first release it sold as many as 10,000 copies. Foghat placed it right after 'Slow Ride' on Fool for the City.
Q 16Foghat's Fool for the City producer later acted as Russian president Yuri Suvarov in which TV thriller?
24
24 kept him on as Suvarov over three seasons, decades after he produced 'Slow Ride'. The Missouri-born musician is known for his command of accents and moved to Reykjavík in 2014.
Q 17Foghat's 'Slow Ride' was ranked 45th on a 2009 list of the best hard rock songs by which TV channel?
VH1
VH1 gave the late honour to a single that had peaked at number 20 in America in 1976. Its radio edit runs under four minutes, less than half the length of the album version.
Q 18Rod Price, nicknamed 'The Bottle', gave Foghat its trademark sound with which playing technique?
Slide guitar
Slide guitar earned him the titles 'Magician of Slide' and 'Slide King of Rock and Roll'. His playing runs through 'Slow Ride' and 'Drivin' Wheel'.
Q 19Foghat's Rock and Roll Outlaws cover shows the band in the Mojave Desert beside which borrowed vehicle?
A Learjet
A Learjet wearing the band's logo makes them look like jet-setters, but the plane was not theirs: they borrowed it and stuck the logo on for the photograph.
Q 20Before Foghat, Roger Earl auditioned without success for which famous 1960s rock band?
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Jimi Hendrix Experience passed on him, so in 1968 he joined a British blues band instead and met his future Foghat partners there.
Constant touring kept him away from England, so he went home and took up session work, including music for the TV series Rock Follies. He rejoined for the 1994 reunion album.
Q 24The rock-and-bread-roll cover of Foghat's second album was the idea of which underground filmmaker?
Robert Downey Sr.
Robert Downey Sr., a satirical director and the father of actor Robert Downey Jr., thought up the visual pun. Fans call the self-titled record 'Rock and Roll' because of it.
Q 25Foghat's longtime singer Charlie Huhn earlier sang lead on which guitarist's album Weekend Warriors?
Ted Nugent
Ted Nugent hired him in 1978, and Huhn stayed for three studio albums and a live one. He later fronted the German band Victory before stepping in for Dave Peverett in 2000.
Q 26Scott Holt, who became Foghat's lead singer in 2022, was formerly a guitarist for which blues great?
Buddy Guy
Buddy Guy's former sideman was no stranger to the band: he had sung on a Foghat album in 2016 and fronted its side project Earl & the Agitators.
Q 27Which star record producer urged Foghat's four original members to reunite in 1993?
Rick Rubin
Rick Rubin proved unavailable to produce the comeback himself, so the band made Return of the Boogie Men without him in 1994.
Q 28Which album gave Foghat its first Billboard chart-topper, debuting atop Top Blues Albums?
Sonic Mojo
Sonic Mojo arrived 51 years after the debut album and mixes covers with new songs, some co-written by the leader of the founders' old blues band shortly before his death.
Q 29Foghat's 2016 album Under the Influence was paid for entirely through which modern funding method?
Fan crowdfunding
Fan crowdfunding through a PledgeMusic campaign covered the whole record, which went on to reach number 17 on Billboard's Hard Rock Albums chart.
Q 30Which 1979 Foghat single reached number 23 in America, the band's highest chart peak after 'Slow Ride'?
Third Time Lucky
Third Time Lucky carries the subtitle '(First Time I Was a Fool)' and came from the album Boogie Motel. Only the 1975 signature hit took the band higher on the Hot 100.