Glastonbury Festival Trivia
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46 free Glastonbury Festival trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
This Glastonbury Festival trivia quiz covers the world's most famous greenfield festival, from the September Saturday in 1970 when dairy farmer Michael Eavis charged £1 to see T. Rex on Worthy Farm, through the 1971 Fair with its Pyramid Stage built over a blind spring, the CND years, the 1994 fire and record crowd, the mud of 1997, the superfence of 2002 and the fallow years that let the fields recover. There are questions on the ground itself, between Pilton and Pylle in the Vale of Avalon, on the Green Fields and Stone Circle, on the charities Oxfam, Greenpeace and WaterAid, and on the sets that made history: Radiohead in the rain, Orbital on Channel 4, Beyoncé, the Rolling Stones, Stormzy, Billie Eilish as youngest headliner, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Coldplay's record fifth headline slot, Rod Stewart in the Legends slot and the 2026 fallow year. Some are easy for anyone who has watched the BBC coverage; others will test people who have queued at the Pennard Hill toilets. Every answer is checked against Wikipedia's articles on the festival, its founder and individual years, and each explanation adds one further fact. Great for music quiz nights and campsite arguments.
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Q 01What is the name of the Eavis family land where Glastonbury Festival is held?
Worthy Farm
Worthy Farm: by 1985 the festival had outgrown it, so the neighbouring Cockmill Farm was bought to enlarge the site.
Q 02At the 2010 festival, which song did headliner Stevie Wonder lead Michael Eavis in singing on the Pyramid Stage?
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday: the duet marked Glastonbury's 40th anniversary, as Wonder brought the curtain down on the festival's final night.
Q 03Which concert inspired Michael Eavis to hold his first festival?
Led Zeppelin at Bath in 1970
Led Zeppelin at Bath in 1970: that September Eavis staged a smaller festival of his own, and 1,500 people came.
Q 04Tickets for the first festival in 1970 cost £1 and included what, free from the farm?
Milk
Milk: about 1,500 people came, and the following year's Glastonbury Fair was free, paid for by its supporters.
Q 05Which act replaced the Kinks at short notice to headline the first Glastonbury Festival in 1970?
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Tyrannosaurus Rex: Marc Bolan's band played that first weekend, and it later shortened its name to T. Rex.
Q 06Which spiritual leader made a surprise appearance on the Pyramid Stage during Patti Smith's 2015 set?
The Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama: earlier that day he had already given a speech to crowds elsewhere on the site.
Q 07Which rock star played the 1971 Glastonbury Fair and returned to headline the Pyramid Stage in 2000?
David Bowie
David Bowie: he played on a new silver Pyramid Stage, and the full set was finally released 18 years later.
Q 08With which campaigning organisation was Glastonbury Festival organised from 1981?
CND
CND: 1981 was the festival's first profitable year, and Eavis handed about £20,000 of the profits to the campaign.
Q 09Which veteran band made their first-ever Glastonbury appearance as Saturday headliners in 2013?
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones: the festival had tried to book them for decades, and Emily Eavis called finally landing them a dream booking.
Q 10What happened to the Pyramid Stage just over a week before the 1994 festival?
It burned down
It burned down: the fire struck in the early hours of 13 June 1994, and a local stage company supplied a replacement in time.
Q 11Which band's Friday Pyramid Stage set in 1994 was reported to draw a crowd of as many as 300,000?
Levellers
Levellers: the crowd was swollen by gatecrashers, and Channel 4 was broadcasting the festival live that year.
Q 12Which country star made her Glastonbury debut in the Sunday teatime Legends slot in 2014?
Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton: she sang 'Jolene' and '9 to 5' to a vast crowd and later said it was the biggest audience she had ever played to.
Q 13Whose muddy 1997 Pyramid headline set did Q magazine later name the greatest concert of all time?
Radiohead
Radiohead: speakers kept failing, and Thom Yorke nearly walked off until guitarist Ed O'Brien warned he would regret it for life.
Q 21Which all-male headline bill of 2023 drew criticism?
Elton John, Guns N' Roses and Arctic Monkeys
Elton John, Guns N' Roses and Arctic Monkeys: Emily Eavis said a booked female headliner had pulled out, and the next year's Pyramid bill split evenly between men and women.
Q 22Which Hollywood actor joined Coldplay on guitar during their record fifth Glastonbury headline set in 2024?
Michael J. Fox
Michael J. Fox: Chris Martin said the film Back to the Future was the main reason Coldplay became a band, and Fox played guitar on 'Fix You'.
Q 23Since 2007, what must Glastonbury ticket buyers register in advance so it can be printed on their ticket?
Q 14What was the nickname of the barrier built in 2002 that cut gatecrashing at Glastonbury?
The superfence
The superfence: it went up after gatecrashers swamped the 2000 festival, and it kept them out.
Q 15Which pop star was forced to pull out of headlining Sunday 2005 after a breast cancer diagnosis?
Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue: she finally played Glastonbury 14 years later, in the Sunday teatime Legends slot of 2019.
Q 16Which rapper headlined the Saturday of Glastonbury 2008?
Jay-Z
Jay-Z: Emily Eavis booked him as the festival's first hip hop headliner, despite claims that rap had no place at Glastonbury.
Q 17Why did Foo Fighters pull out of headlining Glastonbury in 2015?
Grohl broke his leg
Grohl broke his leg: he fell off a stage weeks before the festival, and Foo Fighters finally headlined the Pyramid Stage two years later.
Q 18Which two acts headlined Glastonbury's Friday and Sunday nights in 2015?
Florence and the Machine and The Who
Florence and the Machine and The Who: Florence stepped up after Foo Fighters withdrew, dedicated her set to Dave Grohl and covered one of his band's hits.
Q 19Which grime artist headlined the Pyramid Stage in 2019?
Stormzy
Stormzy: he wore a Union Jack stab vest designed by Banksy, and Banksy later put the vest on show in a pop-up shop in Croydon.
Q 20Who became Glastonbury's youngest ever headliner in 2022?
Billie Eilish
Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar headlined the other nights, and Diana Ross played the Legends slot.
A passport-style photo
A passport-style photo: the scheme was brought in to stop touts reselling tickets, and buyers supply the photo when they pre-register.
Q 24Which veteran singer played Glastonbury's Sunday Legends slot in 2025, 23 years after he last appeared there?
Rod Stewart
Rod Stewart: that same month he had cancelled a run of US concerts while recovering from flu, weeks before his Sunday teatime set.
Q 25Which 2025 headliner briefly pulled out, saying Glastonbury was 'now under corporate control' because of the BBC?
Neil Young
Neil Young: he reversed course within days and topped the Pyramid Stage bill that June, walking on alone to play an acoustic 'Sugar Mountain'.
Q 26Why was no Glastonbury Festival held in 2026?
A planned fallow year
A planned fallow year: Emily Eavis said such a break rests the land and lets the cows stay out longer to reclaim their fields.
Q 27Which three charities have been the festival's main beneficiaries since the end of the Cold War?
Oxfam, Greenpeace and WaterAid
Oxfam, Greenpeace and WaterAid: each supplies volunteers and features on site, and Greenpeace has run its own field there since 1997.
Q 28At Glastonbury 2023, which 1980s pop star joined Blossoms for a surprise set of songs by the Smiths?
Rick Astley
Rick Astley: their pairing began with surprise Smiths covers at a Blossoms gig, which led to two tribute concerts.
Q 29Which Glastonbury area, home to the Stone Circle, keeps alive the festival's hippie and free-festival ethos?
The Green Fields
The Green Fields: in 2023 the rest of the festival followed their lead, running every generator on renewable fuel.
Q 30Thousands of volunteers work shifts at Glastonbury each summer; what do most get in return?
Free entry
Free entry: at bars run by the Workers Beer Company, the wages volunteers earn go to the charities and campaign groups that send them.