Mumford & Sons Trivia
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50 free Mumford & Sons trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Mumford & Sons trivia quiz covers the West London folk-rock band that turned up to their first album sessions without instruments and left with a Brit Award, then won Album of the Year at the Grammys with Babel. The easy questions cover the landmarks: the members, the debut single, the album that headlined Glastonbury, and the year they put the banjo away. From there the quiz moves through the Railroad Revival Tour, the Gentlemen of the Road stopovers, Ted Dwane's brain surgery, Winston Marshall's exit and the comeback albums Rushmere and Prizefighter. The harder half is for the fans who own the Love Your Ground EP: the Shakespeare and Steinbeck behind the lyrics, the record-breaking Triple J Hottest 100 win, the Ray Davies and Laura Marling collaborations, the Pixar song, the Delhi EP and the producers who shaped each album. Nothing here quotes a lyric; the questions are about the people, records and stories. Every answer was checked against Mumford & Sons' encyclopaedia entry before publishing. If you enjoy this, try our folk rock and 2010s music quizzes next.
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Q 01Which London common's pond gave Mumford & Sons' album Rushmere its name?
Wimbledon
Wimbledon Common's Rushmere pond is where three future members used to hang out and first talked about putting a band together.
Q 02Which instrument does Ben Lovett play in the band?
Keyboards
Keyboards player Lovett joked that naming the band after him would have sounded like 'Lyle Lovett's side project'; Marcus got the name because he made the phone calls and booked the gigs.
Q 03Marcus Mumford married which Oscar-nominated actress, a childhood pen pal, in 2012?
Carey Mulligan
Carey Mulligan and Mumford wrote to each other as children, lost touch for years, and were engaged within five months of meeting again as adults.
Q 04Which 2012 album won the band the Grammy for Album of the Year?
Babel
Babel made up for 2011, when the band left the Grammys empty-handed: it took the top prize after selling 600,000 US copies in its first week, the year's biggest debut until Taylor Swift's Red a month later.
Q 05Marcus Mumford co-wrote the theme music for which Apple TV+ comedy series?
Ted Lasso
Ted Lasso star Jason Sudeikis asked him in a voicemail on a US phone Mumford rarely switched on; it sat unheard for a couple of months, and Sudeikis thought he was being ghosted.
Q 06Which member left the band in 2021 after a Twitter row over his praise for a book by Andy Ngo?
Winston Marshall
Winston Marshall first apologised and took time away from the band; months later he quit for good, writing that he wanted to speak his mind without his bandmates suffering the consequences.
Q 07Sigh No More takes its title from a line in which Shakespeare play?
Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing has a singer tell ladies to 'sigh no more' because 'men were deceivers ever'; the band's title track borrows other lines from the play too.
Q 08The song 'Timshel' takes its title from a word at the heart of a novel by which American author?
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck's East of Eden ends on the word: a dying father whispers 'timshel' to his guilt-ridden son, a reminder that he is free to choose his own path.
Q 09Besides guitar, which instrument does frontman Marcus Mumford sometimes play on stage while singing lead?
Drums
Drums were his first job on the London folk circuit, where he backed Laura Marling from behind the kit, and he still drums and sings at once on songs such as 'Lover of the Light'.
Q 10Why did Markus Dravs first turn the band away from his studio?
They showed up without their own instruments
They showed up without their own instruments, so Dravs asked bassist Ted Dwane where his bass was, then told him to leave the studio and not come back until he had one.
Q 11Which member of The National lent the band his Brooklyn garage studio for Wilder Mind and later produced Prizefighter?
Aaron Dessner
Aaron Dessner happened to be working next door while the band mixed their previous album; they swapped demos, and Prizefighter came together in ten days at his Long Pond studio.
Q 12'Little Lion Man' topped which Australian radio poll for 2009?
Triple J Hottest 100
Triple J Hottest 100 voters, the station's own listeners, made it the top song of 2009, and the band dropped into triple j's studios to play the winner live.
Q 13At the 2011 Grammys the band performed 'The Cave' in a segment with which legend and the Avett Brothers?
Bob Dylan
Q 21Mumford & Sons headlined which festival on 30 June 2013?
Glastonbury
Glastonbury gave them its closing Sunday slot, a night after the Rolling Stones drew an unprecedented crowd; they ended with a mass singalong of 'With a Little Help from My Friends'.
Q 22Which company did Mumford & Sons found to run their own label and their Stopover festivals?
Gentlemen of the Road
Gentlemen of the Road was, in the band's words, a vehicle for doing 'things that we love, our way': releasing their own records and, by 2019, staging 17 Stopover weekends of their own.
Q 23Which instrument, once synonymous with the band, is absent from 2015's Wilder Mind?
Banjo
Bob Dylan led both bands through 'Maggie's Farm'. Ben Lovett said they had agreed weeks earlier without being told who the partner was; US sales of their album then jumped 99 per cent.
Q 14Which veteran songwriter recorded 'Days/This Time Tomorrow' with the band for his 2010 collaborations album?
Ray Davies
Ray Davies needed one take, Ben Lovett recalled: asked if he wanted to hear his vocal back, he said, 'No, I heard it whilst I was recording it.'
Q 15The band's 2010 EP with Dharohar Project and Laura Marling was recorded in which city?
Delhi
Delhi was a stop on the band's tour of India, where they and Laura Marling recorded with a Rajasthani folk collective, fusing her 'Devil's Spoke' and their 'To Darkness' with Indian songs.
Q 16Which Los Angeles collective rode the vintage train of the band's 2011 Railroad Revival Tour?
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros shared more than the carriages: each night the acts sat in on one another's sets, and some 30 musicians ended the show together with 'This Train Is Bound for Glory'.
Q 17Which US band did Marcus Mumford credit with making him fall in love with country music at 16 or 17?
Old Crow Medicine Show
Old Crow Medicine Show became travelling companions: in 2011 the two bands shared a vintage train across the American Southwest, a trip filmed for a Grammy-winning documentary.
Q 18Mumford & Sons recorded 'Learn Me Right' with singer Birdy for which Pixar film?
Brave
Brave saves the song for its ending: its producer said the band 'found that moment of truth' in the mother-and-daughter story, and Marcus Mumford called writing for an orchestra and Birdy's voice 'quite liberating'.
Q 19The Babel concert film Road to Red Rocks was recorded at a venue in which US state?
Colorado
Colorado's Red Rocks Amphitheatre hosted the filmed concert almost a month before Babel reached the shops, so the crowd was hearing many of its songs early.
Q 20Which Mumford & Sons member had surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain in June 2013?
Ted Dwane
Ted Dwane's surgery forced the band to scrap its remaining US dates, yet he was back on stage with them, playing a headline set, less than three weeks later.
Banjo player Winston Marshall had started swapping it for an electric guitar at sound checks, and Ben Lovett called the heavier new sound 'a very natural departure'.
Q 24Who produced Wilder Mind, as the band tried something new after two records with Markus Dravs?
James Ford
James Ford, best known for his Arctic Monkeys records, took over at Air Studios in London; Ben Lovett insisted they had not split from Dravs: 'we're just playing the field!'
Q 25Which actor co-directed and starred in the video for the Mumford & Sons single 'Lover of the Light'?
Idris Elba
Idris Elba plays a blind man who puts aside his cane and runs free across open country; the band never appears, and Marcus Mumford joked that they only 'think' they understand it.
Q 26Marcus Mumford, raised in London, was born to English parents in which US state?
California
California is on his birth certificate, and he has joked that he is 'an undercover American citizen' who grew up following American sports from England.
Q 27The band's 2016 EP was named after which city?
Johannesburg
Johannesburg is where the band recorded it, in two all-day, all-night sessions on a South African tour with Senegal's Baaba Maal, local pop group Beatenberg and London's The Very Best.
Q 28Which producer made Delta, recorded mainly at The Church Studios in London?
Paul Epworth
Paul Epworth, Adele's producer, coaxed the band's acoustic instruments back onto the record, then ran them through effects until they were almost unrecognisable.
Q 29Which Nine Inch Nails song did the band cover on the Delta Tour EP?
Hurt
Hurt had been an encore on the Delta Tour, and the six-track live EP came out in November 2020 to mark a tour the pandemic had cut short.
Q 30What name did Marcus Mumford give his 2022 solo debut album?
Self-Titled
Self-Titled, styled in brackets as (self-titled), opens with 'Cannibal', whose one-take video was shot on a phone by Steven Spielberg, directing a music video for the first time.