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40 free Ozzfest trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Ozzfest began in the mid-1990s as one family's answer to a snub and grew into the tour that defined heavy metal summers for a generation. Black Sabbath reunions, future arena headliners playing in the afternoon sun, and more than one very public feud all happened under its banner. This quiz follows the festival's history from the first weekend in 1996 through the big touring years, the overseas editions, the one-off shows and the plans for its return. Expect questions on headliners, second-stage breakouts, surprise guests, the television spin-off and the stories fans still argue about. It is written for anyone who stood in a field for one of these shows, and for newer metal fans curious about where so many famous bands got their start. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Ozzfest was created after which touring festival refused to book Ozzy in the mid-1990s?
Lollapalooza
Lollapalooza's bookers reportedly dismissed Ozzy as uncool, so his wife and manager built a rival tour around him instead.
Q 02What did some of the crowd throw at Iron Maiden during the band's last Ozzfest show in 2005?
Eggs
Eggs rained down during the opening song, and the sound was cut three times in a feud with the festival's organizers.
Q 03Which Hollywood actress fronted the metal band Wicked Wisdom on the second stage of Ozzfest 2005?
Jada Pinkett Smith
Jada Pinkett Smith faced fans who doubted the booking, but said the mood turned around about seven dates into the tour.
Q 04Which nu metal band emerged from a giant toilet prop at the start of each of its Ozzfest 1998 sets?
Limp Bizkit
Limp Bizkit brought out the 30-foot prop after being heckled, and punctuated sets by flushing cardboard cutouts of pop stars.
Q 05Ozzfest 2008 was a single show at a Texas soccer stadium then named after which restaurant chain?
Pizza Hut
Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, home of FC Dallas, added a third stage that day just for bands from the state.
Q 06How were tickets to Ozzfest 2007 priced, a move that left sponsors funding the tour and bands unpaid?
Free of charge
Free of charge was the offer, with tickets handed out through sponsor websites, and the tour was nicknamed Freefest.
Q 07Which masked band made its first tour on the Ozzfest 1999 second stage, just before its debut album?
Slipknot
Slipknot won a much bigger audience on the tour, which lifted the self-titled album the band released that June.
Q 08Which rapper and actor brought his metal band Body Count to the one-night Ozzfest at the Forum in 2018?
Ice-T
Ice-T co-founded Body Count with guitarist Ernie C out of a shared love of heavy metal, and writes most of its lyrics.
Q 09Which instrument do the members of Apocalyptica, who played Ozzfest 2008, use in place of guitars?
Cellos
Cellos have been the group's trademark since it formed as a quartet at Helsinki's Sibelius Academy in 1993.
Q 10Which band co-headlined with Ozzy when Ozzfest shrank to a single stadium date in 2008?
Metallica
Metallica were joined on stage that night by King Diamond for a medley of Mercyful Fate songs.
Q 11On which holiday was the one-night Ozzfest of 2018 held, at the Forum arena near Los Angeles?
New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve was picked because Ozzy hates the holidays and always wanted a gig that night, and no summer tour had run in 2018.
Q 12In March 2026, Ozzfest was announced to return in 2027 with two nights at Villa Park in which English city?
Birmingham
Birmingham is Ozzy's home city, and Villa Park is where he played his final show with Black Sabbath in July 2025.
Q 13Protesters tried to force which controversial act off the Ozzfest bill in both 1997 and 2001?
Marilyn Manson
Marilyn Manson played both tours, and in 1997 Ozzy sued the New Jersey stadium authority that had tried to block the show.
Q 21Which metal festival joined forces with Ozzfest for two-day California events in 2016 and 2017?
Knotfest
Knotfest took one day of each weekend and the older festival the other, under a shared banner that named them both.
Q 22Which singer on the Ozzfest 2004 bill fronted Black Sabbath for a night when Ozzy fell ill?
Rob Halford
Rob Halford, newly reunited with Judas Priest, stepped in at Camden, New Jersey, a day after his 53rd birthday, when bronchitis sidelined Ozzy.
Q 23Which Ozzfest 2006 headliner played its last show before a long hiatus on that tour, in Florida?
System of a Down
System of a Down had started out on the festival's second stage in 1998, and guitarist Daron Malakian promised the Florida crowd a return.
Q 14Which band played the Ozzfest 2001 main stage as its debut became America's best-selling album of the year?
Linkin Park
Linkin Park shot parts of a music video at stops along the tour, while Hybrid Theory sold 4.8 million US copies that year.
Q 15Which Finnish band in monster costumes, winners of Eurovision 2006, played the Ozzfest 2007 main stage?
Lordi
Lordi had won the contest with Hard Rock Hallelujah, and went from the festival into a US tour with Type O Negative.
Q 16Which network aired Battle for Ozzfest in 2004, a reality contest with a slot on the tour as its prize?
MTV
MTV, already home to the family's hit reality show, had eight bands compete across twelve episodes, with online voters picking the winner.
Q 17Which Ozzy song did Japanese guitar prodigy Yuto Miyazawa play with him on stage at Ozzfest 2010?
Crazy Train
Crazy Train was a duet the pair had already tried at BlizzCon the year before, where it served as the first encore.
Q 18Which rocker and horror film director headlined the second stage of Ozzfest 2005?
Rob Zombie
Rob Zombie topped the smaller stage while Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden shared the main one, and he was back for the 2018 show.
Q 19Which of Ozzy's children helped run Ozzfest, advising on promising young acts for the bill?
Jack
Jack had worked as a talent scout for Epic Records, so he was well placed to tip his mother off about rising bands.
Q 20Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson allegedly mocked Ozzy's reliance on which stage aid at Ozzfest 2005?
A teleprompter
A teleprompter was the alleged target, along with the family's reality TV fame, though Dickinson later denied having a go at Ozzy.
Q 24Which band pulled out of Ozzfest 2002 after its singer Dave Williams was found dead on the tour bus?
Drowning Pool
Drowning Pool had broken through a year earlier with the album Sinner; an autopsy found Williams had an undiagnosed heart condition.
Q 25Which Southwestern city hosted the very first Ozzfest show in October 1996, a day before the California date?
Phoenix
Phoenix opened what was only a two-day event that year; the festival grew into a national tour the following summer.
Q 26Which touring festival merged with Ozzfest for one day in 1998, creating a six-stage, 48-band event?
Warped Tour
Warped Tour and its heavier rival drew some 39,000 fans to Float Rite Park in Wisconsin for twelve hours of music.
Q 27Which band, founders of the rival Family Values Tour, joined the Ozzfest main stage in 2003 behind Ozzy?
Korn
Korn wrote the album Take a Look in the Mirror in a hurry that year, squeezed by the summer on the road.
Q 28Which thrash band shared top billing with Ozzy at the first Ozzfest in 1996 and returned in 1999 and 2004?
Slayer
Slayer played those 1996 shows with a newly recruited drummer, Jon Dette, after Paul Bostaph left the band.
Q 29Which band, co-headliner of Ozzfest 1998, agreed to play only if the Melvins were added to the bill?
Tool
Tool wanted at least one act on the tour that its members liked, so the sludge veterans got a second-stage slot despite the organizers' doubts.
Q 30Which alternative rock band was the odd one out on the main stage of the first Ozzfest UK in 1998?
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters were among the lightest acts of the day, on a bill topped by Black Sabbath at the Milton Keynes Bowl.