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Relive the magic of Woodstock with our comprehensive free 97-question trivia quiz with answers! From legendary performances to unforgettable moments, this quiz tests your knowledge of one of history's most iconic music festivals. Whether you're a '60s history buff or a music enthusiast, challenge yourself and discover fascinating facts about the summer that changed music and culture forever.
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Q 01What is the bird perched on in the famous 1969 Woodstock festival poster?
A guitar
A guitar: Arnold Skolnick's bird-on-a-guitar design became the festival's emblem, and it's still printed on T-shirts, mugs and even guitars.
Q 02Woodstock 1969 was held on a farm away from its namesake town, in which New York town?
Bethel
Bethel hosted the festival on Max Yasgur's 600-acre farm, found just a month before the concert after the first site fell through.
Q 03Which Academy Award did the 1970 film Woodstock win?
Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Feature went to producer Bob Maurice, and the film was also nominated for Best Sound and Best Film Editing.
Q 04Woodstock was billed as 'An Aquarian Exposition' with which tagline?
3 Days of Peace & Music
3 Days of Peace & Music was the promise, and despite bad weather and food shortages, the festival stayed remarkably peaceful.
Q 05Roughly how many people came to the Woodstock festival in 1969?
About 500,000
About 500,000: farmer Max Yasgur told the crowd it had proven that 'half a million kids' could gather for fun and music.
Q 06Who opened Woodstock after police stopped the scheduled first act, improvising the song 'Freedom' after running out of material?
Richie Havens
Richie Havens built 'Freedom' on the old spiritual 'Motherless Child', and by some accounts he kept playing for nearly three hours.
Q 07Which song did Jimi Hendrix famously reinvent with screaming feedback during Woodstock's closing set?
The Star-Spangled Banner
The Star-Spangled Banner was his showpiece, but by the time he played, most festivalgoers had already gone home and missed it.
Q 08Which famous band turned down an invitation to play Woodstock in 1969?
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin's manager Peter Grant said no because, in his words, they'd have been 'just another band on the bill'.
Q 09Neighbors who opposed Woodstock posted signs urging people not to buy which product from Max Yasgur?
His milk
His milk: signs read 'Buy No Milk. Stop Max's Hippy Music Festival', but the town's officials approved the permits anyway.
Q 10Which New York town's industrial park did the Woodstock organizers lease before local opposition forced them out?
Wallkill
Woodstock Ventures had leased Wallkill's Mills Industrial Park for $10,000, but residents opposed it and the town board passed a permit law that blocked the festival.
Q 11Which future star director was one of seven editors on the 1970 Woodstock documentary?
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese's fellow editor Thelma Schoonmaker earned the film a Best Film Editing nomination, and she has cut all his films since Raging Bull.
Q 12Which musician, absent from the festival, wrote a hit song about Woodstock?
Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell stayed away so she wouldn't miss The Dick Cavett Show, then wrote the song from Graham Nash's account and TV reports.
Q 13Broadcast descriptions of the huge traffic jam around the Woodstock site eventually had what effect?
Discouraged more people from coming
Q 21Woodstock '94, the 25th-anniversary festival, was held on a farm in which New York town?
Saugerties
Saugerties' Winston Farm hosted Woodstock '94, and it was the same farm the promoters had once eyed for the 1969 festival.
Q 22The two young promoters originally approached financiers Roberts and Rosenman for money to build what?
A small recording studio
A small recording studio in Woodstock was the pitch; Roberts and Rosenman counter-proposed a concert with the kind of performers who frequented the area.
Q 23Which British band's Woodstock set was interrupted when activist Abbie Hoffman grabbed the microphone?
The Who
The host town stopped enforcing its codes for fear of chaos as the crowds poured in, and recent rain had already turned the roads and fields to mud.
Q 14Which musician, not on Woodstock's bill at all, was recruited to play while promoters waited for delayed acts?
John Sebastian
John Sebastian, formerly of the Lovin' Spoonful, had come only as a spectator, yet songs from his set made the original Woodstock album.
Q 15Woodstock became the peak musical event of which 1960s movement?
Counterculture
Counterculture: that December, a fan was stabbed to death at the Altamont Free Concert, which came to be seen as the end of the 1960s.
Q 16Which band's Woodstock set closed with the showcase 'I'm Going Home'?
Ten Years After
Ten Years After's 'I'm Going Home' made both the Woodstock film and its soundtrack album, and it gave the British band a big popularity boost.
Q 17The decision to make Woodstock a 'free concert' was largely due to what unforeseen circumstance?
Unfinished fences
Unfinished fences: people arrived days early, and the organizers chose to finish the stage instead of the fencing and ticket booths.
Q 18Which CSNY member skipped most of the acoustic set at Woodstock and refused to be filmed during the electric set?
Neil Young
Neil Young felt the cameras distracted performers and audience from the music, so he is largely missing from the film's CSNY footage.
Q 19When food ran short at Woodstock, what did the Hog Farm's free food lines dish out?
Granola
Granola came out of the Hog Farm's free kitchen, where volunteers fed an estimated 130,000 people.
Q 20Which artist's Woodstock set included the song "Coming into Los Angeles"?
Arlo Guthrie
Arlo Guthrie also told the crowd the New York State Thruway was closed, though the Woodstock museum's director says that never happened.
The Who's Pete Townshend knocked Hoffman offstage, reportedly with his guitar, as Hoffman protested the jailing of John Sinclair.
Q 24The Woodstock '99 festival faced severe criticism and problems due to its location at what kind of site?
A former air force base
The former air force base was a Superfund cleanup site, and its concrete and asphalt, with little shade, baked crowds in heat above 100°F.
Q 25Which singer-songwriter's Friday night solo set inspired her later hit "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)"?
Melanie
Melanie (Melanie Safka) performed a solo set on Friday night, during which audience members lit candles, inspiring her hit song "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)."
Q 26Which band played its hit 'Going Up the Country' at Woodstock?
Canned Heat
Canned Heat's Alan Wilson copied a Henry Thomas record almost note for note, pan-pipe break included, but rewrote the lyrics.
Q 27Which cowboy star turned down Michael Lang's invitation to close Woodstock?
Roy Rogers
Roy Rogers was Lang's first choice to close the festival with 'Happy Trails', so the closing slot went to Jimi Hendrix instead.
Q 28The 1969 Woodstock festival officially concluded on what day of the week?
Monday
Monday morning was when the rain-delayed final set finally played, a day past the advertised schedule, after most of the crowd had gone home.
Q 29Whose Woodstock set featured "Soul Sacrifice", with a drum solo by Michael Shrieve?
Santana
Santana played Woodstock before the band's debut album was out, and the set helped push that album into the US top five.
Q 30What was a major issue concerning sanitation at the Woodstock festival?
Too few facilities for the crowd
Too few facilities for the crowd meant sanitation and first aid were both overwhelmed, on top of food shortages and bad weather.