Q 01/05

Ed Sheeran was born in 1991 in which West Yorkshire town?

A) Huddersfield

B) Bradford

C) Halifax

D) Wakefield

Answer · why

C) Halifax

Halifax-born Sheeran moved to Suffolk at four, yet a 2018 npower poll still ranked him the fourth-greatest Yorkshireman ever, behind Michael Palin, Se...

Q 02/05

Which Suffolk market town, where his family moved when he was four, does Sheeran call home?

A) Framlingham

B) Lowestoft

C) Woodbridge

D) Bury St Edmunds

Answer · why

A) Framlingham

Framlingham's Thomas Mills High School, where he began writing songs, later received a six-figure gift from him for music, art and IT equipment.

Q 03/05

Sheeran says seeing which guitarist at the Queen's 2002 Golden Jubilee concert made him take up guitar?

A) Jeff Beck

B) Eric Clapton

C) Jimmy Page

D) Mark Knopfler

Answer · why

B) Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton played 'Layla' there, and years later the two became friends who each guested on the other's album under the alias Angelo Mysterioso.

Q 04/05

Sheeran was a guitar tech for which duo, known for 'JCB Song', before opening for them?

A) Chase & Status

B) Turin Brakes

C) The Ting Tings

D) Nizlopi

Answer · why

D) Nizlopi

Nizlopi's 'JCB Song' stalled at number 160 in June 2005, but an animated video spread online and its December re-release went to number one.

Q 05/05

Sheeran credits rapping along to which album with helping him overcome a childhood stutter?

A) The Slim Shady LP

B) The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

C) The Marshall Mathers LP

D) Ready to Die

Answer · why

C) The Marshall Mathers LP

Years after learning The Marshall Mathers LP by heart, Sheeran featured on the same rapper's 2017 album, Revival.