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

His first childhood home was in nearby Hebden Bridge; a 2018 poll still ranked him the fourth-greatest Yorkshireman ever.

Q 02/05

Sheeran's family moved to Suffolk when he was four. Which market town does he consider home?

A) Framlingham

B) Lowestoft

C) Woodbridge

D) Bury St Edmunds

Answer · why

A) Framlingham

Its medieval castle inspired one of his biggest 2017 singles, and he later bought a farm nearby that the press nicknamed "Sheeranville".

Q 03/05

Sheeran says seeing which guitarist play "Layla" at the 2002 Golden Jubilee concert made him take up guitar?

A) Jeff Beck

B) Eric Clapton

C) Brian May

D) Mark Knopfler

Answer · why

B) Eric Clapton

Two days later he bought a £30 black Stratocaster copy and spent a month trying to play that riff.

Q 04/05

Sheeran was a guitar tech for which folk-hip-hop duo, known for "JCB Song", before opening for them in 2008?

A) Chase & Status

B) Turin Brakes

C) The Kooks

D) Nizlopi

Answer · why

D) Nizlopi

He has cited them alongside Eminem and a certain Liverpool foursome as his biggest influences.

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 later he guested on the same rapper's 2017 album Revival, calling him one of the reasons he started writing songs.