Q 01/05

What was Elton John's birth name?

A) Reginald Kenneth Dwight

B) Ronald Keith Dwight

C) Reginald Elton Baldry

D) Roger Kenneth Dean

Answer · why

A) Reginald Kenneth Dwight

He was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947 and became Elton Hercules John by deed poll in 1972, the middle name borrowed from the horse in S...

Q 02/05

Where in England was Elton John born and raised?

A) Watford, Hertfordshire

B) Brentwood, Essex

C) Sutton, Surrey

D) Pinner, Middlesex

Answer · why

D) Pinner, Middlesex

Elton John was born in Pinner, Middlesex, in 1947 and grew up there in a council house with his maternal grandparents, picking out tunes on his grandm...

Q 03/05

Elton John's stage name honours which two members of his former band Bluesology?

A) Elton Dean and Long John Baldry

B) Elton Hayes and John Mayall

C) Elton Britt and Johnny Kidd

D) Elton Welsby and Long John Silver

Answer · why

A) Elton Dean and Long John Baldry

Saxophonist Elton Dean and singer Long John Baldry were both in Bluesology, which backed touring American soul acts such as Patti LaBelle and the Isle...

Q 04/05

At what age did Elton John win a junior scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music?

A) 7

B) 14

C) 11

D) 17

Answer · why

C) 11

Elton John won a junior scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music at 11 and attended Saturday classes there for five years, having started formal pian...

Q 05/05

How did Elton John first come to work with lyricist Bernie Taupin in 1967?

A) They met at a Bluesology gig

B) Taupin was his cousin's flatmate

C) A record label paired them for a jingle

D) Both answered the same advert in the New Musical Express

Answer · why

D) Both answered the same advert in the New Musical Express

Liberty Records A&R man Ray Williams handed him an unopened envelope of Taupin's lyrics at their first meeting.