Q 01/05

What was Freddie Mercury's birth name?

A) Krishna Bhanji

B) Georgios Panayiotou

C) Farrokh Bulsara

D) Steven Georgiou

Answer · why

C) Farrokh Bulsara

Farrokh Bulsara. He was already Fred or Freddie to his friends long before he legally took the surname Mercury around 1970, just as Queen was forming.

Q 02/05

On which island was Mercury born in 1946?

A) Zanzibar

B) Mauritius

C) Madagascar

D) Sri Lanka

Answer · why

A) Zanzibar

Zanzibar. His Indian parents had moved to the East African island, then a British protectorate, for his father's job as a cashier with the colonial go...

Q 03/05

Mercury's parents belonged to which religious community?

A) Sikh

B) Jain

C) Ismaili

D) Parsi

Answer · why

D) Parsi

Parsi. Parsis descend from Zoroastrians who left Persia for India more than a thousand years ago, and his parents raised him in that faith.

Q 04/05

Mercury was born with four extra what, which he reportedly never had fixed for fear of changing his voice?

A) Tonsils

B) Teeth

C) Vocal cords

D) Ribs

Answer · why

B) Teeth

Teeth. They pushed his front teeth forward and earned him the school nickname Bucky, and he often covered his mouth with his hand when he laughed.

Q 05/05

Mercury wasn't the lead singer of his school band, the Hectics; which instrument did he play?

A) Drums

B) Piano

C) Guitar

D) Bass

Answer · why

B) Piano

Piano. Classmate Bruce Murray sang lead while the 12-year-old Freddie played the school's old piano, picking up hits by ear after hearing them on the ...