Q 01/05

What is the name of the Eavis family land where Glastonbury Festival is held?

A) Pilton Manor Farm

B) Pennard Farm

C) Worthy Farm

D) Avalon Farm

Answer · why

C) Worthy Farm

It sits between the villages of Pilton and Pylle in Somerset, about six miles east of the town of Glastonbury.

Q 02/05

Which farmer founded the festival in 1970?

A) Michael Eavis

B) Andrew Kerr

C) Bill Harkin

D) Arabella Churchill

Answer · why

A) Michael Eavis

A Methodist-raised dairy farmer born in Pilton in 1935, he was knighted at Windsor Castle in early 2024.

Q 03/05

Which concert inspired Eavis to hold his first festival?

A) Led Zeppelin at Bath in 1970

B) Pink Floyd in Hyde Park

C) The Beatles on the Apple rooftop

D) Bob Dylan on the Isle of Wight

Answer · why

A) Led Zeppelin at Bath in 1970

He saw the open-air show at the nearby Bath and West Showground and staged his own event that September.

Q 04/05

How much did a ticket cost for the first festival in 1970?

A) 10 shillings

B) £5

C) £1

D) £2 10s

Answer · why

C) £1

About 1,500 people came on Saturday 19 September 1970 to the event then called the Pilton Festival.

Q 05/05

Which act replaced the Kinks at short notice to headline the 1970 festival?

A) Tyrannosaurus Rex

B) Hawkwind

C) Al Stewart

D) Fairport Convention

Answer · why

A) Tyrannosaurus Rex

Marc Bolan's band, later T. Rex, topped a bill that also included Stackridge, who returned in 2008.

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