Q 01/05

In which California city was the Grateful Dead formed in 1965?

A) Berkeley

B) Los Angeles

C) Palo Alto

D) San Francisco

Answer · why

C) Palo Alto

They grew out of a Palo Alto jug band called Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions.

Q 02/05

What was the band's original name before they became the Grateful Dead?

A) The Wildwood Boys

B) The Merry Pranksters

C) The Charlatans

D) The Warlocks

Answer · why

D) The Warlocks

They began as the Warlocks in May 1965 and dropped the name late that year after learning another group had already recorded as the Warlocks.

Q 03/05

Where did Jerry Garcia find the name 'Grateful Dead'?

A) In a Bible

B) On a gravestone

C) In a dictionary

D) In a Beat poem

Answer · why

C) In a dictionary

Garcia found the phrase 'grateful dead' while leafing through a dictionary at Phil Lesh's house; the entry describes a folktale motif of a soul repayi...

Q 04/05

The first show under the name Grateful Dead, in December 1965, was at one of whose Acid Tests?

A) Timothy Leary's

B) Owsley Stanley's

C) Bill Graham's

D) Ken Kesey's

Answer · why

D) Ken Kesey's

Kesey's Merry Pranksters staged the LSD-fuelled happenings; the Dead were the house band.

Q 05/05

What are Grateful Dead fans called?

A) Dead Ringers

B) Gratefuls

C) Deadheads

D) Skulls

Answer · why

C) Deadheads

The name was made official by a notice inside the 1971 Skull and Roses album asking 'Dead Heads' to write in.