Q 01/05

Led Zeppelin's name reportedly came from a joke by Keith Moon and John Entwistle that a supergroup with Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck would go down like what?

A) A lead balloon

B) A ton of bricks

C) A sinking ship

D) A damp squib

Answer · why

A) A lead balloon

Page, Beck and Moon had already cut 'Beck's Bolero' together in 1966 with John Paul Jones on bass.

Q 02/05

Malcolm and Angus Young took the name AC/DC from a label their sister Margaret spotted on what?

A) A car battery

B) A sewing machine

C) A vacuum cleaner

D) A guitar amplifier

Answer · why

B) A sewing machine

Angus's schoolboy uniform, another sister-inspired idea, later inspired Chrissy Amphlett's schoolgirl look.

Q 03/05

'Smoke on the Water' describes a 1971 fire at the Montreux Casino during a concert by which artist?

A) Pink Floyd

B) Jethro Tull

C) Frank Zappa

D) Grand Funk Railroad

Answer · why

C) Frank Zappa

Someone in the audience fired a flare gun into the rattan ceiling; the smoke drifted over Lake Geneva as the band watched.

Q 04/05

Van Halen's touring contract famously demanded a bowl of M&M's backstage with which colour removed?

A) Red

B) Green

C) Yellow

D) Brown

Answer · why

D) Brown

The clause was a canary in the coal mine: if the brown ones were there, the crew knew the venue had not read the technical rider properly.

Q 05/05

Which 1987 album is the best-selling debut album of all time in the United States?

A) Appetite for Destruction

B) Boston (1976)

C) Hybrid Theory (2000)

D) Led Zeppelin (1969)

Answer · why

A) Appetite for Destruction

It has been certified 18 times platinum, putting it in the country's top ten sellers of any kind.