Q 01/05

Jethro Tull took their name from an 18th-century English farmer who invented which machine?

A) Seed drill

B) Cotton gin

C) Spinning jenny

D) Threshing machine

Answer · why

A) Seed drill

Seed drill pioneer Tull sowed crops in neat rows from 1701, and a history-loving booking agent borrowed his name for the band. Ian Anderson assumed th...

Q 02/05

Which band was the hot favourite when Jethro Tull won the first Grammy for hard rock in 1989, a notorious upset?

A) Aerosmith

B) Def Leppard

C) Metallica

D) Van Halen

Answer · why

C) Metallica

Metallica were so widely expected to win that Jethro Tull stayed at home on their label's advice. The audience booed when the result was read out.

Q 03/05

Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull is famous for playing the flute on stage in which unusual pose?

A) Lying on his back

B) Kneeling on a stool

C) Hanging upside down

D) On one leg

Answer · why

D) On one leg

On one leg was how he first played harmonica, holding on to the microphone for balance. A journalist wrongly wrote that he played the flute that way, ...

Q 04/05

Which future heavy metal guitarist mimed with Jethro Tull on The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus in 1968?

A) Ritchie Blackmore

B) Tony Iommi

C) Jimmy Page

D) Jeff Beck

Answer · why

B) Tony Iommi

Tony Iommi lasted only a couple of weeks before going home to Birmingham and the group that became Black Sabbath. The TV special is the only footage o...

Q 05/05

Which famous American festival did Ian Anderson turn down for Jethro Tull to avoid being tied to the hippie movement?

A) Monterey Pop

B) Altamont

C) Woodstock

D) Atlanta Pop

Answer · why

C) Woodstock

Woodstock went ahead without the band because Anderson feared being typecast for good. That same year Jethro Tull did say yes to the Newport Jazz Fest...