Q 01/05

John Mayer grew up in Fairfield, Connecticut, but in which nearby city was he born?

A) Bridgeport

B) New Haven

C) Stamford

D) Norwalk

Answer · why

A) Bridgeport

Bridgeport. Raised next door in Fairfield, he picked up the guitar at 13 and within a couple of years was already playing sets in the area's blues bar...

Q 02/05

Which film performance first made a young John Mayer want to play guitar?

A) Prince in Purple Rain

B) Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future

C) Ralph Macchio in Crossroads

D) Lou Diamond Phillips in La Bamba

Answer · why

B) Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future

Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future. Marty McFly's 'Johnny B. Goode' at the school dance sent Mayer to guitar lessons, though Fox was miming: the sin...

Q 03/05

Which future tennis star was Mayer's close elementary-school friend and after-school Nintendo partner?

A) Andy Roddick

B) Pete Sampras

C) James Blake

D) Michael Chang

Answer · why

C) James Blake

James Blake. They spent almost every afternoon for three years at Blake's house in Fairfield; Blake later walked away from Harvard as the top-ranked c...

Q 04/05

What put a 17-year-old Mayer in hospital for a weekend and, he says, awakened the songwriter in him?

A) A ruptured appendix

B) A broken wrist from skateboarding

C) A collapsed lung

D) An irregular heartbeat

Answer · why

D) An irregular heartbeat

An irregular heartbeat. Doctors diagnosed a cardiac arrhythmia, and the scare pushed him to write lyrics for the first time, 'with a depth I didn't ev...

Q 05/05

Where did Mayer enrol as a student in 1997, only to leave within a year?

A) Berklee College of Music

B) Juilliard School

C) Musicians Institute

D) New England Conservatory

Answer · why

A) Berklee College of Music

Berklee College of Music. He went to Boston to sharpen his guitar playing, decided during his first year that songwriting was his real calling, and le...