Q 01/05

Pink Floyd took their name from two musicians in which genre?

A) Piedmont blues

B) Delta jazz

C) Chicago soul

D) Appalachian folk

Answer · why

A) Piedmont blues

Syd Barrett had records by Pink Anderson and Floyd Council in his collection.

Q 02/05

In which city was Pink Floyd formed in 1965?

A) Cambridge

B) London

C) Manchester

D) Liverpool

Answer · why

B) London

Barrett, Waters and Gilmour had all grown up in Cambridge, but the band came together at architecture school in London.

Q 03/05

Which of these was NOT one of the four founding members of Pink Floyd?

A) Syd Barrett

B) Richard Wright

C) David Gilmour

D) Nick Mason

Answer · why

C) David Gilmour

Gilmour joined at the end of 1967, initially as a fifth member to cover for the increasingly erratic Barrett.

Q 04/05

What was Pink Floyd's first single, released in March 1967?

A) See Emily Play

B) Interstellar Overdrive

C) Astronomy Domine

D) Arnold Layne

Answer · why

D) Arnold Layne

The song about a clothes-stealing transvestite was banned by Radio London.

Q 05/05

The album title The Piper at the Gates of Dawn comes from a chapter of which children's book?

A) The Wind in the Willows

B) Alice in Wonderland

C) Peter Pan and Wendy

D) The Hobbit, or There and Back

Answer · why

A) The Wind in the Willows

The chapter features the god Pan; the album is the only one made under Barrett's leadership.