Q 01/05

Hilly Kristal, owner of the New York club CBGB, preferred to call the new movement at his venue what?

A) Bowery rock

B) Street rock

C) Garage rock

D) Trash rock

Answer · why

B) Street rock

Kristal's preferred label, "Street rock", never caught on; the name that stuck came from Punk magazine, which John Holmstrom and Legs McNeil launched ...

Q 02/05

By the end of 1974 the Ramones had played seventy-four shows, each lasting roughly how long?

A) 17 minutes

B) 45 minutes

C) 60 minutes

D) 30 minutes

Answer · why

A) 17 minutes

Each of the Ramones' seventy-four 1974 shows ran about 17 minutes: two-minute songs played at breakneck pace, stripping rock and roll back to its prim...

Q 03/05

Which band formed from the audience of the Sex Pistols' June 1976 Lesser Free Trade Hall gig?

A) The Vibrators

B) The Stranglers

C) Sham 69

D) Joy Division

Answer · why

D) Joy Division

Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook were in the thirty-odd-strong audience; they formed Warsaw, renamed Joy Division in 1978. Others present went on to the ...

Q 04/05

The Damned's October 1976 single, regarded as the first UK punk rock single, was called what?

A) Neat Neat Neat

B) Boredom

C) New Rose

D) In the City

Answer · why

C) New Rose

"New Rose", released by Stiff Records on 22 October 1976, beat the Pistols' debut single to the shops by over a month; the Vibrators followed with "We...

Q 05/05

The Sex Pistols' notorious 1976 Bill Grundy interview happened because they filled a vacancy left by which band?

A) Slade

B) Queen

C) T. Rex

D) Roxy Music

Answer · why

B) Queen

EMI labelmates Queen dropped out of Thames Television's Today programme on 1 December 1976, so the Pistols were sent instead; the swearing that follow...