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

The name that stuck came instead from a magazine that debuted at the end of 1975 and codified the term.

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

The band condensed rock and roll to its primal level, drawing on everything from the Stooges to 1960s girl groups.

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

Only thirty to forty people attended, but the crowd also went on to form the Fall and the Smiths, and to launch Factory Records.

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

The Vibrators followed a month later with "We Vibrate".

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

The swearing that followed put punk on newspaper front pages and made it a household name within 24 hours.