Q 01/05

Before Queen, May and Taylor played together in which band?

A) Smile

B) Humpy Bong

C) The Opposition

D) The Reaction

Answer · why

A) Smile

Smile's singer Tim Staffell quit in 1970; his art-college friend Freddie Bulsara took over the microphone and suggested a new name.

Q 02/05

In his will, Freddie Mercury left his London mansion, Garden Lodge, to whom?

A) Mary Austin

B) Jim Hutton

C) Peter Freestone

D) Barbara Valentin

Answer · why

A) Mary Austin

Mary Austin, his girlfriend in the early 1970s, stayed his closest friend, and he told her, 'You would have been my wife, and it would have been yours...

Q 03/05

Mercury was born on which island?

A) Mauritius

B) Malta

C) Zanzibar

D) Sri Lanka

Answer · why

C) Zanzibar

Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara in Stone Town, Zanzibar, and his family fled to England after the 1964 revolution.

Q 04/05

Which Queen hit took its title from a phrase Roger Taylor's young son used for a song he disliked?

A) Hammer to Fall

B) Radio Ga Ga

C) It's a Hard Life

D) Tie Your Mother Down

Answer · why

B) Radio Ga Ga

Taylor's son Felix called a song on the radio 'ca-ca', and Taylor turned the insult into the celebration Radio Ga Ga.

Q 05/05

A statue of Freddie Mercury faces Lake Geneva in which Swiss town where Queen owned a recording studio?

A) Lucerne

B) Lugano

C) Interlaken

D) Montreux

Answer · why

D) Montreux

Queen bought Montreux's Mountain Studios and recorded several albums there, and Mercury's statue stands in the town's lakeside market square.