Q 01/05

A 2020 podcast investigated a rumour that which spy agency secretly wrote the Scorpions ballad Wind of Change?

A) CIA

B) KGB

C) Stasi

D) MI6

Answer · why

A) CIA

CIA authorship was a rumour said to have come from inside the agency itself, and the band's singer called the idea entertaining but not true at all.

Q 02/05

Wind of Change, the Scorpions' biggest hit, opens with the band's singer doing what over a clean guitar?

A) Humming

B) Yodelling

C) Whistling

D) Counting in

Answer · why

C) Whistling

Whistling carries the melody before a word is sung, on a single that went on to sell an estimated 14 million copies, the most by any German act.

Q 03/05

Which leader received Scorpions at the Kremlin in 1991, when the band handed over royalties from Wind of Change?

A) Boris Yeltsin

B) Mikhail Gorbachev

C) Konstantin Chernenko

D) Leonid Brezhnev

Answer · why

B) Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev was handed $70,000 of the single's royalties, which Soviet news reports said would go to children's hospitals.

Q 04/05

A complaint from which American retailer led to a 'clean' band-photo cover for the Scorpions album Love at First Sting?

A) Kmart

B) Sears

C) JCPenney

D) Walmart

Answer · why

D) Walmart

Walmart objected only once the album was on sale, although the label had shown the original artwork to retailers beforehand without any concerns.

Q 05/05

Scorpions, the band Rudolf Schenker started in 1965, come from which northern German city?

A) Hanover

B) Hamburg

C) Bremen

D) Kiel

Answer · why

A) Hanover

Hanover hosted the band's 60th anniversary concert in 2025, a stadium show billed as a homecoming with Alice Cooper and Judas Priest as guests.