Q 01/05

In what month did the original Woodstock Music and Art Fair take place?

A) July

B) September

C) August

D) June

Answer · why

C) August

It ran from the 15th to the 18th, 1969, spilling a day past what was advertised.

Q 02/05

The iconic Woodstock festival was held on a dairy farm in which New York town?

A) Bethel

B) Woodstock

C) Wallkill

D) Saugerties

Answer · why

A) Bethel

Despite its name, the festival took place on a 600-acre dairy farm roughly 60 miles southwest of the town it was named after.

Q 03/05

Which of these individuals was one of the four main organizers of the 1969 Woodstock festival?

A) Bill Graham

B) Michael Lang

C) George Wein

D) Sid Bernstein

Answer · why

B) Michael Lang

He founded Woodstock Ventures with Artie Kornfeld, John P. Roberts and Joel Rosenman, and later co-organised the 1994 and 1999 anniversary festivals.

Q 04/05

The original Woodstock festival was billed as "An Aquarian Exposition" with what subtitle?

A) A Festival of Freedom & Music

B) 3 Days of Love & Music

C) A Weekend of Peace & Love

D) 3 Days of Peace & Music

Answer · why

D) 3 Days of Peace & Music

The billing was optimistic: rain delays stretched the music into a fourth morning.

Q 05/05

Approximately how many people were estimated to have attended the 1969 Woodstock festival?

A) 100,000

B) 400,000

C) 250,000

D) 750,000

Answer · why

B) 400,000

The organizers had planned for a crowd less than an eighth of that size, and only around 186,000 advance tickets had been sold.