Q 01/05

On whose farm in upstate New York was the 1969 Woodstock festival held?

A) Elliot Tiber

B) Michael Lang

C) Max Yasgur

D) Alan Gerry

Answer · why

C) Max Yasgur

Max Yasgur. Neighbours pressed the 49-year-old to cancel and he refused, then told the crowd on day three that half a million young people had proved ...

Q 02/05

Despite its name, the 1969 Woodstock festival was held not in Woodstock but in which other New York town?

A) Wallkill

B) Bethel

C) Saugerties

D) New Paltz

Answer · why

B) Bethel

Bethel. The promoters first planned a recording studio in Woodstock itself, an artists' town where Bob Dylan lived, and kept the fashionable name when...

Q 03/05

Woodstock opened in mid-August, less than a month after which other headline event of that summer?

A) The Kent State shootings

B) The Moon landing

C) The Watergate break-in

D) Robert Kennedy's assassination

Answer · why

B) The Moon landing

The Moon landing. Apollo 11 touched down on 20 July 1969 and the festival opened on 15 August, then overran so badly that its final act played on the ...

Q 04/05

How was Woodstock billed on its posters?

A) A Tribal Gathering: 3 Days of Love

B) A Catskills Jamboree: 3 Days of Rock

C) A Summer Love-In: 3 Days Outdoors

D) An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music

Answer · why

D) An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music

An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music. Arnold Skolnick was handed the job on a Thursday and delivered the bird-on-a-guitar poster the follow...

Q 05/05

Why did Woodstock become a free concert?

A) The promoters had always planned a free concert

B) The fences and ticket booths were never finished

C) A county judge ordered the gates opened

D) Rain washed the ticket booths away

Answer · why

B) The fences and ticket booths were never finished

The fences and ticket booths were never finished. Three days out the foremen could complete the fencing or the stage, not both; the stage won, and the...