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It's Only Rock 'n' Roll! Trivia Quiz

2004 saw the 50th anniversary of the Fender Stratocaster guitar. In those 50 years the "Strat" has been in the hands of many great rock stars. This quiz features the stars - the guitar - and the music so-far.

A multiple-choice quiz by musicmonkeyman. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
musicmonkeyman

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
195,269

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

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Awards
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Question 1 of 10

1. The audience went wild - the tortured Fender Stratocaster screeched as it was set ablaze on-stage at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. Who was responsible for this act of pyromania? Hint

Pete Townshend

Eric Clapton

Jimi Hendrix

Marc Bolan

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Question 2 of 10

2. Glam rock star Marc Bolan played a Fender Stratocaster on the seventies hit single "Get It On".
What was the name of the group with whom Marc played? Hint

The Animals

T. Rex

The Move

Mungo Jerry

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Question 3 of 10

3. The stunning Strat featured on the 1958 track "Peggy Sue".
Who sang lead vocal on this rock masterpiece?

Answer: (Two Words)

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Question 4 of 10

4. A classic pop track featuring the Strat in rather laid-back mode is "Sultans of Swing".
Who played the lead guitar on this exalted tune? Hint

Mark Knopfler

Gary Newman

Keith Richard

Bob Geldof

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Question 5 of 10

5. Jimi Hendrix created new playing techniques and guitar sounds - not just strumming the Strat. But, what else was unusual about the way Jimi Hendrix played his Fender Stratocaster? Hint

He used a gold plectrum

It only had five strings

It was upside-down

He always wore gloves

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Question 6 of 10

6. One of the first successful Strat recordings was the legendary track "Blue Suede Shoes".
Who wrote and recorded the original version of this song? Hint

Bill Haley

Jerry Lee Lewis

Carl Perkins

Little Richard

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Question 7 of 10

7. The Fender Stratocaster had an older brother, an electric guitar introduced in 1952.
What was the name of this early Fender model? Hint

Telecaster

Moviecaster

Tonecaster

Newscaster

8. Cliff Richard first hit the UK charts with the song "Move It". His backing group on that track later became known as the Shadows, lead by Strat playing Hank B Marvin. But, they had a different name on "Move It".
How did the credits on this 1958 record label read - Cliff Richard and the ______? Hint

Strollers

Clifftops

Drifters

Wanderers

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Question 9 of 10

9. At which music festival did Jimi Hendrix give a memorable rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" on a solo Fender Stratocaster?
Hint

Altamont

Monterey

Woodstock

Watkin's Glen

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Question 10 of 10

10. Before he founded Derek and the Dominos and recorded the hit "Layla", Eric Clapton was part of which of these famous bands? Hint

Cream

All of them

John Mayall's Bluesbreakers

The Yardbirds

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. The audience went wild - the tortured Fender Stratocaster screeched as it was set ablaze on-stage at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. Who was responsible for this act of pyromania?

Answer: Jimi Hendrix

Jimi was born Johnny Allen Hendrix in Seattle in 1942. His father, who had been away on military service at the time he was born, disliked the name and renamed him James Marshall Hendrix in 1946.
Hendrix's scorched Monterey Festival Strat was later restored and used by Frank Zappa.
Zappa's son Dweezil put the guitar up for auction in 2002, but refused to sell for the top bid of �300,000 (more than half-a-million dollars).

2. Glam rock star Marc Bolan played a Fender Stratocaster on the seventies hit single "Get It On". What was the name of the group with whom Marc played?

Answer: T. Rex

"Get It On" topped the UK charts for T. Rex in 1971 peaking at #10 in the US.
It is said that Marc Bolan was inspired to write the song "Ride a White Swan" by the swan-like curves of his white Fender Stratocaster. Prior to the release of "Ride a White Swan" the group was known as Tyrannosaurus Rex.

3. The stunning Strat featured on the 1958 track "Peggy Sue". Who sang lead vocal on this rock masterpiece?

Answer: Buddy Holly

Buddy Holly was born Charles Hardin Holley in Texas in 1936.
He recorded "Peggy Sue" with the Crickets in 1957.
Despite a relatively short pop career Buddy Holly greatly influenced the development of rock music.
Buddy died aged 22 in a plane crash, along with Ritchie Valens and the "Big Bopper", in 1959.

4. A classic pop track featuring the Strat in rather laid-back mode is "Sultans of Swing". Who played the lead guitar on this exalted tune?

Answer: Mark Knopfler

"Sultans of Swing" was the first UK hit for Dire Straits in 1979.
Mark Knopfler played a vintage 1961 Fender Stratocaster. Other notable Strat players include Bob Dylan, who controversially turned to electric guitars, using a Strat at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival. Pink Floyd's Dave Gilmore owns what is thought to be the first production Strat with the serial number 0001.

5. Jimi Hendrix created new playing techniques and guitar sounds - not just strumming the Strat. But, what else was unusual about the way Jimi Hendrix played his Fender Stratocaster?

Answer: It was upside-down

Jimi Hendrix played his right-handed Stratocaster upside-down with the strings reversed on the guitar so that they appear in the conventional positions.

6. One of the first successful Strat recordings was the legendary track "Blue Suede Shoes". Who wrote and recorded the original version of this song?

Answer: Carl Perkins

Carl Perkins charted in the UK with "Blue Suede Shoes" in 1956.
Both he and Elvis Presley were in the UK charts at the same time with this song.
Strats originally sold in the 1950's for around �150 ($275), vintage models now sell for more than �20,000 ($36,000).

7. The Fender Stratocaster had an older brother, an electric guitar introduced in 1952. What was the name of this early Fender model?

Answer: Telecaster

The 1952 Telecaster was originally called the Broadcaster and was one of the first solid bodied guitars.
Fender introduced the famous Precision Bass model in 1951.
Leo Fender patented his first electric guitar pick-up in 1948, after several years of experiment.

8. Cliff Richard first hit the UK charts with the song "Move It". His backing group on that track later became known as the Shadows, lead by Strat playing Hank B Marvin. But, they had a different name on "Move It". How did the credits on this 1958 record label read - Cliff Richard and the ______?

Answer: Drifters

"Move It" was one of the UK's first home-grown rock 'n' roll tracks.
Cliff Richard's backing group The Shadows (then the Drifters) changed their name so that they would not to be confused with the US soul group of the same name.

9. At which music festival did Jimi Hendrix give a memorable rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" on a solo Fender Stratocaster?

Answer: Woodstock

Jimi Hendrix was one of the first guitarists to realise the potential variety of sound the Fender Stratocaster can produce. Jimi died in London in 1970.

10. Before he founded Derek and the Dominos and recorded the hit "Layla", Eric Clapton was part of which of these famous bands?

Answer: All of them

Though he also played some Gibson guitars, Clapton enthused that the Fender Strat was "mean and yet comfortable, crude and yet pure".
Leo (Clarence Leonidas) Fender sold the company, due to ill health, to CBS in 1965 for �13 million ($23 Million).

Source: Author musicmonkeyman

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