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Heavy Metal and Hard Rock

Crank the amp to eleven: riffs, umlauts, mascots and legendary line-ups. Prove you know your Sabbath from your Maiden before the encore.

🎸 Music medium 20 questions ~7 min
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What this quiz asks

  • Black Sabbath formed in 1968 in which English city?
  • Which singer popularised this horns hand gesture among metal fans, saying it came from his Italian grandmother?
  • In which country were AC/DC formed in 1973?
  • What is the name of Iron Maiden's zombie-like mascot, who appears on almost all of their album covers?
  • Black Sabbath's debut album was released on a Friday the 13th.
  • Metallica's drummer and co-founder Lars Ulrich was born in which country?
  • Who replaced the late Bon Scott as AC/DC's singer in 1980?
  • In Kiss, which member played the fire-breathing, blood-spitting character known as the Demon?
  • Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water describes a fire during a Frank Zappa concert in which Swiss town?
  • Select ALL of these bands that come from Germany.
  • Did Def Leppard's drummer Rick Allen carry on in the band after losing his left arm in a 1984 car crash?
  • What was the title of Guns N' Roses' 1987 debut album?
  • Eddie Van Halen's 1978 instrumental Eruption made which guitar technique famous?
  • Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson is a qualified airline pilot who has flown the band's own tour plane.
  • Before forming Motörhead, Lemmy played bass in which space-rock band?
  • Select ALL of these albums that were recorded by Iron Maiden.
  • Metallica bassist Cliff Burton was killed when the band's tour bus crashed in which country?
  • Order these bands by the year they formed, earliest first.
  • In what year did Metallica release the album Master of Puppets?
  • Which band is usually credited as the first to add a purely decorative umlaut to its name?