Friday Night Pub Quiz 11 Rolling Stones Special
Welcome to Friday Night Pub Quiz #11, where you can test your knowledge about The Rolling Stones.
The background to most of the answers can be found in Derek Shelmerdine‘s book Rock’n’Roll Unravelled.
Questions
1.What was the name of the group Mick Jagger and Keith Richard were in before they joined Brian Jones’s group?
2. Whose 1950 song Rollin’ Stone was the inspiration for the Rolling Stones’ name?
3.Where did the Rollin’ Stones make their debut with that name on 12 July 1962?
4.Who owned the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond, West London and became the Rolling Stones’ first manager?
5.Who became the Rolling Stones second manager and later formed the Immediate Records label?
6.Which single gave the Rolling Stones their first UK #1?
7.Which single gave the Rolling Stones their first American #1?
8.Who were the two guitarists who followed Brian Jones?
9.Who gave Jagger and Richard their first song-writing hit when he reworked their song My Only Girl to That Girl Belongs to Yesterday?
10.What was the original working tile of the album which was released as Aftermath?
11.The lyrics to which single was Mick Jagger forced to change, when the Stones appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show on 15 January 1967?
12.Who produced the single Jumping Jack Flash, the first single not produced by Andrew Loog Oldham?
13.Which was the first album to feature guitarist Ron Wood, in 1976?
14.Who replaced Bill Wyman when he left the Stones in 1992?
15.When Brian Jones played with Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated in 1962 he called himself Elmo Jones, after which of his guitar heroes?
16.Who produced the Stones recording session at IBC in 1963?
17.Which of the Brian Jones era members was the last on to join the Rolling Stones?
18.Who wrote and recorded the original version of the Rolling Stones’ UK debut Come On?
19.Where did Mick Jagger and Keith Richard famously meet up again on 17 October 1961, after losing touch when they left the same primary school (4 to 11-year-olds)?
20.Which Rolling Stone played bass in John Lennon’s Dirty Mac band when they appeared on the Rolling Stones’ Rock’n’Roll Circus, the TV special recorded on 11 December 1968?
Answers
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