Welcome to Friday Night Pub Quiz #15
Test your knowledge of guitar legend – Jimi Hendrix.
Test you knowledge of the life and times of one of the greatest guitarists in rock’n’roll history – Jimi Hendrix Quiz
The background to all of these questions and answers can be found in…
Jimi Hendrix Story Podcast
Questions – Jimi Hendrix Quiz
1.Where was Jimi Hendrix born?
2. What was the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s first UK hit single?
3. What was the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s only hit single in America?
4. When Jimi Hendrix joined the US Army in 1961, which famous band of brothers regiment did he join?
5. Which ex-Animals band member “discovered” Hendrix playing at the Cafe Wha? brought him to the UK and become his manager?
6. Which band did Jimi Hendrix famously jam with at Central London Polytechnic on 1 October 1966, supposedly, nearly causing Eric Clapton to give up the guitar?
7. Who were the three members of the Jimi Hendrix Experience?
8. Who was a roadie with the Experience c.1967, who later went on to play bass with Hawkwind and form Motörhead?
9. When Jimi Hendrix became famous his first manager, Ed Chalpin, sued him for breach of contact. As part settlement, which Jimi Hendrix album did Chalpin receive 100% of the royalties?
10. Which album was Jimi Hendrix working on in 1968, when he parted company with manager Chas Chandler and bassist Noel Redding?
11. Which band did Noel Redding form after he left the Experience?
12. What did Jimi Hendrix call his band when he played Woodstock in 1969?
13. Who were the three members of Jimi’s short-lived Band of Gypsys?
14. Which band did Jimi Hendrix refuse to follow onstage at Monterey in 1967?
15. Which TV manufactured band invited Jimi to open for them, as a result of seeing the Experience at Monterey?
16. Which country did the Jimi Hendrix Experience make their concert debut, when they embarked on a short tour supporting Johnny Hallyday?
17. What did Jimi call his recording studio, when he opened it in New York in 1970?
18. Which country did Jimi Hendrix play his last full concert?
19. Which London club did Jimi Hendrix make his swansong, jamming with War?
20. Jimi Hendrix wrote his final song, The Story of Life, shortly before his death. Which of his close friends recorded it on his Mirage album (recorded in the early 1970s but not released until 2008)?
