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60 free Led Zeppelin trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
56 free Led Zeppelin trivia questions with answers. Led Zeppelin lasted twelve years, made eight studio albums and never released a single in Britain, yet they sold somewhere between 200 and 300 million records. This quiz covers how that happened: the Yardbirds collapse, the lead-balloon joke behind the name, the debut cut in 36 hours, the untitled fourth album and its four symbols, Headley Grange, Swan Song, the Starship jet, the Tampa crowd that beat the Beatles, and the night in 1980 that ended it all. The songs get their own questions too: Whole Lotta Love and the Willie Dixon lawsuit, Immigrant Song's Icelandic origin, Stairway to Heaven and the Spirit case, Kashmir's Moroccan inspiration, and the reunions from Live Aid to Celebration Day. It suits classic-rock trivia nights and long car journeys with the remasters on. Easy ones up front, obscure ones at the back. Every answer was checked against the Wikipedia articles on the band, its members and its albums, and each question shows the sentence that supports it once you answer. No lyrics are quoted. Free, no signup.
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Q 01In which year did Led Zeppelin form?
1968
They emerged from the ashes of the Yardbirds and were briefly billed as the New Yardbirds.
Q 02Who was Led Zeppelin's drummer?
John Bonham
Rolling Stone named him the greatest drummer of all time in 2016.
Q 03Which member played both bass and keyboards?
John Paul Jones
Born John Baldwin, he was a session arranger before joining and later formed Them Crooked Vultures with Dave Grohl and Josh Homme.
Q 04The band's guitarist founded Led Zeppelin after which group broke up in 1968?
The Yardbirds
He had joined them in 1966, originally on bass, before sharing lead guitar with Jeff Beck.
Q 05Who was Page's first choice as lead singer, before he turned it down and suggested Robert Plant?
Terry Reid
Plant in turn recommended his Band of Joy drummer, John Bonham.
Q 06Two members of The Who reportedly quipped that a Page-Beck supergroup would go down like a what?
A lead balloon
Peter Grant suggested dropping the 'a' so Americans would not pronounce it 'leed'.
Q 07Which label signed the band in November 1968 with a then-record $143,000 advance?
Atlantic
Executives signed them without ever having seen them, on the recommendation of Dusty Springfield.
Q 08Which singer, a friend of the band's bassist, recommended them to their record label unseen?
Dusty Springfield
She was finishing her first Atlantic album, Dusty in Memphis, at the time.
Q 09Where and when did the four play their first live show together, under their predecessor band's name?
Gladsaxe, Denmark, Sept 1968
Their first show under the name Led Zeppelin came at the University of Surrey the following month.
Q 10How much studio time did the debut album Led Zeppelin reportedly take to record?
36 hours
Page and Grant paid the £1,782 bill themselves before the band had a contract.
Q 11What disaster is pictured on the cover of the first Led Zeppelin album?
The Hindenburg airship fire
George Hardie designed the sleeve, and Glyn Johns engineered the sessions at Olympic Studios.
Q 12Which was the band's first number-one album?
Led Zeppelin II
Recorded mostly on the road in 1969, it topped the charts in both the US and UK.
Q 13Whole Lotta Love was the band's only US top-ten single, peaking at what position?
Number four
It was released as a US single in 1969 without the band's consent, since they hated singles.
Q 21Which country house in Hampshire was the main recording site for Led Zeppelin IV?
Headley Grange
They used the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio there; Black Dog was named after a dog that hung around the house.
Q 22Which Stones road-manager and pianist plays on Rock and Roll?
Ian Stewart
The song came out of a jam early in the Headley Grange sessions.
Q 23Whose blues song did the band rework as When the Levee Breaks?
Memphis Minnie
It was the only cover on the fourth album.
Stairway to Heaven was never released as a single, yet it was what on 1970s American rock radio?
Q 14A 1985 lawsuit over Whole Lotta Love was settled in favour of which bluesman, writer of You Need Love?
Willie Dixon
His song had been recorded by Muddy Waters in 1962; he received a payment and credit on later releases.
Q 15Which unusual instrument does the guitarist play on Whole Lotta Love?
Theremin
He also famously played his guitar with a violin bow on stage.
Q 16Page and Plant retreated to a remote cottage called Bron-Yr-Aur to write their third album. Where is it?
Wales
The trip pushed the band toward a more acoustic, folk-influenced sound.
Q 17A 1970 concert in which country inspired Robert Plant to write the lyrics of Immigrant Song?
Iceland
The band were guests of the government on a cultural mission to Reykjavík; a civil-service strike nearly cancelled the gig.
Q 18Roughly how many copies has the untitled fourth album sold worldwide?
37 million
It is the band's best-seller and one of the best-selling albums in history.
Q 19Why did the band release their fourth album without a title or their name on the cover?
A riposte to 'hype' claims
Instead, each member chose a personal symbol; Page's appears to spell Zoso.
Q 20Which guest singer appears on The Battle of Evermore, the only Led Zeppelin song to feature one?
Sandy Denny
Page wrote the song on a mandolin borrowed from Jones.
Most requested and most played
It runs a little over eight minutes.
Q 25Which instruments are overdubbed in the quiet opening section of Stairway to Heaven?
Four recorders
Live, he reproduced the part on a Mellotron and later Yamaha keyboards.
Q 26Which band sued claiming Stairway to Heaven copied their 1968 instrumental Taurus?
Spirit
The Ninth Circuit ruled for Led Zeppelin in March 2020, and the Supreme Court declined to hear the case that October.
Q 27The cover of Houses of the Holy shows children climbing which natural landmark?
The Giant's Causeway
It was the first Zeppelin sleeve designed by Hipgnosis.
Q 28On The Crunge, Robert Plant improvises lyrics parodying which soul singer's style?
James Brown
The drummer wrote the track out of a jam at Stargroves.
Q 29In 1973 the band broke the Beatles' Shea attendance record with 56,800 fans in which Florida city?
Tampa
The show grossed $309,000; a 1977 return to the same stadium was cut short by a thunderstorm despite 'Rain or Shine' tickets.
Q 30What was the name of the band's private Boeing 720 jet in the 1970s?
The Starship
They also rented whole floors of the Continental Hyatt House in LA, nicknamed the Riot House.