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50 free Mumford & Sons trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Mumford & Sons trivia quiz covers the West London folk-rock band that turned up to their first album sessions without instruments and left with a Brit Award, then won Album of the Year at the Grammys with Babel. The easy questions cover the landmarks: the members, the debut single, the album that headlined Glastonbury, and the year they put the banjo away. From there the quiz moves through the Railroad Revival Tour, the Gentlemen of the Road stopovers, Ted Dwane's brain surgery, Winston Marshall's exit and the comeback albums Rushmere and Prizefighter. The harder half is for the fans who own the Love Your Ground EP: the Shakespeare and Steinbeck behind the lyrics, the record-breaking Triple J Hottest 100 win, the Ray Davies and Laura Marling collaborations, the Pixar song, the Delhi EP and the producers who shaped each album. Nothing here quotes a lyric; the questions are about the people, records and stories. Every answer was checked against Mumford & Sons' encyclopaedia entry before publishing. If you enjoy this, try our folk rock and 2010s music quizzes next.
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Q 01In which year was Mumford & Sons formed?
2007
They were lumped into a so-called 'West London folk scene' with Noah and the Whale and Johnny Flynn, a label the band dismissed as 'a community, not a scene'.
Q 02Which instrument does Ben Lovett play in the band?
Keyboards
He said the band name was meant to evoke 'an antiquated family business name'.
Q 03Sigh No More peaked at which position on both the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200?
No. 2
It won the Brit Award for British Album of the Year and every studio album since has debuted at No. 1 in the US.
Q 04Which 2012 album won the band the Grammy for Album of the Year?
Babel
It sold 600,000 copies in its first US week, the biggest debut of 2012, and 158,000 in the UK.
Q 05What was the title of the band's first EP, released in November 2008 on Chess Club Records?
Love Your Ground
It took a year to complete, and 'Little Lion Man' was the only track carried over to the debut album.
Q 06Which member left the band in 2021 after a Twitter row over his praise for a book by Andy Ngo?
Winston Marshall
The banjo player said he was leaving so he could speak his mind without his bandmates suffering the consequences.
Q 07Sigh No More takes its title from a line in which Shakespeare play?
Much Ado About Nothing
'Roll Away Your Stone' borrows from Macbeth, and 'The Cave' nods to The Odyssey and G. K. Chesterton.
Q 08'Timshel' and 'Dust Bowl Dance' draw heavily on the novels of which American author?
John Steinbeck
East of Eden, Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath are all in the mix.
Q 09How did the band pay for the recording of Sigh No More?
They financed it themselves
They told the Herald Sun it was to avoid the artistic and technical compromises of studio-financed projects.
Q 10Why did Markus Dravs initially turn the band away from the Sigh No More sessions?
They showed up without their own instruments
The band self-financed the album to avoid the compromises that come with studio money.
Q 11What did Marcus Mumford take from touring Australia with Laura Marling in 2008?
A habit of chatting to audiences
Marling's disinclination to interact with crowds pushed him into the spotlight, and he resolved to keep his own shows casual and conversational.
Q 12'Little Lion Man' topped which Australian radio poll for 2009 by a record margin?
Triple J Hottest 100
The band went on to win an ARIA for Most Popular International Artist in 2010.
Q 13At the 2011 Grammys the band performed 'The Cave' in a segment with which legend and the Avett Brothers?
Bob Dylan
Q 21Mumford & Sons headlined which festival on 30 June 2013?
Glastonbury
Their first Glastonbury appearance had been in June 2008, a year before their debut album.
Q 22What is Gentlemen of the Road?
The band's own label and festival company
Its Stopover Festivals deliberately visit towns bands rarely tour, with support acts hand-picked by the band.
Q 23Which instrument, once synonymous with the band, is absent from 2015's Wilder Mind?
Banjo
Its player had swapped it for electric guitar in sound checks, and the band jammed Radiohead tunes at the end of the Babel tour.
US sales of the debut album jumped 99 per cent after the ceremony.
Q 14Which Kinks frontman recorded 'Days/This Time Tomorrow' with the band for his collaborations album?
Ray Davies
Mumford said he was 'more excited about that than I have been about anything before in my life'.
Q 15The band's 2010 EP with Dharohar Project and Laura Marling was recorded in which city?
Delhi
Traditional Rajasthani musicians joined them in a makeshift studio.
Q 16The 2011 Railroad Revival Tour saw the band travel between shows how?
In vintage rail cars
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and a Nashville string band came along, and the film Big Easy Express won a Grammy.
Q 17Which US band did Marcus Mumford credit with making him fall in love with country music at 16 or 17?
Old Crow Medicine Show
Frontman Ketch Secor said, 'Those boys took the message and ran with it.'
Q 18Mumford & Sons recorded 'Learn Me Right' with singer Birdy for which Pixar film?
Brave
They had also written two songs for Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights, including 'Enemy' over the closing credits.
Q 19The Babel concert film Road to Red Rocks was recorded at a venue in which US state?
Colorado
The 'I Will Wait' performance from the show became the song's official video.
Q 20Which member had surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain in June 2013?
Ted Dwane
The band cancelled the rest of its Summer Stampede Tour but was back on a festival main stage three weeks later.
Q 24Who produced Wilder Mind, as the band tried something new after two records with Markus Dravs?
James Ford
Lovett said they were 'just playing the field' and had not broken up with Dravs.
Q 25Where did the band make its live return in March 2015 with an intimate show for family and friends?
A 375-capacity venue in Hackney
They previewed Wilder Mind there over three nights; the Brighton show for mailing-list members came in May.
Q 26For Record Store Day 2015 the band let fans hear Wilder Mind early by doing what?
Releasing coordinates of shops playing it on vinyl
A limited 7-inch of 'Believe'/'The Wolf' was released the same day.
Q 27The band's 2016 EP was named after which city?
Johannesburg
It followed Wilder Mind's No. 1 debuts in the UK, US and Australia.
Q 28Which producer made Delta, recorded mainly at The Church Studios in London?
Paul Epworth
Maggie Rogers, Yebba and Gill Landry guested; 'Guiding Light' was the lead single.
Q 29Which Nine Inch Nails song did the band cover on the Delta Tour EP?
Hurt
The EP also carried covers of the Middle East's 'Blood' and the Beatles' 'With a Little Help from My Friends'.
Q 30What name did Marcus Mumford give his 2022 solo debut album?
Self-Titled
Its singles were 'Cannibal', 'Grace' and 'Better Off High'.