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50 free Robert Plant trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Robert Plant trivia quiz covers the singer from West Bromwich who left accountancy after two weeks, fronted Led Zeppelin for twelve years, and then built a solo career that has run three times as long. The easy questions cover the landmarks: the band that made him, the drummer he brought with him, the hit he had with the Honeydrippers and the Grammy-sweeping album with Alison Krauss. Our Led Zeppelin quiz covers the band in depth; this one keeps its eye on Plant himself. The harder half is for the fans who own Fate of Nations: the Band of Joy, the Tolkien and Welsh mythology in his lyrics, the sheep farm, the tragedy of 1977, the Live Aid and 2007 reunions, the $200 million he turned down, Strange Sensation and the Sensational Space Shifters, his football club, his CBE and the 2025 Saving Grace album. Every answer was checked against Robert Plant's encyclopaedia entry before publishing. No lyrics are quoted; the questions are about the man, the records and the stories.
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Q 01Robert Plant was born in 1948 in West Bromwich, a town in which English region?
The Black Country
He grew up in nearby Halesowen and still lives in Worcestershire.
Q 02Under what name was the group that became Led Zeppelin initially billed when Plant joined in 1968?
The New Yardbirds
Manager Peter Grant and Jimmy Page had recruited him to keep the Yardbirds going after its other members left.
Q 03What profession did Plant briefly train for after leaving grammar school?
Chartered accountant
He quit after two weeks and left home at 16 to sing with local blues bands.
Q 04Which drummer, Plant's bandmate in the Band of Joy, did he recommend for Led Zeppelin?
John Bonham
The two had first met when Plant sang with the Crawling King Snakes.
Q 05Jimmy Page's first choice of singer turned him down but pointed him toward Plant. Who was he?
Terry Reid
Plant was singing with a band called Obs-Tweedle when Page came to hear him.
Q 06Plant's 1984 side project the Honeydrippers had a top-ten hit with a cover of which 1959 song?
Sea of Love
Jimmy Page played guitar on the Phil Phillips cover.
Q 07Plant's 2007 album with bluegrass singer Alison Krauss, which won Album of the Year, was titled what?
Raising Sand
T Bone Burnett produced it; the pair reunited for Raise the Roof in 2021.
Q 08Which Plant and Krauss track won Record of the Year at the 2009 Grammys?
Please Read the Letter
Plant had first recorded it a decade earlier with Jimmy Page on their 1998 studio album.
Q 09What was the title of Plant's first solo album, released in 1982?
Pictures at Eleven
Phil Collins drummed on it and was, Plant said, 'a driving force' behind the record.
Q 10Which 1988 album is Plant's biggest-selling solo record, certified triple platinum?
Now and Zen
'Tall Cool One' from the album openly sampled Led Zeppelin, a sign he was ready to revisit his past.
Q 11Page and Plant's 1994 live reunion album was subtitled what?
Unledded
The album revisited the North African and Arabic influences Plant discovered in Marrakesh.
Q 12What was the only studio album of new material by Page and Plant?
Walking into Clarksdale
'Most High' from the 1998 album won a Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance.
Q 13Which author's books inspired lyrics in 'Ramble On', 'Misty Mountain Hop' and 'The Battle of Evermore'?
J. R. R. Tolkien
Norse and Welsh mythology also run through his writing.
Q 21Led Zeppelin's full-length 2007 reunion at London's O2 was a tribute concert to whom?
Ahmet Ertegun
Jason Bonham drummed; afterwards Plant turned down a reported $200 million to tour.
Q 22How much was Plant reportedly offered, and declined, to tour with Led Zeppelin after the 2007 show?
$200 million
He said he did not want to 'tour like a bunch of bored old men following the Rolling Stones around'.
Q 23Plant's 2010 Band of Joy revival featured which American singer, with whom he later lived in Texas?
Patty Griffin
Buddy Miller and Darrell Scott were also in the group; Plant and Griffin split in 2014.
Q 14Plant bought a sheep farm in 1973 in which country, and began taking language lessons there?
Wales
He named his first son Karac after the Welsh chieftain Caratacus and later funded a statue of Owain Glyndŵr.
Q 15Which Egyptian singer's recordings fascinated Plant in Marrakesh and shaped his later work?
Umm Kulthum
He was struck by how she could hold a note while the whole orchestra waited on her; the influence resurfaces on his 2002 solo album.
Q 16Where did Plant spontaneously write most of the lyrics to 'Stairway to Heaven' in 1970?
Headley Grange
The song was never released as a single yet has topped polls as the greatest song of all time.
Q 17Plant and his wife Maureen were seriously injured in a 1975 car crash on which Greek island?
Rhodes
The accident forced tour cancellations and shaped Presence, an album Plant called 'absolutely wracked with pain'.
Q 18Plant's son Karac died in 1977, aged five, of what?
A stomach virus
Plant was touring the US with Led Zeppelin at the time; 'All My Love' is a tribute to the boy.
Q 19Karac's middle name, Pendragon, and his first name both reflect Plant's interest in what?
Welsh and Arthurian lore
Karac was named for the chieftain Caratacus; Plant attends meetings of a network devoted to Owain Glyndŵr.
Q 20Phil Collins and who else drummed simultaneously behind Led Zeppelin at Live Aid in 1985?
Tony Thompson
Plant hated the set, likening reunions to 'sleeping with your ex-wife but not making love'.
Q 24What did Plant name the band he formed in 2012 for Lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar and Carry Fire?
The Sensational Space Shifters
It grew out of Strange Sensation, the band behind his 2002 and 2005 solo albums.
Q 25Plant's 2025 album Saving Grace is co-credited to which singer?
Suzi Dian
Recorded between 2019 and 2025 in the Cotswolds and on the Welsh Borders, it came out on Nonesuch.
Q 26Plant became vice-president of which football club in 2009?
Wolverhampton Wanderers
He was five when his father first took him to Molineux and Billy Wright waved at him.
Q 27Which honour did Plant receive in the 2009 New Year Honours 'for services to music'?
CBE
He was invested that July by the then Prince of Wales.
Q 28Which magazine named Plant the greatest metal vocalist of all time in 2006?
Hit Parader
Rob Halford was second and Freddie Mercury sixth; Planet Rock listeners later voted him 'the greatest voice in rock'.
Q 29Plant's first Led Zeppelin lyric, written for his wife, was for which song on Led Zeppelin II?
Thank You
Jimmy Page said it took 'a lot of ribbing' to get him writing at all.
Q 30Before Led Zeppelin, Plant laid tarmac for which construction company in Birmingham in 1967?
George Wimpey
He also had a brief stint at Woolworths in Halesowen and cut three obscure singles for CBS.