The Rolling Stones

Choose an answer from the three choices and True or False offered after each question and then "Check Your Answers" at the end of the quiz.

1. Who was the group founder?

• Mick Jagger
• Keith Richards
• Brian Jones

2. On 12 July 1962 the group played their first formal gig at the Marquee Club, billed as "The Rollin' Stones". The line-up was Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Ian Stewart on piano, Dick Taylor on bass and Tony Chapman on drums.

• True or False?

3. Brian Jones named the band The Rollin' Stones, after a song "Rollin' Stone". Who wrote the song?

• Muddy Waters
• Ian Pasley
• Mick Jagger

4. By 19, how many children did Brian Jones have?

• 0
• 1
• 3

5. In 1965, the Stones had their first #1 song. What was the song?

• "Heart of Stone"
• "Tell Me (You're Coming Back)"
• "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"

6. The release Aftermath (UK number 1; US 2) in the late spring of 1966 was the first Rolling Stones album to be composed entirely of ___________ songs.

• Brian Jones
• Jagger/Richards
• Wyman/Watts

7. In spring 1962, Jones recruited Ian "Stu" Stewart and singer Mick Jagger into his band � who, with Jagger's childhood friend Keith Richards, met Jones. When was Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones born?

• February 28, 1942
• February 6, 1947
• March 6, 1950

8. Sir Michael Phillip "Mick" Jagger (born July 26, 1943) was going to school at the beginning of the Rolling Stones. What was the school?

• London Academy of Music
• London School of Economics
• Oxford University

9. In January 1967 saw the release of Between the Buttons (UK number 3; US 2). Who was NOT a hit song from the album?

• �Let's Spend the Night Together�
• �Ruby Tuesday�
• �Hangin� Ten Time�

10. In February 1967, the Sussex police, tipped off by the News of the World, raided a party at Keith Richards's home, Redlands. On 9 May 1967 - on the same day Jagger and Richards were arraigned in connection with the Redlands charges - Brian Jones was arrested for possession of cannabis.

• True or False

Answers

• 1. Brian Jones
• 2. True
• 3. Muddy Waters
• 4. 3
• 5. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
• 6. Jagger/Richards
• 7. February 28, 1942
• 8. London School of Economics
• 9. �Hangin� Ten Time�
• 10. True

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