Test your rock knowledge with this week's Classic Rock Quiz

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20 multiple choice questions to test your rock knowledge

Van halen taking a bow
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Welcome to The Classic Rock Quiz, a new weekly quiz that will split families down the middle and set friend against friend.

20 questions, covering everyone from Van Halen to Pink Floyd and many more besides.

All questions are multiple choice PLUS you win the chance to be humiliated and insulted at the end, depending on your score.

Share your scores with your friends and come back next week for more. Good luck!

Tom Poak
Tom Poak
Writer

Tom Poak has written for the Hull Daily Mail, Esquire, The Big Issue, Total Guitar, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and more. In a writing career that has spanned decades, he has interviewed Brian May, Brian Cant, and cadged a light off Brian Molko. He has stood on a glacier with Thunder, in a forest by a fjord with Ozzy and Slash, and on the roof of the Houses of Parliament with Thin Lizzy's Scott Gorham (until some nice men with guns came and told them to get down). He has drank with Shane MacGowan, mortally offended Lightning Seed Ian Broudie and been asked if he was homeless by Echo & The Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch.

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