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

Rock fans throwing the horns
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Welcome to The Classic Rock Quiz, a new weekly quiz that takes your rock knowledge to the limit, one more time.

This week we have 22 questions, covering everyone from Aerosmith to Rory Gallagher, via the Stones, Motley Crue and Mott The Hoople – and much more besides.

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

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

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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