Rose Clark 

Never mind the vox pops, here’s this week’s music quiz

Who's taking Tupac on tour? What's Courtney Love been up to? Test your knowledge of the last seven days of music news
  
  


  1. Who has Axl Rose apologised to this week?

    1. Slash

    2. Buckethead

    3. Cleveland

    4. Denmark

  2. At the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions, who claimed, when introducing Beastie Boys, that they "wouldn't be here today without them"?

    1. Chuck D

    2. Chris Rock

    3. LL Cool J

    4. Bille Joe Armstrong

  3. Who might be going on tour with Tupac's "hologram"?

    1. G-Unit

    2. Dre Dre and Snoop Dogg

    3. Dre Dre and Eminem

    4. Jay-Z and Kanye West

  4. Which of these songs did Courtney Love perform when she joined the rest of Hole on stage this week?

    1. Miss World

    2. Hit So Hard

    3. Malibu

    4. There’s a Hole in My Bucket

  5. Which of the following artists is Adele up against in the Ivor Novello awards category "PRS for music most performed"?

    1. Kate Bush

    2. Ed Sheeran

    3. Take That

    4. No one - Adele’s Someone Like You, Rolling in the Deep and Set Fire to the Rain are the only nominations

  6. Why did Ronnie Wood retract his comment saying the Rolling Stones were going to enter the studio to work on new material?

    1. Keith Richards was incensed that Wood released the news before he had a chance to

    2. The band intend to perform for their 50th anniversary without practising, to appear as ‘natural and organic’ as possible

    3. The Rolling Stones got their dates wrong, and it's actually 49 years since the band formed

    4. Wood said the news was premature and apologised after Jagger gave him a talking to

  7. Blur annouced this week they'll be releasing a giant box set celebrating how many years in the business?

    1. 17

    2. 19

    3. 21

    4. 23

  8. Of which new album did Alexis Petridis say: "Presenting something deeply weird as entirely straightforward may be the whole point"?

    1. Rufus Wainwright: Out of the Game

    2. Santigold: Master of My Make-Believe

    3. Brendan Benson: What Kind of World

    4. Jack White: Blunderbuss

  9. Kraftwerk have confirmed they will be releasing their new studio album "soon". What number album will this be?

    1. No 8

    2. No 11

    3. No 5

    4. No 168

  10. The Royal Philharmonic Society awards shortlist has been announced and there is a first for the creative communication category. Which is it?

    1. There is a visual artist on the shortlist

    2. There is a dubstep producer on the shortlist

    3. There is a creative writer on the shortlist

    4. There are a record 27 artists on the shortlist

Solutions

1:C, 2:C, 3:B, 4:A, 5:C, 6:D, 7:C, 8:D, 9:B, 10:A

Scores

  1. 4 and above.

    Pretty good, pretty good. But can you score a perfect 10? Your reward for this score is this new video from Scissor Sisters. <iframe width="400" height="233" src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/E3m-XH1Kij0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

  2. 5 and above.

    Pretty good, pretty good. But can you score a perfect 10? Your reward for this score is this new video from Scissor Sisters. <iframe width="400" height="233" src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/E3m-XH1Kij0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

  3. 6 and above.

    Pretty good, pretty good. But can you score a perfect 10? Your reward for this score is this new video from Scissor Sisters. <iframe width="400" height="233" src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/E3m-XH1Kij0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

  4. 7 and above.

    Pretty good, pretty good. But can you score a perfect 10? Your reward for this score is this new video from Scissor Sisters. <iframe width="400" height="233" src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/E3m-XH1Kij0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

  5. 8 and above.

    Pretty good, pretty good. But can you score a perfect 10? Your reward for this score is this new video from Scissor Sisters. <iframe width="400" height="233" src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/E3m-XH1Kij0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

  6. 9 and above.

    Pretty good, pretty good. But can you score a perfect 10? Your reward for this score is this new video from Scissor Sisters. <iframe width="400" height="233" src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/E3m-XH1Kij0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

  7. 10 and above.

    Wow! You are a pop genius! Your reward is: a very much NSFW video for the Flaming Lips and New Fumes' new release for Record Store Day. It's NSFW. We really can't stress enough that it's definitely NSFW. <iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/38193715?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe>

 

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