Bob Dylan Trivia Quiz - Trivia Quiz

1 At which festival did Bob Dylan famously perform with an electric band for the first time, causing controversy?

A. Woodstock

B. Newport Folk Festival

C. Monterey Pop Festival

2 In what year did Bob Dylan receive the Nobel Prize in Literature?

A. 2012

B. 2016

C. 2004

3 What is Bob Dylan’s birth name?

A. Michael Robert Zimmerman

B. Robert Allen Zimmerman

C. Robert Dylan Thomas

4 Which Bob Dylan album features the song "Like a Rolling Stone"?

A. Blonde on Blonde

B. Desire

C. Highway 61 Revisited

5 Which song begins with the lyric, "Come gather 'round people wherever you roam"?

A. Blowin' in the Wind

B. Subterranean Homesick Blues

C. The Times They Are a-Changin'

6 Released in 1975 and often associated with Dylan’s marital turmoil, which album is widely considered a masterpiece?

A. Desire

B. John Wesley Harding

C. Blood on the Tracks

7 Which 1979 album marked the beginning of Bob Dylan’s "born-again" Christian period?

A. Street-Legal

B. Slow Train Coming

C. Saved

8 Which documentary features Dylan’s iconic cue-card sequence for "Subterranean Homesick Blues"?

A. No Direction Home

B. Don't Look Back

C. Renaldo and Clara

9 What is the commonly used name for Dylan’s near-continuous touring schedule that began in 1988?

A. The Never Ending Tour

B. Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour

C. Rolling Thunder Revue

10 What is the title of Bob Dylan’s 2004 memoir?

A. Writings and Drawings

B. Chronicles: Volume One

C. Tarantula

11 Who directed the 2005 documentary "No Direction Home" about Bob Dylan?

A. Todd Haynes

B. D.A. Pennebaker

C. Martin Scorsese

12 Which Bob Dylan song became a hit for Guns N' Roses in the early 1990s?

A. All Along the Watchtower

B. Knockin' on Heaven's Door

C. Forever Young

13 Which U.S. honor did Bob Dylan receive from President Barack Obama in 2012?

A. Presidential Medal of Freedom

B. Congressional Gold Medal

C. National Medal of Arts

14 Which 1966 release is often cited as one of rock’s first major double albums?

A. Bringing It All Back Home

B. Highway 61 Revisited

C. Blonde on Blonde

15 What is the title of Bob Dylan’s 2020 studio album that features the epic track "Murder Most Foul"?

A. Time Out of Mind

B. Tempest

C. Rough and Rowdy Ways