Test your knowledge of Led Zeppelin's biggest hits, deep cuts and iconic moments.
Page wrote riffs you can hum, so the biggest Led Zeppelin tracks give themselves away from the opening bars. 'Whole Lotta Love', 'Black Dog' and 'Immigrant Song' are the easy points that open the round.
The stories behind the songs are their own kind of test: a guitar played with a violin bow, an album with no title on the sleeve, one of the most sampled drum breaks in music. The details that decide a tie.
Led Zeppelin's catalog sorts into clear tiers. Start with the riffs everyone hums, then separate the blues-rock stomps that blur, and finish on the acoustic deep cuts and epics only album fans place.
Half a Led Zeppelin quiz is won right here. The four-note grind of 'Whole Lotta Love', the strut of 'Black Dog', the crash of 'Rock and Roll' and the war-cry riff of 'Immigrant Song' announce themselves from the opening bars, so most players name them before Robert Plant is even in. These are the points you bank early.
This is where the round tightens. 'Heartbreaker', 'The Ocean', 'Good Times Bad Times' and 'Trampled Under Foot' all ride the same Page-and-Bonham swagger, so the trap is hearing one blues-rock stomp and naming a different one. Landing the exact title, not just 'that is Zeppelin', is what moves your score up.
Led Zeppelin barely bothered with singles and let their albums do the talking, so the real separators carry no riff at all. The mandolin of 'The Battle of Evermore', the acoustic 'Going to California', the slow-burn blues of 'Since I've Been Loving You' and the folk of 'The Rain Song' catch out anyone who only knows the loud side.
The hardest clips sit at the edges of the catalog. 'Kashmir' rides an orchestral string swell instead of a guitar hook, 'No Quarter' floats on John Paul Jones's keys, and 'Dazed and Confused' turns on Jimmy Page bowing his guitar. Place these from a short clip and you are into the top tier of any Led Zeppelin round.
Play a Led Zeppelin quiz on Songtrivia and find out. Guess the song from a short clip and answer trivia across their 1968 to 1980 run. Land eight out of ten and you know the hits; a clean sweep means you caught the acoustic deep cuts too.
Expect the riffs everyone knows, 'Whole Lotta Love', 'Black Dog', 'Rock and Roll' and 'Immigrant Song', alongside the separators like 'Going to California', 'The Battle of Evermore' and the eight-minute 'Kashmir'.
The opening riffs are easy points, but Zeppelin were an album band who rarely released singles, so it gets hard fast on the folk and acoustic tracks that carry no signature riff. That is where good scores stall.
Often, yes. Jimmy Page wrote figures you can hum, so 'Whole Lotta Love' or 'Heartbreaker' can give themselves away before the vocal. The catch is 'The Rain Song' or 'Going to California', where there is no riff to lean on.
Led Zeppelin were Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham, formed in London in 1968. The name came from a joke that the group would go down like a 'lead balloon', with the spelling changed so it would not be misread.
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