Led Zeppelin Quiz: Guess the Song & Test Your Trivia

A Led Zeppelin quiz lives and dies on riff recognition, because Jimmy Page built it around guitar figures you can hum. Guess the Led Zeppelin song from the arena riffs of 'Whole Lotta Love', 'Black Dog' and the 'Immigrant Song' battle cry, then face the flip: they were an album band, so the separators carry no riff at all, like 'Going to California', 'The Battle of Evermore', 'The Rain Song' and 'Kashmir'. Test your trivia on the band's history and see how well you really know Led Zeppelin.

Main genreRock (hard rock, blues rock)

Active1968 to 1980 (1970s)

Best-known songs to guessWhole Lotta Love, Stairway to Heaven, Kashmir, Immigrant Song, Black Dog

Deep cuts fans missGoing to California, The Battle of Evermore, Since I've Been Loving You, The Rain Song

Eras in the quizLate-60s blues-rock, early-70s hard rock, the mid-70s acoustic turns, the Physical Graffiti epics

MembersJimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, John Bonham

Signature soundJimmy Page's guitar riffs, John Bonham's drums and Robert Plant's high wail

Related artistsThe Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Queen

Quiz difficultyEasy on the riffs, hard on the acoustic deep cuts

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Whole Lotta Love

Stairway to Heaven

Kashmir

Immigrant Song

Black Dog

Going to California

The Battle of Evermore

Since I've Been Loving You

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✦Jimmy Page sometimes played his guitar with a violin bow, most famously on 'Dazed and Confused', a sound that gives the song away the moment it starts.

✦The band's untitled fourth album from 1971 carried no name and no title on its sleeve, only four symbols, which is why fans still argue over calling it 'Led Zeppelin IV' or 'Four Symbols'.

✦'Stairway to Heaven' was never released as a commercial single, so one of the most famous rock songs ever recorded never appeared on a singles chart.

✦John Bonham's drum break on 'When the Levee Breaks' became one of the most sampled beats in music, turning up on hip-hop records decades later.

✦The name came from a joke that the group would sink like a 'lead balloon', and the 'a' was dropped from 'lead' so it would not be mispronounced.

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The riffs everyone can hum

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.

Telling one Page riff from another

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.

The tracks with no riff to grab

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 epics and studio oddities

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.

Perguntas frequentes

How well do you know Led Zeppelin?

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.

Which Led Zeppelin songs are in the quiz?

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'.

How hard is the Led Zeppelin quiz?

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.

Can you guess Led Zeppelin songs from the riff alone?

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.

Who was in Led Zeppelin and how did the band get its name?

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.

Is the Led Zeppelin quiz free?

Yes. Every Led Zeppelin quiz is free to play, with no signup and no Spotify account needed. Pick one and press play.

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