Michael Hogan 

How much do you know about Spinal Tap? – quiz

To mark the 30th birthday of landmark rockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, Michael Hogan asks how much you know about the guitar gods…
  
  


  1. Documentary-maker Marty DiBergi (Rob Reiner) opens the film by recalling the first time he saw the band, in a Greenwich Village rock club. What was it called?

    1. Magic Peach

    2. Electric Banana

    3. Loud Melon

  2. Which singer-songwriter played keyboards with Spinal Tap for their first appearance on a 1979 ABC sketch show?

    1. Loudon Wainwright III

    2. Jackson Browne

    3. Randy Newman

  3. Which of these sets of album titles are not from Spinal Tap’s fictional back catalogue?

    1. Intravenus de Milo, The Sun Never Sweats, Shark Sandwich

    2. Bent for the Rent, Smell the Glove, Brainhammer

    3. Warmer Than Hell, Swallow My Love, Bitch School

  4. What’s unusual about the instrumentation on Tap favourite Big Bottom?

    1. There are no guitars

    2. There are three bass guitars

    3. There are four drummers

  5. Towards the end of the film, the band discuss making a musical about Jack the Ripper. What’s its title?

    1. Naughty Jack

    2. Bawdy Jack

    3. Saucy Jack

  6. Who plays the Frank Sinatra-obsessed limo driver who calls the band “fucking limeys”?

    1. Bruno Kirby

    2. Billy Crystal

    3. Daniel Stern

  7. What’s on the bill above Spinal Tap when they play at an amusement park?

    1. A blood drive

    2. A hog roast

    3. A puppet show

  8. Paul Shaffer, now best known as David Letterman’s bandleader, plays an incompetent promoter from Polymer Records. What’s the character’s name?

    1. Terry Ladd

    2. Artie Fufkin

    3. Bob Hookstratten

  9. Derek Smalls’s one-handed bass-playing technique was reportedly based on the bassist from which British metal band?

    1. Saxon

    2. Judas Priest

    3. Motörhead

  10. Spinal Tap frontman David St Hubbins claims St Hubbins is the patron saint of what?

    1. Chapeaux

    2. Stuffed olives

    3. Quality footwear

Solutions

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

Scores

  1. 0 and above.

    You’re a disgrace to rock. You deserve to choke on vomit. Someone else’s vomit.

  2. 4 and above.

    You’re not Spinal crap but need to brush up. Buy it on DVD. After all, money talks and bullshit walks.

  3. 7 and above.

    You’re top at Tap trivia. It’s just a shame this scoring system doesn’t go up to 11.
 

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