Do you know the lyrics to “Like A Rolling Stone” by heart? Do you hum “Blowin’ in the Wind” in your sleep? Is ‘I’m Not There’ your go-to film? If that’s the case, then you might just be perfect for this Bob Dylan trivia quiz.
Bob Dylan is an icon of twentieth- and twenty-first-century music, being not just the creator of numerous unforgettable songs but being the first songwriter to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Appropriately, Dylan has spawned a legion of fanatics that span generations, from those who saw him in the 60s to those who discover his music on streaming platforms each passing day.
If you’re ready to test your knowledge of the master songwriter, take a look at these Bob Dylan trivia questions and answers. Once you’re done with the quiz, check out our trivia on 60s music, Bob Marley, and the Beatles.
Which musician wrote ‘Like A Rolling Stone’?
Tom Petty
Johnny Cash
Bob Dylan
Mick Jagger
Which of these Bob Dylan single releases made the highest chart position in the UK?
Maggie’s Farm
Times They Are A-Changing
Like A Rolling Stone
Lay Lady Lay
Complete the title of this 1969 album by Bob Dylan: ‘… Skyline’.
Moscow
Nashville
Tokyo
New Delhi
Which hip-hop star did Bob Dylan collaborate on the song ‘Street Rock’?
Krafty Kuts
Kurtis Blow
Grandmaster Flash
Melle Mel
How old was Bob Dylan when he went to the top of the album charts in May 09?
63
65
69
67
At which festival did Bob Dylan play an electric guitar for the first time on stage?
Southport Folk Festival
Davenport Folk Festival
Newport Folk Festival
Stockport Folk Festival
Shot of Love was recorded by Bob Dylan in which year?
1982
1980
1987
1984
Tangled Up In Blue’ and ‘Shelter From the Storm’ originally featured on which Bob Dylan album?
Bob Dylan
John Wesley Harding
Blood On The Tracks
Blonde On Blonde
What year did Bob Dylan have the hit single ‘Lay Lady Lay’ on Columbia?
1980
1969
1979
1982
In which year did Bob Dylan release his eponymous first album?
1961
1964
1962
1963
In what year did Bob Dylan release the album ‘Knocked Out Loaded’?
1984
1986
1982
1988
Which was Bob Dylan’s first album of the 70s?
Dylan
Self Portrait
Nashville Skyline
New Morning
When did Bob Dylan first hit the UK singles charts?
1964
1966
1967
1965
Where was folk-rock legend Bob Dylan born?
New Jersey
Minnesota
New York
California
What Bob Dylan song did Hendrix famously cover?
Lay Lady Lay
Tangled up in Blue
All Along the Watchtower
Masters of War
Which of these Bob Dylan singles reached the highest position in the UK charts?
Baby Stop Crying
Maggie’s Farm
I Want You
I Threw It All Away
Which of the following tracks did not appear on the Bob Dylan album ‘Blonde on Blonde’?
4th Time Round
I Want You
Just Like A Woman
Blonde on Blonde
What is Bob Dylan’s actual surname?
Zanderman
Zimmerman
Zeiman
Zuckerman
Which university did Bob Dylan attend?
Michigan
St. Thomas
Minnesota
Wisconsin-Madison
In the Bob Dylan song ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’, what does the singer meet ‘beside a dead pony’?
An old woman
A young child
A white man
A young girl
Judy Garland and Bob Dylan were both born in the same US state – which one?
Missouri
Mississippi
Maryland
Minnesota
In what year did Bob Dylan release the song ‘Must be Santa’?
2005
2007
2009
2003
The songwriter Robert Allen Zimmerman is far better known by what name?
Robin Gibb
Ray Charles
David Bowie
Bob Dylan
Which of these 1968 hit singles was written by Bob Dylan?
Mighty Quinn
California Dreamin’
Those Were The Days
The Last Time
Who made the album: Blonde on Blonde?
The Beach Boys
The Beatles
Bob Dylan
James Taylor
Andy Warhol’ and ‘Somg for Bob Dylan’ are tracks from which David Bowie album?
Lodger
Low
Hunky Dory
Aladdin Sane
Name the Bob Dylan book published in 1970?
Anaconda
Alligator
Piranha
Tarantula
What, according to the Bob Dylan hit of 1965 were ‘a-Changing’?
The Times
The Guards
The Words
The Lights
Which Bob Dylan track starts off ‘Oh where have you been, my blue-eyed son?’?
Lay Lady Lay
A Hard Rain’s…
The Times They Are…
Blowin’ in the Wind
Who said in 2010 that Bob Dylan was a ‘fake” and a ”plagiarist”?’
Arlo Guthrie
David Crosby
Joni Mitchell
Leadbelly
Which Bob Dylan track was a hit for Olivia Newton-John?
Lay Lady Lay
Blowing in the Wind
Mr Tambourine Man
If Not For You
Whose 1962 album ‘Midnight Special’ features the very first official recording of Bob Dylan?
Nat King Cole
Miriam Makeba
Dorothy Dandridge
Harry Belafonte
In May 09 Bob Dylan became the oldest album chart-topper, an honour previously held by who?
Louis Armstrong
Tina Turner
Frank Sinatra
Neil Diamond
Hearts of Fire was a film that Bob Dylan starred in. What was his characters name?
James Parker
Don Parker
Billy Parker
Peter Parker
Which Bob Dylan song features on the soundtrack for the TV show ‘Sons of Anarchy’?
Tangled Up In Blue
Knockin On Heavens Door
Blowing In The Wind
Forever Young
Bob Dylan was called what during a concert at the Manchester Free Trade Hall?
Peter
Judas
Thomas
Jesus
In what year did Bob Dylan release his debut album?
1966
1962
1964
1968
Bringing It All Back Home was released by Bob Dylan in which decade?
1970s
1980s
1990s
1960s
Which of these did Bob Dylan claim to be in a 1965 interview?
A trapeze artist
A messenger
A dragon
A god
Which of these Bob Dylan albums did NOT get to No.1 in the UK?
Highway 61 Revisited
Nashville Skyline
Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
John Wesley Harding
Which of these was a hit for Bob Dylan?
Highway 61
Gasoline Alley
Baker Street
Dead-End Street
Which Boy Dylan’s biggest pop hit was later remade by Jimi Hendrix?
Blowin’ in the Wind
Lay Lady Lay
Hurricane
Like A Rolling Stone
Which of these is the name of a ’60s song by Bob Dylan?
Blowin’ in the Tide
Blowin’ in the Wind
Blowin’ in the Changes
Blowin’ in the Clouds
In which state was Bob Dylan born?
Vermont
Missouri
Minnesota
West Virginia
What was the first name of Bob Dylan’s father?
Jakob
Abe
Robert
Allen
In which year did Bob Dylan cause controversy by performing on an electric guitar?
1965
1969
1967
1963
Bob Dylan first introduced electronic instruments on which of his albums?
Times They Are A-Changing
Bringing It All Back Home
Nashville Skyline
Planet Waves
Which of these is a 1966 album by Bob Dylan? ‘Blonde on…’
Redhead
Blonde
Brunette
Dark Haired
Which singer is heard just after Bob Dylan in ‘We Are The World’?
Stevie Wonder
Louis Armstrong
Ray Charles
James Brown
Before the Flood was released by Bob Dylan in which decade?
1990s
1980s
2000s
1970s
Which of these songs was NOT penned by Bob Dylan?
Whiter Shade of Pale
Blowing in the Wind
A Hard Rain’s…
Lay Lady Lay
Which way was a hit for Bob Dylan?
Highway 61
Gasoline Alley
Dead-End Street
Baker Street
Bob Dylan found fame by moving to which city in 1961?
Boston
New York
Los Angeles
Las Vegas
Traveling Wilburys were a late 1980s supergroup consisting of Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan and which former member of The Beatles?
Pete Best
Paul McCartney
John Lennon
George Harrison
Which Bob Dylan song has been covered by over 150 artists?
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
Like A Rolling Stone
Blowin’ in the Wind
Farewell
Bob Dylan’s 1978 album was called ‘Street’…
Light
Lament
Legal
Laughter
Who covered Bob Dylan’s ‘A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall’ for their first solo hit?
George Harrison
Wayne Fontana
Paul Jones
Bryan Ferry
Sara Lownds married Bob Dylan in which year?
1955
1965
1985
1975
Manfred Mann hit the charts with a cover of what Bob Dylan song?
Quinn The Eskimo
Everybody Let’s Get Stoned
Mr. Tambourine Man
The Times They Are A Changin’
When was Bob Dylan born?
1945
1947
1941
1943
Outraging fans, which 1964 title track did Bob Dylan license for use in an ad for the Bank of Montreal?
The Times They Are A-Changin”
It Ain’t Me Babe’
A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall’
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door’
Bob Dylan released the album ‘Good As I Been To You’ in what year?
1996
1992
1998
1994
The ‘Persian Drunkard’ appears in which Bob Dylan song?
Isis
Foot Pride
I Want You
Absolutely Sweet Marie
What is Bob Dylan’s star sign?
Capricorn
Gemini
Leo
Aries
Bob Dylan is often called which of these?
A Cello Player
A Dustman
A Poet
A Drummer
Bob Dylan released the album ‘Down In The Groove’ in what year?
1986
1984
1988
1982
Which of these Bob Dylan albums was released in the 70s?
John Wesley Harding
Blonde on Blonde
Nashville Skyline
New Morning
What year did Robert Zimmerman legally change his name to Bob Dylan?
1964
1968
1966
1962
Who made the album, Modern Times?
Bob Dylan
The White Stripes
Arcade Fire
Eminem
Which band released a cover version of Bob Dylan’s ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’ in the ’60s?
The Kinks
The Byrds
The Flying Burrito Brothers
Crosby, Stills & Nash
What is the name of Bob Dylan’s producer pseudonym?
Jack Ham
Jack Black
Jack Stone
Jack Frost
Which song gave Bob Dylan his biggest UK chart success of the 60s?
Like a Rolling Stone
I Want You
Lay Lady Lay
Maggie’s Farm
During what decade was Bob Dylan born?
1930s
1920s
1940s
1950s
Which of these single releases by Bob Dylan did NOT make the UK Top 10?
Rainy Day Women…
Maggie’s Farm
Like a Rolling Stone
Positively 4th Street
Who directed the 1967 Bob Dylan documentary film ‘Dont Look Back’?
Robert Drew
Richard Leacock
George Stevens, Jr.
D.A. Pennebaker
The Big Pink, where Bob Dylan has recorded music, is in which state?
Florida
New York
California
Texas
What was Bob Dylan’s character called in ‘Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid’?
Alias
Malcolm
Zimmy
He Had No Name
Bob Dylan won the 1996 Grammy for Best Album for ‘Time Out of….’?
Space
Time
Mind
Love
What year was Bob Dylan born?
1941
1954
1943
1919
Bob Dylan dedicated the song ‘High Water’ to which of these?
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Charley Patton
Son House
Robert Johnson
Who did Bob Dylan marry in 1965?
Susan Traylor
Edie Sedgwick
Sara Lownds
Suze Rotolo
In which decade of the 20th century was Bob Dylan born?
70s
40s
50s
30s
In what year did Bob Dylan release the album ‘Empire Burlesque’?
1989
1987
1985
1983
On whose album did Bob Dylan first receive a musician credit?
Harry Belafonte
Pete Seger
Arlo Guthrie
Burl Ives
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