Guns N' Roses Trivia Questions With Answers
What is Guns N' Roses?
A: It is an American hard rock band.
Where was Guns N' Roses formed?
A: Los Angeles.
What year was the band formed?
A: 1985.
The classic lineup in 1986 consisted of whom?
A: Vocalist Axl Rose, lead guitarist Slash, rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin,
bassist Duff McKagan, and drummer Steven Adler.
Today, Axl Rose is the only what?
A: Remaining original member.
How many studio albums has the band released as of
2014?
A: Six.
Sales amount to more than how many records worldwide?
A: 100 million.
What was the name of their debut album?
A: Appetite for Destruction.
What year was Guns N' Roses debut album released?
A: 1987.
A year after its release, the album Appetite for
Destruction, reached what number on the Billboard 200?
A: No. 1.
What was their only single to reach No. 1 on the Billboard
Hot 100 from the album?
A: Sweet Child o' Mine.
The album has sold in excess 18 million units in the U.S.,
making it the best-selling debut album of what?
A: All time in the U.S.
The success of their debut was followed by G N' R Lies
(1988) which reached what number on the Billboard 200?
A: No. 2.
The cover album "The Spaghetti Incident?" (1993) was the
band's last studio album to feature whom?
A: Slash and McKagan.
Members of the band had a cameo appearance in what Dirty
Harry movie?
A: The Dead Pool.
What Guns N' Roses album, at $14 million in costs, was the
most expensive album to ever be produced in music history?
A: The album Chinese Democracy (2008).
It debuted at number what, on the Billboard 200?
A: No. 3 .
In June 1985, just four days after the lineup was
finalized, the band embarked on a what?
A: Short, disorganized tour of the West Coast, from
Sacramento,
California, to McKagan's hometown of Seattle,
Washington.
The band was signed by Geffen Records in March 1986,
receiving an advance of how much money?
A: $75,000.
In the U.S., what song was issued as the album's first
single?
A: Welcome to the Jungle.
Welcome to the Jungle, had an accompanying what?
A: Music video.
Welcome to the Jungle was featured in what 1988 Dirty Harry
film?
A: The Dead Pool, starring Clint Eastwood.
What song became a huge hit during the summer of 1988?
A: Sweet Child o' Mine.
Welcome to the Jungle" was re-issued as a single and
reached what number in the U.S.?
A: No. 7 .
How long was Guns N' Roses's tour in support of their debut
album?
A: 16 months.
The band served as openers on North American treks by what
two groups?
A: Iron Maiden and Aerosmith.
Patience was the only single released from what album?
A: G N' R Lies.
What did Patience peak at in the U.S.?
A: No. 4.
G N' R Lies reached number what, on the Billboard 200?
A: No. 2.