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Freddie Mercury True or False Trivia Quiz

Freddie Mercury True or False Trivia Quiz

10 Questions

He was voted number 49 in the BBC's poll of the 100 greatest Britons, but was born in Zanzibar.

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Freddie Mercury's birth name was Farrokh Bulsara. He legally changed his name to Freddie Mercury around 1970, when Queen was formed.

Kurt Cobain mentioned Freddie Mercury in his suicide note, explaining how he admired and envied his ability to perform and embrace the love of his audience.

Freddie wrote The Great Pretender in the bath. He was in the tub at a hotel and got inspired for the song, he even had the piano brought to his tub to allow him to compose.

Crazy Little Thing Called Love

Freddie Mercury was inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame (as a member of Queen) in 2000.

2001

'Mr. Bad Guy' debuted in the top ten in the UK album charts and remained in the charts for 23 weeks. Its highest position was number 6. The album reached Gold status.

In fact, Freddie loved his cats so much that he would sometimes call home to talk to them while he was on tour. He also had paintings made of them.

He began taking piano lessons at the age of six.

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His first major collaboration outside Queen was with Dave Clark for the recording of London's West End musical Time, in 1986.

On November 24th, 1991, Freddie's struggle against AIDS ended when he passed away just over 24 hours after he had publicly announced he had the disease.

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