Black Sabbath: The Ozzy Era Trivia Quiz

Answer: Swinging the Chain

"Selling My Soul" is one of the two bonus tracks on the "Reunion" LP. "Reunion" is the first album to feature Ozzy Osbourne on vocals, after 20 years. It's a live album, and it was released in 1997.

"Age of Reason" is off the last Black Sabbath album, "13". "13" was the first studio album to feature Ozzy on vocals, after 35 years.

"A Thrill of It All" is the first track on the second disc of Black Sabbath's sixth studio album, "Sabotage". It was released in 1975.

Although "Swinging the Chain" is from the last album to feature Ozzy Osbourne on vocals, "Never Say Die!", it's not sung by him. Bill Ward, the drummer of Black Sabbath, did the vocals on this song, because the drug addict Ozzy didn't want to sing it. This and "It's Alright" are the two Sabbath songs which were sung by Bill Ward.

Answer: "Well, you know, the Rolling Stones got someone to be landslide"

This interview was taken in 1973, on Sabbath's Australian Sabbath Bloody Sabbath tour. The part of the interview when it's mentioned:

Interviewer: "Why did you pick the name (Black Sabbath) in the first place?"
Ozzy:"You know why did The Beatles pick "The Beatles"? "You know, nobody knows".
Interviewer: "It's a name which got connotations, hasn't it?"
Ozzy: "Well, you know, the Rolling Stones got someone to be landslides"

Answer: Live Evil

"Past Lives" was released in 2002. The first disc, previously known as "Live at Last", an album not put out by Black Sabbath's record company. The second consists of recordings made for television and radio.

The End Tour was Black Sabbath's farewell tour. "The End: Live in Birmingham" features the final performance from that tour. It was recorded in 4 February 2017.

"Sabotage in Concert" is a concert album released in 2020. It was recorded in July 1975 at Asbury Park in New Jersey, on the supporting tour of Black Sabbath's sixth studio album, "Sabotage".

"Live Evil" was released in 1982. It featured Ronnie James Dio on vocals. It contained performances in Seattle, in San Antonio and in Dallas. These shows were part of the Mob Rules Tour.

Answer: Under the Sun

"Under the Sun" is the closer of their fourth studio album, "Vol.4". The song talks about feeling pushed to believe in religion and fighting back against that. "Well, I don't want no Jesus freak to tell me what it's all about, no black magician telling me to cast my soul out".

Answer: Tony Iommi

His cancer was diagnosed in 2012, but he fought it within a year. Unfortunately, his doctor said that he probably will never be completely cancer-free. They had to cancel some shows, because of his state.

Answer: Earth

They had to change their name, because there was already a band called "Earth". Before Earth they were also called Polka Tulk Band. They got the name "Black Sabbath" from a 1963 Boris Karloff horror movie.

Answer: Walpurgis

"War Pigs" is the opening track on Black Sabbath's second and most famous studio album, "Paranoid". It's about evil politicians.

The early version was titled "Walpurgis". When Sabbath brought it to the record company, the company thought "Walpurgis" sounded too satanic, so they changed the name to "War Pigs"

"Walpurgis is sort of like Christmas for satanists. And to me war was the big Satan" said Geezer Butler, the lyricist and bassist of Black Sabbath in a 2018 interview and many other times.

The "Walpurgis" version was released in 2020 in Paranoid's 50 Anniversary Super Deluxe edition.

Answer: Geezer Butler

Geezer Butler joined the band of his former Sabbath bandmate in 1988. He took part in the No Rest for the Wicked tour, but he left the band after the tour. In 1995 he joined Ozzy Osbourne again, and he played the bass on the "Ozzmosis" album, which was Ozzy Osbourne's seventh studio album in solo.

Answer: I'm living in a room without any view, I'm living free because the rent's never due

"Fictional seduction on a black-snow sky" is from "Spiral Architect", the album closer of "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath".

"Just take a look around you, what do you see? Pain, suffering and misery" is from "Killing Yourself to Live". It's also on "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath". It's about how bad the music industry is.

"The people who have crippled you, you wanna see them burn" is from the title track of Sabbath's fifth studio album, "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath".

"I'm living in a room without any view, I'm living free because the rent's never due" is from "Hole in the Sky". It's the album opener of Black Sabbbath's sixth studio album, "Sabotage".

Answer: Winds of ice

These lyrics are from the song "Snowblind". It was released in 1972, on their fourth studio album, "Vol.4". The song is about being addicted to cocaine.
"Feeling happy in my pain, icicles within my brain- cocaine" The lyrics are one of the best that Geezer Butler has ever written, just amazingly beautiful.

Answer: Brad Wilk

"13" was released in 2013, and it was supposed to be their final album.

Bill Ward left the band in 2012 before the recording of the album, so Brad Wilk, the drummer of Rage Against the Machine did the drumming.

Vinny Apice was also part of the band, he played on two Sabbath studio albums, "Mob Rules" and "Dehumanizer".

Tommy Clufetos played the drums on Black Sabbath's farewell tour.

Answer: Dave Walker

Before Ozzy left the band in 1978, he got kicked out once in 1977. Dave Walker, the former Fleetwood Mac singer, replaced him. And they recorded some demos for the "Never Say Die!" album, but Osbourne returned to the band in 1978. He got kicked out again in 1979 and this time the former Rainbow vocalist, Ronnie James Dio was the replacement.

Answer: Evil Woman

"Evil Woman" was originally performed by the band Crow on their 1969 album, "Crow Music". Black Sabbath's cover was included on their 1970 debut album, "Black Sabbath".

Answer: Solitude

"Solitude" is a ballad from Sabbath's third studio album, "Master of Reality". A delay effect was added to Ozzy Osbourne's vocals on this song to provide the effect of a second vocal track. It's about being depressed and sad after breaking up with somebody.

Answer: Chevy Chase

Live Aid was a benefit concert held on 13 July 1985. The event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for relief of the Ethiopian famine. It was held at two places, at Wembley Stadium in London and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia.

A lot of rock and metal icons performed like Judas Priest, Queen, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.

Only for this show, the whole original lineup of Black Sabbath reunited. This was the first show with Ozzy on vocals, after seven years. Black Sabbath played three songs, "Children of the Grave", "Iron Man" and "Paranoid".