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Deep Purple Trivia Questions

How much do you really know about Deep Purple? Below are 8 true or false statements. Click each one to reveal the answer and explanation.

1.

Deep Purple holds a Guinness World Record for the loudest band in history.

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Easy
✗ FALSE

That record belongs to Manowar (2008). Deep Purple was once considered loud, but never held the official record.

2.

The band once fired singer Ian Gillan because he refused to wear a purple cape on stage.

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Easy
✗ FALSE

Gillan left in 1973 due to tensions and exhaustion, not a cape dispute. The cape story is a humorous myth.

3.

Deep Purple’s ‘Smoke on the Water’ riff was inspired by a real fire at a Frank Zappa concert.

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Medium
✓ TRUE

The song recounts the 1971 Montreux Casino fire during a Zappa show, where a flare gun ignited the venue.

4.

Keyboardist Jon Lord used a Hammond organ modified with a Marshall amplifier to create his signature sound.

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Medium
✓ TRUE

Lord famously ran his Hammond through a Marshall stack, giving it a distorted, powerful tone that defined their hard rock sound.

5.

Ritchie Blackmore left Deep Purple to become a professional cricket player.

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Medium
✗ FALSE

Blackmore left to form Rainbow, not cricket. He did enjoy cricket, but never played professionally.

6.

‘Machine Head’ was recorded in a hotel corridor because the planned studio burned down during sessions.

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Medium
✓ TRUE

After the Montreux Casino fire, they booked a theater but noise complaints forced them to record in a hotel hallway, shaping the album’s live feel.

7.

The band’s original name was ‘Roundabout’ before they changed it to Deep Purple.

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Hard
✓ TRUE

They briefly used ‘Roundabout’ in 1967, but switched to Deep Purple after a promoter’s suggestion and a family member’s favorite song.

8.

‘Deep Purple’ was the first band to have a song played on the Moon.

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Hard
✗ FALSE

No song was played on the Moon; the first song broadcast from space was ‘Jingle Bells’ on Gemini 6.

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