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Radiohead Trivia Questions

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

1.

Radiohead banned all smartphones from their 2016 tour to force fans to live in the moment.

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Easy
✗ FALSE

They never banned phones. Some venues asked fans to use lockable pouches voluntarily, but it wasn't an official band-wide policy.

2.

Jonny Greenwood, guitarist of Radiohead, is a classically trained violist who has contributed string arrangements to the band's music.

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Easy
✓ TRUE

Greenwood studied viola at Oxford Polytechnic and has written string parts for many Radiohead songs, including 'Black Star' and 'Pyramid Song'.

3.

Radiohead's album 'OK Computer' won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1998.

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Medium
✗ FALSE

The album was nominated but lost to Bob Dylan's 'Time Out of Mind'.

4.

Radiohead's album 'OK Computer' was originally going to be called 'Zero Zero One'.

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Medium
✗ FALSE

False. The title 'OK Computer' was chosen early, inspired by a radio jingle; it was never planned as 'Zero Zero One'. That's a fan myth.

5.

The lead singer of Radiohead, Thom Yorke, is legally blind in one eye.

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Medium
✓ TRUE

Yorke was born with a droopy left eyelid (ptosis) and had multiple surgeries, leaving him with limited vision in that eye since childhood.

6.

The iconic 'Kid A' album cover art was created using a computer program that distorted a real landscape photo.

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Hard
✗ FALSE

The cover art was entirely computer-generated using the 3D program Bryce, not a distorted photo. The surreal mountain landscape was designed digitally by Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke.

7.

Radiohead once performed a secret gig under the name 'The Smile' before that became a separate project.

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Hard
✗ FALSE

Actually, The Smile is a separate band featuring Yorke and Jonny Greenwood. Radiohead's early alias was 'On a Friday'. This is a common mix-up.

8.

Radiohead's song 'Fitter Happier' from 'OK Computer' is entirely spoken by a robotic voice from a Macintosh computer.

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Hard
✓ TRUE

The voice is Apple's 'SimpleText' speech synthesis program (using the 'Whisper' voice), reading Yorke's lyrics. No human vocals appear on the track.

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