Fender Guitar Quiz

1) What differentiates the Thinline Telecaster from the standard Telecaster?  

2) In which country is the Fender Player series manufactured?

3) What is the typical pick-up configuration of the Fender Stratocaster?

4) In 2009 Fender lost a court case relating to the Stratocaster, Telecaster and Precision bass. What was the case?

5) In which year did Fender acquire the Squire brand?

6) Leo Fender sold Fender to CBS in which year?

7) In 2020, the Fender company’s UK division, Fender Europe, was fined £4.5 million for what? 

8) Bonnie Raitt is most associated with which Fender guitar?

9) The Fender Telecaster was originally launched with a different name, what was it?

10) Wilko Johnson’s signature Telecaster is what colour?

11) Steve Cropper of Booker T and MGs mostly played which Fender guitar?

12) What is the usual scale length in inches of the Stratocaster and Telecaster?

13) In what year did Fender launch the Jaguar guitar?

14) Which guitar brand did Leo Fender launch in 1975?

15) Leo Fender’s first guitars were designed in collaboration with inventor Doc Kauffman who had previously worked for which other guitar company?

16) Who named one of their Fender guitars Izabella?

17) In 2019 Fender acquired the Bigsby brand, famous for its vibrato system, from which other guitar manufacturer? 

18) Eric Clapton’s famous black Stratocaster, Blackie, sold at auction in 2004 for who much?

19) Leo Fender famously did not play the guitar, but which instrument did he learn to play?

20) The Fender Jag-Stang guitar was designed by which guitarist?