Battle of the Band Names - Random Trivia Answers

• A1) Wang Chung. Their 1982 debut album was Huang Chung, the original spelling of the name, but the group later claimed it was the sound of a guitar on American Bandstand.
• A2) Orville Richard Burrell. His nickname comes from the Scooby-Doo's best friend, Norville "Shaggy" Rogers.
• A3) C.S. Lewis. The book Mere Christianity included his 1943 chats on BBC radio.
• A4) John Ondrasik. The ice hockey phrase is short for "five-minute major penalty for fighting".
• A5) Spandau Ballet. Spandau, a borough of Berlin, formerly housed a prison for war criminals.
• A6) The Guess Who. The Canadian band was covering British classics and wanted to appear British, so a record was shipped out labeled "Guess Who?". A few years later the band became Bachman Turner Overdrive, for the members' names and a trucker magazine.
• A7) Wild Cherry. The group reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 with "Play That Funky Music" on September 18, 1976.
• A8) Steamroller. The band was called Herd until the road in front of the house they were rehearsing in got repaved.
• A9) The Kooks. After selling over a million albums in the U.K., the band began a U.S. tour and currently has "Naive" climbing the Billboard Modern Rock chart.
• A10) Nickelback. He would often tell customers, "Here's your nickel back".
• A11) Timithy Abdole Quagmire. His grandfather nicknamed him Tip, but the Southern singer confused fans by pronouncing it like "Chip", so he spelled it out as "T.I.P." and later dropped the 'P'.
• A12) Fallout Boy. When a fan recommended the name at a concert, the band didn't know where it came from, but they stuck with it and haven't been sued.