One Man Band - Random Trivia Answers

• A1) Person. Stuart Leslie Goddard renamed himself after a nervous breakdown, although he did also once call his band Adam and the Ants.
• A2) Band. The English group won the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest with "Making Your Mind Up".
• A3) Person. Although Johann Holzel is Austrian, he hit the U.S. pop charts with English and German lyrics in "Rock Me Amadeus" and "Der Kommisar".
• A4) Person. James Newell Osterberg, Jr. took his stage name from his first band, the Iguanas.
• A5) Person. Clyde Jackson Browne was born in Germany in 1948 and inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.
• A6) Band. The English group melded the word "jam", as in "jam session", with "Iroquois", as in "Iroquois Indians".
• A7) Band. Charles Kelley, Dave Haywood, and Hillary Scott formed their country group in 2006.
• A8) Band. The British girl group recorded with Alesha Dixon, Su-Elise Nash, Sabrina Washington, and Zena McNally from 1999 to 2001 before McNally left the band.
• A9) Band. Cousins Gary LeVox and Jay DeMarcus teamed up with Joe Don Rooney for ten number one country songs.
• A10) Band. The Florida alt-rock band was named for nun Sister Hazel Williams in 1994.
• A11) Band. Milton Bradley forced the band to change its name from Shrinky Dinx, which was too close to toy's name.
• A12) Band. Carol Decker's group was named for the Star Trek Vulcan priestess in 1986 and reached #4 in the U.S. with "Heart and Soul" the next year.

One Man Band - Random Trivia Questions

The royal "we" refers to an individual. So do some of the following names. Can you identify whether each of the following is a band or a person?

One Man Band Questions

• Q1) Adam Ant
• Q2) Bucks Fizz
• Q3) Falco
• Q4) Iggy Pop
• Q5) Jackson Browne
• Q6) Jamiroquai
• Q7) Lady Antebellum
• Q8) Mis-Teeq
• Q9) Rascal Flatts
• Q10) Sister Hazel
• Q11) Sugar Ray
• Q12) T'Pau

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.

Battle of the Band Names - Random Trivia Questions

Every music group has a story to tell about how it came up with its name. Sometimes just trying to understand what the name means is complicated. The following dozen questions about singer and band names span the decades all the way back to the 1960s.

• Q1) What 1980s British pop group's name means "yellow bell"?
• Q2) What was the given name of the D.J. and singer known as Shaggy?
• Q3) What writer's words did Sixpence None the Richer borrow for their name?
• Q4) What singer named his band Five for Fighting?
• Q5) What 1980s band originally called itself The Makers but changed its name after visiting Germany?
• Q6) What 1960s and 1970s band started as Chad Allen and the Expressions but was renamed during a publicity stunt?
• Q7) What 1970s band did Rob Parissi name for a box of cough drops?
• Q8) A sign on what type of construction equipment led to Buffalo Springfield's name?
• Q9) What English rock band named itself for a song on David Bowie's album Hunky Dory?
• Q10) What Canadian band is named for a phrase from Mike Kroeger's brother's coffee shop job?
• Q11) What name was rapper T.I. born with?
• Q12) What band took its name from superhero Radioactive Man's sidekick on the The Simpsons cartoon?