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Quiz: name the band
- Given that they were broke a friend suggested this name in 1977.
- This band formed on Christmas Day, 1975, named themselves after a medieval torture device.
- Their agent named them after the English inventor of the agricultural seed drill.
- This group, originally known as The Nightlife Thugs, got their name from the childhood gang in Woody Guthrie's autobiography.
- Originally called 'The Makers' but changed their name after seeing graffiti refering to a prison in Berlin.
- Scottish band who randomly threw a dart at a map to chose their name and it landed somewhere in Michigan.
- Group formed in 1967 which got its name from the title of a Herman Hesse novel.
- Named after two bumbling detectives in Herge's comic strip The Adventures of Tintin.
- Named after a type of unemployment form in the UK.
- A shortening of a word which means members of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves.
- Founded in 1964 and named after the title of a S&M book found on a New York street.
- Rock band named after a character in the Charles Dickens novel 'David Copperfield'.
- A reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the answer to "the ultimate question".
- Which band gets its name from a line in the song "The Jean Genie" by David Bowie.
- Founded in 1982, their names comes from an Irish Gaelic phrase meaning "kiss my arse".
- A band member saw this on a sewing machine and figured it has something to do with power.
- Which band changed their name to a mistranslation of the title of a French fashion magazine?
- This band was founded in New York by Mick Jones, a British guitarist who named it after his outsider status.
- Slang for a person who knows a lot about cars.
- In Buddhism, its a place of perfect peace and happiness.
- Named after a 1963 horror movie starring Boris Karloff.
- From the beehive hairstyle popular in the 1950's.
- This group's name come from a fictitious band mentioned in the novel A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.
- This name came about when founding member Stuart Cable noticed the word on a radiogram.
- This British rock band took its name from a collection of myths and stories by writer J. R. R. Tolkien.
Answers
- Dire Straits
- Iron Maiden
- Jethro Tull
- Boomtown Rats
- Spandau Ballet (Spandau Prison)
- Bay City Rollers (dart landed on Bay City, Michigan)
- Steppenwolf
- Thompson Twins
- UB40
- Troggs (from 'troglodyte')
- Velvet Underground
- Uriah Heep
- Level 42
- Simple Minds
- Pogues ('Pogue Mahone' is Irish Gaelic for 'kiss my ass'.)
- AC/DC
- Depeche Mode
- Foreigner
- Motorhead
- Nirvana
- Black Sabath
- B-52's
- Heaven 17
- Stereophonics
- Marillion (from The Silmarillion)