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Becky's Island Music Trivia Quiz #260 - 2/15/06

How Did They Get Their Name II - Bands

Answers

1. A pun on Buddy Holly's "Crickets," and a motorcycle gang in a Marlon Brando movie: The Beatles
2. The first names of two obscure blues musicians
: Pink Floyd
3. A William Blake quote about perception
: The Doors
4. A psychedelic Hermann Hesse novel
: Steppenwolf
5. Where Jesus grew up; also a city mentioned in "The Weight" by The Band
: Nazareth
6. A slang expression for skipping school and smoking pot all day
: Green Day
7. A 1963 Boris Karloff horror movie
: Black Sabbath
8. A 1932 Bela Lugosi horror movie
: White Zombie
9. A description of power currents found on the back of an electrical object
: AC/DC (NOT from the slang term for bisexuality)
10. The first book in the Bible
: Genesis
11. World War II pilot slang for an unidentified flying object
: Foo Fighters
12. In Greek mythology, the river that surrounds the underworld
: Styx
13. An old stage name used by Paul McCartney
: The Ramones
14. Dorothy's dog
: Toto
15. "I've got it" in Spanish
: Yo La Tengo
16. An 18th century agriculturalist who invented the seed drill
: Jethro Tull
17. Because they felt, as Southerners, they were different from East Coast and West Coast rappers
: OutKast

Bonus: A failed Ford sports car built in Italy by DeTomaso: Pantera

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