What's in a name?

[<T-K>]

I can only get two

[<T-K>]

I can only get two

make that three!

[gkaytaz]

Eight answers that is (playing it safe in case some wiseguy is around)...

No... just lil ol' me. I don't think Julian enters this kingdom. Apparently doesn't like quizzes.

Fe Fi Fo Fum

Speak of the devil...

[gkaytaz]

A quick music quiz to keep you all busy over the next couple of weeks. You can either post them here like T-Ks quiz or PM your answers. I will give you all till the 10 Feb before I give the answers/ announce winners etc.

Have fun!!!!

1. According to rumour what band was named after a lost episode of The Brady Bunch?
2. Which band was named after a character from the movie Barbarella?
3. Which band was named after the members asked a Ouija Board what they should call themselves?
4. Which singer changed his name from Reginald Dwight?
5. Which band got their name from a term used by World War II pilots to describe strange flying fireballs they sometimes saw?
6. What band was named after a race horse they saw listed on a racing form?
7. Which ‘60s band took their name from a paperback book they found on the street - the book was about sex in America.
8. What band changed their name from The Warlocks when it was discovered that there was already a band with that name. Their new name came from a folk tale about a troubled soul who is put to rest by a traveler.
9. Which band took their name from a Talking Heads song?
10. What singer was born with the name David Robert Hayward-Jones?
11. Which band took their name from a book written by Herman Hesse?
12. Which Singer started life with the name Robert Zimmerman?

1. ?
2. Duran Duran: Milo O'Shea's evil guy head honcho in Barbarella
3. ?
4. Elton John: Perhaps the easiest question
5. ?
6. ?
7. Velvet Underground: Thanks to a book I own on rock bands
8. Grateful Dead: see #7
9. Radiohead: I suspected this, checked the track listings. Guess that's cheating
10. David Bowie: Easy
11. Steppenwolf: Read the book even. Took German in high school, term paper was on Herman Hesse
12. Bob Dylan: see #7

[<T-K>]

Now I can get 8

[gkaytaz]

Now I can get 8

Well, if you know any of the question marks feel free to make a contribution Or corrections if need be.

[jacfan]

Yes you have those correct. I don't think having a book is cheating.

[cmlean]

You have done well Gkay

[gkaytaz]

You have done well Gkay

Thanks but help me out... There are four more to go and I haven't the slightest clue.

[gkaytaz]

Yes you have those correct. I don't think having a book is cheating.

Thanks. I remember most of the stuff I read there. At one time using that book I had compiled a list of some famous folks' real names versus their stage aliases. Some names were real easy to remember. Can you imagine Elton still being called Reginald?

[jacfan]

Yes you have those correct. I don't think having a book is cheating.

Thanks. I remember most of the stuff I read there. At one time using that book I had compiled a list of some famous folks' real names versus their stage aliases. Some names were real easy to remember. Can you imagine Elton still being called Reginald?

No.... more like Susie or something like that.

[jacfan]

I will give a clue... one of them is in the picture thing that T-K put up. Not saying which

[gkaytaz]

I will give a clue... one of them is in the picture thing that T-K put up. Not saying which

There were 70-odd bands on that picture

[gkaytaz]

Yes you have those correct. I don't think having a book is cheating.

Thanks. I remember most of the stuff I read there. At one time using that book I had compiled a list of some famous folks' real names versus their stage aliases. Some names were real easy to remember. Can you imagine Elton still being called Reginald?

No.... more like Susie or something like that.

Or Regina perhaps

[jacfan]

I will give a clue... one of them is in the picture thing that T-K put up. Not saying which

There were 70-odd bands on that picture

well it was only a hint/clue not the answer.