Audiovisual Band Name Origins by PenningtonJ

Champion(s):

gregariouschinchilla
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Runner(s)-Up:

DuffyM


Quiz Description

Please answer the following questions about how different bands got their names. As an added bonus, each question comes with an audio or visual clue.

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Questions:

What musical duo took its name from the activity performed by the children in the attached photo?

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Eurhythmics

This newspaper clipping from 1945 contains a military slang term (redacted in the article) that later gave its name to what rock band that formed almost 50 years later?

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Foo Fighters

What band, which had a 22-year hiatus between its second and third studio albums, took its name from a 1981 Canadian slasher movie with the attached poster art?

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My Bloody Valentine

What rock band borrowed its name from the concept explained in the attached dictionary definition?

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The Grateful Dead

What band, primarily active in the 1980s and 1990s, took its name from the fashion magazine with its title covered up in the following picture?

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Depeche Mode

What alternative rock group that went on semi-permanent hiatus 4 years ago took its name from the two musicians in the attached picture?

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Sonic Youth

What English group took its name from the 1963 bluebeat song excerpted here?

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Madness

What American indie rock group took its name from the musical spoof excerpted in the following video clip?

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Death Cab for Cutie

The grunge rock band Mudhoney and the hair metal band Faster Pussycat both took their names from the titles of B-movies made by what mustachioed film director depicted below?

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Russ Meyer

What band, an inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, took its name from a paperback book that had the following illustrations on its cover?

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the Velvet Underground

What British group took its name from the song excerpted in the following audio clip?

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Radiohead

The following audio clip (taken from a broadcast of The Joan Rivers Show) provides an explanation for the name of what punk rock band?

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Hüsker Dü