Bands by Geographical Origin Trivia

1. Danish-born drummer Lars Ulrich joined the American-born guitarists Kirk Hammett, Cliff Burton and James Hetfield to record the 1983 album "Kill 'Em All". What was the name of this heavy metal band?

From Quiz More Groups with Members From Different Countries

Answer: Metallica

Metallica is a heavy metal band formed in 1981 by Danish-born drummer Lars Urlich and American-born guitarist James Hetfield. Between 1983 and 2008, the band released nine studio albums. Metallica was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2009.

From Quiz British Invasion Artists Not from England

Answer: Pete Best

Randolph Peter "Pete" Best was born in the city of Madras in India. His mother moved to Liverpool and opened The Casbah Coffee Club in the their cellar. Pete performed there with his group called The Black Jacks and the club became a popular hangout with Liverpool youths including members of the Beatles. In 1960 The Beatles asked Best to play drums for them in Hamburg, Germany. The Beatles returned to England later the same year without bassist Stu Sutcliffe and reformed to return to Germany in early 1961. After the band's second trip to Germany they auditioned for Decca Records and were rejected. In June of 1962 Brian Epstein notified Best that he was not longer with the band. Stu Sutcliffe was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. George and Ringo were born in Liverpool.

From Quiz We are just a little band from ...

Answer: Chicago

The Smashing Pumpkins were formed in 1988 by lead singer Billy Corgan and James Iha. Some of their hit songs are: "Bullet with Butterfly Wings", "1979" and "Cherub Rock". Styx had hits with "Lady", "Come Sail Away", "Babe", "Show me the Way" and "The Best of Times". Fall Out Boy started in 2001 and hit the charts with "This Ain't a Scene" and "It's an Arms Race".

From Quiz Si Senor, I Can Sing

Answer: Ritchie Valens

Ritchie Valens career unfortunately ended only eight months after he broke onto the music scene in 1958. He burst onto the scene with "Come On, Let's Go" in 1958 and followed with his biggest hit "Donna", (U.S. Billboard number two) "La Bamba" which was on the flip side also charted and made number 22 on the U.S. Billboard charts. In early 1959 he was one of the rock and roll tour members killed in the crash of a small plane during a winter tour which included Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson) among others. Although born in southern California he was of Mexican descent, and was one of the pioneers of the Latin rock movement in the U.S.

From Quiz Geographic Rock and Roll Bands

Answer: New York Dolls

The New York Dolls were formed in New York City in 1971. Original member David Johansen led the group with help from a number of other artists including Sylvain Sylvain who had come over from a group called Actress. The group broke up in 1977, but they laid the foundation for other "punk" type bands that followed, such as Blondie, Talking Heads, and The Ramones. Johansen reincarnated himself in the 1980s with his "Buster Poindexter" persona. The band got together again in 2006 with both Johansen and Sylvain leading the way.

From Quiz Ciao, I Can Sing

Answer: Frankie Valli

Francis Stephen Castellucio was born in Newark, New Jersey on May 3, 1934. He actually began his professional career way back in 1951 with a group called The Variety Trio. His first recordings were with a group called The Four Lovers in 1956, and they had some minor success. The group changed members a few times, and in 1960 were joined by Bob Gaudio, and became The Four Seasons. Frankie's career spans over 50 years, and he has reached the Billboard Top 40 a total of 39 times, as both lead singer of The Four Seasons, and as a solo artist.

From Quiz Still on First Name Terms with British Bands

Answer: Blind Faith

Blind Faith's eponymously titled album reached number one in the UK album charts in 1969. The band consisted of Eric Clapton on guitar, Steve Winwood on guitar and keyboards, Ric (sometimes Rick) Grech on bass and Ginger Baker on drums.

From Quiz On First Name Terms with British Bands

Answer: The Who

The Who's classic line-up was: Pete Townsend, guitar; Roger Daltry, vocals; John Entwistle, bass and the inimitable Keith Moon on drums. Keith died in 1978 and John died in 2002.

From Quiz Name The Band

Answer: Bachman-Turner Overdrive

Randy Bachman was an original member of Guess Who.

From Quiz More Groups with Members From Different Countries

Answer: The Traveling Wilburys

The Traveling Wilburys were a musical supergroup which included members George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Roy Orbison. The band released the album "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1" in 1988. After Roy Orbison's death later that year, the rest of the group recorded a second album, "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3," which was released in 1991.

From Quiz British Invasion Artists Not from England

Answer: Danny Williams

Danny Williams was born in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa, where he won a talent contest at age 14. He joined a touring show titled The Golden City Dixies which brought him to England. A representative of EMI Records was impressed with Williams and signed him to a contract. He recorded a few singles and struggled for chart success until he released a UK Number One recording of "Moon River". Danny then starred in a movie with Billy Fury titled "Play It Cool" (1962) and went on tour with Helen Shapiro and The Beatles. After recording "White on White" in 1964 Danny failed to release any further successful singles in the US and left the music business in 1967. He tried to revive his career in the seventies but failed to have another Top Ten hit. Ian Whitcomb was born in Woking, Surrey, England. Billy Fury was born Ronald Wycherley in Liverpool and Adam Faith hails from London.

From Quiz We are just a little band from ...

Answer: Los Angeles

Led By Jim Morrison, The Doors had hits in the 60's and 70's with "Break On Through (To the Other Side)", "Light My Fire", "Hello, I Love You" and "Riders On The Storm". Van Halen burst on to the scene after 5 years of small gigs in 1977 with their first self titled album. They have been led by both David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar as the lead vocalist. In the 90's, the Los Angeles area produced the band Weezer. Some of their biggest songs are "Buddy Holly", "Undone - The Sweater Song" and "Beverly Hills".

From Quiz Si Senor, I Can Sing

Answer: Jose Feliciano

Feliciano was born in Lares, Puerto Rico, and grew up in the Spanish Harlem section of New York City. He began his career in 1963 playing clubs in Greenwich Village. He had released a couple of albums in the mid 1960s with limited success. He had also performed throughout Latin America and was a well known star there. His breakthrough with American audiences came when he moved to Los Angeles and covered The Doors "Light My Fire" with a Latin style arrangement. The song reached number three on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts in 1968. He was voted Best New Artist at the 1969 Grammy Awards, and also won for Best Pop Song of The Year. In the early 1970s he recorded an album of Christmas music. And if you ever sing along to "Feliz Navidad", you'll be singing along to one of Jose's most famous tunes.

From Quiz Still on First Name Terms with British Bands

Answer: The Animals

I thought putting "House of the Rising Sun" was too much of a give-away; "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" reached number two in 1965. The Animals line-up was Eric Burden, vocals; Alan Price, keyboards; Brian 'Chas' Chandler, bass; Hilton Valentine, guitar and John Steel on drums.

From Quiz On First Name Terms with British Bands

Answer: Cream

Often dubbed the first 'supergroup', Cream's line-up was Eric Clapton on guitar, Jack Bruce on bass and Ginger Baker on drums. Eric and Jack shared the vocals.

From Quiz Name The Band

Answer: Free

Original members Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke would eventually form Bad Company.

From Quiz More Groups with Members From Different Countries

Answer: The Fugees

The Fugees recorded two albums before disbanding in 1997. The Fugees' 1996 album "The Score" won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album in 1997.

From Quiz Groups with Members From Different Countries

Answer: The Black Eyed Peas

The Black Eyed Peas are a hip-hop group formed in 1995. The group's most successful lineup included apl.de.ap, will.i.am, Taboo and Fergie. In February 2011, the Black Eyed Peas performed at the Super Bowl XLV halftime show. Allan Pineda Lindo is better known by his stage name, apl.de.ap.

From Quiz British Invasion Artists Not from England

Answer: The Bachelors

The Bachelors formed in 1957 in Dublin as an instrumental harmonica group calling themselves The Harmonichords. They gained international attention playing "Danny Boy" when Ed Sullivan broadcast a St. Patrick's day show from Dublin. They were signed to Decca Records in 1962, changing their name to The Bachelors. They began releasing records in the UK and achieved chart success in America in 1964 with the Number Ten hit "Diane" and the Top Forty single "No Arms Can Ever Hold You". Their live shows were known for record-breaking attendance wherever they performed. The original lineup of Conleth (Con) Cluskey, Declan (Dec) Cluskey and John Stokes remained together until 1984. The Tremeloes formed in Dagenham, East London. The Pretty Things were from London and The Fortunes formed in Birmingham, England.

From Quiz We are just a little band from ...

Answer: Detroit

In the mid-70's, Detroit saw Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band create such songs as "Night Moves", "Turn the Page" and "Old Time Rock and Roll". Ted Nugent, known as The Motor City Madmen has made such classics as "Cat Scratch Fever", "Stranglehold" and "Wango Tango". Jack and Meg White formed the White Stripes in 1997. Through 2007, they have produced six albums and won five Grammy awards.

From Quiz Si Senor, I Can Sing

Answer: Trini Lopez

Trini Lopez was born in Dallas, Texas and is of Mexican descent. He had played many clubs in the southwestern U.S. in the early 1960s and recorded his first album in 1963. "If I Had a Hammer" was off this album. It became a huge international success, reaching number one in an amazing 36 countries. Interestingly, the U.S. was not one of them. It only reached number three on the Billboard charts. Lopez charted 13 hits between 1963 and 1968. Lopez tried his hand at acting as well and was part of the cast of "The Dirty Dozen"(1967). Lopez is an inductee in the International Latin Music Hall of Fame. Just as an aside. All the other choices listed were U.S. Major League baseball players at one time or another.

From Quiz Still on First Name Terms with British Bands

Answer: Duran Duran

Duran Duran had huge singles success in the 'eighties, with twelve top-ten hit records including two at number one. The line-up was: Simon LeBon, vocals: Nick Rhodes, keyboards; John Taylor, bass; Andy Taylor, guitar and Roger Taylor playing drums.

From Quiz On First Name Terms with British Bands

Answer: Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin sold shedloads of albums but never had a hit single in the UK. The line-up (in case you didn't know!) was Robert Plant on vocals, Jimmy Page, guitars; John Paul Jones, bass and John Bonham on drums.

From Quiz Name The Band

Answer: Cheap Trick

From Quiz Groups with Members From Different Countries

Answer: South Africa

Graham Nash was born in England. Neil Young was born in Canada. David Crosby and Stephen Stills were born in the United States of America. These four singers formed the group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. No member of this group was born in the country of South Africa. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young released three studio albums between 1970 and 1999. The group Crosby, Stills & Nash released five studio albums between 1969 and 1994.

From Quiz British Invasion Artists Not from England

Answer: Glasgow, Scotland

Donovan Philips Leitch was born in Maryhill, Glasgow. As a young boy he contracted polio which left him with a limp. When he was ten years old his parents relocated to Little Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire, England, to get treatment for his polio. By the time Donovan was 14 he was influenced by the Folk Music scene and took up the guitar. He started performing in local pubs and busking with other Folk artists. In 1964 he was offered his first publishing contract and recorded a demo tape featuring ten songs. The following year he met Bob Dylan when Dylan toured the UK. Donovan was introduced to Mickie Most, a promoter who handled artists including The Animals, Herman's Hermits and Lulu. He released "Catch the Wind" in 1965 which made the US Top Forty. The following year he topped the US charts with "Sunshine Superman" and took "Mellow Yellow" to Number Two.

From Quiz Si Senor, I Can Sing

Answer: Joan Baez

Baez was born in Staten Island New York, to a Scottish mother and Mexican father. Her grandfather was a Methodist minister who preached to a Spanish speaking congregation in Brooklyn, New York. Most of Joan's songs deal with political or social issues and she is a champion for many social, civil, and human rights causes. Musically, "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" was her signature hit on the charts, reaching number three on the Billboard U.S. charts in 1971.

From Quiz Geographic Rock and Roll Bands

Answer: Boston

The group Boston was actually formed in Boston, Massachusetts and it took six years for them to have their breakthrough onto the pop scene. Formed by Tom Scholz and Bud Delp, it took a number of years before the group got their break in 1976 with the release of their debut album, simply titled "Boston". It went to number three on the U.S. album charts and gave them singles such as "More Than A Feeling", "Peace Of Mind", and "Foreplay/Long Time". Their followup album, titled "Don't Look Back" was a number one album in 1978. The title track on the album reached number four on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts. The group then had some legal battles with their record label and didn't release their next album until 1986. The hiatus didn't seem to matter as "Third Stage" went to the top of the U.S. album charts that year and yielded the group their biggest charting single called "Amanda" which was a number one hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. The group also had a Top Ten album in 1994 called "Walk On" which peaked at number seven. All told, the group has sold over 50 million albums worldwide in their career. One unfortunate note: lead singer and co-founder Brad Delp passed away in 2007.

From Quiz Ciao, I Can Sing

Answer: Freddy Cannon

Freddy Cannon was born December 4, 1940, to an Italian family in the Boston suburb of Lynn, Massachusetts. He signed a record deal in the late 50s and was brought to national prominence by his appearances on "American Bandstand". He hit the Billboard Top 10 three times, with "Palisades Park" (number three), "Tallahassee Lassie (number six), and "Way Down Yonder In New Orleans" (number six), all in the early 60s. He also sang the theme song from the musical dance show "Where The Action Is" in the mid 60s.

From Quiz Still on First Name Terms with British Bands

Answer: The Rolling Stones

Guitarist Brian Jones was found dead in a swimming pool in 1969. I'm sure you don't need reminding the rest of the band but just for the record; Mick Jagger, vocals; Keith Richards, guitar; Bill Wyman, bass and Charlie Watts on drums.

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