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slj0101 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 10:20 AM
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Guess the band by its name origin quiz
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Edited on Tue Jan-23-07 10:37 AM by slj0101
I figured this would be a good one, since there's been a lot of lyrics quizzes here lately. Add your own as well!
edit- don't scroll down if you don't want to see others' answers. :)

1. A term from an anti-nuke pamphlet a founding member discovered. The band name is a misspelled version of the term.
2. A pair of slain statesmen, symbolic of the end of the American dream.
3. Derived from the founding members' sister's sewing machine.
4. Named after a Talking Heads song.
5. A brand of grain alcohol.
6. Officer John Baker's police radio code on the TV show "CHiPs"
7. A noise-making sculpture in the band members' home state
8. A pair of blues artists in a founding member's record collection.
9. Inspired by peppermint candy, because it evokes childhood innocence.
10. Derived from a stage name once used by Paul McCartney.
11. A term for Nazi concentration camp women forced into prostitution.
12. Abbreviated form of a sociological theory a founding member came up with in college.
13. A 1963 horror film starring Boris Karloff.
14. Named because the band's members were all considered elite musicians.
15. Inspired by the names of two frontmen for an influential German band.
16. A character on a Cheech & Chong record.
17. Coined from a cynical phrase credited to one of two members of the Who.
18. Stolen from a list of prospective magazine titles.
19. Derived from a term Jimmy Swaggart once used to describe rock & roll.
20. From a Danish board game.



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