Test Your Hair Band I.Q.

By Julie Anderson

A. Winger
B. Warrant
C. Ratt
D. Great White

2. Autograph is best known for what song from their 1984 album, “Sign in Please”?

A. Burning Like a Flame
B. Alone Again
C. Turn Up the Radio
D. Teas’n, Pleas’n

3. Dante Fox’s manager, Alan Niven, thought the band should change their name. He suggested the nickname that singer Jack Russell had given the band’s guitarist Mark Kendall. Dante Fox then became known as:

A. White Lion
B. Great White
C. Loverboy
D. Shotgun Messiah

4. Who said, “The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something”?

A. Gene Simmons
B. Bret Michaels
C. Alice Cooper
D. Dee Snider

5. Who frolicked on the hoods of Jaguars in Whitesnake’s “Here I Go Again” video and later married lead singer David Coverdale?

A. Traci Lords
B. Elle McPherson
C. Pamela Anderson
D. Tawny Kitaen

6. Which female-fronted band gained notoriety for controversial S&M-inspired concert performances that included a male “slave” in bondage?

A. Bitch
B. Vixen
C. Heart
D. Girlschool

7. Tommy Lee of Motley Crue met his future wife Heather Locklear at what concert?

A. Poison
B. Night Ranger
C. .38 Special
D. REO Speedwagon

8. Which album cover art contains hidden images? (They’re more visible when you invert the photo.)

A. Guns N’ Roses’s “Appetite for Destruction”
B. Poison’s “Open Up and Say… Ahh!”
C. Warrant’s “Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich”
D. Dangerous Toys’s “Dangerous Toys”

9. What hair band lead singer went on to market a highly successful tequila brand?

A. Kip Winger
B. Alice Cooper
C. Jon Bon Jovi
D. Sammy Hagar

10. Why did Robert Sweet, Michael Sweet, and Oz Fox of Roxx Regime change the band’s name to Stryper?

A. It refers to lashes from a whip that Jesus endured.
B. It stands for Salvation Through Redemption Yielding Peace, Encouragement and Righteousness.
C. Lead singer Michael Sweet’s then-girlfriend was an unapologetic stripper.
D. The Sweet brothers hailed from the town of Strype in the Dutch province of South Holland.

11. What band did covers of Sweet’s “Ballroom Blitz” and The Guess Who’s “American Woman”?

A. Kix
B. Krokus
C. Helix
D. Dokken

12. This singer was a classical music-loving ballet dancer in his youth, and is now an accomplished composer of symphonic ballet music. It’s none other than:

A. Kip Winger of Winger
B. Stephen Pearcy of Ratt
C. Mike Tramp of White Lion
D. Jack Blades of Night Ranger

13. Which band is known for the image of a dude in a hockey mask and straightjacket on their album covers?

A. Cinderella
B. Quiet Riot
C. W.A.S.P.
D. Lizzy Borden

Answers

1 – A, 2 – C, 3 – B, 4 – A, 5 – D, 6 – A, 7 – D, 8 – C, 9 – D, 10 – B, 11 – B, 12 – A, 13 - B