Which famous rock star earned eight dollars an hour by smoking cigarettes for a UCLA science experiment? If you said Axl Rose, then you know your obscure rock trivia. Congratulations.
Needless to say, Rose isn’t the only musician who can be identified by one obscure fact. Test your expertise this very minute by taking our quiz and identifying the artist by the abstruse bit of trivia we have thrown at you!
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Hint No. 1
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Answer: Kanye West
Kanye West (or Yea, or Yeezus, or Yeezy) dropped out of college at age 20 to pursue a music career. He was awarded the honorary doctorate for his contributions to fashion, music, and popular culture.
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Hint No. 2
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Answer: Bruce Dickinson
Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson is a fully qualified commercial pilot and he used to fly the band from city to city on tour. Sadly, at 65, he has reached mandatory retirement age and can no longer perform this service.
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Hint No. 3
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Answer: Lemmy Kilmister
Lemmy Kilmister, frontman for the heavy metal band Motörhead, used to lug gear around for the greatest guitar player who ever lived. He founded Motörhead after being kicked out of the psychedelic group Hawkwind.
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Hint. No. 4
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Answer: The Pogues
The Pogues were formed in London in 1982. Prior to that, their singer Shane MacGowan made a living digging graves, something we have no trouble believing
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Hint No. 5
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Answer: Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga, known to her family as Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, originally wanted to be a designer but went into music instead. She kept up with her fashionista dreams by designing dresses made out of meat instead.
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Hint No. 6
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Answer: P!nk
P!nk (or Pink), started her musical history by joining a band called Basic Instinct while she was a teenager. The band never took off, possibly because it’s named after a terrible movie.
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Hint No. 7
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Answer: Queen
All of the members of Queen were preternaturally talented, but guitarist Brian May has them all beat with his degree in astrophysics. He also happens to be one of the greatest rock guitar players who ever lived.
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Hint No. 8
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Answer: Little Richard
Richard Wayne Penniman – otherwise known as Little Richard – was both an outrageous performer and deeply religious, two things that often contradicted one another. He left show business in the 1970s to turn to evangelism full-time, but he turned back the next decade.
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Hint no. 9
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Answer: Jon Anderson
Yes singer Jon Anderson was quite fond of castling and putting his opponents in check. He was so fond of it, in fact, that he wrote a whole song, “I’ve Seen All Good People,” whose lyrics are full of references to the game.
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Hint No. 10
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Answer: Chris Martin
Coldplay singer Chris Martin is quite an academically accomplished person, holding degrees in subjects that are quite intellectually rigorous. He was also married to Gwyneth Paltrow before “consciously uncoupling” from her in 2016.
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Hint No. 11
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Answer: Nikki Sixx
Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx held several jobs as an aspiring rocker, including selling vacuum cleaners. We are sad to report that he did it over the phone and was not a door-to-door salesman, which would have been hilarious to see.
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Hint No. 12
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Answer: Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton wrote “Layla” about Patti Boyd, who was married to the ex-Beatle before leaving him for Clapton. That marriage didn’t last either – in fact, Harrison and Boyd were married for one year longer than she was married to Clapton.
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Hint No. 13
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Answer: John Bonham
Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham is acknowledged as one of the greatest rock drummers ever to walk the earth. He was also a raging alcoholic who drank superhuman amounts of alcohol, eventually leading to his death from pulmonary aspiration in 1980.
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Hint No. 14
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Answer: Jeremy Spencer
Jeremy Spencer co-founded the band in 1967 but left in 1971 to join the Children of God, which is now known as the Family International. We’re not going to call it a “cult,” but plenty of its former members did, so we don’t have to.
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Hint No. 15
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Answer: The Eagles
Glenn Frey and Don Henley of the Eagles started out as members of Ronstadt’s band, playing guitar and drums respectively. The two of them eventually decided to launch their own band, which would become the massively successful Eagles of “Hotel California” fame.
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