| Band Name Origin | Band | % Correct |
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| Name created when the frontman's band combined with another band, The L.A. Guns | Guns N' Roses | 82%
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| In reference to the name of their drummer's old band, LIPS | KISS | 80%
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| Named after the torture device shown in the 1939 film The Man in the Iron Mask | Iron Maiden | 79%
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| Refers to the Hindenburg disaster | Led Zeppelin | 76%
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| Instead of Gabriel's Angels, they settled on this name, suggesting "a new beginning". | Genesis | 70%
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| Slang term for an entire day spent smoking marijuana | Green Day | 52%
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| Named after a high school gym teacher who strictly prohibited boys from having long hair | Lynyrd Skynyrd | 48%
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| Nicknames of two college friends, one with an owlish face and the other with puffy cheeks | Hootie and the Blowfish | 44%
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| The lead vocalist once drew a picture of his overweight brother swallowing a globe. | Jimmy Eat World | 42%
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| Named after the Santa Monica park the singer passed on the way home from band practice | Linkin Park | 40%
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| Phrase found in a dictionary, meaning "the soul of a dead person thanking someone who arranged their burial" | Grateful Dead | 37%
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| Their namesake was an 18th-century agriculturist | Jethro Tull | 33%
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| Prostitution wing of a Nazi concentration camp mentioned in the novel The House of Dolls | Joy Division | 26%
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| Name of Scandinavian memory game, which means "Do you remember?" (Without the '?') | {Hüsker} {Dü} | 24%
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