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Etymology	Band	% Correct
Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad	ABBA	91%
Referring to the Hindenburg	Led Zeppelin	64%
Randomly from a dictionary, an abbreviation for a type of sleep	R.E.M.	60%
Abbreviation of original name, "The Management"	MGMT	44%
Nickname given to lead vocalist because of his asthma	Weezer	31%
The sidekick to Radioactive Man from The Simpsons	Fall Out Boy	28%
Slang term for a day spent smoking marijuana	Green Day	25%
Term used by Allied pilots in WWII to describe various UFOs	Foo Fighters	24%
From a John Steinbeck novel, itself taken from a Robert Burns poem	Of Mice & Men	23%
A beehive hairstyle	The B-52's	18%
From a Muddy Waters song	The Rolling Stones	17%
After a gym teacher notorious for enforcing no long hair on boys	Lynyrd Skynyrd	16%
Heart-exploding move from the movie Kill Bill	Five Finger Death Punch	15%
After the group saw a kung fu film	Wu-Tang Clan	13%
Shortening of a deceased animal found in his computer as a teenager	deadmau5	12%
A Wu-Tang Clan name generator sophomore year at NYU	Childish Gambino	11%
A negative review described the duo's effort as "a ____ ____y thrash"	Daft Punk	11%
The lead singer filmed a low-budget vampire movie with the same name	Vampire Weekend	7%
From the Book of Genesis - "If Cain shall be _______ _________"	Avenged Sevenfold	6%
From a line said by Captain Jack Sparrow in The Curse of the Black Pearl	Bring Me the Horizon	5%
Lead vocalist's little sister, with an added space, meaning "victory rose"	Sigur Rós	3%
A flea market in Orlando	Backstreet Boys	2%