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Celebrity High School Bands — Daily trivia Monday, August 24, 2026: questions and answers
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Q 01What was John Lennon's first band called?
- AThe Moondogs
- BThe Quarrymen
- CJohnny and the Moondogs
- DThe Silver Beetles
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The Quarrymen
Lennon's 1956 skiffle group took its name from a line in the Quarry Bank High School song. Paul McCartney joined The Quarrymen in 1957; by 1960 they were the Beatles.
Q 02Which band started in high school as Kara's Flowers?
- AMaroon 5
- BOneRepublic
- CParamore
- DFall Out Boy
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Maroon 5
Adam Levine, Jesse Carmichael, Mickey Madden and Ryan Dusick formed Kara's Flowers at Brentwood School in Los Angeles in 1994 and released one album on Reprise before regrouping as Maroon 5.
Q 03What was Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt's high-school band called?
- AThe Network
- BPinole Valley Punkers
- CThe Frustrators
- DSweet Children
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Sweet Children
In 1987, 15-year-old friends Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt started a band that within months was called Sweet Children. They dropped the name for Green Day in April 1989.
Q 04Which band did the Madden twins name after a children's book?
- AGood Charlotte
- BSimple Plan
- CBlink-182
- DSum 41
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Good Charlotte
Joel and Benji Madden formed the band in Waldorf, Maryland, in 1995. They took the name from Carol Beach York's children's book Good Charlotte: Girls of the Good Day Orphanage.
Q 05What was U2's original name at their Dublin school?
- AThe Hype
- BFeedback
- CThe Passengers
- DVirgin Prunes
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Feedback
In 1976 14-year-old Larry Mullen Jr. pinned a note on the notice board at Dublin's Mount Temple Comprehensive School seeking musicians. The band was Feedback until 1977, then the Hype, before settling on U2 in 1978.
Q 06Which band played its first gig as Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem?
- AFaith No More
- BJane's Addiction
- CRed Hot Chili Peppers
- DFishbone
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Red Hot Chili Peppers
Red Hot Chili Peppers. Kiedis, Flea, Slovak and Irons met at Fairfax High School, and the one-off club gig went down so well they were asked back the next week.
Q 07Tom Morello's high school bandmate went on to co-found which band?
- ATool
- BDeftones
- CKorn
- DSystem of a Down
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Tool
At Libertyville High School in Illinois, Morello played guitar in Electric Sheep alongside bassist Adam Jones, who later co-founded Tool and switched to guitar. Morello went on to form Rage Against the Machine.
Q 08What were Radiohead called when they formed at school?
- AThe Headless Chickens
- BAbingdon Boys
- CShindig
- DOn a Friday
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On a Friday
Radiohead formed at Abingdon School in Oxfordshire in 1985 as On a Friday, the day they rehearsed in the music room. EMI asked for a new name in 1991; they took Radiohead from a Talking Heads song.
Q 09Which astronaut played baritone horn in a college marching band?
- ABuzz Aldrin
- BNeil Armstrong
- CJohn Glenn
- DYuri Gagarin
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Neil Armstrong
Neil Armstrong played baritone horn in the Purdue All-American Marching Band while studying aeronautical engineering, graduating in 1955, fourteen years before he walked on the Moon.
Q 10Which pop star learned trombone as a child and performed in a marching band as a teenager?
- ANelly Furtado
- BNorah Jones
- CAlicia Keys
- DAdele
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Nelly Furtado
Nelly Furtado. Born in Victoria, British Columbia, she took up trombone and ukulele as a child and performed in a Portuguese marching band as a teenager.
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