Q 01/05

Which band recorded Metal Health (1983), the first heavy metal album to top the Billboard 200?

A) Quiet Riot

B) Def Leppard

C) Twisted Sister

D) Dokken

Answer · why

A) Quiet Riot

It knocked The Police's Synchronicity off the top spot in November 1983 and went on to sell six million copies in the US.

Q 02/05

Which English group originally recorded 'Cum On Feel the Noize', a 1973 UK No.1 covered into a US hit in 1983?

A) Sweet

B) Slade

C) T. Rex

D) Mud

Answer · why

B) Slade

The original reached No. 98 in America, while the 1983 cover climbed to No. 5 on the Hot 100 and sold a million copies.

Q 03/05

Poison formed in 1983 in Mechanicsburg, a town in which state, before relocating to Los Angeles?

A) West Virginia

B) New Jersey

C) Pennsylvania

D) Maryland

Answer · why

C) Pennsylvania

The band was originally called Paris and changed its name to Poison in March 1983, just before heading west.

Q 04/05

Which future Guns N' Roses guitarist was the other finalist against C.C. DeVille for Poison's lead guitar spot?

A) Izzy Stradlin

B) Tracii Guns

C) Gilby Clarke

D) Slash

Answer · why

D) Slash

The band wanted an East Coast player, and DeVille also brought along a song from his old group: 'Talk Dirty to Me'.

Q 05/05

Which Poison ballad, written by Bret Michaels after a pay-phone call from a Dallas laundromat, became the band's only Billboard Hot 100 No. 1?

A) Every Rose Has Its Thorn

B) Talk Dirty to Me

C) Nothin' But a Good Time

D) Unskinny Bop

Answer · why

A) Every Rose Has Its Thorn

It topped the chart for three weeks starting on Christmas Eve 1988; Miley Cyrus later covered it in 2010.