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

Quiet Riot: its cover single's climb to No. 5 helped carry the album past The Police's Synchronicity to No. 1 in November 1983.

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

Slade: their original stalled at No. 98 in America, while the 1983 cover climbed all the way to No. 5 on the Hot 100.

Q 03/05

Before moving to Los Angeles, Poison started out in Mechanicsburg, a town in which US state?

A) West Virginia

B) Delaware

C) Pennsylvania

D) Maryland

Answer · why

C) Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania: the band, first called Paris, had a local following there but saw no bigger break coming, so it headed west.

Q 04/05

Which future Guns N' Roses guitarist auditioned for Poison but lost the lead guitar spot to C.C. DeVille?

A) Izzy Stradlin

B) Tracii Guns

C) Gilby Clarke

D) Slash

Answer · why

D) Slash

Slash: the job went to New Yorker DeVille, who brought along his own song 'Talk Dirty to Me', which became a Poison hit.

Q 05/05

Which Poison ballad did Bret Michaels write in a Dallas laundromat after phoning his girlfriend?

A) Every Rose Has Its Thorn

B) Something to Believe In

C) Life Goes On

D) I Won't Forget You

Answer · why

A) Every Rose Has Its Thorn

Every Rose Has Its Thorn: on the call he heard a man's voice in the background, and the song went on to top the Hot 100.