Q 01/05

Early Marilyn Manson band members paired a female icon's first name with the surname of what kind of figure?

A) A US president

B) A serial killer

C) A horror director

D) A televangelist

Answer · why

B) A serial killer

A serial killer supplied each surname, which is how keyboardist Madonna Wayne Gacy got his stage name. The band dropped the rule in 1996, when a new g...

Q 02/05

Marilyn Manson is godfather to Lily-Rose, the daughter of French singer Vanessa Paradis and which American actor?

A) Nicolas Cage

B) Keanu Reeves

C) Johnny Depp

D) Brad Pitt

Answer · why

C) Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp made his friend godfather to Lily-Rose, who was born in 1999. The actor later played guitar on the band's cover of Carly Simon's You're So...

Q 03/05

Marilyn Manson's breakthrough cover of Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) reworked a 1983 hit by which British duo?

A) Eurythmics

B) Soft Cell

C) Erasure

D) Pet Shop Boys

Answer · why

A) Eurythmics

Eurythmics took the original to number one in the United States in 1983. The 1995 remake's video went into heavy rotation on MTV and made the band a m...

Q 04/05

Marilyn Manson's Rock Is Dead sits beside Rammstein and Rage Against the Machine on the soundtrack of which 1999 film?

A) Stigmata

B) End of Days

C) Idle Hands

D) The Matrix

Answer · why

D) The Matrix

The Matrix used the song about six months after it first appeared on a 1998 album, and it was then released as a single from the soundtrack. A second ...

Q 05/05

Marilyn Manson put his name to a Swiss-made brand of which spirit, winning a gold medal in San Francisco in 2008?

A) Kirschwasser

B) Absinthe

C) Mezcal

D) Schnapps

Answer · why

B) Absinthe

Absinthe sold as Mansinthe took that medal at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition, though some critics called the taste plain. The singer said...