Q 01/05

By his own account, an advert for which brand drove Meat Loaf to drop his birth name, Marvin?

A) Wrangler

B) Levi's

C) Budweiser

D) Marlboro

Answer · why

B) Levi's

Levi's. He said a commercial with the line 'Poor fat Marvin can't wear Levi's' haunted him so badly that he legally became Michael Lee Aday.

Q 02/05

In which city was Meat Loaf born?

A) Houston

B) Memphis

C) Dallas

D) Tulsa

Answer · why

C) Dallas

Dallas. At 16 he was at Love Field when President Kennedy landed on the morning of 22 November 1963, and after the shooting he and his friends drove t...

Q 03/05

By Meat Loaf's own account, his father said that as a newborn he looked like several pounds of what?

A) Ground chuck

B) Pork sausage

C) Boiled ham

D) Turkey breast

Answer · why

A) Ground chuck

Ground chuck. He said he was born bright red, so his father had 'Meat' written on his hospital crib; the 'Loaf' came later, in a story he told a dozen...

Q 04/05

In Meat Loaf's telling, who gave him the 'Loaf' half of his name by shouting 'meatloaf' at him?

A) His choir director

B) A football coach

C) A school bus driver

D) His Bible-study teacher

Answer · why

B) A football coach

A football coach. He said classmates taped a note reading 'Meat Loaf' to his locker the next day, though he told the story of his name in so many ways...

Q 05/05

How did Meat Loaf try to fail his Vietnam draft physical?

A) By faking deafness

B) By gaining 60 pounds

C) By claiming flat feet

D) By staying awake for three days

Answer · why

B) By gaining 60 pounds

He still got a notice to appear before the draft board, and ignored it.