Q 01/05

Four of the five New Kids on the Block grew up in which Boston neighborhood?

A) Dorchester

B) Southie

C) Charlestown

D) Roxbury

Answer · why

A) Dorchester

Dorchester. Donnie Wahlberg was signed first and brought in friends he had gone to school with; only the last recruit came from another part of the ci...

Q 02/05

Which producer, who had earlier guided New Edition, put New Kids on the Block together in 1984?

A) Lou Pearlman

B) Maurice Starr

C) Babyface

D) Berry Gordy

Answer · why

B) Maurice Starr

Maurice Starr had just lost New Edition in a dispute over money. He reasoned that if five black teenagers from Boston could get that big, white kids d...

Q 03/05

Which two members of New Kids on the Block are brothers?

A) Danny and Joey Wood

B) Donnie and Danny Wahlberg

C) Jonathan and Jordan Knight

D) Jordan and Joey McIntyre

Answer · why

C) Jonathan and Jordan Knight

Jonathan and Jordan Knight. Jordan, the younger of the two, was recruited first; his big brother didn't want to be left out and followed him into the ...

Q 04/05

What was the group originally called before settling on New Kids on the Block?

A) New Edition II

B) Boston Five

C) Unique Attraction

D) Nynuk

Answer · why

D) Nynuk

Nynuk, pronounced 'na-nook', was their producer's idea, and the boys never liked it. When Columbia Records signed them and objected to it as well, the...

Q 05/05

The name New Kids on the Block came from what?

A) A rap Donnie Wahlberg co-wrote

B) A Boston newspaper headline

C) A children's TV show

D) A line in a New Edition hit

Answer · why

A) A rap Donnie Wahlberg co-wrote

A rap Donnie Wahlberg co-wrote for the first album had that title, and it became the group's name. Columbia had signed the boys to its black music div...