Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. What alternative band scored a No. 1 hit on Billboard's Modern Rock chart in 1997 with "Sex and Candy"?
FUN FACT
Marcy Playground's 1997 hit "Sex and Candy" spent a then-record fifteen weeks at number one on Billboard's Modern Rock chart.
- Multiple Choice
2. Which Michael Jackson album did Nirvana's "Nevermind" bump from the top spot on the Billboard charts in January 1992?
Michael Jackson's "Dangerous" (1991) had already been certified platinum four times over by the time Nirvana's "Nevermind" (1991) replaced it atop the Billboard 200.
- Multiple Choice
3. Perry Ferrell, lead singer of ___________, founded the traveling alternative music festival Lollapalooza in 1991.
FUN FACT
Perry Farrell initially started Lollapalooza as a farewell tour for his band Jane's Addiction.
- Multiple Choice
4. Which of these popular 1990s TV shows gets shouted out in the 1998 Barenaked Ladies hit "One Week"?
According to the lyrics of "One Week" (1998), the band is "watching 'X-Files' with no lights on" and hoping that "the Smoking Man's in this one."
- Multiple Choice
5. What oddly named alternative band scored hits in the early 1990s with "All I Want" and "Walk on the Ocean"?
FUN FACT
The name Toad the Wet Sprocket comes from an early Monty Python album sketch and was first used as a band name by a British blues band in the late 1970s.
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