Rock Band Vocabulary

These words are also the names of well-known rock bands. Can you guess the band name based on the definition of the word?
All the answers are a single word
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First submittedApril 11, 2012
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Definition
Band
Female monarch
Queen
State of enlightenment
Nirvana
Fraternity recruitment period
Rush
Island of fertility in a desert
Oasis
Voyage
Journey
Infection caused by the bacteria Bacillus anthracis
Anthrax
Evil spirit who tries to impregnate sleeping women
Incubus
British term for sidewalk
Pavement
Source of artistic inspiration
Muse
Fatty part of milk
Cream
Light-colored brownie
Blondie
Vehicle capable of interstellar transit
Starship
Person who is not in their home country
Foreigner
Judge's authorization for a search or arrest
Warrant
Rubbish
Garbage
Book or magazine with lurid subject matter, printed on cheap paper
Pulp
The primary organ of the circulatory system
Heart
Extinct relative of the elephant
Mastodon
To change from a solid to a gas without passing through a liquid state
Sublime
The point of creation
Genesis
Fairies
Pixies
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Level 46
Oct 30, 2013
I'm glad pavement was an answer. Pavement was such a great band.
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Level 95
Apr 9, 2020
Did you go and cut your hair?
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Level 86
Jul 16, 2014
My favorite band is Rush and I didn't find them... I still don't understand the clue.
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Level 86
Apr 10, 2020
I still think it's a bad clue. Too specific (not saying too American... I didn't even know what fraternities are six years ago). In the dictionary that I use (wordreference), there is a long list of meanings of "rush" and of expressions and verbs containing it, but no sign of "rush week".
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Level 75
May 19, 2020
Rush week is the time period set aside for frat and sorority recruitment parties and other activities at American universities. It's often shortened to just "rush". Some of them now call it recruitment week. I checked several dictionaries and they all had meanings for rush similar to this one in Merriam-Webster's, "a drive by a fraternity or sorority to recruit new members".

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rush

I couldn't afford to go Greek when I was in college so I couldn't tell you anything about it personally.

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Level 83
Feb 5, 2024
go Greek?
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Level 74
Sep 12, 2020
Agreed, clue could use amendment -- I've never heard 'rush' used in this way either. Great band though! 'In a hurry' or 'what you do when you're running late' or some more eloquent version would be less geographically constrained :)
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Level 59
Apr 29, 2016
JOURNEY. DUH. I was like, "Vacation? Trip? Cruise?" What a dummy.
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Level 91
Apr 9, 2020
Same here. Couldn't get beyond the naval sense of voyage.
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Level 66
Apr 29, 2016
Couldn't spell Foreigner correctly (over and over again). Good quiz.
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Level 54
Apr 29, 2016
For rubbish could you also accept "Limp Bizkit" or "Creed"? Because I feel those are both acceptable answers.
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Level 57
May 2, 2016
Well played ;)
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Level 89
Jul 22, 2018
I typed Oasis and it popped up elsewhere.
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Level 76
Apr 29, 2016
Tourist? Expat? Refugee? (quiz ends) FOREIGNER! *headdesk*
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Level 60
May 10, 2016
Expatriate would be a GREAT name for a band!
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Level 80
Jul 12, 2017
Yep. Even tried immigrant, alien, visitor, diplomat.... duh.
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Level 70
May 19, 2020
Yeah, I thought The Fugees should work here.
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Level 74
Sep 9, 2021
The Eurythmics were originally called the Tourists, but that's plural, so doesn't fit the clue. Still tried it, though...
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Level 90
Jul 12, 2017
I spent way too much time trying to figure out what female monarch was also a band name. "Elizabeth" no, "Victoria" no, "Beatrix", no "Anne" no, "Mary" no. I guess you can figure out where it's going. The greatest voice in rock in roll is mocking me from his grave.
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Level 82
Aug 3, 2017
'Exile' as a possible answer for "someone who is not in their own country" ?
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Level 89
Jul 22, 2018
Close, but no cigar. That's a specific type of foreigner.
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Level 68
Mar 8, 2019
For ‘the point of creation’ I put Offspring, would you consider this for an answer?
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Level 66
Sep 28, 2019
I thought of Live
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Level 75
May 19, 2020
I was typing Conception as time ran out - just guessing - but it turns out it was actually a metal band from Norway, although I doubt it would have been an acceptable answer even if I had beaten the clock.
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Level 74
Sep 12, 2020
Agreed! "Point" has many possible meanings -- perhaps "moment of creation" would be better as a clue?
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Level 82
Apr 9, 2020
Nice to see sublime on here, sound track to my completely wasted youth right there
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Level 69
Apr 9, 2020
LOL I kept typing in Sublimation... oh well only missed that one! Great Quiz!!
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Level 86
May 19, 2020
Me too, and I've never heard of the band, so I never got to Sublime.
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Level 77
May 19, 2020
You've never heard of Sublime??
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Level 79
Apr 9, 2020
Light colored brownie called a blondie...never heard of that.
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Level 75
May 19, 2020
Mmmm, blondies are good. The best are when they marble them half chocolate and half blonde. Domino's Pizza does those for a dessert.
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Level 75
Apr 10, 2020
Alien as a type in for Foreigner? Terrible band but it fits
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Level 75
Apr 14, 2020
I struggled with the creation one for a good minute or so. The best I could do was "A-ha", which I still think should be accepted :-).
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Level 89
May 19, 2020
No Poison?
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Level 81
May 19, 2020
Ligh-colored brownie should be / accept "Vanilla Fudge".
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Level 75
May 19, 2020
All the answers are a single word
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Level 71
May 19, 2020
Wow, what an eclectic list of bands! I'd love to be on a road trip with you - you'd never know what song might be next on the mp3 player!! :-)
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Level 66
May 19, 2020
Didn't get Cream which is hugely disappointing. One of the best bands ever. And I've never heard of a blondie being a light coloured brownie. I thought it was just fudge. Great to see the Pixies there too.
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Level 77
Feb 2, 2021
I was disappointed that there isn't a band called "butterfat" HAHA
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Level 72
May 19, 2020
Shouldn’t UFO be allowed for vehicle capable of interstellar transit?
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Level 84
May 19, 2020
As an acronym, UFO is technically three words.
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Level 64
May 19, 2020
Duuuh, had all of them but missed 5 still, stupidly missing Starship and I knew it was Mastodon, the name just wouldn't pop up !

Great quiz anyway, thanks !

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Level 71
May 19, 2020
You had all of them but missed 5? Sorry bud but that means you didn't have all of them, you barely got 3/4 of them.
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Level 57
May 20, 2020
"State of enlightenment" should definitely accept A-ha! :-)
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Level 63
May 21, 2020
Americans use the term "pavement" as well. for pavement. because that's what it is. it applies to any paved area. are British sidewalks paved? or do they use concrete like most American sidewalks?

Also, the definition for Sublime doesn't make much sense to me, either. sure, it's technically correct, as a verb, but there's also a noun definition that is much more widely used and well known. odd that you would choose the verb definition, which i wasn't even aware of.

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Level 83
May 9, 2021
our term 'pavement' has a more restricted field though, it refers specifically to the part at the side of the road you walk on, and can't refer to the road itself
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Level 79
Dec 14, 2023
We don't use "pavement" to refer to sidewalks though.
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Level 83
Feb 5, 2024
British pavements (sidewalks) in towns and cities are usually covered with paving slabs, or occasionally bricks laid in patterns. Along country roads, where present, they are more likely to be covered in tarmac, like most road surfaces.
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Level 67
May 21, 2020
At first I tried "Sublimate" but then I got it
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Level 82
May 22, 2020
Never heard of Pavement, Muse, Pulp, or Heart before... weird names for bands... but got them all based on the fairly easy clues. Had no idea that this was another definition of sublime.
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Level 73
Jul 21, 2020
Never heard of Heart?? BARRACUDA
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Level 68
Sep 23, 2020
Pulp are great*. Muse used to be until they went a bit pop.

I'm shocked you haven't heard of Heart - Alone is a power ballad classic.

*Surely you've heard Common People?

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Level 74
Aug 2, 2021
Definitely thought "Book or magazine with lurid subject matter,

printed on cheap paper" was Porno for Pyros

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Level 67
Apr 1, 2022
Anyone else lose loads of time trying to spell mammoth all kinds of different ways?
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Level 73
Feb 6, 2023
Fun quiz. I am not familiar with all of these bands, but I can't believe I missed Rush and Foreigner! I still managed 15/21. Thanks for the quiz!
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Level 43
Jul 29, 2023
I typed sublimation for sublime...