Band Name Origin | Band | % Correct |
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Named after the dog in The Wizard of Oz | Toto | 93%
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A reference to acts such as B.B. King and Z.Z. Hill | ZZ Top | 80%
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A nickname given to the frontman when he was a kid by other children teasing him about his asthma | Weezer | 74%
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Suggested because it was short, positive, direct, and memorable | Yes | 65%
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The UK government's form number for the Unemployment Benefit Attendance Card, as shown on the band's debut album | UB40 | 58%
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3-letter acronym for each of the members' nicknames | TLC | 45%
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Term used by TV studios to describe a shoulders-up shot of a person as 'all content, no action.' | Talking Heads | 36%
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A reference to the literary character Don Quixote, who mistook windmills for giants | They Might Be Giants | 36%
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Named in reference to the aboriginal tradition of sleeping with dingos on cold nights | Three Dog Night | 26%
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A parody of the name of LA glam band Pretty Boy Floyd | Ugly Kid Joe | 23%
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Because of mishearing the Beatles lyric "With tangerine trees and marmalade skies" | Tangerine Dream | 21%
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Baseball player Richie Ashburn used to yell "I've got it!" in Spanish to avoid collisions with his teammate. | Yo La Tengo | 17%
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From a thesis paper that described how interplanetary travel was possible in less than a minute | Thirty Seconds to Mars | 16%
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