| Coverage : Bangles, The Quiz is designed to test your knowledge of this famous band. How much do you think you really know about The Bangles? Bangles, The Quiz will give you new insight into the work and history of this famous band. |
| 1. | The Bangles were one of the new generation of independent all-women bands that followed The Go-Go's in the early what? |
| a. | | 1960s |
| b. | | 1970s |
| c. | | 1980s |
| d. | | 1990s |
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| 2. | The band was formed in Los Angeles, California as The Supersonic Bangs, later shortened to The Bangs in? |
| a. | | 1981 |
| b. | | 1982 |
| c. | | 1983 |
| d. | | 1984 |
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| 3. | The band was part of the so-called Paisley Underground scene in LA, which featured groups that played a mixture of what influenced folk-rock and jangle-pop with a more modern punk-ish/garage band undertone? |
| a. | | 1950s |
| b. | | 1960s |
| c. | | 1970s |
| d. | | 1980s |
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| 4. | They were forced to change their name to The Bangles when a band from where, also named The Bangs, threatened to sue? |
| a. | | Chicago |
| b. | | New York |
| c. | | New Jersey |
| d. | | Boston |
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| 5. | The Bangles full-length debut album on Columbia All Over the Place captured their power-pop roots, and featured singles "Hero Takes a Fall" and the Kimberley Rew-penned "Going Down To Liverpool" in? |
| a. | | 1990 |
| b. | | 1989 |
| c. | | 1986 |
| d. | | 1984 |
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| 6. | "Manic Monday" went on to become a U.S. #2 hit, outsold at the time only by another Prince composition, his very own what song? |
| a. | | Purple Rain |
| b. | | 1999 |
| c. | | Kiss |
| d. | | Someone |
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| 7. | The accompanying album Different Light (1986) was more polished than its predecessor and, with the help of the worldwide #1 hit "Walk Like an Egyptian", saw the band firmly in the mainstream as radio and MTV stalwarts? |
| a. | | True |
| b. | | False |
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| 8. | There was friction among band members after the media began singling out Hoffs as the lead singer of the group? |
| a. | | True |
| b. | | False |
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| 9. | Hoffs starred in a film The Allnighter, which was directed by her mother in? |
| a. | | 1987 |
| b. | | 1988 |
| c. | | 1989 |
| d. | | 1990 |
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| 10. | Everything was another multi-platinum smash and included their biggest selling single in the soft ballad "Eternal Flame" which was inspired by Elvis Presley's eternal flames and one at a local synagogue in Palm Springs which co-writer Billy Steinberg attended in? |
| a. | | 1990 |
| b. | | 1999 |
| c. | | 1989 |
| d. | | 1988 |
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