| Coverage : Def Leppard Quiz is designed to test your knowledge of this famous band. How much do you think you really know about Def Leppard? This Def Leppard Quiz will give you new insight into the work and history of this famous band. |
| 1. | Def Leppard are an English hard rock band from Sheffield who formed in what year as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal? |
| a. | | 1980 |
| b. | | 1979 |
| c. | | 1977 |
| d. | | 1972 |
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| 2. | Thanks to their classic albums, Pyromania and Hysteria, Def Leppard became one of the top selling and influential rock bands of the what? |
| a. | | 1970s |
| b. | | 1980s |
| c. | | 1990s |
| d. | | 2000s |
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| 3. | The music of Def Leppard is a mixture of hard rock, glam rock, AOR, and what elements? |
| a. | | hip hop |
| b. | | pop |
| c. | | country |
| d. | | heavy metal |
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| 4. | The band has been associated with the pop metal movement of the 1980s and the contemporaneous NWOBHM genre of the late what? |
| a. | | 1960s |
| b. | | 1970s |
| c. | | 1980s |
| d. | | 1990s |
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| 5. | The Def Leppard sound is also characterised by its combination of hard rock and polished melodic backing vocals? |
| a. | | True |
| b. | | False |
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| 6. | By the release of the Hysteria record, the band had developed a distinctive sound featuring heavily processed drums and effects-laden what guitar sounds, overlaid with a multi-layered wall of husky, harmonised vocals? |
| a. | | space age |
| b. | | colorful |
| c. | | exotic |
| d. | | ancient |
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| 7. | Def Leppard is one of only five rock bands with two original albums selling over how many million copies each in the U.S.? |
| a. | | 100 |
| b. | | 50 |
| c. | | 20 |
| d. | | 10 |
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| 8. | Their debut album, On Through The Night, was released in? |
| a. | | 1989 |
| b. | | 1980 |
| c. | | 1979 |
| d. | | 1970 |
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| 9. | The band then caught the attention of AC/DC producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange, who agreed to work on their second album, High 'n' Dry, released in? |
| a. | | 1981 |
| b. | | 1991 |
| c. | | 1976 |
| d. | | 1986 |
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| 10. | The "Bringin' on the Heartbreak" promo clip became one of the first "metal" videos played on MTV in 1982, and this brought increasing visibility and momentum to the band in the States? |
| a. | | True |
| b. | | False |
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