Hair Metal quiz

More questions about Hair Metal

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1. 1 Easy

   What hit Mötley Crüe song recounts Nikki Sixx being revived with two adrenaline shots?

   Answer: Kickstart My Heart

   Why: A paramedic, not a doctor, gave the two shots; Sixx woke in the ambulance with both syringes still in his chest.

2. 2 Medium

   Which band scored a Billboard number-one hit with the acoustic ballad "More Than Words"?

   Answer: Extreme

   Why: Nuno Bettencourt wrote the music on a porch in minutes, then slid the cassette under Gary Cherone's door, and Cherone wrote the lyrics.

3. 3 Easy

   Drummer Tommy Lee performed upside down inside a 360-degree cage for which hair metal band?

   Answer: Mötley Crüe

   Why: Lee's elaborate touring drum rigs eventually evolved into a full roller coaster track carrying him over the audience.

4. 4 Easy

   Which power ballad gave the hair metal band Poison their only Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit?

   Answer: Every Rose Has Its Thorn

   Why: Michaels wrote it in a Dallas laundromat after hearing another man's voice when he phoned his girlfriend from the road.

5. 5 Easy

   Which Swedish hair metal band scored a worldwide smash with "The Final Countdown"?

   Answer: Europe

   Why: Joey Tempest wrote the fanfare riff around 1981 on a Korg Polysix borrowed from Mic Michaeli, years before Europe recorded it in 1986.

6. 6 Easy

   Tight pants made from what stretchy synthetic fabric defined the signature look of hair metal?

   Answer: Spandex

   Why: The name spandex is an anagram of 'expands'. DuPont chemist Joseph Shivers created the fiber in 1958, and it stretches up to five times its length.