Adam Boult 

Quiz: 10 fictional bands – can you name the films in which they appear?

Do you know which Hollywood hit featured Marvin Berry and the Starlighters? And which comedy had the fake boyband DuJour? Test your knowledge of fictional film bands
  
  


  1. Wyld Stallyns – San Dimas-based rockers mostly famous for bringing peace and unity to earth and being <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cEdqWZi13I">first band to play on Mars</a>

    1. Bio-Dome

    2. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure/Bogus Journey

    3. Dark Star

    4. Total Recall

  2. Marvin Berry and the Starlighters – a great booking for a high school prom, thanks to a swoonsome cover of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Obt_Pe87is">Earth Angel</a>

    1. Back to the Future

    2. Carrie

    3. Never Been Kissed

    4. Grease

  3. Sex Bob-Omb – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwbRfuuhmaI">Super Mario-referencing</a> indie-rockers from Toronto

    1. Ginger Snaps

    2. John Tucker Must Die

    3. Lost Boys: The Tribe

    4. Scott Pilgrim vs the World

  4. Crucial Taunt – Cassandra Wong fronts this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGI1bkiLBEE">Ballroom Blitzing 90s outfit</a>

    1. Kids

    2. The Faculty

    3. Wayne's World

    4. Drop Dead Gorgeous

  5. DuJour – staggeringly successful manufactured boyband (until the plane crash) with the hit record <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwykvrwvWW4">Back Door Lover</a>

    1. She's the Man

    2. The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas

    3. Josie and the Pussycats

    4. Van Wilder – Party Liaison

  6. The Heaven Seventeen – long before their name was stolen by the Sheffield synth-poppers, this band reached No 4 with the song Inside in which Kubrick movie?

    1. Dr Strangelove

    2. A Clockwork Orange

    3. 2001: A Space Odyssey

    4. Spartacus

  7. Infant Sorrow – Aldous Snow fronts this outfit, known for the songs Just Say Yes, Yeah Yeah Oi Oi and Bangers, Beans and Mash

    1. Get Him to the Greek

    2. Arthur

    3. St Trinian's

    4. Hop

  8. Citizen Dick – Seattle grungers behind <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwykvrwvWW4">Touch Me, I'm Dick</a>

    1. Heathers

    2. Pump Up the Volume

    3. Reality Bites

    4. Singles

  9. The Weird Sisters – popular witchy outfit who aren't above playing a school disco

    1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

    2. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2

    3. The Craft

    4. Hocus Pocus

  10. Drimble Wedge and the Vegetations – a 60s band, fronted by George Spiggott, responsible for the track <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au9_vfx6t6c">You Fill Me With Inertia</a>

    1. The Bed-Sitting Room

    2. Bedazzled

    3. The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer

    4. A Dandy in Aspic

Solutions

1:B, 2:A, 3:D, 4:C, 5:C, 6:B, 7:A, 8:D, 9:A, 10:B

Scores

  1. 0 and above.

    Boo. To improve your fictional band knowledge, watch the clips linked in the questions

  2. 6 and above.

    Good score! You're on your way to becoming a film band groupie.

  3. 10 and above.

    Perfect score! You're knowledge of fictional bands is pitch perfect.

 

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