Cheeky Monkey or Meeky Chunky Trivia Quiz

Answer: With a Little Help From My Friends

The original line up for the band got together in 1961 and played under a string of different names such as Black Velvets and the Wild Ones. In 1964 they became the Iveys and retained this name until 1969. In 1968 they were signed to Apple Records as the Iveys but did not have a good working relationship with the label until Paul McCartney intervened. McCartney wrote and produced the single "Come and Get It" which would go on to be the band's first hit. Just prior to its release it was suggested that, in an age that was sprouting masculine band names, the Iveys sounded banal.

A string of suggestions were put forward but it was Neil Aspinall's proposal to Badfinger after "Bad Finger Boogie", an early working title for "With a Little Help From My Friends".

Answer: Dion

Dion (DiMucci) had been paired with the band The Timberlanes in 1957 but their single releases did not prove to be successful. Towards the end of that year he was introduced to the Belmonts and so began a short but stormy relationship that produced some incredible harmonies. They broke through with "I Wonder Why" in 1958, broke into the Billboard Hot 100 Top Ten with "Teenager in Love" in 1959 and then produced their biggest hit "Where or When" later in the same year. In 1960 Dion split with group, citing that their directions in music had begun to differ, and proceeded to have hits with "Runaround Sue" and "The Wanderer".

Both Dion and the members of the Belmonts (Carlo Mastrangelo, Fred Milano and Angelo D'Aleo) were from the Bronx area in New York. Two of the Belmonts were resident in Belmont Street and the name was adopted to signify their roots and to link the area of their sound.

The other artists named above are linked as follows; Brian Poole & the Tremeloes, Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas and Archie Bell & the Drells.

Answer: True

Neil Young was a hero to the members of this band who started off its career by playing at house parties in their local area in Brisbane (Australia). There early sets were made up of mainly covers dotted with Neil Young songs such "Like a Hurricane" and the eponymous "Powderfinger". They would go on to be one of Australia's most successful bands peaking with their fourth studio album "Odyssey #5", which included their hit single "My Happiness".

"Powderfinger" appeared on Neil Young's 1979 album "Rust Never Sleeps", which he completed alongside his band Crazy Horse. The first side of the album was acoustic base and Young fires up the electric portion (Side two) with this track.

Answer: Cabaret Voltaire

Cabaret Voltaire hail from Sheffield in England and most of their early work was made up of Dada influenced performance art. The Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich was considered to be the centre of the Dada movement. Influenced by bands such Neu, Can and Kraftwerk in the mid to late 1970s the band would develop and, in some respects, pioneer the industrial music scene drawing inspiration from the post-punk new wave sound and the dance and techno scenes.

Answer: Everything But the Girl

Everything But the Girl is an English duo made up of Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt who met at the University of Hull and soon discovered that they were both signed to the same record label, Cherry Red Records, as solo artists. Despite having established some form of separate recording careers they found that their styles complimented and joined forces in 1984. They released several singles but struggled to get into the UK Top Forty. It wasn't until they did a cover of "I Don't Want to Talk About It" in 1989 that they achieved solid chart success. Their 1995 single "Missing", however, broke them in the mainstream markets across the globe.

The furniture store that they adopted their name from was called Turner's Furniture, located in Beverley Road in Hull.

Answer: The Who

Roger Daltrey had started a band called the Detours in 1959. He recruited John Entwistle, after a chance meeting, and Pete Townshend, a mate of Entwistle's. In 1964 they became aware of the band Johnny Devlin and the Detours and opted to change their names. Discarding options such as "No One", "The Group" and "The Hair" they settled on The Who. Soon after they took on board Peter Meaden to manage them and, at his suggestion, they changed their name to the High Numbers and adopted a "Mod" persona. They released the single under this name called "Zoot Suit" which failed to chart, discarded their manager and reverted back to the prior name The Who.

"The Kids are Alright" (1966) and "Happy Jack" (1966) were two of the many singles released by The Who.

Answer: Nakatomi Plaza

Nakatomi Plaza were a Brooklyn based post-hardcore band that formed in 1998, releasing two full length albums in "Unsettled" (2007) and "Ghosts" (2009) and have been compared to the likes of Mars Volta and Pretty Girls Make Graves. After ten years of line up changes and splits with record labels they disbanded in 2009.

Nakatomi Plaza is the fictional high rise building that houses the Nakatomi Corporation in "Die Hard" (1988) the first in the series of films that bear this name. The other names mentioned above are all from works of fiction and they are also the names of other bands.
Knockturn Alley is from the "Harry Potter" by J.K. Rowling, Amon Amarth, which is Sindarin for Mount Doom is situated in J.R.R. Tolkein's Middle-earth and Evergreen Terrace is a street in the animated television programme "The Simpsons".

Answer: Modest Mouse

Modest Mouse finally achieved mainstream success with the release of their fourth studio album "Good News for People Who Love Bad News" in 2004. The album was met with widespread critical acclaim and praised for its emotional strength. The catalyst for this was a personal tragedy endured by the lead singer Isaac Brock. The album achieved platinum status in the US and produced two hit singles for the band in "Float On" and "Ocean Breathes Salty".

The above line by Virginia Woolf comes from her story "The Mark on the Wall" which was published in 1917 as part of a collection of short stories.

Answer: Gin Blossoms

The picture of Fields in Anger's book comes with the caption "W.C. Fields with gin blossoms". This statement is a little inaccurate. "Gin blossoms" is a slang term for rosacea or burst blood capillaries, often prominent on the nose. It is generally mistakenly attributed to alcoholism. Fields condition however, was rhinophyma which is characterized by prominent pores and a fibrous thickening of the nose.

The Gin Blossoms came into prominence in the early 1990s when their second album "New Miserable Experience" (1992) spawned the hit single "Hey Jealousy" and was certified four times platinum in the US. This was strongly supported by their follow up album "Congratulations... I'm Sorry" in 1996 and the single "Follow You Down".

Answer: Charlie Parker

Apart from some mighty hit songs such as "Heart Full of Soul" and "For Your Love" the Yardbirds, who started life in 1963 as the Metropolitan Blues Quartet, were recognised as the band that launched the careers of some great guitar players such as Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck. With such a trio of exceptional guitarists it is hardly surprising to note that they were also able to contribute greatly to innovations such as fuzztone distortion and feedback. Towards the end of 1963 they changed their name to the Blue Sounds but this was short lived and it wasn't long before they adopted the moniker of the Yardbirds.

The name was symbolic on two fronts. In the first place it was an expression describing tramps (hobos) hanging around railway yards looking to hitch a ride on the next train and in the second it was a tip to another great music innovator in Charlie Parker. Whilst most may know that Parker's nickname is "Bird" less would know that this is a short form of "Yardbird", which was adopted from one of his earlier compositions "Yardbird Suite". Of the options given, Charlie Parker was the only saxophonist, the others were all known for their work with the piano.