Famous Musical Johns and Johnnys Quiz

Answer: John Mayer

Releasing his first adult contemporary album, "Room For Squares", back in 2001, John Mayer established himself as a pop alternative for the 21st century. A master guitar player and singer-songwriter, he would go on to have hit singles from albums in the proceeding decades, collaborating with top musicians including Taylor Swift, Alicia Keys, Kanye West, and Ed Sheeran.

His track "Waiting on the World to Change" appeared on his third album, "Continuum"; it went four times Platinum in the U.S. and won Mayer the Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, an award he would win four times before it was discontinued in 2011.

Answer: John Denver

Originally a folk musician in the 1960s, John Denver became known for his particular brand of Americana, creating famous acoustic tracks like "Take Me Home, Country Roads", country tracks like "Thank God I'm a Country Boy", and Colorado's pseudo-anthem "Rocky Mountain High". Denver's sales peaked in the mid-1970s, around the same time as all of his classics hit the radio.

His 1974 and 1975 albums, "Back Home Again" and "Windsong", respectively, would top the Billboard 200 and Top Country Albums charts.

He would continue releasing albums until his untimely death (due to a plane crash) in 1997.

Answer: Jonny Greenwood

Guitarist for the UK alternative rock group Radiohead, Jonny Greenwood has emerged as more than just a contained band member. Although a major part of why Radiohead's experimental albums worked, Greenwood also took his musical talents into other ventures including creating orchestral arrangements, film scoring (for Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood" and "The Phantom Thread", the latter of which net Greenwood an Oscar nomination), and solo ventures. "Creep", of course, featured Greenwood's guitar work.

It released in 1992.

Answer: John Lennon

Lennon, famously a part of the Beatles, recorded "All You Need Is Love" with the band in 1967 and it wound up on their "Yellow Submarine" album. Lennon and McCartney were, famously, the most prolific songwriters of the foursome. Lennon would go on to create a number of major solo albums as well with "Imagine" album going Double Platinum in the U.S. alone. Lennon was the first of the Beatles to pass away; he was shot and killed in front of his and Yoko Ono's Upper West Side Apartment in New York City.

Answer: Johnny Cash

The Man in Black, country singer Johnny Cash had a career spanning nearly fifty years and his tracks, originally played in prisons but eventually on massive sell-out stages, are some of the most enduring recordings in the genre. His track "Jackson", sung with June Carter before they became husband and wife, was a Grammy winner in 1968 and has been covered numerous times over. If it doesn't ring a bell, you might know Cash for "Ring of Fire", "Folsom Prison Blues", "A Boy Named Sue", "I Walk the Line", or his Nine Inch Nails cover of "Hurt" (just to name a handful of options).

Answer: John Mellencamp

Another Americana musician, John Mellencamp's rock tracks of the 1980s were so unlike the modern pop tracks that appeared on the radio and they evoked a side of the United States that many would consider to be humble and real. Though "Jack & Diane" is likely one of the tracks that would be recognizable if it showed up on the radio (as it hit number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1982), most listeners would probably also recall "Hurts So Good" and the Heartland rock classic "Pink Houses".

Answer: John Frusciante

Released on "Blood Sugar Sex Magik", the fifth album from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Under the Bridge" was an early 1990s rock staple and it featured the guitar work of John Frusciante whose on-and-off-again tenures with the band have appeared during some of their most successful works. Frusciante's guitar can be heard on other classics like "Give It Away", "Scar Tissue", "Otherside", "Californication", and "Dani California". Frusciante was also a successful soloist, releasing numerous albums on his own, especially during his off years with the Peppers.

His career has often been looked at alongside his significant stints in rehab for drug abuse.

Answer: John Fogerty

One of the founding members of Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR), John Fogerty saw most of his fame between the end of the 1960s and the start of the 1970s during which the band released seven studio albums and broke up (with Fogerty continuing to make music with a new band and solo). During that time, however, their tracks were hits with "Proud Mary", "Bad Moon Rising", "Down on the Corner", "Fortunate Son", and "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" being particular standouts. Fogerty and the rest of CCR would be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.

Answer: John Linnell

John Linnell is one of the two founding members of There Might Be Giants alongside another topical person-- John Flansburgh. The pair started making music in the 1980s, growing in popularity due to their quirky, offbeat tracks. One of many experimental alternative tracks released by the duo in the early 1990s, "Birdhouse in Your Soul" ended up being There Might Be Giants' highest-charting single, at least in the U.S. (on the Billboard Alternative chart).

They were also responsible for "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)", "Particle Man", and "Boss of Me", the theme song to the TV show "Malcolm in the Middle" (amongst others).

Answer: John Entwistle

Active with The Who on and off for more than four decades, John Entwistle was both the band's bassist and one of their songwriters (though Pete Townshend did most of the heavy lifting there). Entwistle, however, made his mark on the majority of the band's greatest hits including albums like "Tommy", "Who's Next", and "Who Are You". Entwistle was one of the earlier of the original band members to pass away, doing so in 2002 and leaving a legacy of classic rock tracks both solo and with the band.