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1. What was the first grunge band to sign a record contract with a major label?
2. Jack Endino is a legendary producer. He engineered and produced Nirvana's "Bleach" album. What is the name of the band that features him as a permanent member?
3. Andrew Wood was involved in two major Seattle local bands. What are the name of these bands?
4. Two singers related to grunge or Seattle 90's bands are in the Mojo magazine list of "100 Great Voices". Who are they?
5. Which was the most important and influential single released by Sub Pop in the 80's?
6. Andrew Wood's brothers Kevin and Brian never had commercially succeed in music, but they have played in several bands. On what band's have they played together?
7. Screaming Trees is commonly considered as the most underrated grunge band. Which album contains their song "Something About Today"?
8. Love Battery's debut album on a major label didn't sell the way the company expected, so they got kicked out. What was the name of that album?
9. What is the name of the singer that replaced Layne Staley in Mad Season before Staley and Baker died?
10. From which Nirvana song are these lines: "Teenage angst has paid off well, now I'm bored and old"
11. Which of these classic grunge bands didn't appear on the "Sub Pop 200" compilation.
12. Soundgarden contributed to several soundtracks and compilations. Which of these albums doesn't include a Soundgarden song?
13. Which was the release year of the two albums that put grunge on top of the charts?
14. Who said these words to explain the Seattle's grunge phenomena: "when the weather's crappy you don't feel like going outside, you go into a basement and make a lot of noise to take out your frustration".
15. Stone Temple Pilots is the most important grunge band that didn't emerge from Seattle. They are from San Diego. Scott Weiland (its singer) left the band. With whom did he release an album in 2004?
16. The "Deep Six" Compilation is a very important album because it was the first one to gather several grunge bands together. Name the record label that issued that album in 1986.
17. Soundgarden had several bass players. Which of these bands didn't include a former bass player of Soundgarden?
18. Van Conner is a veteran from the Seattle scene. On which of these bands did he never played:
19. There are a lot of bands from Seattle that do not fit into grunge. Which of these bands isn't from that city?
20. What song did Nirvana recorded for The Velvet Underground's tribute album "Fifteen Minutes?
21. What famous 80's alternative rock band released a split Sub Pop single with Mudhoney?
22. Who said that he wanted to do something like The Beatles did with their album "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band" which in his own words "was a massive progression"?
23. Which was the first video clip from a grunge band to get big MTV airplay?
24. What was the first EP to debut on Billboard's #1 place of the best selling albums of the week.
25. What Seattle band participated on a benefit tribute album for a country singer that had multiple sclerosis?
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