Just Name the Band... Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Monkees

Formed in 1966, The Monkees comprised Micky Dolenz (born Los Angeles CA in 1945), Michael Nesmith (born Houston TX in 1942), Peter Tork (born Washington DC in 1942) and Davy Jones (born Manchester, England in 1945). Jones died aged 66 in 2012 but the other three have survived into their 70s.

Put together for TV, Dolenz once described the series as "a TV show about an imaginary band that wanted to be The Beatles".

Answer: The Doors

Formed in 1965, The Doors comprised vocalist Jim Morrison (born Melbourne FL in 1943), keyboardist Ray Manzarek (born Chicago IL in 1939), drummer John Densmore (born Los Angeles CA in 1944 and guitarist Robby Krieger (born Los Angeles CA in 1946). Morrison famously died in 1971 and is buried alongside numerous other celebrities in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, where his is one of the most visited sites. The other three members all survived to celebrate their 70th birthdays.

The Doors got their name from and Aldous Huxley's philosophical essay, "The Doors of Perception"!, which was first published as a book in 1954.

Answer: Mountain

The photograph is of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. Formed in 1969, Mountain comprised vocalist/guitarist Leslie West (born New York NY in 1945), bassist Felix Pappalardi (born Bronx NY in 1939, keyboard player Steve Knight (born New York NY in 1935) and drummer N.D. Smart who was quickly replaced by Corky Laing (born Montreal PQ, Canada in 1948). Pappalardi died in 1983 and Knight in 2013, but the other three early members were still alive entering 2017.

When the band was formed, frontman Leslie West was a man of not inconsiderable girth and was thus nicknamed "Mountain", a name subsequently adopted by the band.

Answer: Moody Blues

When they originally formed using the name The Magnificent Moodies, this band were hoping to get a sponsorship deal with Mitchells & Butlers Brewery, known as M&B locally. They performed as "The M & Bs" and "The M B Five" before eventually giving up and combining the initials with their original group name: they first performed as The Moody Blues in Birmingham in 1964.

The original line-up comprised vocalist Ray Thomas (born Stourport, Worcestershire in 1941), guitarist/vocalist Denny Laine (born Brian Frederick Hines in Birmingham in 1944), bass player Clint Warwick (born Albert Eccles in Aston, Birmingham in 1940), drummer Graeme Edge (born Rocester, Staffordshire in 1941) and keyboard player Mike Pinder (born Birmingham in 1941). Warwick died in 2004 but the other four members have all survived into their 70s.

Answer: The Temptations

After performing first as The Elgins and then as The Pirates in the early part of the decade, in January 1964 Dave Ruffin replaced Elbridge "Al" Bryant, who would die of liver cirrhosis aged just 36 in 1975.

The classic line-up of The Temptations was Otis Williams (born Otis Miles Jr in Texarkana TX in 1941), Melvin Franklin (born Montgomery AL in 1942), Paul Williams (born in the Birmingham suburb of Ensley AL in 1939), Eddie Kendricks (born Uniuon Springs AL in 1939) and David Ruffin (born Meridian MS in 1941).

Franklin died in 1995, Williams in 1973, Kendricks in 1992 and Ruffin in 1991. Otis Williams, the only surviving original member of the group, owns the rights to the Temptations name and, having celebrated his 75th birthday in 2016, still continues to perform in the group.

Answer: Eagles

The original line-up of Eagles was vocalist/guitarist Glenn Frey (born Detroit MI in 1948), guitarist Bernie Leadon (born Minneapolis MN in 1947), bass player Randy Meisner (born Scottsbluff NE in 1946) and vocalist/drummer Don Henley (born Linden TX in 1947). Guitarist Don Felder (born Gainesville FL in 1947) joined in 1974 to make the group and quintet. Guitarist Joe Walsh (born Wichita KS in 1947) replaced Leadon in 1976, and bassist Timothy B. Schmit (born Oakland CA in 1947) replaced Meisner in 1978. Glenn Frey was the first of the septet to die aged 67 in 2016.

One version claims that Leadon read about the Hopis' reverence for the eagle during a drunken group trip across the Mohave desert, whilst another variation is that Frey shouted "Eagles" when they saw birds flying overhead. Although the group are often referred to as "the Eagles", Glen Frey insists that the correct name is simply "Eagles".

Answer: Kiss

Vocalist Gene Simmons (born Chaim Witz in Haifa, Israel in 1949) and guitarist Paul Stanley (born Stanley Bert Eisen in New York NY in 1952) were the heart of a band called Wicked Lester in 1971. In 1972, they were joined by drummer Peter Criss (born George Peter John Criscuola in Brooklyn NY in 1945). The following year, guitarist Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley (born Bronx NY in 1951), joined to complete what would become the group's classic line-up. Frehley had previously been in a band called Lips, so Stanley suggested renaming the new ensemble Kiss, and the name stuck.

Fehley left the group in 2002, followed by Criss two years later, but both Stanley and Simmons are still performing with Kiss more than 40 years after it all began.

Answer: Marmalade

When they changed their name to Marmalade in 1966, the band centred around vocalist/guitarist Dean Ford (born Thomas McAleese in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire in 1946) and vocalist/guitarist/keyboard player Junior Campbell (born William Campbell Jr in Parkhead, Glasgow in 1947). The other three original members were bassist/guitarist Patrick Fairley, vocalist/bass player Graham Knight and drummer Raymond Duffy. Although the band are still playing today, the departure of Graham Knight in 2010 meant that none of the original members were still involved. Which band is this?

Marmalade enjoyed most of their popular success between 1968 and 1972, topping the UK Singles chart in 1969 with their cover of the Paul McCartney composition "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da", which appeared on The Beatles' "White Album". Although The Beatles also recorded the track as a single, it was never released in either the USA or the UK.

Marmalade scored their eighth (and last, at least during the 20th Century) Top 10 UK single in 1976. There may be more to come, though, as 2013 saw the first Marmalade album released since 1979.

Answer: Men at Work

Formed in 1978, the unnamed band comprised vocalist Colin Hay (born Saltcoats, Scotland in 1953) and guitarist Ron Strykert (born Korumburra, Victoria in 1957), and they were joined the following year by drummer Jerry Speiser (born Australia in 1953). In 1980, the threesome were augmented by keyboard and saxophone player Greg Ham (born Melbourne, Victoria in 1953), and the band adopted the name Men at Work. Ham died in 2012, but the other original members of Men at Work all survived into their 60s.

In 1980, the group self-financed the release of their first single, "Down Under" and by the end of the year they were the most in-demand unsigned band in Australia. Signed by Columbia Records in 1991, the group released "Who Can it be Now?" (which reached #2 in Australia and topped the US chart). The re-released of "Down Under" made Men at Work a household name as it topped charts around the world.

Answer: Camel

The Brew comprised vocalist/guitarist Andy Latimer (born Guildford, Surrey in 1949), drummer Andy Ward (born Epsom, Surrey in 1952) and bass player Doug Ferguson. The addition of keyboard player Peter Bardens (born London in 1944) saw the group change their name to Camel.

Ward's departure in 1982 left Latimer as the only remaining original members, although the band have performed continuously since they were formed, with Latimer celebrating 45 years as a member in 2016. They had not produced a new album, though, since "A Nod and a Wink" in 2002.