How Well Do You Remember These Hair Bands?

By: Ian Fortey
Estimated Completion Time
3 min
How Well Do You Remember These Hair Bands?
Image: Capitol Records

About This Quiz

Picture it.  A screaming crowd.  A smoke machine. A veritable cornucopia of leather pants, candy-colored guitars and enough hairspray to bug-bomb a hotel.  That's hair metal, man!  These are the bands that stormed to the front of rock and roll at the end of the 1970s and all through the 1980s.  They helped truly define the rock star image of a hard-partying bad boy with suspect fashion sense and no regard for rules of polite behavior.  

Now the real question is do you know hair bands like you think you know hair bands?  Can you listen to the opening chords of a rock ballad and know right away if it's Whitesnake or White Lion?   If you take this quiz, are you going to rock it like a hurricane or will you be livin' on a prayer by the time it's all over?  Can you channel your inner Poison and root out every single Def Leppard hit?  it's going to take a true hair rock aficionado to pull this one off.  But if you think you're up to the task, then you better best out your eyeshadow and teased bangs and prove.  Take the quiz and go down in hair metal history!

What intense band got aggressive in their hit "We're Not Gonna Take It?"
Ratt
Twisted Sister
Motley Crue
Whitesnake
What band gave us "The Final Countdown?"
Europe
Winger
The Scorpions
Trixter
This single was the biggest hit ever for the band Van Halen.
Sweet Child O' Mine
Photograph
Dr. Feelgood
Jump

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What band sang the song "Round and Round?"
The Scorpions
Ratt
White Lion
Skid Row
Def Leppard had a big hit with a song that asked you to pour some what on them?
Water
Oil
Sugar
Mayo
What's the name of Guns N' Roses iconic lead guitarist?
Slash
The Edge
Pete Townshend
Dave Grohl

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What band sang "You Give Love a Bad Name?"
Tesla
Bon Jovi
Extreme
Helix
"Here I Go Again" was a big hit for what band?
Lita Ford
Helix
Whitesnake
Slaughter
Who taught us that nothing would last forever in the cold November Rain?
Warrant
Guns N' Roses
Winger
Poison

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The Scorpions were going to rock you like what natural disaster?
A hurricane
A tidal wave
A mudslide
An avalanche
The band Poison told us that every rose had what?
Petals
A pleasant odor
Honey bees
Its thorn
This Los Angeles band wanted you to come on and feel the noise.
Dokken
Tesla
Warrant
Quiet Riot

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What kind of pie did the band Warrant really seem to like in their famous song?
Cherry Pie
Lemon Meringue Pie
Key Lime Pie
Apple Pie
"Turn Up the Radio" was a hit song from what band?
Dokken
Motley Crue
Autograph
Cinderella
Who was the Sister that Night Ranger is famous for singing about?
Sister Wife
Mister Sister
Sister Brother
Sister Christian

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"Once Bitten, Twice Shy" was a cover song that proved to be this band's biggest hit.
Tesla
Great White
Mr. Big
Nitro
"Burning Like a Flame" was a hit for what band?
Kix
Cinderella
W.A.S.P.
Dokken
Skid Row's most famous song was about a teen being sent to prison for murder. What was it?
18 and Life
Unskinny Bop
Girls, Girls, Girls
Detroit Rock City

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One of Winger's biggest hits was a song about being headed for what?
Shore
Disaster
Florida
A heartbreak
Mr. Big's biggest hit was what?
Rock the Casbah
To Be With You
Take On Me
Paradise City
"Nobody's Fool" was a big hit for this band.
Cinderella
Styx
Def Leppard
L.A. Guns

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"More Than Words" was a huge ballad for what band?
Poison
Extreme
Firehouse
Tesla
Bret Michaels was the man under the hair of what huge '80s band?
Warrant
Guns n' Roses
Poison
Def Leppard
Mötley Crüe wants you to go see a doctor. What's the doctor's name?
Dr. Feelgood
Dr. Jones
Dr. Oz
Dr. Beat

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This band was founded by twin brothers Matthew and Gunnar.
KISS
Ratt
Nelson
Bon Jovi
The drummer of this band lost his arm in a car accident in 1984.
Warrant
Guns n' Roses
Winger
Def Leppard
"Honestly" was a huge hit for this Christian rock band.
Stryper
Alice Cooper
KISS
Hanoi Rocks

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Vince Neil, Tommy Lee, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx made up what hugely popular band?
Whitesnake
Guns n' Roses
Mötley Crüe
Dokken
Sebastain Bach rose to fame fronting what band?
Scorpions
Quiet Riot
Warrant
Skid Row
One of the biggest rock bands of all time was fronted by both David Lee Roth and also Sammy Hagar.
Van Halen
Styx
Autograph
Poison

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The single "Rock You" was the biggest hit of what Canadian band?
Skid Row
Helix
L.A. Guns
Nitro
Dokken performed the theme song to the third part of what iconic 80's horror movie franchise?
Nightmare on Elm Street
Friday the 13th
Halloween
Hellraiser
These guys wanted to Rock n' Roll All Night. Who are they?
Poison
KISS
Guns n Roses
Ratt

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This band's iconic hit starts with the bizarre lyrics "Gunter Gleiben Glauchen Globen."
Def Leppard
Warrant
Van Halen
Guns N' Roses
What band wrote "Paradise City" in the back of a van?
Winger
Guns N' Roses
Hanoi Rocks
Van Halen