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Stage Names Quiz: Whose Name Is That?
A striped jumper, a 19th-century novel, a football manager: 20 stage names to place.
A striped jumper, a 19th-century novel, a football manager in Crewe, a word with its syllables swapped: stage names usually hide a story. Here are 20 questions on artists we genuinely play. A perfect score on the first 10 unlocks 10 bonus questions. Every answer comes from our artist pages, where each fact was checked one by one.
Question 1/10
Which artist’s stage name is an acronym for “Someone Who Isn’t Me, Sometimes”?
Which Belgian artist took as a stage name the word “maestro” with its two syllables swapped?
Which stage name belongs to an actor better known for playing Steve Harrington in Stranger Things?
Which British singer owes his nickname to a black-and-yellow striped jumper that made him look like a bee?
Which Swedish DJ named himself after the lowest level of hell in Buddhism?
Which French duo is named after a press review that dismissed their early band as “daft punky thrash”?
Which Scottish band took its name from Wim Wenders’ film Paris, Texas?
Which American artist is named after a supposed ancestor, the author of Moby-Dick?
Which British band owes its name to the red hair of its singer?
Which British project is named after the manager of the local football club in Crewe?
🎁 Which singer was born “Bleta”, a first name that means “bee” in Albanian?
🎁 Which band’s name blends “jam session” with “Iroquois”?
🎁 Which name is a British band’s before it is a person’s — that of its Nigerian-born singer?
🎁 Which British band is named after the initial of its founder, Mike Pickering?
🎁 Whose name became an internet prank from 2007 onwards, built on redirecting people to his video?
🎁 Which French DJ, born Valentin Brunel, broke through at nineteen?
🎁 Which Australian artist has kept her face hidden in public since 2013?
🎁 Which British singer put her career on hold to become a landscape gardener?
🎁 Which Norwegian trio spent sixteen weeks making a video that mixed live action with pencil animation?
🎁 Which duo took its name from Arthur Janov’s primal therapy?
🎉 Perfect score!
You have unlocked 10 bonus questions. Best possible final score: 20/20.
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Frequently Asked Questions
No. Every answer is a settled fact — where a name came from, who is behind it. Unlike a play-count chart, nothing here will move next month.
From the artist pages on this site, where every fact was checked individually before publication. Each correct answer points to the artist it belongs to.
A perfect score on the 10 main questions unlocks 10 more, for a possible final score of 20.
Yes — every artist named here is in our real broadcast catalogue, with the tracks we actually air.
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