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What 1990s hard rock band had a big stadium rock sound?
Stone Temple Pilots
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What element made Oasis unique among 1990s Britpop bands?
a hard rock sound
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When did the Foo Fighters album In Your Honor come out?
2005
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Three Days Grace is from what country?
Canada
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The band Jet is from what country?
Australia
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What supergroup featured members of Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age and Led Zeppelin?
Them Crooked Vultures
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What was the title of Buckcherry's 2007 hit single?
"Sorry"
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What instrument is usually at the center of a hard rock sound?
The electric guitar
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Rhythm guitar in hard rock usually plays what?
repetitive riffs with a varying degree of complexity
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In hard rock, an electric guitar can also be used for what?
a solo lead instrument
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What carries the backbeat in hard rock drumming?
snare
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What instrument works in tandem with the drums to provide hard rock rhythms?
The bass guitar
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Who was the guitarist for the band Cream?
Eric Clapton
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Who was the guitarist in the Kinks?
Dave Davies
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Who played guitar in The Who?
Pete Townshend
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When did The White Album come out?
1968
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Keith Richards is the guitarist of what band?
The Rolling Stones
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Who recorded the album School's Out?
Alice Cooper
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Tres Hombres is the name of an album by what band?
ZZ Top
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Who was the lead singer of Montrose?
Sammy Hagar
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Kiss' double live album Alive! came out in what year?
1975
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Who had a hit single with "(Don't Fear) The Reaper"?
Blue Öyster Cult
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What was the title of Deep Purple's 1980s reunion album?
Perfect Strangers
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What album was Van Halen's commercial high point?
1984
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In what year did ZZ Top release Eliminator?
1983
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What band recorded "Keep On Loving You"?
REO Speedwagon
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The hit single "Amanda" was recorded by what band?
Boston
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What was Van Halen's last album with Sammy Hagar?
Balance
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Who was the Guns N Roses drummer who was fired by the band?
Steven Adler
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What former member of Extreme briefly served as the lead singer for Van Halen?
Gary Cherone
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Who was the only original member left in Guns N Roses?
Axl Rose
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Slash left Guns N Roses in what year?
1996
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By the late 60s, what term was synonymous with hard rock?
heavy metal
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What heavy metal group introduced darker themes to the music?
Black Sabbath
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What genre was an influence on extreme metal in the 1980s?
hardcore punk
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Hard rock is differentiated from heavy metal by containing more of an influence of what genre?
bluesy
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In heavy metal, riffs typically form what element of a song?
stand-alone melodies
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Led Zeppelin's first two albums both came out in what year?
1969
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What was the title of Deep Purple's hard rock 1970 album?
In Rock
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Black Sabbath's lyrics contained references to what cultural touchstones?
occult and elements of Gothic horror
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What is the title of Black Sabbath's 1970 album?
Paranoid
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What is one band directly influenced by Black Sabbath?
Judas Priest
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What two genres made inroads on hard rock in the 1970s?
disco in the US and punk rock in the UK
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What punk band's songs rarely exceeded two minutes in length?
The Ramones
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What were three midwestern hard rock bands?
Kansas, REO Speedwagon and Styx
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What city was Van Halen originally from?
Los Angeles
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Which Van Halen instrumental showcased the guitar mastery of Eddie Van Halen?
"Eruption"
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How many copies did Whitesnake's 1987 self title album sell?
17 million
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What was the title of Aerosmith's 1987 comeback album?
Permanent Vacation
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Def Leppard's album Hysteria churned out how many hit singles?
seven
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What Guns N Roses album was the second best selling debut of all time?
Appetite for Destruction
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What Guns N Roses song became a number one single?
"Sweet Child O' Mine"
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What hard rock supergroup contained members of Soundgarden and Rage Against the Machine?
Audioslave
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What was the title of Bon Jovi's 2000 hit single?
"It's My Life"
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What band released an album called Stiff Upper Lip in 2000?
AC/DC
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Who was the lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots?
Scott Weiland
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What was Guns N Roses long delayed 2008 album called?
Chinese Democracy
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what is the name of the region east of the Rocky Mountains?
"Great Plains
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who brought the term great plains into widespread usage?
Nevin Fenneman's
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what year was Nevin Fenneman's study?
1916
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what was theregion called before "the great plans"?
the High Plains
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what type of land is much of the great plans?
open range
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when did ranchers usually have a cattle round up?
spring and fall
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in a cattle round up, what did ranchers do to the new calves?
branded
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from 1866-95 about how many cattle did cowboys herd?
10 million
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who was the spanish conquistador who had encounters with europeans and native americans?
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
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who crossed a section of oklahoma and texas?
Hernando de Soto
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what is the section of oklahoma and texas that Hernando de Soto traveled?
the De Soto Trail
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who thought the great plains were the locations of Quivira and Cíbola?
The Spanish
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what did the spanish think the cities of Quivira and Cíbola were rich in?
gold
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what is the name of the line that divides the great plains?
The 100th meridian
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about how much rainfall does the great plains get per year?
20 inches
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what do high winds in the area sometimes cause?
dust storms
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what type of climate does the eastern great plains fall into?
humid subtropical climate
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after about what year did railroads bring hunters to the great plains?
1870
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what animal did hunters kill off for their hides?
bison
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what farmers rushed in to settle the land with the help of the railroads?
European farmers
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what did the railroads offer the farmers that rushed in to settle the area?
packages of land and transportation
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how much of the population have the rural plains lost since 1920?
a third
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who declated the American frontier "closed" in 1893?
Frederick Jackson Turner
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how many ghost towns are in the state of Kansas?
more than 6,000
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how much prarie land does the "Buffalo Commons" want to return?
139,000 square miles
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who usually organized shared meals and potluck events?
Women
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around when did the great plains become productive for crop growing
1950s
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what is the large underground layer of water in the great plains called?
Ogallala Aquifer
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what type of irrigation is used in the great plains?
Center pivot irrigation
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what is the great plains?
broad expanse of flat land
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where does the great plains lie?
west of the Mississippi River
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what is the region known for?
extensive cattle ranching
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who is the North American Environmental Atlas made by?
Commission for Environmental Cooperation
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what countries is the Commission for Environmental Cooperation made up of?
Mexican, American, and Canadian governments
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what mainly opened the great plains for settlement?
railroads
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what did the railroads make it easy to do?
ship wheat and other crops
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who did the railroads sell cheap lands to?
immigrants
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who two new technologies were introducted in the 1930s?
sewing and washing machines
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about how long ago did the climate become favorable?
about 25 million years ago
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what animals did the grasslands provide a new home for?
mammals
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what diet did the mammals switch to from browsing diets?
grazing diets
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the spread of grasslands and what have been strongly linked?
development of grazers
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when did the US pass the Homestead ACt?
1862
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