You can dance, you can dance, having the TRIVIA QUIZ of your life...
So, today's post is brought to you by the TKTS booth in New York City which allows cheapskates like me to see shows I normally wouldn't pay to see :)
I've asked this trivia question before, but since I saw Mamma Mia on Broadway last weekend, I thought I'd ask it again. Where did the band ABBA get its name?
Good luck!
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You know, I read this on a blog somewhere once, but I can't recall...does it have something to do with the initials of the singers? Mamma Mia, if only I could remember...
So, this answer is different from the one I published before, but I just found this on wikipedia:
In the spring of 1973, Stig, having tired of the unwieldy names, started to refer to the group privately and publicly as ABBA. This was done as a joke at first, since Abba was also the name of a well-known fish-canning company in Sweden. However, since the fish canners were more or less unknown outside Sweden, Stig came to believe the name would work in international markets and so it stuck. Later the group negotiated with the canners for the right to use the name. The first single released as "ABBA" was 'Waterloo'.
ABBA is an acronym formed from the first letters of each group member's name: Agnetha, Björn, Benny and Anni-Frid (Frida).
Go figure!
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