Celebrities With Stagenames
National Anthem Performances
Stars of the Civilization Franchise
Fictional Corporations
Brand Name Origins
AKA
100
This Minneapolis-born musician of "Purple Rain" fame was known mononymously by his legal first name.
At one point, he changed his name to a symbol to get out of a restrictive contract with Warner Brothers.
Who is Prince?
100
This member of the Black Eyed Peas had one of the worst performances of all time at the 2018 NBA All-Star Game.
Her odd musical decisions spawned several memorable meme templates.
Who is Fergie?
100
In the first Civilization game, there was an urban legend about this peace-loving Indian civil rights activist's love for nuclear war.
The story goes that his aggression would decrease from 1 to 255 because of an unsigned integer variable in the game's code.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
100
Audiences fell in love with this paper and office supply wholesale companies with branches in Buffalo, Nashua, and Scranton.
What is Dunder Mifflin?
100
This Swedish furniture company's name is actually an acronym that stands for the founder's initials, family farm, and hometown.
What is IKEA?
100
Citi Field has a motorized prop that rises every time the Mets hit a home run and honors this nickname for New York City.
What is The Big Apple?
200
Before he became famous for his catchphrases such as "We the best" and "Another One," this music producer was known as DJ Arab Attack, a name he changed shortly after 9/11.
Who is DJ Khaled?
200
Justin Timberlake and this crew of merry men won over their crowd of haters thanks to their arrangement of the national anthem at the 2000 World Series.
Who is NSYNC?
200
This American president was known for several things including laying the foundations for what eventually became the National Park Service as well as speaking softly whilst carrying a big stick.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
200
It's a mystery what this company actually does but it's profitable enough to fund its CEO's nighttime escapades as Batman.
What is Wayne Enterprises?
200
While Nike chose to name itself after the Greek goddess of victory, this European competitor was simply named after its founder, Adolf Dassler.
What is Adidas?
200
The reason for this city being known as the Windy City is somewhat unclear. Some say it's because of the weather while others cite a reporter who claimed all of the city's politicians were "full of hot air."
What is Chicago?
300
In Hawaii, it's often said that everyone's auntie is within two degrees of connection to this 5'5" pop star who's still topping charts with songs like "Risk It All" and "I Just Might".
Legally, he's known as Peter Gene Hernandez.
Who is Bruno Mars?
300
After an issue with the audio equipment, fans of this Buffalo hockey team stepped in to finish Cami Clune's performance of "O Canada."
Who are the Buffalo Sabres?
300
This Japanese leader sought to isolate Japan from the outside world to preserve its culture and slow the spread of Christianity and European influence.
Who is Tokugawa?
300
This fictional corporation is a running gag in the Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote shorts and makes all sorts of consumer goods from anvils to dynamite.
What is Acme?
300
This toy company famous for its bricks and iconic minifigure style got its name from the Danish words for "play well."
What is Lego?
300
This baseball player had a lot of nicknames including the Sultan of Swat, the King of Crash, and the Colossus of Clout, but he's perhaps best known as the Great Bambino.
Who is Babe Ruth?
400
The top-hat-wearing guitarist for Guns N' Roses has the name Saul Hudson on his driver's license but is better known as this.
Who is Slash?
400
This legendary vocalist and performer of hits like "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" had one of the best ever performances of the national anthem at the 1991 Super Bowl.
Who is Whitney Houston?
400
This Babylonian leader was one of the first to codify a set of laws, although most of them went along the lines of "if you do x, then the same shall be done to you."
Who is Hammurabi?
400
This chicken shop chain in Breaking Bad is owned by Gustavo Fring, whose nickname, El Pollero, matches the theme of the restaurant.
What is Los Pollos Hermanos?
400
The name of this convenience store references its original operating hours.
What is 7-Eleven?
400
After this boxer changed his name, opponent Ernie Terell tried taunting him leading up to their fight by still referring to him by his birth name, Cassius Clay.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
500
Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor is better known by her stage name that hit the mainstream along with her breakout single "Royals," which topped the charts when she was just 16 years old.
Who is Lorde?
500
This singer has made an outstanding career writing for some of the pop industry's biggest names as well as building his own discography which includes songs like "We Don't Talk Anymore" and "Attention."
He performed the anthem at Super Bowl LX.Who is Charlie Puth?
500
Known as the Magnificent, the first picture of this Ottoman leader made me think he had an onion on his head.
Who is Suleiman?
500
In Half-Life, an experiment gone wrong at this company's underground research lab kickstarts the events that eventually lead protagonist Gordon Freeman to face off against Nihilanth in Xen.
What is Black Mesa?
500
Before it had an official name, the founders of this semiconductor company labeled all files "NV" for next version. They kept the two letters around when landing on their final name which means envy in Latin.
What is NVIDIA?
500
This Spanish tennis legend is also known as the "King of Clay" due to his success at the French Open, winning 91% of his matches and 14 titles.
Who is Rafael Nadal?
600
Mark Sinclair is a far less cool moniker than this actor's stage name whose most famous character never hesitates to remind the audience of the importance of family.
Who is Vin Diesel?
600
Although he was deep in the throes of a cocaine addiction, this singer had an immensely memorable R&B rendition of the national anthem at the 1983 NBA All-Star Game.
A year later he was shot and killed by his own father.
Who is Marvin Gaye?
600
This legendary Hawaiian monarch shares his name with Goku's signature energy blast in Dragon Ball.
Who is Kamehameha the Great?
600
In the Resident Evil franchise, this company's biological experiments are responsible for creating many of the mutated abominations that the protagonists must dispatch.
What is the Umbrella Corporation?
600
This ice cream brand may sound German or Scandinavian thanks to the umlauts and strange sound but it's actually complete gibberish made up by Polish-American founder Reuben Mattus.
What is Häagen-Dazs?
600
This NFL team is controversially known as "America's Team" despite not appearing in an NFC championship game since 1996.
Who are the Dallas Cowboys?