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Quiz: Can you recognize these 40 bands just by their emojis?

16/07/2019 written by Berd Schlüchter

Every year: July 17 has been World Emoji Day since 2014. Today, it's hard to imagine our daily communication without these little illustrations, and in some cases they have even replaced them completely. But what about bands? Can you recognize these 40 bands just by their emojis?

Meanwhile, emojis can convey pretty much any mood or at least help to visually emphasize emotionless text (fragments). For a happy birthday to your sister, there's a cake, a smile at a joke becomes a face tearing up with laughter and a simple "Hoi!" is made with a waving hand. Taking into account the different colors and shapes, almost 3000 emojis can currently be used according to the Unicode standard and over 200 more are to be added in autumn 2019. The possibilities for expressing yourself using smileys and illustrated object icons are almost limitless.

This also applies to bands - for World Emoji Day, we have compiled 40 international and national bands and put them in a new light using the little pictograms. Can you guess the band names?


















Arctic Monkeys


























The Beatles


























Backstreet Boys


























Guns N' Roses


























The Beach Boys


























Linkin Park


























The doctors


























5 Seconds of Summer


























Sex Pistols


























Run the Jewels


























Kings of Leon


























Red Hot Chili Peppers


























Nine Inch Nails


























Ice Cube


























The Rolling Stones


























The Flaming Lips


























Sum 41


























The Black Eyed Peas


























Queen


























The Gardener & The Tree


























Coldplay


























Silent Has


























The Black Keys


























Tokio Hotel


























Gorillaz


























The Dead Pants


























Deadmau5


























My Bloody Valentine


























The Doors


























The Smashing Pumpkins


























Radiohead


























ZZ Top


























Patent Ochsner


























Rammstein


























Grain


























The Police


























Talking Heads


























KISS


























Pike









How did you do? How many did you guess correctly? Tell us in the comments below.

Translated with DeepL