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Where Have I Heard That Before?

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Where Have I Heard That Before game quiz
"A quiz about the practice of music sampling. I'll try to keep the quiz on popular hits and popular samplings and stay away from remakes and parodies if I can help it."

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  



1. Tone Loc got in a little hot water for using this group's music for his hit, 'Wild Thing':
    Cream
    The Beatles
    Van Halen
    Black Sabbath


2. Puff Daddy not only used the music of this Led Zeppelin song for 'Come To Me', but also got guitarist Jimmy Page to perform with him in the video:
    Kashmir
    Whole Lotta Love
    Black Dog
    Stairway To Heaven


3. Vanilla Ice sampled this group in his hit 'Ice Ice Baby':
    The Cult
    Kansas
    Queen
    Chicago


4. Puff Daddy enlisted not only Faith Evans and 112 for his memorial song to the late Notorious B.I.G., but this artist as well:
    Tom Petty
    Bryan Adams
    Stevie Nicks
    Sting


5. Coolio's hit song 'Fantastic Voyage' was sampled from this funk group:
    Earth Wind and Fire
    Lakeside
    Kool and the Gang
    The Commodores


6. Which of the following artists was NOT sampled in Tone Loc's 'Funky Cold Medina'?
    Buffalo Springfield
    Free
    Doobie Brothers
    Kiss


7. Who was sampled for MC Hammer's 'U Can't Touch This'?
    Rick James
    Al Green
    Michael Jackson
    Marvin Gaye


8. Run-DMC's hit 'Mary Mary' was lifted from which 1960s group?
    The Youngbloods
    Steppenwolf
    The Turtles
    The Monkees


9. Snoop Dogg's debut hit 'Who Am I (What's My Name)' got a lot of its sound, ironically, from which song?
    Who Let The Dogs Out
    Atomic Dog
    Ain't Nuthin But A Dog
    D-O-G Me Out


10. DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince's song 'Girls Ain't Nothin' But Trouble' sampled from this TV theme:
    Star Trek
    The Flintstones
    I Dream Of Jeannie
    Laugh-In


11. Robbie William's hit song 'Millennium' sampled from this James Bond movie soundtrack:
    Goldfinger
    You Only Live Twice
    A View To A Kill
    The Spy Who Loved Me


12. Janet Jackson's song 'Someone To Call My Lover' features not only samplings from America's 'Ventura Highway' but also a sampling from this classical artist:
    Erik Satie
    Franz Liszt
    Claude Debussy
    Bela Bartok


13. The Beatles sampled one of their own songs in the closing refrains of 'All You Need Is Love'. What was the song?
    She Loves You
    I Wanna Hold Your Hand
    Help!
    Nowhere Man


14. For the Dire Straits song 'Money For Nothing', what Police song was changed to the famous line, 'I want my MTV'?
    King of Pain
    Don't Stand So Close To Me
    Every Breath You Take
    Roxanne


15. Gilbert O'Sullivan's ballad 'Alone Again (Naturally)' was sampled for this hit song for Sugar Ray:
    Every Morning
    When It's Over
    Someday
    Fly


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Compiled May 18 13