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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':
    Queen
    Chicago
    Kansas
    The Cult


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:
    Bryan Adams
    Tom Petty
    Sting
    Stevie Nicks


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


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


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
    The Monkees
    The Turtles
    Steppenwolf


9. Snoop Dogg's debut hit 'Who Am I (What's My Name)' got a lot of its sound, ironically, from which song?
    Atomic Dog
    Ain't Nuthin But A Dog
    Who Let The Dogs Out
    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:
    The Spy Who Loved Me
    Goldfinger
    You Only Live Twice
    A View To A Kill


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:
    Bela Bartok
    Claude Debussy
    Erik Satie
    Franz Liszt


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


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
    Roxanne
    Every Breath You Take
    Don't Stand So Close To Me


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 Jun 28 12