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Quiz about Im a Guitar Hero
Quiz about Im a Guitar Hero

I'm a "Guitar Hero" Trivia Quiz


...Are you? Here are 10 of the 25 songs featured in the first edition of the video game "Guitar Hero". How many can you identify from the lyrics?

A multiple-choice quiz by guitargoddess. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
260,718
Updated
Jul 23 22
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
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Top 5% quiz!
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Question 1 of 10
1. Which song do these lyrics belong? "Turned on some music to start my day. I lost myself in a familiar song. I closed my eyes and I slipped away." Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. This song appears in the level-3 difficulty section of "Guitar Hero" called "Thrash and Burn": "You take a mortal man and put him in control. Watch him become a god, watch the peoples' heads a-roll." Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Which "Guitar Hero" song is this? "Caviar and cigarettes, well-versed in etiquette, extraordinarily nice." Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. How could you have a guitar playing game without this tune? "They burned down the gambling house, it died with an awful sound. Funky Claude was running in and out, pulling kids out the ground." Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. This song is featured in the game "as made famous by" a band who covered it, not the original artist: "Teachers, keep on teaching. Preachers, keep on preaching. World, keep on turning, 'cause it won't be too long." Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. This song is one of the easiest in the game: "Just get me to the airport, put me on a plane. Hurry, hurry, hurry before I go insane." Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Which song do these lyrics come from? "When the kids had killed the man, I had to break up the band." Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. This song comes from the level-5 difficulty category "Fret-Burners": "We get some pills to swallow, how they stick in your throat. Tastes like gold." Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Which song does these lyrics come from? "So if you're lonely, you know I'm here waiting for you." Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. This song is considered one of, if not the hardest, songs featured in "Guitar Hero": "Screams break the silence, waking from the dead of night." Hint



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1. Which song do these lyrics belong? "Turned on some music to start my day. I lost myself in a familiar song. I closed my eyes and I slipped away."

Answer: "More Than A Feeling" by Boston

The song can be found on Boston's first album, a self-titled effort released in 1976. It took Tom Scholz more than 7 years to write it. NSync recorded a cover version for the European release of their debut self-titled CD.
2. This song appears in the level-3 difficulty section of "Guitar Hero" called "Thrash and Burn": "You take a mortal man and put him in control. Watch him become a god, watch the peoples' heads a-roll."

Answer: "Symphony of Destruction" by Megadeth

"Symphony of Destruction", written by Dave Mustaine, is on Megadeth's fifth studio album "Countdown to Extinction"(1992). In addition to being featured in "Guitar Hero" the song can be heard in several other video games, including "Full Auto:2", "FlatOut 2", and "Smackdown vs RAW 2006".
3. Which "Guitar Hero" song is this? "Caviar and cigarettes, well-versed in etiquette, extraordinarily nice."

Answer: "Killer Queen" by Queen

"Killer Queen" is considered to be Queen's breakthrough hit song. It was released on the 1974 album "Sheer Heart Attack" and reached number two on UK charts in early 1975. According to Freddie Mercury himself, the song is about an upper-class prostitute: "I'm trying to say that classy people can be whores as well".
4. How could you have a guitar playing game without this tune? "They burned down the gambling house, it died with an awful sound. Funky Claude was running in and out, pulling kids out the ground."

Answer: "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple

"Smoke on the Water" was first released on the 1972 album "Machine Head". The lyrics tell a true story: on December 4, 1971, Deep Purple were in Montreux, Switzerland when a fire broke out that destroyed the casino complex. The title comes from the way the smoke spread out over Lake Geneva.

In 1994, 1322 guitarists from Vancouver, British Columbia all played the main riff together for a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. A radio station in Kansas City plans to attempt to break this record on June 3, 2007.
5. This song is featured in the game "as made famous by" a band who covered it, not the original artist: "Teachers, keep on teaching. Preachers, keep on preaching. World, keep on turning, 'cause it won't be too long."

Answer: "Higher Ground" by Red Hot Chili Peppers

"Higher Ground" was originally written by Stevie Wonder for his 1973 album "Innervisions". It was notably covered by RHCP in 1989 for their album "Mother's Milk".
6. This song is one of the easiest in the game: "Just get me to the airport, put me on a plane. Hurry, hurry, hurry before I go insane."

Answer: "I Wanna Be Sedated" by The Ramones

The song was written by Joey Ramone, in 1977-78 and was released on the album "Road to Ruin"(1978). In an old interview with Joey, he stated that this song was about The Ramones' first time being in England. They were in London around Christmas time, and the city shuts down at Christmas, so there was "nothing to do, nowhere to go".

It was recognized by Rolling Stone magazine as "the greatest god-does-the-road-ever-suck song" and the video features a young Courtney Love.
7. Which song do these lyrics come from? "When the kids had killed the man, I had to break up the band."

Answer: "Ziggy Stardust" by David Bowie

"Ziggy Stardust" was written in 1972 for the album "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars". It has been covered many times over the last few decades, including by Hootie and the Blowfish, Def Leppard, and AFI.
8. This song comes from the level-5 difficulty category "Fret-Burners": "We get some pills to swallow, how they stick in your throat. Tastes like gold."

Answer: "No One Knows" by Queens of the Stone Age

"No One Knows" was Queens of the Stone Age's first single, from their 2002 CD "Songs for the Deaf". The song featured Dave Grohl on drums, and Grohl appeared in the music video again.
9. Which song does these lyrics come from? "So if you're lonely, you know I'm here waiting for you."

Answer: "Take Me Out" by Franz Ferdinand

"Take Me Out" was Scottish band Franz Ferdinand's first single. It was released as a single in January 2004 in the UK and then a month later in North America. It also appears on their debut album "Franz Ferdinand"(2004). It reached as high as number three on UK charts, and number 7 in Canada.
10. This song is considered one of, if not the hardest, songs featured in "Guitar Hero": "Screams break the silence, waking from the dead of night."

Answer: "Bark at the Moon" by Ozzy Osbourne

"Bark at the Moon" appears on the 1983 album of the same name. It is about a mythical creature who terrorized a town, was killed and came back to life. It has been noted how similar this song is to Black Sabbath's "Iron Man", in terms of the storyline, not the music. "Bark at the Moon" is also featured in the video game "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City".
Source: Author guitargoddess

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