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Where Have I Heard That Before? 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.

A multiple-choice quiz by Oddball. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
Oddball

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
47,093

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
8 / 15

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1469

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Question 1 of 15

1. Tone Loc got in a little hot water for using this group's music for his hit, 'Wild Thing': Hint

The Beatles

Van Halen

Black Sabbath

Cream

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Question 2 of 15

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: Hint

Black Dog

Kashmir

Whole Lotta Love

Stairway To Heaven

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Question 3 of 15

3. Vanilla Ice sampled this group in his hit 'Ice Ice Baby': Hint

Kansas

The Cult

Chicago

Queen

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Question 4 of 15

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: Hint

Sting

Stevie Nicks

Tom Petty

Bryan Adams

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Question 5 of 15

5. Coolio's hit song 'Fantastic Voyage' was sampled from this funk group: Hint

Lakeside

Kool and the Gang

Earth Wind and Fire

The Commodores

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Question 6 of 15

6. Which of the following artists was NOT sampled in Tone Loc's 'Funky Cold Medina'? Hint

Free

Doobie Brothers

Kiss

Buffalo Springfield

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Question 7 of 15

7. Who was sampled for MC Hammer's 'U Can't Touch This'? Hint

Marvin Gaye

Michael Jackson

Rick James

Al Green

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Question 8 of 15

8. Run-DMC's hit 'Mary Mary' was lifted from which 1960s group? Hint

The Youngbloods

The Monkees

The Turtles

Steppenwolf

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Question 9 of 15

9. Snoop Dogg's debut hit 'Who Am I (What's My Name)' got a lot of its sound, ironically, from which song? Hint

Who Let The Dogs Out

D-O-G Me Out

Ain't Nuthin But A Dog

Atomic Dog

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Question 10 of 15

10. DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince's song 'Girls Ain't Nothin' But Trouble' sampled from this TV theme: Hint

The Flintstones

Star Trek

Laugh-In

I Dream Of Jeannie

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Question 11 of 15

11. Robbie William's hit song 'Millennium' sampled from this James Bond movie soundtrack: Hint

The Spy Who Loved Me

Goldfinger

You Only Live Twice

A View To A Kill

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Question 12 of 15

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: Hint

Bela Bartok

Claude Debussy

Erik Satie

Franz Liszt

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Question 13 of 15

13. The Beatles sampled one of their own songs in the closing refrains of 'All You Need Is Love'. What was the song? Hint

Help!

Nowhere Man

I Wanna Hold Your Hand

She Loves You

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Question 14 of 15

14. For the Dire Straits song 'Money For Nothing', what Police song was changed to the famous line, 'I want my MTV'? Hint

Roxanne

King of Pain

Don't Stand So Close To Me

Every Breath You Take

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Question 15 of 15

15. Gilbert O'Sullivan's ballad 'Alone Again (Naturally)' was sampled for this hit song for Sugar Ray: Hint

Fly

Someday

Every Morning

When It's Over

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Tone Loc got in a little hot water for using this group's music for his hit, 'Wild Thing':

Answer: Van Halen

The song was 'Jamie's Crying'. Later legislation gave songwriting credits to not only the artist, but of those the artist sampled as well.

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:

Answer: Kashmir

Originally from the Led Zeppelin album 'Physical Graffiti', 'Come To Me' was featured on the soundtrack to the 1998 movie 'Godzilla'.

3. Vanilla Ice sampled this group in his hit 'Ice Ice Baby':

Answer: Queen

David Bowie shared the lead singing with Freddie Mercury for Queen's hit 'Under Pressure'.

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:

Answer: Sting

Puff's 'I'll Be Missing You' sampled from The Police hit 'Every Breath You Take'.

5. Coolio's hit song 'Fantastic Voyage' was sampled from this funk group:

Answer: Lakeside

Lakeside's hit song from 1980 had the same name.

6. Which of the following artists was NOT sampled in Tone Loc's 'Funky Cold Medina'?

Answer: Doobie Brothers

'Funky Cold Medina' sampled from Free's 'All Right Now', Kiss' 'Christine Sixteen' and the Springfield's 'For What It's Worth'.

7. Who was sampled for MC Hammer's 'U Can't Touch This'?

Answer: Rick James

'Super Freak' and 'Give It To Me Baby', both from Rick's 1981 album 'Street Songs'.

8. Run-DMC's hit 'Mary Mary' was lifted from which 1960s group?

Answer: The Monkees

From the 1967 song of the same name. Run-DMC was also credited with reviving Aerosmith's career with the release of 'Walk This Way'.

9. Snoop Dogg's debut hit 'Who Am I (What's My Name)' got a lot of its sound, ironically, from which song?

Answer: Atomic Dog

A hit for George Clinton, it's quite a popular song for sampling...not only Dogg, but Ice Cube, Digital Underground, Big Daddy Kane, Ice-T, Prince, Public Enemy and numerous others have used this...even Disney used it for '102 Dalmations'. Clinton himself sampled his own song for another, 'Martial Law'.

10. DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince's song 'Girls Ain't Nothin' But Trouble' sampled from this TV theme:

Answer: I Dream Of Jeannie

'Jeannie's Theme' was written by Hugo Montenegro ('The Good, The Bad and The Ugly').

11. Robbie William's hit song 'Millennium' sampled from this James Bond movie soundtrack:

Answer: You Only Live Twice

The theme was written by John Barry and Leslie Briscusse and sung in the movie by Nancy Sinatra.

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:

Answer: Erik Satie

The selection was from the piano piece 'Trois Gymnopedies'.

13. The Beatles sampled one of their own songs in the closing refrains of 'All You Need Is Love'. What was the song?

Answer: She Loves You

Just in case you thought sampling was a recent thing...

14. For the Dire Straits song 'Money For Nothing', what Police song was changed to the famous line, 'I want my MTV'?

Answer: Don't Stand So Close To Me

Sting himself sang the line and was given co-author credits on the song.

15. Gilbert O'Sullivan's ballad 'Alone Again (Naturally)' was sampled for this hit song for Sugar Ray:

Answer: Fly

Also sampled was jazz group Babe Ruth's song 'The Mexican'.

Source: Author Oddball

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