Getting your questions ready
Getting your questions ready
All 10 questions with answers and explanations. Play this daily
Q 01Which Fun Lovin' Criminals song takes its title from a cartoon Great Dane's treat but refers to Valium?
Scooby Snacks
Scooby Snacks. Club security handed out Valium under that name, and Tarantino won a co-writing credit for the Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs lines it samples.
Q 02Which Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick hip-hop classic borrows the Inspector Gadget theme melody?
The Show
The track lifts the melody of the Inspector Gadget theme; De La Soul later sampled 'The Show' itself on 'Oodles of O's' from De La Soul Is Dead.
Q 03De La Soul's "The Magic Number" samples "Three Is a Magic Number" from which children's TV series?
Schoolhouse Rock!
"The Magic Number" samples Bob Dorough's "Three Is a Magic Number," which aired as part of the beloved Schoolhouse Rock! series beginning in 1973. The song was central to De La Soul's debut album 3 Feet High and Rising.
Q 04Which children's cartoon's theme song is famously mashed up with nearly every major hip-hop track?
Thomas the Tank Engine
Thomas the Tank Engine. The earliest known mash-up hit YTMND in June 2005, and fans have since laid the theme under Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, DMX and more.
Q 05Lil Yachty's track "All Times" prominently samples the theme music from which Nickelodeon cartoon?
Rugrats
Rugrats. Its theme was written by Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh, and Yachty's playful sampling has also taken in Mario Bros. and Charlie Brown.
Q 06Ice Cube says which children's TV host sued him over a sample on "A Gangsta's Fairytale"?
Fred Rogers
Fred Rogers. Ice Cube said in 2020 that Mister Rogers took him to court over the theme sample on the 1990 track.
Q 07The Prodigy's debut single "Charly" sampled dialogue from which kind of programme?
A British public information film
A British public information film. 'Charley Says' was six 1973 cut-out cartoons in which a boy named Tony translates the miaows of his cat, voiced by Kenny Everett.
Q 08MF DOOM's track "Hey!" from his debut album Operation: Doomsday samples the theme from which cartoon?
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
The New Scooby-Doo Movies. DOOM lifted its intro theme, and critic Robert Christgau said the album peaks when it samples not just the theme but Scooby himself.
Q 09Smart E's turned which children's show's theme into a UK No. 2 rave hit?
Sesame Street
Sesame Street. 'Sesame's Treet' also reached No. 60 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped Billboard's Maxi-Singles Sales chart.
Q 10What was the early-1990s wave of rave tracks sampling children's TV themes collectively nicknamed?
Toytown techno
Toytown techno. Also called kiddy rave, it spun early-'90s hardcore out of kids' TV themes from Speed Racer to The Magic Roundabout and Trumpton.