Legends of Music: Beastie Boys
You gotta fight for your right to trivia in this game featuring pioneering hip-hop group Beastie Boys.
15 questions · Published September 19, 2022
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
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1. What Beastie Boys album was the first rap record to top the Billboard 200 chart?
Beastie Boys' debut album, 1986's "Licensed to Ill," is not only the first rap album to top the Billboard charts, it is one of Columbia Records fastest-selling debut albums of all time.
- Multiple Choice
2. What ice cream manufacturer inspired the Beastie Boys' first single, 1983's "Cooky Puss?"
1983's "Cooky Puss" is built around a sample of the Beastie Boys prank calling a local Carvel ice cream shop, asking to speak to Cookie Puss, one of Carvel's original confection creations.
- Multiple Choice
3. For what pioneering thrash metal band did Rick Rubin produce an album while also producing Beastie Boys' "Licensed to Ill?"
FUN FACT
Because he was producing both bands at the same time, producer Rick Rubin enlisted Slayer guitarist Kerry King for the guitar riff on Beastie Boys' "No Sleep till Brooklyn" (1986).
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4. What future award-winning filmmaker directed the 1970s cop show-inspired video for the 1994 Beastie Boys single "Sabotage?"
Spike Jonze, who would go on to win an Academy Award for writing 2003's "Her," directed Beastie Boys' iconic "Sabotage" (1994) video.
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5. What is the only Beastie Boys single to peak in the top ten on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100?
1986's "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)," from their debut album, "Licensed to Ill," is the only Beastie Boys single to crack the top ten on the U.S. Billboard charts. The song peaked at No. 7 in 1987.
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