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1.

Whose hit record is called "License to Ill"?

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Answer: Beastie Boys
2.

When did Beastie Boys first have a top 100 single on the year-end Billboard charts?

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Answer: 1987
3.

What label released the first Beastie Boys album, "Licensed to Ill"?

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Answer: Def Jam
4.

From 1993 to 1995 the Beastie Boys contributed songs to 4 episodes of what TV show?

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Answer: Beavis And Butt-head
5.

What Beastie Boys song is in the 1987 movie "The Pick-up Artist"?

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Answer: She's Crafty
6.

The Beastie Boys album "Licensed To Ill" was released in which decade?

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Answer: Eighties
7.

After the Beastie Boys CD "Licensed to Ill" came out, Adam Yaych started what band?

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Answer: Brooklyn
8.

What is the name of the record company started by the Beastie Boys in 1992?

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Answer: Grand Royal Records
9.

What magazine did the Beastie Boys start publishing in 1993?

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Answer: Grand Royal Magazine
10.

What British band was named from an article in Beastie Boys' "Grand Royal" magazine?

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Answer: Sneaker Pimps
11.

In 1994, who did the Beastie Boys headline with at Lollapalooza?

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Answer: Smashing Pumpkins
12.

What decade marked the rise to popularity of the Beastie Boys?

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Answer: Eighties
13.

What is different about the Beastie Boys LP "The In Sound From Way Out!"?

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Answer: All Instrumental
14.

In what Beastie Boys song do "you wake up late for school"?

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Answer: Fight For Your Right
15.

The track "Jimmy James" samples which rock legend?

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Answer: Jimi Hendrix
16.

"Do the robotic satisfaction" is from what Beastie Boys song?

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Answer: Body Movin'
17.

The song "Squirrels" is a parody of which Beastie Boys song?

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Answer: Girls
18.

What Beastie Boys video won the 1999 MTV award for Best Hip Hop Video?

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Answer: Intergalactic
19.

What Beastie Boys song made it to #1 on the U.S. Modern Rock chart?

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Answer: Ch-Check It Out
20.

The drummer from which all female band once drummed for the Beastie Boys?

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Answer: Luscious Jackson
21.

What Beastie Boys record label closed down in 2001?

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Answer: Grand Royal
22.

Which 1985 hip-hop flick featured the Beasties in a small role?

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Answer: Krush Groove
23.

In what 2005 movie can you find the Beastie Boys song "Transitions"?

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Answer: The Weather Man
24.

What 1982 short features the Beastie Boys as themselves?

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Answer: Beastie
25.

What Beastie Boys album cover shows them in a sardine can?

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Answer: Hello Nasty
26.

What Beastie Boys album cover features a Boeing 727?

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Answer: Licensed To Ill
27.

Which New York rapper was a guest on the Beastie Boys classic "Get it Together"?

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Answer: Q-Tip
28.

Nathaniel Hornblower is the alter ego of which Beastie Boy?

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Answer: MCA
29.

Which Beastie Boys member once pursued an acting career?

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Answer: Adam Horovitz
30.

What Beastie Boys song is on the 1985 "Krush Groove" soundtrack?

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Answer: She's On It
31.

What Beastie Boys song immortalizes one of the worst haircut fads to date?

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Answer: Mullet Head
32.

In 2003 what protest song did the Beastie Boys release?

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Answer: In A World Gone Mad
33.

"Jazz and AWOL, that's our team" is from what Beastie Boys song?

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Answer: Intergalactic
34.

Who sang the lead vocals on "Heart Attack Man?

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Answer: Mike D
35.

The Beastie Boys song "Ch-Check It Out" was on what TV show in 2004?

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Answer: The OC
36.

What award did the Beastie Boys win in 1998?

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Answer: Video Vanguard Award
37.

What Beastie Boys EP cover features a head in a vice?

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Answer: Aglio E Olio
38.

What Beastie Boys song features excerpts from the theme music from "Green Acres"?

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Answer: Time To Get Ill
39.

What Beastie Boys song features a flute riff sample from Jeremy Steig?

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Answer: Sure Shot
40.

Who did Mix Master Mike replace when he joined the Beastie Boys?

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Answer: DJ Hurricane
41.

Who filmed the video of a 2006 concert of the Beastie Boys?

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Answer: The Audience
42.

Who directed the Beastie Boys DVD "Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!"?

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Answer: Nathaniel H鈮坮nblowTr
43.

Beastie Boys' Mike D was in what 2002 documentary?

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Answer: Keep Your Eyes Open
44.

To what does "Beastie" in Beastie Boys refer?

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Answer: Boys Entering Anarchist States Toward Internal Exellence
45.

In what Beastie Boys song can you find a reference to the TV show "Happy Days"?

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Answer: Get It Together
46.

The drummer for Luscious Jackson was the original drummer for what band?

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Answer: The Beastie Boys
47.

Who was the last to join the Beastie Boys?

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Answer: Ad Rock
48.

Which Beastie Boys' track was their first for DEF JAM records and only available on a movie soundtrack?

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Answer: She's On It
49.

What was the name of the debut release from the Beastie Boys when they were still a punk band?

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Answer: Polly Wog Stew
50.

The Beastie Boys song "Fight For Your Right To Party" is in what 2005 movie?

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Answer: Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
51.

The Beastie Boys song "Something's Got To Give" is in what 1996 movie short?

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Answer: Venin Mortel
52.

Before becoming the Beastie Boys, what was the name of their band?

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Answer: The Young Aborigines
53.

The original Beastie Boys lineup produced an EP called what?

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Answer: Pollywog Stew
54.

Who was in The Young and the Useless before joining the Beastie Boys?

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Answer: Adrock
55.

What 12" single did the Beastie Boys release in 1984?

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Answer: Rock Hard
56.

The Beastie Boys' first rap track was based on a prank call to what company?

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Answer: Carvel Ice Cream
57.

Which Sly & the Family Stone song is sampled in Beastie Boys' "Finger Lickin' Good"?

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Answer: Dance To The Music
58.

How many new songs were on the Beastie Boys' "Sounds Of Science" anthology?

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Answer: One
59.

What Beastie Boys LP cover features them as old men?

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Answer: The Sounds Of Science
60.

In what song do the Beastie Boys say "only 12 notes a man can play"?

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Answer: Shadrach
61.

What is the name of Adrock's band before he joined the Beastie Boys?

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Answer: Young And The Useless
62.

How old was Adam Yauch when he first played for the Beastie Boys?

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Answer: 17
63.

Who was the original drummer for the Beastie Boys?

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Answer: Kate Schellenbach
64.

Who was the Beastie Boys' opening act for their "Licensed to Ill" tour?

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Answer: Public Enemy
65.

What Beastie Boys LP ranked 74 in VH1's Top 100 albums?

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Answer: Paul's Boutique
66.

What band sang the Beastie Boys song "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun" in 1993?

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Answer: Anthrax
67.

Which Beastie Boys member is the youngest?

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Answer: Michael Schwartz
68.

What Beastie Boys LP cover features the title printed in red and blue?

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Answer: The In Sound From Way Out!
69.

Who produced the Beastie Boys LP "To The 5 Boroughs"?

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Answer: Beastie Boys
70.

How many pre-2007 Beastie Boys albums have hit the top of the Billboard album chart?

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Answer: Four
71.

Who played guitar on the Beastie Boys EP "Pollywog Stew"?

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Answer: John Berry
72.

How many versions of the song "Root Down" are on the Beastie Boys EP "Root Down"?

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Answer: 3
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