| #9322, aired 2025-04-29 | "C.S.", I $1600: This 19th century pianist promoted the music of her husband Robert & their close friend Johannes Brahms Clara Schumann |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | MUSIC ON TV $1200: On "Star Trek: The Next Generation", this Vulcan, Spock's father, is brought to tears by a Brahms chamber piece Sarek |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | HEY "BRA" $1000: The "three B's" of classical music are Bach, Beethoven & this composer Brahms |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | COMPOSERS $1600: MGM's "Song of Love" dramatized this composer falling in love with Clara Schumann, whose husband Robert goes mad Brahms |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | 7-LETTER WORDS $2000: It refers to a virtuoso solo toward the end of a movement; Joseph Joachim wrote one for Brahms' violin concerto cadenza |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | "B" IN MUSIC $1600: This "Lullaby" composer once upset Franz Liszt by falling asleep during one of his performances Brahms |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | 19th CENTURY NAMES $1000: Part classicist, part romantic, this is the only one of the 3 "B"s of classical music who lived entirely in the 19th century Brahms |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $2000: Born in 1833, he's known for an 1860s "Lullaby" Brahms |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | HAMBURGERS $1200: Born in Hamburg in 1833, he rose from his humble beginnings, to become one of the three B's of classical music (Johannes) Brahms |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | HAVE YOU HEARD MY THIRD? $400: The F that begins Brahms' third symphony is personal code for the word frei, meaning this free |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | COMPOSERS $1200: Robert Schumann praised this "Lullaby" composer in a German periodical, creating a sensation Brahms |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | HAMBURGERS $3,000 (Daily Double): This Hamburger was a virtuoso pianist as well as one of the 19th century's great composers Johannes Brahms |
| #7903, aired 2019-01-09 | COMPOSING, DECOMPOSING $1200: He wrote some lively "Hungarian Dances"; on April 3, 1897 it was lullaby & good night Brahms |
| #7807, aired 2018-07-17 | COMPOSERS $400: In the rivalry between him & Wagner, his supporters were called Brahmins (Johannes) Brahms |
| #7782, aired 2018-06-12 | CLASSICAL FAVORITES $400: Many of the tunes of Brahms' "Hungarian Dances" are not so much Hungarian as from this itinerant people the Roma (or Gypsies) |
| #7751, aired 2018-04-30 | THE B.G.s $800: In 1986 big band legend Benny Goodman spent his last hours of life practicing Brahms on this instrument the clarinet |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | EVERYBODY'S A CRITIC $600: Shaw said Brahms' setting of this mass for the dead "is patiently borne only by the corpse" a requiem |
| #7673, aired 2018-01-10 | YOU ARE NOW ENTERING THE TWILIGHT ZONE $400: A magical player piano turns a bully into a weakling when this song of childhood is played the Brahms "Lullaby" |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | WHERE AM I? $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm at the U.S. Army garrison in this German city that was once a spa town where Goethe, Brahms and Dostoevsky all took the waters; the "baden" in its name means "baths" Wiesbaden |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: Brahms' 4th symphony begins in this lively tempo "non troppo", Italian for "don't go overboard" allegro non troppo |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | NATIONALITEASE $800: A set of 21 "____ Dances" by Brahms Hungarian |
| #7342, aired 2016-07-12 | DONE THAT $2000: Became director of Vienna's Society of Friends of Music in 1872 Johannes Brahms |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO "HM" $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1880 he composed the "Tragic Overture" Brahms |
| #7185, aired 2015-12-04 | CLASSICAL REGGAE, MON $800: Trenchtown will sleep soundly after hearing the new version of an 1868 piece by this man (Johannes) Brahms |
| #7169, aired 2015-11-12 | OUTSIDE THE BACHS $800: Brahms had a hit with "A German" one of these works for the dead, which premiered on Good Friday 1868 a requiem |
| #7002, aired 2015-02-10 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1600: Brahms' "Wiegenlied: Guten Abend, Gute Nacht" is better known by this name "Brahms' Lullaby" |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | 3 DIMENSIONAL $1200: There are 8 of these on a Steinway grand, but only 3 in a grouping of composers made up by Hans von Bulow B's |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1200: In this type of composition, like Brahms' Opus 79, the "H" is silent a rhapsody |
| #6682, aired 2013-10-08 | BRAHMS AWAY! $5 (Daily Double): A youthful stint accompanying violinist Eduard Remenyi led to an interest in this national music & its dances Hungarian dances |
| #6682, aired 2013-10-08 | BRAHMS AWAY! $400: At a museum in Brahms' birth city of Hamburg, visitors can play the tafelklavier, this that Brahms used for lessons a piano |
| #6682, aired 2013-10-08 | BRAHMS AWAY! $800: Singer Hermine Spies had this type of "Passion", Brahms' first name & the German title of a work by Bach Johannes |
| #6499, aired 2012-12-13 | COMPOSERS $1600: As a young unknown, this "Lullaby" composer insulted Liszt by falling asleep during a performance Brahms |
| #6403, aired 2012-06-20 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $600: The title of Brahms' "Liebeslieder" means these "of love" songs |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | CHAMBER MUSIC $400: Though pianists like Rubinstein might protest, Brahms' 2-player opus 78 is known as this instrument's sonata violin |
| #6258, aired 2011-11-30 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: When Mendelssohn died, Eduard Marxsen wrote, "A master of the art is gone; a greater arises in" this "Lullaby" composer Brahms |
| #6053, aired 2010-12-29 | JOHANNES BRAHMS $200: As a young man, Brahms chose this as his main instrument & played it in taverns to make a living the piano |
| #6053, aired 2010-12-29 | JOHANNES BRAHMS $400: Brahms got off to a bad start with this Hungarian composer by falling asleep during one of his concerts Liszt |
| #6053, aired 2010-12-29 | JOHANNES BRAHMS $600: It's the name of the familiar Brahms composition heard here Lullaby |
| #6053, aired 2010-12-29 | JOHANNES BRAHMS $800: Brahms wrote only 4 of these compositions, including No.3 in F major symphonies |
| #6053, aired 2010-12-29 | JOHANNES BRAHMS $1000: Brahms spent much of his creative life in Vienna, but was born in this port, today the second-largest city in Germany Hamburg |
| #5882, aired 2010-03-23 | MAKING OVERTURES $400: Brahms' "Academic Festival Overture" was written as a thank you for having this conferred on him honorary degree |
| #5803, aired 2009-12-02 | A MUSICAL PASTICHE $1000: Of classical music's "three B's", the one born in Hamburg in 1833 Johannes Brahms |
| #5779, aired 2009-10-29 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: Brahms' Opus 11 is one of these, but to play it at your beloved's window, you'd need to bring an orchestra a serenade |
| #5655, aired 2009-03-20 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $8,000 (Daily Double): "Blessed are they that go mourning" is the opening chorus of Brahms' "German" this Requiem |
| #5469, aired 2008-05-22 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1600: Joseph Joachim, a friend of this German composer, lived to make a 1903 recording of his works Johannes Brahms |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | BORN FIRST $800: Ludwig van Beethoven,
Johann Sebastian Bach,
Johannes Brahms Bach |
| #5384, aired 2008-01-24 | OPUS DAY $1600: Brahms' Opus 55, first played April 7, 1871, was a "Triumphlied" of victory in this war Franco-Prussian War |
| #5273, aired 2007-07-11 | LULLABIES THAT ROCK $1000: This composer's work heard here is the perfect "cradle song" Brahms |
| #5031, aired 2006-06-26 | THREE ON A MATCH $800: The 3 B's of classical music Bach, Brahms & Beethoven |
| #5001, aired 2006-05-15 | BOHEMIAN RHAPSODIES $800: With Brahms' help, this composer's "Moravian Duets" & "Slavonic Dances" brought attention to Czech music Dvorák |
| #4941, aired 2006-02-20 | LET'S PLAY JEOPARDY! $400: In 1833 musician Jakob Brahms named his second child this Johannes |
| #4927, aired 2006-01-31 | COMPOSERS $1200: Tchaikovsky once referred to this "Lullaby" composer as "giftless" & a "mediocrity" (Johannes) Brahms |
| #4913, aired 2006-01-11 | CLASSICAL CLASSICS $1200: In 1881, on receiving a doctorate, this last of the "3 B's" composed the "Academic Festival Overture" Johannes Brahms |
| #4810, aired 2005-07-01 | CLASSICAL CLASSICS $600: This snoozer is listed as the composer's Opus 49, No. 4 "Brahms' Lullaby" |
| #4746, aired 2005-04-04 | ROBERTS RULE $800: Brahms had some unfinished business with this composer's wife Clara; he was in love with her (Robert) Schumann |
| #4473, aired 2004-02-04 | BACH, BEETHOVEN OR BRAHMS $200: His last words reportedly were "I shall hear in heaven" Beethoven |
| #4473, aired 2004-02-04 | BACH, BEETHOVEN OR BRAHMS $400: He fathered 20 children Bach |
| #4473, aired 2004-02-04 | BACH, BEETHOVEN OR BRAHMS $600: His death marked the end of the Baroque period Bach |
| #4473, aired 2004-02-04 | BACH, BEETHOVEN OR BRAHMS $800: He originally dedicated his third symphony to Napoleon Beethoven |
| #4473, aired 2004-02-04 | BACH, BEETHOVEN OR BRAHMS $1000: The only one of the 3 who could have met Teddy Roosevelt Brahms |
| #4242, aired 2003-01-28 | PIANO PIECES $1200: The Brahms work heard here is this type of dance music waltz |
| #4228, aired 2003-01-08 | BALLET $2000: "Liebeslieder Walzer" is danced to music by this German famed for his "lullaby" Brahms |
| #4171, aired 2002-10-21 | COMPOSERS $400: Of the 3 B's of classical music, the one born last Johannes Brahms |
| #4010, aired 2002-01-25 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: His "German Requiem" was written to express his sorrow at the death of his mother Johannes Brahms |
| #3881, aired 2001-06-18 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: One of Brahms' best-known orchestral works is his "Variations on a Theme by" this "Papa" F.J. Haydn |
| #3866, aired 2001-05-28 | CLASSICAL MUSICIANS $800: In 1853 Schumann noted in his diary meeting this composer & called him "a genius" Johannes Brahms |
| #3755, aired 2000-12-22 | HAMBURGERS $800: "Opus 49, No. 4" is the official name of this Hamburger's "Lullaby" Johannes Brahms |
| #3750, aired 2000-12-15 | 2 OUT OF 3 $200: 2 of the 3 Bs of classical music Bach, Beethoven & Brahms |
| #3703, aired 2000-10-11 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: This composer's 1868 work "Wiegenlied" is better known to us as "Lullaby" Johannes Brahms |
| #3608, aired 2000-04-19 | COMPOSE YOURSELF $600: 19th century heir to Bach & Beethoven seen here: Johannes Brahms |
| #3402, aired 1999-05-25 | WEDDINGS $1000: This composer was 17, a legal age for men in Mississippi to marry, when he began work on the following: Felix Mendelssohn ("The Wedding March") |
| #3353, aired 1999-03-17 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $600: One of the 3 Bs, he wrote "Hungarian Dances" while Liszt wrote "Hungarian Rhapsodies" Johannes Brahms |
| #3097, aired 1998-02-03 | THE 3 Bs $200: Of the three B's, he's the one who composed the following: Brahms |
| #3097, aired 1998-02-03 | THE 3 Bs $400: The 2 who called Vienna home Beethoven & Brahms |
| #3063, aired 1997-12-17 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $200: This "Lullaby" composer was instrumental in getting Dvorak's "Moravian Duets" published Johannes Brahms |
| #2907, aired 1997-04-01 | APRIL $400: It was lullaby & goodnight for this composer who died in Vienna April 3, 1897 Johannes Brahms |
| #2866, aired 1997-02-03 | MUSIC $200: This German "lullaby" composer gave his first public recital at 14 Johannes Brahms |
| #2857, aired 1997-01-21 | COMPOSERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Joseph Haydn told this man's father, "Your son is the greatest composer I know" W.A. Mozart |
| #2842, aired 1996-12-31 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: In titles of mysteries by Lilian Jackson Braun, this animal precedes "Who Saw Red" & "Who Played Brahms" The Cat |
| #2818, aired 1996-11-27 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $200: "Variations on a Theme by Haydn" was this "lullaby" composer's first major work for full orchestra Johannes Brahms |
| #2774, aired 1996-09-26 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: This "Lullaby" composer wrote variations on themes by Haydn, Schumann & Paganini Brahms |
| #2699, aired 1996-05-02 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: His baptismal names were Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| #2647, aired 1996-02-20 | MUSIC APPRECIATION $400: This German known for his "Lullaby" composed his "Academic Festival Overture" in 1880 Brahms |
| #2559, aired 1995-10-19 | COMPOSERS $200: In 1872 Brahms became director of this Austrian city's Society for the Friends of Music Vienna |
| #2548, aired 1995-10-04 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1,000 (Daily Double): In an 1829 letter from the Hebrides, he wrote the opening bars of the "Hebrides Overture" Felix Mendelssohn |
| #2513, aired 1995-07-05 | EUROPE $1000: This large German city on the Elbe River was the birthplace of Felix Mendelssohn & Johannes Brahms Hamburg |
| #2494, aired 1995-06-08 | MUSIC $1000: A chorus of hisses greeted the premiere of 3 movements of his "German Requiem" in 1867 (Johannes) Brahms |
| #2398, aired 1995-01-25 | MUSIC $800: As a youngster this third "B" composer played piano in sailors' taverns Brahms |
| #2361, aired 1994-12-05 | COMPOSERS $600: Translated into English, Giuseppe Verdi becomes Joe Green & he becomes John Brook Johann (Sebastian) Bach |
| #2295, aired 1994-07-22 | BALLET $200: "Choreartium" is danced to this composer's Symphony No. 4, not to his "Lullaby" Brahms |
| #2247, aired 1994-05-17 | MUSIC $400: This 3rd "B"s "German Requiem" had its first complete performance in Leipzig in 1869 Brahms |
| #2229, aired 1994-04-21 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $200: This "Lullaby" composer based "A German Requiem" on Biblical texts rather than the requiem mass Brahms |
| #2146, aired 1993-12-27 | THE OSCARS $100: When Dimitri Tiomkin "scored" with a 1954 Oscar, he thanked these 3 Bs of classical music Brahms, Beethoven & Bach |
| #1995, aired 1993-04-16 | AUTHORS $400: Of Bach, Beethoven or Brahms, the one who wrote "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" (Richard) Bach |
| #1954, aired 1993-02-18 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $200: In 1862 this "Lullaby" composer was rejected for a post as conductor in his native Hamburg (Johannes) Brahms |
| #1872, aired 1992-10-27 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $200: His 1868 "German Requiem" shouldn't put you to sleep--it's not a lullaby Brahms |
| #1789, aired 1992-05-14 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: This composer's "A German Requiem" & "Lullaby" were both completed in 1868 Brahms |
| #1734, aired 1992-02-27 | COMPOSERS $200: His "Wiegenlied" or "Lullaby" was introduced to America in 1868 Brahms |
| #1695, aired 1992-01-03 | COMPOSERS $800: Hailed as Beethoven's successor, his first symphony in 1876 was dubbed by one pianist "The Tenth" Brahms |
| #1659, aired 1991-11-14 | HISTORIC TRIOS $200: In music history, they're known as "The Three B's" Bach, Brahms & Beethoven |
| #1588, aired 1991-06-26 | FAMOUS NAMES $400: The only one of the Three Bs of classical music who was composing while Mark Twain was writing Brahms |
| #1582, aired 1991-06-18 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: When this composer went insane, Brahms helped his wife, Clara, manage the family Schumann |
| #1475, aired 1991-01-18 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $500 (Daily Double): Though he never married, he loved children & wrote the following: (Johannes) Brahms |
| #1407, aired 1990-10-16 | COMPOSERS $600: Conductor Hans von Bulow, who coined the term "The 3 Bs" was a contemporary of this "B" Brahms |
| #1359, aired 1990-06-28 | MUSIC $600: The death of his mother inspired Brahms to compose this A German Requiem |
| #1346, aired 1990-06-11 | COMPOSERS $200: Tho he remained a bachelor for all his life, he's most famous for his "Wiegenlied" or "Lullaby" Johannes Brahms |
| #1333, aired 1990-05-23 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $4,600 (Daily Double): Modern composer who was called the world's outstanding specialist on Hungarian folk music Bela Bartok |
| #1276, aired 1990-03-05 | COMPOSERS $400: Of the 3 Bs, the 2 who died in Vienna Beethoven & Brahms |
| #1276, aired 1990-03-05 | COMPOSERS $1,200 (Daily Double): It was rumored that he committed suicide over the failure of his last symphony, the "Pathetique" Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ("6th Symphony") |
| #1169, aired 1989-10-05 | FAMOUS TRIOS $400: They were born in Eisenach, Bonn & Hamburg in the 17th, 18th & 19th centuries Bach, Brahms & Beethoven |
| #1013, aired 1989-01-18 | THE 3 "B"s $600: Brahms' first name Johann (Johannes) |
| #1013, aired 1989-01-18 | THE 3 "B"s $2,000 (Daily Double): Famous student song on which Brahms based this section of the "Academic Festival Overture": "Gaudeamus Igitur" |
| #968, aired 1988-11-16 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1,500 (Daily Double): Of the three "B"'s, the one who left town when rejected as Philharmonic conductor in his native Hamburg Johannes Brahms |
| #881, aired 1988-06-06 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $600: This great "B" composer was already 50 by the time he completed the 3rd of only 4 symphonies Johannes Brahms |
| #798, aired 1988-02-10 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $600: Of Bach, Beethoven, or Brahms, the one who was a Baroque composer Bach |
| #794, aired 1988-02-04 | MUSICAL JEWELRY $500: In "Kismet", the 3 "B's" refer not to Bach, Beethoven & Brahms, but to this song title "Baubles, Bangles & Beads" |
| #786, aired 1988-01-25 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $600: One of the "Three B's" himself, he was an ardent admirer of the other two Brahms |
| #721, aired 1987-10-26 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: Brahms "Wiegenlied" is often known in the U.S. by this infantile title "Brahms' Lullaby" |
| #644, aired 1987-05-28 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1000: Though he began studying with Salieri, this composer still left one symphony "unfinished" Schubert |
| #507, aired 1986-11-18 | WORLD CITIES $300: Many composers including Haydn, Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven, & Strauss, made this capital their home Vienna |
| #422, aired 1986-04-22 | COMPOSERS $200: Composers known as “the 3 B’s” Bach, Beethoven & Brahms |
| #395, aired 1986-03-14 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $200: Contemporaries said his music was too hard to play, though his lullaby is "child's play" Brahms |
| #300, aired 1985-11-01 | COMPOSERS $200: Babies still fall asleep to this bachelor's popular 'lullaby" Brahms |
| #172, aired 1985-05-07 | COMPOSERS $1000: Brahms & Chopin were 2 primary composers of this period which followed the classical the Romantic period |
| #161, aired 1985-04-22 | COMPOSERS $600: One of the "3 B's", as a youth he made money playing piano in Hamburg bordellos Johannes Brahms |
| #128, aired 1985-03-06 | WORLD CITIES $300: "The Musician's Holy City", home at one time to Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms & the Strausses, etc. Vienna |
| #83, aired 1985-01-02 | HUNGARY $600 (Daily Double): Though not a Hungarian, he's the composer of "Hungarian Dance No. 5" Johannes Brahms |
| #45, aired 1984-11-09 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $200: The “B” who wrote the famous “Lullaby” Brahms |
| #44, aired 1984-11-08 | “V” CITIES $600: Beethoven, Brahms, but not Bach, made music here Vienna |
