#9080, aired 2024-04-12 | FADS $600: Here's our version of this big fad of the 1970s; googly eyes optional a Pet Rock |
#8904, aired 2023-06-29 | WRITING: MUSIC $400: "England's Dreaming", the title from a Sex Pistols lyric, chronicles this 1970s musical movement punk rock |
#8737, aired 2022-11-08 | NUMBER, PLEASE $600: There's a period before this number that comes before "Special" in the name of Donnie Van Zant's high-caliber 1970s rock band 38 |
#8090, aired 2019-11-08 | CLASSIC ROCK GUITARISTS $1200: Rock royalty since the 1970s, this guitarist wrote "We Will Rock You" (Brian) May |
#7701, aired 2018-02-19 | 1970s MOVIES $2000: Bette Midler earned an Oscar nomination for this 1979 film in which she played a Janis Joplin-like rock star The Rose |
#7143, aired 2015-10-07 | NOT-AS-FAMOUS NAMES $1200: Gary Dahl dreamed up this novelty item, a 1970s fad that didn't have to be walked, fed or taken care of a Pet Rock |
#7087, aired 2015-06-09 | GROOVY MOVIE $1600: Director Cameron Crowe's experience as a teenage rock journalist inspired this movie set in the early 1970s Almost Famous |
#6756, aired 2014-01-20 | 1970s NO. 1 HITS $200: In 1973 "Crocodile Rock" became this artist's first No. 1 hit; it sure wasn't his last Elton John |
#5529, aired 2008-09-25 | ROCK & ROLL $800: (Hey, I'm Mark McGrath, and) one of my all-time favorite bands is this Johnny Rotten-Sid Vicious group that lasted only 3 years in the 1970s the Sex Pistols |
#5247, aired 2007-06-05 | 1970s ROCK $400: Rod Stewart told her to "Wake up... I think I've got something to say to you" Maggie May |
#5247, aired 2007-06-05 | 1970s ROCK $800: Janis Joplin's second Top 10 album, this gem contained the hit "Me And Bobby McGee" Pearl |
#5247, aired 2007-06-05 | 1970s ROCK $1200: In 1971 Three Dog Night sang this, "comin' down in 3-part harmony" "Just An Old Fashioned Love Song" |
#5247, aired 2007-06-05 | 1970s ROCK $1600: This trio had their first top 20 hit in 1967 but didn't have their first gold record until 1970 with "Lonely Days" The Bee Gees |
#5247, aired 2007-06-05 | 1970s ROCK $2000: Their 1973 hit about "The Cover of 'Rolling Stone'" landed them on the March 29th cover of Rolling Stone Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show |
#5068, aired 2006-09-27 | 1970s ROCK $200: In 1972 the band White Clover changed to this "state"ly name; its members went to Topeka West High School Kansas |
#5068, aired 2006-09-27 | 1970s ROCK $400: In 1975, 13 years after hitting No. 1 with "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do", he charted again with a remake of the song Neil Sedaka |
#5068, aired 2006-09-27 | 1970s ROCK $600: In 1971 Janis Joplin told us in this song that "Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose" "Me And Bobby McGee" |
#5068, aired 2006-09-27 | 1970s ROCK $800: In 1976 radio listeners were humming the melody to this song "Baby, I Love Your Way" |
#5068, aired 2006-09-27 | 1970s ROCK $1000: This 1977 Pink Floyd album was inspired by a George Orwell novel Animals |
#5030, aired 2006-06-23 | PROMINENT 20th CENTURY WOMEN $400: In the late 1970s she joined the Rose law firm in Little Rock & soon became the firm's first woman partner Hillary Rodham Clinton |
#3865, aired 2001-05-25 | HARD ROCK CAFE $400: In the 1970s the man seen here fronted this "colorful" rock band:
[Ozzy Osbourne] Black Sabbath |
#3835, aired 2001-04-13 | SLIPPERY "ROCK" $300: A 1970s Stephen J. Cannell TV series The Rockford Files |
#3257, aired 1998-11-03 | ROCK & POP $100: It was the last decade in which Cher didn't have a Top 40 hit 1950s |
#3193, aired 1998-06-17 | BRIT ROCK $600: This "dark" heavy metal band of the 1970s consisted of Bill Ward, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler & Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath |
#2405, aired 1995-02-03 | 1970s TELEVISION $300: A Feb. 11, 1979 bio of this rock legend starring Kurt Russell topped "GWTW" in the ratings that night Elvis Presley |
#1620, aired 1991-09-20 | THE 1970s $400: 2 weeks after Jimi Hendrix died, rock music fans mourned the death of this female legend Janis Joplin |
#929, aired 1988-09-22 | THE 1970s $700 (Daily Double): Heard here, he was, according to Billboard, the top recording artist of the decade:
"I remember when rock was young / Me and Susie had so much fun / Holding hands and skimming stones / Had an old gold Chevy and a place of my own..." Elton John |
#302, aired 1985-11-05 | ROCK 'N' ROLL TRIVIA $400: 1970s group whose name comes from Aboriginal custom of sleeping with canines when it's cold Three Dog Night |