| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | 20th CENTURY POP MUSIC $200: Kurt Cobain expressed his own apathy with this song's lyric "Oh well, whatever, nevermind" "Smells Like Teen Spirit" |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | 20th CENTURY POP MUSIC $400: If you knew the title gal of this 1957 Buddy Holly hit, you'd know her last name was Gerron "Peggy Sue" |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | 20th CENTURY POP MUSIC $600: In 1996 The Bayside Boys remix of this song by Los del Río was a No. 1 hit; its accompanying dance was a '90s fad too "Macarena" |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | 20th CENTURY POP MUSIC $800: Survivor had a No. 1 hit in 1982 with this song, the theme from "Rocky III" "Eye Of The Tiger" |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | 20th CENTURY POP MUSIC $1000: "Time" & "Money" can both be found on this Pink Floyd album from 1973 The Dark Side of the Moon |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | 20th CENTURY SONG, 21st CENTURY AD $2000: Fidelity Investments:
This British band's
"More Than This" Roxy Music |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | AMERICAN MUSIC $1200: At the beginning of the 20th century, jazz flourished in Storyville, the red light district of this southern city New Orleans |
| #7581, aired 2017-07-24 | 20th CENTURY WORDS $1600: "Chewy" term coined in the '60s for pop music like The Archies' "Sugar, Sugar" bubblegum |
| #7139, aired 2015-10-01 | 20th CENTURY COMPOSERS $1200: This longtime conductor of the New York Philharmonic also composed the music for "West Side Story" Bernstein |
| #5253, aired 2007-06-13 | FRENCH COMPOSERS $400: This 20th century composer described his "Bolero" as "work for orchestra without music" (Maurice) Ravel |
| #5186, aired 2007-03-12 | ART & MUSIC $400: The last name of this 20th century Swiss artist is pronounced like a material for pottery (Paul) Klee |
| #4554, aired 2004-05-27 | A FEW "BAR"s OF MUSIC $2000: This great 20th century Hungarian composer wrote the music for the ballet "The Wooden Prince" (Béla) Bartók |
| #3911, aired 2001-09-10 | 20th CENTURY BALLET $400: Phillip Feeny's eerie music for the British ballet based on this spooky 19th C. novel is heard here Dracula |
| #3801, aired 2001-02-26 | 20th CENTURY STYLE $400: In the 1930s Donald Deskey used this style for the interior of Radio City Music Hall art deco |
| #3689, aired 2000-09-21 | 20th CENTURY MUSIC $200: A 1920s hit by Sammy Fain & Irving Kahal wanted you to "let" this "be your umbrella" Smile |
| #3689, aired 2000-09-21 | 20th CENTURY MUSIC $400: This R&B great, singer of "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine", once sang backup for Sam Cooke Lou Rawls |
| #3689, aired 2000-09-21 | 20th CENTURY MUSIC $600: Harry Chapin sang "Taxi" & she had a hit with "Fast Car" Tracy Chapman |
| #3689, aired 2000-09-21 | 20th CENTURY MUSIC $800: The '60s LP "Cuba y Puerto Rico Son" paired for the first time Celia Cruz & this mambo bandleader Tito Puente |
| #3689, aired 2000-09-21 | 20th CENTURY MUSIC $1000: She had a No. 1 hit in each year of the '90s, the only singer to do so Mariah Carey |
| #3356, aired 1999-03-22 | POP MUSIC $100: Ladies' Home Journal named this "Like A Virgin" singer one of the 100 most important women of the 20th century Madonna |
| #3163, aired 1998-05-06 | 20th CENTURY CLASSICAL MUSIC $200: Two of the "Three Tenors" Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti |
| #3163, aired 1998-05-06 | 20th CENTURY CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: The first jazz artist to win a Music Pulitzer, this brother of Branford won for the opera "Blood on the Fields" Wynton Marsalis |
| #3163, aired 1998-05-06 | 20th CENTURY CLASSICAL MUSIC $600: Classic piece heard here with Melissa Joan Hart as Clarissa explaining it all "Peter and the Wolf" |
| #3163, aired 1998-05-06 | 20th CENTURY CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: Considered an heir to Beethoven, Gustav Mahler, like Ludwig, completed only this many symphonies 9 |
| #3163, aired 1998-05-06 | 20th CENTURY CLASSICAL MUSIC $2,000 (Daily Double): Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man", heard here, is commonly associated with this sports event Olympics |
| #2909, aired 1997-04-03 | 20th CENTURY POP CULTURE $400: Founded in 1934, this corporation provides recorded music to subscribers like restaurants & supermarkets Muzak |
| #2358, aired 1994-11-30 | 20th CENTURY OPERAS $600: He wrote the music for "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny"; Brecht wrote the libretto Kurt Weill |
| #1991, aired 1993-04-12 | THE 20th CENTURY $800: This school of music was founded in 1921 in Rochester, New York Eastman |
| #1983, aired 1993-03-31 | MUSIC $800: Wanda Landowska initiated the revival of this plucked keyboard instrument in the 20th century the harpsichord |
| #983, aired 1988-12-07 | THE 20th CENTURY $200: Seeing a market for black music among whites, Berry Gordy Jr. founded this record company Motown |
| #885, aired 1988-06-10 | GERMAN COMPOSERS $800: A well-known 20th century music educator, his most famous work is "Carmina Burana" Carl Orff |
| #861, aired 1988-05-09 | 20TH CENTURY THINKERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Humanitarian doctor who won a 1953 Nobel Prize, he's heard here [Organ music plays] Albert Schweitzer |
| #642, aired 1987-05-26 | STARTS WITH "K" $800 (Daily Double): 20th century Armenian composer who wrote the following ballet music:
[Instrumental music plays] Aram Khachaturian |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN MUSIC: The composer of this 1944 ballet piece said it "concerned a pioneer celebration... around a newly built farmhouse in the... hills" Appalachian Spring |
| #6643, aired 2013-07-03 | 20th CENTURY MUSIC: European music has "3 Bs"; 20th c. American music's "3 Cs" were John Cage, Elliott Carter & this composer/conductor Aaron Copland |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | MUSIC WORDS: Before it acquired its musical meaning in the early 20th century, it was baseball slang for "pep" or "energy" jazz |
| #4205, aired 2002-12-06 | 20th CENTURY CLASSICAL MUSIC: This work written in 1931 consists of 5 movements including "On the Trail" & "Painted Desert" "Grand Canyon Suite" (by Ferde Grofe) |
| #1830, aired 1992-07-10 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN: This legendary 71-year-old performer, the widow of a diplomat, died in Panama in 1991 Margot Fonteyn |
| #1615, aired 1991-09-13 | THE 20th CENTURY: He was attacked by R. Mercader, a Spanish Communist agent, on Aug. 20, 1940 & died the following day Leon Trotsky |
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