| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | A LOVELY ACCENT $1600: An accent mark hovers over the name of Cate Blanchett's character in this 2022 film set in the world of classical music Tár |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | WITH A SONG IN YOUR BRAIN $1000: Publishing company Hal Leonard offers "the world's premier destination for digital" this loose-printed music; kind of an oxymoron sheet music |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $600: Grab a tasty soondae & score some K-pop music in the Myeongdong District of this South Korean capital Seoul |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | WOMEN IN MUSIC $1600: A chip off the old block, this daughter of Pete Escovedo has led her own "Glamorous Life" as a world famous percussionist Sheila E. |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | IN THE OLYMPIC CITY $1,000 (Daily Double): The Palace of Catalan Music, a UNESCO World Heritage Site Barcelona |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | COUNTRY / MUSIC $800: A fusion of samba & cool jazz, bossa nova burst onto the world scene in the 1950s out of this country Brazil |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $400: Songwriter Hoyt Axton changed the opening line of "Joy To The World" from "Jeremiah was a prophet" to this a bullfrog |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: Rising out of a fjord, this capital city has an opera house that appeals to music lovers & skateboarders Oslo |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | MUSIC FESTIVALS $400: For a 2018 festival Paul McCartney & Metallica were in the "City Limits" of this Texas "Live Music Capital of the World" Austin |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | QUOTES ABOUT MUSIC $1600: Thoreau wrote, "In a world of peace and love music would be the universal" this language |
| #7664, aired 2017-12-28 | A DEDICATED COMPOSER $800: Bruckner laid it on thick in a dedication to this German "world famous noble master of poetry & music" Wagner |
| #7631, aired 2017-11-13 | MUSIC FOR CHAMPS $800: In a 2013 hit that recalls a No. 1 from the '70s, Imagine Dragons was "On Top Of" it top of the world |
| #7248, aired 2016-03-02 | BIBLE BOOKS IN POP MUSIC $800: First word of Three Dog Night's "Joy To The World" Jeremiah |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | I'M JUST A "VILLE" $400: It's "The Country Music Capital of the World" Nashville |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | WE LOVE "R" MUSIC $1000: Janet Jackson sang, "People of the world today, are we looking for a better way of life? We are part of" this the Rhythm Nation |
| #6799, aired 2014-03-20 | WORLD OF MUSIC $400: A symbol of hope
to its people, an orchestra of mostly self-taught musicians in Kinshasa plays this composer Beethoven |
| #6799, aired 2014-03-20 | WORLD OF MUSIC $800: Guitars, violins & trumpets typically make up this type of Mexican ensemble heard here a mariachi band |
| #6799, aired 2014-03-20 | WORLD OF MUSIC $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1993 Yanni returned to his homeland for a series of concerts & a live album recorded atop this ancient hill the Acropolis |
| #6799, aired 2014-03-20 | WORLD OF MUSIC $1000: Celebrating its 15th year in 2014, the Exit Music Festival began as a protest against this nation's president Slobodan Milosevic Serbia (Yugoslavia accepted) |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | WORLD UNIVERSITIES $400: Liverpool Hope university offers a one-of-a-kind M.A. in what else but this music group The Beatles |
| #6010, aired 2010-10-29 | CHAMBER MUSIC $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands with a string quartet at the Juilliard School in New York.) His "American Quartet" was written in a Czech community in Iowa soon after his "New World Symphony"; some hear black spirituals in the melodies (Antonin) Dvorak |
| #5946, aired 2010-06-21 | FOLK MUSIC OF THE WORLD $200: China's dizi is a traditional flute made of this grass bamboo |
| #5946, aired 2010-06-21 | FOLK MUSIC OF THE WORLD $400: A hand drum called the toumbeleki originated on the islands of this country Greece |
| #5946, aired 2010-06-21 | FOLK MUSIC OF THE WORLD $600: The zwoarer is a 2-voice & the dreier a 3-voice version of this Alpine sound a yodel |
| #5946, aired 2010-06-21 | FOLK MUSIC OF THE WORLD $800: An Armenian horovel is a song for this farming activity; one stanza sometimes equals one furrow plowing |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | HARK, IT'S ARKANSAS! $200: Like Tennessee, Arkansas has a city named this, but it isn't the "Country Music Capital of the World" Nashville |
| #5728, aired 2009-07-01 | A WORLD OF MUSIC $200: Carlos Gardel, "the Songbird of Buenos Aires", became a cultural icon singing the music of this dance tango |
| #5728, aired 2009-07-01 | A WORLD OF MUSIC $400: Rodgers & Hammerstein fans who speak German listen to "Der Konig und Ich", the Austrian cast CD of this musical The King and I |
| #5728, aired 2009-07-01 | A WORLD OF MUSIC $800: The name of this Mexican dance music may come from a word for "marriage", as it was performed at weddings mariachi |
| #5728, aired 2009-07-01 | A WORLD OF MUSIC $1000: The Armenian duduk is one of the instruments on this uni-named Greek musician's "Ethnicity" album Yanni |
| #5728, aired 2009-07-01 | A WORLD OF MUSIC $2,400 (Daily Double): The 1990 album "Unison" marked the English language debut of this chanteuse from Quebec Céline Dion |
| #5653, aired 2009-03-18 | WORLD MUSIC $1000: This French first lady outraged many with a song that spoke of a love that was stronger than drugs (Carla) Bruni |
| #5142, aired 2007-01-09 | A WORLD OF MUSIC $400: "Carmina Burana" means "Songs of Beuern", a reference to the monastery of Benedikbeuern in this country Germany |
| #5142, aired 2007-01-09 | A WORLD OF MUSIC $800: A survey of Mexican audiences was unanimous; they wanted to see this musical under its original title, not "Gatos" Cats |
| #5142, aired 2007-01-09 | A WORLD OF MUSIC $1600: Debbye Turner was crowned 1990's Miss America after playing "The Flight Of The Bumblebee" on this xylophone of African origin marimba |
| #5142, aired 2007-01-09 | A WORLD OF MUSIC $2000: From the Greek for "five", this type of 5-note scale is used widely in Chinese music pentatonic |
| #5142, aired 2007-01-09 | A WORLD OF MUSIC $5,000 (Daily Double): Ernest Bloch's orchestral work "Helvetia, The Land Of Mountains Amd Its People" honors this country, his birthplace Switzerland |
| #5057, aired 2006-09-12 | AT THE MOZART HOUSE $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew strolls through the Mozart House in Vienna, Austria.) In 1787 Mozart gave music lessons in this house to a teenager from Bonn, Germany, who would become world-famous as this composer Beethoven |
| #4607, aired 2004-09-21 | A WORLD OF POTPOURRI $2000: (Sofia of the Clue Crew stands with a mariachi band in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.) Add 3 letters to "guitar" to get the name of this bass guitar used in Mexican music guitarron |
| #4412, aired 2003-11-11 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $600: The world-famous Peabody Conservatory of Music is a division of this Baltimore University Johns Hopkins |
| #4384, aired 2003-10-02 | LET'S GO BOWLING $800: A trademark of Brunswick, you might say this type of bowling, with laser lights, fog & music is out of this world! cosmic bowling |
| #4372, aired 2003-09-16 | '80s MUSIC $800: Bruce Springsteen sang on this 1985 anti-apartheid single, a project of his old pal Steve Van Zandt "Sun City" |
| #4054, aired 2002-03-28 | MUSIC $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a mollusk.) The shell of this mollusk is made into a ceremonial trumpet in many parts of the world a conch |
| #3849, aired 2001-05-03 | SITCOMS $300: A 1998 CD of music from this sitcom featured "Cleveland Rocks" & "Five O'Clock World" The Drew Carey Show |
| #3143, aired 1998-04-08 | '60s POP MUSIC $1000: Singer of "Put A Little Love in Your Heart" & "What the World Needs Now is Love" Jackie DeShannon |
| #2704, aired 1996-05-09 | WORLD POTPOURRI $100: On March 17 Dubliners celebrate the feast day of this saint with music & a parade St. Patrick |
| #2672, aired 1996-03-26 | 1980s POP MUSIC $400: According to the title of a Tears For Fears hit, "Everybody Wants To" do this Rule The World |
| #2584, aired 1995-11-23 | PEOPLE $800: The daughter of a world champion steer roper, she was the Country Music Association's best Female Vocalist, 1984-1987 Reba McEntire |
| #1371, aired 1990-07-16 | WORLD LITERATURE $800: "The Kreutzer Sonata" isn't a piece of music but a novel by this Russian count Tolstoy |
| #519, aired 1986-12-04 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400 (Daily Double): European capital in the title of the following:
[Instrumental music plays] Lisbon |
| #268, aired 1985-09-18 | WORLD LEADERS $1,000 (Daily Double): For the king of Thailand's birthday in '84, 1080 men underwent this surgery to help their country a vasectomy |
| #143, aired 1985-03-27 | WORLD WAR II $2,000 (Daily Double): Country which sank the subject of this song:
"We'll find the German battleship that's makin' such a fuss / We gotta sink the Bismarck cause the world depends on us / Hit the decks a-runnin' boys and spin those guns around / When we find the Bismarck we gotta cut her down" England (Great Britain) |
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