| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | "B" IN GEOGRAPHY $600: Let's rock & roll:
Home to the University of Colorado, this city is known for its Flatirons, seen here Boulder |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | DARK MATTER $1600: You get a "B" if you know it's the most common volcanic rock in the Earth's crust basalt |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | MUSIC FOR CHAMPIONS $600: "Poetic Champions Compose" is a 1987 album by this Irish rock & R&B legend who was knighted in 2016 Van Morrison |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | KEN JENNINGS--MARINE BIOLOGIST $1200: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) This cartilaginous fish with a barbed tail & its mouth on its underside lives on the ocean bottom; its relative, the manta ray, is found in open waters, so I wonder how the classic marine biology text, "Rock Lobster" by the B-52s, can possibly have them swimming together a stingray |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | ACM AWARDS $1200: In 2017 Luke Bryan, Dierks Bentley & Joe Walsh performed "Johnny B. Goode" in tribute to this rock pioneer who had recently passed away Chuck Berry |
| #8081, aired 2019-10-28 | POP & ROCK MUSIC $600: In 2019 this 5-letter rap & R&B artist had the "Juice" to be nominated for Best New Artist at the VMAs Lizzo |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | MUNICIPAL BEFORE & AFTER $800: E.B. White mouselike boy in a southern state capital Stuart Little Rock |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | SHORE LINES $400: In this song by the B-52s, "we were at the beach, everybody had matching towels" "Rock Lobster" |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | "ROCK" IT TO ME $1200: In this song the B-52's suggest, "Put on your noseguard, put on the lifeguard" "Rock Lobster" |
| #7094, aired 2015-06-18 | DOUBLE "B" $400: Pieces of rock used in masonry, or Fred Flintstone's buddy Barney rubble |
| #6371, aired 2012-05-07 | B.C.-ING YOU $1200: It's believed this rock group was built in England in three phases over 1,500 years, beginning around 3100 B.C. Stonehenge |
| #5888, aired 2010-03-31 | SCHOOLS OF ROCK $1000: Jane Addams was one of the first to receive a B.A. degree at Rockford College in this state Illinois |
| #5636, aired 2009-02-23 | PIGEONS $400: Rock pigeons were domesticated in this kingdom around 3000 B.C. Egypt |
| #4846, aired 2005-10-10 | "B" IN SCIENCE $2000: This dark volcanic rock is low in silica content but fairly rich in iron & magnesium basalt |
| #4273, aired 2003-03-12 | SILENT B $1600: In the 200s & 300s A.D., Christians built these burial places into soft tufa rock on the outskirts of Rome catacombs |
| #4153, aired 2002-09-25 | ROCK & ROLL HEAVEN $1000: "Freddie's Dead" & sadly, so is this R&B singer & producer who made the song a hit in 1972 Curtis Mayfield |
| #3889, aired 2001-06-28 | "B" IN ROCK $100: On a "Manic Monday", this group taught us to "Walk Like An Egyptian" The Bangles |
| #3889, aired 2001-06-28 | "B" IN ROCK $200: Soap star Katherine Kelly Lang was in many of this group's music videos, as the modern "California Girl" The Beach Boys |
| #3889, aired 2001-06-28 | "B" IN ROCK $300: Elvis' last Top 10 hit, it says, "I feel my temperature rising, help me I'm flaming I must be a hundred and nine" "Burning Love" |
| #3889, aired 2001-06-28 | "B" IN ROCK $400: Adam Yauch & Michael Diamond are 2 of the 3 "Boys" in this group The Beastie Boys |
| #3889, aired 2001-06-28 | "B" IN ROCK $500: Shawn Stockman, Nathan Morris, Michael McCary & Wanya Morris are this "Boy" group Boyz II Men |
| #3835, aired 2001-04-13 | SLIPPERY "ROCK" $400: It's the aquatic crustacean found in the title of a 1978 song by the B-52's rock lobster |
| #3710, aired 2000-10-20 | CLASSIC RECORD LABELS $1000: This early R&B, rock & jazz label had an "ocean" of talent, including Ray Charles, who signed in 1952 Atlantic |
| #3636, aired 2000-05-29 | "B" MOVIES $1000: This 1970 Russ Meyer movie about an all-girl rock trio was a sequel in name only Beyond the Valley of the Dolls |
| #3506, aired 1999-11-29 | JOHNNY GILBERT ROCKS! $200: This song topped the pop, R&B & country charts in 1957:
"The warden said, 'Hey, buddy, don't you be no square /
If you can't find a partner, use a wooden chair'" "Jailhouse Rock" |
| #1353, aired 1990-06-20 | U.S. CITIES $200: In 1722 French explorer B. de la Harpe called the site of this future capital "La Petite Roche" Little Rock |
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