#9046, aired 2024-02-26 | WORLD CITIES $1200: We are marching to this city where the Peace of Vereeniging was signed in 1902, ending the Boer War Pretoria |
#8924, aired 2023-07-27 | WORLD CITIES $800: I found my thrill on Parliament Hill in this city with a visit to the Canadian Senate chamber Ottawa |
#8216, aired 2020-05-18 | ROCK BANNED $2000: 1968: "There's just no place for" this Rolling Stones song in many cities in a year of political demonstrations "Street Fighting Man" |
#7493, aired 2017-03-22 | HIDDEN U.K. CITIES $1200: How proud Pa Isley would have been if only he had lived to see "Shout" become a classic song Paisley (in Pa Isley) |
#7462, aired 2017-02-07 | CITIES $600: The song "Seven Nation Army" says, "I'm going to" this city, the most populous in Kansas Wichita |
#7067, aired 2015-05-12 | CITIES IN SONG $400: Randy Newman:
"Looks like another perfect day, I love" this city L.A. |
#7067, aired 2015-05-12 | CITIES IN SONG $800: Billy Joel:
"Well, we're living here... and they're closing all the factories down" Allentown |
#7067, aired 2015-05-12 | CITIES IN SONG $1200: Jay Z & Alicia Keys:
"Now you're in" this city, "these streets will make you feel brand new, big lights will inspire you" New York |
#7067, aired 2015-05-12 | CITIES IN SONG $1600: Barry Manilow:
"At the Copa, Copacabana, the hottest spot north of" here Havana |
#7067, aired 2015-05-12 | CITIES IN SONG $2000: Bruce Springsteen:
"Oh brother, are you gonna leave me wasting away on the streets of" this city Philadelphia |
#7035, aired 2015-03-27 | PLACES IN SONG $2000: Bob Dylan:
"Stuck Inside Of ____ With The ____ Blues Again"
(2 different cities, please) Mobile & Memphis |
#6352, aired 2012-04-10 | CITIES IN SONG LYRICS $400: Fittingly, Louis Armstrong sang, "Way down yonder in" this city, "in the land of the dreamy scenes" New Orleans |
#6352, aired 2012-04-10 | CITIES IN SONG LYRICS $800: Elton John sang of its freedom, "Shine on me, I love you" Philadelphia |
#6352, aired 2012-04-10 | CITIES IN SONG LYRICS $1200: Sara Bareilles was "Gonna sell my car and go to" this Silver State city; "that's where dreams would be" Las Vegas |
#6352, aired 2012-04-10 | CITIES IN SONG LYRICS $1600: "They're closing all the factories down", sang Billy Joel about "living here" Allentown |
#6352, aired 2012-04-10 | CITIES IN SONG LYRICS $2000: In a Van Morrison tune, "She's as sweet as" this kind of honey tupelo |
#5096, aired 2006-11-06 | SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES $600: This section of Rio is known as the birthplace of the bossa nova; there was a "Girl From" there in song Ipanema |
#4989, aired 2006-04-27 | CITIES IN SONG $200: This city, "Here I come. They got some crazy little women there and I'm gonna get me one" Kansas City |
#4989, aired 2006-04-27 | CITIES IN SONG $400: It's the city where you'd find "The House Of The Rising Sun", the ruin of many a poor boy New Orleans |
#4989, aired 2006-04-27 | CITIES IN SONG $600: Jan & Dean sang about "The Little Old Lady From" this city; "She's the terror of Colorado Boulevard" Pasadena |
#4989, aired 2006-04-27 | CITIES IN SONG $800: In this 1968 hit Dionne Warwick claimed that "L.A. is a great big freeway, put a hundred down and buy a car" "Do You Know The Way To San José" |
#4989, aired 2006-04-27 | CITIES IN SONG $1000: This West Texas town was the home to Rosa's cantina and wicked Felina, "the girl that I loved" El Paso |
#4693, aired 2005-01-19 | U.S. CITIES $600: Had this Michigan city kept its earlier name, there might have been a song "I've Got A Gal In Bronson" Kalamazoo |
#3383, aired 1999-04-28 | CITIES IN SONG $400: It's "That Toddlin' Town" Chicago |
#3383, aired 1999-04-28 | CITIES IN SONG $600: "They've got some crazy little women" here, & "I'm gonna' get me one" Kansas City |
#3383, aired 1999-04-28 | CITIES IN SONG $800: Bob Dylan sang "Stuck inside of" this Alabama city "with the Memphis blues again" Mobile |
#3383, aired 1999-04-28 | CITIES IN SONG $1000: On the album "Court and Spark", Joni Mitchell lamented that she once felt better as "A free man" in this city Paris |
#1430, aired 1990-11-16 | NEW YORK CITIES $200: In a song from "42nd Street" people "shuffled off to" this New York city Buffalo |
#1246, aired 1990-01-22 | SHOW MUSIC $500: 1 of 3 cities mentioned in the 1st line of the song "Another Op'nin', Another Show" Baltimore, Boston & Philadelphia |
#1190, aired 1989-11-03 | U.S. CITIES $800: This city that earned its own song in "The Music Man" was named for an executive of U.S. Steel Gary, Indiana |
#1009, aired 1989-01-12 | U.S. CITIES $800 (Daily Double): City in the title of the following song, Glen Campbell's 1st Top 40 hit:
"By the time I make Oklahoma /
She'll be sleeping..." Phoenix |
#898, aired 1988-06-29 | U.S. CITIES $1,600 (Daily Double): City celebrated in song in both a 1959 Wilbert Harrison No. 1 hit & the following:
"Y' c'n turn the radiator on whenever you want some heat /
With ev'ry kind o' comfort ev'ry house is all complete /
You c'n walk to privies in the rain and never wet your feet! /
They've gone about as fur as they can go (Yes sir!) /
They've gone about as fur as they can go!..." Kansas City |
#769, aired 1987-12-31 | U.S. CITIES $400 (Daily Double): State capital in which the following Kingston Trio song takes place:
"Now, all night long Charlie rides through the station /
Crying, 'What will become of me? /
How can I afford...'" Boston, Massachusetts |
#570, aired 1987-02-13 | WORLD CITIES $800 (Daily Double): Only city mentioned in the following song is this one in N. Africa:
"See the pyramids along the Nile /
Watch the sunrise on a tropic isle /
Just remember darlin' all the while..." Algiers |
#566, aired 1987-02-09 | U.S. CITIES $500 (Daily Double): Only city that's mentioned in this song: "Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let, fifty cents / No phone, no pool, no pets, I ain't got no cigarettes..." Bangor, Maine |
#531, aired 1986-12-22 | U.S. CITIES $700 (Daily Double): (Alex: Here comes the music.)
"Have you ever passed the corner of Fourth and Grand /
Where a little ball of rhythm has a shoe shine stand? /
People gather round and they clap their hands /
He's a great big bundle of joy /
He pops the boogie woogie rag..."
City in which you'd find title character of this song
"...Yeah, he charges you a nickel just to shine one shoe /
He makes the oldest kind of leather look like new /
You feel as though you wanna dance when he gets through..." Chattanooga (Shoe Shine Boy) |
#177, aired 1985-05-14 | WORLD CITIES $800: The administrative capital of South Africa, people marched to it in song Pretoria |