| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | SONG SIMILES $600: The video for this Maroon 5 / Christina Aguilera hit features plenty of dancing by a certain other rock star "Moves Like Jagger" |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | SONG SIMILES $800: "In the droptop ride with you, I feel like Scarface", says SZA on this tune, winner of a Grammy in 2024 for Best R&B Song "Snooze" |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | SONG SIMILES $1000: This Top 10 title from 2001 precedes "I'll only fly away / I don't know where my soul is / I don't know where my home is" "I'm Like A Bird" |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | "LIKE"NESS $2000: In song, "You really know how to dance", among other qualities "What I Like About You" |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | DESCRIBING THE SONG $1200: Various people who live lives of quiet desperation, like Davy in the Navy, yell at Billy Joel to sing at a watering hole "Piano Man" |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | SAMPLING $1200: Okurrr! This woman samples the boogaloo song "I Like It Like That" on a 2018 hit Cardi B |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | THE "A" TEAM $1000: Sing a little song & tell us this nickname of Montreal's Canadian Football League team the Alouettes |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | NAME: THE CLASSIC SONG $200: "I wish that I had" his "girl... where can I find a woman like that?" Jessie |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | COMPOUND ADJECTIVES $2000: Mean & unfeeling, like "Hannah, the vamp of Savannah" Hard Hearted |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | TALK LIKE A PIRATE $600: "It is, it is a glorious thing to be a pirate king", says a song from this Gilbert & Sullivan show The Pirates of Penzance |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | SONG BIRDS $600: "I'll raise you like a" this mythical bird, sang Fall Out Boy, who rhymed it with remix a phoenix |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | "R" SONG $200: In a 2017 smash, Post Malone sang, "I feel just like a" this, which he is--he didn't mean he wanted an energy drink a rock star |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | COUNTRY SINGERS IN COUNTRY SONGS $800: A song by Heidi Newfield begins, "There's something 'bout a man in black" & the chorus says, "I want a love like Johnny &" her June |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | MYTH MISERY $800: Song titles applying to the plight of this Corinth king: "Like A Rolling Stone" & "Running Up That Hill" (& back down again, forever) Sisyphus |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER $200: (Andrew Lloyd Webber presents the clue.) When my dad listened to the song here from this show I asked him, "Does it sound like anything else"? & he responded, "It sounds like $10 million"
"Midnight / Not a sound from the pavement / Has the moon lost her memory? / She is smiling alone..." Cats |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | SING YOU A COUNTRY SONG $800: In Feb. 2023 Hardy & Lainey Wilson's "Wait In" this vehicle was a hit, as was Lainey's solo "Heart Like" this vehicle truck |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | ____ & ____ $1000: Per a Tin Pan Alley song, love & marriage go together like this other pair horse & carriage |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $2000: James Joyce's last book becomes a WHAM! song whose first word is "Jitterbug" Finnegans Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | WE ARE PRO-ANTONYMS $200: "I'm stuck like a dope with a thing called hope" in the "South Pacific" song about a cockeyed pessimist optimist |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | IKE & PATTON $200: Irving Berlin wrote Dwight Eisenhower's 1952 campaign song with this rhyming 3-word title, which became a popular slogan "I Like Ike" |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | THOUGHT YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW $600: These tall timepieces were named for a 19th-century song that said, "It stopp'd short--never to go again--When the old man died" a grandfather clock |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | POP MUSIC $100: This No. 1 song says, "If you like it, then you should've put a ring on it" "Single Ladies" |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | STAGE MUSICALS BY SONG LYRICS $1600: "There is a sucker born every minute, each time the second hand sweeps to the top like dandelions up they pop" Barnum |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | WITH A SONG IN YOUR BRAIN $600: To sing in a slow, soft voice, like Bing Crosby to croon |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | WE MAKE THAT VEHICLE $800: 4Runner looks like a Prince song title but it hits different notes for this brand Toyota |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | A LONG RUN ON TV WITH KEN JENNINGS $300: (Ken delivers the clue.) Sometimes you become part of a show that's well into its history, like me & like this Muppet, who first appeared on "Sesame Street" in 1980 in the song "We Are All Monsters" Elmo |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | SONG SNIPPETS $2000: "Thawed out what was scared and cold" "Like A Virgin" |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | THE SILENT CONSONANT IN... $600: A word from the Greek for "a song in praise of God" like "Amazing Grace" N |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | THIS & THAT $200: In song they "go together like a horse and carriage" love & marriage |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | WHAT'S THAT SONG CALLED? $400: "Goddess on the mountain top, burning like a silver flame, the summit of beauty & love" "Venus" |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | BIBLICAL DEVOTIONS $5,000 (Daily Double): "Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it" is from the 8th chapter of this biblical book the Song of Solomon |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | MUSIC FROM THE NECK UP $600: Echo & the Bunnymen sang that they were "like sugar"; in a Meghan Trainor song, they were movin' lips |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | A SONG & A DANCE $400: Larry LaPrise, who's credited with this song & dance, said it's "like a square dance, really... you turn around, you shake it all about" "The Hokey Pokey" |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | SO THAT'S WHAT THEY LOOKED LIKE $1200: Take a look at & a listen to Scott Joplin, the genius who created this classic song "The Entertainer" |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | TWEETS $800: The name of this bird is a synonym for singer; the yellow one has a song that sounds like "sweet, sweet, sweet, I'm so sweet" a warbler |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | A SWEET READ $600: A Richard Brautigan post-apocalyptic novel title mentions this fruit's "Sugar", just like Harry Styles did in a hit song watermelon |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | I CAN NAME THAT NO. 1 '80s HIT $200: "Here's a little song I wrote, you might want to sing it note for note" "Don't Worry, Be Happy" |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | FIRST NAMES IN THE DICTIONARY $1200: An old song says "A pretty girl is like" this, a pleasing tune a melody |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | BRAND NAMES IN MUSIC $400: Kathleen Hanna wrote "Smells Like" this on a wall & Kurt Cobain used it in a song title not knowing it was a deodorant brand Teen Spirit |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | BRAND NAMES IN MUSIC $800: In a "Be smooth like Skippy" commercial, Skippy peanut butter uses this song where Bruno Mars mentions the brand "Uptown Funk" |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | THE U.K. IN THE 1980s $600: The Brits exported New Wave bands like this "Wishing" & "Space Age Love Song" group whose singer had a wing-style haircut A Flock of Seagulls |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | BEHIND THE SONG $800: With his lustrous locks, Motley Crue's Vince Neil is said to have inspired the "Dude" in the title of this Aerosmith song "Dude (Looks Like A Lady)" |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | HOLIDAYS & FESTIVALS $600: In some Decembers, 2,000,000 have found themselves, like in the song, walking in this destination in London's Hyde Park a Winter Wonderland |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | DING DONG $600: In a song from this musical, "We go together like rama lama lama ka dinga da dinga dong" Grease |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | BARBIE CELEBRATES ROLE MODELS $800: Dubbed the "First Lady of Song", this jazz great is ready to entertain you with songs like "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" & "Blue Moon" Ella Fitzgerald |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | BILLBOARD TOP 40 $400: Madonna touched No. 1 on the Billboard Top 40 "for the very first time" with this 1984 song "Like A Virgin" |
| #8172, aired 2020-03-03 | PARENTHETICAL SONG TITLES $1200: Aerosmith:
"(Looks Like a Lady)" "Dude" |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | WATER MUSIC $2000: John Fogerty sounds like he crawled out of the swamp on CCR's song "Born On" this marshy inlet a Bayou |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $400: Oscar-nominated "South Park" song that soars in a V formation, with a 1970s Yankee closer "Blame Canada" Goose Gossage |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | THE SONG (BY PARENTHETICAL TITLE) $200: The one & only Aretha: "(You Make Me Feel Like)" "A Natural Woman" |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | "VO"CABULARY TEST $600: A period of popularity, like the 24 weeks the Madonna song spent on the charts in 1990 vogue |
| #8035, aired 2019-07-12 | TAKE ME TO YOUR LIEDER $1200: The French followed the Germans' lied with a form called melodie, like Henri Duparc's this French word for song "Triste" chanson |
| #7973, aired 2019-04-17 | MUSIC "MAN" $1600: This song by Salt-n-Pepa says their fella has "a body like Arnold with a Denzel face" "Whatta Man" |
| #7945, aired 2019-03-08 | BILLBOARD'S GREATEST HOT 100 SINGLES $200: This Police song sounds like a love song, but Sting admits it's really about jealousy & obsessiveness "Every Breath You Take" |
| #7910, aired 2019-01-18 | HERE COMES THE SONG TITLE! $200: "You made me feel, yeah, you made me feel shiny and new... hoo!" this way "Like a Virgin" |
| #7910, aired 2019-01-18 | HERE COMES THE SONG TITLE! $600: "How does it feel to be on your own, with no direction home, like a complete unknown..." "Like A Rolling Stone" |
| #7853, aired 2018-10-31 | SONG TITLE WOMEN BY LYRIC $1600: She "says, 'I'm done with Sergio. He treats me like a rag doll" Jane |
| #7853, aired 2018-10-31 | SONG TITLE WOMEN BY LYRIC $2000: She "rings like a bell through the night & wouldn't you love to love her?" "Rhiannon" |
| #7843, aired 2018-10-17 | NUTS ABOUT DOUGHNUTS $600: A Bangles song says, "All the cops in the donut shop say ay oh whey oh, ay oh whey oh", this title instruction "Walk Like An Egyptian" |
| #7779, aired 2018-06-07 | PRINCE $2000: (Jimmy of Clue Crew presents from Paisley Park in Chanhassen, Minnesota.) The threat of nuclear war inspired Prince to write the lyrics, "Everybody's got a bomb, we could all die any day", but as this song also reminds us, "Life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last" party like it's "1999" |
| #7724, aired 2018-03-22 | SING A SONG OF $800: This man sang "Song Of Madness" like a bat out of hell Meat Loaf |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | 2-WORD SONG TITLES $1600: In 2013 Katy Perry was "coming atcha like a" this, perhaps James K. Polk "Dark Horse" |
| #7685, aired 2018-01-26 | SIMILES IF YOU PLEASE $200: "Smell like I sound, I'm lost in a crowd, and I'm" this 1980s song title "Hungry Like The Wolf" |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | I SING THE BODY $400: Some of the anatomy John Mayer lauds in this song: skin like porcelain, candy lips & a bubblegum tongue "Your Body Is A Wonderland" |
| #7643, aired 2017-11-29 | MOTOWN LYRICS $2000: "Could it be the devil in me or is this the way love's supposed to be? It's like" one of these like a heat wave |
| #7639, aired 2017-11-23 | FOR A SONG $1600: Ed Sheeran sang, "I'm in love with" this, the title of the song, "we push & pull like a magnet do" "The Shape Of You" |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | MODERN LINGO $600: This 3-letter word means "amazing"; in a Rae Sremmurd song title, it precedes "Like Bic" "Lit Like Bic" |
| #7589, aired 2017-09-14 | "LIKE" A SONG $200: The Steve Miller Band soared with this Top 10 hit way back in 1977 "Fly Like An Eagle" |
| #7589, aired 2017-09-14 | "LIKE" A SONG $400: The Bangles instructed us all with this 1986 hit that was fit for a pharaoh "Walk Like An Egyptian" |
| #7589, aired 2017-09-14 | "LIKE" A SONG $600: Nirvana reached the charts for the first time in 1991 with this grunge anthem "Smells Like Teen Spirit" |
| #7589, aired 2017-09-14 | "LIKE" A SONG $800: This Madonna parody operated well for Weird Al in 1985 "Like A Surgeon" |
| #7589, aired 2017-09-14 | "LIKE" A SONG $1000: The title of this 2011 single by Selena Gomez & The Scene mentions the kind of song it is "Love You Like A Love Song" |
| #7581, aired 2017-07-24 | MUSICAL THEATER $1600: "There's No Place Like Gnome" is a song in the 2017 musical based on this film about a French waitress Amelie |
| #7579, aired 2017-07-20 | PARTS OF SPEECH... IN SONG! $600: "Baby baby baby oh, like baby baby baby no, like baby baby baby oh, thought you'd always be mine":
mine a pronoun |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | BOB DYLAN $800: Song that Jann Wenner's magazine ranked the greatest ever "Like A Rolling Stone" |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | YOU PROBABLY THINK THIS SONG IS ABOUT YOU $2000: Stephen Tyler went gaga for a beautiful blonde, who turned out to be Vince Neil of Motley Crue; thus this song was born "Dude (Looks Like A Lady)" |
| #7391, aired 2016-10-31 | HALLOWEEN ENTERTAINMENT $2000: "Halloween III" was subtitled this, just like the title of a Donovan song Season of the Witch |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | POETS & POETRY $600: Joyce Kilmer's most famous work ends, "Poems are made by fools like me but only God can make" this a tree |
| #7347, aired 2016-07-19 | DUDE-ERONOMY $400: This Aerosmith song implores the unwary to "never judge a book by its cover" "Dude (Looks Like A Lady)" |
| #7335, aired 2016-07-01 | DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME $400: Daylight Saving Time is sometimes called this, like a song from "Porgy and Bess" summertime |
| #7287, aired 2016-04-26 | ANKARA BABIES $600: A ninni is this soothing song, like one that goes, "Sleep, my dear son... if your father hears your cries he will kill you" a lullaby |
| #7233, aired 2016-02-10 | THIS IS MY FIGHT SONG $1600: The Longhorns' fight song specifically mentions this in-state rival that they'd like to say "goodbye" to Texas A&M |
| #7220, aired 2016-01-22 | "EYE" WITNESS $1600: When this happens in a song lyric, "that's amore!" When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie |
| #7218, aired 2016-01-20 | INCREDIBLY SPECIFIC WEDDING VOWS $800: You like the Springsteen song, so I will take you to a ranch near Amarillo that has 10 of these, dating from 1949 to 1963 Cadillacs |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | "I" TUNES $2000: Bob Geldof wrote this song after hearing young Brenda Spencer's motive for a 1979 school shooting "I Don't Like Mondays" |
| #7180, aired 2015-11-27 | "IT" IS A SONG $2000: Snoop Dogg recorded a new version of this song in 2012 to promote Hot Pockets "Drop It Like It's Hot" |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | A SONG OF "ICE" & "FIRE" $400: Someone busy with several projects has a lot of these, like a blacksmith irons in the fire |
| #7139, aired 2015-10-01 | OF HAPPINESS $600: The song "Happy" says, "Clap along if you feel like a room without" this a roof |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | TALK LIKE A PIRATE $600: "It is, it is a glorious thing to be a pirate king", says a song from this Gilbert & Sullivan show Pirates of Penzance |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | POP $2000: In 2010 Shakira had a world smash hit with this double-talk song that sounds like something Fozzie Bear says Waka Waka |
| #7117, aired 2015-07-21 | "BORN" TO BE A SONG $800: Lady Gaga sang, "I'm beautiful in my way, 'cause God makes no mistakes, I'm on the right track baby, I was" this "Born This Way" |
| #7109, aired 2015-07-09 | THAT'S JUST SAD $2000: Like in the old song, "I am a man of constant" this sorrow |
| #7108, aired 2015-07-08 | NAME-DROPPING SONG LYRICS $1600: (Bob Costas gives the clue.) In "Hip Hop Quotabtes'", this rapper name-checked me with "Now I roll up torpedoes, get blunted with Rastas, & for a hefty fee, I'm on your record like Bob Costas" Ludacris |
| #7105, aired 2015-07-03 | CAR TUNES $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew sits in a convertible with Sarah in the driver's seat at the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, OH.) Natalie Cole's hit song about a classic automobile, like the 1962 model we're in, was written by this New Jersey man who had a few hits of his own Bruce Springsteen |
| #7068, aired 2015-05-13 | MOROCCAN HISTORY $800: Starting in the 1500s, Morocco was ruled by men with this title, like the one who "don't like it" in a Clash song sharif |
| #7067, aired 2015-05-12 | CITIES IN SONG $400: Randy Newman:
"Looks like another perfect day, I love" this city L.A. |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | POP CULTURE STUPID ANSWERS $400: In 1983 & again in 1999, Prince had a Top 40 hit with this song "1999" |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | IRISH SONGS $400: "'Tis like the morn in spring" is a line from this song "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" |
| #7033, aired 2015-03-25 | MOON WALKING $600: If I had one of these, I'd drop it on the Moon with a feather like Dave Scott did in August 1971 to test a Galileo theory a hammer |
| #7011, aired 2015-02-23 | FOREIGN WORDS IN SONG TITLES $200: "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's" this amore |
| #6984, aired 2015-01-15 | ALADDIN ON BROADWAY $1600: (Genie reads.) In a big 8-minute showstopper in Act I, I emerge from the magic lamp to perform this song, whose chorus is "You ain't never had..." "Friend Like Me" |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | POETIC LINES $2000: "Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky like a patient etherized upon a table" "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | LIKE, TOTALLY $600: Some? No! Most? No! In a song from "Gypsy", it's what's "coming up roses" everything |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | LET'S PUT OUR BAND NAME IN THE SONG! $1200: "In a" this band name, "dreams stay with you / like a lover's voice fires the mountainside / stay alive" a Big Country |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | WRAP MUSIC $800: In a 1989 hit, Don Henley lamented "The End Of" this--sounds like a song of experience "The Innocence" |
| #6716, aired 2013-11-25 | "me"TUNES $400: Considering the title of this Wham! song, the lyric "don't leave me hanging on like a yo-yo" had to happen "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | NAME THE SONG $2000: 2003:
"Shake it like a Polaroid picture" "Hey Ya!" |
| #6610, aired 2013-05-17 | POEMS IN VIDEO GAMES $600: In "The Legend Of Zelda", a poem called the Sun's Song inspires you to play a tune on this egg-like instrument an ocarina |
| #6598, aired 2013-05-01 | "C" BIRDS $2000: The catbird has a meow-like song; this bird hangs around cattle to feed on insects they stir up a cowbird |
| #6566, aired 2013-03-18 | RAISING THE BAR $200: A '70s song asks "if you like" these fruity cocktails "and getting caught in the rain" (it's stuck in my head now too) pina coladas |
| #6478, aired 2012-11-14 | TEACH ME A SONG $800: The Hillside Singers had a hit with "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony)", adapted from a jingle for this Coke |
| #6457, aired 2012-10-16 | POP CULTURE MUSINGS $800: With lyrics like "There were plants & birds & rocks & things" & "The heat was hot", how did this song by America hit No. 1? "A Horse With No Name" |
| #6387, aired 2012-05-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: Worldly wise, like the "Lady" in a Duke Ellington song sophisticated |
| #6383, aired 2012-05-23 | LYRICS OF THE TOP 40 SONG $800: 1983: "In touch with the ground, I'm on the hunt, I'm after you, smell like I sound, I'm lost in a crowd, and I'm..." "Hungry Like The Wolf" |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | SINGERS IN SONGS $800: The chorus of a song by Barenaked Ladies says, "Lying in bed just like" this Beach Boy "did" Brian Wilson |
| #6288, aired 2012-01-11 | CELEBRITIES' MIDDLE NAMES $200: The L. in Samuel L. Jackson stands for this, like a certain bad, bad Mr. Brown of song Leroy |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | FUN RAISERS $1200: Like a 19th century song says, you can float "through the air with the greatest of ease" on this piece of circus equipment a trapeze |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | LET'S PLAY A SONG $800: Wait 'til you hear me belt out my version of this singer's 1967 top 10 hit "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" Aretha Franklin |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | THE SONG DYNASTY $400: China's Song Dynasty marked a high point in the making of this, like Jingdezhen whiteware porcelain (or pottery or ceramics) |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | INCLUDES A PAPAL NAME $800: "Oh Yes I Am" this, just like in the title of a 1983 Billy Joel album & song an innocent man |
| #6149, aired 2011-05-12 | COUNTRY: STRONG $400: "A dream is like" this, "ever changin' as it flows", sang Garth Brooks in this song that gets him the most fan mail "A River" |
| #6084, aired 2011-02-10 | EMOTICONS $600: Like Blondie in a song,
:-c
is telling you, do this call me |
| #6020, aired 2010-11-12 | THEY WERE DROPOUTS $800: Irving Berlin went into this "business"--a song he wrote says "There's no business like" it show business |
| #5754, aired 2009-09-24 | YE OLDE JOBBE FAIRE $1200: Day-O! This job was for those who secured payments for goods on credit, like bananas maybe tallyman |
| #5680, aired 2009-04-24 | SOUNDS LIKE A SNEEZE $200: Double talk railroad term in the title of a 1941 hit song with Tex Beneke on vocals choo choo |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | MISHEARD LYRICS $1200: This song's "Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night" has had many interpretations "Blinded By The Light" |
| #5608, aired 2009-01-14 | A LITTLE BIT ROCK & ROLL $1200: Queen had a No. 1 with this song that says, "It shakes all over like a jellyfish, I kinda like it" "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" |
| #5605, aired 2009-01-09 | A BIT OF "MIS" INFORMATION $2000: Don't turn around, oh oh oh, der this head of a USSR government division's in town, oh oh oh a commissar |
| #5591, aired 2008-12-22 | THE SOUND OF MUSIC $200: If your song sounds like a dirge, sadly, that means it sounds like a hymn at one of these events a funeral |
| #5446, aired 2008-04-21 | I "LIKE" THIS SONG $200: This Bob Seger song was used in ads for Chevy trucks "Like A Rock" |
| #5446, aired 2008-04-21 | I "LIKE" THIS SONG $400: Duran Duran made its Top 40 debut with this song "Hungry Like The Wolf" |
| #5446, aired 2008-04-21 | I "LIKE" THIS SONG $600: This 1965 song begins, "Once upon a time you dressed so fine" "Like A Rolling Stone" |
| #5446, aired 2008-04-21 | I "LIKE" THIS SONG $800: The 2 Madonna No. 1 hits that fit the category "Like A Virgin" & "Like A Prayer" |
| #5354, aired 2007-12-13 | MEET THE ROBINSONS $400: Like a famous "Mr." of song, it was the nickname of tap dancer Bill Robinson Bojangles |
| #5331, aired 2007-11-12 | GIRLS OF SONG $600: "You fill up my senses, come fill me again" like this gal from a John Denver song Annie |
| #5327, aired 2007-11-06 | 4 "A"s 4 YOU $400: I like to move it, move it... France held this Indian Ocean island nation as a colony until 1960 Madagascar |
| #5293, aired 2007-09-19 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Aerosmith song that says, "She had the body of a Venus...imagine my surprise" & is a Disney movie about 2 dogs in love "Dude Looks Like A Lady and the Tramp" |
| #5268, aired 2007-07-04 | YOU WANNA PIZZA THIS? $800: It's the song title & lyric that follows the line "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie..." "That's Amore" |
| #5223, aired 2007-05-02 | HOMOPHONES $600: A pronoun, or a song like "Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed?" him/hymn |
| #5157, aired 2007-01-30 | ENGLISHMEN $1600: "Mad dogs & Englishmen go out in the midday sun" is from a song by this man who also wrote plays like "Blithe Spirit" (Noel) Coward |
| #5143, aired 2007-01-10 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Dylan song "with no direction home" that's an edible crustacean like a rolling stone crab |
| #5109, aired 2006-11-23 | SONGS IN THE CONCERT HALL $400: Here Mahler takes this normally cheery song & turns it into a funeral march "Frère Jacques" |
| #5102, aired 2006-11-14 | WOMEN & SONG $1200: "Any Man Of Mine"
&
"Man! I Feel Like A Woman!" Shania Twain |
| #5090, aired 2006-10-27 | THE POETRY OF LOVE $400: This biblical "song" waxes poetic with lines like "As a lily among brambles, so is my love among maidens" Song of Songs (or Song of Solomon) |
| #5040, aired 2006-07-07 | MONTHS $600: A 1941 song asked, "I like New York in" this month, "how about you?" June |
| #4984, aired 2006-04-20 | HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE $200: Like Manilow's "Lola", Evelyn Nesbitt was one of these theater females; in 1906, her rich, crazy husband shot her ex-lover showgirl |
| #4915, aired 2006-01-13 | IN A MUSICAL MOOD $400: It's the 1946 Western that shares its name with the song heard here My Darling Clementine |
| #4909, aired 2006-01-05 | BOTTOMS UP! $600: A 1979 song wondered if you like this tropical drink & getting caught in the rain piña colada |
| #4888, aired 2005-12-07 | A BARRY MANILOW SONGBOOK $800: "You came along, just like a song, and brightened my day, who'd've believed that you were part of a dream..." "Can't Smile Without You" |
| #4837, aired 2005-09-27 | A JOHN DENVER SONGBOOK $600: "If I had a day that I could give you, I'd give to you a day just like today" "Sunshine On My Shoulders" |
| #4837, aired 2005-09-27 | A JOHN DENVER SONGBOOK $1000: "You fill up my senses like a night in a forest..." "Annie's Song" |
| #4832, aired 2005-09-20 | LYRICALLY YOURS $400: "She'll make you live her crazy life but she'll take away your pain, like a bullet to your brain" in this 1999 song "Livin' La Vida Loca" |
| #4785, aired 2005-05-27 | QUOTES FROM THE BATTLE OF THE SEXES $800: In the song "A Hymn To Him" from "My Fair Lady", this character asks, "Why can't a woman be more like a man?" (Henry) Higgins |
| #4733, aired 2005-03-16 | ROLLING STONE'S 500 GREATEST SONGS $400: We wonder "how does it feel" for him to be on his own with the No. 1 song "Like A Rolling Stone" Bob Dylan |
| #4690, aired 2005-01-14 | "EASY" FOR YOU TO SAY $1000: The musical "Annie" features a song about this proverbial place, home to folks like Daddy Warbucks Easy Street |
| #4660, aired 2004-12-03 | SONG BIRDS $200: Steve Miller had a No. 2 hit with this 1977 song "Fly Like An Eagle" |
| #4660, aired 2004-12-03 | SONG BIRDS $1000: Like Shelley, Johnny Mercer & Hoagy Carmichael wrote an ode to this title bird skylark |
| #4602, aired 2004-09-14 | '80s SONGS $1600: This Pat Benatar song says, "You come on like a flame, then you turn a cold shoulder" "Fire And Ice" |
| #4585, aired 2004-07-09 | MOVIE MUSIC $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew deliver the clue from the broad steps of an art museum in a certain city.) "I walked the avenue 'till my legs felt like stone" is a line from this 1993 Oscar-winning song "Streets Of Philadelphia" |
| #4581, aired 2004-07-05 | CELEBRITY TRIVIA $1600: Pepsi dropped Madonna after the release of this song's video showed her kissing a saint in a church "Like A Prayer" |
| #4563, aired 2004-06-09 | MOVIE ROLES $600: Robin Williams danced with a vacuum cleaner to the song "Dude Looks Like A Lady" in this 1993 comedy Mrs. Doubtfire |
| #4554, aired 2004-05-27 | QUOTATIONS $400: In song these "go together like a horse and carriage" love & marriage |
| #4539, aired 2004-05-06 | MOM JUST DOESN'T GET IT $1200: (Oh-oh! Mom Cheryl is no Beyonce or Lucy Liu.) Hey ya! The rhymes are tight & I'm shaking it just like one of these in that OutKast song a Polaroid picture |
| #4517, aired 2004-04-06 | BOOK TITLES $800: A biography of the "Last Child of Camelot" is titled this, like a Neil Diamond song Sweet Caroline |
| #4480, aired 2004-02-13 | LOVE LINES $600: The song of Solomon's "My Beloved is Like a Roe or a Young Hart" compares a lover to this animal a deer |
| #4430, aired 2003-12-05 | FOLK SONGS $1000: This song asks a lot of important questions like "How many times must a man look up before he can see the sky" "Blowin' in the Wind" |
| #4312, aired 2003-05-06 | SINGING ACTORS $400: As a teenager this "Gladiator" star recorded the song "I Want to Be Like Marlon Brando" under the name Rus Le Roc Russell Crowe |
| #4299, aired 2003-04-17 | MUSIC FOR YOUR CAT $800: Your cat's least favorite song? "Misty", because of the line "Look at me, I'm" this as helpless as a kitten up a tree |
| #4245, aired 2003-01-31 | '80s ROCK $200: In December 1984 Madonna touched No. 1 for the very first time with this song "Like A Virgin" |
| #4163, aired 2002-10-09 | PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES $1200: This Bob Seger song gained commercial popularity in Chevy truck ads "Like A Rock" |
| #4150, aired 2002-09-20 | SUMMER CAMP $800: In a song about bad times at camp, "I went hiking with Joe Spivy / He developed" this outdoor danger poison ivy |
| #4121, aired 2002-07-01 | HOW ABOUT A REVIVAL? $800: With song like "And So He Died" & "A Cup Of Tea", 1950's "Happy as Larry"starred this man, later a penguin on TV Burgess Meredith |
| #4013, aired 2002-01-30 | ACTORS WHO SING $800: Using the stage name Rainbo, she recorded a song about John & Yoko before starringin films like "Carrie" Sissy Spacek |
| #4002, aired 2002-01-15 | ALPHABET SOUP $3,000 (Daily Double): (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from New York City.) Like the Duke Ellington song, this is one way to get to Harlem the A Train |
| #3997, aired 2002-01-08 | SCRIPTURE SAYETH $800: This sensuous "Song" sayeth, "Thy name is like a round goblet...thing eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon" Song of Solomon |
| #3968, aired 2001-11-28 | '70s SONGS $1,000 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm KC of KC and the Sunshine Band.) Originally a sexier song, this 1975 hit had to be toned down, uh-huh, uh-huh "That's the Way (I Like It)" |
| #3952, aired 2001-11-06 | SONG LYRICS $100: Madonna:
"But you made me feel yeah, you made me feel shiny and new" "Like A Virgin" |
| #3915, aired 2001-09-14 | FAMOUS PAIRS $100: In a Sinatra song, "Love and marriage go together like" these 2 things a horse and carriage |
| #3853, aired 2001-05-09 | HAIR DON'TS $400: An adjective for dry, untamable hair, it sounds just like a Lenny Kravitz song title flyaway |
| #3804, aired 2001-03-01 | HOW TO PROPOSE MARRIAGE $300: Like the couple in a No. 1 song by the Dixie Cups, one might ask her intended to go to this title place the chapel |
| #3734, aired 2000-11-23 | MUSICAL DICTIONARY $200: In song, "A pretty girl is like" one a melody |
| #3506, aired 1999-11-29 | JOHNNY GILBERT ROCKS! $500: The title track of a 1976 album, this song topped the charts in 1977:
"You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave" "Hotel California" |
| #3496, aired 1999-11-15 | NEW YORK CITY SONGS $100: A 1941 song asked, "I like New York in" this month, "how about you?" June |
| #3488, aired 1999-11-03 | POP QUIZ $400: Nirvana didn't sweat over the title of this 1991 song, they named it for a deodorant "Smells Like Teen Spirit" |
| #3382, aired 1999-04-27 | WORD"ZZ" $200: In a 1969 No. 1 song, Tommy Roe was this, his "head is spinnin' around like a whirlpool, it never ends" "Dizzy" |
| #3300, aired 1999-01-01 | THE MOVIES $500: "It Goes Like It Goes" was the theme song to this 1979 Sally Field film in which she played a textile worker Norma Rae |
| #3300, aired 1999-01-01 | A VERY BRADY CATEGORY $600: In the theme song, it's the line that follows "All of them had hair of gold, like their mother" the youngest one in curls |
| #3136, aired 1998-03-30 | DECEMBER 1963 $500 (Daily Double): In Dec. 1963, The 4 Seasons split with their record label, signed with a new one & had a hit with this song:
"Think! Think! Oh the places you'll see /
Now think what the future would be /
With a poor boy like me..." "Dawn" |
| #3060, aired 1997-12-12 | 4-LETTER WORDS $100: It's a song of praise, like "Rock Of Ages" Hymn |
| #3047, aired 1997-11-25 | WOMEN AND SONG $100: Her No. 1 hits include "Like A Prayer" & "Like A Virgin" Madonna |
| #2995, aired 1997-09-12 | 30 YEARS AGO: SEPTEMBER 1967 $1,000 (Daily Double): In September they reached the Top 40 with the song heard here:
"I dig rock & roll music and I love to get the chance to play..." Peter, Paul & Mary |
| #2911, aired 1997-04-07 | SONG LYRICS $500: Question asked by Alanis Morissette, "It's like rain on your wedding day, it's a free ride when you've already paid" "Isn't It Ironic" |
| #2867, aired 1997-02-04 | SONG LYRICS $600: Bob Dylan wrote, "How does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like" one of these A Rolling Stone |
| #2662, aired 1996-03-12 | SONG STANDARDS $500: "When the moon hits your eye like a big" one of these, "that's amore" a pizza pie |
| #2576, aired 1995-11-13 | COLORFUL BOOKS $300: In it, Billie Holiday said she didn't like singing the same song the same way two nights in a row "Lady Sings the Blues" |
| #2324, aired 1994-10-13 | SONG LYRICS $200: "On a day like today, we passed the time away writing" these "Love Letters In The Sand" |
| #2278, aired 1994-06-29 | SONG LYRICS $100: These 2 items "go together like a horse and carriage" "Love And Marriage" |
| #2219, aired 1994-04-07 | THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY $600 (Daily Double): Of their 7 Top 40 hits, only this song reached No. 1:
"I was sleeping and right in the middle of a good dream / Like all at once I wake up from something that keeps knocking at my brain / Before I go insane..." "I Think I Love You" |
| #2213, aired 1994-03-30 | MUSIC $200: It's the term for a song, like France's "La Marseillaise", sanctioned by a country for official occasions an anthem |
| #1966, aired 1993-03-08 | SILLY SONGS $200: A 1930s novelty song from England went, "Let's all sing like" these "sing" the birdies |
| #1871, aired 1992-10-26 | SONG STANDARDS $400: Do this "and let me play among the stars; let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars" "Fly Me To The Moon" |
| #1713, aired 1992-01-29 | GIRLS IN SONG $500: In a 1976 Fleetwood Mac hit, she "rings like a bell through the night" Rhiannon |
| #1683, aired 1991-12-18 | SONG STANDARDS $200: When these "are smiling, sure it's like a morn in spring" Irish eyes |
| #1576, aired 1991-06-10 | MOVIE SONGS $100: This song from "The Caddy" & "Moonstruck" begins,
"When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie" "That's Amore" |
| #1389, aired 1990-09-20 | GOVERNMENT AGENCIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Commission referred to by its initials in the following song
"Well I pulled out of Pittsburgh rolling down that Eastern seaboard / I got my diesel wound up and she's a running like never before / There's a speed zone ahead, but alright / I don't see a cop in sight / Six days on the road and I'm gonna make it home tonight" the Interstate Commerce Commission (the ICC) |
| #1355, aired 1990-06-22 | "OF" SONGS $1,200 (Daily Double): It's what Matt Monro was describing in the following song:
"She walks like an angel walks / She talks like an angel talks / And her hair has a kind of curl..." "My Kind Of Girl" |
| #1316, aired 1990-04-30 | SONGS BY THE NUMBERS $2,300 (Daily Double): This song made No.1 in the U.S. but wasn't even released as a single in Britain:
"Ooh I need your love babe / Guess you know it's true / Hope you need my love babe / Just like I need you..." "Eight Days A Week" |
| #1305, aired 1990-04-13 | SONG LYRICS $100: A song from "Funny Girl" ends with "You are woman, I am" this, "let's kiss" man |
| #1246, aired 1990-01-22 | SHOW MUSIC $400: "South Pacific" song that begins "We got sunlight on the sand, we got moonlight on the sea" "There's Nothing Like A Dame" |
| #1233, aired 1990-01-03 | SINGIN' SAMS $400 (Daily Double): In 1988 she "sly"ly crept up the charts with the following:
"I've been told time and time again / That you can't treat love like a game / But I play rough with hearts that never mend / 'Cause some guys like you do the same / Love was just a four letter word / Never heard how... " Samantha Fox |
| #1173, aired 1989-10-11 | 4-LETTER WORDS $500: Said 3 times, this sea bird's name sounds like a hit song sung by The Byrds tern |
| #1145, aired 1989-07-21 | MUSICAL TEXAS TOWNS $400: It's how you would spell Dallas if you were singing a song from "The Most Happy Fella" "Big D-Little A-Double L-A-S |
| #1136, aired 1989-07-10 | '40s SONGS $400: This song asked if you'd "Like to... carry moonbeams home in a jar... or would you rather be a mule?" "Swinging On A Star" |
| #1106, aired 1989-05-29 | STEPHEN FOSTER LYRICS $400: According to this song's lyrics, she was "borne, like a vapor on the summer air" Jeanie (with the light brown hair) |
| #1095, aired 1989-05-12 | STARTS WITH "L" $300 (Daily Double): Though sung by a woman, it's composer says this song was written from a male point of view:
"I made it through the wilderness / Somehow I made it through / Didn't know how lost I was / Until I found you / I was beat..." "Like A Virgin" |
| #1084, aired 1989-04-27 | POTENT POTABLES $1,000 (Daily Double): Type of liquor that's the subject of the following 1983 hit by Shelly West:
"Jose Cuervo /
You are a friend of mine /
I like to drink you with..." tequila |
| #1074, aired 1989-04-13 | SONG LYRICS $400: In the famous hymn, title words preceding "how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me" "Amazing Grace" |
| #1052, aired 1989-03-14 | TV TRIVIA $400: His TV theme song was based on "The Funeral March Of A Marionette" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #1007, aired 1989-01-10 | SONG $100: He wrote songs like "You Gotta Start Off Each Day With a Song" & "Inka Dinka Doo" Jimmy Durante |
| #990, aired 1988-12-16 | DANCE $400: A 1919 song lamented, "I wish I could" do this dance "like my sister Kate" the shimmy |
| #965, aired 1988-11-11 | SILLY SONGS $500: Song whose chorus goes, "Valderi, valdera, valderi, valdera ha ha ha ha ha ha..." "The Happy Wanderer" |
| #949, aired 1988-10-20 | SLANG $1,400 (Daily Double): Though it usually means "emotionally upset", in this song it means "excited & very happy":
"Oh, well, a-bless my soul, but what's wrong with me? / I'm itchin' like a man on a fuzzy tree / My friends say I'm actin' wild as a bug..." "All Shook Up" |
| #838, aired 1988-04-06 | "WATER" $5 (Daily Double): It's reported The Rolling Stones took their name from the following blues song by this singer: Muddy Waters |
| #809, aired 1988-02-25 | "SONG" SONGS $1,100 (Daily Double): Title of the following:
"People smile and tell me I'm the lucky one / And we've only just begun / Think I'm gonna have a son / He will be like she and me, as free as a dove..." "Danny's Song" |
| #784, aired 1988-01-21 | "WISH"FUL SONG $1,000 (Daily Double): 3 of The Beach Boys did backup vocals on this Chicago hit:
"And I'd like to change my life, and you know I would / Just to be with you tonight..." "Wishing You Were Here" |
| #771, aired 1988-01-04 | NUMBERS IN SONG $500: In a 1977 hit, it's the reason Mary MacGregor was "feeling like a fool" "Torn Between Two Lovers" |
| #735, aired 1987-11-13 | ADVERTISING $200: This Coca-Cola song promoting "The Real Thing" was turned into a Top 20 hit "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing" |
| #713, aired 1987-10-14 | HOTELS $400: Billboard rated this song top single of the year for 1956, though it sounds like a sad place to stay "Heartbreak Hotel" |
| #700, aired 1987-09-25 | "LL" $500 (Daily Double): Name of the brothers singing the following:
"Just let your love flow like a mountain stream / And let your love grow with the smallest of dreams / And let your love show and you'll know what I mean / It's the season..." the Bellamy Brothers |
| #691, aired 1987-09-14 | BLUE JEANS $500 (Daily Double): Like 501s, this 1979 Top 20 hit is considered a classic: "Money talks / But it don't sing and dance and it don't walk / And long as I can have you here with me / I much rather be..."
[The song was not played going into the break.] "Forever In Blue Jeans" |
| #674, aired 1987-07-09 | POINT IT OUT $300: In the children's song, what the little teapot looks like when fully formed handle & a spout |
| #665, aired 1987-06-26 | RUBBER $400 (Daily Double): C.W. McCall's "handle" in the following No. 1 hit:
"Well, we rolled up Interstate 44 /
Like a rocket sled on rails /
We tore up all of our swindle sheets..." "Rubber Duck" |
| #654, aired 1987-06-11 | GOLDEN OLDIES $500: 1955 song title that falls between "My tears fell like rain" & "You're the 1 to blame" "Ain't That A Shame" |
| #623, aired 1987-04-29 | "RED" $200 (Daily Double): On his '50s variety series, this comedian sang the following theme song, which he co-wrote: I had a little girl by the name of Kate and every night we'd meet at eight. And when she'd greet me with a great big kiss I'd open my mouth and a holler like this Red Buttons |
| #621, aired 1987-04-27 | TRANSPORTATION $400 (Daily Double): Group which topped the country charts with the following song about a truck driver:
[Truck noises]
"Roll on, highway /
Roll on along /
Roll on, Daddy, 'til you get back home /
Roll on family /
Roll on crew /
Roll on, Mama, like I asked you to do /
And roll on eighteen wheeler, roll on /
(Roll on!)..." Alabama |
| #607, aired 1987-04-07 | CONDUCTORS $600 (Daily Double): The following was early '60s pop hit for this 3-time Oscar winner, now a renowned conductor: André Previn |
| #600, aired 1987-03-27 | ANIMALS IN SONG $800: "Whistle While You Work" advises, "Forget your trouble, try to be just like a cheerful" one of these chickadee |
| #592, aired 1987-03-17 | 1-WORD SONGS $300: "Kink"y song about a man who wonders why his "girl"friend
"walks like a woman but... talks like a man" "Lola" |
| #592, aired 1987-03-17 | ROLLER SKATING $500 (Daily Double): Title of the following:
"I rode my bicycle past your window last night / I roller skated to your door at daylight / It almost seems like you're avoiding me..." "Brand New Key" |
| #538, aired 1986-12-31 | THE JUNGLE $2,000 (Daily Double): Like most of us would, it's what Jethro Tull was doing "In The Jungle" in 1974:
"Walking through forests of palm-tree apartments /
Scoff at the monkeys who live in their dark tents /
Down by the waterhole--drunk every Friday /
Eating their nuts--saving their raisins..." Bungle |
| #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) |
| #513, aired 1986-11-26 | FOOD & DRINK $200: In the song "Lola" (L-O-L-A, Lola), the champagne tasted like this cola (C-O-L-A, cola) Coca-Cola |
| #470, aired 1986-09-26 | MEDICINES $500 (Daily Double): Only medication that's mentioned in this song:
"She comes on like a rose but everybody knows / She'll get you in Dutch / You can look but you better not touch / Poison ivy, poison ivy…" calamine lotion |
| #416, aired 1986-04-14 | SHIPS $1,600 (Daily Double): Nautical title of this, The Hues Corporation's only No. 1 hit song:
"Our love is like a ship on the ocean / We've been sailing with a cargo full of love and devotion / So I'd like to know where, you got the notion "Rock The Boat" |
| #409, aired 1986-04-03 | EASY MATH $400 (Daily Double): Sum of the digits in the title of the following song by Prince:
"Tryin' to run from the destruction / You know I didn't even care / 'Cause they say / 2000, zero-zero, party over, oops, out of time / So tonight, I'm gonna party like it's 1999" 28 |
| #402, aired 1986-03-25 | TALK LIKE THE ANIMALS $400: A sea inlet smaller than a gulf, or a coyote's "moon song" bay |
| #389, aired 1986-03-06 | ASTRONOMICAL SONGS $500: In the 1st line of the Dean Martin song, "that's amore" "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie" |
| #359, aired 1986-01-23 | CANDLES $1,000 (Daily Double): Movie star to whom this song is a tribute:
"And it seems to me you lived your life like a candle in the wind / Never knowing who to cling to when the rain set in" Marilyn Monroe |
| #357, aired 1986-01-21 | RUGS & CARPETS $10 (Daily Double): Kind of carpet in title of the following:
"I like to dream /
Yes, yes, right between the sound machine" a magic carpet |
| #345, aired 1986-01-03 | AFRICA $200 (Daily Double): Group which had a No. 1 hit with this 1982 song:
"It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you /
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do /
I bless the rains down in Africa /
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had..." Toto |
| #305, aired 1985-11-08 | TRUCKS $500 (Daily Double): This Dave Dudley number is considered the granddaddy of truck driver songs:
"Well, I pulled out of Pittsburgh, rolling down the eastern seaboard / I've got me diesel wound up and she's running like never before / There's a speed zone ahead but it's all right, I don't see a cop in sight..." "Six Days On The Road" |
| #293, aired 1985-10-23 | SONGS THAT "MAKE" IT $800: This 1976 Leo Sayer song seemed to express his joy at having a 2nd Top 40 hit "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" |
| #286, aired 1985-10-14 | POP MUSIC $200: Like The Beach Boys before him, he sings the praises of "California Girls" David Lee Roth |
| #274, aired 1985-09-26 | '60s SONGS $1000: John Sebastian said explaining this "is like try-in' to tell a stranger about rock and roll" magic |
| #270, aired 1985-09-20 | NUMBERS IN SONG $300: "Ooh, you came out of a dream, peaches & cream, lips like strawberry wine, you're" this 16 |
| #264, aired 1985-09-12 | MULES $200: Song which warns, "If you hate to go to school, you could grow up to be a mule" "Swinging On A Star" |
| #177, aired 1985-05-14 | THE BODY $1,100 (Daily Double): It was "hanging down" in the following:
"That wiggle in the walk / And giggle in the talk / Lord, makes the world go 'round / There ain't nothin' in the world / Like a big-eyed girl / That makes me act so funny / Make me spend my money / Make me feel real loose, like a long necked goose / Like a girl, oh baby, that's what I like" a ponytail |
| #159, aired 1985-04-18 | POTENT POTABLES $400 (Daily Double): Liquor that this song's about:
"Jose Cuervo you are a friend of mine / I like to drink you with a little salt and lime / Did I kiss all the cowboys? / Did I shoot out the lights? / Did I dance on the bar? / Did I start a fight?" tequila |
| #148, aired 1985-04-03 | DIAMONDS $1,800 (Daily Double): In '73, this song really shone for Seals & Crofts:
"Oh, my love / You're like a precious stone / Part of earth where / Heaven has rained on" "Diamond Girl" |
| #8, aired 1984-09-19 | EXPLORERS $700 (Daily Double): This song by John Denver is a tribute to Cousteau's research ship:
"Like the dolphin who guides you, you bring us beside you /
To light up the darkness and show us the way /
For though we are..." "Calypso" |
| #4, aired 1984-09-13 | TRANSPORTATION $500 (Daily Double): Vehicle Butch Cassidy rode during this song:
"Raindrops keep falling on my head /
And just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed..." a bicycle |
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Hayley Clatterbuck, a junior from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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2007 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 at the time of...
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Kaitlin Welborn, a sophomore from the University of Pennsylvania
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2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 at the time of the...
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Will Schultz, a freshman from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 19 at the time of the...
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Alice Luo, a junior from Georgia Institute of Technology
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2007 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 at the time of...
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Sandra McClellan, a granny nanny from Arlington, Texas
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Season 27 1-time champion: $4,199 + $2,000.
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Brady Cassis, a junior from Yale University
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2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 at the time of the...
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Leszek Pawlowicz, a materials scientist from Phoenix, Arizona
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2014 Battle of the Decades semifinalist: $25,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Leszek Pawlowicz, a materials scientist from Phoenix, Arizona
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2014 Battle of the Decades semifinalist: $25,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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