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Don't Stop Believin'

Who is Journey

100

This song tells the story of a man who comes to Africa and must make a decision about the girl who comes to see him. He is enamored with the continent, but must leave if he is going to be with her.

What is Africa?

100

A kid gets sent to a desert prison camp for stealing shoes he didn’t steal, and everyone just keeps digging holes until fate, onions, and a lizard-based curse solve all their problems.

What is Holes?

100

Kevin McCallister

What is Home Alone?

100

"You're gonna need a bigger ____"

Boat

- Jaws

200

Free Fallin'

Who is Tom Petty?

200

Written and sung by Styx keyboard player Dennis DeYoung, this song is about following your dreams by embarking on a journey into the unknown. In the second verse, he misses out on the pot of gold, but continues to carry on.

What is Come Sail Away?

200

An anxious, hairy-footed homebody inherits a cursed family heirloom ring and is forced to embark on an agonizingly long, cross-continental hike because his wise old wizard friend suspects the ring's original owner wants it back.

What is The Lord of the Rings?

200

Jack Torrence

What is The Shining?

200

“Every time a bell rings, __ _____ ____ ___ _____”

An angel gets his wings.

- It's a Wonderful Life

300

Horse With No Name

Who is America?

300

This was the lead track on the album, and it became Skynyrd's first hit. The song was written during the sessions for the group's first album, Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd, but they decided to save it so they would have a big song to open Second Helping.

What is Sweet Home Alabama?

300

This children's movie follows a father whose wife and kids are murdered at the start of the film, and later his one surviving child goes missing, so he has to go on a dangerous quest to get his son back.

What is Finding Nemo?

300

Ellen Ripley

What is Alien?

300

"I'm gonna make him an offer __ _____ ______"

He can't refuse.

- The Godfather

400

Made In Heaven

Who is Queen?
400

This was one of a quartet of tunes penned by Robbins for his homage album to the Old West, Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs. They were informed by tales told to the young Robbins by his Texas ranger grandfather. This evocative slice of Western myth-spinning tells the story of an Arizona Ranger's duel with an outlaw named Texas Red. This song title refers to the gun the Ranger carried and was inspired by one Robbins saw in Andy Anderson's famed North Hollywood gun shop in the late 1950s.

What is Big Iron?

400

An overworked farm boy destroys a massive government infrastructure project over a family land dispute, killing a million independent contractors.

What is Star Wars?

400

Anton Chigurr

What is No Country For Old Men?

400
"If you build it, __ ____ ____"

He will come.

- Field of Dreams

500

Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo)

Who is Danny Kaye, The Andrews Sisters, or Vic Schoen & His Orchestra?

500

Before recording Full Moon Fever, an arsonist burned down Tom Petty's house while he was in it with his family and their housekeeper. They escaped, but Petty was badly shaken and spent much of the next few months driving between hotel rooms and a rented house.

It was on these drives that he came up with many of the songs for the album; the fire was a huge influence, especially on this song. Petty felt grateful to be alive, but also traumatized - understandable considering someone had tried to kill him.

What is I Won't Back Down?

500

A painfully uncoordinated boy moves to a new town and joins the local baseball team, where he ends up losing their ball in the neighbors yard and must attempt to get it back.

What is The Sandlot?

500

Vito Corleone

What is The Godfather?

500

“Mama says, ‘Stupid is as ______ ____'”

Stupid does.

- Forrest Gump