TV Theme Songs
Meet the Press
Common Bonds
Science & Nature
Give Up the Funk
200

"Absorbent & yellow & porous is" this character

Who is SpongeBob SquarePants

200

This exercise has a person lay down and push either dumbbells or a barbell upward from their chest.

What is bench press?

200

Tea,
toga,
Tupperware

What are parties?

200

In 2025 Iceland reported its first sighting of these insects, a "biting nuisance", but not a major disease-carrying species

What are mosquitoes?

200

An early founder of G-funk, funk with a gangsta twist, was this M.C. of ill beats & "The Chronic"

Who is Dr. Dre?

400

"Our whole universe was in a hot, dense state", begins this sitcom's theme song

What is The Big Bang Theory?

400

This sandwich has a name from the Italian word for "bread"; it's wonderful when it's pressed in a grill

What is panini?

400

Outer,
food,
blood

What are banks?

400

In 1896 Henri Becquerel discovered this phenomenon in a compound of uranium

What is radioactivity?

400

Mtume's funky "Juicy Fruit" was sampled on "Juicy", a massive hit for this Brooklyn rapper

Who is Biggie?

600

The Rembrandts sang the theme song to this 1990s sitcom set in New York City.

What is Friends?

600

A simple, manual device with a plunger used to brew coffee or tea by steeping loose grounds in hot water

What is French Press?

600

Ice skates,
helicopters,
lawn mowers

What are things with blades?

600

It's the trade name registered for polytetrafluoroethylene in 1945 & later used for nonstick cookware

What is teflon?

600

Soulsonic Force's "Renegades Of Funk" was covered by this metal funk group featuring Tom Morello

Who is Rage Against the Machine?

800

Carrie Underwood sings "Waiting All Day For Sunday Night" as this show's theme

What is Sunday Night Football?

800

This alliterative laundry term refers to a wash cycle that's meant to minimize wrinkles in synthetic fabrics

What is permanent press?

800

Krona,
Birr,
Yuan

What are currencies?

800

This dwarf planet & largest asteroid in the main asteroid belt has a radius of about 295 miles

What is Ceres?

800

After some dancing, singing, moving & grooving, this Wild Cherry title is sung after the line "somebody turned around & shouted"

What is "Play that funky music?"

"white boy"

1000

This English folk rock band sings the beginning theme to Ted Lasso.

Who are Mumford and Sons?

1000

This game show was rebooted in 2019 with Elizabeth Banks hosting; contestants still have to avoid the Whammy

What is Press Your Luck?

1000

Foxtrot,
Kilo,
Whiskey

What are NATO (radio, military) alphabet?

1000

A chemical loop inside your cell's power plants—the mitochondria—that turns food fuel into high-energy electron carriers.

What is the Krebs Cycle?

1000

This performer sang "Try Me", "I Got You (Feel Good)" & "Cold Sweat" on the night he "Saved Boston" following MLK's assassination

Who is James Brown?