| 100% | EAGLES | 6 | Band that wrote song about lodging in California |
| 47% | PARK | 4 | Linkin ___, rock band that was formed in California which had the hit song "Numb" |
| 47% | BEACH | 5 | The ___ Boys, rock band that was formed in California which had the hit song "Kokomo" |
| 45% | RAGE | 4 | ___ Against the Machine, rock band that was formed in California which had the hit song "Guerrilla Radio" |
| 45% | BLINK | 5 | ___-182, rock band that was formed in California which had the hit song "All the Small Things" |
| 45% | DAY | 3 | Green ___, rock band that was formed in California which had the hit song "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" |
| 45% | PEPPERS | 7 | Red Hot Chili ___, rock band that was formed in California which had the hit song "Scar Tissue" |
| 45% | JOURNEY | 7 | American rock band that was formed in California which had the hit song "Don't Stop Believin'" |
| 44% | ROSES | 5 | Guns N' ___, hard rock band that was formed in California which had the hit song "Sweet Child o' Mine" |
| 44% | DOWN | 4 | System of a ___, Armenian-American heavy metal band that was formed in California which had the hit song "Hypnotize" |
| 43% | CHRISTMAS | 9 | "Do They Know It's ___?," 1984 song by Band Aid that was written about the Ethiopian famine |
| 41% | ROCKSTAR | 8 | Song about being in a band, sung by Post Malone |
| 39% | LADIES | 6 | "Barenaked ___," Canadian rock band that wrote and recorded the theme song for "The Big Bang Theory" |
| 38% | ABBA | 4 | Swedish band that won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 with “Waterloo” |
| 38% | BTS | 3 | Seven-member K-pop band that released the hit song "Butter" in 2021 |
| 38% | ELO | 3 | Rock band that fills in the blanks of its song "_vi_ W_man" |
| 38% | COUNTINGCROWS | 13 | Band whose song "Accidentally in Love" was written for "Shrek 2" |
| 37% | EARWORMS | 8 | Songs that get lodged in your brain |
| 37% | ABBA | 4 | Band that inspired Lars to start performing, in Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga |
| 37% | AUK | 3 | "Great" extinct bird that Audubon wrote about in his journals |
| 37% | PEGOMYHEART | 11 | Classic song about an Irish lass that was a #1 hit in 1913 and 1947 |
| 36% | TERN | 4 | "Common" or "Arctic" bird that Audubon wrote about in his journals |
| 36% | BELLS | 5 | "Jingle ___," popular holiday song about sleigh rides that was originally written for Thanksgiving and not Christmas |
| 36% | WHO | 3 | The ___, English rock band that released the song "Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand" in 1968 |
| 36% | PARAMORE | 8 | Band that played its song “Misery Business” in 2022 for the first time since retiring it four years earlier |
| 35% | DYNAMITE | 8 | "Explosive" song by K-pop boy band BTS that hit #1 in 2020 |
| 35% | LOVE | 4 | Emotion that's sung about in many pop songs |
| 35% | BEST | 4 | "You're My ___ Friend," song about friendship by Queen, written by band member John Deacon for his wife |
| 35% | HEROES | 6 | David Bowie song about two lovers divided by the Berlin Wall that was used in a Microsoft commercial |
| 35% | ACIDTRIP | 8 | Experience that Michael Pollan wrote about in the book "How to Change Your Mind" |