| 100% | OKGO | 4 | Band whose music video for "A Stone Only Rolls Downhill" was filmed using 64 iPhones |
| 32% | ABBA | 4 | Band whose music is used in "Mamma Mia!" |
| 31% | ELO | 3 | Band whose music was featured in the movie "Xanadu," for short |
| 29% | XTC | 3 | British band whose name is also slang for a drug |
| 29% | THESUBWAY | 9 | Chappell Roan song whose music video was partially filmed at the New York Transit Museum |
| 29% | JUDASPRIEST | 11 | Heavy metal band whose name is a euphemism for "Jesus Christ!" |
| 29% | REM | 3 | Band whose debut album, "Murmur," was Rolling Stone's 1983 Album of the Year |
| 29% | TRL | 3 | The last music video it played was for a Britney Spears song |
| 29% | SYNC | 4 | Good thing for a film's audio and video to be in |
| 29% | BLINDMELON | 10 | Band whose video for 1993's "No Rain" featured a girl in a bee costume |
| 28% | WINGER | 6 | 1980s hair band whose first Top 20 hit was "Headed for a Heartbreak" |
| 28% | ALT | 3 | ___-J (indie-rock band whose name is a keyboard shortcut for the symbol ∆) |
| 28% | OKGO | 4 | Band known for a 2006 treadmill-dancing music video |
| 28% | ROSEROYCE | 9 | 1970s-'80s band whose debut album was the soundtrack to a Richard Pryor film |
| 28% | PUMAS | 5 | Black ___, band whose "Colors" was nominated for a 2021 Grammy for Record of the Year |
| 27% | SMASHBROS | 9 | Video-game series whose logo is a circle with a superimposed cross, for short |
| 27% | BATTLESHIP | 10 | The USS Missouri, e.g., where the music video for Cher's "If I Could Turn Back Time" was filmed (HIT) |
| 27% | ASWAN | 5 | City whose stone quarries were used to supply material for ancient Egyptian monuments |
| 26% | ABBA | 4 | Band whose music is heard in "Mamma Mia!" |
| 26% | GETOFFOFMYCLOUD | 15 | Stones song that would be a poor choice for use in an IBM ad? |
| 26% | WARIO | 5 | Video-game antagonist whose name is a portmanteau of the protagonist's name and the Japanese word for "bad" |
| 26% | BLACKSABBATH | 12 | Heavy metal band, fronted by Ozzy Osbourne, whose name's only vowels are A's: 2 wds. |
| 26% | NEEM | 4 | Tree also known as the Indian Lilac whose twigs have been used for centuries as a toothbrush |
| 26% | SANDARAC | 8 | Resin obtained from a tree of NW Africa whose hard dark wood is used for decorative work |
| 26% | ABBA | 4 | Band whose name is a palindrome |
| 25% | ANGIE | 5 | Dedicatee of a Rolling Stones song whose name is said twice after "Let me whisper in your ear" |
| 25% | ABA | 3 | Band whose name is a rhyme scheme |
| 25% | GIGS | 4 | Concerts for a music band |
| 25% | DANMARINO | 9 | N.F.L. quarterback featured in the music video for Hootie & the Blowfish’s “Only Wanna Be with You” |
| 25% | BROMANTICCOMEDY | 15 | Modern-day genre for the 1952 film whose title is suggested by a word ladder starting at 1-Across |