GSN: Cash Cab Clues (S6, Ep27)

Here is some extra trivia from a Cash Cab episode that aired on 8/7/25 on the Game Show Network. An asterisk will mark the clues that the passengers missed with their wrong answers, if any, in parentheses.

First Fare: Dennis, June, Chris
Double Cash
$100 ROUND:
1. Though its lyrics were written in 1814, what song first cracked the Billboard’s Top 20 after Whitney Houston sang it at the 1991 Super Bowl
2. Due to its use of sound waves, what method of underwater navigation is believed to render dolphins temporarily deaf?
3. Known for its cream-filled eggs, what British company was founded by a Quaker who hoped cocoa could substitue for alcohol?
4. Famous for building Habitats for Humanity, what president once constructed a tree house on the South Lawn for his daughter?

$200 ROUND:
1. Featuring a plane made of duct tape and trash bags, the 100th episode of Discovery’s “MythBusters” paid tribute to what ’80s TV character
2. From an old French word for “petticoat”, what’s the term for the ball at which a debutante makes her big debut?
3. Named for its canine protagonist, what Jack London novel did Teddy Roosevelt criticize as the “very sublimity of absurdity”?
4. Meaning “muddy confluence” in Malaysian, what Asian capital is located at the junction of the Klang and Gombak Rivers?

ANSWERS: show

WON: $800 / declined double or nothing

Second Fare: Brent
$50 ROUND:
1. Backed by George Zimmer’s personal guarantee, what discount suit retailer was once too poor to afford a cash register?
2. Named for a member of Guns N’ Roses, Slashbot is a robot programmed to jam on what video game?
3. Creating a deep rift with the mainland, China’s Chiang Kai-Shek fled to what east Asian island in 1949?
4. By the 1920s, the Statue of Liberty had turned green due to the oxidation of what common metal?

ANSWERS: show

WON: $0 / 3 strikes

Third Fare: Willy & Lynn
$50 ROUND:
1. Allegedly born in the brothels of Argentina, what dance’s basic steps could be summarized as slow, slow, quick, quick, slow?
2. Sold in 2010 for $3 billion, what colorful clothing line went public 18 years earlier under the stock-ticker symbol T.O.M. or TOM?
3. To help fight the Spanish, what showwoman once offered President McKinley the services of 50 lady sharpshooters?
4. Simultaneously coarse and classy, what specific variety of seasoning is harvested by evaporating ocean water in sunlight?
$100 ROUND:
1. What tantrum-throwing tennis legend did the New York Times once call “the worst advertisement for our system of values since Al Capone”?
2. Appropriately enough, the Lakers spent 12 years in what Land of 10,000 Lakes city before moving to L.A. in 1960?
3. According to author L. Frank Baum, what fictional land’s name was inspired by the letters used to label a filing cabinet?
4. In equestrian competition, what term is generally reserved for horses that are less than 58 inches tall?
$200 ROUND:
1. Also a place where you can access the web, what geological terms refers to an area with high levels of volcanic activity?
RED LIGHT CHALLENGE: Revised in 1992, an acclaimed book by Michael Hart ranks the 100 most influential people in world history. Name 4 of the 5 Ancient Greeks who made the list.

ANSWERS: show

VIDEO CHALLENGE: Though they’re partial to wallaby, these feral canines aren’t above snacking on marsupial mice, possums or even a baby emu or two. A vital apex predator for an entire continent, what is this subspecies of wild dog?
WON: $1,300 / won double or nothing