| "__ By Starlight": jazz standard | 42 |
| "__ Buttermilk Sky": 1946 song | 40 |
| "__ but not least ..." | 32 |
| "__ Bulba": Gogol novel | 33 |
| "__ Bulba" (Gogol novel) | 34 |
| "__ Bulba "(Gogol novel) | 34 |
| "__ built a railroad ..." | 35 |
| "__ build it, they ..." | 33 |
| "__ Brewster": '80s sitcom | 40 |
| "__ Breckinridge" (Vidal novel) | 41 |
| "__ Breath You Take": Police hit | 42 |
| "__ Break": Fox TV drama | 34 |
| "__ Boys": Alcott novel | 33 |
| "__ Boys" (Alcott novel) | 34 |
| "__ Boys" (Alcott book) | 33 |
| "__ boy!" ("Way to go!") | 44 |
| "__ Boom-de-ay": vaudeville song | 42 |
| "__ Bohème" ("Rent" song) | 48 |
| "__ Bobby McGee": 1971 hit | 36 |
| "__ Blue": George Strait hit | 38 |
| "__ Blu Dipinto Di Blu": 1958 hit | 43 |
| "__ Blinded Me with Science": 1983 hit | 48 |
| "__ Bleed": Stones album | 34 |
| "__ Big Girl Now": 1946 hit | 37 |
| "__ better to have loved ...": Tennyson | 49 |
| "__ Beso": Paul Anka hit | 34 |
| "__ Beso (That Kiss!)": Anka hit | 42 |
| "__ Beso (That Kiss!)" | 32 |
| "__ Ben Jonson": literary epitaph | 43 |
| "__ Ben Jonson!": literary epitaph | 44 |
| "__ Ben Adhem": James Leigh Hunt poem | 47 |
| "__ Believes in Me": Kenny Rogers hit | 48 |
| "__ Believer": Monkees hit | 36 |
| "__ Believer": 1966 hit | 33 |
| "__ Believer": '60s hit | 37 |
| "__ Believer" (1966 hit) | 34 |
| "__ Beethoven": 2002 Sparks album | 43 |
| "__ been to the mountaintop": King | 44 |
| "__ been meaning to tell you ..." | 43 |
| "__ Been Lonely Too Long": 1967 hit | 45 |
| "__ be?": "Is that possible?" | 49 |
| "__ be wrong, but ..." | 32 |
| "__ Be Surprised": Berlin tune | 40 |
| "__ Be in Love": Kate Bush song | 41 |
| "__ be in England ...": Browning | 42 |
| "__ be a shame if ..." | 32 |
| "__ bad boy!": Lou Costello catchphrase | 49 |
| "__ Baby": "Hair" song | 42 |
| "__ Baba Bunny": classic Bugs cartoon | 47 |
| "__ Baba and the Forty Thieves" | 41 |
| "__ Échos" (French financial paper) | 49 |
| "__ avis" (unusual one) | 33 |
| "__ at the Grill" (2009 cookbook) | 43 |
| "__ Astor": Sargent portrait | 38 |
| "__ Ashes": McCourt bestseller | 40 |
| "__ Around": Beach Boys hit | 37 |
| "__ are the we of me": McCullers | 42 |
| "__ are the times that ...": Paine | 44 |
| "__ are alike" (fingerprint phrase) | 45 |
| "__ apple every day . . ." | 36 |
| "__ Anything": "Oliver!" song | 49 |
| "__ any judge of character ..." | 41 |
| "__ any drop to drink": Coleridge | 43 |
| "__ Angel": Mae West film | 35 |
| "__ Angel": doo-wop classic | 37 |
| "__ Andronicus" (Shakespeare play) | 44 |
| "__ and what art thou": Milton | 40 |
| "__ and weep!": poker winner's cry | 48 |
| "__ and the Real Girl": 2007 film | 43 |
| "__ and the Paycock": O'Casey play | 48 |
| "__ and the Night Visitors" | 37 |
| "__ and improved!": ad claim | 38 |
| "__ and his money ..." | 32 |
| "__ and his money . . ." | 34 |
| "__ and Butt-head": MTV cartoon | 41 |
| "__ and Away": Fifth Dimension hit | 44 |
| "__ and Away": 1960s hit | 34 |
| "__ and Abner": old radio show | 40 |
| "__ and a bottle of rum!" | 35 |
| "__ ancient Mariner..." | 33 |
| "__ America Tour": 2006 CBS News event | 48 |
| "__ Am": 2007 Alicia Keys album | 41 |
| "__ Am" (Alicia Keys album) | 37 |
| "__ Always a Woman": Billy Joel song | 46 |
| "__ Along, Little Dogies" | 35 |
| "__ Alone?": SETI radio program | 41 |
| "__ Almighty": Steve Carell sequel | 44 |
| "__ Almighty": Steve Carell film | 42 |
| "__ Almighty": 2007 Steve Carell film | 47 |
| "__ Almighty": 2007 film | 34 |
| "__ Almighty": 2007 Carell/Freeman film | 49 |
| "__ All That": 1999 film | 34 |
| "__ All That": 1999 comedy | 36 |
| "__ all right with you ..." | 37 |
| "__ all in this together" | 35 |
| "__ all else fails ..." | 33 |
| "__ Alive": 1978 #1 hit | 33 |
| "__ Alibi": Selleck film | 34 |
| "__ ain't broke ..." | 34 |
| "__ Again (Naturally)": 1972 #1 song | 46 |