| #9126, aired 2024-06-17 | BOOK SEQUELS $400: He, Huck Finn & Jim try to cross the ocean in a balloon in Mark Twain's sequel him "Abroad" Tom Sawyer |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | 19th CENTURY NEWSPAPERS $800: In 1862 this future novelist was hired at $25 a week to be city editor of Nevada's Virginia City Territorial Enterprise Mark Twain |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | UNREAL ESTATE $400: St. Petersburg, Missouri is the fictional hometown of Tom Sawyer & was based on this town where Mark Twain grew up Hannibal |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY $1600: Paving the way for other Canadians like Shania Twain was this first female solo artist to win Best Album at the CMA Awards (Anne) Murray |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $1000: In literature, Tom Sawyer's guardian was this relative who was based in part on Mark Twain's own mom Aunt Polly |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | PENALTIES & BONUSES $1000: Mark Twain loved this Louisiana French word for something extra given after a transaction is completed a lagniappe |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | A NICE SHORT STORY SPOILED $1200: Why, this "Celebrated" amphibian "weigh five pound" & "belched out a double handful of shot" the jumping frog of Calaveras County |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $3,800 (Daily Double): The riverboat in Frontierland at Disneyland is named for him Mark Twain |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | WOMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC $1200: Selling more than 10 million copies each, her "Up!", "The Woman In Me" & "Come on Over" albums have all been certified diamond Shania Twain |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | POETRY ABOUT PROSE $800: Doubles! they're doubles! / But they're thought quite insane / A royal mistake / Time to catch an old Twain The Prince and the Pauper |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | NOT REALLY MARRIED $200: This country diva serenades this "Huck Finn" author with her hit "You're Still The One" Mark & Shania Twain |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | '90s MUSIC $400: After years as a backup singer, she hit it big in 1994 with "All I Wanna Do" Sheryl Crow |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | ALWAYS SAY NEVER $800: In his "Ballad of East and West", this Brit wrote, "East is east, and west is west, and never the twain shall meet" Rudyard Kipling |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | CULINARY QUOTES $600: Mark Twain said that cauliflower "is nothing but" this vegetable "with a college education" cabbage |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | FUNERAL OFFICIANTS $200: Joseph Hopkins Twichell, this man's "Tramp Abroad" traveling companion, spoke at his funeral service Twain |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | AROUND THE HOUSE $1600: Mark Twain wrote of a "vestibule, where they used to keep" this; today, we'd more likely have the coat version the hat rack |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | THAT EUROPEAN LANGUAGE $2,600 (Daily Double): Mark Twain said capitalizing every noun is one of its few good qualities German |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | HISTORIC ERAS & AGES $1000: New York City's Frick Collection is a monument to the art collecting of this materialistic era, also a Twain title the Gilded Age |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | COUNTRY MUSIC $1000: In 2023 she released the album "Queen of Me" & showed up at the Grammys in red hair & giant polka dots Shania Twain |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | JASON ALEXANDER: MASTER OF MY DOMAIN $1000: (Jason Alexander gives the clue.) Long before winning the first Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, Richard Pryor wrote for this '70s sitcom; the star next to Richard is a big hint & man, its theme song was fantastic Sanford and Son |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | WHERE THE "H" IS THAT? $800: The Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum is in this Missouri city Hannibal |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | AMERICAN LIT $600: In a Mark Twain novel, thinking he's none too bright, the townspeople give lawyer David Wilson this title nickname Pudd'nhead Wilson |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $400: The biography "The Revolutionary" notes this Bostonian who wrote under pseudonyms like Populus & Candidus never went by Sam (Samuel) Adams |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | LITERARY LONDON $3,400 (Daily Double): This 1881 Mark Twain novel takes place in London's poorer areas as well as in some of its ritzier locales The Prince and the Pauper |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | WRITE PLACE $800: This 19th century author & satirist wrote the travel book "Roughing It" about spending time out West & away from the Civil War Twain |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS $800: Jon Stewart was the recipient of the 2022 Kennedy Center Prize named for this other smart & funny man (Mark) Twain |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | SIMON SAYS $1600: In a Twain tale, Simon Wheeler tells the story of Jim Smiley & "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of" this title place Calaveras County |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | BOOK SEQUELS $400: Mark Twain began a sequel called "Huck Finn and" this boyhood pal "Among the Indians"; Lee Nelson finished it in 2003 Tom Sawyer |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | THE REST, AS THEY SAY... $1000: Travelers well know the rest of the rhyming phrase that begins "East or west..." home is best |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $400: This Mark Twain hero says, "Now, Old Jim, you're a free man again, and I bet you won't ever be a slave no more" Huckleberry Finn |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | IN MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY $800: "In the small town of Hannibal... everybody was poor, but didn't know it: and everybody was comfortable, and did know it" Mark Twain |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | WRITER, WRONGER $400: Terrible with money, this Mo. humorist invested in James Paige's multi-ton typesetter; he later fantasized about Paige's slow death Mark Twain |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $400: A risque work "written" by one of this queen's ladies in waiting, "1601" was first published anonymously by Mark Twain in 1880 Elizabeth I |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | THEIR LAST NOVEL $2,000 (Daily Double): "The Reivers"; he died in Mississippi a month after it was published William Faulkner |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | A NOVEL LOOK AT THE NOVEL $800: Twain travel; Merlin mentioned; knights on bikes; we're gonna get medieval on your mind A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | IN THE GILDED AGE $400: Characterized by an expanding economy & political corruption, the Gilded Age takes its name from an 1873 novel by him Mark Twain |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | LETTERS FROM FAMOUS PEOPLE $400: To his brother Orion, Mark Twain wrote of & employed a "new-fangled" one of these made by Remington a typewriter |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | MARK'S "-ISM" $400: Accidentally stealing a line from Oliver Wendell Holmes for "Innocents Abroad", Twain felt guilty of "Unconscious" this Plagiarism |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | AUTHORS' NONFICTION $400: His "Life on the Mississippi" preceded "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by a year Twain |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | CLASSIC NOVELS $1,200 (Daily Double): The end of this Twain tale says while Tom Canty lived to be very old, King Edward VI lived to the age of 15 The Prince and the Pauper |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | NATIONAL NATURAL LANDMARKS $1000: Missouri has plenty of these, including Mark Twain, a maze type & Marvel, with dripstones caves |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS $800: She lit up the stage with a medley of hits including "Man! I Feel Like A Woman!" Shania Twain |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | COFFEE IS LIFE $1200: In "Letters from Hawaii", Mark Twain said this local coffee "has a richer flavor than any other" Kona |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | AMERICAN NICKNAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): Born in 1876, this author of several doggone adventures was known as the "American Kipling" Jack London |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | CONSCIOUSNESS OF STREAM WRITING $400: Mark Twain's memoir "Life on" it tells tales of one of America's great rivers the Mississippi |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | VEGETABLES $1600: This vegetable was described by Mark Twain as a "cabbage with a college education" cauliflower |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | QUOTATION: MARK'S $200: This writer: "Always do right. This will gratify some people, & astonish the rest" Mark Twain |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | ILLUSTRATORS $1600: Daniel Beard provided dashing but comical illustrations for this novel by Mark Twain A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | AUTHORS' ROAD TRIPS $2000: Mark Twain's trip from Missouri to Nevada included being "avalanched" inside a stagecoach --no wonder he called the book this Roughing It |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | BOOK BARRIERS $400: Early on in a Twain work, Tom Sawyer must complete this "colorful" painting task on "thirty yards of board fence" whitewashing |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | WOMEN IN MUSIC $800: With more than 100 million albums sold, this "Man! I Feel Like A Woman!" singer is among the top-selling country artists of all time Shania Twain |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | AUTHORS' HOMES $400: In person or online, you can tour his Hartford home where he wrote "Huckleberry Finn" Mark Twain |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | LETTERS FROM AUTHORS $1600: His "The Innocents Abroad" was based on letters he wrote to newspapers as a traveling correspondent Mark Twain |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | THE WRITERS ARE TRYING TO BE CLEVER $600: "Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits", he wrote in "Pudd'nhead Wilson" Twain |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $400: Beneath the Mark Twain Memorial Bridge in Hannibal, Missouri the Mississippi |
| #8143, aired 2020-01-22 | YE OLDE JOB FAIRE $600: Mark Twain was among those who worked as a devil, an apprentice in this profession printing |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | LITERARY LOCALES $800: Mark Twain's first national success inspired an annual jumping frog jubilee in this California county that's in the title of the tale Calaveras |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | 1890s LITERATURE $2000: Dubbed "The Jewish Mark Twain" for his poignant tales, this author published "Tevye the Dairyman" in 1894 Sholem Aleichem |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | WHAT'S THAT AWARD FOR? $400: The Mark Twain Prize humor |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | HALLEY'S COMET IN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): This author can't have been surprised to die April 21, 1910, the day after Halley's Comet reached perihelion (Mark) Twain |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: A prize for American humor is named for this author of "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" Mark Twain |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE ALUMNI $400: On receiving the Mark Twain Prize for Humor, she thanked Sarah Palin: "My...resemblance & her crazy voice are the 2 luckiest things" Tina Fey |
| #7986, aired 2019-05-06 | CLASSIC NOVELS $400: Mark Twain's childhood sweetheart Laura Hawkins was the basis for Becky Thatcher, beloved of this title character Tom Sawyer |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | LOGGER $200: Also the surname of a Twain character, this term refers to someone who processes wood a sawyer |
| #7963, aired 2019-04-03 | CITIES ON THE MISSISSIPPI $800: The Mark Twain Memorial Bridge connects this Missouri town where Twain grew up with the state of Illinois Hannibal |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | THE STATE OF NATURE $400: 1.5 million-acre Mark Twain National Forest Missouri |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | FERRY TALES $400: During this Twain character's "Adventures", he implores a ferryman to save Miss Hooker Huckleberry Finn |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR $400: Ellen DeGeneres was proud to be honored in this center "where so many space shuttles have been launched" the Kennedy Center |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR $800: In 2018 this actress added the prize to her record 6 consecutive Emmys for Best Actress in a Comedy Julia Louis-Dreyfus |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR $1200: This "Shrek" & "Beverly Hills Cop" performer said the prize is actually an award, because a prize comes with money Eddie Murphy |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR $1600: Longtime employee Biff Henderson showed up with headset to help this late night host accept his trophy in 2017 David Letterman |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR $2000: Mel Brooks, Mary Tyler Moore & Dick Van Dyke were on hand to honor this writer/comedian in 2000 (Carl) Reiner |
| #7851, aired 2018-10-29 | JOUST $400: In this Twain tale Hank Morgan pulls out 2 guns while jousting at Camelot & kills some knights A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | LET'S GET TO URCHIN CARE $6,000 (Daily Double): Tom Canty receives a lot of care in this Twain novel when he swaps places with Prince Edward The Prince and the Pauper |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | BIBLICALLY INSPIRED LITERATURE $400: In Mark Twain's "Diaries of" this couple, she says he's really bad at naming creatures & wanted to call the dodo a wildcat Adam and Eve |
| #7837, aired 2018-10-09 | FILL IN THE PHRASE $1000: "There are lies, damned lies & ____" statistics |
| #7820, aired 2018-09-14 | MARK TWAIN REALLY SAID IT $400: "I would throw out the old maxim, my country", this, "and instead I would say, 'My country when she is right'" right or wrong |
| #7820, aired 2018-09-14 | MARK TWAIN REALLY SAID IT $800: This city is "the grand old benevolent national asylum for the helpless" Washington |
| #7820, aired 2018-09-14 | MARK TWAIN REALLY SAID IT $1200: Of one of these practitioners, Twain quipped he had the "surgical look of a man who could endure pain in others" a dentist |
| #7820, aired 2018-09-14 | MARK TWAIN REALLY SAID IT $1600: The advantages of riding this big creature include an "immunity from collisions" & the fine view one has from up there" an elephant |
| #7820, aired 2018-09-14 | MARK TWAIN REALLY SAID IT $2000: Of this "Devil's Dictionary" author, Twain wrote, "For every laugh, there are 5 blushes & 10 shudders" Ambrose Bierce |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | LITERARY OOPS! $1600: In this story of 16th c. lookalikes Mark Twain had the locals watching "Punch & Judy" shows that began 100 years later The Prince and the Pauper |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | WE APPRECIATE CANADIAN PERFORMERS! $1200: Man, I feel like you're seeing this woman who made the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2011 Shania Twain |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $800: The town of Hadleyburg Mark Twain |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | NATIVE SONS $1,000 (Daily Double): A plain white fence on Hill Street is a tourist attraction in this Missouri town Hannibal, Missouri |
| #7680, aired 2018-01-19 | STATES BY LAKES $400: Mark Twain Lake,
Blind Pony Lake Missouri |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | THE END OF TIME $1000: Taking its name from the title of Twain's 1st novel, this gaudy U.S. age came to a close around the turn of the 20th century the Gilded Age |
| #7670, aired 2018-01-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORITIES $400: Poor grammar was one reason the Concord, Mass. library banned this Twain novel 1 month after it was published in 1885 Huckleberry Finn |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | LET'S GET ORGANIZED $1000: "Clemens, Samuel: see Twain, Mark" is one of these hyphenated notes that directs readers to info in an another place a cross-reference |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | FEARLESS GIRL $1200: Mark Twain said his favorite book of all those he had written was his fictional biography of this French lass Joan of Arc |
| #7655, aired 2017-12-15 | MAIN STREAM MEDIA $600: Mark Twain talks about his career as a steamboat pilot in this memoir Life on the Mississippi |
| #7649, aired 2017-12-07 | ANIMALS IN COMPETITION $1000: Every May brings the frog jumping competition at the fair of this county southeast of Sacramento Calaveras County |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $400: (Hi, this is Ryan Kristafer from News 8.) Harriet Beecher Stowe lived next door to this other great American author at the time he wrote "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" (Mark) Twain |
| #7637, aired 2017-11-21 | STATE CAPITAL HAIKU $2,800 (Daily Double): Mark Twain called it home /
Founded 1635 /
Knows Courant events Hartford |
| #7597, aired 2017-09-26 | ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS $400: Richard Pryor was the first recipient of this prize for American humor that's named for a 19th century novelist Mark Twain |
| #7575, aired 2017-07-14 | THE ORIENT EXPRESSION $800: In a Kipling poem this line precedes" and never the twain shall meet" East is East and West is West |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | HERE'S FINAL JEOPARDY $200: On April 21, 1910 reports of this author's death were not greatly exaggerated Mark Twain |
| #7561, aired 2017-06-26 | I'VE GOT 3 NAMES $1600: Here he is, perhaps making the 114 offenses against literary art Mark Twain accused him of in two-thirds of a page of "The Deerslayer" James Fenimore Cooper |
| #7549, aired 2017-06-08 | FAITH IN ENTERTAINMENT $1200: Married to a country music superstar, she's brought Christian music to millions of listeners Amy Grant |
| #7547, aired 2017-06-06 | TALK OF THE TOWN $1,000 (Daily Double): "Life on the Mississippi" says, "There is no architecture" in this city, "except in the cemeteries" New Orleans |
| #7547, aired 2017-06-06 | SONG/BOOK $1200: Song:
Rush;
book:
Mark Twain Tom Sawyer |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | BILLBOARD'S ALL-TIME TOP COUNTRY ALBUMS $1200: From 1997, her "Come on Over" Shania Twain |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $1200: In 1867 he took a 5-month cruise to the Mediterranean; his newspaper articles sent back home became "The Innocents Abroad" Mark Twain |
| #7485, aired 2017-03-10 | DEATH SENTENCES $400: On rumors of his demise, he remarked, "The report of my death was an exaggeration" Mark Twain |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | "MIS"QUOTES $200: Mark Twain wrote about "the magnificent" this river "rolling its mile-wide tide along, shining in the sun" the Mississippi |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | AUTHORS' OTHER JOBS $400: Mark Twain got the idea for his pen name from his time in this job a steamboat pilot |
| #7433, aired 2016-12-28 | HISTORIC HOMES $600: This writer's home in Hartford, Connecticut, where he lived beginning in 1874, is often called Steamboat Gothic Mark Twain |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | PALMISTRY $600: This 19th century skeptical humorist said a celebrity palmist "exposed my character... with humiliating accuracy" Mark Twain |
| #7418, aired 2016-12-07 | FUNNY LADIES $200: In 2010, she became the youngest recipient of the Mark Twain prize for humor Tina Fey |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | UNREAL ESTATE $1600: In 1900 Mark Twain wrote a story about "The Man Who Corrupted" this honest & upright burg Hadleyburg |
| #7393, aired 2016-11-02 | LITERARY FROGS & TOADS $600: He gained early fame for a tale about a celebrated jumping frog in California Mark Twain |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | INITIALITERATURE $400: "T.P.A.T.P."
by Mark Twain The Prince and the Pauper |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | A LITERARY MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH $500 (Daily Double): This 1883 Mark Twain memoir begins with a short history of Hernando de Soto & his first sighting of a river Life on the Mississippi |
| #7374, aired 2016-10-06 | 125 YEARS OF CARNEGIE HALL $1600: In 1906, Mark Twain presided at this great educator's Tuskegee Institute Silver Anniversary lecture Booker T. Washington |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG $200: This Mark Twain character is "hated" by moms because he is "vulgar & bad" but "all their children admired him" Huckleberry Finn |
| #7339, aired 2016-07-07 | THE WRITE STUFF $600: Mark Twain didn't think Shakespeare wrote the famous plays, wondering why this 1616 document mentions no books his will |
| #7322, aired 2016-06-14 | REBEL, REBEL $400: Mark Twain, who in 1861 briefly joined a pro-secessionist unit of this state's guard Missouri |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | 19th CENTURY TRANSPORTATION $400: This author wrote about traveling from Missouri to Nevada on a stagecoach he called a "cradle on wheels" Mark Twain |
| #7255, aired 2016-03-11 | FROM "C" TO SHINING "C" $600: Mark Twain said this type of book is one that people praise but don't read a classic |
| #7246, aired 2016-02-29 | URBAN LITERATURE $1200: A mysterious sack in a bank vault stirs greed in the Mark Twain tale "The Man that Corrupted" this town Hadleyburg |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | MURPHY! $2000: In 2015 this star of TV & film was honored with the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Eddie Murphy |
| #7218, aired 2016-01-20 | DWELLING ON THE PAST $400: We wonder if there were fences to paint on the 1874 completion of this author's Hartford home, now open to the public (Mark) Twain |
| #7185, aired 2015-12-04 | THAT WAS ON TV $400: (Hi. I'm Ken Burns.) One of my favorite documentaries was about this Missouri-born humorist who once said, "The human race has one really effective weapon, & that is laughter" Mark Twain |
| #7162, aired 2015-11-03 | SHORT STORIES $400: This jumping Twain creature ends up putting on a lot of weight--he goes about "five pound!" & that ain't right the celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | NONFICTION $400: Mark Twain gave a nonfiction account of his travels to Europe in the work called these people "Abroad" Innocents |
| #7138, aired 2015-09-30 | CELEBRITY DATE BOOK $1000: Oct. 19, 2014:
Jimmy Fallon roasts & honors this predecessor who's getting the Mark Twain Prize for Humor (Jay) Leno |
| #7136, aired 2015-09-28 | FROM PAGE TO MUSICAL $400: The Tony-winning musical "Big River" was based on this Mark Twain classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | PRESIDENTIAL BOOKS $800: In 1884 Mark Twain offered him a $50,000 advance for his "Personal Memoirs", which he finished just prior to his death Ulysses Grant |
| #7129, aired 2015-09-17 | NOOK $1200: From 1871 to 1891 Mark Twain lived in the Nook Farm region of this Connecticut city Hartford |
| #7122, aired 2015-07-28 | PLAY MS. "T" FOR ME $1200: In 2010 this Canadian country singer divorced the mutt who'd produced her hit albums like "The Woman in Me" Shania Twain |
| #7065, aired 2015-05-08 | 4-WORD EXCHANGE $1600: Chapter 1 of this Mark Twain memoir talks about "The River and its History" Life on the Mississippi |
| #7059, aired 2015-04-30 | 6-LETTER CROSSWORD CLUES $2,000 (Daily Double): Tom Canty, at the start of a Twain novel pauper |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: Mark Twain died in this year in which Halley's Comet reappeared 1910 |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | NOVELS $1600: Hank Morgan wins the title of Prime Minister & earns Merlin's jealousy in this Twain tale A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | EVERYBODY'S TALKIN' 'BOUT THEM $800: William Dean Howells called him "sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature" Mark Twain |
| #7030, aired 2015-03-20 | LITERARY CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $800: Tom Blankenship, the son of the town drunkard in Hannibal, was the inspiration for this classic character Huckleberry Finn |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | BUDS $800: Mark Twain often came to the lab of this inventor from the Balkans to see him demonstrate his latest gizmos (Nikola) Tesla |
| #6975, aired 2015-01-02 | PENN. PALS $400: This country singer from Wyomissing sang the national anthem at a 76ers game at 11 & had her 1st single, "Tim McGraw", at age 16 Taylor Swift |
| #6968, aired 2014-12-24 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: In 1998 the Kennedy Center created this prize for American humor the Mark Twain Prize |
| #6939, aired 2014-11-13 | WHERE THERE'S A WILL... $2000: His 1909 will named his daughter Clara & biographer Albert Bigelow Paine to help manage his literary estate Mark Twain |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | JOUST DESSERTS $1200: Bedivere loves raisins after cleaving foes in twain, so give him "spotted" this dick |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | AUTHORS' MUSEUMS $200: He has a House & Museum in Hartford & a Boyhood Home & Museum in Hannibal Mark Twain |
| #6893, aired 2014-07-30 | CREATIVE WRITERS $400: Mark Twain created this title character also found in "Huckleberry Finn" Tom Sawyer |
| #6866, aired 2014-06-23 | LITERARY POTENT POTABLES $400: This Mark Twain character's father, Pap, is the town drunk who takes his son's last dollar to buy whiskey Huck Finn |
| #6838, aired 2014-05-14 | THE LOVELY GERMAN LANGUAGE $800: Mark Twain said German newspapers put this part of speech "away over on the next page" & sometimes go to press without it the verb |
| #6829, aired 2014-05-01 | PLAYING AT THE CASINO $1600: A superstar of country with 75 mil. album sales, she is "still the one" to have an extended run at Caesars in Vegas Shania Twain |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | AUTHORS' PLOTS $1,000 (Daily Double): The monument for his grave in Elmira, New York is 2 fathoms tall Mark Twain |
| #6790, aired 2014-03-07 | TELL US WHAT HE'S WON! $400: 2004:
Canadian Lorne Michaels took this "prize for American humor" the Mark Twain Prize |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | WRITERS HATIN' ON WRITERS $400: Twain said, "Every time I read 'Pride and Prejudice', I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin bone" (Jane) Austen |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | MARK TWAIN $200: Twain took "a journey around the world" in his fifth & last travel book, "Following" this imaginary line equator |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | MARK TWAIN $400: A crowning event
in Twain's life was receiving an honorary degree from this British university in 1907 Oxford |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | MARK TWAIN $800: The only known moving picture ever taken of Mark Twain is in a silent film produced by this man's studio in 1909 Thomas Edison |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | MARK TWAIN $1000: The prince in "The Prince and the Pauper" was this historical figure, son of Henry VIII & Jane Seymour Edward VI |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | MARK TWAIN $3,000 (Daily Double): Twain satirized the customs & institutions of the feudal world in this 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | NOBEL LIT WINNERS $800: 1936:
A U.S. playwright Eugene O'Neill |
| #6734, aired 2013-12-19 | LITERARY LANDMARKS $400: This author's boyhood home in Hannibal, Missouri is on the national register of historic places Mark Twain |
| #6730, aired 2013-12-13 | THEIR FIRST TOP 40 POP HIT $800: "Any Man Of Mine"
(1995) Shania Twain |
| #6730, aired 2013-12-13 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Heavy-duty tool that can cut through crashed cars & Twain River memoirs jaws of Life on the Mississippi |
| #6699, aired 2013-10-31 | GONE WITH THE WIND $400: Mark Twain composed on a Remington one of these, rarely seen around the office anymore a typewriter |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): Vachel Lindsay's poem "The Raft" said this author "in white stands gleaming like a pillar of the night" Mark Twain |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | AUTHORS $600: As a teenager in Missouri, he got a job as a writer on his brother's newspaper, the Hannibal Western Union Mark Twain |
| #6652, aired 2013-07-16 | WRITERS' HOBBIES $400: This author enjoyed a good game of billiards and had a table for it in his house Mark Twain |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | AUTHORS ON THEMSELVES $2000: Not the modest type, in 1882 he told a U.S. Customs official, "I have nothing to declare except my genius" Oscar Wilde |
| #6618, aired 2013-05-29 | WE'RE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE $2,000 (Daily Double): We're in this Missouri town visiting some of the unique shops like Pudd'n Heads & Aunt Polly's Treasures Hannibal |
| #6612, aired 2013-05-21 | 10-MILLION-SELLING ALBUMS $1200: This country singer's "Come On Over" Shania Twain |
| #6598, aired 2013-05-01 | DEFINING THE UNDEFINABLE $800: In Mark Twain's writings, you'll find this religious word defined as "believing what you know ain't so" faith |
| #6597, aired 2013-04-30 | BOOKS IN GERMAN $200: Mark Twain:
"Der Arme Prinz und der Reiche Bettler" The Prince and the Pauper |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | PULITZER-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES $200: Justin Kaplan looked at the 2 sides of an author in the 1967 winner about "Mr. Clemens and" this man Mark Twain |
| #6562, aired 2013-03-12 | THE QUOTABLE MARK TWAIN $200: "In Paris they just simply...stared. We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own" this language |
| #6562, aired 2013-03-12 | THE QUOTABLE MARK TWAIN $600: This place "goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in" heaven |
| #6562, aired 2013-03-12 | THE QUOTABLE MARK TWAIN $800: On this painting: "To me it was merely a serene and subdued face... the complexion was bad...there are no people that color" the Mona Lisa |
| #6562, aired 2013-03-12 | THE QUOTABLE MARK TWAIN $1000: "It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables...and some good morals... and upward of a thousand lies" the Bible |
| #6562, aired 2013-03-12 | THE QUOTABLE MARK TWAIN $1,600 (Daily Double): "I came in with" this "in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it", Twain said in 1909; he did Halley's Comet |
| #6559, aired 2013-03-07 | SHARP (& FLAT) INSTRUMENTS $4,800 (Daily Double): Mark Twain complained of "the snorting of an unholy" one of these; lucky for him there weren't 75 more trombone |
| #6544, aired 2013-02-14 | PIN THE TALE ON THE WRITER $800 (Daily Double): "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"
(1892) Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | NEWSPAPERS $400: Early in their careers, Mark Twain & Bret Harte wrote pieces for this California city's Chronicle San Francisco |
| #6493, aired 2012-12-05 | HITS & MISSES $800: 1999:
"That Don't Impress Me Much" Shania Twain |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This Mark Twain book contains such chapters as "The Ogre's Castle" & "Merlin's Tower" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | ESSAYS $2,000 (Daily Double): His essay "On the Decay of the Art of Lying" was "read at a meeting of the historical and antiquarian club of Hartford" Mark Twain |
| #6452, aired 2012-10-09 | GOIN' COUNTRY $800: "Man! I Feel Like" this woman whose albums include "Come On Over" Shania Twain |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | YOU DESERVE A PRIZE $400 (Daily Double): In 2005 this sometime banjo player received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Steve Martin |
| #6427, aired 2012-07-24 | NOTABLE NAMES $4,000 (Daily Double): Mark Twain published this man's memoirs in 1885 & called them "the best of any general's since Caesar" (Ulysses) Grant |
| #6389, aired 2012-05-31 | THE GILDED AGE $200: The era known as "The Gilded Age" got its name from an 1873 novel by Charles Dudley Warner & this humorist Mark Twain |
| #6311, aired 2012-02-13 | SHORT STORY FILL-IN $400: Twain:
"The ____ Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" Celebrated |
| #6311, aired 2012-02-13 | HISTORY IS STRANGE $1200: He endowed some big prizes after reading his own mistakenly printed & harshly critical obituary in 1888 Alfred Nobel |
| #6301, aired 2012-01-30 | MARK TWAIN NEVER SAID... $200: "Everybody talks about" this, "but nobody does anything about it" the weather |
| #6301, aired 2012-01-30 | MARK TWAIN NEVER SAID... $400: "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in" this California city San Francisco |
| #6301, aired 2012-01-30 | MARK TWAIN NEVER SAID... $600: "It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all" this doubt |
| #6301, aired 2012-01-30 | MARK TWAIN NEVER SAID... $800: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and" these statistics |
| #6301, aired 2012-01-30 | MARK TWAIN NEVER SAID... $1000: "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have" this the time |
| #6289, aired 2012-01-12 | SOLVE FOR EX $2000: She found new love with Frederic Thiebaud, the man whose wife supposedly broke up her marriage to Mutt Lange Shania Twain |
| #6278, aired 2011-12-28 | AUTHORS NOT WRITING $400: In 1848, the year he turned 13, he became a printer's apprentice for Joseph Ament's Missouri Courier (Mark) Twain |
| #6233, aired 2011-10-26 | STEAMBOATS $1000: Mark Twain recounts learning to pilot steamboats called Paul Jones & Crescent City in this 1883 memoir Life on the Mississippi |
| #6224, aired 2011-10-13 | LITERARY NARRATORS $200: This Mark Twain character says that "Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it" Huck Finn |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $1000: This country star called her 2011 memoir "From This Moment On", also the name of one of her hit songs Shania Twain |
| #6213, aired 2011-09-28 | KISMET $1200: This word can be used for one's riches as well as one's lot in life; Twain (& others) have called it "outrageous" fortune |
| #6197, aired 2011-07-19 | ADVENTURES IN LITERATURE $200: One adventure of these 2 Twain boys: attempting to cure warts with a dead cat out in the cemetery at midnight Huck Finn & Tom Sawyer |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $2000: In 1876 Mark Twain collaborated on a play, "Ah Sin", with this author of "The Luck of Roaring Camp" Bret Harte |
| #6167, aired 2011-06-07 | ANNUAL EVENTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Fence painting & frog jumping contests are highlights of an annual festival held in this Missouri city Hannibal |
| #6109, aired 2011-03-17 | COUNTRY FEMALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR GRAMMYS $600: 1998:
"You're Still The One" Shania Twain |
| #6107, aired 2011-03-15 | ROAM! $400: Mark Twain said this sport "is a good walk spoiled" golf |
| #6095, aired 2011-02-25 | LITERARY GENRES $1200: Mark Twain said this book of his couldn't be published until 100 years after his death; in 2010 it was a bestseller an autobiography |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | QUICK LIT $200: This Twain boy tells the story of helping a slave named Jim escape Huck Finn |
| #6091, aired 2011-02-21 | THINGS TO DO IN THE USA $400: This Missouri town invites visitors to explore the caves from Mark Twain's books Hannibal |
| #6076, aired 2011-01-31 | THE MUSIC OF CANADA $400: This country star from Windsor sang "The Woman In Me (Needs The Man In You)" & "(If You're Not In It For Love) I'm Outta Here!" Shania Twain |
| #6069, aired 2011-01-20 | MARK TWAIN SHALL MEET $400: ...this anti-slavery author; her Hartford home was next door to Twain's (Harriet Beecher) Stowe |
| #6069, aired 2011-01-20 | MARK TWAIN SHALL MEET $800: ...this young British author who was traveling from India to England via the U.S. in 1889 (Rudyard) Kipling |
| #6069, aired 2011-01-20 | MARK TWAIN SHALL MEET $1200: ...this poet, whose "Idylls of the King" started an Arthurian craze that inspired "A Connecticut Yankee" Tennyson |
| #6069, aired 2011-01-20 | MARK TWAIN SHALL MEET $1600: ...this British-born journalist in the 1860s, a few years before a journey in Africa made him famous (Henry Morton) Stanley |
| #6069, aired 2011-01-20 | MARK TWAIN SHALL MEET $2000: ...this newspaper publisher, when Twain was chased out of his office at the New York tribune Horace Greeley |
| #6029, aired 2010-11-25 | LITERARY LETTER DROP $400: When a Twain title loses a letter, young royal Edward Tudor learns the problems of The London Times The Prince and the Paper |
| #6027, aired 2010-11-23 | TEXT MESSAGES $1200: In 1897, hearing his obituary had been published, he cabled that the report of his death was an exaggeration Mark Twain |
| #6021, aired 2010-11-15 | TWAIN TRACTS $200: A blow on the head sends a man back to Camelot in this 1889 Mark Twain novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #6021, aired 2010-11-15 | TWAIN TRACTS $400: Twain set down the "Personal Recollections of" this female French saint & warrior Joan of Arc |
| #6021, aired 2010-11-15 | TWAIN TRACTS $600: A miner bets on his amphibian's leaping ability in "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of" this county Calaveras County |
| #6021, aired 2010-11-15 | TWAIN TRACTS $800: The first half of this Twain work describes his apprenticeship as a river pilot Life on the Mississippi |
| #6021, aired 2010-11-15 | TWAIN TRACTS $1000: These were "Abroad" in a work Twain compiled from letters he sent home from an overseas trip Innocents |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | THE COMEDIC CALVIN COOLIDGE $1000: This beloved humorist of the day said Cal's wit was too subtle for most people Will Rogers |
| #5946, aired 2010-06-21 | OTHER GRAND CANYONS $1600: Mark Twain dubbed this island's Waimea Canyon the "Grand Canyon of the Pacific" Kauai |
| #5941, aired 2010-06-14 | LITERARY STUPID ANSWERS $200: Mark Twain first told of Tom Sawyer's adventures in this 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | GETTING TICKED OFF $1000: In "The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson", this author wrote, "When angry, count four; when very angry, swear" Mark Twain |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | LOOK WHO'S TALKING $200: This 19th century American humorist observed, "Be careful about reading health books, you may die of a misprint" Mark Twain |
| #5819, aired 2009-12-24 | "CHIN" MUSIC $600: Cash registers ring for Shania Twain in this song that says "We live in a greedy little world" "Ka-Ching!" |
| #5807, aired 2009-12-08 | ALWAYS SAY NEVER $800: In his "Ballad of East and West", this Brit wrote, "east is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet" (Rudyard) Kipling |
| #5781, aired 2009-11-02 | BOOK ENDS $200: This Twain hero is going to the territory because he doesn't want Aunt Sally to civilize him Huckleberry Finn |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | QUESTION, MARK $800: He wrote, "I am a great & sublime fool. But... I am God's fool, & all his works must be contemplated with respect" Mark Twain |
| #5735, aired 2009-07-10 | NOVEL-TIES $400: In 1905 this still-controversial Twain book was banned because a character said sweat instead of perspiration Huckleberry Finn |
| #5727, aired 2009-06-30 | A MAN CALLED HORACE $200: Horace Bixby, a steamboat pilot, taught this American author the skills of the trade Mark Twain |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | YOU CAN'T SPELL JEOPARDY! WITHOUT PARTY! $400: Around 11:00 P.M., we break out the card game "authors"; do you have any of this man seen here? Mark Twain |
| #5675, aired 2009-04-17 | THE REPORT OF MY DEATH... $200: In 1897, responding to a rumor, he wrote, "The report of my death was an exaggeration" Mark Twain |
| #5650, aired 2009-03-13 | 19th CENTURY FRANCE $200: Twain said of this dance, "I placed my hands before my face for very shame, but I looked through my fingers" the cancan |
| #5623, aired 2009-02-04 | FUNERAL OFFICIANTS $200: Joseph Hopkins Twichell, this man's "Tramp Abroad" traveling companion, conducted his funeral service Mark Twain |
| #5620, aired 2009-01-30 | GEORGE CARLIN $1000: In 2008 at the Kennedy Center, George posthumously received the prize for humor named for this man (Mark) Twain |
| #5562, aired 2008-11-11 | LITERARY RHYME TIME $200: Twain's outdoor recreation areas Mark's parks |
| #5559, aired 2008-11-06 | THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN $400: Of the 1860s, the 1880s or the 1900s, the decade in which Mark Twain wrote the book 1880s |
| #5559, aired 2008-11-06 | THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN $600: The book was based on Mark Twain's recollections of his childhood in this state Missouri |
| #5559, aired 2008-11-06 | "G"EOGRAPHY $800: Charged $8 to take a boat ride on this body of water, Mark Twain quipped, "Do you wonder that Christ walked?" the Sea of Galilee |
| #5490, aired 2008-06-20 | AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS $400: Mark Twain said he began writing a new Tom Sawyer book narrated by this scamp but, sadly for us, "destroyed it" Huckleberry Finn |
| #5471, aired 2008-05-26 | WRITERS $400: Samuel Langhorne Clemens first used this pen name in 1863 while with the Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City, Nev. Mark Twain |
| #5457, aired 2008-05-06 | & THE AWARD GOES TO... $600: Each year, the Kennedy Center gives a humor award named for this 19th century novelist Mark Twain |
| #5443, aired 2008-04-16 | MARK TWAIN: BOOK LOVER $400: Writing about this author's "The Deerslayer", Twain called its pathos "funny" & "its love-scenes odious" (James Fenimore) Cooper |
| #5443, aired 2008-04-16 | MARK TWAIN: BOOK LOVER $800: (Alex reads the clue from the Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT.) Mark Twain made notations in the books he owned; he wrote, "Can any plausible excuse be furnished for the crime of creating the human race" in this man's "Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle" Darwin |
| #5443, aired 2008-04-16 | MARK TWAIN: BOOK LOVER $1200: One of Twain's favorite books was the "Diary of" this Englishman; Twain credited it as the model for his book "1601" (Samuel) Pepys |
| #5443, aired 2008-04-16 | MARK TWAIN: BOOK LOVER $1,600 (Daily Double): "The only poem I have ever carried about with me", said Twain, was this classic, best enjoyed with "a jug of wine" the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
| #5443, aired 2008-04-16 | MARK TWAIN: BOOK LOVER $1600: A copy of the New Testament in Arabic was given to Twain during the cruise that inspired this 1869 travel classic The Innocents Abroad |
| #5440, aired 2008-04-11 | "C" DUTY $400: According to Mark Twain, these "make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society" clothes |
| #5408, aired 2008-02-27 | FAMILY-FRIENDLY MUSICALS $800: This Mark Twain tale about a rich kid & a poor kid who trade places inspired a musical that opened off Broadway in 2002 The Prince and the Pauper |
| #5393, aired 2008-02-06 | PRINCE $800: Royal family name of the prince in Mark Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper" Tudor |
| #5382, aired 2008-01-22 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $400: (Alex gives the clue from the Mark Twain house in Hartford.) Twain was fond of saying, "I came in with" this celestial object in 1835, "and I expect to go out with it"; and in 1910 he did, passing away in this very bed Halley's Comet |
| #5354, aired 2007-12-13 | TWAIN TRACTS $200: "A frightened look in Becky's face brought Tom to his senses and he saw that he had made a blunder" The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| #5354, aired 2007-12-13 | TWAIN TRACTS $400: "By my authority as executive I threw Merlin into prison -- the same cell I had occupied myself" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #5354, aired 2007-12-13 | TWAIN TRACTS $600: "I resk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog" The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County |
| #5354, aired 2007-12-13 | TWAIN TRACTS $800: "It is the longest river in the world... it is also the crookedest river in the world" LIfe on the Mississippi |
| #5354, aired 2007-12-13 | TWAIN TRACTS $1000: "The two went and stood side by side before a great mirror and lo, a miracle: there did not seem to have been any change" The Prince and the Pauper |
| #5324, aired 2007-11-01 | JOHNNY GILBERT, ROCK GOD $800: "Oh oh oh, I wanna be free, to feel the way I feel, man! I feel like a woman!" Shania Twain |
| #5324, aired 2007-11-01 | WORDS AGAINST WAR $2000: This American humorist's "War Prayer", about the Spanish-American War, was published in 1923, after his death Mark Twain |
| #5317, aired 2007-10-23 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $800: Edgar Lee Masters wrote that this "genius from Missouri" had "affection for his fellows, yet... despised them" Mark Twain |
| #5307, aired 2007-10-09 | LITERATURE FOR KIDS $1600: This loving relative who takes care of Tom Sawyer was inspired by Mark Twain's own mother Aunt Polly |
| #5291, aired 2007-09-17 | PSEUDO SPORT LIT $5,000 (Daily Double): A-Rod is truly in trouble in this time-traveling Twain text from 1889 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #5266, aired 2007-07-02 | BUT THEY'RE GUARANTEED TO RAISE A SMILE $400: "To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did...I've done it 1,000 times" is attributed to this 19th c. humorist Mark Twain |
| #5263, aired 2007-06-27 | I'M NOT DEAD YET $200: In 1897 the illness of a relative with this last name led to Mark Twain's "The report of my death was an exaggeration" Clemens |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $600: (Alex reports from the Mark Twain House.) Mark Twain said that this anti-slavery novelist, his next-door neighbor, liked to sneak up behind people and "fetch a war-whoop that would jump that person out of his clothes" (Harriet Beecher) Stowe |
| #5241, aired 2007-05-28 | D.C. COMICS $800: This American humorist said, "I am not a member of any organized party--I am a Democrat" Will Rogers |
| #5236, aired 2007-05-21 | BOB'S YOUR UNCLE $600: This former sitcom shrink got the Kennedy Center's 2002 Mark Twain Prize for his contribution to American humor Bob Newhart |
| #5225, aired 2007-05-04 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $1,000 (Daily Double): 2 fathoms, the minimum safe clearance for steamboats, inspired this 19th century pen name Mark Twain |
| #5212, aired 2007-04-17 | THE PONY EXPRESS $800: In "Roughing It", this American author described the thrill of seeing an Express rider Mark Twain |
| #5206, aired 2007-04-09 | THE HISTORY OF APRIL 9th $800: 1859: This author receives his steamboat pilot's license Mark Twain |
| #5190, aired 2007-03-16 | AT THE MARK TWAIN HOUSE $400: (Alex Trebek delivers the clue from the Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT.) Twain owned one of the first telephones ever installed in a private home, but he once wished that all of us may eventually be gathered together in heaven, except for this man (Alexander Graham) Bell |
| #5190, aired 2007-03-16 | AT THE MARK TWAIN HOUSE $800: Twain & his wife bought their bed in this romantic city of canals (iconoclast Twain slept feet toward the headboard) Venice |
| #5190, aired 2007-03-16 | AT THE MARK TWAIN HOUSE $1200: (Alex Trebek delivers the clue from the Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT.) Appropriately, Mark Twain resided here in Hartford while he worked on this 1889 novel about a Hartford man who travels back in time to medieval England A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #5190, aired 2007-03-16 | AT THE MARK TWAIN HOUSE $1600: Among Twain's many guests was this creator of Uncle Remus whose stories Twain read to his daughters (Joel Chandler) Harris |
| #5190, aired 2007-03-16 | AT THE MARK TWAIN HOUSE $2000: (Alex Trebek delivers the clue from the Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT.) The style of Mark Twain's home here in Hartford exemplifies this ornate age, also the title of a book Twain wrote with his neighbor Charles Dudley Warner the Gilded Age |
| #5185, aired 2007-03-09 | DESCRIPTIONS & DEFINITIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): Animator Chuck Jones quotes Mark Twain on this: "a long... sorry-looking skeleton with a gray wolf-skin" coyote |
| #5174, aired 2007-02-22 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1883 Mark Twain published his autobiographical "Life on" this river the Mississippi |
| #5163, aired 2007-02-07 | I WROTE THAT $200: "Roughing It",
"Life on the Mississippi" Mark Twain |
| #5158, aired 2007-01-31 | CRITICISM WITH STYLE $200: This 19th c. humorist:
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it" Mark Twain |
| #5142, aired 2007-01-09 | HAWAII $800: Mark Twain wrote that compared to this volcano on the Big Island, Mount Vesuvius was "a soup-kettle" Kilauea |
| #5134, aired 2006-12-28 | 19th CENTURY FACES $200: The life of this man has not been greatly exaggerated Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |
| #5120, aired 2006-12-08 | SOUNDS $400: Twain wrote that a James Fenimore Cooper character who needs absolute silence "is sure to step on a dry" this a twig |
| #5118, aired 2006-12-06 | BOOKS ABOUT AUTHORS $400: "Calaveras County" & "Hannibal" are entries in R. Kent Rasmussen's book this man "A to Z" Mark Twain |
| #5102, aired 2006-11-14 | THEATRE: HOW NOVEL! $200: "Big River" was inspired by Mark Twain's book about this young scamp Huck Finn |
| #5102, aired 2006-11-14 | WOMEN & SONG $1200: "Any Man Of Mine"
&
"Man! I Feel Like A Woman!" Shania Twain |
| #5067, aired 2006-09-26 | GOSPEL TRUTH $200: Mark 10 says a man shall "cleave to" this person "...so they are no more twain, but one flesh" his wife |
| #5060, aired 2006-09-15 | AMERICAN LIT $200: A Twain tale celebrated a jumping frog of this title county Calaveras County |
| #5046, aired 2006-07-17 | MOVIE TWINS $800: "It Takes Two" was inspired by Mark Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper" & starred these real-life twins the Olsen twins |
| #5037, aired 2006-07-04 | AMERICAN RIVERS $400: In an 1883 book, Mark Twain described this river as "rolling its mile-wide tide along, shining in the sun" the Mississippi |
| #5023, aired 2006-06-14 | ROYAL LITERATURE $800: 1889: By Mark Twain A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #4964, aired 2006-03-23 | AMERICAN QUOTES $600: He wrote, "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society" Mark Twain |
| #4957, aired 2006-03-14 | DEATH SENTENCES $400: His famous quip "The report of my death was an exaggeration" was reported in the New York Journal in 1897 Mark Twain |
| #4939, aired 2006-02-16 | WHAT KIN ARE YOU TO ME? $400: Susy Clemens (1872-1896) was this to Mark Twain a daughter |
| #4925, aired 2006-01-27 | SHORT STORIES $1200: Dan'l Webster was this "celebrated" title character of an 1865 sketch written by Mark Twain "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | TWAIN TWIP $200: Mark Twain was born in Florida--Florida, Missouri that is--& moved with his family to this town in 1839 Hannibal |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | TWAIN TWIP $400: In the titles of 2 of Twain's travel books, it follows "The Innocents" & "A Tramp" Abroad |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | TWAIN TWIP $600: Twain once defined this type of book (& he wrote several) as one "which people praise and don't read" a classic |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | TWAIN TWIP $800: As he predicted he would, Twain died in 1910, a year in which this appeared, just as it did in 1835 when he was born Halley's Comet |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | TWAIN TWIP $1000: Twain wrote of how the "Maid of the Mist descends the fearful rapids" in a piece called "A Visit to" this place Niagara Falls |
| #4913, aired 2006-01-11 | THE KENNEDY CENTER $200: In 2005 the Kennedy Center awarded this "wild & crazy guy" the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Steve Martin |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In 1894 Mark Twain took this character "Abroad"; 2 years later, he became a "Detective" Tom Sawyer |
| #4889, aired 2005-12-08 | BUILDING CHARACTER $800: In this Twain tale, Tom Canty is a dead ringer for the future king of England The Prince and the Pauper |
| #4875, aired 2005-11-18 | I NEED MORE COWBELL $800: "That Don't Impress Me Much" that this country diva uses cowbell Shania Twain |
| #4803, aired 2005-06-22 | & NEVER THE TWAINS SHALL MEET $400: Shania Twain was born on Aug. 28, 1965 in Windsor, Canada; Mark Twain, on Nov. 30, 1835 in this state Missouri |
| #4768, aired 2005-05-04 | THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA $1200: He gets 7 volumes, including "The Gilded Age and Later Novels" (Mark) Twain |
| #4753, aired 2005-04-13 | QUOTES $200: This "A Tramp Abroad" author opined, "Wagner's music is better than it sounds" (Mark) Twain |
| #4745, aired 2005-04-01 | AMERICAN LIT $800: Mark Twain wrote "There are 19 rules governing literary art... some say 22. In 'Deerslayer'" he "violated 18" (James Fenimore) Cooper |
| #4735, aired 2005-03-18 | THEY CAME TO EGYPT $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Giza, Egypt.) After seeing the Sphinx he wrote in "Innocents Abroad", "The great face was so sad, so earnest, so longing" Mark Twain |
| #4720, aired 2005-02-25 | QUOTES $400: Mark Twain:
"Familiarity breeds contempt--and" these children |
| #4718, aired 2005-02-23 | small state capitals $1200: The homes of Mark Twain & Harriet Beecher Stowe can be found in this state capital Hartford |
| #4714, aired 2005-02-17 | LIBROS EN ESPAÑOL $800: Twain:
"El Principe y el Mendigo" The Prince and the Pauper |
| #4697, aired 2005-01-25 | AUNTIE $1200: The 2 aunts that Clara Blandick played in 1930s movies based on characters by L. Frank Baum & Mark Twain Auntie Em & Aunt Polly |
| #4684, aired 2005-01-06 | FOREWORDS $1,600 (Daily Double): Kurt Vonnegut's opening remarks on this author say, "His schoolbooks were steamboats and mining camps" Mark Twain |
| #4665, aired 2004-12-10 | STAY ON THE GRASS $200: The famous definition of golf attributed to Mark Twain is "a good" one of these "spoiled" a walk |
| #4653, aired 2004-11-24 | TAKE ME HOME, ALEX $600: Prefabricated & shipped by steamboat to Hannibal, Mo., Pilaster House is a childhood home of this author Mark Twain |
| #4643, aired 2004-11-10 | BY TWAIN $400: Prior to this novel's publication, its whitewash scene appeared in the Philadelphia Sunday Republic Tom Sawyer |
| #4643, aired 2004-11-10 | BY TWAIN $1200: Travel letters Twain wrote during a tour of Europe were collected in his book called these "Abroad" Innocents |
| #4643, aired 2004-11-10 | BY TWAIN $1600: In the first part of this 1883 memoir, Twain recalled his days as a riverboat pilot Life on the Mississippi |
| #4643, aired 2004-11-10 | BY TWAIN $2000: It's the humorous nickname of the lawyer who solves the murder of York Driscoll, Dawson Landing's chief citizen Pudd'n'head Wilson |
| #4643, aired 2004-11-10 | BY TWAIN $2,200 (Daily Double): It's the title locale of the story Twain originally called "Jim Smiley and his Jumping Frog" Calaveras County |
| #4633, aired 2004-10-27 | CHILDREN IN LITERATURE $1200: He wrote about fictional children Willie Mufferson, Joe Harper, & Sid Sawyer Mark Twain |
| #4630, aired 2004-10-22 | THE HISTORY OF DISNEYLAND $400: Since 1956, kids have played on the Disneyland island named for this kid created by Mark Twain Tom Sawyer |
| #4582, aired 2004-07-06 | PEARLS OF WISDOM $5,000 (Daily Double): A 17th century writer:
"Angling can be said to be so like the mathematics, that it can never be fully learnt" Izaak Walton |
| #4565, aired 2004-06-11 | CULINARY QUOTES $600: Mark Twain said that cauliflower "is nothing but" this vegetable "with a college education" cabbage |
| #4555, aired 2004-05-28 | STATES' MEN $600: Mark Twain &
Jesse James Missouri |
| #4544, aired 2004-05-13 | FELINES, WO, WO, WO, FELINES $400: Mark Twain noted a striking difference between a cat & a lie: "A cat has only" this many "lives" 9 |
| #4520, aired 2004-04-09 | LITERARY EUROPE $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Caffe Florian in Venice, Italy.) "I have not known any happier hours than those I daily spent in front of Florian's", wrote this U.S. author in "A Tramp Abroad" Mark Twain |
| #4519, aired 2004-04-08 | TIME PERIODS $400: Twain & Warner dubbed the time of the rise of industrialization & riches after the Civil War "The Gilded" this Age |
| #4513, aired 2004-03-31 | QUOTATIONS $1200: In a Kipling ballad "East is east, and west is west, and never" these 4 words the twain shall meet |
| #4496, aired 2004-03-08 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): In "Following the Equator", this humorist wrote, "Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it" Mark Twain |
| #4469, aired 2004-01-29 | BOOK MARKS $800: Joseph Hopkins Twichell was this author's companion during the trip that produced "A Tramp Abroad" Mark Twain |
| #4441, aired 2003-12-22 | NOVELS $2000: In an 1894 Mark Twain novel, it's the nickname the townsfolk gave to eccentric lawyer David Wilson Pudd'nhead |
| #4428, aired 2003-12-03 | 1880s LIT $400: In 1883 Twain published "Life on the Mississippi" & in 1884 this novel about life on the Mississippi The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| #4426, aired 2003-12-01 | CAR NAMES $1200: Mark Twain is credited with calling it "a good walk spoiled" Golf |
| #4408, aired 2003-11-05 | WORLD'S FAIRS & EXPOS $800: This author helped kick off construction for the 1904 fair in St. Louis, but declined to have a day named for him Mark Twain |
| #4388, aired 2003-10-08 | COMMUNICATIONS $2000: Mark Twain said this slug-making machine could work like 6 men & do everything but drink, swear & go out on strike Linotype machine |
| #4377, aired 2003-09-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Jim Smiley kept this "celebrated" animal of a Mark Twain story in "a little lattice box" the jumping frog of Calaveras county |
| #4376, aired 2003-09-22 | WHERE'D YOU GO ON VACATION $400: ...to Hannibal, Missouri, where we saw this author's boyhood home, & an actual cave featured in his "Tom Sawyer" Mark Twain |
| #4374, aired 2003-09-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $800: In 1880 an illustrated volume of his "A Tramp Abroad" included an appendix titled "The Awful German Language" Mark Twain |
| #4368, aired 2003-09-10 | SHE'S CANADIAN, EH? $200: This Windsor native's 2002 CD "Up!" offers pop & country versions of the same 19 songs Shania Twain |
| #4367, aired 2003-09-09 | GRAPHICS $400: The font seen here is named for this machine famously used by Mark Twain a typewriter |
| #4366, aired 2003-09-08 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $1000: Published in 1849, "Redburn: His First Voyage" was based on this author's first voyage as a cabin boy Herman Melville |
| #4362, aired 2003-07-15 | PEN NAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): This pseudonym means "2 fathoms deep" Mark Twain |
| #4355, aired 2003-07-04 | AUTHORS & THEIR RELATIVES $800: He based the character of Sid Sawyer on his own brother Henry, but said Henry was "a very much finer" boy Mark Twain |
| #4350, aired 2003-06-27 | LIBRARIES $200: The Bancroft Library in Berkeley has issued a new edition of his "Huckleberry Finn" with all 174 orig. illustrations Mark Twain |
| #4350, aired 2003-06-27 | WHAT'S IN A CELEBRITY NAME? $2000: This country diva adopted a first name that means "on my way" in Ojibwa Shania Twain |
| #4344, aired 2003-06-19 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $3,500 (Daily Double): Mark Twain's real middle name Langhorne |
| #4343, aired 2003-06-18 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Leader of pop music's Funky Bunch who wrote "Tom Sawyer" Marky Mark Twain |
| #4287, aired 2003-04-01 | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF AUTHORS $400: The Palace Hotel in S.F. has played host to such luminaries as Oscar Wilde & this "Prince and the Pauper" scribe Mark Twain |
| #4261, aired 2003-02-24 | NOT REALLY MARRIED $200: This country diva serenades this "Huck Finn" author with her hit "You're Still the One" Shania & Mark Twain |
| #4261, aired 2003-02-24 | HERO $4,000 (Daily Double): Hank Morgan, a mechanic from Hartford, is the title character of this Twain work "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" |
| #4256, aired 2003-02-17 | IT'S ALL A BUNCH OF LIES $800: In "Pudd'nhead Wilson" he wrote, "One of the differences between a cat & a lie is that a cat has only 9 lives" Mark Twain |
| #4241, aired 2003-01-27 | AUTOBIOGRAPHERS $1,000 (Daily Double): 1936:
"Across Spoon River" Edgar Lee Masters |
| #4237, aired 2003-01-21 | 1870s AMERICA $400: In 1870, a year after he wrote "The Innocents Abroad", he married Olivia Langdon Mark Twain |
| #4220, aired 2002-12-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $600: In 1881 Louis Tiffany & others decorated the first floor of this author's mansion in Hartford, Conn. Mark Twain |
| #4212, aired 2002-12-17 | SHORT STORIES $2000: His first book, "Cabbages and Kings", is a series of loosely-linked short stories about adventures in Central America O. Henry |
| #4208, aired 2002-12-11 | AUNTIE UP $1000: Tom Sawyer's guardian was this relative who was based in part on Mark Twain's mother Aunt Polly |
| #4207, aired 2002-12-10 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $800: This member of the House from Ohio's 14th district shares his name with a Mark Twain title character Tom Sawyer |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This Mark Twain character's father "Pap" briefly held him prisoner in a cabin on the Illinois side of the Mississippi Huckleberry Finn |
| #4176, aired 2002-10-28 | "G" WHIZ! $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew standing in front of the Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, Florida) The Flagler Museum exemplifies the style of this golden era, found in the title of a book by Charles D. Warner & Mark Twain "The Gilded Age" |
| #4174, aired 2002-10-24 | AMERICAN WRITING $400: In Jan. 1851 he had his first known piece published: "A Gallant Fireman", in Hannibal's Western Union Mark Twain |
| #4163, aired 2002-10-09 | SUB- & ALTERNATE TITLES $400: "The New Pilgrim's Progress" is how he described his "Innocents Abroad" Mark Twain |
| #4144, aired 2002-09-12 | 19! $2000: Chapter 19 of this Mark Twain tale is "Knight Errantry as a Trade" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #4142, aired 2002-09-10 | SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR $1200: Pudd'nhead Wilson Mark Twain |
| #4117, aired 2002-06-25 | STAGECOACH $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from in a Butterfield Stage Line stagecoach.) After learning how to pilot a steamboat, this author boarded a stagecoach in 1861 & headed out to Carson City (Mark) Twain |
| #4111, aired 2002-06-17 | ON THE INTERSTATE $400: This state claims the Mark Twain Expressway, part of I-70, as the first project of the Interstate Highway System Missouri |
| #4104, aired 2002-06-06 | FOREST $1,600 (Daily Double): The only National Forest in Missouri is named for this author Mark Twain |
| #4096, aired 2002-05-27 | SHORT STORIES $800: (Hi-Ho, Kermit the Frog here!) Published in 1865, this "Celebrated" story catapulted Mark Twain to fame "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" |
| #4081, aired 2002-05-06 | WRY $200: Twain said this type of book is one "which people praise and don't read" a classic |
| #4080, aired 2002-05-03 | BEST DRAMATIC ACTOR TONYS $1200: "Mark Twain Tonight!"
(1966) Hal Holbrook |
| #4075, aired 2002-04-26 | "C" FOOD $200: Mark Twain said that this vegetable is "nothing but cabbage with a college education" cauliflower |
| #4059, aired 2002-04-04 | SATAN $2000: This "enigmatic" tale in which Satan walks the earth as a young man is one of Mark Twain's darkest works The Mysterious Stranger |
| #4053, aired 2002-03-27 | '90s MUSIC $600: Shania Twain title that follows "Okay, so you're a rocket scientist" & "Okay, so you're Brad Pitt" "That Don't Impress Me Much" |
| #4048, aired 2002-03-20 | GRAMMY-WINNING COUNTRY SONGS $800: 1998: "You're Still The One" Shania Twain |
| #4015, aired 2002-02-01 | NEW YORK STORIES $800: His Catskills-based story "Rip Van Winkle" was inspired by a popular folk tale Washington Irving |
| #3990, aired 2001-12-28 | DEAR DIARY $2000: 1876: Finished writing "Tom Sawyer" but folks'll have to wait 8 years for a sequel Mark Twain |
| #3978, aired 2001-12-12 | RACCOON $800: After being "A Tramp Abroad", this author yearned for home-style foods like possum & 'coon Mark Twain |
| #3967, aired 2001-11-27 | 19th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: This Twain title character encounters 2 swindlers calling themselves the King & Duke Huckleberry Finn |
| #3957, aired 2001-11-13 | SWEET NOVEMBER $200: This author of "Roughing It" was born on November 30, 1835 Mark Twain |
| #3941, aired 2001-10-22 | LITERATURE $400: In "Pudd'nhead Wilson", Twain wrote, "Put all your eggs in the one basket and" then do this to "that basket" watch |
| #3930, aired 2001-10-05 | ERAS & AGES $800: Mark Twain wrote for the journal The Golden Era before co-writing the 1873 novel titled this "Age" The Gilded Age |
| #3913, aired 2001-09-12 | ENTERTAINMENT NEWS $600: In March 2001, reports had this "Come On Over" singer & her husband Mutt expecting their first pup Shania Twain |
| #3907, aired 2001-09-04 | MARK TWAIN SEZ $200: Lines attributed to Twain include "Everybody talks about" this, "but nobody does anything about it" the weather |
| #3907, aired 2001-09-04 | MARK TWAIN SEZ $400: "Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is" this "that does the work" the lightning |
| #3907, aired 2001-09-04 | MARK TWAIN SEZ $1000: In an essay, Twain said surely no language is "so slip-shod & systemless" as this one he called "awful" German |
| #3875, aired 2001-06-08 | LITERARY ANIMALS $200: Dan'l Webster was this Twain animal who was so full of quail shot that he couldn't jump The "Celebrated Jumping Frog" |
| #3833, aired 2001-04-11 | BEGINS & ENDS IN "K" $800: Mark Twain once worked as a printer in this Iowa town Keokuk |
| #3784, aired 2001-02-01 | QUOTATIONS $400: Advice from this American author: "When angry, count four; when very angry, swear" Mark Twain |
| #3774, aired 2001-01-18 | LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "T" $400: Mark Twain's Becky
(8) Thatcher |
| #3772, aired 2001-01-16 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $400: Mark Twain's brother Orion owned this Missouri city's Journal, for which Twain set type & wrote Hannibal |
| #3747, aired 2000-12-12 | KIDDY LIT $800: Edward Tudor learns about the problems of commoners after switching clothes with an urchin in this Twain book "The Prince and the Pauper" |
| #3705, aired 2000-10-13 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $100: In 1896, 20 years after the original work, he wrote "Tom Sawyer, Detective" Mark Twain |
| #3697, aired 2000-10-03 | QUOTATIONS $400: This "Huck Finn" author wrote "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example" Mark Twain |
| #3691, aired 2000-09-25 | TWAIN TRACTS $100: In a 1909 essay Mark Twain asserted this man could not have written the plays attributed to him William Shakespeare |
| #3691, aired 2000-09-25 | TWAIN TRACTS $200: In articles & a book Twain questioned this Mary Baker Eddy church's tenet of divine healing Christian Science |
| #3691, aired 2000-09-25 | TWAIN TRACTS $300: In a 1904 essay Twain's subject was this French saint about whom he had written a book Joan of Arc |
| #3691, aired 2000-09-25 | TWAIN TRACTS $400: The Sacramento Union published Twain's running account of his visit to these islands the Hawaiian Islands |
| #3691, aired 2000-09-25 | TWAIN TRACTS $500: In "Innocents Abroad" Twain derides this city's mistreatment of Galileo & its love of the Medicis Florence |
| #3680, aired 2000-09-08 | MULTI-MILLION SELLING ALBUMS $500: She's the only woman in country music to have 2 albums sell over 10 million copies each Shania Twain |
| #3649, aired 2000-06-15 | AMERICAN LIT $200: Chapter 3 of this Mark Twain novel introduces us to the "Knights of the Table Round" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #3646, aired 2000-06-12 | INSPIRED CHARACTERS $200: This author said that he based Injun Joe on a real man he knew who got lost in a cave Mark Twain |
| #3619, aired 2000-05-04 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $800: To scientists, it's force times distance; to Twain, it's "whatever a body is obliged to do" Work |
| #3615, aired 2000-04-28 | WINTERS $400: In 1999 the Kennedy Center awarded Jonathan Winters the prize named after this humorist Mark Twain |
| #3604, aired 2000-04-13 | ENDS IN "OOK" $300: For over 40 years this actor has brought Mark Twain to life in a one-man show Hal Holbrook |
| #3590, aired 2000-03-24 | AUTHORS $300: Articles he wrote for the Atlantic Monthly in 1875 became Chapters IV to XVII in "Life on the Mississippi" Mark Twain |
| #3576, aired 2000-03-06 | AMERICAN WRITERS $200: From 1862 to 1864 he wrote for the Territorial Enterprise newspaper in Virginia City, Nevada Mark Twain |
| #3571, aired 2000-02-28 | MADE UP $200: In ads for Revlon's Colorstay liquid lip, this country diva sings "Man! I feel like a woman" Shania Twain |
| #3559, aired 2000-02-10 | MARK TWAIN $200: Mark Twain was a pen name; this was his real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens |
| #3559, aired 2000-02-10 | MARK TWAIN $400: Twain wrote that in "The Deerslayer", this author "scored 114 offenses against literary art out of a possible 115" James Fenimore Cooper |
| #3559, aired 2000-02-10 | MARK TWAIN $800 (Daily Double): This 1889 novel contrasts American homespun ingenuity with the Dark Ages' superstition & ineptitude "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" |
| #3559, aired 2000-02-10 | MARK TWAIN $800: In the 1850s Twain was an apprentice one of these under Horace Bixby; he became a licensed one in 1859 Riverboat pilot |
| #3559, aired 2000-02-10 | MARK TWAIN $1000: Twain said, "There is no distinctly Native American criminal class except" this body Congress |
| #3552, aired 2000-02-01 | HANNIBAL-ISM $400: This novelist based the fictional town of St. Petersburg on Hannibal, where he grew up Mark Twain |
| #3551, aired 2000-01-31 | BEFORE & AFTER $600: Garden of Eden plant in the memoir of Mark Twain's days as a steamboat pilot Tree of Life on the Mississippi |
| #3523, aired 1999-12-22 | ANAGRAMMED MUSICALS $500: Mark my words, Twain would have loved it:
"RIB GIVER" Big River |
| #3502, aired 1999-11-23 | SINGER-SONGWRITERS $300: "That Don't Impress Me Much" Shania Twain |
| #3497, aired 1999-11-16 | AROUND NEW YORK STATE $500: Now at Elmira College, this author's study was made to look like a Mississippi riverboat's pilothouse Mark Twain |
| #3489, aired 1999-11-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: In this Mark Twain story, a mechanic is knocked unconscious in a fight & awakens in Camelot in 528 A.D. "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" |
| #3474, aired 1999-10-14 | BANNED! $700 (Daily Double): This Mark Twain work was fourth on the list of "The Most Frequently Banned Books in the 1990s" Huckleberry Finn |
| #3471, aired 1999-10-11 | OF "LIFE" $1000: Book in which Twain wrote, "There was but one...ambition among my comrades...to be a steamboatman" Life on the Mississippi |
| #3465, aired 1999-10-01 | QUOTATIONS $400: Twain novel containing the line, "You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft" Huckleberry Finn |
| #3444, aired 1999-07-22 | AROUND THE USA $200: This Calif. city's Transamerica Pyramid stands on the site of the Exchange Saloon where Mark Twain once imbibed San Francisco |
| #3440, aired 1999-07-16 | NO. 1 COUNTRY HITS $200: In 1996 this Canadian-born woman sang, "If you're not in it for love, I'm out of here" Shania Twain |
| #3436, aired 1999-07-12 | AWARDS $400: Richard Pryor was the first recipient of a Kennedy Center humorists' prize named for this American author Mark Twain |
| #3433, aired 1999-07-07 | LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "M" $800: Twain's "Stranger" or Verne's "Island"
(10) Mysterious |
| #3431, aired 1999-07-05 | RELATIVE LIT $200: This guardian of Tom Sawyer was based on Mark Twain's mother Aunt Polly |
| #3368, aired 1999-04-07 | QUOTABLE DEFINITIONS $400: Author who defined a classic as "A book which people praise and don't read" Mark Twain |
| #3350, aired 1999-03-12 | A REAL PRINCE $100: Identical-looking boys trade places & a wacky mix-up ensues in this 1881 Twain novel "The Prince and the Pauper" |
| #3330, aired 1999-02-12 | WORDS FOR TWO $500: On a riverboat, it's how you would "Mark" water that's 2 fathoms deep Twain |
| #3295, aired 1998-12-25 | NEXT LINE, PLEASE $400: Kipling:
"Oh, east is east & west is west, and..." "Never the twain shall meet" |
| #3255, aired 1998-10-30 | ANNUAL EVENTS $500: This city's Mississippi River Art Fair is held in the Mark Twain Historic District Hannibal, Missouri |
| #3251, aired 1998-10-26 | SAM-I-AM $100: I would eat them in the rain, I would eat them as Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens |
| #3232, aired 1998-09-29 | AUTHORS' ODD JOBS $100: When his father died in 1847, he had to leave school & work as a printer's apprentice at the Hannibal Courier Mark Twain |
| #3227, aired 1998-09-22 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $200: Mark Twain could have told you this town of his youth was named for a Carthaginian Hannibal, Missouri |
| #3223, aired 1998-09-16 | DEAD LINES $200: The AP received his 1897 telegram saying, "The report of my death was an exaggeration" Mark Twain |
| #3219, aired 1998-09-10 | FUN WITH OPERA $200: Lukas Foss' opera "The Jumping Frog of" this county is based on a story by Mark Twain Calaveras County |
| #3216, aired 1998-09-07 | U.S. AT WAR $500: Mark Twain was among those who opposed the U.S. acquiring these Pacific islands from Spain in 1898 The Philippines |
| #3213, aired 1998-07-15 | COUNTRY MUSIC $500: Sexy singing sensation heard here with a recent hit: Shania Twain |
| #3207, aired 1998-07-07 | QUESTION: MARKS $200: His parents were Jane & John Clemens Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) |
| #3201, aired 1998-06-29 | THE OLD WEST $1000: Mark Twain & Julia Bulette both worked the streets of this Nevada town; Mark was a journalist Virginia City |
| #3195, aired 1998-06-19 | READ AMERICAN! $100: By 1877 he had his idea for a story in which Edward VI & a pauper change places Mark Twain |
| #3175, aired 1998-05-22 | A LITTLE BIT COUNTRY $200: It's the country that country stars Anne Murray & Shania Twain came from Canada |
| #3172, aired 1998-05-19 | MEN IN GREY $200: This author & steamboat pilot's Civil War experience was serving about a month in the Missouri militia Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) |
| #3147, aired 1998-04-14 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $100: Samuel Clemens first used this pseudonym on February 3, 1863 in Virginia City's Territorial Enterprise Mark Twain |
| #3132, aired 1998-03-24 | SMILE! $600: As Pudd'nhead Wilson, he wrote, "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been" Mark Twain |
| #3121, aired 1998-03-09 | THE DEVIL YOU SAY $800: In an early version of his "Mysterious Stranger", a young Satan goes by the name Philip Traum Mark Twain |
| #3104, aired 1998-02-12 | LITERARY POTENT POTABLES $400: Pap took this Mark Twain character's last dollar to buy whiskey & was seen drunk the next day Huckleberry Finn |
| #3098, aired 1998-02-04 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $500: This "golden" era following the Civil War took its name from a novel by Mark Twain & Charles Dudley Warner "The Gilded Age" |
| #3091, aired 1998-01-26 | NOTABLE AMERICANS $200: Horace Bixby, who was nicknamed "The Lightning Pilot", taught this famous author how to pilot a riverboat Mark Twain |
| #3080, aired 1998-01-09 | "INN" & "OUT" $500: This 1869 Mark Twain travel narrative is subtitled "The New Pilgrim's Progress" Innocents Abroad |
| #3076, aired 1998-01-05 | DEATH SENTENCES $300: In a June 1897 issue of the New York Journal he quipped, "The report of my death was an exaggeration" Mark Twain |
| #3055, aired 1997-12-05 | LITERATURE $300: Tom Canty, born in a slum called Offal Court, & Edward Tudor are the title characters in this Twain novel The Prince and the Pauper |
| #3054, aired 1997-12-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Mark Twain used the tall tale form in his book about "Life on" this river Mississippi River |
| #3053, aired 1997-12-03 | PRESIDENTS ON THE MOVE $800: His travels included an 1875 trip to Salt Lake City; he later visited Mark Twain to do the book deal Ulysses S. Grant |
| #3043, aired 1997-11-19 | POLITICAL QUOTES $100: "Tom Sawyer" author who said, "There is no distincly Native American criminal class, except Congress" Mark Twain |
| #3017, aired 1997-10-14 | HOMES $200: Fishing & swimming are permitted at Tom Sawyer Lake near this author's Missouri birthplace Mark Twain |
| #3004, aired 1997-09-25 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $600: This Twain hero's feminine disguise fails after he can't remember if his name is Mary or Sarah Huckleberry Finn |
| #2999, aired 1997-09-18 | GOOD IDEAS $400: Remington was a pioneering maker of these in the 1870s; Mark Twain bought one Typewriter |
| #2993, aired 1997-09-10 | CAPITAL QUOTES $200: Mark Twain called this city "That grand old benevolent national asylum for the helpless" Washington, D.C. |
| #2990, aired 1997-09-05 | RUNNING ON "M.T." $400: Author who had Tom cruise on the Mississippi Mark Twain |
| #2978, aired 1997-07-09 | FOLKSY PHILOSOPHY $800: Mark Twain title lawyer whose adages also appear in "Following The Equator" Puddinhead Wilson |
| #2973, aired 1997-07-02 | CIVIL WAR LIT $400: At Mark Twain's urging, this Civil War general wrote his "Personal Memoirs" Ulysses S. Grant |
| #2966, aired 1997-06-23 | AUTHORS $200: He was 4 years old when his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri in 1839 Mark Twain |
| #2956, aired 1997-06-09 | AMERICAN NOVELS $1,400 (Daily Double): In this Twain novel, a New Englander saves himself by predicting a solar eclipse "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court" |
| #2955, aired 1997-06-06 | AUTHORS $800: His travels to Europe aboard the steamship Quaker City were documented in "The Innocents Abroad" Mark Twain |
| #2935, aired 1997-05-09 | AUTHORS $1000: This creator of Tevye the Dairyman is known as the Jewish Mark Twain Sholem Aleichem |
| #2926, aired 1997-04-28 | CLASSIC BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: He wrote "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" as a sequel to "Tom Sawyer" Mark Twain |
| #2925, aired 1997-04-25 | AUTHORS' NICKNAMES $200: "The Pilgrim From Hannibal" Mark Twain |
| #2916, aired 1997-04-14 | FICTIONAL FEMALES $200: One book calls her " a stereotypical nice girl"; we wonder how Mark Twain would have answered that Becky Thatcher |
| #2894, aired 1997-03-13 | WOMEN OF SONG $800: Released in 1995, her "The Woman In Me" is now the all-time best-selling album by a female country artist Shania Twain |
| #2892, aired 1997-03-11 | MUSIC APPRECIATION $1000: This composer of "Ol' Man River" also wrote an orchestral work called "Portrait of Mark Twain" Jerome Kern |
| #2889, aired 1997-03-06 | HISTORIC NAMES $600: On his post-Boer War lecture tour, this future British prime minister was once introduced by Mark Twain Winston Churchill |
| #2869, aired 1997-02-06 | DRAMA $800: His "Ah, Wilderness!" takes place in Connecticut July 4 & 5, 1906 Eugene O'Neill |
| #2846, aired 1997-01-06 | NATIONAL FORESTS $100: Missouri's national forest named for this writer is nowhere near the city of Hannibal Mark Twain |
| #2834, aired 1996-12-19 | THIS 'N' THAT $100: Although born in Florida, Missouri, Mark Twain grew up in this city on the Mississippi River Hannibal |
| #2830, aired 1996-12-13 | AUTHORS $200: This creator of Huck Finn has been called the first major American writer born west of the Mississippi Mark Twain |
| #2782, aired 1996-10-08 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $400: If Mark Twain published a book under an autonym, this name would be on the cover (Samuel Langhorne) Clemens |
| #2775, aired 1996-09-27 | THE 1995 GRAMMYS $300: Canadians won big; Alanis Morissette won Best Rock Album & she won Best Country Album Shania Twain |
| #2758, aired 1996-09-04 | AUTHORS' RHYME TIME $300: Mark's aches Twain's pains |
| #2740, aired 1996-06-28 | AUTHORS $200: In 1859 this "Tom Sawyer" author became a licensed riverboat pilot Mark Twain |
| #2721, aired 1996-06-03 | AUTHORS $200: In his early years, this "Tom Sawyer" author used such pen names as Sergeant Fathom & Josh Mark Twain |
| #2717, aired 1996-05-28 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $300: The Mark Twain Project at the Bancroft Library of this school in Berkeley has 600 Twain manuscripts California |
| #2715, aired 1996-05-24 | POE-POURRI $100: Twain said it's the only animal that blushes; Poe said it's the only animal that diddles humans (man) |
| #2694, aired 1996-04-25 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $100: As a teenager he wrote copy for his brother's newspaper, the Hannibal Journal Mark Twain |
| #2673, aired 1996-03-27 | QUOTATIONS $400: Hemingway wrote, "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called" this "Huckleberry Finn" |
| #2664, aired 1996-03-14 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $400: Life-size statues of Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn grace this Missouri city, Mark Twain's boyhood home Hannibal |
| #2644, aired 1996-02-15 | LAKES & RIVERS $200: When the Civil War closed this river, Mark Twain gave up his career as a steamboat pilot the Misssissippi |
| #2627, aired 1996-01-23 | LITERATURE $200: The hero of this Mark Twain novel calls himself "A Yankee of the Yankees....and nearly barren of sentiment" "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" |
| #2588, aired 1995-11-29 | LITERATURE $200: In an 1883 work he called the basin of the Mississippi River "the body of the nation" Mark Twain |
| #2552, aired 1995-10-10 | BANKRUPT $100: Mark Twain went bankrupt investing in a typesetting machine instead of this man's new phone company (Alexander Graham) Bell |
| #2544, aired 1995-09-28 | BIOGRAPHIES $200: He wrote "The Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc" 14 years after "The Prince and the Pauper" Mark Twain |
| #2535, aired 1995-09-15 | TWAIN $100: Twain claimed it was easy to give up this habit, saying "I've done it a thousand times" smoking |
| #2535, aired 1995-09-15 | TWAIN $200: The grave of Laura H. Frazer, Twain's childhood friend, also bears the name of this character she inspired Becky Thatcher |
| #2535, aired 1995-09-15 | TWAIN $300: As a teenager Twain, like Ben Franklin, was apprenticed to one of these printer |
| #2535, aired 1995-09-15 | TWAIN $400: Mark Twain's grave is in Elmira in this state New York |
| #2535, aired 1995-09-15 | TWAIN $500: Twain was on the staff of this Nevada town's Territorial Enterprise Virginia City |
| #2518, aired 1995-07-12 | AUTHORS $200: He based Tom Sawyer's half-brother Sid on his own younger brother Henry Mark Twain |
| #2508, aired 1995-06-28 | QUOTATIONS $800: Mark Twain called this sport "a good walk spoiled" golf |
| #2506, aired 1995-06-26 | LITERARY CRITICISM $200: Mark Twain said this author of "The Deerslayer" "wrote about the poorest English that exists in our language" (James Fenimore) Cooper |
| #2499, aired 1995-06-15 | AUTHORS $1000: This author of "The Luck of Roaring Camp" wrote the play "Ah Sin" in collaboration with Mark Twain Bret Harte |
| #2497, aired 1995-06-13 | QUOTATIONS $600: Referring to the game of whist, he said, "When in doubt, win the trick" Edmond Hoyle |
| #2487, aired 1995-05-30 | HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS $600: In 1907 this American author of "Roughing It" received an honorary degree from Oxford Mark Twain |
| #2476, aired 1995-05-15 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $200: The first typewritten book manuscript was his "Adventures of Tom Sawyer" Mark Twain |
| #2470, aired 1995-05-05 | LITERATURE $200: In an 1884 novel by Mark Twain, this title character helps the runaway slave Jim escape Huck Finn |
| #2433, aired 1995-03-15 | CONFEDERATES $400: This author of "Tom Sawyer" served for less than a month in the Confederate Marion Rangers Mark Twain |
| #2425, aired 1995-03-03 | QUOTES ABOUT AUTHORS $1000: According to Mark Twain, this author of "The Luck of Roaring Camp" "hadn't a sincere fiber in him" Bret Harte |
| #2410, aired 1995-02-10 | THE CIVIL WAR YEARS $500: In 1861 the war ended his career as a steamboat pilot; he adopted his famous pseudonym 2 years later Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |
| #2398, aired 1995-01-25 | FRONTIER LIFE $800: By 1876 this Nevada town had more than 23,000 people & 150 saloons; Mark Twain had already left Virginia City |
| #2375, aired 1994-12-23 | THE HOLY LAND $300: His letters from the Holy Lands to a California newspaper form part of "Innocents Abroad" Mark Twain |
| #2366, aired 1994-12-12 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $200: The "Becky Thatcher House" in this Missouri city was the home of Laura Hawkins, a friend of Mark Twain Hannibal |
| #2359, aired 1994-12-01 | ODDS & ENDS $600: Mark Twain once said these facial features "should merely indicate where smiles have been" wrinkles |
| #2333, aired 1994-10-26 | MARK TWAIN $200: Dan'l Webster is the name of this "celebrated" animal of Calaveras County (jumping) frog |
| #2333, aired 1994-10-26 | MARK TWAIN $400: Title character who says, "Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave..." Huckleberry Finn |
| #2333, aired 1994-10-26 | MARK TWAIN $600: This novel contains the line "I am an American. I was born and reared in Hartford" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #2333, aired 1994-10-26 | MARK TWAIN $800: Chapters in this novel include "Tom's Early Life", "to London" & "Coronation Day" The Prince and the Pauper |
| #2333, aired 1994-10-26 | MARK TWAIN $1,200 (Daily Double): This eccentric attorney from Dawson's Landing, Mo. successfully defends Italian twins accused of murder Pudd'nhead Wilson |
| #2305, aired 1994-09-16 | FAMOUS SOUTHPAWS $500: Hannibal lecturer Mark Twain |
| #2282, aired 1994-07-05 | LITERATURE $200: His Atlantic Monthly articles "Old Times on the Mississippi" later became part of "Life on the Mississippi" Mark Twain |
| #2269, aired 1994-06-16 | 1894 $100: He published "Tom Sawyer Abroad" & declared bankruptcy Mark Twain |
| #2252, aired 1994-05-24 | EPCOT CENTER $300: Audio-animatronic figures of Ben Franklin & this author from Missouri narrate the American Adventure Show Mark Twain |
| #2229, aired 1994-04-21 | QUOTES ABOUT AUTHORS $1000: William Dean Howells called this Missouri-born humorist "The Lincoln of Literature" Mark Twain |
| #2209, aired 1994-03-24 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the nickname of lawyer David Wilson in a Mark Twain novel Pudd'nhead Wilson |
| #2200, aired 1994-03-11 | ACTORS PLAYING AUTHORS $1000: John Carradine played this author of "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" in a 1944 film about Mark Twain Bret Harte |
| #2198, aired 1994-03-09 | PRINTERS $100: A printer's apprentice at age 12, this Huck Finn author later owned a publishing house Mark Twain |
| #2192, aired 1994-03-01 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $300: "Evening Shade" co-star whose portrayal of Mark Twain was inspired partly by his own grandfather Hal Holbrook |
| #2190, aired 1994-02-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In "A Tramp Abroad", this author describes a walking tour through the Alps & the Black Forest Mark Twain |
| #2160, aired 1994-01-14 | NONFICTION $400: In a 1952 book Dixon Wecter detailed this author's early years in Hannibal Mark Twain |
| #2133, aired 1993-12-08 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $200: This Mark Twain character fakes his own death & escapes to Jackson's Island, where he meets Jim, a slave Huckleberry Finn |
| #2111, aired 1993-11-08 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Characters in this Mark Twain novel include "The Dauphin", the Widow Douglas & Jim, a runaway slave Huck Finn |
| #2106, aired 1993-11-01 | FAMOUS HOMES $200: Pilaster House in Hannibal, Missouri Mark Twain |
| #2104, aired 1993-10-28 | MUSEUMS $1000: This former Nevada boomtown has 2 museums devoted to Mark Twain, who was a newspaper reporter there Virginia City |
| #2098, aired 1993-10-20 | FRUITS & VEGETABLES $300: Mark Twain called this white vegetable "cabbage with a college education" cauliflower |
| #2093, aired 1993-10-13 | DISNEYLAND $400: Tourists used to fish for catfish off the docks of this island named for a Mark Twain character Tom Sawyer's island |
| #2084, aired 1993-09-30 | NOTABLE NAMES $600: He left Lake Wobegon to broadcast "A Visit to Mark Twain's House" live from Hartford, Connecticut Garrison Keillor |
| #2082, aired 1993-09-28 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: This Mark Twain novel concludes by saying that while Tom Canty lived to be very old, Edward VI did not The Prince and the Pauper |
| #2080, aired 1993-09-24 | NOVELS $400: The narrator of this Mark Twain novel mistakes Camelot for Bridgeport, Connecticut A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #2079, aired 1993-09-23 | MEMOIRS $200: "Life on the Mississippi" Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) |
| #2060, aired 1993-07-16 | "H" ON THE MAP $100: The Unsinkable Molly Brown lived in this Missouri city, where she met a famous resident, Mark Twain Hannibal |
| #2024, aired 1993-05-27 | QUOTES $100: Mark Twain said, "Everyone is" one of these heavenly bodies "and has a dark side which he never shows" a moon |
| #2014, aired 1993-05-13 | FIRST LADIES $400: Harry Truman said it was love at first sight when he spotted Bess at Sunday school in this Missouri town Independence, Missouri |
| #2013, aired 1993-05-12 | MISCHIEF MAKERS $800: The first book published by Mark Twain's company was this sequel to "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| #2012, aired 1993-05-11 | AUTHORS $100: In the late 1850s Horace Bixby, a riverboat pilot, taught him the skills of the trade Mark Twain |
| #1987, aired 1993-04-06 | ANNUAL EVENTS $500: This city's Mark Twain Historic District is the site of the Mississippi River Art Festival in May Hannibal (Missouri) |
| #1983, aired 1993-03-31 | LITERATURE $400: In an 1896 sequel, this Mark Twain title character turned "Detective" Tom Sawyer |
| #1968, aired 1993-03-10 | AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS $200: He said the boy he based Huck Finn on grew up to become a justice of the peace in Montana Mark Twain |
| #1961, aired 1993-03-01 | BIOGRAPHIES $100: In 1931 Clara Clemens published a memoir of this author, her father Mark Twain |
| #1954, aired 1993-02-18 | DISNEYLAND $300: The 1st paddle-wheeler built in half a century is the steamboat Mark Twain, found in this "land" Frontierland |
| #1952, aired 1993-02-16 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: He dedicated "The Prince and the Pauper" to his daughters Susie & Clara Mark Twain |
| #1946, aired 1993-02-08 | MARK TWAIN QUOTES $200: Character who said, "You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft" Huck Finn |
| #1946, aired 1993-02-08 | MARK TWAIN QUOTES $400: This "consists of whatever a body is obliged to do...play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do" work |
| #1946, aired 1993-02-08 | MARK TWAIN QUOTES $600: "There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and" this when he can |
| #1946, aired 1993-02-08 | MARK TWAIN QUOTES $800: "When in doubt tell" this the truth |
| #1946, aired 1993-02-08 | MARK TWAIN QUOTES $1000: "There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them, than to" do this "with them" travel with them |
| #1940, aired 1993-01-29 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $200: From 1859 to 1861 he served as a licensed riverboat pilot on the Mississippi Mark Twain |
| #1923, aired 1993-01-06 | MOVIE NOSTALGIA $500: The Mauch Twins played the title lookalikes in a 1937 film based on this Mark Twain novel The Prince and the Pauper |
| #1907, aired 1992-12-15 | QUOTES $1000: Mark Twain defined a classic as "A book which people praise and don't" do this read |
| #1893, aired 1992-11-25 | LITERATURE $200: Chapter 1 of this Mark Twain book is entitled "Camelot" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #1875, aired 1992-10-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $300: An article that he wrote about his riverboat days was eventually expanded into "Life on the Mississippi" Mark Twain |
| #1864, aired 1992-10-15 | LITERATURE $200: His "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" was inspired by Sir Thomas Malory's "Morte d'Arthur" Mark Twain |
| #1786, aired 1992-05-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Huck Finn is first mentioned in this, Mark Twain's memoir of his riverboat days Life on the Mississippi |
| #1783, aired 1992-05-06 | MARK TWAIN $100: He said, "One of the most striking differences between a cat & a lie is that a cat has only" this many lives nine |
| #1783, aired 1992-05-06 | MARK TWAIN $200: In "Tom Sawyer", the town of St. Petersburg was modeled on this one in Missouri Hannibal |
| #1783, aired 1992-05-06 | MARK TWAIN $300: By April 1859 he had become a licensed one of these a riverboat pilot |
| #1783, aired 1992-05-06 | MARK TWAIN $500: He first used his pen name on the Territorial Enterprise, a newspaper in this Nevada city Virginia City |
| #1783, aired 1992-05-06 | MARK TWAIN $2,000 (Daily Double): This Twain novel is set in 16th century England The Prince and the Pauper |
| #1771, aired 1992-04-20 | HORSING AROUND $300: Mark Twain said we shouldn't all think alike because "it is difference of opinion that makes" these horse races |
| #1752, aired 1992-03-24 | AUTHORS $1,500 (Daily Double): Mark Twain said "In the early days I liked" this creator of Poker Flat, "but by and by I got over it" Bret Harte |
| #1733, aired 1992-02-26 | LITERATURE $1,300 (Daily Double): Edward Tudor & Tom Canty are the title characters in this Mark Twain work The Prince and the Pauper |
| #1691, aired 1991-12-30 | AUTHORS $200: In 1848 this future author was apprenticed as a printer at his brother's Hannibal Journal Mark Twain |
| #1686, aired 1991-12-23 | FRUITS & VEGETABLES $100: Mark Twain wrote of this huge melon, "When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat" a watermelon |
| #1664, aired 1991-11-21 | SHORT STORIES $1000: Mark Twain wrote about a town full of hypocrites in "The Man that Corrupted" this place Hadleyburg |
| #1659, aired 1991-11-14 | FORESTS $1000: A national forest in Missouri's Ozarks is named for this 19th century writer Mark Twain |
| #1639, aired 1991-10-17 | WORD ORIGINS $100: Mark Twain should have known the name of this fruit may be an alternation of “hurtleberry” huckleberry |
| #1636, aired 1991-10-14 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $800: Mark Twain title describing "The Boss", foreman of a Hartford arms factory a Connecticut Yankee |
| #1627, aired 1991-10-01 | AMERICAN NOVELS $1000: His 1873 novel "The Gilded Age", was co-written by fellow Hartford, Conn. writer Charles Dudley Warner Mark Twain |
| #1615, aired 1991-09-13 | MARK TWAIN $100: Twain said, "I believe that our Heavenly Father invented" this "because he was disappointed in the monkey" man |
| #1615, aired 1991-09-13 | MARK TWAIN $200: This friend of Tom Sawyer is based on Twain's "ignorant, unwashed" friend Tom Blankenship Huck Finn |
| #1615, aired 1991-09-13 | MARK TWAIN $300: According to Twain, "The art" of frying chicken "cannot be learned north of" this line the Mason-Dixon line |
| #1615, aired 1991-09-13 | MARK TWAIN $400: Twain's mother was the inspiration for this character in "Tom Sawyer" Aunt Polly |
| #1615, aired 1991-09-13 | MARK TWAIN $500: Twain claimed he knew this author's books better than his own & read "Kim" every year (Rudyard) Kipling |
| #1605, aired 1991-07-19 | AWARDS $200: This actor won a 1966 Tony for his one-man show, "Mark Twain Tonight!" Hal Holbrook |
| #1599, aired 1991-07-11 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $600: In a Mark Twain novel, it's the nickname of lawyer David Wilson Pudd'nhead |
| #1595, aired 1991-07-05 | THE 1850s $500 (Daily Double): This man wrote that he was "worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose" John Brown |
| #1588, aired 1991-06-26 | FAMOUS NAMES $400: The only one of the Three Bs of classical music who was composing while Mark Twain was writing Brahms |
| #1586, aired 1991-06-24 | HISTORY $400: It looks as if Hawaii's Kamehameha I, like Mark Twain, came in with this astral event Halley's Comet |
| #1569, aired 1991-05-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: This Mark Twain novel starts a few days before the death of Henry VIII The Prince and the Pauper |
| #1567, aired 1991-05-28 | ANNUAL EVENTS $200: Frog jumping & fence painting are highlights of an annual festival, held in this Missouri city Hannibal |
| #1562, aired 1991-05-21 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: The Mark Twain novel that feature Merlin & Morgan le Fay A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #1546, aired 1991-04-29 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $800: The people of Camelot called this Mark Twain title character "The Boss" A Connecticut Yankee |
| #1544, aired 1991-04-25 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1,700 (Daily Double): A walking tour through the Black Forest provided material for his book "A Tramp Abroad" Mark Twain |
| #1524, aired 1991-03-28 | LITERARY SETTINGS $400: In Twain's novel, the prince and the pauper are born in this city on the same day London |
| #1519, aired 1991-03-21 | "C" FOOD $300: Mark Twain called it "cabbage with a college education" cauliflower |
| #1495, aired 1991-02-15 | TOM & HUCK $100: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in 1885 was the 1st book issued by this man's publishing co. Mark Twain |
| #1485, aired 1991-02-01 | CONNECTICUT $800: You can visit the house in which Mark Twain lived from 1874 to 1891 in this city Hartford |
| #1477, aired 1991-01-22 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $200: Mark Twain called him "the juvenile pariah of the village, son of the town drunkard" Huckleberry Finn |
| #1474, aired 1991-01-17 | QUOTES $400: Mark Twain said this "Parsifal" composer's music "is better than it sounds" Richard Wagner |
| #1449, aired 1990-12-13 | PLAYING THE "HARP" $300: Mark Twain & Booth Tarkington regularly contributed to this monthly Harper's (Harper's Magazine) |
| #1431, aired 1990-11-19 | 8-LETTER STATES $300: Mark Twain's birthplace & the Pony Express Museum are in this state Missouri |
| #1414, aired 1990-10-25 | FAMOUS HOMES $400: Pilaster House in Hannibal, Missouri Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |
| #1403, aired 1990-10-10 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $200: In this M. Twain novel, Tom Canty & the future Edward VI trade places for a while The Prince and the Pauper |
| #1371, aired 1990-07-16 | PSYCH 101 $400: Psychologists don't know why we do it; Mark Twain said man is the only animal that does or needs to blushing |
| #1341, aired 1990-06-04 | THE BIBLE $200: When he died the veil of the temple was rent in twain, the earth quaked & graves opened Jesus |
| #1324, aired 1990-05-10 | LITERARY RELATIVES $800: Mark Twain's grandniece Jean Webster wrote this 1912 novel about an orphan, not a "paternal spider" "Daddy-Long-Legs" |
| #1303, aired 1990-04-11 | MARK TWAIN $100: In "Pudd'nhead Wilson", Twain said a classic is "a book which people praise & don't" do this read |
| #1303, aired 1990-04-11 | MARK TWAIN $200: In 1894 Twain took this title character "Abroad" & 2 years later he became a "Detective" Tom Sawyer |
| #1303, aired 1990-04-11 | MARK TWAIN $300: He worked as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi until traffic was curtailed due to this outbreak of the Civil War |
| #1303, aired 1990-04-11 | MARK TWAIN $400: Samuel Clemens 1st used the name Mark Twain in 1863 while writing for this Nevada town's newspaper Virginia City |
| #1303, aired 1990-04-11 | MARK TWAIN $500: When 1st published, this book of Twain's travels to Europe was sold mainly by door-to-door salesman The Innocents Abroad |
| #1291, aired 1990-03-26 | LITERARY QUOTES $1,000 (Daily Double): "Always do right." he wrote; "This will gratify some people and astonish the rest" Mark Twain |
| #1228, aired 1989-12-27 | PRESIDENTIAL BOOKS $200: His "Personal Memoirs", including his account of the Civil War, were published in 1885 by Mark Twain U.S. Grant |
| #1225, aired 1989-12-22 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $200: Huck Finn appears in Chapter 3 of his autobiographical "Life on the Mississippi" Mark Twain |
| #1192, aired 1989-11-07 | MUSEUMS $500: This Nevada ghost town boasts the Mark Twain Museum of Memories & the Bucket of Blood Saloon Virginia City |
| #1186, aired 1989-10-30 | BRIDGES $200: Yes indeed, Hannibal, Mo. does have a memorial bridge named for this 19th century citizen Mark Twain |
| #1182, aired 1989-10-24 | LITERATURE $200: Mark Twain story about look-alikes Edward Tudor & Tom Canty The Prince and the Pauper |
| #1168, aired 1989-10-04 | MARK TWAIN QUOTES $200: According to Twain this breeds children as well as contempt familiarity |
| #1168, aired 1989-10-04 | MARK TWAIN QUOTES $400: "I'll risk $40 he can outjump any" one of these "in Calaveras County" a frog |
| #1168, aired 1989-10-04 | MARK TWAIN QUOTES $600: In an 1897 cable from London to the Associated Press, Twain said, "The reports of my death are" this "greatly exaggerated" |
| #1168, aired 1989-10-04 | MARK TWAIN QUOTES $800: "The wise man saith, 'Put all your eggs in the one basket and...' " make sure you do this "watch that basket" |
| #1168, aired 1989-10-04 | MARK TWAIN QUOTES $1000: In "Life on the Mississippi" a man told of his home equipped with "all the modern" ones of these inconveniences |
| #1138, aired 1989-07-12 | QUOTES $1000: The man who wrote, "Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to." Mark Twain |
| #1117, aired 1989-06-13 | POET-POURRI $600: He wrote, "Oh, east is east, & west is west, & never the twain shall meet" Rudyard Kipling |
| #1098, aired 1989-05-17 | SHORT STORIES $200: Some of his stories featured the McWilliamses, a family just as eccentric as Tom Sawyer's Mark Twain |
| #1084, aired 1989-04-27 | QUOTES $600: Mark Twain called this sport "a good walk spoiled" golf |
| #1081, aired 1989-04-24 | AMERICAN WRITERS $600: The work of this Yiddish writer was often compared to that of Mark Twain Sholem Aleichem |
| #1073, aired 1989-04-12 | MIDDLE NAMES $200: Mark Twain's middle name before he became Mark Twain Langhorne |
| #1068, aired 1989-04-05 | ANIMAL TRIVIA $300: Animal featured in the title of Mark Twain's 1st collection of stories frog |
| #1063, aired 1989-03-29 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $200: Disgusted with novels of his time, this "Deerslayer" author took up writing to show he could do better James Fenimore Cooper |
| #1041, aired 1989-02-27 | LITERATURE $600: Mark Twain wrote "The New Pilgrim's Progress", but he wrote the original John Bunyan |
| #1040, aired 1989-02-24 | ALL NUMBERS $1000: "Mark Twain" is a riverman's expression for water this many fathoms deep 2 |
| #1035, aired 1989-02-17 | FICTION $800: New England state mentioned in the title of a Mark Twain novel, he also lived there Connecticut |
| #1016, aired 1989-01-23 | POLITICAL QUOTES $300: Charles Dudley Warner, who once wrote a book with Mark Twain, said "Politics makes" these strange bedfellows |
| #1014, aired 1989-01-19 | LITERATURE $600: This Mark Twain character was filled with quail-shot "pretty near up to his chin" so he couldn't jump The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County |
| #1008, aired 1989-01-11 | ALLITERATIVE NAMES $500 (Daily Double): Actor heard here, in the 1-man show he's been performing since the '50s:
"I came in, in 1835 with Halley's Comet. It's coming again pretty soon..." Hal Holbrook (as Mark Twain) |
| #1005, aired 1989-01-06 | GARDENING $100: As Mark Twain could probably tell you, this berry, also called the tangleberry, has 10 hard seeds huckleberry |
| #992, aired 1988-12-20 | NOVELS $300: The hero of this Twain novel gets hit over the head with a crowbar in the U.S. & wakes up near Camelot A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #981, aired 1988-12-05 | 1ST NOVELS $1000: "The Gilded Age", which he co-wrote with Charles Dudley Warner Mark Twain |
| #967, aired 1988-11-15 | SHORT STORIES $500: Twain wrote of a stranger who brought a mysterious sack to this town in order to corrupt it--and succeeded Hadleyburg |
| #960, aired 1988-11-04 | QUOTES $400: Mark Twain said, "Adam...did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was" this forbidden fruit |
| #936, aired 1988-10-03 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $200: This Mark Twain character resisted the Widow Douglas' attempts to "sivilize" him Huck Finn |
| #931, aired 1988-09-26 | AUTHORS $200: Mark Twain said this man "scored 114 offenses against literary art" on just 1 page of "The Deerslayer" (James Fenimore) Cooper |
| #931, aired 1988-09-26 | AUTHORS $500: He was the most famous resident of Oxford, Mississippi (William) Faulkner |
| #925, aired 1988-09-16 | AUTHORS $800: Mark Twain's last home, Stormfield, named for one of his last characters, was in this state Connecticut |
| #906, aired 1988-07-11 | "PEN" PALS $200: Saki,
Mark Twain &
O. Henry,
for example pen names |
| #882, aired 1988-06-07 | AUTHORS $200: Appropriately, his sister-in-law built him a study that was inspired by a riverboat's pilothouse Mark Twain |
| #874, aired 1988-05-26 | POETRY $600: Thomas Hardy's "The Convergence of the Twain" commemorates this disaster of April 14-15, 1912 sinking of the Titanic |
| #869, aired 1988-05-19 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $200: Hemingway claimed all modern American literature comes from this book by Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn |
| #851, aired 1988-04-25 | UNREAL ESTATE $600: Mark Twain wrote a story about "The Man That Corrupted" this incorruptible city Hadleyburg |
| #842, aired 1988-04-12 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $200: Mark Twain based her on Laura Hawkins, who lived across the street from him in Hannibal Becky Thatcher |
| #816, aired 1988-03-07 | LITERARY TRIVIA $800 (Daily Double): Twain tale w/the line "Thou hast the same hair, the same eyes, the same voice & manner...that I bear" The Prince and the Pauper |
| #805, aired 1988-02-19 | AUTHORS $1000: Part of this autobiographical Mark Twain book was expanded & became a chapter in "Huck Finn" Life on the Mississippi |
| #784, aired 1988-01-21 | ACTORS & ROLES $100: Hal Holbrook 1st played this author in a 2-man show with his wife for a hospital suicide ward Mark Twain |
| #770, aired 1988-01-01 | LITERATURE $400: "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc" was, oddly, this Missourian's favorite of his own works Mark Twain |
| #747, aired 1987-12-01 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $2,000 (Daily Double): Mark Twain based this title character on his pal Tom Blankenship, son of the town drunkard Huckleberry Finn |
| #735, aired 1987-11-13 | TWAIN $200: Twain said "the art" of frying this fowl "cannot be learned north of the line of Mason & Dixon" chicken |
| #735, aired 1987-11-13 | TWAIN $400: Character who refers to "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" in the 1st line of his book Huckleberry Finn |
| #735, aired 1987-11-13 | TWAIN $600: On their 1st "date" Twain took his future wife to a reading given by this English author in 1867 Charles Dickens |
| #735, aired 1987-11-13 | TWAIN $800: His actual middle name Langhorne |
| #735, aired 1987-11-13 | TWAIN $1000: According to the title, it's what Twain was "Following" in his last travel book the equator |
| #717, aired 1987-10-20 | MARK TWAIN $200: Century in which Mark Twain died 20th century |
| #717, aired 1987-10-20 | MARK TWAIN $400: Color of the suit that, late in Mark Twain's life, became his trademark white |
| #717, aired 1987-10-20 | MARK TWAIN $600: "Dan'l Webster" was the name of this "Celebrated" title figure "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" |
| #717, aired 1987-10-20 | MARK TWAIN $800: After being hit by a crowbar, a man from Hartford woke up near this castle site King Arthur's Court |
| #717, aired 1987-10-20 | MARK TWAIN $1000: In his comic criticism of this author's works, Twain calls "Chingachgook" "Chicago" James Fenimore Cooper |
| #711, aired 1987-10-12 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Title of this Mark Twain novel refers to the future King Edward VI & Tom Canty The Prince and the Pauper |
| #676, aired 1987-07-13 | LIES $800: In his autobio., Mark Twain says "There are 3 kinds of lies: lies, damned lies &" these numerical ones statistics |
| #665, aired 1987-06-26 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $400: In 1880, he published "A Tramp Abroad", sort of a sequel to "Innocents Abroad" Mark Twain |
| #655, aired 1987-06-12 | PEN NAMES $200: Isaiah Sellers, also a writer & river pilot, 1st used this pen name later used by Samuel Clemens Mark Twain |
| #644, aired 1987-05-28 | COWBOY TALK $200: This 4-letter word can refer to a chunk of tobacco or a broken-down horse a plug |
| #643, aired 1987-05-27 | CONTESTS $100: Author credited with inspiring the "Calaveras County Jumping Frog Jubilee" Mark Twain |
| #636, aired 1987-05-18 | AUTHORS $400: His brother Orion bought the Hannibal Journal in 1851 Mark Twain |
| #618, aired 1987-04-22 | U.S. STATES $400: Mark Twain said he was born in this state because "it was an unknown new state & needed attractions" Missouri |
| #612, aired 1987-04-14 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $1000: New York City's Wave Hill Mansion was home at different times to Mark Twain & this police commissioner Teddy Roosevelt |
| #607, aired 1987-04-07 | NYC AUTHORS $800: Mark Twain, Dylan Thomas & Arthur Miller all lived in this famed hotel named for a London district The Chelsea |
| #591, aired 1987-03-16 | SPORTS QUOTES $300 (Daily Double): Mark Twain said this game "is a walk spoiled" golf |
| #584, aired 1987-03-05 | MOVIE AUTHORS $800: Oscar-winner who played Robert Browning in 1934 & Mark Twain 10 years later Fredric March |
| #566, aired 1987-02-09 | THE CIVIL WAR $200: Mark Twain fought on this side, but "resigned" after 2 weeks the South (Confederacy) |
| #560, aired 1987-01-30 | AUTHORS $800: Of this India-born writer, Mark Twain said, "He knows all that can be known, & I know the rest" (Rudyard) Kipling |
| #553, aired 1987-01-21 | LITERATURE $400: Mark Twain originally called this memoir "Old Times on the Mississippi" Life on the Mississippi |
| #548, aired 1987-01-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $100: He wrote that "persons attempting to find a plot" in "Huck Finn" "will be shot" Mark Twain |
| #541, aired 1987-01-05 | LITERARY CANNIBALS $600: Humorist whose "Cannibalism in the Cars" told of a congressman who chews up his constituents Mark Twain |
| #505, aired 1986-11-14 | DISNEYLAND $100: Appropriately named sternwheeler that circles Tom Sawyer Island Mark Twain |
| #495, aired 1986-10-31 | AUTHORS $400: To "amuse" his mother, he hid in his pockets bats which he'd found in a Hannibal cave Mark Twain |
| #480, aired 1986-10-10 | LITERATURE $200: In Hartford, Conn., Mark Twain lived next to this author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #480, aired 1986-10-10 | LITERATURE $1000: Probably the 19th c.'s largest single royalty check went to this president's widow in 1886 for his "Memoirs" Ulysses S. Grant |
| #471, aired 1986-09-29 | MODERN OPERA $200: "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Lukas Foss is based on his short story Mark Twain |
| #462, aired 1986-09-16 | ACTORS & ROLES $400: Since he started doing it in 1954, Hal Holbrook has done this over 1200 times on stage portray Mark Twain |
| #448, aired 1986-05-28 | LITERATURE $100: In the 2nd sequel, Mark Twain wrote about him as a detective Tom Sawyer |
| #392, aired 1986-03-11 | BOOK TRIVIA $1000: Ulysses S. Grant was encouraged to write autobiography by this author, who also published it Mark Twain |
| #391, aired 1986-03-10 | DETECTIVE FICTION $100: In his 2nd sequel, Mark Twain wrote about him as a detective Tom Sawyer |
| #387, aired 1986-03-04 | PIPES $200: It's said this Missouri-born author hired a man to break in his corncob pipes Mark Twain |
| #375, aired 1986-02-14 | TRIVIA $300: He said, "I came in with Halley's comet in 1835 & I expect to go out with it" Mark Twain |
| #363, aired 1986-01-29 | QUOTES $400: American humorist who advised, "Put all your eggs in one basket and -- watch that basket" Mark Twain |
| #349, aired 1986-01-09 | BEASTLY QUOTES $500: Twain opined, "I believe...our heavenly father invented man because he was disappointed in" this monkey |
| #312, aired 1985-11-19 | WILD WEST $400: A reporter for the Virginia City, Nev. Territorial Enterprise first used this byline Feb. 2, 1863 Mark Twain |
| #308, aired 1985-11-13 | ROCKS & MINERALS $400: Mark Twain defined it as a hole in the groud with a liar standing at the top mine |
| #273, aired 1985-09-25 | MISSOURI $300: Statues of Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn grace this river town where Mark Twain grew up Hannibal |
| #180, aired 1985-05-17 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $600: Mark Twain's foreman from Bridgeport, played on screen by Will Rogers & Bing Crosby Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #161, aired 1985-04-22 | LITERATURE $200: "Tom!" is opening line & entire 1st paragraph of this Mark Twain novel Tom Sawyer |
| #134, aired 1985-03-14 | AUTHORS $400: This Missouri native wrote, "Never let schooling interfere with your education" Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) |
| #123, aired 1985-02-27 | AUTHORS $800: Contemporary of Mark Twain who wrote "The Luck of Roaring Camp" Bret Harte |
| #108, aired 1985-02-06 | FAMOUS QUOTES $200: According to Kipling, if "east is east & west is west," when the "twain shall meet" never |
| #22, aired 1984-10-09 | MARK TWAIN $200: His celebrated jumper from Calaveras County a frog |
| #22, aired 1984-10-09 | MARK TWAIN $400: The name Twain's mother gave him Samuel (Langhorne) Clemens |
| #22, aired 1984-10-09 | MARK TWAIN $600: Huck Finn said he go to hell before he'd betray this runaway slave Jim |
| #22, aired 1984-10-09 | MARK TWAIN $800: It appeared in the sky the year he was born & the year he died Halley's Comet |
| #7, aired 1984-09-18 | LITERARY QUOTES $400: In cable from Europe he said, "The report of my death was an exaggeration" Mark Twain |
