| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | MICHIGAN $400: Someone told me it's all happening at this 'zoo, birthplace of Edna Ferber & home to Western Michigan University Kalamazoo |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | LITERARY NORTH CAROLINA $1600: Edna Ferber wrote this 1926 bestseller after meeting riverboat performers in Bath, North Carolina Show Boat |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | 1924 $1600: Published in 1924, her novel "So Big" was so big that it would win a Pulitzer Prize the next year Edna Ferber |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | FAMOUS FORGERIES $1600: Lee Israel forged & sold hundreds of letters purportedly from the likes of Edna Ferber & this "Blithe Spirit" author Coward |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Her novels "Show Boat", "Cimarron" & "Giant" were all turned into memorable Hollywood movies Edna Ferber |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Edna Ferber's novel titled this boat, a floating theater, became a musical featuring "Ol' Man River" Show Boat |
| #7982, aired 2019-04-30 | STAGE CRAFT $800: The Cotton Blossom is the title paddle wheeler in this musical based on an Edna Ferber novel Show Boat |
| #7716, aired 2018-03-12 | "SHOW" & "TELL" $800: To ostentatiously display ability, like your knowledge of Edna Ferber's works show off (or showboat) |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1000: A towering tale of the old west, "Cimarron" by this "Show Boat" author was the No. 1 book of 1930 Edna Ferber |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | PHINEAS & FERBER $800: Edna Ferber's 1958 novel "Ice Palace" was so compelling that it helped this attain statehood the next year Alaska |
| #6901, aired 2014-09-22 | YOU'VE GOT CHARACTER! $2000: Characters in this Edna Ferber novel set in the Mississippi include Captain Hawks & Gaylord Ravenal, a handsome gambler Show Boat |
| #6454, aired 2012-10-11 | 1920s BESTSELLERS $1600: In 1926 Edna Ferber "cruised" up the bestseller list with this novel that became a musical Show Boat |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | SAME-NAMED WRITERS $600: Ferber &
St. Vincent Millay Edna |
| #6179, aired 2011-06-23 | "N" THE MIDDLE $600 (Daily Double): In June 1919 a group of writers that included Edna Ferber began lunching together at this New York City hotel the Algonquin |
| #6154, aired 2011-05-19 | BESTSELLERS OF THE 1950s $600: This Edna Ferber novel was a "huge" success when it was published in 1952 Giant |
| #5654, aired 2009-03-19 | WRITERS ON FILM $1000: "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle" included Lili Taylor as this "Show Boat" author Edna Ferber |
| #5521, aired 2008-09-15 | AMERICAN LIT $800: Edna Ferber set most of her novel "Giant" in this giant state Texas |
| #5373, aired 2008-01-09 | PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: Novelist Edna Ferber collaborated with this playwright on 6 plays, including "Dinner at Eight" & "Stage Door" George S. Kaufman |
| #4926, aired 2006-01-30 | WORDS ABOUT WRITING $1600: "Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing", wrote this author of "Show Boat" Edna Ferber |
| #4881, aired 2005-11-28 | TAKE A MICHIGANDER AT THIS $3,000 (Daily Double): We don't know if this novelist was "So Big" at her Aug. 15, 1887 birth, but we do know it was in a zoo: Kalamazoo Edna Ferber |
| #4613, aired 2004-09-29 | LITERATURE $400: Her career as a novelist dawned with "Dawn O'Hara"; "Show Boat" showed up later Edna Ferber |
| #4588, aired 2004-07-14 | LITERATURE IN THE JAZZ AGE $1600: This "huge" 1924 Edna Ferber novel is about a widowed truck farmer & her struggles So Big |
| #4404, aired 2003-10-30 | PICK A NUMBER FROM 1 TO 10 $1600: A play by George Kaufman & Edna Ferber set "Dinner at" this hour 8 |
| #4398, aired 2003-10-22 | THE GIANTS $1200: Jett Rink, a poor ranch hand, becomes an oil millionaire in her novel "Giant" Edna Ferber |
| #4374, aired 2003-09-18 | THE "DOOR"s $1000: This Edna Ferber-George S. Kaufman play tells the story of a group of aspiring actresses living in a boarding house Stage Door |
| #4364, aired 2003-07-17 | NOVELISTS $800: In 1925 she won a really big prize, the Pulitzer Prize, for her novel "So Big" Edna Ferber |
| #4299, aired 2003-04-17 | AUTHORS $2000: This Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist co-wrote the play "Dinner at Eight" with George S. Kaufman Edna Ferber |
| #4287, aired 2003-04-01 | OUT-OF-FASHION BABY NAMES $800: Author Ferber might have known that this 4-letter female name is likely from the same root as a Biblical garden Edna |
| #3930, aired 2001-10-05 | LAST COMPLETE NOVEL $1000: "Ice Palace"
(1958) Edna Ferber |
| #3627, aired 2000-05-16 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $800: This "Giant" novelist tried to burn her first novel, "Dawn O'Hara"; luckily, her mom stopped her Edna Ferber |
| #3423, aired 1999-06-23 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $1000: In a 1920 poetry collection, she wrote, "My candle burns at both ends, it will not last the night" Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| #3020, aired 1997-10-17 | THEY ALMOST STARRED IN... $300: Director George Stevens considered starring Grace Kelly in this 1956 film based on an Edna Ferber novel Giant |
| #3009, aired 1997-10-02 | NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: A "Giant" among American women novelists, she wrote the play "Stage Door" with George S. Kaufman Edna Ferber |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | BEST PICTURES $1000: Based on an Edna Ferber novel, it was the first western to win the award Cimarron |
| #2734, aired 1996-06-20 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $800: This "Giant" novelist wrote a series of stories about traveling petticoat sales lady Emma McChesney Edna Ferber |
| #2721, aired 1996-06-03 | AUTHORS $600: This "Cimarron" author's 1963 autobiography was titled "A Kind of Magic" Edna Ferber |
| #2688, aired 1996-04-17 | LITERARY WOMEN $800: This "Show Boat" author collaborated on the play "Dinner at Eight" with George S. Kaufman (Edna) Ferber |
| #2618, aired 1996-01-10 | NOVEL MUSICALS $1000: Harold Prince told the L.A. Times this play based on an Edna Ferber novel has "the best score ever written" Show Boat |
| #2569, aired 1995-11-02 | BIOGRAPHIES $1,300 (Daily Double): Wilfrid Sheed's biography of this author of "The Women" was published in 1982 Clare Boothe Luce |
| #2520, aired 1995-07-14 | QUOTABLE WOMEN $1000: Her novel "So Big" tells us, "Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it" Edna Ferber |
| #2445, aired 1995-03-31 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1000: In Edna Ferber's "Giant", he's a poor ruffian who becomes an oil baron Jett Rink |
| #2374, aired 1994-12-22 | NOVEL FILMS $800: "Cimarron", the 1st western to win the "Best Picture" Oscar, was based on a novel by this author of "Giant" Edna Ferber |
| #2365, aired 1994-12-09 | U.S. AUTHORS $600: To get the right feel for "Show Boat", she lived & worked on one for a couple of months Edna Ferber |
| #2322, aired 1994-10-11 | THEATRE $1000: This Edna Ferber-George S. Kaufman play tells of a group of aspiring actresses living in a boardinghouse Stage Door |
| #2254, aired 1994-05-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: "Ice Palace", her last novel, was published in 1958, 10 years before her death Edna Ferber |
| #2228, aired 1994-04-20 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $600: Jett Rink, a poor ruffian, becomes an oil baron in this Edna Ferber work Giant |
| #2163, aired 1994-01-19 | LITERATURE $400: Captain Andy Hawks owns the Cotton Blossom Floating Palace Theatre in this Edna Ferber novel Show Boat |
| #2140, aired 1993-12-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: The mother of this "Show Boat" author talked her out of burning her first novel Edna Ferber |
| #2059, aired 1993-07-15 | WRITERS $600: She wrote a series of short stories about a traveling saleswoman several years before "So Big" Edna Ferber |
| #2040, aired 1993-06-18 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $800: Her father was a Hungarian immigrant & this "Show Boat" author was a gal from Kalamazoo Edna Ferber |
| #1949, aired 1993-02-11 | LITERATURE $400: Edna Ferber's last novel, "Ice Palace", has been credited with helping this territory become a state Alaska |
| #1947, aired 1993-02-09 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Magnolia's daughter Kim becomes a Broadway star in this Edna Ferber novel Show Boat |
| #1766, aired 1992-04-13 | NAME THE AUTHOR $1000: "Cimarron" Edna Ferber |
| #1687, aired 1991-12-24 | LITERATURE $1000: He wrote "Stage Door" with Edna Ferber & "You Can't Take It with You" with Moss Hart George S. Kaufman |
| #1647, aired 1991-10-29 | LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Magnolia Hawks runs off with Gaylord Ravenal in this Edna Ferber novel Show Boat |
| #1572, aired 1991-06-04 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: Her 1930 novel "Cimarron" told the story of the 1889 land rush in Oklahoma (Edna) Ferber |
| #1392, aired 1990-09-25 | PLAYWRIGHTS $600: His collaborators included Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber & Moss Hart Kaufman |
| #6, aired 1990-07-21 | THEATRE $2,000 (Daily Double): The 2 writers who collaborated on “Dinner at Eight” & “Stage Door” Kaufman and Edna Ferber |
| #1370, aired 1990-07-13 | AUTHORS $600: Female novelist playwright who wrote the 1941 novel "Saratoga Trunk" Edna Ferber |
| #1314, aired 1990-04-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: She won a Pulitzer Prize for "So Big" but not for "Cimarron" Edna Ferber |
| #1277, aired 1990-03-06 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: This novelist collaborated with Geo. S. Kaufman on such plays as "Dinner at Eight" & "Stage Door" Edna Ferber |
| #1189, aired 1989-11-02 | MODERN NOVELS $800: In Chapter 1 of this Edna Ferber novel, "All Texas was flying to Jett Rink's party" Giant |
| #1158, aired 1989-09-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: This state was the setting for Edna Ferber's novel "Ice Palace" Alaska |
| #1075, aired 1989-04-14 | LITERATURE ON FILM $1,000 (Daily Double): "Stage Door", "Cimarron" & "Giant" were just 3 of her works that made it to the silver screen Edna Ferber |
| #916, aired 1988-09-05 | FICTION $600: She won a Pulitzer Prize for "So Big" decades before her giant success with "Giant" Edna Ferber |
| #886, aired 1988-06-13 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $500: The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 was the setting for her 1930 novel "Cimarron" Edna Ferber |
| #715, aired 1987-10-16 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1000: With Geo. S. Kauffman, this novelist co-wrote the plays "Stage Door" & "Dinner at Eight" Edna Ferber |
| #650, aired 1987-06-05 | NOVEL PLOTS $600: Life on the Mississippi, according to Edna Ferber Show Boat |
| #464, aired 1986-09-18 | BEST SELLERS $100: Edna Ferber's giant best seller of 1952 Giant |
| #272, aired 1985-09-24 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Edna Ferber's novel "Giant" raised a giant uproar from natives of this state Texas |
| #150, aired 1985-04-05 | DRAMA $2,000 (Daily Double): His collaborators in satire included Edna Ferber, Morrie Ryskind & Moss Hart George Kaufman |
| #141, aired 1985-03-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Her "Giant" grew into an epic movie Edna Ferber |
