| #9161, aired 2024-09-16 | EXITS & ENTRANCES $2000: Reported last words of this Pulitzer-winning playwright in 1953, "I knew it"; born in a hotel room & died in a hotel room Eugene O'Neill |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | HOMES $1600: Monte Cristo Cottage was the boyhood home of Eugene O'Neill, who set this "long" play there Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | PLAY: THE GAME $800: Advance to Harry Hope's bar; lose turn waiting for Hickey; play your pipe dream card; chill at bar after Hickey is arrested The Iceman Cometh (by Eugene O'Neill) |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THEATER BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Stella & Stanley forego the magnolias & head on over to Eugene O'Neill's play for some "arboreal" passion A Streetcar Named Desire Under the Elms |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | THE PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS ARE THE THING $800: He played the extremely long game with "Mourning Becomes Electra", a trilogy of plays with a total of 13 acts Eugene O'Neill |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | THE ARTS $1,000 (Daily Double): The title of this play by Eugene O'Neill refers in part to a pair of trees that surrounds the Cabot farmhouse Desire Under the Elms |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | FAITH, HOPE & CHARITY $1600: The ironically named Harry Hope runs the saloon full of deluded losers in this play by Eugene O'Neill The Iceman Cometh |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | THEATER $2000: His "Long Day's Journey into Night" didn't debut on Broadway until 3 years after his death Eugene O'Neill |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | THE ARTS $1600: Eugene O'Neill described this 4-act family drama as "old sorrow written in tears & blood" Long Day's Journey into Night |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | REDUPLICATIVES $400: This kids' slang meaning extremely simple is in the 1940 movie "The Long Voyage Home", based on Eugene O'Neill's plays easy-peasy |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | THE PLAY'S THE THING $800: James Earl Jones & Jason Robards have both played Hickey in this chilly play by Eugene O'Neill The Iceman Cometh |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | FEELING LITERARY $800: Eugene O'Neill drew up Greek tragedy:
"____ Under the Elms" Desire |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | 21st CENTURY TONY WINNERS $2000: Jessica Lange added to her trophy case, winning a Tony in 2016 for this "Long" Eugene O'Neill play Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: In the title of a Eugene O'Neill play, it precedes "Wilderness!" Ah |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | THEATER TIME $1200: His "Long Day's Journey into Night" begins on a morning in August 1912 Eugene O'Neill |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | CLASSIC AMERICAN PLAYS $1600: In 1933 his play "Ah, Wilderness!" opened in New York with George M. Cohan as one of the leads (Eugene) O'Neill |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | THEATRE $8,615 (Daily Double): Act 1 of this autobiographical Eugene O'Neill drama begins at 8:30 a.m.; Act 4 begins at midnight Long Day's Journey into Night |
| #7952, aired 2019-03-19 | THE BOOK TITLE TITLE $1000: Eugene O'Neill's play "The ____ Jones" emperor |
| #7950, aired 2019-03-15 | THE IRISH-AMERICAN HALL OF FAME $2,000 (Daily Double): The 2011 inaugural class included Maureen O'Hara & this 4-time Pulitzer-winning 20th century playwright Eugene O'Neill |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | EUGENE $600: He's seen here around the time he became only the 2nd American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature Eugene O'Neill |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | MUSICAL & PLAY SETTINGS $2000: A back room & bar of Harry Hope's saloon is the setting for this Eugene O'Neill play The Iceman Cometh |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | THE ARTS $2000: Denzel Washington "arrived" on Broadway as Hickey in a 2018 revival of this drama by Eugene O'Neill The Iceman Cometh |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | O'BOY $400: A story from ancient Greece was the basis for Eugene O'Neill's trilogy "Mourning Becomes" her Electra |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | X-MEN MARK THE LITERARY SPOT $400: "The ____ Cometh" by Eugene O'Neill Iceman |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | HAVE A GREAT ONE! $800: This "Long" Eugene O'Neill play that premiered in 1956 ranks among the greatest plays of the past 100 years Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| #7570, aired 2017-07-07 | THEATER $1000: In a Eugene O'Neill play, Paddy says, "Sure, 'twas as if she'd seen a great hairy" one of these "escaped from the zoo" an ape |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | WRITERS ON FILM $1000: In "Reds" Jack Nicholson hit the boards as this American playwright Eugene O'Neill |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | Q PEOPLE $800: In 1956 director Jose Quintero staged the first Broadway production of this "Long" Eugene O'Neill play Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| #7415, aired 2016-12-02 | REQUIRED READING $1000: Though the play did not hit Broadway until 1946, "The Iceman Cometh" by him first cameth in 1939 (Eugene) O'Neill |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | LAZARUS $2000: "Lazarus Laughed", a 1928 play by this Pulitzer winner, was preceded by his similar "The Great God Brown" Eugene O'Neill |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | ON BROADWAY $2000: "Long" after playwright Eugene O'Neill's death, this tale of family dysfunction returned to Broadway in 2016 Long Day's Journey into Night |
| #7281, aired 2016-04-18 | THEATRICAL QUOTES $1200: In "Anna Christie", Eugene O'Neill wrote, "Gimme" one of these, "ginger ale on the side, & don't be stingy, baby" a whiskey |
| #7045, aired 2015-04-10 | LITERARY LANDMARKS $1000: You can rent Casa Genotta, the Sea Island, Georgia home of this "Ah, Wilderness!" playwright (Eugene) O'Neill |
| #6863, aired 2014-06-18 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS $2000: This dramatist won 3 Pulitzers in the 1920s for "Beyond the Horizon", "Anna Christie" & "Strange Interlude" Eugene O'Neill |
| #6798, aired 2014-03-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS $2000: At the time of his death, Charlie Chaplin was married to this playwright's daughter, Oona (Eugene) O'Neill |
| #6749, aired 2014-01-09 | FUNNY TV $800: On "SCTV" his characters included Tip O'Neill & Stan Shmenge John Candy |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | NOBEL LIT WINNERS $800: 1936:
A U.S. playwright Eugene O'Neill |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | BIRTH, SCHOOL, WORK, DEATH $500 (Daily Double): A hotel room in 1888,
a year at Princeton,
some "Electra"-fying playwriting,
a hotel room in 1953 Eugene O'Neill |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | 20th CENTURY PLAYWRIGHTS $400: In 1959 NYC's Coronet Theatre was renamed to honor this "Iceman Cometh" dramatist Eugene O'Neill |
| #6563, aired 2013-03-13 | PLAYWRIGHTS $1,300 (Daily Double): Before his first success with "Come Blow Your Horn", he wrote TV comedy for "Your Show of Shows" & "The Phil Silvers Show" Neil Simon |
| #6558, aired 2013-03-06 | QUOTES FILLED WITH BOOZE $2,000 (Daily Double): The title character of this Eugene O'Neill play says, "Gimme a whiskey--ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby" Anna Christie |
| #6518, aired 2013-01-09 | IN-LAWS $2000: Charlie Chaplin's last father-in-law was this dramatist Eugene O'Neill |
| #6344, aired 2012-03-29 | CULTURE CLUB $2000: "The Hunted", 5 acts long, is but the second part of this man's trilogy "Mourning Becomes Electra" Eugene O'Neill |
| #6305, aired 2012-02-03 | "G"EOGRAPHY $800: In this area of Lower Manhattan, independent spirits like Eugene O'Neill & Margaret Sanger found a "Voice" Greenwich Village |
| #6135, aired 2011-04-22 | FATHERS-IN-LAW $1000: Daniel Day-Lewis' was this dramatist Arthur Miller |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | THE BROWNS $2000: This American playwright's 1926 work "The Great God Brown" was significant for its symbolic use of masks Eugene O'Neill |
| #6115, aired 2011-03-25 | JACK NICHOLSON'S OSCAR-NOMINATED ROLES $2000: Playwright Eugene O'Neill
(1981) Reds |
| #6049, aired 2010-12-23 | GET "L"IT $2000: No curtain call for playwright Eugene O'Neill when this domestic drama premiered in 1956; he was 3 years dead Long Day's Journey into Night |
| #6003, aired 2010-10-20 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA $400: It was a short interlude between his wins for "Anna Christie" (1922) & "Strange Interlude" (1928) (Eugene) O'Neill |
| #5941, aired 2010-06-14 | JONES-ING $2000: This play by Eugene O'Neill is based loosely on an event in Haitian history The Emperor Jones |
| #5893, aired 2010-04-07 | DRAWN-OUT DRAMAS $800: Britannica says, "among his most-celebrated long plays is 'Anna Christie"' Eugene O'Neill |
| #5831, aired 2010-01-11 | WORD PLAY $400: Eugene O'Neill asked that this piece not be produced until after his death Long Day's Journey into Night |
| #5803, aired 2009-12-02 | ALCOHOLICS UNANIMOUS $1,000 (Daily Double): This alcoholic playwright created the bitter alcoholic Jamie Tyrone & a "long day" for his cursed family Eugene O'Neill |
| #5753, aired 2009-09-23 | PLAY ADJECTIVES $600: Eugene O'Neill's "The ____ Ape" Hairy |
| #5664, aired 2009-04-02 | THE PLAY'S THE THING $1000: A seedy NYC hotel-saloon & the pipe dreams of its inhabitants are elements of this "cool" 1946 Eugene O'Neill play The Iceman Cometh |
| #5623, aired 2009-02-04 | EUGENE O'NEILL $400: In the 1910s O'Neill lived in this region of lower Manhattan where many an artist has found his "voice" Greenwich Village |
| #5623, aired 2009-02-04 | EUGENE O'NEILL $800: O'Neill was furious when this 18-year-old daughter of his married 54-year-old Charlie Chaplin Oona O'Neill |
| #5623, aired 2009-02-04 | EUGENE O'NEILL $1200: In 1929 O'Neill's play "Strange" this was banned in Boston, so it played in nearby Quincy instead Strange Interlude |
| #5623, aired 2009-02-04 | EUGENE O'NEILL $1,400 (Daily Double): This epic O'Neill work is based partly on the "Oresteia" of Aeschylus Mourning Becomes Electra |
| #5623, aired 2009-02-04 | EUGENE O'NEILL $1600: As a young man O'Neill was fast friends with this reporter & Communist Labor Party co-founder John Reed |
| #5601, aired 2009-01-05 | "EL"-WAY $1200: A Eugene O'Neill play finds "Desire Under" these the Elms |
| #5548, aired 2008-10-22 | COMPLETES THE PLAY TITLE $2000: Eugene O'Neill:
"Ah, ____!" Wilderness |
| #5485, aired 2008-06-13 | "I" AYE $2000: Eugene O'Neill wrote about a "Strange" one Interlude |
| #5445, aired 2008-04-18 | "EGO" MANIAC $2000: Completes the title of the Eugene O'Neill play "A Moon for the..." Misbegotten |
| #5373, aired 2008-01-09 | PLAYWRIGHTS $400: His father, James O'Neill, was a 19th century actor whose famous role was the Count of Monte Cristo Eugene O'Neill |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | NAME THE PLAYWRIGHT $1600: "A Moon for the Misbegotten",
"The Iceman Cometh" Eugene O'Neill |
| #5288, aired 2007-09-12 | AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $600: You might desire the rings & garters worn by this "Desire Under the Elms" author; they're in the Yale library Eugene O'Neill |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | AMERICAN PLAYS $800: Kevin Spacey starred in a 2006 British revival of this playwright's "A Moon for the Misbegotten" Eugene O'Neill |
| #5106, aired 2006-11-20 | ALL MY CHILDREN $1000: This playwright's daughter Oona married Charlie Chaplin when he was 54 & she was only 18! Eugene O'Neill |
| #5023, aired 2006-06-14 | ROYAL LITERATURE $1600: 1920: By Eugene O'Neill The Emperor Jones |
| #5016, aired 2006-06-05 | HOLD ME CLOSER, TONY DANZA $1200: Tony's role of Rocky in this man's "The Iceman Cometh" in 1999 won him some Broadway raves Eugene O'Neill |
| #5013, aired 2006-05-31 | COMPLETES THE PLAY TITLE $400: Eugene O'Neill's
"Strange..." Interlude |
| #4995, aired 2006-05-05 | O' $4,000 (Daily Double): Britannica says that in his time, after Shaw & Shakespeare, this dramatist was the most translated & produced (Eugene) O'Neill |
| #4963, aired 2006-03-22 | A LITERARY TOUR $1200: Tourist cometh to Tao House, the California home where he wrote "The Iceman Cometh" Eugene O'Neill |
| #4949, aired 2006-03-02 | BEYOND $1600: This American playwright won 4 Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, including one for 1920's "Beyond the Horizon" Eugene O'Neill |
| #4915, aired 2006-01-13 | DRAMATISTS $800: His trilogy, "Mourning Becomes Electra" is based on Aeschylus' "Oresteia" Eugene O'Neill |
| #4901, aired 2005-12-26 | MOVIE STAR BY ROLES $2,000 (Daily Double): Melvin Udall,
Jimmy Hoffa,
Eugene O'Neill Jack Nicholson |
| #4791, aired 2005-06-06 | POLLY "ANNA"s $1200: Eugene O'Neill's title belle (certainly not a "church-belle") Anna Christie |
| #4781, aired 2005-05-23 | THE SMART SET $1,000 (Daily Double): This ex-sailor published 3 early sea plays in the magazine, including "The Long Voyage Home" Eugene O'Neill |
| #4727, aired 2005-03-08 | AUTHOR BIOS $600: Born in a hotel in 1888, took a "Long Day's Journney into Night" in a hotel in 1953 Eugene O'Neill |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF HERBERT HOOVER $400: In 1928 Hoover won 444-87 in the Electoral College over Al Smith & his "Strange Interlude" opened in New York (Eugene) O'Neill |
| #4590, aired 2004-07-16 | AMERICAN WRITERS $400: His ability to imitate the family doctor earned this playwright the nickname "Doc" Neil Simon |
| #4521, aired 2004-04-12 | COMPLETES THE PLAY TITLE $400: Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey..." into Night |
| #4464, aired 2004-01-22 | WRITERS ON CAPE COD $800: This 4-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright launched his career with the Provincetown Players Eugene O'Neill |
| #4455, aired 2004-01-09 | 10-LETTER "W"ORDS $2000: Eugene O'Neill's only comedy was "Ah", this Wilderness |
| #4433, aired 2003-12-10 | PLAYWRIGHT $1600: He won a 1920 Pulitzer Prize for the tragedy "Beyond the Horizon" Eugene O'Neill |
| #4353, aired 2003-07-02 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $2,000 (Daily Double): In a Eugene O'Neill play, this former Pullman porter & ex-convict imposes himself as an emperor on a West Indian island Brutus Jones (The Emperor Jones) |
| #4329, aired 2003-05-29 | SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW THEATRE... $800: A waterfront dive known as Jimmy-the-Priest's inspired the setting of his play "The Iceman Cometh" Eugene O'Neill |
| #4257, aired 2003-02-18 | NATIONAL THINGS $2000: This playwright's theater on NYC's W. 49th Street isn't a historic site, but his home in Danville, California is Eugene O'Neill |
| #4224, aired 2003-01-02 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $800: Stanley Kowalski yells, "Stel-lahhh!" on Ephraim Cabot's farm in this collaboration by Tennessee Williams & Eugene O'Neill A Streetcar Named Desire Under the Elms |
| #4185, aired 2002-11-08 | AUTHORS' PRIVATE LIVES $800: "As Ever, Gene" is a collection of this playwright's letters to his pal, critic George Jean Nathan Eugene O'Neill |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | THEATRE $3,000 (Daily Double): "Homecoming", "The Hunted" & "The Haunted" are the 3 parts of this Eugene O'Neill work based on Greek tragedy Mourning Becomes Electra |
| #4172, aired 2002-10-22 | THEATRE $400: Jessica Lange went to London in 2000 to play the drug-addicted mom in his play "Long Day's Journey Into Night" Eugene O'Neill |
| #4129, aired 2002-07-11 | "I" $1000: Eugene O'Neill wrote about a "Strange" one an interlude |
| #4047, aired 2002-03-19 | CHAIN LETTERS $2000: In the title of Eugene O'Neill's only comedy, it precedes "Wilderness!" Ah |
| #4000, aired 2002-01-11 | DRAMA & DRAMATISTS $400: In this 1924 Eugene O'Neill tragedy, Eben Cabot "desires" his stepmother Abbie Desire Under the Elms |
| #3979, aired 2001-12-13 | AMERICAN DRAMATISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): His only comedy among his many plays was 1933's "Ah, Wilderness!" Eugene O'Neill |
| #3835, aired 2001-04-13 | THEATRE $1000: Gabriel Byrne & Cherry Jones co-starred in the 2000 revival of this playwright's "A Moon for the Misbegotten" Eugene O'Neill |
| #3814, aired 2001-03-15 | THE PLAYWRIGHT WRITES $1000: "Gimme a whiskey--ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby" Eugene O'Neill (Anna Christie) |
| #3740, aired 2000-12-01 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $200: After the screenplay for "The Misfits", he wrote "After The Fall" Arthur Miller |
| #3659, aired 2000-06-29 | THEATRE $800: Kevin Spacey made his Broadway debut in 1982 in a revival of this playwright's "Ghosts" Henrik Ibsen |
| #3630, aired 2000-05-19 | GHASTLY OPERATIC DEMISES $800: Brutus Jones shoots himself with a silver bullet in the opera based on this Eugene O'Neill play The Emperor Jones |
| #3547, aired 2000-01-25 | CHARLIE CHAPLIN $800: The last of Chaplin's 4 teenage brides was Oona, this playwright's daughter Eugene O'Neill |
| #3543, aired 2000-01-19 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $100: As a youth, this "Iceman Cometh" dramatist prospected for gold in Honduras Eugene O'Neill |
| #3499, aired 1999-11-18 | BROADWAY STARS $300: Kevin Spacey gave us a Hickey to remember in the brilliant revival of this Eugene O'Neill drama The Iceman Cometh |
| #3389, aired 1999-05-06 | NAME THE PLAYWRIGHT $600: "Long Day's Journey into Night" Eugene O'Neill |
| #3347, aired 1999-03-09 | NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS $100: Fading actresses are the heroines of his novel "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone" & his play "Sweet Bird of Youth" Tennessee Williams |
| #3314, aired 1999-01-21 | ON THE "TOWN" $700 (Daily Double): A theatrical group from this Mass. seaport community helped launch the career of Eugene O'Neill Provincetown |
| #3202, aired 1998-06-30 | SORE-SEAT CINEMA $800: Jack Nicholson played Eugene O'Neill in this 200-minute Warren Beatty epic Reds |
| #3175, aired 1998-05-22 | ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE $600: Several of his plays, including "Long Day's Journey Into Night", had their world premieres in Stockholm Eugene O' Neill |
| #1, aired 1998-05-03 | LITERARY LANDMARKS $600: Tourists cometh to Tao House, the Danville home where he wrote "The Iceman Cometh" Eugene O'Neill |
| #3134, aired 1998-03-26 | READ 'EM & WEEP $1000: This playwright chronicled the troubled Tyrone family in "Long Day's Journey Into Night" Eugene O' Neill |
| #3057, aired 1997-12-09 | UNDERNEATH THE BOUGH $500: In a 1924 Eugene O'Neill play, the Cabot farmhouse sits under the branches of 2 of these trees "(Desire Under the) Elms" |
| #3051, aired 1997-12-01 | ON STAGE $200: "Long Day's Journey Into Night" was the first of his plays produced on Broadway after his death Eugene O'Neill |
| #2985, aired 1997-07-18 | THEATRE $1000: His expressionistic 1922 play "The Hairy Ape" opens in the firemen's forecastle of an ocean liner Eugene O'Neill |
| #2950, aired 1997-05-30 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $100: Ed,
Eugene,
Tip O'Neill |
| #2932, aired 1997-05-06 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1,000 (Daily Double): This American won a 1928 Pulitzer Prize for his very long, 9-act drama "Strange Interlude" Eugene O'Neill |
| #2869, aired 1997-02-06 | DRAMA $800: His "Ah, Wilderness!" takes place in Connecticut July 4 & 5, 1906 Eugene O'Neill |
| #2865, aired 1997-01-31 | THE OSCARS $600: Greta Garbo was nominated for this, her first MGM sound film, based on a Eugene O'Neill play "Anna Christie" |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | PLAYS $800: This Eugene O'Neill trilogy consists of "Homecoming", "The Hunted" & "The Haunted" Mourning Becomes Electra |
| #2819, aired 1996-11-28 | EUGENE O'NEILL $200: O'Neill disowned his daughter Oona before she married this silent screen comedian at age 18 Charlie Chaplin |
| #2819, aired 1996-11-28 | EUGENE O'NEILL $400: In this 1920 play, a black American convict has seized control of a small island & becomes its emperor "The Emperor Jones" |
| #2819, aired 1996-11-28 | EUGENE O'NEILL $500 (Daily Double): This play about the Tyrone family was so painful personally, O'Neill wouldn't allow its release during his life Long Day's Journey into Night |
| #2819, aired 1996-11-28 | EUGENE O'NEILL $600: O'Neill won his second Pulitzer Prize for this work about a prostitute & her Swedish seaman father "Anna Christie" |
| #2819, aired 1996-11-28 | EUGENE O'NEILL $1000: The alcoholics in "The Iceman Cometh" await the arrival of Theodore Hickman, better known as this "Hickey" |
| #2784, aired 1996-10-10 | DRAMA $600: His 1924 play "Desire Under the Elms" wasn't publicly performed in London until 1940; it was banned Eugene O'Neill |
| #2774, aired 1996-09-26 | CELEBRITY ALUMNI $500: This producer who brought us "Melrose Place" won 2 Eugene O'Neill Awards for playwrighting as an SMU student Aaron Spelling |
| #2750, aired 1996-07-12 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $500: You could call Jack Nicholson's role as this playwright in "Reds" a "Strange Interlude" in his career Eugene O'Neill |
| #2731, aired 1996-06-17 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: The subject of his play "The Emperor Jones" was suggested to him by Haitian history Eugene O'Neill |
| #2697, aired 1996-04-30 | DRAMA $800: His play "A Moon for the Misbegotten" opened on Broadway May 2, 1957, 3 1/2 years after his death Eugene O'Neill |
| #2638, aired 1996-02-07 | DRAMA $800: This playwright's "A Moon for the Misbegotten" was based on his alcoholic brother James Eugene O'Neill |
| #2604, aired 1995-12-21 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $200: The Provincetown Players staged the premieres of several of his plays, including "Desire Under the Elms" (Eugene) O'Neill |
| #2565, aired 1995-10-27 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Part of his 1920s play "Strange Interlude" takes place in a small university town in New England Eugene O'Neill |
| #2531, aired 1995-09-11 | OPERA $400: Marvin David Levy's opera "Mourning Becomes Electra" is based on a play by this author Eugene O'Neill |
| #2508, aired 1995-06-28 | MODERN OPERAS $1000: Louis Gruenberg's acclaimed opera "The Emperor Jones" is based on a play by this man Eugene O'Neill |
| #2487, aired 1995-05-30 | THEATRE $200: In 1928 she & her husband Alfred Lunt appeared simultaneously in plays by Eugene O'Neill Lynn Fontanne |
| #2486, aired 1995-05-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: King David's lament for his third son inspired the title of this author's "Absalom, Absalom!" (William) Faulkner |
| #2474, aired 1995-05-11 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: A band is heard playing "John Brown's Body" at the beginning of his play "Mourning Becomes Electra" Eugene O'Neill |
| #2376, aired 1994-12-26 | PLAYS $400: This playwright's "Ah, Wilderness!" concerns Richard Miller & his love for Muriel McComber Eugene O'Neill |
| #2347, aired 1994-11-15 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: This American playwright won the first of his four Pulitzer Prizes for 1920's "Beyond the Horizon" Eugene O'Neill |
| #2298, aired 1994-09-07 | THEATRE $400: A 1927 play by Eugene O'Neill deals with the life of this man after he's resurrected by Jesus Lazarus |
| #2256, aired 1994-05-30 | PLAYS $1000: In a play by this man, Brutus Jones, a former Pullman porter, is emperor of a small island (Eugene) O'Neill |
| #2216, aired 1994-04-04 | PLAYS $400: James Tyrone Jr. appears in his "Long Day's Journey into Night" & "A Moon for the Misbegotten" Eugene O'Neill |
| #2191, aired 1994-02-28 | DRAMA $1000: Jason Robards is noted for his performances in this man's plays, including "Hughie" & "The Iceman Cometh" (Eugene) O'Neill |
| #2135, aired 1993-12-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Tao House, where he wrote "Long Day's Journey into Night", is a National Historic Site in California Eugene O'Neill |
| #2120, aired 1993-11-19 | DRAMA $1000: This lengthy work by Eugene O'Neill is based partly on the Oresteia of Aeschylus Mourning Becomes Electra |
| #2114, aired 1993-11-11 | PLAYWRIGHTS $800: His father, actor James O'Neill, toured for years in the stage version of "The Count of Monte Cristo" Eugene O'Neill |
| #2076, aired 1993-09-20 | WORDS $100: In the title of a Eugene O'Neill play, this 2-letter word precedes "Wilderness" Ah |
| #2074, aired 1993-09-16 | THEATRE $1000: His daughter Rebecca directed a revival of his play "After the Fall" in 1992 Arthur Miller |
| #2053, aired 1993-07-07 | THEATRE $600: In this Eugene O'Neill play, "two enormous" trees "brood oppressively over the" Cabot farmhouse Desire Under the Elms |
| #2038, aired 1993-06-16 | PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES $800: We hope his third wife, actress Carlotta Monterey, never called him a "hairy ape" Eugene O'Neill |
| #1971, aired 1993-03-15 | DRAMA $600: He based the character of James in "A Moon for the Misbegotten" on his own brother James Eugene O'Neill |
| #1887, aired 1992-11-17 | DRAMA $800: The name of this 1933 Eugene O'Neill comedy ends in an exclamation point, & it isn't a musical Ah, Wilderness! |
| #1852, aired 1992-09-29 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $600: He won 3 times in the 1920s for "Beyond the Horizon", "Anna Christie" & "Strange Interlude" (Eugene) O'Neill |
| #1799, aired 1992-05-28 | THEATRE $1000: In 1957 Franchot Tone & Wendy Hiller starred in this playwright's "A Moon for the Misbegotten" Eugene O'Neill |
| #1787, aired 1992-05-12 | DRAMA $1000: Based on Greek tragedy, this Eugene O'Neill drama has 13 acts & takes about 6 hours to perform Mourning Becomes Electra |
| #1751, aired 1992-03-23 | EUGENE O'NEILL $200: When "Strange Interlude" was banned in this city in 1929, it played in nearby Quincy instead Boston |
| #1751, aired 1992-03-23 | EUGENE O'NEILL $400: This actress starred in O'Neill's "A Touch of the Poet" at the NYC theatre named for her Helen Hayes |
| #1751, aired 1992-03-23 | EUGENE O'NEILL $600: The title of "Ah, Wilderness!" was inspired by a line from the "Rubaiyat of" this poet (Omar) Khayyam |
| #1751, aired 1992-03-23 | EUGENE O'NEILL $1000: Brutus Jones runs from his rebellious subjects in this O'Neill play suggested by Haitian history The Emperor Jones |
| #1751, aired 1992-03-23 | EUGENE O'NEILL $2,000 (Daily Double): Actress Geraldine Chaplin's relationship to O'Neill his granddaughter |
| #1697, aired 1992-01-07 | AUTHORS $800: He won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1st full-length play, 1920's "Beyond the Horizon" Eugene O'Neill |
| #1657, aired 1991-11-12 | PLAYWRIGHTS $2,000 (Daily Double): "Bound East For Cardiff", the first of his sea plays, premiered in Provincetown, Massachusetts in 1916 Eugene O'Neill |
| #1602, aired 1991-07-16 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $600: The 1957 musical "New Girl in Town" was based on this playwright's "Anna Christie" Eugene O'Neill |
| #1587, aired 1991-06-25 | PLAYWRIGHTS $600: He acted in "The Count of Monte Cristo" with his father before he started writing plays Eugene O'Neill |
| #1541, aired 1991-04-22 | THEATER $200: In 1933, George M. Cohan appeared in the first play he didn't write, this author's first comedy "Ah, Wilderness!" Eugene O'Neill |
| #1489, aired 1991-02-07 | FAMOUS NAMES $400: Oona O'Neill was disinherited by her father, Eugene, when she married this comic Charlie Chaplin |
| #1437, aired 1990-11-27 | THE '50s $400: His play "A Moon for the Misbegotten" wasn't produced until 1957, over 3 years after his death Eugene O'Neill |
| #1422, aired 1990-11-06 | THEATRE $200: In Eugene O'Neill's play "Marco Millions", he marries a fat, commonplace Venetian Marco Polo |
| #1415, aired 1990-10-26 | THEATRE $400: The leading character in his play "The Hairy Ape" is crushed to death by an ape (Eugene) O'Neill |
| #1372, aired 1990-07-17 | LITERATURE $1000: The title of this Eugene O'Neill play, his only comedy, is taken from the "Rubaiyat" of Omar Khayyam Ah, Wilderness! |
| #3, aired 1990-06-30 | AUTHORS $4,000 (Daily Double): Eugene O'Neill work based on the "Oresteia" by Aeschylus Mourning Becomes Electra |
| #1350, aired 1990-06-15 | AUTHORS $500 (Daily Double): In 1936 he became the first American playwright to win the Nobel Prize for Literature Eugene O'Neill |
| #1303, aired 1990-04-11 | DRAMA $200: Eugene O'Neill wrote about a "Long Day's Journey into" this Night |
| #1299, aired 1990-04-05 | THEATER $400: Vanessa Redgrave starred in a 1989 revival of this playwright's "Orpheus Descending" Tennessee Williams |
| #1218, aired 1989-12-13 | PLAYWRIGHTS $1,500 (Daily Double): He was furious when his 18-year-old daughter Oona married Charlie Chaplin who was 54 Eugene O'Neill |
| #1194, aired 1989-11-09 | DRAMA $200: Completes the title of the Eugene O'Neill play "A Moon for the..." Misbegotten |
| #1176, aired 1989-10-16 | THEATERS $900 (Daily Double): "Chapter Two" opened at the Eugene O'Neill Theater, which, not surprisingly, is owned by this playwright Neil Simon |
| #1133, aired 1989-07-05 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "E" $100: A city in Oregon, or the first names of playwrights O'Neill & Ionesco Eugene |
| #1009, aired 1989-01-12 | LITERARY CLASSICS $600: Eugene O'Neill play about a black ex-con who's manaaged to become ruler of a West Indian island The Emperor Jones |
| #995, aired 1988-12-23 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: According to a Eugene O'Neill play title, this "Becomes Electra" Mourning |
| #957, aired 1988-11-01 | PLAYS $400: He rewrote his 1st full-length play "Battle of Angels" & called it "Orpheus Descending" Tennessee Williams |
| #914, aired 1988-07-21 | DRAMA $400: Eugene O'Neill wrote a modern tragedy about "Desire Under" these the Elms |
| #899, aired 1988-06-30 | THE PLAYWRIGHT IN QUESTION $400: "The Dreamy Kid", "More Stately Mansions", "Strange Interlude" (Eugene) O'Neill |
| #894, aired 1988-06-23 | DRAMA $200: Historic figure who's the title character of Eugene O'Neill's drama "Marco Millions" Marco Polo |
| #836, aired 1988-04-04 | TITLE CHARACTERS $400: Chris Christopherson's daughter Anna is the title character in this Eugene O'Neill drama Anna Christie |
| #792, aired 1988-02-02 | ACTORS OF THE PAST $100: James O'Neill, father of this playwright, was arrested for playing Jesus in a passion play Eugene O'Neill |
| #738, aired 1987-11-18 | THEATRE $1000: Among the last plays he wrote were "A Touch of the Poet" & "Huey" Eugene O'Neill |
| #720, aired 1987-10-23 | DRAMA $1000: The literary hero of Eugene O'Neill was this Swedish playwright who wrote "Miss Julie" Strindberg |
| #614, aired 1987-04-16 | LITERATURE $800: Set in 19th century New England, this Eugene O'Neill play updated the tragedy of Orestes & Elektra Mourning Becomes Elektra |
| #555, aired 1987-01-23 | PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: In his lifetime, his failures included "Days Without End", "Lazarus Laughed", & his first 2 marriages Eugene O'Neill |
| #548, aired 1987-01-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Encyclopedia Americana calls him the "1st great dramatist" in American literature Eugene O'Neill |
| #519, aired 1986-12-04 | PLAYWRIGHTS $400: America's only Nobel-winning playwright, he won 1 of his 4 Pulitzers for "Strange Interlude" Eugene O'Neill |
| #518, aired 1986-12-03 | NON-FICTION $200: "The Kindness of Strangers" covers the life, dreams & desires of this playwright Tennessee Williams |
| #506, aired 1986-11-17 | THEATER $100: Eugene O'Neill's father toured "count"less times in this Dumas romance The Count of Monte Cristo |
| #385, aired 1986-02-28 | NEW YORK CITY $1000: The 1st "Off-Broadway" theater was established by Eugene O'Neill in this section of Lower Manhattan Greenwich Village |
| #382, aired 1986-02-25 | DRAMA $800: His symbolism in "the Great God Brown" involved the use of masks by actors Eugene O'Neill |
| #334, aired 1985-12-19 | CELEBRITY TRIVIA $600: At age 54, Charlie Chaplin married this 18-year-old daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill Oona O'Neill |
| #283, aired 1985-10-09 | THEATER $400: It was Eugene O'Neill's last play produced on Broadway before he wenteth & died The Iceman Cometh |
| #147, aired 1985-04-02 | DRAMA $400: Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude" is divided into 9 of these acts |
| #95, aired 1985-01-18 | DRAMA $600: He wroteth "The Iceman Cometh" Eugene O'Neill |
| #57, aired 1984-11-27 | DRAMA $1000: As he wished, the last play of Eugene O'Neill was produced after his death Long Day's Journey Into Night |
