| #9297, aired 2025-03-25 | POETIC PLACES $1200: The vale of Tawasentha & the shore of Gitche Gumee are settings in the "Song of" him Hiawatha |
| #9220, aired 2024-12-06 | LAKES $400: Longfellow referred to it as Gitche Gumee, but we call it this, meaning "upper" Superior |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | A POETIC GEOGRAPHY LESSON $1200: Longfellow's line "On the shores of Gitche Gumee" from "The Song of Hiawatha" refers to this Great Lake Lake Superior |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | A POETIC CATEGORY $800: "The Song of" him includes the lines "by the shores of Gitche Gumee, by the shining big-sea-water" Hiawatha |
| #7119, aired 2015-07-23 | LITERARY SETTINGS $1200: Hiawatha pitches his wigwam "by the shore of" this alliterative body of water the Gitche Gumee |
| #6362, aired 2012-04-24 | LONGFELLOW $1200: Hiawatha caught a monster sturgeon named Mishe-Nahma while canoeing on a lake that Longfellow called this Gitche Gumee |
| #6002, aired 2010-10-19 | A PLACE TO CALL HOME $1600: In "The Song of Hiawatha", one of these Indian dwellings stood "by the shores of Gitche Gumee" a wigwam |
| #5706, aired 2009-06-01 | ABBREVIATED LINES OF POETRY $1600: "By the shores of Gitche Gumee,"
B.T.S.B-S-W by the shining big-sea-water |
| #5166, aired 2007-02-12 | NAME THAT POET $600: "By the shores of Gitche Gumee, by the shining big-sea-water, stood the Wigwam of Nokomis" (Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow |
| #4741, aired 2005-03-28 | LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "G" $1200: Nokomis lived "by the shores of" it
(6, 5) Gitche Gumee |
| #4194, aired 2002-11-21 | POETS & POETRY $200: This hero went "forth upon the Gitche Gumee... with his fishing-line of cedar" to catch a sturgeon Hiawatha |
| #4119, aired 2002-06-27 | THE SHINING $800: Famous poem that contains the lines "By the shores of Gitche Gumee, by the shining Big-Sea-Water" "(The Song of) Hiawatha" |
| #3829, aired 2001-04-05 | NAME THE POET $400: "By the shores of Gitche Gumee, by the shining big-sea-water" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ("Song of Hiawatha") |
| #3415, aired 1999-06-11 | POETS & POETRY $100: Much of this Longfellow poem takes place "by the shores of Gitche Gumee, by the shining big-sea-water" "Hiawatha" |
| #2198, aired 1994-03-09 | POETRY $200: In a Longfellow poem, Nokomis, the old woman, stands on its shore pointing westward Lake Gitche Gumee |
| #1945, aired 1993-02-05 | POETRY $400: The 9th sect. of this Longfellow poem begins, "On the shores of Gitche Gumee, of the shining Big-Sea-Water" Hiawatha |
| #1338, aired 1990-05-30 | POETRY $600: "By the shores of Gitche Gumee, by the shining big-sea-water, stood the wigwam of" this person Nokomis |
| #1210, aired 1989-12-01 | WATERFALLS $1000: Longfellow's poem "The Song of Hiawatha" made this waterfall in Minneapolis famous Minnehaha Falls |
| #1122, aired 1989-06-20 | NAME THAT POET $200: "By the shores of Gitche Gumee, by the shining big-sea-water, stood the wigwam of Nokomis" Longfellow |
| #788, aired 1988-01-27 | MICHIGAN $400: You can see a huge statue of him in Ironwood, Mich, not by the shores of Gitche Gumee Hiawatha |
| #522, aired 1986-12-09 | THE GREAT LAKES $200: It's Hiawatha's "Gitche Gumee", "shining big sea water", & big it is Lake Superior |
| #137, aired 1985-03-19 | CHILDREN'S CLASSICS $400: Longfellow hero who lives "on the shores of Gitche Gumee" Hiawatha |
| #19, aired 1984-10-04 | TRIVIA $500: Where Longfellow's arrow fell to earth I know not where |
