| #9303, aired 2025-04-02 | BRITISH MONARCHS ON FILM $1600: Nigel Hawthorne's performance was just crazy enough to earn him an Oscar nomination for this biopic The Madness of King George |
| #9169, aired 2024-09-26 | PSYCHOLOGY $2000: In I/O, this & organizational psychology, the Hawthorne studies showed that workers had human needs beyond pay industrial |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | FACE BOOKS $800: Hawthorne's story "The Great Stone Face" refers to a natural landmark that was in the White Mountains of this state New Hampshire |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | LIT TITLES BY THE NUMBERS $1000: Salem, Massachusetts is the setting for this Nathaniel Hawthorne novel inspired by a curse placed on his own family The House of the Seven Gables |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | ESSAYS $800: In 1850 Herman Melville wrote an essay on this author's short stories, including "Young Goodman Brown" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AUTHORS' BIRTHSTONES $200: Born on the 4th of July, 1804 in Salem, Nathaniel Hawthorne had a scarlet birthstone: this one ruby |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | SAN FRANCISCO, NOW & FOREVER $1600: 28 S.F. restaurants have received a total of 39 of these coveted awards, including 3 for chef Corey Lee's Benu on Hawthorne Street Michelin stars |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | HOUSE PARTY $200: This house in Massachusetts is actually on Turner Street, not Pyncheon Street as in the 1851 novel House of the Seven Gables |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1600: The Hawthorne-Longfellow Library is at this private college in Brunswick, Maine Bowdoin |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | A SIGN OF SHAME $3,000 (Daily Double): In this Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, single mom Hester Prynne must wear a red "A" on her dress The Scarlet Letter |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | OLD WORDS $1600: Chaucer's "Miller's Tale" used this word for part of a roof centuries before a Hawthorne novel title did gable |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | AMERICANA $2,000 (Daily Double): Belonging to a cousin, the historic home seen here in Salem, Massachusetts, inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne to write this novel The House of the Seven Gables (The House of Seven Gables accepted) |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | LITERARY DOCTORS $1600: "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" is one of this author's 1837 "Twice-Told Tales" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | CLASSIC LIT $400: Herman Melville dedicated "Moby Dick" to this New Englander who had mentored him Hawthorne |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: This 19th century American's first novel, "Fanshawe", is set at Harley College based on his alma mater, Bowdoin College (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: A personal friend of this president, Nathaniel Hawthorne was appointed U.S. consul at Liverpool in 1853 Franklin Pierce |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | BOOK TITLE MATH $2000: Harrer's Himalayan hiatus times Hawthorne's house parts 49 |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | CHAPTER & VERSE $200: The penultimate chapter in a Nathaniel Hawthorne work is "The Revelation of" this title object the Scarlet Letter |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | LITERATURE $800: The title domicile of this Hawthorne novel is halfway down Pyncheon Street The House of the Seven Gables |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | LETTER PERFECT CINEMA $200: Emma Stone sews one of these letters to her outfit in a 2010 comedy reworking of a Hawthorne tale an "A" |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | AUTHORS' HOMES $1600: In 1842, he & his new bride moved into the old manse in Concord, Massachusetts, hence his "Mosses from an Old Manse" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | HYBRIDS $1600: This goaty creature appears in titles by Hawthorne & Debussy the faun |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | "OO", SORRY $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from SpaceX in Hawthorne, California.) After Falcon Heavy's successful first launch, SpaceX brought back two of these first-stage rockets and stuck a dramatic simultaneous landing booster rockets |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | I WROTE THAT! $600: "'He bears no letter of infamy wrought into his garment, as thou dost"' Hawthorne |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | THOSE ARE MY LITERARY CHARACTERS! $800: Arthur Dimmesdale, (Young) Goodman Brown Hawthorne |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | 21st CENTURY COMPANIES $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue at SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA.) SpaceX was founded in 2002, with the long-term goal of enabling humans to live on this planet Mars |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $1600: His story began in Salem, Mass. in 1804 & ended 60 years later during a trip to New Hampshire with Franklin Pierce Hawthorne |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | IT IS ROCKET SCIENCE $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from SpaceX in Hawthorne, California.) Landing Falcon 9's first stage has been compared to launching a pencil over a skyscraper in a windstorm & catching it on a shoebox; key to the landing are the steerable fins that control yaw, pitch, & this rotation along the nose-to-tail axis roll |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | FICTION $200: "The Custom-House" is an introductory section to this Hawthorne novel The Scarlet Letter |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | THE PARKER HOUSE: A HOTEL IN HISTORY $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Omni Parker House hotel.) Founded in 1855 and meeting on the last Saturday of the month at the Parker House, the Saturday Club included local literary giants like Whittier, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and this American scholar transcendentalist Emerson |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $1000: Hawthorne used "spiracles" to mean airshafts in this novel with another architectural feature in the title The House of Seven Gables |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | THE ELEMENTS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA.) The Falcon 9 is 230 feet tall & weighs 1.2 million pounds, so its retractable landing legs have to be immensely strong; they're made of carbon fiber surrounding a honeycomb of this light but strong metal, atomic number 13 aluminum |
| #7897, aired 2019-01-01 | TEXT ALERTS $800: Of this Hawthorne heroine, it is said, "Not a stitch in that embroidered letter, but she has felt in her heart" (Hester) Prynne |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $400: "Hester at Her Needle" is a chapter in this Hawthorne novel The Scarlet Letter |
| #7831, aired 2018-10-01 | "T.T." $2000: I'll say it again, these Hawthorne "Tales" were published in 1837 Twice-Told Tales |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | SpaceX $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from SpaceX in Hawthorne, California.) In 2015, SpaceX achieved a historic first, when it brought Falcon 9's first stage back from space and landed it safely at this Florida location Cape Canaveral |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | YOUR SIGNIFICANT AUTHOR $400: It was a "red letter" day for this author in 1846 as he became surveyor of the custom house in Salem, Mass. Hawthorne |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | SpaceX $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from SpaceX in Hawthorne, California.) SpaceX plans to send two private passengers on a flight around the moon, the first manned venture into lunar orbit since this final 1972 Apollo mission Apollo 17 |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | SpaceX $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from SpaceX in Hawthorne, California.) SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket has the thrust of 18 747 jumbo jets & delivers nearly 141,000 pounds of payload into orbit, second only to this legendary NASA rocket that boosted the Apollo missions into space the Saturn V |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | SpaceX $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from SpaceX in Hawthorne, California.) Instead of a conventional test payload, Falcon Heavy's first launch carried a Tesla roadster, piloted by a mannequin named this, the title of a David Bowie song about an extraterrestrial who's waiting in the sky Starman |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | PIN THE TALE ON THE 19th CENTURY WRITER $800: His 1835 "Young Goodman Brown" shows a dark side of New England Hawthorne |
| #7765, aired 2018-05-18 | THE SCHOOL YEAR $400: In 1825 this author graduated from Maine's Bowdoin College, where he gambled, partied & didn't get scarlet As (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | HERE'S THE CUSTOMS MAN $1200: Nathaniel Hawthorne did not excel at the job, briefly working at customhouses in Boston & this hometown Salem |
| #7576, aired 2017-07-17 | SCHOOLS ON SCREENS $1,000 (Daily Double): Chevy Chase was Pierce Hawthorne & you were not at Greendale, this type of college that gave the show its title community |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | FOREVER "YOUNG" $2000: In a Nathaniel Hawthorne tale, this title Puritan flees a witches' Sabbath Young Goodman Brown |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | LITERARY CHARACTER MASHUP $2,000 (Daily Double): Hepzibah Chillingworth Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | LIT-POURRI $800: He worked at the Custom House in Salem in the 1840s; "The Custom House" is an essay at the start of one of his novels (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | BIG SCREEN LITERARY ADAPTATIONS $400: "Easy A" reimagined this Hawthorne tale in a modern high school The Scarlet Letter |
| #7464, aired 2017-02-09 | MAN VS. BEAST $1,000 (Daily Double): In a Hawthorne story, a witch makes one of these to protect her corn, then brings him to life a scarecrow |
| #7456, aired 2017-01-30 | YES, MR. MOVIE PRESIDENT $600: Nigel Hawthorne's Martin Van Buren challenged a lower court's ruling in favor of Africans aboard this 1997 title ship Amistad |
| #7413, aired 2016-11-30 | SHORT STORIES $1600: Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Celestial Railroad" is an allegory based on this John Bunyan work Pilgrim's Progress |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | FRIENDS $1600: Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote a campaign biography of this college pal, later the 14th U.S. president Franklin Pierce |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | AUTHORS' SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS $1200: First published in 1837, this New Englander's "Twice-Told Tales" Hawthorne |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | LITERARY GROUPS $1600: The Concord Group included Hawthorne, Thoreau & this "American Scholar" author Emerson |
| #7217, aired 2016-01-19 | LITERATURE $600: Her poem "I heard a Fly buzz--when I died" was suggested by a chapter in a Hawthorne novel Emily Dickinson |
| #7169, aired 2015-11-12 | LITERARY STRUCTURE $1000: Greed & arrogant pride are building blocks of the Pyncheon family in this 1851 Nathaniel Hawthorne work House of the Seven Gables |
| #7157, aired 2015-10-27 | TIMELY LIT $400: The story of a scandal-disgraced minister, "A Month of Sundays" by John Updike is a takeoff on this Hawthorne work The Scarlet Letter |
| #7109, aired 2015-07-09 | THE LIFE OF A NOVELIST $600: He was appointed surveyor of Salem's custom house in 1846; he lost the gig 3 years later, but things worked out Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #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 |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS $800: This 19th century author was not only related to one of the judges but some of the accused witches as well Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | AMERICAN LIT $1600: Hawthorne based this novel about a cursed home in Salem on an old family legend The House of the Seven Gables |
| #6943, aired 2014-11-19 | ENTERTAINMENT $1000: This summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra is named for an estate that was named for a Hawthorne book Tanglewood |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | STATE LICENSE PLATES $1000: This granite formation immortalized in a Hawthorne short story dominates New Hampshire's plates the Old Man of the Mountain |
| #6903, aired 2014-09-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1830 he had 5 tales & sketches published in the Salem Gazette (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | A LITERARY "B" $600: This utopian farm in West Roxbury, Mass. counted among its members Nathaniel Hawthorne Brook Farm |
| #6748, aired 2014-01-08 | MAINE STAYS $1200: This future president left N.H. for Bowdoin College, where he was friends with Nathaniel Hawthorne Franklin Pierce |
| #6711, aired 2013-11-18 | SHORT STORIES $800: Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" of this village leaves his wife, Faith, to a attend a witches' Sabbath Salem |
| #6614, aired 2013-05-23 | BOOKS BY THE NUMBER $800: Nathaniel Hawthorne:
"The House of the ____ Gables" Seven |
| #6571, aired 2013-03-25 | PHI BETA KAPPA $2000: 1842: at Bowdoin, a novelist from Salem, Massachusetts Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #6544, aired 2013-02-14 | PIN THE TALE ON THE WRITER $2000: "Young Goodman Brown"
(1835) Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Hester Prynne is forced to wear the title symbol in this Hawthorne classic The Scarlet Letter |
| #6486, aired 2012-11-26 | THE BOOK OF NUMBERS $800: Hawthorne's home where it's a rough time for the Pyncheons The House of the Seven Gables |
| #6465, aired 2012-10-26 | THANKS FOR THE TITLE, SHAKESPEARE $1200: This collection of Hawthorne "Tales" probably got its title from a line in "King John": "Life is as tedious as" these Twice-Told Tales |
| #6343, aired 2012-03-28 | COLORFUL BOOKS $400: Chapter 1 of this Hawthorne tome is "The Prison Door" The Scarlet Letter |
| #6340, aired 2012-03-23 | AUTHORS WITH MASS. APPEAL $800: Born July 4, 1804 in Salem, he added a w to his last name when he began publishing (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #6305, aired 2012-02-03 | THE WRITER'S COLLEGE $2000: Nathaniel Hawthorne:
This oldest Maine college Bowdoin |
| #6288, aired 2012-01-11 | CELEBRITIES' MIDDLE NAMES $600: Author Hawthorne would approve of this middle name of Ralph Fiennes Nathaniel |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $1600: Chapter 1 of this Hawthorne novel is titled "The Old Pyncheon Family" The House of the Seven Gables |
| #6134, aired 2011-04-21 | LIVRES EN FRANCAIS $1600: Nathaniel Hawthorne: "La Maison Aux Sept Pignons" The House of the Seven Gables |
| #6057, aired 2011-01-04 | FABLES & FOLKLORE $400: In a Hawthorne tale, old Mother Rigby animates Feathertop, one of these straw dummies used on farms a scarecrow |
| #6050, aired 2010-12-24 | NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE $400: Nathaniel is best known for this 1850 novel, a scandalous tale of adultery & repentance The Scarlet Letter |
| #6050, aired 2010-12-24 | NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE $800: Nathaniel added this letter to his last name when he went pro as a writer W |
| #6050, aired 2010-12-24 | NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE $1200: When his friend Franklin Pierce became president, Hawthorne was made a diplomat to this "fab" British city Liverpool |
| #6050, aired 2010-12-24 | NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE $1600: Pallbearers at Nathaniel's funeral in 1864 included Oliver Wendell Holmes & this 3-named "Nature" author Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| #6050, aired 2010-12-24 | NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE $2000: The short story "The Marble" this takes place in Italy with 3 American students involved in a grisly murder Faun |
| #5948, aired 2010-06-23 | LITERARY TALES $1000: Hawthorne:
"____-____ Tales" Twice-Told |
| #5943, aired 2010-06-16 | ARE YOU WELL RED? $400: "The Custom-House" is an introductory section to this Hawthorne classic The Scarlet Letter |
| #5936, aired 2010-06-07 | LITERARY DEDICATIONS $600 (Daily Double): Herman Melville dedicated "Moby Dick" to this fellow author & mentor Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #5905, aired 2010-04-23 | FACTS ABOUT AUTHORS $400: Born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1804, one of his ancestors was a judge at the Salem Witchcraft Trials in 1692 (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #5895, aired 2010-04-09 | LITERARY MATH $2000: Pynchon's "Crying of Lot" divided by Hawthorne's "House of... Gables" 7 |
| #5852, aired 2010-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Old Stony Phiz in "The Great Stone Face" by this author of "Twice-Told Tales" is said to be based on Daniel Webster Hawthorne |
| #5847, aired 2010-02-02 | TV TIME $200: It's the profession at the center of "Mercy" and "HawthoRNe" nursing |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | "B" FORE "N" AFTER $800: Maine college that was Nat Hawthorne's alma mater Bowdoin |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: Shortly after "The House of the Seven Gables", he wrote a book of classical myths, "A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys" Hawthorne |
| #5733, aired 2009-07-08 | 3 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR $2000: Roger Chillingworth,
Ethan Brand,
Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #5666, aired 2009-04-06 | AMERICAN LIT $800: This author introduced Natty Bumppo in "The Pioneers" James Fenimore Cooper |
| #5649, aired 2009-03-12 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1600: Nathaniel Hawthorne died while traveling with this N.H.-born U.S. president, his close friend (Franklin) Pierce |
| #5618, aired 2009-01-28 | DON'T SAY MOBY DICK $600: Herman Melville's good buddy Nat Hawthorne published this novel about a creepy old mansion The House of the Seven Gables |
| #5583, aired 2008-12-10 | STORIED HOTELS $800: A bustling hotel is the settingfor Chapter XVII of this Salem native's 1852 novel "The Blithedale Romance" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #5571, aired 2008-11-24 | KINGS OF THE BIG SCREEN $1600: 1994:
Nigel Hawthorne George III |
| #5568, aired 2008-11-19 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $200: Emerson was a pallbearer for this "Scarlet Letter" author Hawthorne |
| #5535, aired 2008-10-03 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $1200: Herman Melville wrote that this "is a sweet flower; may it flourish in every hedge" the Hawthorne |
| #5526, aired 2008-09-22 | AMERICAN LIT $400: Perhaps his first collection of stories, "Twice-Told Tales", was printed in scarlet letters? Hawthorne |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | POTPOURRI $600: This dilapidated Hawthorne mansion is home to Pyncheon relatives Hepzibah, Phoebe & Clifford, & a lodger the House of the Seven Gables |
| #5391, aired 2008-02-04 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $1200: "T.H.O.T.S.G."
by Nathaniel Hawthorne The House Of The Seven Gables |
| #5347, aired 2007-12-04 | HOME, SWEET HOME $2,000 (Daily Double): Ralph Waldo Emerson owned a Concord home nicknamed this; Hawthorne rented it & wrote some "Mosses from" it the Old Manse |
| #5282, aired 2007-07-24 | LITERATURE $800: 19th c. author known for writing about a "venerable mansion" with "seven acutely peaked gables" (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #5259, aired 2007-06-21 | TOUGH LIT $1600: Hawthorne's "The Marble" this was inspired by a Praxiteles sculpture Faun |
| #5194, aired 2007-03-22 | MUSICAL LIT $2000: In this Hawthorne tale, Alice Pyncheon's ghost is said to play the harpsichord The House of the Seven Gables |
| #5187, aired 2007-03-13 | HISTORIC AMERICA $800: July 4 is a red-letter day at this author's birthplace in Salem, Mass.; that's the day he was born in 1804 Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1000: Farmer Jabez Stone sells his soul in his classic story "The Devil and Daniel Webster" Stephen Vincent Benét |
| #5172, aired 2007-02-20 | AUTHORS' RHYME TIME $600: The termites & ants in Nathanael's home West's pests |
| #5110, aired 2006-11-24 | DEDICATED TO… $200: Melville inscribed this tome to Nathaniel Hawthorne "in token of… admiration for his genius" Moby-Dick |
| #5083, aired 2006-10-18 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): Ancestors of this elusive modern author protested after Hawthorne used their name in "The House of the Seven Gables" Thomas Pynchon |
| #5073, aired 2006-10-04 | LITERARY CLASSICS $1600: In a Nathaniel Hawthorne tale, Thomas Maule built a house in Salem with 7 of these gables |
| #5049, aired 2006-07-20 | BOOK SEQUELS? $200: Arthur Dimmesdale returns (difficult, as he died in the first book) in this 19th c. author's "The Chartreuse Number" Hawthorne |
| #5032, aired 2006-06-27 | LITERARY THEATRE $800: A homeless woman known as Hester La Negrita is the heroine of "In the Blood", inspired by this Hawthorne novel The Scarlet Letter |
| #5016, aired 2006-06-05 | CALL ME IRVING $400: America's first literary lion, this "History of New York" author mentored Hawthorne & Poe Washington Irving |
| #4998, aired 2006-05-10 | SHORT FICTION $1200: Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" lives in this village, where he attends a witches' sabbath Salem |
| #4925, aired 2006-01-27 | SHORT STORIES $2000: In Hawthorne's "The Great Stone Face", Ernest had an uncanny resemblance to this N.H. formation the Old Man of the Mountain |
| #4918, aired 2006-01-18 | LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "G" $400: Hawthorne's "House" had seven
(6) gables |
| #4878, aired 2005-11-23 | SOLD! $600: Hawthorne burned the manuscript, but a set of proofs of this work was auctioned in 2004 for $545,000 The Scarlet Letter |
| #4873, aired 2005-11-16 | QUICK MOBY-DICK $800: Salem, Massachusetts author to whom the 1851 novel is dedicated Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #4756, aired 2005-04-18 | FILL IN THE TITLE $800: Nathaniel Hawthorne:
"The Blithedale _____" Romance |
| #4713, aired 2005-02-16 | YOU GOT MY LITERARY NUMBER $400: Chapter 9 of this 1851 Hawthorne novel is titled "Clifford and Phoebe" The House of the Seven Gables (House of Seven Gables accepted) |
| #4705, aired 2005-02-04 | MAID $1000: The old maid Hepzibah becomes a shopkeeper after the loss of her family's wealth in this Hawthorne novel The House of the Seven Gables |
| #4675, aired 2004-12-24 | SHORT STORY WRITERS $2000: The "Old Manse" in Concord where he & his wife Sophia lived from 1842 to 1845 was rented from Ralph Waldo Emerson Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #4658, aired 2004-12-01 | FOREVER 39 $1000: There are 39 stories in these Nathaniel Hawthorne "Tales" Twice-Told Tales |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | BOOK BINDINGS $2000: Hawthorne, 1850 & Poe, 1844:
"The ____ Letter" Scarlet & Purloined |
| #4650, aired 2004-11-19 | BEWITCHED $1,000 (Daily Double): In this Hawthorne tale, a "young" man discovers his neighbors practicing witchcraft Young Goodman Brown |
| #4577, aired 2004-06-29 | HELLO, ETHAN $1200: "Ethan Brand: A Chapter from an Abortive Romance" is a short story in this author's "Twice-Told Tales" Hawthorne |
| #4547, aired 2004-05-18 | LITERARY SETTINGS $400: Hawthorne's introductory essay to "The Scarlet Letter" is about a custom-house in this seaport Salem, Massachusetts |
| #4508, aired 2004-03-24 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1000: This author died in New Hampshire in 1864 during a visit with old school chum Franklin Pierce Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #4494, aired 2004-03-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $1200: A scientist tests poison on his own daughter in this American author's 1840s story "Rappaccini's Daughter" (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #4439, aired 2003-12-18 | ENDS IN "OLD" $2000: Hawthorne's tales were "Twice" this Told |
| #4412, aired 2003-11-11 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: The "old manse" in the title of his 1846 short story collection "Mosses from an Old Manse" was his Salem home Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #4399, aired 2003-10-23 | STORY COLLECTIONS $1600: If you like summer reruns, check out this 1837 Hawthorne collection (which was also reissued in 1842) Twice-Told Tales |
| #4386, aired 2003-10-06 | NATIONAL HISTORIC PARKS $600: Hawthorne's home is in the Massachusetts park named for one of these ready-in-a-moment soldiers a Minuteman |
| #4382, aired 2003-09-30 | EDITH WHARTON PIECES $800: At age 18 Edith had some poems published in The Atlantic Monthly, with help from this "Village Blacksmith" poet Longfellow |
| #4374, aired 2003-09-18 | BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $400: 1804:
His first novel was "Fanshawe" & his last was "The Marble Faun" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #4364, aired 2003-07-17 | NOVELISTS $2000: This author, a native of Salem, Mass., wrote about witchcraft in the Salem area in 1835's "Young Goodman Brown" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #4355, aired 2003-07-04 | AUTHORS & THEIR RELATIVES $400: (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from the House of the Seven Gables in Salem, MA.) The Hawthorne family believed it had been cursed by a victim in these trials in which Hawthorne's great grandfather was a judge the Salem witchcraft trials |
| #4330, aired 2003-05-30 | HISTORIC HOMES $1000: A window of The Old Manse in Concord, Mass. still bears the diamond-engraved signatures of this author & his wife Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #4259, aired 2003-02-20 | PUBLICATIONS $500 (Daily Double): The name of this quarterly devoted to "Gone with the Wind" is reminiscent of a Hawthorne title The Scarlett Letter |
| #4213, aired 2002-12-18 | "T" TIME AT THE LIBRARY $2000: Hawthorne's college classmate Horatio Bridge paid for the publication of this collection of "Tales" "Twice-Told Tales" |
| #4210, aired 2002-12-13 | THE MAINE EVENT $1000: This Maine college was the alma mater of both Henry Wadsworth Longfellow & Nathaniel Hawthorne Bowdoin College |
| #4187, aired 2002-11-12 | AMERICAN LIT $1200: The name of this 1837 collection of Hawthorne "Tales" probably comes from a line in Shakespeare's "King John" "Twice-Told Tales" |
| #4114, aired 2002-06-20 | NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE $400: (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from the House of the Seven Gables.) At the House of the Seven Gables you can see the bureau in which Hawthorne kept his manuscript of this novel about Hester Prynne The Scarlet Letter |
| #4114, aired 2002-06-20 | NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE $800: In Hawthorne's touching story "Feathertop", one of these frightening farmyard figures comes to life scarecrow |
| #4114, aired 2002-06-20 | NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE $1200: Characters from the novel appear at the House of the Seven Gables in the "Spirits of the Gables" show during this month October |
| #4114, aired 2002-06-20 | NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE $1600: Harley College, the setting for Hawthorne's novel "Fanshawe", is based on this Maine college, his alma mater Bowdoin |
| #4114, aired 2002-06-20 | NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE $2000: Hawthorne based his novel "The Blithedale Romance" on his own experiences at this utopian "Farm" Brook Farm |
| #4045, aired 2002-03-15 | LET'S REVIEW $800: This author who knew something about peculiar said of Nathaniel Hawthorne "He is peculiar and not original" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #4030, aired 2002-02-22 | UNREAL ESTATE $800: (Sofia of the Clue Crew ascends a staircase.) I'm here on the hidden staircase in this mysterious house that inspired a Nathaniel Hawthorne novel The House of the Seven Gables |
| #4022, aired 2002-02-12 | AMERICAN LIT $400: (Sofia of the Clue Crew presents from Salem, Massachusetts.) This author once worked here at the Custom House in Salem & he wrote about it in his introduction to "The Scarlet Letter" Hawthorne |
| #3962, aired 2001-11-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $1000: A rehabilitation center to ease prisoners back into society used as a novel setting by Nathaniel Hawthorne Halfway House of Seven Gables |
| #3929, aired 2001-10-04 | LITERATURE $400: This dilapidated Hawthorne mansion is home to Pyncheon relatives Hepzibah, Phoebe & Clifford & a lodger House of the Seven Gables |
| #3907, aired 2001-09-04 | FUN WITH OPERA $200: It was truly a red-letter day when an opera based on this Hawthorne novel premiered in Boston in 1896 The Scarlet Letter |
| #3893, aired 2001-07-04 | READ $400: Dante would have loved this Hawthorne character, Rappaccini's daughter Beatrice |
| #3875, aired 2001-06-08 | MAY FLOWERS $1,200 (Daily Double): This New England novelist died in May 1864, as the plant with the same-sounding name was blooming Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #3861, aired 2001-05-21 | AN UNFINISHED LIT CATEGORY $200: Even if Hawthorne had finished "Septimius Felton" & "Dr. Grimshawe's Secret", we doubt they'd have rivaled his "The Scarlet..." Letter |
| #3803, aired 2001-02-28 | BIG SCREEN ROYALTY $1000: 1994:
Nigel Hawthorne King George III (in "The Madness of King George") |
| #3799, aired 2001-02-22 | FIRST NOVELS $300: This 19th century New Englander later tried to destroy all the copies of his anonymous first novel, "Fanshawe" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #3713, aired 2000-10-25 | HAWTHORNE IN YOUR SIDE $200: In this 1850 novel the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale reveals himself to be the father of Hester Prynne's child, then dies The Scarlet Letter |
| #3713, aired 2000-10-25 | HAWTHORNE IN YOUR SIDE $400: "In token of my appreciation for his genius," Melville wrote, this book "is inscribed to Nathaniel Hawthorne" Moby-Dick |
| #3713, aired 2000-10-25 | HAWTHORNE IN YOUR SIDE $1000: The central metaphor of this 1860 novel is a sculpture of a deity (not a young deer) The Marble Faun |
| #3713, aired 2000-10-25 | HAWTHORNE IN YOUR SIDE $1,500 (Daily Double): This novel begins, "Half-way down a by-street of one of our New England towns, stands a rusty wooden house..." The House of the Seven Gables |
| #3705, aired 2000-10-13 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $200: In the introduction to "The Scarlet Letter", he wrote of his experiences as a customs official Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #3688, aired 2000-09-20 | SHORT STORIES $800: This master of surprise endings gave us the double-suicide tale "The Furnished Room" O. Henry |
| #3650, aired 2000-06-16 | LITERARY TRILOGIES $400: This creator of Natty Bumppo made Corny Littlepage a hero of his "Littlepage Manuscripts" James Fenimore Cooper |
| #3647, aired 2000-06-13 | UNREAL ESTATE $400: In a Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, the old Pyncheon-House is otherwise known by this title name the House of the Seven Gables |
| #3612, aired 2000-04-25 | A "HOUSE" OF LITERATURE $400: The legend of a family curse permeates this Hawthorne work published in 1851 The House of the Seven Gables |
| #3590, aired 2000-03-24 | AUTHORS $100: In 1852 this "Scarlet Letter" author wrote a campaign biography for his friend Franklin Pierce Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #3543, aired 2000-01-19 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: In 1991 Nigel Hawthorne won a Tony for his role as this author in William Nicholson's play "Shadowlands" C.S. Lewis |
| #3524, aired 1999-12-23 | AMERICAN LIT $400: A preacher decides to hide his face forever in "The Minister's Black Veil", one of this author's "Twice-Told Tales" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #3516, aired 1999-12-13 | LITERATURE $500: This title home of a Hawthorne tale has "an elm-tree of wide circumference, rooted before the door" "The House of the Seven Gables" |
| #3489, aired 1999-11-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: Hawthorne wrote that these "Tales" had the "pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade" "Twice-Told Tales" |
| #3486, aired 1999-11-01 | ON THEIR PERMANENT RECORDS $600: This "Scarlet Letter" author injured his foot at age 9 & missed about 2 years of school Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #3467, aired 1999-10-05 | SALEM $600 (Daily Double): It was a red letter day when this author was born in Salem July 4, 1804 Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #3328, aired 1999-02-10 | HENRY JAMES' BOSTONIANS $600: Some say Miss Birdseye is a satire of this "Scarlet Letter" author's sister-in-law Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #3311, aired 1999-01-18 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $400: Hawthorne used one of these when unsealing fan mail about his Hester Prynne novel The Scarlet Letter Opener |
| #3271, aired 1998-11-23 | FOR HE'S A JOLLY LONGFELLOW $800: Longfellow's glowing review of this author's "Twice-Told Tales" led to a close friendship Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #3262, aired 1998-11-10 | NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE $200: One of Hawthorne's last works, "Chiefly About War Matters", was chiefly about this war Civil War |
| #3262, aired 1998-11-10 | NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE $400: Hawthorne added this letter to his last name when he began writing stories W |
| #3262, aired 1998-11-10 | NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE $600: Hawthorne based "The Celestial Railroad" on this John Bunyan work, one of his boyhood favorites Pilgrim's Progress |
| #3262, aired 1998-11-10 | NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE $800: Mrs. Hawthorne's nickname for this family friend & novelist was "Mr. Omoo" Herman Melville |
| #3262, aired 1998-11-10 | NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE $1000: Hawthorne died while traveling through New Hampshire with this former president, his close friend Franklin Pierce |
| #3259, aired 1998-11-05 | LITERARY QUOTES $1000: Hawthorne novel containing the line, "Old Matthew Maule, in a word, was executed for the crime of witchcraft" The House of the Seven Gables |
| #3172, aired 1998-05-19 | SHORT STORY WRITERS $300: "The Celestial Railroad" from his "Twice-Told Tales" is a parody of John Bunyan's works Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #3153, aired 1998-04-22 | CONTEMPORARIES $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1850, Hawthorne wrote of Hester Prynne's crime, & this Scot opened his Chicago detective agency Allan Pinkerton |
| #3085, aired 1998-01-16 | U.S PLACE NAMES $200: A city near L.A. is named for this novelist from New England; wonder how many "scarlet" women live there (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #3054, aired 1997-12-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: He wrote "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys" to capitalize on the success of "The Scarlet Letter" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #3012, aired 1997-10-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Novel in which Hawthorne wrote, "On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth,...appeared the letter A" The Scarlet Letter |
| #2973, aired 1997-07-02 | CONTESTS $500: For writing "It was a dark and stormy night", this Victorian has a bad prose contest named for him Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
| #2972, aired 1997-07-01 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1000: "Young" title character of a Hawthorne tale who discovers his neighbors practicing witchcraft Young Goodman Brown |
| #2947, aired 1997-05-27 | 19th CENTURY NOVELISTS $200: After writing "Moby Dick", he wrote to Nathaniel Hawthorne, "I have written a wicked book" Herman Melville |
| #2929, aired 1997-05-01 | BOOK TITLE OBJECTS $400: A house in the title of an 1851 Nathaniel Hawthorne novel featured 7 of these structures gables |
| #2872, aired 1997-02-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: "Rappaccini's Daughter" is one of the short stories featured in his "Mosses From An Old Manse" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #2857, aired 1997-01-21 | LITERATURE $200: Chapter 6 of this Hawthorne classic is titled "Pearl" The Scarlet Letter |
| #2845, aired 1997-01-03 | LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): A curse placed on one of Nathaniel Hawthorne's ancestors inspired this 1851 novel The House of the Seven Gables |
| #2820, aired 1996-11-29 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $600: "The Pygmies" & "The Pomegranate Seeds" are 2 of his "Tanglewood Tales" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #2783, aired 1996-10-09 | THE 19th CENTURY $800: Nathaniel Hawthorne called his 1846 collection of tales "Mosses from an Old" one of these a Manse |
| #2760, aired 1996-09-06 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1000: His last completed novel, "The Marble Faun", was published in 1860 Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #2709, aired 1996-05-16 | AMERICA LITERATURE $800: After Judge Pyncheon's death, this Hawthorne title home is left to Hepzibah & her brother Clifford the House of Seven Gables |
| #2694, aired 1996-04-25 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $200: When this author of "The Scarlet Letter" began getting published, he added a "W" to his last name (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #2661, aired 1996-03-11 | POETS $400: His "Evangeline" was based in part on a story told to him by Nathaniel Hawthorne Longfellow |
| #2644, aired 1996-02-15 | MUSIC & LITERATURE $1000: The 2nd movement of Charles Ives' "Concord Sonata" is named for this author who lived in an "Old Manse" in Concord (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #2639, aired 1996-02-08 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $800: This Nathaniel Hawthorne heroine is publicly exhibited before a pillory for 3 hours Hester Prynne |
| #2631, aired 1996-01-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: He first wrote about a woman doomed to wear the letter in his 1838 story "Endicott and the Red Cross" (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #2624, aired 1996-01-18 | AUTHORS $800: From 1846 to 1849, he was surveyor of the port of Salem, Mass. Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #2608, aired 1995-12-27 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $1000: His Bowdoin College classmate Horatio Bridge subsidized the publication of his "Twice-Told Tales" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #2590, aired 1995-12-01 | THE 1830s $1000: In 1837 his first collection of stories appeared under the title "Twice-Told Tales" (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #2549, aired 1995-10-05 | BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $1,000 (Daily Double): Nathaniel Hawthorne was born July 4, 1804 in this Massachusetts town Salem |
| #2514, aired 1995-07-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: In this Nathaniel Hawthorne tale, Colonel Pyncheon is cursed by convicted wizard Matthew Maule The House of the Seven Gables (The House of Seven Gables accepted) |
| #2513, aired 1995-07-05 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $200: He dedicated "Moby Dick" to his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne Herman Melville |
| #2500, aired 1995-06-16 | LITERATURE $1000: This American's 1860 novel "The Marble Faun" was published in England under the title "Transformation" (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #2444, aired 1995-03-30 | NOVEL OPERAS $400: Composer Vittorio Giannini's sister Dusolina played Hester in his opera based on this Hawthorne novel The Scarlet Letter |
| #2428, aired 1995-03-08 | AUTHORS $200: This author's "The Scarlet Letter" was inspired by a red cloth he found at the Salem Custom House Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #2420, aired 1995-02-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This native of Salem, Mass. published his novel "Fanshawe" anonymously & never admitted that he wrote it Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #2409, aired 1995-02-09 | 19th C. AMERICAN LITERATURE $500 (Daily Double): This Hawthorne heroine has a beautiful, mischievous daughter named Pearl Hester Prynne |
| #2397, aired 1995-01-24 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: Holgrave, a daguerreotypist who hides his true identity, is a lodger in this cursed Hawthorne home the House of the Seven Gables |
| #2367, aired 1994-12-13 | LITERATURE $200: This author of "The Scarlet Letter" died before he could finish writing "The Dolliver Romance" Hawthorne |
| #2354, aired 1994-11-24 | SHORT STORIES $200: This author's 1835 story "Young Goodman Brown" is a tale of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #2319, aired 1994-10-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: He wrote "Mosses from an Old Manse" while living in a Massachusetts home called the Old Manse (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #2292, aired 1994-07-19 | THE 1850s $400: All 2,500 copies of this Hawthorne book were sold within 10 days of its release in 1850 The Scarlet Letter |
| #2249, aired 1994-05-19 | LITERATURE $800: His "Piazza Tales", published in 1856, includes the story of "Bartleby the Scrivener" Herman Melville |
| #2245, aired 1994-05-13 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $400: "Life is made up of marble and mud', wrote this author in "The House of the Seven Gables" Hawthorne |
| #2231, aired 1994-04-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: His "The Great Stone Face" appeared in the 1851 collection "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #2214, aired 1994-03-31 | FRANKLIN PIERCE $800: One of his schoolmates at Bowdoin College was this "Twice-Told Tales" author Hawthorne |
| #2163, aired 1994-01-19 | LITERATURE $200: This author wrote an 1851 novel about "a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables" Hawthorne |
| #2091, aired 1993-10-11 | CURSES $500 (Daily Double): In this Hawthorne work Matthew Maule has cursed the Pyncheon family The House of the Seven Gables |
| #2058, aired 1993-07-14 | FICTIONAL SENIORS $300: Extreme poverty forces Hepzibah Pyncheon to open a shop in this Hawthorne house The House of the Seven Gables |
| #2054, aired 1993-07-08 | BORN ON THE 4th OF JULY $200: He was born July 4, 1804 to Capt. & Mrs. Hathorne in Salem, Massachusetts Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #2012, aired 1993-05-11 | AUTHORS $200: This "Scarlet Letter" author died in 1864 while visiting N.H. with former President Franklin Pierce (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #1993, aired 1993-04-14 | AUTHORS $1000: "The Marble Faun", set in Rome, was the last novel he completed Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #1984, aired 1993-04-01 | LITERARY TRIVIA $400: Dew-of-june, an Indian heroine, appears in his novel "The Pathfinder" James Fenimore Cooper |
| #1957, aired 1993-02-23 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $800: In a Hawthorne novel, Arthur Dimmesdale reveals that he bears this title insignia on his chest, too the Scarlet Letter |
| #1947, aired 1993-02-09 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $800: In this Hawthorne novel, some folks regard Pearl as "the demon offspring" The Scarlet Letter |
| #1940, aired 1993-01-29 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1846 he was appointed surveyor of customs in his native Salem, Massachusetts Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #1906, aired 1992-12-14 | LITERATURE $500 (Daily Double): This 1837 Nathaniel Hawthorne collection contained 39 of his stories The Twice-Told Tales |
| #1901, aired 1992-12-07 | AUTHORS $200: This author of "Little Men" became an acquaintance of Nathaniel Hawthorne in Concord, Mass. (Louisa May) Alcott |
| #1796, aired 1992-05-25 | SHORT STORIES $600: "All the young men in Padua are wild about" Beatrice Rappaccini, the heroine of this Hawthorne story "Rappaccini's Daughter" |
| #1770, aired 1992-04-17 | LITERATURE $4,300 (Daily Double): "Tanglewood Tales" was his 1853 sequel to "A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys" Hawthorne |
| #1688, aired 1991-12-25 | SHORT STORIES $600: The name of his "Twice-Told Tales" may have come from a line in Shakespeare's "King John" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #1664, aired 1991-11-21 | SHORT STORIES $2,500 (Daily Double): Salem native who wrote about witchcraft in the Salem area in an 1835 story, "Young Goodman Brown" (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #1629, aired 1991-10-03 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: Harley College in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel "Fanshawe" was modeled on his alma mater Bowdoin College in this state Maine |
| #1585, aired 1991-06-21 | FAMOUS SURVEYORS $300: He was appointed Surveyor of Customs in Salem, Massachusetts four years before writing "The Scarlet Letter" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #1580, aired 1991-06-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,200 (Daily Double): This N. Hawthorne collection contains the stories "The Gray Champion" & "The Celestial Railroad" Twice-Told Tales |
| #1543, aired 1991-04-24 | FICTIONAL CLERGY $2,000 (Daily Double): Nathaniel Hawthorne character who had an "A" on the skin of his chest Dimmesdale |
| #1531, aired 1991-04-08 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $100: A group of 19th c. authors is called the Knickerbocker Group after his pen name Washington Irving |
| #1490, aired 1991-02-08 | LITERARY SETTINGS $200: Col. Pyncheon built this title Hawthorne house on Pyncheon St. in Salem, Mass. the House of Seven Gables |
| #11, aired 1990-08-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Father of Pearl! He's the minister in Hawthorne's “The Scarlet Letter” (Arthur) Dimmesdale |
| #10, aired 1990-08-18 | THE MOVIES $1000: British actor who played J. Algernon Hawthorne in “It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” Terry-Thomas |
| #7, aired 1990-07-28 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $600: Nicknamed "Handsome Frank", he had college chum N. Hawthorne write his campaign bio Franklin Pierce |
| #5, aired 1990-07-14 | LITERATURE $1000: Among his "Mosses From An Old Manse" is "Rappachini's Daughter" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #1324, aired 1990-05-10 | LITERARY RELATIVES $1000: Author of "The House of the Seven Gables", his son Julian published a biography of him in 1884 Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #1287, aired 1990-03-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: N.H.'s rock formation "The Old Man of the Mtn." was made famous in this N. Hawthorne tale The Great Stone Face |
| #1282, aired 1990-03-13 | POTLUCK $500: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow & Nathaniel Hawthorne were fellow students at this college in Brunswick, Me. Bowdoin |
| #1233, aired 1990-01-03 | FICTION $1000: In a Hawthorne novel, young Donatello resembled this "Marble" creature in looks & character a faun |
| #1212, aired 1989-12-05 | LITERATURE $600: Hawthorne wrote about a scarlet letter, & Baroness Orczy about a scarlet one of these The Scarlet Pimpernel |
| #1193, aired 1989-11-08 | NOVELS $1,400 (Daily Double): Massachusetts author whose last completed novel, “The Marble Faun”, is set in Italy (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #1179, aired 1989-10-19 | CITIES IN LITERATURE $200: In Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter", Hester Prynne did her sinning in this Puritan city Boston |
| #1127, aired 1989-06-27 | QUOTES $500: In "The House of the 7 Gables" he wrote, "Life is made up of marble & mud" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #1121, aired 1989-06-19 | FICTION $800: His "Mosses from an Old Manse" is called one of the finest collections of stories in American lit (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #1087, aired 1989-05-02 | AUTHORS $200: The Brownings were neighbors of N. Hawthorne when he lived in this southern European country Italy |
| #1064, aired 1989-03-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: When you repeat the twice-told tales he published in 1837, that makes them thrice-told Hawthorne |
| #1059, aired 1989-03-23 | NOVELS $400: The owner of this Hawthorne title "house" is haunted by a curse: "God will give him blood to drink" The House of the Seven Gables |
| #1035, aired 1989-02-17 | FICTION $200: Number of gables in title house of a Nathaniel Hawthorne novel 7 |
| #1012, aired 1989-01-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: This author of "The Scarlett Letter" wrote a campaign bio. for his old college buddy Franklin Pierce (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #893, aired 1988-06-22 | DOWN EASTERS $4,300 (Daily Double): Though this poet's house in Portland is no "Wayside Inn", it's Maine's best-known historic site Longfellow |
| #881, aired 1988-06-06 | 19TH CENTURY LITERATURE $1000: His "Tanglewood Tales" were based on Greek mythology Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #869, aired 1988-05-19 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: Claiming it wasn't in his vein, Hawthorne turned over the task of writing "Evangeline" to him Longfellow |
| #817, aired 1988-03-08 | HEROES & HEROINES $400: Last name shared by Amanda in Noel Coward's "Private Lives" & Hawthorne's scarlet woman Prynne |
| #794, aired 1988-02-04 | '87 ANNIVERSARIES $500: His "Twice Told Tales" were 1st "told" in 1837, 150 years before Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #765, aired 1987-12-25 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $400: Clifford Hepzibah Pyncheon inhabited this hexed Hawthorne house the house of the seven gables |
| #747, aired 1987-12-01 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $1000: In Hawthorne's classic, Arthur Dimmesdale died in the arms of this woman, his secret lover Hester Prynne |
| #713, aired 1987-10-14 | "HOUSE"s $200: You can visit the Salem, Mass. landmark associated w/this Nathaniel Hawthorne tale The House of Seven Gables |
| #583, aired 1987-03-04 | LITERATURE $200: For centuries, the Pyncheon family lived in this unhappy Hawthorne home the House of the Seven Gables |
| #542, aired 1987-01-06 | 4-LETTER WORDS $500: A collection of tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne were "Twice" this Told |
| #516, aired 1986-12-01 | LITERATURE $100: When this New England novelist died in 1864, vacationing with college chum F. Pierce, it was no "red letter" day (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #484, aired 1986-10-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: He penned a campaign biography for Franklin Pierce and pinned "The Scarlet Letter" on Hester Prynne (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #434, aired 1986-05-08 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1000: Author of ghost story "Rappaccini's Daughter", he appeared as a ghost to his son Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #398, aired 1986-03-19 | FICTION $400: Total of Hawthorne's house's gables & Verne's leagues under the sea 20,007 |
| #93, aired 1985-01-16 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Hawthorne's scarlet letter an A |
| #80, aired 1984-12-28 | NUMBER PLEASE $200: Number of gables on Nathaniel Hawthorne's "House" Seven |
| #5, aired 1984-09-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: He gave Hester a scarlet "A" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
