| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: He wrote a sequel, "Paradise Regained", published 4 years after "Paradise Lost" Milton |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: Due to obscenity charges, this last D.H. Lawrence novel wasn't published in full in London until 1960 Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: The title of this Ian Fleming story for kids about a magical car may have been inspired by the name of an Eton schoolmaster Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): In the first chapter of this E.M. Forster book, Lucy comments, "I want so to see the Arno" A Room with a View |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: Matthew Arnold wrote the poem "Calais Sands" before his more famous one about this "Beach" across the Channel Dover (Beach) |
| #9182, aired 2024-10-15 | LITERATURE $200: This 1976 Alex Haley book is subtitled "The Saga of an American Family" Roots |
| #9182, aired 2024-10-15 | LITERATURE $400: The "Snark" in his 1876 nonsense poem "The Hunting of the Snark" is an imaginary animal, not sarcasm Lewis Carroll |
| #9182, aired 2024-10-15 | LITERATURE $600: The martyred king of the Beats, he died in 1969 at age 47 Kerouac |
| #9182, aired 2024-10-15 | LITERATURE $800: Nnedi Okorafor's 2015 novella "Binti" picked up both of these sci-fi awards, one voted on by fans, the other by fellow writers the Hugo & the Nebula |
| #9182, aired 2024-10-15 | LITERATURE $1000: In her creepy tale "The Lottery", a New England town chooses an annual stoning victim to ensure a good harvest Shirley Jackson |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS $400: To the British this fearmongering fowl in children's literature is known as Henny Penny Chicken Little |
| #9163, aired 2024-09-18 | GIVE US YOUR INITIAL THOUGHTS $2000: Founded in 1883 by scholars of language & literature, it has "style" & an annual convention MLA |
| #9149, aired 2024-07-18 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $400: "Moby-Dick" begins with one of the most famous first lines in literature--these 3 words Call me Ishmael |
| #9148, aired 2024-07-17 | ARRESTING LITERATURE $200: A bad start for Joseph K. in "The Trial" by this man: "One morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested" Kafka |
| #9148, aired 2024-07-17 | ARRESTING LITERATURE $400: Count Alexander Rostov is placed under not house but hotel arrest (across from the Kremlin) in this bestseller by Amor Towles A Gentleman in Moscow |
| #9148, aired 2024-07-17 | ARRESTING LITERATURE $600: Time to dig up this Newbery Medal-winning tale of Stanley Yelnats' time at a correctional camp Holes |
| #9148, aired 2024-07-17 | ARRESTING LITERATURE $800: A 1982 novella about Andy Dufresne, unjustly convicted for murder, was "Rita Hayworth &" this (but there's no "The" in the title) Shawshank Redemption |
| #9148, aired 2024-07-17 | ARRESTING LITERATURE $1000: John Grady Cole falls for the boss' daughter in "All the Pretty Horses" by this author, but the unhappy boss frames JGC for murder (Cormac) McCarthy |
| #37, aired 2024-05-22 | UTOPIAN LITERATURE $200: An ideal society in the Pacific attracts the envy of the world in this author's "Island", a counterpoint to "Brave New World" Huxley |
| #37, aired 2024-05-22 | UTOPIAN LITERATURE $400: Sir Francis Bacon described a utopian domain based on science in "The New" this mythic landmass Atlantis |
| #37, aired 2024-05-22 | UTOPIAN LITERATURE $600: One of the most important works by Plato, it outlines the politics & ethics of his vision of a perfect nation Republic |
| #37, aired 2024-05-22 | UTOPIAN LITERATURE $1000: In the 10th century al-Farabi's "The Virtuous City" posited such a place in this locale, Muhammad's last home Medina |
| #37, aired 2024-05-22 | UTOPIAN LITERATURE $1,400 (Daily Double): What "utopia" means, it completes the title of William Morris' book about a place without politics or poverty, "News from..." Nowhere |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | LITERATURE: WHO SAID IT? $400: "What's taters, precious, eh, what's taters?" Gollum |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | LITERATURE: WHO SAID IT? $800: "If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs" Charlotte |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | LITERATURE: WHO SAID IT? $1600: "For if he is still with the quick un-dead, your death would make you even as he is. No, you must live!" Van Helsing |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | LITERATURE: WHO SAID IT? $2000: "I freewheel a lot... I reckon I'll become president of the galaxy, and it just happens, it's easy" Beeblebrox |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | LITERATURE: WHO SAID IT? $15,400 (Daily Double): "She betrayed you, Winston. Immediately--unreservedly. I have seldom seen anyone come over to us so promptly" O'Brien |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $1000: In literature, Tom Sawyer's guardian was this relative who was based in part on Mark Twain's own mom Aunt Polly |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | LITERATURE: THE SOMETHING OF SOMETHING $200: The Joad more traveled; spoiler! Grampa & Granma don't finish the trip; life ain't peachy The Grapes of Wrath |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | LITERATURE: THE SOMETHING OF SOMETHING $400: Y'know, I think that portrait's crooked; man, you look great! What's your secret?; what's Wilde is that it's Oscar's only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | LITERATURE: THE SOMETHING OF SOMETHING $600: An island prison, an island treasure; the main guy loses his Mercédès; revenge is served extremely cold The Count of Monte Cristo |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | LITERATURE: THE SOMETHING OF SOMETHING $800: Get your Wharton MBA; Newland Archer aims for a new romance; well, that certainly was a time &/or era The Age of Innocence |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | LITERATURE: THE SOMETHING OF SOMETHING $1,000 (Daily Double): Colorful in so many ways; Civil War is hell; Henry, don't be a hero The Red Badge of Courage |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $400: Plutarch quoted this Greek philosopher as saying he was not "an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world" Socrates |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $800: Menander, known for his comedic plays, wrote that "Marriage, if one will face the truth, is" this, "but a necessary" this an evil |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $1600: Prior to writing his "Odes" & "Epodes", this Roman lyric poet fought alongside Brutus in Asia Minor Horace |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $2000: In 66 A.D. he took part in the Jewish revolt against Rome; later, he worked for the Romans writing the history of it Josephus |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $9,600 (Daily Double): In this Sophocles play, Orestes enlists the aid of his sister, the title character, to kill his mother & her lover Electra |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: This French novelist's 1843 swashbuckling book "Georges" follows a mixed-race adventurer who leads a slave rebellion Dumas |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | WORLD LITERATURE $1200: Made into a Scorsese film with Andrew Garfield, this novel by Shusaku Endo follows 17th century Jesuit priests in Japan Silence |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | WORLD LITERATURE $1600: In 1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz, author of this tale of ancient Rome, became the first Polish person to win a Nobel Prize in lit Quo Vadis |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | WORLD LITERATURE $2000: This Chilean author of "The Savage Detectives" has gained wide fame in English translation since his early death in 2003 Roberto Bolaño |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | WORLD LITERATURE $11,400 (Daily Double): In this Hermann Hesse novel, Harry Haller reads a treatise about his dual inner self, caught between a man & a lupine creature Steppenwolf |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | MAGAZINES $1000: Melville & Emerson were among those who endorsed this magazine covering literature, art & politics when it launched in 1857 The Atlantic |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $2,000 (Daily Double): In the early 20th c. these were given out for literature; Baron Pierre de Coubertin won one under a pen name for "Ode to Sport" Olympic medals |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | LITERATURE BINGO $200: "N", 2005: Llewelyn Moss decides to take off with millions in drug money in this Cormac McCarthy tale; Llewelyn comes to regret that No Country for Old Men |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | LITERATURE BINGO $400: "G", 1992: "G" is for this mystery writer who wrote "I Is for Innocent" Sue Grafton |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | LITERATURE BINGO $600: "O" (No!), 1898: William S. Porter was convicted of embezzlement; after prison, he put out short stories under this name O. Henry |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | LITERATURE BINGO $800: "B", 1956: Appropriately, "Giovanni's Room" by this man from Harlem is about an American living in Paris (James) Baldwin |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | LITERATURE BINGO $1000: "I", 1819: Rebecca is a Jewish heroine in this Sir Walter Scott novel & was played on film by future Judaism convert Liz Taylor Ivanhoe |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | BRITISH LITERATURE $400: Chapter 43 of this novel explains "How the Artful Dodger Got into Trouble" Oliver Twist |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | BRITISH LITERATURE $800: The unexpected death of a small town council member is a mystery at the heart of "The Casual Vacancy" by this author J.K. Rowling |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1200: The 24 Pilgrim storytellers in "The Canterbury Tales" include this bawdy woman who tells of her 5 husbands the Wife of Bath |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1600: A man stopped on his way to a wedding feast is told of tragic events aboard a ship in this 1798 narrative poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | BRITISH LITERATURE $2000: 2020's "The Mirror & the Light" completed Hilary Mantel's trilogy about Thomas Cromwell that began with this lupine novel Wolf Hall |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | TALKING ABOUT TOLKIEN $400: From 1925 to 1959 J.R.R. Tolkien was a popular language & literature professor at this university Oxford |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | LITERATURE $400: Geoffrey Chaucer told "Tales" from this English town known for its cathedral Canterbury |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | LITERATURE $800: A sea-witch tells this 19th c. title gal that her transformation will make each step feel like "treading upon sharp knives" Little Mermaid |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | LITERATURE $1200: Ayn Rand influenced many with this novel about architect Howard Roark and his uncompromising individualism The Fountainhead |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | LITERATURE $2000: William Styron wrote the historical novel "The Confessions of" this leader of a slave rebellion Nat Turner |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | LITERATURE $2,200 (Daily Double): Britannica describes this type of literature as "pseudomedieval", with "a prevailing atmosphere of mystery & terror" Gothic |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | MOUNTAINS OF LITERATURE $400: Peter Matthiessen climbed mountains in Nepal to see the snow type of this creature, the title of his National Book Award winner a leopard |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | MOUNTAINS OF LITERATURE $800: After accepting a drink of liquor in a Washington Irving tale, Rip Van Winkle falls asleep for 20 years in these mountains the Catskills |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | MOUNTAINS OF LITERATURE $1200: In the novel "Lost Horizon", the Kunlun Range is thought to be home to this lamasery whose name has become a synonym for utopia Shangri-La |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | MOUNTAINS OF LITERATURE $1600: "Der Zauberberg" in German, this Thomas Mann novel tells the story of a man who stays in a TB clinic for 7 years Magic Mountain |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | MOUNTAINS OF LITERATURE $2000: A Miskatonic Univ. team uncovers horrific artifacts in Antarctica in this author's "At the Mountains of Madness" Lovecraft |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $400: Matteo Bandello's short stories inspired a number of Shakespeare's plays, including this Verona-set tragedy Romeo and Juliet |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $800: Lorenzo Da Ponte wrote the librettos to 3 of this man's most famous operas, including "Cosi fan tutte" Mozart |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $1200: This genre of Italian comedy popular from the 1500s to the 1700s was characterized by stock characters & situations commedia dell'arte |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $1600: In Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose", murders at a 14th c. monastery center on a book on laughter by this ancient Greek Aristotle |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $2000: Around 1224 this Italian saint composed the poetic "Canticle of the Creatures" St. Francis of Assisi |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | HAUNTING LITERATURE $200: Scrooge hears from this man that even after being dead for 7 years, he found "no rest, no peace. incessant torture of remorse" Jacob Marley |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | HAUNTING LITERATURE $400: The ghost of Delbert Grady advises Jack Torrance on family matters in this novel; that does not work out well for anybody The Shining |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | HAUNTING LITERATURE $600: The ghost of Catherine haunts Heathcliff until he himself exits the land of the living in this 1847 novel Wuthering Heights |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | HAUNTING LITERATURE $800: In a sequel, this character plays for the New Orleans Saints, crashes the Exxon Valdez & sees the ghost of Jenny, his childhood friend Forrest Gump |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | HAUNTING LITERATURE $1000: 166 ghosts, one the president's son, exist in a sort of pre-afterlife in George Saunders' "Lincoln in" this space the Bardo |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Besides her cat, a witch ends up giving a ride to a dog, a bird & a frog in the rhymingly titled "Room on the..." Broom |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: A Newbery Medal winner, "The One and Only" him tells the story from the perspective of a captive gorilla Ivan |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: A beloved 1964 book by him begins, "Once there was a tree... and she loved a little boy" Shel Silverstein |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: "The Bad Beginning", written under this pen name, is dedicated to the "unfortunate" Beatrice, "darling, dearest, dead" Lemony Snicket |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: In "Ghost Boys" the ghost of 12-year-old Jerome meets that of this real teen whose 1955 murder helped launch the civil rights movement (Emmett) Till |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | AFRICAN AMERICANA $1200: This Harvard professor's "The Signifying Monkey" traces the bond between Black oral tradition & literature Henry Louis Gates |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | LITERATURE $200: Homer begins this epic poem by telling us it's about the anger of Achilles the Iliad |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | LITERATURE $400: Louis de Pointe du Lac, not Lestat, is the title undead being queried in this novel Interview with the Vampire |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | LITERATURE $600: For telling the truth about a town's contaminated water supply in an Ibsen play, Dr. Thomas Stockmann becomes this title foe An Enemy of the People |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | LITERATURE $800: "A drowsy numbness pains my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk" is a line from his "Ode to a Nightingale" Keats |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | LITERATURE $1000: In this 1948 Shirley Jackson short story, a village selects a sacrificial stoning victim to ensure a good harvest "The Lottery" |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: A publisher bet him that he couldn't write a book using 50 or fewer words; the result was "Green Eggs and Ham" Dr. Seuss |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: "Now We Are Six" is a collection of rhymes from this "Winnie-the-Pooh" author Milne |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: As well as kids' books, this 19th century author wrote "Examples in Arithmetic" & other math textbooks (Lewis) Carroll |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: David McKee's stories of this patchwork elephant subtly convey the message that it's OK to be different Elmer |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1,600 (Daily Double): An out-of-control dog meets his match in John Grogan's him "and the Kittens" Marley |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | WRITERS' WORDS $600: From the French for "kind", it's a distinctive category of literature like comedy or horror genre |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | NORDIC LITERATURE $400: There are no singing Jamaican crabs in the original version of this Andersen tale about a sea-dweller who comes ashore The Little Mermaid |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | NORDIC LITERATURE $800: Created by Astrid Lindgren, this little redheaded literary girl thinks her father lives far away as a cannibal king Pippi Longstocking |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | NORDIC LITERATURE $1200: Sweden is a grim place in this first book of the "Millennium" series in which Lisbeth & Mikael solve a 40-year-old crime The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | NORDIC LITERATURE $1600: "Faceless Killers" was book No. 1 in the series about this soul-searching police inspector played on TV by Kenneth Branagh Wallander |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | NORDIC LITERATURE $2000: Early works by this Norwegian playwright include the tragedy "Catiline", published under a pseudonym in 1850 Ibsen |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | THE SEARCH FOR FOREIGN LANDS $100: Located in Lima, this country's Biblioteca Nacional is a great place to peruse some literature Peru |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | ALBERT CAMUS $400: On Dec. 10, 1957 Albert Camus received this prize in Stockholm, Sweden the Nobel Prize (for Literature) |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | SPOOKY LITERATURE $200: (Justin Long presents the clue.) To pass the time on a rainy day in Geneva, she & her husband & friends were telling each other ghost stories; she came up with "Frankenstein"--not bad for starting your first novel at age 18 (Mary) Shelley |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | SPOOKY LITERATURE $400: (Justin Long presents the clue.) On the way home at midnight Ichabod Crane thinks this alliterative specter is in pursuit & has thrown its cranium at the schoolmaster; in the morning, a broken pumpkin shell is found, but not Ichabod Crane the Headless Horseman |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | SPOOKY LITERATURE $600: (Justin Long presents the clue.) "Welcome to Dead House" from 1992 was the first of the books in the "Goosebumps" series by this author that by now has sold a spooky number of copies (R.L.) Stine |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | SPOOKY LITERATURE $800: (Justin Long presents the clue.) The burial of Stephen King's daughter's cat Smucky helped inspire this novel that the author has said is just as dark as can be Pet Sematary |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | SPOOKY LITERATURE $1000: (Justin Long presents the clue.) "The story had held us round the fire, sufficiently breathless", is how this author began "The Turn of the Screw", about a governess trying to protect children from the effects of malevolent spirits (Henry) James |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | FRENCH LITERATURE $400: "Be our guest" & know French novelist Madame Leprince de Beaumont wrote a version of this often adapted fairy tale Beauty and the Beast |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | FRENCH LITERATURE $800: This adventure writer known as père had his own famous dad, who served in the all-Black military unit "La Legion Americaine" Dumas |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | FRENCH LITERATURE $1200: Stories by Maurice LeBlanc about a gentleman thief inspired this hit Netflix series with Omar Sy Lupin |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | FRENCH LITERATURE $1600: In 2016 "The Perfect Nanny" by the French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani won this premier French literary award the Prix Goncourt |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | FRENCH LITERATURE $2000: His "Les Rougon-Macquart" series includes "Germinal" & "Nana" Zola |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $200: It's where "Native Son" & "A Raisin in the Sun" are set Chicago |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $400: Right before the epilogue to this novel, Raskolnikov confesses, "It was I killed the old pawnbroker woman and her sister" Crime and Punishment |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $600: This Jack London classic is considered one of the "books that shaped America" The Call of the Wild |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $800: In "East of Eden" this twin brother of Aron Trask reveals to him that their mother is a madam Caleb |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $1000: This Jonathan Franzen novel about the dysfunctional Lambert family won a National Book Award The Corrections |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | THINKING OF UKRAINE $1200: The seminal work of modern Ukrainian literature, "Eneïda" transmutes this ancient writer's Trojans into Cossacks Virgil |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | RENAISSANCE LITERATURE $400: Influenced by Petrarch, Joachim du Bellay brought this poetic form into French with a collection of 50 of them sonnets |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | RENAISSANCE LITERATURE $800: The play "Antonius", Mary Sidney's translation of a French work, helped revive this form of "lone speaking" monologue the soliloquy |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | RENAISSANCE LITERATURE $1200: A romantic epic, him "Innamorato" was followed nearly 30 years later by him "Furioso" in 1516 Orlando |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | RENAISSANCE LITERATURE $1600: Poet Henry Vaughan wrote a book of religious devotions bearing the name of this "Mount" near Jerusalem the Mount of Olives |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | RENAISSANCE LITERATURE $2000: Margaret of Navarre's 16th century book of stories "The Heptameron" was modeled on a longer work by this Italian Boccaccio |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | BRITISH LITERATURE $400: Thomas Hardy gave up writing fiction after this gloomy novel about Jude Fawley Jude the Obscure |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | BRITISH LITERATURE $800: Perhaps wandering lonely as a cloud, this poet was inspired to pen "Daffodils" about the flowers he saw at Lake Ullswater Wordsworth |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1200: Elizabeth Gaskell's 1855 novel "North & South" depicts this British city as a cotton-spinning hellmouth, calling it "Milton" Manchester |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | BRITISH LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): In the 1850s she published the book-length love poem "Aurora Leigh" Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | BRITISH LITERATURE $2000: Her scary story "The Birds" became a scary big-screen thriller (Daphne) du Maurier |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE $200: The fairy tale about this brother & sister inspired an 1893 opera by the German composer Engelbert Humperdinck Hansel & Gretel |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE $400: Seaside police chief Martin Brody fights a corrupt politician & a ferocious predator in this Peter Benchley bestseller Jaws |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE $600: "Bowman could bear no more. He jerked out the last unit, & Hal was silent forever" is a line from this sci-fi work 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE $800: It's him, last name Spier, "vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" in a young adult favorite Simon |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE $1000: Dylan Thomas' poem about these "Boys" who "in their ruin lay the gold tithings barren" has inspired book & song titles "The Boys of Summer" |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $3,000 (Daily Double): This Irish playwright who won the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature wrote in both English & French Samuel Beckett |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | 2001 $2000: This Trinidad-born author of "A House for Mr. Biswas" won the Nobel Prize for Literature V.S. Naipaul |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | LITERATURE $400: The medieval Muslim text "Alive, the Son of Awake", about a man on a deserted island, is a likely inspiration for this 1719 work Robinson Crusoe |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | LITERATURE $800: This writer known for robotic laws (which might come in handy soon) wrote his "Lucky Starr" series as Paul French Asimov |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | LITERATURE $1200: In the 1920s "Along the Road" was a travel book by this writer; he'd write about a different kind of trip in "The Doors of Perception" Huxley |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | LITERATURE $1600: Chapters in this debut novel by Zadie Smith include "Two Families", "Molars" & "Of Mice & Memory" White Teeth |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | LITERATURE $2000: "The Overstory" by this author is partially set during the Pacific Northwest timber wars Richard Powers |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | NUMERICAL LITERATURE $400: In a 1969 novel Germans tell POWs that their residence is Schlachthof-Funf, this title place Slaughterhouse-Five |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | NUMERICAL LITERATURE $800: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez' World War I bestseller named for this mounted quartet became a hit movie with Rudolph Valentino the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | NUMERICAL LITERATURE $1200: Its subtitle includes "Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841" 12 Years a Slave |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | NUMERICAL LITERATURE $1600: He wrote the play "Three Sisters" while living in Yalta for his health Chekhov |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | NUMERICAL LITERATURE $2000: A story of rich kids & their reckless, listless lives in 1980s Los Angeles, "Less than Zero" is by this author Bret Easton Ellis |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $200: In Dodie Smith's tale, Pongo & Missis are the parents of 15 puppies, but the 17 of them becomes this title number by the end 101 (Dalmatians) |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $400: Rudyard Kipling's Hathi, one of these animals, helps Mowgli by trampling a village of evildoers an elephant |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $600: In a book by Paul Gallico, Thomasina is one of these pets that channels the Egyptian goddess Bastet & saves her owner's life a cat |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $800: In this Greek comedic play from 405 B.C., the title characters form a chorus whose lines include "Brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax" The Frogs |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $1000: Spumador is Prince Arthur's trusty horse in this 1590s allegorical poem by Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | SUBTITLED LITERATURE $400: "Moby-Dick; or," this The Whale |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | SUBTITLED LITERATURE $800: "The Hobbit" has this 4-word subtitle There and Back Again |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | SUBTITLED LITERATURE $1200: The long subtitle of "Hidden Figures" ends with this rhyming phrase Space Race |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | SUBTITLED LITERATURE $1600: These 2 words finish the subtitle of "Frankenstein" Modern Prometheus |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | SUBTITLED LITERATURE $5,000 (Daily Double): This word meaning "narrow-minded" is in the subtitle of "Middlemarch" Provincial |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | LIFE IS PICARESQUE $400: Describing episodic exploits of a roaming character, the picaresque genre began in the literature of this country of Quixote Spain |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | MEDIEVAL LITERATURE $400: Long before Shakespeare, this tale-teller wrote the similar "Troilus & Criseyde" in the 14th century Chaucer |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | MEDIEVAL LITERATURE $1200: Created circa 800 & also called the Book of Columba, this illuminated manuscript illustrates the Gospels in Latin the Book of Kells |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | MEDIEVAL LITERATURE $1600: A play by the nun Roswitha tells the story of Gallicanus, a pagan general of this great emperor who converts Constantine |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | MEDIEVAL LITERATURE $2000: French poet Chrétien de Troyes wrote romances including one about this brash knight that introduces the story of the grail Percival |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | MEDIEVAL LITERATURE $15,400 (Daily Double): While in a prison in Genoa in the 1290s, Rustichello da Pisa began jotting down this man's account of his "Travels" Marco Polo |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | LITERATURE $400: "All hope abandon, ye who enter here" appears in this medieval poem the Divine Comedy |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | LITERATURE $800: Poe's short story "The Murders" here marked the first appearance of the French detective C. Auguste Dupin in the Rue Morgue |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | LITERATURE $1200: Lewis Carroll was the pen name of this mathematician turned children's author Charles Dodgson |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | LITERATURE $1600: A letter this author began writing to her grandfather evolved into her first novel "The House of the Spirits" Allende |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | LITERATURE $2000: Created by Edith Pargeter, this monk solves crimes in the Middle Ages in mysteries like "The Leper of Saint Giles" Brother Cadfael |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | WOMEN WRITERS $2000: The author of more than 50 books including "The Golden Notebook", she was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature (Doris) Lessing |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | GERMAN LITERATURE $400: In 1929 he published an essay on Freud & won the Nobel Prize; who da this? You da this! Mann |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | GERMAN LITERATURE $800: Günter Grass' debut novel was 1959's "Die Blechtrommel", which translates to this instrumental title The Tin Drum |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | GERMAN LITERATURE $1200: Cornelia Funke sold millions of a trilogy beginning with this book & continuing with "Inkspell" & "Inkdeath" Inkheart |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | GERMAN LITERATURE $1600: After a boat trip in 1775, this Johann-of-all-trades--so many trades!--wrote the lovely poem "On the Lake" Goethe |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | GERMAN LITERATURE $2000: In 1928 "The Threepenny Opera" sang out from composer Kurt Weill & this alliterative writer from Augsburg Bertolt Brecht |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | THE GOLDEN AGE $400: A golden age of literature is named for this queen who saw Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost" & "Merry Wives" first run Elizabeth I |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $8,600 (Daily Double): Since 1917 Columbia University has announced these awards for fields including journalism & literature the Pulitzers |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | LITERATURE: BLANK IT & BANK IT $200: "'Please, sir,' replied Oliver,
'I want ____ ____'" some more |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | LITERATURE: BLANK IT & BANK IT $400: "Honour the charge they made! Honour the ____ ____, noble six hundred!" Light Brigade |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | LITERATURE: BLANK IT & BANK IT $600: "Stay ____,
Ponyboy.
Stay ____" gold |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | LITERATURE: BLANK IT & BANK IT $800: "The deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the 'House of ____!'" Usher |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | LITERATURE: BLANK IT & BANK IT $1000: "When ____ last in the dooryard bloom'd, and the great star early droop'd in the western sky" lilacs |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: The hero of this Stevenson novel finds himself on a ship he had no intention of sailing on--yup, he's been this title Kidnapped |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: A work by James Fenimore Cooper sometimes called the first espionage novel has this simple title The Spy |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $1200: This oldest member of the 3 Musketeers in Dumas' novel is revealed to be the Comte de la Fere Athos |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $2000: The Duke of Ferrara is the possibly murderous narrator of this Robert Browning poem My Last Duchess |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $4,600 (Daily Double): This Englishwoman wrote 1823's "Valperga"; her first novel also had a one-word title but is more famous Mary Shelley |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | DOCTOR-ING UP LITERATURE $200: Stevenson probably intended for the last name of this character to rhyme with treacle, as in the Fredric March version of the film Jekyll |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | DOCTOR-ING UP LITERATURE $400: Winding your way down on Baker Street, you'll realize this character narrates 56 of the 60 stories about his flatmate Watson |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | DOCTOR-ING UP LITERATURE $600: "The Surgeon" is Tess Gerritsen's 1st book in a series featuring detective Jane Rizzoli; this medical examiner debuts in the 2nd Isles |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | DOCTOR-ING UP LITERATURE $1000: This Elizabethan playwright's Dr. Faustus asks for his soul to turn into water & "fall into the ocean, ne'er to be found"; no deal Marlowe |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | DOCTOR-ING UP LITERATURE $2,200 (Daily Double): Tired of having this guy talk to the animals, Hugh Lofting sent him to the moon in 1928 but fan demand had him "return" in 1933 (Doctor) Dolittle |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $400: The last novel of 1998 winner Jose Saramago of Portugal portrayed this killer in Genesis as a rebel against god Cain |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $1200: This 1993 winner often focused on African-American culture in novels like "Jazz" & "Tar Baby" Morrison |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $1600: This Dublin-born playwright got the nod in 1925 for works marked by idealism, humanity & stimulating satire George Bernard Shaw |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $2000: 1988 winner Naguib Mahfouz set many of his works like "Palace of Desire" in this North African capital Cairo |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $12,400 (Daily Double): Greek author George Seferis, who won the award in 1963, wrote "Six Nights on" this hilltop the Acropolis |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | BETTER CALL SAUL $1000: In 1976 he was called on to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature Saul Bellow |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: In an oft-cited example of false memory, many folks firmly but wrongly remember this inquisitive monkey as having a tail Curious George |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: "Sometimes You Have to Lie" is a 2020 biography of Louise Fitzhugh, creator of this 11-year-old spy Harriet (the Spy) |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: In this 1930 book with the refrain "I think I can", the protagonist is female & the unhelpful other locomotives are guys The Little Engine That Could |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: The collaborations of writer Jon Scieszka & illustrator Lane Smith include the 1992 tale of this odoriferous man the Stinky Cheese Man |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: In a Mo Willems tale, the first words little Trixie says are the name of this stuffed rabbit she lost & found Knuffle Bunny |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | FRENCH LITERATURE $400: In 1950 Ionesco's "The Bald Soprano" helped launch what is now known as the "Theatre of" this the Absurd |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | FRENCH LITERATURE $800: These French-named epic poems, like the one named for Roland, are composed of irregular stanzas called laisses chanson |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | FRENCH LITERATURE $1600: His last novel, "Quatre-vingt-treize", is set during 1793 amidst the French Revolution Hugo |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | FRENCH LITERATURE $2000: Meursault, the narrator of this Camus work, says he doesn't believe in God after being arrested for murder The Stranger |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | FRENCH LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): A line from this play says, "He carries a nose!--ah, good my lords, what a nose is his!" Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | A "C" IN LITERATURE $200: He calls Winnie-the-Pooh "silly old bear" Christopher Robin |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | A "C" IN LITERATURE $400: One of "The Chronicles of Narnia" is named for this prince & rightful heir to the throne Caspian |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | A "C" IN LITERATURE $600: Anthony Burgess claimed this, his best-known book, was "knocked off for money in 3 weeks" A Clockwork Orange |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | A "C" IN LITERATURE $800: From the works of Charles Dickens, it's the last name of the father & son seen here Cratchit |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | A "C" IN LITERATURE $1000: Chaucer had planned to write more than 100 stories for this work, but only got around to 24 The Canterbury Tales |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | BRITISH LITERATURE $400: Mary Margaret Kaye's novel "The Far Pavilions" takes place in this country during the time of the Raj India |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | BRITISH LITERATURE $800: This Robert Louis Stevenson novel recounts the adventures of Scottish orphan David Balfour Kidnapped |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1200: He created a heroine named Tess, who bears a child named Sorrow & later kills the man who seduced her Hardy |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1600: Name shared by a shortbread cookie & the title heroine in an R.D. Blackmore romance Lorna Doone |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | BRITISH LITERATURE $2000: For plays like "The Homecoming" & "The Birthday Party" this dramatist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005 Harold Pinter |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | LITERATURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES $400: Some of the earliest known examples of these 14-line poems are by Giacomo da Lentini, who wrote in the 1200s a sonnet |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | LITERATURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES $800: In a 2021 movie version of a medieval tale, Dev Patel plays Sir Gawain, journeying to meet this title character the Green Knight |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | LITERATURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES $1200: The allegory "Everyman" from the late 1400s is one of the best known of these "plays" that stressed salvation & personal virtues morality plays |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | LITERATURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES $1600: The "Chanson de" or "Song of" this hero tells of his death & the vengeance taken on the traitor Ganelon Roland |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | LITERATURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES $2000: This "venerable" guy completed his "Ecclesiastical History of the English People" around 731 Bede |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | VAMPIRES IN LITERATURE $400: Vamps actually enjoy some sun & garlic in Terry Pratchett's "Carpe Jugulum", Latin for seize this appropriate body part the throat |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | VAMPIRES IN LITERATURE $800: In 2012 the Horror Writers Assoc. said Richard Matheson's "I Am" this lived up to its name as "vampire novel of the century" I Am Legend |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | VAMPIRES IN LITERATURE $1200: In 2021, the mayor of New Orleans paid tribute to this author of vampire tales, saying, "We have lost an icon" Anne Rice |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | VAMPIRES IN LITERATURE $1600: A Swedish suburb gets bloody in 1981 & the girl next door seems... different in this international bestseller that became a movie Let the Right One In |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | VAMPIRES IN LITERATURE $2000: This 19th c. writer of historical novels, Pere, went goth in "The Pale Lady", a tale of a Polish woman & 2 adoring brothers Alexandre Dumas |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | A BIT OF LIT $2000: This Japanese-born British author of "The Remains of the Day" & "Never Let Me Go" won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature (Kazuo) Ishiguro |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | LITERATURE $400: This round table wit's poem "love song" says, "My own dear love, he is all my heart,--and I wish somebody'd shoot him" Dorothy Parker |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | LITERATURE $800: This Thomas Hardy title character is described as "a fine and picturesque country girl" Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | LITERATURE $1,200 (Daily Double): This Shakespeare character says, "When I was about thy years, Hal, I was not an eagle's talon in the waist" (Sir John) Falstaff |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | LITERATURE $1600: "Cat's Cradle" by this author begins with a chapter called "The Day the World Ended" & goes on from there (Kurt) Vonnegut |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | LITERATURE $2000: This Jonathan Swift title "suggestion" prevented "the children of poor people from being a burthen to their parents" A Modest Proposal |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | SWEDISH HISTORY $2000: "Talent & Taste" is the motto of the Swedish this institution, founded in 1786, which hands out the Nobel Prize for Literature the Academy |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | PREPOSITIONAL LITERATURE $200: A boy comes of age during this 19th century conflict in Irene Hunt's young adult classic "Across Five Aprils" the Civil War |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | PREPOSITIONAL LITERATURE $400: In a prophetic adventure tale, Jules Verne took us on a journey "From the Earth to" this locale the Moon |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | PREPOSITIONAL LITERATURE $600: This Jon Krakauer nonfiction work told the story of Chris McCandless & his efforts to escape the modern world & survive in nature Into the Wild |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | PREPOSITIONAL LITERATURE $800: African-American detective Virgil Tibbs must solve a murder in the Deep South in this John Ball novel from 1965 In the Heat of the Night |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | PREPOSITIONAL LITERATURE $1000: "On the Banks of Plum Creek" is the fourth book in this series about a pioneering family The Little House (on the Prairie series) books |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | 1870s LITERATURE $400: The story "Carmilla" features an early appearance of one of these creatures in fiction; it's dispatched with a stake to the heart a vampire |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | 1870s LITERATURE $800: Phileas Fogg bets fellow London clubmen that he can succeed at this title challenging task go around the world in 80 days |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | 1870s LITERATURE $1200: His rags-to-riches tales included "Paul the Peddler", the adventures of a young street merchant Horatio Alger |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | 1870s LITERATURE $1600: The ancient Greek fusion of passion & restraint was probed in "The Birth of Tragedy" by this German philosopher Nietzsche |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | 1870s LITERATURE $2000: A baker, a banker & a butcher are all on the lookout for this creature in Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem "The Hunting of" this the Snark |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | EUROPEAN LITERATURE $400: Also known for his detective fiction, French author Gaston Leroux wrote this 1910 "operatic" work The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | EUROPEAN LITERATURE $800: This Camus novel was inspired by a run-in his friend had with 2 Arab men on a beach The Stranger |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | EUROPEAN LITERATURE $1200: The author of "My Brilliant Friend" uses this Italian pseudonym & will stop publishing if her identity is revealed Elena Ferrante |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | EUROPEAN LITERATURE $1600: Percy Shelley wrote the poem "Adonais" in honor of this other poet & friend Keats |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | EUROPEAN LITERATURE $2000: In addition to a devilish masterwork, this German wrote "The Sorrows of Young Werther" Goethe |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | LITERATURE $400: Michel Tournier's "Friday, or the Other Island" is a modern retelling of this 18th century novel Robinson Crusoe |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | LITERATURE $1200: "Dead Until Dark" by Charlaine Harris introduced this female telepath & a community of Louisiana vampires Sookie Stackhouse |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | LITERATURE $1600: Mr. Scratch is bested by a New Hampshire orator in this story by Stephen Vincent Benet "The Devil and Daniel Webster" |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): With works like "Redgauntlet" & "Kenilworth", this U.K. author created the historical novel in the 19th century Sir Walter Scott |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | LITERATURE $2000: At the end of this first F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, Amory Blaine is lonely, broke & traveling back to Princeton on foot This Side of Paradise |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNGER READERS $200: In the story of this pair, the witch asks, "Nibble, nibble little mouse, who is nibbling at my house?" Hansel & Gretel |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNGER READERS $400: This Dr. Seuss character shows up one boring rainy day when "our mother was out of the house" the Cat in the Hat |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNGER READERS $600: An annual read aloud book award is named for this "Stuart Little" author E.B. White |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNGER READERS $800: Shere Khan, the Bengal tiger in "The Jungle Book", threatens that this character "is mine & to my teeth he will come in the end" Mowgli |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNGER READERS $1000: Billy has a pair of hounds named Old Dan & Little Ann in the kids' classic "Where" this plant "Grows" the Red Fern |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | THE ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE $200: The short story collection "Dead Neon" envisions strange, post-apocalyptic possibilities in this desert mecca Las Vegas |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | THE ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE $400: In a work by L. Frank Baum, the Scarecrow & this character are captured by a female giant & turned into a bear & an owl the Tin Man |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | THE ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE $600: Daniel Wallace's "Supergirl" is subtitled "Daughter of" this planet Krypton |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | THE ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE $800: D'Artagnan & the 3 Musketeers are up for adventure again in this 1850 work about a mysterious prisoner The Man in the Iron Mask |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | THE ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE $1000: "The Silver Chair" is the fourth book in the series about this fantasy land Narnia |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | DIGESTING SOME LITERATURE $200: At a Manhattan eatery, this character enjoys bacon & eggs & toast (perhaps rye?) Holden Caulfield |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | DIGESTING SOME LITERATURE $400: In a Thomas Harris book, the conductor of the philharmonic could not recall the fare at this doctor's dinner Hannibal Lecter |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | DIGESTING SOME LITERATURE $600: A true glutton, this "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory" character gets sent up the (chocolate) river Augustus Gloop |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | DIGESTING SOME LITERATURE $1000: A 14th century poem details "all the meat & mirth that men could devise", then Sir Gawain taking on this title party crasher the Green Knight |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | DIGESTING SOME LITERATURE $3,400 (Daily Double): Revenge is served cold--courtesy of an ex-prison inmate--in "The Dinner", chapter 63 of this Dumas classic The Count of Monte Cristo |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In this novel Guy Montag reads aloud from a book to his wife's shocked friends Fahrenheit 451 |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Canadian environmentalist Farley Mowat is best known for bringing sympathy to a predator in "Never Cry" this Wolf |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: This 1991 novel by Canadian Douglas Coupland gave a name to a whole cohort born around the same time Generation X |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: His 1947 play "All My Sons" is about a businessman whose substandard airplane parts cost young men their lives (Arthur) Miller |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: The title of this Laura Esquivel bestseller refers to a sweet recipe but also a state of passion or anger Like Water for Chocolate |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | LITERATURE: "GOOD" OR "GREAT" $200: "Trimalchio in West Egg" was a working title for this novel The Great Gatsby |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | LITERATURE: "GOOD" OR "GREAT" $300 (Daily Double): In this novel, Miss Havisham dies after the faded wedding dress she wears catches fire Great Expectations |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | LITERATURE: "GOOD" OR "GREAT" $600: The world is ending this coming Saturday, just before dinner, in this book by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett Good Omens |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | LITERATURE: "GOOD" OR "GREAT" $800: "Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight" is a line from this Dylan Thomas poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | LITERATURE: "GOOD" OR "GREAT" $1000: This novel sees Wang Lung go from peasant to landowner The Good Earth |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | POETS & POETRY $2000: She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 & in 2020 this poet, whose last name means good fortune, won the Nobel Prize for Literature Louise Glück |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | PSYCHOLOGY LITERATURE $1200: Named for a fallen angel, this "Effect" is the title of Philip Zimbardo's book on "How Good People Turn Evil" Lucifer (The Lucifer Effect) |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | PSYCHOLOGY LITERATURE $1600: To help us be more productive, Charles Duhigg explores why we do what we do in "The Power of" this The Power of Habit |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | PSYCHOLOGY LITERATURE $2000: This man's book "Walden Two" is a fictional account of a society based on his theories of behaviorism B.F. Skinner |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | ESCAPIST LITERATURE $400: "The Wooden Horse" by Eric Williams is the fact-based story of escaping Stalag Luft III, this type of place a POW camp |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | ESCAPIST LITERATURE $1200: George & Eliza make it safely to Canada after escaping the Shelby plantation in this 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | ESCAPIST LITERATURE $1600: In "Great Expectations" , the escaped convict Abel Magwitch is revealed to be this character's benefactor Pip |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | ESCAPIST LITERATURE $2000: The displaced title man escapes being put to death in this 1889 novel by accurately predicting a solar eclipse A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | ESCAPIST LITERATURE $6,000 (Daily Double): 10 young people tell stories to pass the time in "The Decameron" while escaping the black death engulfing this city Florence |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: The Nobel prizes are awarded in 6 categories, including this one for which Louise Gluck won in 2020 literature |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM FOR CANADA $2000: On Prince Edward Island, you can visit the farm that inspired this 1908 novel, a classic of Canadian literature Anne of Green Gables |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | OLD LITERATURE $400: Epinician odes, from the word Nike, include a series about this event, such as ones praising the boxer Diagoras the Olympic Games |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | OLD LITERATURE $800: The Panchatantra animal fables were written in this ancient language of India & used to teach princes Sanskrit |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | OLD LITERATURE $1200: This hero of Virgil's famous work escapes with a handful of survivors after the fall of Troy Aeneas |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | OLD LITERATURE $1600: Spell 125 in this collection of funerary texts involves Anubis weighing the deceased's heart in the hall of truth the Egyptian Book of the Dead |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | OLD LITERATURE $2000: In an ancient Mesopotamian epic, this king of Rruk meets the goddess Ishtar Gilgamesh |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | FAMILIAR SOUNDING TRIOS $200: Slang for money, literature's Mr. Bradbury, the objective case of I dough, Ray, me |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | SOUTHERN LITERATURE $400: Inspired by the author's hometown of Monroeville, Maycomb, Alabama is the setting for this 1960 classic To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | SOUTHERN LITERATURE $800: 14-year-old Lily finds her way to Tiburon, S.C. & the Boatwright sisters in Sue Monk Kidd's "The Secret Life of" these Bees |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | I NOMINATE YOU FOR A NOBEL PRIZE! $800: Pearl Buck, W.H. Auden & C.S. Lewis all nominated this "North of Boston" poet for Literature, but he never won (Robert) Frost |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | SOUTHERN LITERATURE $1200: Colson Whitehead's novel about these "Boys" is based on abuse & worse at a real reform school in the Jim Crow Era Nickel |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | SOUTHERN LITERATURE $2000: Originally in a Savannah cemetery, a mysterious statue called "Bird Girl" appears on the cover of this John Berendt bestseller Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | SOUTHERN LITERATURE $6,000 (Daily Double): Set in rural Georgia, this novel told in the form of letters won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction The Color Purple |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | QUOTH THE MAVEN $2000: In an essay, this Brit seen here wrote, "Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes" (George) Orwell |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | LITERATURE $200: It begins, "Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember" Don Quixote |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | LITERATURE $400: Seen here is an engraving for the 12th & final segment of the Edmund Spenser work known as "The Shepheardes" this Calendar |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | LITERATURE $600: In an S.E. Hinton novel, Motorcycle Boy tries to free the aquarium dwellers he calls these, the book's title Rumble Fish |
| #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 |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | LITERATURE $1000: Hilary Mantel's trilogy about Tudor royals is named for this residence Wolf Hall |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | NAMES IN LITERATURE $800: This author created the characters Jonathan Harker & Dr. Van Helsing (Bram) Stoker |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | NAMES IN LITERATURE $1200: In "Gulliver's Travels", some of these greedy & violent humanoids have been tamed by the Houyhnhnms Yahoo(s) |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | NAMES IN LITERATURE $1600: He's the scrawny schoolteacher who gets frightened by the headless horseman Ichabod Crane |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | NAMES IN LITERATURE $2000: Tom & Laura Wingfield are brother & sister in this play The Glass Menagerie |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | FRENCH LITERATURE $400: One of the most popular novels among soldiers on both sides in the U.S. Civil War was this 1862 Victor Hugo novel Les Misérables |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | FRENCH LITERATURE $800: Charles Perrault is remembered for his fairy tales like "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge", this title in English Little Red Riding Hood |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | FRENCH LITERATURE $1200: Frederic Chopin's lover wrote romantic feminist works like "Lelia" using this pseudonym George Sand |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | FRENCH LITERATURE $1600: Colette created this teenager shown here with her grandma who's raising her to be a courtesan Gigi |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | FRENCH LITERATURE $2000: France's premier literary prize, this "Prix" awards a whopping 10 euros to the winner the Prix Goncourt |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | LITERATURE $400: In 1905 you didn't want to eat a pork chop while reading the paper "appeal to reason", as it serialized this stockyard novel The Jungle |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | LITERATURE $800: At a dinner party in Shakespeare, Banquo's ghost shows up to torment this title character Macbeth |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | LITERATURE $1200: The chapter titles in this Henry Fielding novel include "A Little Chapter, in Which is Contained a Little Incident" Tom Jones |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | LITERATURE $1600: In his 50s Tom Wolfe wrote his first novel, this one about the downfall of a Manhattan bond trader The Bonfire of the Vanities |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | LITERATURE $2000: In this A.S. Byatt novel, a scholar (Aaron Eckhart in the movie) finds letters in a book owned by a long-dead poet Possession |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: Antoine de Saint-Exupery is best remembered for the 1943 children's tale "The Little" this Prince |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | WORLD LITERATURE $1200: Russian characters can be confusing & Gogol didn't help with a story about a quarrel by 2 men who both had this common first name Ivan |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | WORLD LITERATURE $1,500 (Daily Double): Written by the 11th century poet, Ferdowsi, "Shahnameh" is considered the national epic of this country Iran |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | WORLD LITERATURE $1600: Novels in the horror genre by Bram Stoker include "The Lair of" this colorful snakelike creature the White Worm |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | WORLD LITERATURE $2000: The author of works like "Cevdet Bey & His Sons", Orhan Pamuk was the first Nobel literature prize winner from this country Turkey |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | ASIAN LITERATURE & DRAMA $400: The traditional Korean form of drama known as talchum involves singing, dancing & the donning of these masks |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | ASIAN LITERATURE & DRAMA $800: 1913 Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore wrote the words & music to this country's national anthem India |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | ASIAN LITERATURE & DRAMA $1600: A collection of verses first translated into English in the 19th century, "The Rubaiyat" is by this Persian poet Omar Khayyam |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | ASIAN LITERATURE & DRAMA $2,000 (Daily Double): This acclaimed 1950 multi-perspective film is based on 2 Japanese short stories Rashomon |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | ASIAN LITERATURE & DRAMA $2000: Also called "Lunyu", this work is a collection of the sayings & teachings of the philosopher Confucius the Analects |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | 1930s LITERATURE $400: In a classic story for children, this title bull ignores the matador & enjoys smelling flowers Ferdinand |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | 1930s LITERATURE $800: In this Pearl Buck novel, Wang betrays his wife O-Lan for another woman The Good Earth |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | 1930s LITERATURE $1200: A soldier is horribly wounded in the WWI novel he "Got His Gun", published 2 days after World War II began Johnny |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | 1930s LITERATURE $2000: Her novella "Anthem" is set in a future where people live without freedom in collectives Ayn Rand (Alisa Rosenbaum) |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | 1930s LITERATURE $5,000 (Daily Double): After a plane crash in the Himalayas, 4 people end up in Shangri-La in this 1933 novel Lost Horizon |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | A LITERATURE SAMPLER $400: In 2020 he had a No. 1 kids' picture book bestseller with "I Promise"... oh yeah, he also won an NBA title with the Lakers LeBron James |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | A LITERATURE SAMPLER $800: In a classic tale about this title guy, "John, Lord Greystoke... vanished from the eyes and from the knowledge of men" Tarzan |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | A LITERATURE SAMPLER $1200: TB, or not TB, there is no question tuberculosis killed this "Eve of St. Agnes" romantic poet at age 25 (John) Keats |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | A LITERATURE SAMPLER $1600: In a legendary tale, the "Galloping Hessian of the Hollow" is better known as this, which is certainly more terrifying the Headless Horseman |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | A LITERATURE SAMPLER $2000: This book about surviving the great recession of 2008 is the basis for a 2020 film starring Frances McDormand Nomadland |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE $200: The name of this quirky alliterative character was inspired by a boomerang toy Roald Dahl had as a boy Willy Wonka |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE $600: "Last Sacrifice" was the finale of Richelle Mead's series about special young people attending this school the Vampire Academy |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE $800: In a story by Mary Mapes Dodge, the sister of this title boy wins the silver skates Hans Brinker |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Chapters in this work include "The Mock Turtle's Story" & "The Lobster Quadrille" Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE $1000: Melinda Sordino is the heroine of this novel by Laurie Halse Anderson; the last name Sordino can mean "mute" Speak |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | REESE'S PIECES OF LITERATURE $400: "The Proposal" at the beginning of Jasmine Guillory's novel happens on the JumboTron of this Los Angeles baseball stadium Dodger Stadium |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | REESE'S PIECES OF LITERATURE $800: "From Scratch" is Tembi Locke's memoir of marrying a chef & eating great food on this Italian island Sicily |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | REESE'S PIECES OF LITERATURE $1200: Reese picked "The Giver of Stars" by this woman who got the name Jojo from the Beatles' song "Get Back" Jojo Moyes |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | REESE'S PIECES OF LITERATURE $1600: Not only did Reese put this Celeste Ng novel about drama in the suburbs on her list, she produced & starred in the Hulu adaptation Little Fires Everywhere |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | REESE'S PIECES OF LITERATURE $2000: The nonfiction "Braving the Wilderness" is by this alliterative woman whose "Call to Courage" special is on Netflix Brené Brown |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | TYPES OF NARRATIVE LITERATURE $200: You can bet "The Lottery" is a good example of this genre of brief narratives, usually under 10,000 words a short story |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | TYPES OF NARRATIVE LITERATURE $400: The story of the Good Samaritan in the Bible's book of Luke is one of these simple narratives with a moral or religious purpose a parable |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | TYPES OF NARRATIVE LITERATURE $600: Alliterative 2-word name for fanciful stories about folks like Paul Bunyan with unbelievable elements presented as true & factual a tall tale |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | TYPES OF NARRATIVE LITERATURE $800: E.L. James gained fame with this type of writing that puts the writer's favorite characters from books, TV, etc. in new adventures fan fiction |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | TYPES OF NARRATIVE LITERATURE $1000: Meaning not proceeding from event A to event B to event C, this "non" word applies to "Tristram Shandy" & "House of Leaves" nonlinear |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | LITERATURE $400: "The Young Giant" & "Little Red-Cap" were 2 of the more than 200 stories collected by these German brothers in a 19th c. anthology the Brothers Grimm |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | LITERATURE $800: Scholars think John Hunter, an 18th c. London surgeon known as "The Knife Man", inspired this R.L. Stevenson guy Dr. Jekyll |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | LITERATURE $1200: The only surviving complete poem from 2,600 years ago by Sappho is an "Ode to" this Greek goddess of love Aphrodite |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | LITERATURE $1600: Dylan Thomas' best-known poem urges his father, "Do not" do this. "Rage, rage against the dying of the light" go gentle into that good night |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | LITERATURE $2000: This French-titled book about the round table knights begins, "It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon..." Le Morte d'Arthur |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | LITERATURE $200: Former NFL tight end Roberta Muldoon is a character in this John Irving novel The World According to Garp |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | LITERATURE $400: Griffin, the main character in this Wells novel, describes himself as "almost an albino", if he could have been seen The Invisible Man |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | LITERATURE $600: Perhaps the devil made him do it, but Part II of this dramatic Goethe work wasn't published until 1832, 24 years after Part I Faust |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | LITERATURE $1000: The title of this 14th century work may have been modeled on Hexameron The Decameron |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): An unfinished sequel to "The 3 Musketeers", Dumas' "The Red Sphinx" continues the story of this real-life cardinal Richelieu |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: The recipe for this title Judy Blume "Juice" includes grape juice, vinegar & mustard Freckle (Freckle Juice) |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: The Washington Post editorialized that "If You Give a Mouse" this was a criticism of the welfare state a Cookie |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1200: Books about this title simian include his visit to an aquarium & him making pancakes Curious George |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1600: The "World's Greatest Detective", this kid, rhymingly "the Great", solves all sorts of crimes, often in a deerstalker cap Nate (Nate the Great) |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $2000: A children's literature prize first given in 2003 is named for this Swedish creator of Pippi Longstocking (Astrid) Lindgren |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | NEW YORK SOCIETY $1000: Crusading against "obscene" literature from the 1870s to the 1950s, the NYSSV was the New York Society for the Suppression of this vice |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | LITERATURE $400: The lead character of this 2008 novel owes her last name to the heroine Bathsheba Everdene in "Far From the Madding Crowd" The Hunger Games |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | LITERATURE $800: In a Jane Austen novel, Northanger is this title type of structure that Catherine wants to be exciting, but turns out to be dull an abbey |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | LITERATURE $1200: This author's last finished work wasn't an adventure story, but the "Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine" published after his 1870 death Alexandre Dumas |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | LITERATURE $1600: Henry Fielding said Colley Cibber, who held this official literary post, was guilty of "high crimes... against the English language" Poet Laureate |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | LITERATURE $2000: This playwright's "The Children's Hour" was inspired by a real case suggested by Dashiell Hammett (Lillian) Hellman |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | THE FIRST NOBEL $1600: The first Literature Prize went to poet Sully Prudhomme, who'd been elected to this prestigious French literary body 20 years earlier the French Academy (Académie Française) |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | LITERATURE TITLES BY LAST WORD $400: A 2005 bestseller: "Tattoo" The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | LITERATURE TITLES BY LAST WORD $800: An 1820 story: "Hollow" "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | LITERATURE TITLES BY LAST WORD $1200: A 1969 memoir: "Sings" I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | LITERATURE TITLES BY LAST WORD $1600: A 1989 immigrant story: "Club" The Joy Luck Club |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | LITERATURE TITLES BY LAST WORD $2000: A 1939 Hollywood tale: "Locust" The Day of the Locust |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: 'Twas 2 days before Christmas in 1823 that the poem "A Visit from" him was published anonymously in a New York newspaper St. Nicholas |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: This Stevenson classic is divided into 6 parts including "The Old Buccaneer" & "Captain Silver" Treasure Island |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $1200: In 1863 he published a novel about "The Cossacks", who also get plenty of mention in his next, more epic, work (Leo) Tolstoy |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): His adventure novel "Une Ville Flottante", "A Floating City", takes place on a steamship, not under the sea Jules Verne |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $2000: His first book of poems, "The Black Riders" was published in 1895, the same year as his "Red Badge of Courage" (Stephen) Crane |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: In a book by Beverly Cleary, Socks is this pet, suddenly having to share the house with a new baby a cat |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: A tiny one of these dinosaurs has a big problem: an impossible hug, because of his short arms! a Tyrannosaurus |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: This bedtime classic is set in "the great green room" Goodnight Moon |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: "One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and--pop!--out of the egg came" this title larva the very hungry caterpillar |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1,800 (Daily Double): She wrote about & illustrated a frog named Mr. Jeremy Fisher & a hedgehog named Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle Beatrix Potter |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | LITERATURE ON THE MAP $400: In "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", Maya Angelou lives in the small town of Stamps near Texarkana in the SW corner of this state Arkansas |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | LITERATURE ON THE MAP $800: Owen Wister's "The Virginian" is set in cattle country in this "Cowboy State" Wyoming |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | LITERATURE ON THE MAP $1200: This author based the novel "The Magic Mountain" on a trip to Davos, Switzerland to treat his wife's bronchitis Thomas Mann |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | LITERATURE ON THE MAP $1600: Centennial, a suburb of Denver, is named for the title town in this man's 1974 novel "Centennial" (James) Michener |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | LITERATURE ON THE MAP $2000: Many think Frances Hodgson Burnett based the overgrown wild of this 1911 novel on Great Maytham Hall in Kent The Secret Garden |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | WOMEN IN LITERATURE $200: In "Pride & Prejudice", Mr. Bennet & this daughter discuss her possible engagement to Mr. Darcy Elizabeth |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | WOMEN IN LITERATURE $400: Charlotte Bronte wrote "Shirley" as well as this more famous novel with the heroine's name as the title Jane Eyre |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | WOMEN IN LITERATURE $600: Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who & Mrs. Which help Meg Murry & her brother in this 1962 novel by Madeleine L'Engle A Wrinkle in Time |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | WOMEN IN LITERATURE $800: This William Makepeace Thackeray novel deals with the interwoven fortunes of 2 women: the passive Amelia & the scheming Becky Vanity Fair |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | WOMEN IN LITERATURE $1000: Rosalind from this comedy has the most lines of any of Shakespeare's women As You Like It |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Washington Irving's tale of this farmer who takes a big snooze was based on a German folktale Rip Van Winkle |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Willa Cather's novel about this title girl is set around the town of Black Hawk, Nebraska My Antonia |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: The title of this first Philip Marlowe novel is a euphemism for death The Big Sleep |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: 4 Chinese women meet regularly to play Mah-jongg & to talk about life & their children in this 1989 Amy Tan novel The Joy Luck Club |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | "THAN" WORDS $1000: Euphuism, an artificially elegant prose style, came into fashion in this royal period of English literature Elizabethan |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In 1997 this famously reclusive author published a fictionalized tale of surveyors "Mason & Dixon" (Thomas) Pynchon |
| #8226, aired 2020-06-01 | 19th CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: Lewis Carroll mirrored the success of his "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" with this 1872 sequel Through the Looking-Glass |
| #8226, aired 2020-06-01 | 19th CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: The painting seen here, depicts a scene from this Charles Dickens novel The Old Curiosity Shop |
| #8226, aired 2020-06-01 | 19th CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE $1200: "Agnes Grey" is a novel by this lesser-known sister Anne Bronte |
| #8226, aired 2020-06-01 | 19th CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE $1600: He wrote a critique of prison life, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", after spending time in the prison; it was his last published work Oscar Wilde |
| #8226, aired 2020-06-01 | 19th CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE $2000: The title gem in this Wilkie Collins novel was originally stolen from an Indian shrine The Moonstone |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | RUSSIAN TO THE BOOKSHELF $1200: This 19th century poet, playwright and unsuccessful duelist is considered a founder of modern Russian literature Alexander Pushkin |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | RUSSIAN TO THE BOOKSHELF $2000: This 1970 Literature Nobel Prize winner spent time in the gulag & was deported from the Soviet Union in 1974 Solzhenitsyn |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | LITERATURE $400: All published in the 1950s, 7 books make up this series by C.S. Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | LITERATURE $800: Patricia Highsmith gained fame with her first novel, about 2 men who meet as "Strangers" here on a train |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | LITERATURE $1200: Published in 1893, "Catriona", also known as "David Balfour", was Robert Louis Stevenson's sequel to this novel Kidnapped |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | LITERATURE $1600: Roughly 1,100 years after it was written, this Old English poem was first published in 1815--in Denmark Beowulf |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | LITERATURE $2000: In 1930 this "Main Street" author became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature Sinclair Lewis |
| #8208, aired 2020-04-22 | A MARRIAGE MADE IN LITERATURE $200: Anna Oblonsky is the maiden name of this title character Anna Karenina |
| #8208, aired 2020-04-22 | A MARRIAGE MADE IN LITERATURE $400: When Romeo marries Juliet, these 2 families are joined in matrimony & later, tragedy the Montagues and the Capulets |
| #8208, aired 2020-04-22 | A MARRIAGE MADE IN LITERATURE $600: Creepy! In order to get closer to Lolita, this man with a double-talk name marries her mother Charlotte Haze Humbert Humbert |
| #8208, aired 2020-04-22 | A MARRIAGE MADE IN LITERATURE $800: The title of this Daphne du Maurier novel refers to the first Mrs. de Winter; the second Mrs. de Winter is obsessed with her Rebecca |
| #8208, aired 2020-04-22 | A MARRIAGE MADE IN LITERATURE $1000: This 1966 novel is about the first marriage of the character Mr. Rochester from "Jane Eyre" Wide Sargasso Sea |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | NOBEL LITERARY NOMINEES $800: In 1963 this then-president of France received nominations for literature, not peace Charles de Gaulle |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | NOBEL LITERARY NOMINEES $2,000 (Daily Double): These 2 pioneers in psychology were nominated for literature, one in 1936 & one in 1954 Freud and Jung |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | 1940s LITERATURE $400: Mollie the mare is a minor character in this George Orwell novel Animal Farm |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | 1940s LITERATURE $800: The first words of this faded southern belle are "They told me to take a streetcar named Desire" Blanche DuBois |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | 1940s LITERATURE $1200: This 1944 Charles Jackson novel about a chronic alcoholic won 4 Oscars when it came to the big screen a year later The Lost Weekend |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | 1940s LITERATURE $1600: Her 1948 novel "Peony" told the story of a Jewish family living in China in the 1800s Pearl Buck |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | 1940s LITERATURE $2000: Some of this American poet's "Pisan Cantos" was penned in 1945 while he was in prison for fascist radio broadcasts (Ezra) Pound |
| #8157, aired 2020-02-11 | MAGIC IN LITERATURE $400: In Glen Cook's "Black Company" series, Soulcatcher flies around on one of these, just like in the "Thousand and One Nights" a magic carpet |
| #8157, aired 2020-02-11 | MAGIC IN LITERATURE $1200: To access power, mages in the "Malazan" series use & travel in these, just like the burrows where rabbits live warrens |
| #8157, aired 2020-02-11 | MAGIC IN LITERATURE $1600: Allomancers in the "Mistborn" series can burn metals like iron & even these, like pewter & duralumin alloys |
| #8157, aired 2020-02-11 | MAGIC IN LITERATURE $2000: Everyone has a special magic talent in this author's "Xanth" series that began with "A Spell for Chameleon" Piers Anthony |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | LITERATURE: THE SUBTITLE $200: "Or, the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up" Peter Pan |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | LITERATURE: THE SUBTITLE $400: A 1970s special Pulitzer winner: "The Saga of an American Family" Roots |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | LITERATURE: THE SUBTITLE $800: By Monsieur Flaubert, "A Story of Provincial Life" Madame Bovary |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | LITERATURE: THE SUBTITLE $1000: Robert Pirsig's 2-wheeled traveling tale: "An Inquiry into Values" Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | LITERATURE: THE SUBTITLE $1,200 (Daily Double): "Or, the Parish Boy's Progress", which included picking a pocket or 2 Oliver Twist |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $400: Geryon, a character in one of this hero's labors, falls in love with him in Anne Carson's "The Autobiography of Red" Hercules |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $800: W.H. Auden wrote a famous poem about a painting of him, described as "a boy falling out of the sky" Icarus |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $1200: In a Shelley work this fire bringer is not happy to be nailed to a "wall of eagle-baffling mountain" Prometheus |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $1600: The title character of Margaret Atwood's "The Penelopiad" tells the story of running this kingdom while waiting for Odysseus to get back Ithaca |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $2000: Dionysus is a big factor in "The Secret History", this author's first novel (Donna) Tartt |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | BEHIND THE LITERATURE $200: Edward Lansdale, a U.S. officer in Asia, was a model for the novel "The Ugly" this & possibly for "The Quiet" this also American |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | BEHIND THE LITERATURE $400: William Brodie, craftsman by day & criminal by night, was the inspiration for this Robert Louis Stevenson tale The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | BEHIND THE LITERATURE $800: Many think Daniel Webster's summation at a murder trial inspired this man to write "The Tell-Tale Heart" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | BEHIND THE LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Kevin Kwan said he based this 2013 bestseller on the Kwan, Oh & Hu families Crazy Rich Asians |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | BEHIND THE LITERATURE $1000: Mr. Ramsay in her 1927 novel "To the Lighthouse" is a portrait of her father Leslie Stephen Virginia Woolf |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | LITERATURE $200: In this Steinbeck work, George kills his friend Lennie to spare him from a lynch mob Of Mice and Men |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | LITERATURE $400: In this novel, after learning there are no grownups, Jack says, "We'll have to look after ourselves" the Lord of the Flies |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | LITERATURE $600: This beloved novel whose first word is "Christmas" has been adapted for a Christmas 2019 movie, with Meryl Streep as Aunt March Little Women |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | LITERATURE $800: Lila & Elena are pals in this first book of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet My Brilliant Friend |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | LITERATURE $1000: In 2019 his "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction" first came out as an e-book J.D. Salinger |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | LITERATURE $400: After taking a strange drink, Rip Van Winkle falls asleep for this many years before waking up 20 |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | LITERATURE $800: In this Pierre Boulle novel, chimps & gorillas rule & men live like beasts Planet of the Apes |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | LITERATURE $1200: It's the name of the half-sheepdog, half-St. Bernard in "The Call of the Wild" Buck |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | LITERATURE $1600: A 2014 biographical novel about this author opens with his "Passage to India" aboard the SS City of Birmingham E.M. Forster |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | LITERATURE $2000: The Apostles Peter & Paul & the Roman emperor all show up in this Henryk Sienkiewicz novel whose title is a question Quo Vadis |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | 1890s LITERATURE $800: Edmond Rostand set this 1897 play about the pursuit of the lovely Roxane in 17th century Paris Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | 1890s LITERATURE $1200: A collection of this controversial German philosopher's thoughts & essays was titled "The Anti-Christ" Nietzsche |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | 1890s LITERATURE $1600: In "Trilby", a young singer falls under the trance of this man whose name became a synonym for a hypnotic controller Svengali |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | 1890s LITERATURE $2000: Dubbed "The Jewish Mark Twain" for his poignant tales, this author published "Tevye the Dairyman" in 1894 Sholem Aleichem |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE $400: The novel titled this "Patient" is set in Italy & was written by Sri Lankan-Canadian Michael Ondaatje The English |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE $800: Born off Queensland, Kath Walker, aka Oodgeroo Noonuccal, wrote "We Are Going", the 1st book of poems by a person of this ethnicity Aboriginal |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE $1200: Gabriel Sundukian wrote this language's greatest dramas in what's now the country of Georgia Armenian |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE $1600: This poet told the Nobel Banquet, "Our Irish theatre could (never) have come into existence but for" Henrik Ibsen (William Butler) Yeats |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE $2000: Son of a Polish patriot, he was born in what's now Berdychiv, Ukraine & wrote works like "Typhoon" in English (Joseph) Conrad |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | BRITISH LITERATURE $200: Better known for his "Tales", in the 1390s he wrote a "Treatise on the Astrolabe" Chaucer |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | BRITISH LITERATURE $400: Benjamin Bunny convinces this other Beatrix Potter bunny to go back to Mr. McGregor's garden Peter Rabbit |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | BRITISH LITERATURE $600: Homophonic last names of Samuel & Ben, whom Samuel wrote about in "Lives of the Poets" Johnson/Jonson |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | BRITISH LITERATURE $800: This "Vanity Fair" author quarreled with Dickens but was able to "Makepeace" with him (William Makepeace) Thackeray |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1000: Set in the 12th c. Middle East, "The Wondrous Tale of Alroy" is a novel about a Jewish conqueror by this author/politician Disraeli |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | RUSSIAN LITERATURE $400: As this Chekhov play ends, trees on the Ranevskaya estate are being cut down to build a housing development The Cherry Orchard |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | RUSSIAN LITERATURE $800: He had some revolutionary ideas in his 1902 tract, "What Is To Be Done?" Lenin |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | RUSSIAN LITERATURE $1200: His imprisonment & subsequent exile to Siberia led to the writing of "The House of the Dead" Dostoevsky |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | RUSSIAN LITERATURE $1600: Just 10 days before he became a dead soul, this author burned sequels he had written for his "Dead Souls" Nikolai Gogol |
| #8033, aired 2019-07-10 | LITERATURE $200: In 1850 he pitched his publisher a romance based on legends from southern sperm whale fisheries (Herman) Melville |
| #8033, aired 2019-07-10 | LITERATURE $400: George Orwell based Room 101 in "1984" on a real boardroom at this broadcast network where he spent many a long meeting the BBC |
| #8033, aired 2019-07-10 | LITERATURE $600: The name of this Moliere character was based on a word for "truffle" Tartuffe |
| #8033, aired 2019-07-10 | LITERATURE $800: Stephen Crane's "War Memories" were not about the Civil War but this later war, including the taking of Guantanamo Bay the Spanish-American War |
| #8033, aired 2019-07-10 | LITERATURE $1000: Mentor Ezra Pound convinced this poet to cut half of "The Waste Land" (T.S.) Eliot |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | BRITISH LITERATURE $400: "All for Love" by John Dryden looks at the tragic lives of this ancient couple Shakespeare also wrote about Antony and Cleopatra |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | BRITISH LITERATURE $800: Dickens' first novel concerned a guy with this last name & the papers of his club Pickwick |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1200: In 1894 he published a collection of stories featuring the characters Baloo & Bagheera Kipling |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1600: In this controversial 1928 novel, passionate Constance is married to paralyzed Sir Clifford Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | BRITISH LITERATURE $7,000 (Daily Double): In this long 16th century poem, Queen Elizabeth I appears as Belphoebe & is represented by the title monarch The Faerie Queene |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | LITERATURE FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE $400: 2018's "The Silence of the Girls" tells this classic story from the perspective of Briseis, Achilles' concubine the Iliad |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | LITERATURE FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE $800: In this man's "Wife", Una marries the title whaling captain Ahab |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | LITERATURE FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE $1200: The servants who work downstairs for this "Pride & Prejudice" family are the focus of "Longbourn" Bennet |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | LITERATURE FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE $2000: "Foe" by J.M. Coetzee depicts the final days of these 2 men as seen by a woman shipwrecked with the pair (Robinson) Crusoe and Friday |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | LITERATURE FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE $3,000 (Daily Double): Unseen in the Shakespeare play, Rosaline gets her story told in the book titled this character's "Ex" Romeo |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | 5 NOBEL TRUTHS $4,000 (Daily Double): Only 2 awardees have ever turned down a Nobel Prize: Peace winner Le Duc Tho & this French philosopher, for literature Jean-Paul Sartre |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | WAR IN LITERATURE $200: In "Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, a soldier makes a perilous journey home in the end stages of this U.S. war the Civil War |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | WAR IN LITERATURE $400: Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" recounted events from this 19th century war the Crimean War |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | WAR IN LITERATURE $600: Family members fight on opposite sides of WWI in this Vicente Blasco Ibáñez novel that shares its title with a Biblical quartet The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | WAR IN LITERATURE $800: This oft-filmed second of the "Leatherstocking Tales" sees Natty Bumppo battle the Huron in the French & Indian War Last of the Mohicans |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | WAR IN LITERATURE $1000: This Boris Pasternak novel takes place against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution Doctor Zhivago |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | LITERATURE $200: Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" is subtitled "A Story of" this street of finance Wall Street |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | LITERATURE $400: In a 1923 book by Kahlil Gibran, Almustafa is this mystical title character the Prophet |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | LITERATURE $600: In "Charlotte's Web", Templeton is this creature a rat |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | LITERATURE $800: In a novel Simone de Beauvoir depicted herself as Anne & this author of "The Stranger" as Henri (Albert) Camus |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): The title peak of this Thomas Mann novel is home to a Swiss sanatorium The Magic Mountain |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | MUSICALS BASED ON LITERATURE $400: It took only about 350 years for this musical "Man" to ride forth from Cervantes' "Don Quixote" Man of La Mancha |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | MUSICALS BASED ON LITERATURE $800: In 2018 "Fiddler on the Roof" was staged in NYC in this language of Sholem Alechiem's original stories Yiddish |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | MUSICALS BASED ON LITERATURE $1200: Characters from "War and Peace" populate "Natasha", him "and the Great Comet of 1812" Pierre |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | MUSICALS BASED ON LITERATURE $1600: Show your luck & name this musical based on Damon Runyon stories including "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" Guys and Dolls |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | MUSICALS BASED ON LITERATURE $2000: The musical "Big River" was inspired by this novel first published in the U.S. in 1885 Huckleberry Finn |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | A DEGREE IN LITERATURE $200: "'M.D.' means that" this character "was a proper doctor and knew a whole lot"--including animal language Dr. Dolittle |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | A DEGREE IN LITERATURE $400: Preacher Elmer Gantry earns his B.D., or bachelor of this, a quality he lacks divinity |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | A DEGREE IN LITERATURE $600: The title of the novel "The Paper Chase", made into a movie & TV series, refers to a diploma from this Harvard institution Harvard Law School |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | A DEGREE IN LITERATURE $800: Mary McCarthy graduated from this women's school in New York State in 1933 & wrote "The Group" about women who did too Vassar |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | A DEGREE IN LITERATURE $1000: In this author's "Brideshead Revisited", a father says of his son's univ. degree, "No use to me. Not much use to you either" Evelyn Waugh |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $200: "The horror! The horror!" are Mr. Kurtz' dying words in this novella Heart of Darkness |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $400: From this French novel: "'But you're one against four!' cried Jussac. 'Stop fighting! I order you to stop fighting!'" The Three Musketeers |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $600: He wrote such classics as "The Bostonians", "The Portrait of a Lady" & "The Wings of the Dove" Henry James |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $800: This tale by Robert Louis Stevenson says, "I learned to recognize the thorough and primitive duality of man" Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Part one of "Les Miserables" is "Fantine"; part two is named for this daughter of hers Cosette |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This Washington Irving character "fell asleep on the mountain...and every thing's changed--and I'm changed" Rip Van Winkle |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: George & Nick are professors in the college town of New Carthage in this play by Edward Albee Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Her alter ego Jo March gets $100 for a story she has written (Louisa May) Alcott |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: "More obscene than anything is inertia" is a line from this Henry Miller book some consider obscene Tropic of Cancer |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This O. Henry story about a poor husband & wife trying to buy each other Christmas presents has a twist ending "Gift of the Magi" |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | THE BELLS ARE RINGING $200: Created around 1831, he's literature's most famous bell-ringer Quasimodo |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, Sweden):
At the Nobel Museum shop, you can pick up our own chocolate medal with Alfred Nobel on the front or admire a replica of the literature one on which a young writer listens to one of these mythic inspirations singing. a muse |
| #7944, aired 2019-03-07 | DRUNK ON LITERATURE $400: A med. journal said this Ian Fleming man's "alcohol intake puts him at high risk of multiple alcohol related diseases" James Bond |
| #7944, aired 2019-03-07 | DRUNK ON LITERATURE $800: Kerouac, in this book: "We spent the same week...at Five Points listening to jazz, drinking booze in crazy...saloons" On the Road |
| #7944, aired 2019-03-07 | DRUNK ON LITERATURE $1200: Providing some "Fear & Loathing", he was "drinking Singapore slings with mescal on the side & beer chasers" Hunter Thompson |
| #7944, aired 2019-03-07 | DRUNK ON LITERATURE $1,800 (Daily Double): Alcoholic Ben Sanderson decides to drink himself to death in Sin City in this John O'Brien novel Leaving Las Vegas |
| #7944, aired 2019-03-07 | DRUNK ON LITERATURE $2000: Jake Barnes notes, "I was a little drunk... just enough to be careless" in this 1926 Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | BRITISH LITERATURE $400: "Love is blind", sighs Jessica, a nice Jewish girl in this Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | BRITISH LITERATURE $800: Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in" this 2-word place is thought to be that of St. Giles', where the poet is now buried a country churchyard |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1200: A ruined statue in Egypt inspired this sonnet by Percy Shelley "Ozymandias" |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1600: In this novel by E.M. Forster, Lucy Honeychurch & her cousin visit Florence, Italy A Room with a View |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | BRITISH LITERATURE $2000: Dr. Primrose is the title priest living in the title parish with his wife & kids in this novel by Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: E.L. Doctorow's novel "The March" uses this general's 1864 trek through Georgia as its backdrop General Sherman |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: In one version the last speech of a play by him says, "Nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof" Tennessee Williams |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: In a 1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs tale, Civil War vet John Carter is magically transported here Mars |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,800 (Daily Double): In Oz she's the good witch who helps Dorothy get back to Kansas Glinda |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: John Steinbeck's "East of Eden" plays out its Cain & Abel parable in this California valley the Salinas Valley |
| #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 |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | RELIGIOUS LITERATURE $400: Dante's "Divine Comedy" is divided into 3 parts: this one is followed by "Purgatorio" & "Paradiso" Inferno |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | RELIGIOUS LITERATURE $800: A poem by Richmond Lattimore titled this holiday says, "Our April is the lamb who died / to paint the year in tones of pride" "Easter" |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | RELIGIOUS LITERATURE $1200: This wife of Abraham is the first subject in Orson Scott Card's "Women of Genesis" series Sarah |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | RELIGIOUS LITERATURE $1600: In addition to his books featuring talking lions, this author also wrote "Out of the Silent Planet", a book of religious sci-fi C.S. Lewis |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | RELIGIOUS LITERATURE $2000: In Chaim Potok's "My Name is Asher Lev" an artist tries to balance life in this pious Jewish movement with his imagination Hasidic Judaism |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | RUSSIAN LITERATURE $400: Olga, Masha & Irina are this title Chekhov trio the Three Sisters |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | RUSSIAN LITERATURE $800: Pierre Bezukhov suffers as a P.O.W. in this Tolstoy work War and Peace |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | RUSSIAN LITERATURE $1200: Dr. Zhivago falls in love with this woman, but oops! They're both married Lara |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | RUSSIAN LITERATURE $1600: This 1973 work is an account of prisons & labor camps scattered across Russia like islands in a sea The Gulag Archipelago |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | POPULAR LITERATURE $200: A barnesandnobie.com list of the best works of this type of fiction includes "Outlander", "Pope Joan" & "Fever 1793" historical fiction |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | POPULAR LITERATURE $400: Robert Langdon, who solves "The Da Vinci Code", teaches religious symbology at this university Harvard |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | POPULAR LITERATURE $600: In "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", Nag & Nagaina are 2 of these plotting against a human family & the title mongoose cobras |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | POPULAR LITERATURE $800: Dame Daphne du Maurier's works made into Hitchcock films include "Rebecca" & this high-flying novelette The Birds |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | POPULAR LITERATURE $1000: This book with a lamb-free title marked the first appearance of Dr. Hannibal Lecter Red Dragon |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | THE WORLD THROUGH LITERATURE $400: In Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things", Rahel & Estha forge a childhood in Kerala in this country India |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | THE WORLD THROUGH LITERATURE $800: Nadine Gordimer's final novel, 2012's "No Time Like the Present", is the story of an interracial couple in this country South Africa |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | THE WORLD THROUGH LITERATURE $1200: This classic work recounts 100 stories told by 3 men & 7 women fleeing the plague in 14th century Italy the Decameron |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | THE WORLD THROUGH LITERATURE $1600: A bold English adventurer helps a Japanese warlord become the title of this James Clavell saga of feudal Japan Shogun |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | THE WORLD THROUGH LITERATURE $2000: In "In the Time of Butterflies", rebels in this country pay the ultimate price for standing up to Trujillo the Dominican Republic |
| #7903, aired 2019-01-09 | PLACES $1600: It's been called Australia's "Second City" & was the second city named a UNESCO City of Literature Melbourne |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS $400: His "Green Hills of Africa" is an account of big game hunting in Tanganyika in the 1930s Hemingway |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS $800: "The Times They Are A-Changin"', from his 1964 album of the same name, became an instant anthem Bob Dylan |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS $1200: She penned "Fighting Angel," a biography of her father, Absalom Sydenstricker, a missionary in China Pearl Buck |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): This "colorful" Toni Morrison work follows a black girl's struggle to achieve white ideals of beauty The Bluest Eye |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS $2000: The 2nd & 3rd books in Faulkner's trilogy about this family were published almost 2 decades after the first the Snopes family |
| #7890, aired 2018-12-21 | DREAMY LITERATURE $400: "A vision in a dream" by Coleridge begins, "In Xanadu did" this khan "a stately pleasure-dome decree" Kubla |
| #7890, aired 2018-12-21 | DREAMY LITERATURE $800: This 17th century John Bunyan allegory ends with the line "so I awoke, and behold it was a dream" Pilgrim's Progress |
| #7890, aired 2018-12-21 | DREAMY LITERATURE $1200: This Freud work quotes Plato:
"The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming of that which the wicked man does" The Interpretation of Dreams |
| #7890, aired 2018-12-21 | DREAMY LITERATURE $1600: This Romantic poet gave us the strange dream vision of pale warriors in "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" John Keats |
| #7890, aired 2018-12-21 | DREAMY LITERATURE $2000: The first line of this Daphne du Maurier novel is "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again" Rebecca |
| #7872, aired 2018-11-27 | TROPHY HUNTER $400: A young man sits under a tree & writes down the song of a muse on the Nobel Medal for this field Literature |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Scout is a curious little girl still trying to figure out life in the American South in this classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Part 3 of this novel by Ray Bradbury is called "Burning Bright" Fahrenheit 451 |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: The narrator & protagonist of "The Catcher in the Rye" also appeared in other stories by J.D. Salinger Holden Caulfield |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Kidnapped & sold into slavery, Solomon Northup told of his experiences in this memoir that became a movie 12 Years a Slave |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: Originally published anonymously, his essay on "Nature" helped launch Transcendentalism Emerson |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $400: "Hester at Her Needle" is a chapter in this Hawthorne novel The Scarlet Letter |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $1200: In this novel Miss Havisham lives in a decaying mansion called Satis House Great Expectations |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $1600: This Holocaust survivor based "Night" on his own experiences in Nazi death camps (Elie) Wiesel |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $2000: This 1958 Chinua Achebe novel depicts the struggles of the Igbo people in Nigeria before independence Things Fall Apart |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $2,200 (Daily Double): When these 2 boys & their pal Joe Harper are presumed dead, they hide in the church & hear their own funerals Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | LITERATURE $400: "The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye" is the latest story regarding this Scandinavian heroine (Lisbeth) Salander |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | LITERATURE $800: Britannica says this John Bunyan allegory was at one time second only to the Bible in popularity Pilgrim's Progress |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | LITERATURE $1200: One of his most famous works is called "Du Côte de Chez Swann" in the original French (Marcel) Proust |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | LITERATURE $1600: He dedicated his novel "Texasville" to Cybill Shepherd, who starred in "The Last Picture Show" (Larry) McMurtry |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | LITERATURE $2000: John Kennedy Toole won a posthumous Pulitzer for this New Orleans-set comic novel A Confederacy of Dunces |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | BIBLICALLY INSPIRED LITERATURE $400: In Mark Twain's "Diaries of" this couple, she says he's really bad at naming creatures & wanted to call the dodo a wildcat Adam and Eve |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | BIBLICALLY INSPIRED LITERATURE $1200: She took time off from vampires to write "Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt" about Jesus' youth (Anne) Rice |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | BIBLICALLY INSPIRED LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): In "Moby Dick" a man named Elijah warns this character not to sail on Ahab's boat Ishmael |
| #7836, aired 2018-10-08 | 2018 HAPPENINGS $1600: Caught up in a sex scandal, the Swedish Academy announced it would not give this Nobel Prize in 2018 Literature |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | A BIT O' BRIT LIT $800: In 1907 this Bombay-born Englishman who celebrated the empire won the Nobel Prize for Literature Kipling |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | LITERATURE $400: In this H.G. Wells classic, the narrator is "drawn on by the...Earth's fate" & sees it in "strides of a thousand years" The Time Machine |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | LITERATURE $800: Oddly, the protagonist of "The Tin Drum" stops doing this at age 3 growing |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | LITERATURE $1200: Nicholas Rubashov is a revolutionary caught up in this leader's purges in Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon" Stalin |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | LITERATURE $1600: Booth Tarkington's novel about this "Magnificent" family documents their decline the Ambersons |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | LITERATURE $2000: In a Saul Bellow novel, Eugene Henderson gets this sacred title from the African Wariri tribe the Rain King |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | GREAT BRITS $2,000 (Daily Double): This British philosopher & mathematician was the logical choice to win the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature Bertrand Russell |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | NOBEL PRIZE KNOWLEDGE $800: The youngest winner ever in this youngest Nobel category was 51-year-old Kenneth Arrow Economics |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | MARRIED LITERATURE $400: At the end of chapter 3, Emma Rouault marries & becomes the title Madame of this 1857 novel Madame Bovary |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | MARRIED LITERATURE $800: Trying to get into their purses & skirts, Falstaff writes love letters to 2 married women in this play; the plan backfires The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | MARRIED LITERATURE $1200: A kids' classic pairs this title Mrs. "and the Rats of NIMH" Mrs. Frisby |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | MARRIED LITERATURE $1600: "The Paris Wife" is a fictional account of Hadley Richardson, first wife of this novelist Hemingway |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | MARRIED LITERATURE $2000: This novel by Virginia Woolf is one day in the life of a woman married to a member of Parliament Mrs. Dalloway |
| #7775, aired 2018-06-01 | THE THIRD MAN $200: "As a tribute to his... versatile poetry" in 1903, Bjornstjerne Bjornson became man No. 3 to win this prize the Nobel Prize for Literature |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | COMIC BOOKS WITHOUT CAPES $1200: Just as in literature, you can get this type of collection, from Latin for "all", for comic books omnibus |
| #7758, aired 2018-05-09 | LITERATURE IN SPANISH $400: Guillermo Cabrera Infante's "Infante's Inferno" captures this country before the 1959 Communist revolution Cuba |
| #7758, aired 2018-05-09 | LITERATURE IN SPANISH $500 (Daily Double): Mario Vargas Llosa based "The Time of the Hero" on his harsh treatment in military school in this South American capital Lima |
| #7758, aired 2018-05-09 | LITERATURE IN SPANISH $800: Not the tower but this place of Babel in a Borges story contains every possible book with every arrangement of letters library |
| #7758, aired 2018-05-09 | LITERATURE IN SPANISH $1200: 1949's "The Kingdom of This World", an early work in this style blending naturalism & fantasy, includes a manifesto of it magical realism |
| #7758, aired 2018-05-09 | LITERATURE IN SPANISH $1600: Circa 1554 "Lazarillo de Tormes" originated this genre about a lowborn scamp & his travels & adventures picaresque |
| #7749, aired 2018-04-26 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $400: Carlo Lorenzini used the pen name Collodi to write this beloved tale about a puppet Pinocchio |
| #7749, aired 2018-04-26 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $800: Lesser known now than another work, this man's "La Vita Nuova" described in poetry his new life after meeting Beatrice Dante |
| #7749, aired 2018-04-26 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $1200: "My Brilliant Friend" begins Elena Ferrante's series about 2 women growing up in this seaport in southern Italy Naples |
| #7749, aired 2018-04-26 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $2000: The author of "The Leopard" was Giuseppe, prince of this, also the name of an island now a haven for hopeful migrants Lampedusa |
| #7749, aired 2018-04-26 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $4,000 (Daily Double): The 1st known one was written c. 1235 by Giacomo da Lentini; Petrarch wrote several to the unattainable Laura a sonnet |
| #7747, aired 2018-04-24 | LITERATURE ON THE MAP $400: In St. Petersburg it's not far from Raskolnikov's murder spree in this book to the bridge where he considers suicide Crime and Punishment |
| #7747, aired 2018-04-24 | LITERATURE ON THE MAP $800: Jack Kerouac & Henry Miller both penned books with this "Big" stretch of Pacific coast in their titles Big Sur |
| #7747, aired 2018-04-24 | LITERATURE ON THE MAP $1600: Rooster Cogburn is a deputy marshal in Fort Smith, Arkansas in this Charles Portis novel True Grit |
| #7747, aired 2018-04-24 | LITERATURE ON THE MAP $1,800 (Daily Double): "Kite Runner" Amir lives in the Wazir Akbar Khan district & takes part in the kite competition, all in this city Kabul |
| #7747, aired 2018-04-24 | LITERATURE ON THE MAP $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map of Chicago on the monitor.) In Chicago, there's a big economic difference between the mansion where Bigger Thomas worked & his family's apartment just a few blocks away in this novel Native Son |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | LETTER MEN $2000: This author of Indian descent released "Half a Life" in 2001, the year he won the Nobel Prize for Literature V.S. Naipaul |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | FULL SENTENCE LITERARY TITLES $2000: "Never Let Me Go" is by this Japanese-born British writer, the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature Kazuo Ishiguro |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In 1972 this author created the Kinte foundation Alex Haley |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: "Snow-white Moslem head-dress around a dead black face" is from Margaret Walker's poem "For" this slain leader Malcolm X |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Until they achieve a satisfying relationship with a man, 4 women are doing this Terry McMillan book title Waiting to Exhale |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: This author of "Kindred" & "Xenogenesis" combined African-American culture with science fiction themes Octavia Butler |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | HAVE A GREAT ONE! $1200: Written by a woman in the early 1000s, "The Tale of Genji" is considered this country's greatest work of literature Japan |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | WORLD WAR I LITERATURE $400: R.C. Sherriff's "Journey's End" is set in a dugout connected to one of these, which have come to symbolize the war a trench |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | WORLD WAR I LITERATURE $800: "The Road Back" was Erich Maria Remarque's sequel to this novel All Quiet on the Western Front |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | WORLD WAR I LITERATURE $1600: This Michael Morpurgo novel showed the triumphs & the horrors of the war through equine eyes War Horse |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | WORLD WAR I LITERATURE $4,000 (Daily Double): Roald Dahl wrote, "Constant twitching & jerking & snorting" were all signs of this alliterative disorder shell shock |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | LITERARY AWARDS $400: Not surprisingly, Selma Lagerlof of this country was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature Sweden |
| #7680, aired 2018-01-19 | TWO-WAY ADJECTIVES $1600: This word refers to works of William in psychology or brother Henry in literature Jamesian |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | MUSIC & LITERATURE BEFORE & AFTER $400: She sang "Summer Nights" with Travolta before becoming an author of legal thrillers & "Calico Joe" Olivia Newton-John Grisham |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | MUSIC & LITERATURE BEFORE & AFTER $800: A "warlike" Pat Benatar hit meshes with an L. Ron Hubbard novel "Love Is A Battlefield Earth" |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | MUSIC & LITERATURE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: A Black Eyed Peas man meets up with a Shakespearean style of writing will.i.ambic pentameter |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | MUSIC & LITERATURE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A song by Coolio from "Dangerous Minds" goes back in time to become a 1667 John Milton classic "Gangsta's Paradise Lost" |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | MUSIC & LITERATURE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A John le Carre espionage novel hits the "Speed Of Sound" with a British band The Spy Who Came in From the Coldplay |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | ASIAN CULTURE $2000: The first non-European to win a Nobel Literature Prize, Rabindranath Tagore wrote mostly in this Asian language Bengali |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | UNESCO CITIES OF LITERATURE $400: Named by UNESCO in 2004, this city is the literary & literal capital of Scotland Edinburgh |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | UNESCO CITIES OF LITERATURE $800: This major city is recognized for its excellence in publishing both Spanish & Catalan literature Barcelona |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | UNESCO CITIES OF LITERATURE $1200: Thanks to its pioneering writers' program, the only American city honored is in this Midwest state Iowa |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | UNESCO CITIES OF LITERATURE $1600: Literature about this Pampas cowboy helped get Montevideo recognized the gaucho |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | UNESCO CITIES OF LITERATURE $2000: Thomas Bracken & Janet Frame are 2 authors from Dunedin in this country who bring that city to the forefront New Zealand |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $200: (Hi, I'm Rob Fowler of News 2.) This literary character from Charleston tells Scarlett he may go back to his hometown because he misses "the calm dignity life can have when it's lived by gentle folks" Rhett Butler |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $400: (Hi, this is Ryan Kristafer from News 8.) Harriet Beecher Stowe lived next door to this other great American author at the time he wrote "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" (Mark) Twain |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $600: (Hi, I'm Mike Davis from 10TV.) I'm at the Columbus, Ohio house of James Thurber, who went on to write "The Secret Life of" this daydreamer Walter Mitty |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $800: (Hi, I'm Mark Allan from WDTN.) In his poem "Sympathy", Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote "I know why the caged bird sings"... giving this other African-American poet the title of her 1969 memoir (Maya) Angelou |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $1000: (Hi, I'm Ellen Leyva with ABC7 Eyewitness News.) This southern California author has been especially successful with his Los Angeles-based quartet that includes "L.A. Confidential" & "The Black Dahlia" James Ellroy |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | LITERATURE $400: Drop "the" from an H.G. Wells title to get the name of this 1952 novel narrated by a nameless young black man Invisible Man |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | LITERATURE $800: Published posthumously in 1870, Dickens' only true mystery novel was "The Mystery of" him Edwin Drood |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | LITERATURE $1600: This Allen Ginsberg poem begins, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness" "Howl" |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): James Dickey is best remembered for this novel about a harrowing canoe trip Deliverance |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | LITERATURE $2000: Elizabeth Strout won a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for her book of stories, set in coastal Maine, about this title woman Olive Kitteridge |
| #7639, aired 2017-11-23 | AFRICAN LITERATURE $400: Alan Paton's novel "Cry, the Beloved Country" focused on the fight for freedom & justice in this country South Africa |
| #7639, aired 2017-11-23 | AFRICAN LITERATURE $800: Joseph Mbele's "Matengo Folktales" includes a story about one of these long-eared beasts outwitting a lion a hare |
| #7639, aired 2017-11-23 | AFRICAN LITERATURE $1200: Naguib Mahfouz' novel "Midaq Alley" brings to life the bustling atmosphere of this largest north African city Cairo |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | LITERATURE, SCIENCE & THE ARTS $200: Edvard Munch's diary entry where "the sky suddenly turned to blood" may have inspired this, his best-known painting The Scream |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | LITERATURE, SCIENCE & THE ARTS $400: This liquid straw-colored part of blood consists of about 90% water plasma |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | LITERATURE, SCIENCE & THE ARTS $600: Reviews at the time said this novel wasn't "a treatise on cetology" but "the plot is meagre beyond comparison" Moby Dick |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | LITERATURE, SCIENCE & THE ARTS $800: Known for his portraits of full-figured ladies, this 17th c. Flemish artist painted 20+ large pictures of Marie de Medicis Rubens |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | LITERATURE, SCIENCE & THE ARTS $1000: In 1704 Newton published a groundbreaking treatise on this science of light optics |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | "N" TITLED TO LITERATURE $200: With this book Jane Austen satirized the fashion for novels like those of Ann Radcliffe Northanger Abbey |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | "N" TITLED TO LITERATURE $400: The father of the title character of this Dickens novel dies & leaves the family penniless Nicholas Nickleby |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | "N" TITLED TO LITERATURE $600: This one-act drama by Sartre sounds like a barrel of laughs: an existential portrayal of hell No Exit |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | "N" TITLED TO LITERATURE $1000: Tennessee Williams set this play in a seedy Mexican hotel Night of the Iguana |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | "N" TITLED TO LITERATURE $3,400 (Daily Double): Wonderboy is the name of a bat, not a superhero, in this 1952 novel The Natural |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | LITERATURE FOR THE YOUNG $200: Young Mia Thermopolis suddenly finds herself the Royal Highness of Genovia in this book The Princess Diaries |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | LITERATURE FOR THE YOUNG $400: These 2 siblings have solved such cases as "The Twisted Claw" & "The Hidden Harbor Mystery" the Hardy Boys |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | LITERATURE FOR THE YOUNG $600: That's "some pig", this character in "Charlotte's Web" Wilbur |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | LITERATURE FOR THE YOUNG $800: A boy asks Santa for a reindeer's silver bell in this classic by Chris Van Allsburg The Polar Express |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | LITERATURE FOR THE YOUNG $1000: She's the speedy filly young Ken McLaughlin calls "My Friend" Flicka |
| #7592, aired 2017-09-19 | RIGHT ON Q $1000: It may ring a bell that this Italian with a "Q" name won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959 Salvatore Quasimodo |
| #7590, aired 2017-09-15 | THE STATE OF LITERATURE $400: "Twilight" Washington state |
| #7590, aired 2017-09-15 | THE STATE OF LITERATURE $1200: "Inherent Vice" California |
| #7590, aired 2017-09-15 | THE STATE OF LITERATURE $1600: "A Confederacy of Dunces" Louisiana |
| #7590, aired 2017-09-15 | THE STATE OF LITERATURE $2000: "A River Runs Through It" Montana |
| #7590, aired 2017-09-15 | THE STATE OF LITERATURE $4,000 (Daily Double): "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" Georgia |
| #7561, aired 2017-06-26 | FRENCH LITERATURE $400: The epilogue to this novel tells us that one took holy orders, one married a rich woman & one moved to a country home The Three Musketeers |
| #7561, aired 2017-06-26 | FRENCH LITERATURE $800: In the 1879 story "The Begum's Fortune", he predicted chemical warfare using projectiles Jules Verne |
| #7561, aired 2017-06-26 | FRENCH LITERATURE $1200: In this 1862 work, Victor Hugo wrote, "No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child" Les Miserables |
| #7561, aired 2017-06-26 | FRENCH LITERATURE $2000: Jean-Paul Sartre wrote this major philosophical work in 1943 while fighting for the French Resistance Being and Nothingness |
| #7561, aired 2017-06-26 | FRENCH LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): This title character hails from Asteroid B-612, which has 3 volcanoes & a rose the Little Prince |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | THE LITERATURE OF ISRAEL $400: Holocaust survivor Aharon Appelfeld wrote of the impending horror in "Badenheim" this year 1939 |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | THE LITERATURE OF ISRAEL $800: The title of a 1958 Leon Uris novel about Israel's birth isn't "Genesis", but this Exodus |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | THE LITERATURE OF ISRAEL $1200: In Amos Oz' novel "The Hill of Evil Counsel", 2 boys grow up in Jerusalem under this country's post-WWI mandate the United Kingdom |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | THE LITERATURE OF ISRAEL $1600: This "Tales of the South Pacific" author's novel "The Source" is a tale of Israel from ancient times up to the 20th century (James) Michener |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | THE LITERATURE OF ISRAEL $2000: Aharon Megged's "Foiglman" looks at the conflicts between fathers & sons, Israel & the Diaspora & these 2 languages Hebrew and Yiddish |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | RUSSIAN CULTURE $2000: The "Father of Russian Literature", this poet & dramatist was mortally wounded in a duel in 1837 Pushkin |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | I LOVE LITERATURE $400: The White Rabbit is running late, leading to all kinds of trouble at the start of this 1865 book Alice in Wonderland |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | I LOVE LITERATURE $800: He took 17 years to write his last novel, "Finnegans Wake" James Joyce |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | I LOVE LITERATURE $1200: A 2015 BBC poll of literary critics said the greatest British novel is this George Eliot work named for a town Middlemarch |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | I LOVE LITERATURE $1600: This poet & typographic innovator wrote lines capturing childhood like "when the world is puddle-wonderful" E.E. Cummings |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | I LOVE LITERATURE $2000: In the '60s this controversial novelist wrote journalistic works like "Miami and the Siege of Chicago" Norman Mailer |
| #7525, aired 2017-05-05 | LITERATURE $200: George & Lennie have dreams of living off the fat of the land in this Steinbeck tale Of Mice and Men |
| #7525, aired 2017-05-05 | LITERATURE $400: In "Les Miserables" he's imprisoned for 19 years after stealing a loaf of bread (Jean) Valjean |
| #7525, aired 2017-05-05 | LITERATURE $600: Dostoyevsky drew on his own experience in prison to write this 1866 masterpiece Crime and Punishment |
| #7525, aired 2017-05-05 | LITERATURE $800: This character says, "I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye" (Holden) Caulfield |
| #7525, aired 2017-05-05 | LITERATURE $1000: This novel is about Ignatius J. Reilly, the Don Quixote of the French Quarter A Confederacy of Dunces |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | LITERATURE $200: Upton Sinclair refers to the Chicago stockyards as "Packingtown" in this 1906 novel The Jungle |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | LITERATURE $400: She won a Pulitzer Prize not for "My Antonia" but for another Nebraska novel, "One of Ours" Willa Cather |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | LITERATURE $600: His "Sevastopol Sketches" were based on the defense of Sevastopol in the Crimean War, in which he served Tolstoy |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | LITERATURE $800: The movie "Simon Birch" was adapted from John Irving's novel "A Prayer for" him Owen Meany |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | LITERATURE $1000: At age 25 in 1774, young Goethe had a bestseller with "The Sorrows of" this young man Werther |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | AVIAN LITERATURE $400: A fun-loving rebel inspires a mental ward's patients to challenge a nurse's cruel rule in this novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | AVIAN LITERATURE $800: In "The Maltese Falcon", this detective is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderly Sam Spade |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | AVIAN LITERATURE $1200: Rebecca West's "Black Lamb & Grey Falcon" is a study of this troubled Balkan country that broke apart in the 1990s Yugoslavia |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | AVIAN LITERATURE $2000: This literary pair "went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat" the Owl and the Pussycat |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | AVIAN LITERATURE $5,000 (Daily Double): When this Anton Chekhov play debuted in St. Petersburg in 1896, it was a dismal failure The Seagull |
| #7490, aired 2017-03-17 | 'TIS IRISH LITERATURE $200: In "Lady Windermere's Fan", he wrote, "I can resist everything except temptation" (Oscar) Wilde |
| #7490, aired 2017-03-17 | 'TIS IRISH LITERATURE $600: In "Arms and the Man", by him, a fugitive soldier exposes some villagers' romantic ideas about war George Bernard Shaw |
| #7490, aired 2017-03-17 | 'TIS IRISH LITERATURE $800: In the satiric 1729 "A Modest Proposal", this author suggested dining on poor Irish children to control poverty Jonathan Swift |
| #7490, aired 2017-03-17 | 'TIS IRISH LITERATURE $1000: 'Tis this 3-named Irish poet & Nobel laureate seen here William Butler Yeats |
| #7490, aired 2017-03-17 | 'TIS IRISH LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Spoiler alert: the title character of this absurd 1950s play sends word that he will arrive, but never does Waiting for Godot |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $400: (I'm M.J. Acosta from NBC 7 San Diego.) This man resided at the Hotel Del Coronado for months at a time & wrote parts of several books here including "Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz" Frank Baum |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $800: (I'm Juliana Mazza with 22News.) Leaping from the pages of the Dr. Seuss memorial sculpture are Thing 1 & Thing 2, agents of mayhem from this 1957 classic The Cat in the Hat |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $1200: (Hi. I'm Mark Allan from WDTN.) I'm at the Dayton home of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, the son of former slaves; he wrote in Black dialect, including this 2-word question used by the New Orleans Saints, among others "Who dat?" |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $1600: (Hi. I'm Ryan Kristafer from News 8.) This author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lived in this Hartford home from 1873 until her death in 1896 (Harriet Beecher) Stowe |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $2000: (I'm Julie Nelson from Kare 11.) The Minnesota State Fair is the setting of the 1928 story "A Night at the Fair" by this author born in St. Paul Fitzgerald |
| #7484, aired 2017-03-09 | AUDITIONS FOR A NEW MUSTACHE $1000: An Asian villain of literature & film lends his name to this mustache Fu Manchu |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | THE 2016 NOBEL PRIZES $800: The Literature Prize went to this American singer & songwriter Bob Dylan |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $200: "Some pig" is one of the lifesaving slogans woven by a spider in this work Charlotte's Web |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $400: At Hogwarts Harry Potter is "sorted" into this house Gryffindor |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $600: Before the euro, this royal children's book character appeared on the French 50-franc note the Little Prince |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $800: This lonely old woodcarver carves himself a whittle boy named Pinocchio Geppetto |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $1000: In a Katherine Paterson classic, an elder twin is taunted with this title, "but Esau have I hated" Jacob Have I Loved |
| #7464, aired 2017-02-09 | MUNICIPAL LITERATURE $400: "London!--that great place!--Nobody--not even Mr. Bumble--could ever find him there!" thinks this poor Dickens lad Oliver Twist |
| #7464, aired 2017-02-09 | MUNICIPAL LITERATURE $800: The canals are frozen over as Det. Lotte Meerman tries to solve a really cold case in "A Cold Death in" this European city Amsterdam |
| #7464, aired 2017-02-09 | MUNICIPAL LITERATURE $1200: Willa Cather's 1931 novel "Shadows on the Rock" details the lives of French colonists in the "rock" that is this Canadian city Quebec City |
| #7464, aired 2017-02-09 | MUNICIPAL LITERATURE $1600: Herbert Asbury's "The Barbary Coast" is an informal history of the underworld of this West Coast city San Francisco |
| #7464, aired 2017-02-09 | MUNICIPAL LITERATURE $2000: This writer from Lowell portrayed small-town Mass. & big New York City in his first novel, 1950's "The Town and the City" Jack Kerouac |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | "MIS"QUOTES $600: Chekhov wrote that he had "two professions.... Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my" this mistress |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | 14-LETTER WORDS $2000: Mais oui, it was the philosophy of the man who turned down the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature existentialism |
| #7455, aired 2017-01-27 | LITERATURE $200: Kobayashi Issa mastered this form; Robert Hass translated one as "Don't worry, spiders / I keep house / casually" haiku |
| #7455, aired 2017-01-27 | LITERATURE $400: "Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause", the title of a 1961 novel Catch-22 |
| #7455, aired 2017-01-27 | LITERATURE $600: This 1922 Hermann Hesse novel about a young Brahmin in India parallels the life of Buddha Siddhartha |
| #7455, aired 2017-01-27 | LITERATURE $800: In this Huxley novel, a major character is said to have "been the first to reveal the appalling dangers of family life" Brave New World |
| #7455, aired 2017-01-27 | LITERATURE $1000: In 1904 James Joyce wrote "The Sisters" for the Irish homestead newspaper; the story later became part of this work the Dubliners |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: A character known as Sam-I-Am is the persistent purveyor of this title paired offering green eggs and ham |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: This classic by Maurice Sendak was turned into a 1980 opera Where the Wild Things Are |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: Here's an illustration of this title girl and her pet monkey, Mr. Nilsson Pippi Longstocking |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: A book by Virginia Lee Burton is titled "Mike Mulligan and" this large construction tool a steam shovel |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: During WWII the Pevensie children are evacuated from London to an old professor's country estate in this 1950 book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: The Pequod was the whalers' doomed ship in this classic Moby-Dick |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: With "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72", he went gonzo over the presidential election Hunter Thompson |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: In this 1997 play it's shampoo, set & socialize for a group of women passing time in a Louisiana beauty salon Steel Magnolias |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: He's the giant of American lit seen here near the end of his life Robert Frost |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: "In Cold Blood" recounts the murder of the Clutter family in a small town in this state Kansas |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | LITERATURE IN ACTION $200: The action-packed Book 7 of this ancient poem features the duel of Hector & Ajax the Iliad |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | LITERATURE IN ACTION $400: This Vietnam vet & action hero sprang form the pages of "First Blood" by David Morrell Rambo |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | LITERATURE IN ACTION $600: Like Michael Crichton, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a thriller with this title about a land inhabited by dinosaurs The Lost World |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | LITERATURE IN ACTION $800: "The Last of the Mohicans" takes place against the backdrop of this 18th century war the French and Indian War |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | LITERATURE IN ACTION $1000: Brian Garfield's wife had her purse stolen, so Brian wrote this novel about a vigilante whose wife has been murdered Death Wish |
| #7433, aired 2016-12-28 | ANTE "BELL" UM $1600: Hyphenated French term for study of fine literature belles-lettres |
| #7431, aired 2016-12-26 | LITERARY TERMS $1,000 (Daily Double): It can mean a decorative border of vines, or, in literature, a short anecdote a vignette |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $400: This "directional" trilogy by John Jakes looks at the Civil War from the viewpoints of 2 families on opposite sides North and South |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $800: "Manhunt" by James Swanson is an account of the multi-day chase to find this killer John Wilkes Booth |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $1200: It's the "snaky" title of Bernard Cornwell's novel about a Confederate officer jailed as a Yankee spy Copperhead |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $1600: Begun in 1863 & published in 1994, John Ransom's diary is his eloquent account of survival in this notorious prison Andersonville |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $2000: A Union officer is killed but not in warfare in "Murder at" this Virginia town, name of the war's first major battle Manassas |
| #7417, aired 2016-12-06 | CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $1000: (Hi, I'm Juliana Mazza with 22 News.) Many beloved characters from children's literature are features in a Springfield sculpture garden dedicated to Dr. Seuss, the pen name of this man (Theodor) Geisel |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | CONTINENTS OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $400: For Literature,
Pablo Neruda South America |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: This classic is subtitled "The Tale of a Puppet" Pinocchio |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: His "Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" begins when he wakes up with gum in his hair Alexander |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: The man in this identifying piece of headwear brings Curious George over from Africa the yellow hat |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: The title of this Frances Hodgson Burnett book refers to Sara Crewe, who goes from privileged to pauper A Little Princess (The Little Princess accepted) |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: She is "exquisitely gowned in a skeleton leaf... through which her figure could be seen to the best advantage" Tinker Bell |
| #7375, aired 2016-10-07 | LITERARY FACTS $2,000 (Daily Double): The first Bombay-born winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1907, he wasn't Hindi (Rudyard) Kipling |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | REMEMBERING WORLD WAR I $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Nat'l WWI Museum & Memorial in Kansas City, MO.) Even before the U.S. entry into the war, Americans were volunteering to drive Red Cross ambulances; one such adventurer was this 18-year-old, who was badly wounded in a mortar attack in Italy, nearly costing the U.S. a future Nobel Prize in Literature (Ernest) Hemingway |
| #7358, aired 2016-09-14 | AWARDS FOR WRITING $400: Won in 2015 by Svetlana Alexievich, it's handed out annually by the Swedish Academy the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: August Wilson chronicled the Black experience in his cycle of plays set in the Hill District of this Pennsylvania city Pittsburgh |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Here's this poet & author; note the color she's wearing (Alice) Walker |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: Langston Hughes wrote, "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like" this, later the title of a play A Raisin in the Sun |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: "My Bondage and My Freedom" from 1855 is his second autobiography Frederick Douglass |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: This novel by Zora Neale Hurston tells the story of Janie Crawford & her 3 marriages Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| #7325, aired 2016-06-17 | TEEN LITERATURE $400: 1919 saw "Ten Days that Shook the World", John Reed's firsthand account of this historic upheaval the Russian Revolution |
| #7325, aired 2016-06-17 | TEEN LITERATURE $800: Sax Rohmer released this Asian villain & his mustache on the U.S. in 1913 with "The Insidious Dr." him Fu Manchu |
| #7325, aired 2016-06-17 | TEEN LITERATURE $1600: Gregor Samsa is the human transformed into a giant pest in this 1915 novella Metamorphosis |
| #7325, aired 2016-06-17 | TEEN LITERATURE $2000: This German author published "Demian", a novel of a troubled young man seeking enlightenment Herman Hesse |
| #7325, aired 2016-06-17 | TEEN LITERATURE $5,200 (Daily Double): A famous collection of Freud's theories was 1917's "Introductory Lectures on" this process psychoanalysis |
| #7313, aired 2016-06-01 | THE 2015 IG NOBEL PRIZES $800: Literature: for finding this 3-letter palindrome of bafflement "seems to exist in every human language" huh |
| #7293, aired 2016-05-04 | BESTSELLERS $800: Azar Nafisi's bestselling memoir of life & literature in revolutionary Iran is called "Reading" this "in Tehran" Lolita |
| #7291, aired 2016-05-02 | DETENTION IN LITERATURE $400: Cold Mountain Penitentiary houses many killers in this Stephen King book, & most have a date with "Old Sparky" The Green Mile |
| #7291, aired 2016-05-02 | DETENTION IN LITERATURE $800: Due to a tattoo, Devil's Island prisoner Henri Charriere was called this, also the title of a book he wrote Papillon |
| #7291, aired 2016-05-02 | DETENTION IN LITERATURE $1200: While researching "Seabiscuit", Laura Hillenbrand kept finding stories about P.O.W. Louis Zamperini, so she wrote this book Unbroken |
| #7291, aired 2016-05-02 | DETENTION IN LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Detention here is pretty tough--prisoners are guarded by "Dementors" who feed on your positive emotions Azkaban |
| #7291, aired 2016-05-02 | DETENTION IN LITERATURE $2000: Alexander Solzhenitsyn called the Soviet prison camps this "Archipelago" Gulag |
| #7290, aired 2016-04-29 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $200: Akela the wolf & Baloo the brown bear are 2 of the animals featured in this collection of stories The Jungle Book |
| #7290, aired 2016-04-29 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: Early in this Jules Verne tale, professor Otto Lidenbrock, his nephew & a guide descend into a volcano Journey to the Center of the Earth |
| #7290, aired 2016-04-29 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: Wordsworth began a poem, "I wandered lonely as" this "that floats on high o'er vales and hills" a cloud |
| #7290, aired 2016-04-29 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $1000: 2 expatriates come to Boston to visit relatives in his 1878 novel "The Europeans" Henry James |
| #7290, aired 2016-04-29 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Essays making up this 1854 work include "Reading", "Solitude" & "The Pond in Winter" Walden; or, Life in the Woods |
| #7270, aired 2016-04-01 | LITERARY LATIN AMERICA $1200: Gauchesco is literature about the South American equivalent of this American job cowboy |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In this novel Holden Caulfield has an older brother named D.B. & a little sister named Phoebe The Catcher in the Rye |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light" is a description of her in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (Blanche) DuBois |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: "The Luck of" this noisy-sounding "Camp" is a not-so-cheery story by Bret Harte Roaring |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): This book begins, "Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure... a man-child was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte" Roots |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: The narrator of this Poe story says, "The disease had sharpened my senses... Above all was the sense of hearing acute" "The Tell-Tale Heart" |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | LITERATURE IS FOR THE BIRDS $400: This book that won a Pulitzer in 1961 depicts racial injustice in a small Southern town To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | LITERATURE IS FOR THE BIRDS $800: In this author's "Lonesome Dove", a motley assortment of heroes, outlaws & more live & die in the title Texas town (Larry) McMurtry |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | LITERATURE IS FOR THE BIRDS $1600: A young woman's passion for a priest drives much of this epic saga of 3 generations of Australian sheep farmers The Thorn Birds |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | LITERATURE IS FOR THE BIRDS $2000: The title bird is actually an anarchist in Tom Robbins' "Still Life with" this Woodpecker |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | LITERATURE IS FOR THE BIRDS $4,000 (Daily Double): In this novel, a Tulane law student discovers facts that people will kill for, & if she doesn't get help, she might be next The Pelican Brief |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: This bear is named for a train station & arrives in England as a stowaway from South America Paddington |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: In a work by Crockett Johnson, he draws his own world with his purple crayon Harold |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: "If You Give a" child this 1985 Laura Numeroff book, he's liable to ask for another If You Give a Mouse a Cookie |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: In 1888, before his imprisonment, this playwright published "The Happy Prince and Other Tales" for children Oscar Wilde |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: Matchboxes make good dressers for the tiny Clock family in this 1952 story by Mary Norton The Borrowers |
| #7246, aired 2016-02-29 | URBAN LITERATURE $400: Portrayed by Sinatra on film, he runs the craps tables in the "Guys and Dolls" stories Nathan Detroit |
| #7246, aired 2016-02-29 | URBAN LITERATURE $800: "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" chronicles a rollicking weekend for this gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson |
| #7246, aired 2016-02-29 | URBAN LITERATURE $1200: A mysterious sack in a bank vault stirs greed in the Mark Twain tale "The Man that Corrupted" this town Hadleyburg |
| #7246, aired 2016-02-29 | URBAN LITERATURE $2000: In this Thomas Mann novella, a writer on a holiday in a cholera-stricken city grows infatuated with a boy Death in Venice |
| #7246, aired 2016-02-29 | URBAN LITERATURE $4,000 (Daily Double): He sought his fortune in Yukon gold prospecting, but made it big as the USA's highest-paid writer Jack London |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | "C" IN LITERATURE $400: This 1854 poem contains the lines "Theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die" "The Charge of the Light Brigade" |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | "C" IN LITERATURE $800: He's the very dramatic Russian seen here around 1900 Chekhov |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | "C" IN LITERATURE $1200: He's the only human in the "Winnie-the-Pooh" stories Christopher Robin |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | "C" IN LITERATURE $1600: This sci-fi author's "C" novels include "Childhood's End" & "Cradle", about contact with an alien civilization Arthur C. Clarke |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | "C" IN LITERATURE $2000: "Chirp the first" is the first chapter of this Dickens short novel The Cricket on the Hearth |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | COLLEGE-SET LITERATURE $400: "Cambridge was a desert", begins Chapter 1 of Andre Aciman's this "Square" Harvard |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | COLLEGE-SET LITERATURE $800: This author of "Lolita" also wrote "Pnin", about a Russian prof at a U.S. college, like himself (Vladimir) Nabokov |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | COLLEGE-SET LITERATURE $1200: An errant throw by a Westish College baseball star plays a major role in Chad Harbach's "The Art of" this Fielding |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | COLLEGE-SET LITERATURE $1600: This author known for his white suits set the novel "I Am Charlotte Simmons" at Dupont (don't call it Duke!) University Tom Wolfe |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | COLLEGE-SET LITERATURE $2000: Murder breaks the peace of Hampden College in this novel by Donna Tartt The Secret History |
| #7232, aired 2016-02-09 | THE 2015 NOBEL PRIZES $800: "Understanding Consumption" author Angus Deaton won this prize the Nobel Prize for Economics |
| #7232, aired 2016-02-09 | THE 2015 NOBEL PRIZES $2000: Works by 2015 Literature winner Svetlana Alexievich include "Voices from" this now-radioactive location Chernobyl |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | STATELY LITERATURE $200: "Gone with the Wind" Georgia |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | STATELY LITERATURE $400: "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" Missouri |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | STATELY LITERATURE $800: "East of Eden" California |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | STATELY LITERATURE $1000: "The Jungle" Illinois |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | STATELY LITERATURE $1,800 (Daily Double): "The Sound and the Fury" Mississippi |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | "O" IN LITERATURE $200: Keats wrote one "on a Grecian Urn" an ode |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | "O" IN LITERATURE $400: A cycle of plays by Sophocles includes the dramas him "Rex" & him "at Colonus" Oedipus |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | "O" IN LITERATURE $600: In this memoir Isak Dinesen wrote that her farm was "at the foot of the Ngong Hills" Out of Africa |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | "O" IN LITERATURE $1000: Herman Melville wrote this "Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas" Omoo |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | "O" IN LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): This tale includes the line "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?" The Old Man and the Sea |
| #7217, aired 2016-01-19 | LITERATURE $200: In "Oliver Twist" Fagin teaches his young followers this type of theft pickpocketing |
| #7217, aired 2016-01-19 | LITERATURE $400: In Michel Faber's sci-fi novel "Under the Skin", these are captured & then fatted up for consumption people (or humans) |
| #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 |
| #7217, aired 2016-01-19 | LITERATURE $800: Born in Bombay in 1865, in 1907 he became the first British writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature Rudyard Kipling |
| #7217, aired 2016-01-19 | LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): On the "fifth day", as recounted in this 14th century collection by Boccaccio, the storytellers must tell tales of love The Decameron |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | FIRST ISSUES $2000: With James Russell Lowell as editor, in 1857 this monthly called itself "a magazine of literature, art, and politics" Atlantic Monthly |
| #7204, aired 2015-12-31 | 1940s FICTION $1600: A classic of African-American literature, his 1940 novel "Native Son" was adapted into a play the following year Richard Wright |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: In 1703 this "Robinson Crusoe" author offended each side in a religious dispute & was sentenced to Newgate Prison Daniel Defoe |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | WORLD LITERATURE $1200: "The Girl in the Spider's Web" continues the late Stieg Larsson's "Millennium series" about this hacker Lisbeth Salander |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | WORLD LITERATURE $1600: Tolstoy titled a story after these horsemen of the steppes, based on his travels as a soldier the Cossacks |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | WORLD LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Although best known for their fairy tales, these brothers were pioneers in creating a German dictionary the Brothers Grimm |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | WORLD LITERATURE $2000: Richard Llewellyn wrote 3 sequels to this 1939 classic; in the third one, Huw Morgan returns to Wales How Green Was My Valley |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: The quiet joys of fishing are described in Izaak Walton's 1653 work "The Compleat" this Angler |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: On Dec. 9, 1854, just 45 days after the event, The Examiner published this Tennyson poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1200: This 1895 H.G. Wells book was subtitled "An Invention" The Time Machine |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1600: The subject of 52 G.K. Chesterton stories, this cleric had a simple face "as round and dull as a Norfolk dumpling" Father Brown |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $5,000 (Daily Double): Dickens' artist Luke Fildes said Dickens told him the solution to this was that John Jasper strangled his nephew The Mystery of Edwin Drood |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM $1000: 800-899: Columbia has a department of English & comparative this literature |
| #7186, aired 2015-12-07 | LITERATURE $200: Published in 1826, the second of the "Leatherstocking Tales" is "The Last of" these people the Mohicans |
| #7186, aired 2015-12-07 | LITERATURE $400: In 1964 this French author & existential philosopher turned down the Nobel Prize for Literature Sartre |
| #7186, aired 2015-12-07 | LITERATURE $600: "Of all who give gifts these two were the wisest", says "The Gift of the Magi" by this author O. Henry |
| #7186, aired 2015-12-07 | LITERATURE $1000: Works like the novel "Dead Souls" made him one of the founders of Russian realism Gogol |
| #7186, aired 2015-12-07 | LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Rudyard's father J. Lockwood Kipling illustrated this 1901 novel with a very short title Kim |
| #7171, aired 2015-11-16 | LA LITTERATURE FRANCAISE $1200: This term for light, sophisticated literature is French for "beautiful letters" belles-lettres |
| #7168, aired 2015-11-11 | MEDIEVAL LITERATURE $400: In Sir Thomas Malory's "Morte d'Arthur", she retires to a nunnery after an affair Guinevere |
| #7168, aired 2015-11-11 | MEDIEVAL LITERATURE $800: Our primary source for ancient Norse pagan beliefs is the Poetic Edda of this island nation Iceland |
| #7168, aired 2015-11-11 | MEDIEVAL LITERATURE $1200: "The Dream of the Rood" tells the story of Jesus' crucifixion from the perspective of the rood, this the cross |
| #7168, aired 2015-11-11 | MEDIEVAL LITERATURE $2000: Blow that horn--this French knight and subject of "The Song of" him Roland |
| #7168, aired 2015-11-11 | MEDIEVAL LITERATURE $5,100 (Daily Double): His 14th century collection "Canzoniere" established & perfected the Italian sonnet form Petrarch |
| #7164, aired 2015-11-05 | GOTHIC LITERATURE $400: Starting the genre was Horace Walpole's 1765 novel titles this classic Gothic structure "of Otranto" castle |
| #7164, aired 2015-11-05 | GOTHIC LITERATURE $1200: "The Supper at Elsinore" is one of "Seven Gothic Tales" by this author also known for her tales of Africa (Isak) Dinesen (Karen Blixen) |
| #7164, aired 2015-11-05 | GOTHIC LITERATURE $1600: Edgar Allan Poe fed a 19th century Gothic revival with stories like this supernatural tale about Roderick & his doomed family The Fall of the House of Usher |
| #7164, aired 2015-11-05 | GOTHIC LITERATURE $2000: This Gothic classic was penned as part of a ghost story writing competition held in a mansion on Lake Geneva in 1816 Frankenstein |
| #7164, aired 2015-11-05 | GOTHIC LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): Lady Caroline Lamb featured a version of this ex-lover in her Gothic novel "Glenarvon", calling him Ruthven Lord Byron |
| #7161, aired 2015-11-02 | SPORTS IN LITERATURE $400: Athlete-lawyer Ken Dryden wrote "The Game", this one he played with Serge Savard, Bob Gainey et al. hockey |
| #7161, aired 2015-11-02 | SPORTS IN LITERATURE $600: "Hot Money" by Dick Francis centers on Ian Pembroke, who does this sporting job a jockey |
| #7161, aired 2015-11-02 | SPORTS IN LITERATURE $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Boathouse Row in Philadelphia, PA.) Organized competitive rowing dates back thousands of years, with the first known literary mention in this work by Virgil, who wrote, "the whole sea gapes, torn by the oars" the Aeneid |
| #7161, aired 2015-11-02 | SPORTS IN LITERATURE $1000: "Ball Four" by this pitcher begins, "I signed my contract today to play for the Seattle pilots at a salary of $22,000" Jim Bouten |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | FRENCH LITERATURE $400: "Twenty Years After" & "The Vicomte de Bragelonne" were both sequels to this Alexandre Dumas work Three Musketeers |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | FRENCH LITERATURE $800: In Chapter I of this Gaston Leroux novel, we learn of a private box in the theatre always reserved for the title figure Phantom of the Opera |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | FRENCH LITERATURE $1200: Antoine de Saint-Exupery, who perished in a WWII plane crash, is today best known for this children's tale The Little Prince |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | FRENCH LITERATURE $2000: A collection of about 90 tales, "The Human Comedy" by this author paints a vivid portrait of 19th c. France (Honoré de) Balzac |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | FRENCH LITERATURE $5,000 (Daily Double): One of the chief aims of this 1831 novel was to "inspire the nation with a love of its national architecture" The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #7149, aired 2015-10-15 | ANCIENT ROMAN LITERATURE $400: Lucan dropped Jupiter & Juno in the "Pharsalia", the rare ancient epic without these beings gods |
| #7149, aired 2015-10-15 | ANCIENT ROMAN LITERATURE $800: "De Oratore" by this greatest Roman orator gives his views on using language effectively Cicero |
| #7149, aired 2015-10-15 | ANCIENT ROMAN LITERATURE $1200: Better known name of Titus Livius, author of a history of Rome from its founding to 9 B.C. Livy |
| #7149, aired 2015-10-15 | ANCIENT ROMAN LITERATURE $1600: Dating from the 2nd century, this Roman emperor's "Meditations" is a classic of stoic philosophy Marcus Aurelius |
| #7149, aired 2015-10-15 | ANCIENT ROMAN LITERATURE $2000: Julius Caesar described his victories in the 50s B.C. in what's now France in his "Commentaries on" these "Wars" the Gallic Wars |
| #7133, aired 2015-09-23 | LITERATURE OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC $800: He wrote of snowy climes in books like "White Fang", then traveled to balmy Tahiti & later penned "South Sea Tales" (Jack) London |
| #7133, aired 2015-09-23 | LITERATURE OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Pitcairn Island.) In "The Long Voyage", this author mentions Pitcairn Island & Thursday October Christian, Fletcher's son Charles Dickens |
| #7133, aired 2015-09-23 | LITERATURE OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC $1600: This author of "Tales of the South Pacific" called Bora Bora the Bali Ha'i of the spirit (James) Michener |
| #7133, aired 2015-09-23 | LITERATURE OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew walks the beach in Tahiti.) In "The Signature of All Things" by this "Eat, Pray, Love" author, Alma Whittaker sails to Tahiti to discover the mysterious fate of her husband (Elizabeth) Gilbert |
| #7132, aired 2015-09-22 | REMEMBER SEPTEMBER $800: The setting for literature's "Cannery Row", this California city also has a hep September jazz festival Monterey |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | WORLD OF BOOKS $400: Called the father of Roman literature, Livius Andronicus translated this Homeric travel tale into Latin the Odyssey |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | WORLD OF BOOKS $800: 4 Nobel Prize literature winners were born on the Emerald Isle: Yeats, Beckett, Heaney & this playwright (George Bernard) Shaw |
| #7118, aired 2015-07-22 | FEMALE NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $400: South African literature laureate Nadine Gordimer was part of the struggle against this policy of segregation apartheid |
| #7115, aired 2015-07-17 | PUNNY CLASSIC LITERATURE TITLES $400: Jack London's tale of the place where feral creatures stop at the food court before hitting Old Navy The Mall of the Wild |
| #7115, aired 2015-07-17 | PUNNY CLASSIC LITERATURE TITLES $800: Thackeray's novel about a woman inordinately proud of her flowing tresses Vanity Hair |
| #7115, aired 2015-07-17 | PUNNY CLASSIC LITERATURE TITLES $1200: It's the story of a weaving apparatus equipped with a pleasant panorama A Loom with a View |
| #7115, aired 2015-07-17 | PUNNY CLASSIC LITERATURE TITLES $1600: Huxley's yarn concerning cemetery crypts in the Americas A Grave New World |
| #7115, aired 2015-07-17 | PUNNY CLASSIC LITERATURE TITLES $2000: Mississippi-set novel about a place where stray dogs are kept that becomes the object of intense anger The Pound and the Fury |
| #7106, aired 2015-07-06 | TASTY LITERATURE $200: This author's Ishmael spends a whole chapter pondering chowder (Herman) Melville |
| #7106, aired 2015-07-06 | TASTY LITERATURE $400: In this 19th c. work, young Amy likes snacking on "pickled limes" & borrows money from her sister to buy some Little Women |
| #7106, aired 2015-07-06 | TASTY LITERATURE $600: In a Fannie Flag novel, this cafe serves fried green tomatoes & other Southern favorites The Whistle Stop Cafe |
| #7106, aired 2015-07-06 | TASTY LITERATURE $800: Nostalgia overcomes "Invisible Man" after he eats this 3-letter tuber in Harlem a yam |
| #7106, aired 2015-07-06 | TASTY LITERATURE $1000: Madame Bovary gets all tingly at her first taste of this tropical fruit: "Elle n'avait jamais... mangé d'ananas" a pineapple |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | LITERATURE OF THE EARLY 1800s $400: Friedrich Schiller's drama about William Tell includes the scene where he shoots one of these off his son's head an apple |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | LITERATURE OF THE EARLY 1800s $800: The first volume of a work by these brothers contained 86 stories, including "The Frog King" & "Sleeping Beauty" the Brothers Grimm |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | LITERATURE OF THE EARLY 1800s $1200: Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels include "A Legend of Montrose" & one about this alliterative Scottish outlaw Rob Roy |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | LITERATURE OF THE EARLY 1800s $2000: This romantic poet who penned "To a Skylark" also waxed political with essays like "The Necessity of Atheism" Shelley |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | LITERATURE OF THE EARLY 1800s $4,000 (Daily Double): A father, a mother & 4 sons are shipwrecked on a desert isle in this Johann David Wyss adventure tale The Swiss Family Robinson |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | LITERATURE $200: This Brit's own poor childhood inspired him to write books like "David Copperfield" Charles Dickens |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | LITERATURE $400: Her books like "Sense and Sensibility" have a lot to do with love & marriage, but she never married Jane Austen |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | LITERATURE $600: The first book in Stieg Larsson's trilogy about computer hacker Lisbeth Salander is "The Girl with" this the Dragon Tattoo |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | LITERATURE $800: James Fenimore Cooper depicted the changing frontier in "The Last of" them the Mohicans |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | LITERATURE $1000: This Jazz Age author epitomized his time with works like "Tender is the Night" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | LITERATURE $400: A sea-witch tells this 19th c. title gal that her transformation will make each step feel like "treading upon sharp knives" the Little Mermaid |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | LITERATURE $800: Britannica describes this type of literature as "pseudomedieval", with "a prevailing atmosphere of mystery & terror" Gothic |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | LITERATURE $1200: This 1997 short story tells of ranch hands Jack Twist & Ennis del Mar, who tend sheep in Wyoming Brokeback Mountain |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | LITERATURE $1600: William Styron wrote the historical novel "The Confessions of" this leader of a slave rebellion Nat Turner |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | LITERATURE $2000: In the Rossetti family, Christina was the poet, though her artist brother went by this poetic name Dante (Gabriel Rossetti) |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "Holly Golightly had been a tenant in the old brownstone; she'd occupied the apartment below mine" in this work Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This 1852 novel says, "It is a sin to hold a slave under laws like ours" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: This novel ends, "Yes, thought Montag, that's the one I'll save for noon. For noon... when we reach the city" Fahrenheit 451 |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: This 1906 novel was meant to be a companion piece to "The Call of the Wild" White Fang |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: In a short story by this man, Percy says his father has "a diamond bigger than the Ritz-Carlton Hotel" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #7034, aired 2015-03-26 | BROUGHT TO YOU IN H_D $2000: A female servant; one told a "tale" in literature a handmaid |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | BRITISH LITERATURE $400: In this H. G. Wells novel, a character is hurtled into the year 802,701 The Time Machine |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | BRITISH LITERATURE $800: His 1786 "Account of Corsica" gained him fame; "The Life of Samuel Johnson" cemented it Boswell |
| #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 |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1200: There are 7 books in the Harry Potter series, including this latest one The Deathly Hallows |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1600: 3-letter name of the narrator of Dickens' "Great Expectations" Pip |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | BRITISH LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): "Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth" are paired 1979 plays by this Bard-loving Brit Tom Stoppard |
| #7023, aired 2015-03-11 | THE EMERALD AISLE $1200: The emerald is an appropriate birthstone for this author who created an emerald city of literature Frank Baum |
| #7012, aired 2015-02-24 | 1950s BESTSELLERS $2000: "Across the River & Into the Trees" was a 1950 bestseller by this giant of American literature Ernest Hemingway |
| #7011, aired 2015-02-23 | A "LITTLE" LITERATURE $400: In this 1871 sequel Jo March & her husband run a school for boys in their home Little Men |
| #7011, aired 2015-02-23 | A "LITTLE" LITERATURE $800: In 2014 Sara Shepard released "Toxic", the 15th book in this bestselling series about 4 Pennsylvania teens Pretty Little Liars |
| #7011, aired 2015-02-23 | A "LITTLE" LITERATURE $1200: In this 1886 story 7-year old Cedric Errol cuts a striking figure in black velvet, lace collar & yellow curls Little Lord Fauntleroy |
| #7011, aired 2015-02-23 | A "LITTLE" LITERATURE $1600: This Dickens title character sews to earn money to help her father, who's been imprisoned for debt Little Dorrit |
| #7011, aired 2015-02-23 | A "LITTLE" LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): In this 1933 Erskine Caldwell novel, a character sets aside a small piece of land, the income of which is to go to the church God's Little Acre |
| #7002, aired 2015-02-10 | FEMALE AUTHORS $800: Author of more than 200 works, Nora Roberts was the first inductee of the Hall of Fame for writers in this genre romance |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | WEBSITES $2,000 (Daily Double): This literature-based website was named for a title scrivener Bartleby |
| #6958, aired 2014-12-10 | A RENAISSANCE LITERATURE TIMELINE $400: "The Defence and Illustration of" this language that gave us the word "renaissance" appeared in 1549 French |
| #6958, aired 2014-12-10 | A RENAISSANCE LITERATURE TIMELINE $800: Printing in England was still a novelty in the 1470s when William Caxton printed this work about 30 pilgrims The Canterbury Tales |
| #6958, aired 2014-12-10 | A RENAISSANCE LITERATURE TIMELINE $1200: In 1516 Sir Thomas More broke away from his dry histories of kings like Richard III to produce this "what-if" work Utopia |
| #6958, aired 2014-12-10 | A RENAISSANCE LITERATURE TIMELINE $1600: In 1341 this Italian sonneteer was crowned poet laureate, with real laurel Petrarch |
| #6958, aired 2014-12-10 | A RENAISSANCE LITERATURE TIMELINE $2000: Lady Penelope Rich was the "star" of Sir Philip Sidney's sonnet cycle "Astrophel and" her, published in 1591 Stella |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: "David Copperfield" is one of this British author's classic novels Charles Dickens |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | WORLD LITERATURE $800: In a Victor Hugo novel, Quasimodo is the hunchback bell ringer at this Paris cathedral the Notre-Dame |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | WORLD LITERATURE $1200: Concerning the lives of Alyosha, Dmitry & Ivan, "The Brothers Karamazov" takes place in this country Russia |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | WORLD LITERATURE $1600: "Z" marks the spot for this crime-fighting swordsman of colonial Spanish America Zorro |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | WORLD LITERATURE $2000: The 7 voyages of this sailor bring him many perils, like being carried by a giant bird, the ROC Sinbad |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | IN MEMORIAM 2014 $1000: Called "South Africa's grande dame of literature", she passed away at 90 Nadine Gordimer |
| #6937, aired 2014-11-11 | LITERARY AWARDS $400: This French writer was just 44 when he got the Nobel Prize for Literature for works like "The Myth of Sisyphus" (Albert) Camus |
| #6937, aired 2014-11-11 | LITERARY AWARDS $600: A Swedish award for adolescent & children's literature is named for this "Pippi Longstocking" author Astrid Lindgren |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: Consisting of 24 books, this ancient poem tells of a homecoming after the fall of Troy The Odyssey |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | WORLD LITERATURE $800: In the 1990s a group of women inspired the bestseller "Reading Lolita In" this city Tehran |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | WORLD LITERATURE $1200: After publishing this book in 1988, Salman Rushdie was forced into hiding The Satanic Verses |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | WORLD LITERATURE $1600: Last name of the life-loving Alexis, "the Greek" in a novel by Nikos Kazantzakis Zorba |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | WORLD LITERATURE $2000: His "The Unbearable Lightness Of Being" was banned in his native Czechoslovakia until 1989 Milan Kundera |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | O CAPTAIN! MY LITERATURE CAPTAIN! $800: Captain First Rank Marko Ramius ordered a sub to go (defect) in this Tom Clancy novel The Hunt for Red October |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | O CAPTAIN! MY LITERATURE CAPTAIN! $1600: This 1870 sci-fi captain claimed the South Pole with an appropriate flag Captain Nemo |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | O CAPTAIN! MY LITERATURE CAPTAIN! $2000: Captain Jack Aubrey & surgeon Stephen Maturin first set sail in 1969 in this Patrick O'Brian novel Master and Commander |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | O CAPTAIN! MY LITERATURE CAPTAIN! $4,000 (Daily Double): He "went content to the crocodile"; instead of "Bad form", his last words should have been "Here's seconds!" Captain Hook |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $400: This poetic work by Homer ends, "Such was the burial of Hector, breaker of horses" the Illiad |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $800: Aristophanes' "The Clouds" satirizes this philosopher as the representative of Atheism Socrates |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $1200: Book 1 of this epic narrative by Ovid begins with a story of the creation of the world Metamorphoses |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $1600: This Roman satirist whose name sounds like a word meaning "childish" asked, "But who is to guard the guards?" Juvenal |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $2000: When war broke out between Athens & Sparta in 431 B.C., he began writing an 8-book history of the war Thucydides |
| #6903, aired 2014-09-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: A poem of his says grass is "the beautiful uncut hair of graves" (Walt) Whitman |
| #6903, aired 2014-09-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This Poe story tells of a prisoner's torture during the Spanish Inquisition "The Pit and the Pendulum" |
| #6903, aired 2014-09-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: The "winner" of the title event of this Shirley Jackson story is stoned to death "The Lottery" |
| #6903, aired 2014-09-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: This 1882 story by Frank Stockton leaves its title question unanswered "The Lady, or the Tiger?" |
| #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 |
| #6885, aired 2014-07-18 | STATELY LITERATURE $200: "A ____ Yankee In King Arthur's Court" Connecticut |
| #6885, aired 2014-07-18 | STATELY LITERATURE $400: "The Hotel ____ ____" New Hampshire |
| #6885, aired 2014-07-18 | STATELY LITERATURE $600: The play "Abe Lincoln in ____" Illinois |
| #6885, aired 2014-07-18 | STATELY LITERATURE $800: "____ville" Texasville |
| #6885, aired 2014-07-18 | STATELY LITERATURE $1000: "Winesburg, ____" Ohio |
| #6869, aired 2014-06-26 | THE IRON AGE $400: Iron Age literature includes this epic poem that begins, "Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles" the Iliad |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | LITERATURE $200: This Tolstoy tome centers on the 1812 invasion of Russia & the ensuing Russian resistance War & Peace |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | LITERATURE $400: This novel by Ken Kesey is set at a mental hospital One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | LITERATURE $600: Sal Paradise & Dean Moriarty decide to "beat" it across America in this modern classic On The Road |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | LITERATURE $800: In a Thomas Mann tale, Gustav Von Aschenbach has a date with "death in" this city Venice |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | LITERATURE $1000: 12th century England is the setting of Ken Follett's historical novel these "of the Earth" Pillars |
| #6857, aired 2014-06-10 | POETIC WOMEN $2000: Born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga in Vicuna, Chile, she was the first Latin American woman to win a Nobel Prize in literature Gabriela Mistral |
| #6847, aired 2014-05-27 | MOVIES INSPIRED BY LITERATURE $200: "A Knight's Tale", starring Heath Ledger, was inspired by this Chaucer classic The Canterbury Tales |
| #6847, aired 2014-05-27 | MOVIES INSPIRED BY LITERATURE $600: You Goethe go back to this 2-part 19th century work to see the origins of "Damn Yankees" Faust |
| #6847, aired 2014-05-27 | MOVIES INSPIRED BY LITERATURE $800: Be "Clueless" in remembering that 1995 comedy had its roots in this Austen tale Emma |
| #6847, aired 2014-05-27 | MOVIES INSPIRED BY LITERATURE $1000: The 1675 play "The Country Wife" inspired this 1975 movie with Warren Beatty as a lusty hairdresser Shampoo |
| #6847, aired 2014-05-27 | MOVIES INSPIRED BY LITERATURE $3,200 (Daily Double): 2010's "Easy A"
re-imagined this decidedly unfunny 1850 novel as a comedy The Scarlet Letter |
| #6838, aired 2014-05-14 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: This poem about "Man's first disobedience" appeared in 1667 Paradise Lost |
| #6838, aired 2014-05-14 | WORLD LITERATURE $800: Inspiring the film "Rescue Dawn" was Dieter Dengler's "Escape from" this Indochinese nation Laos |
| #6838, aired 2014-05-14 | WORLD LITERATURE $1600: The 2 great Sanskrit epic poems are the Mahabharata & this tale of an avatar of Vishnu the Ramayana |
| #6838, aired 2014-05-14 | WORLD LITERATURE $2000: In 1907 the performance of this John Millington Synge play set off riots in Dublin The Playboy of the Western World |
| #6838, aired 2014-05-14 | WORLD LITERATURE $2,800 (Daily Double): In Ariosto's chivalric romance "Orlando Furioso", Orlando is this great king's nephew Charlemagne |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: This 1897 novel was influenced by "Carmilla", an 1872 novella about a female vampire Dracula |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: Thomas De Quincey's 1821 "Confessions of an English" eater or user of this drug is a classic of addiction lit opium |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): In Maugham's "The Moon and Sixpence", Charles leaves his wife & eventually goes to this Pacific island to paint Tahiti |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1600: This British author's 1922 novel "Jacob's Room" is said to be a fictional biography of her brother Thoby Virginia Woolf |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $2000: This D.H. Lawrence novel continued the stories of sisters Ursula & Gudrun Brangwen, who 1st appeared in "The Rainbow" Women in Love |
| #6813, aired 2014-04-09 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: John Donne wrote, "Death, be not" this, "though some have called thee mighty & dreadful, for though art not so" proud |
| #6813, aired 2014-04-09 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: Last name of Dorothy Sayers' detective Lord Peter Wimsey |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | LITERATURE: In one story he is enslaved by the Old Man of the Sea & uses apes to pick fruit so he can afford his fare back to Baghdad Sinbad (the Sailor) |
| #9133, aired 2024-06-26 | LITERATURE: The British Library says of this 19th c. man, "One of his most famous poems... is a warning about the arrogance of great leaders" (Percy Bysshe) Shelley |
| #9110, aired 2024-05-24 | LITERATURE: Preserved in a single manuscript called Cotton MS Vitellius A XV, this epic begins with the word "Hwæt", often translated as listen Beowulf |
| #9103, aired 2024-05-15 | 19th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: John Elwes, a millionaire Member of Parliament who would go to bed before dusk to save on candles, inspired this character (Ebenezer) Scrooge |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS: Becoming a British subject in 1927, he described himself as a classicist in literature, royalist in politics & Anglo-Catholic in religion T.S. Eliot |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | LITERATURE & RELIGION: This city now in Turkey is the addressee of one of the New Testament epistles & the setting for "The Comedy of Errors" Ephesus |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | CLASSIC LITERATURE: An intended sequel to this 1869 work centered on the Decembrists, a group of veterans who largely served in the Napoleonic Wars War and Peace |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Chapter 100 of this novel introduces the one-armed Captain Boomer of the Samuel Enderby Moby-Dick |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE: Thomas Pynchon wrote that this novelist "in 1948 understood that despite the Axis defeat... fascism had not gone away" Orwell |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | MUSIC & LITERATURE: John Steinbeck called this "one of the great songs of the world" & wanted the music & lyrics printed in one of his novels "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic" |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | AWARDS & HONORS: As of 2023 the only 2 to win a Nobel Prize in Literature & an Academy Award were George Bernard Shaw & this singer-songwriter Bob Dylan |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | NAMES: The name Jennifer is an alteration of this name that in early Welsh literature belonged to the "first lady of the island" Guinevere |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | MYTHOLOGICAL PLACES: "Paradise Lost" says it's "abhorred" & "the flood of deadly hate" & in Dante's "Inferno" it's fed by a "gloomy brook" the River Styx |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: In 1896 new spider species were named for a wolf, a panther & a snake from a work published 2 years earlier by this man (Rudyard) Kipling |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | LATIN IN LITERATURE: A work by this 15th century English writer quotes the phrase "rex quondam rexque futurus" Thomas Malory |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | LITERATURE: In reviewing this novel, Carl Jung said it took place in one single & senseless day "on which, in all truth, nothing happens" Ulysses |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | 18th CENTURY LITERATURE: The first name of this title character is from Hebrew for "devoted to God"; his last name suggests he can be easily duped (Lemuel) Gulliver |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | ENGLISH LITERATURE: It says, "The mind is its own place, & in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same" Paradise Lost |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | LITERATURE: A 2006 book was titled "The Poem That Changed America:" this "Fifty Years Later" "Howl" |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Letters, pocket knives, C rations & steel helmets are among the tangible items referred to in the title of this modern war classic The Things They Carried |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | LITERATURE: Published in 2011, P.D. James' final novel, "Death Comes to Pemberley", was a sequel to this novel from 200 years earlier Pride and Prejudice |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | MOVIES & LITERATURE: Ridley Scott's first feature film, "The Duellists", was based on a story by this author to whom Scott's film "Alien" also pays tribute Joseph Conrad |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: William Brodie, an upstanding Scottish tradesman by day & leader of a gang of burglars by night, helped inspire these 2 title characters Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: This author first thought of a parrot before choosing another bird "equally capable of speech" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: First published in French in 1943, this book has been called the most translated non-religious work, rendered into more than 300 languages The Little Prince |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | LITERATURE: A contemporary review of a novel by this man said he "commands attention as a kind of literary James Dean" (Jack) Kerouac |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | WORLD LITERATURE: Befitting the title, Antoine Galland, the first Western translator of this collection, worked on it only "after dinner" Arabian Nights (the One Thousand and One Nights) |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: The Strand Union Workhouse, whose rules prohibited second helpings of food, inspired a setting in this 1838 novel Oliver Twist |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: Its first line says, "The good people of Paris were awakened by a grand peal from all the bells in the three districts of the city" The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN: These stories got their collective title because little Josephine Kipling insisted they be told exactly the same way each time Just So Stories |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: A 2000 Library of Congress exhibit called this 1900 work "America's greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale" The Wizard of Oz |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | LITERATURE & THE ANIMAL KINGDOM: In 2020 scientists named Trimeresurus salazar, a new species of this, after a character in a book series a snake |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | WORLD LITERATURE: This 1970s memoir told of harsh places that metaphorically were like an island chain "from the Bering Strait almost to the Bosporus" The Gulag Archipelago |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: One edition of this 1930s novella shows a farm within the silhouette of a rabbit Of Mice and Men |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | WORLD LITERATURE: In a classic novel from 1866, the murders of 2 women take place in this city St. Petersburg |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | FRENCH LITERATURE: An 1862 novel says this character "would have arrested his own father... and would have denounced his mother" Javert |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | PHRASES FROM LITERATURE: This 2-word phrase in "The Arabian Nights" may have come from an herb bearing seed pods that burst when ripe "Open, Sesame!" |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE: There are reminiscences of branding cattle & lassoing steers in “Martín Fierro”, the national poem of this Western Hemisphere country Argentina |
| #8138, aired 2020-01-15 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Einstein's theory of relativity & Max Planck's quantum theory inspired this book that won a 1963 Newbery Medal A Wrinkle in Time |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | WORLD LITERATURE: Some parts were translated from a 15th century Syrian manuscript when this work was introduced to Europe around 1700 One Thousand and One Nights |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | EUROPEAN AUTHORS: When he didn't win the inaugural 1901 Nobel Prize, 42 of his peers apologized to him, calling him "the most revered patriarch of today's literature" Leo Tolstoy |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | ANCIENT LITERATURE: If you were using an alternate name, the title of this work could be translated as "Troy Story" the Iliad |
| #7939, aired 2019-02-28 | BRITISH LITERATURE: A chapter of "The Jungle Book" has this double-talk title, echoing the opening line of a Brit's poem some 100 years prior "Tiger! Tiger!" |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE: The writing of this novel, the author's first with no Canadian setting, appropriately began in 1984 The Handmaid's Tale |
| #7862, aired 2018-11-13 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE: Chapter 1 of this 1954 British novel is entitled "The Sound of the Shell" Lord of the Flies |
| #7847, aired 2018-10-23 | OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE: This "creature of evil, grim and fierce, was quickly ready, savage and cruel, and seized from their rest thirty thanes" Grendel |
| #7837, aired 2018-10-09 | WORLD LEADERS: He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize twice & the Literature Prize 7 times, winning for the latter in 1953 Winston Churchill |
| #7831, aired 2018-10-01 | WORLD LITERATURE: In a recent poll of 125 authors, this long 1870s novel about a woman ranked as the greatest work of fiction of all time Anna Karenina |
| #7780, aired 2018-06-08 | LITERARY SETTINGS: Ashdown Forest in Sussex inspired this fictional setting for a 1926 collection of stories for children the Hundred Acre Wood |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | CITIES IN LITERATURE: In "Gone With the Wind", Rhett Butler says this city named for a monarch "is the South, only intensified" Charleston |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | MEDIEVAL LITERATURE: The illustration seen here appeared in the second printed edition of this book, published in England in 1483 The Canterbury Tales |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | LITERATURE & MYTHOLOGY: The "very name embodies the idea of flight", says one analysis of a 20th century novel in describing this main character Stephen Dedalus |
| #7653, aired 2017-12-13 | WORLD LITERATURE: In a 1967 novel this Nobel Prize winner wrote, "The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude" Gabriel García Márquez |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: This 1870 novel has a ship whose name is from the Greek for "sailor" & a captain whose name is Latin for "no one" Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE: Much of this novel takes place on the island of Despair, off the coast of South America, from 1659 to 1686 Robinson Crusoe |
| #7567, aired 2017-07-04 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: A 2016 biography of a children's author is titled "In the Great Green Room", a line from this classic book Goodnight Moon |
| #7423, aired 2016-12-14 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Nominated 8 previous times, he finally won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, 6 years before his death John Steinbeck |
| #7412, aired 2016-11-29 | LITERATURE: In 2009 Amazon remotely deleted unauthorized copies of this 1949 novel from some customers' Kindles 1984 |
| #7380, aired 2016-10-14 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: This character says, "Let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee" Captain Ahab |
| #7326, aired 2016-06-20 | EUROPEAN LITERATURE: "Episodes" in this 1922 work include the Lotus Eaters & Ithaca Ulysses (by James Joyce) |
| #7243, aired 2016-02-24 | LEGENDARY WOMEN: Early British literature refers to her as "the first lady of the island" Guinevere |
| #7232, aired 2016-02-09 | WORLD LITERATURE: It was originally published in 1915 under the German title "Die Verwandlung", meaning "The Transformation" The Metamorphosis (by Franz Kafka) |
| #7214, aired 2016-01-14 | ADVENTURE LITERATURE: In Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth", explorers enter an Icelandic volcano & emerge on this island off Sicily Stromboli |
| #7213, aired 2016-01-13 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE: For factual details, the author of this 1972 tale drew on a book called "The Private Life of the Rabbit" Watership Down |
| #7193, aired 2015-12-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE: The theft alluded to in the title of this 1844 Poe story is committed by a government minister "The Purloined Letter" |
| #7110, aired 2015-07-10 | 19th CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE: "I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel" is spoken to this title character by his creation Frankenstein |
| #7083, aired 2015-06-03 | BRITISH CITIES: The name of this Southern city famous in literature is from words meaning "Kent people's stronghold" Canterbury |
| #7079, aired 2015-05-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Published a year later, "Good Wives" was a follow-up to this 1868 novel Little Women |
| #7075, aired 2015-05-22 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: In a recent British poll, the 1926 book about this title character was named the favorite children's book of the past 150 years Winnie the Pooh |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | LITERATURE: Interestingly, at the start of this novel, Prince Oblonsky, the title character's brother, has been unfaithful Anna Karenina |
| #6993, aired 2015-01-28 | MEDIEVAL LITERATURE: Characters in this epic 4,002-line poem include Count Ogier, Duke Thierry & Archbishop Turpin of Reims The Song of Roland (La Chanson de Roland) |
| #6942, aired 2014-11-18 | FRENCH LITERATURE: Its first chapter recalls "the little scallop-shell of pastry, so richly sensual under its severe, religious folds" Remembrance of Things Past |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | LITERATURE: A chapter heading in this 19th century work calls the title character "one-eyed, lame", another calls him "deaf" The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #6919, aired 2014-10-16 | LITERATURE: This title 1864 adventure is embarked upon by a descent into Iceland's Mount Sneffels Journey to the Center of the Earth |
| #6880, aired 2014-07-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Published in 1925, it still sells 500,000 copies a year & was on the bestseller lists in 2013 The Great Gatsby |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | LITERATURE & OPERA: An aria in this Shakespeare-based opera says, "Di scozia a te promettono le profetesse il trono... Che tardi?" Macbeth |
| #6733, aired 2013-12-18 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Joy, Nellie & Aranea are 3 of the many children of this title character Charlotte |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | EUROPEAN LITERATURE: This 1922 novel's first chapter is titled "The Son of the Brahman" Siddhartha |
| #6627, aired 2013-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: This 1884 novel begins in the fictional town of St. Petersburg & ends in Pikesville, 1,100 miles down the Mississippi Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| #6612, aired 2013-05-21 | FRENCH LITERATURE: An article about improvements in transportation, including the opening of the Suez Canal, inspired this 1873 novel Around the World in 80 Days |
| #6541, aired 2013-02-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: In the 1st chapter of this 1939 novel, "When the night came again it was black night, for the stars could not pierce the dust" The Grapes of Wrath |
| #6496, aired 2012-12-10 | 1920s LITERATURE: The collapse of this title structure causes the death of Esteban, Uncle Pio, Don Jaime, Pepita & a marquesa the Bridge of San Luis Rey |
| #6426, aired 2012-07-23 | POLITICAL LITERATURE: The key message to this title figure in an Italian work is "it is far safer to be feared than loved" The Prince |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: In 2011, in the preface to the 75th anniversary edition, Pat Conroy called this novel "the last great... victory of the Confederacy" Gone with the Wind |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | LITERATURE: This 1928 novel was partly based on the author's wife Frieda & her affair with Angelo Ravagli Lady Chatterley's Lover (by D.H. Lawrence) |
| #6295, aired 2012-01-20 | ENGLISH LITERATURE: This title character of an 18th century novel was the son of a man named Kreutznaer, but his name gets Anglicized Robinson Crusoe |
| #6289, aired 2012-01-12 | WOMEN AUTHORS: 1 of the 2 American women authors nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938 (1 of) Pearl Buck & Margaret Mitchell |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE: A 50th anniversary edition of this fictionalized biography featured the painting seen here on its cover Lust for Life |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: In the original 1883 work, this title character kills a talking cricket, has his feet burned off & nearly starves Pinocchio |
| #6222, aired 2011-10-11 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: "'How are you getting on?' said" this animal character, "as soon as there was mouth enough for it to speak with" the Cheshire Cat |
| #6114, aired 2011-03-24 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: Armor-clad knights face off in a game of baseball in an 1889 work by this author Mark Twain |
| #6102, aired 2011-03-08 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: "The Scarlet Letter" says, "to forbid the culprit to hide his face... was the essence of" this 7-letter punishment the pillory |
| #5971, aired 2010-07-26 | LITERARY BRAWLS: At Key West in 1936, Wallace Stevens broke his hand punching this man, who responded by knocking Stevens down Ernest Hemingway |
| #5950, aired 2010-06-25 | LITERATURE & MUSIC: The band called "They Might Be Giants" ultimately gets its name from a phrase said by this title hero in a 1605 work Don Quixote |
| #5914, aired 2010-05-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: A contemporary review of this 1851 novel said, "Who would have looked for... poetry in blubber?" Moby-Dick |
| #5895, aired 2010-04-09 | 19th CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE: In chapter 10, "The whole mystery of the handkerchiefs, and the watches, and the jewels... rushed upon" this title boy's "mind" Oliver Twist |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: In an 1877 novel Mrs. Gordon initially suggests the name Ebony for this title character Black Beauty |
| #5873, aired 2010-03-10 | U.S. PLACES IN LITERATURE: This fishing port is the setting for Kipling's "Captains Courageous" & the wreck of the Hesperus was nearby Gloucester, Massachusetts |
| #5861, aired 2010-02-22 | KINGS & LITERATURE: Though called "the most hapless of monarchs", this king is in the title of Shakespeare's only trilogy Henry VI |
| #5842, aired 2010-01-26 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: Chapter II of this novel says, "My eyes were not to be deceived. I was indeed awake and among the Carpathians" Dracula |
| #5807, aired 2009-12-08 | LITERATURE OF THE 1800s: This character said, "I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me" Ebenezer Scrooge |
| #5725, aired 2009-06-26 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE: At the end of this novel, the title object "ceased to be a stigma which attracted the world's scorn and bitterness" The Scarlet Letter |
| #5715, aired 2009-06-12 | CLASSIC LITERATURE: This novelist is credited as the first to call Route 66 the "Mother Road" John Steinbeck (in The Grapes of Wrath) |
| #5707, aired 2009-06-02 | GEOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE: The first 2 sections of this Hemingway novel, published 9 years after his death, are titled "Bimini" & "Cuba" Islands in the Stream |
| #5628, aired 2009-02-11 | 1950s LITERATURE: In 2007 this novel celebrated its 50th anniversary as its manuscript, a 120-foot-long scroll, toured the U.S. On the Road |
| #5537, aired 2008-10-07 | EUROPEAN LITERATURE: An 1870 novel by this man mentions Moby Dick as well as a sea monster called a Kraken Jules Verne |
| #5503, aired 2008-07-09 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Her illustrations for 1890's "A Happy Pair" included elegantly dressed rabbits Beatrix Potter |
| #5425, aired 2008-03-21 | WORLD LITERATURE: "If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake" refers to a murderer in this 1866 novel Crime and Punishment |
| #5263, aired 2007-06-27 | LITERATURE: Maris, Lycon, Laogonus, Erymas, Sarpedon, Erylaus & Patroclus die in Book 16 of this work the Iliad |
| #5258, aired 2007-06-20 | LITERATURE: In 1852 his story "The Dandy Frightening the Squatter" appeared in The Carpet-Bag, a humorous paper Mark Twain |
| #5247, aired 2007-06-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Subtitles of books in this 19th century series include "A Tale", "The Inland Sea" & "The First War-Path" Leatherstocking Tales |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | 1920s LITERATURE: This character "believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us" Jay Gatsby |
| #5175, aired 2007-02-23 | LITERATURE: This 1877 novel was written "to induce kindness, sympathy and an understanding treatment of horses" Black Beauty |
| #5146, aired 2007-01-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: An epigraph he used on one story says, "our hearts though stout and brave, still, like muffled drums are beating" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #5120, aired 2006-12-08 | ENGLISH LITERATURE: This work says, "Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven" Paradise Lost |
| #5066, aired 2006-09-25 | LITERATURE: Northumbria in the "Age of Bede" or Mercia in Offa's reign are guesses as to where & when this work was created Beowulf |
| #5030, aired 2006-06-23 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: "I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world", says this narrator Ishmael |
| #5028, aired 2006-06-21 | AUTHORS: Author seen here with his son A.A. Milne |
| #5005, aired 2006-05-19 | WORLD LITERATURE: It says, "'O Poet... I beg you, that I may flee this evil & worse evils, to lead me... that I may see the gateway of Saint Peter'" Dante's Inferno |
| #4988, aired 2006-04-26 | LITERARY OBJECTS: In literature from the 1200s to today, it has been depicted as a type of dish, a talismanic stone & a woman the Holy Grail |
| #4962, aired 2006-03-21 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE: "Annie" Sadilek, an immigrant girl from Bohemia, inspired the title character in this 1918 novel of the Great Plains My Antonia (by Willa Cather) |
| #4950, aired 2006-03-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: This 1906 novel says, "Now & then a visitor wept, to be sure; but this slaughtering machine ran on, visitors or no..." The Jungle |
| #4847, aired 2005-10-11 | CLASSIC LITERATURE: Chapter 1 of this book describes "a cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case one of those… whirlwinds arose" The Wizard of Oz |
| #4846, aired 2005-10-10 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: This one-word name is derived from the fact that the character used to sit among the ashes Cinderella |
| #4840, aired 2005-09-30 | THE NOBEL PRIZES: For the first time in its history, the Nobel Prize for Literature was not awarded in this year 1914 |
| #4828, aired 2005-09-14 | 18th CENTURY LITERATURE: This character studied medicine, "knowing it would be useful in long voyages" Gulliver |
| #4822, aired 2005-07-19 | WORDS IN LITERATURE: In Webster's, it means either a soldier using a certain muzzle-loading weapon, or a boon companion musketeer |
| #4820, aired 2005-07-15 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: This 1952 classic contains the line "No one was with her when she died" Charlotte's Web |
| #4750, aired 2005-04-08 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Dr. Seuss wrote this book to win a bet that he couldn't write a book using only 50 different words Green Eggs and Ham |
| #4702, aired 2005-02-01 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: "The Pastor and His Parishioner" is Chapter 17 of this classic novel The Scarlet Letter |
| #4639, aired 2004-11-05 | LITERATURE: In early drafts, the heroine of this novel was named Pansy & her family home was called Fontenoy Hall Gone with the Wind |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | GEOGRAPHY IN LITERATURE: Leo Tolstoy's story about Hadji Murat, "who slew the Russian swine", opens in this present-day Russian republic Chechnya |
| #4567, aired 2004-06-15 | CLASSIC LITERATURE: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man..." is the epigraph to this 1818 novel Frankenstein |
| #4557, aired 2004-06-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: The title object of this 1850 novel is described as "so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom" The Scarlet Letter |
| #4527, aired 2004-04-20 | CANADIAN LITERATURE: This 1908 work that was followed by several sequels is the bestselling book ever written by a Canadian Anne of Green Gables |
| #4512, aired 2004-03-30 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: It contains the line "There stood the Kaatskill Mountains... there was every hill and dale... as it had always been" "Rip Van Winkle" |
| #4327, aired 2003-05-27 | CLASSIC LITERATURE: "A Bird's Eye View of Paris" & "The Bells" are chapters in this 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #4291, aired 2003-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Author of the 1889 novel that opens, "Camelot, Camelot... I don't seem to remember hearing of it before" Mark Twain |
| #4225, aired 2003-01-03 | CLASSIC LITERATURE: In this 3-part work, the main character encounters Nimrod, Ulysses, Muhammad & Thomas Aquinas "The Divine Comedy" |
| #4194, aired 2002-11-21 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: One of the original titles of this 1925 novel was "Among Ash Heaps and Millionaires" The Great Gatsby |
| #4130, aired 2002-07-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE: Literary history was shaped in 1905 when this female author moved from 22 Hyde Park to 46 Gordon Square Virginia Woolf |
| #4098, aired 2002-05-29 | LITERATURE & GEOGRAPHY: Zhongdian County in Southwest China has renamed itself after this fabled land from a 1933 book Shangri-La |
| #4034, aired 2002-02-28 | TV & LITERATURE: "The Fugitive" was based in part on this 1862 novel in which a detective relentlessly pursues the fugitive hero Les Misérables |
| #3961, aired 2001-11-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: John Steinbeck originally called this 1937 short novel "Something That Happened" Of Mice and Men |
| #3949, aired 2001-11-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: "The Mute" was the working title of this 1940 novel by a female author The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (by Carson McCullers) |
| #3884, aired 2001-06-21 | HISTORY & LITERATURE: At the beginning of "A Tale of Two Cities", these 2 kings sit on the thrones of England & France George III & Louis XVI |
| #3874, aired 2001-06-07 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: 3 of the countries that make up this land are Gillikin, Winkie & Quadling Oz |
| #3808, aired 2001-03-07 | LITERATURE & FILM: Nicole Kidman, Helena Bonham Carter & Cybill Shepherd have all starred in films based on this man's works Henry James |
| #3790, aired 2001-02-09 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: First line of the poem thought to be based on Mary Sawyer's experience at a Massachusetts school-house around 1815 "Mary had a little lamb" |
| #3726, aired 2000-11-13 | LIFE & LITERATURE: Cub Scouting & many of its terms like "akela", "law of the pack", "den" & "wolf" were inspired by this British work "The Jungle Book" (by Rudyard Kipling) |
| #3659, aired 2000-06-29 | BRITISH LITERATURE: This 1901 novel named for its hero opens at the Lahore Museum Kim |
| #3655, aired 2000-06-23 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: "Max et les Maximonstres" is the French title of this children's classic "Where the Wild Things Are" |
| #3623, aired 2000-05-10 | LITERATURE: An edition of this 1934 book had on its cover a crab & "Not to be imported into Great Britain or U.S.A." Tropic of Cancer (by Henry Miller) |
| #3593, aired 2000-03-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: The title of this novella that won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize consists of 6 words, each of which is 3 letters long "The Old Man and the Sea" |
| #3551, aired 2000-01-31 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Hans Christian Andersen's "The Nightingale" was inspired by this famous woman Jenny Lind |
| #3423, aired 1999-06-23 | BRITISH LITERATURE: The original title of this 1895 novel was "The Chronic Argonauts" The Time Machine |
| #3393, aired 1999-05-12 | RENAISSANCE LITERATURE: This book begins, "All states and dominions which hold or have held mankind are either republics or monarchies" "The Prince" (by Machiavelli) |
| #3388, aired 1999-05-05 | WORLD LITERATURE: A war described in this 1726 novel began over an argument about how to crack open an egg "Gulliver's Travels" |
| #3330, aired 1999-02-12 | LITERATURE: In 1998 Jose Saramago became the first writer in this language to win a Nobel Prize for Literature Portuguese |
| #3325, aired 1999-02-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: The book of Jonah is quoted before Chapter One of this 1851 novel Moby-Dick |
| #3301, aired 1999-01-04 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: This title character was inspired by a girl who'd had her appendix out in a French hospital run by nuns Madeline |
| #3286, aired 1998-12-14 | TV & LITERATURE: The "X-Files" episode entitled "Post-Modern Prometheus" was an update of this classic 1818 tale Frankenstein |
| #3273, aired 1998-11-25 | FRENCH LITERATURE: Written in exile in Turin & Brussels in the 1850s, his "The Royal House of Savoy", was finally published in France in 1998 Alexandre Dumas (pere, the father) |
| #3173, aired 1998-05-20 | THE NOBEL PRIZE: 1 of the 2 women from the United States who have won the Nobel Prize for Literature Toni Morrison or Pearl Buck |
| #3102, aired 1998-02-10 | ENGLISH LITERATURE: The 5th edition of this work, published in 1676, included a section on fly fishing by Charles Cotton The Compleat Angler (by Izaak Walton) |
| #3078, aired 1998-01-07 | ENGLISH LITERATURE: This 1726 satire reported the existence of Mars' 2 moons 151 years before Asaph Hall discovered them Gulliver's Travels |
| #3070, aired 1997-12-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Controversial even when serialized in the "National Era", it sold over 300,000 copies in book form in 1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #3052, aired 1997-12-02 | 17th CENTURY LITERATURE: Part one of this English allegory ends, "So I awoke, and behold it was a dream" "Pilgrim's Progress" |
| #3031, aired 1997-11-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: In 1900 he published his first collection of stories, "The Son of the Wolf" Jack London |
| #2887, aired 1997-03-04 | LITERATURE: Chapter 8 of this book first published in 1900 is titled "The Deadly Poppy Field" The Wizard of Oz |
| #2846, aired 1997-01-06 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE: 4 single biographies & 23 pairs of biographies make up this classical work "Plutarch's Lives" |
| #2718, aired 1996-05-29 | JAPANESE LITERATURE: One-word title of a 1915 story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa; it was filmed in 1950 Rashomon |
| #2646, aired 1996-02-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: This first American writer to earn $1 million received only $2,000 for a 1903 novel set in the Klondike Jack London |
| #2571, aired 1995-11-06 | BUSINESS & LITERATURE: On March 24, 1994 this store held a breakfast to announce the new Truman Capote Literary Trust Tiffany's |
| #2483, aired 1995-05-24 | ENGLISH LITERATURE: Though not named in the title, Oliver Mellors is the title character of this 1928 novel Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #2474, aired 1995-05-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Chapter XI of this 1826 novel is prefaced by a Shakespearean quote: "Cursed be my tribe, if I forgive him" The Last of the Mohicans |
| #2471, aired 1995-05-08 | WORLD LITERATURE: This 1513 work concludes with "An Exhortation to Liberate Italy from the Barbarians" The Prince |
| #2415, aired 1995-02-17 | ENGLISH LITERATURE: Set in Scandinavia, not in Britain, it's the longest surviving epic poem written in Old English Beowulf |
| #2363, aired 1994-12-07 | POETIC HEROINES: The heroine of this 1847 poem is driven into exile by British soldiers during the French & Indian War Evangeline |
| #2362, aired 1994-12-06 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Last name of the 18th c. bookseller & publisher known as the first to specialize in children's books Newbery |
| #2324, aired 1994-10-13 | LITERARY AWARDS: 2 of 3 men from Ireland awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (2 of) (William Butler) Yeats, (George Bernard) Shaw or (Samuel) Beckett |
| #2313, aired 1994-09-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Famous story that contains the line "I wish I may never hear of the United States again!" The Man Without a Country |
| #2242, aired 1994-05-10 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Headings in this 1854 work include "Solitude", "Brute Neighbors" & "The Pond in Winter" Walden (Life in the Woods) |
| #2226, aired 1994-04-18 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Jennifer Greenway's "A Real Little Bunny" is a sequel to this Margery Williams classic The Velveteen Rabbit |
| #2197, aired 1994-03-08 | THE NOBEL PRIZE: In 1993 she became the first American woman since Pearl Buck to win the Nobel Prize in Literature Toni Morrison |
| #2195, aired 1994-03-04 | ENGLISH LITERATURE: Penguin's edition of this 1830's classic includes a glossary of thieves' slang Oliver Twist |
| #2114, aired 1993-11-11 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE: 2nd century A.D. author Aulus Gellius gave us the story of this runaway Roman slave who befriends a lion Androcles |
| #2035, aired 1993-06-11 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: The success of this book in 1957 prompted Random House to create its "Beginner Books" series The Cat in the Hat |
| #2029, aired 1993-06-03 | ENGLISH LITERATURE: In this 1653 work, Piscator tries to convince Venator, a hunter, that fishing is the better sport The Compleat Angler |
| #1963, aired 1993-03-03 | THE NOBEL PRIZE: The category in which the U.S. has won the fewest medals--10 Literature |
| #1829, aired 1992-07-09 | LITERATURE: The prologue of "The Canterbury Tales" calls him "the hooly blisful martir" Becket |
| #1739, aired 1992-03-05 | LITERATURE: In "The Jungle Book" it's called "the Red Flower" & "every beast lives in fear of it" fire |
| #1694, aired 1992-01-02 | LITERATURE: This 1952 novel is based on a Biblical story & set in California's Salinas Valley East of Eden |
| #1651, aired 1991-11-04 | ANCIENT LITERATURE: More writings of this orator survive than of any other Latin author Cicero |
| #1631, aired 1991-10-07 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Howard R. Garis wrote some 12,000 stories about this "Uncle" & his friends between 1910-1947 Uncle Wiggily |
| #1514, aired 1991-03-14 | LITERATURE: A line in Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale" provided the title of this F. Scott Fitzgerald work Tender is the Night |
| #1468, aired 1991-01-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Name of the 1883 autobiographical work whose 6th chapter is titled "A Cub-Pilot's Experience" Life on the Mississippi |
| #1410, aired 1990-10-19 | ENGLISH LITERATURE: "From this world to that which is to come" completes the title of this 1678 work The Pilgrim's Progress |
| #1406, aired 1990-10-15 | BRITISH AUTHORS: He was the first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature who was born in Asia; he won in 1907 Rudyard Kipling |
| #12, aired 1990-09-01 | THE NOBEL PRIZE: In 1930 this novelist became the 1st American to win the Nobel Prize for literature Sinclair Lewis |
| #6, aired 1990-07-21 | LITERATURE: Parts of this epic work published in 1667 were dictated by its author to family members Paradise Lost |
| #1355, aired 1990-06-22 | AMERICAN WRITERS: The only American woman awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, she won hers in 1938 Pearl Buck |
| #1332, aired 1990-05-22 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Merlin the Magician cast a spell putting this title character to sleep for 1,300 years A Connecticut Yankee (In King Arthur's Court) |
| #1327, aired 1990-05-15 | THE NOBEL PRIZE: This winner of the 1970 Nobel Literature Prize was born in 1918 into a family of Cossack intellectuals Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
| #1234, aired 1990-01-04 | THE NOBEL PRIZE: In 1954 the U.N. won for Peace, Hemingway for Literature & this U.S. chemist for Chemistry Linus Pauling |
| #1170, aired 1989-10-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: The only native Californian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature John Steinbeck (in 1940 for The Grapes of Wrath) |
| #1152, aired 1989-09-12 | LITERATURE: The next-to-last chapter of this novel is entitled "The Knitting Done" A Tale of Two Cities |
| #1121, aired 1989-06-19 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: In a Eugene Field poem, the wooden shoe stands for a trundle bed, & these 3 for 2 eyes & a head Wynken, Blynken, and Nod |
| #1102, aired 1989-05-23 | LITERATURE: It's where Philip Nolan asked to be buried at sea |
| #1051, aired 1989-03-13 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: When Rip Van Winkle fell asleep, this ruler's portrait hung in front of the inn King George III |
| #967, aired 1988-11-15 | THE NOBEL PRIZE: This country's authors have won more Nobel literature prizes than any other, including the U.S. France |
| #952, aired 1988-10-25 | THE NOBEL PRIZE: He was knighted in 1953, the same year he won the Nobel Prize for Literature Winston Churchill |
| #756, aired 1987-12-14 | THE NOBEL PRIZE: The 2, a Russian & a Frenchman, who refused the Literature Prize Jean-Paul Sartre and Boris Pasternak |
| #679, aired 1987-07-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: 19th century novel whose alternate title is "Life Among the Lowly" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #540, aired 1987-01-02 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Inspirational 19th century song from which John Steinbeck got the title "The Grapes of Wrath" "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic" |
| #517, aired 1986-12-02 | MODERN LITERATURE: "Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy," said Doc Daneeka of this title rule Catch-22 |
| #486, aired 1986-10-20 | LITERATURE: Title of this 1940 novel is taken from the words of John Donne, which begin "No man is an island" For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| #415, aired 1986-04-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Title of O. Henry's collection of short stories, "The Four Million" refers specifically to this the population of New York (the citizens of NYC) |
| #312, aired 1985-11-19 | LITERATURE: 1952 novel that begins off the coast of Cuba, & ends on shore 3 days later The Old Man and the Sea |
| #186, aired 1985-05-27 | LITERATURE: Since no one had trademarked this ancient title, Thomas Nelson Publ. was allowed to in 1979 The Bible |
| #2, aired 1984-01-01 | LITERATURE: Classic American novel which begins "Call me Ishmael" Moby-Dick |
