| #9179, aired 2024-10-10 | STORIES WITHIN STORIES $400: A man cuckolds himself in "The Man Who Was Recklessly Curious", which is read by a priest in this Cervantes work Don Quixote |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | WILD LINES $200: "Why do you lead me" on one of these ridiculous quests, an unhappy Sancho Panza asks Don Quixote a wild goose chase |
| #9119, aired 2024-06-06 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $800: In Spain, rent a car & follow the path of scenes in this novel, including the Cave of Montesinos & the windmills of Consuegra Don Quixote |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS $1000: In the eyes of Don Quixote, peasant girl Aldonza becomes this lovely lady, whom he has sought & dreamed of Dulcinea |
| #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 |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | DUNCE, DUNCE $400: He is confidently incorrect as he tells Sancho Panza that the cloud of dust he sees comes from an army; it's sheep Don Quixote |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | NOVELS BY QUOTE $4,000 (Daily Double): "What you see there are not giants, but windmills" Don Quixote |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: When Don Quixote says, "He owes you nothing", he uses this as the last word nada |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | BOOK SEQUELS $600: His second part to "Don Quixote" includes jabs at an unauthorized sequel by one Alonso Fernandez de Avellaneda Cervantes |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | QUICK LIT $200: Cervantes published the first volume of this novel about a delusional hero in 1605 Don Quixote |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $800: Part I of a 17th century novel is titled "The Ingenious Hidalgo" this character "of La Mancha" Don Quixote |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | BOOKS WITH HORSEPOWER $1600: Don Quixote's steed has this name from Spanish meaning "old nag" Rocinante |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | RECENT FICTION $200: In Salman Rushdie's "Quichotte", a spin on this classic novel, a salesman travels the U.S. with his imaginary son Sancho Don Quixote |
| #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 |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | FROM PAGE TO STAGE $1600: This musical has a frame story: an imprisoned Miguel de Cervantes tells his fellow prisoners a story Man of La Mancha |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | AUTHORS WHO SERVED IN THE MILITARY $400: This creator of Don Quixote fought at the 1571 Battle of Lepanto, receiving a wound that maimed his left hand for life Cervantes |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $600: This author originated "tilting at windmills", meaning fighting imaginary foes Cervantes |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | DON QUIXOTE $400: As a knight-errant Don Quixote attacks what he says are giants but in fact are these windmills |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | DON QUIXOTE $800: Idioms abound in "Don Quixote", like "The haves & the have nots" & the rich being born with one of these "in his mouth" a silver spoon |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | DON QUIXOTE $1200: Dreaming the impossible dream, this Broadway show about Don Quixote won the 1966 Tony Award for Best Musical Man of La Mancha |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | DON QUIXOTE $1600: In "Don Quixote", this squire tells his donkey Dapple, "With bread all sorrows are less" Sancho Panza |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | DON QUIXOTE $2000: Don Quixote dedicates his deeds of valor to Aldonza, a peasant girl he calls this Dulcinea |
| #8152, aired 2020-02-04 | TL;DR $800: This 17th century adventure opens in La Mancha & about 800 pages later, its title guy renounces chivalry as foolish & dies Don Quixote |
| #8107, aired 2019-12-03 | BROADWAY NAMES $200: Brian Stokes Mitchell's roles have included Coalhouse Walker Jr. in "Ragtime" & Don Quixote in this musical Man of La Mancha |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | CHARACTERS IN THE WORK $1200: Don Fernando, Dulcinea Don Quixote |
| #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 |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | SCI-FI TRANSPORTS $1200: The Roci on "The Expanse" is named for Rocinante, a horse in this 1605 novel Don Quixote |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | FOR ME & MIGUEL $400: He created the characters Sancho Panza & Aldonza, also called Dulcinea Cervantes |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | THE BOOK OF THE CENTURY $400: Saddle up for "Don Quixote" the 17th (or the 1600s) |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | WRITERS WHO WENT TO JAIL $5,000 (Daily Double): He conceived his greatest novel while in prison for debt in Seville in 1597 Cervantes |
| #7851, aired 2018-10-29 | JOUST $1600: This "off balance" jousting idiom comes from Don Quixote's attempts to attack a perceived enemy tilting at windmills |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | TALE AS OLD AS TIME $200: Tired & disillusioned after a duel with the knight of the white moon, he returns home to La Mancha Don Quixote |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | SUCH NOVEL CHARACTERS $400: Behaving like this hard-charging hero of a 1605 Spanish work has become shorthand for impractical idealism Don Quixote |
| #7678, aired 2018-01-17 | IN THE "D" TALES $4,000 (Daily Double): The full title of this novel includes "El Ingenioso Hidalgo" Don Quixote (de la Mancha) |
| #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 |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | LIT BITS $200: Don Quixote's squire Sancho Panza |
| #7466, aired 2017-02-13 | SEMILITERATE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Tony Stark creation who becomes Don Quixote in a musical Iron Man of La Mancha |
| #7453, aired 2017-01-25 | MOVIE MUSICAL ROLES $1600: Peter O'Toole dreamed "The Impossible Dream" when he played Don Quixote in this film Man of La Mancha |
| #7416, aired 2016-12-05 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $200: Fictional folks turn up in Tennessee Williams' play "Camino Real"--this Spanish windmill tilter, for one Don Quixote |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | BOOKS BY CHAPTER TITLES $200: "Of What Happened to the Ingenious Gentleman in the Inn Which He Took to Be a Castle" Don Quixote |
| #7309, aired 2016-05-26 | PROLOGUES $400: Cervantes wrote, "But though I seem to be the father, I am the stepfather of" him Don Quixote |
| #7256, aired 2016-03-14 | 1,000 FOODS TO EAT BEFORE YOU DIE $1000: Sample the great cheeses of Spain, including this one hailing from the same region as Don Quixote & made from sheep's milk Manchego |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | PUBLISHED FIRST $600: "The Faerie Queene",
"Don Quixote",
the First Folio The Faerie Queene |
| #7057, aired 2015-04-28 | NOT AS GREAT AS PUSS IN BOOTS $200: (Puss in Boots delivers the clue.) Ay, pobrecito! He dreamed the impossible dream, thinking he could be a knight errant like me, Puss in Boots, but he was just loco in la cabeza, facing armies of sheep & tilting at windmills Don Quixote |
| #6988, aired 2015-01-21 | WHAT'S MY LINE? $600: This Spaniard wrote, "a knight without a lady is like a tree without leaves" Cervantes |
| #6889, aired 2014-07-24 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $1,000 (Daily Double): As this book begins, Santiago had "gone eighty-four days... without taking a fish" The Old Man and the Sea |
| #6848, aired 2014-05-28 | PIN THE TALE ON THE DONKEY $1,200 (Daily Double): Not quite Rocinante, the mount used by this character is a brown donkey Sancho Panza |
| #6753, aired 2014-01-15 | THAT LITERARY TITLE GUY IS UP TO SOMETHING $600: This man, "seeing that Sancho was mocking him, became so... angry that he raised his lance and struck him twice" Don Quixote |
| #6730, aired 2013-12-13 | SILVER $400: Cervantes wrote in "Don Quixote" that "Every man was not born with" one of these "in his mouth" a silver spoon |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | NOVELS BY CHARACTER $200: Countess Trifaldi,
Dona Rodriguez,
Dulcinea Don Quixote |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | THE CHARACTER'S NAME HAS BEEN CHANGED $800: "Dorotea saw him and was informed by Sancho that this was Don Cornelius" Don Quixote |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | SUITE MUSIC $1600: Ferde Grofe used sound effects to advantage in this 1931 suite; coconut shells doubled for the steps of a burro "Grand Canyon Suite" |
| #6594, aired 2013-04-25 | LITERARY SECOND BANANAS $800: This simple squire of Don Quixote has a wife, Teresa, a son, Sanchico, & daughter, Mari Sancha Sancho Panza |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | BALLET $1200: In the prologue to this 1869 ballet, the title hero dons a washbowl as a helmet & sets out for adventure Don Quixote |
| #6506, aired 2012-12-24 | AUTHORS AT WAR $400: In 1575 this "Don Quixote" author's ship was overtaken by pirates; he spent 5 years as a captive in Algiers Cervantes |
| #6478, aired 2012-11-14 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: A heavy-browed archaic human unearthed in 1856 does Don Quixote on Broadway Neanderthal Man of La Mancha |
| #6456, aired 2012-10-15 | IN A ROW $400: Don Quixote attacks a row of these, believing them to be gigantic knights windmills |
| #6382, aired 2012-05-22 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $800: 1988 Dustin Hoffman film that definitely, definitely became the musical film version of "Don Quixote" Rain Man of La Mancha |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | APRIL 23: BAD DAY FOR WRITERS $800: He was buried in Madrid April 23, 1616, not long after finishing "Don Quixote" Cervantes |
| #6159, aired 2011-05-26 | MUSICAL BY CHARACTERS $400: Miguel de Cervantes & Aldonza The Man of La Mancha |
| #6142, aired 2011-05-03 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $600: To attack imaginary enemies is to "tilt at" these, just like Don Quixote windmills |
| #6056, aired 2011-01-03 | NOVEL IDEAS $400: The opening line of this 1605 novel mentions a lance, a shield & a skinny nag Don Quixote |
| #6011, aired 2010-11-01 | A NOVEL SUM-UP $400: Cervantes at your service; long knight's journey into day; Rocinante is the horse he rode in on Don Quixote |
| #5869, aired 2010-03-04 | WRITTEN BEHIND BARS $400: Cervantes is believed to have begun writing this classic in 1597 or 1598 while confined to a Seville jail Don Quixote |
| #5787, aired 2009-11-10 | OH, WHAT A KNIGHT $2000: Amadis of Gaul & Don Quixote are examples of this kind of knight who wanders in search of adventure knights-errant |
| #5761, aired 2009-10-05 | NOVEL QUOTES $200: This Cervantes character is "otherwise called the Knight of the Rueful Countenance" Don Quixote |
| #5748, aired 2009-09-16 | BOOKISH $200: Thinking it a giant, this character rushed at a windmill & pierced one of the sails with his lance Don Quixote |
| #5717, aired 2009-06-16 | BALLETS ALEX COULD STAR IN $400: I'm too svelte to play Sancho Panza, so I'll dance this title role instead Don Quixote |
| #5686, aired 2009-05-04 | NAME THE WORK $200: Cervantes:
"At a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to remember" Don Quixote |
| #5529, aired 2008-09-25 | DANCE FORMERS $1,400 (Daily Double): When Balanchine choreographed this ballet in 1965, he played the title role & Suzanne Farrell was his Dulcinea Don Quixote |
| #5488, aired 2008-06-18 | LITERATURE $400: The full title of this Spanish novel includes "de la Mancha, El Ingenioso Hidalgo" Don Quixote |
| #5358, aired 2007-12-19 | LITERATURE $400: Published in Spain in 1605, this classic of world literature was an instant hit Don Quixote |
| #5241, aired 2007-05-28 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $200: This knight errant's steed in Rocinante, a draft horse originally belonging to his neighbor Don Quixote |
| #5169, aired 2007-02-15 | A LITTLE LIT $200: In this Cervantes novel, Alonso's plans never work out as he tries to be chivalrous Don Quixote |
| #5119, aired 2006-12-07 | THOMAS JEFFERSON'S READING LIST $400: Tobias Smollett's on the list with "Peregrine Pickle" & his translation of this Spanish novel Don Quixote |
| #5029, aired 2006-06-22 | HEROES OF LITERATURE $400: Spanish thinker Ortega y Gasset said that heroism is within all of us in "Meditations on" this literary character Don Quixote |
| #4938, aired 2006-02-15 | BALLET IS FOR THE BIRDS! $800: Sancho Panza gets chased after stealing a bird in a ballet based on this novel Don Quixote |
| #4930, aired 2006-02-03 | WORLD AUTHORS $1600: In "Exemplary Tales", a 1613 collection, he claimed to be the first to write short stories in Castilian Cervantes |
| #4880, aired 2005-11-25 | LITERARY QUOTATIONS $800: This 17th century work says, "What we see there are not giants but windmills" Don Quixote |
| #4878, aired 2005-11-23 | FICTIONAL BATTLES & WARS $1,500 (Daily Double): The Battle of the Cowshed & the Battle of the Windmill are waged in this 1945 work Animal Farm |
| #4840, aired 2005-09-30 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: Chapter 8 of this 17th century work begins, "They came in sight of thirty, forty windmills" Don Quixote |
| #4837, aired 2005-09-27 | IT HAPPENED ONE KNIGHT $1,500 (Daily Double): Portrayed in verse as the perfect knight, he led the "Reconquista" against the Moors until his death in 1099 El Cid |
| #4822, aired 2005-07-19 | ALSO A BASEBALL TEAM $400: Don Quixote thought the windmills were these giants |
| #4798, aired 2005-06-15 | IT HAPPENED IN '05 $400: 1605:
Part One of this Spanish classic is first published Don Quixote |
| #4747, aired 2005-04-05 | I FORGET $400: Completes Don Quixote's plaintive line "My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own..." name |
| #4705, aired 2005-02-04 | MAID $800: One of the best known "Exemplary Tales" by this "Don Quixote" author is "The Gypsy Maid" Miguel de Cervantes |
| #4665, aired 2004-12-10 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Ralph Ellison's musical about a nameless black man & Don Quixote Invisible Man of La Mancha |
| #4658, aired 2004-12-01 | SPELL-BOUND FOR BROADWAY $2000: Don Quixote, the "Man of La Mancha", worships her as "Dulcinea" A-L-D-O-N-Z-A |
| #4571, aired 2004-06-21 | WHAT'S NEW? $400: In 2003 Edith Grossman served up a new translation of this Cervantes work Don Quixote |
| #4521, aired 2004-04-12 | SPAIN & PORTUGAL $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew) Toledo is the heart of this region of Spain mentioned in the first sentence of "Don Quixote" La Mancha |
| #4519, aired 2004-04-08 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: John Gotti nickname for the Man of La Mancha the "Teflon Don" Quixote |
| #4512, aired 2004-03-30 | I PITY THE FOOL $1200: This title character of Spanish literature is called "A muddled fool, full of lucid intervals" Don Quixote |
| #4471, aired 2004-02-02 | "D" COMPOSING $400: Based on a 17th century satire, this tone poem from composer Richard Strauss features a viola as Sancho Panza Don Quixote |
| #4380, aired 2003-09-26 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $1000: This character's squire was Sancho Panza Don Quixote |
| #4312, aired 2003-05-06 | PENGUIN CLASSICS $400: The cover seen here is from the new edition of this classic 1605 novel "Don Quixote" |
| #4277, aired 2003-03-18 | RENAISSANCE MEN $400: His experiences as a slave for 5 years in Algiers became episodes in "Don Quixote" Cervantes |
| #4252, aired 2003-02-11 | WRITERS $400: A poem on the death of Philip II's wife was one of the earliest works by this "Don Quixote" author Cervantes |
| #4243, aired 2003-01-29 | A LITERARY TOUR $400: In Madrid, a plaque marks the house where this "Don Quixote" author lived & died Cervantes |
| #4238, aired 2003-01-22 | WHAT A PEASANT SURPRISE $200: This literary hero dedicates his deeds of valor to Aldonza, a peasant girl he calls Dulcinea Don Quixote |
| #4225, aired 2003-01-03 | A COMPENDIUM OF CLUES $1600: In "The Caballero's Way" O. Henry created this partner of Pancho as a scruffy bandit The Cisco Kid |
| #4190, aired 2002-11-15 | LITERATURE IN SPANISH $400: It took him 10 years to come out with "Don Quixote Part II" Cervantes |
| #4021, aired 2002-02-11 | CLIFFS NOTES $3,000 (Daily Double): Guy from the boonies reads too much, freaks out; says he's a medieval knight; others strangely go along with it Don Quixote |
| #3886, aired 2001-06-25 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Famous phrase attributed to Horace Greeley that's a musical about Don Quixote Go West Young Man of La Mancha |
| #3871, aired 2001-06-04 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: Don Quixote gave this name to Aldonza Lorenzo, a peasant girl who was his ideal lady Dulcinea |
| #3865, aired 2001-05-25 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $200: This "Don Quixote" author wrote his first novel, "La Galatea", in 1585 Cervantes |
| #3832, aired 2001-04-10 | LA LA $200: This region in south-central Spain is the setting for Cervantes' "Don Quixote" La Mancha |
| #3816, aired 2001-03-19 | AUTHORS $200: This "Don Quixote" author was called the "Maimed of Lepanto" for wounds suffered in battle Cervantes |
| #3783, aired 2001-01-31 | TRUSTY SIDEKICKS $600: Sancho Panza, a rustic squire Don Quixote |
| #3775, aired 2001-01-19 | "W"ORDS $300: They might be giants, but in Don Quixote's case, he was tilting at these Windmills |
| #3730, aired 2000-11-17 | BALLET $800: Act 1, Scene 1 of this Balanchine ballet based on this novel is set in La Mancha "Don Quixote" |
| #3581, aired 2000-03-13 | LITERARY HEROINES $800: Don Quixote dubs Aldanza with this more romantic name Dulcinea |
| #3551, aired 2000-01-31 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Hit Broadway musical starring the grotesquely deformed John Merrick as Don Quixote The Elephant Man of La Mancha |
| #3470, aired 1999-10-08 | HORSE & RIDER $200: Rocinante Don Quixote |
| #3440, aired 1999-07-16 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Fossil guy named for a German valley stars in a Quixote musical Neanderthal Man of La Mancha |
| #3434, aired 1999-07-08 | OPERA $100: "Master Peter's Puppet Show" -- a puppet opera (?!) -- is based on a passage from this Cervantes work Don Quixote |
| #3342, aired 1999-03-02 | IN THE BEGINNING $400: "In a certain village in La Mancha, which I do not wish to name, there lived not long ago a gentleman" "Don Quixote" |
| #3335, aired 1999-02-19 | CERVANTES $100: Cervantes called this title character "El Ingenioso Hidalgo", the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote |
| #3280, aired 1998-12-04 | AROUND THE LITERARY WORLD $200: The literary prize named for this creator of "Don Quixote" is awarded to authors who write in Spanish Cervantes |
| #3233, aired 1998-09-30 | OPERA & BALLET $1,000 (Daily Double): In an 1869 Marius Petipa ballet he puts a metal basin on as a helmet & goes seeking adventure Don Quixote |
| #3231, aired 1998-09-28 | THEATER $100: This 1-act musical that debuted in 1965 has Cervantes playing Don Quixote Man of La Mancha |
| #3160, aired 1998-05-01 | LITERATURE $400: In this novel, Sancho Panza is described as a poor, honest man "without much salt in his brain-pan" "Don Quixote" |
| #3118, aired 1998-03-04 | LITERATURE $400: Sancho Panza rides a donkey named Dapple in this Cervantes novel Don Quixote |
| #3082, aired 1998-01-13 | MAN OF ____ $400: Don Quixote Man of La Mancha |
| #3035, aired 1997-11-07 | MUSIC APPRECIATION $400: In the 1890s Richard Strauss wrote a tone poem based on this Cervantes novel Don Quixote |
| #3006, aired 1997-09-29 | SAUCE $300: In "Don Quixote", Cervantes asserted that this sensation "is the best sauce in the world" Hunger |
| #2993, aired 1997-09-10 | LITERARY SECOND BANANAS $400: This simple peasant became Don Quixote's squire after being promised an island to rule Sancho Panza |
| #2992, aired 1997-09-09 | GIANTS $200: With his overactive imagination, Don Quixote thought these objects were giants Windmills |
| #2972, aired 1997-07-01 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $200: This "knight" devotes himself to Aldonza Lorenzo, whom he calls Dulcinea Del Toboso Don Quixote |
| #2960, aired 1997-06-13 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: In 1996 Robert Goulet took to the road as Don Quixote in a touring production of this musical Man of La Mancha |
| #2933, aired 1997-05-07 | OPERA $400: Jules Massenet composed an opera based on this famous novel by Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote |
| #2918, aired 1997-04-16 | LITERATURE $200: In this novel, d'Artagnan, a native of Gascony, is described as "Don Quixote at 18" The Three Musketeers |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | LITERATURE $100: Some say Cervantes wrote a portion of this 1605 novel in jail Don Quixote |
| #2851, aired 1997-01-13 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $600: A broken-down old nag is called a Rosinante in honor of this Spanish character's scrawny horse Don Quixote |
| #2751, aired 1996-07-15 | WORLD LITERATURE $200: Sancho Panza calls him "The Knight of the Sad Countenance" Don Quixote |
| #2728, aired 1996-06-12 | MUSICAL THEATRE $100: Songs in this musical include "I, Don Quixote' & "The Quest" Man of La Mancha |
| #2674, aired 1996-03-28 | LITERATURE $200: In this 17th C. novel, Sancho Panza is promised, & eventually gets, the governorship of his own island "Don Quixote" |
| #2665, aired 1996-03-15 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $100: Some say his original surname was Quixada or Quesada, "before he lost his senses" Don Quixote |
| #2632, aired 1996-01-30 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $200: This "Don Quixote" author's first published work was "La Galatea", a pastoral novel Cervantes |
| #2577, aired 1995-11-14 | LITERATURE $200: This Spaniard rides a bony old nag named Rocinante on his quests Don Quixote |
| #2519, aired 1995-07-13 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $200: To fight imaginary enemies is to "tilt at" these structures, as Don Quixote did windmills |
| #2458, aired 1995-04-19 | AUTHORS $200: Captured by pirates in 1575, this "Don Quixote" author was later ransomed for 500 escudos Cervantes |
| #2445, aired 1995-03-31 | BALLET $200: Part of Marius Pepita's ballet based on this novel is set at a gypsy camp near windmills Don Quixote |
| #2407, aired 1995-02-07 | FIRST LINES $200: "In a certain village in La Mancha, which I do not wish to name, there lived not long ago a gentleman..." Don Quixote |
| #2378, aired 1994-12-28 | LITERATURE $200: Cervantes novel that tells us, "A knight errant without a lady is like...a body without a soul" "Don Quixote" |
| #2356, aired 1994-11-28 | BALLET $400: When Rudolf Nureyev staged his own version of this ballet, he played Basil the Barber, not Sancho Panza Don Quixote |
| #2350, aired 1994-11-18 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Honore Daumier created several works portraying Don Quixote & this squire Sancho Panza |
| #2345, aired 1994-11-11 | LITERATURE $400: The hero of this Cervantes novel becomes obsessed with chivalry & decides to be a knight errant Don Quixote |
| #2326, aired 1994-10-17 | AUTHORS AT WAR $200: This author of "Don Quixote" lost his the use of his left hand at the 1571 Battle of Lepanto Cervantes |
| #2292, aired 1994-07-19 | OPERAS & OPERETTAS $400: Sancho Panza is a silent role in "Master Peter's Puppet Show", based on an episode in this novel Don Quixote |
| #2244, aired 1994-05-12 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $100: Idealistic, compulsive impracticality is called quixotism in honor of this title character Don Quixote |
| #2219, aired 1994-04-07 | WORLD LITERATURE $200: Chapter I of this classic begins, "In a certain village in La Mancha, which I do not wish to name..." Don Quixote |
| #2125, aired 1993-11-26 | LITERATURE $400: Cervantes' Alonso Quijano changes his name to this, after reading romances of chivalry Don Quixote |
| #2036, aired 1993-06-14 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $200: This Cervantes title character lives between Aragon & Castile Don Quixote |
| #1978, aired 1993-03-24 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $600: Before he dies, Don Quixote begs this squire's forgiveness for drawing him into delusions Sancho Panza |
| #1908, aired 1992-12-16 | 17th CENTURY LITERATURE $200: Cervantes wrote in "Don Quixote", "There are only two families in the world, the Haves and" these Have-Nots |
| #1906, aired 1992-12-14 | MUSIC $200: This tone poem by Richard Strauss was based on a book by Cervantes Don Quixote |
| #1872, aired 1992-10-27 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: He promised that if Sancho Panza became his squire, he'd make him governor of an island Don Quixote |
| #1865, aired 1992-10-16 | BALLET $200: Act 1, Scene 1 of this Balanchine ballet is set in La Mancha Don Quixote |
| #1849, aired 1992-09-24 | MUSICAL THEATER $200: 1965 play in which you'd hear the lyrics, "I am I, Don Quixote" Man of La Mancha |
| #1836, aired 1992-09-07 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: Raul Julia & Sheena Easton recently teamed up to play Don Quixote & Aldonza in this musical Man of La Mancha |
| #1793, aired 1992-05-20 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $200: Don Quixote promises him governorship of an island to become his squire Sancho Panza |
| #1746, aired 1992-03-16 | NOVELS $200: In 1615 he published a sequel to his 1605 work "Don Quixote" Cervantes |
| #1687, aired 1991-12-24 | LITERATURE $200: He worked provisioning the Spanish Armada long before writing "Don Quixote" Cervantes |
| #1671, aired 1991-12-02 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $200: His real name was Alonso Quixano Don Quixote |
| #1641, aired 1991-10-21 | MUSICAL THEATRE $100: Dale Wasserman adapted this musical from his television play "I, Don Quixote" Man of La Mancha |
| #1610, aired 1991-09-06 | COLORFUL QUOTES $200: In "Don Quixote" Cervantes wrote, "The pot calls the kettle" this color black |
| #1576, aired 1991-06-10 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $100: This character mistook windmills for giants, hence the phrase "to tilt at windmills" Don Quixote |
| #1512, aired 1991-03-12 | OPERA $100: In "Don Quixote" & "Boris Godunov", the title roles are sung in this low vocal range basso |
| #1511, aired 1991-03-11 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $500: Don Quixote & Camille are among the characters in this play with a Spanish title Camino Real |
| #1499, aired 1991-02-21 | BALLET $200: In Petipa's version of this ballet, Sancho Panza is accused of stealing a goose or a chicken Don Quixote |
| #1479, aired 1991-01-24 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $100: A sweetheart is sometimes called a "Dulcinea" after a character in this novel Don Quixote |
| #1430, aired 1990-11-16 | IMPRISONED AUTHORS $200: He used incidents from his captivity as a pirates' slave for "Don Quixote" Cervantes |
| #1325, aired 1990-05-11 | NOVELS $600: Don Quixote chose a peasant girl as his lady love & gave her this name Dulcinea |
| #1310, aired 1990-04-20 | ANIMALS $400: Bony pony of Don Quixote Rocinante |
| #1254, aired 1990-02-01 | OLLA PODRIDA $200: Don Quixote roamed across this plateau of central Spain La Mancha |
| #1178, aired 1989-10-18 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $300: Her real name was Aldonza Lorenzo, but Don Quixote named her this Dulcinea |
| #1137, aired 1989-07-11 | '50s TV $400: While Don Quixote's sidekick was Sancho, this cowboy's sidekick was Pancho the Cisco Kid |
| #1123, aired 1989-06-21 | WORLD LITERATURE $800: The last name of this squire who served Don Quixote means "paunch" (Sancho) Panza |
| #1106, aired 1989-05-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In 1605 Cervantes wrote about Don Quixote, & in 1969 Mario Puzo wrote about this Don Corleone |
| #1103, aired 1989-05-24 | "D" IN LITERATURE $400: Some say this classic Cervantes novel is a veiled attack on the Catholic Church Don Quixote |
| #1097, aired 1989-05-16 | AUTHORS $100: He was captured & enslaved by Barbary pirates years before he wrote "Don Quixote" Cervantes |
| #1041, aired 1989-02-27 | LITERATURE $400: He was "knighted" by an innkeeper whose hostelry he mistook for a castle Don Quixote de La Mancha |
| #1029, aired 1989-02-09 | SPAIN $600: Cervantes' "Don Quixote" made this Spanish province famous La Mancha |
| #842, aired 1988-04-12 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $100: Puerto Rico's Don Q rum is named for him Don Quixote |
| #814, aired 1988-03-03 | LITERARY ANIMALS $400: Used to hoax Don Quixote, Clavileno was a horse made of this wood |
| #786, aired 1988-01-25 | SPAIN $400: A statue of them, Cervantes' famous pair, rides through a plaza in Madrid Don Quixote & Sancho Panza |
| #770, aired 1988-01-01 | BALLET CHARACTERS $600: At the end of 1 version of this ballet, he sets off with Sancho, but in another he just dies Don Quixote |
| #747, aired 1987-12-01 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $800: Tho her name was Aldonza Lorenzo, Don Quixote quixotically called her this Dulcinea |
| #713, aired 1987-10-14 | HODGEPODGE $200: A wind machine is used as a musical instrument in the Strauss tone poem about this windmill-jouster Don Quixote |
| #705, aired 1987-10-02 | WORLD LITERATURE $800: In a famous novel, Alonso Quijano, a gaunt country gentleman, changes his name to this Don Quixote |
| #626, aired 1987-05-04 | ADAPTATIONS $100: Basil the barber & Kitri are the romantic leads in a ballet based on this Cervantes novel Don Quixote |
| #550, aired 1987-01-16 | WEAPONS $200: Weapon Don Quixote used to tilt at the windmill lance |
| #547, aired 1987-01-13 | EASY OPERA $400: At the end of Mozart's opera of the same name, this famous lover is dragged into hell by a statue Don Juan (Don Giovanni) |
| #470, aired 1986-09-26 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $1,200 (Daily Double): His adventures take him to the plains of Montiel, cave of Montesinos, & village of El Toboso Don Quixote |
| #433, aired 1986-05-07 | DON QUIXOTE $200: Believing it to be a giant, Quixote engages in a famous battle with one of these a windmill |
| #433, aired 1986-05-07 | DON QUIXOTE $400: Of soldier, slave or prisoner, what Cervantes was when he began writing "Don Quixote" a prisoner |
| #433, aired 1986-05-07 | DON QUIXOTE $600: Century in which "Don Quixote" was written the 17th century |
| #433, aired 1986-05-07 | DON QUIXOTE $800: Don Quixote's sole companion on his 1st quest, his name is from the Spanish for "nag" Rocinante |
| #433, aired 1986-05-07 | DON QUIXOTE $1,000 (Daily Double): Government post held by both Sancho Panza & Ronald Reagan governor |
| #327, aired 1985-12-10 | PROVERBIAL ANATOMY $100: Cervantes wrote in "Don Quixote", "A bird" here "is worth two in the bush" a hand |
| #265, aired 1985-09-13 | FICTIONAL HEROES $300: Sancho Panza's saddle pal Don Quixote |
| #153, aired 1985-04-10 | PHILOSOPHY $1000: Philosophy portrayed in More's "Utopia" & personified in Don Quixote's tilting at windmills idealism |
| #114, aired 1985-02-14 | ART $200: In Daumier painting, a distressed Sancho Panza watches him ride away Don Quixote |
| #18, aired 1984-10-03 | SPAIN $500: Don Quixote's creator, he was the real "Man from La Mancha" Don Miguel de Cervantes |
| #3, aired 1984-09-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Quixote or Drysdale a Don |
