| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: This playwright created the memorable characters Laura Wingfield & Blanche DuBois (Tennessee) Williams |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: He won Pulitzers for his plays in 1948 & 1955 Tennessee Williams |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: Delicate & rare like herself, a unicorn is among Laura Wingfield's prized collection in this Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | 20th CENTURY NAMES $400: Tennessee Williams is seen here with this pop art icon who's just being cool in his shades Andy Warhol |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | A CATEGORY OF CHANCE $2000: An aging film star has a lover named Chance in this playwright's "Sweet Bird of Youth", set in a small southern town Tennessee Williams |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | THAT WAS QUITE A YEAR $800: Rhode Island is the first colony to nix its British allegiance; Goethe publishes "Stella" long before Tennessee Williams 1776 |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | FILL IN THE PLAY TITLE $600: A reptilian title:
Tennessee Williams'
"The Night of the ____" the Iguana |
| #8502, aired 2021-11-02 | COMPLETE THE TONY-WINNING PLAY TITLE $800: By Tennessee Williams: "The Rose ____" Tattoo |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | ON LIFE $1200: Always figuring the odds, this "Guys and Dolls" scribe noted, "All life is 6 to 5 against" (Damon) Runyon |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | THE STAGE $1200: 2 of the sets in this Tennessee Williams drama are the Wingfield family apartment & a fire escape The Glass Menagerie |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $400: Tennessee Williams modeled the character of Laura Wingfield in this play after his own sister The Glass Menagerie |
| #8242, aired 2020-09-22 | DADDY! PAPA! $2000: Burl Ives played Big Daddy in the Broadway & film versions of this Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | SUMMER READING $1600: This playwright must have loved the season: he wrote "Summer & Smoke", "Suddenly, Last Summer" & "Clothes for a Summer Hotel" (Tennessee) Williams |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | LITERARY FESTIVALS $800: The Tennessee Williams & the Saints & Sinners LGBT Literary Festivals are both held in this southern city New Orleans |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | LITERARY LOCALES $1000: This author set his play "The Night of the Iguana" at the Costa Verde Hotel in Puerto Barrio, Mexico Tennessee Williams |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | PLAY DOCTOR $2000: A woman wants a doctor to perform a lobotomy on her niece in the Tennessee Williams play "Suddenly" then Last Summer |
| #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 |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | PICTURE THE PLAY $200: This play is part of Tennessee Williams' collection The Glass Menagerie |
| #7685, aired 2018-01-26 | THE THING'S THE PLAY $200: It's the thing rolling through New Orleans in the title of a 1947 Tennessee Williams Pulitzer winner a streetcar named Desire |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | "N" TITLED TO LITERATURE $1000: Tennessee Williams set this play in a seedy Mexican hotel Night of the Iguana |
| #7582, aired 2017-07-25 | WHO WROTE THE LINE? $1,000 (Daily Double): "She lives in a world of her own--a world of--little glass ornaments" Tennessee Williams |
| #7506, aired 2017-04-10 | ANIMAL LIT FILL-IN $800: Tennessee Williams:
"The Night of the ____" an iguana |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | PLAY TIME $1600: Italian actress Anna Magnani inspired him to write "The Rose Tattoo" Tennessee Williams |
| #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 |
| #7389, aired 2016-10-27 | THE PLAYWRIGHT WRITES $1,000 (Daily Double): "Time just outran me, Big Daddy--got there first" Tennessee Williams |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield has raised 2 children by herself in this drama by Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie |
| #7340, aired 2016-07-08 | AMERICAN DRAMATISTS $400: The father of this Southern playwright was a big inspiration for the character Big Daddy Tennessee Williams |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | SENSORY LIT $1600: The fates of an aging film actress & a young hustler take flight in this playwright's "Sweet Bird of Youth" (Tennessee) Williams |
| #7250, aired 2016-03-04 | COMPLETES THE TONY-WINNING PLAY TITLE $600: 1951:
Tennessee Williams'
"The Rose ____" Tattoo |
| #7242, aired 2016-02-23 | BROADWAY DEBUTS $1200: Terrence Howard made his debut in 2008 as Brick in an all-black production of this Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | WELL-SEASONED BOOKS $2000: Cannibalism, lobotomy & forbidden desire all play out in this author's play "Suddenly, Last Summer" Tennessee Williams |
| #7072, aired 2015-05-19 | ENTERTAINMENT ADVERBS $2000: In a Motels song title taken from Tennessee Williams, it comes before "Last Summer" suddenly |
| #7025, aired 2015-03-13 | PLAY "M-E" $400: Success came gentlemanly calling for Tennessee Williams after this play, his first big hit "The Glass Menagerie" |
| #6965, aired 2014-12-19 | THE PLAYWRIGHT WRITES $400: "Whoever you are--I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" Tennessee Williams (in A Streetcar Named Desire) |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | THE STORY OF HIS LIFE $600: A playwright:
"The Kindness of Strangers" Tennessee Williams |
| #6863, aired 2014-06-18 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS $400: When this Tennessee Williams play debuted in 1947, the cast included Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter & Jessica Tandy Streetcar Named Desire |
| #6821, aired 2014-04-21 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: (Ben Brantley of The New York Times delivers the clue.) Zachary Quinto gave a benchmark performance as Tom Wingfield in such a thorough rejuvenation of this Tennessee Williams play that I hesitate to call it a revival The Glass Menagerie |
| #6803, aired 2014-03-26 | LET'S GO "C" A PLAY $1200: This 1955 play by Tennessee Williams won a Pulitzer Prize Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | BIRTH, SCHOOL, WORK, DEATH $500 (Daily Double): A hotel room in 1888,
a year at Princeton,
some "Electra"-fying playwriting,
a hotel room in 1953 Eugene O'Neill |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | LITERARY FLORIDA $400: Tennessee Williams passed many days in this southernmost Florida town & recalled it fondly in his memoirs Key West |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | FROM BOOK TO FILM $1200: 1958's "The Long, Hot Summer" was based on this author's "The Hamlet", the first in his "Snopes" trilogy William Faulkner |
| #6609, aired 2013-05-16 | THEATER $1200: In 2013 Scarlett Johansson starred on Broadway as Maggie in this playwright's "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" Tennessee Williams |
| #6563, aired 2013-03-13 | PLAYWRIGHTS $400: This playwright's family served as the model for the Wingfields in his play "The Glass Menagerie" Tennessee Williams |
| #6502, aired 2012-12-18 | TENNESSEE'S WILLIAMS $200: In 1797 Tennessee's William Blount became the first man expelled from this body & its only member impeached by the House the U.S. Senate |
| #6502, aired 2012-12-18 | TENNESSEE'S WILLIAMS $400: From 1913 to 1918 Chattanooga lawyer William McAdoo, this man's son-in-law, was also his Treasury secretary Woodrow Wilson |
| #6502, aired 2012-12-18 | TENNESSEE'S WILLIAMS $600: Governor during reconstruction, William Brownlow mobilized the Tennessee guard to crush this then-new hate group the Ku Klux Klan |
| #6502, aired 2012-12-18 | TENNESSEE'S WILLIAMS $800: In 1958 Tennessean William Anderson commanded this submarine on the first voyage under the North Pole's ice pack the USS Nautilus |
| #6502, aired 2012-12-18 | TENNESSEE'S WILLIAMS $1000: A real-life "Bones", forensic anthropologist William Bass founded the "Body Farm" at the U. of Tenn. in this city Knoxville |
| #6371, aired 2012-05-07 | THEATER $1600: The title of this Tennessee Williams drama refers to Laura Wingfield's collection of animal figurines The Glass Menagerie |
| #6364, aired 2012-04-26 | HOW'D THEY DIE? $1000: Tennessee Williams by choking on a pill-bottle cap |
| #6316, aired 2012-02-20 | McPEOPLE $2000: Tennessee Williams called this author of "The Member of the Wedding" the "greatest prose writer that the south produced" (Carson) McCullers |
| #6297, aired 2012-01-24 | PLAY DATES $6,000 (Daily Double): In 1955 impatient Dodger fans got a title & the theater got this Tennessee Williams play about an impatient woman Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #6246, aired 2011-11-14 | MISSISSIPPI MISTERS $800: In March 2011, Columbus, Mississippi celebrated what would have been the 100th birthday of this playwright Tennessee Williams |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $400: Williams believed this was his best long play because of "the kingly magnitude of Big Daddy" Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $800: Tennessee's first success was this play about the Wingfield family that premiered in 1944 The Glass Menagerie |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $1200: Born Thomas, Williams may have first used his nickname in this Tennessee port for a writing contest Memphis |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $1600: Marlon Brando hitchhiked to Williams' home to read for this role; he also fixed the writer's toilet during the visit Stanley Kowalski |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $4,000 (Daily Double): In this 1950 play, a dressmaker's deceased husband & her new boyfriend both sport the title art on their chests The Rose Tattoo |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | ACT I, SCENE 1 $400: In the first scene of this Tennessee Williams drama, Maggie walks into the bedroom to change her dress Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | SUMMER READING? $1200: Spoiler alert! A character is murdered & eaten by cannibals in this drama by Tennessee Williams Suddenly, Last Summer |
| #6123, aired 2011-04-06 | BETTER KNOWN AS $1200: Author Thomas Lanier Williams Tennessee Williams |
| #6071, aired 2011-01-24 | PLAY CHARACTERS $400: Amanda, Tom & the fragile Laura Wingfield are all characters in this Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie |
| #6051, aired 2010-12-27 | PLAY PENNERS $800: His 1977 play "Vieux Carre" dealt with down-&-outs in New Orleans; sound familiar? Tennessee Williams |
| #5996, aired 2010-10-11 | PLAY ADJECTIVES $800: Tennessee Williams' "____ Bird of Youth" Sweet Bird of Youth |
| #5899, aired 2010-04-15 | THE LONDON STAGE $2000: In 2007 Jessica Lange took to the London stage as Amanda Wingfield in this Tennessee Williams drama The Glass Menagerie |
| #5888, aired 2010-03-31 | SOUTH SPECIFIC $400: "A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur" is a lesser play by this man with a southern state in his name Tennessee Williams |
| #5844, aired 2010-01-28 | 3 "T"s $2000: Tennessee Williams' was "Rose" Tattoo |
| #5814, aired 2009-12-17 | THEATRE $800: This playwright's "The Night of the Iguana" takes place at the rustic Costa Verde Hotel in Mexico Tennessee Williams |
| #5789, aired 2009-11-12 | DRAMA CLUB $1600: Laura Wingfield, the sister in this play, was modeled on Tennessee Williams' sister The Glass Menagerie |
| #5732, aired 2009-07-07 | PLAYWRIGHTS $400: While working at the International Shoe Company, he met a man named Stanley Kowalski, a name he would later use in a play Tennessee Williams |
| #5718, aired 2009-06-17 | THE BELLES $2000: His Southern belle play "The Eccentricities of a Nightingale" is a revision of his more famous "Summer and Smoke" Tennessee Williams |
| #5712, aired 2009-06-09 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA $400: One of the 2 plays for which Tennessee Williams won Pulitzers, in 1948 & 1955 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (or A Streetcar Named Desire) |
| #5667, aired 2009-04-07 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A clue to Umberto Eco's murdered monks--they have the same indelible skin pattern, a flower from Tennessee Williams The Name of the Rose Tattoo |
| #5664, aired 2009-04-02 | THE PLAY'S THE THING $600: In his Broadway debut in 2008, Terrence Howard was solid as brick in this Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #5638, aired 2009-02-25 | ON THE STAGE $800: Christian Slater returned to B'way in a 2005 revival of this Tennessee Williams play about shattered illusions The Glass Menagerie |
| #5579, aired 2008-12-04 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $200: In Tennessee Williams' play, streetcars named Desire & Cemetery run on a single track in this southern city New Orleans |
| #5579, aired 2008-12-04 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $400: In "The Glass Menagerie", Jim accidentally breaks the horn off this animal, the prize of Laura's collection a unicorn |
| #5579, aired 2008-12-04 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $600: The Pollitt Plantation in Mississippi is the setting of this Williams work Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #5579, aired 2008-12-04 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $800: 1950 Williams play in which a truck driver has the title body art on his chest The Rose Tattoo |
| #5579, aired 2008-12-04 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $1000: A defrocked priest is one of the characters at a seedy Mexican hotel in this 1961 play Night of the Iguana |
| #5534, aired 2008-10-02 | ELEANOR ROOSEVELT GOES TO THE THEATRE $1200: Eleanor took Indira Gandhi to see this man's play "The Night Of The Iguana"; it left both ladies "a little baffled" Tennessee Williams |
| #5438, aired 2008-04-09 | "T.W." $800: This Southerner wrote the 1959 classic "Sweet Bird of Youth" Tennessee Williams |
| #5435, aired 2008-04-04 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: He penned the lines, "They looked nervous as cats... nervous as a couple of cats on a hot tin roof" Tennessee Williams |
| #5422, aired 2008-03-18 | MISSISSIPPI MISSES $1600: This actress from Meridien is a cousin of Tennessee Williams & mom to Laura Dern Diane Ladd |
| #5373, aired 2008-01-09 | PLAYWRIGHTS $2,000 (Daily Double): This Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright was related to John Sevier, the first governor of the "Volunteer State" Tennessee Williams |
| #5329, aired 2007-11-08 | SEASONAL CINEMA $400: Quick! Name this seasonal 1959 Elizabeth Taylor film based on a Tennessee Williams play Suddenly, Last Summer |
| #5324, aired 2007-11-01 | STATE YOUR NAME $1200: The University of Iowa gave this future 2-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright a B.A. in 1938 Tennessee Williams |
| #5288, aired 2007-09-12 | AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $400: This playwright once said that his Aunt Belle, a Sunday School teacher, was the prototype of Blanche DuBois Tennessee Williams |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | DOWN MEXICO WAY $1600: This gritty 1961 Tennessee Williams play unfolds in a seedy Mexican hotel Night of the Iguana |
| #5226, aired 2007-05-07 | WHAT A WAY TO GO $1000: This playwright choked to death in 1983 at NYC's hotel Elysee; a character of his exits a streetcar at "Elysian Fields" Tennessee Williams |
| #5067, aired 2006-09-26 | PLAY BOY $400: "Sweet Bird of Youth"
&
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (Tennessee) Williams |
| #4987, aired 2006-04-25 | LITERARY SISTERS $400: In this Tennessee Williams play, Tom Wingfield brings a gentleman caller home to meet his crippled sister Laura The Glass Menagerie |
| #4980, aired 2006-04-14 | AWARDS & HONORS $1200: He won Pulitzers for his plays in 1948 & 1955 Tennessee Williams |
| #4973, aired 2006-04-05 | BEASTLY LIT $3,000 (Daily Double): 1961:
A reptillion evening served up by Tennessee Williams The Night of the Iguana |
| #4913, aired 2006-01-11 | THE KENNEDY CENTER $600: The Kennedy Center presented a series of one-act plays as "Five by Tenn", a reference to this playwright Tennessee Williams |
| #4810, aired 2005-07-01 | "SUMMER" CINEMA $1600: Geraldine Page yearned for Laurence Harvey in this 1961 film based on a Tennessee Williams play Summer and Smoke |
| #4788, aired 2005-06-01 | UNREAL ESTATE $1000: The Pollitt family plantation is overrun by "no-neck monsters" in this Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #4690, aired 2005-01-14 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1600: A famous line in one of his plays is "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" Tennessee Williams |
| #4605, aired 2004-09-17 | WE LOVE BROADWAY $1000: Jason Patrick & Ashley Judd are seen here in the acclaimed revival of this Tennessee Williams classic Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #4580, aired 2004-07-02 | "SUMMER" FUN $1200: Sebastian Venable's summer fun was no picnic; in fact, he became a picnic in this one-act Tennessee Williams play Suddenly Last Summer |
| #4542, aired 2004-05-11 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $400: Williams was born on March 26, 1911 in this Mississippi town named for America's discoverer Columbus |
| #4542, aired 2004-05-11 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $800: Richard Burton & Ava Gardner starred in the '64 film adaptation of Tennessee's "Night of" this arboreal lizard the Iguana |
| #4542, aired 2004-05-11 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $1200: Going to Provincetown to read for Williams helped get Marlon Brando the role of this character Stanley Kowalski |
| #4542, aired 2004-05-11 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $1600: This 1955 play featuring Maggie, Brick & Big Daddy won the Pulitzer Prize Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #4542, aired 2004-05-11 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $2000: Laura Wingfield lives in a fantasy world populated by her collection of fragile animals in this 1945 play The Glass Menagerie |
| #4468, aired 2004-01-28 | THE SWEET SPOT $1000: In 1959 Elia Kazan directed this Tennessee Williams play Sweet Bird of Youth |
| #4439, aired 2003-12-18 | SCREEN PLAYS $1600: Paul Newman was so good in this man's play "Sweet Bird of Youth" that he got to star in the film, too Tennessee Williams |
| #4407, aired 2003-11-04 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: Tom Wingfield brings Jim O'Connor home to meet his sister Laura in this Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie |
| #4357, aired 2003-07-08 | BROADWAY DEBUTS $600: Rip Torn started out understudying the role of Brick in this Tennessee Williams play & later took over the role Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #4335, aired 2003-06-06 | PLAYWRIGHTS $400: Critic Walter Kerr called this man's "Camino Real" "the worst play yet written by the best playwright of his generation" Tennessee Williams |
| #4315, aired 2003-05-09 | LOCUTION, LOCUTION, LOCUTION $800: To be extremely nervous or agitated is to be like this title of a Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #4292, aired 2003-04-08 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $400: This Tennessee Williams cotton plantation patriarch is unaware that he is dying of cancer Big Daddy |
| #4274, aired 2003-03-13 | POP LIT $3,000 (Daily Double): This hit by the Motels checks out a play by Tennessee Williams "Suddenly Last Summer" |
| #4224, aired 2003-01-02 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $800: Stanley Kowalski yells, "Stel-lahhh!" on Ephraim Cabot's farm in this collaboration by Tennessee Williams & Eugene O'Neill A Streetcar Named Desire Under the Elms |
| #4196, aired 2002-11-25 | THEATRE CROSSWORD CLUES "M" $1200: Tennessee Williams' "Cat"-woman
(6) Maggie |
| #4189, aired 2002-11-14 | HARVARD DEGREE HONOREES $1,400 (Daily Double): 1982 recipients included Mother Teresa & this "Big Daddy" of Southern playwrights Tennessee Williams |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | THEATRE $1200: It's Tennessee Williams' semi-autobiographical play about the Wingfield family The Glass Menagerie |
| #4161, aired 2002-10-07 | PULITZER-WINNING PLAYWRIGHTS $400: "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" Tennessee Williams |
| #4114, aired 2002-06-20 | THAT'S "SWEET" $2000: Alexandra Del Lago is a fading screen star in this Tennessee Williams play Sweet Bird of Youth |
| #4043, aired 2002-03-13 | THE PLAY'S THE THING $200: It's the mode of public transport mentioned in a 1947 Tennessee Williams' play title a streetcar |
| #4017, aired 2002-02-05 | PLAY TIME $800: Laura collects glass animal figurines in this play by Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie |
| #4007, aired 2002-01-22 | PARDON MY FRENCH $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue from New Orleans.) The French Quarter is also known by this French name, which is also the title of a play by Tennessee Williams Le Vieux Carre |
| #4000, aired 2002-01-11 | DRAMA & DRAMATISTS $200: "Whoever you are--I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" is from this Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire |
| #3900, aired 2001-07-13 | PRESENTING THE PLAYWRIGHTS $300: The works of this two-time Pulitzer Prize winner are set largely in the American south Tennessee Williams |
| #3880, aired 2001-06-15 | STATELY FIRST NAMES $600: Cathy reveals that "Suddenly, Last Summer" cousin Sebastian was cannibalized in a play by this man Tennessee Williams |
| #3865, aired 2001-05-25 | DRAMA & DRAMATISTS $600: This 1961 Tennessee Williams play takes place at the Costa Verde, a small Mexican hotel on a jungle-covered hilltop Night of the Iguana |
| #3849, aired 2001-05-03 | BALLET $1000: "This Property is Condemned " is based on a 1-act play by this author of "The Glass Menagerie" Tennessee Williams |
| #3808, aired 2001-03-07 | I LOVE CANDY $500: "Hard Candy" was a 1954 collection of short stories by this "Rose Tattoo" playwright Tennessee Williams |
| #3799, aired 2001-02-22 | FIRST NOVELS $200: This southern playwright's first novel, "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone", became a film starring Vivian Leigh Tennessee Williams |
| #3786, aired 2001-02-05 | BALLET $1000: "A Streetcar..." is an abstract ballet inspired by the work of this playwright Tennessee Williams |
| #3755, aired 2000-12-22 | CATS UP $1,800 (Daily Double): This Tennessee Williams portrait of Southern degeneracy opened in New York on March 24, 1955 "Cat on A Hot Tin Roof" |
| #3681, aired 2000-09-11 | STREET SENSE $500: Spanish for "road"; for Tennessee Williams it was the "real" thing Camino |
| #3642, aired 2000-06-06 | WHO CREATED 'EM? $200: Gooper Pollitt,
Jim O'Connor,
Stella Kowalski Tennessee Williams |
| #3625, aired 2000-05-12 | NAME THE PLAYWRIGHT $200: "Summer And Smoke" Tennessee Williams |
| #3616, aired 2000-05-01 | LITERATURE $300: A rundown Mexican hotel is the setting for "The Night of the Iguana", a play by this writer Tennessee Williams |
| #3587, aired 2000-03-21 | POTPOURRI $500: The 1999 Tony for Scenic Design went to "Not About Nightingales" by this late Southern playwright Tennessee Williams |
| #3566, aired 2000-02-21 | TIME QUOTES $600: Tennessee Williams wrote that "Time is the longest distance between 2 places" in this 1945 play "The Glass Menagerie" |
| #3537, aired 2000-01-11 | LITERARY LAST NAME'S THE SAME $400: C.K.,
Emlyn,
Tennessee Williams |
| #3532, aired 2000-01-04 | MISSISSIPPI WRITERS $600: His given names were Thomas Lanier, but he adopted a more "stately" name Tennessee Williams |
| #3526, aired 1999-12-27 | ROOFS $1,000 (Daily Double): Roofing material in the title of Tennessee Williams' second Pulitzer Prize-winning play tin (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | BALLET $200: Valerie Bettis choreographed a ballet based on this Tennessee Williams play & sometimes played Blanche in it A Streetcar Named Desire |
| #3509, aired 1999-12-02 | PLAY TIME $200: Calista Flockhart played the "fragile" Laura in a 1994 revival of this Tennessee Williams play "The Glass Menagerie" |
| #3490, aired 1999-11-05 | SCHOOL PLAYS $100: A gentleman caller breaks Laura's unicorn figurine in this Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie |
| #3417, aired 1999-06-15 | THEATRE $600: Leapin Lizards! This Tennessee Williams play takes place at the Costa Verde Resort in Mexico Night of the Iguana |
| #3389, aired 1999-05-06 | NAME THE PLAYWRIGHT $200: "The Glass Menagerie" Tennessee Williams |
| #3347, aired 1999-03-09 | NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS $100: Fading actresses are the heroines of his novel "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone" & his play "Sweet Bird of Youth" Tennessee Williams |
| #3253, aired 1998-10-28 | THE MOVIES $500: Kirk Douglas played the "gentleman caller" in the film version of this Tennessee Williams play "The Glass Menagerie" |
| #3146, aired 1998-04-13 | MEAT ME $800: At Tennessee Williams' house, it was always "The Night of" this tropical treat, the chicken of the trees Iguana |
| #3126, aired 1998-03-16 | PLAY TIME $400: Tom Wingfield, the narrator of this man's "The Glass Menagerie", calls it a "memory play" Tennessee Williams |
| #3094, aired 1998-01-29 | I'M WARNING YOU... $1000: Title of a 1972 Tennessee Williams play, they're advisories put out to boat-owners in high winds small craft warnings |
| #3049, aired 1997-11-27 | HOW “SWEET” IT IS $500: This Tennessee Williams play features fading film star Princess Kosmonopolis Sweet Bird of Youth |
| #3000, aired 1997-09-19 | FOREIGN CUISINE $200: Tennessee Williams could have told you this lizard is a taste treat in Mexico; it's even found in tamales the iguana |
| #2949, aired 1997-05-29 | SEE THE U.S.A. $500: Tennessee Williams lived in this Florida city for decades, & a fine arts center there is named for him Key West |
| #2922, aired 1997-04-22 | DRAMA $200: In this Tennessee Williams play, Big Daddy returns to his cotton plantation unaware that he's dying of cancer Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #2918, aired 1997-04-16 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $200: Tennessee broke onto the Broadway scene in 1945 with this play with a "breakable" title The Glass Menagerie |
| #2918, aired 1997-04-16 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $400: A Time magazine piece on Kathleen Turner in this play was titled "Once More, With Feline" Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #2918, aired 1997-04-16 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $600: One of Tennessee's last plays, "Clothes for A Summer Hotel", was about this Jazz Age author & his wife F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #2918, aired 1997-04-16 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $800: Williams' "The Notebook of Trigorin", based on this "soaring" Chekhov play, opened in 1996 in Cincinnati The Seagull |
| #2918, aired 1997-04-16 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $1000: Williams worked with Jule Styne on a musical version of this play whose title mentions skin art The Rose Tattoo |
| #2851, aired 1997-01-13 | BALLET $200: Igor Youskevitch was noted for playing Stanley in the ballet version of this Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire" |
| #2784, aired 1996-10-10 | DRAMA $600: His 1924 play "Desire Under the Elms" wasn't publicly performed in London until 1940; it was banned Eugene O'Neill |
| #2754, aired 1996-07-18 | INTERNATIONAL THEATRE $100: Marlon Brando played Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire" by this American playwright Tennessee Williams |
| #2719, aired 1996-05-30 | POSTAGE STAMPS $100: This playwright was depicted on a 1995 U.S. stamp with a streetcar in the background Tennessee Williams |
| #2699, aired 1996-05-02 | THEATRE $400: A 1995 revival of this playwright's "Suddenly Last Summer" starred Elizabeth Ashley as the venomous Violet Venable Tennessee Williams |
| #2660, aired 1996-03-08 | DRAMA $1000: One critic called "A Streetcar Named Desire" a rewrite of this author's "Miss Julie" August Strindberg |
| #2659, aired 1996-03-07 | "CAT"s & "DOG"s $300: Maggie Pollitt is the high-strung title heroine of this 1955 Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #2642, aired 1996-02-13 | THEATRE $1,800 (Daily Double): Tennessee Williams turned his unproduced screenplay "The Gentleman Caller" into this play The Glass Menagerie |
| #2638, aired 1996-02-07 | DRAMA $600: Gooper is Big Daddy's older son in this Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #2629, aired 1996-01-25 | THEATRE $800: Mercedes Ruehl played the lusty Serafina Delle Rose in the 1995 revival of his play "The Rose Tattoo" Tennessee Williams |
| #2576, aired 1995-11-13 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $200: A defrocked minister-turned-tour guide is the leading character in his play "The Night of the Iguana" Tennessee Williams |
| #2562, aired 1995-10-24 | THEATRE $1000: This William Inge play was originally titled "Front Porch" Picnic |
| #2556, aired 1995-10-16 | FICTION $1000: In 1950 this playwright published his short novel "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone" Tennessee Williams |
| #2536, aired 1995-09-18 | THEATRE $1,700 (Daily Double): This Southerner's play "Tiger Tail" is a reworking of his screenplay for the Carroll Baker film "Baby Doll" Tennessee Williams |
| #2522, aired 1995-07-18 | THEATRE $200: In 1994 Julie Harris starred in a Broadway revival of this playwright's "The Glass Menagerie" Tennessee Williams |
| #2501, aired 1995-06-19 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $200: Of all his plays, "A Streetcar Named Desire" had the longest run on Broadway Tennessee Williams |
| #2483, aired 1995-05-24 | DRAMA $800: Creve Coeur is a St. Louis amusement park in this southerner's play "A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur" (Tennessee) Williams |
| #2467, aired 1995-05-02 | THEATRE $400: Maggie the Cat is the catty heroine of this Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #2428, aired 1995-03-08 | CELEBRITY RELATIVES $500: Diane Ladd gained notice while appearing in a production of this cousin's play "Orpheus Descending" Tennessee Williams |
| #2415, aired 1995-02-17 | DRAMA $800: This southerner's 1964 play "The Eccentricities of a Nightingale" is a revision of his "Summer and Smoke" Tennessee Williams |
| #2366, aired 1994-12-12 | OPERA LIBRETTISTS $600: This late, great southern playwright wrote the libretto for the 1955 opera "Lord Byron's Love Letter" (Tennessee) Williams |
| #2321, aired 1994-10-10 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Tennessee Williams considered her novella "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" a masterpiece Carson McCullers |
| #2317, aired 1994-10-04 | PLAYWRIGHTS $200: Thomas Lanier Williams may have changed his name to this in honor of his father's home state Tennessee |
| #2312, aired 1994-09-27 | THEATRE $800: The Costa Verde Hotel in Mexico provides the setting for this Tennessee Williams play Night of the Iguana |
| #2299, aired 1994-09-08 | ACTORS ONSTAGE $200: In 1993 this playwright's brother Dakin appeared as Blanche DuBois at a Florida Theatre Festival Tennessee Williams |
| #2289, aired 1994-07-14 | AUTHORS $2,500 (Daily Double): "Clothes for a Summer Hotel" was the last of this southerner's plays produced on Broadway Tennessee Williams |
| #2281, aired 1994-07-04 | PLAYWRIGHTS $800: "Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed" is a book of short stories by this "Summer and Smoke" author Tennessee Williams |
| #2186, aired 1994-02-21 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYWRIGHTS $800: A famous line in one of his award-winning works is "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" Tennessee Williams |
| #2178, aired 1994-02-09 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $200: This 1955 Tennessee Williams play has a "feline" title Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #2100, aired 1993-10-22 | THEATRE $400: The heroine of his "Sweet Bird of Youth" is fading movie Queen Alexandra del Lago Tennessee Williams |
| #2088, aired 1993-10-06 | ACTORS ONSTAGE $400: The acclaimed 1990 revival of this Tennessee Williams play featured Charles Durning as Big Daddy Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #2050, aired 1993-07-02 | THEATRE $200: In 1945 this playwright won his first N.Y. Drama Critics Circle Award, for "The Glass Menagerie" Tennessee Williams |
| #2045, aired 1993-06-25 | THE AMERICAN THEATRE $600: Alma is known as "The Nightingale of the Delta" in his play "Summer and Smoke" Tennessee Williams |
| #1971, aired 1993-03-15 | DRAMA $3,000 (Daily Double): Tennessee Williams play in which Brick asks, "Why d'ya call Gooper's kiddies no-neck monsters?" Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #1958, aired 1993-02-24 | DRAMA $600: Tennessee Williams based this play on his short story "Portrait of a Girl in Glass" The Glass Menagerie |
| #1949, aired 1993-02-11 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $500: Some folks are as nervous as one of these; it's also the title of a Tennessee Williams play a cat on a hot tin roof |
| #1871, aired 1992-10-26 | ACTORS ONSTAGE $400: Bruce Dern & Rip Torn were in the original cast of this playwright's "Sweet Bird of Youth" Tennessee Williams |
| #1852, aired 1992-09-29 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $2,500 (Daily Double): The 2 plays for which Tennessee Williams won Pulitzer Prizes Cat on a Hot Tin Roof & A Streetcar Named Desire |
| #1844, aired 1992-09-17 | THEATER $1,000 (Daily Double): Floral skin decoration in the title of a 1951 play by Tennessee Williams The Rose Tattoo |
| #1799, aired 1992-05-28 | THEATRE $1000: In 1957 Franchot Tone & Wendy Hiller starred in this playwright's "A Moon for the Misbegotten" Eugene O'Neill |
| #1724, aired 1992-02-13 | "MILK" $400: A Tennessee Williams play title said this "doesn't stop here anymore" the milk train |
| #1714, aired 1992-01-30 | PLAY SETTINGS $800: The town of Glorious Hill, Mississippi is the setting for his play "Summer and Smoke" (Tennessee) Williams |
| #1683, aired 1991-12-18 | PLAYWRIGHTS $200: "Garden District" was a double bill of his "Something Unspoken" & "Suddenly Last Summer" Tennessee Williams |
| #1657, aired 1991-11-12 | PLAYWRIGHTS $600: Tennessee Williams helped this "Come Back, Little Sheba" playwright get his first play produced (William) Inge |
| #1655, aired 1991-11-08 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Late southern playwright who co-wrote "You Touched Me!", a comedy based on a story by D.H. Lawrence Tennessee Williams |
| #1637, aired 1991-10-15 | THEATRE $500 (Daily Double): "Confessions of a Nightingale" is a 1-man show about this playwright Tennessee Williams |
| #1597, aired 1991-07-09 | DRAMA $600: The 2nd & last Pulitzer Prize Tennessee Williams won was for this "feline" drama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #1574, aired 1991-06-06 | PLAYS $300: His first major play, "Battle of Angels", was later rewritten as "Orpheus Descending" Tennessee Williams |
| #1535, aired 1991-04-12 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: In 1950, this playwright published his first novel, "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone" Tennessee Williams |
| #1511, aired 1991-03-11 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $100: "Summer and Smoke" opens on this holiday & there's a display of fireworks in the park 4th of July |
| #1511, aired 1991-03-11 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $200: "Vieux Carré" is set in a rooming house at No. 727 Toulouse St. in the French Quarter of this city New Orleans |
| #1511, aired 1991-03-11 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $300: Williams said this is the best of his long plays because of the kingly magnitude of Big Daddy Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #1511, aired 1991-03-11 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $400: The Gentleman Caller in this play does have a name, Jim O'Connor The Glass Menagerie |
| #1511, aired 1991-03-11 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $500: Don Quixote & Camille are among the characters in this play with a Spanish title Camino Real |
| #1473, aired 1991-01-16 | THEATER $400: Laura Wingfield is the fragile heroine of this Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie |
| #1462, aired 1991-01-01 | AVA GARDNER $400: Set in Mexico, this film based on a Tennessee Williams play was called the artistic apex of Ava's career The Night of the Iguana |
| #1415, aired 1990-10-26 | TRANSPORTATION $200: Tennessee Williams could have called it a trolley, same thing a streetcar |
| #1406, aired 1990-10-15 | BURT LANCASTER $400: In a 1955 film based on a Tennessee Williams play, Burt sported this title tattoo on his chest a rose tattoo |
| #1382, aired 1990-09-11 | THEATRE $800: Tennessee Williams wrote a one-act play called "27 Wagons Full of" this Cotton |
| #1299, aired 1990-04-05 | THEATER $400: Vanessa Redgrave starred in a 1989 revival of this playwright's "Orpheus Descending" Tennessee Williams |
| #1192, aired 1989-11-07 | STARTS WITH "B" $200: The title of a Burton & Taylor film based on a Tennessee Williams play, or the noise a cannon makes "Boom!" |
| #1176, aired 1989-10-16 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $200: 1 of 2 plays for which Tennessee Williams won a Pulitzer Prize 1 of ("A Streetcar Named Desire" or "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof") |
| #1160, aired 1989-09-22 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $400: Tennessee Williams called this "Virginia Woolf" writer "The only great playwright we've ever had in America" Edward Albee |
| #1136, aired 1989-07-10 | THEY ALSO WROTE $600: He also wrote "Orpheus Descending", "Summer & Smoke" & "The Rose Tattoo" Tennessee Williams |
| #1104, aired 1989-05-25 | DRAMA $600: This Southerner wrote a play about Zelda Fitzgerald called "Clothes for a Summer Hotel" Tennessee Williams |
| #1012, aired 1989-01-17 | THEATER $2,000 (Daily Double): The title of this Tennessee Williams play refers to Laura's collection The Glass Menagerie |
| #957, aired 1988-11-01 | PLAYS $400: He rewrote his 1st full-length play "Battle of Angels" & called it "Orpheus Descending" Tennessee Williams |
| #886, aired 1988-06-13 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone" was 1 of only 2 novels written by this playwright Tennessee Williams |
| #880, aired 1988-06-03 | THE TONY AWARDS $600: Surprisingly, only 1 of his plays, "The Rose Tattoo", won the "Best Play" award Tennessee Williams |
| #833, aired 1988-03-30 | FAMOUS HOMES $800: Descendants of this writer's beloved cats still overrun his home on whitehead Street in Key West Ernest Hemingway |
| #796, aired 1988-02-08 | 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE $400: Though he also wrote poems & short stories, he's most famous for plays like "The Glass Menagerie" Tennessee Williams |
| #758, aired 1987-12-16 | PLAYWRIGHTS $200: His daddy used to say, "You're makin' me nervous as a cat on a hot tin roof!" Tennessee Williams |
| #687, aired 1987-09-08 | MISSISSIPPI $500: Though nicknamed for a neighboring state, this author was actually a native of Mississippi Tennessee Williams |
| #672, aired 1987-07-07 | THEATER $200: Tennessee Williams set "The Glass Menagerie" in this Missouri city where he grew up St. Louis |
| #629, aired 1987-05-07 | SOUTHERN AUTHORS $400: He rewrote his own play "Summer & Smoke", calling it "Eccentricities of a Nightingale" Tennessee Williams |
| #616, aired 1987-04-20 | LITERARY CANNIBALS $1000: Sebastian Venable became a street gang's seaside snack in this Tennessee Williams play Suddenly Last Summer |
| #597, aired 1987-03-24 | DRAMA $1000: Author of "Picnic", his 1st play was produced thru encouragement of Tennessee Williams (William) Inge |
| #569, aired 1987-02-12 | "SWEET" $600: Ed Begley won an Oscar playing Boss Finley in screen version of this Tennessee Williams play Sweet Bird of Youth |
| #538, aired 1986-12-31 | PLAYWRIGHTS $200: Rex Reed claims he saw this Southern playwright almost hit by a bus named Desire Tennessee Williams |
| #528, aired 1986-12-17 | QUOTES $500 (Daily Double): In 1955 play, Tennessee Williams wrote, "Nothing's more determined than..." this a cat on a hot tin roof |
| #518, aired 1986-12-03 | NON-FICTION $200: "The Kindness of Strangers" covers the life, dreams & desires of this playwright Tennessee Williams |
| #443, aired 1986-05-21 | LITERATURE $800: "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone" was 1 of only 2 novels he had published Tennessee Williams |
| #337, aired 1985-12-24 | THE THEATRE $100: He had Tallulah Bankhead in mind when he wrote the part of Blanche DuBois Tennessee Williams |
| #178, aired 1985-05-15 | PLAYWRIGHTS $400: Tennessee Williams is the idol of this author who wrote "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Edward Albee |
| #152, aired 1985-04-09 | AUTHORS $400: First name shared by T.S. Eliot & Tennessee Williams Thomas |
| #103, aired 1985-01-30 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $200: Season he paired with "smoke" & "suddenly" summer |
| #77, aired 1984-12-25 | "STATE" NAMES $200: This playwright didn't use his home state of Mississippi for his pen name Tennessee Williams |
| #57, aired 1984-11-27 | 1945 $400: Rejected as movie script, Broadway loved this fragile Tennessee Williams drama The Glass Menagerie |
| #8, aired 1984-09-19 | REPTILES $1000: In Tennessee Williams' play, it was his big night an iguana |
