Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (89 results returned)

#8518, aired 2021-11-24THINGS IN LITERARY TITLES $1600: Thornton Wilder wrote of one of these that collapses in Peru, killing 5 travelers a bridge
#8422, aired 2021-06-15THE STAGE $800: The stage manager is a pivotal role in this play by Thornton Wilder Our Town
#8339, aired 2021-02-18PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $800: "Our Town" won him the 1938 Drama Prize (Thornton) Wilder
#8309, aired 2021-01-07BODY LANGUAGE $1000: The second of Thornton Wilder's 2 Pulitzer Prize-winning plays mentions these 2 body parts skin & teeth
#8245, aired 2020-09-25PLAYS $2000: The musical "Hello, Dolly!" was based on this 1954 Thornton Wilder play that also featured Dolly Levi The Matchmaker
#8080, aired 2019-10-25ANCIENT ROME FICTION $400: Thornton Wilder's novel about the time of Julius Caesar in Rome has this title, like an unlucky date for Julius The Ides of March
#7796, aired 2018-07-02BOOK OF THE MONTH $200: "The Ides of ____" by Thornton Wilder March
#7733, aired 2018-04-04THE FICTION SECTION $1000: "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" earned this author a Pulitzer Prize Thornton Wilder
#7570, aired 2017-07-07THEATER $600: This Thornton Wilder play premiered on Broadway in 1938 with Frank Craven as the Stage Manager Our Town
#7052, aired 2015-04-21PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: Performed on a bare stage, this Thornton Wilder play features a stage manager who serves as the narrator Our Town
#6775, aired 2014-02-14THE STAGE $600: Thornton Wilder himself played the role of the stage manager for 2 weeks during this play's 1938 Broadway run Our Town
#6592, aired 2013-04-2320th CENTURY PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: In 1954 he revised his 1936 play "The Merchant of Yonkers" as "The Matchmaker" Thornton Wilder
#6051, aired 2010-12-27PLAY PENNERS $4,000 (Daily Double): This Irishman wrote 5 novels but none was successful; the over 50 plays during his career turned out better George Bernard Shaw
#5812, aired 2009-12-15FILL IN THE PLAY TITLE $200: Thornton Wilder's "O.T." Our Town
#5785, aired 2009-11-06AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" is set in the early 20th century in this typical American town located in New Hampshire Grover's Corners
#5712, aired 2009-06-09THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA $800: He won Pulitzers for "Our Town" & "The Skin of our Teeth" (Thornton) Wilder
#5530, aired 2008-09-26EXPIRATION DATES $600: December 7, 1975: In "our town" of Hamden, Conn. Thornton Wilder
#5435, aired 2008-04-04PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Thornton Wilder, on more than one occasion, played the stage manager in this play of his Our Town
#5404, aired 2008-02-21THEATRE $1600: Thornton Wilder's prize-winning play about life & death in a small "corner" of New Hampshire Our Town
#5313, aired 2007-10-17PLAYS $800: Matthew Burnett turned this "Our Town" playwright's novel "Theophilus North" into a play that premiered in 2003 Thornton Wilder
#5153, aired 2007-01-24PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING DRAMAS $2000: In 1938 this playwright's "Our Town" had some Pulitzer with the voters (Thornton) Wilder
#5068, aired 2006-09-27BRIDGING THE LITERARY GAP $1600: Thornton Wilder: “The Bridge of ____” San Luis Rey
#4985, aired 2006-04-21TITLES FROM SHAKESPEARE $400: Beware Thornton Wilder's "The Ides of March" & this play where you'll find the phrase Julius Caesar
#4964, aired 2006-03-23NOT QUITE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Thornton Wilder novel about a collapsing structure that's a stand-up comedian whom "Everybody Loves" The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Ray) Romano
#4761, aired 2005-04-25PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $800: "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" Thornton Wilder
#4588, aired 2004-07-14LITERATURE IN THE JAZZ AGE $2000: This 1927 Thornton Wilder novel begins, "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke" The Bridge of San Luis Rey
#4547, aired 2004-05-18LITERARY SETTINGS $1600: In a play by Thornton Wilder, it's "Our Town" Grover's Corners, New Hampshire
#4532, aired 2004-04-27WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $400: Raymond Chandler's middle name; it was playwright Wilder's first Thornton
#4527, aired 2004-04-20THEY ALL WENT TO YALE $1600: This Yale grad's play "The Skin of Our Teeth" premiered in New Haven in 1942 (& later won him his 3rd Pulitzer Prize) Thornton Wilder
#4430, aired 2003-12-05AUTHORS $600: His "Hike and the Aeroplane" of 1912 didn't exactly put him on the Main Street of success Sinclair Lewis
#4395, aired 2003-10-171920s BESTSELLERS $1200: Even if you get the full version of this 1928 bestseller by Thornton Wilder, it's a"bridge"d The Bridge of San Luis Rey
#4292, aired 2003-04-08CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $2000: Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" focuses on the romance & marriage of Emily & him George Gibbs
#4100, aired 2002-05-31'38 SPECIAL $800: When this play opened on Broadway in 1938 it didn't have any scenery, just the way Thornton Wilder wanted it Our Town
#3984, aired 2001-12-20CHRISTMAS POTPOURRI $1000: This "Our Town" playwright wrote the libretto for the opera "The Long Christmas Dinner", based on his own play (Thornton) Wilder
#3979, aired 2001-12-13AMERICAN DRAMATISTS $800: In the '30s this "Our Town" dramatist was a lecturer on literature at the University of Chicago Thornton Wilder
#3935, aired 2001-10-12AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $400: "Our Teeth" & "Our Town" have been subjects for this Wisconsin-born playwright Thornton Wilder
#3814, aired 2001-03-15THE PLAYWRIGHT WRITES $800: "Good-by, good-by world. Good-by Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking..." Thornton Wilder (Our Town)
#3720, aired 2000-11-03LITERALLY $500: He's the only man to win Pulitzer Prizes for fiction ("The Bridge of San Luis Rey") & drama ("Our Town") Thornton Wilder
#3704, aired 2000-10-12THEATRICAL QUOTES $400: Thornton Wilder explained the stage directions for this play with "The less seen, the more heard" "Our Town"
#3595, aired 2000-03-31BOOKS OF THE MONTHS $200: Thornton Wilder's novel about Julius Caesar's last days, it's named for Caesar's last day "The Ides of March"
#3509, aired 1999-12-02PLAY TIME $800: The musical "Hello, Dolly!" was based on this play by Thornton Wilder "The Matchmaker"
#3453, aired 1999-09-15BEFORE & AFTER $1000: "Sling Blade" Oscar winner who won a Pulitzer for "The Skin of Our Teeth" Billy Bob Thornton Wilder
#3390, aired 1999-05-07BEFORE & AFTER $800: "Sling Blade" actor who chronicled "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" Billy Bob Thornton Wilder
#3347, aired 1999-03-09NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS $300: Folks in "Our Town" know his novel "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" made him famous Thornton Wilder
#3329, aired 1999-02-11THEATRE $800: The original production of his play "The Skin Of Our Teeth" starred Tallulah Bankhead & Frederic March Thornton Wilder
#3203, aired 1998-07-01PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $200: Thornton Wilder called Act I of this play "Daily Life" Our Town
#3168, aired 1998-05-13ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $800: Helen Hunt made her Broadway debut in 1989 as Emily in a revival of this Thornton Wilder play Our Town
#3097, aired 1998-02-03AT HOME ON THE STAGE $300: Part of this Thornton Wilder play is set at the Gibbs' house, but it takes imagination to see it "Our Town"
#2970, aired 1997-06-27PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $200: More than once, Thornton Wilder played the stage manager in a presentation of this, his most popular drama "Our Town"
#2869, aired 1997-02-06DRAMA $800: His "Ah, Wilderness!" takes place in Connecticut July 4 & 5, 1906 Eugene O'Neill
#2716, aired 1996-05-27PLAYS $400: Grovers Corners, the setting for this Thornton Wilder play, was modeled on Peterborough, New Hampshire Our Town
#2660, aired 1996-03-08DRAMA $400: Thornton Wilder's 1943 Pulitzer for "The Skin of Our Teeth" came 5 years after he won for this play Our Town
#2608, aired 1995-12-27QUOTATIONS $800: "Most everybody climbs into their grave married" appears in Act II of this Thornton Wilder play Our Town
#2567, aired 1995-10-31LITERATURE $200: This "Our Town" playwright's novel "The Woman of Andros" was inspired by an ancient Roman comedy (Thornton) Wilder
#2522, aired 1995-07-18THEATRE $1000: His play "The Matchmaker" was based on his earlier work "The Merchant of Yonkers" Thornton Wilder
#2441, aired 1995-03-27SONGS $300: Sammy Cahn & James Van Heusen wrote "Love and Marriage" for a TV musical based on this Thornton Wilder play Our Town
#2426, aired 1995-03-06MIDDLE NAMES $600: The residents of Grover's Corners could tell you this playwright's middle name was Niven Thornton Wilder
#2415, aired 1995-02-17DRAMA $200: His first play, "The Trumpet Shall Sound", premiered in 1926, 12 years before "Our Town" Thornton Wilder
#2384, aired 1995-01-05PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $600: James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" may have inspired this playwright's "The Skin of Our Teeth" Thornton Wilder
#2340, aired 1994-11-04DRAMA $200: At the beginning of the last act of this Thornton Wilder play, Emily has died in childbirth Our Town
#2318, aired 1994-10-05PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS $200: He won the Fiction prize for "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" 10 years before his drama prize for "Our Town" Thornton Wilder
#2186, aired 1994-02-21PULITZER PRIZE PLAYWRIGHTS $600: Thornton Wilder won in 1943 for "The Skin of Our Teeth" & in 1938 for this Play Our Town
#2172, aired 1994-02-01DRAMA $400: In 1937 Thornton Wilder adapted this playwright's "A Doll's House" for Ruth Gordon Ibsen
#2097, aired 1993-10-19DRAMA $1,500 (Daily Double): This Thornton Wilder play calls for no scenery other than 2 arched trellises Our Town
#2036, aired 1993-06-14LITERARY CHARACTERS $800: Pulitzer Prize-winning Thornton Wilder novel about 5 travelers who fall to their deaths in Peru The Bridge of San Luis Rey
#2016, aired 1993-05-17DRAMA $100: The 2nd act of this Thornton Wilder play deals with the marriage of George Gibbs & Emily Webb Our Town
#1920, aired 1993-01-01PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $400: This 1938 winner written by Thornton Wilder was revived in 1991 with Alan Alda as the stage manager Our Town
#1887, aired 1992-11-17DRAMA $400: The Antrobuses of Excelsior, New Jersey are an "ice age" family in his "The Skin of Our Teeth" Thornton Wilder
#1860, aired 1992-10-09LITERATURE $100: Thornton Wilder's 1948 novel, "The Ides of March", was a fictional account of the life of this Roman Julius Caesar
#1839, aired 1992-09-10DRAMA $300: Thornton Wilder's "The Matchmaker" was the basis for this musical "Hello, Dolly!"
#1787, aired 1992-05-12DRAMA $1,500 (Daily Double): More than once, Thornton Wilder portrayed the Stage Manager in this play which he also wrote Our Town
#1642, aired 1991-10-22DRAMA $800: His comedy "The Skin of Our Teeth" follows the Antrobus family of Excelsior, N.J. Thornton Wilder
#1584, aired 1991-06-20STARTS WITH "O" $600: "No other play has moved me so deeply" said Alexander Woollcott of this Thornton Wilder play Our Town
#1567, aired 1991-05-28PLAYWRIGHTS $1,200 (Daily Double): 1 of the 2 plays for which Thornton Wilder won a Pulitzer Prize (1 of) Our Town (or The Skin of Our Teeth)
#1549, aired 1991-05-02PLAYWRIGHTS $400: His play, "The Matchmaker", was first produced under the title "The Merchant of Yonkers" Thornton Wilder
#1470, aired 1991-01-11PLAYWRIGHTS $800: He was born in 1897 in Madison, Wisc., not in Grover's Corners (Thornton) Wilder
#1250, aired 1990-01-26THEATER $1,000 (Daily Double): "Hello, Dolly!" was based on his play, "The Matchmaker" Thornton Wilder
#1181, aired 1989-10-23LITERARY SETTINGS $800: Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Thornton Wilder set in Peru in the early 18th century The Bridge of San Luis Rey
#1080, aired 1989-04-21FICTION $400: His 1st novel, "The Cabala", is about pagan gods, but his most famous novel is about "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" Thornton Wilder
#1073, aired 1989-04-12LITERARY CHARACTERS $200: Thornton Wilder's "The Ides of March" ends with this man's assassination Julius Caesar
#957, aired 1988-11-01PLAYS $800: His offbeat play "The Skin of our Teeth" features a talking baby dinosaur Thornton Wilder
#923, aired 1988-09-14NOVELS $800: Thornton Wilder novel that delves into the lives of 5 travelers who fall to their deaths in Peru The Bridge of San Luis Rey
#799, aired 1988-02-11THE PULITZER PRIZE $800: Thornton Wilder's prize-winning play about life & death in a small "corner" of New Hampshire Our Town
#796, aired 1988-02-0820TH CENTURY LITERATURE $200: In a 1927 Thornton Wilder novel, this structure "of San Luis Rey" breaks the bridge
#786, aired 1988-01-25PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS $800: He won 2 Pulitzer prizes for drama & 1 for a novel, "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" Thornton Wilder
#766, aired 1987-12-28DRAMA $300: "Setless" Thornton Wilder favorite set in Grover's corners, New Hampshire Our Town
#716, aired 1987-10-19PLAYS $200: E.L. Masters' "Spoon River Anthology" is cited in this Thornton Wilder play in which the dead also talk Our Town
#419, aired 1986-04-17THEATER $200: Thornton Wilder "cut corners" presenting Grover's Corners in this classic play Our Town
#311, aired 1985-11-18BRIDGES $600: Peruvian bridge which collapsed Friday July 20, 1714 in Thornton Wilder novel of the same name bridge of San Luis Rey

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (1 result returned)

#97, aired 1985-01-22THE THEATER: The musical "Hello Dolly!" was based on this Thornton Wilder play The Matchmaker

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