#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#4975, aired 2006-04-07 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $200: "The Honor and Glory of Whaling" is a chapter in this American masterpiece Moby-Dick |
#4975, aired 2006-04-07 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $400: He's the teenage narrator of "The Catcher in the Rye" Holden Caulfield |
#4975, aired 2006-04-07 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Kremlin in Moscow, Russia.) Novel in which Moscow was without its inhabitants & the soldiers were sucked into her, radiating from the Kremlin War and Peace |
#4975, aired 2006-04-07 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $800: 1815's "Emma" was the last of her novels published in her lifetime (Jane) Austen |
#4975, aired 2006-04-07 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $1000: Some early reviewers objected to the realistic depiction of Archdeacon Frollo's death in this classic The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
#4380, aired 2003-09-26 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $200: The horseman that terrorized Sleepy Hollow was this, not legless or armless headless |
#4380, aired 2003-09-26 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $400: This character concocted the potion that created Mr. Hyde Dr. Jekyll |
#4380, aired 2003-09-26 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $600: Another name for a mirror; Alice went "through" one looking-glass |
#4380, aired 2003-09-26 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $800: After picking up his book "Moby Dick", you might be relieved to know he wrote short stories too Herman Melville |
#4380, aired 2003-09-26 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $1000: This character's squire was Sancho Panza Don Quixote |