| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | ENGLISH LIT $400: This book begins, "Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy" The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | ENGLISH LIT $800: "Catriona", a sequel to this novel, recounts "The Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad" Kidnapped |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | ENGLISH LIT $1200: Published in 1853, "Villette", her last completed novel, tells of a young woman who teaches at a boarding school in the title town Charlotte Brontë |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | ENGLISH LIT $1600: This James Joyce novel ends, "The keys to. Given! A way a lone a last a loved a long the" Finnegans Wake |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | ENGLISH LIT $2000: This Irish poet & 1995 Nobel laureate won monster praise for his modern translation of "Beowulf" (Seamus) Heaney |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | ENGLISH CLASS $200: OK, one more time: with an apostrophe, this 3-letter word is a contraction; without, a possessive it's |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | ENGLISH CLASS $400: Confused by these 2 adverbs? Use the one with an "A" when you mean more distance, the one with a "U" when you just mean more farther & further |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | ENGLISH CLASS $600: This "voice" should be avoided when possible--wait, let me make that active! Avoid this "voice" when possible passive |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | ENGLISH CLASS $800: (Brian Jordan Alvarez presents the clue.) Want to write a good term paper? You need to nail this introductory statement that sets forth your argument & provides a road map for the rest of your essay; it's from Greek for "proposition" thesis |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | ENGLISH CLASS $1000: In "speaking is easy", "speaking" is one of these, a verb form acting as a noun a gerund |
| #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) |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | THE ENGLISH PAST $200: Founded in 1753, this national antiquities collection was first housed in a London mansion called Montagu House the British Museum |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | THE ENGLISH PAST TENSE $400: This irregular past tense verb is what I did to start our game of whist dealt (led) |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | THE ENGLISH PAST $400: This nickname for the Conservative Party has been used for centuries & comes from an Irish word for "outlaw" the Tories |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | THE ENGLISH PAST $600: This man became Lord Protector after leading a Roundhead army in the 17th century English Civil War Cromwell |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | THE ENGLISH PAST $800: From 1830, what's now Manchester's science museum is the oldest surviving this type of building, part of a transport revolution a train station |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | THE ENGLISH PAST TENSE $800: This irregular past tense verb can mean completely tired out & exhausted spent (worn) |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | THE ENGLISH PAST $1000: This "List" loosened up in 1965 as the 4 Beatles each got an MBE, being made members of the Order of the British Empire the Queen's Honors List |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | THE ENGLISH PAST TENSE $1200: A brother"ood" of irregular past tenses is stood, understood & this, meaning "resisted" withstood |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | THE ENGLISH PAST TENSE $1600: This word meaning "said not to do that thing" rhymes with "had" to traditionalists but with "maid" to many others forbade |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | THE ENGLISH PAST TENSE $2000: You don't say "I brod the fish before frying it", nor "I throd the needle", so why this word meaning "stepped"? trod |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | ENGLISH DIALECTS AND ACCENTS $300: The Canadian Encyclopedia says that this two-letter interjection distinguishes Canadian English from other dialects eh |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | ENGLISH DIALECTS AND ACCENTS $600: These Louisianans with a distinct way of speaking & their own ethnic group are descendants of migrants from Nova Scotia Cajun |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | ENGLISH DIALECTS AND ACCENTS $900: According to a standard imitation of the Boston accent, this grassy plot seen here is where people "pahk" their "cahs" Hahvahd Yahd |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | ENGLISH DIALECTS AND ACCENTS $1200: The name of this East London dialect and accent comes from a Middle English word for a defective egg Cockney |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | ENGLISH DIALECTS AND ACCENTS $1500: "Mi irie" is a proper response to the greeting "How yuh stay" in the patois of this island nation Jamaica |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | BAD ENGLISH $400: The clue I am reading had an example of a shift in this tense |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | BAD ENGLISH $800: Its the typographical mark that is missing in the first line of this clue. the apostrophe |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | BAD ENGLISH $1200: In a sentence, this noun & its verb has--excuse me, have to agree in number the subject |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | BAD ENGLISH $1600: Flout, meaning "to show scorn for", is often confused with this word meaning "to show off" flaunt |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | BAD ENGLISH $2000: 8-letter term for a "sentence" error. Found in the present clue. a fragment |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | FRENCH WORDS IN ENGLISH $400: For movies, it's not just a first showing but a successful Mac-based editing program introduced by Adobe in 1991 premiere |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | FRENCH WORDS IN ENGLISH $800: "Naiveness" is in the dictionary but the more common noun is this French form naïveté |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | FRENCH WORDS IN ENGLISH $1200: A donnée is literally French for this, an assumed fact a given |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | FRENCH WORDS IN ENGLISH $1600: Today's kids must wonder how to tear the online editions of newspapers into strips for this craft papier-mâché |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | FRENCH WORDS IN ENGLISH $2000: It meant a plume of feathers worn on a hat, then came to signify style or swagger panache |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | A LITTLE BODY ENGLISH $200: This expression for madly in love is 2 body parts & a preposition head over heels |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | A LITTLE BODY ENGLISH $400: 3-word way to wish a performer good luck break a leg |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | A LITTLE BODY ENGLISH $600: To deal with the consequences of your actions; hope the tune is at least catchy when you do face the music |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | A LITTLE BODY ENGLISH $800: To be hit hard by something is to "take it on" this the nose (or the chin) |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | A LITTLE BODY ENGLISH $1000: Isaac Newton said he had seen further by "standing on" these the shoulders of giants |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | TRANSLATE THE BRITISH ENGLISH $400: Black tie with turn-ups on the trousers? Appalling cuffs |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | TRANSLATE THE BRITISH ENGLISH $800: Old Mrs. Dudge still has an aerial on her telly an antenna |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | TRANSLATE THE BRITISH ENGLISH $1200: Let's take our seats & meet for a drink at the interval intermission |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | TRANSLATE THE BRITISH ENGLISH $1600: We're frightfully busy at the hospital in the casualty department the E.R. |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | TRANSLATE THE BRITISH ENGLISH $2000: Oh no! Colin has stopped on the verge of the M1; his car broke down shoulder |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | WHICH ENGLISH MONARCH? $200: Lost the 13 American colonies to independence George III |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | WHICH ENGLISH MONARCH? $400: Crossed the English Channel in 1066 William the Conqueror |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | WHICH ENGLISH MONARCH? $800: Was the brother of Richard the Lionheart John |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | WHICH ENGLISH MONARCH? $1000: Was sometimes known as "Crookback" Richard III |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | WHICH ENGLISH MONARCH? $2,400 (Daily Double): Ruled at the start of the English Reformation Henry VIII |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | 20th CENTURY ENGLISH $400: The 1960s gave us acid rock; the acid was this LSD |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | 20th CENTURY ENGLISH $1200: Hyphenated word for someone with an outdated view on the shape of our planet a flat-Earther |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | 20th CENTURY ENGLISH $1,500 (Daily Double): It first meant a movie, then a script for one, then starting in the 1930s was used in Academy Award categories a screenplay |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | 20th CENTURY ENGLISH $1600: Muriel Dowding started the cosmetics company Beauty Without this, helping inspire the adjective this-free Cruelty |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | 20th CENTURY ENGLISH $2000: Coined around 1960, it's the dull, conformist town where the opposites of beatniks & hippies live Squaresville |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | ENGLISH DRAMA THAT AIN'T SHAKESPEARE $400: Comic actor & playwright Richard Tarlton also served as the favorite of these court fools for Queen Elizabeth I a jester |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | ENGLISH DRAMA THAT AIN'T SHAKESPEARE $800: Every character in Ben Jonson's "Volpone" is based on an animal; Corvino on a crow & Volpone on this canine a fox |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | ENGLISH DRAMA THAT AIN'T SHAKESPEARE $1200: In a "tragical" play by Marlowe, 2 scholars named Cornelius & Valdes teach Doctor this how to summon demons Doctor Faustus |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | ENGLISH DRAMA THAT AIN'T SHAKESPEARE $1600: Richard Sheridan's 18th century comedies of manners include "The School for" this disgrace Scandal |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | ENGLISH DRAMA THAT AIN'T SHAKESPEARE $6,000 (Daily Double): This period of the returned monarchy featured plays known for bawdiness, like "The Country Wife" Restoration |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | BRITISH ENGLISH $200: A large bus for traveling in the U.K.; in the U.S. it's a person who guides a sports team a coach |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | BRITISH ENGLISH $400: The Brits put their trousers on one leg at a time; this 5-letter word that Americans use means underwear over there pants |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | BRITISH ENGLISH $600: A dummy in Devon is this accessory for a baby a pacifier |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | BRITISH ENGLISH $800: In the U.K., chemist means someone in this profession pharmacist |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | BRITISH ENGLISH $1000: If you ask for chips in England, you'll get French fries; if you want potato chips, ask for these crisps |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | HISTORIC ENGLISH COUNTIES $200: Found in the north, this largest historic county is known for more than just its savory pudding Yorkshire |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | HISTORIC ENGLISH COUNTIES $400: Fittingly, most of this county's southern border is with Suffolk Norfolk |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | HISTORIC ENGLISH COUNTIES $600: What is now this city in Somerset was started by the Romans as Aquae Sulis around its hot springs Bath |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | HISTORIC ENGLISH COUNTIES $800: Of course Sherwood is found in this "shire" where Elizabeth Fradd is the current high sheriff Nottinghamshire |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | HISTORIC ENGLISH COUNTIES $1000: The name of this region in southwest England is related to the Latin word for “horn”, based on its horn-like shape Cornwall |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | 20th CENTURY ENGLISH $400: "Giving me a glance of annoyance" was replaced by "giving me the" this smelly phrase a stink eye |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | 20th CENTURY ENGLISH $800: A twist on Defoe, "Girl" or "Gal" this for a female assistant was big pre-World War II Friday |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | 20th CENTURY ENGLISH $1200: Borrowed from Italian & spelled all kinds of ways in English, it means "do you get me?" capisce |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | 20th CENTURY ENGLISH $1600: The OED defines it as a tune that stays in your mind "especially to the point of irritation " an earworm |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | 20th CENTURY ENGLISH $2000: The medium was in its infancy in the 1930s when this word came along to mean "looking good on TV" telegenic |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | EVERYDAY GERMAN IN ENGLISH $400: This "fermented cabbage" goes great on a sandwich sauerkraut |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | EVERYDAY GERMAN IN ENGLISH $800: This little breed is a "badger dog" a dachshund |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | EVERYDAY GERMAN IN ENGLISH $1200: In the mountains enjoy these "noble white" flowers edelweiss |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | EVERYDAY GERMAN IN ENGLISH $1600: None of this "whirlpool" pastry for me--I'm dieting a strudel |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | EVERYDAY GERMAN IN ENGLISH $2000: A book about the hero's formative years is this kind of "education novel" a bildungsroman |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | THE ENGLISH MONARCH WHEN... $400: The first Sputnik was launched Elizabeth II |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | THE ENGLISH MONARCH WHEN... $800: The Charge of the Light Brigade happened at the Battle of Balaklava Queen Victoria |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | THE ENGLISH MONARCH WHEN... $1,000 (Daily Double): Napoleon became Emperor of France George III |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | THE ENGLISH MONARCH WHEN... $1600: Magellan's fleet began its circumnavigation voyage Henry VIII |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | WORDS FROM OLD ENGLISH $200: A mounted soldier in armor who served a king or lord a knight |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | WORDS FROM OLD ENGLISH $400: This verb means to satisfy, especially one's thirst slake |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | WORDS FROM OLD ENGLISH $600: "Over hill, over" this small valley--both landforms come from the Old English a dale |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | WORDS FROM OLD ENGLISH $800: This word usually comes before "out", meaning to barely manage a living eke |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | WORDS FROM OLD ENGLISH $1000: This geography term meaning a bend or a curve in a coastline sounds like sinking your teeth into something bight |
| #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 |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | BROKEN ENGLISH $400: At the blackjack table, don't hit on hard 17 or you'll probably do this synonym for "break" bust |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | BROKEN ENGLISH $800: Numbers that have been summed & cars that have been wrecked beyond repair have been this totaled |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | BROKEN ENGLISH $1200: An appliance that's not working is "on the" this German first name Fritz |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | BROKEN ENGLISH $1600: A fissure between friends, or a valley formed between 2 faults a rift |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | BROKEN ENGLISH $2000: This synonym for "hernia" can also refer to a break in a pipeline rupture |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | THE ENGLISH BILL OF RIGHTS $400: Enacted in 1689, the Bill guaranteed "freedom of" this in Parliament, though not elsewhere speech |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | THE ENGLISH BILL OF RIGHTS $800: The Bill made it illegal to keep a "standing" one of these in the country in time of peace without Parliament's OK an army |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | THE ENGLISH BILL OF RIGHTS $1200: The Bill said these punishments could not be inflicted; sounds familiar! cruel and unusual punishments |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | THE ENGLISH BILL OF RIGHTS $1600: The Bill mandated that "excessive" this "ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed" bail |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | THE ENGLISH BILL OF RIGHTS $2,200 (Daily Double): The Bill required parliaments to be held frequently "for redress of all" these complaints--sounds familiar! grievances |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | FRENCH WORDS IN ENGLISH $200: This word for an afternoon show means "morning" in French matinee |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | FRENCH WORDS IN ENGLISH $400: Often seen in our category titles, this word literally means "rotten pot" potpourri |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | FRENCH WORDS IN ENGLISH $600: This French feminine word is a person with brown hair a brunette |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | FRENCH WORDS IN ENGLISH $800: Tellers of anecdotes, or the name of a Jack White band raconteurs |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | FRENCH WORDS IN ENGLISH $1000: French for "carriage entrance", it's the type of drop-off area seen here porte cochère |
| #8157, aired 2020-02-11 | ITALIAN LOANWORDS IN ENGLISH $1200: Italian for "hell", it's used in English to describe a raging fire an inferno |
| #8157, aired 2020-02-11 | ITALIAN LOANWORDS IN ENGLISH $1600: In Italian it's the faculty of sight; in English it's a distant view to be had from a vantage point vista |
| #8157, aired 2020-02-11 | ITALIAN LOANWORDS IN ENGLISH $2000: From the Italian for "undertaking", it's someone who organizes public entertainments like operas or ballets an impresario |
| #8089, aired 2019-11-07 | SPANISH TO ENGLISH RHYME TIME $200: Doble problema double trouble |
| #8089, aired 2019-11-07 | SPANISH TO ENGLISH RHYME TIME $400: Reina limpia clean queen |
| #8089, aired 2019-11-07 | SPANISH TO ENGLISH RHYME TIME $600: Oro frío cold gold |
| #8089, aired 2019-11-07 | SPANISH TO ENGLISH RHYME TIME $800: Zapato azul blue shoe |
| #8089, aired 2019-11-07 | SPANISH TO ENGLISH RHYME TIME $1000: Canción larga long song |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | PIG ENGLISH $400: This is an old word for a sack; buy "a pig in" one & you don't really know what you're getting a poke |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | PIG ENGLISH $800: In 1901 John Moore-Brabazon strapped a shoat named Icarus into a basket on the wing of his Voisin, & this impossibility was a reality pigs flying |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | PIG ENGLISH $1200: The first recorded use of "in a" this as an exclamation of derision dates to 1847 pig's eye |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | PIG ENGLISH $1600: An 1824 London news report on a boxing match said that one of the fighters did this like a pig sweat |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | PIG ENGLISH $2,500 (Daily Double): Completes a quote from Matthew 7:6: "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your..." pearls before swine |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES $200: Term for the edge of western U.S. settlement; Alaska is called "the last" one frontier |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES $400: Some of New Zealand's first colonists were convicts from the penal colony in this nearby land Australia |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES $600: Rob Ford, on the left, was a controversial Toronto mayor; brother Doug was elected premier of this province in 2018 Ontario |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES $1,000 (Daily Double): In the 1930s Leonard Howell established this religion in Jamaica Rastafarianism |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES $1000: "A kingdom trusted to a school-boy's care" was written about this 18th century British prime minister the younger (William) Pitt (the Younger) |
| #7908, aired 2019-01-16 | ENGLISH ROYAL FIRSTS $200: In 1327 Edward II became the 1st king forced to take this action of formally giving up power, to the son who became Edward III abdicating |
| #7908, aired 2019-01-16 | ENGLISH ROYAL FIRSTS $400: We must confess, in 1066 this confessor became the first monarch to be buried at Westminster Abbey Edward (the Confessor) |
| #7908, aired 2019-01-16 | ENGLISH ROYAL FIRSTS $800: In 1722 Caroline, Princess of Wales became the first royal mum in Eng. to inoculate her kids against this disease smallpox |
| #7908, aired 2019-01-16 | ENGLISH ROYAL FIRSTS $1000: King from 1199 to 1216, he was the first to make himself a vassal of the pope King John |
| #7908, aired 2019-01-16 | ENGLISH ROYAL FIRSTS $1,800 (Daily Double): In 2017 Elizabeth II celebrated 65 years--the first jubilee named for this gemstone, inspiring a blue 5-pound stamp sapphire |
| #7871, aired 2018-11-26 | ENGLISH MAJORS $400: He bought his 1793 promotion from major to lt. colonel; the investment would pay off at Waterloo Wellington |
| #7871, aired 2018-11-26 | ENGLISH MAJORS $800: A 1917 issue of the Arab Bulletin reported on this then-major & 3 others sharing an ostrich egg for breakfast Lawrence of Arabia |
| #7871, aired 2018-11-26 | ENGLISH MAJORS $1600: This major who conspired with Benedict Arnold asked to be shot, but George Washington had him hanged as a spy Major John André |
| #7871, aired 2018-11-26 | ENGLISH MAJORS $2000: Promoted to major in 1915, he'd go on to World War II fame as a field marshal Field Marshal Montgomery |
| #7871, aired 2018-11-26 | ENGLISH MAJORS $3,000 (Daily Double): Sergeant major John Berryman won the Victoria Cross for this 1854 engagement in which his horse was shot under him the Charge of the Light Brigade |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | IN THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY $400: The OED added the name of this "Winnie-the-Pooh" character to mean any gloomy person Eeyore |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | IN THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY $800: You see all the episodes of a TV series in quick succession when you do this type of watching binge |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | IN THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY $1200: The Greek for "numbness" & "seizure" gives us this disorder characterized by sudden bouts of deep sleep narcolepsy |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | IN THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY $1600: Opera is a plural form of this 4-letter word opus |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | IN THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY $2000: It's government by the wealthy, not by Mickey Mouse's dog a plutocracy |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | THE KING'S ENGLISH $400: This English king roared into the world in Oxford in 1157 Richard the Lionhearted |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | THE KING'S ENGLISH $800: The first English king of this name was born in Yorkshire in 1069; there would be VII more Henry |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | THE KING'S ENGLISH $1200: Born in The Hague, this future king married his English cousin Mary in 1677 William (of Orange) |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | THE KING'S ENGLISH $2,000 (Daily Double): The third English king of this name was the first born in England; the first 2 were born in Lower Saxony George |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | THE KING'S ENGLISH $2000: He came to the throne in 978 around age 10; you could say he wasn't prepared for the job Aethelred the Unready |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | NEW TO THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY $200: This 5-syllable Italian farewell wish arrivederci |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | NEW TO THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY $400: This brand of sharp knife with a pseudo-Japanese name a Ginsu knife |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | NEW TO THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY $600: This, Spanish for "rice with chicken" arroz con pollo |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | NEW TO THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY $800: This baseball word for a ball hit directly to the pitcher a comebacker |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | NEW TO THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY $1000: This hyphenated term describing a political environment in which facts are less important than belief post-truth |
| #7583, aired 2017-07-26 | ENGLISH MUFFINS $200: Lean Canadian bacon & English muffins are key ingredients of this McDonald's staple an Egg McMuffin |
| #7583, aired 2017-07-26 | ENGLISH MUFFINS $400: foodandwine.com suggests a Caesar salad employing the English muffins' crunchiness in this role crouton |
| #7583, aired 2017-07-26 | ENGLISH MUFFINS $600: This morning dish made with English muffins isn't named for an American traitor, but rather a Delmonico's patron Eggs Benedict |
| #7583, aired 2017-07-26 | ENGLISH MUFFINS $800: "Nooks & crannies" is a trademark of this brand of English muffin Thomas |
| #7583, aired 2017-07-26 | ENGLISH MUFFINS $1000: This teatime treat with a 7-letter name is basically an English muffin, though often served whole, not split a crumpet |
| #7535, aired 2017-05-19 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $200: If you're in London driving on the left, don't forget to engage your indicator, this, before making a move your turn signal |
| #7535, aired 2017-05-19 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $400: Draughts is this kingly game checkers |
| #7535, aired 2017-05-19 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $600: I can't hear you! You need a loud-hailer, one of these handy amplifiers a megaphone |
| #7535, aired 2017-05-19 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $800: If Dennis the Menace hailed from Denston, he'd call this kid's weapon a catapult a slingshot |
| #7535, aired 2017-05-19 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $1000: The queen wants you to add an "I" (& a syllable) to the name of this metal, atomic number 13 aluminum (or aluminium) |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | BROKE ENGLISH $400: One who is broke may be called this, paired with "The Prince" in a book title a pauper |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | BROKE ENGLISH $800: Chapter 11 is known as a reorganization one of these a bankruptcy |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | BROKE ENGLISH $1200: A specific coin is referenced in this word meaning "having no money" penniless |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | BROKE ENGLISH $1600: In 1824 Charles Dickens' father went to this type of prison; "Little Dorrit" is partly set in one a debtors' prison |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | BROKE ENGLISH $2000: A classic by Ray Charles begins, "My bills are all due and the baby needs shoes and I'm" this title word busted |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $400: It's the 5-letter British slang term for what they've watched "Eastenders" on since 1985 the telly |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $800: Zebra crossing isn't an African road sign, it's one of these found on the street a crosswalk |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $1200: The Brits use a different prefix, producing this word instead of "counter-clockwise" anticlockwise |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $1600: The trunk of a car is called this, also a type of footwear the boot |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $2000: To New Yorkers it's a type of subway train; to Brits, it's the pub near home you usually frequent the local |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | BRITISH ENGLISH $400: Slow down! What we call a yellow traffic light, the Brits call this color, like fossilized resin amber |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | BRITISH ENGLISH $800: Fish entrails used to lure sharks in the U.S., or an old friend in Britain chum |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | BRITISH ENGLISH $1200: Varnish is this, for fingers & toes (nail) polish |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | BRITISH ENGLISH $1600: We end a sentence with a period; the Brits do it with this 2-word term a full stop |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | BRITISH ENGLISH $2000: A baby's pacifier in the U.S. is called this in the U.K., a word also meaning a quilted bedspread a comforter |
| #7469, aired 2017-02-16 | ENGLISH LIT $200 (Daily Double): "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People" is the subtitle of this Oscar Wilde play of mistaken identity The Importance of Being Earnest |
| #7469, aired 2017-02-16 | ENGLISH LIT $400: This trilogy begins with a "Fellowship" & ends with "The Return of the King" Lord of the Rings |
| #7469, aired 2017-02-16 | ENGLISH LIT $800: Mary Ann Evans wrote the novels "Adam Bede" & "Middlemarch" under this pen name (George) Eliot |
| #7469, aired 2017-02-16 | ENGLISH LIT $1600: "Bring Up the Bodies" is Hilary Mantel's sequel to this historical novel about the rise to power of Thomas Cromwell Wolf Hall |
| #7469, aired 2017-02-16 | ENGLISH LIT $2000: E.M. Forster dedicated this 1924 novel to his friend Syed Ross Masood, one of the inspirations for Dr. Aziz A Passage to India |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | UNCROWNED ENGLISH MONARCHS $400: Edward V reigned for a few brief uncrowned months in 1483 before his death, said to be set up by this uncle of his Richard III |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | UNCROWNED ENGLISH MONARCHS $800: Her devotion to this faith prevented King Charles I's wife Henrietta Maria from being crowned Catholicism |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | UNCROWNED ENGLISH MONARCHS $1600: His unpopular intention to marry twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson led to his abdication & non-crowning Edward VIII |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | UNCROWNED ENGLISH MONARCHS $2000: Daughter & heir of King Henry I, Matilda was never crowned but did gain this title like Victoria centuries later empress |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | UNCROWNED ENGLISH MONARCHS $3,000 (Daily Double): This third wife of Henry VIII had her coronation postponed due to plague & then died after childbirth Jane Seymour |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | GOD SAVE THE ENGLISH KING! $400: Under threat of civil war, this king set his seal to the Magna Carta in 1215 John |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | GOD SAVE THE ENGLISH KING! $800: At 1485's Battle of Bosworth Field, Richard III died without a horse & this royal family rode off with his kingdom the Tudors |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | GOD SAVE THE ENGLISH KING! $1200: In 1295 Edward I convened the "model" this, a template for future political gatherings the parliament |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | GOD SAVE THE ENGLISH KING! $1600: Daniel Defoe wrote "The True-Born Englishman" in support of this Dutch prince who became king in 1689 William (of Orange) |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | GOD SAVE THE ENGLISH KING! $6,600 (Daily Double): Officially the king from 1820 to 1830, he had been de facto ruler since 1811 due to the insanity of his father George IV |
| #7328, aired 2016-06-22 | ENGLISH USAGE $200: This verb can mean to swing gently, to play electric guitar or to wear a certain item with great style rock |
| #7328, aired 2016-06-22 | ENGLISH USAGE $400: It might be good to avoid this word that can mean "every 3 1/2 days" or "every 14 days" biweekly |
| #7328, aired 2016-06-22 | ENGLISH USAGE $800: This adjective meaning "having the most victories" is a fairly recent sports page creation winningest |
| #7328, aired 2016-06-22 | ENGLISH USAGE $1000: "Rankle" is traditionally this kind of objectless verb; not "his insults rankled me" but just "his insults rankled" intransitive |
| #7328, aired 2016-06-22 | ENGLISH USAGE $3,000 (Daily Double): Around 2008 this negative word that had been doing fine as a verb was popular as a noun, often preceded by "epic" fail |
| #7227, aired 2016-02-02 | ENGLISH LIT $400: This epic poem by Milton is the story of Adam & Eve's fall from grace Paradise Lost |
| #7227, aired 2016-02-02 | ENGLISH LIT $800: Written in a kind of dreamspeak, this James Joyce novel about the Earwicker family is a difficult read Finnegans Wake |
| #7227, aired 2016-02-02 | ENGLISH LIT $1600: In one translation of "Beowulf", he's described as "a fiend out of hell" & a "grim demon" Grendel |
| #7227, aired 2016-02-02 | ENGLISH LIT $2000: Set partly in the West Indies, this Jean Rhys novel tells of Antoinette Cosway, the mad Mrs. Rochester from "Jane Eyre" Wide Sargasso Sea |
| #7227, aired 2016-02-02 | ENGLISH LIT $3,000 (Daily Double): This character says, "How sad it is! I shall grow old... but this picture will remain always young" Dorian Gray |
| #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 |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | OLDE ENGLISH $100 (Daily Double): Forsooth! In 1657 Parliament doth offer this man the title of king, but zounds! He doth say nay to donning a crown Oliver Cromwell |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | OLDE ENGLISH $400: Yea, clause 39 of this olde document sayeth no free man shall be imprisoned except by the judgment of his peers the Magna Carta |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | OLDE ENGLISH $800: O foul & dark time! This infamous event was borne in Pudding Lane & did rage for 5 awfull days in September of 1666 the Great London Fire |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | OLDE ENGLISH $1600: Verily, though this king won the day at Agincourt, he was foully defeated by dysentery Henry V |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | OLDE ENGLISH $2000: It shall be writ that the house of York was a house of ruin upon this site in 1485 once the king ate-eth the big one in a bog Bosworth Field |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | BRITISH ENGLISH $200: Braces are what the Brits call these, an alternative to a belt suspenders |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | BRITISH ENGLISH $400: This word for a lawyer contains a synonym for the legal profession a barrister |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | BRITISH ENGLISH $600: Instead of "cell phone", the Brits use this adjective, reflecting the fact that you can take the phone with you mobile |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | BRITISH ENGLISH $800: A kind of sleeveless dress, it's also the across-the-pond word for a pullover sweater a jumper |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | BRITISH ENGLISH $1000: It's what the British call the hood of a car the bonnet |
| #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 |
| #6813, aired 2014-04-09 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: Criticism of this gloomy novel & its loser title hero put Thomas Hardy off writing novels forever Jude the Obscure |
| #6813, aired 2014-04-09 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: This "Volpone" author admired his contemporary Shakespeare but did find the Bard sometimes "full of wind" (Ben) Jonson |
| #6813, aired 2014-04-09 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: Of Irish descent but raised in India, this Kipling title youngster joins the English Secret Service Kim |
| #6636, aired 2013-06-24 | THE ENGLISH CIVIL WARS $400: The wars pitted Scots & Irish as well as English against Charles I & this royal house the Stuarts |
| #6636, aired 2013-06-24 | THE ENGLISH CIVIL WARS $800: Executing the king was authorized in 1649 by the legislative body called the "Long" this, which had sat since 1640 Parliament |
| #6636, aired 2013-06-24 | THE ENGLISH CIVIL WARS $1200: After 9 years, the wars ended with victory at Worcester by this future Lord Protector (Oliver) Cromwell |
| #6636, aired 2013-06-24 | THE ENGLISH CIVIL WARS $1600: Captured royalist leader Rowland Laugharne was spared execution by the drawing of these--bad luck, John Poyer lots |
| #6636, aired 2013-06-24 | THE ENGLISH CIVIL WARS $2000: The royalist cavaliers, with flowing locks, battled these forces named for their close-cropped hair the Roundheads |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | GERMAN WORDS ON LOAN TO ENGLISH $400: This is a class for children between the ages of 4 & 6 Kindergarten |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | GERMAN WORDS ON LOAN TO ENGLISH $800: It's the cute little doggie seen here a Dachshund |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | GERMAN WORDS ON LOAN TO ENGLISH $1600: German for "ring" gives us the name of this kind of cake Bundt |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | GERMAN WORDS ON LOAN TO ENGLISH $2000: It's the spirit of a time: the one of the 1960s was rebellious Zeitgeist |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | GERMAN WORDS ON LOAN TO ENGLISH $2,500 (Daily Double): It's a ghost or spirit that makes its presence known with noises a Poltergeist |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | THE KING'S ENGLISH $200: Get on the blower & ask the queen if she knows a blower is this in the States a telephone |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | THE QUEENS ENGLISH $400: This airport in Queens used to be called Idlewild JFK |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | THE KING'S ENGLISH $400: Jacket potato isn't the latest British boy band sensation, it's this item in a British restaurant a baked potato |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | THE KING'S ENGLISH $600: If you're out of cash in the pub, you can always use your Chip & PIN, one of these a credit card or ATM card |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | THE QUEENS ENGLISH $800: Dis guy, dis guy grew up in Queens and won de big event in de borough four times John McEnroe |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | THE KING'S ENGLISH $800: Someone on the dole in England isn't eating up your pineapple, he's on this American equivalent welfare |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | THE KING'S ENGLISH $1000: "To earth" is the term British electricians use in place of this verb to ground |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | THE QUEENS ENGLISH $1200: It's a little weird to say, but Queens is bounded on the west by this river the East River |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | THE QUEENS ENGLISH $1600: The Vander Ende-Onderdonk house is on a land grant from this Dutch Colonial governor (Peter) Stuyvesant |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | THE QUEENS ENGLISH $2000: It ain't no Waldorf, but this neighborhood has lots of Greeks, & Telly's Taverna--to die for Astoria |
| #6539, aired 2013-02-07 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: In chapter 16 of this novel, Friday's father is rescued from cannibals Robinson Crusoe |
| #6539, aired 2013-02-07 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1200: She took part of her pen name from her friend, journalist George Henry Lewes George Eliot |
| #6539, aired 2013-02-07 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1600: Ralph Allen, a rich philanthropist, was the inspiration for Squire Alworthy in this author's "Tom Jones" (Henry) Fielding |
| #6539, aired 2013-02-07 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $2000: In "Kidnapped", this young boy discovers that his uncle Ebenezer has cheated him out of his inheritance David Balfour |
| #6539, aired 2013-02-07 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $2,400 (Daily Double): In this futuristic but not Orwellian novel, Mustapha Mond was called "the Resident Controller for Western Europe" Brave New World |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | THE STORY OF ENGLISH $200: English is a member of the West Germanic branch of the language family called Indo-this European |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | THE STORY OF ENGLISH $400: Kentish, Mercian, Northumbrian & West Saxon were the major dialects of this, spoken until about 1100 Anglo-Saxon (or Old English) |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | THE STORY OF ENGLISH $600: In Chaucer's day, "boot" was pronounced "boat"; the change to modern speech is called the GVS, "great" this "shift" vowel |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | THE STORY OF ENGLISH $800: "A Table Alphabeticall", often considered the first English one of these, was published in 1604 a dictionary |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | THE STORY OF ENGLISH $1000: With the growth of the British Empire in this century, the number of native English speakers rose from about 26 mil. to 126 million the 19th century |
| #6521, aired 2013-01-14 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: In this story Mr. Marley "died seven years ago, this very night" A Christmas Carol |
| #6521, aired 2013-01-14 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: Chapter 13 of this story is "Do you believe in fairies?" Peter Pan |
| #6521, aired 2013-01-14 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1600: The Marchmain family in "Brideshead Revisited" shares the Catholic faith of this author of the book (Evelyn) Waugh |
| #6521, aired 2013-01-14 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $2000: Richard Hughes' "A High Wind in" this place was published in the U.S. as "The Innocent Voyage" A High Wind in Jamaica |
| #6521, aired 2013-01-14 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $2,400 (Daily Double): Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1834 novel set in 79 A.D. is titled "The Last Days of" this place Pompeii |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | "MIDDLE" ENGLISH $400: Time of life from 45 to 60, roughly middle age |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | "MIDDLE" ENGLISH $800: An intermediary or go-between a middleman |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | "MIDDLE" ENGLISH $1200: Pretenders hit from "Learning to Crawl" "Middle Of The Road" |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | "MIDDLE" ENGLISH $1600: She's now Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | "MIDDLE" ENGLISH $2000: The central leg of the triangular run made by transatlantic slave ships the Middle Passage |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | THE ENGLISH BEAT $200: "Charlie's good tonight, isn't he?" Mick Jagger asks the crowd on a live album, referring to this drummer Charlie Watts |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | THE ENGLISH BEAT $400: ...this American general at the 1776 battle of Long Island Washington |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | THE ENGLISH BEAT $400: Pete Thomas is the longtime drummer for this English Elvis Elvis Costello |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | THE ENGLISH BEAT $600: Topper Headon laid down the big beats on this band's "Safe European Home" & "Rock The Casbah" The Clash |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | THE ENGLISH BEAT $800: ...this German Air Force in 1940's Battle of Britain the Luftwaffe |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | THE ENGLISH BEAT $800: Mick Avory pounded the skins on this band's "Come Dancing" & "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman" The Kinks |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | THE ENGLISH BEAT $1000: Perhaps Euterpe inspires Dominic Howard when he drums for this "Black Holes And Revelations" band Muse |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | THE ENGLISH BEAT $1600: ...these invaders from the north at the 1513 Battle of Flodden, "England's revenge for Bannockburn" Scotland |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | THE ENGLISH BEAT $2,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an animated diagram of the Battle of Agincourt on the monitor.) At the 1415 Battle of Agincourt, French cavalry charged across a muddy field & were cut down in waves by English archers, leading to an overwhelming victory for this king & his band of brothers Henry V |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | THE ENGLISH BEAT $2000: ...a fleet at the 1798 Battle of the Nile, leaving this general's invading army trapped in Egypt Napoleon |
| #6426, aired 2012-07-23 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $200: A silencer on an English automobile is one of these to us yanks a muffler |
| #6426, aired 2012-07-23 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $400: While cave exploring in Cornwall, if a Brit offers to hand you a torch, it's one of these devices a flashlight |
| #6426, aired 2012-07-23 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $600: To put something into the boot in Britain isn't to put it into your shoe but into this part of your car the trunk |
| #6426, aired 2012-07-23 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $800: You might get a lift in Liverpool if you know a lift is one of these an elevator |
| #6426, aired 2012-07-23 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $1000: If your British sweetie says you need braces, she doesn't mean items for your teeth but these for pants suspenders |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | "OLD" ENGLISH $200: A card game, or an unflattering term for an elderly unmarried woman Old Maid |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | "OLD" ENGLISH $400: Put on your thinking chapeau & give us this apparel-related term for something trite or out of date old-fashioned (or old hat) |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | "OLD" ENGLISH $600: "Educational" term for something from an earlier era old school |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | "OLD" ENGLISH $800: A painting by a distinguished artist, or the artist himself an old master |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | "OLD" ENGLISH $1000: "Earthy" term for one's country of origin, especially if it's Ireland the Old Sod |
| #6208, aired 2011-09-21 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: In this epic poem about leaving heaven, John Milton created Pandemonium, the capital of Hell Paradise Lost |
| #6208, aired 2011-09-21 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: A book by him begins, "'The signora had no business to do it... she promised us south rooms with a view"' (E.M.) Forster |
| #6208, aired 2011-09-21 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: His wife Charlotte was the inspiration for "Amelia" & for Sophia in "Tom Jones" Fielding |
| #6208, aired 2011-09-21 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: In a George Eliot novel, the Tullivers owned a mill on this river the River Floss |
| #6208, aired 2011-09-21 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1,500 (Daily Double): A line in this 1954 novel reads, "Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart" Lord of the Flies |
| #6156, aired 2011-05-23 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $400: In Britain it's a swimming pool; in the U.S. it's something you take in a tub a bath |
| #6156, aired 2011-05-23 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $800: To the Brits he can be an unscrupulous businessman, not just a ranch hand or John Wayne character a cowboy |
| #6156, aired 2011-05-23 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $1200: In Britain it's a baby's pacifier; to us, it's a thick, often down-filled blanket a comforter |
| #6156, aired 2011-05-23 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $1600: Here, it's a small quick bread; in Britain, it's a cookie a biscuit |
| #6156, aired 2011-05-23 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $2000: In the U.S., it's a scientist who studies what matter is made of; in Britain, a dispensing one is a pharmacist a chemist |
| #6149, aired 2011-05-12 | BROKEN ENGLISH $400: It means to fly apart suddenly, especially from internal pressure such as can happen to a balloon or an appendix burst |
| #6149, aired 2011-05-12 | BROKEN ENGLISH $800: Neil Sedaka sang, "If you go then I'll be blue, 'cause" this "is hard to do" "Breaking Up" |
| #6149, aired 2011-05-12 | BROKEN ENGLISH $1200: It can precede bean, fastener or dragon snap |
| #6149, aired 2011-05-12 | BROKEN ENGLISH $1600: This word was used to describe the "Fairy Tales" narrated by Edward Everett Horton on "The Bullwinkle Show" fractured |
| #6149, aired 2011-05-12 | BROKEN ENGLISH $2,800 (Daily Double): Tennyson wrote "Out flew the web and floated wide, the mirror" did this "from side to side" cracked |
| #5997, aired 2010-10-12 | SPANISH TO ENGLISH $400: A culinary profession: panadero baker (breadmaker acceptable) |
| #5997, aired 2010-10-12 | SPANISH TO ENGLISH $800: A proverb: "no hay tiempo como el presente" "there is no time like the present" |
| #5997, aired 2010-10-12 | SPANISH TO ENGLISH $1200: It's found in a toolbox: martillo a hammer |
| #5997, aired 2010-10-12 | SPANISH TO ENGLISH $1600: A delicious fruit:
manzana an apple |
| #5997, aired 2010-10-12 | SPANISH TO ENGLISH $2000: In computer lingo: the 4-letter equivalent of correo basura spam |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | ENGLISH LIT $200: During his "Travels" , he visited the flying island of Laputa Gulliver |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | ENGLISH LIT $400: By the time the novel ends, this title character & Edward Rochester have been happily married for 10 years Jane Eyre |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | ENGLISH LIT $600: This 1854 Tennyson poem was published only weeks after the actual incident Charge of the Light Brigade |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | ENGLISH LIT $800: Her title "Sonnets from the Portuguese" referred to her husband's nickname for her Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | ENGLISH LIT $1000: In her 1929 feminist essay "A Room of One's Own", she paid tribute to women writers Virginia Woolf |
| #5934, aired 2010-06-03 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: Edmund Spenser & Sir Philip Sidney were part of the flowering of English literature during her reign Elizabeth I |
| #5934, aired 2010-06-03 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: This 1937 Agatha Christie novel is set on the steamer Karnak as it cruises down an African river Death on the Nile |
| #5934, aired 2010-06-03 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1600: A series of novels covering a long period; Anthony Trollope wrote a set "of Barsetshire" chronicles |
| #5934, aired 2010-06-03 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $2000: This Samuel Butler novel about an undiscovered country was based on an article, "Darwin among the Machines" Erewhon |
| #5934, aired 2010-06-03 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $8,400 (Daily Double): This children's novel begins, "These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket" Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| #5806, aired 2009-12-07 | NEW TO THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY $200: High-quality marbled beef, or an NBA MVP Kobe |
| #5806, aired 2009-12-07 | NEW TO THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY $400: This casual term for a beer comes from North American college slang, not Polish brewski |
| #5806, aired 2009-12-07 | NEW TO THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY $600: This painful verb--don't do it to me, bro! tase |
| #5806, aired 2009-12-07 | NEW TO THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY $800: A Billy Ray Cyrus hit gave us this hyphenated adjective achy-breaky |
| #5806, aired 2009-12-07 | NEW TO THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY $1000: From the name of an Apple device, this verb means to digitally transmit a broadcast over the Internet podcast |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | BODY ENGLISH $200: "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your" these ears |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | BODY ENGLISH $400: If you make your feelings known to all, you wear this "on your sleeve" your heart |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | BODY ENGLISH $600: Proverbially, if you take a firm stand, you've put this body part "down" your foot |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | BODY ENGLISH $800: In games slang, dominoes & dice are known as these bones |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | BODY ENGLISH $1000: 6-letter slang term meaning to identify someone to the authorities finger |
| #5662, aired 2009-03-31 | SPANISH TO ENGLISH $400: A part of the body:
cerebro the brain |
| #5662, aired 2009-03-31 | SPANISH TO ENGLISH $800: A place to stew:
cocina a kitchen |
| #5662, aired 2009-03-31 | SPANISH TO ENGLISH $1200: A novel:
"Cien Años de Soledad" One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| #5662, aired 2009-03-31 | SPANISH TO ENGLISH $1600: A metallic element:
plomo lead |
| #5662, aired 2009-03-31 | SPANISH TO ENGLISH $2000: A proverb:
"Pensar antes de hablar" Think before you speak |
| #5650, aired 2009-03-13 | GETTING MEDIEVAL WITH ENGLISH LIT $400: His 1380s poem "The Parlement of Foules" isn't about idiots in government; it's about birds choosing mates Geoffrey Chaucer |
| #5650, aired 2009-03-13 | GETTING MEDIEVAL WITH ENGLISH LIT $800: An anonymous genius known as "The Pearl Poet" is thought to have been the author of this colorful tale of 2 knights Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
| #5650, aired 2009-03-13 | GETTING MEDIEVAL WITH ENGLISH LIT $1600: The Chester, Wakefield & York cycles are the major surviving collections of these popular religious dramas mystery plays |
| #5650, aired 2009-03-13 | GETTING MEDIEVAL WITH ENGLISH LIT $2000: A popular Middle English lyric begins, "Sumer is icumen in / Lhude sing" this bird the cuckoo |
| #5650, aired 2009-03-13 | GETTING MEDIEVAL WITH ENGLISH LIT $2,400 (Daily Double): In this circa 1470 work, the Brown Knight Without Pity is as bad as his name until Sir Gareth gets 'im Le Morte d'Arthur |
| #5643, aired 2009-03-04 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: "Curtain: Poirot's last case" was supposed to be published after her death but was released during her lifetime Agatha Christie |
| #5643, aired 2009-03-04 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1200: In part II of this allegory, Christian's wife, Christiana, sets out on a pilgrimage Pilgrim's Progress |
| #5643, aired 2009-03-04 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1600: In "Ivanhoe" the crusading knight is disinherited by his father because of his love for her Rowena |
| #5643, aired 2009-03-04 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $2000: This fireside novella by Dickens is subdivided not into 3 chapters but into 3 chirps The Cricket on the Hearth |
| #5643, aired 2009-03-04 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): Long Jack is one of the crew on a cod boat that rescues Harvey Cheyne in the Grand Banks in this Kipling novel Captains Courageous |
| #5580, aired 2008-12-05 | THE ENGLISH TOP 100 $200: It's No. 1, & no, you don't get a hint the |
| #5580, aired 2008-12-05 | THE ENGLISH TOP 100 $400: This No. 30 must be obeyed she |
| #5580, aired 2008-12-05 | THE ENGLISH TOP 100 $600: Self-congratulations, egotists! This word made it all the way to No. 10 I |
| #5580, aired 2008-12-05 | THE ENGLISH TOP 100 $800: No. 2, this verb form is a homophone of a letter of the alphabet be |
| #5580, aired 2008-12-05 | THE ENGLISH TOP 100 $1000: Title of the Beatles song that tells us "life is very short"--5 words: Nos. 27, 53, 87, 11, 43 "We Can Work It Out" |
| #5482, aired 2008-06-10 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: After slaying Grendel, the title character of this epic poem becomes King of the Geats & rules for 50 years Beowulf |
| #5482, aired 2008-06-10 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1200: It's the last name of father & son novelists Kingsley & Martin Amis |
| #5482, aired 2008-06-10 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1600: Part of this E.M. Forster novel takes place at the Pensione Bertolini in Italy A Room with a View |
| #5482, aired 2008-06-10 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $2000: If you want to check out this man's "private life", see the 17 Gerald Road home he lived in from the '30s to the '50s Noel Coward |
| #5482, aired 2008-06-10 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $3,400 (Daily Double): H.G. Wells subtitled this 1895 classic "An Invention" The Time Machine |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: At the end of this Henry Fielding novel, the title character marries Squire Western's daughter Sophia Tom Jones |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: This non-James Bond book by Ian Fleming was subtitled "The Magical Car" Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1200: Book I of this Edmund Spenser work relates the adventures of the Redcrosse Knight of Holiness The Faerie Queene |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1600: Squire Trelawney outfits the schooner Hispaniola & hires its crew in this 1883 tale Treasure Island |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $2000: Chapter 1 of this 1932 novel begins at the Central London Hatching & Conditioning Centre Brave New World |
| #5386, aired 2008-01-28 | SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLISH KINGS $200: As a mark of his favor, one thing Henry VIII does for her is to make her the Marchioness of Pembroke Anne Boleyn |
| #5386, aired 2008-01-28 | SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLISH KINGS $400: Near the end of the play, Fluellen, one of Henry V's officers, compares him to this 4th century B.C. conqueror Alexander the Great |
| #5386, aired 2008-01-28 | SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLISH KINGS $600: This king takes the crown by murder & later laments, "Behold, mine arm is, like a blasted sapling, withered up" Richard III |
| #5386, aired 2008-01-28 | SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLISH KINGS $800: According to Talbot in "Henry VI Part I", this crusading king's heart is buried in Rouen, France Richard the Lion-Hearted |
| #5386, aired 2008-01-28 | SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLISH KINGS $1000: A legend said Henry IV would die in this Mideast city; it turns out that one of his homes is nicknamed that Jerusalem |
| #5305, aired 2007-10-05 | OLDE ENGLISH $400: In 1667 he penned, "Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe"; paradise found! Milton |
| #5305, aired 2007-10-05 | OLDE ENGLISH $800: Jan. 29, 1820:
This king doth find life too taxing in yonder Windsor Castle... Yoiks! George III |
| #5305, aired 2007-10-05 | OLDE ENGLISH $1200: Yea my Lord, in the 1770s he beganeth his naval career at age 12 as a midshipman 'board the Raisonnable Lord Nelson |
| #5145, aired 2007-01-12 | THE ENGLISH BEAT $200: This city, first mentioned in 912, is the seat of Britain's oldest university, developed in the 1100s Oxford |
| #5145, aired 2007-01-12 | THE ENGLISH BEAT $400: Researchers estimate its construction on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire took about 30 million man-hours Stonehenge |
| #5145, aired 2007-01-12 | THE ENGLISH BEAT $600: In 1964 a Shakespeare center was opened on Henley Street in this city Stratford-upon-Avon |
| #5145, aired 2007-01-12 | THE ENGLISH BEAT $800: You'll find the Cavern Club at 10 Mathew Street in this port city; how fab Liverpool |
| #5145, aired 2007-01-12 | THE ENGLISH BEAT $1000: Centenary Square, in the center of this city, is its main cultural center; Alabama has a city by that name as well Birmingham |
| #5048, aired 2006-07-19 | MIDDLE ENGLISH CLASS $200: From the Middle English for "quarrel", this word often follows "bench-clearing" a brawl |
| #5048, aired 2006-07-19 | MIDDLE ENGLISH CLASS $400: From the Middle English for "unconditioned", it precedes "zero" at about -459 F. absolute |
| #5048, aired 2006-07-19 | MIDDLE ENGLISH CLASS $600: This word from the Middle English means "nothing" to me & is often found after "come to" naught |
| #5048, aired 2006-07-19 | MIDDLE ENGLISH CLASS $800: From Middle English for "to chop", it means to bargain over a price haggle |
| #5048, aired 2006-07-19 | MIDDLE ENGLISH CLASS $1000: "Is this a" word from Middle English "which I see before me"? a dagger |
| #5001, aired 2006-05-15 | AN ENGLISH-SPORTS DICTIONARY $200: English: sweet glaze on a cake;
hockey: shooting the puck all the way down from your own end icing |
| #5001, aired 2006-05-15 | AN ENGLISH-SPORTS DICTIONARY $400: English: a newspaper story you saved;
football: blocking below the waist from behind clipping |
| #5001, aired 2006-05-15 | AN ENGLISH-SPORTS DICTIONARY $600: English: a father's coming-of-age talk with his son;
basketball: the opposite of zone man-to-man |
| #5001, aired 2006-05-15 | AN ENGLISH-SPORTS DICTIONARY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the slopes of Park City, Utah while a snowboarder does a stunt.)
English: the sudden seizing of something as in the power type;
snowboarding: a move where you hold your board a grab |
| #5001, aired 2006-05-15 | AN ENGLISH-SPORTS DICTIONARY $1000: English: a small piece of candy;
golf: how you put a ball back in play after knocking your shot into a lake a drop |
| #4927, aired 2006-01-31 | THE ENGLISH PATENT $200: In England no patents are listed from Jan. 30, 1649 to May 29, 1660 due to this man's tenure as Lord Protector (Oliver) Cromwell |
| #4927, aired 2006-01-31 | THE ENGLISH PATENT $400: The first British patent was given in 1449 by Henry VI to make stained glass for this largest English boys' college Eton |
| #4927, aired 2006-01-31 | THE ENGLISH PATENT $600: Litigation on this man's 1796 patent for steam engines established that improvements for known machines were allowed (James) Watt |
| #4927, aired 2006-01-31 | THE ENGLISH PATENT $800: John Harrington's patent for a water closet was denied by this ruler in 1596 on grounds of propriety Elizabeth I |
| #4927, aired 2006-01-31 | THE ENGLISH PATENT $1000: James Burbage was part of the Earl of Leicester's Men, which in 1574 was the first ever of these to get a patent theatre troupe |
| #4872, aired 2005-11-15 | AN ENGLISH-SNOWBOARDING DICTIONARY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew translates from the slopes of Park City, UT.) English--losing at blackjack by going over 21; Snowboarding--throwing down a mad trick to bust |
| #4872, aired 2005-11-15 | AN ENGLISH-SNOWBOARDING DICTIONARY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew translates from the slopes of Park City, UT.) English--a type of shotgun; Snowboarding--two rails fused together a double barrel |
| #4872, aired 2005-11-15 | AN ENGLISH-SNOWBOARDING DICTIONARY $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew translates from the slopes of Park City, UT.) English--to bend; Snowboarding--the degree of a board's softness or stiffness, affecting the way you turn flex |
| #4872, aired 2005-11-15 | AN ENGLISH-SNOWBOARDING DICTIONARY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew translates from the slopes of Park City, UT.) English--a small compartment in a theater; Snowboarding--a rail with an extra-wide surface a box |
| #4872, aired 2005-11-15 | AN ENGLISH-SNOWBOARDING DICTIONARY $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew translates from the slopes of Park City, UT.) English--the hour a TV show is broadcast; Snowboarding--the number of seconds you stay aloft airtime |
| #4760, aired 2005-04-22 | ENGLISH LIT $400: The title of this 1910 E.M. Forster novel refers to a house, & not somebody's demise Howards End |
| #4760, aired 2005-04-22 | ENGLISH LIT $800: Anne Bronte wrote the novel "Agnes Grey" & this British statesman wrote "Vivian Grey" Disraeli |
| #4760, aired 2005-04-22 | ENGLISH LIT $1200: A.A. Milne's play "Toad of Toad Hall" was based on a book by this author (Kenneth) Grahame |
| #4760, aired 2005-04-22 | ENGLISH LIT $1600: In a D.H. Lawrence short story, a young boy rides himself to death on a demonic one of these title toys a rocking horse |
| #4760, aired 2005-04-22 | ENGLISH LIT $2000: Life was a cabaret for this novelist who collaborated on 3 plays & a China travel book with W.H. Auden (Christopher) Isherwood |
| #4727, aired 2005-03-08 | THE ENGLISH CHANNEL $200: Francois Pilatre de Rozier tried to cross the Channel in one of these in 1785, but was killed in the attempt a (hydrogen) balloon |
| #4727, aired 2005-03-08 | THE ENGLISH CHANNEL $400: The Channel meets the North Sea at this strait the Strait of Dover |
| #4727, aired 2005-03-08 | THE ENGLISH CHANNEL $600: A song & a dance were named for this lady who swam the channel in 1926 & passed away at age 98 in 2003 Gertrude Ederle |
| #4727, aired 2005-03-08 | THE ENGLISH CHANNEL $800: La Manche, the French name for the channel, means this part of a shirt the sleeve |
| #4727, aired 2005-03-08 | THE ENGLISH CHANNEL $1000: The "Isle of" this has been inhabited since prehistoric times; it was once called Vectis Wight |
| #4653, aired 2004-11-24 | WHO WAS THE ENGLISH MONARCH WHEN... $400: ...the Tet Offensive was launched Elizabeth II |
| #4653, aired 2004-11-24 | WHO WAS THE ENGLISH MONARCH WHEN... $800: ...the Spanish Armada was destroyed Elizabeth I |
| #4653, aired 2004-11-24 | WHO WAS THE ENGLISH MONARCH WHEN... $1200: ...the U.S. ended its Civil War Victoria |
| #4653, aired 2004-11-24 | WHO WAS THE ENGLISH MONARCH WHEN... $2000: ...the Union Jack was first used James I |
| #4653, aired 2004-11-24 | WHO WAS THE ENGLISH MONARCH WHEN... $6,600 (Daily Double): ...Napoleon lost at Waterloo George III |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: In a 1719 sequel, he & his manservant revisit the island where he was shipwrecked Robinson Crusoe |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: This Mary Shelley tale is told through the letters of an Arctic explorer named Walton Frankenstein |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: This D.H. Lawrence work was not published in full in England until Penguin books did it in 1960 Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: The activities of a certain London club form the basis of this Dickens novel, his first The Pickwick Papers |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: This tale published in 1932 is set in the year 632 AF (After Ford) Brave New World |
| #4615, aired 2004-10-01 | ENGLISH LIT $200: Published in 1976, her last Miss Marple case, "Sleeping Murder", was actually written during WWII (Agatha) Christie |
| #4615, aired 2004-10-01 | ENGLISH LIT $400: She introduced Mr. & Mrs. Dalloway in her first novel, "The Voyage Out" Virginia Woolf |
| #4615, aired 2004-10-01 | ENGLISH LIT $600: Chapters in this novel include "Wickfield and Heep" & "Mr. Micawber's Gauntlet" David Copperfield |
| #4615, aired 2004-10-01 | ENGLISH LIT $800: Published in 1590, "The Legend of the Red Cross Knight" is the first of 6 books in this poetic epic The Faerie Queene |
| #4615, aired 2004-10-01 | ENGLISH LIT $1000: She's the heroine of the long-banned 18th century novel "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" Fanny Hill |
| #4597, aired 2004-09-07 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $200: If you take a nappy in London, it's one of these to put on a baby a diaper |
| #4597, aired 2004-09-07 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $400: The type of car the Brits call an estate car, we Americans call one of these wagons a station wagon |
| #4597, aired 2004-09-07 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $600: If you're challenged to a game of draughts in a Birmingham pub, be prepared to contest this board game checkers |
| #4597, aired 2004-09-07 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $800: If your mechanic in Manchester needs a spanner to fix your car, he's asking for one of these a wrench |
| #4597, aired 2004-09-07 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $1000: If the Westminster Bobby pulls out his truncheon, be worried because it's one of these a club (or a nightstick) |
| #4585, aired 2004-07-09 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $200: In England comedian Carrot Top would refer to this as a reverse charge call calling collect |
| #4585, aired 2004-07-09 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $400: The first floor of a building in London is the equivalent of this floor of a building in Boston a second floor |
| #4585, aired 2004-07-09 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $600: British parlance for this would make the ex-senator Banknote Bradley a bill |
| #4585, aired 2004-07-09 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $800: A turn-up on your trousers there, becomes one of these on your pants here a cuff |
| #4585, aired 2004-07-09 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $3,800 (Daily Double): The Brits use the Latin curriculum vitae; we use a French word for this document a résumé |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | ENGLISH CLASS $200: In handwriting, to indicate italicized words, do this to them underline them |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | ENGLISH CLASS $400: Adverbs generally end in these 2 letters -ly |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | ENGLISH CLASS $600: "At", "by" & "of" are all this part of speech prepositions |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | ENGLISH CLASS $800: Lay is the past tense of lie; this is the past tense of lay laid |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | ENGLISH CLASS $1000: "City" is a common noun; Virginia City is this kind of noun proper noun |
| #4410, aired 2003-11-07 | CLASSIC ENGLISH LIT $400: Her "Last Poems" were published in 1862; she died in 1861 in Robert's arms, after 15 years of marriage Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #4410, aired 2003-11-07 | CLASSIC ENGLISH LIT $800: In this family, Sarah wrote "The Adventures of David Simple" & Henry wrote "Joseph Andrews" Fielding |
| #4410, aired 2003-11-07 | CLASSIC ENGLISH LIT $1,000 (Daily Double): As early as 1871 authors were putting out possible endings for this Dickens mystery The Mystery of Edwin Drood |
| #4410, aired 2003-11-07 | CLASSIC ENGLISH LIT $1200: His "Frost at Midnight" was about his son Hartley; his poem "Kubla Khan" wasn't Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| #4410, aired 2003-11-07 | CLASSIC ENGLISH LIT $2000: The statue of the jungle girl Rima in Hyde Park is based on a character in this W.H. Hudson book Green Mansions |
| #4406, aired 2003-11-03 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $400: Give a Brit a tinkle when you get into town & you've done this telephoned |
| #4406, aired 2003-11-03 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $800: The Brits use this more colorful spelling of airplane A-E-R-O-P-L-A-N-E |
| #4406, aired 2003-11-03 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $1200: It's a hat, or the person who throws the ball to a batsman in cricket a bowler |
| #4406, aired 2003-11-03 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $1600: We use ad as an abbreviation; the British informally use this slightly longer word advert |
| #4406, aired 2003-11-03 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $2000: A person who looks after others, like a bodyguard or a babysitter; John Nash would be a beautiful one a minder |
| #4383, aired 2003-10-01 | ENGLISH COUNTY NAMES $200: John Lea & William Perrins are 2 saucy guys -- they came up with this sauce Worcestershire Sauce |
| #4383, aired 2003-10-01 | ENGLISH COUNTY NAMES $400: Horse-drawn carriage popular with the "fringe" element in Oklahoma Surrey |
| #4383, aired 2003-10-01 | ENGLISH COUNTY NAMES $600: Smile or grin and say "Cheese!" -- this one Cheshire |
| #4383, aired 2003-10-01 | ENGLISH COUNTY NAMES $800: Author Maugham, or an "Another World" spin-off Somerset |
| #4383, aired 2003-10-01 | ENGLISH COUNTY NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): On the WB, Tom Welling plays an adopted member of this family Kent (in Smallville) |
| #4327, aired 2003-05-27 | STUFF FROM HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH $200: A short essay, or the basic message students are asked to extract from a literary work theme |
| #4327, aired 2003-05-27 | STUFF FROM HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH $400: A simile is defined as a comparison usually containing either of these 2 words as or like |
| #4327, aired 2003-05-27 | STUFF FROM HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH $600: Also a measure, it's the "measure" of stress patterns in a line of poetry meter |
| #4327, aired 2003-05-27 | STUFF FROM HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH $1,000 (Daily Double): This faulty type of sentence is classified as either a comma splice or a fused sentence run-on sentence |
| #4327, aired 2003-05-27 | STUFF FROM HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH $1000: "Dark" term for hints in a story that suggest what's going to happen later foreshadowing |
| #4270, aired 2003-03-07 | ENGLISH LESSON $200: Another term for upper case characters such as the ones that start a sentence capital letters |
| #4270, aired 2003-03-07 | ENGLISH LESSON $400: The organization of events or storylines in a tale, as in Stephen King's "Graveyard Shift" plot |
| #4270, aired 2003-03-07 | ENGLISH LESSON $600: Latin for "thus", it would precede (& possibly follow) the paleontologist's motto "Semper Tyrannosaurus" sic |
| #4270, aired 2003-03-07 | ENGLISH LESSON $800: Meter for blank verse & 5 disposable pens iambic pentameter |
| #4270, aired 2003-03-07 | ENGLISH LESSON $1000: There are 2 of these phrases in the sentence "Santa enjoys dining out but the lady of the house likes to eat in" independent clauses |
| #4242, aired 2003-01-28 | ENGLISH "T" $200: The London Underground is also called this the Tube |
| #4242, aired 2003-01-28 | ENGLISH "T" $400: This show that originated on the BBC features Tinky Winky & Laa-Laa Teletubbies |
| #4242, aired 2003-01-28 | ENGLISH "T" $500 (Daily Double): It rises in Gloucestershire, near Cheltenham the Thames River |
| #4242, aired 2003-01-28 | ENGLISH "T" $600: E.H. Baily's 17-foot-tall statue of Lord Nelson is in this London plaza Trafalgar Square |
| #4242, aired 2003-01-28 | ENGLISH "T" $1000: 4 museums in England that house national collections bear the name of this sugar magnate Sir Henry Tate |
| #4234, aired 2003-01-16 | ENGLISH LIT $400: He was the editor of "Household Words", which published his "Hard Times" in 1854 Charles Dickens |
| #4234, aired 2003-01-16 | ENGLISH LIT $800: With successes like "Peter Pan", he could afford to help sponsor Scott's Antarctic expedition James M. Barrie |
| #4234, aired 2003-01-16 | ENGLISH LIT $1200: Author Horace Walpole helped get this poet pal's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" published Thomas Gray |
| #4234, aired 2003-01-16 | ENGLISH LIT $1600: Virginia Woolf & E.M. Forster were novelists in this group that was centered in Gordon Square the Bloomsbury Group |
| #4234, aired 2003-01-16 | ENGLISH LIT $2000: This poet whose middle name was Manley was noted for his "sprung rhythm" Gerard Manley Hopkins |
| #4227, aired 2003-01-07 | ENGLISH CLASS $200: When "do not" and "should not" are contracted, this mark of punctuation is used to show missing letters apostrophe |
| #4227, aired 2003-01-07 | ENGLISH CLASS $400: This part of speech doesn't always end in "ly"; once, there & often are other examples adverb |
| #4227, aired 2003-01-07 | ENGLISH CLASS $600: Capt. Kirk's mission was "to boldly go" where no man had gone before, but he split one of these along the way an infinitive |
| #4227, aired 2003-01-07 | ENGLISH CLASS $800: It's the indirect object of the sentence "Carmen gave Jose a cookie" Jose |
| #4227, aired 2003-01-07 | ENGLISH CLASS $1000: It's the third person plural objective case pronoun them |
| #4188, aired 2002-11-13 | ENGLISH LIT $400: This 1859 classic begins, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| #4188, aired 2002-11-13 | ENGLISH LIT $800: His "Life of Samuel Johnson" is often considered the greatest biography in the English language James Boswell |
| #4188, aired 2002-11-13 | ENGLISH LIT $1200: Kurtz' dying words in this Joseph Conrad tale are "The horror! The horror!" "Heart of Darkness" |
| #4188, aired 2002-11-13 | ENGLISH LIT $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1794 William Blake followed up his "Songs of Innocence" poems with his "Songs of" this Experience |
| #4188, aired 2002-11-13 | ENGLISH LIT $2000: This E.M. Forster novel is told in 3 parts: "Mosque", "Caves" & "Temple" "A Passage to India" |
| #4174, aired 2002-10-24 | THE FRENCH HAVE A(N ENGLISH) WORD FOR IT $200: To a Frenchman, it's a sphere on which a map of the Earth is depicted globe |
| #4174, aired 2002-10-24 | BAD ENGLISH $400: The clue I am reading had an example of a shift in this tense |
| #4174, aired 2002-10-24 | THE FRENCH HAVE A(N ENGLISH) WORD FOR IT $400: Please mister please don't play B-17 on the tavern music player the French call this jukebox |
| #4174, aired 2002-10-24 | THE FRENCH HAVE A(N ENGLISH) WORD FOR IT $600: This attachment adds a burst of light to brighten the photos of the Eiffel Tower that you take at night flash |
| #4174, aired 2002-10-24 | BAD ENGLISH $800: Its the typographical mark that is missing in the first line of this clue. apostrophe (in "Its") |
| #4174, aired 2002-10-24 | THE FRENCH HAVE A(N ENGLISH) WORD FOR IT $800: It's all downhill for the object seen here toboggan |
| #4174, aired 2002-10-24 | THE FRENCH HAVE A(N ENGLISH) WORD FOR IT $1000: It's a newspaper like the one for Wall Street or a magazine like the one for ladies' homes journal |
| #4174, aired 2002-10-24 | BAD ENGLISH $1200: In a sentence, this noun & its verb has -- excuse me, have to agree in number subject |
| #4174, aired 2002-10-24 | BAD ENGLISH $2,000 (Daily Double): Flout, meaning "to show scorn for", is often confused with this word meaning "to show off" flaunt |
| #4174, aired 2002-10-24 | BAD ENGLISH $2000: 8-letter term for a "sentence" error. Found in the present clue. fragment |
| #4133, aired 2002-07-17 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: J.R.R. Tolkien came up with the sequel, "The Lord of the RIngs", 17 years after this book was published The Hobbit |
| #4133, aired 2002-07-17 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: Part of this E.M. Forster novel takes place at the Pensione Bertolini in Italy A Room with a View |
| #4133, aired 2002-07-17 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1200: His wife Charlotte was the model for Sophia in "Tom Jones" & for the heroine of "Amelia" (Henry) Fielding |
| #4133, aired 2002-07-17 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1600: When this Thackeray novel was serialized in 1847, the author sketched the accompanying illustrations Vanity Fair |
| #4133, aired 2002-07-17 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $2000: In this classic, Christian travels from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City Pilgrim's Progress |
| #4075, aired 2002-04-26 | LONG LIVE THE ENGLISH KING OR QUEEN! $400: One of the 2 most common names of sovereigns in English history (1 of) Henry (or Edward) |
| #4075, aired 2002-04-26 | LONG LIVE THE ENGLISH KING OR QUEEN! $800: This "sanguine" monarch reigned over England from 1553 to 1558 "Bloody Mary" |
| #4075, aired 2002-04-26 | LONG LIVE THE ENGLISH KING OR QUEEN! $1200: Known as "the Peaceful", King Edgar formed a fleet & defended the coast against attack by these 10th c. marauders the Vikings |
| #4075, aired 2002-04-26 | LONG LIVE THE ENGLISH KING OR QUEEN! $1600: Great Scot! James I ascended the English throne following the death of this cousin in 1603 Elizabeth (I) |
| #4075, aired 2002-04-26 | LONG LIVE THE ENGLISH KING OR QUEEN! $2000: Known as "The Lion", this Catholic king meekly fled to France following the Glorious Revolution in 1688 James II |
| #3939, aired 2001-10-18 | ENGLISH LIT $200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew is at the Orange County Fair.) I'm waiting for the big race with Porkbiscuit, Pig-O-War & this pig who led the revolt at "Animal Farm" Napoleon |
| #3939, aired 2001-10-18 | ENGLISH LIT $400: "Meet the Tiger!" was the first of many books by Leslie Charteris to feature this hero, AKA Simon Templar The Saint |
| #3939, aired 2001-10-18 | ENGLISH LIT $700 (Daily Double): H.G. Wells subtitled this 1895 classic "An Invention" The Time Machine |
| #3939, aired 2001-10-18 | ENGLISH LIT $800: All of the action of this novel takes place on June 16, 1904 in Dublin Ulysses |
| #3939, aired 2001-10-18 | ENGLISH LIT $1000: It's the last name of father & son novelists Kingsley & Martin Amis |
| #3931, aired 2001-10-08 | OLD & MIDDLE ENGLISH LIT $200: After slaying Grendel, the title character of this epic poem becomes king of the Geats & rules for 50 years Beowulf |
| #3931, aired 2001-10-08 | OLD & MIDDLE ENGLISH LIT $400: The general prologue of this masterpiece is heard here The Canterbury Tales |
| #3931, aired 2001-10-08 | OLD & MIDDLE ENGLISH LIT $600: The titular hero of this allegory is a simple plowman Piers Plowman |
| #3931, aired 2001-10-08 | OLD & MIDDLE ENGLISH LIT $800: This Arthurian hero stars in an alliterative Middle English poem in which he battles the Green Knight Sir Gawain |
| #3931, aired 2001-10-08 | OLD & MIDDLE ENGLISH LIT $1000: This venerable monk quoted Caedmon's Hymn in his "Ecclesiastical History of the English People" Bede |
| #3886, aired 2001-06-25 | NEW ENGLISH NOBILITY? $100: We were not amused by his role as Genghis Khan, but for Rooster Cogburn, we honor this "Duke" John Wayne |
| #3886, aired 2001-06-25 | NEW ENGLISH NOBILITY? $200: For exploits superior as a N.Y. Knicks guard, we ennoble this man, also known as "The Pearl" Earl Monroe |
| #3886, aired 2001-06-25 | NEW ENGLISH NOBILITY? $300: For playing a Hawaiian cop for 12 years & keeping his hair in perfect form the entire time, we dub thee... Jack Lord |
| #3886, aired 2001-06-25 | NEW ENGLISH NOBILITY? $400: We were moved by Diana Ross in Billie Holiday's film bio & reaffirm this nickname of Billie's "Lady Day" |
| #3886, aired 2001-06-25 | NEW ENGLISH NOBILITY? $500: Governor of California from 1949 to 1953 & a Supreme Court Chief Justice, we confer on him the title of.... Earl Warren |
| #3809, aired 2001-03-08 | ENGLISH LIT $200: It's the part of Julia that poet Robert Herrick said was "as white and hairless as an egg" Leg |
| #3809, aired 2001-03-08 | ENGLISH LIT $400: The 1927 book "The Road to Xanadu" was about this poet's sources for "Kubla Khan" & "The Ancient Mariner" Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| #3809, aired 2001-03-08 | ENGLISH LIT $600: There was a 6-year gap between the publications of the first 3 books of his "Faerie Queene" & the last 3 Edmund Spenser |
| #3809, aired 2001-03-08 | ENGLISH LIT $800: His 1919 novel "The Moon and Sixpence" was turned into an opera in 1957 Somerset Maugham |
| #3809, aired 2001-03-08 | ENGLISH LIT $1000: George Du Maurier's "Trilby" featured this sinister hypnotist Svengali |
| #3801, aired 2001-02-26 | ENGLISH LIT $200: In 1719 Daniel Defoe wrote "The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of" this character Robinson Crusoe |
| #3801, aired 2001-02-26 | ENGLISH LIT $400: Thomas Hardy called his epic work on this emperor "The Dynasts"; "War and Peace" had already been taken Napoleon |
| #3801, aired 2001-02-26 | ENGLISH LIT $600: This Tennyson poem was published in the Examiner a few weeks after the October 1854 event "The Charge of the Light Brigade" |
| #3801, aired 2001-02-26 | ENGLISH LIT $1,000 (Daily Double): An ominous character from this 1949 novel lent his name to a summer 2000 series on CBS "1984" ("Big Brother") |
| #3801, aired 2001-02-26 | ENGLISH LIT $1000: The title of this 1904 W.H. Hudson novel refers to the wild forests of South America "Green Mansions" |
| #3758, aired 2000-12-27 | ENGLISH LIT $200: In the 1800s H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine" & "The War of the Worlds" pioneered this type of "fiction" science fiction |
| #3758, aired 2000-12-27 | ENGLISH LIT $400: This hero gets adopted in the last chapter, so the book could have been called "Oliver Brownlow" Oliver Twist |
| #3758, aired 2000-12-27 | ENGLISH LIT $600: The title character in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" foolishly kills an albatross, one of these bird |
| #3758, aired 2000-12-27 | ENGLISH LIT $800: We'll leave it up to you whether this author was a "Plain Jane" Jane Austen |
| #3758, aired 2000-12-27 | ENGLISH LIT $1000: In works by John Milton, this was "Lost" in 1667 but "Regained" in 1671 Paradise |
| #3735, aired 2000-11-24 | ENGLISH $200: He set up his telegraph code by checking the frequency of each letter in the type of a printer's box Samuel Morse |
| #3735, aired 2000-11-24 | ENGLISH $400: "Debt" contains this letter to show its etymology, from the Latin debitum B |
| #3735, aired 2000-11-24 | ENGLISH $600: In 2000 Seamus Heaney's English translation of this Anglo-Saxon classic made the bestseller list "Beowulf" |
| #3735, aired 2000-11-24 | ENGLISH $800: "The Professor and the Madman" tells how inmate Dr. W.C. Minor sent in thousands of definitions to this dictionary Oxford English Dictionary |
| #3735, aired 2000-11-24 | ENGLISH $1000: This long word from 19th century America for "an extraordinary thing" was adopted by an all-day band fest Lollapalooza |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $100: Need to use the bathroom?--just "skip to my" this loo |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $200: When it's wet out, don't forget to take your brolly, one of these Umbrella |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $300: It's what the British call an apartment, or what you don't want to get on a freeway a flat |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $400: When a Briton is on vacation, everyday is one of these, literally Holiday |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $500: To calm her baby, a mummy might pop in a dummy, or what we call this a pacifier |
| #3682, aired 2000-09-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: A third, more sexually explicit version of this 1928 D.H. Lawrence novel was finally published in the U.S. in 1959 "Lady Chatterley's Lover" |
| #3682, aired 2000-09-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: "The Parson's Tale", which deals at length with the 7 deadly sins, concludes this 14th century work "The Canterbury Tales" |
| #3682, aired 2000-09-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: Ian Fleming introduced James Bond in this 1953 novel, which became a 1967 film starring David Niven "Casino Royale" |
| #3682, aired 2000-09-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: This James Joyce work is a dream sequence in the minds of the Earwicker family "Finnegans Wake" |
| #3682, aired 2000-09-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: The title of this E.M. Forster novel refers to the house that belonged to Henry Wilcox' first wife Howards End |
| #3607, aired 2000-04-18 | IT AIN'T ENGLISH $100: Nom de plume pen name |
| #3607, aired 2000-04-18 | IT AIN'T ENGLISH $200: Hasta manana see you tomorrow |
| #3607, aired 2000-04-18 | IT AIN'T ENGLISH $300: Terra incognita (unknown, uncharted) unfamiliar territory |
| #3607, aired 2000-04-18 | IT AIN'T ENGLISH $400: Arigato thank you |
| #3607, aired 2000-04-18 | IT AIN'T ENGLISH $500: Tovarich comrade |
| #3597, aired 2000-04-04 | ENGLISH LIT $100: Gulliver's first of 4 voyages was to this land of tiny people Lilliput |
| #3597, aired 2000-04-04 | ENGLISH LIT $200: A 1719 work by Daniel Defoe told of "The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of" this man, "of York, Mariner" Robinson Crusoe |
| #3597, aired 2000-04-04 | ENGLISH LIT $300: He had been totally blind for 13 years when he completed "Paradise Lost" in 1665 John Milton |
| #3597, aired 2000-04-04 | ENGLISH LIT $400: This poet said he wrote, "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree" in an opium-induced sleep Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| #3597, aired 2000-04-04 | ENGLISH LIT $500: On this fictional Sir Thomas More island, the interests of the individual are subordinate to those of society Utopia |
| #3590, aired 2000-03-24 | ENGLISH MONARCHS $200: On June 22, 1897 London celebrated her diamond jubilee with cannon fire & a ceremony at St. Paul's Queen Victoria |
| #3590, aired 2000-03-24 | ENGLISH MONARCHS $600: In 1714 the Prince of Hanover, who spoke little English, became king of England under this name George I |
| #3590, aired 2000-03-24 | ENGLISH MONARCHS $800: In 1603 he became the first Stuart king of England James I |
| #3590, aired 2000-03-24 | ENGLISH MONARCHS $1,000 (Daily Double): This monarch was born in Falaise in the Normandy region of France around 1027 William the Conqueror |
| #3590, aired 2000-03-24 | ENGLISH MONARCHS $1000: Because of her admirable character, this daughter of James II was known as the "Good Queen" Anne |
| #3582, aired 2000-03-14 | ENGLISH ROYALTY $200: Dissatisfaction with Henry VI's reign helped lead to these "botanical" wars The Wars of the Roses |
| #3582, aired 2000-03-14 | ENGLISH ROYALTY $400: He was king from 1936 until 1952 George VI |
| #3582, aired 2000-03-14 | ENGLISH ROYALTY $600: On January 30, 1649 this English king lost his head, literally Charles I |
| #3582, aired 2000-03-14 | ENGLISH ROYALTY $800: Queen Elizabeth's husband, Prince Philip, is a son of the royalty of this country where he was born Greece |
| #3582, aired 2000-03-14 | ENGLISH ROYALTY $1000: The first Plantagenet English king, this Henry took power in 1154 Henry II |
| #3540, aired 2000-01-14 | SAY IT IN ENGLISH $100: Buenas noches Good night |
| #3540, aired 2000-01-14 | SAY IT IN ENGLISH $200: Ankthay ouyay Thank you |
| #3540, aired 2000-01-14 | SAY IT IN ENGLISH $300: Silenzio! Silence/be quiet |
| #3540, aired 2000-01-14 | SAY IT IN ENGLISH $400: Entrez! Enter/come in |
| #3540, aired 2000-01-14 | SAY IT IN ENGLISH $500: Auf wiedersehen Goodbye |
| #3531, aired 2000-01-03 | ENGLISH SHIPS $100: On April 15, 1912 the Carpathia picked up its SOS & radioed back, "Coming hard" Titanic |
| #3531, aired 2000-01-03 | ENGLISH SHIPS $200: 128 Americans died when this British liner was torpedoed by a German submarine on May 7, 1915 Lusitania |
| #3531, aired 2000-01-03 | ENGLISH SHIPS $400: Francis Drake's flagship the Pelican was renamed this, after passing through the Strait of Magellan the Golden Hind |
| #3531, aired 2000-01-03 | ENGLISH SHIPS $500 (Daily Double): Built in 1765, this admiral's flagship the Victory is preserved & on display in Portsmouth, England Admiral Nelson |
| #3531, aired 2000-01-03 | ENGLISH SHIPS $500: In 1791 the HMS Pandora sailed into Tahiti to seize several of this ship's crew the Bounty |
| #3437, aired 1999-07-13 | ENGLISH SOVEREIGNS $200: 1 of the 2 in 1901 Queen Victoria or Edward VII |
| #3437, aired 1999-07-13 | ENGLISH SOVEREIGNS $400: 1 of the 3 in 1066 Harold II, Edward the Confessor or William the Conqueror |
| #3437, aired 1999-07-13 | ENGLISH SOVEREIGNS $600: 1 of the 2 in 1558 Elizabeth I or Mary I ("Bloody Mary") |
| #3437, aired 1999-07-13 | ENGLISH SOVEREIGNS $800: 1 of the 2 in 1760 George II or George III |
| #3437, aired 1999-07-13 | ENGLISH SOVEREIGNS $1000: 1 of the 3 in 1936 George V, Edward VIII or George VI |
| #3393, aired 1999-05-12 | ENGLISH ROYAL HENRYS $200: Henry I's famous father was this conqueror who reigned from 1066 to 1087 William the Conqueror |
| #3393, aired 1999-05-12 | ENGLISH ROYAL HENRYS $400: Pope Leo X named Henry VIII "Defender of the Faith" for his written attack on this German Protestant leader Martin Luther |
| #3393, aired 1999-05-12 | ENGLISH ROYAL HENRYS $600: King Henry III extensively rebuilt this abbey where he had been formally crowned in 1220 Westminster Abbey |
| #3393, aired 1999-05-12 | ENGLISH ROYAL HENRYS $800: Victory at Agincourt in 1415 earned this king a visit from the Holy Roman Emperor Henry V |
| #3393, aired 1999-05-12 | ENGLISH ROYAL HENRYS $1,500 (Daily Double): These 2 warring royal houses were united in 1486 when Henry VII married Elizabeth, the daughter of Edward IV Lancaster & York |
| #3354, aired 1999-03-18 | ENGLISH "T" $100: It flows from the Cotswold Hills to its mouth on the North Sea the Thames River |
| #3354, aired 1999-03-18 | ENGLISH "T" $200: Over the years many got "the chop" at this historic London stronghold the Tower of London |
| #3354, aired 1999-03-18 | ENGLISH "T" $300: This square is located at the north end of Whitehall, not on the southwest coast of Spain Trafalgar Square |
| #3354, aired 1999-03-18 | ENGLISH "T" $400: She replaced James Callaghan May 4, 1979 Margaret Thatcher |
| #3354, aired 1999-03-18 | ENGLISH "T" $500: In 1907 Great Britain, France & Russia completed this defensive "Entente" the Triple Entente |
| #3349, aired 1999-03-11 | THE ENGLISH MONARCH SPEAKS $200: She warned her council who were against her moves on Mary Queen of Scots, "I will make you shorter by a head" Elizabeth I |
| #3349, aired 1999-03-11 | THE ENGLISH MONARCH SPEAKS $400: She said Gladstone "speaks to me as if I was a public meeting" Victoria |
| #3349, aired 1999-03-11 | THE ENGLISH MONARCH SPEAKS $800: "Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?" is attributed to this one-time friend of Thomas Becket Henry II |
| #3349, aired 1999-03-11 | THE ENGLISH MONARCH SPEAKS $900 (Daily Double): Royal heard here
"You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne... Edward VIII |
| #3349, aired 1999-03-11 | THE ENGLISH MONARCH SPEAKS $1000: In 1610 this Scot told Parliament "Kings are... God's lieutenants upon Earth" James I |
| #3321, aired 1999-02-01 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $100: We shorten this to ad; the British shorten it to advert Advertisement |
| #3321, aired 1999-02-01 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $200: A dustman doesn't put you to sleep, he collects this Garbage |
| #3321, aired 1999-02-01 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $300: By the British term, this would be Fun Fair Cruise Lines Carnival Cruise Lines |
| #3321, aired 1999-02-01 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $400: In the past in London, this device has been called an ether or wireless Radio |
| #3321, aired 1999-02-01 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $500: A chucker-out isn't a polo player, it's this job in a bar Bouncer |
| #3320, aired 1999-01-29 | ENGLISH GRAMMAR $200: Nouns & prepositions are called parts of this -- the tongue & lips could be, too Speech |
| #3320, aired 1999-01-29 | ENGLISH GRAMMAR $400: The "main" type of these can stand alone as a sentence; the "subordinate" type can't Clause |
| #3320, aired 1999-01-29 | ENGLISH GRAMMAR $600: Straightforward term for the type of "object" that follows a transitive verb Direct |
| #3320, aired 1999-01-29 | ENGLISH GRAMMAR $800: "Went" for the verb "go", "had" for "have", or what we did walking through a campground Past tense |
| #3320, aired 1999-01-29 | ENGLISH GRAMMAR $1000: Absolutes shouldn't be used in comparative forms, so the Constitution's "A More" this kind of "Union" is wrong Perfect |
| #3313, aired 1999-01-20 | SAY IT IN ENGLISH $200: C'est la vie! that's/such is life |
| #3313, aired 1999-01-20 | SAY IT IN ENGLISH $400: Vox populi Voice of the people |
| #3313, aired 1999-01-20 | SAY IT IN ENGLISH $600: Vaya con Dios Go with God |
| #3313, aired 1999-01-20 | SAY IT IN ENGLISH $800: Que sera sera what will be, will be |
| #3313, aired 1999-01-20 | SAY IT IN ENGLISH $1000: Veni, vidi, vici I came, I saw, I conquered |
| #3201, aired 1998-06-29 | ENGLISH LIT $100: The "Book of the Duchesse" is an elegy for the Duchess of Lancaster by this author of "The Canterbury Tales" Geoffrey Chaucer |
| #3201, aired 1998-06-29 | ENGLISH LIT $200: "Virginibus Puerisque" is a whimsical collection of essays by this author of "Kidnapped" Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #3201, aired 1998-06-29 | ENGLISH LIT $300: This Bronte sister died 1 year after the publication of her second novel, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" Anne Bronte |
| #3201, aired 1998-06-29 | ENGLISH LIT $400: Of all Kipling's novels, this one, his last, has the shortest title "Kim" |
| #3201, aired 1998-06-29 | ENGLISH LIT $500: This author of "The Forsyte Saga" published his first novel, "Jocelyn", under the pen name John Sinjohn John Galsworthy |
| #3164, aired 1998-05-07 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $100: This shipwrecked surgeon helps the Lilliputians defeat Blefescu, a neighboring empire Gulliver |
| #3164, aired 1998-05-07 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: The first chapter of this novel is titled "The Old Sea-Dog at the 'Admiral Benbow'" Treasure Island |
| #3164, aired 1998-05-07 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $300: She rewrote "Elinor and Marianne" off & on for more than a decade before it became "Sense and Sensibility" Jane Austen |
| #3164, aired 1998-05-07 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: This Kipling beggar boy becomes a chela, or disciple, of a Tibetan lama Kim |
| #3164, aired 1998-05-07 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $500: In this novel of the future, Mustapha Mond "had been the first to reveal the... dangers of family life" Brave New World |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | LET'S TALK ENGLISH GOOD $200: "Flammable" has come into common use because this longer word could be misinterpreted Inflammable |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | LET'S TALK ENGLISH GOOD $400: This feminine suffix is more widely accepted after host or heir than after poet -ess |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | LET'S TALK ENGLISH GOOD $600: Churchill called the rule against ending a sentence with this something "Up with which I will not put" Preposition |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | LET'S TALK ENGLISH GOOD $800: It's the preferred past participle of hang when it means "put to death by hanging" Hanged |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | LET'S TALK ENGLISH GOOD $1000: Using this adverb to mean "it is desirable that" has been much debated by writers on language hopefully |
| #3122, aired 1998-03-10 | SPEAKING "ENGLISH" $200: Technically neither part of its name is correct; it's a woodwind developed on the continent English horn |
| #3122, aired 1998-03-10 | SPEAKING "ENGLISH" $400: It's what a golfer may use to try to correct a drive that's heading for the water Body english |
| #3122, aired 1998-03-10 | SPEAKING "ENGLISH" $600: In this language the Lord's Prayer begins, "Faeder ure thu the eart on heofonum" Old English |
| #3122, aired 1998-03-10 | SPEAKING "ENGLISH" $1000: Byron wrote of this season "Ending in July, to recommence in August" English winter |
| #3122, aired 1998-03-10 | SPEAKING "ENGLISH" $1,500 (Daily Double): Many show horses wear saddles & bridles of this fine material or they "Wear Nothing At All" English leather |
| #3056, aired 1997-12-08 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $100: In England, a "cuppa" is a cup of this Tea |
| #3056, aired 1997-12-08 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $200: The British call a tire a tire, but they spell it this way T-Y-R-E |
| #3056, aired 1997-12-08 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $300: If you got a new brolly as a gift on Boxing Day, you received one of these Umbrella |
| #3056, aired 1997-12-08 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $400: On a road map the M in M1 or M2 stands for this Motorway |
| #3056, aired 1997-12-08 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $500: It's a military officer's servant, not a caped crusader Batman |
| #3028, aired 1997-10-29 | BROKEN ENGLISH $100: Types of beans & peas are called this for the sound they make when broken snap |
| #3028, aired 1997-10-29 | BROKEN ENGLISH $200: Regarding marriage, Jesus said, "What therefore God hath joined together, let no man" do this put asunder |
| #3028, aired 1997-10-29 | BROKEN ENGLISH $300: In a Tennyson poem, the Lady of Shalott's mirror did this "from side to side" when Lancelot appeared crack'd |
| #3028, aired 1997-10-29 | BROKEN ENGLISH $400: Alliterative term for a contest in which the last car still running wins demolition derby |
| #3028, aired 1997-10-29 | BROKEN ENGLISH $500: This word meaning to reduce to dust is etymologically related to "pollen" pulverize |
| #2939, aired 1997-05-15 | ENGLISH LIT. $200: "The True-Born Englishman" is a witty, satirical poem by this author of "Robinson Crusoe" (Daniel) Defoe |
| #2939, aired 1997-05-15 | ENGLISH LIT. $400: Esther Summerson narrates much of the tale of this dismal Dickens domicile Bleak House |
| #2939, aired 1997-05-15 | ENGLISH LIT. $600: Mr. Flosky in Thomas Love Peacock's novel "Nightmare Abbey" is based on this "Kubla Khan" poet Coleridge |
| #2939, aired 1997-05-15 | ENGLISH LIT. $800: His 1878 novel "The Return of the Native" was first published as a serial, in Belgravia Magazine (Thomas) Hardy |
| #2939, aired 1997-05-15 | ENGLISH LIT. $1000: The Archbishop of Canterbury told him a scary story that inspired him to write "The Turn of the Screw" Henry James |
| #2867, aired 1997-02-04 | ENGLISH USAGE $100: The predicate is the part of the sentence that contains this & its modifiers, objects & complements Verb |
| #2867, aired 1997-02-04 | ENGLISH USAGE $200 (Daily Double): If your teacher uses the following symbol on your term paper, it indicates this:
¶ begin a new paragraph |
| #2867, aired 1997-02-04 | ENGLISH USAGE $200: Nouns have 3 cases: nominative, objective & this, usually indicated by 's Possessive |
| #2867, aired 1997-02-04 | ENGLISH USAGE $400: The phrase "To take arms against a sea of troubles" is a "mixed" one of these figures of speech Metaphor |
| #2867, aired 1997-02-04 | ENGLISH USAGE $500: Latin for "thus", this 3-letter word is put in brackets to indicate an error in a quote sic |
| #2850, aired 1997-01-10 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: He rescues Friday from cannibals & later rescues Friday's father as well Robinson Crusoe |
| #2850, aired 1997-01-10 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: Dickens novel containing the line "It is a far, far better thing that I do, that I have ever done" "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| #2850, aired 1997-01-10 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: The Houyhnhnms in this 1726 satire have the forms of horses "Gulliver's Travels" |
| #2850, aired 1997-01-10 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: This Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel is set in 79 A.D. "The Last Days of Pompeii" |
| #2850, aired 1997-01-10 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): The title of this 1910 E.M. Forster novel refers to the home of Henry & Margaret Wilcox "Howards End" |
| #2783, aired 1996-10-09 | ENGLISH LIT $200: On his ninth birthday, this Dickens orphan is taken to live at the main work house by Mr. Bumble Oliver Twist |
| #2783, aired 1996-10-09 | ENGLISH LIT $400: Sisters Elinor & Marianne Dashwood are the heroines of this Jane Austen novel Sense and Sensibility |
| #2783, aired 1996-10-09 | ENGLISH LIT $600: "A Dead Man in Deptford", the last novel by this "A Clockwork Orange" author, was published in 1993 Anthony Burgess |
| #2783, aired 1996-10-09 | ENGLISH LIT $800: Loch Katrine provides the setting for his narrative poem "The Lady of the Lake" (Sir Walter) Scott |
| #2783, aired 1996-10-09 | ENGLISH LIT $1000: This baroness whose first name is Phyllis is famous for mystery novels about detective Adam Dalgliesh P.D. James |
| #2615, aired 1996-01-05 | ENGLISH GRAMMAR $100: Also known as an interrogation mark, it ends an interrogative sentence a question mark |
| #2615, aired 1996-01-05 | ENGLISH GRAMMAR $200: Generally, adverbs end with these 2 letters -ly |
| #2615, aired 1996-01-05 | ENGLISH GRAMMAR $300: It's the word used incorrectly in the sentence "My friend and myself attended the party." myself |
| #2615, aired 1996-01-05 | ENGLISH GRAMMAR $400: Can, may & should are considered auxiliary ones verbs |
| #2615, aired 1996-01-05 | ENGLISH GRAMMAR $500: It's acceptable to end a sentence with one of these parts of speech, as in "She knew what to look for." a preposition |
| #2606, aired 1995-12-25 | SOUTHERN ENGLISH $100: Some Southern terms for this event are "The War for Southern Rights" & "The Second American Revolution" the Civil War |
| #2606, aired 1995-12-25 | SOUTHERN ENGLISH $200: "Tomorrow is another day", which she says in "Gone with the Wind", goes back at least to the 16th century Scarlett O'Hara |
| #2606, aired 1995-12-25 | SOUTHERN ENGLISH $300: Ant killer is a humorous term for this body part, especially a big one a foot |
| #2606, aired 1995-12-25 | SOUTHERN ENGLISH $400: Residents of this city call it "The Big Easy" New Orleans |
| #2606, aired 1995-12-25 | SOUTHERN ENGLISH $500: Originally a railroad term, "balling the" this means to move or work swiftly jack |
| #2594, aired 1995-12-07 | SOUTHERN ENGLISH $100: To crack your sides is to do this so hard it hurts laugh |
| #2594, aired 1995-12-07 | SOUTHERN ENGLISH $200: To cut the cake is to undergo this ceremony a wedding |
| #2594, aired 1995-12-07 | SOUTHERN ENGLISH $300: The marshy, sluggish outlet of a lake or river, this word probably comes from the Choctaw Bayuk a bayou |
| #2594, aired 1995-12-07 | SOUTHERN ENGLISH $400: An unusually rough or unruly one of these people is called an ankle-biter a child |
| #2594, aired 1995-12-07 | SOUTHERN ENGLISH $500: This term for unscrupulous northern adventurers came from the luggage they carried south carpetbaggers |
| #2584, aired 1995-11-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: This Sir Arthur Conan Doyle tale about a ghostly canine was based on local legend The Hound of the Baskervilles |
| #2584, aired 1995-11-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: Some consider this author's "The History of Henry Esmond" his greatest work, not "Vanity Fair" William Makepeace Thackeray |
| #2584, aired 1995-11-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: The title of his novel "Far From the Madding Crowd" is found in "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" Thomas Hardy |
| #2584, aired 1995-11-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): Philip Carey is the central character in this Somerset Maugham novel Of Human Bondage |
| #2584, aired 1995-11-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: This monumental work by Edward Gibbon covers 13 centuries until the capture of Constantinople The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
| #2573, aired 1995-11-08 | ENGLISH LIT $100: Frances Hodgson Burnett planted "The Secret Garden" in 1911 & has this "Little Lord" grow up in 1886 Little Lord Fauntleroy |
| #2573, aired 1995-11-08 | ENGLISH LIT $200: About a "bisy" lawyer this Canterbury Tales man wrote, "And yet he semed bisier than he was" Chaucer |
| #2573, aired 1995-11-08 | ENGLISH LIT $300: This "Vanity Fair" author's middle name was Makepeace (William Makepeace) Thackeray |
| #2573, aired 1995-11-08 | ENGLISH LIT $500: Title schoolteacher to whom James Hilton wrote a touching "Goodbye" Mr. Chips |
| #2573, aired 1995-11-08 | ENGLISH LIT $700 (Daily Double): His "Barrack-Room Ballads" include "Mandalay" & "Gunga Din" (Rudyard) Kipling |
| #2570, aired 1995-11-03 | ENGLISH LIT. $200: He published "The History of the Wars of Charles XII", a fictitious memoir, before "Robinson Crusoe" (Daniel) Defoe |
| #2570, aired 1995-11-03 | ENGLISH LIT. $400: "Only the Thought Police mattered" is a line from this Orwell novel 1984 |
| #2570, aired 1995-11-03 | ENGLISH LIT. $600: This "Tom Jones" author's title heroine "Amelia" was based on his late wife, Charlotte (Henry) Fielding |
| #2570, aired 1995-11-03 | ENGLISH LIT. $800: The first section of this Thomas Hardy novel is called' "The Maiden"; the second part is "Maiden No More" Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| #2570, aired 1995-11-03 | ENGLISH LIT. $1000: This 16th century "Tamburlaine the Great" playwright also wrote poetry & translated Ovid's "Amores" (Christopher) Marlowe |
| #2548, aired 1995-10-04 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $200: It's how the British pronounce the place in which Dr. Frankenstein experiments a "lah-bor-a-tory" |
| #2548, aired 1995-10-04 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $400: A flex is one of these items that runs between a lamp & the wall an electrical cord |
| #2548, aired 1995-10-04 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $600: A landlord may have tenants or may draw you a pint as the operator of one of these a pub |
| #2548, aired 1995-10-04 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $800: In England this American TV series would be "CD" for casualty department ER |
| #2548, aired 1995-10-04 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $1000: A pharmacist or druggist is called this *a chemist (**apothecary) |
| #2509, aired 1995-06-29 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: In this Charlotte Bronte novel, Mr. Rochester says, "I meant...to be a bigamist; but fate has out-manoeuvred me" Jane Eyre |
| #2509, aired 1995-06-29 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: Charles Bingley falls for Jane, the eldest of the Bennet sisters in this Jane Austen novel Pride & Prejudice |
| #2509, aired 1995-06-29 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: Oscar Wilde novel that begins, "The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses..." The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| #2509, aired 1995-06-29 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: "Paul Morel" was his working title for the novel "Sons and Lovers" D.H. Lawrence |
| #2509, aired 1995-06-29 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): This Daniel Defoe heroine claims that vanity was the cause of her ruin Moll Flanders |
| #2493, aired 1995-06-07 | ENGLISH LIT. $200: Dickens thought about calling this novel "The Copperfield Survey of the World as it Rolled" David Copperfield |
| #2493, aired 1995-06-07 | ENGLISH LIT. $400: Published in 1939, "The Map of Love" is a volume of stories & poems by this Welshman Dylan Thomas |
| #2493, aired 1995-06-07 | ENGLISH LIT. $600: This older sister of Osbert & Sacheverell Sitwell published her 1st volume of verse in 1915 Edith (Sitwell) |
| #2493, aired 1995-06-07 | ENGLISH LIT. $800: His novel "The Mayor of Casterbridge" opens near the village of Weydon-Priors in Upper Wessex Thomas Hardy |
| #2493, aired 1995-06-07 | ENGLISH LIT. $1000: Rima the Bird Girl is the daughter of an evil spirit named Didi in this "colorful" novel by W.H. Hudson Green Mansions |
| #2490, aired 1995-06-02 | ENGLISH GRAMMAR $100: It's the misused word in the sentence "Skippy invited he and his brother to a party." he |
| #2490, aired 1995-06-02 | ENGLISH GRAMMAR $200: The past tense of a regular verb is formed by adding these 2 letters to the base of the verb E-D |
| #2490, aired 1995-06-02 | ENGLISH GRAMMAR $300: It's the shortest personal pronoun in the English language I |
| #2490, aired 1995-06-02 | ENGLISH GRAMMAR $400: In names of verb tenses, this "flawless" word follows present, past & future perfect |
| #2490, aired 1995-06-02 | ENGLISH GRAMMAR $500: This kind of noun identifies a group of people, animals or things--audience, crowd & team, for example a collective noun |
| #2475, aired 1995-05-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: She & her sisters attended a clergy daughters' school which became Lowood in her "Jane Eyre" Charlotte Bronte |
| #2475, aired 1995-05-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: This "Lord Jim" author collaborated with Ford Madox Ford on the novel "The Inheritors" (Joseph) Conrad |
| #2475, aired 1995-05-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: He based Squire Allworthy in "Tom Jones" in part on Ralph Allen, a wealthy benefactor (Henry) Fielding |
| #2475, aired 1995-05-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: As a teenager this "Ode on a Grecian Urn" poet was apprenticed to an apothecary-surgeon Keats |
| #2475, aired 1995-05-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: This author of "A Clockwork Orange" wrote a series of comic novels about a poet named Enderby (Anthony) Burgess |
| #2453, aired 1995-04-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: The fortune recovered in this Robert Louis Stevenson tale belonged to the long-dead Captain Flint Treasure Island |
| #2453, aired 1995-04-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: He came up with the idea for "Goodbye Mr. Chips" while taking a bike ride & wrote it in 4 days (James) Hilton |
| #2453, aired 1995-04-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: This British author modeled Adam Bede on her own father George Eliot |
| #2453, aired 1995-04-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: The alternate title of this Izaak Walton work is "The Contemplative Man's Recreation" The Compleat Angler |
| #2453, aired 1995-04-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1,600 (Daily Double): As stated in Book 1, the theme of this epic poem is the fall of man through disobedience Paradise Lost |
| #2429, aired 1995-03-09 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: His friend Edward Bulwer Lytton convinced him to change the original ending of "Great Expectations" Charles Dickens |
| #2429, aired 1995-03-09 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: The poet who wrote, "Ye flowery banks o' bonie Doon, How can ye blume sae fair?" Robert Burns |
| #2429, aired 1995-03-09 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: John Bunyan said this book "will direct thee to the Holy Land, if thou wilt its directions understand" Pilgrim's Progress |
| #2429, aired 1995-03-09 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: He wrote his 1742 novel "Joseph Andrews" "In imitation of the manner of Cervantes" Henry Fielding |
| #2429, aired 1995-03-09 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: Her novel "Northanger Abbey" is the story of a Gothic novel fan who has a wild imagination Jane Austen |
| #2408, aired 1995-02-08 | ENGLISH GRAMMAR $100: The word city is a common noun, while Yazoo City is this kind of noun a proper noun |
| #2408, aired 1995-02-08 | ENGLISH GRAMMAR $200: A dependent clause may begin with a relative one of these, such as who or which a pronoun |
| #2408, aired 1995-02-08 | ENGLISH GRAMMAR $300: From the Latin for "neither", it's the gender of a word that's neither masculine nor feminine neuter |
| #2408, aired 1995-02-08 | ENGLISH GRAMMAR $400: In the phrase, "To boldly go where no one has gone before", "To boldly go" is a "split" one of these an infinitive |
| #2408, aired 1995-02-08 | ENGLISH GRAMMAR $500: In & on are 2 of the most common of these words used at the beginnings of phrases prepositions |
| #2371, aired 1994-12-19 | ENGLISH LIT. $200: This author created the Houyhnhnms, talking horses who consider Gulliver their inferior (Jonathan) Swift |
| #2371, aired 1994-12-19 | ENGLISH LIT. $400: He told us "How the Leopard Got His Spots" in one of his "Just So Stories" Kipling |
| #2371, aired 1994-12-19 | ENGLISH LIT. $600: This lord's poem "The Prisoner of Chillon" is based on the 16th C. imprisonment of Francois de Bonnivard Byron |
| #2371, aired 1994-12-19 | ENGLISH LIT. $800: The epigraph to his novel "Howards End" expresses his personal motto, "Only Connect" E.M. Forster |
| #2371, aired 1994-12-19 | ENGLISH LIT. $1000: It's believed that he began writing his unfinished dream-poem "The House of Fame" in the 1370s Geoffrey Chaucer |
| #2361, aired 1994-12-05 | SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLISH $200: If you neeze, a variant of this word, you may be blessed sneeze |
| #2361, aired 1994-12-05 | SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLISH $400: Candied meant frozen, so discandy, a verb, meant this to melt |
| #2361, aired 1994-12-05 | SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLISH $600: Term for a fool's stick with a fool's head on top; it's now a trinket like bangles & beads a bauble |
| #2361, aired 1994-12-05 | SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLISH $800: The upshot was the final shot or conclusion of a contest in this sport archery |
| #2361, aired 1994-12-05 | SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLISH $1000: It's what an anthropophaginian is a cannibal |
| #2360, aired 1994-12-02 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: While living in Samoa, he wrote "Catriona", a sequel to "Kidnapped" Stevenson |
| #2360, aired 1994-12-02 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: The Martian invasion in this 1898 work takes place in Woking, England, not New Jersey The War of the Worlds |
| #2360, aired 1994-12-02 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: Harry Bailly, host of the Tabard Inn, initiates the storytelling competition in this work The Canterbury Tales |
| #2360, aired 1994-12-02 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: His "Women in Love" continues the story of 2 sisters first featured in "The Rainbow" D.H. Lawrence |
| #2360, aired 1994-12-02 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: Betsey Trotwood is the eccentric but kindhearted great-aunt of this Charles Dickens character David Copperfield |
| #2353, aired 1994-11-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: From 1595-1609, Samuel Daniel published several volumes of epic verse about the history of these "floral" wars The Wars of the Roses |
| #2353, aired 1994-11-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: This Daniel Defoe character was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family Robinson Crusoe |
| #2353, aired 1994-11-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: His 1954 play "Under Milkwood", was originally written for radio Dylan Thomas |
| #2353, aired 1994-11-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: Tennyson addressed his poem "To E.L. on his Travels" to this "Nonsense" poet Edward Lear |
| #2353, aired 1994-11-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: This ode poet wrote about a knight enthralled by a beautiful lady in "La Belle Dame sans Merci" John Keats |
| #2341, aired 1994-11-07 | ENGLISH LIT. $100: Thomas Hardy, who gave us "The Return of the Native", also wrote of this girl "of the d'Urbervilles" Tess |
| #2341, aired 1994-11-07 | ENGLISH LIT. $200: Last name shared by "Murder in the Cathedral" author T .S. & "Adam Bede" author George Eliot |
| #2341, aired 1994-11-07 | ENGLISH LIT. $300: This Miss Marple creator was one of the 1st authors to be published in a Penguin paperback Agatha Christie |
| #2341, aired 1994-11-07 | ENGLISH LIT. $500: The final version of his "Paradise Lost" was published in 1674 Milton |
| #2341, aired 1994-11-07 | ENGLISH LIT. $1,100 (Daily Double): He's the legendary king in Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" King Arthur |
| #2302, aired 1994-09-13 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: His first novel, "Burmese Days", was published in 1934, not 1984 George Orwell |
| #2302, aired 1994-09-13 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: This prime minister completed only 9 chapters of his novel "Falconet" before his 1881 death Benjamin Disraeli |
| #2302, aired 1994-09-13 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: E.M Forster's novel "A Room with a View" opens in the Pensione Bertolini in this Italian city Florence |
| #2302, aired 1994-09-13 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: His novel "The Mayor of Casterbridge" is subtitled "A Story of a Man with Character" Thomas Hardy |
| #2302, aired 1994-09-13 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: Elshie of the Mucklestanes is the title character of this Scotsman's 1816 novel "The Black Dwarf" Sir Walter Scott |
| #2225, aired 1994-04-15 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: He wrote a novel about the selfish Dorian Gray & a fairy tale about "The Selfish Giant" Oscar Wilde |
| #2225, aired 1994-04-15 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: Chapter 28 of this Dickens novel is entitled "Mr. Micawber's Gauntlet" David Copperfield |
| #2225, aired 1994-04-15 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: As children, these sisters & their brother Branwell wrote about imaginary places called Angria & Gondal the Brontes |
| #2225, aired 1994-04-15 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: Emma interferes with the romances of her vapid friend Harriet in this woman's novel "Emma" (Jane) Austen |
| #2225, aired 1994-04-15 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: Gudrun, a character in his book "Women in Love", was based on the writer Katherine Mansfield D.H. Lawrence |
| #2182, aired 1994-02-15 | ENGLISH LIT. $5 (Daily Double): The prefatory sonnet to Spencer's "The Faerie Queene" was written by this Elizabethan courtier Sir Walter Raleigh |
| #2182, aired 1994-02-15 | ENGLISH LIT. $200: He published "Kidnapped" & "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" in the same year, 1886 Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #2182, aired 1994-02-15 | ENGLISH LIT. $400: In the 1500s the Earl of Surrey introduced this kind of unrhymed verse into English literature blank verse |
| #2182, aired 1994-02-15 | ENGLISH LIT. $600: The 1st novels of this gloomy, mysterious genre were set during medieval times, as the name implies gothic |
| #2182, aired 1994-02-15 | ENGLISH LIT. $800: This author's favorite of his own novels was "The Antiquary", not "Ivanhoe" (Sir Walter) Scott |
| #2146, aired 1993-12-27 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: John Milton's sequel to it was "Paradise Regained" Paradise Lost |
| #2146, aired 1993-12-27 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: Mr. Kurtz' dying words in this Joseph Conrad novel are "The horror! The horror!" Heart of Darkness |
| #2146, aired 1993-12-27 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: Her unfinished novel "The Watsons" is regarded by some as an early version of "Emma" Jane Austen |
| #2146, aired 1993-12-27 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: Anthony Burgess' "Nothing Like the Sun" is a novel about this Elizabethan playwright Shakespeare |
| #2146, aired 1993-12-27 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: Part II of this allegory deals with the journey of Christian's wife & children to the Celestial City Pilgrim's Progress |
| #2131, aired 1993-12-06 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: It took Edward Gibbon 6 volumes to describe this empire's "Decline and Fall" the Roman Empire |
| #2131, aired 1993-12-06 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: In 1960 Penguin Books took a risk & printed the full text of this D.H. Lawrence novel to sell in England Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #2131, aired 1993-12-06 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: During the 17 years it took him to write "Finnegans Wake", he published parts as "Work in Progress" James Joyce |
| #2131, aired 1993-12-06 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: Charlotte Bronte found this "Pride and Prejudice" author's work limited Jane Austen |
| #2131, aired 1993-12-06 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $5,000 (Daily Double): She was suggested as the next poet laureate when Wordsworth died; Tennyson was appointed instead Elizabeth Browning |
| #2011, aired 1993-05-10 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: In 1695 this "Gulliver's Travels" author became an Anglican minister in Ireland (Jonathan) Swift |
| #2011, aired 1993-05-10 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: Frodo Baggins, who lives in Middle-earth, is one of these creatures Hobbit |
| #2011, aired 1993-05-10 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: His last completed novel, "Our Mutual Friend" came 4 yrs. after "Great Expectations" Charles Dickens |
| #2011, aired 1993-05-10 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: In 1971 this author of "The Mousetrap" was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire Agatha Christie |
| #2011, aired 1993-05-10 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: This author of "The Razor's Edge" trained for the medical profession but never practiced (Somerset) Maugham |
| #1955, aired 1993-02-19 | ENGLISH GRAMMAR $100: An exclamatory sentence often expresses such strong feeling that it ends with this punctuation mark an exclamation point |
| #1955, aired 1993-02-19 | ENGLISH GRAMMAR $200: These nouns that refer to specific people, places or things are almost always capitalized proper nouns |
| #1955, aired 1993-02-19 | ENGLISH GRAMMAR $300: In the sentence "Johnny is amazingly talented", amazingly is this part of speech an adverb |
| #1955, aired 1993-02-19 | ENGLISH GRAMMAR $400: It's the 1-syllable word that commonly precedes the verb in an infinitive phrase to |
| #1955, aired 1993-02-19 | ENGLISH GRAMMAR $500: A "Jeopardy" response should be phrased in the form of a question, which makes it this kind of sentence an interrogative sentence |
| #1954, aired 1993-02-18 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: This Jonathan Swift satire was 1st titled "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World" Gulliver's Travels |
| #1954, aired 1993-02-18 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: Part of this 1926 A.A. Milne children's book is set in the Hundred Acre Wood Winnie-the-Pooh |
| #1954, aired 1993-02-18 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600 (Daily Double): Mary Ann Evans wrote "Silas Marner" & many other novels using this pen name George Eliot |
| #1954, aired 1993-02-18 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: In this Dickens novel, Jack Dawkins is known as the Artful Dodger Oliver Twist |
| #1954, aired 1993-02-18 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: This author of the Chronicles of Narnia taught medieval literature at Oxford & Cambridge C.S. Lewis |
| #1930, aired 1993-01-15 | ENGLISH POETRY $200: In one of his poems, this Tudor king said his hobbies were hunting, singing & dancing, not getting married Henry VIII |
| #1930, aired 1993-01-15 | ENGLISH POETRY $400: The angel Michael leads Adam & Eve out of the Garden of Eden in this John Milton epic Paradise Lost |
| #1930, aired 1993-01-15 | ENGLISH POETRY $500 (Daily Double): Shortly before his death, this "Death Be Not Proud" poet posed for a portrait in a funeral shroud John Donne |
| #1930, aired 1993-01-15 | ENGLISH POETRY $600: "The Corsair", this lord's 1814 poem about a pirate, was widely rumored to be a self-portrait (Lord) Byron |
| #1930, aired 1993-01-15 | ENGLISH POETRY $1000: This playwright's 1593 poem "Venus and Adonis" is called "Ovidian" because it was inspired by Ovid Shakespeare |
| #1882, aired 1992-11-10 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: It was a prelude to J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy "The Lord of the Rings" "The Hobbit" |
| #1882, aired 1992-11-10 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: This Conan Doyle novel's title character is a large dog which has a phosphorus preparation put in its eyes "The Hound of the Baskervilles" |
| #1882, aired 1992-11-10 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: He based many of his children's stories on his son Christopher Robin & the boy's stuffed toys A.A. Milne |
| #1882, aired 1992-11-10 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: After the public outcry over his "Jude The Obscure", this author never wrote another novel Thomas Hardy |
| #1882, aired 1992-11-10 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1977, this author of "My Cousin Rachel" published her autobiography, "Myself, When Young" Daphne du Maurier |
| #1866, aired 1992-10-19 | ENGLISH HISTORY $200: After King John's death, altered forms of this document issued in 1216, 1217 & 1225 the Magna Carta |
| #1866, aired 1992-10-19 | ENGLISH HISTORY $400: In 1760 King George II became the last sovereign buried at this London church Westminster Abbey |
| #1866, aired 1992-10-19 | ENGLISH HISTORY $600: The Ceremony of the Keys has been performed at this London landmark for more than 600 years the Tower of London |
| #1866, aired 1992-10-19 | ENGLISH HISTORY $800: In 1360 the Treaty of Bretigny brought a period of peace during this war the 100 Years War |
| #1866, aired 1992-10-19 | ENGLISH HISTORY $1000: In 1085 William I commissioned this "book", a survey of England's holy landings the Domesday Book |
| #1731, aired 1992-02-24 | ENGLISH CLASS $100: It's the indirect object in the sentence "He gave me an apple." me |
| #1731, aired 1992-02-24 | ENGLISH CLASS $200: It can be a noun or a pronoun, but every verb I has to have one a subject |
| #1731, aired 1992-02-24 | ENGLISH CLASS $300 (Daily Double): The inflection of verbs is called conjugation; the inflection of nouns is called this a declension |
| #1731, aired 1992-02-24 | ENGLISH CLASS $300: When writing, you do this to words you want the printer to italicize underline them |
| #1731, aired 1992-02-24 | ENGLISH CLASS $400: Mark used to indicate the omission of one or more letters in a contraction an apostrophe |
| #1720, aired 1992-02-07 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $200: This item is called a nappy though babies also wear them when they're awake a diaper |
| #1720, aired 1992-02-07 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $400: The accumulator is this storage device on a car the battery |
| #1720, aired 1992-02-07 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $600: Pip emma is this part of the day p.m. (afternoon) |
| #1720, aired 1992-02-07 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $800: Rounders is a children's game resembling this American pastime baseball |
| #1720, aired 1992-02-07 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $1000: It's what you'd like to do if you're Peckish eat |
| #1675, aired 1991-12-06 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $200: If you holiday in Britain for a fortnight, you stay this long 2 weeks |
| #1675, aired 1991-12-06 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $400: On Broadway you sit in the orchestra; in the West End you, not the horses, sit in these stalls |
| #1675, aired 1991-12-06 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $600: If you hook your Hoover to the mains, you've done this plugged it in |
| #1675, aired 1991-12-06 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $800: In England braces don't hold back the teeth but hold up these trousers |
| #1675, aired 1991-12-06 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $1000: A line on a ship showing how far it can submerge when loaded & a word for a tennis shoe share his name Samuel Plimsoll |
| #1613, aired 1991-09-11 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $100: The alternate title of her "Murder on the Orient Express" is "Murder on the Calais Coach" Agatha Christie |
| #1613, aired 1991-09-11 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: Some Americans were extremely offended by this author's views of the U.S. in "Martin Chuzzlewit" Charles Dickens |
| #1613, aired 1991-09-11 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $300: E.M. Forster set his novel "The Longest Journey" at this university where he had attended King's College Cambridge |
| #1613, aired 1991-09-11 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: His short story collection "Mortal Coils" was published in 1922, 10 years before "Brave New World" Aldous Huxley |
| #1613, aired 1991-09-11 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $500: Prime minister who said, "When I want to read a novel, I write one", when George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda" was published Benjamin Disraeli |
| #1603, aired 1991-07-17 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: Title nickname of Irish-born orphan Kimball O'Hara, hero of a 1901 Rudyard Kipling novel Kim |
| #1603, aired 1991-07-17 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: This author's father, a London schoolmaster, was the model for Mr. Chips James Hilton |
| #1603, aired 1991-07-17 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: Some claim his real name was Robt. Fitz-ooth but he usually appears in English lit under this name Robin Hood |
| #1603, aired 1991-07-17 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: Society is divided into 5 castes in this futuristic tale: Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas & Episilons Brave New World |
| #1603, aired 1991-07-17 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: Born Adeline Virginia Stephen, she & her husband founded Hogarth Press in 1917 to publish her works Virginia Woolf |
| #1575, aired 1991-06-07 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $100: The British call this car part the exhaust silencer the muffler |
| #1575, aired 1991-06-07 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $200: "Turf accountant" is a euphemism for this a bookie |
| #1575, aired 1991-06-07 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $300: Term for a tough situation or the sticky, damp ground batsmen must run over in cricket a sticky wicket |
| #1575, aired 1991-06-07 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $400: Water Street is used to mean the film industry in England just as this street refers to the press Fleet Street |
| #1575, aired 1991-06-07 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $500: In 1973, Englishmen began paying VAT, which is this value added tax |
| #1553, aired 1991-05-08 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: Henry James wrote one "of a Lady"; James Joyce wrote one "of the Artist as a Young Man" a Portrait |
| #1553, aired 1991-05-08 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: In title of books by Trollope & Tolkien, this word follows "Barchester" & "The Two" Towers |
| #1553, aired 1991-05-08 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: In the epic poem "Beowulf", the monster devours Hondscio, one of Beowulf's men Grendel |
| #1553, aired 1991-05-08 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: Jane Austen title heroine whose last name is Woodhouse Emma |
| #1553, aired 1991-05-08 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: This Scotsman was working on his novel "Weir of Hermiston" when he died suddenly on Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #1548, aired 1991-05-01 | ENGLISH HISTORY $200: Under the 1707 Act of Union the kingdoms of England & this country were united Scotland |
| #1548, aired 1991-05-01 | ENGLISH HISTORY $400: In 1657 Parliament offered to make this lord protector, king but he refused Cromwell |
| #1548, aired 1991-05-01 | ENGLISH HISTORY $600: All but 6 months of his reign was spent outside of England, mainly on the Third Crusade Richard the Lionhearted (Richard I) |
| #1548, aired 1991-05-01 | ENGLISH HISTORY $1000: After the Hundred Years' War England's only possession in France was this city on the Strait of Dover Calais |
| #1548, aired 1991-05-01 | ENGLISH HISTORY $2,500 (Daily Double): The marriage of King Henry VII of Lancaster to Elizabeth of York in 1486 helped end this series of wars the War (Wars) of the Roses |
| #1507, aired 1991-03-05 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $100: This term refers to all Americans, not just northerners, as in the United States Yankees |
| #1507, aired 1991-03-05 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $200: "Plonk" is the cheap type of this potent potable wine |
| #1507, aired 1991-03-05 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $300: A British hairdresser calls them "plaits" braids |
| #1507, aired 1991-03-05 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $400: A "sleeping partner" isn't a bedmate, but this business relation silent partner |
| #1507, aired 1991-03-05 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $500: A U or universal certificate is equivalent to this American movie rating G |
| #1442, aired 1990-12-04 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: Isaac Jaggard & Edward Blount printed the first folio of this playwright's works Shakespeare |
| #1442, aired 1990-12-04 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: Don't be afraid to tell us that she's the lady who wrote "Mrs. Dalloway" & published it in 1925 Virginia Woolf |
| #1442, aired 1990-12-04 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: He emigrated to New Zealand & grew wealthy as a sheep farmer before writing "Erewhon" (Samuel) Butler |
| #1442, aired 1990-12-04 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: His novel "The Moon and Sixpence" is based on Gauguin, but the hero is British, not French Somerset Maugham |
| #1442, aired 1990-12-04 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: Dinah Morris, a Methodist preacher, agrees to marry Adam Bede at the end of this author's novel George Eliot |
| #1438, aired 1990-11-28 | THE ENGLISH NOVEL $200: The odd word in this Bronte title is Old Yorkshire dialect meaning "stormy weather" Wuthering Heights |
| #1438, aired 1990-11-28 | THE ENGLISH NOVEL $400: Delighted with Alice, Queen Victoria asked him for other books; he sent tomes on mathematics Lewis Carroll |
| #1438, aired 1990-11-28 | THE ENGLISH NOVEL $600: This, Oscar Wilde's only novel, was used as an exhibit for the prosecution in his trial The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| #1438, aired 1990-11-28 | THE ENGLISH NOVEL $1000: Author of "Sense & Sensibility" who said, "I write about love & money” Jane Austen |
| #1438, aired 1990-11-28 | THE ENGLISH NOVEL $2,200 (Daily Double): English novelist who once said he wrote in English, thought in French, & dreamed in Polish Joseph Conrad |
| #1427, aired 1990-11-13 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: Society is divided between Eloi & Morlocks in this futuristic H.G. Wells work The Time Machine |
| #1427, aired 1990-11-13 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: The hero of this Old English poem dies killing a dragon that attacked his people, the Geats Beowulf |
| #1427, aired 1990-11-13 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: British philosopher & mathematician who won the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature Bertrand Russell |
| #1427, aired 1990-11-13 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: "Goodbye to All That" is the autobiography of this "I, Claudius" author (Robert) Graves |
| #1427, aired 1990-11-13 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: He became a Roman Catholic 14 years before publishing "The Power and the Glory" Graham Greene |
| #1409, aired 1990-10-18 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: This Tennyson poem was written in 1854, a few weeks after the Crimean War battle it describes "The Charge of the Light Brigade" |
| #1409, aired 1990-10-18 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: A.A. Milne's son Christopher was a friend of Frances Hodgson Burnett's son, on whom this character was based Little Lord Fauntleroy |
| #1409, aired 1990-10-18 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: This "Empire of the Sun" author began as a science fiction writer in the 1950s J.G. Ballard |
| #1409, aired 1990-10-18 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: His last novel, "Staying On", told the story of two minor characters in his "Raj Quartet" (Paul) Scott |
| #1409, aired 1990-10-18 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Nahum Tate's version of this play eliminates the Fool, makes Edgar & Cordelia lovers & ends happily King Lear |
| #1400, aired 1990-10-05 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: In a 1719 sequel he & Friday revisited the island where he was first stranded Robinson Crusoe |
| #1400, aired 1990-10-05 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: In England, up to the 9th century, most prose was written in this language Latin |
| #1400, aired 1990-10-05 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: In "Ivanhoe" Robin Hood appears under this name, the town in which he was born Locksley |
| #1400, aired 1990-10-05 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: Though written much earlier, her "Northanger Abbey" wasn't published until 1818, a year after her death (Jane) Austen |
| #1400, aired 1990-10-05 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): After Shakespeare she's the most widely translated English author Agatha Christie |
| #2, aired 1990-06-23 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $500: A telephone in use isn't busy, it's this engaged |
| #2, aired 1990-06-23 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $1000: When an English mummy wants an English daddy to change baby's diaper, she asks him to change this napkin (or nappy) |
| #2, aired 1990-06-23 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $1500: A leg break bowler may deliver a flipper in this sport cricket |
| #2, aired 1990-06-23 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $2000: A doctor's office, whether or not operations are performed there surgery |
| #2, aired 1990-06-23 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $2500: If you bridged the Atlantic & wanted to borrow a wrench, ask for one of these spanner |
| #1353, aired 1990-06-20 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $100: Some say he wrote "The Pilgrim's Progress" while in jail John Bunyan |
| #1353, aired 1990-06-20 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: His works can be classified as "Hobbit" forming (John) Tolkien |
| #1353, aired 1990-06-20 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $300: Romantic poet whose works include "Endymion" & "Hyperion" John Keats |
| #1353, aired 1990-06-20 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $500 (Daily Double): He wrote "Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so" John Donne |
| #1353, aired 1990-06-20 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $500: The work that made this philosopher famous was an "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" John Locke |
| #1311, aired 1990-04-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: Milton's "Paradise Lost" is based on this book of the Bible Genesis |
| #1311, aired 1990-04-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: The 1st major work of English literature, this poem about a brave hero is by author or authors unknown Beowulf |
| #1311, aired 1990-04-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: Called John Dryden's best comedy, his play about intrigue & adultery is titled "Marriage a la" this Mode |
| #1311, aired 1990-04-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: It wasn't until 1825 that his diary of the 1660s, written in shorthand, was deciphered Samuel Pepys |
| #1311, aired 1990-04-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: "The Fifth Child" is a recent work by this English author of "The Golden Notebook" Doris Lessing |
| #1308, aired 1990-04-18 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: Dickens' boy who was sold by the orphanage after asking for a second bowl of porridge Oliver Twist |
| #1308, aired 1990-04-18 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: The "Elizabethan" literature of Elizabeth I's reign was followed by the "Jacobean", named for this king James I |
| #1308, aired 1990-04-18 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: Creature who "With eyes of flame, came whiffling thru the tulgey wood and burbled as it came!" the Jabberwock |
| #1308, aired 1990-04-18 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): The "wind" that Shelley calls "Thou breath of autumn's being" The West Wind |
| #1308, aired 1990-04-18 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: Neoclassical twosome who published their essays in "The Tatler" & "The Spectator" Addison & Steele |
| #1301, aired 1990-04-09 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: Of a person, place or thing, what Little Dorrit was in the Dickens tale person |
| #1301, aired 1990-04-09 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: After R.L. Stevenson drew a map with his stepson's paints he was inspired to write this story Treasure Island |
| #1301, aired 1990-04-09 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: Though famous for his science fiction, his best-selling work was "The Outline of History" H.G. Wells |
| #1301, aired 1990-04-09 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: B. Disraeli found this Jane Austen novel about the Bennet family so delightful that he read it 17 times Pride and Prejudice |
| #1301, aired 1990-04-09 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: The Bloomsbury Group often met at the London home of this author of "To the Lighthouse" Virginia Woolf |
| #1294, aired 1990-03-29 | ENGLISH LIT $200: Uriah Heep is the 'umble clerk who embezzles from Mr. Wickfield in this Dickens novel "David Copperfield" |
| #1294, aired 1990-03-29 | ENGLISH LIT $400: His 1st major novel was the autobiographical "Sons & Lovers" D.H. Lawrence |
| #1294, aired 1990-03-29 | ENGLISH LIT $600: When Lord Petre cut off a bit of Arabella Fremor's hair, it inspired this poem by Alexander Pope "The Rape of the Lock" |
| #1294, aired 1990-03-29 | ENGLISH LIT $800: The Reader's Encyclopedia says his best-known novel is "The Way of All Flesh" Samuel Butler |
| #1294, aired 1990-03-29 | ENGLISH LIT $1000: The 1812 publication of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" made this poet an immediate sensation Lord Byron |
| #1286, aired 1990-03-19 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $200: Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem claims to be the oldest of these in Britain, so bottoms up to it pub |
| #1286, aired 1990-03-19 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $400: The British turned this brand name into a verb meaning to vacuum Hoover |
| #1286, aired 1990-03-19 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $600: Numerical phrase referring to the P.M.'s office 10 Downing Street/No. 10 |
| #1286, aired 1990-03-19 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $800: If you pinch a kipper you've stolen a fish; if you take a kip, you've done this taking a nap |
| #1286, aired 1990-03-19 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $1000: If you've grassed on your mates, you haven't mowed them down but did this to them tattle/inform on them |
| #1259, aired 1990-02-08 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: She's called Joan la Pucelle in Shakespeare's "King Henry VI, Part I" Joan of Arc |
| #1259, aired 1990-02-08 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: This was the only published work by Jonathan Swift for which he received payment -- £200 Gulliver's Travels |
| #1259, aired 1990-02-08 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: This author was knighted in 1908 for his work in the Boer War, not for Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #1259, aired 1990-02-08 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: Charlotte Cradock, this novelist's wife, was the inspiration for "Amelia" & Sophia in "Tom Jones" Henry Fielding |
| #1259, aired 1990-02-08 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): He also wrote "The Charge of the Heavy Brigade" Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #1222, aired 1989-12-19 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: In "Women in Love" he continued the story of Ursula that began in "The Rainbow" D.H. Lawrence |
| #1222, aired 1989-12-19 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: His play "The Tragical history Dr. Faustus", borrows from earlier morality plays (Christopher) Marlowe |
| #1222, aired 1989-12-19 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: George Eliot's fictional weaver whose soul is saved by the child Eppie Silas Marner |
| #1222, aired 1989-12-19 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: The heroine pretends to be a barmaid to win the hero's love in this playwright's "She Stoops to Conquer" (Oliver) Goldsmith |
| #1222, aired 1989-12-19 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: This Englishman moved to Australia after WWII & set "On the Beach" there Nevil Shute |
| #1211, aired 1989-12-04 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $100: If you don't finish your dinner you won't get any "afters", which is this dessert |
| #1211, aired 1989-12-04 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $200: A Cantabrigian is someone who is a graduate of this English university Cambridge |
| #1211, aired 1989-12-04 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $300: Americans wear braces on their teeth, & the British wear braces to hold these up their pants |
| #1211, aired 1989-12-04 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $400: The British wear pajamas just like we do, but spell "pajamas" this way P-Y-J-A-M-A-S |
| #1211, aired 1989-12-04 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $500: This relatively new Britishism meaning "crummy" or "shabby" stems from "grotesque" grody or groaty |
| #1208, aired 1989-11-29 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: In 1953 he published "Casino Royale", his 1st James Bond novel Ian Fleming |
| #1208, aired 1989-11-29 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: 18th century John Byrom created this pair that Lewis Carrol used in 1865 Tweedledum & Tweedledee |
| #1208, aired 1989-11-29 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: Published in 6 volumes from 1776-88, this Edward Gibbon work covers about 13 centuries The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
| #1208, aired 1989-11-29 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): This 14th century author was the 1st poet buried in Westminster Abbey Chaucer |
| #1208, aired 1989-11-29 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: Dickens' last complete novel, its title referred to a shared pal Our Mutual Friend |
| #1183, aired 1989-10-25 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: Mrs. Moore goes to Chandrapore, India to visit her son, the city magistrate, in this E.M. Forster novel A Passage to India |
| #1183, aired 1989-10-25 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: It's reported John F. Kennedy's favorite poem was "Ulysses" by this British poet laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| #1183, aired 1989-10-25 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: Her last 2 major novels, "Northanger Abbey" & "Persuasion", were published posthumously Jane Austen |
| #1183, aired 1989-10-25 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: George Eliot set Mr. Tulliver's mill on this river the Floss |
| #1183, aired 1989-10-25 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1,200 (Daily Double): This famous title teacher taught at the Marcia Blaine school for Girls Jean Brodie |
| #1171, aired 1989-10-09 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: Its original title was "Alice Under Ground" Alice in Wonderland |
| #1171, aired 1989-10-09 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: The pen name she adopted was in honor of her long-time friend George Henry Lewes George Eliot |
| #1171, aired 1989-10-09 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: His character, Mowgli, 1st appeared in a book called "Many Intentions" Rudyard Kipling |
| #1171, aired 1989-10-09 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: His lesser-known Christmas stories include "The Chimes" & "The Cricket on the Hearth" (Charles) Dickens |
| #1164, aired 1989-09-28 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $200: England's monetary system no longer uses the penny; the smallest denomination is now called this new pence |
| #1164, aired 1989-09-28 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $400: This mild interjection is from a contraction of "God blind me!" blimey! |
| #1164, aired 1989-09-28 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $600: British TV's "Steptoe & Son" was about a rag-and-bone man; U.S. equivalent "Sanford & Son", was about this junk dealers |
| #1158, aired 1989-09-20 | ENGLISH CLASS $200: It's time for you to tell us these are the 3 simple tenses in English Past, Present & Future |
| #1158, aired 1989-09-20 | ENGLISH CLASS $400: There are dozens of these including at, by & with Prepositions |
| #1158, aired 1989-09-20 | ENGLISH CLASS $800: Conjugation is the listing of the forms of a verb, & this is the listing of the forms of a noun Declension |
| #1158, aired 1989-09-20 | ENGLISH CLASS $1000: The antecedent in the sentence "John left the book he brought to school on the bus." John |
| #1158, aired 1989-09-20 | ENGLISH CLASS $1,500 (Daily Double): The part of a clause containing the verb, its complements & its modifiers Predicate |
| #1108, aired 1989-05-31 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $200: The place an Englishman went if he nipped down to his local the pub |
| #1108, aired 1989-05-31 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $400: A "punter" isn't a guy who kicks footballs but does this with a turf accountant bet |
| #1108, aired 1989-05-31 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $600: It's the British word for the trunk of a car the boot |
| #1108, aired 1989-05-31 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $800: A British joke about one of these may begin "Did you hear the one about the commercial traveler..." a traveling salesman |
| #1108, aired 1989-05-31 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $1000: Send down someone & you've expelled them; send up someone & you've done this to them made fun of them |
| #1099, aired 1989-05-18 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: He wrote "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", a children's story as well as the James Bond novels Ian Fleming |
| #1099, aired 1989-05-18 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: This country's 1930s civil war was the setting for Graham Greene's "The Confidential Agent" Spain |
| #1099, aired 1989-05-18 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: Mr. Lockwood, a tenant of Thrushcross Grange, narrates this Emily Bronte story Wuthering Heights |
| #1099, aired 1989-05-18 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): The title of this 1872 Samuel Butler novel, published anonymously, is an anagram for "nowhere" Erewhon |
| #1099, aired 1989-05-18 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: Her 1st novel "Sense & Sensibility", was published 2 years before "Pride & Prejudice" Jane Austen |
| #1085, aired 1989-04-28 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $200: If you're served "afters", you've received this course, of course dessert |
| #1085, aired 1989-04-28 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $400: A big dipper isn't an ice cream dispenser but one of these amusement park rides roller coaster |
| #1085, aired 1989-04-28 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $600: Ta-Ta means good-bye, & ta means this thanks |
| #1085, aired 1989-04-28 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $800: This "king" is a pushcart peddler known for his button-studded outfit Pearly King |
| #1034, aired 1989-02-16 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: Polynesia the parrot taught him the language of birds Dr. Dolittle |
| #1034, aired 1989-02-16 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: The story of Little Dorrit's father in debtor's prison was based on his father's experiences Charles Dickens |
| #1034, aired 1989-02-16 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: Title character of H.G. Wells' 1897 novel who was heard more than seen The Invisible Man |
| #1034, aired 1989-02-16 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: He wrote "The Lord of the Isles" 5 years after "The Lady of the Lake" Sir Walter Scott |
| #1034, aired 1989-02-16 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $2,500 (Daily Double): Keeping the same initials, these sisters published under the pan names Currer, Ellis & Acton Bell the Bronte sisters |
| #986, aired 1988-12-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $100: He named his son Hamnet, probably in honor of a baker in Stratford-upon-Avon Shakespeare |
| #986, aired 1988-12-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: John Selden complained, "Preachers say, do as I say, not" this as I do |
| #986, aired 1988-12-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $300: There have been over 300 editions of this treatise on sport, nature & human conduct by Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler |
| #986, aired 1988-12-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: Eric Knight is probably best remembered for this 1940 canine classic for kids Lassie Come Home |
| #984, aired 1988-12-08 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $100: Of knickers, knackered or knockers, British slang for tired out knackered |
| #984, aired 1988-12-08 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $200: Of knickers, knackered or knockers, British slang for ladies' underwear knickers |
| #984, aired 1988-12-08 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $300: If your phone number is "ex-directory", it means it's this unlisted |
| #984, aired 1988-12-08 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $400: If you want the head nurse of a ward in a British hospital, call out this word sister |
| #984, aired 1988-12-08 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $500: Travelers know "single" translates to one-way & this means a round-trip ticket in Britain return |
| #972, aired 1988-11-22 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $100: Before a rugby match, the coach might give his team a ginger-up, one of these pep talk |
| #972, aired 1988-11-22 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $200: Nappy, a diminutive of napkin, is an everyday word for this changeable item diaper |
| #972, aired 1988-11-22 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $300: In England, this game is noughts & crosses tic-tac-toe |
| #972, aired 1988-11-22 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $400: In Britain, success is "setting the Thames on fire"; in the U.S., it's this parallel setting the world on fire |
| #972, aired 1988-11-22 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $500: Pet Clark song title that actually means "Don't spend the night in the underpass" "Don't Sleep in the Subway" |
| #958, aired 1988-11-02 | ENGLISH LIT $200: In 1772 James Boswell told this author he intended to write his biography Doctor Samuel Johnson |
| #958, aired 1988-11-02 | ENGLISH LIT $600: Among his historical novels are "I, Claudius" & "Claudius the God" Robert Graves |
| #958, aired 1988-11-02 | ENGLISH LIT $800: Since the beadle named his waifs alphabetically, this character came between Swubble & Unwin (Oliver) Twist |
| #958, aired 1988-11-02 | ENGLISH LIT $1000: In an Oliver Goldsmith work, Dr. Primrose is the vicar of this parish Wakefield |
| #958, aired 1988-11-02 | ENGLISH LIT $3,100 (Daily Double): The Baconian theory expounds this that Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays |
| #947, aired 1988-10-18 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: In 1813 Sir Walter Scott turned down this royal post, recommending Robert Southey Poet Laureate |
| #947, aired 1988-10-18 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: The longest word ever in a London Times crossword, 27 letters, was from his "Love's Labor's Lost" William Shakespeare |
| #947, aired 1988-10-18 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: These Kenneth Grahame tales were originally told to his son to keep him from crying The Wind in the Willows |
| #947, aired 1988-10-18 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: Along with "Samson Agonistes", Milton published this famous sequel to another work Paradise Regained |
| #947, aired 1988-10-18 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: Fictional singer in a German cabaret, she was created by Christopher Isherwood in the late 1930s Sally Bowles |
| #927, aired 1988-09-20 | THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE $200: Only this language is spoken by more people than English Mandarin (Chinese) |
| #927, aired 1988-09-20 | THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE $400: According to Guinness, they include: the, and, of & to the most frequently used words in the English language in written form |
| #927, aired 1988-09-20 | THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE $600: Pidgin English is used primarily between westerners & natives of this continent Asia |
| #927, aired 1988-09-20 | THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE $1000: The only Central American country that has English as an official language Belize |
| #927, aired 1988-09-20 | THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE $1,500 (Daily Double): After 1066 Old English evolved into Middle English, due mainly to the influence of this language Norman French |
