Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (63 results returned)
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | ESSAYS $400: In a landmark essay, Ta-Nehisi Coates argued "The Case for" these payments to descendants of slaves reparations |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | ESSAYS $800: In 1850 Herman Melville wrote an essay on this author's short stories, including "Young Goodman Brown" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | ESSAYS $1600: His satirical 1729 essay "A Modest Proposal" suggested poverty in Ireland could be lessened by killing & eating the children of the poor Swift |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | ESSAYS $2,000 (Daily Double): In jail Mahatma Gandhi would often read a copy of this 1849 Thoreau essay for inspiration Civil Disobedience |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | ESSAYS $2000: "Death is stronger than I am", this British woman wrote in "The Death of the Moth", published the year after she took her own life Virginia Woolf |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | ESSAYS $5 (Daily Double): This Italian's experiments with dead frogs led him to write an essay on the "Effect of Electricity in Muscular Motion" Galvani |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | ESSAYS $400: A book of essays about the "Black Panther" film & its cultural impact is called "Why" this fictional country "Matters" Wakanda |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | ESSAYS $800: Nora Ephron mentions ones that are loose, crepey, wrinkled & turkey gobbler in her essay "I Feel Bad About My" this Neck |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | ESSAYS $1200: In "Self-Reliance" Emerson wrote that "A foolish consistency is" this "of little minds" hobgoblin |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | ESSAYS $1600: In 1972 John McPhee compared Monopoly properties with a declining Atlantic City in his essay "The Search for" this property Marvin Gardens |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | ESSAYS $400: Alexander Pope's poem "An Essay on Man" gave us the phrase this "springs eternal" hope |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | ESSAYS $800: Charles Lamb's 1823 "The Tombs in the Abbey" argued that the poor shouldn't be charged admittance to visit this London spot Westminster Abbey |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | ESSAYS $1200: "Higher Laws" & "The Pond in Winter" are 2 of the 18 essays in this collection by Thoreau Walden |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | ESSAYS $2000: The word "essay" came into English in a 1597 work by this Sir Francis, last name not Drake Bacon |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | ESSAYS $2,100 (Daily Double): This 1929 essay says a woman must have a dedicated personal space in order to become a fiction writer A Room of One's Own |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | ESSAYS $200: He shared "A Brief History of a Brief History" in his "Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays" Hawking |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | ESSAYS $400: A book of essays by Joan Didion has this same title as a plain-covered Beatles LP The White Album |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | ESSAYS $600: A few years before his death from cancer, this film critic reflected on his life in "Go Gentle Into That Good Night" Ebert |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | ESSAYS $800: The title of his "Me Talk Pretty One Day" comes from him trying to master French in Paris Sedaris |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | ESSAYS $1000: Alice Walker's 1975 essay "Looking for Zora" sparked new interest in this author who was largely forgotten at her death Zora Neale Hurston |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | ESSAYS $400: In "Everybody's Protest Novel", James Baldwin took to task this novel & its author Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | ESSAYS $800: In 1905 this Austrian published "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality" (Sigmund) Freud |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | ESSAYS $1600: An essay that she wrote about marine life called "World of Waters" was published in 1937 as "Undersea" Rachel Carson |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | ESSAYS $2000: In 1972 John McPhee contrasted the game of Monopoly with a deteriorating Atlantic City in his essay "The Search for" this property Marvin Gardens |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | ESSAYS $4,000 (Daily Double): Nora Ephron wrote that she wanted to be her, "the only lady at the table. The woman who made her living by her wit" Dorothy Parker |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | ESSAYS $400: Percy Shelley wrote the essay "A Defence of" this literary form Poetry |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | ESSAYS $800: In 1837's "The American Scholar", this New Englander declared U.S. intellectual independence from European thought Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | ESSAYS $1200: Running up debt in New York City is the subject of Meghan Daum's fittingly titled personal essay "My" this kind of "Youth" Misspent |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | ESSAYS $2000: This economist's "Essay on the Principle of Population" from 1798 predicted "gigantic inevitable famine" Malthus |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | ESSAYS $5,300 (Daily Double): Joan Didion stole from Yeats for the title of her essay collection "Slouching Towards" this place Bethlehem |
| #8066, aired 2019-10-07 | ESSAYS $1200: "Lost Art" & "The Future of Faith" are 2 of the many essays John Updike wrote for this magazine The New Yorker |
| #8066, aired 2019-10-07 | ESSAYS $1600: This "Infinite Jest" author used the Maine lobster festival to discuss the morality of killing lobsters for eating pleasure David Foster Wallace |
| #8066, aired 2019-10-07 | ESSAYS $2000: "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself", Emerson wrote near the end of this essay "Self-Reliance" |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | ESSAYS $400: After some of his writings were suppressed, John Milton argued for freedom of this in "Areopagitica" the press |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | ESSAYS $800: Naturally, this French philosopher wrote "Essays in Existentialism" & "Existentialism and Humanism" (Jean-Paul) Sartre |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | ESSAYS $1600: She's the Zora in Alice Walker's "Looking For Zora" Zora Neale Hurston |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | ESSAYS $2,000 (Daily Double): His essay "On the Decay of the Art of Lying" was "read at a meeting of the historical and antiquarian club of Hartford" Mark Twain |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | ESSAYS $2000: All 85 essays in this 1787-88 series appeared over the signature "Publius" the Federalist Papers |
| #6326, aired 2012-03-05 | ESSAYS $400: Orwell's essay on this says it should be strong & made in small quantities & that one should use the Indian or Ceylonese type tea |
| #6326, aired 2012-03-05 | ESSAYS $800: Her "Out of the Dark" essays include "How to Become a Writer", "Our Duties to the Blind" & "What the Blind Can Do" Helen Keller |
| #6326, aired 2012-03-05 | ESSAYS $1200: H.L. Mencken wrote a notorious essay on the "unbroken and agonizing ugliness" of this state's steel towns Pennsylvania |
| #6326, aired 2012-03-05 | ESSAYS $1600: After publishing an essay on Will Strunk, he was asked to revise Strunk's "The Elements of Style" (E.B.) White |
| #6326, aired 2012-03-05 | ESSAYS $3,000 (Daily Double): In this 1841 essay, Ralph Waldo Emerson urged people to trust their own judgment above that of all others "Self-Reliance" |
| #5918, aired 2010-05-12 | ESSAYS $400: Charles Lamb wrote essays "On the Genius" of Hogarth" & "On the Tragedies of" this playwright Shakespeare |
| #5918, aired 2010-05-12 | ESSAYS $800: "Just Looking" & "Still Looking" are 2 collections of art essays by this "Rabbit, Run" author (John) Updike |
| #5918, aired 2010-05-12 | ESSAYS $1600: Norman Mailer dissed this author who died in 2010 as being "no more than the greatest mind ever to stay in prep school" Salinger |
| #5918, aired 2010-05-12 | ESSAYS $2,000 (Daily Double): Essay in which Thoreau wrote, "I heartily accept the motto, that government is best which governs least" "Civil Disobedience" |
| #5918, aired 2010-05-12 | ESSAYS $2000: "The Prophet", consisting of 26 poetic essays, is the best known work by this Lebanese-born author (Khalil) Gibran |
| #3080, aired 1998-01-09 | ESSAYS $200: This "Invisible Man" author's essay "On Being the Target of Discrimination" appeared in 1989 Ralph Ellison |
| #3080, aired 1998-01-09 | ESSAYS $400: In addition to his novels, this Russian count wrote religious essays like 1884's "What I Believe" Leo Tolstoy |
| #3080, aired 1998-01-09 | ESSAYS $600: He attacked poor writing in 1946's "Politics and the English Language" before inventing Newspeak George Orwell (Eric Blair) |
| #3080, aired 1998-01-09 | ESSAYS $800: In 1711 & 1712 this collaborator of Richard Steele wrote 274 essays for "The Spectator" Joseph Addison |
| #3080, aired 1998-01-09 | ESSAYS $1000: Excerpts of her "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" appeared as essays in The Atlantic & Harper's Annie Dillard |
| #2871, aired 1997-02-10 | ESSAYS $200: Roger Ebert has recently edited a book of essays & other writings on this subject movies |
| #2871, aired 1997-02-10 | ESSAYS $400: Many of H.L. Mencken's noted essays started as newspaper columns in this Maryland city's "Sun" Baltimore |
| #2871, aired 1997-02-10 | ESSAYS $600: He wrote his essay "Life Without Principle" after he returned from Walden Pond Henry David Thoreau |
| #2871, aired 1997-02-10 | ESSAYS $800: This humorist's collection of essays "In Cyberspace" is formatted like a computer manual Dave Barry |
| #2871, aired 1997-02-10 | ESSAYS $1000: This English philosopher developed the formal style of essays in works like 1625's "Of Beauty" Francis Bacon |
| #2024, aired 1993-05-27 | ESSAYS $200: This Thoreau essay was originally titled "Resistance to Civil Government" "Civil Disobedience" |
| #2024, aired 1993-05-27 | ESSAYS $400: This series of 85 essays urging ratification of the Constitution was written under the pen name "Publius" "The Federalist Papers" |
| #2024, aired 1993-05-27 | ESSAYS $600: In his essay "Areopagitica", this "Paradise Lost" author argued against censorship of the press (John) Milton |
| #2024, aired 1993-05-27 | ESSAYS $800: This marine biologist's first book, "Under the Sea-Wind", grew out of her 1937 essay "Undersea" Rachel Carson |
| #2024, aired 1993-05-27 | ESSAYS $1000: In 1841 he published a series of essays which included perhaps his most famous one, "Self-Reliance" Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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