Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (55 results returned)
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $400: This writer of "Uncle Vanya" was the grandson of an ex-serf who had purchased his freedom Chekhov |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Lake Geneva in Switzerland.) Lake Geneva has long been a place of literary pilgrimage; this writer called it "blue as the heavens" when she lived here with her poet husband, who almost drowned one night on the lake & did drown in Italy a few years later Mary Shelley |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $1200: Gore Vidal feuded with Norman Mailer but admitted that this first Mailer book was the big one among World War II novels The Naked and the Dead |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $1600: Here's a portrait of this author as a young woman; perhaps it was painted in middle March George Eliot |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $2000: Piscator teaches his friend Venator to bait a hook & catch fish in this 17th century classic The Compleat Angler |
| #3051, aired 1997-12-01 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $200: In "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", Sir Gawain is this king's nephew & feasts with him at Camelot King Arthur |
| #3051, aired 1997-12-01 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $400: This fictional place was known as Sansculottia until a man named Utopos gave it a new name Utopia |
| #3051, aired 1997-12-01 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $600: The meter for his poem "The Song of Hiawatha" was inspired by the great Finnish epic "Kalevala" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| #3051, aired 1997-12-01 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $800: The narrator of his 1983 novel "Ancient Evenings" is reborn as a harem master & a grave robber Norman Mailer |
| #3051, aired 1997-12-01 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $1000: This Mississippi-born novelist published his 2nd & last book of poems, "A Green Bough", in 1933 William Faulkner |
| #2290, aired 1994-07-15 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $200: This author's father, John, illustrated the original 1894 edition of "The Jungle Book" Rudyard Kipling |
| #2290, aired 1994-07-15 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $400: Chapter 1 of this Agatha Christie novel is titled "An Important Passenger on the Taurus Express" Murder on the Orient Express |
| #2290, aired 1994-07-15 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $600: This "Private Lives" playwright wrote a book of poems under the pen name Hernia Whittlebot Noël Coward |
| #2290, aired 1994-07-15 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $800: The heroine of this Willa Cather novel eventually marries a farmer named Anton Cuzak My Ántonia |
| #2290, aired 1994-07-15 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $1000: This author of "Beloved" set her first novel, "The Bluest Eye", in her hometown, Lorain, Ohio Toni Morrison |
| #2245, aired 1994-05-13 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $200: Near the end of this novel, Passepartout discovers that the trip could have been made in just 78 days Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #2245, aired 1994-05-13 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $400: "Life is made up of marble and mud', wrote this author in "The House of the Seven Gables" Hawthorne |
| #2245, aired 1994-05-13 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $600: This author of "Kim" set his children's book "Rewards and Fairies" in Sussex, where he lived (Rudyard) Kipling |
| #2245, aired 1994-05-13 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $800: This Sir Thomas Malory work is based in part on French sources such as the "Suite du Merlin" Le Morte d'Arthur |
| #2245, aired 1994-05-13 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $2,900 (Daily Double): At the beginning of this 1897 H.G. Wells novel, the title character is "wrapped up from head to foot" The Invisible Man |
| #2227, aired 1994-04-19 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $200: In "Ode to the West Wind", Percy Shelley asked, "If" this season "comes, can spring be far behind?" winter |
| #2227, aired 1994-04-19 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $400: The way a novel is presented is called the "point of" this; it might be third person omniscient view |
| #2227, aired 1994-04-19 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $600: Nabokov wrote his first novel, "Mashenka", in this, his native language Russian |
| #2227, aired 1994-04-19 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $800: The Lilliputians created by this author in 1726 turned up 220 years later in a children's book by T.H. White (Jonathan) Swift |
| #2227, aired 1994-04-19 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $1000: Last name of the aristocratic British authors Nancy & Jessica, who were sisters Mitford |
| #2206, aired 1994-03-21 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $200: This Charlotte Bronte heroine is orphaned as an infant & raised by her cold-hearted aunt Mrs. Reed Jane Eyre |
| #2206, aired 1994-03-21 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $400: Many of John Cheever's stories were first published in this magazine founded by Harold Ross the New Yorker |
| #2206, aired 1994-03-21 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $600: James Michener subtitled this 1968 book "Spanish Travels and Reflections" Iberia |
| #2206, aired 1994-03-21 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $800: The Typees in his 1846 novel "Typee" are cannibals who live in Polynesia Melville |
| #2206, aired 1994-03-21 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $1000: This Russian based the heroine of his 1866 novel "The Gambler" on his paramour Polina Suslova Dostoyevsky |
| #2129, aired 1993-12-02 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $200: Theodore Kirchhoff's lyric poems about this city made him "The Poet of the Golden Gate" San Francisco |
| #2129, aired 1993-12-02 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $400: Becky Sharp's husband Rawdon Crawley becomes the governor of Coventry Island in this Thackeray novel Vanity Fair |
| #2129, aired 1993-12-02 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $600: Reader's Ency. says her favorite of her own novels was "The Song of the Lark", not "O Pioneers!" Willa Cather |
| #2129, aired 1993-12-02 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $800: He originally published his Spoon River poems under the pen name Webster Ford Edgar Lee Masters |
| #2129, aired 1993-12-02 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $1000: This Betty Smith novel opens in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in the summer of 1912 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| #2102, aired 1993-10-26 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $200: Something that is Beckettian is reminiscent of the works or characters created by this man Sam Beckett |
| #2102, aired 1993-10-26 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $400: Ezra Pound wrote "The Pisan Cantos" while imprisoned in this country Italy |
| #2102, aired 1993-10-26 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $600: This limerick poet published "Laughable Lyrics", his last book of nonsense poems in 1877 Edward Lear |
| #2102, aired 1993-10-26 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $800: The 1823 book "Peveril of the Peak" is this Scotsman's longest novel Sir Walter Scott |
| #2102, aired 1993-10-26 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $1000: Diestl is a Nazi ski instructor in "The Young Lions", this "Rich Man, Poor Man" author's first novel Irwin Shaw |
| #2071, aired 1993-09-13 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $200: Once upon a time this Dane described life as "a fairy tale" Hans Christian Andersen |
| #2071, aired 1993-09-13 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $400: "Pinocchio" may be the most famous children's book ever written in this country Italy |
| #2071, aired 1993-09-13 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $600: Surprisingly, Ayn Rand once said her favorite popular writer was this creator of Mike Hammer Mickey Spillane |
| #2071, aired 1993-09-13 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $800: This English Romantic poet didn't have long to live when he wrote his "Ode on Melancholy" in 1819 Keats |
| #2071, aired 1993-09-13 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $1000: She set "Fried Green Tomatoes..." in Alabama & "Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man" in Mississippi Fannie Flagg |
| #2021, aired 1993-05-24 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $200: Last name shared by writers Edwin, Frank & Flannery O'Connor |
| #2021, aired 1993-05-24 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $400: Echoing Walt Whitman, Ray Bradbury called his 1969 short story collection "I Sing the Body" this Electric |
| #2021, aired 1993-05-24 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $600: This author's hometown is East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but he became a policeman in Los Angeles (Joe) Wambaugh |
| #2021, aired 1993-05-24 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $1000: Lytton Strachey called his 1918 book about 19th century English heroes "Eminent" these Victorians |
| #2021, aired 1993-05-24 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $1,500 (Daily Double): "Romola" was this "Adam Bede" author's only historical novel George Eliot |
| #1957, aired 1993-02-23 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $200: In a tale by Aesop, a mouse talks this animal out of eating him; later the mouse saves him the lion |
| #1957, aired 1993-02-23 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $400: Bagheera is the black panther who watches over this boy in "The Jungle Book" Mowgli |
| #1957, aired 1993-02-23 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $600: By the end of Dickens' novel about Little Nell, this title shop has been torn down The Old Curiosity Shop |
| #1957, aired 1993-02-23 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $800: In a Hawthorne novel, Arthur Dimmesdale reveals that he bears this title insignia on his chest, too the Scarlet Letter |
| #1957, aired 1993-02-23 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $1000: To help you understand it, there's now "A Reader's Companion" to his "A Brief History of Time" Stephen Hawking |
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