| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $400: Geryon, a character in one of this hero's labors, falls in love with him in Anne Carson's "The Autobiography of Red" Hercules |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $800: W.H. Auden wrote a famous poem about a painting of him, described as "a boy falling out of the sky" Icarus |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $1200: In a Shelley work this fire bringer is not happy to be nailed to a "wall of eagle-baffling mountain" Prometheus |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $1600: The title character of Margaret Atwood's "The Penelopiad" tells the story of running this kingdom while waiting for Odysseus to get back Ithaca |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $2000: Dionysus is a big factor in "The Secret History", this author's first novel (Donna) Tartt |
| #1454, aired 1990-12-20 | MODERN LITERATURE $200: His novel, "Islands in the Stream" was published posthumously in 1970 Hemingway |
| #1454, aired 1990-12-20 | MODERN LITERATURE $400: Umberto Eco's 1980 novel "Il nome della rosa" translates to this The Name of the Rose |
| #1454, aired 1990-12-20 | MODERN LITERATURE $600 (Daily Double): In 1920, at age 24, this author established his reputation with "This Side of Paradise" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #1454, aired 1990-12-20 | MODERN LITERATURE $800: "Whistle", published in 1978, completed the James Jones trilogy that began with this novel From Here to Eternity |
| #1454, aired 1990-12-20 | MODERN LITERATURE $1000: Richard Wright's first novel, it tells of a Black youth named Bigger Thomas Native Son |
| #1443, aired 1990-12-05 | MODERN LITERATURE $100: In this futuristic Aldous Huxley novel, people attend feelies instead of movies Brave New World |
| #1443, aired 1990-12-05 | MODERN LITERATURE $200: Jack London wrote the novel "John Barleycorn" as a protest against this alcohol |
| #1443, aired 1990-12-05 | MODERN LITERATURE $300: In John Updike's novels, it's the nickname of salesman Harry Angstrom Rabbit |
| #1443, aired 1990-12-05 | MODERN LITERATURE $400: In the Thorne Smith novel, he was turned into an adventurous romantic by a pair of ghosts Topper |
| #1443, aired 1990-12-05 | MODERN LITERATURE $500: His "The Last of Mr. Norris" & "Goodbye to Berlin" are the basis of the musical "Cabaret" Christopher Isherwood |
| #1390, aired 1990-09-21 | MODERN LITERATURE $200: Andre Malraux, who wrote "Man's Fate", was this country's minister of culture France |
| #1390, aired 1990-09-21 | MODERN LITERATURE $400: "A Thief in the Night" investigates the mysterious 1978 death of this pope John Paul I |
| #1390, aired 1990-09-21 | MODERN LITERATURE $600: This 1990 Gore Vidal book is subtitled "A Novel of America in the 1920s" Hollywood |
| #1390, aired 1990-09-21 | MODERN LITERATURE $800: It was once rumored that this author of "Gravity's Rainbow" was really J.D. Salinger (Thomas) Pynchon |
| #1210, aired 1989-12-01 | MODERN LITERATURE $200: One year after "Life with Father", Clarence Day published "Life with" her Mother |
| #1210, aired 1989-12-01 | MODERN LITERATURE $400: The 2-letter title of Richard Nixon's 1978 memoirs RN |
| #1210, aired 1989-12-01 | MODERN LITERATURE $600: Freud 1st wrote of the Oedipus complex in this landmark book published in 1899 The Interpretation of Dreams |
| #1210, aired 1989-12-01 | MODERN LITERATURE $800: His experiences as an enlisted man shaped his 1951 novel "From Here to Eternity" James Jones |
| #1210, aired 1989-12-01 | MODERN LITERATURE $3,600 (Daily Double): He died in 1922 before the last 3 volumes of his "Remembrance of Things Past" were published Marcel Proust |
| #1006, aired 1989-01-09 | MODERN LITERATURE $200: The last words of this novel are "He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother." 1984 |
| #1006, aired 1989-01-09 | MODERN LITERATURE $400: Part II of this fantasy trilogy is entitled "The Two Towers" The Lord of the Rings |
| #1006, aired 1989-01-09 | MODERN LITERATURE $800: He dedicated "Myra Breckinridge" to author Christopher Isherwood Gore Vidal |
| #1006, aired 1989-01-09 | MODERN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): British miniseries based on Paul Scott's "The Raj Quartet" The Jewel in the Crown |
| #1006, aired 1989-01-09 | MODERN LITERATURE $1000: He wrote 3 books about the Prizzis, "Prizzi's Honor", "Prizzi's Family" & "Prizzi's Glory" Richard Condon |
