| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR $400: Ellen DeGeneres was proud to be honored in this center "where so many space shuttles have been launched" the Kennedy Center |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR $800: In 2018 this actress added the prize to her record 6 consecutive Emmys for Best Actress in a Comedy Julia Louis-Dreyfus |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR $1200: This "Shrek" & "Beverly Hills Cop" performer said the prize is actually an award, because a prize comes with money Eddie Murphy |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR $1600: Longtime employee Biff Henderson showed up with headset to help this late night host accept his trophy in 2017 David Letterman |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR $2000: Mel Brooks, Mary Tyler Moore & Dick Van Dyke were on hand to honor this writer/comedian in 2000 (Carl) Reiner |
| #7820, aired 2018-09-14 | MARK TWAIN REALLY SAID IT $400: "I would throw out the old maxim, my country", this, "and instead I would say, 'My country when she is right'" right or wrong |
| #7820, aired 2018-09-14 | MARK TWAIN REALLY SAID IT $800: This city is "the grand old benevolent national asylum for the helpless" Washington |
| #7820, aired 2018-09-14 | MARK TWAIN REALLY SAID IT $1200: Of one of these practitioners, Twain quipped he had the "surgical look of a man who could endure pain in others" a dentist |
| #7820, aired 2018-09-14 | MARK TWAIN REALLY SAID IT $1600: The advantages of riding this big creature include an "immunity from collisions" & the fine view one has from up there" an elephant |
| #7820, aired 2018-09-14 | MARK TWAIN REALLY SAID IT $2000: Of this "Devil's Dictionary" author, Twain wrote, "For every laugh, there are 5 blushes & 10 shudders" Ambrose Bierce |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | MARK TWAIN $200: Twain took "a journey around the world" in his fifth & last travel book, "Following" this imaginary line equator |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | MARK TWAIN $400: A crowning event
in Twain's life was receiving an honorary degree from this British university in 1907 Oxford |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | MARK TWAIN $800: The only known moving picture ever taken of Mark Twain is in a silent film produced by this man's studio in 1909 Thomas Edison |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | MARK TWAIN $1000: The prince in "The Prince and the Pauper" was this historical figure, son of Henry VIII & Jane Seymour Edward VI |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | MARK TWAIN $3,000 (Daily Double): Twain satirized the customs & institutions of the feudal world in this 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #6562, aired 2013-03-12 | THE QUOTABLE MARK TWAIN $200: "In Paris they just simply...stared. We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own" this language |
| #6562, aired 2013-03-12 | THE QUOTABLE MARK TWAIN $600: This place "goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in" heaven |
| #6562, aired 2013-03-12 | THE QUOTABLE MARK TWAIN $800: On this painting: "To me it was merely a serene and subdued face... the complexion was bad...there are no people that color" the Mona Lisa |
| #6562, aired 2013-03-12 | THE QUOTABLE MARK TWAIN $1000: "It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables...and some good morals... and upward of a thousand lies" the Bible |
| #6562, aired 2013-03-12 | THE QUOTABLE MARK TWAIN $1,600 (Daily Double): "I came in with" this "in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it", Twain said in 1909; he did Halley's Comet |
| #6301, aired 2012-01-30 | MARK TWAIN NEVER SAID... $200: "Everybody talks about" this, "but nobody does anything about it" the weather |
| #6301, aired 2012-01-30 | MARK TWAIN NEVER SAID... $400: "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in" this California city San Francisco |
| #6301, aired 2012-01-30 | MARK TWAIN NEVER SAID... $600: "It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all" this doubt |
| #6301, aired 2012-01-30 | MARK TWAIN NEVER SAID... $800: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and" these statistics |
| #6301, aired 2012-01-30 | MARK TWAIN NEVER SAID... $1000: "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have" this the time |
| #6069, aired 2011-01-20 | MARK TWAIN SHALL MEET $400: ...this anti-slavery author; her Hartford home was next door to Twain's (Harriet Beecher) Stowe |
| #6069, aired 2011-01-20 | MARK TWAIN SHALL MEET $800: ...this young British author who was traveling from India to England via the U.S. in 1889 (Rudyard) Kipling |
| #6069, aired 2011-01-20 | MARK TWAIN SHALL MEET $1200: ...this poet, whose "Idylls of the King" started an Arthurian craze that inspired "A Connecticut Yankee" Tennyson |
| #6069, aired 2011-01-20 | MARK TWAIN SHALL MEET $1600: ...this British-born journalist in the 1860s, a few years before a journey in Africa made him famous (Henry Morton) Stanley |
| #6069, aired 2011-01-20 | MARK TWAIN SHALL MEET $2000: ...this newspaper publisher, when Twain was chased out of his office at the New York tribune Horace Greeley |
| #6021, aired 2010-11-15 | TWAIN TRACTS $200: A blow on the head sends a man back to Camelot in this 1889 Mark Twain novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #6021, aired 2010-11-15 | TWAIN TRACTS $400: Twain set down the "Personal Recollections of" this female French saint & warrior Joan of Arc |
| #6021, aired 2010-11-15 | TWAIN TRACTS $600: A miner bets on his amphibian's leaping ability in "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of" this county Calaveras County |
| #6021, aired 2010-11-15 | TWAIN TRACTS $800: The first half of this Twain work describes his apprenticeship as a river pilot Life on the Mississippi |
| #6021, aired 2010-11-15 | TWAIN TRACTS $1000: These were "Abroad" in a work Twain compiled from letters he sent home from an overseas trip Innocents |
| #5443, aired 2008-04-16 | MARK TWAIN: BOOK LOVER $400: Writing about this author's "The Deerslayer", Twain called its pathos "funny" & "its love-scenes odious" (James Fenimore) Cooper |
| #5443, aired 2008-04-16 | MARK TWAIN: BOOK LOVER $800: (Alex reads the clue from the Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT.) Mark Twain made notations in the books he owned; he wrote, "Can any plausible excuse be furnished for the crime of creating the human race" in this man's "Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle" Darwin |
| #5443, aired 2008-04-16 | MARK TWAIN: BOOK LOVER $1200: One of Twain's favorite books was the "Diary of" this Englishman; Twain credited it as the model for his book "1601" (Samuel) Pepys |
| #5443, aired 2008-04-16 | MARK TWAIN: BOOK LOVER $1,600 (Daily Double): "The only poem I have ever carried about with me", said Twain, was this classic, best enjoyed with "a jug of wine" the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
| #5443, aired 2008-04-16 | MARK TWAIN: BOOK LOVER $1600: A copy of the New Testament in Arabic was given to Twain during the cruise that inspired this 1869 travel classic The Innocents Abroad |
| #5354, aired 2007-12-13 | TWAIN TRACTS $200: "A frightened look in Becky's face brought Tom to his senses and he saw that he had made a blunder" The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| #5354, aired 2007-12-13 | TWAIN TRACTS $400: "By my authority as executive I threw Merlin into prison -- the same cell I had occupied myself" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #5354, aired 2007-12-13 | TWAIN TRACTS $600: "I resk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog" The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County |
| #5354, aired 2007-12-13 | TWAIN TRACTS $800: "It is the longest river in the world... it is also the crookedest river in the world" LIfe on the Mississippi |
| #5354, aired 2007-12-13 | TWAIN TRACTS $1000: "The two went and stood side by side before a great mirror and lo, a miracle: there did not seem to have been any change" The Prince and the Pauper |
| #5190, aired 2007-03-16 | AT THE MARK TWAIN HOUSE $400: (Alex Trebek delivers the clue from the Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT.) Twain owned one of the first telephones ever installed in a private home, but he once wished that all of us may eventually be gathered together in heaven, except for this man (Alexander Graham) Bell |
| #5190, aired 2007-03-16 | AT THE MARK TWAIN HOUSE $800: Twain & his wife bought their bed in this romantic city of canals (iconoclast Twain slept feet toward the headboard) Venice |
| #5190, aired 2007-03-16 | AT THE MARK TWAIN HOUSE $1200: (Alex Trebek delivers the clue from the Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT.) Appropriately, Mark Twain resided here in Hartford while he worked on this 1889 novel about a Hartford man who travels back in time to medieval England A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #5190, aired 2007-03-16 | AT THE MARK TWAIN HOUSE $1600: Among Twain's many guests was this creator of Uncle Remus whose stories Twain read to his daughters (Joel Chandler) Harris |
| #5190, aired 2007-03-16 | AT THE MARK TWAIN HOUSE $2000: (Alex Trebek delivers the clue from the Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT.) The style of Mark Twain's home here in Hartford exemplifies this ornate age, also the title of a book Twain wrote with his neighbor Charles Dudley Warner the Gilded Age |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | TWAIN TWIP $200: Mark Twain was born in Florida--Florida, Missouri that is--& moved with his family to this town in 1839 Hannibal |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | TWAIN TWIP $400: In the titles of 2 of Twain's travel books, it follows "The Innocents" & "A Tramp" Abroad |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | TWAIN TWIP $600: Twain once defined this type of book (& he wrote several) as one "which people praise and don't read" a classic |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | TWAIN TWIP $800: As he predicted he would, Twain died in 1910, a year in which this appeared, just as it did in 1835 when he was born Halley's Comet |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | TWAIN TWIP $1000: Twain wrote of how the "Maid of the Mist descends the fearful rapids" in a piece called "A Visit to" this place Niagara Falls |
| #4643, aired 2004-11-10 | BY TWAIN $400: Prior to this novel's publication, its whitewash scene appeared in the Philadelphia Sunday Republic Tom Sawyer |
| #4643, aired 2004-11-10 | BY TWAIN $1200: Travel letters Twain wrote during a tour of Europe were collected in his book called these "Abroad" Innocents |
| #4643, aired 2004-11-10 | BY TWAIN $1600: In the first part of this 1883 memoir, Twain recalled his days as a riverboat pilot Life on the Mississippi |
| #4643, aired 2004-11-10 | BY TWAIN $2000: It's the humorous nickname of the lawyer who solves the murder of York Driscoll, Dawson Landing's chief citizen Pudd'n'head Wilson |
| #4643, aired 2004-11-10 | BY TWAIN $2,200 (Daily Double): It's the title locale of the story Twain originally called "Jim Smiley and his Jumping Frog" Calaveras County |
| #3907, aired 2001-09-04 | MARK TWAIN SEZ $200: Lines attributed to Twain include "Everybody talks about" this, "but nobody does anything about it" the weather |
| #3907, aired 2001-09-04 | MARK TWAIN SEZ $400: "Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is" this "that does the work" the lightning |
| #3907, aired 2001-09-04 | MARK TWAIN SEZ $1000: In an essay, Twain said surely no language is "so slip-shod & systemless" as this one he called "awful" German |
| #3691, aired 2000-09-25 | TWAIN TRACTS $100: In a 1909 essay Mark Twain asserted this man could not have written the plays attributed to him William Shakespeare |
| #3691, aired 2000-09-25 | TWAIN TRACTS $200: In articles & a book Twain questioned this Mary Baker Eddy church's tenet of divine healing Christian Science |
| #3691, aired 2000-09-25 | TWAIN TRACTS $300: In a 1904 essay Twain's subject was this French saint about whom he had written a book Joan of Arc |
| #3691, aired 2000-09-25 | TWAIN TRACTS $400: The Sacramento Union published Twain's running account of his visit to these islands the Hawaiian Islands |
| #3691, aired 2000-09-25 | TWAIN TRACTS $500: In "Innocents Abroad" Twain derides this city's mistreatment of Galileo & its love of the Medicis Florence |
| #3559, aired 2000-02-10 | MARK TWAIN $200: Mark Twain was a pen name; this was his real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens |
| #3559, aired 2000-02-10 | MARK TWAIN $400: Twain wrote that in "The Deerslayer", this author "scored 114 offenses against literary art out of a possible 115" James Fenimore Cooper |
| #3559, aired 2000-02-10 | MARK TWAIN $800 (Daily Double): This 1889 novel contrasts American homespun ingenuity with the Dark Ages' superstition & ineptitude "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" |
| #3559, aired 2000-02-10 | MARK TWAIN $800: In the 1850s Twain was an apprentice one of these under Horace Bixby; he became a licensed one in 1859 Riverboat pilot |
| #3559, aired 2000-02-10 | MARK TWAIN $1000: Twain said, "There is no distinctly Native American criminal class except" this body Congress |
| #2535, aired 1995-09-15 | TWAIN $100: Twain claimed it was easy to give up this habit, saying "I've done it a thousand times" smoking |
| #2535, aired 1995-09-15 | TWAIN $200: The grave of Laura H. Frazer, Twain's childhood friend, also bears the name of this character she inspired Becky Thatcher |
| #2535, aired 1995-09-15 | TWAIN $300: As a teenager Twain, like Ben Franklin, was apprenticed to one of these printer |
| #2535, aired 1995-09-15 | TWAIN $400: Mark Twain's grave is in Elmira in this state New York |
| #2535, aired 1995-09-15 | TWAIN $500: Twain was on the staff of this Nevada town's Territorial Enterprise Virginia City |
| #2333, aired 1994-10-26 | MARK TWAIN $200: Dan'l Webster is the name of this "celebrated" animal of Calaveras County (jumping) frog |
| #2333, aired 1994-10-26 | MARK TWAIN $400: Title character who says, "Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave..." Huckleberry Finn |
| #2333, aired 1994-10-26 | MARK TWAIN $600: This novel contains the line "I am an American. I was born and reared in Hartford" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #2333, aired 1994-10-26 | MARK TWAIN $800: Chapters in this novel include "Tom's Early Life", "to London" & "Coronation Day" The Prince and the Pauper |
| #2333, aired 1994-10-26 | MARK TWAIN $1,200 (Daily Double): This eccentric attorney from Dawson's Landing, Mo. successfully defends Italian twins accused of murder Pudd'nhead Wilson |
| #1946, aired 1993-02-08 | MARK TWAIN QUOTES $200: Character who said, "You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft" Huck Finn |
| #1946, aired 1993-02-08 | MARK TWAIN QUOTES $400: This "consists of whatever a body is obliged to do...play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do" work |
| #1946, aired 1993-02-08 | MARK TWAIN QUOTES $600: "There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and" this when he can |
| #1946, aired 1993-02-08 | MARK TWAIN QUOTES $800: "When in doubt tell" this the truth |
| #1946, aired 1993-02-08 | MARK TWAIN QUOTES $1000: "There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them, than to" do this "with them" travel with them |
| #1783, aired 1992-05-06 | MARK TWAIN $100: He said, "One of the most striking differences between a cat & a lie is that a cat has only" this many lives nine |
| #1783, aired 1992-05-06 | MARK TWAIN $200: In "Tom Sawyer", the town of St. Petersburg was modeled on this one in Missouri Hannibal |
| #1783, aired 1992-05-06 | MARK TWAIN $300: By April 1859 he had become a licensed one of these a riverboat pilot |
| #1783, aired 1992-05-06 | MARK TWAIN $500: He first used his pen name on the Territorial Enterprise, a newspaper in this Nevada city Virginia City |
| #1783, aired 1992-05-06 | MARK TWAIN $2,000 (Daily Double): This Twain novel is set in 16th century England The Prince and the Pauper |
| #1615, aired 1991-09-13 | MARK TWAIN $100: Twain said, "I believe that our Heavenly Father invented" this "because he was disappointed in the monkey" man |
| #1615, aired 1991-09-13 | MARK TWAIN $200: This friend of Tom Sawyer is based on Twain's "ignorant, unwashed" friend Tom Blankenship Huck Finn |
| #1615, aired 1991-09-13 | MARK TWAIN $300: According to Twain, "The art" of frying chicken "cannot be learned north of" this line the Mason-Dixon line |
| #1615, aired 1991-09-13 | MARK TWAIN $400: Twain's mother was the inspiration for this character in "Tom Sawyer" Aunt Polly |
| #1615, aired 1991-09-13 | MARK TWAIN $500: Twain claimed he knew this author's books better than his own & read "Kim" every year (Rudyard) Kipling |
| #1303, aired 1990-04-11 | MARK TWAIN $100: In "Pudd'nhead Wilson", Twain said a classic is "a book which people praise & don't" do this read |
| #1303, aired 1990-04-11 | MARK TWAIN $200: In 1894 Twain took this title character "Abroad" & 2 years later he became a "Detective" Tom Sawyer |
| #1303, aired 1990-04-11 | MARK TWAIN $300: He worked as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi until traffic was curtailed due to this outbreak of the Civil War |
| #1303, aired 1990-04-11 | MARK TWAIN $400: Samuel Clemens 1st used the name Mark Twain in 1863 while writing for this Nevada town's newspaper Virginia City |
| #1303, aired 1990-04-11 | MARK TWAIN $500: When 1st published, this book of Twain's travels to Europe was sold mainly by door-to-door salesman The Innocents Abroad |
| #1168, aired 1989-10-04 | MARK TWAIN QUOTES $200: According to Twain this breeds children as well as contempt familiarity |
| #1168, aired 1989-10-04 | MARK TWAIN QUOTES $400: "I'll risk $40 he can outjump any" one of these "in Calaveras County" a frog |
| #1168, aired 1989-10-04 | MARK TWAIN QUOTES $600: In an 1897 cable from London to the Associated Press, Twain said, "The reports of my death are" this "greatly exaggerated" |
| #1168, aired 1989-10-04 | MARK TWAIN QUOTES $800: "The wise man saith, 'Put all your eggs in the one basket and...' " make sure you do this "watch that basket" |
| #1168, aired 1989-10-04 | MARK TWAIN QUOTES $1000: In "Life on the Mississippi" a man told of his home equipped with "all the modern" ones of these inconveniences |
| #735, aired 1987-11-13 | TWAIN $200: Twain said "the art" of frying this fowl "cannot be learned north of the line of Mason & Dixon" chicken |
| #735, aired 1987-11-13 | TWAIN $400: Character who refers to "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" in the 1st line of his book Huckleberry Finn |
| #735, aired 1987-11-13 | TWAIN $600: On their 1st "date" Twain took his future wife to a reading given by this English author in 1867 Charles Dickens |
| #735, aired 1987-11-13 | TWAIN $800: His actual middle name Langhorne |
| #735, aired 1987-11-13 | TWAIN $1000: According to the title, it's what Twain was "Following" in his last travel book the equator |
| #717, aired 1987-10-20 | MARK TWAIN $200: Century in which Mark Twain died 20th century |
| #717, aired 1987-10-20 | MARK TWAIN $400: Color of the suit that, late in Mark Twain's life, became his trademark white |
| #717, aired 1987-10-20 | MARK TWAIN $600: "Dan'l Webster" was the name of this "Celebrated" title figure "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" |
| #717, aired 1987-10-20 | MARK TWAIN $800: After being hit by a crowbar, a man from Hartford woke up near this castle site King Arthur's Court |
| #717, aired 1987-10-20 | MARK TWAIN $1000: In his comic criticism of this author's works, Twain calls "Chingachgook" "Chicago" James Fenimore Cooper |
| #22, aired 1984-10-09 | MARK TWAIN $200: His celebrated jumper from Calaveras County a frog |
| #22, aired 1984-10-09 | MARK TWAIN $400: The name Twain's mother gave him Samuel (Langhorne) Clemens |
| #22, aired 1984-10-09 | MARK TWAIN $600: Huck Finn said he go to hell before he'd betray this runaway slave Jim |
| #22, aired 1984-10-09 | MARK TWAIN $800: It appeared in the sky the year he was born & the year he died Halley's Comet |
