| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: As well as kids' books, this 19th century author wrote "Examples in Arithmetic" & other math textbooks (Lewis) Carroll |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: The hero of this Stevenson novel finds himself on a ship he had no intention of sailing on--yup, he's been this title Kidnapped |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: A work by James Fenimore Cooper sometimes called the first espionage novel has this simple title The Spy |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $1200: This oldest member of the 3 Musketeers in Dumas' novel is revealed to be the Comte de la Fere Athos |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $2000: The Duke of Ferrara is the possibly murderous narrator of this Robert Browning poem My Last Duchess |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $4,600 (Daily Double): This Englishwoman wrote 1823's "Valperga"; her first novel also had a one-word title but is more famous Mary Shelley |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | PREPOSITIONAL LITERATURE $200: A boy comes of age during this 19th century conflict in Irene Hunt's young adult classic "Across Five Aprils" the Civil War |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): With works like "Redgauntlet" & "Kenilworth", this U.K. author created the historical novel in the 19th century Sir Walter Scott |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | ASIAN LITERATURE & DRAMA $1600: A collection of verses first translated into English in the 19th century, "The Rubaiyat" is by this Persian poet Omar Khayyam |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: 'Twas 2 days before Christmas in 1823 that the poem "A Visit from" him was published anonymously in a New York newspaper St. Nicholas |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: This Stevenson classic is divided into 6 parts including "The Old Buccaneer" & "Captain Silver" Treasure Island |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $1200: In 1863 he published a novel about "The Cossacks", who also get plenty of mention in his next, more epic, work (Leo) Tolstoy |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): His adventure novel "Une Ville Flottante", "A Floating City", takes place on a steamship, not under the sea Jules Verne |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $2000: His first book of poems, "The Black Riders" was published in 1895, the same year as his "Red Badge of Courage" (Stephen) Crane |
| #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 |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | RUSSIAN TO THE BOOKSHELF $1200: This 19th century poet, playwright and unsuccessful duelist is considered a founder of modern Russian literature Alexander Pushkin |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | WAR IN LITERATURE $400: Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" recounted events from this 19th century war the Crimean War |
| #7290, aired 2016-04-29 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $200: Akela the wolf & Baloo the brown bear are 2 of the animals featured in this collection of stories The Jungle Book |
| #7290, aired 2016-04-29 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: Early in this Jules Verne tale, professor Otto Lidenbrock, his nephew & a guide descend into a volcano Journey to the Center of the Earth |
| #7290, aired 2016-04-29 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: Wordsworth began a poem, "I wandered lonely as" this "that floats on high o'er vales and hills" a cloud |
| #7290, aired 2016-04-29 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $1000: 2 expatriates come to Boston to visit relatives in his 1878 novel "The Europeans" Henry James |
| #7290, aired 2016-04-29 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Essays making up this 1854 work include "Reading", "Solitude" & "The Pond in Winter" Walden; or, Life in the Woods |
| #7164, aired 2015-11-05 | GOTHIC LITERATURE $1600: Edgar Allan Poe fed a 19th century Gothic revival with stories like this supernatural tale about Roderick & his doomed family The Fall of the House of Usher |
| #6847, aired 2014-05-27 | MOVIES INSPIRED BY LITERATURE $600: You Goethe go back to this 2-part 19th century work to see the origins of "Damn Yankees" Faust |
| #6366, aired 2012-04-30 | SCARY LITERATURE $2000: This 19th century American writer's scary short stories include "The Sphinx" & "The Oblong Box" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: As well as kids' books, this 19th century author wrote "Examples in Arithmetic" & other math textbooks Lewis Carroll |
| #5458, aired 2008-05-07 | LITERATURE $400: "Jo's Boys" was the second sequel to this 19th century novel Little Women |
| #5408, aired 2008-02-27 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: You'll find whaleboats not only in his masterpiece but also in his story "Benito Cereno" & his novel "Mardi" Herman Melville |
| #5408, aired 2008-02-27 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: In "Uncle Tom's Cabin", St. Clare, Tom's master, is killed; Tom is then sold to this brutal, drunken planter Simon Legree |
| #5408, aired 2008-02-27 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): For 14 years, the Abbe Faria was his fellow prisoner in the Chateau d'If Edmond Dantès, the Count of Monte Cristo |
| #5408, aired 2008-02-27 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $1200: In Pedro Antonio de Alarcon's "The Three-Cornered" this, a miller thinks his wife is having an affair with the mayor hat |
| #5408, aired 2008-02-27 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $1600: The last name of the title character of this Thomas Hardy novel is actually Durbeyfield Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| #5357, aired 2007-12-18 | LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In the 19th century, literature about these Argentine cowboys was popular, with Jose Hernandez' "Martin Fierro" a classic gauchos |
| #4549, aired 2004-05-20 | FRENCH LITERATURE $800: This 19th century sci-fi writer foretold the artificial satellite in his story "The Begum's Fortune" Jules Verne |
| #4494, aired 2004-03-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: His unladylike horror story "The Cask of Amontillado" was first published in Godey's Lady's Book, in 1846 (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #4494, aired 2004-03-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: The Mock Turtle sings a song about the Lobster Quadrille in this classic children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
| #4494, aired 2004-03-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $1200: A scientist tests poison on his own daughter in this American author's 1840s story "Rappaccini's Daughter" (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #4494, aired 2004-03-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $1600: "The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish" is this author's 1829 novel about King Philip's War James Fenimore Cooper |
| #4494, aired 2004-03-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $2000: The title gem in this Wilkie Collins novel was once in the handle of a dagger owned by Tippoo, the sultan of Seringapatam The Moonstone |
| #4366, aired 2003-09-08 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $200: It may ring a bell that he had "a huge head sprouting red hair; between the two shoulders an enormous hump" the Hunchback (of Notre Dame) |
| #4366, aired 2003-09-08 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: The title wrongdoing in this novel is the murder of a pawnbroker & her sister by Raskolnikov Crime and Punishment |
| #4366, aired 2003-09-08 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $600: The year before her death, 29-year-old Emily Bronte published this, her only novel Wuthering Heights |
| #4366, aired 2003-09-08 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): "Knitting", "Still Knitting" & "The Knitting Done" are chapters in this 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities |
| #4366, aired 2003-09-08 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $1000: Published in 1849, "Redburn: His First Voyage" was based on this author's first voyage as a cabin boy Herman Melville |
| #4239, aired 2003-01-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): This 19th century female character "raised a great scandal in godly master Dimmesdale's church" Hester Prynne |
| #3489, aired 1999-11-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $200: Novel in which Ishmael, feeling "a damp, drizzly November" in his soul, goes to work on a whaler "Moby Dick" |
| #3489, aired 1999-11-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: In this Mark Twain story, a mechanic is knocked unconscious in a fight & awakens in Camelot in 528 A.D. "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" |
| #3489, aired 1999-11-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $600: His 5 "Leatherstocking Tales" portray Natty Bumppo from his youth to his death over 60 years later James Fenimore Cooper |
| #3489, aired 1999-11-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: Hawthorne wrote that these "Tales" had the "pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade" "Twice-Told Tales" |
| #3489, aired 1999-11-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $1000: This Poe tale ends with the line "The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies" "The Pit and the Pendulum" |
| #3480, aired 1999-10-22 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $200: William Wells Brown's "Clotel; or, The President's Daughter" is about the kids this man allegedly had with a slave Thomas Jefferson |
| #3480, aired 1999-10-22 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: He wrote "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky", "The Blue Hotel" & "The Red Badge of Courage" Stephen Crane |
| #3480, aired 1999-10-22 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $500 (Daily Double): Edward Bellamy's 1888 book "Looking Backward" sends a man to this year & doesn't mention computer bugs 2000 |
| #3480, aired 1999-10-22 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: Ydgrun is a goddess worshipped by residents of this Samuel Butler country Erewhon |
| #3480, aired 1999-10-22 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $1000: Oscar Wilde wrote "The Picture of Dorian Gray" & he wrote "The Portrait of A Lady" Henry James |
| #2707, aired 1996-05-14 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: This legendary outlaw of Nottinghamshire began appearing in children's books in the 19th century Robin Hood |
| #2546, aired 1995-10-02 | MUSIC & LITERATURE $1000: Prokofiev's powerful opera "The Gambler" is an adaptation of a novel by this 19th century Russian Dostoyevsky |
| #1642, aired 1991-10-22 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $200: This Turgenev novel is also known as "Fathers and Children" Fathers and Sons |
| #1642, aired 1991-10-22 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: Clym Yeobright is "The Native" in the title of this 1878 Thomas Hardy novel Return of the Native |
| #1642, aired 1991-10-22 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $600: "The Purloined Letter" opens in Paris in this detective's "little back library, or book-closet" C. Auguste Dupin |
| #1642, aired 1991-10-22 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: His novel "The Master of Ballantrae" is subtitled "A Winter's Tale" Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #1642, aired 1991-10-22 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $1000: Expatriate who based "The Aspern Papers" on a story he'd heard about Lord Byron's mistress Henry James |
| #1459, aired 1990-12-27 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $200: When he died in 1891, his obituary in the New York Tribune said his best work was "Typee" Melville |
| #1459, aired 1990-12-27 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: Her first novel, "The Professor", was published after her death; her most famous work is "Jane Eyre" Charlotte Bronte |
| #1459, aired 1990-12-27 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: "Dead Souls" has been called one of the greatest novels ever written in this language Russian |
| #1459, aired 1990-12-27 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $1000: Some say her unfinished novel "The Watsons" is an early version of "Emma" Jane Austen |
| #1459, aired 1990-12-27 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): The title of one of his macabre tales warns, "Never Bet the Devil Your Head" (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #881, aired 1988-06-06 | 19TH CENTURY LITERATURE $200: Anna Sewell subtitled this "The Autobiography of a Horse" Black Beauty |
| #881, aired 1988-06-06 | 19TH CENTURY LITERATURE $400: Dickens novel that introduced the unforgettable characters Seth Pecksniff & Jonas Chuzzlewit Martin Chuzzlewit |
| #881, aired 1988-06-06 | 19TH CENTURY LITERATURE $600: He lived till 1928 but wrote all his novels, including "Tess of the d'Urbervilles", in the 1800s Thomas Hardy |
| #881, aired 1988-06-06 | 19TH CENTURY LITERATURE $800: Thackeray titled chapter 36 of this book "How to Live Well on Nothing a Year" Vanity Fair |
| #881, aired 1988-06-06 | 19TH CENTURY LITERATURE $1000: His "Tanglewood Tales" were based on Greek mythology Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #779, aired 1988-01-14 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1000: Among this 19th-century writer's poems are "Pippa Passes" & "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" (Robert) Browning |
| #644, aired 1987-05-28 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: 19th century poet whose husband often called her "my little Portuguese" Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #614, aired 1987-04-16 | LITERATURE $800: Set in 19th century New England, this Eugene O'Neill play updated the tragedy of Orestes & Elektra Mourning Becomes Elektra |
| #300, aired 1985-11-01 | LITERATURE $1000: 19th century poet who "heard America singing" in Brooklyn Walt Whitman |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: In 1896 new spider species were named for a wolf, a panther & a snake from a work published 2 years earlier by this man (Rudyard) Kipling |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: William Brodie, an upstanding Scottish tradesman by day & leader of a gang of burglars by night, helped inspire these 2 title characters Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: This author first thought of a parrot before choosing another bird "equally capable of speech" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: The Strand Union Workhouse, whose rules prohibited second helpings of food, inspired a setting in this 1838 novel Oliver Twist |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: Its first line says, "The good people of Paris were awakened by a grand peal from all the bells in the three districts of the city" The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: This 1870 novel has a ship whose name is from the Greek for "sailor" & a captain whose name is Latin for "no one" Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea |
| #7380, aired 2016-10-14 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: This character says, "Let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee" Captain Ahab |
| #7193, aired 2015-12-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE: The theft alluded to in the title of this 1844 Poe story is committed by a government minister "The Purloined Letter" |
| #7110, aired 2015-07-10 | 19th CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE: "I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel" is spoken to this title character by his creation Frankenstein |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | LITERATURE: A chapter heading in this 19th century work calls the title character "one-eyed, lame", another calls him "deaf" The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #6222, aired 2011-10-11 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: "'How are you getting on?' said" this animal character, "as soon as there was mouth enough for it to speak with" the Cheshire Cat |
| #6114, aired 2011-03-24 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: Armor-clad knights face off in a game of baseball in an 1889 work by this author Mark Twain |
| #5895, aired 2010-04-09 | 19th CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE: In chapter 10, "The whole mystery of the handkerchiefs, and the watches, and the jewels... rushed upon" this title boy's "mind" Oliver Twist |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: In an 1877 novel Mrs. Gordon initially suggests the name Ebony for this title character Black Beauty |
| #5842, aired 2010-01-26 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: Chapter II of this novel says, "My eyes were not to be deceived. I was indeed awake and among the Carpathians" Dracula |
| #5725, aired 2009-06-26 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE: At the end of this novel, the title object "ceased to be a stigma which attracted the world's scorn and bitterness" The Scarlet Letter |
| #5247, aired 2007-06-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Subtitles of books in this 19th century series include "A Tale", "The Inland Sea" & "The First War-Path" Leatherstocking Tales |
| #5030, aired 2006-06-23 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: "I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world", says this narrator Ishmael |
| #4702, aired 2005-02-01 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: "The Pastor and His Parishioner" is Chapter 17 of this classic novel The Scarlet Letter |
| #679, aired 1987-07-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: 19th century novel whose alternate title is "Life Among the Lowly" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #540, aired 1987-01-02 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Inspirational 19th century song from which John Steinbeck got the title "The Grapes of Wrath" "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic" |
