| #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 |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | NAMES IN HISTORY $1200: Last name of Bronson, a teacher & abolitionist who lived in poverty until his daughter made it big in books in the 19th century Alcott |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: This 19th century American's first novel, "Fanshawe", is set at Harley College based on his alma mater, Bowdoin College (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | GREAT BOOKS ON AUDIBLE $2000: Thandie Newton reads this 19th century gothic novel
"Mr. Rochester!", I exclaimed, "Who is he?" "The owner of Thornfield," she responded quietly, "Did you not know he was called Rochester?" Jane Eyre |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | BOOKS ABOUT ASIA $1600: Simon Winchester's study of the 19th century eruption of this volcano is subtitled "The Day the World Exploded" Krakatoa |
| #7702, aired 2018-02-20 | OF DIMES $1000: Popular & cheap books of the late 19th century were called dime novels in the United States & by this other coin term in the UK penny dreadfuls |
| #7680, aired 2018-01-19 | 19th CENTURY OCCUPATIONS $1200: This person specialized in selling books as well as paper, pens, ink & other writing essentials a stationer |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | COLORING BOOKS $3,000 (Daily Double): A quote from this 19th century novel: "Woman, it is thy badge of shame!" The Scarlet Letter |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | BOOKS' FIRST LINES $1600: From 19th century England:
"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day" Jane Eyre |
| #7417, aired 2016-12-06 | A BARRAGE OF BOOKS $600: Sir Wilfrid of Ivanhoe is a Saxon knight in a 19th century bestseller by this author (Sir Walter) Scott |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $600: In a Patricia MacLachlan title, these 2 words describe Sarah, an American mail order bride of the 19th century plain & tall |
| #7103, aired 2015-07-01 | THE WRITE STUFF $600: This 19th-century author wrote steamy thrillers like "Behind a Mask", as well as books about young people Louisa May Alcott |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | PHILOSOPHY $1200: In 14 years this 19th century Dane published 30 books, mostly about how to reach God Kierkegaard |
| #6808, aired 2014-04-02 | 19th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $1600: This artist who gained fame illustrating books by Owen Wister is seen here in a self-portrait on a horse Frederic Remington |
| #6772, aired 2014-02-11 | 19th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: He noted, "I had sent my heroine... down a rabbit-hole... without the least idea what was to happen afterwards" (Lewis) Carroll |
| #6772, aired 2014-02-11 | 19th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $800 (Daily Double): Between 1872 & 1882 she wrote 6 volumes of "Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag" Louisa May Alcott |
| #6772, aired 2014-02-11 | 19th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: In 1893 this British man published his "initial" book, a "text-book of biology"; many sci-fi novels followed H.G. Wells |
| #6772, aired 2014-02-11 | 19th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: In 1863 he put out a book originally titled "Voyage au Centre de la Terre" Jules Verne |
| #6772, aired 2014-02-11 | 19th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: Before "Downton Abbey", there was this, the shortest of Jane Austen's 6 major novels Northanger Abbey |
| #6597, aired 2013-04-30 | ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $400: "Eden on the Charles" shows how the 19th century growth of this city influences us today Boston |
| #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 |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | LOOK WHO'S TALKING $200: This 19th century American humorist observed, "Be careful about reading health books, you may die of a misprint" Mark Twain |
| #5775, aired 2009-10-23 | ART BOOKS $1600: "American Wilderness" is "The Story of" this 19th century school of painting the Hudson River School |
| #5597, aired 2008-12-30 | THE JOY OF TEXT $400: D.H. Donald's biography of this 19th century president made it onto a list of Bill Clinton's favorite books Abraham Lincoln |
| #4812, aired 2005-07-05 | AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): This 19th century English author also wrote the books "Curiosa Mathematica" & "Symbolic Logic" Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) |
| #4346, aired 2003-06-23 | BOOKS TO LISTEN TO $2,000 (Daily Double): "Two Tales of the Sea" packages "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" with this 19th century novel Moby-Dick |
| #4266, aired 2003-03-03 | WE THINK $1600: This 19th century Danish philosopher used about 20 pseudonyms in writing his books Soren Kierkegaard |
| #4263, aired 2003-02-26 | 19th CENTURY WOMEN $400: Little men & women might enjoy reading her other children's books, including "An Old-Fashioned Girl" Louisa May Alcott |
| #3364, aired 1999-04-01 | 19th CENTURY LITHUANIA $500 (Daily Double): In the 1860s a Russification program meant Lithuanian books had to use this alphabet Cyrillic |
| #3213, aired 1998-07-15 | BOOKS FOR THE BRAVE $1000: Few have finished both the Barsetshire & Palliser series by this "wanton" 19th century novelist Anthony Trollope |
| #2896, aired 1997-03-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: His 1993 novel "Gai-Jin" takes place in 19th century Japan James Clavell |
| #2747, aired 1996-07-09 | PHILOSOPHY $1000: 19th century Dane who wrote the ominous-sounding books "Fear and Trembling" & "The Concept of Dread" Kierkegaard |
| #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 |
| #905, aired 1988-07-08 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $100: Its 1st collection of books was destroyed when the British burned the Capitol in 1814 the Library of Congress |
| #306, aired 1985-11-11 | 19TH CENTURY NOVELS $200: Of all his books, he said “David Copperfield” was his “favourite child” Charles Dickens |
