| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | THESE BROS ARE LIT $400: Collectively, Dmitry, Ivan & Alyosha live up to the title of this 19th century novel The Brothers Karamazov |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | AMERICAN LIT $800: This narrator in a 19th century classic says, "Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave" Huck Finn |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | MRS., MISS OR MR. $800: This title Mr. of 19th century lit "gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation" Mr. Hyde |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | 19th CENTURY LIT $200: This children's classic tells us that the title character was made from a very ordinary piece of firewood Pinocchio |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | 19th CENTURY LIT $400: The title of this Jules Verne tale refers to the distance traveled, not to how deep the characters go Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | 19th CENTURY LIT $600: Title of the Emma Lazarus sonnet read at the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund Art Loan Exhibition in 1883 The New Colossus |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | 19th CENTURY LIT $800: This writer of poems like "Dover Beach" also worked as an inspector of schools Matthew Arnold |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | 19th CENTURY LIT $1000: This German's 1803 drama "The Natural Daughter" was not a success, though Schiller liked it Goethe |
| #7310, aired 2016-05-27 | NUMERICAL LIT $1000: Richard Henry Dana told of life aboard a 19th century ship in "Two Years Before" this the Mast |
| #6951, aired 2014-12-01 | KIDS IN LIT $4,800 (Daily Double): This 19th century character asked, "Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?" Tom Sawyer |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | 19th CENTURY BRIT LIT $400: He set many of his works, beginning with "Far From the Madding Crowd", in an area of England called Wessex Thomas Hardy |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | 19th CENTURY BRIT LIT $800: "Ivanhoe" was an immediate success when released in 1819, & this author soon became a baronet Sir Walter Scott |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | 19th CENTURY BRIT LIT $1200: "A Novel Without a Hero" is the subtitle of this Thackeray work Vanity Fair |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | 19th CENTURY BRIT LIT $1600: This author's 1860 novel "The Woman in White" was loosely based on a French case Wilkie Collins |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | 19th CENTURY BRIT LIT $4,400 (Daily Double): Amy is the real name of this Dickens title character who was born in the Marshalsea debtor's prison Little Dorrit |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $400: In 1853 Harriet Beecher Stowe published "A Key to" this novel, with facts & figures to back up its accuracy Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $800: "The Fair God" by Lew Wallace tells of the conquest of Mexico by this explorer (Hernando) Cortes |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $1200: In an 1863 story by Edward Everett Hale, army officer Philip Nolan becomes "The Man Without" this a Country |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $1600: Chapter 1 of this Hawthorne novel is titled "The Old Pyncheon Family" The House of the Seven Gables |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $2000: In 1876 Mark Twain collaborated on a play, "Ah Sin", with this author of "The Luck of Roaring Camp" Bret Harte |
| #6149, aired 2011-05-12 | COLORFUL 19th CENTURY LIT $400: This 1895 Stephen Crane work has been called the first modern war novel The Red Badge of Courage |
| #6149, aired 2011-05-12 | COLORFUL 19th CENTURY LIT $800: The subtitle of this 1877 novel is "The Autobiography of a Horse" Black Beauty |
| #6149, aired 2011-05-12 | COLORFUL 19th CENTURY LIT $1200: A trip to Liverpool as a cabin boy on a merchant ship helped this man pen "Redburn"; it wasn't the last novel he set at sea (Herman) Melville |
| #6149, aired 2011-05-12 | COLORFUL 19th CENTURY LIT $1600: The first chapter of this 1887 work is titled "Mr. Sherlock Holmes" A Study in Scarlet |
| #6149, aired 2011-05-12 | COLORFUL 19th CENTURY LIT $2000: In 1872 he published the first of his Wessex novels "Under the Greenwood Tree" (Thomas) Hardy |
| #5990, aired 2010-10-01 | 19th CENTURY LIT $400: 1836's "O.T.: a Danish Romance" is a grownup novel by this man who'd soon turn his hand to fairy tales (Hans Christian) Andersen |
| #5990, aired 2010-10-01 | 19th CENTURY LIT $800: "Monsieur LeCoq", about a Paris cop solving a mystery, is one of the earliest of this type of novel, also LeCoq's job detective |
| #5990, aired 2010-10-01 | 19th CENTURY LIT $1200: Known for his gloomy novels, this Brit also published 9 volumes of rhyming verse starting in 1898 Thomas Hardy |
| #5990, aired 2010-10-01 | 19th CENTURY LIT $1,500 (Daily Double): This "Old Ironsides" poet was also a doctor. You might recall that his son became a lawyer (Oliver Wendell) Holmes |
| #5990, aired 2010-10-01 | 19th CENTURY LIT $1600: This author created the noble Indian Uncas & the slimy Indian Magua (James Fenimore) Cooper |
| #5475, aired 2008-05-30 | 19th CENTURY LIT $400: In Chapter 1 of this sequel, a mirror "becomes all soft like gauze", allowing entrance to another world Through the Looking-Glass |
| #5475, aired 2008-05-30 | 19th CENTURY LIT $800: This Bronte sister published her novel "Agnes Grey" under the pseudonym Acton Bell Anne Brontë |
| #5475, aired 2008-05-30 | 19th CENTURY LIT $1200: His "Ode to the West Wind" was "chiefly written in a wood that skirts the Arno, near Florence" Shelley |
| #5475, aired 2008-05-30 | 19th CENTURY LIT $1600: Appropriately, this Russian playwright wrote an 1892 story called "After the Theater" Chekhov |
| #5475, aired 2008-05-30 | 19th CENTURY LIT $2000: Bored Lady Constantine finds passion with an astronomer in--where else?--Wessex in his "Two on a Tower" Thomas Hardy |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $400: In an 1876 novel, he cons Ben, Billy & Johnny into whitewashing a fence for him Tom Sawyer |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $800: In this novel, Hester Prynne's husband assumes the guise of Roger Chillingworth, a doctor The Scarlet Letter |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $1,000 (Daily Double): "The Legend of" this place is set in "Greensburgh... which is more generally" known as Tarry Town Sleepy Hollow |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $1600: Text that was deleted by the original publisher in 1895 was restored to this Stephen Crane novel in 1982 The Red Badge of Courage |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $2000: Captain Kidd's buried treasure & a scarab beetle figure prominently in this 1843 Edgar Allan Poe tale The Gold Bug |
| #5135, aired 2006-12-29 | 19th CENTURY LIT $200: His story "William Wilson" mentions some ushers--but they're not the ones whose house is falling in another story (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #5135, aired 2006-12-29 | 19th CENTURY LIT $400: Her 1869 novel "Oldtown Folks" features runaway children instead of runaway slaves (Harriet Beecher) Stowe |
| #5135, aired 2006-12-29 | 19th CENTURY LIT $600: In this novel, Count Vronsky is "passionately fond of horses"--& of a married woman who's the title character Anna Karenina |
| #5135, aired 2006-12-29 | 19th CENTURY LIT $800: "You are dancing with the only handsome girl in the room", says Mr. Darcy to his friend in this novel Pride and Prejudice |
| #5135, aired 2006-12-29 | 19th CENTURY LIT $1000: In a poem, he penned, "In Reading Gaol by Reading Town there is a pit of shame..." Oscar Wilde |
| #4690, aired 2005-01-14 | CHAPTERS IN 19th CENTURY LIT $200: "Becky in a Dilemma" & "Lost in the Cave" are found in "The Adventures of" him Tom Sawyer |
| #4690, aired 2005-01-14 | CHAPTERS IN 19th CENTURY LIT $400: "The Pequod meets the Virgin" is chapter 81 of this novel Moby Dick |
| #4690, aired 2005-01-14 | CHAPTERS IN 19th CENTURY LIT $600: "I Am Born",
"I Observe" &
"I Have a Change"
are the first 3 chapters of this Dickens classic David Copperfield |
| #4690, aired 2005-01-14 | CHAPTERS IN 19th CENTURY LIT $800: You'll find "What Happened at Portsmouth on 25 August 1628" & "Porthos' Mistress" in this 1844 novel The Three Musketeers |
| #4690, aired 2005-01-14 | CHAPTERS IN 19th CENTURY LIT $1000: Chapters 1-4 of this classic start with "Jonathan Harker's Journal"; later we also get a peek at "Dr. Seward's Diary" Dracula |
| #4374, aired 2003-09-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $400: Harriet Beecher Stowe said that God wrote this book, "I merely did his dictation" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #4374, aired 2003-09-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $800: In 1880 an illustrated volume of his "A Tramp Abroad" included an appendix titled "The Awful German Language" Mark Twain |
| #4374, aired 2003-09-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $1200: This 1854 series of essays on self-reliance was subtitled "Or, Life in the Woods" Walden |
| #4374, aired 2003-09-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $1600: In "The Scarlet Letter", she "raised a great scandal ... in godly Master Dimmesdale's church" Hester Prynne |
| #4374, aired 2003-09-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $2000: This James Fenimore Cooper character is known as Hawkeye, Long Rifle & Pathfinder Natty Bumppo |
| #4221, aired 2002-12-30 | FRENCH LIT $400: Begun in 1845 & published in 1862, this Victor Hugo work condemns the social injustices of 19th century France "Les Miserables" |
| #4170, aired 2002-10-18 | 19th CENTURY LIT $400: Chapters in this novel include "Hester at Her Needle" & "Hester and Pearl" "The Scarlet Letter" |
| #4170, aired 2002-10-18 | 19th CENTURY LIT $800: "Twenty Years After" was a sequel to this French novel that was published only the year before "The Three Musketeers" |
| #4170, aired 2002-10-18 | 19th CENTURY LIT $1200: His 1842 novel "Dead Souls" is considered one of the greatest novels in the Russian language Nikolai Gogol |
| #4170, aired 2002-10-18 | 19th CENTURY LIT $1600: This author established his reputation with the 1868 story "The Luck of Roaring Camp" Bret Harte |
| #4170, aired 2002-10-18 | 19th CENTURY LIT $3,000 (Daily Double): The title of this Dickens novel refers to John Harmon, an associate of both the Boffins & the Wilfers "Our Mutual Friend" |
| #4097, aired 2002-05-28 | 19th CENTURY LIT $200: This title boy tells us, "Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich" Huckleberry Finn |
| #4097, aired 2002-05-28 | 19th CENTURY LIT $400: This Wonderland kitty "had very long claws and a great many teeth, so" Alice decided to treat it with respect Cheshire Cat |
| #4097, aired 2002-05-28 | 19th CENTURY LIT $600: He gave us "The Jungle Book" in 1894 & "The Second Jungle Book" in 1895 Kipling |
| #4097, aired 2002-05-28 | 19th CENTURY LIT $800: His story about Jekyll & Hyde was inspired by a nightmare, & he was really ticked when his wife woke him up Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #4097, aired 2002-05-28 | 19th CENTURY LIT $1000: This heroine is "barely eighteen" when she seeks a new job as a governess (& finds one, with Mr. Rochester) Jane Eyre |
| #3709, aired 2000-10-19 | 19th CENTURY LIT $200: "Tevye the Dairyman", published beginning in 1894, inspired this Broadway & movie musical Fiddler on the Roof |
| #3709, aired 2000-10-19 | 19th CENTURY LIT $400: His first novel was "Hans of Iceland", 8 years before "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" Victor Hugo |
| #3709, aired 2000-10-19 | 19th CENTURY LIT $600: The infamous opening of Bulwer-Lytton's "Paul Clifford" is "It was" this type of "night" dark and stormy |
| #3709, aired 2000-10-19 | 19th CENTURY LIT $800: This English romantic poet who died at 25 wrote the sonnet "When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be" John Keats |
| #3709, aired 2000-10-19 | 19th CENTURY LIT $2,001 (Daily Double): Frenchman famous for realistic novels & for an open letter published Jan 13, 1898 Emile Zola (J'Accuse) |
| #3599, aired 2000-04-06 | WORLD LIT $400: Virginia Woolf's "Flush" is about the pet spaniel of this 19th century female British poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #3136, aired 1998-03-30 | 19th CENTURY LIT $200: The urbane Brazilian author Machado de Assis set most of his works among the wealthy of this city Rio |
| #3136, aired 1998-03-30 | 19th CENTURY LIT $400: This chronicler of boys rising from poverty never wrote the major novel he planned Horatio Alger |
| #3136, aired 1998-03-30 | 19th CENTURY LIT $600: H.C. Andersen & this existentialist philosopher were contemporaries in 19th century Copenhagen Kierkegaard |
| #3136, aired 1998-03-30 | 19th CENTURY LIT $800: The 1867 stage melodrama "Under the Gaslight" featured a dramatic rescue from an oncoming one of these a train |
| #3136, aired 1998-03-30 | 19th CENTURY LIT $1000: Felicia Dorothea Hemans' best-remembered poem tells of the brave boy who "stood on" this the burning deck |
| #2120, aired 1993-11-19 | KIDDIE LIT $500: The first line of the early 19th century nursery rhyme whose original title was "The Star" "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" |
| #185, aired 1985-05-24 | KIDDIE LIT $500: 19th century minister who authored rags-to-riches stories like "Ragged Rick" & "Luck & Pluck" Horatio Alger |
