#8742, aired 2022-11-15 | LATE 20th CENTURY BOOKS $800: Haruki Murakami borrowed from the Beatles for the bestseller "Noruwei no Mori", this in English Norwegian Wood |
#8540, aired 2021-12-24 | 20th CENTURY SONG, 21st CENTURY AD $1200: Sargento cheese:
this biggest hit by Modern English "I Melt With You" |
#8492, aired 2021-10-19 | 20th CENTURY ENGLISH $400: The 1960s gave us acid rock; the acid was this LSD |
#8492, aired 2021-10-19 | 20th CENTURY ENGLISH $1200: Hyphenated word for someone with an outdated view on the shape of our planet a flat-Earther |
#8492, aired 2021-10-19 | 20th CENTURY ENGLISH $1,500 (Daily Double): It first meant a movie, then a script for one, then starting in the 1930s was used in Academy Award categories a screenplay |
#8492, aired 2021-10-19 | 20th CENTURY ENGLISH $1600: Muriel Dowding started the cosmetics company Beauty Without this, helping inspire the adjective this-free Cruelty |
#8492, aired 2021-10-19 | 20th CENTURY ENGLISH $2000: Coined around 1960, it's the dull, conformist town where the opposites of beatniks & hippies live Squaresville |
#8388, aired 2021-04-28 | "AU" $1600: He was one of the great masters of 20th century English poetry (W.H.) Auden |
#8275, aired 2020-11-06 | 20th CENTURY ENGLISH $400: "Giving me a glance of annoyance" was replaced by "giving me the" this smelly phrase a stink eye |
#8275, aired 2020-11-06 | 20th CENTURY ENGLISH $800: A twist on Defoe, "Girl" or "Gal" this for a female assistant was big pre-World War II Friday |
#8275, aired 2020-11-06 | 20th CENTURY ENGLISH $1200: Borrowed from Italian & spelled all kinds of ways in English, it means "do you get me?" capisce |
#8275, aired 2020-11-06 | 20th CENTURY ENGLISH $1600: The OED defines it as a tune that stays in your mind "especially to the point of irritation " an earworm |
#8275, aired 2020-11-06 | 20th CENTURY ENGLISH $2000: The medium was in its infancy in the 1930s when this word came along to mean "looking good on TV" telegenic |
#7587, aired 2017-09-12 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $400: Alex, the narrator of this novel by Anthony Burgess, speaks Nadsat, a combination of Russian & Cockney English A Clockwork Orange |
#7492, aired 2017-03-21 | THE 20th CENTURY $1000: Called the Night of Broken Glass in English, it's the German name for the terrible night of November 9-10, 1938 Kristallnacht |
#4215, aired 2002-12-20 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $400: Modern Library's pick as one of this century's top English-language novels is this 1969 Philip Roth book "Portnoy's Complaint" |
#3552, aired 2000-02-01 | 20th CENTURY WORDS $200: Now shortened to 5 letters, this 11-letter word for a club where records play appeared around 1950 in English Discotheque |
#3256, aired 1998-11-02 | 20th CENTURY ART $1,000 (Daily Double): This controversial painter was a descendant of the 17th C. English essayist of the same name Francis Bacon |
#2834, aired 1996-12-19 | THE 20TH CENTURY $300: While Rene Levesque was its PM, French was made its official language & English signs were restricted Quebec |
#2440, aired 1995-03-24 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $800: He named Spenser, his famous detective, after English poet Edmund Spenser Robert Parker |
#2311, aired 1994-09-26 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $1000: She won 1 gold medal & 2 bronzes at the 1924 Olympics; 2 years later she swam the English Channel Gertrude Ederle |
#860, aired 1988-05-06 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS $1000: The 1556 German science classic "De re metallica" was translated into English by this president & his wife Herbert Hoover |
#382, aired 1986-02-25 | ENGLISH HISTORY $1000: He became prime minister in 1964, the youngest in the 20th century Harold Wilson |
#8577, aired 2022-02-15 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: Early in his career he worked for a newspaper whose style guide said, "use short sentences" & "use vigorous English" (Ernest) Hemingway |
#8541, aired 2021-12-27 | 20th CENTURY THEATER: In 1955 Peter Hall directed the first production of this play in English without having "the foggiest idea what some of it means" Waiting for Godot |
#7491, aired 2017-03-20 | PAPAL NAMES: From the mid-20th century, it's the most recent papal name that's the same in Latin & in English Pius |
#7353, aired 2016-07-27 | 20th CENTURY ENGLISH NOBILITY: In Africa on Nov. 26, 1922, he anxiously asked Howard Carter, “Can you see anything?” Lord Carnarvon |
#5469, aired 2008-05-22 | EARLY 20th CENTURY PLAYS: Its preface says, "The English have no respect for their language, & will not teach their children to speak it" Pygmalion |
#4927, aired 2006-01-31 | PEN NAMES: A 20th century writer derived this pen name from the patron saint of England & a river in Suffolk George Orwell |
#4498, aired 2004-03-10 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS: In the '50s, she taught English at Smith College, then worked as a secretary at a Boston psychiatric clinic Sylvia Plath |
#3018, aired 1997-10-15 | 20th CENTURY NOVELISTS: After success writing in English, he & his son Dmitri translated some of his earlier Russian novels Vladimir Nabokov |