| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | THE LITERATURE OF ISRAEL $1600: This "Tales of the South Pacific" author's novel "The Source" is a tale of Israel from ancient times up to the 20th century (James) Michener |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE $200: Joyce Carol Oates' "Blonde" is a reimagining of this starlet's life Marilyn Monroe |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: This novel that parallels mythology takes place in Dublin, all on June 16, 1904 Ulysses |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE $600: Michael Cunningham's "The Hours" drew from the life & work of this author Virginia Woolf |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: His "The Long Goodbye" won an Edgar Award for best novel Raymond Chandler |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE $1000: It begins, "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning... he found himself transformed... into a gigantic insect" Metamorphosis |
| #6306, aired 2012-02-06 | ASIAN LITERATURE $1200: Derenik Demirjyan & Hrant Matevosyan are 20th century writers from this former Soviet republic Armenia |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" is set in the early 20th century in this typical American town located in New Hampshire Grover's Corners |
| #4860, aired 2005-10-28 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: This 1949 novel features a society dominated by such slogans as "War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength" 1984 |
| #4860, aired 2005-10-28 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: When this title slat bridge with vine handrails broke, 5 victims were hurled to their death The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
| #4860, aired 2005-10-28 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE $1600: This 1946 Nikos Kazantzakis novel was narrated by a Crete mine owner who's drawn out of his shell by an elderly employee Zorba the Greek |
| #4860, aired 2005-10-28 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE $2000: This most popular of Zane Grey's books featured a gunslinger named Lassiter & Jane Withersteen, a Mormon heiress Riders of the Purple Sage |
| #4860, aired 2005-10-28 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): While traveling from Oklahoma to California during the Depression, she says, "All we got is the family unbroke" Ma Joad |
| #4510, aired 2004-03-26 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE $1000: This Frenchman turned down the Nobel Literature Prize in 1964 because it might compromise his freedom (Jean-Paul) Sartre |
| #3904, aired 2001-07-19 | 20th CENTURY POETS $1000: In 1995 this Seamus from Ireland detected the Nobel Prize for Literature coming his way Seamus Heaney |
| #3725, aired 2000-11-10 | ANSWERS TO YOUR FINALS $600: 20th Century Literature:
First name of Jack London's sea captain Larson of the Ghost Wolf |
| #3520, aired 1999-12-17 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $800: Let the trumpets sound! Bang "The Tin Drum"! He won the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature Gunter Grass |
| #2841, aired 1996-12-30 | LITERATURE $1000: "Buddenbrooks" was the first important novel by this 20th century German author Thomas Mann |
| #2691, aired 1996-04-22 | 20th CENTURY QUOTES $2,300 (Daily Double): She told Ernest Hemingway, "Remarks are not literature" Gertrude Stein |
| #2614, aired 1996-01-04 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $800: In 1962, the year he published "Travels with Charley", he won the Nobel Prize for Literature John Steinbeck |
| #1535, aired 1991-04-12 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE $200: He began his saga of the Henry family in his 1971 bestseller, "The Winds of War" (Herman) Wouk |
| #1535, aired 1991-04-12 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: In 1950, this playwright published his first novel, "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone" Tennessee Williams |
| #1535, aired 1991-04-12 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: His short story collections include "Dandelion Wine" & "The Martian Chronicles" Ray Bradbury |
| #1535, aired 1991-04-12 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): James Joyce wrote about the Irish lower middle class in this 1914 story collection The Dubliners |
| #1535, aired 1991-04-12 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE $1000: In 1950, this Nelson Algren novel about a drug addict won a National Book Award The Man with the Golden Arm |
| #1482, aired 1991-01-29 | LITERATURE $400: This 20th century New England poet dropped out of Dartmouth & Harvard before settling on a Derry, New Hampshire farm (Robert) Frost |
| #1216, aired 1989-12-11 | THE 20th CENTURY $400: This Russian won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970; he left the USSR 4 years later Solzhenitsyn |
| #796, aired 1988-02-08 | 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE $200: In a 1927 Thornton Wilder novel, this structure "of San Luis Rey" breaks the bridge |
| #796, aired 1988-02-08 | 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE $400: Though he also wrote poems & short stories, he's most famous for plays like "The Glass Menagerie" Tennessee Williams |
| #796, aired 1988-02-08 | 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE $600: His 1st literary success, published in 1935, was "Tortilla Flat" John Steinbeck |
| #796, aired 1988-02-08 | 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE $800: This 1927 Sinclair Lewis novel is a shocking satire of religious evangelism Elmer Gantry |
| #796, aired 1988-02-08 | 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE $1000: Most of William Faulkner's novels are set in an imaginary county in this state Mississippi |
| #736, aired 1987-11-16 | 20th CENTURY POETRY $500: He went from laboring in a Siberian camp to becoming a US citizen to winning the 1987 Nobel Literature Prize Josef Brodsky |
| #652, aired 1987-06-09 | BRITISH LITERATURE $800: Century in which Daphne du Maurier did her writing the 20th century |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE: Thomas Pynchon wrote that this novelist "in 1948 understood that despite the Axis defeat... fascism had not gone away" Orwell |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE: The writing of this novel, the author's first with no Canadian setting, appropriately began in 1984 The Handmaid's Tale |
| #7862, aired 2018-11-13 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE: Chapter 1 of this 1954 British novel is entitled "The Sound of the Shell" Lord of the Flies |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | LITERATURE & MYTHOLOGY: The "very name embodies the idea of flight", says one analysis of a 20th century novel in describing this main character Stephen Dedalus |
| #7213, aired 2016-01-13 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE: For factual details, the author of this 1972 tale drew on a book called "The Private Life of the Rabbit" Watership Down |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE: A 50th anniversary edition of this fictionalized biography featured the painting seen here on its cover Lust for Life |
| #4962, aired 2006-03-21 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE: "Annie" Sadilek, an immigrant girl from Bohemia, inspired the title character in this 1918 novel of the Great Plains My Antonia (by Willa Cather) |
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Nick Yozamp, a junior from Washington University in St. Louis
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
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Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
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