| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | LITERARY LONDON $3,400 (Daily Double): This 1881 Mark Twain novel takes place in London's poorer areas as well as in some of its ritzier locales The Prince and the Pauper |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | BIG BOOK ROYALTY $2000: The American author of this 1889 book wrote it after reading Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur" but Malory didn't include time travel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | AMERICANA $400: Yankee magazine says this New England state is known for chowder, old money & being the home of TV's Gilmore girls Connecticut |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | A NOVEL LOOK AT THE NOVEL $800: Twain travel; Merlin mentioned; knights on bikes; we're gonna get medieval on your mind A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | ESCAPIST LITERATURE $2000: The displaced title man escapes being put to death in this 1889 novel by accurately predicting a solar eclipse A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | ILLUSTRATORS $1600: Daniel Beard provided dashing but comical illustrations for this novel by Mark Twain A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | GREATEST OF ALL TIME TRAVELERS $2,400 (Daily Double): In Chapter 16 of "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", Hank meets this woman whose first name is the same as his surname Morgan le Fay |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: A prize for American humor is named for this author of "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" Mark Twain |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | MUSICAL STATE SYMBOLS $600: A patriotic tune, this state song of Connecticut is probably the only one to contain the name of a pasta "Yankee Doodle" |
| #7851, aired 2018-10-29 | JOUST $400: In this Twain tale Hank Morgan pulls out 2 guns while jousting at Camelot & kills some knights A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $400: (Hi, this is Ryan Kristafer from News 8.) Harriet Beecher Stowe lived next door to this other great American author at the time he wrote "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" (Mark) Twain |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | BOOKS BY CHAPTER TITLES $200: "Of What Happened to the Ingenious Gentleman in the Inn Which He Took to Be a Castle" Don Quixote |
| #7240, aired 2016-02-19 | LITERARY QUOTES $200: In "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", Hank asks, "Bridgeport?" & a knight replies, this place Camelot |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | NOVELS $1600: Hank Morgan wins the title of Prime Minister & earns Merlin's jealousy in this Twain tale A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #6944, aired 2014-11-20 | BOOKS & ARTHURS $2,400 (Daily Double): Chapter 1 of this 1889 novel begins "'Camelot--Camelot...I don't seem to remember hearing of it before.'" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #6885, aired 2014-07-18 | STATELY LITERATURE $200: "A ____ Yankee In King Arthur's Court" Connecticut |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | MARK TWAIN $3,000 (Daily Double): Twain satirized the customs & institutions of the feudal world in this 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | NOVELS BY CHARACTER $800: Sir Kay,
Hank Morgan,
Merlin the Magician A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #6643, aired 2013-07-03 | A CONNECTICUT YANKEE $200: This pediatrician who wrote the book on baby & child care was born in New Haven in 1903 & rowed crew for Yale (Dr.) Spock |
| #6643, aired 2013-07-03 | A CONNECTICUT YANKEE $400: A contribution of this Sterling, Connecticut man: the first average of selected U.S. stock prices (Charles Henry) Dow |
| #6643, aired 2013-07-03 | A CONNECTICUT YANKEE $800: This gunmaker's manufacturing company is in Hartford, his birthplace (Samuel) Colt |
| #6643, aired 2013-07-03 | A CONNECTICUT YANKEE $1,000 (Daily Double): This patriot began his one life in Coventry, Connecticut on June 6, 1755 (Nathan) Hale |
| #6643, aired 2013-07-03 | A CONNECTICUT YANKEE $1000: This Connecticut lexicographer's "Blue-Backed Speller" has never been out of print (Noah) Webster |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This Mark Twain book contains such chapters as "The Ogre's Castle" & "Merlin's Tower" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #6069, aired 2011-01-20 | MARK TWAIN SHALL MEET $1200: ...this poet, whose "Idylls of the King" started an Arthurian craze that inspired "A Connecticut Yankee" Tennyson |
| #6021, aired 2010-11-15 | TWAIN TRACTS $200: A blow on the head sends a man back to Camelot in this 1889 Mark Twain novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #5980, aired 2010-09-17 | YANKEE MAGAZINE $800: An article called "A Tip Of The Hat To Danbury", in this state, tells how JFK helped kill an industry with his bareheaded ways Connecticut |
| #5372, aired 2008-01-08 | STORY LINE $1,500 (Daily Double): Hank makes guns, gets into fight, wakes under tree & is captured by Sir Kay; remembers about an eclipse... A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #5354, aired 2007-12-13 | TWAIN TRACTS $400: "By my authority as executive I threw Merlin into prison -- the same cell I had occupied myself" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #5291, aired 2007-09-17 | PSEUDO SPORT LIT $5,000 (Daily Double): A-Rod is truly in trouble in this time-traveling Twain text from 1889 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #5233, aired 2007-05-16 | LINES FROM LITERATURE $1600: Chapter 1 of it begins, "'Camelot--Camelot,' said I to myself. 'I don't seem to remember hearing of it before'" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #5190, aired 2007-03-16 | AT THE MARK TWAIN HOUSE $1200: (Alex Trebek delivers the clue from the Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT.) Appropriately, Mark Twain resided here in Hartford while he worked on this 1889 novel about a Hartford man who travels back in time to medieval England A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #5023, aired 2006-06-14 | ROYAL LITERATURE $800: 1889: By Mark Twain A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #4889, aired 2005-12-08 | BUILDING CHARACTER $800: In this Twain tale, Tom Canty is a dead ringer for the future king of England The Prince and the Pauper |
| #4873, aired 2005-11-16 | STATE OBJECTS & SYMBOLS $400: This ditty about a pony-riding gentleman is Connecticut's state song "Yankee Doodle" |
| #4261, aired 2003-02-24 | HERO $4,000 (Daily Double): Hank Morgan, a mechanic from Hartford, is the title character of this Twain work "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" |
| #4144, aired 2002-09-12 | 19! $2000: Chapter 19 of this Mark Twain tale is "Knight Errantry as a Trade" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #3815, aired 2001-03-16 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1,000 (Daily Double): In "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", his character puts Hank Morgan to sleep for 1,300 years Merlin |
| #3649, aired 2000-06-15 | AMERICAN LIT $200: Chapter 3 of this Mark Twain novel introduces us to the "Knights of the Table Round" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #3588, aired 2000-03-22 | BIG SCREEN TIME TRAVEL $100: In 1949 Bing Crosby played this title New Englander who travels back to a time of knights & ladies A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #3559, aired 2000-02-10 | MARK TWAIN $800 (Daily Double): This 1889 novel contrasts American homespun ingenuity with the Dark Ages' superstition & ineptitude "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | STATE SONGS $300: In this Connecticut state song with a 2-word title, "Macaroni" refers to Londoners in fancy clothes "Yankee Doodle" |
| #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" |
| #2956, aired 1997-06-09 | AMERICAN NOVELS $1,400 (Daily Double): In this Twain novel, a New Englander saves himself by predicting a solar eclipse "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court" |
| #2627, aired 1996-01-23 | LITERATURE $200: The hero of this Mark Twain novel calls himself "A Yankee of the Yankees....and nearly barren of sentiment" "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" |
| #2469, aired 1995-05-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In this story a New Englander awakens to find himself at Camelot in 528 A.D. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #2333, aired 1994-10-26 | MARK TWAIN $600: This novel contains the line "I am an American. I was born and reared in Hartford" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #2080, aired 1993-09-24 | NOVELS $400: The narrator of this Mark Twain novel mistakes Camelot for Bridgeport, Connecticut A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #1893, aired 1992-11-25 | LITERATURE $200: Chapter 1 of this Mark Twain book is entitled "Camelot" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #1864, aired 1992-10-15 | LITERATURE $200: His "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" was inspired by Sir Thomas Malory's "Morte d'Arthur" Mark Twain |
| #1783, aired 1992-05-06 | MARK TWAIN $2,000 (Daily Double): This Twain novel is set in 16th century England The Prince and the Pauper |
| #1695, aired 1992-01-03 | "YANKEE"s $300: This novel's title character was knocked out & awoke to find himself in Camelot in 528 A.D. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #1636, aired 1991-10-14 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $800: Mark Twain title describing "The Boss", foreman of a Hartford arms factory a Connecticut Yankee |
| #1562, aired 1991-05-21 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: The Mark Twain novel that feature Merlin & Morgan le Fay A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #1546, aired 1991-04-29 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $800: The people of Camelot called this Mark Twain title character "The Boss" A Connecticut Yankee |
| #992, aired 1988-12-20 | NOVELS $300: The hero of this Twain novel gets hit over the head with a crowbar in the U.S. & wakes up near Camelot A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #717, aired 1987-10-20 | MARK TWAIN $800: After being hit by a crowbar, a man from Hartford woke up near this castle site King Arthur's Court |
| #565, aired 1987-02-06 | "YANKEE"s $500: 500 knights are transferred from horses to bicycles in this 19th century novel satirizing chivalry A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #114, aired 1985-02-14 | U.S.A. $400: "Yankee Doodle" is the official song of this New England state Connecticut |
| #60, aired 1984-11-30 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $200: Hank Morgan, a Connecticut Yankee, became this king's right hand man King Arthur |
