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#9068, aired 2024-03-27WORLD LITERATURE $1200: Made into a Scorsese film with Andrew Garfield, this novel by Shusaku Endo follows 17th century Jesuit priests in Japan Silence
#9068, aired 2024-03-27WORLD LITERATURE $1600: In 1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz, author of this tale of ancient Rome, became the first Polish person to win a Nobel Prize in lit Quo Vadis
#9068, aired 2024-03-27WORLD LITERATURE $11,400 (Daily Double): In this Hermann Hesse novel, Harry Haller reads a treatise about his dual inner self, caught between a man & a lupine creature Steppenwolf
#9041, aired 2024-02-19AWARDS & HONORS $2,000 (Daily Double): In the early 20th c. these were given out for literature; Baron Pierre de Coubertin won one under a pen name for "Ode to Sport" Olympic medals
#9033, aired 2024-02-07LITERATURE BINGO $1000: "I", 1819: Rebecca is a Jewish heroine in this Sir Walter Scott novel & was played on film by future Judaism convert Liz Taylor Ivanhoe
#9031, aired 2024-02-05BRITISH LITERATURE $1600: A man stopped on his way to a wedding feast is told of tragic events aboard a ship in this 1798 narrative poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
#9028, aired 2024-01-31MOUNTAINS OF LITERATURE $400: Peter Matthiessen climbed mountains in Nepal to see the snow type of this creature, the title of his National Book Award winner a leopard
#9028, aired 2024-01-31MOUNTAINS OF LITERATURE $800: After accepting a drink of liquor in a Washington Irving tale, Rip Van Winkle falls asleep for 20 years in these mountains the Catskills
#9028, aired 2024-01-31MOUNTAINS OF LITERATURE $1200: In the novel "Lost Horizon", the Kunlun Range is thought to be home to this lamasery whose name has become a synonym for utopia Shangri-La
#9028, aired 2024-01-31MOUNTAINS OF LITERATURE $1600: "Der Zauberberg" in German, this Thomas Mann novel tells the story of a man who stays in a TB clinic for 7 years Magic Mountain
#9028, aired 2024-01-31MOUNTAINS OF LITERATURE $2000: A Miskatonic Univ. team uncovers horrific artifacts in Antarctica in this author's "At the Mountains of Madness" Lovecraft
#9011, aired 2024-01-08ITALIAN LITERATURE $1600: In Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose", murders at a 14th c. monastery center on a book on laughter by this ancient Greek Aristotle
#9006, aired 2024-01-01HAUNTING LITERATURE $800: In a sequel, this character plays for the New Orleans Saints, crashes the Exxon Valdez & sees the ghost of Jenny, his childhood friend Forrest Gump
#9006, aired 2024-01-01HAUNTING LITERATURE $1000: 166 ghosts, one the president's son, exist in a sort of pre-afterlife in George Saunders' "Lincoln in" this space the Bardo
#9002, aired 2023-12-26CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Besides her cat, a witch ends up giving a ride to a dog, a bird & a frog in the rhymingly titled "Room on the..." Broom
#8994, aired 2023-12-14LITERATURE $600: For telling the truth about a town's contaminated water supply in an Ibsen play, Dr. Thomas Stockmann becomes this title foe An Enemy of the People
#8994, aired 2023-12-14LITERATURE $1000: In this 1948 Shirley Jackson short story, a village selects a sacrificial stoning victim to ensure a good harvest "The Lottery"
#8979, aired 2023-11-23NORDIC LITERATURE $400: There are no singing Jamaican crabs in the original version of this Andersen tale about a sea-dweller who comes ashore The Little Mermaid
#8979, aired 2023-11-23NORDIC LITERATURE $1200: Sweden is a grim place in this first book of the "Millennium" series in which Lisbeth & Mikael solve a 40-year-old crime The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
#8979, aired 2023-11-23NORDIC LITERATURE $2000: Early works by this Norwegian playwright include the tragedy "Catiline", published under a pseudonym in 1850 Ibsen
#20, aired 2023-11-15THE SEARCH FOR FOREIGN LANDS $100: Located in Lima, this country's Biblioteca Nacional is a great place to peruse some literature Peru
#8949, aired 2023-10-12SPOOKY LITERATURE $200: (Justin Long presents the clue.) To pass the time on a rainy day in Geneva, she & her husband & friends were telling each other ghost stories; she came up with "Frankenstein"--not bad for starting your first novel at age 18 (Mary) Shelley
#8949, aired 2023-10-12SPOOKY LITERATURE $400: (Justin Long presents the clue.) On the way home at midnight Ichabod Crane thinks this alliterative specter is in pursuit & has thrown its cranium at the schoolmaster; in the morning, a broken pumpkin shell is found, but not Ichabod Crane the Headless Horseman
#8949, aired 2023-10-12SPOOKY LITERATURE $600: (Justin Long presents the clue.) "Welcome to Dead House" from 1992 was the first of the books in the "Goosebumps" series by this author that by now has sold a spooky number of copies (R.L.) Stine
#8935, aired 2023-09-22"C" IN LITERATURE $200: It's where "Native Son" & "A Raisin in the Sun" are set Chicago
#8935, aired 2023-09-22"C" IN LITERATURE $800: In "East of Eden" this twin brother of Aron Trask reveals to him that their mother is a madam Caleb
#8935, aired 2023-09-22"C" IN LITERATURE $1000: This Jonathan Franzen novel about the dysfunctional Lambert family won a National Book Award The Corrections
#8926, aired 2023-09-11RENAISSANCE LITERATURE $1200: A romantic epic, him "Innamorato" was followed nearly 30 years later by him "Furioso" in 1516 Orlando
#8925, aired 2023-07-28BRITISH LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): In the 1850s she published the book-length love poem "Aurora Leigh" Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#8923, aired 2023-07-26ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE $400: Seaside police chief Martin Brody fights a corrupt politician & a ferocious predator in this Peter Benchley bestseller Jaws
#8923, aired 2023-07-26ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE $800: It's him, last name Spier, "vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" in a young adult favorite Simon
#8889, aired 2023-06-08LITERATURE $1200: In the 1920s "Along the Road" was a travel book by this writer; he'd write about a different kind of trip in "The Doors of Perception" Huxley
#8883, aired 2023-05-31NUMERICAL LITERATURE $400: In a 1969 novel Germans tell POWs that their residence is Schlachthof-Funf, this title place Slaughterhouse-Five
#8883, aired 2023-05-31NUMERICAL LITERATURE $1200: Its subtitle includes "Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841" 12 Years a Slave
#8883, aired 2023-05-31NUMERICAL LITERATURE $2000: A story of rich kids & their reckless, listless lives in 1980s Los Angeles, "Less than Zero" is by this author Bret Easton Ellis
#8877, aired 2023-05-23ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $400: Rudyard Kipling's Hathi, one of these animals, helps Mowgli by trampling a village of evildoers an elephant
#8877, aired 2023-05-23ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $600: In a book by Paul Gallico, Thomasina is one of these pets that channels the Egyptian goddess Bastet & saves her owner's life a cat
#8877, aired 2023-05-23ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $800: In this Greek comedic play from 405 B.C., the title characters form a chorus whose lines include "Brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax" The Frogs
#9, aired 2023-05-15SUBTITLED LITERATURE $5,000 (Daily Double): This word meaning "narrow-minded" is in the subtitle of "Middlemarch" Provincial
#8870, aired 2023-05-12LIFE IS PICARESQUE $400: Describing episodic exploits of a roaming character, the picaresque genre began in the literature of this country of Quixote Spain
#7, aired 2023-05-12MEDIEVAL LITERATURE $15,400 (Daily Double): While in a prison in Genoa in the 1290s, Rustichello da Pisa began jotting down this man's account of his "Travels" Marco Polo
#8849, aired 2023-04-13GERMAN LITERATURE $1600: After a boat trip in 1775, this Johann-of-all-trades--so many trades!--wrote the lovely poem "On the Lake" Goethe
#8761, aired 2022-12-1219th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: A work by James Fenimore Cooper sometimes called the first espionage novel has this simple title The Spy
#8754, aired 2022-12-01DOCTOR-ING UP LITERATURE $600: "The Surgeon" is Tess Gerritsen's 1st book in a series featuring detective Jane Rizzoli; this medical examiner debuts in the 2nd Isles
#8752, aired 2022-11-29NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $400: The last novel of 1998 winner Jose Saramago of Portugal portrayed this killer in Genesis as a rebel against god Cain
#8726, aired 2022-10-24CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: In an oft-cited example of false memory, many folks firmly but wrongly remember this inquisitive monkey as having a tail Curious George
#8726, aired 2022-10-24CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: In a Mo Willems tale, the first words little Trixie says are the name of this stuffed rabbit she lost & found Knuffle Bunny
#8712, aired 2022-10-04A "C" IN LITERATURE $200: He calls Winnie-the-Pooh "silly old bear" Christopher Robin
#8712, aired 2022-10-04A "C" IN LITERATURE $400: One of "The Chronicles of Narnia" is named for this prince & rightful heir to the throne Caspian
#8712, aired 2022-10-04A "C" IN LITERATURE $600: Anthony Burgess claimed this, his best-known book, was "knocked off for money in 3 weeks" A Clockwork Orange
#8712, aired 2022-10-04A "C" IN LITERATURE $800: From the works of Charles Dickens, it's the last name of the father & son seen here Cratchit
#8712, aired 2022-10-04A "C" IN LITERATURE $1000: Chaucer had planned to write more than 100 stories for this work, but only got around to 24 The Canterbury Tales
#8700, aired 2022-09-16BRITISH LITERATURE $1600: Name shared by a shortbread cookie & the title heroine in an R.D. Blackmore romance Lorna Doone
#8691, aired 2022-07-25LITERATURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES $400: Some of the earliest known examples of these 14-line poems are by Giacomo da Lentini, who wrote in the 1200s a sonnet
#8691, aired 2022-07-25LITERATURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES $800: In a 2021 movie version of a medieval tale, Dev Patel plays Sir Gawain, journeying to meet this title character the Green Knight
#8682, aired 2022-07-12VAMPIRES IN LITERATURE $1600: A Swedish suburb gets bloody in 1981 & the girl next door seems... different in this international bestseller that became a movie Let the Right One In
#8682, aired 2022-07-12VAMPIRES IN LITERATURE $2000: This 19th c. writer of historical novels, Pere, went goth in "The Pale Lady", a tale of a Polish woman & 2 adoring brothers Alexandre Dumas
#8636, aired 2022-05-09PREPOSITIONAL LITERATURE $200: A boy comes of age during this 19th century conflict in Irene Hunt's young adult classic "Across Five Aprils" the Civil War
#8636, aired 2022-05-09PREPOSITIONAL LITERATURE $400: In a prophetic adventure tale, Jules Verne took us on a journey "From the Earth to" this locale the Moon
#8636, aired 2022-05-09PREPOSITIONAL LITERATURE $800: African-American detective Virgil Tibbs must solve a murder in the Deep South in this John Ball novel from 1965 In the Heat of the Night
#8636, aired 2022-05-09PREPOSITIONAL LITERATURE $1000: "On the Banks of Plum Creek" is the fourth book in this series about a pioneering family The Little House (on the Prairie series) books
#8627, aired 2022-04-261870s LITERATURE $400: The story "Carmilla" features an early appearance of one of these creatures in fiction; it's dispatched with a stake to the heart a vampire
#8627, aired 2022-04-261870s LITERATURE $2000: A baker, a banker & a butcher are all on the lookout for this creature in Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem "The Hunting of" this the Snark
#8623, aired 2022-04-20EUROPEAN LITERATURE $800: This Camus novel was inspired by a run-in his friend had with 2 Arab men on a beach The Stranger
#8623, aired 2022-04-20EUROPEAN LITERATURE $2000: In addition to a devilish masterwork, this German wrote "The Sorrows of Young Werther" Goethe
#8616, aired 2022-04-11LITERATURE $1600: Mr. Scratch is bested by a New Hampshire orator in this story by Stephen Vincent Benet "The Devil and Daniel Webster"
#8614, aired 2022-04-07LITERATURE FOR YOUNGER READERS $1000: Billy has a pair of hounds named Old Dan & Little Ann in the kids' classic "Where" this plant "Grows" the Red Fern
#8590, aired 2022-03-04THE ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE $400: In a work by L. Frank Baum, the Scarecrow & this character are captured by a female giant & turned into a bear & an owl the Tin Man
#8590, aired 2022-03-04THE ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE $800: D'Artagnan & the 3 Musketeers are up for adventure again in this 1850 work about a mysterious prisoner The Man in the Iron Mask
#17, aired 2022-02-22DIGESTING SOME LITERATURE $400: In a Thomas Harris book, the conductor of the philharmonic could not recall the fare at this doctor's dinner Hannibal Lecter
#8580, aired 2022-02-18NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In this novel Guy Montag reads aloud from a book to his wife's shocked friends Fahrenheit 451
#8580, aired 2022-02-18NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Canadian environmentalist Farley Mowat is best known for bringing sympathy to a predator in "Never Cry" this Wolf
#11, aired 2022-02-16LITERATURE: "GOOD" OR "GREAT" $200: "Trimalchio in West Egg" was a working title for this novel The Great Gatsby
#1, aired 2022-02-08POETS & POETRY $2000: She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 & in 2020 this poet, whose last name means good fortune, won the Nobel Prize for Literature Louise Glück
#8557, aired 2022-01-18ESCAPIST 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
#8550, aired 2022-01-07AWARDS & HONORS $400: The Nobel prizes are awarded in 6 categories, including this one for which Louise Gluck won in 2020 literature
#8478, aired 2021-09-29SOUTHERN LITERATURE $1200: Colson Whitehead's novel about these "Boys" is based on abuse & worse at a real reform school in the Jim Crow Era Nickel
#8478, aired 2021-09-29SOUTHERN LITERATURE $2000: Originally in a Savannah cemetery, a mysterious statue called "Bird Girl" appears on the cover of this John Berendt bestseller Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
#8461, aired 2021-08-09LITERATURE $200: It begins, "Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember" Don Quixote
#8436, aired 2021-07-05LITERATURE $400: In 1905 you didn't want to eat a pork chop while reading the paper "appeal to reason", as it serialized this stockyard novel The Jungle
#8436, aired 2021-07-05LITERATURE $800: At a dinner party in Shakespeare, Banquo's ghost shows up to torment this title character Macbeth
#8436, aired 2021-07-05LITERATURE $1200: The chapter titles in this Henry Fielding novel include "A Little Chapter, in Which is Contained a Little Incident" Tom Jones
#8436, aired 2021-07-05LITERATURE $1600: In his 50s Tom Wolfe wrote his first novel, this one about the downfall of a Manhattan bond trader The Bonfire of the Vanities
#8436, aired 2021-07-05LITERATURE $2000: In this A.S. Byatt novel, a scholar (Aaron Eckhart in the movie) finds letters in a book owned by a long-dead poet Possession
#8421, aired 2021-06-14ASIAN LITERATURE & DRAMA $1600: A collection of verses first translated into English in the 19th century, "The Rubaiyat" is by this Persian poet Omar Khayyam
#8420, aired 2021-06-111930s LITERATURE $400: In a classic story for children, this title bull ignores the matador & enjoys smelling flowers Ferdinand
#8420, aired 2021-06-111930s LITERATURE $1200: A soldier is horribly wounded in the WWI novel he "Got His Gun", published 2 days after World War II began Johnny
#8420, aired 2021-06-111930s LITERATURE $2000: Her novella "Anthem" is set in a future where people live without freedom in collectives Ayn Rand (Alisa Rosenbaum)
#8420, aired 2021-06-111930s LITERATURE $5,000 (Daily Double): After a plane crash in the Himalayas, 4 people end up in Shangri-La in this 1933 novel Lost Horizon
#8417, aired 2021-06-08A LITERATURE SAMPLER $400: In 2020 he had a No. 1 kids' picture book bestseller with "I Promise"... oh yeah, he also won an NBA title with the Lakers LeBron James
#8417, aired 2021-06-08A LITERATURE SAMPLER $800: In a classic tale about this title guy, "John, Lord Greystoke... vanished from the eyes and from the knowledge of men" Tarzan
#8417, aired 2021-06-08A LITERATURE SAMPLER $1600: In a legendary tale, the "Galloping Hessian of the Hollow" is better known as this, which is certainly more terrifying the Headless Horseman
#8408, aired 2021-05-26YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE $800: In a story by Mary Mapes Dodge, the sister of this title boy wins the silver skates Hans Brinker
#8339, aired 2021-02-18TYPES OF NARRATIVE LITERATURE $400: The story of the Good Samaritan in the Bible's book of Luke is one of these simple narratives with a moral or religious purpose a parable
#8337, aired 2021-02-16LITERATURE $400: "The Young Giant" & "Little Red-Cap" were 2 of the more than 200 stories collected by these German brothers in a 19th c. anthology the Brothers Grimm
#8324, aired 2021-01-28LITERATURE $200: Former NFL tight end Roberta Muldoon is a character in this John Irving novel The World According to Garp
#8324, aired 2021-01-28LITERATURE $400: Griffin, the main character in this Wells novel, describes himself as "almost an albino", if he could have been seen The Invisible Man
#8312, aired 2021-01-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1600: The "World's Greatest Detective", this kid, rhymingly "the Great", solves all sorts of crimes, often in a deerstalker cap Nate (Nate the Great)
#8312, aired 2021-01-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $2000: A children's literature prize first given in 2003 is named for this Swedish creator of Pippi Longstocking (Astrid) Lindgren
#8305, aired 2020-12-18LITERATURE $800: In a Jane Austen novel, Northanger is this title type of structure that Catherine wants to be exciting, but turns out to be dull an abbey
#8295, aired 2020-12-0419th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: 'Twas 2 days before Christmas in 1823 that the poem "A Visit from" him was published anonymously in a New York newspaper St. Nicholas
#8295, aired 2020-12-0419th CENTURY LITERATURE $1200: In 1863 he published a novel about "The Cossacks", who also get plenty of mention in his next, more epic, work (Leo) Tolstoy
#8274, aired 2020-11-05CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: In a book by Beverly Cleary, Socks is this pet, suddenly having to share the house with a new baby a cat
#8268, aired 2020-10-28LITERATURE ON THE MAP $1600: Centennial, a suburb of Denver, is named for the title town in this man's 1974 novel "Centennial" (James) Michener
#8257, aired 2020-10-13WOMEN IN LITERATURE $600: Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who & Mrs. Which help Meg Murry & her brother in this 1962 novel by Madeleine L'Engle A Wrinkle in Time
#8234, aired 2020-06-11AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In 1997 this famously reclusive author published a fictionalized tale of surveyors "Mason & Dixon" (Thomas) Pynchon
#8226, aired 2020-06-0119th CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE $1600: He wrote a critique of prison life, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", after spending time in the prison; it was his last published work Oscar Wilde
#8208, aired 2020-04-22A MARRIAGE MADE IN LITERATURE $200: Anna Oblonsky is the maiden name of this title character Anna Karenina
#8208, aired 2020-04-22A MARRIAGE MADE IN LITERATURE $400: When Romeo marries Juliet, these 2 families are joined in matrimony & later, tragedy the Montagues and the Capulets
#8208, aired 2020-04-22A MARRIAGE MADE IN LITERATURE $600: Creepy! In order to get closer to Lolita, this man with a double-talk name marries her mother Charlotte Haze Humbert Humbert
#8208, aired 2020-04-22A MARRIAGE MADE IN LITERATURE $800: The title of this Daphne du Maurier novel refers to the first Mrs. de Winter; the second Mrs. de Winter is obsessed with her Rebecca
#8208, aired 2020-04-22A MARRIAGE MADE IN LITERATURE $1000: This 1966 novel is about the first marriage of the character Mr. Rochester from "Jane Eyre" Wide Sargasso Sea
#8180, aired 2020-03-131940s LITERATURE $400: Mollie the mare is a minor character in this George Orwell novel Animal Farm
#8180, aired 2020-03-131940s LITERATURE $1600: Her 1948 novel "Peony" told the story of a Jewish family living in China in the 1800s Pearl Buck
#8157, aired 2020-02-11MAGIC IN LITERATURE $400: In Glen Cook's "Black Company" series, Soulcatcher flies around on one of these, just like in the "Thousand and One Nights" a magic carpet
#8157, aired 2020-02-11MAGIC IN LITERATURE $1600: Allomancers in the "Mistborn" series can burn metals like iron & even these, like pewter & duralumin alloys
#8157, aired 2020-02-11MAGIC IN LITERATURE $2000: Everyone has a special magic talent in this author's "Xanth" series that began with "A Spell for Chameleon" Piers Anthony
#8139, aired 2020-01-16MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $400: Geryon, a character in one of this hero's labors, falls in love with him in Anne Carson's "The Autobiography of Red" Hercules
#8139, aired 2020-01-16MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $800: W.H. Auden wrote a famous poem about a painting of him, described as "a boy falling out of the sky" Icarus
#8139, aired 2020-01-16MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $1200: In a Shelley work this fire bringer is not happy to be nailed to a "wall of eagle-baffling mountain" Prometheus
#8139, aired 2020-01-16MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $2000: Dionysus is a big factor in "The Secret History", this author's first novel (Donna) Tartt
#8126, aired 2019-12-30BEHIND THE LITERATURE $200: Edward Lansdale, a U.S. officer in Asia, was a model for the novel "The Ugly" this & possibly for "The Quiet" this also American
#8126, aired 2019-12-30BEHIND THE LITERATURE $1000: Mr. Ramsay in her 1927 novel "To the Lighthouse" is a portrait of her father Leslie Stephen Virginia Woolf
#8121, aired 2019-12-23LITERATURE $200: In this Steinbeck work, George kills his friend Lennie to spare him from a lynch mob Of Mice and Men
#8118, aired 2019-12-18LITERATURE $2000: The Apostles Peter & Paul & the Roman emperor all show up in this Henryk Sienkiewicz novel whose title is a question Quo Vadis
#8067, aired 2019-10-081890s LITERATURE $1600: In "Trilby", a young singer falls under the trance of this man whose name became a synonym for a hypnotic controller Svengali
#8050, aired 2019-09-13INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE $2000: Son of a Polish patriot, he was born in what's now Berdychiv, Ukraine & wrote works like "Typhoon" in English (Joseph) Conrad
#8042, aired 2019-07-23BRITISH LITERATURE $200: Better known for his "Tales", in the 1390s he wrote a "Treatise on the Astrolabe" Chaucer
#8042, aired 2019-07-23BRITISH LITERATURE $1000: Set in the 12th c. Middle East, "The Wondrous Tale of Alroy" is a novel about a Jewish conqueror by this author/politician Disraeli
#8033, aired 2019-07-10LITERATURE $200: In 1850 he pitched his publisher a romance based on legends from southern sperm whale fisheries (Herman) Melville
#8033, aired 2019-07-10LITERATURE $400: George Orwell based Room 101 in "1984" on a real boardroom at this broadcast network where he spent many a long meeting the BBC
#8029, aired 2019-07-04BRITISH LITERATURE $1200: In 1894 he published a collection of stories featuring the characters Baloo & Bagheera Kipling
#8027, aired 2019-07-02LITERATURE FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE $800: In this man's "Wife", Una marries the title whaling captain Ahab
#8027, aired 2019-07-02LITERATURE FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE $3,000 (Daily Double): Unseen in the Shakespeare play, Rosaline gets her story told in the book titled this character's "Ex" Romeo
#8013, aired 2019-06-12WAR IN LITERATURE $200: In "Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, a soldier makes a perilous journey home in the end stages of this U.S. war the Civil War
#8013, aired 2019-06-12WAR IN LITERATURE $600: Family members fight on opposite sides of WWI in this Vicente Blasco Ibáñez novel that shares its title with a Biblical quartet The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
#8006, aired 2019-06-03LITERATURE $400: In a 1923 book by Kahlil Gibran, Almustafa is this mystical title character the Prophet
#8006, aired 2019-06-03LITERATURE $600: In "Charlotte's Web", Templeton is this creature a rat
#8006, aired 2019-06-03LITERATURE $800: In a novel Simone de Beauvoir depicted herself as Anne & this author of "The Stranger" as Henri (Albert) Camus
#8006, aired 2019-06-03LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): The title peak of this Thomas Mann novel is home to a Swiss sanatorium The Magic Mountain
#7996, aired 2019-05-20A DEGREE IN LITERATURE $200: "'M.D.' means that" this character "was a proper doctor and knew a whole lot"--including animal language Dr. Dolittle
#7996, aired 2019-05-20A DEGREE IN LITERATURE $400: Preacher Elmer Gantry earns his B.D., or bachelor of this, a quality he lacks divinity
#7996, aired 2019-05-20A DEGREE IN LITERATURE $600: The title of the novel "The Paper Chase", made into a movie & TV series, refers to a diploma from this Harvard institution Harvard Law School
#7996, aired 2019-05-20A DEGREE IN LITERATURE $800: Mary McCarthy graduated from this women's school in New York State in 1933 & wrote "The Group" about women who did too Vassar
#7996, aired 2019-05-20A DEGREE IN LITERATURE $1000: In this author's "Brideshead Revisited", a father says of his son's univ. degree, "No use to me. Not much use to you either" Evelyn Waugh
#7985, aired 2019-05-03CLASSIC LITERATURE $200: "The horror! The horror!" are Mr. Kurtz' dying words in this novella Heart of Darkness
#7947, aired 2019-03-12EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, Sweden): At the Nobel Museum shop, you can pick up our own chocolate medal with Alfred Nobel on the front or admire a replica of the literature one on which a young writer listens to one of these mythic inspirations singing. a muse
#7944, aired 2019-03-07DRUNK ON LITERATURE $2000: Jake Barnes notes, "I was a little drunk... just enough to be careless" in this 1926 Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises
#7934, aired 2019-02-21BRITISH LITERATURE $400: "Love is blind", sighs Jessica, a nice Jewish girl in this Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice
#7934, aired 2019-02-21BRITISH LITERATURE $800: Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in" this 2-word place is thought to be that of St. Giles', where the poet is now buried a country churchyard
#7934, aired 2019-02-21BRITISH LITERATURE $1200: A ruined statue in Egypt inspired this sonnet by Percy Shelley "Ozymandias"
#7934, aired 2019-02-21BRITISH LITERATURE $1600: In this novel by E.M. Forster, Lucy Honeychurch & her cousin visit Florence, Italy A Room with a View
#7932, aired 2019-02-19AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: In one version the last speech of a play by him says, "Nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof" Tennessee Williams
#7932, aired 2019-02-19AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: In a 1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs tale, Civil War vet John Carter is magically transported here Mars
#7920, aired 2019-02-01RELIGIOUS LITERATURE $800: A poem by Richmond Lattimore titled this holiday says, "Our April is the lamb who died / to paint the year in tones of pride" "Easter"
#7920, aired 2019-02-01RELIGIOUS LITERATURE $1600: In addition to his books featuring talking lions, this author also wrote "Out of the Silent Planet", a book of religious sci-fi C.S. Lewis
#7917, aired 2019-01-29RUSSIAN LITERATURE $800: Pierre Bezukhov suffers as a P.O.W. in this Tolstoy work War and Peace
#7917, aired 2019-01-29RUSSIAN LITERATURE $1600: This 1973 work is an account of prisons & labor camps scattered across Russia like islands in a sea The Gulag Archipelago
#7913, aired 2019-01-23POPULAR LITERATURE $600: In "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", Nag & Nagaina are 2 of these plotting against a human family & the title mongoose cobras
#7909, aired 2019-01-17THE WORLD THROUGH LITERATURE $400: In Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things", Rahel & Estha forge a childhood in Kerala in this country India
#7894, aired 2018-12-27AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS $1200: She penned "Fighting Angel," a biography of her father, Absalom Sydenstricker, a missionary in China Pearl Buck
#7894, aired 2018-12-27AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): This "colorful" Toni Morrison work follows a black girl's struggle to achieve white ideals of beauty The Bluest Eye
#7890, aired 2018-12-21DREAMY LITERATURE $400: "A vision in a dream" by Coleridge begins, "In Xanadu did" this khan "a stately pleasure-dome decree" Kubla
#7867, aired 2018-11-20AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Scout is a curious little girl still trying to figure out life in the American South in this classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird
#7867, aired 2018-11-20AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Kidnapped & sold into slavery, Solomon Northup told of his experiences in this memoir that became a movie 12 Years a Slave
#7861, aired 2018-11-12CLASSIC LITERATURE $400: "Hester at Her Needle" is a chapter in this Hawthorne novel The Scarlet Letter
#7861, aired 2018-11-12CLASSIC LITERATURE $1200: In this novel Miss Havisham lives in a decaying mansion called Satis House Great Expectations
#7842, aired 2018-10-16BIBLICALLY INSPIRED LITERATURE $400: In Mark Twain's "Diaries of" this couple, she says he's really bad at naming creatures & wanted to call the dodo a wildcat Adam and Eve
#7842, aired 2018-10-16BIBLICALLY INSPIRED LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): In "Moby Dick" a man named Elijah warns this character not to sail on Ahab's boat Ishmael
#7836, aired 2018-10-082018 HAPPENINGS $1600: Caught up in a sex scandal, the Swedish Academy announced it would not give this Nobel Prize in 2018 Literature
#7821, aired 2018-09-17A BIT O' BRIT LIT $800: In 1907 this Bombay-born Englishman who celebrated the empire won the Nobel Prize for Literature Kipling
#7816, aired 2018-09-10LITERATURE $400: In this H.G. Wells classic, the narrator is "drawn on by the...Earth's fate" & sees it in "strides of a thousand years" The Time Machine
#7816, aired 2018-09-10LITERATURE $1200: Nicholas Rubashov is a revolutionary caught up in this leader's purges in Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon" Stalin
#7816, aired 2018-09-10LITERATURE $2000: In a Saul Bellow novel, Eugene Henderson gets this sacred title from the African Wariri tribe the Rain King
#7787, aired 2018-06-19MARRIED LITERATURE $2000: This novel by Virginia Woolf is one day in the life of a woman married to a member of Parliament Mrs. Dalloway
#7775, aired 2018-06-01THE THIRD MAN $200: "As a tribute to his... versatile poetry" in 1903, Bjornstjerne Bjornson became man No. 3 to win this prize the Nobel Prize for Literature
#7758, aired 2018-05-09LITERATURE IN SPANISH $800: Not the tower but this place of Babel in a Borges story contains every possible book with every arrangement of letters library
#7758, aired 2018-05-09LITERATURE IN SPANISH $1200: 1949's "The Kingdom of This World", an early work in this style blending naturalism & fantasy, includes a manifesto of it magical realism
#7758, aired 2018-05-09LITERATURE IN SPANISH $1600: Circa 1554 "Lazarillo de Tormes" originated this genre about a lowborn scamp & his travels & adventures picaresque
#7747, aired 2018-04-24LITERATURE ON THE MAP $1600: Rooster Cogburn is a deputy marshal in Fort Smith, Arkansas in this Charles Portis novel True Grit
#7747, aired 2018-04-24LITERATURE ON THE MAP $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map of Chicago on the monitor.) In Chicago, there's a big economic difference between the mansion where Bigger Thomas worked & his family's apartment just a few blocks away in this novel Native Son
#7741, aired 2018-04-16LETTER MEN $2000: This author of Indian descent released "Half a Life" in 2001, the year he won the Nobel Prize for Literature V.S. Naipaul
#7706, aired 2018-02-26HAVE A GREAT ONE! $1200: Written by a woman in the early 1000s, "The Tale of Genji" is considered this country's greatest work of literature Japan
#7696, aired 2018-02-12WORLD WAR I LITERATURE $400: R.C. Sherriff's "Journey's End" is set in a dugout connected to one of these, which have come to symbolize the war a trench
#7666, aired 2018-01-01MUSIC & LITERATURE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A song by Coolio from "Dangerous Minds" goes back in time to become a 1667 John Milton classic "Gangsta's Paradise Lost"
#7666, aired 2018-01-01MUSIC & LITERATURE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A John le Carre espionage novel hits the "Speed Of Sound" with a British band The Spy Who Came in From the Coldplay
#7650, aired 2017-12-08ASIAN CULTURE $2000: The first non-European to win a Nobel Literature Prize, Rabindranath Tagore wrote mostly in this Asian language Bengali
#7646, aired 2017-12-04LITERATURE 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
#7646, aired 2017-12-04LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $800: (Hi, I'm Mark Allan from WDTN.) In his poem "Sympathy", Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote "I know why the caged bird sings"... giving this other African-American poet the title of her 1969 memoir (Maya) Angelou
#7642, aired 2017-11-28LITERATURE $2000: Elizabeth Strout won a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for her book of stories, set in coastal Maine, about this title woman Olive Kitteridge
#7636, aired 2017-11-20LITERATURE, SCIENCE & THE ARTS $1000: In 1704 Newton published a groundbreaking treatise on this science of light optics
#7629, aired 2017-11-09"N" TITLED TO LITERATURE $1000: Tennessee Williams set this play in a seedy Mexican hotel Night of the Iguana
#7629, aired 2017-11-09"N" TITLED TO LITERATURE $3,400 (Daily Double): Wonderboy is the name of a bat, not a superhero, in this 1952 novel The Natural
#7624, aired 2017-11-02LITERATURE FOR THE YOUNG $800: A boy asks Santa for a reindeer's silver bell in this classic by Chris Van Allsburg The Polar Express
#7592, aired 2017-09-19RIGHT ON Q $1000: It may ring a bell that this Italian with a "Q" name won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959 Salvatore Quasimodo
#7561, aired 2017-06-26FRENCH LITERATURE $1200: In this 1862 work, Victor Hugo wrote, "No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child" Les Miserables
#7536, aired 2017-05-22RUSSIAN CULTURE $2000: The "Father of Russian Literature", this poet & dramatist was mortally wounded in a duel in 1837 Pushkin
#7525, aired 2017-05-05LITERATURE $400: In "Les Miserables" he's imprisoned for 19 years after stealing a loaf of bread (Jean) Valjean
#7515, aired 2017-04-21LITERATURE $1000: At age 25 in 1774, young Goethe had a bestseller with "The Sorrows of" this young man Werther
#7503, aired 2017-04-05AVIAN LITERATURE $400: A fun-loving rebel inspires a mental ward's patients to challenge a nurse's cruel rule in this novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
#7503, aired 2017-04-05AVIAN LITERATURE $1200: Rebecca West's "Black Lamb & Grey Falcon" is a study of this troubled Balkan country that broke apart in the 1990s Yugoslavia
#7503, aired 2017-04-05AVIAN LITERATURE $2000: This literary pair "went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat" the Owl and the Pussycat
#7503, aired 2017-04-05AVIAN LITERATURE $5,000 (Daily Double): When this Anton Chekhov play debuted in St. Petersburg in 1896, it was a dismal failure The Seagull
#7490, aired 2017-03-17'TIS IRISH LITERATURE $600: In "Arms and the Man", by him, a fugitive soldier exposes some villagers' romantic ideas about war George Bernard Shaw
#7490, aired 2017-03-17'TIS IRISH LITERATURE $800: In the satiric 1729 "A Modest Proposal", this author suggested dining on poor Irish children to control poverty Jonathan Swift
#7486, aired 2017-03-13LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $400: (I'm M.J. Acosta from NBC 7 San Diego.) This man resided at the Hotel Del Coronado for months at a time & wrote parts of several books here including "Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz" Frank Baum
#7486, aired 2017-03-13LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $2000: (I'm Julie Nelson from Kare 11.) The Minnesota State Fair is the setting of the 1928 story "A Night at the Fair" by this author born in St. Paul Fitzgerald
#7465, aired 2017-02-10LITERATURE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $200: "Some pig" is one of the lifesaving slogans woven by a spider in this work Charlotte's Web
#7465, aired 2017-02-10LITERATURE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $1000: In a Katherine Paterson classic, an elder twin is taunted with this title, "but Esau have I hated" Jacob Have I Loved
#7464, aired 2017-02-09MUNICIPAL LITERATURE $800: The canals are frozen over as Det. Lotte Meerman tries to solve a really cold case in "A Cold Death in" this European city Amsterdam
#7455, aired 2017-01-27LITERATURE $600: This 1922 Hermann Hesse novel about a young Brahmin in India parallels the life of Buddha Siddhartha
#7455, aired 2017-01-27LITERATURE $800: In this Huxley novel, a major character is said to have "been the first to reveal the appalling dangers of family life" Brave New World
#7439, aired 2017-01-05AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: In this 1997 play it's shampoo, set & socialize for a group of women passing time in a Louisiana beauty salon Steel Magnolias
#7439, aired 2017-01-05AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: "In Cold Blood" recounts the murder of the Clutter family in a small town in this state Kansas
#7437, aired 2017-01-03LITERATURE IN ACTION $600: Like Michael Crichton, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a thriller with this title about a land inhabited by dinosaurs The Lost World
#7437, aired 2017-01-03LITERATURE IN ACTION $1000: Brian Garfield's wife had her purse stolen, so Brian wrote this novel about a vigilante whose wife has been murdered Death Wish
#7431, aired 2016-12-26LITERARY TERMS $1,000 (Daily Double): It can mean a decorative border of vines, or, in literature, a short anecdote a vignette
#7420, aired 2016-12-09CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $2000: A Union officer is killed but not in warfare in "Murder at" this Virginia town, name of the war's first major battle Manassas
#7417, aired 2016-12-06CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $1000: (Hi, I'm Juliana Mazza with 22 News.) Many beloved characters from children's literature are features in a Springfield sculpture garden dedicated to Dr. Seuss, the pen name of this man (Theodor) Geisel
#7386, aired 2016-10-24CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: This classic is subtitled "The Tale of a Puppet" Pinocchio
#7386, aired 2016-10-24CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: The title of this Frances Hodgson Burnett book refers to Sara Crewe, who goes from privileged to pauper A Little Princess (The Little Princess accepted)
#7386, aired 2016-10-24CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: She is "exquisitely gowned in a skeleton leaf... through which her figure could be seen to the best advantage" Tinker Bell
#7365, aired 2016-09-23REMEMBERING WORLD WAR I $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Nat'l WWI Museum & Memorial in Kansas City, MO.) Even before the U.S. entry into the war, Americans were volunteering to drive Red Cross ambulances; one such adventurer was this 18-year-old, who was badly wounded in a mortar attack in Italy, nearly costing the U.S. a future Nobel Prize in Literature (Ernest) Hemingway
#7354, aired 2016-07-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: Langston Hughes wrote, "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like" this, later the title of a play A Raisin in the Sun
#7325, aired 2016-06-17TEEN LITERATURE $1600: Gregor Samsa is the human transformed into a giant pest in this 1915 novella Metamorphosis
#7291, aired 2016-05-02DETENTION IN LITERATURE $400: Cold Mountain Penitentiary houses many killers in this Stephen King book, & most have a date with "Old Sparky" The Green Mile
#7291, aired 2016-05-02DETENTION IN LITERATURE $800: Due to a tattoo, Devil's Island prisoner Henri Charriere was called this, also the title of a book he wrote Papillon
#7290, aired 2016-04-2919th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: Early in this Jules Verne tale, professor Otto Lidenbrock, his nephew & a guide descend into a volcano Journey to the Center of the Earth
#7290, aired 2016-04-2919th CENTURY LITERATURE $1000: 2 expatriates come to Boston to visit relatives in his 1878 novel "The Europeans" Henry James
#7253, aired 2016-03-09AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In this novel Holden Caulfield has an older brother named D.B. & a little sister named Phoebe The Catcher in the Rye
#7253, aired 2016-03-09AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light" is a description of her in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (Blanche) DuBois
#7253, aired 2016-03-09AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): This book begins, "Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure... a man-child was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte" Roots
#7251, aired 2016-03-07LITERATURE IS FOR THE BIRDS $400: This book that won a Pulitzer in 1961 depicts racial injustice in a small Southern town To Kill a Mockingbird
#7251, aired 2016-03-07LITERATURE IS FOR THE BIRDS $800: In this author's "Lonesome Dove", a motley assortment of heroes, outlaws & more live & die in the title Texas town (Larry) McMurtry
#7251, aired 2016-03-07LITERATURE IS FOR THE BIRDS $4,000 (Daily Double): In this novel, a Tulane law student discovers facts that people will kill for, & if she doesn't get help, she might be next The Pelican Brief
#7247, aired 2016-03-01CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: This bear is named for a train station & arrives in England as a stowaway from South America Paddington
#7247, aired 2016-03-01CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: In a work by Crockett Johnson, he draws his own world with his purple crayon Harold
#7247, aired 2016-03-01CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: In 1888, before his imprisonment, this playwright published "The Happy Prince and Other Tales" for children Oscar Wilde
#7246, aired 2016-02-29URBAN LITERATURE $800: "Fear and Loathing" in Las Vegas" chronicles a rollicking weekend for this gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson
#7246, aired 2016-02-29URBAN LITERATURE $1200: A mysterious sack in a bank vault stirs greed in the Mark Twain tale "The Man that Corrupted" this town Hadleyburg
#7246, aired 2016-02-29URBAN LITERATURE $2000: In this Thomas Mann novella, a writer on a holiday in a cholera-stricken city grows infatuated with a boy Death in Venice
#7234, aired 2016-02-11COLLEGE-SET LITERATURE $1200: An errant throw by a Westish College baseball star plays a major role in Chad Harbach's "The Art of" this Fielding
#7224, aired 2016-01-28"O" IN LITERATURE $200: Keats wrote one "on a Grecian Urn" an ode
#7224, aired 2016-01-28"O" IN LITERATURE $400: A cycle of plays by Sophocles includes the dramas him "Rex" & him "at Colonus" Oedipus
#7217, aired 2016-01-19LITERATURE $600: Her poem "I heard a Fly buzz--when I died" was suggested by a chapter in a Hawthorne novel Emily Dickinson
#7212, aired 2016-01-12FIRST ISSUES $2000: With James Russell Lowell as editor, in 1857 this monthly called itself "a magazine of literature, art, and politics" Atlantic Monthly
#7202, aired 2015-12-29WORLD LITERATURE $400: In 1703 this "Robinson Crusoe" author offended each side in a religious dispute & was sentenced to Newgate Prison Daniel Defoe
#7202, aired 2015-12-29WORLD LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Although best known for their fairy tales, these brothers were pioneers in creating a German dictionary the Brothers Grimm
#7168, aired 2015-11-11MEDIEVAL LITERATURE $400: In Sir Thomas Malory's "Morte d'Arthur", she retires to a nunnery after an affair Guinevere
#7164, aired 2015-11-05GOTHIC LITERATURE $2000: This Gothic classic was penned as part of a ghost story writing competition held in a mansion on Lake Geneva in 1816 Frankenstein
#7164, aired 2015-11-05GOTHIC LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): Lady Caroline Lamb featured a version of this ex-lover in her Gothic novel "Glenarvon", calling him Ruthven Lord Byron
#7161, aired 2015-11-02SPORTS IN LITERATURE $400: Athlete-lawyer Ken Dryden wrote "The Game", this one he played with Serge Savard, Bob Gainey et al. hockey
#7161, aired 2015-11-02SPORTS IN LITERATURE $600: "Hot Money" by Dick Francis centers on Ian Pembroke, who does this sporting job a jockey
#7161, aired 2015-11-02SPORTS IN LITERATURE $1000: "Ball Four" by this pitcher begins, "I signed my contract today to play for the Seattle pilots at a salary of $22,000" Jim Bouten
#7154, aired 2015-10-22FRENCH LITERATURE $800: In Chapter I of this Gaston Leroux novel, we learn of a private box in the theatre always reserved for the title figure Phantom of the Opera
#7154, aired 2015-10-22FRENCH LITERATURE $1200: Antoine de Saint-Exupery, who perished in a WWII plane crash, is today best known for this children's tale The Little Prince
#7115, aired 2015-07-17PUNNY CLASSIC LITERATURE TITLES $1600: Huxley's yarn concerning cemetery crypts in the Americas A Grave New World
#7106, aired 2015-07-06TASTY LITERATURE $600: In a Fannie Flag novel, this cafe serves fried green tomatoes & other Southern favorites The Whistle Stop Cafe
#7106, aired 2015-07-06TASTY LITERATURE $800: Nostalgia overcomes "Invisible Man" after he eats this 3-letter tuber in Harlem a yam
#7104, aired 2015-07-02LITERATURE OF THE EARLY 1800s $4,000 (Daily Double): A father, a mother & 4 sons are shipwrecked on a desert isle in this Johann David Wyss adventure tale The Swiss Family Robinson
#7042, aired 2015-04-07AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "Holly Golightly had been a tenant in the old brownstone; she'd occupied the apartment below mine" in this work Breakfast at Tiffany's
#7042, aired 2015-04-07AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: In a short story by this man, Percy says his father has "a diamond bigger than the Ritz-Carlton Hotel" F. Scott Fitzgerald
#7034, aired 2015-03-26BROUGHT TO YOU IN H_D $2000: A female servant; one told a "tale" in literature a handmaid
#7032, aired 2015-03-24BRITISH LITERATURE $400: In this H. G. Wells novel, a character is hurtled into the year 802,701 The Time Machine
#7011, aired 2015-02-23A "LITTLE" LITERATURE $400: In this 1871 sequel Jo March & her husband run a school for boys in their home Little Men
#7011, aired 2015-02-23A "LITTLE" LITERATURE $800: In 2014 Sara Shepard released "Toxic", the 15th book in this bestselling series about 4 Pennsylvania teens Pretty Little Liars
#7011, aired 2015-02-23A "LITTLE" LITERATURE $1200: In this 1886 story 7-year old Cedric Errol cuts a striking figure in black velvet, lace collar & yellow curls Little Lord Fauntleroy
#7011, aired 2015-02-23A "LITTLE" LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): In this 1933 Erskine Caldwell novel, a character sets aside a small piece of land, the income of which is to go to the church God's Little Acre
#6958, aired 2014-12-10A RENAISSANCE LITERATURE TIMELINE $400: "The Defence and Illustration of" this language that gave us the word "renaissance" appeared in 1549 French
#6958, aired 2014-12-10A RENAISSANCE LITERATURE TIMELINE $800: Printing in England was still a novelty in the 1470s when William Caxton printed this work about 30 pilgrims The Canterbury Tales
#6958, aired 2014-12-10A RENAISSANCE LITERATURE TIMELINE $1200: In 1516 Sir Thomas More broke away from his dry histories of kings like Richard III to produce this "what-if" work Utopia
#6958, aired 2014-12-10A RENAISSANCE LITERATURE TIMELINE $1600: In 1341 this Italian sonneteer was crowned poet laureate, with real laurel Petrarch
#6958, aired 2014-12-10A RENAISSANCE LITERATURE TIMELINE $2000: Lady Penelope Rich was the "star" of Sir Philip Sidney's sonnet cycle "Astrophel and" her, published in 1591 Stella
#6952, aired 2014-12-02WORLD LITERATURE $800: In a Victor Hugo novel, Quasimodo is the hunchback bell ringer at this Paris cathedral the Notre-Dame
#6925, aired 2014-10-24WORLD LITERATURE $800: In the 1990s a group of women inspired the bestseller "Reading Lolita In" this city Tehran
#6925, aired 2014-10-24WORLD LITERATURE $1600: Last name of the life-loving Alexis, "the Greek" in a novel by Nikos Kazantzakis Zorba
#6920, aired 2014-10-17O CAPTAIN! MY LITERATURE CAPTAIN! $800: Captain First Rank Marko Ramius ordered a sub to go (defect) in this Tom Clancy novel The Hunt for Red October
#6885, aired 2014-07-18STATELY LITERATURE $200: "A ____ Yankee In King Arthur's Court" Connecticut
#6860, aired 2014-06-13LITERATURE $800: In a Thomas Mann tale, Gustav Von Aschenbach has a date with "death in" this city Venice
#6857, aired 2014-06-10POETIC WOMEN $2000: Born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga in Vicuna, Chile, she was the first Latin American woman to win a Nobel Prize in literature Gabriela Mistral
#6838, aired 2014-05-14WORLD LITERATURE $2,800 (Daily Double): In Ariosto's chivalric romance "Orlando Furioso", Orlando is this great king's nephew Charlemagne
#6758, aired 2014-01-22LITERATURE CATS WOULD LOVE $200 (Daily Double): Kitty doesn't like the knitting so much in the Debbie Macomber book called "A Good" this, but loves the threads Yarn
#6726, aired 2013-12-09THE ____ OF ____ $400: Fabled weapon precariously suspended over a leader in Greek literature the Sword of Damocles
#6720, aired 2013-11-29AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In Stephen Vincent Benet's story "The Devil and" him, Mr. Scratch has come to collect a debt Daniel Webster
#6714, aired 2013-11-21RANDOM HOUSE DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS $800: Under "I": In Greek literature, "pertaining to satirical poetry written in" a certain meter iambic
#6686, aired 2013-10-14LITERATURE $2000: In a Goethe novel "The Sorrows of" this man include the fact that Lotte is engaged Werther
#6683, aired 2013-10-09IRISH LITERATURE $1200: This Irish-born writer's most famous novel is partly narrated by Jonathan Harker in the form of a journal (Bram) Stoker
#6683, aired 2013-10-09IRISH LITERATURE $1600: Prolific short story writer Frank O'Connor once served in the I.R.A. & on the board of directors of this playhouse the Abbey Playhouse
#6638, aired 2013-06-26WORLD LITERATURE $400: In this 1866 Russian novel, a poor student named Raskolnikov kills an old woman pawnbroker Crime and Punishment
#6638, aired 2013-06-26WORLD LITERATURE $800: In 1835 he published a pamphlet containing 4 of his fairy tales, including "The Tinder Box" Hans Christian Andersen
#6638, aired 2013-06-26WORLD LITERATURE $2000: In this Henry James tale, a governess is in charge of 2 children who are controlled by evil ghosts The Turn of the Screw
#6621, aired 2013-06-03ROMANCE IN LITERATURE $800: A photographer finds brief but unforgettable love in Iowa in this '90s novel The Bridges of Madison County
#6621, aired 2013-06-03ROMANCE IN LITERATURE $1200: The mad, impetuous woman played by Keira Knightley opposite Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Vronsky in a 2012 film Anna Karenina
#6621, aired 2013-06-03ROMANCE IN LITERATURE $2000: In a Madrid taxi, Jake & Lady Brett dream of what might have been at the end of this Hemingway tale The Sun Also Rises
#6584, aired 2013-04-11DOGS & CATS IN LITERATURE $800: This "old" dog in a story by Fred Gipson teaches kids about loyalty Old Yeller
#6584, aired 2013-04-11DOGS & CATS IN LITERATURE $1200: A feline about town, Bustopher Jones is a character in "Old Possum's Book of" these title critters Practical Cats
#6539, aired 2013-02-07ENGLISH LITERATURE $1600: Ralph Allen, a rich philanthropist, was the inspiration for Squire Alworthy in this author's "Tom Jones" (Henry) Fielding
#6539, aired 2013-02-07ENGLISH LITERATURE $2,400 (Daily Double): In this futuristic but not Orwellian novel, Mustapha Mond was called "the Resident Controller for Western Europe" Brave New World
#6521, aired 2013-01-14ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: In this story Mr. Marley "died seven years ago, this very night" A Christmas Carol
#6521, aired 2013-01-14ENGLISH LITERATURE $2000: Richard Hughes' "A High Wind in" this place was published in the U.S. as "The Innocent Voyage" A High Wind in Jamaica
#6521, aired 2013-01-14ENGLISH LITERATURE $2,400 (Daily Double): Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1834 novel set in 79 A.D. is titled "The Last Days of" this place Pompeii
#6510, aired 2012-12-28I LOVE "L.A." $400: Literature, history & philosophy are included in this type of modern college curriculum the Liberal Arts
#6501, aired 2012-12-17CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Sally & her brother were looking out the window on a rainy day when they saw him standing on a doormat the Cat in the Hat
#6501, aired 2012-12-17CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: This Hans Christian Andersen maiden was born in a tulip; a polished walnut shell served as her cradle Thumbelina
#6488, aired 2012-11-28AMERICAN 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
#6488, aired 2012-11-28AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: In this Ray Bradbury tale, the title character has tattoos that move & change, each telling a story The Illustrated Man
#6459, aired 2012-10-18ESCAPIST LITERATURE $800: "The Road to En-Dor" (during WWI) & "Midnight Express" (later) are accounts of escaping a prison in this country Turkey
#6450, aired 2012-10-05LITERATURE QUOTES: ONE WORD OFF $600: "And the answer came, in a shrill treble: 'Good-bye, Mr. Spock'" "Chips"
#6450, aired 2012-10-05LITERATURE QUOTES: ONE WORD OFF $1000: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking Grandma" "thirteen"
#6436, aired 2012-09-17"A" IN LITERATURE $200: In Milton's "Paradise Lost", Gabriel sends 2 of these beings to watch over Paradise, & Satan flees angels
#6436, aired 2012-09-17"A" IN LITERATURE $400: When Moby Dick is harpooned, this man becomes fouled in the line & is taken under the sea to his death Ahab
#6436, aired 2012-09-17"A" IN LITERATURE $600: Chapter 1 of this Tolstoy novel tells us, "Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house" Anna Karenina
#6436, aired 2012-09-17"A" IN LITERATURE $800: The oldest of the 3 Musketeers, he was once married to the evil Milady de Winter Athos
#6436, aired 2012-09-17"A" IN LITERATURE $1000: Theodore Dreiser based this novel on the case of Chester Gillette, who murdered Grace Brown on Big Moose Lake An American Tragedy
#6382, aired 2012-05-22GIVE ME A PRIZE! $1000: This prestigious British prize for literature was started in 1968 as a counterpart to France's Prix Goncourt the Booker Prize
#6366, aired 2012-04-30SCARY LITERATURE $800: In a Neil Gaiman novel, this title girl meets the alternate reality "other mother" who has buttons for eyes Coraline
#6366, aired 2012-04-30SCARY LITERATURE $1600: Thomas Harris first gave readers a taste of this creepy cannibal in the novel "Red Dragon" Hannibal Lecter
#6306, aired 2012-02-06ASIAN LITERATURE $400: Written in Farsi, the "Shah-Nameh", or "book of kings", is a medieval epic of this nation Iran
#6215, aired 2011-09-30LITERATURE $1600: He wrote "Bech: A Book", "Bech Is Back" & "Bech At Bay" in addition to his "Rabbit" novels (John) Updike
#6208, aired 2011-09-21ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: In a George Eliot novel, the Tullivers owned a mill on this river the River Floss
#6208, aired 2011-09-21ENGLISH LITERATURE $1,500 (Daily Double): A line in this 1954 novel reads, "Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart" Lord of the Flies
#6197, aired 2011-07-19ADVENTURES IN LITERATURE $200: One adventure of these 2 Twain boys: attempting to cure warts with a dead cat out in the cemetery at midnight Huck Finn & Tom Sawyer
#6197, aired 2011-07-19ADVENTURES IN LITERATURE $800: This thriller by Richard P. Hendrick is about a mutiny aboard the USS Alabama, a nuclear submarine Crimson Tide
#6190, aired 2011-07-08QUOTATIONS IN LITERATURE $600: In this 1883 children's classic, a parrot named Captain Flint squawks, "Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!" Treasure Island
#6190, aired 2011-07-08QUOTATIONS IN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): In a 1900 book, one character tells her, "I'm really a very good man; but I'm a very bad wizard" Dorothy
#6180, aired 2011-06-24"Y" IS THE ONLY VOWEL $600: A naiad, in myth, or Lolita, in literature a nymph
#6126, aired 2011-04-11BLUE LITERATURE $400: In this detective's 1892 "Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", the carbuncle was a blue garnet hidden in a goose Sherlock Holmes
#6126, aired 2011-04-11BLUE LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): In this 1908 romance by Henry de Vere Stacpoole, a pair of 8-year old cousins are marooned on a tropical island The Blue Lagoon
#6096, aired 2011-02-28AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In this J.D. Salinger novel, the main character asks a cab driver where the Central Park ducks go in the winter The Catcher in the Rye
#6096, aired 2011-02-28AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In this Hemingway story, a fisherman named Santiago was once an arm wrestler known as "El Campeon" The Old Man and the Sea
#6070, aired 2011-01-21WORLD LITERATURE $400: Richard Llewellyn set his novel about a mining family, "How Green Was My Valley", in this country of his birth Wales
#6070, aired 2011-01-21WORLD LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): This South American's "The General in His Labyrinth" is a fictional biography of Simon Bolivar Gabriel García Márquez
#6066, aired 2011-01-17CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: Sketches written for Punch became his first novel, "Lovers in London"; Winnie-the-Pooh came 21 years later (A.A.) Milne
#6041, aired 2010-12-13LITERATURE SEQUELS? $1200: Florentino Ariza's nephew falls for a young woman in this Marquez novel's sequel, "Love in the Time of the Sniffles" Love in the Time of Cholera
#6041, aired 2010-12-13LITERATURE SEQUELS? $1600: This playwright's title guy takes on a new troll king in "Trollbusters! The Return of Peer Gynt" Ibsen
#5971, aired 2010-07-26ORIGINAL TITLES IN LITERATURE? $400: 1949: "Big Brother & The Holding Co.: A Winston Smith Novel" 1984
#5971, aired 2010-07-26ORIGINAL TITLES IN LITERATURE? $800: Late 14th century: "A Miller, a Reeve & a Nun Walk into a Bar" The Canterbury Tales
#5965, aired 2010-07-16A MINOR IN LITERATURE $200: In a classic story this little girl is sent to bring food & drink to her grandmother, but a wolf has gotten there first Little Red Riding Hood
#5965, aired 2010-07-16A MINOR IN LITERATURE $400: Richard Rowe's 1869 adventure tale "The Boy in the Bush" follows the exploits of a 14-year-old settler in this country Australia
#5965, aired 2010-07-16A MINOR IN LITERATURE $600: This "Little Lord" in an 1886 book had long curls just like the author's son Vivian Little Lord Fauntleroy
#5965, aired 2010-07-16A MINOR IN LITERATURE $800: This Swedish girl's "hair, the color of a carrot, was braided in two tight braids that stuck straight out" Pippi Longstocking
#5965, aired 2010-07-16A MINOR IN LITERATURE $1000: In a 17th century children's tale, the captain of the Unicorn sells this boy's cat to the king of Barbary Dick Whittington
#5935, aired 2010-06-04RUSSIAN LITERATURE $400: In this 1866 Dostoevsky novel, a student named Raskolnikov murders an old woman pawnbroker & her sister Crime and Punishment
#5935, aired 2010-06-04RUSSIAN LITERATURE $1200: Wounded in World War I, Yuri Zhivago is nursed back to health by this woman who was to become his mistress Lara
#5910, aired 2010-04-30NOVELS, BOOKS & LITERATURE $200: In book titles, this character has dealt with a stone, a prisoner, an order & a goblet Harry Potter
#5910, aired 2010-04-30NOVELS, BOOKS & LITERATURE $1000: Helen Graham is "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" in a novel by this youngest Bronte sister Anne Brontë
#5864, aired 2010-02-25ELEPHANTS IN LITERATURE $200: Tantor the elephant is a childhood companion of this Edgar Rice Burroughs character Tarzan (of the apes)
#5864, aired 2010-02-25ELEPHANTS IN LITERATURE $400: In "The Elephant's Child", Rudyard Kipling explained that a crocodile attack caused the elephant to get this body part its trunk
#5864, aired 2010-02-25ELEPHANTS IN LITERATURE $600: Throughout a 1954 book, this elephant repeats, "A person's a person, no matter how small" Horton
#5864, aired 2010-02-25ELEPHANTS IN LITERATURE $800: Created by Jean de Brunhoff, this pachyderm, who wears a green suit & a bowler hat, leaves the jungle & moves to Paris Babar
#5852, aired 2010-02-09AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In a 1947 novelette by John Steinbeck, a diver named Kino finds the valuable title object to pay his child's doctor bill pearl
#5729, aired 2009-07-02LITERATURE IN THE 1800s $400: The first chapter of this Carlo Collodi classic appeared in an Italian children's magazine in 1881 Pinocchio
#5708, aired 2009-06-03WORLD OF LITERATURE $400: As a medical student in this city, Chekhov wrote short stories to help support his family Moscow
#5653, aired 2009-03-1818th CENTURY LITERATURE $200: In "Advice to a Young Tradesman", this Pennsylvanian wrote, "Remember that time is money" Franklin
#5643, aired 2009-03-04ENGLISH LITERATURE $1200: In part II of this allegory, Christian's wife, Christiana, sets out on a pilgrimage Pilgrim's Progress
#5643, aired 2009-03-04ENGLISH LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): Long Jack is one of the crew on a cod boat that rescues Harvey Cheyne in the Grand Banks in this Kipling novel Captains Courageous
#5630, aired 2009-02-13TURKISH LITERATURE $800: A religious kaside poem praised God, this man or his son-in-law, Ali Ibn Abi Talib, the fourth caliph Muhammad
#5630, aired 2009-02-13TURKISH LITERATURE $1600: Peter Ustinov directed & starred in the film version of the Yasar Kemal novel "Memed, My" this predatory bird Hawk
#5594, aired 2008-12-25FRENCH LITERATURE $400: He began a novel called "Les Miseres" as early as 1840; it was finished in 1861 with a different title Victor Hugo
#5578, aired 2008-12-03LITERATURE IN OTHER WORDS $400: A Joyce epic: "Odysseus" Ulysses
#5578, aired 2008-12-03LITERATURE IN OTHER WORDS $800: A puritanical tale: "A Note From Miss Johansson" The Scarlet Letter
#5578, aired 2008-12-03LITERATURE IN OTHER WORDS $10,800 (Daily Double): A Miller's tale: "23 Degrees, 27 Minutes North of the Equator" Tropic of Cancer
#5566, aired 2008-11-17WORLD LITERATURE $200: In 1831 he published a book of poems called "Les Feuilles d'automnes", as well as that hunchback novel (Victor) Hugo
#5496, aired 2008-06-30LITERATURE $800: In Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" , this bawdy wife tells of her 5 husbands & her desire for a sixth the Wife of Bath
#5494, aired 2008-06-26WOMEN WRITERS $2,000 (Daily Double): A graduate of Howard University, she won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993 Toni Morrison
#5482, aired 2008-06-10ENGLISH LITERATURE $1600: Part of this E.M. Forster novel takes place at the Pensione Bertolini in Italy A Room with a View
#5458, aired 2008-05-07LITERATURE $200: In a Defoe novel, this companion is described as "a comely handsome fellow" Friday
#5423, aired 2008-03-19LITERATURE $2000: The 2-word title of this 1985 Bobbie Ann Mason novel refers to the time a soldier spent in Vietnam In Country
#5408, aired 2008-02-2719th CENTURY LITERATURE $1200: In Pedro Antonio de Alarcon's "The Three-Cornered" this, a miller thinks his wife is having an affair with the mayor hat
#5404, aired 2008-02-21THEM LITERATURE TYPE FACTS $200: In 1928 A.A. Milne published "House at" this title character's "Corner" Pooh
#5404, aired 2008-02-21THEM LITERATURE TYPE FACTS $400: You'll find "Time is now to be dreaded - since once he put that mark upon your throat" in this 1897 novel Dracula
#5404, aired 2008-02-21THEM LITERATURE TYPE FACTS $1,000 (Daily Double): In the 1830s he wrote, "'But he has nothing on at all,' said a little child at last" Hans Christian Andersen
#5400, aired 2008-02-15AWARDS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 2007 Doris Lessing became only the 11th woman to win this--Pearl Buck won in 1938 the Nobel Prize in Literature
#5370, aired 2008-01-04PULP FICTION $800: Frederick Schiller Faust wasn't a big name in this genre, but his pen name of Max Brand was Westerns
#5358, aired 2007-12-19LITERATURE $2000: In a Thomas Hardy novel, Michael Henchard is this title mayor the Mayor of Casterbridge
#5357, aired 2007-12-18LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "Song to" this liberator was a famous patriotic poem written by Ecuador's Jose Joaquin Olmedo in 1825 Bolivar
#5357, aired 2007-12-18LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In the 19th century, literature about these Argentine cowboys was popular, with Jose Hernandez' "Martin Fierro" a classic gauchos
#5340, aired 2007-11-23LITERATURE A LA SEUSS $200: Hester looked at the frock / she looked in dismay / "Do you have it in something/ other than 'A'?" The Scarlet Letter
#5307, aired 2007-10-09LITERATURE FOR KIDS $800: In a fairy tale by this Danish author, the Snow Queen takes little Kay away in her sleigh to her icy palace Hans Christian Andersen
#5293, aired 2007-09-19CHARACTERS IN LITERATURE $400: This treacherous pirate in "Treasure Island" has a pet parrot named Captain Flint Long John Silver
#5293, aired 2007-09-19CHARACTERS IN LITERATURE $800: A gray spider named Charlotte brings about a series of miracles to keep this pig from the butcher's knife Wilbur
#5293, aired 2007-09-19CHARACTERS IN LITERATURE $2000: This E.L. Doctorow title character joins Dutch Schultz's gang as a 15-year-old in 1930s New York City Billy Bathgate
#5282, aired 2007-07-24LITERATURE $400: In chapter 52 of this novel, a boisterous crowd is gathering for Fagin's execution Oliver Twist
#5282, aired 2007-07-24LITERATURE $1200: People from the past appear to a brother & sister in "Rewards and Fairies" by this author of "The Jungle Book" Kipling
#5241, aired 2007-05-28ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $200: This knight errant's steed in Rocinante, a draft horse originally belonging to his neighbor Don Quixote
#5241, aired 2007-05-28ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $600: Representing Leon Trotsky, Snowball, a pig in this novel, is exiled by the ruthless Napoleon Animal Farm
#5233, aired 2007-05-16LINES FROM LITERATURE $400: In this novella, "Holly Golightly had been a tenant in the old brownstone" Breakfast at Tiffany's
#5233, aired 2007-05-16LINES 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
#5233, aired 2007-05-16LINES FROM LITERATURE $2000: In his "Ode on" this, Keats writes, "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter" a Grecian Urn
#5205, aired 2007-04-06ISLANDS IN LITERATURE $600 (Daily Double): The city of Mildendo on this island is encompassed by a wall 2 1/2 feet high Lilliput
#5182, aired 2007-03-06IT'S ALL ACADEMIC $2000: In 1954 Cambridge appointed this children's author as a professor of Medieval & Renaissance literature C.S. Lewis
#5177, aired 2007-02-27AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Introduced in "Devil in a Blue Dress", Easy Rawlins is the hero of several mysteries by this author Walter Mosley
#5177, aired 2007-02-27AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: While serving time in prison, he wrote "Soul on Ice", a series of essays on prejudice & racism Eldridge Cleaver
#5170, aired 2007-02-16LITERATURE $2000: In "Little Women", this youngest of the 4 sisters is "a most important person, in her own opinion at least" Amy
#5136, aired 2007-01-01UNIQUELY AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: A brutal 1959 mass murder was the basis of this Truman Capote nonfiction novel In Cold Blood
#5136, aired 2007-01-01UNIQUELY AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: A battle to keep a girl from the clutches of Satan takes place in this William Peter Blatty novel that turned heads in '71 The Exorcist
#5136, aired 2007-01-01UNIQUELY AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: This American's stories like "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?" are in a style some have called K-Mart Realism Raymond Carver
#5106, aired 2006-11-20LITERATURE $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew stands next to a statue in the harbor of Copenhagen, Denmark.) This author once said that "The Little Mermaid" was the only one of his stories he felt moved by when he wrote it Hans Christian Andersen
#5023, aired 2006-06-14ROYAL LITERATURE $800: 1889: By Mark Twain A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
#4986, aired 2006-04-24AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from outside of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL.) A vision of little scraps of Sunday dresses in this author's "Song of Solomon" refers to the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church Toni Morrison
#4986, aired 2006-04-24AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): This 1983 Pulitzer Prize winner is written in the form of letters, mostly from Celie to her sister & to God The Color Purple
#4976, aired 2006-04-10LET'S GO TO HARVARD $800: English 115b takes us to the 1390s in a study of this "most famous work of English literature before Shakespeare" The Canterbury Tales
#4975, aired 2006-04-07CLASSIC LITERATURE $200: "The Honor and Glory of Whaling" is a chapter in this American masterpiece Moby-Dick
#4968, aired 2006-03-29LITERATURE $600: Nicodemus Frapp is a narrow-minded evangelist in "Tono-Bungay", a 1909 novel by this author of "The Time Machine" H.G. Wells
#4968, aired 2006-03-29LITERATURE $1000: In Wonderland, Alice comes across a large one of these with a snooty caterpillar atop it a mushroom
#4965, aired 2006-03-24LITERATURE $400: In the 1600s Basho wrote a famous hard-to-translate haiku about this creature jumping into a pond a frog
#4965, aired 2006-03-24LITERATURE $800: The infamous Lowood School in this novel was based on a real school that Charlotte Bronte attended at age 8 Jane Eyre
#4965, aired 2006-03-24LITERATURE $6,000 (Daily Double): After Christian's death in an 1897 drama, this title character still acts as a platonic friend to the widow Cyrano de Bergerac
#4955, aired 2006-03-10LITERATURE $2000: Elizabeth Barrett Browning gave this volume of 44 sonnets to Robert in 1847, a year after they eloped Sonnets from the Portuguese
#4938, aired 2006-02-15I'M DOWN WITH HOMEWORK $1600: Literature: In this book, Emma's sick of her husband; next thing, she's macking with Leon, Rodolphe & a crucifix Madame Bovary
#4894, aired 2005-12-15AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Chapter 2 in a 1932 work of his begins, "The bullfight is not a sport in the Anglo-Saxon sense of the word" Ernest Hemingway
#4894, aired 2005-12-15AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In 1894 Mark Twain took this character "Abroad"; 2 years later, he became a "Detective" Tom Sawyer
#4894, aired 2005-12-15AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: In this 1940 novel, deaf-mute John Singer commits suicide when he learns his friend Spiros has died The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
#4840, aired 2005-09-30WORLD LITERATURE $1000: In 1902 Kipling published a volume of these "Stories", including "The Cat that Walked by Himself" the Just So Stories
#4810, aired 2005-07-01AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: This 140-pound character in "The Call of the Wild" is a cross between a St. Bernard & a Scotch Shepard Buck
#4652, aired 2004-11-23ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: In a 1719 sequel, he & his manservant revisit the island where he was shipwrecked Robinson Crusoe
#4633, aired 2004-10-27CHILDREN IN LITERATURE $800: This "parish boy" hero is born in a workhouse & becomes one of Fagin's thieves Oliver Twist
#4627, aired 2004-10-19LITERATURE $1000: This author said that he was acting in a play with his kids when he came up with the idea for "A Tale of Two Cities" Charles Dickens
#4613, aired 2004-09-29LITERATURE $2000: "I shouldn't mind being a bride... if I could be one without having a husband", says Bathsheba in this Hardy novel Far From the Madding Crowd
#4603, aired 2004-09-15AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This bestselling Western author wrote about the Sackett family in more than a dozen novels Louis L'Amour
#4603, aired 2004-09-15AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,500 (Daily Double): "Sons", the second book in a trilogy begun with this work, traces the destinies of the 3 sons of Wang Lung The Good Earth (by Pearl Buck)
#4603, aired 2004-09-15AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: In the prologue of a 1952 novel, this author wrote, "I am an invisible man" (Ralph) Ellison
#4588, aired 2004-07-14LITERATURE IN THE JAZZ AGE $400: This Sinclair Lewis character is a brazen ex-football player who enters the ministry Elmer Gantry
#4588, aired 2004-07-14LITERATURE IN THE JAZZ AGE $800: Erich Maria Remarque was working as a sportswriter in Germany when he wrote this novel about WWI All Quiet on the Western Front
#4588, aired 2004-07-14LITERATURE IN THE JAZZ AGE $1600: This "huge" 1924 Edna Ferber novel is about a widowed truck farmer & her struggles So Big
#4549, aired 2004-05-20FRENCH LITERATURE $2000: Known as a master of the short story--he wrote over 300 of them--he did write 6 novels including "Bel-Ami" in 1885 Guy de Maupassant
#4501, aired 2004-03-15LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1856 Revue de Paris readers followed this tale of the miserable wife of a boring doctor Madame Bovary
#4496, aired 2004-03-08AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: In the midst of writing his 5 Natty Bumppo tales, he paused to write a "History of the Navy of the United States" (James Fenimore) Cooper
#4496, aired 2004-03-08AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: In 1964 he won a National Book Award for his novel "The Centaur" John Updike
#4494, aired 2004-03-0419th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: The Mock Turtle sings a song about the Lobster Quadrille in this classic children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
#4494, aired 2004-03-0419th CENTURY LITERATURE $1200: A scientist tests poison on his own daughter in this American author's 1840s story "Rappaccini's Daughter" (Nathaniel) Hawthorne
#4494, aired 2004-03-0419th CENTURY LITERATURE $2000: The title gem in this Wilkie Collins novel was once in the handle of a dagger owned by Tippoo, the sultan of Seringapatam The Moonstone
#4479, aired 2004-02-12LITERATURE $1200: This author took us "Around the World in Eighty Days" & on a "Journey to the Center of the Earth" Jules Verne
#4479, aired 2004-02-12LITERATURE $1600: In "The Jungle Books" Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is one of these critters who heroically fights evil cobras a mongoose
#4479, aired 2004-02-12LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): A pastor, his wife & 4 sons have an adventure when they are shipwrecked on an island in this family tale "The Swiss Family Robinson"
#4476, aired 2004-02-09AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: "A sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit" on glimpsing the title home in this Poe tale The Fall of the House of Usher
#4422, aired 2003-11-25WE "LOVE" LITERATURE $400: (Video of Cheryl in Providence, RI.) This is the original 1920 manuscript of a horror story by this author, whose initials stood for Howard Phillips H.P. Lovecraft
#4408, aired 2003-11-05AWARD-WINNING AUTHORS $400: 1 of the 2 Irishmen to win a Nobel Prize for Literature in the 1920s (1 of) William Butler Yeats or George Bernard Shaw
#4377, aired 2003-09-23AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Jim Smiley kept this "celebrated" animal of a Mark Twain story in "a little lattice box" the jumping frog of Calaveras county
#4366, aired 2003-09-0819th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: The title wrongdoing in this novel is the murder of a pawnbroker & her sister by Raskolnikov Crime and Punishment
#4366, aired 2003-09-0819th CENTURY LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): "Knitting", "Still Knitting" & "The Knitting Done" are chapters in this 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities
#4366, aired 2003-09-0819th CENTURY LITERATURE $1000: Published in 1849, "Redburn: His First Voyage" was based on this author's first voyage as a cabin boy Herman Melville
#4356, aired 2003-07-07ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $400: Karait is a little one of these killed by Rikki-Tikki-Tavi snake
#4356, aired 2003-07-07ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $600: Dinah, the name of a real cat that belonged to the Liddell children, is the cat of this fictional girl Alice (of "Alice in Wonderland")
#4353, aired 2003-07-02WELL, I'LL BE A '30s WORD $1600: This name for vitamin B2 appeared in the scientific literature in the 1930s riboflavin
#4347, aired 2003-06-24FRENCH LITERATURE $800: In 1945 this existentialist founded "Les Temps Modernes", a monthly literary review that he also edited Jean-Paul Sartre
#4347, aired 2003-06-24FRENCH LITERATURE $2000: In 1943 this aviator created "The Little Prince"; a year later, his plane disappeared during a mission Antoine de Saint Exupery
#4346, aired 2003-06-23HISTORIC WOMEN $2,500 (Daily Double): In 1909 Sweden's Selma Lagerlof became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in this category Literature
#4341, aired 2003-06-16LADIES OF LITERATURE $1200: Robert Jordan could sing, "I've just met a girl named Maria / she was brutalized by Fascists" in this Hemingway novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
#4341, aired 2003-06-16LADIES OF LITERATURE $2000: Albertine, created by a man named Marcel, dallies with a man named Marcel in this work "Remembrance of Things Past"
#4290, aired 2003-04-04LITERATURE $800: In a 1927 Hermann Hesse novel, newspaper writer Harry Haller, a loner, calls himself this Steppenwolf
#4290, aired 2003-04-04LITERATURE $1200: Hamlet's most famous one of these speeches includes the following lines Whether tis' nobler in the mind to suffer the slings & arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles & by opposing... soliloquy
#4290, aired 2003-04-04LITERATURE $1600: John Kennedy Toole immortalized the Lucky Dog vending carts in this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "A Confederacy of Dunces"
#4273, aired 2003-03-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1600: A classic book by George Selden tells of this noisy insect "in Times Square" The Cricket
#4264, aired 2003-02-27CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $6,000 (Daily Double): In an 1883 fantasy by Carlo Collodi, Mr. Cherry, a carpenter, gives a piece of talking wood to this old man Geppetto
#4246, aired 2003-02-03THE 1400s $800: A key part of the Italian Renaissance was the discovery of literature in these 2 languages Greek & Latin
#4239, aired 2003-01-23AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This novel's widowed lawyer Atticus Finch had served in the state legislature "To Kill a Mockingbird"
#4239, aired 2003-01-23AMERICAN LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): This 19th century female character "raised a great scandal in godly master Dimmesdale's church" Hester Prynne
#4181, aired 2002-11-04WORLD LITERATURE $2000: Sherlock Holmes finds "as much sense in Hafiz", a 14th C. Persian poet, "as in" this Roman with an "H" name Horace
#4177, aired 2002-10-29AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This Mark Twain character's father "Pap" briefly held him prisoner in a cabin on the Illinois side of the Mississippi Huckleberry Finn
#4177, aired 2002-10-29AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In this Hemingway WWI novel, ambulance driver Frederic Henry falls in love with British nurse Catherine Barkley A Farewell to Arms
#4177, aired 2002-10-29AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): In this Steinbeck novel, a few buddies get drunk & make a shambles of the Western Biological Lab in Monterey Cannery Row
#4150, aired 2002-09-20AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In this Louisa May Alcott novel, Jo March writes a play, "The Witch's Curse" "Little Women"
#4150, aired 2002-09-20AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In this 1952 Hemingway story, Santiago goes 84 days without catching a fish, then hooks a gigantic marlin "The Old Man and the Sea"
#4133, aired 2002-07-17ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: Part of this E.M. Forster novel takes place at the Pensione Bertolini in Italy A Room with a View
#4128, aired 2002-07-10COLON $800: In this form of literature, a colon is a certain sequence of feet poetry
#4087, aired 2002-05-14WORLD LITERATURE $1200: A 1985 movie covered the life of this Japanese writer who dramatically committed suicide in 1970 Mishima
#4087, aired 2002-05-14WORLD LITERATURE $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from San Francisco, CA.) If you really need a book by this poet, come here to City Lights Books, the store he founded in 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#4058, aired 2002-04-03KANGAROOS IN LITERATURE $400: "Elmer & the Kangaroo" tells of Elmer the Elephant's efforts to convince a kangaroo it can do this jump
#4058, aired 2002-04-03KANGAROOS IN LITERATURE $800: He created the literary mother & son marsupials Kanga & Roo Milne
#4058, aired 2002-04-03KANGAROOS IN LITERATURE $1200: Looking at photos of this in a book, a kangaroo thinks she's upside-down in Crockett Johnson's "Who's Upside Down?" the Earth
#4058, aired 2002-04-03KANGAROOS IN LITERATURE $1600: A young kangaroo who has this name, like other young kangaroos, runs away from home in a 1985 Jack Kent work a joey
#4058, aired 2002-04-03KANGAROOS IN LITERATURE $2000: In "I Love You, Blue Kangaroo", the title roo fears he'll be replaced when a girl is given new ones of these stuffed animals
#4044, aired 2002-03-14FRENCH LITERATURE $1200: In the early 1970s this existentialist wrote a 3-volume biography of Gustave Flaubert Sartre
#4038, aired 2002-03-06WOMEN WRITERS $1,000 (Daily Double): A graduate of Howard University, she won the Nobel prize for Literature in 1993 Toni Morrison
#4037, aired 2002-03-05FILMED LITERATURE $400: Title characters are seen here in a '90s version of this work Little Women
#4037, aired 2002-03-05FILMED LITERATURE $600: Clara Blandick played Auntie Em in "The Wizard of Oz" & Aunt Polly in a film based on this novel Tom Sawyer
#4024, aired 2002-02-14TEENS IN LITERATURE $800: A teen outcast mysteriously disappears in "The Body of Christopher Creed", set in this "Garden State" New Jersey
#4024, aired 2002-02-14TEENS IN LITERATURE $1600: "Stuck in Neutral" is a journey into the world of a teen with CP, this disorder cerebral palsy
#4024, aired 2002-02-14TEENS IN LITERATURE $2000: Gene Forrester recalls his prep school friend Phineas in this 1960 John Knowles book A Separate Peace
#3985, aired 2001-12-21THE FIRST MILLENNIUM A.D. $1000: In the 9th c. this "Great" king of Wessex invited foreign scholars to England to teach & translate great literature Alfred the Great
#3979, aired 2001-12-13AMERICAN DRAMATISTS $800: In the '30s this "Our Town" dramatist was a lecturer on literature at the University of Chicago Thornton Wilder
#3973, aired 2001-12-05LEGENDS $1000: The "Literature Lover's Book of Lists" says this engineer "blew his train whistle in a special way" Casey Jones
#3956, aired 2001-11-12LITERATURE $800: One of his most famous works, "A child's Christmas in Wales", wasn't published until 2 years after his death Dylan Thomas
#3916, aired 2001-09-17GLOBETROTTING $200: This man brought the Roman alphabet & Latin literature to Ireland in the 400s A.D. St. Patrick
#3906, aired 2001-09-03TRU STORY $400: This book about the murder of a farm family blurred the genres of literature & crime reportage In Cold Blood
#3882, aired 2001-06-19LITERATURE $200: James Fenimore Cooper's 1823 novel "The Pioneers" was the first in a series of these 5 "Tales" "Leatherstocking Tales"
#3882, aired 2001-06-19LITERATURE $400: In 1919 Booth Tarkington won a Pulitzer Prize for this "Magnificent" novel; in 1922 he won again for "Alice Adams" "The Magnificent Ambersons"
#3882, aired 2001-06-19LITERATURE $600: In this 1952 short story, Hemingway wrote, "A man can be destroyed but not defeated" "The Old Man and the Sea"
#3882, aired 2001-06-19LITERATURE $800: In "A Scandal in" this, Sherlock Holmes calls Dr. Watson his "Boswell" "Bohemia"
#3882, aired 2001-06-19LITERATURE $1000: Graham Greene's "A Gun For Sale" was published in the U.S. under this title "This Gun For Hire"
#3863, aired 2001-05-23BEASTLY LITERATURE $200: Santiago, the old man in a Hemingway story, struggles mightily with this type of game fish Marlin
#3863, aired 2001-05-23BEASTLY LITERATURE $400: Moses, a raven, tells the other creatures about a better life to come on Sugar-Candy Mountain in this 1945 novel Animal Farm
#3854, aired 2001-05-10TEENS IN LITERATURE $200: Sonya is a kittenish 15-year-old introduced in book 1 of this long Tolstoy novel "War and Peace"
#3854, aired 2001-05-10TEENS IN LITERATURE $800: A shy teenager named Charlie is the hero of "The Perks of Being" this kind of "flower" a Wallflower
#3849, aired 2001-05-03AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: This J.D. Salinger novel tells the story of 2 days in the life of a 16-year-old boy "The Catcher in the Rye"
#3838, aired 2001-04-18TEENS IN LITERATURE $200: As a teen, this brooding Bronte hero displays "An almost idiotic excess of unsociable moroseness" Heathcliff
#3838, aired 2001-04-18TEENS IN LITERATURE $500: Mick Kelly is a gangly teenager who befriends the mysterious Mr. Singer in this Carson McCullers novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
#3820, aired 2001-03-23LITERATURE $200: In this Steinbeck novel, Lennie has nightmarish visions of his dead aunt Clara & of a gigantic rabbit "Of Mice and Men"
#3820, aired 2001-03-23LITERATURE $300: In this novel, Javert says, "There is a brigand, there is a convict called Jean Valjean, and I have got him!" "Les Miserables"
#3800, aired 2001-02-23LITERATURE $200: This quintessential New Englander published his first book of poems, "A Boy's Will", while living in England in 1913 Robert Frost
#3800, aired 2001-02-23LITERATURE $400: Set in part in Philadelphia, "Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker" is a novel about this war The Revolutionary War
#3800, aired 2001-02-23LITERATURE $600: Taji & Jarl are deserters from a whaling ship in his 1849 novel "Mardi" Herman Melville
#3791, aired 2001-02-12LITERATURE $1000: In 2000 Turkish author Andrew Mango published a new biography of this founder of modern Turkey Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#3786, aired 2001-02-05LITERATURE $800: This Thoreau work includes a chapter on "The Pond in Winter" "Walden"
#3758, aired 2000-12-27HODGEPODGE $500: This publisher who died in 1911 set up a prize fund for awards in journalism, literature, music & drama Joseph Pulitzer
#3739, aired 2000-11-30CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $800: In Thomas Dyja's 1997 novel "Play for A Kingdom", soldiers from both sides take a break to play this sport Baseball
#3715, aired 2000-10-27AUDIO LITERATURE $500: Made into a movie starring Leo DiCaprio, the "Diaries" heard here are read by this man who wrote them "Today was my first City League game and my first day in any organized basketball league..." Jim Carroll (The Basketball Diaries)
#3699, aired 2000-10-05AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This title character in an 1876 novel asks, "Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?" Tom Sawyer
#3699, aired 2000-10-05AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Sadly, in a James Fenimore Cooper novel Chingachgook was called "The Last of" this group the Mohicans
#3684, aired 2000-09-14BRITISH LITERATURE $300: In this 1933 novel survivors of a plane wreck seek refuge in a utopia run by a 250-year-old high lama Lost Horizon
#3684, aired 2000-09-14BRITISH LITERATURE $400: In a free-for-all between 2 groups of knights, this title character is rescued from a tight spot by the Black Sluggard Ivanhoe
#3684, aired 2000-09-14BRITISH LITERATURE $500 (Daily Double): In a Christmas classic, his ghost says, "I wear the chain I forged in life" Jacob Marley
#3682, aired 2000-09-12ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: A third, more sexually explicit version of this 1928 D.H. Lawrence novel was finally published in the U.S. in 1959 "Lady Chatterley's Lover"
#3682, aired 2000-09-12ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: Ian Fleming introduced James Bond in this 1953 novel, which became a 1967 film starring David Niven "Casino Royale"
#3682, aired 2000-09-12ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: This James Joyce work is a dream sequence in the minds of the Earwicker family "Finnegans Wake"
#3677, aired 2000-09-05CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: A young rabbit gets ready for bed in this classic by Margaret Wise Brown "Goodnight Moon"
#3677, aired 2000-09-05CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: In this Natalie Babbitt book, the Tuck family tries to convince Winnie that living forever is a curse "Tuck Everlasting"
#3624, aired 2000-05-11WORLD LITERATURE $200: The Panchatantra, a collection of Indian animal fables, was originally written in this classic language Sanskrit
#3616, aired 2000-05-01LITERATURE $200: In the title of a 14th century work, Sir Gawain is paired with this "knight" the Green Knight
#3612, aired 2000-04-25A "HOUSE" OF LITERATURE $400: The legend of a family curse permeates this Hawthorne work published in 1851 The House of the Seven Gables
#3612, aired 2000-04-25A "HOUSE" OF LITERATURE $600: Tigger makes his first appearance in this sequel to "Winnie-the-Pooh" The House at Pooh Corner
#3612, aired 2000-04-25A "HOUSE" OF LITERATURE $800: Considered by some to be Dickens' best, this novel tells the story of a family waiting in vain to inherit a fortune Bleak House
#3612, aired 2000-04-25A "HOUSE" OF LITERATURE $1000: First produced in 1920, this Shaw comedy takes place in the unconventional home of elderly Capt. Shotover Heartbreak House
#3587, aired 2000-03-21"OF" LITERATURE $1000: A gentleman impersonates a king to save the title "prisoner" in this Anthony Hope work "The Prisoner of Zenda"
#3585, aired 2000-03-17COLORFUL LITERATURE $200: "The Autobiography of a Horse" is the subtitle to this first major animal novel in literature Black Beauty
#3585, aired 2000-03-17COLORFUL LITERATURE $400: This dystopian Anthony Burgess novel was brought to the big screen by Kubrick in 1971 A Clockwork Orange
#3521, aired 1999-12-20LITERATURE $600: Dickens said this title character was "born at Blunderstone, in Suffolk" as a "posthumous child" David Copperfield
#3510, aired 1999-12-03ROYAL LITERATURE $400: This O'Neill play about former Pullman porter Brutus Jones was based on a real event in Haitian history "The Emperor Jones"
#3510, aired 1999-12-03ROYAL LITERATURE $800: A pair of comic adventurers become the godlike leaders of an Afghan tribe in this Kipling story "The Man Who Would Be King"
#3493, aired 1999-11-10TEENS IN LITERATURE $800: By age 13 Philip Carey is a student at the King's School in Tercanbury in this Somerset Maugham novel "Of Human Bondage"
#3493, aired 1999-11-10TEENS IN LITERATURE $1000: 18-year-old Carrie Meeber moves to Chicago & gets a job in a shoe factory in this Theodore Dreiser novel "Sister Carrie"
#3489, aired 1999-11-0419th CENTURY LITERATURE $200: Novel in which Ishmael, feeling "a damp, drizzly November" in his soul, goes to work on a whaler "Moby Dick"
#3489, aired 1999-11-0419th 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"
#3489, aired 1999-11-0419th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: Hawthorne wrote that these "Tales" had the "pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade" "Twice-Told Tales"
#3475, aired 1999-10-15LITERATURE $1000: In 1981 American playwright Beth Henley won a Pulitzer Prize for this "criminal" play Crimes of the Heart
#3465, aired 1999-10-01LITERATURE $100: In "A Study in Scarlet", he told Holmes, "I have all the facts in my journal, and the public shall know them" Watson
#3460, aired 1999-09-24AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: A rum smuggler is the central character in his 1937 novel "To Have and Have Not" Ernest Hemingway
#3409, aired 1999-06-03CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $200: Henry Fleming shares a tent with a loud soldier & a tall soldier in this Stephen Crane novel The Red Badge of Courage
#3409, aired 1999-06-03CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $400: Joanna Higgins' 1998 novel "A Soldier's Book" tells the story of Ira Stevens, a Union P.O.W. in this notorious prison Andersonville
#3404, aired 1999-05-27CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: In a folktale, this yummy "man" runs away after he is baked & is later eaten by a sly fox Gingerbread Man
#3404, aired 1999-05-27CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: In this Hans Christian Andersen story, a child observes, "He has got nothing on at all!" "The Emperor's New Clothes"
#3404, aired 1999-05-27CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: In a 1970 Judy Blume book, this title character asked, "Are you there God?" Margaret
#3401, aired 1999-05-24CHINESE LITERATURE $400: "Injustice to Tou O" is one of the most famous Chinese works in this literary form; a Western example is "Three Sisters" play
#3401, aired 1999-05-24CHINESE LITERATURE $600: "Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy" was a model work of this "revolution" launched by Mao in 1966 the Cultural Revolution
#3380, aired 1999-04-23AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In Fred Gipson's novel, this "colorful" dog with one ear missing adopts a Texas frontier family in the 1860s Old Yeller
#3364, aired 1999-04-01LITERATURE $400: Poet who wrote, "Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out" Robert Frost
#3346, aired 1999-03-08LITTLE HOUSE $100: Noted residents of this type of little house include a young Abraham Lincoln & Tom, a slave in literature Log cabin
#3340, aired 1999-02-26ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON $1,900 (Daily Double): Written in a matter of weeks in 1881, this pirate tale changed the face of children's literature Treasure Island
#3339, aired 1999-02-25TEENS IN LITERATURE $100: When Antonia Shimerda is introduced in this novel, she's "a girl of fourteen" with curly, wild-looking hair "My Antonia"
#3339, aired 1999-02-25TEENS IN LITERATURE $200: The first chapter of "Little Women" says this girl is 15 years old, "very tall, thin and brown" with "a comical nose" Jo
#3339, aired 1999-02-25TEENS IN LITERATURE $500: Chapter 2, part 4 of this Pasternak novel tells us "Lara was only a little over sixteen but she was well developed" "Doctor Zhivago"
#3337, aired 1999-02-23AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Sethe, a former slave, is haunted by the ghost of her daughter, whom she killed, in this Toni Morrison novel "Beloved"
#3324, aired 1999-02-04LITERATURE $200: Chapter one of this book informs us that "There was unquestionably a Chuzzlewit in the Gunpowder Plot" Martin Chuzzlewit
#3324, aired 1999-02-04LITERATURE $800: In a poem dedicated to this lord, Longfellow wrote, "Poet! I come to touch thy lance with mine" Alfred Lord Tennyson
#3322, aired 1999-02-02CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: The first character Alice meets in Wonderland, he wears a waistcoat & a pocket watch the White Rabbit
#3322, aired 1999-02-02CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: This Kenneth Grahame novel began as a series of bedtime tales told to his son starting in 1904 The Wind in the Willows
#3315, aired 1999-01-22BRITISH LITERATURE $400: A character in "The Rivals", this woman utters hilarities like "He is the very pineapple of politeness" Mrs. Malaprop
#3287, aired 1998-12-15LITERATURE $200: In this Dante work, the poet is given a tour through hell, purgatory & paradise The Divine Comedy
#3287, aired 1998-12-15LITERATURE $400: This author of "No Exit" said no to a Nobel Prize in 1964 Jean-Paul Sartre
#3284, aired 1998-12-10LITERATURE $400: Ernest Hemingway's only Pulitzer Prize came in 1953 for this short novel about a Cuban named Santiago The Old Man And The Sea
#3284, aired 1998-12-10LITERATURE $600: In this allegory, Christian uses a key called Promise to escape from the Doubting Castle Pilgrims Progress
#3284, aired 1998-12-10LITERATURE $800: In a Dickens novel, this title character's mother Clara unfortunately marries Mr. Murdstone David Copperfield
#3254, aired 1998-10-29FEELING POSSESSIVE $1000: In literature, gamekeeper Oliver Mellors Lady Chatterley's Lover
#3242, aired 1998-10-13MUSIC & LITERATURE $100: "Rip-Rip" is a comic opera about this sleepy head who killed time in the Catskills Rip Van Winkle
#3224, aired 1998-09-17LITERATURE $400: This children's story describes Toad Hall as "a dignified old house of mellowed red brick" The Wind in the Willows
#3224, aired 1998-09-17LITERATURE $600: In 1941 his story "The Devil And Daniel Webster" was adapted as a film starring Edward Arnold Stephen Vincent Benet
#3223, aired 1998-09-16AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Queequeg, a tattooed cannibal, is Starbuck's harpooner aboard the Pequod in this 1851 novel Moby-Dick
#3161, aired 1998-05-04AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In 1991 Robert Pirsig published "Lila", a follow-up to his classic "Zen and the Art of" this Motorcycle Maintenance
#3161, aired 1998-05-04AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Published posthumously in 1977, "American Hunger" is a follow-up to his "Black Boy" Richard Wright
#3160, aired 1998-05-01LITERATURE $200: His "Jungle Book" prose begins, "It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee Hills..." Rudyard Kipling
#3160, aired 1998-05-01LITERATURE $300: "I believe you think me a fiend!" says Heathcliff "with his dismal laugh" in this novel "Wuthering Heights"
#3160, aired 1998-05-01LITERATURE $400: In this novel, Sancho Panza is described as a poor, honest man "without much salt in his brain-pan" "Don Quixote"
#3137, aired 1998-03-31AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Hemingway took the title of this novel about journalist Jake Barnes from a passage in Ecclesiastes The Sun Also Rises
#3137, aired 1998-03-31AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In "Tom Sawyer" this newcomer to St. Petersburg is described as "a blue-eyed creature with yellow hair" Becky Thatcher
#3118, aired 1998-03-04LITERATURE $400: Sancho Panza rides a donkey named Dapple in this Cervantes novel Don Quixote
#3055, aired 1997-12-05LITERATURE $300: Tom Canty, born in a slum called Offal Court, & Edward Tudor are the title characters in this Twain novel The Prince and the Pauper
#3055, aired 1997-12-05LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): In this novel, Mr. Charrington, who runs an antique shop, is actually a member of the Thought Police 1984
#3054, aired 1997-12-04AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: He wrote the short story "Nightfall", a science fiction classic, in 1941 when he was 21 years old Isaac Asimov
#3012, aired 1997-10-07AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Novel in which Hawthorne wrote, "On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth,...appeared the letter A" The Scarlet Letter
#3012, aired 1997-10-07AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: He won a 1951 Pulitzer for his "Complete Poems" & one in 1940 for "Abraham Lincoln: The War Years" (Carl) Sandburg
#2992, aired 1997-09-09CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: This character in a book by Saint-Exupery leaves his tiny planet because of a prideful flower The Little Prince
#2990, aired 1997-09-05AMERICAN LITERATURE $500: This famous tale of Christmas presents isn't one in a million, but one in O Henry's book "The Four Million" "The Gift of the Magi"
#2982, aired 1997-07-15LITERATURE $200: In 1922 he published "The Red House Mystery"; in 1928 "The House At Pooh Corner" A.A. Milne
#2982, aired 1997-07-15LITERATURE $400: Mr. Kurtz is an agent of a Belgian Congo trading station in this Joseph Conrad novella "Heart Of Darkness"
#2977, aired 1997-07-08LITERATURE $1000: Willa Cather's "My Antonia", "O Pioneers!" & "A Lost Lady" are set on the frontier in this Midwestern state Nebraska
#2976, aired 1997-07-07CHILDRENS LITERATURE $200: The children in this 1981 Chris Von Allsburg book play a jungle board game that turns real "Jumanji"
#2958, aired 1997-06-11LITERATURE $600: This John Bunyan work written as a dream was published in 2 parts: Part I in 1678 & Part II in 1684 The Pilgrim's Progress
#2946, aired 1997-05-26LITERATURE $200: In this novel, Jo March becomes a writer & marries Friedrich Bhaer, a middle-aged professor Little Women
#2927, aired 1997-04-29LITERATURE $1000: He said it took him "Five years to write 'In Cold Blood', and a year to recover" Truman Capote
#2924, aired 1997-04-24AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Harpooneers in this novel include Tashtego, Daggoo & Queequeg, a cannibal Moby Dick
#2924, aired 1997-04-24AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", this character kills Dr. Robinson, a murder witnessed by Tom Injun Joe
#2918, aired 1997-04-16LITERATURE $200: In this novel, d'Artagnan, a native of Gascony, is described as "Don Quixote at 18" The Three Musketeers
#2918, aired 1997-04-16LITERATURE $500: In a Thomas Hardy novel, grain merchant Michael Henchard serves in this title political office The Mayor of Casterbridge
#2911, aired 1997-04-07AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In a Longfellow poem, Minnehaha marries this Indian hero Hiawatha
#2911, aired 1997-04-07AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: His story "MS. Found in a Bottle" was the prize-winning entry in an 1833 newspaper contest Edgar Allan Poe
#2911, aired 1997-04-07AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In 1990 his "Stranger in a Strange Land" was reissued with 60,000 words that had been cut from the original Robert Heinlein
#2901, aired 1997-03-24AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Characters in this Hemingway novel include Jake Barnes, Lady Brett Ashley & Pedro Romero, a bullfighter The Sun Also Rises
#2901, aired 1997-03-24AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Some of the names in this 1915 Edgar Lee Masters work were taken from tombstones in a Lewiston, Illinois cemetery Spoon River Anthology
#2899, aired 1997-03-20MUSIC & LITERATURE $1000: Each movement in this 1888 suite by Rimsky-Korsakov is based on a tale spun to enthrall a sultan Scheherazade
#2897, aired 1997-03-18LITERATURE $600: In "The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow", Abraham Van Brunt, a rival of Ichabod Crane, is better known by this name Brom Bones
#2893, aired 1997-03-12LITERATURE $200: "A Tale of Two Cities" opens as Dr. Alexander Manette is released after 18 years in this prison The Bastille
#2893, aired 1997-03-12LITERATURE $400: At one point in this 1862 novel, Jean Valjean owns a factory Les Miserables
#2864, aired 1997-01-30LITERATURE $100: Some say Cervantes wrote a portion of this 1605 novel in jail Don Quixote
#2864, aired 1997-01-30LITERATURE $300: In an Edward Lear poem, the owl & the pussycat go to sea in a boat of this color pea green
#2857, aired 1997-01-21LITERATURE $800: Published in 1923, "The Prophet" is a book of 28 poetic essays by this Lebanese-American Kahlil Gibran
#2850, aired 1997-01-10ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: This Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel is set in 79 A.D. "The Last Days of Pompeii"
#2850, aired 1997-01-10ENGLISH LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): The title of this 1910 E.M. Forster novel refers to the home of Henry & Margaret Wilcox "Howards End"
#2841, aired 1996-12-30LITERATURE $800: He may have put his rabbit to rest, but in 1996 he published a new family saga, "In The Beauty Of The Lilies" John Updike
#2836, aired 1996-12-23LITERATURE $800: This E.M. Forster novel is set in the fictional city of Chandrapore "A Passage To India"
#2827, aired 1996-12-10LITERATURE $600: Novel in which an old seaman sings, "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest--yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum" Treasure Island
#2827, aired 1996-12-10LITERATURE $1000: Poe's "The Mystery of Marie Roget" was a sequel to this story featuring detective C. Auguste Dupin "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
#2807, aired 1996-11-1218th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: In 1713 Anne Finch, Lady Winchilsea, wrote a poem to this bird, 106 years before John Keats' ode nightingale
#2804, aired 1996-11-07LITERATURE $1000: In this 1960 novel, Jean Louise Finch, daughter of attorney Atticus Finch, is nicknamed Scout To Kill a Mockingbird
#2801, aired 1996-11-04LITERATURE $200: In disguise, the wicked queen sold this fair maiden a poisoned comb Snow White
#2784, aired 1996-10-10CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: In a Kipling "Just So" story, the animal that "said 'Humph!' just 'Humph!' and no more" camel
#2777, aired 1996-10-01LITERATURE $200: In this Poe tale Captain Kidd's treasure is found with the aid of a secret code & a scarab beetle The Gold Bug
#2777, aired 1996-10-01LITERATURE $800: In this Truman Capote novella, the story of Holly Golightly is narrated by Fred, a struggling writer Breakfast at Tiffany's
#2777, aired 1996-10-01LITERATURE $1000: This Kipling orphan's father was a sergeant in an Irish regiment in the Punjab Kim
#2776, aired 1996-09-30CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: Pal, a male collie, played the lead in the 1943 movie version of this Eric Knight novel Lassie Come Home
#2776, aired 1996-09-30CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: In a Grimm tale, a group of aging animals set out for this town to become musicians Bremen
#2770, aired 1996-09-20LITERATURE $500 (Daily Double): In this 1863 story, Philip Nolan is court-martialed for aiding Aaron Burr's treasonous plot "The Man Without a Country"
#2755, aired 1996-07-19CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: In a 1958 book by Michael Bond, the Brown family discovers this bear's fondness for marmalade Paddington
#2753, aired 1996-07-17LITERATURE $1000: This German was in his 80's when he finished writing "Faust" a few months before his death in 1832 Goethe
#2751, aired 1996-07-15WORLD LITERATURE $1000: Shakespeare's "Cymbelline" is based in part on a story from this 14th c. work by Bocaccio "The Decameron"
#2744, aired 1996-07-04HISTORIC LITERATURE $200: The Kentucky plantation she visited in 1833 gave her a model for the Shelby home in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Harriet Beecher Stowe
#2744, aired 1996-07-04HISTORIC LITERATURE $1000: This Thoreau work was 1st published in a magazine in 1849 as "Resistance to Civil Government" Civil Disobedience
#2742, aired 1996-07-02LITERATURE $1000: In 1820 this sonnet writer's father privately published a book of her poems, "The Battle of Marathon" Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#2729, aired 1996-06-13LITERATURE $600: Narrator Jim Hawkins becomes a cabin boy aboard the Hispaniola in this novel Treasure Island
#2717, aired 1996-05-28LITERATURE $600: In this Dickens novel, escaped convict Abel Magwitch tries to give Pip a better chance in life than he had Great Expectations
#2709, aired 1996-05-16AMERICA LITERATURE $400: In "Moby Dick" this captain dies when a harpoon line loops around his neck & pulls him overboard Ahab
#2709, aired 1996-05-16AMERICA LITERATURE $600: In this Steinbeck work, dimwitted Lennie Small has a vision of his Aunt Clara Of Mice and Men
#2707, aired 1996-05-14CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: In this Hans Christian Andersen tale, a little child remarks "He doesn't have anything on!" The Emperor's New Clothes
#2706, aired 1996-05-13ACTORS & ACTRESSES $200: This star of "Nell" & "The Silence of the Lambs" has a degree in literature from Yale Jodie Foster
#2705, aired 1996-05-10LITERATURE $600: In Spenser's 1595 poem "Colin Clouts Come Home Againe", a shepherdess represents this queen Queen Elizabeth I
#2689, aired 1996-04-18LITERATURE $200: In this story a beast with blazing eyes is said to have caused the death of Hugo Baskerville The Hound of the Baskervilles
#2678, aired 1996-04-03LITERATURE $200: As he had done, his Frederic Henry in "A Farewell to Arms" worked in the ambulance service in WWI (Ernest) Hemingway
#2677, aired 1996-04-02NATURALISTS $500 (Daily Double): While in Holland in 1735, this Swede published his "Systema Naturae", a taxonomy system Carolus Linnaeus
#2671, aired 1996-03-25CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: His "Kidnapped" was first published as a serial in Young Folks magazine Robert Louis Stevenson
#2671, aired 1996-03-25CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: This Mary Mapes Dodge novel contains the story of a boy who thrust his finger into a hole in a dike Hans Brinker
#2662, aired 1996-03-12LITERATURE $200: In this Pearl Buck novel, Wang Lung pulls a ricksha to provide for his family The Good Earth
#2662, aired 1996-03-12LITERATURE $800: This quartet of novels by T.H. White began with "The Sword in the Stone" in 1938 The Once and Future King
#2655, aired 1996-03-01AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: His first collection, "Tamerlane and Other Poems", was published in 1827 & credited to "A Bostonian" (Edgar Allan) Poe
#2655, aired 1996-03-01AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In this Hemingway story, a writer dies from a gangrenous leg while on an African safari The Snows of Kilimanjaro
#2653, aired 1996-02-28LITERATURE $800: The High Lama in this novel is actually a 250-year-old Capuchin Friar named Father Perrault Lost Horizon
#2645, aired 1996-02-16CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: For this story James M. Barrie took the name Never Land from a district in Australia Peter Pan
#2631, aired 1996-01-29AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: He first wrote about a woman doomed to wear the letter in his 1838 story "Endicott and the Red Cross" (Nathaniel) Hawthorne
#2631, aired 1996-01-29AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: The storytelling characters in his book "Tales of a Wayside Inn" are based on real people (Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow
#2627, aired 1996-01-23LITERATURE $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"
#2627, aired 1996-01-23LITERATURE $1000: Wamba is a brave jester who risks his life to save his master Cedric in this Sir Walter Scott novel "Ivanhoe"
#2623, aired 1996-01-17LITERATURE $600: Robert Jordan's big mission in "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is to blow up one of these structures a bridge
#2623, aired 1996-01-17LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): This E.M. Forster novel is divided into 3 sections: "Mosque", "Caves" & "Temple" A Passage to India
#2622, aired 1996-01-16AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In a James Fenimore Cooper novel, Uncas, a young chieftain, is identified as this title character "The Last of the Mohicans"
#2622, aired 1996-01-16AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In a John Steinbeck work, this title object found by Kino the fisherman is as big as a seagull's egg "The Pearl"
#2621, aired 1996-01-15CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: In "The Brass Bottle", Horace Ventimore buys an antique brass bottle that contains one of these beings a genie
#2620, aired 1996-01-12LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): It begins, "In the ancient city of London... a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty..." The Prince and the Pauper
#2588, aired 1995-11-29LITERATURE $400: In a Victor Hugo novel, a Paris crowd selects him as pope of fools for the Epiphany celebrations the Hunchback of Notre Dame (Quasimodo)
#2588, aired 1995-11-29LITERATURE $1000: This 1847 book by Melville was subtitled "A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas" Omoo
#2584, aired 1995-11-23ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: The title of his novel "Far From the Madding Crowd" is found in "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" Thomas Hardy
#2584, aired 1995-11-23ENGLISH LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): Philip Carey is the central character in this Somerset Maugham novel Of Human Bondage
#2577, aired 1995-11-14LITERATURE $800: In "Great Expectations", Pip falls in love with Estella, a ward of this spinster Miss Havisham
#2567, aired 1995-10-31LITERATURE $300: Boxer is a noble cart horse in this George Orwell novel Animal Farm
#2563, aired 1995-10-25LITERATURE $800: The main character in his "L'Education sentimentale" has been called "a sort of male Emma Bovary" Gustave Flaubert
#2551, aired 1995-10-09AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: A chapter from "Life on the Mississippi" was intended for this "Tom Sawyer" sequel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
#2551, aired 1995-10-09AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In "The Old Man and the Sea", this Cuban fisherman finally hooks a marlin after almost 3 months Santiago
#2546, aired 1995-10-02MUSIC & LITERATURE $800: In the 1830s this Hungarian composed a piano sonata called "After a Reading of Dante" Liszt
#2540, aired 1995-09-22LITERATURE $600: In "Oliver Twist", he leads a gang consisting of the Artful Dodger, Bill Sikes & others Fagin
#2540, aired 1995-09-22LITERATURE $1000: In this John Steinbeck novel, Mack & his friends throw a party for Doc & ruin his biology lab Cannery Row
#2530, aired 1995-09-08LITERATURE $600: In a novel by Oliver Goldsmith, Charles is the vicar of this place Wakefield
#2528, aired 1995-09-06AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This 1939 James Thurber short story about a henpecked husband was first published in The New Yorker The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
#2527, aired 1995-09-05LITERATURE $200: This author's "A Tale of Two Cities" takes place in London & Paris during the French Revolution Dickens
#2527, aired 1995-09-05LITERATURE $600: William Golding novel described as a "nightmarish adventure story in the Robinson Crusoe tradition" Lord of the Flies
#2509, aired 1995-06-29ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: In this Charlotte Bronte novel, Mr. Rochester says, "I meant...to be a bigamist; but fate has out-manoeuvred me" Jane Eyre
#2486, aired 1995-05-29AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Geo. Washington Cable's 1880 novel "The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life" is set in this city New Orleans
#2479, aired 1995-05-18AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "A Tree of Night" is a 1949 collection of short stories by this author of "In Cold Blood" Truman Capote
#2479, aired 1995-05-18AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: "The Same Door" is a collection of John Updike stories that appeared originally in this magazine The New Yorker
#2479, aired 1995-05-18AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,500 (Daily Double): Henry Fleming, hero of a classic 1895 novel, is a grandfather in this author's 1896 story "The Veteran" (Stephen) Crane
#2475, aired 1995-05-12ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: She & her sisters attended a clergy daughters' school which became Lowood in her "Jane Eyre" Charlotte Bronte
#2475, aired 1995-05-12ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: He based Squire Allworthy in "Tom Jones" in part on Ralph Allen, a wealthy benefactor (Henry) Fielding
#2469, aired 1995-05-04AMERICAN 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
#2464, aired 1995-04-27LITERATURE $800: In 1989's "The Killing Man", this author's Mike Hammer finds a dead body at his desk Mickey Spillane
#2462, aired 1995-04-25CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: Flag, a fawn, causes a crisis between Jody Baxter & his father in this Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings book The Yearling
#2453, aired 1995-04-12ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: He came up with the idea for "Goodbye Mr. Chips" while taking a bike ride & wrote it in 4 days (James) Hilton
#2438, aired 1995-03-22CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: In Carlo Collodi's story, Pinocchio turns into this animal & is sold to a circus a donkey
#2435, aired 1995-03-17MARYS IN LITERATURE $400: In "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?", Mary Hawley marries her partner during this kind of contest a dance marathon
#2435, aired 1995-03-17MARYS IN LITERATURE $600: This James T. Farrell character's mother, Mary Lonigan, wants him to become a priest Studs Lonigan
#2435, aired 1995-03-17MARYS IN LITERATURE $800: In Ernest J. Gaines' "Autobiography of" this woman, Mary Agnes Lefabre is a Creole woman Miss Jane Pittman
#2435, aired 1995-03-17MARYS IN LITERATURE $1000: Mary Littlejohn is Frankie Addams' new friend in this Carson McCullers work The Member of the Wedding
#2420, aired 1995-02-24AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: His 1949 book "Knight's Gambit" is a collection of interrelated detective stories set in Mississippi Faulkner
#2420, aired 1995-02-24AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Nick Adams is the hero of many of the stories in his 1925 collection "In Our Time" Ernest Hemingway
#2420, aired 1995-02-24AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This Betty Smith novel tells us, "The one tree in Francie's yard was neither a pine nor a hemlock" A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
#2416, aired 1995-02-20LITERATURE $800: This 1972 Richard Adams novel concerns a community of rabbits in Berkshire, England Watership Down
#2399, aired 1995-01-26LITERATURE $200: William Golding novel in which boys stranded on an island try to form a society but revert to savagery Lord of the Flies
#2396, aired 1995-01-23CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Gretel Brinker, not her brother Hans, wins these title objects in a race silver skates
#2396, aired 1995-01-23CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: The Ingalls family moves to Minnesota in her book "On the Banks of Plum Creek" Laura Ingalls Wilder
#2394, aired 1995-01-19LITERATURE $200: After leaping from a boat, Pip, a cabin boy, is picked up by the Pequod in this novel Moby Dick
#2379, aired 1994-12-29WORLD LITERATURE $600: In a Dostoyevsky novel, they are Dmitri, Ivan & Alyosha The Brothers Karamazov
#2379, aired 1994-12-29WORLD LITERATURE $1000: In this Alexandre Dumas novel, a sailor is falsely imprisoned in the Chateau d'If near Marseilles The Count of Monte Cristo
#2378, aired 1994-12-28LITERATURE $600: His wife Mary said the caroling of a skylark in Leghorn inspired his poem "To a Skylark" (Percy) Shelley
#2370, aired 1994-12-16CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: 3 of the 10 chapters in his "The House at Pooh Corner" concern Tigger who's introduced in the book (A.A.) Milne
#2360, aired 1994-12-02ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: While living in Samoa, he wrote "Catriona", a sequel to "Kidnapped" Stevenson
#2353, aired 1994-11-23ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: This Daniel Defoe character was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family Robinson Crusoe
#2353, aired 1994-11-23ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: This ode poet wrote about a knight enthralled by a beautiful lady in "La Belle Dame sans Merci" John Keats
#2349, aired 1994-11-17LITERATURE $800: He published his third novel, "A Cool Million", in 1934, one year after "Miss Lonelyhearts" Nathanael West
#2343, aired 1994-11-09AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): He described his 1966 book "In Cold Blood" as a "nonfiction novel" Truman Capote
#2343, aired 1994-11-09AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: American poet who published "Dust of Snow" & "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" in 1923 Robert Frost
#2339, aired 1994-11-03LITERATURE $400: Part of this Robert Louis Stevenson tale takes place in a sinister house called the "Laboratory" Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
#2339, aired 1994-11-03LITERATURE $800: This title character in a Frances Hodgson Burnett novel is the grandson of an earl Lord Fauntleroy
#2339, aired 1994-11-03LITERATURE $1,100 (Daily Double): This Booth Tarkington novel tells the tale of a girl's attempts to raise her station in life Alice Adams
#2336, aired 1994-10-31WORLD LITERATURE $200: "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" by Lo Kuan-Chung is a historical novel set in this country China
#2329, aired 1994-10-20LITERATURE $600: In 1927 he published a book for children called "The Tarzan Twins" Edgar Rice Burroughs
#2329, aired 1994-10-20LITERATURE $1000: 1993's "A Tidewater Morning" was this author's first fiction book since "Sophie's Choice" in 1979 William Styron
#2328, aired 1994-10-19LITERATURE $600: 2 twins are the only survivors of the family that owns a decayed mansion in this Poe story "The Fall of the House of Usher"
#2328, aired 1994-10-19LITERATURE $1000: In this Rudyard Kipling novel, a beggar boy from Lahore becomes the disciple of a Tibetan lama Kim
#2321, aired 1994-10-10AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Edgar Lee Masters' most famous book, it's a series of epitaphs written in free verse Spoon River Anthology
#2319, aired 1994-10-06AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: "Adagio Dancer", a brief biography of Rudolph Valentino, appears in this John Dos Passos trilogy the U.S.A. Trilogy
#2319, aired 1994-10-06AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: He wrote "Mosses from an Old Manse" while living in a Massachusetts home called the Old Manse (Nathaniel) Hawthorne
#2305, aired 1994-09-16WORLD LITERATURE $800: A governess finds her 2 young charges under the influence of ghosts in this Henry James tale Turn of the Screw
#2302, aired 1994-09-13ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: E.M Forster's novel "A Room with a View" opens in the Pensione Bertolini in this Italian city Florence
#2282, aired 1994-07-05LITERATURE $600: In "Animal Farm", the shrill-voiced Squealer is one of these animals a pig
#2282, aired 1994-07-05LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): The title of this Ernest Hemingway novel comes from a passage in the book of Ecclesiastes The Sun Also Rises
#2280, aired 1994-07-01LITERATURE $1000: One of Shirley Jackson's best-known works is this story about a deadly ritual in a small American town "The Lottery"
#2280, aired 1994-07-01LITERATURE $1,400 (Daily Double): In "The Divine Comedy", Dante is led through the Inferno & purgatory by the spirit of this poet Virgil
#2279, aired 1994-06-30TOMS IN LITERATURE $600: Tom Buchanan is the unfaithful husband of this character in "The Great Gatsby" Daisy
#2278, aired 1994-06-29LITERATURE $200: After jumping ship in Tahiti in 1842, this "Moby Dick" author worked there as a field laborer Melville
#2274, aired 1994-06-23LITERATURE $200: On June 5, 1851 a serialization of her "Uncle Tom's Cabin" began in the National Era newspaper Harriet Beecher Stowe
#2274, aired 1994-06-23LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Stephen Vincent Benet story in which "You couldn't expect fair play from a fellow like this Mr. Scratch" "The Devil and Daniel Webster"
#2266, aired 1994-06-13LITERATURE $1,500 (Daily Double): In "The Gift of the Magi", a young husband sells this item to buy his wife a set of combs his watch
#2264, aired 1994-06-09LITERATURE $200: Robert Louis Stevenson said the idea for this tale came to him in a terrifying dream Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
#2261, aired 1994-06-06WORLD LITERATURE $400: He wrote about the devastating 1755 Lisbon earthquake in a 1756 poem & in his classic novel "Candide" Voltaire
#2261, aired 1994-06-06WORLD LITERATURE $500 (Daily Double): In 1883 this American expatriate adapted his own novel "Daisy Miller" as a play Henry James
#2261, aired 1994-06-06WORLD LITERATURE $1000: "Travels In Hyperreality" is a collection of essays by this author of "The Name of the Rose" Umberto Eco
#2253, aired 1994-05-25LITERATURE $800: In a Larry McMurtry novel, Augustus McCrae & Woodrow Call own a livery stable in this Texas town Lonesome Dove
#2240, aired 1994-05-06AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Booth Tarkington's story about this "Magnificent" family won a Pulitzer Prize in 1919 the Ambersons
#2239, aired 1994-05-05CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: In this Mary Rodgers story, a 13-year-old girl wakes up to find that she has become her own mother Freaky Friday
#2231, aired 1994-04-25AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In 1853 she wrote "A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin" to defend the accuracy of the earlier book Harriet Beecher Stowe
#2231, aired 1994-04-25AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Background for Dr. Kennicott in his 1920 novel "Main Street" was supplied by his father, a country doctor Sinclair Lewis
#2225, aired 1994-04-15ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: Gudrun, a character in his book "Women in Love", was based on the writer Katherine Mansfield D.H. Lawrence
#2219, aired 1994-04-07WORLD LITERATURE $200: Chapter I of this classic begins, "In a certain village in La Mancha, which I do not wish to name..." Don Quixote
#2215, aired 1994-04-01JOHNS IN LITERATURE $200: Sir John Alderston is a railway owner in this "Jurassic Park" author's "The Great Train Robbery" Michael Crichton
#2215, aired 1994-04-01JOHNS IN LITERATURE $800: John Bergson is a hardworking but unsuccessful farmer in her "O Pioneers!" Willa Cather
#2190, aired 1994-02-25AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In "A Tramp Abroad", this author describes a walking tour through the Alps & the Black Forest Mark Twain
#2190, aired 1994-02-25AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In this Melville novelette, a young sailor is hanged for killing a jealous petty officer named Claggart Billy Budd
#2189, aired 1994-02-24CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Born in a flower, her cradle was a polished walnut shell Thumbelina
#2173, aired 1994-02-02LITERATURE $400: In "Great Expectations", this spinster has been jilted on her wedding day by a Mr. Compeyson Miss Havisham
#2173, aired 1994-02-02LITERATURE $1000: In 1930 this British novelist published a satire of literary life called "Cakes and Ale" Somerset Maugham
#2156, aired 1994-01-10CHLDREN'S LITERATURE $400: On an 1865 trip to Europe, she met a Polish youth on whom she modeled Laurie in "Little Women" (Louisa May) Alcott
#2152, aired 1994-01-04WORLD LITERATURE $200: Anatole Kuragin is a scandalous rake in this extremely long Tolstoy work War and Peace
#2138, aired 1993-12-15VICTORIAN LITERATURE $200: In "Wuthering Heights", this gypsy foundling is given the name of a boy who died in childhood Heathcliff
#2136, aired 1993-12-13LITERATURE $200: In 1947 he published a book of 18 "Tales of the South Pacific" James Michener
#2136, aired 1993-12-13LITERATURE $400: In this Edgar Allan Poe tale, a rare beetle is used to find Captain Kidd's buried treasure "The Gold-Bug"
#2131, aired 1993-12-06ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: In 1960 Penguin Books took a risk & printed the full text of this D.H. Lawrence novel to sell in England Lady Chatterley's Lover
#2125, aired 1993-11-26LITERATURE $200: 1719 novel about a mariner who lived 8 & 20 years all alone in an uninhabited island Robinson Crusoe
#2121, aired 1993-11-22AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In a 1947 novelette, he told of a great pearl, how it was found & how it was lost again John Steinbeck
#2116, aired 1993-11-15LITERATURE $200: After his son Kingsley Doyle was killed in World War I, he became a devoted spiritualist Arthur Conan Doyle
#2111, aired 1993-11-08AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Characters in this Mark Twain novel include "The Dauphin", the Widow Douglas & Jim, a runaway slave Huck Finn
#2111, aired 1993-11-08AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In this tale a sleepy Dutch colonist meets the spirits of Henry Hudson's crew playing ninepins Rip Van Winkle
#2107, aired 1993-11-02LITERATURE $200: They're the 2 cities in Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" London & Paris
#2107, aired 1993-11-02LITERATURE $500 (Daily Double): In "The Scarlet Letter", he's the father of Hester Prynne's daughter Pearl Arthur Dimmesdale
#2107, aired 1993-11-02LITERATURE $1000: In "For Whom the Bell Tolls", Pablo leads a guerrilla band with this woman, his wife Pilar
#2097, aired 1993-10-19LITERATURE $400: "A Moveable Feast", published posthumously, told of his life & friends in Paris in the 1920s Hemingway
#2097, aired 1993-10-19LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): In this Edgar Allan Poe story, Prince Prospero tries to avoid a deadly plague "The Masque of the Red Death"
#2091, aired 1993-10-11COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: This university in Fayetteville has a special collection of Ozark folklore & literature the University of Arkansas
#2090, aired 1993-10-08CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: This author of "The Wind in the Willows" was a descendant of Scottish King Robert the Bruce (Kenneth) Grahame
#2077, aired 1993-09-21LITERATURE $1,500 (Daily Double): The title of this F. Scott Fitzgerald work comes from a line in Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale" Tender Is the Night
#2064, aired 1993-07-22LITERATURE $800: In this Jane Austen novel, Mrs. Bennet tries to find a husband for each of her 5 daughters Pride and Prejudice
#2043, aired 1993-06-23AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for", he wrote in "For Whom the Bell Tolls" Hemingway
#2043, aired 1993-06-23AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: His books "Daisy Miller" & "The Portrait of a Lady" are both about young American ladies in Europe (Henry) James
#2039, aired 1993-06-17LITERATURE $600: First published in 1966, "The Bloomsday Book" is a guide to this James Joyce work Ulysses
#2032, aired 1993-06-08CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: This Washington Irving character awakes from a 20-year nap to find himself one of the oldest men in the village Rip Van Winkle
#2032, aired 1993-06-08CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: In 1991 this inquisitive monkey in books by H.A. Rey celebrated his 50th birthday Curious George
#2032, aired 1993-06-08CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the name of the "Little Helicopter" in a 1989 book by the Duchess of York Budgie
#2008, aired 1993-05-05AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In this Poe short story, a watch ticking beneath a floorboard drives a man to confess to murder "The Tell-Tale Heart"
#2008, aired 1993-05-05AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In a story by Bret Harte, John Oakhurst & Mother Shipton are among "The Outcasts of" this mining town Poker Flat
#2001, aired 1993-04-26CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: Legend says he based the prince in "The Little Mermaid" on a girl who rejected him for another man Hans Christian Andersen
#2001, aired 1993-04-26CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: In the Grimms' "Jorinda & Joringel", Jorinda turns into one of these "nocturnal" singing birds a nightingale
#1999, aired 1993-04-22LITERATURE $400: Unimaginative conformists came to be called "Babbitts" after a character he introduced in 1922 Sinclair Lewis
#1999, aired 1993-04-22LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): The emotionally vacuous Flem Snopes moves into a Mississippi mansion in his novel "The Mansion" William Faulkner
#1997, aired 1993-04-20CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: George Selden wrote about one of these "in Times Square" while Dickens' was "on the Hearth" a cricket
#1997, aired 1993-04-20CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: This title rag doll made her first appearance in 1918 in a collection of stories by Johnny Gruelle Raggedy Ann
#1991, aired 1993-04-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: In the original story, Pinocchio finds this woodcarver in the belly of a giant shark, not a whale Gepetto
#1991, aired 1993-04-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: In 1943 she described her experiences as a teacher on the prairie in "These Happy Golden Years" Laura Ingalls Wilder
#1983, aired 1993-03-31LITERATURE $600: In 1846 these sisters published a collection of poems under the pen names Currer, Ellis & Acton Bell the Brontë sisters
#1976, aired 1993-03-22CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: 1911's "Peter and Wendy" was a retelling of this play in book form Peter Pan
#1976, aired 1993-03-22CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: In a 1938 novel, would- be polar explorer Mr. Popper raises a flock of these birds penguins
#1960, aired 1993-02-26AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Set in the Reconstruction era, "Beloved" won this black American author a 1988 Pulitzer Prize Toni Morrison
#1956, aired 1993-02-22TEENS IN LITERATURE $200: She's 16 at the beginning of "Gone with the Wind" & has a 17" waist, "the smallest in three counties" Scarlett O'Hara
#1956, aired 1993-02-22TEENS IN LITERATURE $400: A teenage orphan named Kimball gets involved in espionage in this author's 1901 adventure novel "Kim" (Rudyard) Kipling
#1956, aired 1993-02-22TEENS IN LITERATURE $600: At the beginning of Daniel Defoe's novel, this title character is 19 & his father wants him to be a lawyer Robinson Crusoe
#1956, aired 1993-02-22TEENS IN LITERATURE $1,200 (Daily Double): When this Dumas novel begins, Edmond Dantes is a 19-year-old sailor; he assumes a title later The Count of Monte Cristo
#1954, aired 1993-02-18ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: Part of this 1926 A.A. Milne children's book is set in the Hundred Acre Wood Winnie-the-Pooh
#1943, aired 1993-02-03LANGUAGES $100: The golden age of literature in this language lasted from the first century B.C. to about 14 A.D. Latin
#1932, aired 1993-01-19ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $100: Russell, a fox, appears in "The Nun's Priest's Tale" of this Chaucer work The Canterbury Tales
#1932, aired 1993-01-19ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $200: In "The Jungle Book" Raksha, this type of animal, suckles the infant Mowgli a wolf
#1932, aired 1993-01-19ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $400: He wrote of a cross-country trek with a poodle in "Travels with Charley" John Steinbeck
#1932, aired 1993-01-19ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $500: Kiche is the mother of this title character of a Jack London tale White Fang
#1922, aired 1993-01-05HODGEPODGE $1000: In 1989, 32 years after his 1st Pulitzer Prize, Richard Wilbur won a 2nd for this category poetry
#1908, aired 1992-12-1617th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: His sonnet published in 1609 began, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" (William) Shakespeare
#1893, aired 1992-11-25LITERATURE $100: In a Victor Hugo novel, Parisians choose him the "Prince of Fools" Quasimodo
#1893, aired 1992-11-25LITERATURE $200: Chapter 1 of this Mark Twain book is entitled "Camelot" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
#1893, aired 1992-11-25LITERATURE $400: In this Sir Walter Scott novel, a 12th century Saxon knight is in love with Rowena Ivanhoe
#1893, aired 1992-11-25LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): This author's third novel about Harry Angstrom won him a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1982 (John) Updike
#1888, aired 1992-11-18AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: His first novel, "Typee", in 1846, was based on his experiences when he deserted a whaler in the south Pacific Herman Melville
#1888, aired 1992-11-18AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In this 1915 Edgar Lee Masters work, the former residents of a Midwestern town speak from their graves "Spoon River Anthology"
#1886, aired 1992-11-16"B" IN LITERATURE $200: Her book "All Men Are Brothers" is actually a translation of a Chinese classic Pearl S. Buck
#1886, aired 1992-11-16"B" IN LITERATURE $800: The narrator of his 1845 poem "My Last Duchess" is a Renaissance duke of Ferrara Robert Browning
#1882, aired 1992-11-10ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: This Conan Doyle novel's title character is a large dog which has a phosphorus preparation put in its eyes "The Hound of the Baskervilles"
#1881, aired 1992-11-09CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: In "Rumplestiltskin", it's the trade of the man whose daughter must spin straw into gold Miller
#1873, aired 1992-10-28LITERATURE $800: Lady Brett Ashley elopes with a bullfighter in this Hemingway novel The Sun Also Rises
#1864, aired 1992-10-15LITERATURE $200: His "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" was inspired by Sir Thomas Malory's "Morte d'Arthur" Mark Twain
#1864, aired 1992-10-15LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Catherine Barkley, an English nurse in an Italian hospital, is the heroine of this Hemingway novel A Farewell to Arms
#1860, aired 1992-10-09LITERATURE $200: In this Robert Louis Stevenson book a parrot is heard to squawk, "Pieces of eight, pieces of eight" Treasure Island
#1860, aired 1992-10-09LITERATURE $500: Most of this H.G. Wells novel takes place in England in the year 802,701 A.D. The Time Machine
#1857, aired 1992-10-06CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: Mary Pickford played Cedric Errol in a 1921 silent film of this Frances Hodgson Burnett book Little Lord Fauntleroy
#1852, aired 1992-09-29CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: The voyages of this Hugh Lofting physician won the author a Newbery medal in 1923 Doctor Dolittle
#1852, aired 1992-09-29CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: In 1890, a year after his "The Master of Ballantrae" was published, he settled in Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson
#1852, aired 1992-09-29CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: In a Dr. Seuss story, Bartholomew Cubbins had this many hats 500
#1847, aired 1992-09-22LITERATURE $200: In 1991, this former first daughter published her 3rd novel, "A House of Secrets" Patti Davis
#1847, aired 1992-09-22ALEX HALEY $400: For an important contribution to the literature of slavery, Haley was awarded a special one of these prizes in 1977 the Pulitzer Prize
#1819, aired 1992-06-25AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Her father, Lyman Beecher, was a Congregationalist minister in Litchfield, Connecticut Harriet Beecher Stowe
#1800, aired 1992-05-29CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: Madeline is one of "twelve little girls in two straight lines" who attend a school in this city Paris
#1786, aired 1992-05-11AMERICAN LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): In a short novel by John Steinbeck, a fisherman named Kino finds this title object a pearl
#1770, aired 1992-04-17LITERATURE $1000: He's a lifelong resident of Albany, New York & "Ironweed" was the 3rd novel in his Albany Cycle William Kennedy
#1744, aired 1992-03-12LITERATURE $600: In a DuBose Heyward novel, Crown kills a dice player & this title character kills Crown Porgy
#1744, aired 1992-03-12LITERATURE $800: In a novel by this author, Maggie Verver buys the title object, a flawed golden bowl Henry James
#1744, aired 1992-03-12LITERATURE $1000: Apollyon is called a "foul fiend" in this author's "The Pilgrim's Progress" John Bunyan
#1737, aired 1992-03-03"B" IN LITERATURE $600: Scholars believe that Zosima, a monk, presents Dostoyevsky's own religious viewpoint in this sibling saga The Brothers Karamazov
#1733, aired 1992-02-26LITERATURE $400: This island in "Gulliver's Travels" is separated from the kingdom of Blefuscu by a narrow strait Lilliput
#1703, aired 1992-01-15LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): Hemingway tale in which Santiago says, "A man can be destroyed but not defeated" The Old Man and the Sea
#1695, aired 1992-01-03CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: A sumo wrestler falls for a stronger woman in "Three Strong Women: A Tall Tale from" this country Japan
#1695, aired 1992-01-03CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Hans Christian Andersen story in which a little child says, "But he hasn't got anything on” The Emperor's (New) Clothes
#1695, aired 1992-01-03CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: In some versions this dead relative appears to Cinderella in the form of a cow mother
#1695, aired 1992-01-03CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: In a book by Christina Bjork, a girl named Linnea visits this artist's gardens at Giverny (Claude) Monet
#1659, aired 1991-11-14FRENCH LITERATURE $400: This author of "No Exit" said no to a Nobel Prize in 1964 Jean-Paul Sartre
#1647, aired 1991-10-29LITERATURE $1000: Like "The Luck of Roaring Camp", his novella "M'liss" is set in a mining camp Bret Harte
#1641, aired 1991-10-21LITERATURE $600: In 1895 he published "The Black Riders", a book of poems, & the novel "The Red Badge of Courage" Stephen Crane
#1635, aired 1991-10-11FRENCH LITERATURE $400: In a Voltaire novel, this title character arrives in Lisbon just in time for the 1755 earthquake Candide
#1635, aired 1991-10-11FRENCH LITERATURE $600: In an 1831 novel, Esmeralda hides from a mob in the belfry of this building Notre Dame Cathedral
#1616, aired 1991-09-16CLASSICAL LITERATURE $200: In ancient Greece, lyric poetry was usually sung to the accompaniment of this stringed instrument a lyre
#1595, aired 1991-07-05LITERATURE $200: Of a state, a Creole woman or a fictional utopia, what Indiana is in George Sand's novel "Indiana" a Creole woman
#1591, aired 1991-07-01LANGUAGES $1000: Frederick Mistral, who won a 1904 Nobel Literature Prize, wrote in this language of Southern France Provençal
#1590, aired 1991-06-28WORLD LITERATURE $300: The father & 1 of the title siblings in this Russian novel are rivals for a woman named Grushenka The Brothers Karamazov
#1562, aired 1991-05-21AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: The Mark Twain novel that feature Merlin & Morgan le Fay A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
#1562, aired 1991-05-21AMERICAN LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): This collection of short stories about life in a small town was S. Anderson's 4th book Winesburg, Ohio
#1552, aired 1991-05-07LETTER PERFECT $400: In literature Hester Prynne wore this "Scarlet Letter" A
#1551, aired 1991-05-06LITERATURE $200: Kind of animal that was "mom" to Mowgli in "The Jungle Book"s a wolf
#1535, aired 1991-04-1220th CENTURY LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): James Joyce wrote about the Irish lower middle class in this 1914 story collection The Dubliners
#1535, aired 1991-04-1220th CENTURY LITERATURE $1000: In 1950, this Nelson Algren novel about a drug addict won a National Book Award The Man with the Golden Arm
#1532, aired 1991-04-09AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: “Men in White”, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1934, is a Sidney Kingsley play about this profession medicine
#1532, aired 1991-04-09AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: She published “The Member of the Wedding” as a novel in 1946, then rewrote it as a play in 1950 Carson McCullers
#1528, aired 1991-04-03CLERGYMEN IN LITERATURE $700 (Daily Double): The novel in which the high lama seeks to pass his position on to a visitor to Shangri-La Lost Horizon
#1522, aired 1991-03-26TOMS IN LITERATURE $400: Thomas Hughes followed this character's school days with a sequel of his time at Oxford Tom Brown
#1517, aired 1991-03-19LITERATURE $600: Robert Jordan falls in love with Maria, a Spanish loyalist, in this Hemingway novel For Whom The Bell Tolls
#1513, aired 1991-03-13AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Greed & lust for power release vicious passions in a Southern family in her play "The Little Foxes" Lillian Hellman
#1513, aired 1991-03-13AMERICAN LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Robert A. Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, & Frederik Pohl are best known for writing in this genre science fiction
#1510, aired 1991-03-08LITERATURE $200: In "A Tale of Two Cities" Dickens called this "the national razor" the guillotine
#1510, aired 1991-03-08LITERATURE $1000: "Revolt in the Desert" was a popular abridged edition of this book by Lawrence of Arabia the Seven Pillars of Wisdom
#1487, aired 1991-02-05CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Ludwig Bemelmans' "Madeline" attends a boarding school in this city Paris
#1443, aired 1990-12-05MODERN LITERATURE $100: In this futuristic Aldous Huxley novel, people attend feelies instead of movies Brave New World
#1443, aired 1990-12-05MODERN LITERATURE $400: In the Thorne Smith novel, he was turned into an adventurous romantic by a pair of ghosts Topper
#1426, aired 1990-11-12KITTY LITERATURE $300: Brick Pollitt's wife, who is the "cat" in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" Maggie
#1423, aired 1990-11-07ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $300: Reynard, the hero of a popular Medieval epic, was this type of animal a fox
#1423, aired 1990-11-07ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $400: In Goethe's version of the story, this character first appears to Faust as a dog the Devil (Mephistopheles)
#1423, aired 1990-11-07ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $500: In "Out of Africa", she wrote of raising a gazelle named lulu Isak Dinesen
#1421, aired 1990-11-05AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE $1000: Miles Franklin's story of a headstrong, intelligent woman in turn-of-the-century Australia My Brilliant Career
#1409, aired 1990-10-18ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: This Tennyson poem was written in 1854, a few weeks after the Crimean War battle it describes "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
#1409, aired 1990-10-18ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: This "Empire of the Sun" author began as a science fiction writer in the 1950s J.G. Ballard
#1400, aired 1990-10-05ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: In a 1719 sequel he & Friday revisited the island where he was first stranded Robinson Crusoe
#1400, aired 1990-10-05ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: In England, up to the 9th century, most prose was written in this language Latin
#1392, aired 1990-09-25LITERATURE $900 (Daily Double): In "The Gift of the Magi", a young wife sells this to buy her husband a watch fob her hair
#1390, aired 1990-09-21MODERN LITERATURE $400: "A Thief in the Night" investigates the mysterious 1978 death of this pope John Paul I
#1390, aired 1990-09-21MODERN LITERATURE $600: This 1990 Gore Vidal book is subtitled "A Novel of America in the 1920s" Hollywood
#1386, aired 1990-09-17AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: John O'Hara's 1940 collection of short stories about a singing heel that became a hit musical Pal Joey
#1382, aired 1990-09-11CLASSICAL LITERATURE $200: Herodotus said this fabulist lived as a slave on Samos in the 6th century B.C. Aesop
#1377, aired 1990-09-04ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $200: The Beatrix Potter character, Sir Isaac Newton, was one of these amphibians newt
#1377, aired 1990-09-04ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $400: This Kipling story features a fight between a mongoose & a snake Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
#1377, aired 1990-09-04ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $600: Pyewacket is a cat & witch's familiar in this John van Druten play Bell, Book and Candle
#1377, aired 1990-09-04ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $1000: Skipperdee, a turtle who wore sneakers, lived with this little girl at the Plaza Hotel Eloise
#11, aired 1990-08-25AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Edith Wharton's tragic tale of a New England farmer who falls in love with his wife's cousin Mattie Ethan Frome
#10, aired 1990-08-18WORLD LITERATURE $2500: “Eugene Onegin”, a novel written in verse, is considered this Russian poet's masterpiece Pushkin
#8, aired 1990-08-04WORLD LITERATURE $1000: In this novel, Dostoevski's last, a son is falsely accused of murdering his father The Brothers Karamazov
#8, aired 1990-08-04WORLD LITERATURE $2000: This Greek writer continued the story of Ulysses in his 1938 poem, "The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel" Nikos Kazantzakis
#1372, aired 1990-07-17LITERATURE $400: In "The Betrothed" Rudyard Kipling wrote, "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is" this a smoke
#1369, aired 1990-07-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: In the title of a 1911 book by Frances Hodgson Burnett, this adjective describes the garden secret
#1369, aired 1990-07-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: His father, Raff, is a dike worker who fell from a scaffold & lost his memory Hans Brinker
#1362, aired 1990-07-03AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1946 for The Age of Jackson" & in 1966 for "A Thousand Days", JFK's story (Arthur) Schlesinger
#2, aired 1990-06-23LITERATURE $200: He spent 5 years as a slave in north Africa before he began work on the first modern Spanish novel Cervantes
#2, aired 1990-06-23LITERATURE $600: Milan Kundera, a Czech, lived in France when he published “The Unbearable Lightness of” this Being
#1355, aired 1990-06-22CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: In a Kipling story, the camel got his hump by being lazy & making this contemptuous sound humph
#1355, aired 1990-06-22CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: A donkey, a hound, a cat & a cock are these title characters in a Grimm's fairy tale Bremen Town Musicians
#1322, aired 1990-05-08WORLD LITERATURE $600: Upton Sinclair's story of a Lithuanian immigrant family employed in the meat-packing industry The Jungle
#1316, aired 1990-04-30LITERATURE $400: In a 1946 Carson McCullers novel, 12-year-old Frankie Addams wants to be a "Member of" this the Wedding
#1315, aired 1990-04-27"A" IN LITERATURE $100: He got to marry a sultan's daughter with the help of his wonderful lamp Aladdin
#1315, aired 1990-04-27"A" IN LITERATURE $200: "I shot" one of these "into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where" an arrow
#1315, aired 1990-04-27"A" IN LITERATURE $300: This son of Aphrodite is the hero of Virgil's masterpiece Aeneas
#1315, aired 1990-04-27"A" IN LITERATURE $500: The forest in "As You Like It", or Enoch's last name Arden
#1315, aired 1990-04-27"A" IN LITERATURE $600 (Daily Double): Theodore Dreiser based this novel on the 1906 murder of Grace Brown in New York State An American Tragedy
#1312, aired 1990-04-24LITERATURE ON FILM $400: In a 1941 film based on R.L. Stevenson's horror classic, Spencer Tracy played these 2 title characters Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
#1312, aired 1990-04-24LITERATURE ON FILM $600: Rod Taylor traveled from the year 1899 to 802,701 A.D. in this film based on an H.G. Wells book "The Time Machine"
#1312, aired 1990-04-24LITERATURE ON FILM $800: James Dean & Raymond Massey starred in this Cain & Abel fable based on a novel by John Steinbeck "East of Eden"
#1312, aired 1990-04-24LITERATURE ON FILM $1000: This 1880 novel by Lew Wallace was made into a film in 1907, 1926 & 1959 "Ben-Hur"
#1301, aired 1990-04-09ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: Of a person, place or thing, what Little Dorrit was in the Dickens tale person
#1299, aired 1990-04-05WORLD LITERATURE $800: In "The Book of Reynard", a collection of medieval fables, Reynard is one of these animals a fox
#1264, aired 1990-02-15LOVERS IN LITERATURE $200: A fairy tale twosome; 1 gorgeous, 1 gruesome the Beauty & the Beast
#1262, aired 1990-02-13CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: This Dr. Seuss animal said, "'That is that.' And then he was gone with a tip of his hat." The Cat in the Hat
#1262, aired 1990-02-13CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: In "The Jungle Book" Shere Khan is one of these wild animals a tiger
#1261, aired 1990-02-12AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: He wrote the novel "The Enormous Room" & many poems such as "anyone lived in a pretty how town" E. E. Cummings
#1261, aired 1990-02-12AMERICAN LITERATURE $500: In a Stephen Vincent Benét short story this New Englander saves Jabez Stone from "Mr. Scratch" Daniel Webster
#1240, aired 1990-01-12WORLD LITERATURE $200: Dostoevski novel in which Raskolnikov, a young student, kills an old woman pawnbroker Crime And Punishment
#1240, aired 1990-01-12WORLD LITERATURE $400: After offending both sides in a religious dispute, this "Moll Flanders" author was sentenced to the pillory Daniel Defoe
#1236, aired 1990-01-08WORLD LITERATURE $400: He used Marlow as a character or narrator in "Youth", "Lord Jim" & "Heart of Darkness" Joseph Conrad
#1224, aired 1989-12-21CLASSICAL LITERATURE $1000: Commander of Galilee in the Jewish revolt against Rome, he later wrote a history of the revolt Josephus
#1222, aired 1989-12-19ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: The heroine pretends to be a barmaid to win the hero's love in this playwright's "She Stoops to Conquer" (Oliver) Goldsmith
#1214, aired 1989-12-07CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: In Aesop's fables this animal is paired with "the Stork", "the Crow" & "the Grapes" a fox
#1212, aired 1989-12-05LITERATURE $200: In the 1790 work "A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty" he told his side Captain Bligh
#1210, aired 1989-12-01MODERN LITERATURE $3,600 (Daily Double): He died in 1922 before the last 3 volumes of his "Remembrance of Things Past" were published Marcel Proust
#1203, aired 1989-11-22"A" IN LITERATURE $200: In "Paradise Lost" Milton wrote about the "fallen" ones on the burning lake of Hell angels
#1203, aired 1989-11-22"A" IN LITERATURE $400: The adjective always used to describe Dickens' Dodger artful
#1203, aired 1989-11-22"A" IN LITERATURE $600: This musketeer liked to dress in black, but we don't know what cologne he wore Aramis
#1203, aired 1989-11-22"A" IN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): In "East of Eden" he was the father of Caleb & Aron Trask Adam
#1203, aired 1989-11-22"A" IN LITERATURE $1000: Clytemnestra must have found this husband aggravating, because she killed him Agamemnon
#1195, aired 1989-11-10CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: This author was born in a slum in Odense, Denmark on April 2, 1805 Hans Christian Andersen
#1194, aired 1989-11-09AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In 1981 John Kennedy Toole was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for this novel A Confederacy of Dunces
#1183, aired 1989-10-25ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: Mrs. Moore goes to Chandrapore, India to visit her son, the city magistrate, in this E.M. Forster novel A Passage to India
#1179, aired 1989-10-19CITIES IN LITERATURE $100: "Gone with the Wind"'s Rhett Butler was a profiteer from this South Carolina port city Charleston
#1179, aired 1989-10-19CITIES IN LITERATURE $500: "Tom Brown's School Days" were spent at a British prep school in this town Rugby
#1174, aired 1989-10-12LITERATURE $600 (Daily Double): "Out of Africa" was based on Isak Dinesen's life as a coffee plantation owner in this country Kenya
#1171, aired 1989-10-09ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: His character, Mowgli, 1st appeared in a book called "Many Intentions" Rudyard Kipling
#1144, aired 1989-07-20LITERARY TERMS $800: In literature it's not artillery but a body of writings established as authentic a canon
#1123, aired 1989-06-21WORLD LITERATURE $400: Lady Sei Shonagon wrote "Pillow Book", gossipy stories considered a classic in this country Japan
#1123, aired 1989-06-21WORLD LITERATURE $600: In "A Christmas Carol", it's described as a jolly giant wearing a simple green robe with white fur the Ghost of Christmas Present
#1106, aired 1989-05-29AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: While working at the U.S. embassy in Madrid, this Knickerbocker knocked out a Columbus bio Washington Irving
#1103, aired 1989-05-24"D" IN LITERATURE $200: In titles, this word precedes "Comes for the Archbishop", "in Venice" & "of a Salesman" Death
#1103, aired 1989-05-24"D" IN LITERATURE $400: Some say this classic Cervantes novel is a veiled attack on the Catholic Church Don Quixote
#1094, aired 1989-05-11LITERATURE $600: The hero of this J.D. Salinger novel has a precocious little sister named Phoebe The Catcher in the Rye
#1078, aired 1989-04-19RUSSIAN LITERATURE $800: This Russian poet was killed in a duel, as was a poet named Lensky in his greatest novel, "Eugene Onegin" Alexander Pushkin
#1078, aired 1989-04-19RUSSIAN LITERATURE $1000: This novelist's "The House of the Dead" was a fictional account of his 4 years in a Siberian prison Fyodor Dostoevsky
#1075, aired 1989-04-14LITERATURE ON FILM $200: In a 1947 film Danny Kaye portrayed this James Thurber character who had a "Secret Life" Walter Mitty
#1066, aired 1989-04-03LITERATURE $600: this poet's 1st book, "the enormous room", described his experiences in a french detention camp e.e. cummings
#1040, aired 1989-02-24ROMAN LITERATURE $800: Caesar defended attacking this land in a work divided into 7 parts, not 3 Gaul
#1027, aired 1989-02-07TEENS IN LITERATURE $600: This story of a prom queen with telekinetic powers was Stephen King's 1st best seller Carrie
#1027, aired 1989-02-07TEENS IN LITERATURE $1000: At age 18, this Henry Fielding hero falls in love with Sophia, a squire's daughter Tom Jones
#1022, aired 1989-01-31AMERICAN LITERATURE $2,500 (Daily Double): In "The Sun Also Rises" Hemingway quotes this author as saying, "You are all a lost generation" Gertrude Stein
#991, aired 1988-12-19THE ADAMS FAMILY $1000: "The Education of" this "Adams" is considered a classic in American literature Henry Adams
#987, aired 1988-12-13LITERATURE $800: Detective who found "The Purloined Letter" in a pasteboard card rack just below the mantelpiece C. Auguste Dupin
#986, aired 1988-12-12ENGLISH LITERATURE $100: He named his son Hamnet, probably in honor of a baker in Stratford-upon-Avon Shakespeare
#980, aired 1988-12-02AWARDS $1000: In 1913 this poet from India became the 1st Asian to win a Nobel Prize for Literature Rabindranath Tagore
#972, aired 1988-11-22LITERATURE $400: Defense lawyer who was pitted against the plaintiff, Mr. Scratch, in a famous short story trial Daniel Webster
#970, aired 1988-11-18LITERATURE $1000: A well-known Ambrose Bierce short story is about an incident at this bridge in Northern Alabama Owl Creek Bridge
#968, aired 1988-11-16AUTHORS $400: Born in India, this English author was the youngest person to win a Nobel prize in literature Rudyard Kipling
#966, aired 1988-11-14"A" IN LITERATURE $200: He's a weak-willed king in the Old Testament or a whaler captain in "Moby Dick" Ahab
#966, aired 1988-11-14"A" IN LITERATURE $400: Poe poem about a maiden who "lived with no other thought than to love and to be loved by me" "Annabel Lee"
#966, aired 1988-11-14"A" IN LITERATURE $800: Robin Hood's hyphenated henchman Allan-a-Dale
#966, aired 1988-11-14"A" IN LITERATURE $1000: Booth Tarkington book that ends as the title character enters the stairway to Frincke's business college Alice Adams
#966, aired 1988-11-14"A" IN LITERATURE $4,100 (Daily Double): Set in the forest of Arden, this comedy has more songs than any other Shakespeare play As You Like It
#963, aired 1988-11-09CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: He kept his wife in a pumpkin shell Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater
#963, aired 1988-11-09CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: Near the end of "Through the Looking Glass", this queen disappears in a bowl of soup White Queen
#955, aired 1988-10-28CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: After the ogre turned himself into one of these, Puss in Boots ate him a mouse
#955, aired 1988-10-28CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: He was "bred and born in a briar patch" Brer Rabbit
#955, aired 1988-10-28CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: In the Hans Christian Andersen tale, she was born inside a tulip-like flower Thumbelina
#947, aired 1988-10-18ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: The longest word ever in a London Times crossword, 27 letters, was from his "Love's Labor's Lost" William Shakespeare
#947, aired 1988-10-18ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: Fictional singer in a German cabaret, she was created by Christopher Isherwood in the late 1930s Sally Bowles
#946, aired 1988-10-17WORLD LITERATURE $200: Dostoyevsky's "The House of the Dead" tells of his 4 years spent in a penal colony here Siberia
#944, aired 1988-10-13LITERATURE $100: In "A Christmas Carol", Scrooge 1st says "Humbug" when his nephew Fred does this wishing him a "Merry Christmas!"
#944, aired 1988-10-13LITERATURE $200: A classic 1826 novel by Sir Walter Scott, or a classic 1969 rock concert in upstate New York Woodstock
#944, aired 1988-10-13LITERATURE $300: This pivotal animal from "Alice in Wonderland" became the title of a classic 1967 acid rock hit White Rabbit
#928, aired 1988-09-21LITERATURE $600: Lucie Manette is the heroine of this novel A Tale of Two Cities
#928, aired 1988-09-21LITERATURE $800: In John Webster's play, a steward named Antonio is secretly married to "The Duchess of" this Malfi
#924, aired 1988-09-15LITERATURE $200: 1st book in Latin to make U.S. best seller lists was a translation of this A.A. Milne classic Winnie-the-Pooh
#924, aired 1988-09-15LITERATURE $600: Best known for "U.S.A.", his last name in English would be "of the steps" John Dos Passos
#915, aired 1988-07-22WORLD LITERATURE $200: In 1540s Mexico, Franciscan Fray Sahagun began a history of these Indians in their own language the Aztecs
#911, aired 1988-07-18LITERATURE $500 (Daily Double): His novel "It Can't Happen Here" is about a fascist dictatorship set up in the U.S. Sinclair Lewis
#911, aired 1988-07-18LITERATURE $800: In this novel, an idealistic American teacher, Robert Jordan, fights in the Spanish Civil War For Whom the Bells Tolls
#906, aired 1988-07-11FRENCH LITERATURE $200: Characters in this 1845 Prosper Merimee work include a soldier, a cigar worker, & a picador Carmen
#887, aired 1988-06-14CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: "Tunnel in the Sky" & "A Wrinkle in Time" are 2 novels for children written in this genre science fiction
#827, aired 1988-03-22"C" IN LITERATURE $600: In "A Christmas Carol", it's Tiny Tim's last name Cratchit
#827, aired 1988-03-22"C" IN LITERATURE $1000: He won a Pulitzer Prize for his short stories 2 years after he wrote "Falconer" John Cheever
#823, aired 1988-03-16LITERATURE $1000: Miriam in "Sons & Lovers", was reportedly based on his friend Jessie, a farmer's daughter D.H. Lawrence
#819, aired 1988-03-10WORLD LITERATURE $100: Under the title "First Impressions", the 1st version of this J. Austen novel was rejected by a publisher in 1797 Pride and Prejudice
#819, aired 1988-03-10WORLD LITERATURE $500: In "Les Miserables", this character is sentenced to 5 years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread Jean Valjean
#804, aired 1988-02-18LITERATURE $600: He published "The Bride of Lammermoor", "A Legend of Montrose" & "Ivanhoe" all in 1819 Sir Walter Scott
#804, aired 1988-02-18LITERATURE $800: Highly regarded as a poet as well as a novelist, Thomas Hardy was buried in "The Poet's Corner" here Westminster Abbey
#803, aired 1988-02-17"K"s IN LITERATURE $1000: This famous Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem about Xanadu was never finished "Kubla Khan"
#796, aired 1988-02-0820TH CENTURY LITERATURE $200: In a 1927 Thornton Wilder novel, this structure "of San Luis Rey" breaks the bridge
#793, aired 1988-02-03CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: The mother duck thought her ugly duckling was a real turkey but in actuality it was this swan
#789, aired 1988-01-28WORLD LITERATURE $600: Subtitled "The Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure", in 1821 it became 1st book tried for sexual obscenity in U.S. Fanny Hill
#777, aired 1988-01-12LITERATURE $400: Thomas Mann's "Magic Mountain" is set in a Swiss sanatorium for this disease tuberculosis
#773, aired 1988-01-06WOMEN IN LITERATURE $400: Nicole is a patient of psychiatrist Dick Diver in this author's "Tender is the Night" F. Scott Fitzgerald
#773, aired 1988-01-06WOMEN IN LITERATURE $600: In this E.M. Forster work, Adela Quested wrongly accuses Dr. Aziz of assaulting her A Passage to India
#773, aired 1988-01-06WOMEN IN LITERATURE $800: Phoebe Caulfield is a prominent character in this popular modern novel The Catcher in the Rye
#773, aired 1988-01-06WOMEN IN LITERATURE $1000: In Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw", the heroine is hired to serve in this capacity a governess
#770, aired 1988-01-01LITERATURE $600: Now meaning impractical fantasy, "Cloud-Cuckooland" was 1st a utopian city in his comedy "The Birds" Aristophanes
#770, aired 1988-01-01LITERATURE $1000: A chance meeting in 1794 led to a strong friendship between Schiller & this German literary giant (Johann Wolfgang von) Goethe
#751, aired 1987-12-07BRITISH LITERATURE $400: Among his title characters was Kimball O'Hara, a 13-year-old orphan in Lahore, India (Rudyard) Kipling
#746, aired 1987-11-30"B" IN LITERATURE $200: Sebastian Marchmain's stately home, it's a great place to "revisit" Brideshead
#746, aired 1987-11-30"B" IN LITERATURE $600 (Daily Double): 1880 epic subtitled "A Tale of the Christ" Ben-Hur
#746, aired 1987-11-30"B" IN LITERATURE $800: A target of Nazi persecution, he fled Germany & wrote "Mother Courage" in exile Bertolt Brecht
#746, aired 1987-11-30"B" IN LITERATURE $1000: A ragman dies of spontaneous combustion in the Dickens novel named for this domicile Bleak House
#736, aired 1987-11-1620th 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
#730, aired 1987-11-06AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In 1920, Chas. Nordhoff & James Hall moved to Tahiti where they wrote this novel about a real event Mutiny on the Bounty

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#9055, aired 2024-03-08LITERATURE & RELIGION: This city now in Turkey is the addressee of one of the New Testament epistles & the setting for "The Comedy of Errors" Ephesus
#9024, aired 2024-01-25CLASSIC LITERATURE: An intended sequel to this 1869 work centered on the Decembrists, a group of veterans who largely served in the Napoleonic Wars War and Peace
#8957, aired 2023-10-24AWARDS & HONORS: As of 2023 the only 2 to win a Nobel Prize in Literature & an Academy Award were George Bernard Shaw & this singer-songwriter Bob Dylan
#8954, aired 2023-10-19NAMES: The name Jennifer is an alteration of this name that in early Welsh literature belonged to the "first lady of the island" Guinevere
#8927, aired 2023-09-12MYTHOLOGICAL PLACES: "Paradise Lost" says it's "abhorred" & "the flood of deadly hate" & in Dante's "Inferno" it's fed by a "gloomy brook" the River Styx
#8902, aired 2023-06-2719th CENTURY LITERATURE: In 1896 new spider species were named for a wolf, a panther & a snake from a work published 2 years earlier by this man (Rudyard) Kipling
#20, aired 2023-05-24LATIN IN LITERATURE: A work by this 15th century English writer quotes the phrase "rex quondam rexque futurus" Thomas Malory
#8851, aired 2023-04-17ENGLISH LITERATURE: It says, "The mind is its own place, & in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same" Paradise Lost
#8826, aired 2023-03-13LITERATURE: A 2006 book was titled "The Poem That Changed America:" this "Fifty Years Later" "Howl"
#8820, aired 2023-03-03AMERICAN LITERATURE: Letters, pocket knives, C rations & steel helmets are among the tangible items referred to in the title of this modern war classic The Things They Carried
#8798, aired 2023-02-01LITERATURE: Published in 2011, P.D. James' final novel, "Death Comes to Pemberley", was a sequel to this novel from 200 years earlier Pride and Prejudice
#8744, aired 2022-11-17MOVIES & LITERATURE: Ridley Scott's first feature film, "The Duellists", was based on a story by this author to whom Scott's film "Alien" also pays tribute Joseph Conrad
#8668, aired 2022-06-2219th CENTURY LITERATURE: This author first thought of a parrot before choosing another bird "equally capable of speech" Edgar Allan Poe
#8615, aired 2022-04-0819th CENTURY LITERATURE: The Strand Union Workhouse, whose rules prohibited second helpings of food, inspired a setting in this 1838 novel Oliver Twist
#8521, aired 2021-11-2919th CENTURY LITERATURE: Its first line says, "The good people of Paris were awakened by a grand peal from all the bells in the three districts of the city" The Hunchback of Notre Dame
#8460, aired 2021-08-06LITERATURE & THE ANIMAL KINGDOM: In 2020 scientists named Trimeresurus salazar, a new species of this, after a character in a book series a snake
#8392, aired 2021-05-04WORLD LITERATURE: This 1970s memoir told of harsh places that metaphorically were like an island chain "from the Bering Strait almost to the Bosporus" The Gulag Archipelago
#8331, aired 2021-02-08WORLD LITERATURE: In a classic novel from 1866, the murders of 2 women take place in this city St. Petersburg
#8138, aired 2020-01-15CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Einstein's theory of relativity & Max Planck's quantum theory inspired this book that won a 1963 Newbery Medal A Wrinkle in Time
#7831, aired 2018-10-01WORLD LITERATURE: In a recent poll of 125 authors, this long 1870s novel about a woman ranked as the greatest work of fiction of all time Anna Karenina
#7780, aired 2018-06-08LITERARY SETTINGS: Ashdown Forest in Sussex inspired this fictional setting for a 1926 collection of stories for children the Hundred Acre Wood
#7761, aired 2018-05-14CITIES IN LITERATURE: In "Gone With the Wind", Rhett Butler says this city named for a monarch "is the South, only intensified" Charleston
#7687, aired 2018-01-30LITERATURE & MYTHOLOGY: The "very name embodies the idea of flight", says one analysis of a 20th century novel in describing this main character Stephen Dedalus
#7653, aired 2017-12-13WORLD LITERATURE: In a 1967 novel this Nobel Prize winner wrote, "The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude" Gabriel García Márquez
#7567, aired 2017-07-04CLASSIC CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: A 2016 biography of a children's author is titled "In the Great Green Room", a line from this classic book Goodnight Moon
#7423, aired 2016-12-14AMERICAN AUTHORS: Nominated 8 previous times, he finally won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, 6 years before his death John Steinbeck
#7326, aired 2016-06-20EUROPEAN LITERATURE: "Episodes" in this 1922 work include the Lotus Eaters & Ithaca Ulysses (by James Joyce)
#7213, aired 2016-01-1320th CENTURY LITERATURE: For factual details, the author of this 1972 tale drew on a book called "The Private Life of the Rabbit" Watership Down
#7193, aired 2015-12-1619th CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE: The theft alluded to in the title of this 1844 Poe story is committed by a government minister "The Purloined Letter"
#7075, aired 2015-05-22CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: In a recent British poll, the 1926 book about this title character was named the favorite children's book of the past 150 years Winnie the Pooh
#6921, aired 2014-10-20LITERATURE: A chapter heading in this 19th century work calls the title character "one-eyed, lame", another calls him "deaf" The Hunchback of Notre Dame
#6880, aired 2014-07-11AMERICAN LITERATURE: Published in 1925, it still sells 500,000 copies a year & was on the bestseller lists in 2013 The Great Gatsby
#6806, aired 2014-03-31LITERATURE & OPERA: An aria in this Shakespeare-based opera says, "Di scozia a te promettono le profetesse il trono... Che tardi?" Macbeth
#6627, aired 2013-06-11AMERICAN LITERATURE: This 1884 novel begins in the fictional town of St. Petersburg & ends in Pikesville, 1,100 miles down the Mississippi Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
#6230, aired 2011-10-21CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: In the original 1883 work, this title character kills a talking cricket, has his feet burned off & nearly starves Pinocchio
#6114, aired 2011-03-2419th CENTURY LITERATURE: Armor-clad knights face off in a game of baseball in an 1889 work by this author Mark Twain
#5950, aired 2010-06-25LITERATURE & MUSIC: The band called "They Might Be Giants" ultimately gets its name from a phrase said by this title hero in a 1605 work Don Quixote
#5914, aired 2010-05-06AMERICAN LITERATURE: A contemporary review of this 1851 novel said, "Who would have looked for... poetry in blubber?" Moby-Dick
#5861, aired 2010-02-22KINGS & LITERATURE: Though called "the most hapless of monarchs", this king is in the title of Shakespeare's only trilogy Henry VI
#5807, aired 2009-12-08LITERATURE OF THE 1800s: This character said, "I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me" Ebenezer Scrooge
#5707, aired 2009-06-02GEOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE: The first 2 sections of this Hemingway novel, published 9 years after his death, are titled "Bimini" & "Cuba" Islands in the Stream
#5628, aired 2009-02-111950s LITERATURE: In 2007 this novel celebrated its 50th anniversary as its manuscript, a 120-foot-long scroll, toured the U.S. On the Road
#5425, aired 2008-03-21WORLD LITERATURE: "If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake" refers to a murderer in this 1866 novel Crime and Punishment
#5263, aired 2007-06-27LITERATURE: Maris, Lycon, Laogonus, Erymas, Sarpedon, Erylaus & Patroclus die in Book 16 of this work the Iliad
#5258, aired 2007-06-20LITERATURE: In 1852 his story "The Dandy Frightening the Squatter" appeared in The Carpet-Bag, a humorous paper Mark Twain
#5247, aired 2007-06-05AMERICAN LITERATURE: Subtitles of books in this 19th century series include "A Tale", "The Inland Sea" & "The First War-Path" Leatherstocking Tales
#5175, aired 2007-02-23LITERATURE: This 1877 novel was written "to induce kindness, sympathy and an understanding treatment of horses" Black Beauty
#5028, aired 2006-06-21AUTHORS: Author seen here with his son A.A. Milne
#4988, aired 2006-04-26LITERARY OBJECTS: In literature from the 1200s to today, it has been depicted as a type of dish, a talismanic stone & a woman the Holy Grail
#4962, aired 2006-03-2120th 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)
#4950, aired 2006-03-03AMERICAN LITERATURE: This 1906 novel says, "Now & then a visitor wept, to be sure; but this slaughtering machine ran on, visitors or no..." The Jungle
#4847, aired 2005-10-11CLASSIC LITERATURE: Chapter 1 of this book describes "a cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case one of those… whirlwinds arose" The Wizard of Oz
#4828, aired 2005-09-1418th CENTURY LITERATURE: This character studied medicine, "knowing it would be useful in long voyages" Gulliver
#4822, aired 2005-07-19WORDS IN LITERATURE: In Webster's, it means either a soldier using a certain muzzle-loading weapon, or a boon companion musketeer
#4702, aired 2005-02-0119th CENTURY LITERATURE: "The Pastor and His Parishioner" is Chapter 17 of this classic novel The Scarlet Letter
#4567, aired 2004-06-15CLASSIC LITERATURE: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man..." is the epigraph to this 1818 novel Frankenstein
#4327, aired 2003-05-27CLASSIC LITERATURE: "A Bird's Eye View of Paris" & "The Bells" are chapters in this 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame
#4291, aired 2003-04-07AMERICAN LITERATURE: Author of the 1889 novel that opens, "Camelot, Camelot... I don't seem to remember hearing of it before" Mark Twain
#4098, aired 2002-05-29LITERATURE & GEOGRAPHY: Zhongdian County in Southwest China has renamed itself after this fabled land from a 1933 book Shangri-La
#4034, aired 2002-02-28TV & LITERATURE: "The Fugitive" was based in part on this 1862 novel in which a detective relentlessly pursues the fugitive hero Les Misérables
#3388, aired 1999-05-05WORLD LITERATURE: A war described in this 1726 novel began over an argument about how to crack open an egg "Gulliver's Travels"
#3330, aired 1999-02-12LITERATURE: In 1998 Jose Saramago became the first writer in this language to win a Nobel Prize for Literature Portuguese
#3301, aired 1999-01-04CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: This title character was inspired by a girl who'd had her appendix out in a French hospital run by nuns Madeline
#3102, aired 1998-02-10ENGLISH LITERATURE: The 5th edition of this work, published in 1676, included a section on fly fishing by Charles Cotton The Compleat Angler (by Izaak Walton)
#2718, aired 1996-05-29JAPANESE LITERATURE: One-word title of a 1915 story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa; it was filmed in 1950 Rashomon
#2646, aired 1996-02-19AMERICAN LITERATURE: This first American writer to earn $1 million received only $2,000 for a 1903 novel set in the Klondike Jack London
#2571, aired 1995-11-06BUSINESS & LITERATURE: On March 24, 1994 this store held a breakfast to announce the new Truman Capote Literary Trust Tiffany's
#2029, aired 1993-06-03ENGLISH LITERATURE: In this 1653 work, Piscator tries to convince Venator, a hunter, that fishing is the better sport The Compleat Angler
#1694, aired 1992-01-02LITERATURE: This 1952 novel is based on a Biblical story & set in California's Salinas Valley East of Eden
#1514, aired 1991-03-14LITERATURE: A line in Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale" provided the title of this F. Scott Fitzgerald work Tender is the Night
#1332, aired 1990-05-22AMERICAN LITERATURE: Merlin the Magician cast a spell putting this title character to sleep for 1,300 years A Connecticut Yankee (In King Arthur's Court)
#1327, aired 1990-05-15THE NOBEL PRIZE: This winner of the 1970 Nobel Literature Prize was born in 1918 into a family of Cossack intellectuals Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#1152, aired 1989-09-12LITERATURE: The next-to-last chapter of this novel is entitled "The Knitting Done" A Tale of Two Cities
#1121, aired 1989-06-19CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: In a Eugene Field poem, the wooden shoe stands for a trundle bed, & these 3 for 2 eyes & a head Wynken, Blynken, and Nod

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