| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | RECENT LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $5,000 (Daily Double): 2022 brings the 150th b'day of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar & a bio calling him this creature that "sings" in his famous line the caged bird |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | LITERARY CHARACTER SPOILERS $200: We'd say this title arachnid in a 1952 E.B. White tale went off to live on a farm, buuut... Charlotte |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1600: A tailor in a play by G.B. Shaw, he extracts a thorn from a lion's paw & is spared later in the arena by that lion Androcles |
| #7578, aired 2017-07-19 | LITERARY THREESOMES $2000: In his Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Three Tall Women", the women are not known by names but by the letters A, B & C Edward Albee |
| #7030, aired 2015-03-20 | LITERARY CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $400: This H.B. Stowe character was partially based on josiah Henson, a slave who escaped the south to Canada Uncle Tom |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | A LITERARY "B" $200: The young girl in this 1958 Truman Capote work is described as having "a face beyond childhood" Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | A LITERARY "B" $400: In 1834 Charles Dickens began using this pseudonym, a joking nickname for his youngest brother Boz |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | A LITERARY "B" $600: This utopian farm in West Roxbury, Mass. counted among its members Nathaniel Hawthorne Brook Farm |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | A LITERARY "B" $800: Jack London wrote that he "was neither house-dog nor kennel-dog. The whole realm was his" Buck |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | A LITERARY "B" $1000: This 1945 Evelyn Waugh novel is subtitled "The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder" Brideshead Revisited |
| #6605, aired 2013-05-10 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $200: It's a surprise to his parents when this E.B. White character is born with a tail & whiskers Stuart Little |
| #4203, aired 2002-12-04 | I'M GONNA "B" $600: (Jimmy in San Francisco) Naturally City Lights Books has a section for this literary group and Kerouac, Ginsberg & Burroughs are in it Beat Generation |
| #3752, aired 2000-12-19 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $1000: This Lake poet's autobiographical poem "The Prelude, or, Growth of A Poet's Mind" was published in 1850, after his death William Wordsworth |
| #3168, aired 1998-05-13 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $700 (Daily Double): The title of this John Dos Passos trilogy has only 3 letters "U.S.A." |
| #2246, aired 1994-05-16 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Dobbs is a worker in an oil camp before going in search of gold in this B. Traven novel The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| #1291, aired 1990-03-26 | LITERARY QUOTES $200: Terence, a Roman poet-playwright who lived in the second century B.C., said, "Charity begins" here At Home |
