| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | LITERARY LONDON $800: Opening at the Tower of London, this novel about a mistress to a Tudor king was filmed with Scarlett Johansson as Mary (not Anne) The Other Boleyn Girl |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: The action begins in a children's tale when this character blows into London's Cherry Tree Lane on the east wind Mary Poppins |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Lake Geneva in Switzerland.) Lake Geneva has long been a place of literary pilgrimage; this writer called it "blue as the heavens" when she lived here with her poet husband, who almost drowned one night on the lake & did drown in Italy a few years later Mary Shelley |
| #7272, aired 2016-04-05 | A LITERARY MARY $400: In the Sherlock Holmes tale "A Scandal in Bohemia", this man has settled into married life with Mary Morstan (Dr.) Watson |
| #7272, aired 2016-04-05 | A LITERARY MARY $800: Her books about life on the prairie include telling how her sister Mary lost her eyesight at age 14 in 1879 (Laura) Ingalls Wilder |
| #7272, aired 2016-04-05 | A LITERARY MARY $1200: This author's father William Godwin has been called the father of philosophical anarchism (Mary) Shelley |
| #7272, aired 2016-04-05 | A LITERARY MARY $2000: Mary Jane Reed submerges herself into this Philip Roth character's Jewish identity to reap some missing family love (Alexander) Portnoy |
| #7272, aired 2016-04-05 | A LITERARY MARY $3,000 (Daily Double): Mary Stewart's enchanting Arthurian trilogy starts with "The Crystal Cave", the saga of this character's youth Merlin |
| #5941, aired 2010-06-14 | LITERARY STUPID ANSWERS $1000: This Mary McCarthy classic tells of the lives, loves & aspirations of a group of 8 Vassar graduates The Group |
| #5278, aired 2007-07-18 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1600: In "A Scandal in Bohemia" & other early stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gave this physician a wife, Mary Morstan Dr. Watson |
| #5176, aired 2007-02-26 | LITERARY LONDON $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew seeks a clue in Hyde Park, London.) This poet's first wife, Harriet, drowned herself in the Serpentine Lake in early December 1816; by New Years he'd married Mary Percy Shelley |
| #4876, aired 2005-11-21 | WELCOME TO WYOMING $1600: (Kelly reports from horse country, horse in hand, in Grand Teton Nat'l Park, Wyoming.) While living in Wyoming, Mary O'Hara created a classic equine literary character: "My Friend" this horse Flicka |
| #3091, aired 1998-01-26 | A TRIP TO LITERARY BRITAIN $1000: The heart of this romantic poet is buried with his wife Mary at St. Peter's Church in Bournemouth Percy Shelley |
| #2999, aired 1997-09-18 | LITERARY WOMEN $800: She's kept us in suspense with over a dozen novels, including 1997's "Pretend You Don't See Her" Mary Higgins Clark |
| #2702, aired 1996-05-07 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $400: "Frankenstein" author whose futuristic 1826 novel "The Last Man" describes how a plague destroys mankind (Mary) Shelley |
| #2309, aired 1994-09-22 | LITERARY TRILOGIES $400: This 1941 Mary O'Hara book about a boy & his horse was the first of a trilogy My Friend Flicka |
| #2068, aired 1993-09-08 | LITERARY RELATIVES $400: Claire Clairmont, who had a child by Lord Byron, was this "Frankenstein" author's stepsister Mary Shelley |
| #1990, aired 1993-04-09 | LITERARY WOMEN $2,300 (Daily Double): Her "History of a Six Weeks' Tour" recounts her travels with Percy after their elopement Mary Shelley |
| #1416, aired 1990-10-29 | LITERARY COUPLES $500 (Daily Double): She wrote a book subtitled "The Modern Prometheus"; he wrote the drama "Prometheus Unbound" Mary Shelley & Percy Shelley |
| #1380, aired 1990-09-07 | LITERARY RELATIVES $1000: Her father, William Godwin, was a prominent social philosopher & anarchist Mary Shelley |
