#6503, aired 2012-12-19 | TOUR "DE" FRANCE $1200: The unraveling of a literary plot dénouement |
#5079, aired 2006-10-12 | A LITERARY TOUR $200: Head to Odense, Denmark to see his childhood home & sculptures inspired by his fairy tales (Hans Christian) Andersen |
#5079, aired 2006-10-12 | A LITERARY TOUR $400: To see the Great Bed of Ware mentioned in "Twelfth Night", go to this museum named for a royal couple the Victoria and Albert Museum (Victoria & Albert accepted) |
#5079, aired 2006-10-12 | A LITERARY TOUR $600: Have a homey lunch at this author's Salinas, California birthplace; it's now a restaurant John Steinbeck |
#5079, aired 2006-10-12 | A LITERARY TOUR $800: Chat about Lady Chatterley at this author's birthplace museum in Nottinghamshire D.H. Lawrence |
#5079, aired 2006-10-12 | A LITERARY TOUR $1000: Perhaps you'll draft your Nobel Prize acceptance speech at NYC's Algonquin Hotel, as this Mississippi man did in 1950 Faulkner |
#4963, aired 2006-03-22 | A LITERARY TOUR $400: His London home & museum boasts the original "Golden Arm" sign mentioned in chapter 6 of "A Tale of Two Cities" Dickens |
#4963, aired 2006-03-22 | A LITERARY TOUR $800: The city of Paris owns Hauteville House, this "Les Miserables" author's home on the Island of Guernsey (Victor) Hugo |
#4963, aired 2006-03-22 | A LITERARY TOUR $1200: Tourist cometh to Tao House, the California home where he wrote "The Iceman Cometh" Eugene O'Neill |
#4963, aired 2006-03-22 | A LITERARY TOUR $2000: Marbacka, the estate of Nobel Prize-winner Selma Lagerlof, is a tourist attraction in this country Sweden |
#4963, aired 2006-03-22 | A LITERARY TOUR $2,800 (Daily Double): You can follow in the footsteps of this novelist on Dublin walking tours led by his nephew, Ken Monaghan James Joyce |
#4661, aired 2004-12-06 | A LITERARY TOUR $400: Great Scott! Lady Stair's house in this Scottish capital boasts exhibits on great Scottish authors Edinburgh |
#4661, aired 2004-12-06 | A LITERARY TOUR $800: A museum devoted to this author is inside a charming replica of his birthplace in Alcala de Henares, Spain Cervantes |
#4661, aired 2004-12-06 | A LITERARY TOUR $1200: If you're truly a "Blithe Spirit", rent this author's Blue Harbour Estate in Jamaica for a mere $3500 a week Noel Coward |
#4661, aired 2004-12-06 | A LITERARY TOUR $1600: A plaque on 5 Bank Street in New York City notes that she wrote "My Antonia" there Willa Cather |
#4661, aired 2004-12-06 | A LITERARY TOUR $2000: Attention, owls & pussycats: the Seymour St. home of this nonsense poet is now a no-nonsense hotel in London (Edward) Lear |
#4243, aired 2003-01-29 | A LITERARY TOUR $400: In Madrid, a plaque marks the house where this "Don Quixote" author lived & died Cervantes |
#4243, aired 2003-01-29 | A LITERARY TOUR $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew) "Cursed be he that moves my bones" is a chilling last line of the inscription over this man's grave William Shakespeare |
#4243, aired 2003-01-29 | A LITERARY TOUR $1200: See the gardens or ride the rides in this Moscow locale, the title setting for a Martin Cruz Smith novel Gorky Park |
#4243, aired 2003-01-29 | A LITERARY TOUR $1600: The building near Rome's Spanish Steps where this English romantic poet died in 1821 is now a memorial & library John Keats |
#4243, aired 2003-01-29 | A LITERARY TOUR $2000: In 1373 at Florence's Church of Santo Stefano, this "Decameron" author gave a reading of "The Divine Comedy" Giovanni Boccaccio |
#4061, aired 2002-04-08 | LONDON LITERARY TOUR $2000: A copy of his 1614 "History of the World" is kept in the tower of London, where he was imprisoned when he wrote it (Sir Walter) Raleigh |
#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 |