#8936, aired 2023-09-25 | U.S. CAPITAL AIRPORT CODES $400: LIT:
A wee city in this state Arkansas |
#8844, aired 2023-04-06 | LIT-POURRI $200: This novel by Johanna Spyri begins, "The pretty little Swiss town of Mayenfeld lies at the foot of a mountain range..." Heidi |
#8584, aired 2022-02-24 | LIT-POURRI $2000: A little birdie told us this Pulitzer Prize winner for "Thomas and Beulah" was Poet Laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995 Rita Dove |
#8432, aired 2021-06-29 | LIT-POURRI $1200: Sara Crewe is the title lass in this beloved children's book by Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess |
#8214, aired 2020-04-30 | CHILDREN'S LIT $200: I think I can, I think I can, get you to give me this 5-word title of a Watty Piper kids' book with a never-give-up message The Little Engine That Could |
#8048, aired 2019-09-11 | NUMERIC LIT $5,400 (Daily Double): The cover of the first edition of this 1961 military novel included a dancing figure & a little airplane Catch-22 |
#7556, aired 2017-06-19 | HOUSE FULL OF LIT $200: Later a TV series, this 1935 book told of a family's journey to a new life as pioneers in the Midwest Little House on the Prairie |
#7201, aired 2015-12-28 | KITTY LIT $400: In a book by E.B. White, Snowbell the cat does not have this title mouselike boy's best interests at heart Stuart Little |
#7128, aired 2015-09-16 | QUICK LIT $800: Madeleine L'Engle won a 1963 Newbery for this fantasy story A Wrinkle in Time |
#6979, aired 2015-01-08 | KIDDY LIT $400: In this book, a small train hauling toys chugs up a hill, puffing, "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can" The Little Engine That Could |
#6979, aired 2015-01-08 | KIDDY LIT $600: This beloved Eric Carle book begins, "In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf" The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
#6947, aired 2014-11-25 | CHICK LIT $200: "Henny Penny" is another name for this tale about a fowl who thinks there's a problem with the stratosphere "Chicken Little" |
#6503, aired 2012-12-19 | A LITTLE LIT $400: This saga by Alex Haley begins with a birth in West Africa in 1750 Roots |
#6503, aired 2012-12-19 | A LITTLE LIT $800: Go ahead & laugh--she's the maiden who became Hiawatha's wife in a poem by Longfellow Minnehaha |
#6503, aired 2012-12-19 | A LITTLE LIT $1200: The last name of this author of the "Rubaiyat" means "tentmaker" in Persian (Omar) Khayyám |
#6503, aired 2012-12-19 | A LITTLE LIT $2000: This 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse parallels the life of Buddha Siddhartha |
#6503, aired 2012-12-19 | A LITTLE LIT $2,400 (Daily Double): Umberto Eco wrote a parody of this novel, having Umberto Umberto fall for the aged Granita Lolita |
#6279, aired 2011-12-29 | CHILDREN'S LIT $800: Sara Crewe is the little title character of this classic by Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess |
#6238, aired 2011-11-02 | LITTLE PEOPLE IN LIT $200: Part I of a 1726 book is "A Voyage to" this place, home to human creatures "not six inches high" Lilliput |
#6238, aired 2011-11-02 | LITTLE PEOPLE IN LIT $400: These factory workers in a 1964 book love cacao beans Oompa Loompas |
#6238, aired 2011-11-02 | LITTLE PEOPLE IN LIT $800: Say "a prayer for" this tiny boy who kills his pal's mom with a foul ball Owen Meany |
#6238, aired 2011-11-02 | LITTLE PEOPLE IN LIT $1000: Tyrion's last name in "A Game of Thrones" Lannister |
#5844, aired 2010-01-28 | KIDDY LIT $2,200 (Daily Double): This 9-year-old redhead is an orphan who lives in Villekulla Cottage "at the end of a little Swedish town" Pippi Longstocking |
#5813, aired 2009-12-16 | EGG LIT $600: This explorer from a 1726 novel discovers a race of little people quarreling over which end of the eggs to crack Gulliver |
#5768, aired 2009-10-14 | CHILDREN'S LIT $200: A book by Angie Sage is not called "Vampire Bat" but "Vampire" this type of annoying little kid Vampire Brat |
#5768, aired 2009-10-14 | CHILDREN'S LIT $1,500 (Daily Double): A book by Laura Ingalls Wilder's great-grandson is appropriately called this "on Rocky Ridge" Little House |
#5743, aired 2009-07-22 | CLASSIC LIT $800: This one of the "Little Women" marries Professor Bhaer, whom she met while living in a boardinghouse Jo |
#5657, aired 2009-03-24 | A LITTLE LIT $200: Dickens' mother was probably the inspiration for Mrs. Micawber in this very autobiographical novel David Copperfield |
#5657, aired 2009-03-24 | A LITTLE LIT $400: Up, up & away with Jules Verne's classic adventure "Five Weeks in" one of these a Balloon |
#5657, aired 2009-03-24 | A LITTLE LIT $600: If you love stories with surprise endings, pick up his 1906 collection "The Four Million" O. Henry |
#5657, aired 2009-03-24 | A LITTLE LIT $800: A.A. Milne wrote a book of verse called "Now We Are" this age--a bit younger than you Six |
#5657, aired 2009-03-24 | A LITTLE LIT $1000: Prosper Merimee was just 19 when he wrote his first play, about this Lord Protector of England Cromwell |
#5596, aired 2008-12-29 | DO YOU KNOW JACK ABOUT LIT? $600: Ralph Ellison writes in this novel that the one-eyed Brother Jack was "a little bantam rooster of a man" Invisible Man |
#5277, aired 2007-07-17 | CLASSIC LIT $200: In a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 7-year-old Cedric Errol inherits a title & is known as "Little Lord" this Fauntleroy |
#5169, aired 2007-02-15 | A LITTLE LIT $200: In this Cervantes novel, Alonso's plans never work out as he tries to be chivalrous Don Quixote |
#5169, aired 2007-02-15 | A LITTLE LIT $600: It's a dog's life for Buck in the Klondike in this author's "The Call of the Wild" (Jack) London |
#5169, aired 2007-02-15 | A LITTLE LIT $800: At first, Jane Austen's heroine Elizabeth doesn't like this man's attitude, but in the end they're united Darcy |
#5169, aired 2007-02-15 | A LITTLE LIT $1000: The title character of this Voltaire work discovers gardening will make him happy Candide |
#5169, aired 2007-02-15 | A LITTLE LIT $2,000 (Daily Double): As "1984" ends, Winston has been taught to love him Big Brother |
#5132, aired 2006-12-26 | A "LITTLE" LIT $400: This children's classic begins, "Chug, chug, chug. Puff, puff, puff" The Little Engine That Could |
#5132, aired 2006-12-26 | A "LITTLE" LIT $800: Antione de Saint-Exupery illustrated this fable about a boy visitor from another planet The Little Prince |
#5132, aired 2006-12-26 | A "LITTLE" LIT $1200: In this 1935 novel Laura & her family leave the big woods & go west in a covered wagon Little House on the Prairie |
#5132, aired 2006-12-26 | A "LITTLE" LIT $1600: James Frey's tale of addiction & rehab; turns out it wasn't really nonfiction A Million Little Pieces |
#5132, aired 2006-12-26 | A "LITTLE" LIT $2000: Uncle Tom is devoted to the angelic daughter of his owner, who's called this Little Eva |
#5016, aired 2006-06-05 | POSSESSIVE LIT $400: 1852:
A saintly slave saves a little girl's life & is later beaten to death Uncle Tom's Cabin |
#4737, aired 2005-03-22 | KIDDIE LIT $2000: Beatrix Potter wrote a "tale about a tail--a tail that belonged to a little red squirrel, and his name was" this Nutkin |
#4569, aired 2004-06-17 | A "LITTLE" LIT $400: Katharine Weber's retelling of this 19th c. novel features just 3 sisters, & Beth is a pet turtle who dies Little Women |
#4569, aired 2004-06-17 | A "LITTLE" LIT $800: This synonym for Martians became the title of Christopher Buckley's novel romp about alien abduction little green men |
#4569, aired 2004-06-17 | A "LITTLE" LIT $1200: In a depressing play by William Inge, a woman named Lola waits for this title pet to "Come Back" Little Sheba |
#4569, aired 2004-06-17 | A "LITTLE" LIT $2000: The diminutive title character of this Dickens novel has siblings named Tip & Fanny Little Dorrit |
#4569, aired 2004-06-17 | A "LITTLE" LIT $5,000 (Daily Double): In 2003 this beloved book about a small visitor from Asteroid B-612 celebrated its 60th anniversary The Little Prince |
#4436, aired 2003-12-15 | KIDDY LIT $1200: A pilot who's crashed in the Sahara narrates this tale written & illustrated by Saint-Exupery The Little Prince |
#4396, aired 2003-10-20 | A "LITTLE" LIT $200: Chapter 9 of this novel is entitled "Meg Goes to Vanity Fair" Little Women |
#4396, aired 2003-10-20 | A "LITTLE" LIT $400: The Charles Ingalls family moves to the Great Plains area in this 1935 novel Little House on the Prairie |
#4396, aired 2003-10-20 | A "LITTLE" LIT $600: This pal of Robin Hood stood out in a crowd: he was at least 7 feet tall Little John |
#4396, aired 2003-10-20 | A "LITTLE" LIT $800: The mousy hero of this E.B. White book leaves home to search for the bird who's his dearest friend Stuart Little |
#4396, aired 2003-10-20 | A "LITTLE" LIT $1000: Regina Giddens is the vixenish lead character of this 1939 Lillian Hellman play The Little Foxes |
#4106, aired 2002-06-10 | KIDDY LIT $1200: A huntsman cuts open this creature's stomach to rescue Little Red-Cap & her grandmother the Big Bad Wolf |
#3993, aired 2002-01-02 | CHILDREN'S LIT $200: In Hans Christian Andersen's works, a wicked sea witch gave her a potion that changed her tail into 2 legs the Little Mermaid |
#3747, aired 2000-12-12 | KIDDY LIT $1000: "In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf" is the first line of his story "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" Eric Carle |
#3514, aired 1999-12-09 | KIDDY LIT $400: As a lad, A.A. Milne wore his hair in the style of this Frances Hodgson Burnett character Little Lord Fauntleroy |
#3450, aired 1999-09-10 | KIDDIE LIT CHARACTERS $400: He's the E.B. White character seen here Stuart Little |
#3299, aired 1998-12-31 | KIDDIE LIT $600: A famous book by Crockett Johnson tells of a little boy named Harold & his adventures with this color crayon purple |
#3299, aired 1998-12-31 | KIDDIE LIT $800: It's no secret, "The Long Secret" was Louise Fitzhugh's sequel to this book about a little girl snoop Harriet the Spy |
#3034, aired 1997-11-06 | a little lit $100: Little Eva befriends a slave in this Harriet Beecher Stowe classic Uncle Tom's Cabin |
#3034, aired 1997-11-06 | a little lit $200: When you were little you probably read about this "I-Think-I-Can" character the Little Engine That Could |
#3034, aired 1997-11-06 | a little lit $300: Adults who read this Antoine de Saint-Exupery tale may pick up on the allegory The Little Prince |
#3034, aired 1997-11-06 | a little lit $400: British author who created Little Nell & Little Dorrit Charles Dickens |
#3034, aired 1997-11-06 | a little lit $500: In this E.B. White tale, a 2-inch mouselike boy is the title character Stuart Little |
#2765, aired 1996-09-13 | CHILDREN'S LIT $400: This Roald Dahl story about a little boy & a big fruit was turned into a 1996 film James and the Giant Peach |
#2120, aired 1993-11-19 | KIDDIE LIT $100: "Two Little Confederates" is the story of two children who live on a plantation during this war Civil War |
#2120, aired 1993-11-19 | KIDDIE LIT $300: In a Grimm fairy tale one of these animals swallows six little kids, but luckily they escape Wolf |
#1848, aired 1992-09-23 | KIDDY LIT $100: "A Little Bush Maid" is the first of the "Billabong" books set in this country Australia |
#1379, aired 1990-09-06 | KIDDIE LIT $300: In an E.B. White tale Frederick C. Little's second son looked & acted like one of these a mouse |
#1379, aired 1990-09-06 | KIDDIE LIT $400: Animal mentioned in both Jack & the Beanstalk & Little Boy Blue a cow |
#884, aired 1988-06-09 | KIDDY LIT CREATURES $300: Some versions say Henny-Penny 1st said "The sky's a-going to fall"; some say it was this fowl creature Chicken Little |
#461, aired 1986-09-15 | KIDDIE LIT $500: He said, "I've run away from a little old woman, a little old man & I can run away from you, I can" the Gingerbread Man |
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