Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (24 results returned)

#26, aired 2024-01-23I'M JUST KEN $1500: While working the night shift at a hospital, Ken Kesey got the idea for this novel, which later became a Best Picture winner One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
#8982, aired 2023-11-28A CAPITAL IDEA? $1000: A vacuum cleaner salesman & spy named Jim Wormold is the protagonist of this Graham Greene novel Our Man in Havana
#8697, aired 2022-09-13DO YOU FEEL A FIRST DRAFT? $800: F. Scott Fitzgerald called his 1922 short story "Winter Dreams" "a sort of first draft" of the idea for this novel from 3 years later The Great Gatsby
#8693, aired 2022-07-27FICTION $1000: This Anthony Doerr novel is tied together by the idea of a paradise for birds, also found in an Aristophanes play Cloud Cuckoo Land
#8685, aired 2022-07-15NOVEL "T"s $400: Stephenie Meyer said the idea for this first novel came to her in a dream Twilight
#8472, aired 2021-09-21ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $800: Stephen King said a dream gave him the idea for this novel about a woman who holds a writer prisoner Misery
#7612, aired 2017-10-17A NOVEL IDEA $400: There's a lot more to Mr. Wednesday than meets the eye in this 2001 Neil Gaiman novel American Gods
#7612, aired 2017-10-17A NOVEL IDEA $800: Pendleton Work Farm & an "institute of psychology" are settings in this 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
#7612, aired 2017-10-17A NOVEL IDEA $1000: His 1903 novel "The Ambassadors" is about a Yank in Europe convincing a wayward son to come home Henry James
#7612, aired 2017-10-17A NOVEL IDEA $4,000 (Daily Double): Chapters in this classic include "5 June 1832" & "Marius Enters the Darkness" Les Miserables
#7568, aired 2017-07-05LITERARY SPOILER ALERT! $2,000 (Daily Double): In this Dennis Lehane novel, the investigator is really an inmate & the docs are letting him live out a fantasy Shutter Island
#7546, aired 2017-06-05NOVELS $1,000 (Daily Double): "The fathers of Chingachgook have not lied!" is a line in this historical novel The Last of the Mohicans
#7412, aired 2016-11-291960s COMPUTING $800: E.A. Johnson came up with this tactile idea in a 1965 article subtitled "A Novel Input/Output Device" a touchscreen
#7384, aired 2016-10-20BOOKS BY MEN $1200: The idea of this Joyce novel is that history is cyclic; the book begins with a sentence that is unfinished on the last page Finnegans Wake
#6503, aired 2012-12-19A LITTLE LIT $2,400 (Daily Double): Umberto Eco wrote a parody of this novel, having Umberto Umberto fall for the aged Granita Lolita
#6475, aired 2012-11-09REMEMBER BOOKSTORES? $800: A common sight at small bookstores is an in-house one of these animals, like the late Silas at A Novel Idea in Lincoln, Nebraska cats
#6127, aired 2011-04-12A CAPITAL IDEA? $600: A vacuum cleaner salesman & spy named Jim Wormold is the protagonist of this Graham Greene novel Our Man in Havana
#5894, aired 2010-04-08THE NOVEL'S FIRST DRAFT? $400: "Y'know, Arthur", Hester said, "Roger's gonna be home soon. & I think having an affair in this town is a bad, bad idea" The Scarlet Letter
#5527, aired 2008-09-23BRITISH AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): She opened a 1938 novel with the line "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again" Daphne du Maurier
#4420, aired 2003-11-21GRAPHIC NOVELS $2,000 (Daily Double): This graphic novel about 1930s gangsters by Collins & Rayner became a Tom Hanks film Road to Perdition
#3000, aired 1997-09-19ACTORS & ROLES $1,100 (Daily Double): (I'm Sam Waterston.) I played Nick Carraway in the 1974 film version of this famous novel The Great Gatsby
#1407, aired 1990-10-16WOMEN AUTHORS $700 (Daily Double): This author of "Second Chances" shares her name with a Booth Tarkenton novel Alice Adams
#1062, aired 1989-03-28STARTS WITH "C" $500: Holden Caulfield fantasized about being this, a "novel" idea Catcher in the Rye
#918, aired 1988-09-07WORLD LITERATURE $400: A nightmare gave Mary Shelley the idea for this novel Frankenstein

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (2 results returned)

#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
#7361, aired 2016-09-19AUTHORS: In 1948 he wrote he had an idea for a novel in which 2 guys hitchhike to California "in search of something they don't really find" Jack Kerouac

Players (2 results returned)

Andrew Chung, a sophomore from Harvey Mudd College 2008 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 20 and...
Larry Marshall, a junior at the University of Missouri from Kansas City, Missouri 2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.



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