| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | FAIRY TALE ADAPTATIONS $300: Walking on land causes Lo major agony in "Fathomless", an adaptation of this Danish tale The Little Mermaid |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | FAIRY TALE ADAPTATIONS $600: "Me and You" tells the story of a family of these animals who go for a walk and is narrated by the littlest one bears |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | FAIRY TALE ADAPTATIONS $1200: "Cress" is a sci-fi version of "Rapunzel" that replaces the tower with one of these orbiting the earth a satellite |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | FAIRY TALE ADAPTATIONS $1500: In Sarah Pinborough's "Poison" this fairy tale group suffers from work-related lung damage and missing limbs the Seven Dwarfs |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | FAIRY TALE ADAPTATIONS $5,000 (Daily Double): "Ash," based on this fairy-tale character, falls for a huntress & not a prince so she'll need more practical footwear Cinderella |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | RETITLED MOVIE ADAPTATIONS $200: Hans Christian Andersen's chilling story "The Snow Queen" became this animated blockbuster Frozen |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | RETITLED MOVIE ADAPTATIONS $400: Nicholas Pileggi's book "Wiseguy" inspired this gangster film that won Joe Pesci a Best Supporting Actor Oscar Goodfellas |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | RETITLED MOVIE ADAPTATIONS $600: Peter George's novel "Red Alert" got this title when Stanley Kubrick made it into an apocalyptic big screen black comedy Dr. Strangelove |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | RETITLED MOVIE ADAPTATIONS $800: Cornell Woolrich's short story "It Had to Be Murder" became this Hitchcock film with Jimmy Stewart in the cast & in a cast Rear Window |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | RETITLED MOVIE ADAPTATIONS $1000: "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" was loosely based on this epic written about 2,800 years before The Odyssey |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | IT CAME FROM A GRAPHIC NOVEL $1600: Adaptations of the "Kick-Ass" series gave this 3-named actress her breakout role as a spunky character named "Hit-Girl" Chloë Grace Moretz |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | JANE AUSTEN-TATIOUS $600: Austen adaptations include the 1995 movie version of this novel starring Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood Sense and Sensibility |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | FROM BOOK TO TV $800: John Cusack & Zoe Kravitz played the record store owner in the film & TV adaptations of this novel by Nick Hornby High Fidelity |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | FIRST NAMES WITH CHARACTER $2000: Known for period dramas like George Eliot adaptations, actress Garai has this first name of an Eliot title character Romola |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | LITERARY TV ADAPTATIONS $400: This show about the bionic Steve Austin was based on the novel "Cyborg" The Six Million Dollar Man |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | LITERARY TV ADAPTATIONS $800: Michael Sheen & David Tennant play an angel & demon in this series based on a Neil Gaiman-Terry Pratchett comic novel Good Omens |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | LITERARY TV ADAPTATIONS $1200: Played by Timothy Olyphant on "Justified", Raylan Givens appeared earlier in the short story "Fire in the Hole" by this author Elmore Leonard |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | LITERARY TV ADAPTATIONS $1600: Season 5 of this detective show was largely based on Michael Connelly's "Two Kinds of Truth" Bosch |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | LITERARY TV ADAPTATIONS $2000: Based on a Caroline Kepnes novel, this Lifetime/Netflix series about stalking is one creepy pronoun You |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | ADAPTATIONS $400: This Margaret Atwood novel was adapted by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet in 2018 The Handmaid's Tale |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | ADAPTATIONS $800: Depicted here is Carlo Gozzi, whose play "The Love of" these was turned into an opera by Prokofiev The Love of Three Oranges |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | ADAPTATIONS $1200: This 1910 E.M. Forster work about the Schlegels & Wilcoxes was filmed in 1992 by James Ivory & adapted for TV in 2017 Howards End |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | ADAPTATIONS $1600: When this TV & film scribe was adapting "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the stage, he kept getting disappointed in Atticus Aaron Sorkin |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | ADAPTATIONS $2000: To stop violence, women take a vow of abstinence in Spike Lee's "Chi-Raq", a retelling of this Greek comedy Lysistrata |
| #7678, aired 2018-01-17 | GALAPAGOS ADAPTATION $600: (Alex presents the clue from the Galápagos.) The marine iguana is the world's only marine lizard; among its adaptations are special glands that allow it to sneeze out this compound that it ingests too much of when it dives in the ocean salt |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | BIG SCREEN LITERARY ADAPTATIONS $400: "Easy A" reimagined this Hawthorne tale in a modern high school The Scarlet Letter |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | BIG SCREEN LITERARY ADAPTATIONS $800: "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" adapted this ancient classic to the American South The Odyssey |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | BIG SCREEN LITERARY ADAPTATIONS $1200: "Apocalypse Now" adapted this novella to the Vietnam War Heart of Darkness |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | BIG SCREEN LITERARY ADAPTATIONS $1600: The 1913 play "Pygmalion" walked the streets of Los Angeles as this 1990 Garry Marshall film Pretty Woman |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | BIG SCREEN LITERARY ADAPTATIONS $2000: Loosely based on Shakespeare's "Henry IV" plays, this 1991 film starred Keanu Reeves & River Phoenix My Own Private Idaho |
| #7347, aired 2016-07-19 | ADAPTATIONS 5 $200: This 2012 movie thriller set during the Iranian revolution was based in part on an article titled "The Great Escape" Argo |
| #7347, aired 2016-07-19 | ADAPTATIONS 5 $400: Winston Groom's book was the basis of this film about a man running through history, & that's all I have to say about that Forrest Gump |
| #7347, aired 2016-07-19 | ADAPTATIONS 5 $600: A memorable line in this 2013 movie adapted from a nonfiction book: "I'm the captain now" Captain Phillips |
| #7347, aired 2016-07-19 | ADAPTATIONS 5 $800: Adaptation may be a stretch for "You Only Live Twice"; the script by this "Willy Wonka" guy left out a lot of the novel (Roald) Dahl |
| #7347, aired 2016-07-19 | ADAPTATIONS 5 $1000: The full title of a 2009 film was "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by" this author Sapphire |
| #6892, aired 2014-07-29 | GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATIONS $400: A comic arc subtitled "God Loves, Man Kills" was the partial basis for this supergroup's "United" movie the X-Men |
| #6892, aired 2014-07-29 | GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATIONS $800: He bested the 7 evil exes to win Ramona's heart on page & screen Scott Pilgrim |
| #6892, aired 2014-07-29 | GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATIONS $1200: In 2006 a graphic novel was created in order to boost interest in what would become this 2011 sci-fi western with Daniel Craig Cowboys & Aliens |
| #6892, aired 2014-07-29 | GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATIONS $1600: On film Chris Evans & Jeffrey Dean Morgan eschewed capes & masks in this movie based on a Vertigo mercenary team The Losers |
| #6892, aired 2014-07-29 | GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATIONS $2000: "Stardust" & "Coraline" are but 2 of this author's works that have made it as books, graphic novels & movies Neil Gaiman |
| #6589, aired 2013-04-18 | AUTHORS AGAINST ADAPTATIONS $400: She said Tom Cruise "is no more my vampire...than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler" Anne Rice |
| #6589, aired 2013-04-18 | AUTHORS AGAINST ADAPTATIONS $800: After he felt Hollywood ruined his "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut", he wouldn't sell "The Catcher in the Rye" J. D. Salinger |
| #6589, aired 2013-04-18 | AUTHORS AGAINST ADAPTATIONS $1200: This author thought Stanley Kubrick "couldn't grasp the sheer inhuman evil of the Overlook Hotel" (Stephen) King |
| #6589, aired 2013-04-18 | AUTHORS AGAINST ADAPTATIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): Winston Groom's sequel to this book says, "don't never let nobody make a movie of your life's story" Forrest Gump |
| #6589, aired 2013-04-18 | AUTHORS AGAINST ADAPTATIONS $2000: Bret Easton Ellis felt this "American" book never should have been filmed, as it had an unreliable narrator American Psycho |
| #6447, aired 2012-10-02 | BE A LIZARD WIZARD $400: Special adaptations on the pads of their toes allow this type of little lizard to walk on walls, as seen here the gecko |
| #6329, aired 2012-03-08 | SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Madiwke Game Reserve in South Africa.) If a giraffe didn't have adaptations like thick-walled arteries & extra valves to counteract gravity, lowering its head to drink would cause an aneurysm, & then raising its head would cause it to faint, because this vital measure is naturally so high its blood pressure |
| #5689, aired 2009-05-07 | PSYCH! $400: The study of how individual differences are inherited or environmentally caused is known as behavior these genetics |
| #5659, aired 2009-03-26 | LEAN SCREEN $800: Early Lean films included adaptations of this man's plays "Brief Encounter" & "Blithe Spirit" Noel Coward |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | FACIAL EXPRESSIONS $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a change of face.) A 2008 study finds that a scared face enlarges the visual field to gather more information about a source of fear; that supports this man's 1872 theory that expressions are adaptations Darwin |
| #3659, aired 2000-06-29 | FROGS & TOADS $300: 2-word term for all members of the family Hylidae, having adaptations like sticky foot pads for climbing tree frogs |
| #3190, aired 1998-06-12 | ADAPTATIONS $200: The 2-word title of this Carl Hiaasen novel became one word when Demi Moore disrobed on film Strip Tease |
| #3190, aired 1998-06-12 | ADAPTATIONS $400: This Bogart-Bergman film is better remembered than its source, the play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" Casablanca |
| #3190, aired 1998-06-12 | ADAPTATIONS $600: Kevin Kline & Joan Allen were moody indeed in this 1997 drama from a Rick Moody novel The Ice Storm |
| #3190, aired 1998-06-12 | ADAPTATIONS $800: This film about a dying catcher, based on a Mark Harris novel, took its title from "The Streets of Laredo" Bang the Drum Slowly |
| #3190, aired 1998-06-12 | ADAPTATIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): 1951's "A Place in the Sun" adapts this classic "American" novel by Theodore Dreiser An American Tragedy |
| #3019, aired 1997-10-16 | SCIENCE $500: The screw & the wedge are adaptations of this type of simple machine Inclined plane |
| #2001, aired 1993-04-26 | THE MOVIES $100: In different adaptations of this play, Fairbanks tamed Pickford & Burton tamed Taylor The Taming of the Shrew |
| #1637, aired 1991-10-15 | SONNETS $200: This bard's sonnets 153 & 154 are believed to be adaptations of Greek epigrams Shakespeare |
| #626, aired 1987-05-04 | ADAPTATIONS $100: Basil the barber & Kitri are the romantic leads in a ballet based on this Cervantes novel Don Quixote |
| #626, aired 1987-05-04 | ADAPTATIONS $200: Yes, there really was a stage musical version, with whip-cracking prostitutes & Atlanta aflame Gone with the Wind |
| #626, aired 1987-05-04 | ADAPTATIONS $300: Clifford Odets' drama of the same name became a musical about boxing starring Sammy Davis Jr. Golden Boy |
| #626, aired 1987-05-04 | ADAPTATIONS $400: Medieval mystery plays dramatized events from this book the Bible |
| #626, aired 1987-05-04 | ADAPTATIONS $500: Rodgers & Hammerstein musical based on "Liliom", a play about a sideshow barker Carousel |
| #469, aired 1986-09-25 | ADAPTATIONS $200: Before Judy oiled Jack Haley, Oliver Hardy was the Tin Man in a silent film of this Baum book The Wizard of Oz |
| #469, aired 1986-09-25 | ADAPTATIONS $400: Christopher Plummer won the Tony "by a nose" in the musical version of this Rostand play Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #469, aired 1986-09-25 | ADAPTATIONS $1000: Leslie Howard ordered a waitress "to go" in the 1934 film of this Maugham novel Of Human Bondage |
| #421, aired 1986-04-21 | LITERARY ADAPTATIONS $200: Even before ABC aired this John Jakes mini-series in November 1985, filming began on the sequel North & South |
| #421, aired 1986-04-21 | LITERARY ADAPTATIONS $400: Though Gershwin opera was named for the couple, original DuBose Hayward novel was just named this Porgy |
| #421, aired 1986-04-21 | LITERARY ADAPTATIONS $600: Phil Stong novel about an annual event in Iowa, it's been filmed 3 times State Fair |
| #421, aired 1986-04-21 | LITERARY ADAPTATIONS $800: He wrote the novelization of his own Oscar-winning screenplay of "The Human Comedy" William Saroyan |
| #421, aired 1986-04-21 | LITERARY ADAPTATIONS $1000: William Windom starred in this TV series based on the life & writings of James Thurber My World... and Welcome to It |
| #313, aired 1985-11-20 | LITERARY TRIVIA $800: Don't wait for the mini-series of “My Antonia”; this author's will forbids screen adaptations Willa Cather |
