| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | FRENCH LITERATURE $800: This adventure writer known as père had his own famous dad, who served in the all-Black military unit "La Legion Americaine" Dumas |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | PREPOSITIONAL LITERATURE $400: In a prophetic adventure tale, Jules Verne took us on a journey "From the Earth to" this locale the Moon |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | THE ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE $800: D'Artagnan & the 3 Musketeers are up for adventure again in this 1850 work about a mysterious prisoner The Man in the Iron Mask |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | LITERATURE $1200: This author's last finished work wasn't an adventure story, but the "Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine" published after his 1870 death Alexandre Dumas |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): His adventure novel "Une Ville Flottante", "A Floating City", takes place on a steamship, not under the sea Jules Verne |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | LITERATURE OF THE EARLY 1800s $4,000 (Daily Double): A father, a mother & 4 sons are shipwrecked on a desert isle in this Johann David Wyss adventure tale The Swiss Family Robinson |
| #6197, aired 2011-07-19 | ADVENTURES IN LITERATURE $200: One adventure of these 2 Twain boys: attempting to cure warts with a dead cat out in the cemetery at midnight Huck Finn & Tom Sawyer |
| #6197, aired 2011-07-19 | ADVENTURES IN LITERATURE $1000: Almost 60, John Steinbeck set out in search of America with his dog & chronicled the adventure in this book Travels with Charley |
| #6126, aired 2011-04-11 | BLUE LITERATURE $400: In this detective's 1892 "Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", the carbuncle was a blue garnet hidden in a goose Sherlock Holmes |
| #5965, aired 2010-07-16 | A MINOR IN LITERATURE $400: Richard Rowe's 1869 adventure tale "The Boy in the Bush" follows the exploits of a 14-year-old settler in this country Australia |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): A pastor, his wife & 4 sons have an adventure when they are shipwrecked on an island in this family tale "The Swiss Family Robinson" |
| #3510, aired 1999-12-03 | ROYAL LITERATURE $600: One of the first African adventure stories, this 1885 novel chronicled the search for legendary diamond mines "King Solomon's Mines" |
| #2914, aired 1997-04-10 | BLUE LITERATURE $200: This detective solved 1892's "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", but didn't have the guilty party arrested Sherlock Holmes |
| #2527, aired 1995-09-05 | LITERATURE $600: William Golding novel described as a "nightmarish adventure story in the Robinson Crusoe tradition" Lord of the Flies |
| #2439, aired 1995-03-23 | LITERATURE $200: This author's 1841 whaling voyage inspired his 1847 adventure novel "Omoo" Herman Melville |
| #2280, aired 1994-07-01 | LITERATURE $400: In an adventure story by H. Rider Haggard, Allan Quatermain searches for these legendary mines King Solomon's mines |
| #1956, aired 1993-02-22 | TEENS IN LITERATURE $400: A teenage orphan named Kimball gets involved in espionage in this author's 1901 adventure novel "Kim" (Rudyard) Kipling |
| #1857, aired 1992-10-06 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: The adventure stories called Robinsonades are modeled on this book Robinson Crusoe |
| #1545, aired 1991-04-26 | LITERATURE $200: The original German title of this adventure novel was Der Schweizerische Robinson The Swiss Family Robinson |
| #803, aired 1988-02-17 | "K"s IN LITERATURE $400: "Catriona" or "David Balfour" is the sequel to this Robert Louis Stevenson adventure novel Kidnapped |
