#8408, aired 2021-05-26 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Chapters in this work include "The Mock Turtle's Story" & "The Lobster Quadrille" Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
#8339, aired 2021-02-18 | TYPES OF NARRATIVE LITERATURE $800: E.L. James gained fame with this type of writing that puts the writer's favorite characters from books, TV, etc. in new adventures fan fiction |
#8226, aired 2020-06-01 | 19th CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: Lewis Carroll mirrored the success of his "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" with this 1872 sequel Through the Looking-Glass |
#7758, aired 2018-05-09 | LITERATURE IN SPANISH $1600: Circa 1554 "Lazarillo de Tormes" originated this genre about a lowborn scamp & his travels & adventures picaresque |
#7224, aired 2016-01-28 | "O" IN LITERATURE $1000: Herman Melville wrote this "Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas" Omoo |
#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 $400: The epilogue of this novel says, "I have now told the singular, but veracious story of the opera ghost" Phantom of the Opera |
#6197, aired 2011-07-19 | ADVENTURES IN LITERATURE $600: Actually the third book in the series, this kids' classic recounts the Ingalls family's move to Kansas Little House on the Prairie |
#6197, aired 2011-07-19 | ADVENTURES IN LITERATURE $800: This thriller by Richard P. Hendrick is about a mutiny aboard the USS Alabama, a nuclear submarine Crimson Tide |
#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 |
#4494, aired 2004-03-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: The Mock Turtle sings a song about the Lobster Quadrille in this classic children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
#2924, aired 1997-04-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", this character kills Dr. Robinson, a murder witnessed by Tom Injun Joe |
#2776, aired 1996-09-30 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: Pal, a male collie, played the lead in the 1943 movie version of this Eric Knight novel Lassie Come Home |
#2770, aired 1996-09-20 | LITERATURE $200: It begins, "Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank" Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
#2672, aired 1996-03-26 | LITERATURE $400: "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is set in the town of St. Petersburg in this state Missouri |
#2645, aired 1996-02-16 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem "Jabberwocky" appears in this sequel to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" Through the Looking-Glass |
#2588, aired 1995-11-29 | LITERATURE $1000: This 1847 book by Melville was subtitled "A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas" Omoo |
#2551, aired 1995-10-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: A chapter from "Life on the Mississippi" was intended for this "Tom Sawyer" sequel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
#2304, aired 1994-09-15 | LITERATURE $200: The famous Tea Party chapter of this Lewis Carroll work didn't appear in the first version Alice in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) |
#1881, aired 1992-11-09 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: The adventures of Rat, Mole, Toad & Badger are told in this 1908 British book The Wind in the Willows |
#1800, aired 1992-05-29 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: "The Comic Adventures of" this elderly woman "and her Dog" were first published in 1805 Old Mother Hubbard |
#1678, aired 1991-12-11 | LITERATURE $800: Robert Louis Stevenson novel subtitled "Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751" Kidnapped |
#918, aired 1988-09-07 | WORLD LITERATURE $200: In 1929 Russia banned this Conan Doyle collection because of its references to spiritualism the Sherlock Holmes stories (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) |
#553, aired 1987-01-21 | LITERATURE $800: In this book's final chapter, Aramis says, "Our last adventures have quite disgusted me" The Three Musketeers |