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#8662, aired 2022-06-14THE MORAL OF THE FABLE $800: This one of Aesop's fables, about a disguised member of a flock, teaches the moral that doing mean tricks can backfire on you the wolf in sheep's clothing
#8491, aired 2021-10-18BIRD BRAINS $600: Grackles have used pebbles to raise water levels & access floating food, passing a test named for one of this man's fables Aesop
#8361, aired 2021-03-22EGG $400: In one of Aesop's fables, the greedy farmer killed it, hoping to have all of its eggs at once the goose that laid the golden egg
#7973, aired 2019-04-17CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, MA.) The Eric Carle Museum displays "The Wolf and the Dog", one of the illustrations in Carle's book "Twelve Tales from" this ancient Greek author of fables Aesop
#7520, aired 2017-04-28LIT-POURRI $200: The Bayeux Tapestry's lower borders cryptically depict several of his fables, including the Fox & the Crow Aesop
#7184, aired 2015-12-03POTPOURRI $400: One of Aesop's fables is about "the dog in" this hay holder a manger
#6681, aired 2013-10-07AESOP'S FABLES $200: "The Country" one of these rodents "and the Town" one Mouse
#6681, aired 2013-10-07AESOP'S FABLES $400: "The Ant and" this leaping insect Grasshopper
#6681, aired 2013-10-07AESOP'S FABLES $600: "The Wolf in" this deceptive apparel Sheep's Clothing
#6681, aired 2013-10-07AESOP'S FABLES $800: "The Fox and" these fruits (later judged sour) Grapes
#6681, aired 2013-10-07AESOP'S FABLES $1000: This messenger of the gods "and the Woodman" Mercury
#5942, aired 2010-06-15AESOP'S FABLES $200: The reason the tortoise beat the hare in the race was that the hare stopped to do this sleep (or take a nap)
#5942, aired 2010-06-15AESOP'S FABLES $400: After unsuccessfully trying to reach grapes on a vine, he walked away concluding that they were sour the fox
#5942, aired 2010-06-15AESOP'S FABLES $600: He talked the lion out of eating him & later returned the favor by gnawing on the ropes that bound the lion the mouse
#5942, aired 2010-06-15AESOP'S FABLES $1000: This bird asked Juno for a voice like a nightingale, but had to be content with a beautiful train of feathers a peacock
#5942, aired 2010-06-15AESOP'S FABLES $3,000 (Daily Double): The moral of the story of these 2 insects is "It is best to prepare for the days of necessity" the ant & the grasshopper
#4842, aired 2005-10-04YOUNG ABE LINCOLN $400: Among the books read by Lincoln as a youngster were "Robinson Crusoe", "Aesop's Fables", & Mason Weems' "Life of" this man Washington
#4411, aired 2003-11-10BALLET $200: The tale of the tortoise & the hare comes to life in Karen Corey-Malik's ballet based on this man's fables Aesop
#4220, aired 2002-12-27PICTURE THIS $200: One of the first printed books with illustrations was a collection of this ancient man's fables in 1476 Aesop
#3805, aired 2001-03-02BEASTLY EXPRESSIONS $800: This 2-word term meaning the best or largest portion of something comes from one of Aesop's Fables Lion's share
#3610, aired 2000-04-21I GOT A CALDECOTT! $200: Arnold Lobel took a page out of Aesop's book, publishing a book of these that won in 1981 Fables
#2785, aired 1996-10-11AESOP'S FABLES $100: Aesop knew these speak louder than words actions
#2785, aired 1996-10-11AESOP'S FABLES $200: An Aesop tale says Hermes gave the goose that did this to a man who killed it to look inside laid a golden egg
#2785, aired 1996-10-11AESOP'S FABLES $300: When this animal freed a mouse, the mouse later saved its life by gnawing through a rope a lion
#2785, aired 1996-10-11AESOP'S FABLES $400: When the wolf wore one of these as a disguise, he was slaughtered for a man's supper a sheepskin
#2785, aired 1996-10-11AESOP'S FABLES $500: This animal who couldn't reach the grapes comforted himself by saying they probably weren't ripe the fox
#1592, aired 1991-07-02AESOP'S FABLES $100: Every time the boy cried this, the villagers came to help him until he was really in trouble wolf
#1592, aired 1991-07-02AESOP'S FABLES $200: In some versions, he's quoted as saying "Slow & steady wins the race" the tortoise
#1592, aired 1991-07-02AESOP'S FABLES $300: It was killed to get all the gold it could give, but when opened, it had nothing inside the goose (that laid the golden eggs)
#1592, aired 1991-07-02AESOP'S FABLES $400: 2-word phrase for something disparaged because it's beyond one's reach, from an Aesop fable sour grapes
#1592, aired 1991-07-02AESOP'S FABLES $1,000 (Daily Double): After pretending to be one of these, the jay was told it is not only fine feathers that make fine birds the peacock
#1354, aired 1990-06-21CLASSICAL LITERATURE $200: Collier's Ency. calls him the "semihistorical semimythical author of moralizing beast fables" Aesop
#1264, aired 1990-02-15AESOP'S FABLES $100: This "but sure wins the race" slow
#1264, aired 1990-02-15AESOP'S FABLES $200: According to Aesop, "The gods help them that" do this help themselves
#1264, aired 1990-02-15AESOP'S FABLES $300: To console himself for not being able to reach the grapes, he concluded they were sour the fox
#1264, aired 1990-02-15AESOP'S FABLES $400: The impatient man killed this to get all the gold at once, & after cutting it open found none goose that laid the golden eggs
#1264, aired 1990-02-15AESOP'S FABLES $500: Saying he might help him in the future, he talked the lion out of eating him the mouse
#1214, aired 1989-12-07CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: In Aesop's fables this animal is paired with "the Stork", "the Crow" & "the Grapes" a fox
#303, aired 1985-11-06AESOP'S FABLES $100: He may have won the race with the hare but the eagle & the crow had him for lunch the tortoise
#303, aired 1985-11-06AESOP'S FABLES $200: Hercules & the wagoner tells us, "The gods help them that" do this helps themselves
#303, aired 1985-11-06AESOP'S FABLES $300: In exchange for not being eaten it later freed the lion from a trap the mouse
#303, aired 1985-11-06AESOP'S FABLES $400: Killing this proved greed often overreaches itself the goose that laid the golden eggs
#303, aired 1985-11-06AESOP'S FABLES $500: How the bundle of sticks was broken to prove unity in strength one by one
#78, aired 1984-12-26FAMOUS QUOTES $1,200 (Daily Double): His quotations comprise the world's second most widely read book Chairman Mao Tse-tung

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