| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | NUMERICAL TELEVISION $400: Based on a book by Jay Asher, this controversial Netflix series dealt with a teen suicide & its aftermath 13 Reasons Why |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | 21st CENTURY STUFF $200: Nearly 200 Mexican troops crossed the U.S. border in September 2005 to help in the aftermath of this disaster Hurricane Katrina |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | TV TO SEE IN 2022 $800: "The Girl from Plainville" starred this actress as a young woman in the aftermath of a troubled relationship Elle Fanning |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | HISTORY PAINTINGS $1600: Géricault's masterpiece called "The Raft of" this depicts the aftermath of a shipwreck, not a Gorgon Medusa |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | SHORT POEMS $800: A famous one of these by Basho is "The summer grasses /
Of brave soldiers' dreams /
The aftermath" a haiku |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | PROTEST SONGS $1600: "Killing In The Name" was this L.A. band's reaction to the beating of Rodney King & its aftermath Rage Against the Machine |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $2000: This Yentl creator's "Shadows on the Hudson" is about Jewish refugees in the aftermath of World War II Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | ENDS WITH "TH" $1200: It's the consequence following a major event, not the class following arithmetic aftermath |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | THE NOT-SO-GOOD DOCTOR $400: Serbian psychiatrist Radovan Karadzic was indicted for war crimes in the aftermath of the breakup of this country Yugoslavia |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | GREEK & ROMAN LIT $800: Concerning a war & its aftermath, these 2 great epics were written around the 8th century B.C. the Odyssey and the Iliad |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | WESTERN NOVELS $1600: A thinking person's Western, "The Ox-Bow Incident" explored the aftermath of one of these acts of mob violence a lynching |
| #7644, aired 2017-11-30 | HISTORICAL FICTION $200: This 1936 novel was inspired by an aunt's scrapbook of the Civil War & its aftermath Gone With the Wind |
| #7389, aired 2016-10-27 | 1866 $1600: This novel about a murder & its aftermath was first published in installments in the Russian Messenger Crime and Punishment |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | RECENT MEMOIRISTS $2000: This former Fed chairman wrote the 2015 memoir "The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and its Aftermath" Bernanke |
| #7313, aired 2016-06-01 | TELE-NOVELAS $400: HBO's "The Leftovers" is based on a novel about the aftermath of one of these apocalyptic disappearing acts the Rapture |
| #7164, aired 2015-11-05 | IT WILL BE OVER IN A YEAR $2000: In the book "The Year of Magical Thinking", she examined the aftermath of losing hubby John Gregory Dunne Joan Didion |
| #6862, aired 2014-06-17 | THE BIG BUKOWSKI $2000: Bukowski's first published work was the 1944 story "Aftermath of a Lengthy" this kind of "slip"--he'd gotten his share rejection |
| #6851, aired 2014-06-02 | MEMOIRS $800: "De Profundis" tells the story of his affair with Alfred Douglas & its aftermath Oscar Wilde |
| #6684, aired 2013-10-10 | I'M GOING INTO LABOR $400: This spring day for workers was established in the aftermath of the Chicago Haymarket Square riots in 1886 May Day |
| #6341, aired 2012-03-26 | NONFICTION $1600: She covered the aftermath of her husband's death in "The Year of Magical Thinking" & of her daughter's in "Blue Nights" Joan Didion |
| #6224, aired 2011-10-13 | MOVIES ON THE MAP $2000: 2005 Oscar nominee about the aftermath of an Olympic tragedy Munich |
| #6211, aired 2011-09-26 | 50 YEARS AGO--1961 $200: That's a Cuban soldier standing on a U.S. B-26 in the aftermath of this failed April 1961 operation the Bay of Pigs |
| #5987, aired 2010-09-28 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $400: (Hi, I'm Anderson Cooper.) This 21st century tragedy is one of the reasons I got back into news; its aftermath is powerfully dealt with in the novel "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" 9/11 |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | NEW ORLEANS & KATRINA $400: The scene of celebrations before & since, it housed thousands in Katrina's aftermath the Superdome |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | THE FICTION FILE $2,000 (Daily Double): In "The Tin Roof Blowdown", Iberia parish sheriff Dave Robicheaux deals with the aftermath of this 2005 event hurricane Katrina |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | THE ASSASSINATION OF LINCOLN $800: In the aftermath this owner of the theater/crime scene was thrown in jail as a possible conspirator (John T.) Ford |
| #5730, aired 2009-07-03 | SPIKE LEE $400: Spike chronicled the aftermath of this disaster in the 2006 documentary series "When the Levees Broke" Hurricane Katrina |
| #5344, aired 2007-11-29 | YOU'RE GOING TO WIN A PULITZER! $1200: This paper won in 1993 for public service for coverage of Hurricane Andrew & its aftermath The Miami Herald |
| #5199, aired 2007-03-29 | LET'S SPEAK JAPANESE $600: (I'm Harry Smith.) In January 2005 I covered the aftermath of one of these disasters whose name is from the Japanese for "harbor wave" a tsunami |
| #5186, aired 2007-03-12 | APOCALYPSE SOON? $600: "Testament" & "On the Beach" are films that deal with this type of apocalyptic scenario nuclear war (or nuclear holocaust) |
| #5186, aired 2007-03-12 | EYEWITNESS TO HISTORY $2000: (I'm Soledad O'Brien of CNN.) One of my toughest assignments was reporting on the aftermath of the tsunami from Phuket, a resort island in this country Thailand |
| #4771, aired 2005-05-09 | CNN 25: NATIONAL NEWS $1600: The Bay Area was hit by the quake whose aftermath is seen here, named for this mountain near the epicenter Loma Prieta |
| #4571, aired 2004-06-21 | WARTIME IMAGES $1200: Timothy O'Sullivan's 1863 shot of its aftermath is titled "A Harvest of Death" Gettysburg |
| #4486, aired 2004-02-23 | 1953 $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Alaska.) Overfishing has such bad effects that in 1953 Ike declared Alaska this, like in the aftermath of a flood or quake a (federal) disaster area |
| #4200, aired 2002-11-29 | BRITISH SPEECHES $400: Winston Churchill's first House of Commons speech was about this continent in the aftermath of the Boer War Africa |
| #4094, aired 2002-05-23 | BUG LIT $400: 21 publishers rejected this William Golding novel about the aftermath of a plane crash Lord of the Flies |
| #3947, aired 2001-10-30 | FROM BOOK TO TV $500: This 1994 miniseries based on a Stephen King book depicts the aftermath of a devastating plague The Stand |
| #3928, aired 2001-10-03 | AFTERMATH $200: In 1912, in the aftermath of the "scramble for" this continent, Britain & France controlled most of it Africa |
| #3928, aired 2001-10-03 | AFTERMATH $400: Trummerfrauen or "rubble women" worked in this bombed capital in the aftermath of World War II Berlin |
| #3928, aired 2001-10-03 | AFTERMATH $1,500 (Daily Double): The Massachusetts General Court eventually annulled the convictions in this 1692 event the Salem Witch Trials |
| #3880, aired 2001-06-15 | IT'S A LONG STORY $400: Dorothy Dunnett's 6-volume Lymond Chronicles begin in this U.K. country in the aftermath of war with England Scotland |
| #2739, aired 1996-06-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: A top seller in 1943 & 1953 was this Lloyd C. Douglas book that dealt with the aftermath of the Crucifixion The Robe |
| #2312, aired 1994-09-27 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $200: On May 1, 1992 the president ordered Marine & Army troops to this U.S. city in the aftermath of riots Los Angeles |
| #2248, aired 1994-05-18 | THE BRITISH INVASION $100: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards wrote all of the songs on this group's 1966 LP "Aftermath" The Rolling Stones |
| #477, aired 1986-10-07 | MOVIE TRIVIA $400: This '59 film about aftermath about nuclear war opened Dec. 17 in NYC, Moscow & Melbourne, where it was set On the Beach |
| #357, aired 1986-01-21 | THE CONFEDERACY $200: D.W. Griffith classic which told of war & aftermath from Southern point of view The Birth of a Nation |
| #110, aired 1985-02-08 | STARTS WITH "A" $600: A result or consequence, or immediately following multiplication aftermath |
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