#9077, aired 2024-04-09 | NOBEL PRIZES $2000: The 2013 Lit Prize went to this Canadian for her mastery of the short story (Alice) Munro |
#9019, aired 2024-01-18 | ON THE MAP $1600: The central town of the 100,000-square-mile area of Australia called the Red Centre is this community, named for Alice Todd Alice Springs |
#9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AUTHORS' BIRTHSTONES $600: Alice Hoffman, born March 16, 1952, wrote a novel about a mermaid called this, also the name of her watery blue birthstone Aquamarine |
#9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AUTHORS' BIRTHSTONES $1,000 (Daily Double): Would Alice Walker have called her 1982 novel something else if her February birthstone wasn't the color purple, this one? amethyst |
#8999, aired 2023-12-21 | FIRST LADIES' MAIDEN NAMES $1600: Stepmom of Alice: Edith Carow Roosevelt |
#8987, aired 2023-12-05 | PURPLE PROSE & POETRY $600: Author who wrote that it angers God "if you walk by the color purple in a field... and don't notice it" (Alice) Walker |
#8981, aired 2023-11-27 | WOMEN IN SCIENCE $400: This process in milk is now routine because Alice Evans found that brucellosis could be passed from cows to humans pasteurization |
#8980, aired 2023-11-24 | AN AMERICAN IN PARIS $2000: This companion of Gertrude Stein raised some eyebrows with her 1954 cookbook Alice B. Toklas |
#8958, aired 2023-10-25 | SHE BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE $400: Alice Ball was 23 & a college instructor in Hawaii in 1915 when she developed the first successful treatment for this, also known as Hansen's disease leprosy |
#8957, aired 2023-10-24 | THE USTA $800: Alice Marble, a mentor to Billie Jean King, won the USTA's mixed doubles title in 1940, playing with, of all people, him Bobby Riggs |
#16, aired 2023-10-11 | LESSER-KNOWN SIBLINGS $200: Like her father and Atticus Finch, Alice Lee, sister of author Harper Lee, was one of these professionals lawyer |
#15, aired 2023-10-04 | JOYCE, CARROLL, OATES $100: "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" Lewis Carroll |
#15, aired 2023-10-04 | FAMOUS TV SPOILERS $500: Why did Mary Alice kill herself? She was being blackmailed! For murdering her adopted son's mom! Desperate Housewives |
#8936, aired 2023-09-25 | WHITE HOUSE PETS $2000: This president's daughter Alice had a pet green snake named Emily Spinach Teddy Roosevelt |
#8929, aired 2023-09-14 | THE OHIO UNIVERSITIES $1000: Shows at Eva Marie Saint Theatre are cursed if Alice the ghost isn't invited by the stage manager at BGSU, this state university Bowling Green State University |
#8896, aired 2023-06-19 | WHAT AN IDIOM! $1600: You can be as mad as a hatter or as mad as this, also a character in "Alice in Wonderland" March Hare |
#8894, aired 2023-06-15 | 21st CENTURY HORROR NOVELS $200: Christina Henry's "Looking Glass" is the last book in a chilling trilogy about a woman with this 5-letter name Alice |
#8882, aired 2023-05-30 | DISNEY ENDINGS $2000: In Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland", Alice slays the Jabberwocky with this, callooh! Callay! the Vorpal Sword |
#8880, aired 2023-05-26 | THAT BOOK CHARACTER DOES THINGS $400: Obeys instruction "Eat me"; sees a cat that's all smiles; lets the cards fall where they may Alice |
#8880, aired 2023-05-26 | AMERICA IN THE 1700s $600: A toast to William Horton, James Oglethorpe's right-hand man, who is credited with founding this colony's 1st brewery Georgia |
#8880, aired 2023-05-26 | "REE" SEARCH $800: This word can mean arbitrator or one who evaluates scientific proposals for possible grant money a referee |
#8880, aired 2023-05-26 | CURSES! BASEBALL! $800: The Curse of Coogan's Bluff, site of the Polo Grounds, hit this team after it left New York & lingered until the 2010 World Series the San Francisco Giants |
#8880, aired 2023-05-26 | THAT BOOK CHARACTER DOES THINGS $1200: Leaves town, suspected in Huck's murder; gets on a raft with the non-murdered Huck Jim |
#8880, aired 2023-05-26 | THAT'S ADORABLE $1,500 (Daily Double): The scientific name of one species of sloth includes didactylus, meaning this, part of its common name two-toed |
#8868, aired 2023-05-10 | BETTER TOMES & GARDENS $1200: Alice finds a marvelous garden in Wonderland but has trouble managing this bird while playing croquet there a flamingo |
#8821, aired 2023-03-06 | BOOK SEQUELS $400: In the full title of a sequel, this is followed by "& What Alice Found There" Through the Looking-Glass |
#8788, aired 2023-01-18 | WOMEN OF SCIENCE $800: Chemist Alice Ball developed an early treatment used for decades for this devastating bacterial skin disease leprosy (Hansen's disease) |
#8785, aired 2023-01-13 | LITERARY OVERLAPS $1000: "Still"
____
Walker Alice |
#8780, aired 2023-01-06 | THE WHOLE TOOTH $400: Alice in Wonderland encountered this creature that had "a great many teeth", which showed when it grinned the Cheshire Cat |
#8772, aired 2022-12-27 | FICTION $600: From chapter 1 of this classic: "On a bright may morning in 1888, John, Lord Greystoke, and Lady Alice sailed from Dover..." Tarzan (of the Apes) |
#8747, aired 2022-11-22 | BATMAN VILLAINS $2000: Obsessed with "Alice in Wonderland" & a master of mind control, Jervis Tetch goes by this alias the Mad Hatter |
#8742, aired 2022-11-15 | NOW STREAMING ON DuMONT+ $1200: Watch "Cavalcade of Stars", on which Jackie Gleason introduced this bus driver character, with Pert Kelton as his wife Alice Ralph Kramden |
#8736, aired 2022-11-07 | DANCE $1000: In Wonderland, the Mock Turtle & the Gryphon tell Alice how seals, turtles & salmon partner with lobsters for this dance the quadrille |
#7, aired 2022-11-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: In the novel of the same name, Alice Walker wrote, "I think it pisses God off if you walk by" this "in a field... and don't notice it" the color purple |
#8733, aired 2022-11-02 | CHILD ACTORS $800: Pre-"Taxi Driver", Scorsese cast her in "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore", where she asks another kid, "Wanna get high on ripple?" (Jodie) Foster |
#8730, aired 2022-10-28 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Years before "The Color Purple", she published a volume of poetry called "Once", about her time in Africa & her 1960s activism (Alice) Walker |
#5, aired 2022-10-23 | A LITTLE POETRY $1200: His poem "Jabberwocky" appears in "Through the Looking-Glass", his sequel to "Alice in Wonderland" Lewis Carroll |
#8713, aired 2022-10-05 | HELPFUL HISTORIC FIGURES $800: A native guide named Uledi was invaluable to this British explorer while navigating the Congo River on his boat the Lady Alice Stanley |
#8708, aired 2022-09-28 | CLIFF NOTES $2,000 (Daily Double): Alice Duer Miller's "The White Cliffs", a prose poem about WWI & WWII, mentions this town in its third line Dover |
#8706, aired 2022-09-26 | COUNTRY MEN & WOMEN $600: Shawn Mendes &
Alice Munro Canada |
#8694, aired 2022-07-28 | AUTHORS $400: On July 4, 1862 he picnicked with Alice Liddell & her sisters, so it could have been "Edith" or "Lorina in Wonderland" Charles Dodgson (or Lewis Carroll) |
#8693, aired 2022-07-27 | TENNIS ACES $800: In women's tennis, 1930s star Alice Marble pioneered this 3-word aggressive style named for a way to begin a point serve and volley |
#8661, aired 2022-06-13 | BOOK TITLE REFERENCES $200: Per an Alice Walker novel, God will be mad if you don't notice it in a field the color purple |
#8652, aired 2022-05-31 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $1000: "Daybreak-2250 A.D." is by prolific author Alice Mary Norton, better known to sci-fi fans by this first name Andre |
#8643, aired 2022-05-18 | BEASTLY BOOK CHARACTERS $1,000 (Daily Double): This rabbit relative character shows up at a party in "Alice in Wonderland" & dips his watch into his tea the March Hare |
#8627, aired 2022-04-26 | ONE BIG FAMILY $400: Archie & Quentin & Ted & Alice were children of this American political family the Roosevelts |
#8618, aired 2022-04-13 | BOOK 'EM $800: African-American actress & writer Alice Childress is known for her young adult novel "A Hero Ain't Nothin' But" this a Sandwich |
#8614, aired 2022-04-07 | FIGURE $400: Known as a shape poem, the one seen here from "Alice in Wonderland" is punningly called "The Mouse's" this Tale |
#8611, aired 2022-04-04 | BIRTH OF A WRITER $3,400 (Daily Double): Georgia was the birthplace of this 1980s Pulitzer Prize winner, the 8th child of African-American sharecroppers Alice Walker |
#8607, aired 2022-03-29 | FAN FICTION? $600: This animal in a hurry drops his gloves & fan; Alice picks them up the White Rabbit |
#8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BRIT LIT $1600: At a tea party, it's this Lewis Carroll character who asks Alice, "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" the Mad Hatter |
#18, aired 2022-02-22 | SCARY STORIES $1200: A dead girl observes her family, friends & killer in this 2002 bestseller by Alice Sebold, later a movie The Lovely Bones |
#5, aired 2022-02-10 | THIS PARTY IS LIT $400: At a "mad" party in "Alice in Wonderland", this beverage is all that's served tea |
#8556, aired 2022-01-17 | A MEMBER OF THE BANDS $600: Hollywood Vampires were brought to life in 2015, led by Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp & guitarist Joe Perry of this band Aerosmith |
#8549, aired 2022-01-06 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: This character known for its grin tells Alice that everyone in Wonderland is mad the Cheshire Cat |
#8515, aired 2021-11-19 | ESSAYS $1000: Alice Walker's 1975 essay "Looking for Zora" sparked new interest in this author who was largely forgotten at her death Zora Neale Hurston |
#8510, aired 2021-11-12 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $800: Alice Walker began this novel, "You better not never tell nobody but God" The Color Purple |
#8501, aired 2021-11-01 | THE MAN'S PEN NAME $200: "I am a young girl of about thirty-five", penned this Founding Father in a 1732 letter to the Penn. Gazette as "Alice Addertongue" Ben Franklin |
#8460, aired 2021-08-06 | HEY, WHAT YEAR IS IT? $400: The country gets re-hitched at Appomattox Court House; "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" begin 1865 |
#8437, aired 2021-07-06 | WOMEN WHO WRITE $200: It's the first name shared by bestselling authors Hoffman, Walker & Munro Alice |
#8431, aired 2021-06-28 | JAMES BEARD CHEF OF THE YEAR $3,800 (Daily Double): Alice Waters, the first woman to win the award, won for Chez Panisse in this California college town Berkeley |
#8413, aired 2021-06-02 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $2,000 (Daily Double): "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" is less about Alice & more about this woman, her life partner who wrote the book Gertrude Stein |
#8411, aired 2021-05-31 | HATS IN BOOKS $200: Alice encounters this crazed craftsman at a tea party the Mad Hatter |
#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 |
#8369, aired 2021-04-01 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $1200: Oprah was one of the original producers of this musical based on an Alice Walker novel The Color Purple |
#8364, aired 2021-03-25 | BORN DURING THE CIVIL WAR $4,000 (Daily Double): This president's first wife Alice & his second wife Edith were both born during the early days of the war in 1861 Theodore Roosevelt |
#8310, aired 2021-01-08 | ARTISTS IN EUROPE $600: Here's this artist & his wife Alice enjoying some time away from Giverny in Venice's St. Mark's Square (Claude) Monet |
#8303, aired 2020-12-16 | ENDING $1200: "Oh, I've had such a curious dream!" remarks the title girl at the end of this work Alice in Wonderland |
#8292, aired 2020-12-01 | JUMP $1200: In this movie based on a James Fenimore Cooper novel, Alice doesn't want to go with Magua, so she leaps from a cliff to her death The Last of the Mohicans |
#8282, aired 2020-11-17 | WONDERLAND $200: The big ending of "Alice in Wonderland" is a bizarre court case over who stole these baked goods tarts |
#8282, aired 2020-11-17 | WONDERLAND $400: Alice "had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or" this object "to take out of it" a watch |
#8282, aired 2020-11-17 | WONDERLAND $600: A confounded Alice uttered this repetitive phrase when the cake made her grow taller Curiouser and curiouser |
#8282, aired 2020-11-17 | WONDERLAND $800: The Caterpillar sits atop one of these that's as tall as Alice, smoking a hookah a toadstool (a mushroom) |
#8277, aired 2020-11-10 | SPORTS HALLS OF FAME $1000: 1960s inductees into this hall of fame include Don Budge, Alice Marble & Brooke Shields' grandfather Frank Shields the Tennis Hall of Fame |
#8246, aired 2020-09-28 | FOLLOW THE BUNNY $1600: Seated between Alice and the Mad Hatter at the Mad Tea Party, he happens to be mad, too the March Hare |
#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 |
#8177, aired 2020-03-10 | THE COMICS $400: Alice & Asok are 2 coworkers of this Scott Adams comic strip title guy Dilbert |
#8173, aired 2020-03-04 | FROM SNL TO THE MOVIES $400: Alice Cooper breaks down the etymology of "Milwaukee" to Mike Myers in this 1992 film Wayne's World |
#8148, aired 2020-01-29 | COLORFUL POP CULTURE ANIMALS $400: Michael Sheen voiced this bunny in Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" the White Rabbit |
#8132, aired 2020-01-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The 1st African-American woman to win Olympic gold, Alice Coachman cleared 5'6 1/8" in this track & field event in 1948 the high jump |
#8105, aired 2019-11-29 | BEFORE & AFTER $600: Grinning enigmatic acquaintance of Alice in Wonderland seen in cross section by doctors the Cheshire Cat scan |
#8100, aired 2019-11-22 | QUOTABLE BOOKS $400: 1865: "She was walking by the White Rabbit, who was peeping anxiously into her face" Alice in Wonderland |
#8055, aired 2019-09-20 | THE TECH WORLD $200: In 1991 "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" became the first work of fiction turned into this format eBook |
#8045, aired 2019-07-26 | BEFORE & AFTER: SINGERS & WRITERS $200: "The Heart Of Rock & Roll" lead singer who also wrote "Alice in Wonderland" Huey Lewis Carroll |
#8015, aired 2019-06-14 | ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST JACKET $1200: Susie in this Alice Sebold novel is already in heaven, but she watches her murderer covering his tracks The Lovely Bones |
#8012, aired 2019-06-11 | LITERARY GREEN THUMB $4,200 (Daily Double): In "Through the Looking-Glass", Alice meets a talking one of these flowers, also a character's name in "Peter Pan" a tiger lily |
#8003, aired 2019-05-29 | I'M READING YOU $800: "The Temple of My Familiar" & "The Color Purple" Alice Walker |
#7993, aired 2019-05-15 | TEACHERS IN SONG $800: In the classic song "School's Out", this man mentions "No more teacher's dirty looks" Alice Cooper |
#7989, aired 2019-05-09 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: You'll find the Cheshire Cat (or at times only part of him) in this 19th century children's classic Alice in Wonderland |
#7989, aired 2019-05-09 | TAURUS TYPES $2,000 (Daily Double): Those born under the sign of Taurus are devoted, like this woman, Gertrude Stein's partner & "Autobiography" subject Alice B. Toklas |
#7975, aired 2019-04-19 | PLAYING VIDEO GAMES $2000: Milla Jovovich has been Alice in all 6 films in this franchise based on a horror game Resident Evil |
#7972, aired 2019-04-16 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $1200: To be pulled into a weird, confusing environment is to go "down" this, just like Lewis Carroll's Alice the rabbit hole |
#7967, aired 2019-04-09 | A SHORT STORY CATEGORY $800: Alice Munro set many stories like "Royal Beatings" in small towns in this country Canada |
#7959, aired 2019-03-28 | FICTIONAL MEMOIRS $1200: First published as a memoir, "Go Ask" this girl is a fictional account of a 15-year-old girl's troubles with drugs Alice |
#7942, aired 2019-03-05 | POP MUSIC ACROSS THE DECADES $2000: Time to get your grunge on with this band whose tunes include "Man In The Box", "Rooster" & "Would?" Alice in Chains |
#7893, aired 2018-12-26 | "W"RITERS $2000: Her first collection of stories, "In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women", was released in 1973 (Alice) Walker |
#7885, aired 2018-12-14 | GREAT BOOKS ON AUDIBLE $1200: Take a listen to Scarlett Johansson if you are curious about this classic
I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--and yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life! Alice in Wonderland |
#7858, aired 2018-11-07 | YOUNG ADULT READING $200: "Queen of Hearts" & "The White Rabbit Chronicles" were inspired by this 1865 work Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
#7855, aired 2018-11-02 | KIDS' BOOKS $800: In "Alice in Wonderland", the Red Queen uses live hedgehogs as balls in this game croquet |
#7847, aired 2018-10-23 | THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY $1600: Alice Springs & the Simpson Desert Australia |
#7814, aired 2018-07-26 | QUEENS OF THE LITERARY REALM $400: This monarch who loses her tarts is a danger to Alice & others during her adventures in Wonderland the Queen of Hearts |
#7808, aired 2018-07-18 | NOVELS $400: In Nevil Shute's "A Town Like Alice", a young woman survives WWII in Asia & then starts a new life in this country's bush Australia |
#7776, aired 2018-06-04 | MOVIES OF "WONDER" $800: Decapitation & the Jabberwocky are at least 2 things to be feared in this 2010 fantasy film Alice in Wonderland |
#7774, aired 2018-05-31 | TV & MOVIE COMMON BONDS $600: Berta,
Alice Nelson,
Rosie the Robot maids (or housekeepers) |
#7772, aired 2018-05-29 | TV NARRATORS $800: Mary Alice Young is the omniscient dead narrator of this series about her neighbors on Wisteria Lane Desperate Housewives |
#7764, aired 2018-05-17 | 21st CENTURY BESTSELLERS $1200: In 2008 Kathy Reichs was atop the list with "Devil Bones"; in 2002, it was Alice Sebold, with this novel The Lovely Bones |
#7762, aired 2018-05-15 | IT'S ONLY AN ALLUSION $3,000 (Daily Double): The name of this duo Alice meets in "Through the Looking Glass" refers to a pair so alike they're near indistinguishable Tweedledee and Tweedledum |
#7758, aired 2018-05-09 | LITERATURE IN SPANISH $400: Guillermo Cabrera Infante's "Infante's Inferno" captures this country before the 1959 Communist revolution Cuba |
#7758, aired 2018-05-09 | DISNEY FACTS $600: Songs from this 1951 Disney adaptation include "All In The Golden Afternoon" & "I'm Late" Alice in Wonderland |
#7758, aired 2018-05-09 | IN THE STATE MUSEUM $1,000 (Daily Double): Andrew Jackson's leather wallet Tennessee |
#7713, aired 2018-03-07 | SUFFRAGETTE CITY $600: In 1913 Alice Paul arranged for a demonstration of over 5,000 women before this man's inauguration in D.C. Wilson |
#7697, aired 2018-02-13 | NOVEL "T"s $2000: Referring to this Zora Neale Hurston novel, Alice Walker said, "There is no book more important to me" Their Eyes Were Watching God |
#7657, aired 2017-12-19 | "SOCIAL" $800: Before literary fame, Alice Walker had this job with the New York City Welfare Department a social worker |
#7646, aired 2017-12-04 | WEATHER IDIOMS $400: Standing in the relative peace of the beach, you'd experience this idiom of impending turmoil the calm before the storm |
#7646, aired 2017-12-04 | OTHERWISE FAMOUS PAINTERS $2000: Favorite subjects of this Royal Highness include Beinn a' Bhuird, a mountain near Balmoral Prince Charles |
#7625, aired 2017-11-03 | AN EXCELLENT QUESTION $400: The title of Chapter XI of this classic is the very excellent question "Who Stole the Tarts?" Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
#7615, aired 2017-10-20 | FROM PAGE TO MULTIPLEX $1200: Lisa Genova's novel about a woman with early-onset Alzheimer's became this Julianne Moore film Still Alice |
#7604, aired 2017-10-05 | BOOKS' FIRST LINES $400: "Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, & of having nothing to do" Alice in Wonderland |
#7568, aired 2017-07-05 | HERE'S FINAL JEOPARDY $1000: The last page of "The Autobiography of" this companion of Gertrude Stein was turned on March 7, 1967 Alice B. Toklas |
#7533, aired 2017-05-17 | I LOVE LITERATURE $400: The White Rabbit is running late, leading to all kinds of trouble at the start of this 1865 book Alice in Wonderland |
#7520, aired 2017-04-28 | LIT-POURRI $600: This character "took the hookah out of its mouth, and addressed (Alice) in a languid, sleepy voice" the Caterpillar |
#7500, aired 2017-03-31 | SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $800: Melissa Leo as boxing mom Alice Ward in this film The Fighter |
#7490, aired 2017-03-17 | COLLEGE COLLAGE $1000: This U. is home to its state Writers Hall of Fame; honorees include Joel Chandler Harris & Alice Walker the University of Georgia |
#7470, aired 2017-02-17 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: Alice Walker won the 1983 Pulitzer for Fiction for this novel The Color Purple |
#7448, aired 2017-01-18 | CLASSIC DISNEY TITLE CHARACTERS $600: Playing an unusual game of croquet, she keeps her head about her Alice |
#7433, aired 2016-12-28 | TITLE CHARACTERS $800: Julianne Moore's 2014 character had Alzheimer's but was "Still" this linguistics professor Alice |
#7421, aired 2016-12-12 | TOUGH CHILDREN'S LIT $1600: This "Alice in Wonderland" reptile studied such subjects as "reeling and writhing" & "seaography" the Mock Turtle |
#7384, aired 2016-10-20 | BOOKS BY MEN $400: The title of this book continues "and What Alice Found There" Through the Looking Glass |
#7377, aired 2016-10-11 | RUSSIAN FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $400: Shostakovich &
Mendeleyev Dmitri |
#7377, aired 2016-10-11 | THE FOREST FOR THE TREES $800: Legend says pirates spitting out date seeds gave us Vai, a vast forest of these trees on Crete palms |
#7377, aired 2016-10-11 | "MM" $1600: It can mean completely under water, or fully involved in immersed |
#7364, aired 2016-09-22 | INQUISITIVE WRITERS $600: Alice B. Toklas quotes her asking, "What is the answer?"; getting none, she asked, "In that case, what is the question?" (Gertrude) Stein |
#7354, aired 2016-07-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Here's this poet & author; note the color she's wearing (Alice) Walker |
#7337, aired 2016-07-05 | WOMEN IN SCIENCE $200: This process in milk is now routine because Alice Evans found that brucellosis could be passed from cows to humans pasteurization |
#7333, aired 2016-06-29 | "LOST" & "FOUND" $800: The title of a Lewis Carroll work reads "Through the Looking-Glass and What..." Alice Found There |
#7312, aired 2016-05-31 | RODENTS $600: Alice in Wonderland could tell you this creature that needs its rest lives mostly in trees a dormouse |
#7308, aired 2016-05-25 | SINGERS' REAL NAMES $1000: Legend says that a Ouija board told Vincent Damon Furnier he was the reincarnation of a witch named this Alice Cooper |
#7305, aired 2016-05-20 | MAD MEN $400: In "Alice in Wonderland " this character asks, "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?" Mad Hatter |
#7295, aired 2016-05-06 | TV EATERIES $800: Mel's Diner in Phoenix, where you could kiss Flo's grits Alice |
#7287, aired 2016-04-26 | THE BROAD $1200: Robert Therien's "under the table" makes you feel like these two literary characters, a man created in 1726 & a girl from 1865 Gulliver and Alice |
#7236, aired 2016-02-15 | COOPER: ALICE, GARY OR ANDERSON $200: 2-time Academy Award winner Gary Cooper |
#7236, aired 2016-02-15 | COOPER: ALICE, GARY OR ANDERSON $400: Appeared in the 1992 film "Wayne's World" Alice Cooper |
#7236, aired 2016-02-15 | COOPER: ALICE, GARY OR ANDERSON $600: Studied & speaks Vietnamese Anderson Cooper |
#7236, aired 2016-02-15 | COOPER: ALICE, GARY OR ANDERSON $800: Once dated Raquel Welch Alice Cooper |
#7236, aired 2016-02-15 | COOPER: ALICE, GARY OR ANDERSON $1000: Born in Helena, Montana Gary Cooper |
#7234, aired 2016-02-11 | DOCTORS WITHIN BORDERS $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a picture of a plane and a map of Australia on the monitor.) In Australia's remote areas, the Royal Flying Doctor Service has dozens of bases providing airborne care; the Alice Springs base serves nearly half a million square miles of this territory the Northern Territory |
#7225, aired 2016-01-29 | LONG-RUNNING SITCOMS $600: On "The Simpsons" this character said, "You may remember me from such medical films as 'Alice Doesn't Live Anymore'" Troy McClure |
#7216, aired 2016-01-18 | PLANETARY BOOKSTORE $2000: "The Moons of Jupiter" is a short story collection by this Canadian female author of "Lives of Girls & Women" Alice Munro |
#7205, aired 2016-01-01 | SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK $1200: In this Top 10 hit from 1972, Alice Cooper exults over "No more pencils, no more books" "School's Out" |
#7201, aired 2015-12-28 | KITTY LIT $200: Alice thinks this cat looked good-natured, but "still it had very long claws & a great many teeth" Cheshire Cat |
#7189, aired 2015-12-10 | MOVIE LIFE HACKS $400: Like real patients with Alzheimer's, in this movie Julianne Moore uses a highlighter when giving a speech to keep her place Still Alice |
#7176, aired 2015-11-23 | IN THE STATE'S HALL OF FAME $400: Alice Walker & Margaret Mitchell are in its Writers Hall of Fame Georgia |
#7163, aired 2015-11-04 | THE COLOR PURPLE $1000: Appropriately, Alice Walker has this gem that's the color purple as her birthstone amethyst |
#7160, aired 2015-10-30 | LIT-POURRI $400: Flamingos are used as croquet mallets in this Lewis Carroll work Alice in Wonderland |
#7157, aired 2015-10-27 | DOWNTOWN CABBIE $1200: Oui, we are at 27 Rue de Fleurus, Paris, where this writer lived with Alice B. Toklas! We are not a lost generation! Gertrude Stein |
#7141, aired 2015-10-05 | STILL ALICE IN WONDERLAND $200: Grin & name this feline character who can disappear & reappear at will the Cheshire Cat |
#7141, aired 2015-10-05 | STILL ALICE IN WONDERLAND $400: At a party, Alice encounters this lagomorph with a month in his name the March Hare |
#7141, aired 2015-10-05 | STILL ALICE IN WONDERLAND $600: Alice's first time in Wonderland concludes with a trial regarding the theft of these pastries the Queen of Hearts' tarts |
#7141, aired 2015-10-05 | STILL ALICE IN WONDERLAND $800: Take a swing & see if you can name this satiric magazine for which Alice illustrator John Tenniel was cartoonist Punch |
#7141, aired 2015-10-05 | STILL ALICE IN WONDERLAND $1000: This character is described to Alice as the thing the soup is made from the Mock Turtle |
#7141, aired 2015-10-05 | WOMEN ARTISTS $1600: In 1938, Alice Neel moved to this 2-word area of Manhattan & began to paint its Puerto Rican community Spanish Harlem |
#7141, aired 2015-10-05 | WOMEN ARTISTS $6,000 (Daily Double): Seen with one of her paintings, that's the real Margaret Keane, whose story was told in this 2014 film Big Eyes |
#7136, aired 2015-09-28 | THE BRADY BUNCH $400: In a 1917 movie Alice Brady played this flag maker, with lines like "There can be no reward so great as the honor" Betsy Ross |
#7126, aired 2015-09-14 | YOU SAID WHAT?! $3,000 (Daily Double): In a novel, Alice Walker wrote that it might anger God "if you walk by" this "in a field somewhere and don't notice it" the color purple |
#7116, aired 2015-07-20 | THE WAY OF THE DODO $800: The dodo disappeared in the late 1600s but did find its way into this 1865 novel alongside a hare & a hatter Alice in Wonderland |
#7064, aired 2015-05-07 | CRIMINALITY... IN SONG $400: Littering on Thanksgiving is but one part of Arlo Guthrie's 18-minute song called this lady's "Restaurant" Alice |
#7056, aired 2015-04-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: In "Still Alice" by Lisa Genova, a 50-year-old college professor is diagnosed with this Alzheimer's disease |
#7055, aired 2015-04-24 | THEY SAVED THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN $800: This "School's Out" rocker said he donated one of the 2 Os in his last name Alice Cooper |
#7050, aired 2015-04-17 | LITERARY MEALTIME? $1000: In the title of Alice Childress' 1973 novel of teenage heroin addiction, this "Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich" a hero |
#7048, aired 2015-04-15 | WOMEN ON A PEDESTAL $1000: This Washington, D.C. university has a statue of a deaf girl, Alice Cogswell, sitting with the school's namesake Gallaudet |
#7044, aired 2015-04-09 | HELENA BONHAM CARTER ROLES $1600: Helena said her bossy toddler inspired her performance as this creepy monarch in "Alice in Wonderland" the Red Queen |
#7035, aired 2015-03-27 | THE FILM-TO-TV ROLE $600: Ellen Burstyn turned over this Oscar-winning waitress role to Linda Lavin Alice |
#7017, aired 2015-03-03 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: The 2013 documentary "Beauty in Truth" looks at the life of this "Color Purple" author & activist (Alice) Walker |
#7014, aired 2015-02-26 | FOLK MUSIC $800: His song "Alice's Restaurant" was the basis of a 1969 film in which he starred Arlo Guthrie |
#6991, aired 2015-01-26 | THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS $800: When Alice first meets this character, he's sitting on top of a high wall "with his legs crossed, like a Turk" Humpty Dumpty |
#6991, aired 2015-01-26 | THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS $2000: Alice begins & ends the story by talking with Kitty, the offspring of this old cat Dinah |
#6950, aired 2014-11-28 | CHRONICLES $1,000 (Daily Double): On Sept. 13, 1864, this writer noted the completion of illustrations for a book he wrote for young Alice Liddell Lewis Carroll |
#6941, aired 2014-11-17 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $800: Oprah said that this Alice Walker novel was life-changing for her & she was honored to play a role in the movie The Color Purple |
#6917, aired 2014-10-14 | CHAINED TO A HOTEL $1000: "Alice" doesn't live in Phoenix anymore, but she did leave this last name on the Regency Hotel Hyatt |
#6912, aired 2014-10-07 | SHORT STORIES $2000: The Kristen Wiig movie "Hateship Loveship" is based on a story with 2 more "ships" in the title by this Canadian woman Alice Munro |
#6901, aired 2014-09-22 | YOU'VE GOT CHARACTER! $400: Lewis Carroll had young Alice frolic through her "Adventures in Wonderland" & this sequel "Through the Looking Glass" |
#6886, aired 2014-07-21 | WOMEN & CHILDREN $400: After hearing a fantastic story on a boat in 1862, young Alice Liddell asked this author to put it on paper for her (Lewis) Carroll |
#6845, aired 2014-05-23 | AUTH"ER"S $400: She was the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Alice Walker |
#6831, aired 2014-05-05 | LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $5,000 (Daily Double): With a mark of 5'6" in this event, in 1948 5'7" Alice Coachman became the first African-American woman to win Olympic gold high jump |
#6816, aired 2014-04-14 | CROQUET, MONSIEUR $600: Alice's wonderland croquet game ends early as this character keeps ordering "off with" the heads of other players the Queen of Hearts |
#6813, aired 2014-04-09 | STATE SCHOOLS $400: This university is home to its state's Writers Hall of Fame, which includes Alice Walker & Margaret Mitchell the University of Georgia |
#6792, aired 2014-03-11 | reddit AMA RESPONSES $400: This rocker:
"'School's Out', 'Billion Dollar Babies' were very creative times" Alice Cooper |
#6785, aired 2014-02-28 | ACTUAL 911 CALLS $1000: A man reported the theft of these pipes, like the one Alice's caterpillar smokes; the cops came & made a pot-growing bust hookahs |
#6783, aired 2014-02-26 | THE INCREDIBLES $800: Golly, gosh & this phrase of wide-eyed wonder, Katharine Hepburn's response to "I love you" in "Alice Adams" gee whiz |
#6757, aired 2014-01-21 | MUSICAL RAP SHEET $1600: Alice bails out her friends after they're arrested for the heinous crime of littering in this Arlo Guthrie song "Alice's Restaurant" |
#6752, aired 2014-01-14 | EXPLOSIVE IMPLOSIONS $200: In 1996 the Alice Hotel in Wichita in this state was no longer taking reservations Kansas |
#6711, aired 2013-11-18 | SHORT STORIES $1600: "Dance of the Happy Shades" is the title story of the first book by this Canadian woman who won a 2013 Nobel Prize Alice Munro |
#6704, aired 2013-11-07 | LITERARY BUNNIES $200: Alice overheard him say, "Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's getting!" the White Rabbit |
#6687, aired 2013-10-15 | TRAVEL BOOKS $600: Alice Steinbach's intimate memoir of her world travels is titled "Without" these, what you might need to get a good table Reservations |
#6667, aired 2013-09-17 | JUST CURIOUS $600: After eating the cake that had "Eat me" spelled out in currants, she said, "Curiouser and curiouser!" Alice |
#6662, aired 2013-07-30 | BOOK TALK $200: Chapter 1 of this classic is entitled "Down the Rabbit-hole" Alice in Wonderland |
#6652, aired 2013-07-16 | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $1200: "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" was actually written by this woman about herself Gertrude Stein |
#6645, aired 2013-07-05 | IT'S A BIG WORLD $1000: East to west, the greatest distance across this country is 6,000 miles; north to south, 2,800 Russia |
#6645, aired 2013-07-05 | FROM BOOK TO FILM $1200: 1958's "The Long, Hot Summer" was based on this author's "The Hamlet", the first in his "Snopes" trilogy William Faulkner |
#6645, aired 2013-07-05 | THE GREAT LIBRARIES OF EUROPE $1600: This Danish astronomer died in Prague in 1601, & the Clementinum National Library there has material relating to him Tycho Brahe |
#6643, aired 2013-07-03 | TITLE ROLE PLAYING $1600: "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" Ellen Burstyn |
#6628, aired 2013-06-12 | LEGENDS OF ROCK $400: School's been out a long time, but it wasn't until 2011 that this legend was inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame Alice Cooper |
#6625, aired 2013-06-07 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $200: John Tenniel's drawings of him may be based on Theophilus Carter, a furniture dealer who wore a top hat the Mad Hatter |
#6625, aired 2013-06-07 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $400: Lewis Carroll first told the story of Alice in 1862 on this date, a uniquely American summer holiday July 4th |
#6625, aired 2013-06-07 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $600: When Alice plays this game, live flamingoes serve as mallets and hedgehogs as the balls. croquet |
#6625, aired 2013-06-07 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $800: In a little glass box, Alice find this dessert with the words "eat me" written in currants, & eat it she does cake |
#6625, aired 2013-06-07 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $1000: He orders Alice, "Run home this moment, and fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan! Quick now!" the White Rabbit |
#6624, aired 2013-06-06 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: Set in Georgia, her first novel was 1970's "The Third Life of Grange Copeland" Alice Walker |
#6618, aired 2013-05-29 | POETRY $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a poem on the monitor.) The shape of a mouse's tail develops as you read a piece from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," so it's this type of poem that shares its name with a building material concrete |
#6612, aired 2013-05-21 | URBAN LIT $600: Life in this city where the 2 met fills much of Gertrude Stein's "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" Paris |
#6599, aired 2013-05-02 | TV SUPPORTING CASTS $600: Vic Tayback as Mel, Polly Holliday as Flo (there was a lot of grits-kissing) Alice |
#6598, aired 2013-05-01 | THE ROOSEVELTS $2000: With her father Theodore's sudden elevation to the presidency in 1901, she became an instant celebrity Alice |
#6586, aired 2013-04-15 | THE CULTURE OF FOOD $400: In "Through the Looking Glass", Alice sees an enormous egg that turns out to be him Humpty Dumpty |
#6585, aired 2013-04-12 | AUTHORESS! AUTHORESS! $1200: In 1983 those awaiting her 2nd novel made do with "Romance And High Adventure", an essay about Alabama history Harper Lee |
#6566, aired 2013-03-18 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1200: At Walt Disney's request, in 1945 this "Brave New World" author did some preliminary work on "Alice in Wonderland" (Aldous) Huxley |
#6563, aired 2013-03-13 | ANIMAL SIMILES $800: Alice knows you're "mad as a March" this a hare |
#6529, aired 2013-01-24 | AUTHOR! AUTHOR! $400: The 8th child of sharecroppers & a writer of "purple" prose, she was blinded in one eye in a childhood accident Alice Walker |
#6528, aired 2013-01-23 | BANNED! $200: In the 1930s his "Alice" work was banned in China on the grounds that animals should not use human language Lewis Carroll |
#6522, aired 2013-01-15 | WELLS $800: In chapter 7 of this work, the Dormouse tells the history of a family that lived at the bottom of a well made of treacle Alice in Wonderland |
#6514, aired 2013-01-03 | CEMETERIES $2000: On May 5, 1878 Alice Chambers was the last person buried in this Dodge City, Kansas cemetery Boot Hill |
#6504, aired 2012-12-20 | BEASTLY ART $400: It's the feline seen here with Alice in John Tenniel's illustration the Cheshire Cat |
#6499, aired 2012-12-13 | ORDINAL NUMBER PHRASES $600: When he tried to join Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Fred was the proverbial one of these on a car fifth wheel |
#6479, aired 2012-11-15 | ESSAYS $1600: She's the Zora in Alice Walker's "Looking For Zora" Zora Neale Hurston |
#6462, aired 2012-10-23 | BEARD AWARD-WINNING CHEFS $1000: If you know what mesclun & arugula are, it's because she opened Berkeley's Chez Panisse in 1971 Alice Waters |
#6460, aired 2012-10-19 | ACTRESSES $800: She played Bellatrix Lestrange in the "Harry Potter" films & the Red Queen in "Alice in Wonderland" Helena Bonham Carter |
#6456, aired 2012-10-15 | TV CHARACTERS $800: Mary Alice Young was heard in more than 150 episodes of this ABC drama, despite having died in the very first show Desperate Housewives |
#6455, aired 2012-10-12 | RUMORS $2000: "If you haven't got anything nice to say... come sit next to me" was a motto of this daughter of Teddy Roosevelt Alice |
#6446, aired 2012-10-01 | TEA TIME MOVIE $800: Johnny Depp is at least eccentric as this tea party guest in 2010's "Alice in Wonderland" the Mad Hatter |
#6427, aired 2012-07-24 | ALBUM COVER ART $1600: Known for his movie posters, Drew Struzan illustrated this performer's 1975 album "Welcome to my Nightmare" Alice Cooper |
#6418, aired 2012-07-11 | BABY, YOU'RE A RICH MAN OR WOMAN $800: Arkansas' Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art was founded by Alice of this wealthy family the Waltons |
#6371, aired 2012-05-07 | THEME PARK FUN $400: A British theme park inspired by this book includes a curvy caterpillars ride & queen of hearts crazy croquet Alice in Wonderland |
#6366, aired 2012-04-30 | SCARY LITERATURE $1200: "The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories" is by this "Alice in Wonderland" movie director Tim Burton |
#6356, aired 2012-04-16 | QUOTE "UN"QUOTE $800: Humpty Dumpty told Alice that "there are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get" these "presents" unbirthday presents |
#6353, aired 2012-04-11 | TALE SHIPS $4,000 (Daily Double): The Fuwalda was the ship that stranded Lord John & Lady Alice, this character's parents Lord Greystoke (Tarzan) |
#6343, aired 2012-03-28 | COLORFUL BOOKS $200: In "The Same River Twice", Alice Walker wrote about the making of the film based on this novel of hers The Color Purple |
#6323, aired 2012-02-29 | A BOOKISH CATEGORY $800: This 1982 novel by Alice Walker traces Celie's growth from self-hatred to independence The Color Purple |
#6304, aired 2012-02-02 | THE SOPHOMORE JINX $1200: This novelist made less of an impact with "The Almost Moon" than with "The Lovely Bones" Alice Sebold |
#6299, aired 2012-01-26 | RETRONYMS $1000: It's what the white rabbit consulted when Alice heard him remark that he would be late a pocket watch |
#6280, aired 2011-12-30 | THINK OF THE CHILDREN! $400: Victoria & Albert:
Alice, Alfred, Arthur, Beatrice, Helena, Louise, Leopold, Victoria Adelaide & this king Edward |
#6279, aired 2011-12-29 | CHILDREN'S LIT $600: Chapter I of this Lewis Carroll book says, "the glass was beginning to melt away, just like a bright silvery mist" Through the Looking Glass |
#6273, aired 2011-12-21 | LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "T" $2000: "Alice Adams" author Booth
(10) Tarkington |
#6250, aired 2011-11-18 | TYPES OF POEMS $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a poem on the monitor.) The first letter of each line spells out a word or name; here, it's the name "Alice" that Lewis Carroll puts into this type of poem, from the Greek for "tip of the line" acrostic |
#6208, aired 2011-09-21 | RABBIT STEW $1200: Michael Sheen, known for playing Tony Blair, voiced this creature in 2010's "Alice in Wonderland" the White Rabbit |
#6179, aired 2011-06-23 | TV TOE TAGS $200: Mary Alice's suicide in the first episode of the show doesn't stop her from narrating this series Desperate Housewives |
#6162, aired 2011-05-31 | PLAY MATES $1200: Alice More, wife of Lord Chancellor Thomas, is a character in this Robert Bolt drama A Man for All Seasons |
#6141, aired 2011-05-02 | IT'S SHOWTIME! $1200: Buck, Alice & T are personalities among the "United States of" her Tara |
#6135, aired 2011-04-22 | CELEBRITY FACTS $400: Alice Cooper's Phoenix eatery has dishes named for ballplayers & is named this, like the Hall of Fame site Cooperstown |
#6132, aired 2011-04-19 | ALICE $400: Chapter XI of "Alice in Wonderland" is "Who Stole" these pastries? tarts |
#6132, aired 2011-04-19 | ALICE $800: "The egg only got larger and larger, and more and more human... when (Alice) had come close to it, she saw... that it was" him Humpty Dumpty |
#6132, aired 2011-04-19 | ALICE $1200: A common phrase in Lewis Carroll's day was "grin like" one of these; it grins in his story the Cheshire Cat |
#6132, aired 2011-04-19 | ALICE $1600: Alice holds this poem up to a looking-glass to decipher it "Jabberwocky" |
#6132, aired 2011-04-19 | ALICE $2000: This tea-party guest poses the riddle, "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?" the Mad Hatter |
#6122, aired 2011-04-05 | NOVEL "T"s $1200: The full title of this sequel continues "and What Alice Found There" Through the Looking-Glass |
#6113, aired 2011-03-23 | MAD TV $1600: This "SCTV" veteran became the Mad Hatter for a 1999 TV movie of "Alice in Wonderland" Martin Short |
#6094, aired 2011-02-24 | ORIGINAL TITLES $400: Lewis Carroll,
1865:
"Alice's Adventures Underground" Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
#6068, aired 2011-01-19 | SHE WAS IN THAT? $1600: A young Laura Dern appeared in this 1974 film in which her mom played Flo the waitress Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore |
#6052, aired 2010-12-28 | MEASURING WHAT? $400: Ahoy! A knot measures this speed |
#6052, aired 2010-12-28 | STATE CAPITALS $400: The official website of this capital city can be found at talgov.com Tallahassee |
#6052, aired 2010-12-28 | MEASURING WHAT? $1000: A millibar barometric or atmospheric pressure |
#6052, aired 2010-12-28 | COMPLETE THE BOOK TITLE $2000: James Patterson: "Double ___" Cross |
#6046, aired 2010-12-20 | "OOP"s $1600: His first memoir is titled "Me, Alice" Alice Cooper |
#6033, aired 2010-12-01 | ME TARZAN $2,000 (Daily Double): Tarzan is the son of John & Alice Clayton, Lord & Lady this Greystoke |
#6024, aired 2010-11-18 | 19th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS $1600: Alice questions reality after these 2 say she's only a character in the Red King's dream; ooo, 19th century "Inception"! Tweedledee and Tweedledum |
#6007, aired 2010-10-26 | THE UNICORN $200: In "Through the Looking-Glass", she meets a unicorn who is stunned to discover she's not a monster Alice |
#6005, aired 2010-10-22 | TV WORKPLACES $800: "Alice" & her fellow waitresses worked at this eatery Mel's Diner |
#5984, aired 2010-09-23 | MODERN FICTION $1000: Murdered by her neighbor, Susie Salmon tells her story from heaven in this Alice Sebold bestseller The Lovely Bones |
#5955, aired 2010-07-02 | PAPA JOHNS $400: He had 4 daughters, Bessie, Alta, Alice & Edith, & one son, John D, Jr. Rockefeller |
#5953, aired 2010-06-30 | KITTY LIT $800: He told Alice, "We're all mad here, I'm mad, you're mad" the Cheshire Cat |
#5953, aired 2010-06-30 | THE FASTING & THE FURIOUS $1000: In 1917 Alice Paul, arrested while agitating for this constitutional amendment, was force fed to end her hunger strike the 19th Amendment |
#5927, aired 2010-05-25 | THE MIDDLE OF SOMEWHERE $800: Named for a cartographer, the Lambert Centre, 120 miles S. of Alice Springs, is the official centre of this country Australia |
#5915, aired 2010-05-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $1200: The Times said that this director tackled "Alice In Wonderland" with "his customary mix of torpor and frenzy" Tim Burton |
#5914, aired 2010-05-06 | DANGER IN WONDERLAND $600: She tried to whack Alice with that "off with her head" line; wait 'til she gets a load of you the Queen of Hearts |
#5865, aired 2010-02-26 | PRESIDENTIAL LAST NAMES $800: Actress Brooke & writer Alice Adams |
#5844, aired 2010-01-28 | KIDDY LIT $200: The first version of this story had no "mad tea party" or "pig and pepper" chapters; later ones did Alice in Wonderland |
#5839, aired 2010-01-21 | VICTORIAN NOVELISTS $800: While creating Alice in Wonderland, he was serving as a math lecturer Lewis Carroll |
#5830, aired 2010-01-08 | DUAL BIOGRAPHIES $400: "Two Lives", about Gertrude Stein & this partner, investigates how they survived in Nazi Europe Alice B. Toklas |
#5830, aired 2010-01-08 | FAR AND AWAY $800: Alice Springs in the Australian Outback is the starting point for the 5-hour drive to see this remote monolith Ayers Rock |
#5815, aired 2009-12-18 | CANADIAN BAL-EH? $1600: Peterborough's Rex Harrington created the role of this author in the ballet "Alice" Lewis Carroll |
#5793, aired 2009-11-18 | GET SOME HELP $800: Go ask Alice if you want to know that Ann B. Davis played the housekeeper Alice on this family sitcom The Brady Bunch |
#5775, aired 2009-10-23 | TOTAL DRAMA! $1,200 (Daily Double): In a William Inge play, people in a small Kansas town gather at a restaurant that's near this title place Bus Stop |
#5752, aired 2009-09-22 | THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS $400: Ralph Ellison was the first African American to win the fiction award; "Purple" prose made this woman the second Alice Walker |
#5730, aired 2009-07-03 | HERE, PIGGY, PIGGY, PIGGY $800: In an 1865 book, the Duchess' baby surprises this title girl when it grunts, turns into a pig & trots away Alice in Wonderland |
#5696, aired 2009-05-18 | FUNNY LADIES IN SHAKESPEARE $1200: Those joyful schemers mistress Alice Ford & mistress Margaret Page The Merry Wives of Windsor |
#5684, aired 2009-04-30 | PURPLE PROSE & POETRY $600: Author who wrote that it angers God "if you walk by the color purple in a field…and you don't notice it" Alice Walker |
#5681, aired 2009-04-27 | WRITTEN BY ANONYMOUS $400: The '70s novel "Go Ask" her is the alleged diary of a teenage girl whose life descends into drug use Alice |
#5676, aired 2009-04-20 | LIKE A VIRGIL $2000: Virgil Adams is the father of this Booth Tarkington title woman Alice Adams |
#5645, aired 2009-03-06 | SELDOM IS HEARD $200: After a quaff of a "drink me" vial, we're told this character "very seldom followed" her own good advice Alice (in Wonderland) |
#5621, aired 2009-02-02 | ALL THE MARBLES $600: In 1939 Alice Marble, a Hall of Famer in this sport, succeeded Helen Wills Moody as the world's top-ranked player tennis |
#5613, aired 2009-01-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: British gal singer of "Bleeding Love" who wrote "Alice in Wonderland" Leona Lewis Carroll |
#5587, aired 2008-12-16 | WE REWRITE HISTORY! $800: Jessica Simpson's oeuvre includes 1996's "The Same River Twice" &, of course, the Pulitzer-winning "The Color Purple" Alice Walker |
#5558, aired 2008-11-05 | DISNEY FILMS $400: 1951:
The Queen of Hearts wants to chop a little girl's head off Alice in Wonderland |
#5552, aired 2008-10-28 | CRAYOLA: A COLORFUL HISTORY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands with a melting vat at the Crayola Museum & Factory in Easton, PA.) Edwin Binney's wife Alice coined the name "Crayola" by combining "cray", French for chalk, & "ola", short for oily, because Crayolas are made from this paraffin wax |
#5522, aired 2008-09-16 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $400: You know this Lewis Carroll classic by a shortened name; its full title includes the word "Adventures" Alice in Wonderland |
#5511, aired 2008-07-21 | ON "Q" $1000: In Chapter X of "Alice in Wonderland", this French square dance gets top billing along with a lobster a quadrille |
#5509, aired 2008-07-17 | THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS $200: Alice finally decides that her journey through the looking-glass was one of these but doesn't know whose it was a dream |
#5509, aired 2008-07-17 | THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS $600: An egg that Alice buys grows larger & larger & eventually becomes this wall-sitter Humpty Dumpty |
#5509, aired 2008-07-17 | THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS $1000: This "colorful" royal advises Alice to "Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time" the Red Queen |
#5501, aired 2008-07-07 | WHAT'S MISSING? $800: Before Alice joins them, the 3 sitting at the table for the tea party:
Mad Hatter, March Hare & _____ the Dormouse |
#5491, aired 2008-06-23 | MINDBENDING MISCELLANY $1600: Referring to these 2 Disneyland rides, one designer said, "I went from sweet little children to dirty old men" It's A Small World & Pirates of the Caribbean |
#5479, aired 2008-06-05 | AMERICAN LIT $600: "Living By The Word" is a collection of prose pieces by this author of "The Color Purple" Alice Walker |
#5475, aired 2008-05-30 | ROCK $200: After he bit the head off a bat during a 1982 concert, a series of rabies shots followed Ozzy Osbourne |
#5459, aired 2008-05-08 | BY, THE BOOK $400: False advertising alert! In 1933 she penned "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" Gertrude Stein |
#5446, aired 2008-04-21 | THEATRE $2000: This "diminuitive" Edward Albee play was first produced on Broadway in 1964 Tiny Alice |
#5444, aired 2008-04-17 | FICTIONAL FEMALES $400: Her lines include "What a curious feeling!", "How queer everything is today!" & "I didn't know that cats could grin" Alice |
#5433, aired 2008-04-02 | WATER WORKS $200: A waterfall provides only temporary safety from the Hurons for Alice & Cora in this Fenimore Cooper novel Last of the Mohicans |
#5401, aired 2008-02-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In this novel by Alice Walker, Celie moves to Memphis, where she designs & sells unisex pants The Color Purple |
#5394, aired 2008-02-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: Her fourth novel, "The Temple of My Familiar", featured several characters from "The Color Purple" Alice Walker |
#5365, aired 2007-12-28 | ON BROADWAY $600: In 2007 Fantasia of "American Idol" took over the role of Celie in the musical based on this Alice Walker novel The Color Purple |
#5343, aired 2007-11-28 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS $800: A clergyman known as "The Puff-Puff Parson" created this character, the basis of a series of books, DVDs, etc. Thomas the Tank Engine |
#5325, aired 2007-11-02 | PRIME TIME SPIN-OFFS $800: "Flo" Alice |
#5311, aired 2007-10-15 | AUSTRALIAN LIT $2000: After settling in Australia, he set many of his novels there, like "On the Beach" & "A Town Like Alice" (Nevil) Shute |
#5306, aired 2007-10-08 | IN MY FREE TIME $1200: I'm mastering this outdoor game, but I don't use a flamingo for a mallet like Alice did in "Alice in Wonderland" croquet |
#5292, aired 2007-09-18 | THE RICH LIST $600 (Daily Double): In 2006 4 members of this family, including offspring Jim & Alice, were among the top 10 richest Americans the Walton family |
#5290, aired 2007-09-14 | SITCOM SUPPORTING CHARACTERS $400: Rock me, Ann B. Davis! Ms. D played housekeeper Alice Nelson on this sitcom from 1969 to 1974 The Brady Bunch |
#5289, aired 2007-09-13 | INTERNATIONAL $200: Oil up with some serious sunscreen as you trek to Alice Springs, the center of this nation's vast "Red Centre" Australia |
#5251, aired 2007-06-11 | RADCLIFFE GRADS $600: Before moving to Paris & meeting Alice, she studied psychology at Radcliffe under William James Gertrude Stein |
#5237, aired 2007-05-22 | A PIECE OF CAKE $800: This children's book character rapidly grows to incredible size after eating a cake marked "EAT ME" Alice (in Wonderland) |
#5231, aired 2007-05-14 | MOMS' MONOGRAMS $200: Royal mom of Alice, Alfred, Arthur & 6 others: QV Queen Victoria |
#5229, aired 2007-05-10 | LEWIS CARROLL $200: In book titles, Lewis Carroll took Alice on "Adventures in Wonderland" & "Through" this the looking glass |
#5229, aired 2007-05-10 | LEWIS CARROLL $400: When he meets Alice, this character says, "It's very provoking to be called an egg, very!" Humpty Dumpty |
#5229, aired 2007-05-10 | LEWIS CARROLL $1000: This enigmatic feline "only grinned when it saw Alice... still it had very long claws and a great many teeth" the Cheshire Cat |
#5226, aired 2007-05-07 | COLLEGE STADIUMS & ARENAS $1000: Rupp Arena is the home court to this school's Wildcats basketball team University of Kentucky |
#5226, aired 2007-05-07 | CUTTING-EDGE SCIENCE $1600: Invasion biology studies species like the brown tree this reptile, which wiped out 9 of Guam's 11 native bird species snakes |
#5226, aired 2007-05-07 | SPRING BREAK! $2000: On April 17 this state enjoys Verrazano Day New York |
#5208, aired 2007-04-11 | ROCK $1000: You'll find this geological attraction about 280 miles from Alice Springs Ayers Rock |
#5206, aired 2007-04-09 | LITERARY GEOGRAPHY $1,000 (Daily Double): Chapter 1 of "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" is entitled "Before I Came To" this city Paris |
#5194, aired 2007-03-22 | MUSICAL LIT $2000: In this Hawthorne tale, Alice Pyncheon's ghost is said to play the harpsichord The House of the Seven Gables |
#5163, aired 2007-02-07 | POPULAR CULTURE $800: Alice Childress' moving novel for young adults about a teen on drugs is called "A Hero Ain't Nothing But" this a Sandwich |
#5138, aired 2007-01-03 | CLASSIC TV SHOWS BY CHARACTER $200: Trixie Norton,
Alice Kramden The Honeymooners |
#5137, aired 2007-01-02 | RED, WHITE, OR BLUE $800: When he meets Alice in Wonderland, he's carrying a pocket watch the White Rabbit |
#5133, aired 2006-12-27 | TV SHOWS BY CHARACTER $200: Alice & Aloysius Snuffleupagus,
Count von Count,
Bob Sesame Street |
#5133, aired 2006-12-27 | ARTISTS $800: The play "Lobster Alice" imagines this surrealist showing up at Disney to work on an animated film (Salvador) Dali |
#5132, aired 2006-12-26 | PHOTOGRAPHERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Best known as a writer of children's stories, he was also a fine photographer; Alice Liddell was a subject Lewis Carroll |
#5115, aired 2006-12-01 | MOUSE PADS $400: In "Alice in Wonderland" this rodent is seen dozing at the tea party & is rudely awakened the Dormouse |
#5108, aired 2006-11-22 | MOVIE GUYS & GALS $1,200 (Daily Double): 1969:
"____ & ____ & ____ & ____" Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice |
#5104, aired 2006-11-16 | IT HAPPENS EVERY YEAR $800: Each year this "Dairyland State" selects an Alice in Dairyland spokesperson who helps out with June Dairy Month Wisconsin |
#5100, aired 2006-11-10 | I FORGOT MY LINE! $400: When the Mad Hatter says, "No room!", you retort, "There's plenty of room!" as you're playing this title girl Alice (in Wonderland) |
#5088, aired 2006-10-25 | I GO BY "AL" $1600: If I take the 5:15 p.m. train from Adelaide, Australia on Sunday night, I go by this city Monday at noon Alice Springs |
#5074, aired 2006-10-05 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $1000: In "Alice in Wonderland", it "vanished quite slowly... ending with the grin, which remained some time" Cheshire Cat |
#5066, aired 2006-09-25 | AN AMERICAN IN PARIS $2000: This companion of Gertrude Stein raised some eyebrows with her 1954 cookbook Alice B. Toklas |
#5011, aired 2006-05-29 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Presidential assassin who won acclaim for the novels "The Magnificent Ambersons" & "Alice Adams" John Wilkes Booth Tarkington |
#4992, aired 2006-05-02 | SOMEDAY MY PRINTS WILL COME $200: A print of an original John Tenniel illustration of this young literary lady is seen here Alice in Wonderland |
#4968, aired 2006-03-29 | LITERATURE $1000: In Wonderland, Alice comes across a large one of these with a snooty caterpillar atop it a mushroom |
#4966, aired 2006-03-27 | FAKE ROCK BANDS & SINGERS $1200: Alice Bowie was the punkish band put together by Cheech & Chong in this dopey 1978 epic Up in Smoke |
#4947, aired 2006-02-28 | THINGS IN THE YALE LIBRARY $1600: Yale has Gertrude Stein's miniature chairs, needlepointed by this companion of hers from designs by Picasso Alice Toklas |
#4928, aired 2006-02-01 | ON BROADWAY $200: David Letterman walked Oprah to the opening of this musical based on an Alice Walker novel The Color Purple |
#4909, aired 2006-01-05 | LITERARY ROCK & ROLL $800: This colorful song by Jefferson Airplane retells in part the story of Alice in Wonderland "White Rabbit" |
#4903, aired 2005-12-28 | AMERICAN WOMEN $2,000 (Daily Double): Babette was the middle name of this American woman who moved to France in 1907 Alice B. Toklas |
#4896, aired 2005-12-19 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): Alice Walker helped revive interest in this author dubbed "The Queen of the Harlem Renaissance" Zora Neale Hurston |
#4886, aired 2005-12-05 | AUTHOR! AUTHOR! $1200: This African-American author's works include the 500,000-year-spanning "Temple of My Familiar" Alice Walker |
#4865, aired 2005-11-04 | UNUSUAL PETS $800: Alice Roosevelt appeared in public with one of these around her neck--the reptile, not the scarf a boa (constrictor) |
#4857, aired 2005-10-25 | THE BRADY BRUNCH $1000: Alice chopped up lots of vegetables for this Italian omelet that resembles a large pancake a frittata |
#4855, aired 2005-10-21 | PRESIDENTIAL DAUGHTERS $1000: Known as "Princess Alice", she married a congressman who became Speaker of the House in the 1920s Alice Roosevelt |
#4853, aired 2005-10-19 | OCCUPATIONAL TV $800: Well kiss my grits, Mel's Diner was the place of work on this sitcom Alice |
#4848, aired 2005-10-12 | KID LIT $400: Originally an 1864 Christmas gift to a friend, her "Adventures Under Ground" became a classic under a new title Alice in Wonderland |
#4820, aired 2005-07-15 | QUOTES! $1600: In a chapter called "The Pool of Tears", this title character exclaims, "Curiouser and curiouser!" Alice |
#4799, aired 2005-06-16 | WRITERS AT REST $200: She & Alice B. Toklas are buried next to each other at Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris Gertrude Stein |
#4797, aired 2005-06-14 | GO $1200: "Veil, Duster and Tire Iron" is a memoir by Alice Ramsey, the first woman to cross North America this way by car |
#4786, aired 2005-05-30 | FILL IN THE TITLE $200: Alice Walker:
"The Color ___" Purple |
#4782, aired 2005-05-24 | CROSSWORD CLUES "T" $800: Stein's secretary
(6) (Alice) Toklas |
#4771, aired 2005-05-09 | POP CULTURE $400: This almost 70-year-old tenor dedicated his first pop CD, "Ti adoro", to his baby daughter Alice Luciano Pavarotti |
#4761, aired 2005-04-25 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $400: "The Color Purple" Alice Walker |
#4752, aired 2005-04-12 | EDWARD ALBEE $1600: Brother Julian is ensnared by Miss Alice in this 1964 play that Albee called a "metaphysical melodrama" Tiny Alice |
#4743, aired 2005-03-30 | KITTY LIT $400: This chatty cat belongs to the Duchess in "Alice in Wonderland" the Cheshire Cat |
#4730, aired 2005-03-11 | COUNTRIES BY NEWSPAPERS $200: The Bunyip &
The Alice Springs News Australia |
#4717, aired 2005-02-22 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $400: Her marriage to Mel Leventhal produced Rebecca Walker, who produced the memoir "Black, White and Jewish" Alice Walker |
#4717, aired 2005-02-22 | I "WONDER" $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Yellowstone Nat'l Park.) The scenery gave Yellowstone this nickname, so it was fitting when Teddy Roosevelt's daughter Alice visited the park "Nature's Wonderland" |
#4712, aired 2005-02-15 | 1970s TV $1600: This sitcom's theme song said, "I used to be sad, I used to be shy, funniest thing, the saddest part is I never knew why..." Alice |
#4707, aired 2005-02-08 | THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS $1200: These two chubby little men resent Alice staring at them: "If you think we're wax-works, you ought to pay, you know" Tweedledum & Tweedledee |
#4707, aired 2005-02-08 | THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS $1600: This single-horned beast is stunned to meet Alice because he always thought children were "fabulous monsters" a unicorn |
#4707, aired 2005-02-08 | THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS $2000: This feline flower tells Alice most flowers don't talk because their beds are too soft & they're always asleep the Tiger Lily |
#4692, aired 2005-01-18 | "ROAD" SHOW $800: Meat Loaf strives to work on the Alice Cooper tour in this film Roadie |
#4638, aired 2004-11-04 | '50s TV $600: During the 1955-56 season, its episodes included "Alice and the Blonde" & "Bensonhurst Bomber" The Honeymooners |
#4633, aired 2004-10-27 | CHILDREN IN LITERATURE $400: Lewis Carroll created this heroine to amuse the daughter of his dean at Christ Church Alice |
#4618, aired 2004-10-06 | SONG LYRICS $1600: This Alice Cooper tune cheers, "No more pencils, no more books, no more teacher's dirty looks" "School's Out" |
#4602, aired 2004-09-14 | RHYME TIME $400: In "Through the Looking Glass" he tells Alice there's no chance he'd ever fall off his wall Humpty Dumpty |
#4602, aired 2004-09-14 | RHYME TIME $800: In "Through the Looking Glass" he tells Alice his horse has anklets to guard against shark bites the White Knight |
#4584, aired 2004-07-08 | THAT'S MY SCHOOL! $800: Barbara Walters & Alice Walker are among the graduates of her college in Bronxville, New York Sarah Lawrence |
#4574, aired 2004-06-24 | KIDDY LIT $600: (Sofia of the Clue Crew is out on the court.) In the "Alice in Wonderland" croquet match, the balls are hedgehogs & the mallets are these flamingos |
#4574, aired 2004-06-24 | KIDDY LIT $1000: In the story by Alice Rice, it's where "Mrs. Wiggs" is "of" the Cabbage Patch |
#4562, aired 2004-06-08 | ALL THE PRESIDENTS' CHILDREN $1000: "I can be president," Teddy Roosevelt said, "or I can control" this daughter, "I cannot possibly do both" Alice |
#4527, aired 2004-04-20 | THE TV CHARACTER IN COMMON $2000: Audrey Meadows & Sheila MacRae Alice Kramden |
#4523, aired 2004-04-14 | BRITISH LIT $400: It's Lewis Carroll's sequel to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" Through the Looking-Glass |
#4522, aired 2004-04-13 | THAT'S ALL SHE WROTE $800: "What is Remembered" & the cookbook named for her; not "The Autobiography of" her (Stein wrote that) Alice B. Toklas |
#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 |
#4491, aired 2004-03-01 | SPRINGS ON THE MAP $400: This Australian town was named for a waterhole that was named for telegraph advocate Charles Todd's wife Alice Springs |
#4483, aired 2004-02-18 | BALLET $800: 3 ballerinas play this queen's tarts in Andrei Bossov's "Alice in Wonderland" ballet the Queen of Hearts |
#4477, aired 2004-02-10 | POP MUSIC $2000: This hard rock group took its name from an Alice in Chains song Godsmack |
#4467, aired 2004-01-27 | "W"HODUNNIT? $800: She's the 1982 Pulitzer Prize author seen here early in her career Alice Walker |
#4458, aired 2004-01-14 | CONNECTICUT $600: Miss Porter's School in Farmington was the alma mater of this Long Island-born first lady Jackie Kennedy |
#4458, aired 2004-01-14 | HOLEY $2000: In children's tales, Winnie the Pooh got stuck in one & Alice fell through one rabbit hole |
#4446, aired 2003-12-29 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: Her stories, in collections like "Friend of My Youth", often concern women of small-town Canada Alice Munro |
#4440, aired 2003-12-19 | TAKE MY FIRST WIFE... PLEASE! $2000: Alice Hathaway Lee, but she wouldn't live to be First Lady Theodore Roosevelt |
#4423, aired 2003-11-26 | COOKBOOKS $1600: The original version of her 1954 cookbook had reminiscences of Gertrude Stein & yes, that recipe for hashish fudge Alice B. Toklas |
#4409, aired 2003-11-06 | FLIGHTLESS BIRDS $800: Now extinct, this native of Mauritius is a character in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" the dodo |
#4380, aired 2003-09-26 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $600: Another name for a mirror; Alice went "through" one looking-glass |
#4367, aired 2003-09-09 | MOVED TO FRANCE $400: By 1903 this American had settled in France where she was joined by Alice B. Toklas Gertrude Stein |
#4356, aired 2003-07-07 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $600: Dinah, the name of a real cat that belonged to the Liddell children, is the cat of this fictional girl Alice (of "Alice in Wonderland") |
#4323, aired 2003-05-21 | SPEAKERS OF THE HOUSE $1,000 (Daily Double): House speaker Nicholas Longworth was married to this president's daughter Alice Theodore Roosevelt |
#4313, aired 2003-05-07 | BESTSELLERS $400: This novel by Alice Sebold is narrated by a 14-year-old girl looking down from heaven after her murder "The Lovely Bones" |
#4309, aired 2003-05-01 | TV WORKPLACES $1000: Restaurant where Alice, Vera & "Kiss My Grits" Flo waited tables Mel's Diner |
#4277, aired 2003-03-18 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: Type of book, like Martin Gardner's edition of "Alice", that includes explanatory information as well as the text annotated |
#4274, aired 2003-03-13 | POP LIT $800: The Beatles & Jefferson Airplane delved into this "Alice" author for inspiration Lewis Carroll |
#4251, aired 2003-02-10 | DISNEY FILM VOICES $600: Before he was the voice of Winnie the Pooh, Sterling Holloway was purr-fect as this "Alice in Wonderland" kitty the Cheshire Cat |
#4246, aired 2003-02-03 | SYNONYMBLE $200: Alice in Wonderland could tell you that a looking-glass is a synonym for one of these mirror |
#4245, aired 2003-01-31 | FROM THE FRENCH $1600: In "Alice in Wonderland", Lewis Carroll adapted this 4-couple French dance for lobsters quadrille |
#4231, aired 2003-01-13 | AMERICAN WOMEN $800: Her book "The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult" contains notes on filming "The Color Purple" Alice Walker |
#4227, aired 2003-01-07 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $300 (Daily Double): In a 2001 tale by Alice Hoffman, Aquamarine is a beautiful & brokenhearted one of these creatures a mermaid |
#4216, aired 2002-12-23 | ALBEE $800: Miss Alice is the richest woman in the world in this Albee play Tiny Alice |
#4211, aired 2002-12-16 | COUNTRIES BY NEWSPAPER $1000: The Warrnambool Standard & The Alice Springs News Australia |
#4207, aired 2002-12-10 | ROCK AROUND AMERICA $1600: This shock rocker was still known as Vince Furnier when he played with the Spiders at the VIP Club in Phoenix Alice Cooper |
#4187, aired 2002-11-12 | A CATEGORY FULL OF HOLES $200: Beginning a series of strange adventures, a young girl follows a rabbit down a hole in this 1865 work "Alice in Wonderland" |
#4178, aired 2002-10-30 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $200: The Queen of Hearts' gardeners are "oblong & flat" & have numbers for names because they're these playing cards |
#4178, aired 2002-10-30 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $400: Alice is delighted to find a bottle that is not marked "Poison" but instead is labeled with these 2 words "Drink Me" |
#4178, aired 2002-10-30 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $600: At the Knave of Hearts' trial, this witness enters with a teacup in one hand & bread-&-butter in the other the Mad Hatter |
#4178, aired 2002-10-30 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $800: The dodo in the book represents Lewis Carroll, whose real last name was this, starting with the same 3 letters (Charles Lutwidge) Dodgson |
#4178, aired 2002-10-30 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $1000: These spiny little creatures used as balls in the croquet game have a maddening tendency to crawl away hedgehogs |
#4176, aired 2002-10-28 | THE 1890s $800: This school-oriented organization was founded in 1897 by Alice Birney & Phoebe Hearst PTA (Parent-Teacher Association) |
#4141, aired 2002-09-09 | UNREAL ESTATE $1600: In "Alice in Wonderland", this character's house has chimneys shaped like ears & a roof thatched with fur the March Hare |
#4127, aired 2002-07-09 | GONE WITH THE WIND $800: In 2001 the Margaret Mitchell estate tried to stop publication of this parody by Alice Randall "The Wind Done Gone" |
#4104, aired 2002-06-06 | SITCOM CITIES $2000: "Alice" Phoenix |
#4103, aired 2002-06-05 | HUMPTY DUMPTY $800: This comedian played Humpty Dumpty in the 1933 Paramount film "Alice in Wonderland" W.C. Fields |
#4103, aired 2002-06-05 | HUMPTY DUMPTY $1000: Alice had some of the unusual words in this Lewis Carroll poem explained to her by Humpty "Jabberwocky" |
#4097, aired 2002-05-28 | 19th CENTURY LIT $400: This Wonderland kitty "had very long claws and a great many teeth, so" Alice decided to treat it with respect Cheshire Cat |
#4093, aired 2002-05-22 | MAID FOR TV $400: She kept house for Mike Brady & his boys, long before Mike married Carol Alice |
#4090, aired 2002-05-17 | THE TV VAULT $400: This show that featured a dingbat debuted in 1971 All in the Family |
#4064, aired 2002-04-11 | BRIT LIT $800: This disappearing feline in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" tells Alice that "We're all mad here" the Cheshire cat |
#4043, aired 2002-03-13 | THE PLAY'S THE THING $1000: This "diminutive" Edward Albee play was first produced on Broadway in 1964 Tiny Alice |
#4037, aired 2002-03-05 | TV STARS ON BROADWAY $2000: This star of TV's "Alice" earned critical raves for the hit comedy "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife" Linda Lavin |
#4023, aired 2002-02-13 | SIMILES $1000: One might be as mad as a hatter or as this, also a character in "Alice in Wonderland" a March hare |
#4023, aired 2002-02-13 | GO READ A BOOK $3,400 (Daily Double): According to the Alice Childress title, this "Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich" a hero |
#4022, aired 2002-02-12 | AMERICAN LIT $1200: "Living by the Word" is a collection of prose pieces by this author of "The Color Purple" (Alice) Walker |
#4014, aired 2002-01-31 | IT'S "OK" $1000: Gertrude Stein's constant companion Alice (B.) Toklas |
#4004, aired 2002-01-17 | IT'S PARTY TIME! $800: (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from Central Park.) Alice & the Mad Hatter had this kind of party in chapter 7 of "Alice in Wonderland" a tea party |
#3999, aired 2002-01-10 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $200: The story began as a tale told to Alice Liddell & her sisters during a rowing trip on this river Thames |
#3999, aired 2002-01-10 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $400: Alice's trip to Wonderland starts when she follows this character down a hole that's under a hedge White Rabbit |
#3999, aired 2002-01-10 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $600: When Alice plays this game, the flamingo she's using as a mallet gets away & tries to fly up into a tree croquet |
#3999, aired 2002-01-10 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew at the Alice statue in Central Park.) It was this worm-like creature who told Alice
that eating a mushroom would make her taller or shorter Caterpillar |
#3993, aired 2002-01-02 | ROLE IN COMMON $1200: Ellen Burstyn didn't "Live Here Anymore" when Linda Lavin became this "New Girl In Town" Alice |
#3988, aired 2001-12-26 | UNREAL ESTATE $200: It's where Alice went, or any place filled with remarkable sights Wonderland |
#3987, aired 2001-12-25 | "OOM" PA-PA $800: When Alice first met the Caterpillar he was sitting on one of these mushroom |
#3974, aired 2001-12-06 | CAMILLA $1000: Camilla's great-grandmother, Alice Keppel, was a mistress of this early 20th century king, seen here Edward VII |
#3955, aired 2001-11-09 | ON THE BOOKSHELF $500: (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from Central Park.) From up here on Alice's mushroom, I can read lines from this poem that begins, "Twas brillig, and the slithy toves..." "Jabberwocky" |
#3899, aired 2001-07-12 | POETS & POETRY $200: While attending Sarah Lawrence College, this "Color Purple" author wrote her first book of poetry (Alice) Walker |
#3896, aired 2001-07-09 | OUT OF "POCKET" $100: The dapper White Rabbit in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" frequently consulted this his pocket watch |
#3891, aired 2001-07-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $200: "The Way Forward Is With A Broken Heart" is a largely autobiographical story collection by this "Color Purple" author (Alice) Walker |
#3882, aired 2001-06-19 | LITERATURE $400: In 1919 Booth Tarkington won a Pulitzer Prize for this "Magnificent" novel; in 1922 he won again for "Alice Adams" "The Magnificent Ambersons" |
#3844, aired 2001-04-26 | PRESIDENTS $500: In a tragic coincidence, his mother & his first wife, Alice, both died on Valentine's Day in 1884 Theodore Roosevelt |
#3839, aired 2001-04-19 | AND THE "REST" $600: Arlo Guthrie starred in this '69 film inspired by his song of the same name Alice's Restaurant |
#3830, aired 2001-04-06 | WORLD OF ANIMATION $300: A very late rabbit is featured in Czech master Jan Svankmajer's 1988 version of the story of this girl "Alice In Wonderland" |
#3818, aired 2001-03-21 | KITTY LIT $200: Kitty purrs that this title girl thinks of her cat Dinah as she falls down the rabbit hole Alice in Wonderland |
#3810, aired 2001-03-09 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $300: This character dozes at the tea party in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" Dormouse |
#3804, aired 2001-03-01 | "LOOK" OUT! $400: Alice knows it's a mirror the looking glass |
#3796, aired 2001-02-19 | FANTASTIC $400: "Doom" video game designer American McGee has put a demented twist on this heroine, as seen here Alice in Wonderland |
#3784, aired 2001-02-01 | DISNEY FILM VOICES $1000: Young Kathryn Beaumont was so good as the voice of this title girl in 1951 that she got to play Wendy in "Peter Pan", too Alice in Wonderland |
#3769, aired 2001-01-11 | AUSSIE ODDS & ENDS $300: Nevil Shute's novel "A Town Like Alice" is set during this war World War II |
#3764, aired 2001-01-04 | BIG SCREEN BUNNIES $800: If you were in this 1951 Disney film you'd have had a chance to chase a rabbit along with a little girl Alice in Wonderland |
#3755, aired 2000-12-22 | CATS UP $400: This grinning creature that looks down at Alice in Wonderland is convinced it's mad Cheshire Cat |
#3747, aired 2000-12-12 | NAME THE TV SHOW $100: "One of these days, Alice, one of these days...Pow! Right in the kisser!" The Honeymooners |
#3735, aired 2000-11-24 | CLASSIC TV TITLE ROLES $400: Waitress Linda Lavin Alice |
#3731, aired 2000-11-20 | POETS & POETRY $100: Most of this "Color Purple" author's first volume of poetry, "Once", was written in one week in 1964 Alice Walker |
#3727, aired 2000-11-14 | CLIFFS NOTES $100: Girl falls asleep, has some really weird dreams, wakes up, goes to tea "Alice in Wonderland"/"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" |
#3717, aired 2000-10-31 | GO ASK ALICE $100: It was originally titled "Alice's Adventures Under Ground" Alice in Wonderland |
#3717, aired 2000-10-31 | GO ASK ALICE $200: Audrey Meadows played this long-suffering woman on "The Honeymooners" Alice Kramden |
#3717, aired 2000-10-31 | GO ASK ALICE $300: This multi-decade showman tore up the charts with hits like "School's Out", "No More Mr. Nice Guy" & "Muscle of Love" Alice Cooper |
#3717, aired 2000-10-31 | GO ASK ALICE $400: "You can get anything you want" at this title location in an Arlo Guthrie hit "Alice's Restaurant" |
#3717, aired 2000-10-31 | GO ASK ALICE $500: Of the 2 women seen here in 1934, she's the Alice Alice B. Toklas |
#3707, aired 2000-10-17 | TODD McFARLANE FIGURINES $500: Once a member of the Earwigs, he's the groundbreaking rock & roll madman depicted here Alice Cooper |
#3701, aired 2000-10-09 | WHAT'S THE GOOD WORDSWORTH? $200: 3-word title of the poem about "that sailor's friend"; it's where Ralph wanted to send Alice "To The Moon" |
#3697, aired 2000-10-03 | TELEVISION $400: Alice is the housekeeper on this classic sitcom; Sam the butcher is her boyfriend The Brady Bunch |
#3696, aired 2000-10-02 | KID LIT $100: In a Lewis Carroll story, this young girl has wondrous "Adventures in Wonderland" Alice |
#3684, aired 2000-09-14 | BRITISH LITERATURE $100: Concerning his "Alice in Wonderland" books, he said, "I meant nothing but nonsense" Lewis Carroll |
#3684, aired 2000-09-14 | 1950s EMMYS $800: She won 2 Emmys as Shultzy on "The Bob Cummings Show"; none as Alice on "The Brady Bunch" Ann B. Davis |
#3679, aired 2000-09-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $200: Anthropologists pose as missionaries in "By The Light of My Father's Smile" by this author of "The Color Purple" Alice Walker |
#3676, aired 2000-09-04 | THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS $200: In Chapter 1 Alice discusses this game with a cat chess |
#3676, aired 2000-09-04 | THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS $600: Alice considered the whole adventure one of these, even without seeing Patrick Duffy in the shower a dream |
#3676, aired 2000-09-04 | THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS $1000: Alice found this poem hard to understand even after she figured out that she had to hold it up to a mirror "Jabberwocky" |
#3649, aired 2000-06-15 | SONGS FROM DISNEY FILMS $300: "I'm Late" & "March of the Cards" Alice in Wonderland |
#3632, aired 2000-05-23 | LESSER-KNOWN MUSICALS $400: Bully for Len Cariou, who played this famous man in the musical "Teddy And Alice" Theodore Roosevelt |
#3630, aired 2000-05-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $200: "You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down" is a book of stories by this Georgia-born author of "The Color Purple" Alice Walker |
#3615, aired 2000-04-28 | WINTERS $200: In a 1985 TV version of this classic tale, Jonathan played Humpty Dumpty Alice in Wonderland |
#3590, aired 2000-03-24 | AUTHORS $200: In addition to his "Alice" books, he wrote many math works including "Euclid and His Modern Rivals" Lewis Carroll |
#3579, aired 2000-03-09 | WOODY GUTHRIE $400: He's Woody's folk singer son, known for "Alice's Restaurant" Arlo Guthrie |
#3549, aired 2000-01-27 | WALTZING $1000: The title of the waltz "Alice Blue Gown" was inspired by a dress color favored by this woman Alice Roosevelt |
#3514, aired 1999-12-09 | THIS TOWN AIN'T BIG ENOUGH $800: These "springs" with a female name, population about 25,000, are the center of Australia's vast "Red Centre" Alice Springs |
#3488, aired 1999-11-03 | THE CLASSICS $200: Author who sent Alice down the rabbit hole into Wonderland Lewis Carroll |
#3450, aired 1999-09-10 | KIDDIE LIT CHARACTERS $500: She was based in part on a real child Alice (of "Alice in Wonderland") |
#3444, aired 1999-07-22 | CELEBRITY HODGEPODGE $100: Verna Felton was the voice of the nice fairy godmother in "Cinderella" & the mean Queen of Hearts in this film Alice in Wonderland |
#3403, aired 1999-05-26 | FAIRY TALE FEMMES $100: One of the few times she laughs in Wonderland is when she has to use a flamingo to play croquet Alice |
#3399, aired 1999-05-20 | RHYMES WITH 8 $300: The white rabbit Alice saw exclaimed he was this late |
#3372, aired 1999-04-13 | OXYMORONS $1000: Shh! A 1994 short story collection by Alice Munro is titled "Open" these Secrets |
#3370, aired 1999-04-09 | CLASSIC SITCOMS $500: Sitcom on which you'd frequently hear the line, "Kiss My Grits!" Alice |
#3369, aired 1999-04-08 | BRIT LIT $400: When this heroine shrinks, she falls into a pool of tears she'd shed when she was 9 feet tall Alice in Wonderland |
#3364, aired 1999-04-01 | IMPOSSIBLE $100: Lewis Carroll's White Queen said of this girl's age, she "believed as many as 6 impossible things before breakfast" Alice |
#3348, aired 1999-03-10 | WOMEN: WRITE ON! $400: An accidental gunshot wound when she was 8 left this "Color Purple" author blind in one eye Alice Walker |
#3334, aired 1999-02-18 | TEA TIME $300: Fictional girl who says, "It's the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life!" Alice |
#3322, aired 1999-02-02 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: The first character Alice meets in Wonderland, he wears a waistcoat & a pocket watch the White Rabbit |
#3311, aired 1999-01-18 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $200: The author of "The Color Purple" takes on a Chuck Norris TV role Alice Walker, Texas Ranger |
#3300, aired 1999-01-01 | A VERY BRADY CATEGORY $200: In the tic-tac-toe board-like opening credits, this character occupied the center square Alice |
#3291, aired 1998-12-21 | AFFAIRS OF STATE $200: Alice Glass reportedly broke off her affair with this president because she opposed the Vietnam War Lyndon B. Johnson |
#3287, aired 1998-12-15 | DISNEY FILM VOICES $100: Ed Wynn provided the voice of this loony "Alice In Wonderland" character; keep it under your hat The Mad Hatter |
#3286, aired 1998-12-14 | SHE WAS IN THAT? $800: She can be seen briefly as a child in her mom Diane Ladd's film "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" Laura Dern |
#3272, aired 1998-11-24 | BIRTHPLACES $600: TV's Alice Kramden, she was born in Wu Chang, China Audrey Meadows |
#3272, aired 1998-11-24 | BIRTHPLACES $1000: This glamourous blonde star of 1936's "My Man Godfrey" was born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana Carole Lombard |
#3256, aired 1998-11-02 | WOMEN'S LIBERATION $100: In 1910 Alice Wells got special badge No. 1 as the first female one of these in Los Angeles Police officer |
#3256, aired 1998-11-02 | ACTRESS TURNED WAITRESS $1,000 (Daily Double): She won an Oscar for her portrayal of waitress Alice Hyatt Ellyn Burstyn ("Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore") |
#3249, aired 1998-10-22 | THE SWINGIN' '60s $500: The 4 title characters of the 1969 movie seen here "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" |
#3246, aired 1998-10-19 | "QUEEN" FOR A DAY $100: In Wonderland, she cries "Off with" Alice's "head"! What a card! the Queen of Hearts |
#3241, aired 1998-10-12 | TELEVISION $600: Alice left New Jersey to be a singer but ended up as a waitress at his Phoenix diner Mel Sharples |
#3222, aired 1998-09-15 | WACKY TV NEIGHBORS $500: In 1966 Sandra Gould replaced Alice Pearce in the role of this nosy neighbor on "Bewitched" Gladys Kravitz |
#3214, aired 1998-07-16 | DIARIES $2,000 (Daily Double): The anonymous author of this diary took her title from the Jefferson Airplane song "White Rabbit" Go Ask Alice |
#3204, aired 1998-07-02 | 3 LITTLE WORDS $800: On TV's "Alice", if you changed your breakfast order you'd probably hear this from Flo "Kiss my Grits!" |
#3192, aired 1998-06-16 | NOM DE PLUME $200: Under this name, Charles Dodgson imagined traveling down the rabbit hole with Alice Lewis Carroll |
#3161, aired 1998-05-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This story of 2 devoted sisters earned Alice Walker the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction "The Color Purple" |
#3141, aired 1998-04-06 | PUDDING $200: In "Through the Looking-Glass", the pudding reprimands this girl for cutting a slice of him Alice |
#3136, aired 1998-03-30 | "LO" MEN $2,000 (Daily Double): This politician married Teddy Roosevelt's daughter Alice, who outlived him by 49 years (Nicholas) Longworth |
#3132, aired 1998-03-24 | ROCK STARS $800 (Daily Double): Rock stars turning 50 in 1998 include Alice Cooper, Steve Winwood & this singer, heard here: Kenny Loggins |
#3109, aired 1998-02-19 | GRINNIN' $100: About this character, Alice remarked "I didn't know cats could grin" Cheshire Cat |
#3098, aired 1998-02-04 | CHAMBERS $400: This performing complex' Alice Tully Hall is home to its chamber music society Lincoln Center |
#3076, aired 1998-01-05 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $400: This Alice Walker novel tells Celie's story through letters she writes to God & her sister The Color Purple |
#3067, aired 1997-12-23 | '60s FLICKS $800: One book abbreviated this 1969 film "B&C&T&A" Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice |
#3065, aired 1997-12-19 | "CAP" & "GOWN" $500: Nickname of Teddy Roosevelt's daughter, Mrs. Longworth "Alice Bluegown" |
#3064, aired 1997-12-18 | THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS $300: Name shared by a talking flower Alice meets & an Indian girl in "Peter Pan" Tiger Lily |
#3064, aired 1997-12-18 | THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS $400: The full title is "Through the Looking Glass and" this What Alice Found There |
#3064, aired 1997-12-18 | THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS $500: At the start of the book we discover this pet cat of Alice's had kittens, perhaps in the kitchen Dinah |
#3060, aired 1997-12-12 | TRUE LIVES $400: Despite its title, "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" is a book by & about this woman Gertrude Stein |
#3052, aired 1997-12-02 | ADVICE $300: "Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home", wrote this author of "The Color Purple" Alice Walker |
#3051, aired 1997-12-01 | LAST WORDS $300: "What is the answer?" (Alice B. Toklas was silent.) "In that case, what is the question?" Gertrude Stein |
#3045, aired 1997-11-21 | CLASSIC DISNEY FILMS $500: Famous voices in this film include Ed Wynn as the Mad Hatter & Jerry Colonna as the March Hare Alice in Wonderland |
#3035, aired 1997-11-07 | BLACK AMERICANS $400: In 1994 this "Color Purple" author was recognized by California for being a "state treasure" Alice Walker |
#3032, aired 1997-11-04 | THE CHESS CLUB $1000: In a Lewis Carroll book, Alice begins as one of these white pieces but later becomes a queen a pawn |
#2976, aired 1997-07-07 | CHILDRENS LITERATURE $500: Alice couldn't tell if this ovoid "Looking Glass" character was wearing a cravat or a belt Humpty Dumpty |
#2965, aired 1997-06-20 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $200: In "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland", he & the Mad Hatter host the Mad Tea Party The March Hare |
#2962, aired 1997-06-17 | TV ACTORS & ACTRESSES $300: Martha Raye appeared as Mel's mother on this Linda Lavin sitcom "Alice" |
#2953, aired 1997-06-04 | AUTHORS $200: She taught Black Studies at Jackson State College before she wrote "The Color Purple" Alice Walker |
#2936, aired 1997-05-12 | NONFICTION $400: In "The Same River Twice" Alice Walker talks about the making of this film, based on her novel The Color Purple |
#2915, aired 1997-04-11 | CROSSWORD CLUES "A" $200: Wonderland waif
(5) Alice |
#2893, aired 1997-03-12 | LITERATURE $600: In "Through The Looking Glass", Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice the meaning of this nonsense poem Jabberwocky |
#2883, aired 1997-02-26 | ACTRESSES & TV ROLE $200: Pert Kelton, Audrey Meadows, Sue Ann Langdon & Sheila MacRae played this "greatest" housewife Alice Kramden |
#2877, aired 1997-02-18 | LITERATURE $600: This character sends Alice to his house for a fresh pair of gloves & a new fan White Rabbit |
#2867, aired 1997-02-04 | CLASSIC SITCOMS $400: Alice Nelson was this family's housekeeper "The Brady Bunch" |
#2855, aired 1997-01-17 | NATIONAL PARKS $200: Features of this Kentucky park include the Frozen Niagara & Alice's Grotto Mammoth Cave |
#2853, aired 1997-01-15 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $200: Lewis Carroll based this title girl on a daughter of the dean of Oxford's Christ Church College Alice |
#2841, aired 1996-12-30 | LITERATURE $200: In 1923 Vladimir Nabokov translated "Alice In Wonderland" into this language Russian |
#2815, aired 1996-11-22 | PHOTOGRAPHY $600: This author excelled as a photographer of children & Alice Liddell was one of his subjects Lewis Carroll |
#2803, aired 1996-11-06 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $200: 1 Kings 4:32 says he wrote 1,005 songs Solomon |
#2803, aired 1996-11-06 | CARNIVORES $400: Although confined mostly to Africa, this fastest land animal can also be found in Iran & Afghanistan the cheetah |
#2803, aired 1996-11-06 | 20th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS $600: Sissy Hankshaw, protagonist of his "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues", has humongous thumbs (Tom) Robbins |
#2803, aired 1996-11-06 | LANGUAGES $800: This language of northeastern Spain is also spoken in the French department of Pyrenees-Orientales Catalan |
#2802, aired 1996-11-05 | DAM $800: The volume of this dam on the Nile is about 17 times that of the great pyramid at Giza the Aswan High Dam |
#2802, aired 1996-11-05 | THE KING AND I $1000: Camilla Parker Bowles' great-grandmother Alice Keppel was a mistress of this king who reigned 1901-1910 Edward VII |
#2802, aired 1996-11-05 | DAM $2,000 (Daily Double): Gatun Lake, part of this waterway, was created by damming the Chagres River the Panama Canal |
#2801, aired 1996-11-04 | LITERATURE $200: In disguise, the wicked queen sold this fair maiden a poisoned comb Snow White |
#2801, aired 1996-11-04 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: In 1861 the principalities of Walachia & Moldavia united to form this nation Romania |
#2798, aired 1996-10-30 | TELEVISION $300: The sitcom "Alice" was based on this 1975 film starring Ellen Burstyn Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore |
#2782, aired 1996-10-08 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: "Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful" is a volume of poetry by this author of "The Color Purple" (Alice) Walker |
#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 |
#2770, aired 1996-09-20 | LITERATURE $1000: This companion of Gertrude Stein published her memoir "What is Remembered" in 1963 Alice (B.) Toklas |
#2766, aired 1996-09-16 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: "Meridian" is an acclaimed novel about the civil rights movement by this author of "The Color Purple" Alice Walker |
#2761, aired 1996-09-09 | HOLLYWOOD FAMILIES $800: At 7 Laura Dern appeared briefly in "Alice doesn't Live Here Anymore" with this actress, her mother Diane Ladd |
#2758, aired 1996-09-04 | AUTHORS' RHYME TIME $400: Walker's castles Alice's palaces |
#2733, aired 1996-06-19 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $100: This wormlike creature sits atop a mushroom "with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah" the Caterpillar |
#2733, aired 1996-06-19 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $200: At the trial of the Knave of Hearts, this group consists of 12 animals, including Bill the Lizard the jury |
#2733, aired 1996-06-19 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $300: Tenniel's drawings of this milliner may be of Theophilus Carter, an eccentric inventor who wore a top hat the Mad Hatter |
#2733, aired 1996-06-19 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $400: At the Mad Tea Party, this long-eared character offers wine to Alice, even though there isn't any the March Hare |
#2733, aired 1996-06-19 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $500: This fabulous monster with an eagle's head & a lion's body takes Alice to see the Mock Turtle the Gryphon |
#2707, aired 1996-05-14 | LEAD SINGERS $300: Layne Staley Alice in Chains |
#2705, aired 1996-05-10 | CHARACTERS IN DISNEY FILMS $400: The Dodo,
the Doorknob,
the Dormouse Alice in Wonderland |
#2694, aired 1996-04-25 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $300: This "Color Purple" author was once an editor of Ms. Magazine Alice Walker |
#2682, aired 1996-04-09 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $100: This author of "The Color Purple" won a 1986 O. Henry Prize for her story "Kindred Spirits" Alice Walker |
#2674, aired 1996-03-28 | LITERATURE $600: The full title of this 1872 tale ends with "And what Alice found there" "Through the Looking-Glass" |
#2666, aired 1996-03-18 | AUTHORS $600: She followed "The Color Purple" with "In Search Of Our Mothers' Gardens" Alice Walker |
#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 |
#2639, aired 1996-02-08 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $200: In "Through the Looking Glass", Alice meets these 2 little fat men whose words seem nonsensical Tweedledee & Tweedledum |
#2628, aired 1996-01-24 | '50s FILM FACTS $100: This Disney film based on a book by Englishman Lewis Carroll had its world premiere in England in 1951 Alice in Wonderland |
#2625, aired 1996-01-19 | LITERATURE $200: He based the Red Queen on Miss Prickett, the governess of Alice Liddell Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson) |
#2624, aired 1996-01-18 | TELEVISION $500: In 1966 Alice Pearce won a posthumous Emmy for her role as neighbor Gladys Kravitz on this ABC sitcom Bewitched |
#2590, aired 1995-12-01 | WOMEN NOVELISTS $1000: "Possessing the Secret of Joy" is a 1992 novel by this woman who wrote "The Temple of my Familiar" Alice Walker |
#2583, aired 1995-11-22 | FIRST LADIES $800: While first lady, she arranged the White House wedding of her stepdaughter Alice in 1906 Edith Roosevelt |
#2576, aired 1995-11-13 | COLORFUL BOOKS $100: It was Alice Walker's third novel "The Color Purple" |
#2575, aired 1995-11-10 | TRANSPORTATION $400: This bus company began in 1914, when Carl Eric Wickman charged 25¢ for a round trip from Hibbing to Alice, Minn. Greyhound |
#2572, aired 1995-11-07 | THEY ALMOST STARRED IN... $200: Walt Disney considered casting Mary Pickford as this Lewis Carroll heroine Alice in Wonderland |
#2537, aired 1995-09-19 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $400: At the end of this Alice Walker novel, Celie is reunited with her children & her sister Nettie The Color Purple |
#2535, aired 1995-09-15 | MARTINS $400: This director's first commercial hit was "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore", released in 1975 Martin Scorsese |
#2508, aired 1995-06-28 | QUOTATIONS $600: "Remarks are not literature" is a line from her "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" Gertrude Stein |
#2498, aired 1995-06-14 | OPERA $200: She wrote libretti for Virgil Thomson operas under her own name, not Alice B. Toklas' Gertrude Stein |
#2492, aired 1995-06-06 | ORGANIZATIONS $100: In 1897 Phoebe Hearst & Alice Birney created this group in which families work with schools the PTA |
#2492, aired 1995-06-06 | SPEAKERS OF THE HOUSE $800: Alice Roosevelt's husband, he was speaker from 1925 until his death in 1931 (Nicholas) Longworth |
#2485, aired 1995-05-26 | AUTHORS $200: This author thought about calling his famous 1865 book "Alice Among the Goblins" Lewis Carroll |
#2479, aired 1995-05-18 | SPIELBERG FILMS $400: Oprah Winfrey made her big screen debut in this 1985 film based on a book by Alice Walker The Color Purple |
#2462, aired 1995-04-25 | ROYALTY $1,000 (Daily Double): Queen Victoria's daughter Alice was the mother of this Russian empress Alexandra |
#2426, aired 1995-03-06 | LITERARY WOMEN $400: "The Steep Ascent", about a perilous flight, was the first novel by this wife of a famous aviator Anne Lindbergh |
#2417, aired 1995-02-21 | WOMEN AUTHORS $600: Alice B. Toklas translated her 1938 book "Picasso" into English Gertrude Stein |
#2406, aired 1995-02-06 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $100: The first remark the Mad Hatter addresses to her is "Your hair wants cutting" — how rude Alice |
#2388, aired 1995-01-11 | PEOPLE $800: Like her husband Helmut Newton, Alice Springs is prominent in this profession photography |
#2384, aired 1995-01-05 | DISNEYLAND $100: Rides in this "land" are based on such classic Disney films as "Dumbo" & "Alice in Wonderland" Fantasyland |
#2358, aired 1994-11-30 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $200: Many of the letters in this epistolary Alice Walker novel are written by Celie to God The Color Purple |
#2356, aired 1994-11-28 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: He rewrote his first Alice book as "The Nursery Alice", a book for very young children Lewis Carroll |
#2350, aired 1994-11-18 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $800: This Booth Tarkington title character's last name is Scofield Penrod |
#2339, aired 1994-11-03 | LITERATURE $1,100 (Daily Double): This Booth Tarkington novel tells the tale of a girl's attempts to raise her station in life Alice Adams |
#2318, aired 1994-10-05 | PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS $1000: He won for "Alice Adams" 3 years after his win for "The Magnificent Ambersons" Booth Tarkington |
#2307, aired 1994-09-20 | AUTHORS $600: "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" was her only bestseller Gertrude Stein |
#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) |
#2301, aired 1994-09-12 | CLASSIC TELEVISION $300: TV character who said, "One of these days, Alice, one of these days... Pow! Right in the kisser!" Ralph Kramden |
#2288, aired 1994-07-13 | BLACK AMERICA $100: Her 1st novel, "The Third Life of Grange Copeland", was published 12 years before "The Color Purple" (Alice) Walker |
#2275, aired 1994-06-24 | ANNUAL EVENTS $500: The Color Purple Ball held in Eatonton, Georgia helps support a scholarship fund founded by this author Alice Walker |
#2256, aired 1994-05-30 | FAMOUS WOMEN $600: This presidential daughter inspired the 1919 song "Alice Blue Gown" Alice Longwood |
#2251, aired 1994-05-23 | THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS $800: This ovoid character tells Alice, "My name means the shape I am -- and a good handsome shape it is, too" Humpty Dumpty |
#2240, aired 1994-05-06 | NOTABLE WOMEN $800: A concert hall in this theatre complex is named for Katharine Hepburn's second cousin Alice Tully the Lincoln Center |
#2221, aired 1994-04-11 | TV TRIVIA $200: Diane Ladd, who played Flo in the film version, turned up as waitress Belle on this sitcom Alice |
#2221, aired 1994-04-11 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" $400: This chess piece tells Alice, "The great art of riding is to keep--" & promptly falls over the White Knight |
#2216, aired 1994-04-04 | LITERARY ANIMALS $400: This character in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" dozes at the Mad Tea Party the Dormouse |
#2212, aired 1994-03-29 | COLORS $500 (Daily Double): Alice Walker says it annoys God if you walk by this color in a field & don't notice it purple |
#2209, aired 1994-03-24 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: Her favorite expression in "Alice in Wonderland" is "off with her head!" The Queen of Hearts |
#2198, aired 1994-03-09 | ARTISTS $400: Alice Neel was noted for her portraits of the people of this city's Spanish Harlem New York |
#2196, aired 1994-03-07 | TELEVISION $300: Job shared by Florence Johnston, Alice Nelson & Hazel Burke maid (housekeepers) |
#2183, aired 1994-02-16 | FAMOUS WOMEN $200: She died in 1901 on the Isle of Wight, in the 64th year of her reign Queen Victoria |
#2183, aired 1994-02-16 | MUSIC $400: Including over half the musicians, it's the largest section of a symphony orchestra strings |
#2183, aired 1994-02-16 | LOST TIME $1000: The Proust title that literally translates to "In Search of Lost Time" is known as this in English Remembrance of Things Past |
#2174, aired 1994-02-03 | ROYALTY $1000: This prince's mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, was Lord Mountbatten's sister Prince Philip |
#2169, aired 1994-01-27 | WHAT THE "H" $300: It's the kind of pipe the Caterpillar was smoking when he met Alice in Wonderland a hookah |
#2167, aired 1994-01-25 | QUEENLY NICKNAMES $800: This presidential daughter was called "Queen Alice" Alice Roosevelt |
#2156, aired 1994-01-10 | CHLDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Her curiosity at seeing a rabbit with a waistcoat & pocket watch leads her down the rabbit hole Alice |
#2150, aired 1993-12-31 | 1922 $1000: This Indiana author won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel "Alice Adams" (Booth) Tarkington |
#2148, aired 1993-12-29 | TV TRIVIA $200: Joan Lunden, Katie Couric, Paula Zahn, Mary Alice Williams & Faith Daniels attended her baby shower Murphy Brown |
#2140, aired 1993-12-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: He translated "Alice in Wonderland" into Russian before he created another young girl, Lolita Nabokov |
#2132, aired 1993-12-07 | LITERARY BUNNIES $100: This was the first Wonderland resident that Alice saw the White Rabbit |
#2128, aired 1993-12-01 | BLACK AMERICA $800: In 1983 she became the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction Alice Walker |
#2112, aired 1993-11-09 | FIRST LADIES $400: Theodore Roosevelt said at her wedding, "There's nothing like keeping the name in the family" Eleanor Roosevelt |
#2111, aired 1993-11-08 | TV SITCOMS $200: "Kiss mah grits" was a catch-phrase first used by waitress Flo Castleberry on this series Alice |
#2098, aired 1993-10-20 | WOMEN AUTHORS $600: This author of "The Color Purple" also wrote a children's biography of Langston Hughes Alice Walker |
#2094, aired 1993-10-14 | TWINS $100: "Alice knew which was which in a moment"; they had their names embroidered on their collars Tweedledee & Tweedledum |
#2086, aired 1993-10-04 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $100: The Duchess says all of these can grin, not just the Cheshire ones, "and most of 'em do" cats |
#2086, aired 1993-10-04 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $200: When Alice first meets the Caterpillar, he's sitting atop one of these mushroom |
#2086, aired 1993-10-04 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $300: The Mad Hatter's has butter in it, is 2 days slow & the March Hare dips it in his tea watch |
#2086, aired 1993-10-04 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $400: The soldiers who double over to make the croquet arches are live ones of these playing cards |
#2086, aired 1993-10-04 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $500: Classes at this character's school included music, washing, reeling, writhing & seaography Mock Turtle |
#2085, aired 1993-10-01 | LITERATURE $600: Her friendships with notables like Picasso & Hemingway are described in "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" Gertrude Stein |
#2066, aired 1993-09-06 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $400: Referring to his daughter, he once quipped that he could be President or control Alice, but not both Theodore Roosevelt |
#2065, aired 1993-07-23 | "SPRINGS" ON THE MAP $200: It's the chief town of the interior of Northern Territory, Australia Alice Springs |
#2062, aired 1993-07-20 | KIDDIE LIT $400: This author considered calling one of his books "Alice's Doings in Elf-Land" Lewis Carroll |
#2037, aired 1993-06-15 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: This author of "Alice Adams" was named for his uncle Newton Booth, a California governor Booth Tarkington |
#2037, aired 1993-06-15 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: She wrote the recent bestseller "Possessing the Secret of Joy" Alice Walker |
#2030, aired 1993-06-04 | AUTHORS $600: His 2 Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction were for "The Magnificent Ambersons" & "Alice Adams" (Booth) Tarkington |
#2016, aired 1993-05-17 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: This president had 6 children: Alice, Theodore, Kermit, Ethel, Archie & Quentin Theodore Roosevelt |
#1987, aired 1993-04-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: "What Is Remembered" is the 1963 autobiography of this associate of Gertrude Stein Alice B. Toklas |
#1986, aired 1993-04-05 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $200: In 1992 Alice Walker wrote a new preface to the 10th anniversary edition of this novel The Color Purple |
#1985, aired 1993-04-02 | ARTISTS $1000: This Alice in Wonderland illustrator was knighted in 1893 Sir John Tenniel |
#1983, aired 1993-03-31 | FASHION $400: This once-fashionable shade of pale grayish-blue was named for Teddy Roosevelt's daughter Alice blue |
#1982, aired 1993-03-30 | AUTHORS $400: Alice B. Toklas translated this author's 1938 book "Picasso" into English Gertrude Stein |
#1967, aired 1993-03-09 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: She described her bestseller "The Temple of My Familiar" as "A romance of the last 500,000 years" Alice Walker |
#1953, aired 1993-02-17 | MODERN AUTHORS $600: She published "In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women" in 1973, 10 years before she won a Pulitzer Prize Alice Walker |
#1916, aired 1992-12-28 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: His first wife, Alice, died in 1884, 2 days after giving birth to their daughter Alice Theodore Roosevelt |
#1910, aired 1992-12-18 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $100: When he jumps down a large hole under the hedge, Alice follows him the White Rabbit |
#1910, aired 1992-12-18 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $200: The Duchess has one of these amphibians for a footman a frog |
#1910, aired 1992-12-18 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $300: When Alice meets the caterpillar, he's sitting on one of these fungi a mushroom |
#1910, aired 1992-12-18 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $400: This queen, whom Carroll called the "embodiment of ungovernable passion", is a real card, too The Queen of Hearts |
#1910, aired 1992-12-18 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $500: The Mad Hatter & the March Hare try to stuff this rodent into a teapot the Dormouse |
#1910, aired 1992-12-18 | POETS $600: She published "Revolutionary Petunias", a collection of poems, 9 years before "The Color Purple" Alice Walker |
#1861, aired 1992-10-12 | ALABAMA $200: In 1989, a civil rights memorial designed by Maya Lin was completed in this capital city Montgomery |
#1861, aired 1992-10-12 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $200: Brian Boru became king of Munster, part of this country, in 976 Ireland |
#1861, aired 1992-10-12 | ODD OBSERVANCES $300: Their week is the first full week in August, & you're one of them if you knew we were going to say this psychic |
#1861, aired 1992-10-12 | DOUBLE TALK $400: Chinese-American cellist Ma Yo-Yo |
#1861, aired 1992-10-12 | AUTHORS $500 (Daily Double): In his "From Bauhaus to Our House", he talks about the wrong & right stuff in modern architecture Tom Wolfe |
#1853, aired 1992-09-30 | ROYALTY $2,600 (Daily Double): The parents of this prince consort were Princess Alice of Battenberg & Prince Andrew of Greece Prince Philip |
#1788, aired 1992-05-13 | PARTY TIME $100: Alice went to a "mad" one a tea party |
#1780, aired 1992-05-01 | TV TOWNS $200: She left "Alice" and Mel's Diner to start her own eatery in Cowtown, Texas Flo |
#1775, aired 1992-04-24 | FAMOUS ALICES $200: This 1865 Lewis Carroll book was inspired by Alice Liddell, the daughter of the dean of Christ Church Alice in Wonderland |
#1775, aired 1992-04-24 | FAMOUS ALICES $400: Presidential daughter who said Calvin Coolidge looked "as if he had been weaned on a pickle" Alice Roosevelt |
#1775, aired 1992-04-24 | FAMOUS ALICES $600: Among the writings of this confidante of Gertrude Stein are a cookbook & an autobiography (Alice B.) Toklas |
#1775, aired 1992-04-24 | FAMOUS ALICES $800: Her novel "The Color Purple" won both a Pulitzer Prize & an American Book Award in 1983 Alice Walker |
#1775, aired 1992-04-24 | FAMOUS ALICES $1000: This actress, once a film rival of Betty Grable, has been married to Phil Harris since 1941 Alice Faye |
#1771, aired 1992-04-20 | TV CATCH PHRASES $400: "One of these days, Alice, one of these days... pow! Right in the kisser!" The Honeymooners |
#1720, aired 1992-02-07 | MOVIE QUOTES $500: "Do you, Alice, Ruth, Martha, Liza, Sarah, Dorcas, take these men to be your... husbands?" Seven Brides for Seven Brothers |
#1679, aired 1991-12-12 | AUSTRALIA $1000: If you put a map of Australia on a dart board this town would be in the bull's-eye Alice Springs |
#1673, aired 1991-12-04 | OPERA SINGERS $400: Alice Josephine Pons took this "floral" stage name Lily Pons |
#1669, aired 1991-11-28 | LITERATURE $600: 30 years after she wrote "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas", Alice wrote "What is Remembered" Gertrude Stein |
#1664, aired 1991-11-21 | FURNITURE $200: It's a synonym for mirror; Alice went "through" one a looking-glass |
#1662, aired 1991-11-19 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $200: After she fell down the rabbit-hole, she wondered if her cat, Dinah, would miss her Alice |
#1648, aired 1991-10-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Nevil Shute's novels "A Town Like Alice" & "On the Beach" are largely set in this country Australia |
#1636, aired 1991-10-14 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $200: "Off with his head!" is the favorite expression of the Queen of Hearts in this story Alice in Wonderland |
#1633, aired 1991-10-09 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $100: When Alice plays this game, her flamingo mallet deserts her & tries to fly up a tree croquet |
#1633, aired 1991-10-09 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $200: This snooty hookah smoker is exactly three inches tall the Caterpillar |
#1633, aired 1991-10-09 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $300: This rodent may have been based on Dante Gabriel Rossetti's pet wombat which slept on the table the Dormouse |
#1633, aired 1991-10-09 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $400: After the Duchess flings her baby boy at Alice,
he turns into one of these animals a pig |
#1633, aired 1991-10-09 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $500: Alice's last words at the Knave of Hearts trial
are, "you're nothing but a pack of" these cards |
#1621, aired 1991-09-23 | COLORS $800: In Wonderland, Alice saw the queen's gardeners paint white roses this color red |
#1618, aired 1991-09-18 | BOOKS ON AUDIOTAPE $1000: This black author reads selections from her own book "The Temple of My Familiar" Alice Walker |
#1617, aired 1991-09-17 | ANNUAL EVENTS $200: A popular summer event in this state is the crowning of "Alice in Dairyland" Wisconsin |
#1613, aired 1991-09-11 | STATE SEALS $200: One of these celestial beings appears on Arkansas' seal along with an eagle & liberty an angel |
#1613, aired 1991-09-11 | STATE SEALS $800: Because he once had a colony in Newfoundland, George Calvert put the fisherman on this state seal Maryland |
#1613, aired 1991-09-11 | THE 1970s $1000: In January 1972, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman became the prime minister of this newly independent nation Bangladesh |
#1607, aired 1991-09-03 | FAMOUS NAMES $100: Alice Frazier made front pages when she hugged this queen who was on a state visit in May 1991 Queen Elizabeth |
#1598, aired 1991-07-10 | SINGERS $200: This "Vagabond Lover" kept his love letters from Alice Faye, Hedy Lamarr & Dorothy Lamour in a safe Rudy Vallee |
#1588, aired 1991-06-26 | FAMOUS NAMES $100: The year Lincoln was shot, this author published "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" Lewis Carroll |
#1579, aired 1991-06-13 | POTPOURRI $500: Lillian Alice Marks became famous in this field using the Russianized name Alicia Markova ballet |
#1571, aired 1991-06-03 | THE 1970's $2,500 (Daily Double): In 1975, she won an Oscar for "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" & a Tony for "Same Time, Next year" Ellen Burstyn |
#1553, aired 1991-05-08 | TELEVISION $200: First name shared by employees of Mel Sharples & Mike Brady Alice |
#1542, aired 1991-04-23 | DOWNEASTERS $400: Born in Portland, this TV Alice replaced Tyne Daly in "Gypsy" on Broadway Linda Lavin |
#1524, aired 1991-03-28 | DISNEY SONGS $400: The 1951 film that features the song "Painting the Roses Red" & "March of the Cards" Alice in Wonderland |
#1520, aired 1991-03-22 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $200: The Mad Tea Party takes place under a tree in front of this hare's house the March Hare |
#1520, aired 1991-03-22 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $400: These roly-poly twins danced with Alice until they were out of breath Tweedledum & Tweedledee |
#1520, aired 1991-03-22 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $600: Live hedgehogs are used for balls in this game; when Alice tries to hit them, they run away croquet |
#1520, aired 1991-03-22 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $800: The Mock Turtle says, "Ambition, distraction, uglification & derision are all branches of" this arithmetic |
#1520, aired 1991-03-22 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $1000: This regal chess piece tells Alice, "I'm five times as rich as you are & five times as clever" the Red Queen |
#1477, aired 1991-01-22 | COLORS $300: The color of the rabbit Alice chased down the rabbit hole white |
#1473, aired 1991-01-16 | THEATER $600: The ghost of Gertrude Stein returns to this woman in the play "Gertrude Stein and a Companion" Alice B. Toklas |
#1472, aired 1991-01-15 | 20TH CENTURY PERSONALITIES $1000: "Tiny Alice" playwright who advised "Start with people. You can't ever make a good play out of an idea." Edward Albee |
#1441, aired 1990-12-03 | WOMEN POETS $200: She was a poet before she turned to "purple" prose--"The Color Purple", that is Alice Walker |
#1438, aired 1990-11-28 | THE ENGLISH NOVEL $400: Delighted with Alice, Queen Victoria asked him for other books; he sent tomes on mathematics Lewis Carroll |
#1427, aired 1990-11-13 | TELEVISION $300: This skinflint comedian played Ralph & Alice Kramden's landlord on 1 episode of "The Honeymooners" Jack Benny |
#1412, aired 1990-10-23 | NONFICTION $800 (Daily Double): Testimony against Gertrude Stein was a critical attack on this autobiography The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas |
#1407, aired 1990-10-16 | WOMEN AUTHORS $700 (Daily Double): This author of "Second Chances" shares her name with a Booth Tarkenton novel Alice Adams |
#1386, aired 1990-09-17 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $500: In the 1985 TV version of "Alice in Wonderland", Shelley Winters played this extinct bird the dodo bird |
#1384, aired 1990-09-13 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $200: In "Alice in Wonderland" he was tried for stealing tarts the Knave of Hearts |
#1338, aired 1990-05-30 | PRESIDENTS $200: This president's daughter Alice married future Speaker of the House N. Longworth on Feb. 17, 1906 Theodore Roosevelt |
#1336, aired 1990-05-28 | AMERICANS IN PARIS $1000: They entertained everyone from Ezra Pound to Picasso at their studio at 27 rue de Fleurus Alice B.Toklas & Gertrude Stein |
#1312, aired 1990-04-24 | FAMOUS QUOTES $500: In 1940, U.S. poet Alice D. Miller wrote, "In a world where" this country "is...dead, I do not wish to live" England |
#1301, aired 1990-04-09 | TV DETECTIVES $100: Before "Alice", Linda Lavin worked under this captain of the 12th Precinct Barney Miller |
#1299, aired 1990-04-05 | HERSTORY $200: Alice Paul picketed the White House from 1917-19 until this amendment was passed the women's suffrage amendment (the 19th) |
#1280, aired 1990-03-09 | PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES $800: After writing a memorial to his 1st wife, Alice, he never mentioned her again Teddy Roosevelt |
#1275, aired 1990-03-02 | BEST SELLERS $800: This Black author's most recent best seller is the mystical "Temple of my Familiar" Alice Walker |
#1269, aired 1990-02-22 | BOOKS $100: The adventures of this little English rabbit-chaser were 1st published in 1865 Alice in Wonderland |
#1267, aired 1990-02-20 | MOVIE QUOTES $600: "Do you Alice, Ruth, Martha, Liza, Sarah, Dorcas, take these men to be your lawfully married husbands?" Seven Brides for Seven Brothers |
#1256, aired 1990-02-05 | FICTION $300: In "Alice in Wonderland", it was described as "beautiful soup so rich & green, waiting in a hot tureen" turtle soup |
#1238, aired 1990-01-10 | FICTIONAL SISTERS $400: Alice Munro was rescued, but her sister Cora was killed by Magua in this J.F. Cooper classic Last of the Mohicans |
#1229, aired 1989-12-28 | HUMPTY DUMPTY $400: Humpty told her, "When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less" Alice |
#1228, aired 1989-12-27 | KID STUFF $300: It's what happened to Alice when she drank from a bottle labeled "Drink me" shrinking |
#1224, aired 1989-12-21 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $400: Sigourney Weaver made her stage debut at age 6 in this feline role in "Alice In Wonderland" Cheshire Cat |
#1215, aired 1989-12-08 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $500: When Robert Culp & Natalie Wood played "Bob & Carol", these 2 played "Ted & Alice" Dyan Cannon & Elliott Gould |
#1209, aired 1989-11-30 | FICTION $1,000 (Daily Double): Title of the 1858 book in which you'd you'd see this illustration: Gray's Anatomy |
#1206, aired 1989-11-27 | NEW YORK CITY $200: This president, born just off Broadway, was the subject of the Broadway musical "Teddy & Alice" Theodore Roosevelt |
#1178, aired 1989-10-18 | QUOTE "UN"QUOTE $400: Humpty Dumpty told Alice, "There are 364 days when you might get" this kind of present an un-birthday present |
#1171, aired 1989-10-09 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: Its original title was "Alice Under Ground" Alice in Wonderland |
#1125, aired 1989-06-23 | TV TRIVIA $200: Alice took messages for Mike, Carol, Cindy, Greg & the rest of this household the Brady Bunch |
#1121, aired 1989-06-19 | FAMOUS ALICES $200: This TV Alice lived in Brooklyn with her bus driver husband, Ralph Alice Kramden |
#1121, aired 1989-06-19 | FAMOUS ALICES $400: Vincent Furnier Alice Cooper |
#1121, aired 1989-06-19 | FAMOUS ALICES $600: According to Arlo Guthrie, "You can get anything you want" here Alice's Restaurant |
#1121, aired 1989-06-19 | FAMOUS ALICES $800: Her middle initial, B., stood for Babette Alice B. Toklas |
#1121, aired 1989-06-19 | FAMOUS ALICES $1000: Born Alice J. Leppert, this blonde actress was Fox's top musical star until replaced by Betty Grable Alice Faye |
#1116, aired 1989-06-12 | WEDDINGS $300: She & Rep. Nicholas Longworth had a White House wedding in 1906 Alice Roosevelt |
#1087, aired 1989-05-02 | 1986 $400: Alice Walker novel that topped paperback best seller lists at the same time the film topped box office charts The Color Purple |
#1044, aired 1989-03-02 | A.K.A. $500: Edna Gillooly, who won an Oscar for playing a waitress named Alice Ellen Burstyn |
#1027, aired 1989-02-07 | LEWIS CARROLL CHARACTERS $500: It "had very long claws and a great many teeth, so" Alice felt "it ought to be treated with respect" the Cheshire Cat |
#1014, aired 1989-01-19 | LITERATURE $1000: Her last words to Alice were "Off with her head!" Queen of Hearts |
#1005, aired 1989-01-06 | ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS $200: In the book Alice finds herself just a pawn in a giant game of this chess |
#1005, aired 1989-01-06 | ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS $400: Alice asks Humpty Dumpty to explain the meaning of this poem Jabberwocky |
#1005, aired 1989-01-06 | ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS $600: For their battle, one had a sword, & the other an umbrella Tweedledum & Tweedledee |
#1005, aired 1989-01-06 | ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS $1000: The story begins & ends with Alice talking to one of these animals cat |
#980, aired 1988-12-02 | THE 50 STATES $100: A popular annual event in this state is the crowning of "Alice in Dairyland" Wisconsin |
#974, aired 1988-11-24 | THE ROYAL FAMILY $200: He's the son of Princess Alice of Battenberg & Prince Andrew of Greece Prince Philip |
#974, aired 1988-11-24 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $500: You can ride a camel to dinner or even spend the night with one near Alice Springs in this country Australia |
#967, aired 1988-11-15 | DANCERS $400: This tiny star of "Good News" learned to dance by watching a Fred Astaire movie 17 times June Allyson |
#966, aired 1988-11-14 | "A" IN LITERATURE $1000: Booth Tarkington book that ends as the title character enters the stairway to Frincke's business college Alice Adams |
#961, aired 1988-11-07 | POP SINGERS $200: Nightmarish singer who recorded "Welcome to My Nightmare" Alice Cooper |
#946, aired 1988-10-17 | WORLD LITERATURE $600: The 1st book by Gertrude Stein to receive major critical attention was this "Autobiography" The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas |
#944, aired 1988-10-13 | LITERATURE $300: This pivotal animal from "Alice in Wonderland" became the title of a classic 1967 acid rock hit White Rabbit |
#934, aired 1988-09-29 | KIDDIE LIT $400: Alice couldn't read "Jabberwocky" until she did this held it up to a looking glass (a mirror) |
#931, aired 1988-09-26 | 1ST FAMILY TRIVIA $600: She inspired the song "Alice Blue Gown" Alice Roosevelt |
#911, aired 1988-07-18 | GOVERNMENT $1,000 (Daily Double): He was going to run for Ariz. gov. as a write-in for the Wild Party but said his fans can't write:
"I'm your top prime cut of meat, I'm your choice / I wanna be elected / I'm your yankee doodle dandy in a gold Rolls Royce / I wanna be elected..." Alice Cooper |
#902, aired 1988-07-05 | PEOPLE $800: A hall at this NYC site is named for Alice Tully, who provided most of the funds Lincoln Center |
#875, aired 1988-05-27 | TV RERUNS $400: This was the 1st show on which Polly Holliday played Flo Castleberry Alice |
#871, aired 1988-05-23 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $100: These inseparable twins flee from Alice when they are startled by a giant crow Tweedledum & Tweedledee |
#871, aired 1988-05-23 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $200: In the original manuscript, the croquet mallets were ostriches but in the later versions became these birds flamingos |
#871, aired 1988-05-23 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $300: This rabbit's house has chimney shaped like ears & a roof thatched with fur March Hare |
#871, aired 1988-05-23 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $400: Alice finds his watch odd, for it tells the day & not the hour Mad Hatter |
#871, aired 1988-05-23 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $500: This bewhiskered old gent "was dressed in tin armour, which seemed to fit him very badly" White Knight |
#867, aired 1988-05-17 | THE WIFE MARRIED $800: Tony Martin &
Phil Harris Alice Faye |
#795, aired 1988-02-05 | 5-LETTER TV SHOWS $400: Linda Lavin Alice |
#790, aired 1988-01-29 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $200: Alice checked 1st to see if the bottle labeled this was also marked "Poison" "Drink Me" |
#790, aired 1988-01-29 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $400: At his trial, charge against the Knave of Hearts he stole the tarts |
#790, aired 1988-01-29 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $800: The Duchess had this type of cat Cheshire Cat |
#790, aired 1988-01-29 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $1,000 (Daily Double): During the croquet match, the Queen would shout this "about once in a minute" "Off with his head!" |
#790, aired 1988-01-29 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $1000: 3" high character who asked Alice to recite "Father William" the Caterpillar |
#779, aired 1988-01-14 | FAMOUS ALICES $200: Alice Mitchell is this famous kid's mom Dennis the Menace |
#779, aired 1988-01-14 | FAMOUS ALICES $400: The Flying Dr. Service & School of the Air are based in this isolated central Australian town Alice Springs |
#779, aired 1988-01-14 | FAMOUS ALICES $800: Her "Autobiography", published in 1933, was actually written by a close friend Alice B. Toklas |
#779, aired 1988-01-14 | FAMOUS ALICES $1000: The fictional Alice Rutherford married John Clayton & bore this child Lord Greystoke (Tarzan) |
#752, aired 1987-12-08 | FACTS & FIGURES $500: This European airline is the foreign airline which flies to the most U.S. cities, 14 British Airways (British Air accepted) |
#752, aired 1987-12-08 | NAME CHANGES $500: Actress-director Lyova Rosenthal, who won an Oscar for "Shampoo" Lee Grant |
#752, aired 1987-12-08 | GIRAFFES $600: Of 7, 17, or 27, the # of bones in a giraffe's neck, the same as in a human's 7 |
#751, aired 1987-12-07 | POTENT POTABLES $100: Recipes for a Highland Fling designate this type of liquor Scotch |
#751, aired 1987-12-07 | HOME GAMES $400: While playing the board game of this ABC soap, you can be Erica Kane All My Children |
#751, aired 1987-12-07 | DIRECTIONAL GEOGRAPHY $500 (Daily Double): 2 of the 3 Communist countries which form most of Greece's northern border (2 of) Bulgaria, Yugoslavia or Albania |
#751, aired 1987-12-07 | SCIENCE $600: This element comprises 40% of simple carbohydrates, like glucose carbon |
#751, aired 1987-12-07 | ANCIENT HISTORY $600: At this ancient site in Iraq, the "handwriting on the walls" is now mostly graffiti Babylon |
#750, aired 1987-12-04 | WOMEN $300: Ladies' Home Journal says British women, copying her style, have taken to wearing rubies & bows Fergie (Sarah Ferguson) |
#750, aired 1987-12-04 | SPORTS LEGENDS $500: 1958 U.S. tennis singles champ, she started out playing paddle tennis on the streets of Harlem Althea Gibson |
#750, aired 1987-12-04 | WEATHER $600: Many of the 300,000 federal workers in this city were given option of staying home 1/27/87 due to bad weather Washington, D.C. |
#750, aired 1987-12-04 | "RED" $800 (Daily Double): A sockeye red salmon |
#750, aired 1987-12-04 | WEATHER $800: Term for the alert broadcast to mariners warning of weather possibly hazardous to little boats small craft warning (small craft advisory) |
#732, aired 1987-11-10 | STORYTELLERS $300: Some sources say it was Carnegie Hall; others say it was the '67 Newport Festival where he first sang "Alice's Restaurant" Arlo Guthrie |
#719, aired 1987-10-22 | PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES $500: Teddy Roosevelt's 1st wife died 2 days after the birth of this daughter Alice |
#709, aired 1987-10-08 | SENIOR CITIZENS $100: In 1977, 80-year-old Alice Pearce was elected to this "regal" honor at North Carolina's Methodist College Homecoming Queen |
#695, aired 1987-09-18 | MUSIC PEOPLE $500 (Daily Double): Singer heard here, Alice Cooper called her "The Queen of Housewife Rock":
"In the morning fun when no one will be drinking any more wine / I'll wake the sun..." Helen Reddy |
#679, aired 1987-07-16 | OCCUPATIONAL NAMES $400: His bizarre rock act featured a boa constrictor & ended with his onstage "decapitation" (Alice) Cooper |
#674, aired 1987-07-09 | FOOD $1000: Described in "Alice in Wonderland" as "beautiful soup so rich & green, waiting in a hot tureen" mock turtle soup |
#667, aired 1987-06-30 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $400: This president's first wife & his mother both died on the same day, 2 days after the birth of daughter Alice Teddy Roosevelt |
#649, aired 1987-06-04 | KIDDIE LIT $400: She "starred" in the books Reverend Dodgson wrote for Miss Liddell Alice |
#644, aired 1987-05-28 | TV NOSTALGIA $200: M comedy series on which Flo, when peeved, would tell Mel to "Kiss my grits!" Alice |
#641, aired 1987-05-25 | PUBLISHING $1000: This pair was Row, Peterson & Company's most successful equivalent to "Dick & Jane" Alice & Jerry |
#637, aired 1987-05-19 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: For her diminutive size, William Dorrit's daughter Amy was nicknamed this Little Dorrit |
#631, aired 1987-05-11 | LITERATURE $800: He won Pulitzer Prizes for "Alice Adams" & "The Magnificent Ambersons" Booth Tarkington |
#620, aired 1987-04-24 | "A.C." $400: Born Vincent Furnier, he sang the theme from "Friday the 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives" Alice Cooper |
#616, aired 1987-04-20 | STARTS WITH "K" $200: Bus driver Ralph Kramden threatened to hit Alice "pow! Right in" this buss stop the kisser |
#602, aired 1987-03-31 | POP MUSIC $100: In a 6th grade production of "Alice in Wonderland", he made his 1st appearance with Paul Simon Art Garfunkel |
#592, aired 1987-03-17 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: Though known for several teen classics, he won Pulitzer Prizes for "Alice Adams" & "The Magnificent Ambersons" Booth Tarkington |
#576, aired 1987-02-23 | WHAT'S IN A NAME $200: This name originally was a shortened form of Adelaide, but the White Rabbit didn't know that Alice |
#574, aired 1987-02-19 | COMMON BONDS $400: Alice's trip "Through the Looking-Glass",
Bobby Ewing's death on "Dallas" dreams |
#569, aired 1987-02-12 | "SWEET" $1000: Called "one of the mushiest songs in history", in it Ben Bolt is asked, "Oh, don't you remember" her "Sweet Alice" |
#559, aired 1987-01-29 | FIRST LINES $400: "Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank..." Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice in Wonderland accepted) |
#556, aired 1987-01-26 | HOLLYWOOD $1,100 (Daily Double): Its "W" was paid for by Andy Williams; the "O's", Warner Bros. Records & Alice Cooper; & the "D", Dennis Lidtke the Hollywood Sign |
#554, aired 1987-01-22 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $200: What the "W" stood for on the brass plate which read "W. Rabbit" on the door of his house white |
#554, aired 1987-01-22 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $400: Words written in currants on small cake Alice found under the table "eat me" |
#554, aired 1987-01-22 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $600: Of him, the Gryphon said, "it's all his fancy, that: he hasn't got no sorrow, you know" the Mock Turtle |
#554, aired 1987-01-22 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $800: This pair stood so still Alice forgot they were alive Tweedledum & Tweedledee |
#554, aired 1987-01-22 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $1000: According to Humpty Dumpty, you can receive them 364 days of the year unbirthday presents |
#533, aired 1986-12-24 | ROYALTY $800: Princess Alice of Greece, the deaf mother of this prince consort, could lip-read in 4 languages Prince Philip |
#526, aired 1986-12-15 | HOLLYWOOD QUEENS $500: Carol Channing was the White Queen & Ann Jillian the Red in the TV movie of this classic Alice in Wonderland |
#524, aired 1986-12-11 | 20th C. AUTHORS $200: A professor at Cornell, he translated "Alice in Wonderland" into Russian & wrote "Lolita" Vladimir Nabokov |
#519, aired 1986-12-04 | SITCOMS $300: At his wedding, Alice's mother said "I'm not losing a daughter, I'm gaining a ton" Ralph Kramden |
#517, aired 1986-12-02 | WOMEN $200: Calling it a downer, Tina Turner turned down a role in the movie of this Alice Walker best seller The Color Purple |
#516, aired 1986-12-01 | LITERATURE $400: "All mimsy were the Borogroves" when the Jabberwock appeared in this Lewis Carroll book Through the Looking-Glass |
#513, aired 1986-11-26 | 1955 $1,500 (Daily Double): Alice, Brenda, Connie, Diane, Edith, Flora, Gladys, Hilda, Ione, & Janet the names of hurricanes |
#503, aired 1986-11-12 | COOKS & BOOKS $400: Gertrude Stein's companion whose cook book has recipes for "Dublin Coffee James Joyce" & Haschich Fudge" Alice B. Toklas |
#465, aired 1986-09-19 | TV THEMES $200: One of these days, Alice, you're gonna hear its theme - "You're My Greatest Love" The Honeymooners |
#455, aired 1986-06-06 | THE END $600: In "Alice in Wonderland", King of Hearts advises "begin at the beginning & go on to the end: then..." do this stop |
#445, aired 1986-05-23 | WHITE HOUSE GOSSIP $600: Teddy's daughter Alice said this 1920s scandal-ridden Pres. was not a bad man, "he was just a slob" Warren G. Harding |
#444, aired 1986-05-22 | FICTION $200: Lewis Carroll classic banned in China in 1931 because "animals should not use human language" Alice in Wonderland |
#440, aired 1986-05-16 | ROCK 'N' ROLL TRIVIA $500: Alice Cooper's "School's out" album came in a jacket resembling this classroom item a desk |
#343, aired 1986-01-01 | FASHION $500: Alice Marble astonished the Wimbledon crowd by appearing in them in the '30s shorts |
#310, aired 1985-11-15 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $200: Alice thought the White Rabbit was normal until he whipped this out watch |
#310, aired 1985-11-15 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $400: To have room to do the lobster quadrille, you have to clear these spineless creatures off the shore jellyfish |
#310, aired 1985-11-15 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $800: The Mock Turtle said its 4 branches were “ambition, distraction, uglification, & derision” arithmetic |
#310, aired 1985-11-15 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $1000: It was at this character's house Alice joined the tea party March Hare |
#306, aired 1985-11-11 | 19TH CENTURY NOVELS $400: The “official” title of “Alice In Wonderland” Alice's Adventures In Wonderland |
#292, aired 1985-10-22 | MAMMALS $800: Sleepy "Alice in Wonderland" partygoer who was served as a delicacy at Roman parties a dormouse |
#291, aired 1985-10-21 | RULERS $100: Alice Heine was the 1st American princess of this country, Grace Kelly, the 2nd Monaco |
#290, aired 1985-10-18 | ACTORS & ROLES $200: Cary Grant played the Mock Turtle in this 1933 fantasy film classic Alice in Wonderland |
#283, aired 1985-10-09 | HEADLINES $1000: "Happy the bride the Sun shines on", read "The Evening Star" when this "1st daughter" wed in 1906 Alice Roosevelt Longworth |
#268, aired 1985-09-18 | FAIRY TALES $500: When this bunny insisted, "You should say what you mean", Alice replied, "At least I mean what I say" the March Hare |
#265, aired 1985-09-13 | TUNES FOR TOTS $400: Disney film in which "a very merry unbirthday" was celebrated Alice in Wonderland |
#262, aired 1985-09-10 | TV NOSTALGIA $400: Long before Muhammad Ali claimed the title, she was "The Greatest" to Jackie Gleason Alice (Kramden) |
#183, aired 1985-05-22 | FICTIONAL ANIMALS $300: The 1st animal Alice saw in Wonderland the White Rabbit |
#162, aired 1985-04-23 | BEST SELLERS $600: Alice Adams' new novel "Superior Women" does to Radcliffe grads what this Mary McCarthy book did to Vassar The Group |
#154, aired 1985-04-11 | KIDDIE LIT $300: Sequel to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" Through The Looking-Glass |
#141, aired 1985-03-25 | PRESIDENTS $600: Said he could either run the country or control his daughter Alice, "But not both" Teddy Roosevelt |
#119, aired 1985-02-21 | LITERATURE $1000: The 2 queens Alice met when she went through the looking glass the Red Queen & the White Queen |
#118, aired 1985-02-20 | ACTORS & ROLES $500 (Daily Double): On film & TV, they played Alice of "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" Ellen Burstyn and Linda Lavin |
#101, aired 1985-01-28 | MOVIES $300: Edward Everett Horton was as crazy as one in "Alice in Wonderland" a Mad Hatter |
#87, aired 1985-01-08 | FICTION $400: "Alice-In-Wonderland" animal featured in title of Jefferson Airplane's acid rock classic the White Rabbit |
#70, aired 1984-12-14 | "AC"/"DC" $500: Born Vincent Furnier, this flamboyant singer "welcomed us to his nightmare" in '75 Alice Cooper |
#58, aired 1984-11-28 | TRAINS $1,000 (Daily Double): Name of the nocturnal express this prisoner was waiting for the Midnight Special |
#43, aired 1984-11-07 | BELONGS TO $100: Alice’s restaurant in “Alice” Mel's Diner |
#41, aired 1984-11-05 | SITCOM SAYINGS $500: Where an angry Ralph Kramden promised he was sending Alice "one of these days" the Moon |
#22, aired 1984-10-09 | FIRST NAME BASIS $500: Robert & Natalie & Elliott & Dyan Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice |
#15, aired 1984-09-28 | LITERATURE $200: She found things "curiouser & curiouser" in Wonderland Alice |