#9055, aired 2024-03-08 | LITERARY AWARDS $1000: The Hugo Award isn't named after Victor Hugo, but this Hugo who founded the sci-fi magazine Amazing Stories Hugo Gernsback |
#8944, aired 2023-10-05 | MOVIES AS TV NEWS STORIES $1000: An APB is out for a man who escaped a southern chain gang; authorities noted the man's amazing blue eyes & "failure to communicate" Cool Hand Luke |
#8257, aired 2020-10-13 | AWARDS & HONORS $1600: This award for sci-fi or fantasy writing is named for Mr. Gernsback, founder of Amazing Stories magazine Hugo |
#7560, aired 2017-06-23 | FOUNDING FATHERS $1200: It was the first name of Amazing Stories magazine founder Gernsback, for whom a sci-fi award is named Hugo |
#6937, aired 2014-11-11 | LITERARY AWARDS $200: This award for science fiction or fantasy is named for Mr. Gernsback, the founder of Amazing Stories magazine the Hugo |
#6717, aired 2013-11-26 | TOMB SERVICE $1,500 (Daily Double): This writer's tomb in Amiens, France was featured on the masthead of Amazing Stories magazine for many years Jules Verne |
#5352, aired 2007-12-11 | SPIELBERG MOVIES $400: Spielberg directed segment 2 of this 1983 movie based on a creepy anthology series Twilight Zone |
#4988, aired 2006-04-26 | AMAZING STORIES $400: "The Exiles" & "The Long Rain" are 2 of 18 stories in this Ray Bradbury collection featuring a tattooed dude The Illustrated Man |
#4988, aired 2006-04-26 | AMAZING STORIES $1200: "Under the Moons of" this planet, featuring adventurer John Carter, was Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1st published story Mars |
#4988, aired 2006-04-26 | AMAZING STORIES $1600: "The Chronic Argonauts" was a precursor to this 1895 H.G. Wells novel The Time Machine |
#4988, aired 2006-04-26 | AMAZING STORIES $2000: In his short story "The Sentinel", a mysterious pyramid is found on the Moon, left there by some passing alien civilization Arthur C. Clarke |
#4988, aired 2006-04-26 | AMAZING STORIES $7,000 (Daily Double): In this 1864 Jules Verne novel, explorers descend into an Icelandic volcano & later surface on Stromboli Island Journey to the Center of the Earth |
#4665, aired 2004-12-10 | MAGAZINES $800: Stories by Jules Verne & H.G. Wells graced the April 1926 premiere issue of this U.S. sci-fi pulp magazine Amazing Stories |
#3459, aired 1999-09-23 | TOMB WITH A VIEW $1,500 (Daily Double): In the 1920s Amazing Stories magazine used a representation of his tomb in Amiens, France in its logo Jules Verne |
#2420, aired 1995-02-24 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $800: In 1926 Hugo Gernsback founded Amazing Stories, the first magazine in this literary genre science fiction |
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