Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (38 results returned)

#8935, aired 2023-09-22"C" IN LITERATURE $600: This Jack London classic is considered one of the "books that shaped America" The Call of the Wild
#7646, aired 2017-12-04LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $200: (Hi, I'm Rob Fowler of News 2.) This literary character from Charleston tells Scarlett he may go back to his hometown because he misses "the calm dignity life can have when it's lived by gentle folks" Rhett Butler
#7646, aired 2017-12-04LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $400: (Hi, this is Ryan Kristafer from News 8.) Harriet Beecher Stowe lived next door to this other great American author at the time he wrote "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" (Mark) Twain
#7646, aired 2017-12-04LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $600: (Hi, I'm Mike Davis from 10TV.) I'm at the Columbus, Ohio house of James Thurber, who went on to write "The Secret Life of" this daydreamer Walter Mitty
#7646, aired 2017-12-04LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $800: (Hi, I'm Mark Allan from WDTN.) In his poem "Sympathy", Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote "I know why the caged bird sings"... giving this other African-American poet the title of her 1969 memoir (Maya) Angelou
#7646, aired 2017-12-04LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $1000: (Hi, I'm Ellen Leyva with ABC7 Eyewitness News.) This southern California author has been especially successful with his Los Angeles-based quartet that includes "L.A. Confidential" & "The Black Dahlia" James Ellroy
#7486, aired 2017-03-13LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $400: (I'm M.J. Acosta from NBC 7 San Diego.) This man resided at the Hotel Del Coronado for months at a time & wrote parts of several books here including "Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz" Frank Baum
#7486, aired 2017-03-13LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $800: (I'm Juliana Mazza with 22News.) Leaping from the pages of the Dr. Seuss memorial sculpture are Thing 1 & Thing 2, agents of mayhem from this 1957 classic The Cat in the Hat
#7486, aired 2017-03-13LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $1200: (Hi. I'm Mark Allan from WDTN.) I'm at the Dayton home of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, the son of former slaves; he wrote in Black dialect, including this 2-word question used by the New Orleans Saints, among others "Who dat?"
#7486, aired 2017-03-13LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $1600: (Hi. I'm Ryan Kristafer from News 8.) This author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lived in this Hartford home from 1873 until her death in 1896 (Harriet Beecher) Stowe
#7486, aired 2017-03-13LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $2000: (I'm Julie Nelson from Kare 11.) The Minnesota State Fair is the setting of the 1928 story "A Night at the Fair" by this author born in St. Paul Fitzgerald
#7417, aired 2016-12-06CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $1000: (Hi, I'm Juliana Mazza with 22 News.) Many beloved characters from children's literature are features in a Springfield sculpture garden dedicated to Dr. Seuss, the pen name of this man (Theodor) Geisel
#7408, aired 2016-11-23CONTINENTS OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $400: For Literature, Pablo Neruda South America
#7270, aired 2016-04-01LITERARY LATIN AMERICA $1200: Gauchesco is literature about the South American equivalent of this American job cowboy
#7247, aired 2016-03-01CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: This bear is named for a train station & arrives in England as a stowaway from South America Paddington
#6952, aired 2014-12-02WORLD LITERATURE $1600: "Z" marks the spot for this crime-fighting swordsman of colonial Spanish America Zorro
#6860, aired 2014-06-13LITERATURE $600: Sal Paradise & Dean Moriarty decide to "beat" it across America in this modern classic On The Road
#6197, aired 2011-07-19ADVENTURES IN LITERATURE $1000: Almost 60, John Steinbeck set out in search of America with his dog & chronicled the adventure in this book Travels with Charley
#5533, aired 2008-10-01UPDATED LITERATURE? $600: Sal Paradise decides to see America; Dean Moriarty tells him gas is 5 bucks a gallon; Sal calls off his trip On the Road
#5136, aired 2007-01-01UNIQUELY AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: In this Tom Robbins novel, Sissy Hankshaw is born with enormous thumbs & hitchhikes across America Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
#4823, aired 2005-07-20COLOMBIA $1000: In 1982 this Colombian who led Latin America's literary boom of the '60s won the Nobel Prize for Literature García Márquez
#4549, aired 2004-05-20FRENCH LITERATURE $1600: In this 1759 Voltaire novel, the title character moves briefly to an ideal country in South America called El Dorado Candide
#3585, aired 2000-03-17COLORFUL LITERATURE $500: This exotic "green" novel by W.H. Hudson is set in the jungles of South America Green Mansions
#3223, aired 1998-09-16AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Queequeg, a tattooed cannibal, is Starbuck's harpooner aboard the Pequod in this 1851 novel Moby-Dick
#2807, aired 1996-11-1218th CENTURY LITERATURE $1000: He'd only been in America for 2 years when he published his "Common Sense" pamphlet in 1776 Thomas Paine
#2709, aired 1996-05-16AMERICA LITERATURE $200: While walking, this Washington Irving character comes upon a party of odd-looking men playing ninepins Rip Van Winkle
#2709, aired 1996-05-16AMERICA LITERATURE $400: In "Moby Dick" this captain dies when a harpoon line loops around his neck & pulls him overboard Ahab
#2709, aired 1996-05-16AMERICA LITERATURE $600: In this Steinbeck work, dimwitted Lennie Small has a vision of his Aunt Clara Of Mice and Men
#2709, aired 1996-05-16AMERICA LITERATURE $800: After Judge Pyncheon's death, this Hawthorne title home is left to Hepzibah & her brother Clifford the House of Seven Gables
#2709, aired 1996-05-16AMERICA LITERATURE $1000: Tom Sawyer is ordered to whitewash a fence because this brother tells Aunt Polly Tom played hooky Sid
#2391, aired 1995-01-16LITERATURE $800: This author of "An American Tragedy" also wrote a nonfiction work entitled "Tragic America" (Theodore) Dreiser
#2319, aired 1994-10-06AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: "Adagio Dancer", a brief biography of Rudolph Valentino, appears in this John Dos Passos trilogy the U.S.A. Trilogy
#1647, aired 1991-10-29LITERATURE $400: The 1904 novel "Green Mansions" is set in this continent's tropics South America
#1390, aired 1990-09-21MODERN LITERATURE $600: This 1990 Gore Vidal book is subtitled "A Novel of America in the 1920s" Hollywood
#1309, aired 1990-04-19LITERATURE $500 (Daily Double): The Reader's Encyclopedia said, "He loved the... main streets of America even as he deplored them" Sinclair Lewis
#561, aired 1987-02-02LITERATURE $800: "The 42nd Parallel", "1919" & "The Big Money" comprised this John Dos Passos trilogy "U.S.A."
#300, aired 1985-11-01LITERATURE $1000: 19th century poet who "heard America singing" in Brooklyn Walt Whitman
#141, aired 1985-03-25AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Novelist & poet who went "Trout Fishing in America" (Richard) Brautigan

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (3 results returned)

#8826, aired 2023-03-13LITERATURE: A 2006 book was titled "The Poem That Changed America:" this "Fifty Years Later" "Howl"
#8479, aired 2021-09-30CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: A 2000 Library of Congress exhibit called this 1900 work "America's greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale" The Wizard of Oz
#7616, aired 2017-10-23ENGLISH LITERATURE: Much of this novel takes place on the island of Despair, off the coast of South America, from 1659 to 1686 Robinson Crusoe

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