| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | FEMALE FIRSTS $1200: In 2018, she became the first American woman to win a medal in every single event at the World Gymnastics Championships Simone Biles |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | THESE BROS ARE LIT $2000: This American novelist created the Compson brothers Benjy, Quentin & Jason William Faulkner |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | AMERICAN LIT $200: The title of this Ken Kesey novel comes from a children's rhyme & follows "One flew east, one flew west" One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | AMERICAN LIT $400: An article in the New York Times about the gruesome murder of 4 in Kansas inspired Truman Capote to write this book In Cold Blood |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | AMERICAN LIT $600: In a Mark Twain novel, thinking he's none too bright, the townspeople give lawyer David Wilson this title nickname Pudd'nhead Wilson |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | AMERICAN LIT $800: Who is John Galt? He's the organizer of a strike of great minds in this novel Atlas Shrugged |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | AMERICAN LIT $1000: Born into it herself, Edith Wharton wrote about American high society of the 1870s in this Pulitzer-winning novel The Age of Innocence |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | IRISH AUTHORS $1200: It's a historic Irish coronation site, the O'Hara home in American lit, & the title "Road" where Maeve Binchy set a novel Tara |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | AUNTIE HERO $800: In this classic of American lit, the mischievous title boy lives with Aunt Polly, who opens the novel by calling his name The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | AMERICAN LIT $400: He published "The Torrents of Spring" just months before "The Sun Also Rises" Ernest Hemingway |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | AMERICAN LIT $800: This narrator in a 19th century classic says, "Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave" Huck Finn |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | AMERICAN LIT $1200: Her poem "Daddy" with its Nazi imagery dramatizes the oppression she felt; her actual dad was a non-Nazi entomologist Sylvia Plath |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | AMERICAN LIT $1600: Her poetry collection "Call Us What We Carry" includes "The Hill we Climb", read at Joe Biden's inauguration (Amanda) Gorman |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | AMERICAN LIT $5,000 (Daily Double): Loosely based on historical events, this 1985 Cormac McCarthy novel is subtitled "The Evening Redness in the West" Blood Meridian |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS $800: She lit up the stage with a medley of hits including "Man! I Feel Like A Woman!" Shania Twain |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | LIT-POURRI $2000: The Pen/Faulkner Award, for American fiction, has twice gone to this man--for "Billy Bathgate" & "The March" E.L. Doctorow |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | AUTHORS' ROAD TRIPS $3,000 (Daily Double): One of the most famous road trips in American lit began in 1947 when he rode the bus with crying babies from New York to Chicago Jack Kerouac |
| #7976, aired 2019-04-22 | I WROTE IT $1200: "Invisible Man", a classic of African-American lit Ralph Ellison |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | GREAT BOOKS ON AUDIBLE $2,000 (Daily Double): A natural storyteller, Nick Offerman brings his talents to this classic of American lit
...appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush, he surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| #7790, aired 2018-06-22 | LET'S TAKE A CLASS AT HARVARD $800: Phillis Wheatley & W.E.B. Du Bois are part of African-American lit "From the Beginnings to" this area's "Renaissance" Harlem |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | BRIT LIT $1600: This "colorful" English author's works include "Brighton Rock" & "The Quiet American" Graham Greene |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | HOUSE FULL OF LIT $800: This Isabel Allende debut novel is a multigenerational drama set in an unnamed South American country House of the Spirits |
| #7544, aired 2017-06-01 | MUSICALLY TITLED LIT $1600: A classic of African-American lit gets its title from this Billie Holiday song that says, "Mama may have..." "God Bless The Child" |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: This giant of African-American lit was named after another literary great: Emerson (Ralph Waldo) Ellison |
| #7475, aired 2017-02-24 | AMERICAN LIT $400: It's the last word of "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe Nevermore |
| #7475, aired 2017-02-24 | AMERICAN LIT $800: Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for this novel that told of the hardships of the Dust Bowl The Grapes of Wrath |
| #7475, aired 2017-02-24 | AMERICAN LIT $1600: "The Left Hand of Darkness" is a sci-fi novel by this woman whose middle initial stands for Kroeber (Ursula) Le Guin |
| #7475, aired 2017-02-24 | AMERICAN LIT $2000: For this woman seen here, "One Writer's Beginnings" was in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi Eudora Welty |
| #7475, aired 2017-02-24 | AMERICAN LIT $4,000 (Daily Double): "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" conveyed this poet's grief over the death of President Lincoln Whitman |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: He's the giant of American lit seen here near the end of his life Robert Frost |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | IT'S AMERICAN LIT $400: He began an 1854 work, "When I wrote the following pages... I lived alone, in the woods" Thoreau |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | IT'S AMERICAN LIT $800: In an Arthur Miller play, Biff & Happy are the sons of this unhappy salesman Willy Loman |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | IT'S AMERICAN LIT $1600: In this novel's final letter, Celie thanks God "for bringing my sister Nettie and our children home" The Color Purple |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | IT'S AMERICAN LIT $2000: Guilt, fear, photos & a diary are among the title possessions in this book by Tim O'Brien about the Vietnam War The Things They Carried |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | IT'S AMERICAN LIT $3,000 (Daily Double): Ernest Hemingway took the title of this novel set during the Spanish Civil War from a line by John Donne For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| #7116, aired 2015-07-20 | AMERICAN LIT $200: This 1966 Truman Capote book combined fiction with facts to tell about 2 drifters who murdered a Kansas family In Cold Blood |
| #7116, aired 2015-07-20 | AMERICAN LIT $400: Thunderhead is the title horse in Mary O'Hara's follow-up to "My Friend" her Flicka |
| #7116, aired 2015-07-20 | AMERICAN LIT $600: The old money & new money Long Island neighborhoods in this novel are East Egg & West Egg The Great Gatsby |
| #7116, aired 2015-07-20 | AMERICAN LIT $800: In a post-Civil War novel by Allan Gurganus, the "Oldest Living" one of these women "Tells All" Confederate Widow |
| #7116, aired 2015-07-20 | AMERICAN LIT $1000: Bullfights & heavy drinking are the order of the day in this 1926 novel with a title from Ecclesiastes The Sun Also Rises |
| #7061, aired 2015-05-04 | CHARACTERS FROM AMERICAN LIT $400: He is Scarlett O'Hara's third husband Rhett Butler |
| #7061, aired 2015-05-04 | CHARACTERS FROM AMERICAN LIT $800: The first word in "Tom Sawyer" is uttered by this woman, his aunt & guardian Aunt Polly |
| #7061, aired 2015-05-04 | CHARACTERS FROM AMERICAN LIT $1200: Natty Bumppo, a character in "The Leatherstocking Tales", was partly based on this Kentucky frontiersman Daniel Boone |
| #7061, aired 2015-05-04 | CHARACTERS FROM AMERICAN LIT $2000: In "The Good Earth", O-lan is married to this peasant farmer Wang Lung |
| #7061, aired 2015-05-04 | CHARACTERS FROM AMERICAN LIT $6,600 (Daily Double): Seen here, MGM executive Irving Thalberg was the basis for Monroe Stahr in this F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Last Tycoon |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | AMERICAN LIT $400: Poet Gregory Corso & novelist William S. Burroughs were part of this hip midcentury movement the Beat Movement |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | AMERICAN LIT $800: In a 1952 novel he wrote, "I am invisible... simply because people refuse to see me" (Ralph) Ellison |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | AMERICAN LIT $1200: A real disaster inspired Longfellow's ballad about "The Wreck Of" this schooner the Hesperus |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | AMERICAN LIT $1600: Hawthorne based this novel about a cursed home in Salem on an old family legend The House of the Seven Gables |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | AMERICAN LIT $2000: The title of this short novel by Nathanael West refers to an advice column for the lovelorn Miss Lonelyhearts |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | AMERICAN LIT $400: In an 1845 poem he quoted the raven as saying "Nevermore" Poe |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | AMERICAN LIT $1200: "Devon is sometimes considered the most beautiful school in New England" is a line from this John Knowles novel A Separate Peace |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | AMERICAN LIT $1600: In July 1741 Jonathan Edwards delivered the fiery sermon these people "in the Hands of an Angry God" sinners |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | AMERICAN LIT $2000: She wrote a couple of famous "teen" novels, "O Pioneers!" from 1913 & "My Antonia" from 1918 Willa Cather |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | AMERICAN LIT $18,000 (Daily Double): In Reginald Rose's play "Twelve Angry Men", the men are all members of one of these a jury |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | 1940s AMERICAN LIT $400: In 1947 this author's own publishing company released "Tarzan and the Foreign Legion", his last in the series Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | 1940s AMERICAN LIT $1200: His 1942 collection "My World and Welcome to It" included "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" Thurber |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | 1940s AMERICAN LIT $1600: This 1940 "Incident" by Walter Van Tilburg Clark tells the story of 3 men falsely accused & lynched for cattle rustling The Ox-Bow Incident |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | 1940s AMERICAN LIT $2000: A fan asking what may have happened to Jesus' garments after the Crucifixion inspired Lloyd Douglas to write this novel The Robe |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | 1940s AMERICAN LIT $5,400 (Daily Double): This 1946 novel about a Southern politician takes its title from the "Humpty Dumpty" nursery rhyme All the King's Men |
| #6216, aired 2011-10-03 | 20th CENTURY LIT $2000: A short story by Ernest Hemingway tells of "The Short Happy Life of" this American on safari in Africa Francis Macomber |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $400: In 1853 Harriet Beecher Stowe published "A Key to" this novel, with facts & figures to back up its accuracy Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $800: "The Fair God" by Lew Wallace tells of the conquest of Mexico by this explorer (Hernando) Cortes |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $1200: In an 1863 story by Edward Everett Hale, army officer Philip Nolan becomes "The Man Without" this a Country |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $1600: Chapter 1 of this Hawthorne novel is titled "The Old Pyncheon Family" The House of the Seven Gables |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $2000: In 1876 Mark Twain collaborated on a play, "Ah Sin", with this author of "The Luck of Roaring Camp" Bret Harte |
| #5961, aired 2010-07-12 | 1920s LIT $600: On Feb. 2, 1922 this James Joyce book was published by American Sylvia Beach under her own imprint in Paris Ulysses |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1000: During each of the 7 days of this African-American celebration, a candle is lit to represent its 7 principles Kwanzaa |
| #5666, aired 2009-04-06 | AMERICAN LIT $400: At the end of his novel "Typee", the hero escapes on a whaler Melville |
| #5666, aired 2009-04-06 | AMERICAN LIT $800: This author introduced Natty Bumppo in "The Pioneers" James Fenimore Cooper |
| #5666, aired 2009-04-06 | AMERICAN LIT $1200: Among his historical novels are "Burr" & "1876" (Gore) Vidal |
| #5666, aired 2009-04-06 | AMERICAN LIT $1600: Time put his violent western tale "Blood Meridian" on a list of the 100 best novels since 1923 Cormac McCarthy |
| #5666, aired 2009-04-06 | AMERICAN LIT $2000: In Faulkner's "The Bear", Ike McCaslin hunts down this legendary bear Old Ben |
| #5646, aired 2009-03-09 | GET LIT $1600: He received international fame in 1878 for his story about Daisy Miller, an American flirt in Europe Henry James |
| #5612, aired 2009-01-20 | AMERICAN, LIT $400: 5 of the 7 American winners of this literary honor have been diagnosed as alcoholics the Nobel Prize (for Literature) |
| #5612, aired 2009-01-20 | AMERICAN, LIT $800: Because he was "drinking a case of 16-ounce tallboys a night", he said, he barely remembers writing "Cujo" Stephen King |
| #5612, aired 2009-01-20 | AMERICAN, LIT $1200: "What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today" is attributed to him: no wonder West Point expelled him (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #5612, aired 2009-01-20 | AMERICAN, LIT $1600: "Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine", he wrote in "The Long Goodbye" Raymond Chandler |
| #5612, aired 2009-01-20 | AMERICAN, LIT $2000: This famously dipsomaniacal poet & author of "Post Office" wrote the screenplay for "Barfly", loosely based on his life Charles Bukowski |
| #5554, aired 2008-10-30 | AMERICAN RESTAURANTS $1000: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from a restaurant courtyard lit for nighttime dining in Central Park, New York.) Originally built to house sheep, it's come a long way & is now a lavish cafe overlooking Central Park Tavern on the Green |
| #5526, aired 2008-09-22 | AMERICAN LIT $400: Perhaps his first collection of stories, "Twice-Told Tales", was printed in scarlet letters? Hawthorne |
| #5526, aired 2008-09-22 | AMERICAN LIT $800: In Bernard Malamud's "The Natural", Roy Hobbs wields Wonderboy, this object a baseball bat |
| #5526, aired 2008-09-22 | AMERICAN LIT $1200: This novel begins, "Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing" The Call of the Wild |
| #5526, aired 2008-09-22 | AMERICAN LIT $1600: This 3-named American poet wanted the ship of state to "sail on... strong and great" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| #5526, aired 2008-09-22 | AMERICAN LIT $2000: Thomas Sutpen goes south to seek his destiny in this Faulkner novel with a double talk title Absalom, Absalom! |
| #5521, aired 2008-09-15 | AMERICAN LIT $400: Unlike some of his other scary stories, "The Pit and the Pendulum" has a happy ending (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #5521, aired 2008-09-15 | AMERICAN LIT $800: Edna Ferber set most of her novel "Giant" in this giant state Texas |
| #5521, aired 2008-09-15 | AMERICAN LIT $1200: Her 1922 novel "One of Ours" tells the tale of a Nebraska farm boy who dies in WWI (Nebraska is your big clue) Willa Cather |
| #5521, aired 2008-09-15 | AMERICAN LIT $1600: Much of "The Beautiful and Damned", his 1922 novel about a self-destructive couple, now seems autobiographical F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #5521, aired 2008-09-15 | AMERICAN LIT $2,000 (Daily Double): "The soul selects
her own society-
then-
shuts the door",
she wrote in her poem No. 303 Emily Dickinson |
| #5520, aired 2008-09-12 | KIDDY LIT $1000: This American actress has penned several kids' books, including "Where Do Balloons Go?" Jamie Lee Curtis |
| #5479, aired 2008-06-05 | AMERICAN LIT $200: In a poem by Longfellow, Hiawatha's marriage to her is no laughing matter Minnehaha |
| #5479, aired 2008-06-05 | AMERICAN LIT $400: In this 1959 William Gibson drama, Helen Keller realizes things have names The Miracle Worker |
| #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 |
| #5479, aired 2008-06-05 | AMERICAN LIT $800: Sinclair Lewis' real estate salesman who's "never done a single thing I've wanted to do in my whole life" (George) Babbitt |
| #5479, aired 2008-06-05 | AMERICAN LIT $1000: "Lost Laysen" is a once-lost novella that this "Gone With The Wind" author wrote when she was just 16 Margaret Mitchell |
| #5424, aired 2008-03-20 | AMERICAN LIT $400: This Southern epic swept across the nation as the bestselling fiction book of 1936 & 1937 Gone with the Wind |
| #5424, aired 2008-03-20 | AMERICAN LIT $800: In a popular short story, this famed orator saves a farmer who's sold his soul to the devil Daniel Webster |
| #5424, aired 2008-03-20 | AMERICAN LIT $1600: Governor Willie Stark in this Robert Penn Warren novel is said to have been modeled after Huey Long All The King's Men |
| #5424, aired 2008-03-20 | AMERICAN LIT $2,000 (Daily Double): In a Whitman poem in memory of Abraham Lincoln, it's the title that precedes "Our fearful trip is done" "O Captain! My Captain!" |
| #5424, aired 2008-03-20 | AMERICAN LIT $2000: This 4-letter Melville novel is subtitled "A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas" Omoo |
| #5277, aired 2007-07-17 | CLASSIC LIT $800: Completes the title of a classic about an African-American family "Roll of Thunder..." Hear My Cry |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $400: In an 1876 novel, he cons Ben, Billy & Johnny into whitewashing a fence for him Tom Sawyer |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $800: In this novel, Hester Prynne's husband assumes the guise of Roger Chillingworth, a doctor The Scarlet Letter |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $1,000 (Daily Double): "The Legend of" this place is set in "Greensburgh... which is more generally" known as Tarry Town Sleepy Hollow |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $1600: Text that was deleted by the original publisher in 1895 was restored to this Stephen Crane novel in 1982 The Red Badge of Courage |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $2000: Captain Kidd's buried treasure & a scarab beetle figure prominently in this 1843 Edgar Allan Poe tale The Gold Bug |
| #5060, aired 2006-09-15 | AMERICAN LIT $200: A Twain tale celebrated a jumping frog of this title county Calaveras County |
| #5060, aired 2006-09-15 | AMERICAN LIT $400: This 1906 novel was intended as a companion piece to "The Call of the Wild" White Fang |
| #5060, aired 2006-09-15 | AMERICAN LIT $600: He won National Book Awards for "Goodbye, Columbus" & "Sabbath's Theater" Philip Roth |
| #5060, aired 2006-09-15 | AMERICAN LIT $800: A telegram in this Hemingway novel says, "Lady Ashley Hotel Montana Madrid arriving Sud Express...love Jake" The Sun Also Rises |
| #5060, aired 2006-09-15 | AMERICAN LIT $1000: Dupin figures out that the title object of this Poe story is hidden in plain sight The Purloined Letter |
| #4913, aired 2006-01-11 | AMERICAN LIT $400: Jay is the first name of the title character of this F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby |
| #4913, aired 2006-01-11 | AMERICAN LIT $800: This Vonnegut novel begins "All this happened, more or less. The war parts anyway, are pretty much true" Slaughterhouse-Five |
| #4913, aired 2006-01-11 | AMERICAN LIT $1200: He wrote "Two Years Before the Mast" from the journal that he kept about a voyage around Cape Horn Dana |
| #4913, aired 2006-01-11 | AMERICAN LIT $2000: Part I of this Willa Cather novel is called "The Wild Land"; Part II is "Neighboring Fields" O Pioneers! |
| #4913, aired 2006-01-11 | AMERICAN LIT $3,000 (Daily Double): Caroline Meeber is the title character of this 1900 novel Sister Carrie |
| #4868, aired 2005-11-09 | AMERICAN LIT $400: Scout Finch lives with dad Atticus & brother Jem in Maycomb, Alabama in this classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #4868, aired 2005-11-09 | AMERICAN LIT $800: His 5 "Leather-Stocking Tales" include "The Deerslayer" & "The Pathfinder" James Fenimore Cooper |
| #4868, aired 2005-11-09 | AMERICAN LIT $1,200 (Daily Double): The title of this novel refers to "a small log building, close adjoining to 'The House'... his master's dwelling" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #4868, aired 2005-11-09 | AMERICAN LIT $1600: Oprah's Book Club read Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying", "The Sound & the Fury" & this aptly titled one in summer 2005 Light in August |
| #4868, aired 2005-11-09 | AMERICAN LIT $2000: This Chicago-set Richard Wright novel centers on Bigger Thomas, who ends up killing his own sweetheart Native Son |
| #4745, aired 2005-04-01 | AMERICAN LIT $400: George & his simple-minded friend Lennie are this book's main characters Of Mice and Men |
| #4745, aired 2005-04-01 | AMERICAN LIT $800: Mark Twain wrote "There are 19 rules governing literary art... some say 22. In 'Deerslayer'" he "violated 18" (James Fenimore) Cooper |
| #4745, aired 2005-04-01 | AMERICAN LIT $1200: "'Dead,' was all he answered" is the last line of this Robert Frost poem "The Death of the Hired Man" |
| #4745, aired 2005-04-01 | AMERICAN LIT $1600: He wrote an introduction called "How 'Bigger' was Born" for his novel "Native Son" Richard Wright |
| #4745, aired 2005-04-01 | AMERICAN LIT $2000: A Hemingway story is called "The Short Happy Life of" him Francis Macomber |
| #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 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $800: Jean Toomer's "Cane" (1923) is one of the major works of this New York City movement the Harlem Renaissance |
| #4717, aired 2005-02-22 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $1200: Soon after this jazzman died, poet Michael Harper published a "Dear John" book about him John Coltrane |
| #4717, aired 2005-02-22 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $1600: Donald Goines wrote 4 novels about an urban revolutionary named for this father of modern Kenya Jomo Kenyatta |
| #4717, aired 2005-02-22 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $2000: Last name of poet Nikki, or first name of the man whose "room" is a James Baldwin book title Giovanni |
| #4611, aired 2004-09-27 | TOUGH LIT $1200: He dedicated his "Barrack-Room Ballads" to Wolcott Balestier, an American publisher who was his brother-in-law (Rudyard) Kipling |
| #4504, aired 2004-03-18 | NOVELS $800: Pearl is the product of adultery in this classic of American lit The Scarlet Letter |
| #4415, aired 2003-11-14 | AMERICAN LIT $400: Sal Paradise & Dean Moriarty take a series of coast-to-coast trips in this Beat book On the Road |
| #4415, aired 2003-11-14 | AMERICAN LIT $1200: This Dreiser novel lives up to its title: Clyde plots to murder his pregnant sweetie, she drowns, he's condemned to die An American Tragedy |
| #4415, aired 2003-11-14 | AMERICAN LIT $1600: Annie is the real first name of this American girl, the title character of an 1878 Henry James story Daisy Miller |
| #4415, aired 2003-11-14 | AMERICAN LIT $2,000 (Daily Double): Benjy, Quentin & Jason Compson narrate 3 of the 4 sections of this Faulkner favorite The Sound and the Fury |
| #4415, aired 2003-11-14 | AMERICAN LIT $2000: This book by Sherwood Anderson consists of 23 stories about life in a small Ohio town Winesburg, Ohio |
| #4374, aired 2003-09-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $400: Harriet Beecher Stowe said that God wrote this book, "I merely did his dictation" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #4374, aired 2003-09-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $800: In 1880 an illustrated volume of his "A Tramp Abroad" included an appendix titled "The Awful German Language" Mark Twain |
| #4374, aired 2003-09-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $1200: This 1854 series of essays on self-reliance was subtitled "Or, Life in the Woods" Walden |
| #4374, aired 2003-09-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $1600: In "The Scarlet Letter", she "raised a great scandal ... in godly Master Dimmesdale's church" Hester Prynne |
| #4374, aired 2003-09-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $2000: This James Fenimore Cooper character is known as Hawkeye, Long Rifle & Pathfinder Natty Bumppo |
| #4233, aired 2003-01-15 | AMERICAN LIT $400: He's known for his Martian & Pellucidar tales as well as the ones about that ape man Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| #4233, aired 2003-01-15 | AMERICAN LIT $800: The Society of Arts & Sciences named its short story award after this "Gift of the Magi" author O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) |
| #4233, aired 2003-01-15 | AMERICAN LIT $1200: "Nobody Knows My Name" (hopefully you do!) is a later work by this "Go Tell It on the Mountain" man James Baldwin |
| #4233, aired 2003-01-15 | AMERICAN LIT $2000: Vermont, which didn't approve a lottery until 1976, was where she wrote "The Lottery" in 1949 Shirley Jackson |
| #4233, aired 2003-01-15 | AMERICAN LIT $4,000 (Daily Double): Last name of brothers Stephen & William, who won Pulitzers for their poetry: one in 1929 & 1944, the other in 1942 Benet |
| #4187, aired 2002-11-12 | AMERICAN LIT $400: This classic by Harriet Beecher Stowe sold 300,000 copies in the first year that it was published in book form "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
| #4187, aired 2002-11-12 | AMERICAN LIT $800: Upton Sinclair said of this book, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach" "The Jungle" |
| #4187, aired 2002-11-12 | AMERICAN LIT $1200: The name of this 1837 collection of Hawthorne "Tales" probably comes from a line in Shakespeare's "King John" "Twice-Told Tales" |
| #4187, aired 2002-11-12 | AMERICAN LIT $1600: "A Backward Glance" is the autobiography of this author of "Ethan Frome" Edith Wharton |
| #4187, aired 2002-11-12 | AMERICAN LIT $2000: This Quaker poet wrote, "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been!'" John Greenleaf Whittier |
| #4094, aired 2002-05-23 | BUG LIT $1600: An American family moves to Honduras in this Paul Theroux novel, later a film starring Harrison Ford The Mosquito Coast |
| #4022, aired 2002-02-12 | AMERICAN LIT $400: (Sofia of the Clue Crew presents from Salem, Massachusetts.) This author once worked here at the Custom House in Salem & he wrote about it in his introduction to "The Scarlet Letter" Hawthorne |
| #4022, aired 2002-02-12 | AMERICAN LIT $1,000 (Daily Double): In a poem by Longfellow, Hiawatha's marriage to her is no laughing matter Minnehaha |
| #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 |
| #4022, aired 2002-02-12 | AMERICAN LIT $1600: By the end of this 1895 novel, Henry Flemming "had rid himself of the red sickness of battle" The Red Badge of Courage |
| #4022, aired 2002-02-12 | AMERICAN LIT $2000: "Lost Laysen" is a once-lost novella that this "Gone with the Wind" author wrote when she was just 16 (Margaret) Mitchell |
| #4006, aired 2002-01-21 | AMERICAN LIT $400: In this 1959 William Gibson drama, Helen Keller realizes things have names The Miracle Worker |
| #4006, aired 2002-01-21 | AMERICAN LIT $800: Sinclair Lewis' real estate salesman who's "never done a single thing I've wanted to do in my whole life" Babbitt |
| #3965, aired 2001-11-23 | ALL LIT UP $200: "In the Eye of the Storm" chronicles the life of this American general who led Operation Desert Storm Norman Schwarzkopf |
| #3703, aired 2000-10-11 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $200: A slaveowner's son becomes an abolitionist in "A Different Kind of Christmas" by this "Roots" author Alex Haley |
| #3703, aired 2000-10-11 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $400: Macon Dead III, also known as Milkman, is the protagonist of her novel "Song of Solomon" Toni Morrison |
| #3703, aired 2000-10-11 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $600: His 1962 novel "Another Country" is noted for its frank depiction of various sexual & interracial relationships James Baldwin |
| #3703, aired 2000-10-11 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $800: A mother of five is the heroine of "Mama" by this author who helped Stella get her groove back Terry McMillan |
| #3703, aired 2000-10-11 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $1000: "Linden Hills" was Gloria Naylor's second novel; her first was "The Women of" this "Place" Brewster Place |
| #3649, aired 2000-06-15 | AMERICAN LIT $200: Chapter 3 of this Mark Twain novel introduces us to the "Knights of the Table Round" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #3649, aired 2000-06-15 | AMERICAN LIT $400: A minor character from "Breakfast of Champions" became the hero of his 1987 novel "Bluebeard" Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
| #3649, aired 2000-06-15 | AMERICAN LIT $600: In 1912 Zane Grey published this "colorful" classic of the American West Riders of the Purple Sage |
| #3649, aired 2000-06-15 | AMERICAN LIT $800: In a 1989 novel by E.L. Doctorow, gangster Dutch Schultz takes this title teen under his wing Billy Bathgate |
| #3649, aired 2000-06-15 | AMERICAN LIT $1000: Old Ben, not Gentle Ben, is the title character in this William Faulkner novelette The Bear |
| #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 |
| #3630, aired 2000-05-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $400: "Song of Solomon" was the first of her novels to have a male protagonist Toni Morrison |
| #3630, aired 2000-05-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $600: This famed orator who was born a slave wrote the 1855 memoir "My Bondage and My Freedom" Frederick Douglass |
| #3630, aired 2000-05-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $800: This poet called her 1976 memoir "Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas" Maya Angelou |
| #3630, aired 2000-05-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $1000: Ernest J. Gaines "Autobiography of" this fictional woman became an Emmy-winning TV movie starring Cicely Tyson Miss Jane Pittman |
| #3589, aired 2000-03-23 | BUY AMERICAN LIT! $200: This author of "The Martian Chronicles" co-wrote the 1956 screenplay for "Moby Dick" Ray Bradbury |
| #3589, aired 2000-03-23 | BUY AMERICAN LIT! $400: Frankie ages a year over the course of this author's "Member of the Wedding" Carson McCullers |
| #3589, aired 2000-03-23 | BUY AMERICAN LIT! $600: A lady from "The Burden of Proof" returns as a judge in his "Laws of Our Fathers" Scott Turow |
| #3589, aired 2000-03-23 | BUY AMERICAN LIT! $800: The home he described in "You Can't Go Home Again" is actually on 11th, not 12th St., as he wrote in the book Thomas Wolfe |
| #3567, aired 2000-02-22 | POSSESSIVE LIT $200: It was the biggest-selling American novel of the 1850s "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
| #3536, aired 2000-01-10 | NATIVE AMERICAN LIT $200: The title of Sherman Alexie's 1993 short story collection asserts this man & Tonto "Fistfight in Heaven" The Lone Ranger |
| #3536, aired 2000-01-10 | NATIVE AMERICAN LIT $400: Novelist James Welch's first book of nonfiction was 1994's "Killing" this cavalryman Custer |
| #3536, aired 2000-01-10 | NATIVE AMERICAN LIT $600: This "Gorky Park" author drew on his Pueblo heritage to write the 1986 thriller "Stallion Gate" Martin Cruz Smith |
| #3536, aired 2000-01-10 | NATIVE AMERICAN LIT $800: This "Chief" appeared in the film "Little Big Man" & wrote the poetry collection "My Heart Soars" Dan George |
| #3536, aired 2000-01-10 | NATIVE AMERICAN LIT $1000: In a 1932 book, this Oglala Sioux holy man "Speaks" his life story to poet John Neihardt Black Elk |
| #3524, aired 1999-12-23 | AMERICAN LIT $200: Daniel Pierce Thompson wrote an 1839 novel about these "Boys" led by Ethan Allen Green Mountain Boys |
| #3524, aired 1999-12-23 | AMERICAN LIT $400: A preacher decides to hide his face forever in "The Minister's Black Veil", one of this author's "Twice-Told Tales" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #3524, aired 1999-12-23 | AMERICAN LIT $600: Henry James often visited his grandmother's home on this "Presidential" square (& named a novel for it) Washington Square |
| #3524, aired 1999-12-23 | AMERICAN LIT $800: "District of Columbia" was the second trilogy of novels by this author of the trilogy "U.S.A." John Dos Passos |
| #3524, aired 1999-12-23 | AMERICAN LIT $1000: His novel "Sister Carrie" was inspired by his own sister Emma, who ran off with a married man Theodore Dreiser |
| #3148, aired 1998-04-15 | 4 EASY LIT QUESTIONS... $400: This Norman Mailer novel is considered one of the finest by an American about WWII The Naked and the Dead |
| #3033, aired 1997-11-05 | AMERICAN LIT $200: Number of poems Emily Dickinson gave permission to publish during her lifetime 0 |
| #3033, aired 1997-11-05 | AMERICAN LIT $400: Of Hawkeye, Hot Lips or Klinger, the one in "Last of the Mohicans" Hawkeye |
| #3033, aired 1997-11-05 | AMERICAN LIT $600: "North of Boston" & "New Hampshire" are books of poetry by this man Robert Frost |
| #3033, aired 1997-11-05 | AMERICAN LIT $800: This Shirley Jackson short story about a stoning is subtitled "The Adventures of James Harris" The Lottery |
| #3033, aired 1997-11-05 | AMERICAN LIT $1000: The Rachel picked up Ishmael, the lone survivor of this other whaling ship Pequod |
| #2858, aired 1997-01-22 | AMERICAN LIT $100: Mrs. Marie Louise Shew inspired this poet to write about the bells that annoyed him Edgar Allan Poe |
| #2858, aired 1997-01-22 | AMERICAN LIT $200: In 1876 we saw "The Adventures Of" this character; in 1894 he went "Abroad" & in 1896 became a "Detective" Tom Sawyer |
| #2858, aired 1997-01-22 | AMERICAN LIT $300: Like Jann Wenner, O.Henry ran a magazine called this Rolling Stone |
| #2858, aired 1997-01-22 | AMERICAN LIT $400: In his 1823 book "The Pioneers", Judge Temple was based on his father William James Fenimore Cooper |
| #2858, aired 1997-01-22 | AMERICAN LIT $500: This tough Irish-American lead character of 3 James T. Farrell novels of the '30s dies in the third one at 29 Studs Lonigan |
| #2839, aired 1996-12-26 | AMERICAN LIT $200: Recent news of "The Inheritance", an unpublished novel by this "Little Women" author, had film studios buzzing Louisa May Alcott |
| #2839, aired 1996-12-26 | AMERICAN LIT $400: He wrote that in Oz he eliminated the stereotyped genie, dwarf & fairy of old-time tales L. Frank Baum |
| #2839, aired 1996-12-26 | AMERICAN LIT $600: "Hocus Pocus" was a 1990 book by this "Cat's Cradle" novelist Kurt Vonnegut |
| #2839, aired 1996-12-26 | AMERICAN LIT $800: "Deathtrap" playwright who wrote the novels "Rosemary's Baby" & "A Kiss Before Dying" Ira Levin |
| #2839, aired 1996-12-26 | AMERICAN LIT $1000: Woman who wrote "Tex", "Rumble Fish" & "Taming the Star Runner" S.E. Hinton |
| #1190, aired 1989-11-03 | POE $1000: According to the Oxford Companion to American Lit., they were sleigh, wedding, alarm & funeral "The Bells" |
| #1121, aired 1989-06-19 | FICTION $800: His "Mosses from an Old Manse" is called one of the finest collections of stories in American lit (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #869, aired 1988-05-19 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1000: Only "X" entry in "The Reader's Encyc. of Am. Lit." is "Xingu", a story by this "Ethan Frome" author Edith Wharton |
| #409, aired 1986-04-03 | KIDDIE LIT $400: In 1856, M.E.M. Dodge broke the ice with this 1st major American novel about life in another country Hans Brinker, The Silver Skates |
