| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Tracy Letts' play about a rundown food shop, its aging owner & his young African-American hire is called "Superior" these Donuts |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Her "A Raisin in the Sun" was the first play by an African-American woman to be produced on Broadway (Lorraine) Hansberry |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | AMERICAN FIVES $200: Of the 5 California MLB teams, the one that plays its home games the farthest south the Padres |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | TV $400: Beanie Feldstein plays her in "Impeachment: American Crime Story" Lewinsky |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | DECADES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $200: "Our American Cousin" infamously plays at Ford's Theatre the 1860s |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | AMERICAN PLAYS $400: Stella could tell ya the action in "A Streetcar Named Desire" takes place in this city New Orleans |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | AMERICAN PLAYS $800: The stage manager in this play tells us it's set in Grover's Corners & that it's May 7, 1901, just before dawn Our Town |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | AMERICAN PLAYS $1200: "Raisin" is a musical version of this classic drama Raisin in the Sun |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | AMERICAN PLAYS $1600: These are the last names of Felix & Oscar, the 2 mismatched roommates of Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple" Ungar & Madison |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | AMERICAN PLAYS $2000: The 1980 Tony winner for Best Play, this drama was specially written for deaf actress Phyllis Frelich Children of a Lesser God |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: This American's play "The Zoo Story" was once staged in Regent's Park, near the menagerie Edward Albee |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | CLASSIC AMERICAN PLAYS $400: This Arthur Miller character makes his way "on a smile and a shoeshine" Willy Loman |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | CLASSIC AMERICAN PLAYS $800: The role of Pale, in "Burn This" by Lanford Wilson, is a showcase for young actors--John Malkovich in 1987 & this man in 2019 (Adam) Driver |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | CLASSIC AMERICAN PLAYS $1200: In this Jason Miller drama, members of a high school basketball team celebrate the 20th anniversary of their state title That Championship Season |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | CLASSIC AMERICAN PLAYS $1600: In 1933 his play "Ah, Wilderness!" opened in New York with George M. Cohan as one of the leads (Eugene) O'Neill |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | CLASSIC AMERICAN PLAYS $2000: Junk dealer Harry Brock hires a tutor to give his mistress Billie Dawn some culture & class in this play Born Yesterday |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: His plays "The Piano Lesson" & "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" are both set in Pittsburgh August Wilson |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | NEW TV $2000: Cress Williams plays the titular African-American electrical superhero on this CW series Black Lightning |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: John Steinbeck's "East of Eden" plays out its Cain & Abel parable in this California valley the Salinas Valley |
| #7695, aired 2018-02-09 | RECENT TV ROLES $1000: He went from "Deadwood" to "American Gods", where he plays Mr. Wednesday Ian McShane |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $200: A performance of the farce "Our American Cousin" by Tom Taylor was cut short due to this tragedy in 1865 the assassination of President Lincoln |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: August Wilson chronicled the Black experience in his cycle of plays set in the Hill District of this Pennsylvania city Pittsburgh |
| #7340, aired 2016-07-08 | AMERICAN DRAMATISTS $1200: This playwright/actor explores dysfunctional & barely functional families in plays like 2012's "Heartless" Sam Shepard |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | TEA TIME MOVIE $2000: In "Tea with Mussolini", Cher plays a character based on this American art patron who spent a lot of time in Italy Peggy Guggenheim |
| #6409, aired 2012-06-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTRESSES $2000: Loretta Devine, one of the original "Dreamgirls" on Broadway, plays Dr. Webber's wife Adele on this medical drama Grey's Anatomy |
| #6398, aired 2012-06-13 | AMERICAN BALLET $400: The same ballerina plays both the mother & Mexican sweetheart of this young outlaw in the 1938 ballet named for him Billy the Kid |
| #5564, aired 2008-11-13 | AN HOUR OF TV $1200: This '80s teen actress plays a mom on "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" Molly Ringwald |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | AMERICAN PLAYS $400: This future pres.'s 1948 Senate race is the subject of the musical "The Winner", which premiered in Texas in 2007 Lyndon Johnson |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | AMERICAN PLAYS $800: Kevin Spacey starred in a 2006 British revival of this playwright's "A Moon for the Misbegotten" Eugene O'Neill |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | AMERICAN PLAYS $1,000 (Daily Double): The 2007 revival of this classic courtroom drama cast Christopher Plummer in the role inspired by Clarence Darrow Inherit the Wind |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | AMERICAN PLAYS $1600: (Hi, I'm Sam Waterston.) I received my 1st Emmy nomination for the television version of this play; I played Tom & Katharine Hepburn played my mother, Amanda Wingfield The Glass Menagerie |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | AMERICAN PLAYS $2000: Famed for playing Frasier's father, this actor came back to Broadway in 2007 in "Prelude to a Kiss" (John) Mahoney |
| #4342, aired 2003-06-17 | THE AUSSIE POSSE $1200: This Melbourne native seen here plays an American on "Six Feet Under" Rachel Griffiths |
| #4232, aired 2003-01-14 | AMERICAN DRAMATISTS $800: Many of his plays are set in his native Chicago, including "American Buffalo" & "Glengarry Glen Ross" David Mamet |
| #3979, aired 2001-12-13 | AMERICAN DRAMATISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): His only comedy among his many plays was 1933's "Ah, Wilderness!" Eugene O'Neill |
| #3543, aired 2000-01-19 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $300: In 1941 her "Watch on the Rhine" was named best American play by the New York Drama Critics' Circle Lillian Hellman |
| #3203, aired 1998-07-01 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: "An American Daughter" by this "Heidi Chronicles" playwright, opened on Broadway in 1997 (Wendy) Wasserstein |
| #3088, aired 1998-01-21 | PLAYS $200: The "American Buffalo" in David Mamet's play is one of these that would interest a numismatist Nickel |
| #2932, aired 1997-05-06 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1,000 (Daily Double): This American won a 1928 Pulitzer Prize for his very long, 9-act drama "Strange Interlude" Eugene O'Neill |
| #2716, aired 1996-05-27 | PLAYS $1,200 (Daily Double): A 1960 adaptation of this opera began with a flashback to Ford's Theatre Our American Cousin |
| #2438, aired 1995-03-22 | PLAYS $400: In 1949 the N.Y. Drama Critics Circle chose his "Death of a Salesman" as the best new American play Arthur Miller |
| #2376, aired 1994-12-26 | PLAYS $1000: This modern playwright's "American Buffalo" revolves around the sale of a rare buffalo nickel David Mamet |
| #2347, aired 1994-11-15 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: This American playwright won the first of his four Pulitzer Prizes for 1920's "Beyond the Horizon" Eugene O'Neill |
| #1852, aired 1992-09-29 | HOBBIES $400: The CCLA is an American league that plays chess this way correspondence |
| #1794, aired 1992-05-21 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $600: George Bernard Shaw's play "The Devil's Disciple" takes place in America during this 18th century war the American Revolution |
| #1683, aired 1991-12-18 | PLAYWRIGHTS $800: "A Touch of the Poet" & "More Stately Mansions" are 2 of the 11 plays he planned about 1 American family O'Neill |
| #1274, aired 1990-03-01 | AMERICAN PLAYS $200: "I'm Not Rappaport" takes place on a battered bench near the lake in this famous park Central Park |
| #1274, aired 1990-03-01 | AMERICAN PLAYS $600: Lee Strasberg played the original peddler in this 1931 play which inspired "Oklahoma!" "Green Grow The Lilacs" |
| #1274, aired 1990-03-01 | AMERICAN PLAYS $800 (Daily Double): The play in which Amanda says, "I want you to stay fresh and pretty -- for gentleman callers." "The Glass Menagerie" |
| #1274, aired 1990-03-01 | AMERICAN PLAYS $800: This playwright dedicated "A Delicate Balance" to J. Steinbeck with "affection and admiration" Edward Albee |
| #1274, aired 1990-03-01 | AMERICAN PLAYS $1000: He revised his 1st play, "Farther Off From Heaven", & retitled it "The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs" William Inge |
| #1259, aired 1990-02-08 | AMERICAN WOMEN $800: She was the Ghostbusters' receptionist on film & plays cute little Mary Jo on TV's "Designing Women" Annie Potts |
| #920, aired 1988-09-09 | FOREIGN-BORN AMERICANS $1,500 (Daily Double): Heard here, this Madrid-born Gypsy helped popularize flamenco music throughout world:
["Guitar music plays"] Carlos Montoya |
| #7, aired 1984-09-18 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $500: In 1950, they offered 1st all-purpose credit card Diners Club |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: Best known for a novel, she wrote at least 6 full-length plays & collaborated with Moms Mabley on a 1931 Broadway revue Zora Neale Hurston |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | PLAYS: The January 12, 1864 Washington Evening Star reported on a performance of this "dashing comedy" to "a full and delighted house" Our American Cousin |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | AMERICAN PLAYS: A character in this 1944 play is said to be like a piece in her own collection, "too exquisitely fragile to move from the shelf" The Glass Menagerie |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | AMERICAN PLAYS: The latitude & longitude given by the narrator of this 1938 play would set it in Massachusetts, not New Hampshire Our Town |
| #5156, aired 2007-01-29 | AMERICAN PLAYS: This drama is set at a summer home in August 1912; Act 1 takes place at 8:30 A.M.; Act 4 is 15 1/2 hours later, at midnight A Long Day's Journey into Night (by Eugene O'Neill) |
| #5014, aired 2006-06-01 | PLAYWRIGHTS: In 2005 Broadway's Virginia Theatre was renamed to honor this late author, the first African-American so honored August Wilson |
| #3961, aired 2001-11-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: John Steinbeck originally called this 1937 short novel "Something That Happened" Of Mice and Men |
| #1534, aired 1991-04-11 | AMERICAN DRAMA: 1 of the last 2 Pulitzer Prize-winning plays with a woman's name in the title; they won in 1988 & 1989 The Heidi Chronicles or Driving Miss Daisy |
| #1521, aired 1991-03-25 | AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS: He was 61 when he made his acting debut in 1 of his own plays, "Small Craft Warnings", in 1972 Tennessee Williams |
| #1120, aired 1989-06-16 | AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS: M. Stapleton,
Eli Wallach,
Jessica Tandy &
M. Leighton all won Tonys for performances in his plays Tennessee Williams |
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