| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | TRAIN TALES $400: A book of timetables for railways & steamers helped the protagonist make his less-than-3-month journey in this 1873 novel Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | SOME THOUGHTS ON THE BOOK $600: Though my memory is Fogg-y, that guy may have a serious gambling problem; far to travel & under 3 months to do it... go! Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $4,000 (Daily Double): The book "Noah's Flood" proposed that the event happened when the Mediterranean burst into this sea 7,600 years ago the Black Sea |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | NUMERICAL BOOK TITLES $1200: A recent TV adaptation of this 1872 novel has David Tennant as the globe-trotting adventurer trying to win a wager Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | LITERARY JOURNALISM $600: This newswoman chronicled her 1889-1890 adventures in the book "Around the World in Seventy-Two Days" Nellie Bly |
| #6959, aired 2014-12-11 | FRENCH LIT $800: "Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours" is the French title of this 1873 book Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | MARK TWAIN $200: Twain took "a journey around the world" in his fifth & last travel book, "Following" this imaginary line equator |
| #6489, aired 2012-11-29 | NATURE BOY $400: This naturalist described his 1831-36 voyage around the world in the book "Journal of Researches" Darwin |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | AROUND THE LITERARY WORLD $400: Johann Wyss edited & completed his father's book about this "Swiss Family" the Robinson family |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | AROUND THE LITERARY WORLD $2000: This Frenchman dedicated his book of poems "Les Fleurs du mal" to his friend & fellow poet Theophile Gautier Charles Baudelaire |
| #5524, aired 2008-09-18 | KIDS IN LIT $800: A book by a great-great-uncle shows Jared, Simon & Mallory the hidden world around them in this series The Spiderwick Chronicles |
| #4517, aired 2004-04-06 | BOOK TITLES $2,400 (Daily Double): After circling the globe between June 23 & July 1, 1931, aviator Wiley Post published a book called this Around the World in Eight Days |
| #4420, aired 2003-11-21 | AN ENGLISHMAN $1200: In this peripatetic book, Jules Verne wrote, "An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet" Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #4247, aired 2003-02-04 | AROUND THE WORLD BOOK $200: Mental illness or just too much coffee may cause this, the inability to sleep naturally insomnia |
| #4247, aired 2003-02-04 | AROUND THE WORLD BOOK $400: Full date mentioned in the first sentence of the article on the Millennium Bug January 1, 2000 |
| #4247, aired 2003-02-04 | AROUND THE WORLD BOOK $600: As C is in 2 volumes, but J & K are in 1, volume 13 still covers this one letter M |
| #4247, aired 2003-02-04 | AROUND THE WORLD BOOK $800: These "have one advantage over most other pets. They can be left alone for a day or two without food" fish |
| #4247, aired 2003-02-04 | AROUND THE WORLD BOOK $1000: The World Book illustration for this occupation has a man with a cutlass, daggers, a pistol & a boarding ax pirate |
| #4237, aired 2003-01-21 | "WORLD" BOOK $4,000 (Daily Double): Published serially in Le Temps in 1872, this globetrotting work made a novel debut in 1873 "Around the World in Eighty Days" |
| #3856, aired 2001-05-14 | OLD TRAVEL BOOKS $400: This Englishman's 1577-1580 trip around the world wasn't mentioned in Hakluyt's 1589 book on English voyages Sir Francis Drake |
| #3649, aired 2000-06-15 | THAT 1870s SHOW $400: Bo pays his sister to do a book report on this 1872 Jules Verne novel & gets almost 3 months in detention Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #2608, aired 1995-12-27 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: World Book calls this South American country "the world's largest 'coffeepot'" Brazil |
| #1947, aired 1993-02-09 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $400: By the end of this book, Phileas Fogg has married Aouda, who "made him the happiest of men!" Around the World in 80 Days |
| #1800, aired 1992-05-29 | MISC. $400: Jules Verne's book "Around the Moon" was the sequel to this 1865 best seller From the Earth to the Moon |
| #1685, aired 1991-12-20 | JULES VERNE $200: In Chapter 3 of this book wagers are made whether Phileas Fogg can complete his journey in the allotted time Around the World in Eighty Days |
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