Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (16 results returned)
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | PANCHO VILLAGE $2000: This "Devil's Dictionary" author disappeared after going to Mexico, reportedly to write about Pancho Villa Ambrose Bierce |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | INTERNATIONAL MEN OF MYSTERY $2000: This newspaperman & author of "The Devil's Dictionary" met a mysterious fate after going to Mexico in 1913 Ambrose Bierce |
| #7820, aired 2018-09-14 | MARK TWAIN REALLY SAID IT $2000: Of this "Devil's Dictionary" author, Twain wrote, "For every laugh, there are 5 blushes & 10 shudders" Ambrose Bierce |
| #6912, aired 2014-10-07 | SHORT STORIES $800: "The Hypnotist" & "The Stranger" are among the many stories penned by this author of "The Devil's Dictionary" (Ambrose) Bierce |
| #6439, aired 2012-09-20 | THE CRITICS SAY $2000: This "Devil's Dictionary" author called Oscar Wilde an "ineffable dunce", "an impostor" & "a blockhead" Ambrose Bierce |
| #5669, aired 2009-04-09 | A DEVIL'S DICTIONARY $4,000 (Daily Double): When used with "the", this last name of a British author is an exclamation meaning "the devil!" Dickens |
| #4385, aired 2003-10-03 | PANCHO VILLAGE $2000: This "Devil's Dictionary" author disappeared after going to Mexico, reportedly to write about Pancho Villa Ambrose Bierce |
| #3772, aired 2001-01-16 | CRIMINAL'S DICTIONARY $100: It's not a novel builder, it's a person accepting bets a bookmaker (or a bookie) |
| #3335, aired 1999-02-19 | AUTHOR'S DICTIONARY $200: It's defined as the combination of 2 seemingly contradictory words, like "deafening silence" oxymoron |
| #3335, aired 1999-02-19 | AUTHOR'S DICTIONARY $400: When this is used objects or abstractions are endowed with human traits, as in "The clouds wept" anthropomorphism (or personification) |
| #3335, aired 1999-02-19 | AUTHOR'S DICTIONARY $600: It's a specific comparison using "like" or "as"; "cool as a cucumber", for example simile |
| #3335, aired 1999-02-19 | AUTHOR'S DICTIONARY $800: From the Greek for "orator", it's the art or study of using language effectively rhetoric |
| #3335, aired 1999-02-19 | AUTHOR'S DICTIONARY $1000: As in "all hands on deck", it's the figurative use of a part of something for the whole synecdoche |
| #1202, aired 1989-11-21 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $500: The 1st Hebrew dictionary in the U.S. was written by this author of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" Clement Moore |
| #902, aired 1988-07-05 | WORLD LITERATURE $800: Author of "The Devil's Dictionary", at 71 he went south of the border & was never seen again Ambrose Bierce |
| #566, aired 1987-02-09 | REFERENCE BOOKS $600: In 1843, G. & C. Merriam Company acquired the rights to this author's reference book Noah Webster |
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