#19, aired 2023-05-24 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1600: Gilbert Keith were the given names of this author famous for his Father Brown detective stories Chesterton |
#8291, aired 2020-11-30 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $200: "Thin Man" author Samuel Hammett Dashiell |
#8291, aired 2020-11-30 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $400: Novelist Edna Proulx Annie |
#8291, aired 2020-11-30 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $600: Western scribe Pearl Grey Zane |
#8291, aired 2020-11-30 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $800: Pulitzer winner Arch Whitehead Colson |
#8291, aired 2020-11-30 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $1000: The dramatic Johan Strindberg August |
#8153, aired 2020-02-05 | AUTHORS' NAME CHANGES $800: Perhaps in an act of "Civil Disobedience", this transcendentalist reversed the order of his first & middle names Thoreau |
#7797, aired 2018-07-03 | CONFUSING AUTHORS $2000: "Flight of the Intruder" writer Stephen & "Mr. Murder" writer Dean R. have these homophonic last names Coonts/Koontz |
#7382, aired 2016-10-18 | AUTHORS WITH PRESIDENTIAL NAMES $400: In 1809 he published "A History of New York" under the pen name Diedrich Knickerbocker Washington Irving |
#7382, aired 2016-10-18 | AUTHORS WITH PRESIDENTIAL NAMES $800: Not John but Anne is the first name of this author of "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant" (Anne) Tyler |
#7382, aired 2016-10-18 | AUTHORS WITH PRESIDENTIAL NAMES $1200: Her haunting short story "The Lottery" first appeared in the New Yorker in 1948 (Shirley) Jackson |
#7382, aired 2016-10-18 | AUTHORS WITH PRESIDENTIAL NAMES $1600: This title of Stephen Carter's Cuban Missile Crisis thriller means a secret avenue of communication between nations Back Channel |
#7382, aired 2016-10-18 | AUTHORS WITH PRESIDENTIAL NAMES $2000: John Kennedy Toole took this novel title from a quote by Jonathan Swift A Confederacy of Dunces |
#7120, aired 2015-07-24 | APOSTOLIC NAMES $800: Authors Pullman & Dick Philip |
#6811, aired 2014-04-07 | AUTHORS' PLOTS $200: Grave markers for him & his wife in Oxford bear the names of 2 Middle-earth characters (J.R.R.) Tolkien |
#6688, aired 2013-10-16 | AUTHORS' NAMES $400: Born Jozef Korzeniowski, he went to the "heart of darkness" as a writer in English (Joseph) Conrad |
#6688, aired 2013-10-16 | AUTHORS' NAMES $800: Before this author of western novels dropped the first name Pearl, he made a lovely shade for tile flooring (Zane) Grey |
#6688, aired 2013-10-16 | AUTHORS' NAMES $1200: Born Marguerite Johnson, the author of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" adopted this name as an exotic dancer Maya Angelou |
#6688, aired 2013-10-16 | AUTHORS' NAMES $1600: Her uncle's life was saved by doctors at St. Vincent's Hospital, so her mother added it to this poet's name (Edna St. Vincent) Millay |
#6688, aired 2013-10-16 | AUTHORS' NAMES $2000: All things were bright & beautiful for veterinarian Alfred Wight when he wrote under this name James Herriot |
#6367, aired 2012-05-01 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $200: A Dublin-born dramatist: Bernard George Bernard Shaw |
#6367, aired 2012-05-01 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $400: An adventurous Scotsman & Samoan: Louis (Robert Louis) Stevenson |
#6367, aired 2012-05-01 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $600: He saved "Old Ironsides": Wendell Oliver Wendell Holmes |
#6367, aired 2012-05-01 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $800: Queen of bee chroniclers: Monk Sue Monk Kidd |
#6367, aired 2012-05-01 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $1000: A romantic rime-r: Taylor (Samuel Taylor) Coleridge |
#5529, aired 2008-09-25 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $400: Erle Gardner Stanley |
#5529, aired 2008-09-25 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $800: T.S. Eliot Stearns |
#5529, aired 2008-09-25 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $1200: "The Moonstone" author William Collins Wilkie |
#5529, aired 2008-09-25 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $1600: William Thackeray Makepeace |
#5529, aired 2008-09-25 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $2000: C.S. Lewis Staples |
#4864, aired 2005-11-03 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $400: His first & middle names were Pelham Grenville, but his friends called him "Plum" P.G. Wodehouse |
#4344, aired 2003-06-19 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $400: Joel Harris' middle name, it's the last name of detective writer Raymond Chandler |
#4344, aired 2003-06-19 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $800: Western novelist Francis Harte's middle name Bret |
#4344, aired 2003-06-19 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $1600: Edgar Masters' middle name Lee |
#4344, aired 2003-06-19 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $2000: O. Henry's real middle name Sidney |
#4344, aired 2003-06-19 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $3,500 (Daily Double): Mark Twain's real middle name Langhorne |
#4208, aired 2002-12-11 | PEN NAMES $2000: Ed McBain & he are credited as the authors of "Candyland"; so he actually wrote it by himself Evan Hunter |
#4033, aired 2002-02-27 | AUTHORS' MAIDEN NAMES $400: First & maiden names of the woman who married Robert Browning in 1846 Elizabeth Barrett |
#4033, aired 2002-02-27 | AUTHORS' MAIDEN NAMES $800: The maiden name of Laura Wilder, it's the last name of the family in her "Little House on the Prairie" Ingalls |
#3753, aired 2000-12-20 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $200: Jay Gatsby's creator (F.) Scott (Fitzgerald) |
#3753, aired 2000-12-20 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $400: The creator of Professor Moriarty (Sir Arthur) Conan (Doyle) |
#3753, aired 2000-12-20 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $600: Edward Hyde's creator (Robert) Louis (Stevenson) |
#3753, aired 2000-12-20 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $1000: Tarzan's creator (Edgar) Rice (Burroughs) |
#3753, aired 2000-12-20 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): The creator of Uncas (James) Fenimore (Cooper) |
#3626, aired 2000-05-15 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $600: His 2 middle names were Scott & Key F. Scott Fitzgerald |
#3525, aired 1999-12-24 | AUTHORS' PEN NAMES $200: Karen Christence Blixen-Finecke Isak Dinesen |
#3525, aired 1999-12-24 | AUTHORS' PEN NAMES $400: David John Moore Cornwell John le Carre |
#3525, aired 1999-12-24 | AUTHORS' PEN NAMES $600: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson Lewis Carroll |
#3525, aired 1999-12-24 | AUTHORS' PEN NAMES $800: William Sydney Porter O. Henry |
#3525, aired 1999-12-24 | AUTHORS' PEN NAMES $1000: Frederic Dannay & Manfred B. Lee Ellery Queen |
#3398, aired 1999-05-19 | IT WAS THE '70s $600: The last names of bestselling authors Arthur & Alex were both pronounced this way Hailey/Haley |
#2896, aired 1997-03-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Using their first names, it's the pen name of the husband & wife team who wrote "Deceptions" & "Pot Of Gold" Judith Michael |
#2721, aired 1996-06-03 | AUTHORS $200: In his early years, this "Tom Sawyer" author used such pen names as Sergeant Fathom & Josh Mark Twain |
#1648, aired 1991-10-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1,500 (Daily Double): This author of "Gorky Park" has also written under the pen names of Jake Logan & Martin Quinn Martin Cruz Smith |
#1609, aired 1991-09-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Middle-earth creator whose middle names were Ronald & Reuel Tolkien |
#1587, aired 1991-06-25 | TITLED NAMES $400: Authors Lee & Dannay used the pen name Barnaby Ross as well as this royal one Ellery Queen |
#1231, aired 1990-01-01 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $200: William Maugham's middle name Somerset |
#1231, aired 1990-01-01 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $400: Edgar Masters' middle name Lee |
#1231, aired 1990-01-01 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $600: Francis Harte's middle name Bret |
#1231, aired 1990-01-01 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $800: Franklin Adams' middle name Pierce |
#1231, aired 1990-01-01 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $1000: Clement Moore's middle name Clarke |
#1195, aired 1989-11-10 | AUTHORS' MAIDEN NAMES $200: Anne Lindbergh's maiden name Morrow |
#1195, aired 1989-11-10 | AUTHORS' MAIDEN NAMES $400: Julia Howe's Ward |
#1195, aired 1989-11-10 | AUTHORS' MAIDEN NAMES $600: Adela St. Johns' Rogers |
#1195, aired 1989-11-10 | AUTHORS' MAIDEN NAMES $800: Mary Rinehart's Roberts |
#1195, aired 1989-11-10 | AUTHORS' MAIDEN NAMES $1000: Mary Dodge's Mapes |
#1055, aired 1989-03-17 | AUTHORS' LAST NAMES $200: Thomas Stearns Eliot |
#1055, aired 1989-03-17 | AUTHORS' LAST NAMES $400: Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
#1055, aired 1989-03-17 | AUTHORS' LAST NAMES $600: Elwyn Brooks White |
#1055, aired 1989-03-17 | AUTHORS' LAST NAMES $800: James Matthew Barrie |
#1055, aired 1989-03-17 | AUTHORS' LAST NAMES $1000: Pelham Grenville Wodehouse |
#1030, aired 1989-02-10 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $200: Greenleaf John Greenleaf Whittier |
#1030, aired 1989-02-10 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $400: Christian Hans Christian Andersen |
#1030, aired 1989-02-10 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $600: Rice Edgar Rice Burroughs |
#1030, aired 1989-02-10 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $800: Bysshe Percy Shelley |
#1030, aired 1989-02-10 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $1000: Kinnan Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
#980, aired 1988-12-02 | AUTHORS' FIRST NAMES $100: Saroyan & Wordsworth William |
#980, aired 1988-12-02 | AUTHORS' FIRST NAMES $200: Crane & Leacock Stephen |
#980, aired 1988-12-02 | AUTHORS' FIRST NAMES $300: Baudelaire & Lamb Charles |
#980, aired 1988-12-02 | AUTHORS' FIRST NAMES $400: Ruskin & Bunyan John |
#980, aired 1988-12-02 | AUTHORS' FIRST NAMES $500: Werfel & Kafka Franz |
#932, aired 1988-09-27 | BIRD NAMES $200: Authors Hart or Stephen Cranes |
#931, aired 1988-09-26 | AUTHORS $100: While many people shorten their last names, in 1700 this author lengthened his from "Foe" to this Daniel Defoe |
#863, aired 1988-05-11 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $200: Olvier Holmes' middle name Wendell |
#863, aired 1988-05-11 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $400: Edna Millay's middle name St. Vincent |
#863, aired 1988-05-11 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $600: William Howells' middle name Dean |
#863, aired 1988-05-11 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $800: Gerard Hopkins' middle name Manley |
#863, aired 1988-05-11 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $1000: Wilkie was this aurthor's middle name, not his first (William Wilkie) Collins |
#845, aired 1988-04-15 | REFERENCE BOOKS $1,400 (Daily Double): The last names of the authors of "The People's Almanac", one is a form of the other Wallace & Wallechinsky |
#697, aired 1987-09-22 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $200: Hans Andersen's middle name Christian |
#697, aired 1987-09-22 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $400: That of William Yeats Butler |
#697, aired 1987-09-22 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $600: Isaac Singer's Bashevis |
#697, aired 1987-09-22 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $800: Robert Warren's Penn |
#697, aired 1987-09-22 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $1000: That of Jorge Borges Luis |
#678, aired 1987-07-15 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $100: Ralph Emerson's middle name Waldo |
#678, aired 1987-07-15 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $200: James Cooper's Fenimore |
#678, aired 1987-07-15 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $300: William Thackeray's middle name Makepeace |
#678, aired 1987-07-15 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $400: T.S. Eliot's middle name Stearns |
#678, aired 1987-07-15 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $500: Erich Remarque's middle name Maria |
#670, aired 1987-07-03 | AUTHORS' MAIDEN NAMES $100: Laura Wilder's maiden name Ingalls |
#670, aired 1987-07-03 | AUTHORS' MAIDEN NAMES $200: Helen Brown's maiden name Gurley |
#670, aired 1987-07-03 | AUTHORS' MAIDEN NAMES $300: Elizabeth Browning's maiden name Barrett |
#670, aired 1987-07-03 | AUTHORS' MAIDEN NAMES $400: Claire Luce's maiden name Booth |
#670, aired 1987-07-03 | AUTHORS' MAIDEN NAMES $500: Mary Rinehart's maiden name Roberts |
#547, aired 1987-01-13 | WOMEN AUTHORS $600: Baroness Blixen never ran "out of" pen names using "Osceola" before & "Pierre Andrezel" after this one Isak Dinesen |
#272, aired 1985-09-24 | WOMEN AUTHORS $600: Pen names "Currier, Ellis, & Acton Bell" used real initials of these three sisters the Bronte sisters (Charlotte, Emily & Anne) |