#8466, aired 2021-09-13 | AUTHORS NOT AUTHORING $6,000 (Daily Double): She studied medicine at Johns Hopkins before moving to Paris in 1903 & drove an ambulance for the French in World War I (Gertrude) Stein |
#8359, aired 2021-03-18 | AUTHORS WHO SERVED IN THE MILITARY $800: C.S. Lewis fought in this war, arriving at the front lines in the Somme Valley on his 19th birthday World War I |
#8064, aired 2019-10-03 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $4,400 (Daily Double): The "Winds of War" carried this author from his birth in the Bronx to his death in Palm Springs, California in 2019 at age 103 Herman Wouk |
#7648, aired 2017-12-06 | AUTHORS AT WAR $400: Gore Vidal was born at this military academy & drew on his WWII experiences for his first novel, "Williwaw" West Point |
#7648, aired 2017-12-06 | AUTHORS AT WAR $800: The Marquis de Sade served as an officer during this 1756-1763 war the Seven Years' War |
#7648, aired 2017-12-06 | AUTHORS AT WAR $1200: At the age of 40, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle volunteered as a military doctor during this war in Africa the Boer War |
#7648, aired 2017-12-06 | AUTHORS AT WAR $1600: He fought & was wounded in the Spanish Civil War & wrote about it in "Homage to Catalonia" George Orwell |
#7648, aired 2017-12-06 | AUTHORS AT WAR $2000: Having served in Britain's RAF may have helped Arthur Hailey write this bestselling 1968 thriller Airport |
#6506, aired 2012-12-24 | AUTHORS AT WAR $400: In 1575 this "Don Quixote" author's ship was overtaken by pirates; he spent 5 years as a captive in Algiers Cervantes |
#6506, aired 2012-12-24 | AUTHORS AT WAR $800: This author of "The Winds of War" served on 2 minesweepers Herman Wouk |
#6506, aired 2012-12-24 | AUTHORS AT WAR $1200: This Russian count's "Sevastopol sketches" were based on his army experiences during the Crimean War Leo Tolstoy |
#6506, aired 2012-12-24 | AUTHORS AT WAR $1600: During WWII, this Tarzan creator was the oldest war correspondent to serve in the Pacific theater (Edgar Rice) Burroughs |
#6506, aired 2012-12-24 | AUTHORS AT WAR $3,000 (Daily Double): Auctioned in 2011, a letter by this author who satirized the military said, "In truth I enjoyed" fighting in WWII Joseph Heller |
#2598, aired 1995-12-13 | AUTHORS AT WAR $200: Vietnam reporter Gustav Hasford set his novel "The Short-Timers" during this 1968 offensive Tet |
#2598, aired 1995-12-13 | AUTHORS AT WAR $400: This "Catch-22" author flew 60 bomber missions in WWII Joseph Heller |
#2598, aired 1995-12-13 | AUTHORS AT WAR $600: George Orwell described his experiences fighting in this war in "Homage to Catalonia" Spanish Civil War |
#2598, aired 1995-12-13 | AUTHORS AT WAR $800: This author who wrote about a mutiny on the U.S.S. Caine served aboard the U.S.S. Zane Herman Wouk |
#2598, aired 1995-12-13 | AUTHORS AT WAR $1000: This author of "The Stranger" was active in the French resistance during WWII Albert Camus |
#2559, aired 1995-10-19 | AUTHORS $400: This author of "The War of the Worlds" studied under biologist T.H. Huxley at the Normal School of Science H.G. Wells |
#2326, aired 1994-10-17 | AUTHORS AT WAR $200: This author of "Don Quixote" lost his the use of his left hand at the 1571 Battle of Lepanto Cervantes |
#2326, aired 1994-10-17 | AUTHORS AT WAR $500 (Daily Double): This count participated in the Crimean War siege of Sevastopol & later wrote about it Tolstoy |
#2326, aired 1994-10-17 | AUTHORS AT WAR $600: This author of "The Gulag Archipelago" was awarded the Order of the Wed Star for his WWII service Solzhenitsyn |
#2326, aired 1994-10-17 | AUTHORS AT WAR $800: This "Ethan Frome" author was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor for her work with WWI refugees Edith Wharton |
#2326, aired 1994-10-17 | AUTHORS AT WAR $1000: This author of "Deliverance" served in both WWII & the Korean War James Dickey |
#2265, aired 1994-06-10 | AUTHORS AT WAR $200: From the shore, poet Sidney Lanier observed the Civil War battle of these ironclad ships the Monitor & the Merrimack |
#2265, aired 1994-06-10 | AUTHORS AT WAR $400: This author of "The Catcher in the Rye" landed on Utah Beach on D-Day J.D. Salinger |
#2265, aired 1994-06-10 | AUTHORS AT WAR $600: This "Trees" poet received a posthumous Croix de Guerre in WWI Joyce Kilmer |
#2265, aired 1994-06-10 | AUTHORS AT WAR $800: His experiences aboard 2 destroyer-minesweepers provided the background for "The Caine Mutiny" Herman Wouk |
#2265, aired 1994-06-10 | AUTHORS AT WAR $1000: This "A Rumor of War" author was a member of the first U.S. ground-combat unit in Vietnam (Philip) Caputo |
#1206, aired 1989-11-27 | AUTHORS $400: This Civil War historian won a Pulitzer prize & a nat'l book award for 1953's "A Stillness at Appomattox" Bruce Catton |
#820, aired 1988-03-11 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: The countries at war in Tolstoy's "War & Peace" Russia & France |