| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | MUSICIANS' MEMOIRS $1600: In 2023 Barbra Streisand put the corners of her mind in a book, including how in 2023 she added back 2 scenes to this 1973 film The Way We Were |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | BAD BOYS IN BOOKS $200: Archie Costello leads the Vigils, a gang of school kids enforcing the sale of this title sweet treat in a Robert Cormier "War" novel chocolate |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | GEOLOGY $800: Also a section at the back of a book, this word is used for fossils like trilobites that can help identify certain time periods index |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | BUSINESS $600: This type of account book listing debts & credits dates back at least to the Renaissance as shown here a ledger |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | POETIC BOOK TITLES $400: For the title of this novel about World War I, Hemingway went back to a 16th century poem by George Peele A Farewell to Arms |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | BOOK 'EM $1200: Terry Pratchett wrote 41 novels about this flat, circular place, set upon the back of 4 elephants upon a giant turtle Discworld |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | MARCO POLO SLEPT HERE $600: Back in Italy, Marco Polo dictated his book while jailed in this city-state, later the birthplace of another famous explorer--Columbus Genoa |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | BOOK CHAPTERS $3,000 (Daily Double): This first book in a series has the chapters "What Lucy Found There" & "Back on This Side of the Door" The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | BOOKS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a book and its ISBN.) On the back of every book there's a code; on the one here, the 0 denotes the book is from an English-language country, & the number here stands for the publisher; the whole series is called an ISBN, this type of book number International Standard |
| #7939, aired 2019-02-28 | GET YOUR GAME ON $1000: This title of Stephen Potter's book on "Winning Games Without Actually Cheating" entered the English language Gamesmanship |
| #7631, aired 2017-11-13 | THOSE DARN FRANCISCANS $1600: St. Anthony of Padua eventually got back his book of Psalms, making him the patron saint of these lost things |
| #7504, aired 2017-04-06 | A LIBERAL LIBRARY $3,000 (Daily Double): "Wait! Don't Move to" this country is the title of a book about liberal ideas "to Win Back America" Canada |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | THE BOOK OF EXODUS $1000: In chapter 4 the Lord turns a rod into this creature, from which Moses flees; it turns back into a rod when Moses grabs it a serpent |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | INTERIOR DESIGN $2000: In 2013 this interior decorator & HGTV personality published her first book, "The Well-Traveled Home" Sandra Espinet |
| #6992, aired 2015-01-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERS LISTS $700 (Daily Double): In 2014, 20 years after it was published, this book about the origins of Ebola was back on the nonfiction list The Hot Zone |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | THE END OF THE BOOK $400: Imprisoned, Raskolnikov has a long wait until he can again be with his beloved Sonia Crime and Punishment |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | 3 "D" $1200: A supplement or appendix at the back of a book an addendum |
| #6728, aired 2013-12-11 | AUDIO BOOK PERFORMERS $400: Monty Python's Terry Jones says of this pre-Shakespeare poet, "Once you get past the spelling, he speaks so clearly" Geoffrey Chaucer |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | BOOK TALK $400: From the back cover of this book: "In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem" The Hunger Games |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | JIMMY WORKS OUT $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew lays on his belly with arms and legs extended at the Sony gym as a trainer gives the clue.) Jimmy's strengthening his lower back muscles with an exercise named for this comic book hero Superman |
| #6617, aired 2013-05-28 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: The first book in the "Guardians of Childhood" series gives the back story of Nicholas St. North, aka this 5-letter name Santa |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | PULITZER-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES $1000: As far back as 1957, the year it won the Pulitzer, people questioned how much JFK wrote of this book Profiles in Courage |
| #6281, aired 2012-01-02 | RECENT BOOKS $1000: Book club alert--"Then Came You" is the latest novel by this author of "Good in Bed" & "In Her Shoes" Jennifer Weiner |
| #6169, aired 2011-06-09 | RULE, BRITANNICA! $800: This now-standard back-of-the-book feature first appeared in the 7th edition of 1830-1842 the (general) index |
| #6020, aired 2010-11-12 | COMIC BOOK VILLAINY $200: Don't laugh! This villain goes all the way back to the very first issue of "Batman" in 1940 The Joker |
| #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 |
| #5000, aired 2006-05-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $800: This late, great actor "had a heap of fun cranking out" "Fan-Tan" "while throwing back a few hundred martinis" Marlon Brando |
| #4853, aired 2005-10-19 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $1,000 (Daily Double): The phrase "handwriting on the wall" goes back to this book of the Old Testament Daniel |
| #4847, aired 2005-10-11 | ENCYCLOPEDIA: BROWN $800: World Book tells us that the brown recluse is one of these with a violin-shaped mark on its back a spider |
| #4603, aired 2004-09-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,500 (Daily Double): "Sons", the second book in a trilogy begun with this work, traces the destinies of the 3 sons of Wang Lung The Good Earth (by Pearl Buck) |
| #4400, aired 2003-10-24 | SCOTT $2000: The title of Susan Solomon's book about the last trip, "The Coldest" this, refers to the weather on Scott's trek back March |
| #4325, aired 2003-05-23 | PARDON MY FRENCHMAN $1600: Henri Charriere, nicknamed this (the title of his 1968 book), always denied his guilt for murder "Papillon" |
| #4224, aired 2003-01-02 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $1000: In 1996 this "Heidi Chronicles" playwright wrote a children's book, "Pamela's First Musical" Wendy Wasserstein |
| #4157, aired 2002-10-01 | ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER $600: In "The Guinness Book of Film", this catchphrase ranks as the fourth best movie quote ever "I'll Be Back!" |
| #4143, aired 2002-09-11 | BOOK OF LOVE $1200: The title of this Terry McMillan novel refers to Stella's trip to Jamaica, where she has an affair with a younger man How Stella Got Her Groove Back |
| #3330, aired 1999-02-12 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: Books consulted by an author in preparing his own book often appear on this list at the back of the book Bibliography |
| #3026, aired 1997-10-27 | TAKE IN ORDER $100: Supplementary statistics stuck onto the back of a book an appendix |
| #2437, aired 1995-03-21 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: This author of "Ragtime" takes readers back to the post-Civil War years in his 1994 book "The Waterworks" Doctorow |
| #2352, aired 1994-11-22 | BACK OF THE BOOK $200: It's an alphabetical list of terms, names, & facts, along with the page numbers they appear on index |
| #2352, aired 1994-11-22 | BACK OF THE BOOK $400: Related books you may also want to read on the same subject are provided in this source list Bibliography |
| #2352, aired 1994-11-22 | BACK OF THE BOOK $600: In the back of a geometry book, you may find these lists of trigonometric ratios or square roots Tables |
| #2352, aired 1994-11-22 | BACK OF THE BOOK $1,000 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "difficult word", it's a list of words and their definitions Glossary |
| #2352, aired 1994-11-22 | BACK OF THE BOOK $1000: It's the supplementary information put into the book after the initial publication Addendum |
| #805, aired 1988-02-19 | AMERICAN MUSIC $800: "The Red Back Book", circa 1915, was a collection of band pieces in this American piano form ragtime |
| #687, aired 1987-09-08 | 5-LETTER WORDS $200: Part of your book, or part of your back the spine |
| #348, aired 1986-01-08 | "BOOK"S $800: Samuel Pepys sometimes put one of these in both the front & the back of his books a bookplate |
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