#8934, aired 2023-09-21 | 21st CENTURY BARTLETT'S QUOTATIONS $200: Elon Musk is quoted, "I would like to die on" this planet "just not on impact" Mars |
#8934, aired 2023-09-21 | 21st CENTURY BARTLETT'S QUOTATIONS $400: Of his performance at the Beijing Olympics, this Jamaican said, "I just blew my mind and I blew the world's mind" Usain Bolt |
#8934, aired 2023-09-21 | 21st CENTURY BARTLETT'S QUOTATIONS $600: In the screenplay to this film, Christopher Nolan co-wrote the line "Some men just want to watch the world burn" The Dark Knight |
#8934, aired 2023-09-21 | 21st CENTURY BARTLETT'S QUOTATIONS $800: This astrophysicist has shared the observation "The only shame is to pretend we have all the answers" (Neil deGrasse) Tyson |
#8934, aired 2023-09-21 | 21st CENTURY BARTLETT'S QUOTATIONS $2,400 (Daily Double): At her senator father's funeral in 2018 she observed, "We gather here to mourn the passing of American greatness" Meghan McCain |
#8346, aired 2021-03-01 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $400: "It's more fun to be a pirate than join the navy", said this Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs |
#8346, aired 2021-03-01 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $800: "He prayeth well, who loveth well both man and bird and beast" is quoted from this Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
#8346, aired 2021-03-01 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $1200: "Stay on the scene like a sex machine" is a lyrical quote from this performer James Brown |
#8346, aired 2021-03-01 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $1600: Under anonymous is listed the helpful typing pangram "The quick brown fox..." these 5 words jumps over the lazy dog |
#8346, aired 2021-03-01 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $2000: "Hail to you gods... on that day of the great reckoning, behold me, I have come to you" is from this Ancient Egyptian text the Book of the Dead |
#7674, aired 2018-01-11 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $400: He wrote Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, "You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out" Buffett |
#7674, aired 2018-01-11 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $800: This comedian has 2 quotes in Bartlett's, both catchphrases: "Can we talk?" & "Who knew?" Joan Rivers |
#7674, aired 2018-01-11 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $1600: This "wish"ful line from "Brokeback Mountain" is Annie Proulx' entry in Bartlett's "I wish I knew how to quit you" |
#7674, aired 2018-01-11 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1798 he told his men, "From the summit of yonder pyramids forty centuries look down upon you" Napoleon |
#7674, aired 2018-01-11 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $2000: Bartlett's quotes this author:
"Mother died today, or maybe it was yesterday" Albert Camus |
#7615, aired 2017-10-20 | AROUND THE JEOPARDY! LIBRARY $800: "Veni, vidi, vici" is a quote from Caesar out of the 18th edition of this man's quotations, first published in 1855 (John) Bartlett |
#7380, aired 2016-10-14 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAL QUOTATIONS $400: Linus in this comic strip called big sisters "the crab grass in the lawn of life" Peanuts |
#7380, aired 2016-10-14 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAL QUOTATIONS $1200: Bartlett's brackets this name before the quote "The daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod" Salome |
#7380, aired 2016-10-14 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAL QUOTATIONS $1,500 (Daily Double): Bartlett's cites the lines "O my prophetic soul! My uncle!" from this Shakespeare play Hamlet |
#7380, aired 2016-10-14 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAL QUOTATIONS $1600: "Once I built a railroad, now it's done" precedes this 6-word question, the title of a Depression-era anthem Brother, can you spare a dime? |
#7380, aired 2016-10-14 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAL QUOTATIONS $2000: This Russian's "An Actor Prepares" says, "In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play" Stanislavski |
#6979, aired 2015-01-08 | THAT'S NO LADY $200: Joyce Kilmer has 2 entries in "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", both from this poem "Trees" |
#6342, aired 2012-03-27 | QUOTATIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): "Bartlett's" says that around 1900, upon seeing an imitation of herself, she said, "We are not amused" Queen Victoria |
#6293, aired 2012-01-18 | BARTLETT'S PAIRS $400: Ernest L. Thayer is represented by a pair of quotations, both from this baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" |
#6203, aired 2011-07-27 | QUOTATIONS FROM BARTLETT'S $200: Among the remarks attributed to this baseball player are "It was deja vu all over again" & "You can observe a lot by watching" Yogi Berra |
#6203, aired 2011-07-27 | QUOTATIONS FROM BARTLETT'S $400: In a 1961 song, it's the question that precedes "Girls have picked them every one, oh, when will they ever learn?" Where have all the flowers gone? |
#6203, aired 2011-07-27 | QUOTATIONS FROM BARTLETT'S $600: One of Garrison Keillor's quotes begins, "That's the news from" this place, "where all the women are strong" Lake Wobegon |
#6203, aired 2011-07-27 | QUOTATIONS FROM BARTLETT'S $800: A 1920 Robert Frost poem begins, "Some say the world will end in" this, "some say in ice" fire |
#6203, aired 2011-07-27 | QUOTATIONS FROM BARTLETT'S $1000: On March 21, 1973 this White House counsel said that "we have a cancer within, close to the presidency, that is growing" John Dean |
#6176, aired 2011-06-20 | PEOPLE WHO MATTERED $1200: Justin Kaplan, winner of a Pulitzer, was the editor of the 17th edition of this book of quotations Bartlett's |
#5854, aired 2010-02-11 | "UO" ME! $2000: Do not deny him or refuse his name, it's John Bartlett's "familiar" specialty quotations |
#5744, aired 2009-07-23 | QUOTATIONS FROM BARTLETT'S $200: Under Timothy Leary is the slogan "Turn on, tune in", do this drop out |
#5744, aired 2009-07-23 | QUOTATIONS FROM BARTLETT'S $400: This comic's sole entry in "Bartlett's" is "Take my wife... please!" Henny Youngman |
#5744, aired 2009-07-23 | QUOTATIONS FROM BARTLETT'S $600: In a 1992 interview she said, "I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas" Hillary Clinton |
#5744, aired 2009-07-23 | QUOTATIONS FROM BARTLETT'S $800: Julius Epstein, Philip Epstein & Howard Koch are grouped together for quotes from this classic 1942 film Casablanca |
#5744, aired 2009-07-23 | QUOTATIONS FROM BARTLETT'S $1000: "Ya got trouble, folks, right here in River City" is listed under this lyricist's name Meredith Willson |
#5438, aired 2008-04-09 | QUOTATIONS $400: Winston Churchill said it's good for the uneducated "to read books of quotations." This one "is an admirable work" Bartlett's |
#4942, aired 2006-02-21 | P.T. BARNUM $400: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations has one quote attributed to Barnum--this one about gullible people "There's a sucker born every minute" |
#4513, aired 2004-03-31 | QUOTATIONS $800: In "Bartlett's", Daniel Webster's "I still live" is listed as these his last words |
#4421, aired 2003-11-24 | NEW IN BARTLETT'S $2000: Her number of entries doubled from the 16th edition to the 17th with 2 quotations from her "Song of Solomon" Toni Morrison |
#3834, aired 2001-04-12 | AND I QUOTE $200: Type of quotations in the title of "Bartlett's" Familiar |
#3545, aired 2000-01-21 | FAMILIAL QUOTATIONS $600: Robin Morgan made "Bartlett's" with her 1970 book title this "is Powerful" Sisterhood |
#3254, aired 1998-10-29 | THE LAST MAN $300: In "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", he's paired with Michael Jackson for writing "We Are The World" Lionel Richie |
#3245, aired 1998-10-16 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $200: "Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant" Cary Grant |
#3245, aired 1998-10-16 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $400: "It ain't over till it's over" Yogi Berra |
#3245, aired 1998-10-16 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $800: "My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat" Will Rogers |
#3245, aired 1998-10-16 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $1000: "Between 2 evils, I always pick the one I've never tried before" Mae West |
#3245, aired 1998-10-16 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $1,700 (Daily Double): "You furnish the pictures & I'll furnish the war" William Randolph Hearst |
#2801, aired 1996-11-04 | QUOTATIONS $500: Bartlett's quotes this reggae singer's "We're leaving Babylon, we're going to our father's land" Bob Marley |
#2310, aired 1994-09-23 | QUOTATIONS $800: Bartlett's attributes the phrase "It'll play in" this Illinois city to John Ehrlichman Peoria |
#2294, aired 1994-07-21 | ANCIENT QUOTATIONS $500: Bartlett's quotes him as saying, "I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected" Julius Caesar |
#2218, aired 1994-04-06 | QUOTATIONS $100: Bartlett's attributes "Come On, Baby, Light My Fire" to this group, not Jim Morrison The Doors |
#1879, aired 1992-11-05 | "GUY"s $100: It's the only quote in Bartlett's "Familiar Quotations" attributed to Leo Durocher "Nice guys finish last" |
#1578, aired 1991-06-12 | LITERARY TRIVIA $800: "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" calls this R. Chandler title "a synonym for death" The Big Sleep |
#1185, aired 1989-10-27 | NONFICTION $300: Justin Kaplan is editing a 16th edition of this book of familiar quotations which is due out in 1992 Bartlett's Familiar Quotations |
#1063, aired 1989-03-29 | FAMOUS QUOTES $300: The title of this Dale Carnegie book appears as an entry in Bartlett's Quotations How to Win Friends and Influence People |
#1009, aired 1989-01-12 | SPORTS QUOTES $300: This 4-word boast of boxer Muhammad Ali is listed in Bartlett's Quotations I am the greatest |
#842, aired 1988-04-12 | BARTLETT'S QUOTATIONS $200: Queen Victoria's famous remark after seeing a man imitate her "We are not amused." |
#842, aired 1988-04-12 | BARTLETT'S QUOTATIONS $400: This is the only quote in Bartlett's attributed to Greta Garbo "I want to be alone." |
#842, aired 1988-04-12 | BARTLETT'S QUOTATIONS $600: Louis XVIII said, "Punctuality is the politeness of" these people kings |
#842, aired 1988-04-12 | BARTLETT'S QUOTATIONS $800: "Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night" is listed under this lyricist's name Stephen Sondheim |
#842, aired 1988-04-12 | BARTLETT'S QUOTATIONS $2,500 (Daily Double): On December 17, 1903, these 2 telegrammed: "Success... inform press. Home Christmas." Orville & Wilbur Wright |
#811, aired 1988-02-29 | GOOD "GUY"s $800: Words which earned Leo Durocher his place in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations Nice guy finish last |
#693, aired 1987-09-16 | FAMOUS QUOTES $200: The only line from "The History of Ali Baba" quoted in Bartlett's or Penguin's Quotations Open sesame |
#656, aired 1987-06-15 | STARTS WITH "L" $600: In Bartlett's quotations, there are more citings under this word than any other starting with "L" love |