| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | THE BOOK WITH NO PICTURES $300: The first Nebula Award winner for Best Novel was this Frank Herbert novel set on the desert planet Arrakis Dune |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | GO, GO, GADGET... $600: The Smarter Fridge Cam takes pictures every time you open your fridge, & even keeps track of these with a "best before" tracker expiration dates |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | MOVIE PICTURES $600: Best picture Oscar winner for 1969 Midnight Cowboy |
| #5176, aired 2007-02-26 | BEST PICTURES IN OTHER WORDS $400: 1997:
"Colossal" Titanic |
| #5176, aired 2007-02-26 | BEST PICTURES IN OTHER WORDS $800: 1963:
"'It's Not Unusual' Singer" Tom Jones |
| #5176, aired 2007-02-26 | BEST PICTURES IN OTHER WORDS $1200: 1950:
"Everything Concerning Adam's Wife" All About Eve |
| #5176, aired 2007-02-26 | BEST PICTURES IN OTHER WORDS $2000: 1937:
"A Biography Concerning Alfred Dreyfus' Defender" The Life of Emile Zola |
| #5176, aired 2007-02-26 | BEST PICTURES IN OTHER WORDS $2,300 (Daily Double): 1945:
"Saturday & Sunday Gone Astray" Lost Weekend |
| #4638, aired 2004-11-04 | '50s TV $400: A building here at Sony Pictures Studios is named for this actor, Jim Anderson on "Father Knows Best" Robert Young |
| #4375, aired 2003-09-19 | BEST PICTURES IN OTHER WORDS $400: 1970:
"World War II's Commander of the Third Army" Patton |
| #4375, aired 2003-09-19 | BEST PICTURES IN OTHER WORDS $800: 1988:
"Wet Weather Dude" Rain Man |
| #4375, aired 2003-09-19 | BEST PICTURES IN OTHER WORDS $1200: 1972:
"Baptism Sponsor" The Godfather |
| #4375, aired 2003-09-19 | BEST PICTURES IN OTHER WORDS $1600: 1992:
"Non-Pardoned" Unforgiven |
| #4375, aired 2003-09-19 | BEST PICTURES IN OTHER WORDS $2000: 1932:
"Opulent Inn" Grand Hotel |
| #4271, aired 2003-03-10 | BEST PICTURES IN OTHER WORDS $200: 1998:
"'Twelfth Night' Writer's Amorous Adventures" Shakespeare in Love |
| #4271, aired 2003-03-10 | BEST PICTURES IN OTHER WORDS $400: 1987:
"That Final Manchu Ruler" The Last Emperor |
| #4271, aired 2003-03-10 | BEST PICTURES IN OTHER WORDS $600: 1951:
"One Yank on the Left Bank" An American in Paris |
| #4271, aired 2003-03-10 | BEST PICTURES IN OTHER WORDS $800: 1978:
"An Elk Tracker" The Deer Hunter |
| #4271, aired 2003-03-10 | BEST PICTURES IN OTHER WORDS $1000: 1960:
"A Residential Rental Unit" The Apartment |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | BEST PICTURES $200: Mel Gibson used members of the Irish army for the battle scenes in this Best Picture of 1995 Braveheart |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | BEST PICTURES $400: This movie taught us that life is like a box of chocolates...you never know what you're gonna get Forrest Gump |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | BEST PICTURES $500 (Daily Double): "Consider yourself" smart if you know it won Best Picture of 1968 Oliver |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | BEST PICTURES $600: This 1941 Best Picture centered on a Welsh mining family How Green Was My Valley |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | BEST PICTURES $1000: Based on an Edna Ferber novel, it was the first western to win the award Cimarron |
| #157, aired 1985-04-16 | BEST PICTURES $200: Jack Nicholson was crazy about this Best Picture of 1975 One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest |
| #157, aired 1985-04-16 | BEST PICTURES $400: Though they never met, the writers won a screenplay Oscar for this 1970 WWII military biography Patton |
| #157, aired 1985-04-16 | BEST PICTURES $600: Woody Allen first wanted to call this '77 Best Picture "Anhedonia", the inability to feel joy Annie Hall |
| #157, aired 1985-04-16 | BEST PICTURES $800: With this Oscar winner of 1956, Michael Todd brought "cameo player" into show biz vocabulary Around The World In 80 Days |
| #157, aired 1985-04-16 | BEST PICTURES $1000: In this 1935 film, Clark Gable starred in an Oscar winner for the 2nd consecutive year Mutiny on the Bounty |
| #8, aired 1984-09-19 | BEST PICTURES $200: Borgnine's Bronx butcher Marty |
| #8, aired 1984-09-19 | BEST PICTURES $400: Filming began on this biblical epic by shooting the chariot race Ben-Hur |
| #8, aired 1984-09-19 | BEST PICTURES $600: In his first film, Ben Kingsley won Best Actor for title role of '82's Best Picture Gandhi |
| #8, aired 1984-09-19 | BEST PICTURES $800: Everybody wondered if it was to be or not to be Best Picture of 1948 Hamlet |
| #8, aired 1984-09-19 | BEST PICTURES $4,100 (Daily Double): Prior to its '68 win, Hollywood had filmed this Victorian novel 8 times before Oliver! |
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