| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | NAMES IN HISTORY $1200: Last name of Bronson, a teacher & abolitionist who lived in poverty until his daughter made it big in books in the 19th century Alcott |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | ALL KINDS OF BOOKS $400: The big one of these from National Geographic for kids to pore over first came out in 1963 & is now in its 11th edition an atlas |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | HISTORY BOOKS $1200: "Blood & Iron", a history of Germany 1871-1918, gets its title from a quote by this chancellor who's big in the book Bismarck |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | RECENT BOOKS $2000: With four Hugo Awards on her mantel, this author wrote about the Big Apple in "The City We Became" N.K. Jemisin |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | THAT'S A BIG BOOK $2000: Book 10 of this Thomas Malory work has 88 chapters, & there are 21 books--just sayin' Le Morte d'Arthur |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY ORIGINS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1855 2 faculty members & 10 students began hitting the books at this now-Big Ten school less than 15 miles from Chicago Northwestern |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1943 the L.A. Times said this "tale of a little boy from a very little asteroid" was "so big with meaning" The Little Prince |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | BOOKS FOR YOUNGER READERS $200: Emily Elizabeth & this large colorful canine have many adventures in works by Norman Bridwell Clifford (the Big Red Dog) |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | TRUE CRIME BOOKS, SWEETHEART $1,000 (Daily Double): "The Skies Belong to Us" narrates one 1972 instance of this crime that was unfortunately big in that era skyjacking |
| #7747, aired 2018-04-24 | LITERATURE ON THE MAP $800: Jack Kerouac & Henry Miller both penned books with this "Big" stretch of Pacific coast in their titles Big Sur |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | "BEFORE", NO AFTER $800: It completes the title "1001 Books You Must Read...", of which "The Big Sleep" is one Before You Die |
| #7422, aired 2016-12-13 | BOOKS OF THE 1930s $800: This novel came out in 1936, was the No. 1 fiction bestseller of 1937 & hit the big screen in 1939 Gone with the Wind |
| #7412, aired 2016-11-29 | KIDS' BOOKS $800: This 1982 Roald Dahl work about a large fellow became a 2016 film BFG |
| #7363, aired 2016-09-21 | RECENT BESTSELLING BOOKS $1200: Jean Stein has a touch of John Steinbeck in the title of a history of 5 big families in L.A. called "West of" this Eden |
| #7323, aired 2016-06-15 | BESTSELLING BOOKS $800: After selling big with "Bush at War" & "Obama's Wars", this veteran reporter is ready for the next commander in chief (Bob) Woodward |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $600: In a Patricia MacLachlan title, these 2 words describe Sarah, an American mail order bride of the 19th century plain & tall |
| #7235, aired 2016-02-12 | SCI-FI BOOKS $800: To win a big prize, the hero of "Ready Player One" must play virtual arcade games, like this one with rideable ostriches Joust |
| #7070, aired 2015-05-15 | QUINT-O-SENTIAL $1200: Arthur Andersen of the "Big 5" in this profession turned out to be cooking Enron's books accounting |
| #7035, aired 2015-03-27 | BIG WORDS $400: Yale University Library classifies books in excess of 27 cm in height or 19 cm in width as this big "O" oversized |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | BOOKS OF THE YEAR $400: 1939:
This snoozy Shamus opus by Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep |
| #6878, aired 2014-07-09 | NONFICTION BOOKS ON THE BIG SCREEN $400: This 2005 film about Johnny Cash comes from his autobiography "Man in Black" Walk the Line |
| #6878, aired 2014-07-09 | NONFICTION BOOKS ON THE BIG SCREEN $800: "See No Evil", about the CIA in the Middle East, became "Syriana", which won an Oscar for this actor (George) Clooney |
| #6878, aired 2014-07-09 | NONFICTION BOOKS ON THE BIG SCREEN $1200: "Lost Moon" followed this ill-fated space mission Apollo 13 |
| #6878, aired 2014-07-09 | NONFICTION BOOKS ON THE BIG SCREEN $1600: "A Mighty Heart" was the story of Daniel Pearl, a reporter for this newspaper who was killed in Pakistan The Wall Street Journal |
| #6878, aired 2014-07-09 | NONFICTION BOOKS ON THE BIG SCREEN $2000: Tina Fey used "Queen Bees and Wannabes" as fodder to write this Lindsay Lohan film Mean Girls |
| #6770, aired 2014-02-07 | 1980s BOOKS $3,000 (Daily Double): Drug-fueled debauchery in New York City takes up much of this Jay McInerney debut novel Bright Lights, Big City |
| #6531, aired 2013-01-28 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: Sadly, this Irish author whose books include "Tara Road" & "Circle of Friends" died in 2012 at age 72 Maeve Binchy |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | THE BOOKS OF DAVID McCULLOUGH $1000: A collection of short bios, "Brave Companions" includes an account of this "little woman who made the big war" Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #5987, aired 2010-09-28 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $1200: (I'm Andy Richter.) As a parent, I have to go with "I Am a Bunny", illustrated by this man who also gave us a "Great Big Schoolhouse" (Richard) Scarry |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | GOOD BOOKS $400: Before "The Lord of the Rings" came this other Tolkien tale about little Bilbo & a big dragon The Hobbit |
| #5742, aired 2009-07-21 | THAT'S JUST DUCKY $200: This ducky superhero of 1970s comic books was brought to the big screen by George Lucas in 1986 Howard the Duck |
| #5676, aired 2009-04-20 | BEHIND THE SEUSS-IC $200: With talk of "Dick and Jane" books being too boring for kids to learn, Seuss delivered this purr-fect big seller in 1957 The Cat in the Hat |
| #5310, aired 2007-10-12 | BOOKS $400: "The Big Honey Hunt", published in 1962, was the first in a series of books about this bear family the Berenstain Bears |
| #4930, aired 2006-02-03 | WORLD AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): Turgenev regarded this author of "The Cossacks" as the "great author of the Russian land" Tolstoy |
| #4880, aired 2005-11-25 | STEPHEN KING BOOKS $600: Novel that says, "That's one hell of a big dog, son. Are you sure he's safe?" Cujo |
| #4538, aired 2004-05-05 | CHARACTERS IN BOOKS $800: A favorite of early readers, he's the beloved oversized pet seen here Clifford (the Big Red Dog) |
| #3819, aired 2001-03-22 | SAVE THESE BOOKS FOR "LAST" $400: Peter Bogdanovich directed the 1971 big screen version of this early Larry McMurtry bestseller The Last Picture Show |
| #3772, aired 2001-01-16 | BIG 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Big, like an encyclopedia that fills many books voluminous |
| #3610, aired 2000-04-21 | I GOT A CALDECOTT! $1000: 1948's & '49's books had this weather condition in their titles; Roger Duvoisin's was "White" & "Bright"; the Haders', "Big" Snow |
| #3513, aired 1999-12-08 | BEASTLY BOOKS $600: Daryl Hannah starred in the 1986 big screen version of this Jean Auel work Clan of the Cave Bear |
| #3485, aired 1999-10-29 | THE "LAST" BOOKS ON EARTH $1,000 (Daily Double): Martin Scorsese brought this controversial Kazantzakis work to the big screen in 1988 "The Last Temptation of Christ" |
| #3430, aired 1999-07-02 | CLASSIC BOOKS $600: This 1851 book told a big white "tail" of the men of the Pequod "Moby Dick" |
| #3216, aired 1998-09-07 | BIG BOOKS $200: This term for a collection of maps arose because early ones pictured the titan of that name Atlas |
| #3216, aired 1998-09-07 | BIG BOOKS $400: Among other events in this Tolstoy novel, the emperor Napoleon shouts, sneers & takes snuff War and Peace |
| #3216, aired 1998-09-07 | BIG BOOKS $600: Karl Marx didn't live to complete this 3-volume work laying out his economic ideas Das Kapital |
| #3216, aired 1998-09-07 | BIG BOOKS $1000: His chilling "Gulag Archipelago" was originally published in 3 volumes Solzhenitsyn |
| #3216, aired 1998-09-07 | BIG BOOKS $1,500 (Daily Double): Thomas Pynchon's 1997 novel about these 2 surveyors runs over 700 pages -- that's a lot of "line"s Mason & Dixon |
| #3092, aired 1998-01-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $700 (Daily Double): "Perchance to Dream" with Philip Marlowe, is Robert B. Parker's sequel to this Raymond Chandler novel "The Big Sleep" |
| #2987, aired 1997-09-02 | BIG BOOKS $200: Webster's 3rd defines it "a reference book containing words usually alphabetically arranged..." Dictionary |
| #2987, aired 1997-09-02 | BIG BOOKS $400: It took Edward Gibbon 15 years to chronicle the "Decline and Fall of" this ancient empire The Roman Empire |
| #2987, aired 1997-09-02 | BIG BOOKS $600: Building & penal are types of these collections of laws Codes |
| #2987, aired 1997-09-02 | BIG BOOKS $800: This Englishman's 900-page novel "Nicholas Nickleby" became a 9-hour play & a miniseries Charles Dickens |
| #2987, aired 1997-09-02 | BIG BOOKS $2,000 (Daily Double): The remembered taste of a cake provides a turning point in this Proust work about memory Remembrance of Things Past |
| #2926, aired 1997-04-28 | CLASSIC BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: In George Orwell's "1984", Big Brother represents this Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin |
| #2926, aired 1997-04-28 | CLASSIC BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: In 1949 she adapted her novel "The Fountainhead" for the big screen Ayn Rand |
| #2809, aired 1996-11-14 | BOOKS BY THE NUMBERS $200: In this George Orwell classic, Big Brother is the dictator of Oceania "1984" |
| #2559, aired 1995-10-19 | COLLECTIBLES $400: "Power Men of Mongo" is one of the 1930s Big Little Books featuring this space hero Flash Gordon |
| #2091, aired 1993-10-11 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $500: The library at this Big Ten school in Evanston, Illinois has a collection of pre-17th century German books Northwestern University |
| #1902, aired 1992-12-08 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: "The Big Money", the last book in this John Dos Passos trilogy, takes place during the Roaring '20s U.S.A. |
| #1542, aired 1991-04-23 | FOR THE KIDS $100: In titles of books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, these 2 words precede "In the Big Woods" & "On the Prairie" Little House |
| #1280, aired 1990-03-09 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: "A Confederate General from Big Sur" & "Trout Fishing in America" brought fame to this poet & novelist Richard Brautigan |
| #1128, aired 1989-06-28 | CELEBRITY BOOKS $500: Steve Martin said this Carrie Fisher novel "makes 'Moby Dick' look like a big, fat, dumb book" Postcards from the Edge |
| #1090, aired 1989-05-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: In the Wilkie Collins novel "The Moonstone", the Moonstone was this big diamond |
| #886, aired 1988-06-13 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Her 1st novel was "Little House in the Big Woods" Laura Ingalls (Wilder) |
| #532, aired 1986-12-23 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: In her best seller "Enter Talking", she credits Carson with giving her her big break Joan Rivers |
| #358, aired 1986-01-22 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $900 (Daily Double): 3 unauthorized bios of this singer placed 3rd, 5th, & 6th, on a March 18, 1984 N.Y. Times best seller list Michael Jackson |
| #353, aired 1986-01-15 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: He couldn't tell filmmakers who killed one victim in his "The Big Sleep" Raymond Chandler |
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