Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (605 results returned)

#9062, aired 2024-03-19BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Max Brod edited this author's letters & diaries & published a 1937 biography of him Kafka
#9056, aired 2024-03-11THE CIVIL WAR $1200: In 1863 John Esten Cooke rushed into print with a biography of this Confederate general killed in May of that year Stonewall Jackson
#9054, aired 2024-03-07SPORTS MASCOT HISTORY $200: Starting his career at the San Diego Zoo, he's "an embryonic Charles Chaplin in... feathers", says his biography the San Diego Chicken
#9047, aired 2024-02-27AWARDS & HONORS $2000: "The Man Who Ate Too Much" is a biography of this American whose foundation gives awards to outstanding chefs James Beard
#26, aired 2024-01-23LISA, ANN OR WALTER? $800: First name of the subject of the 2011 sports biography "Sweetness" Walter (Peyton)
#9012, aired 2024-01-09U.S. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $5,400 (Daily Double): "Soldier of Peace" is the subtitle of a biography of this general who helped Europe recover following World War II Marshall
#9005, aired 2023-12-29A MASTER-FUL CATEGORY $2000: A 2009 biography about this pair was subtitled "The Couple Who Taught America How to Love" Masters & Johnson
#19, aired 2023-11-01IN BOOKSTORES NOW $900: The New York Times dubbed him "Ballet's Colossus" in its review of "Mr. B", a 2022 biography of this choreographer George Balanchine
#8961, aired 2023-10-30BRING OUT YOUR FRED $400: "Somebody To Love", a Queen song title, provides the name of a biography of this late lead singer Freddie Mercury
#8953, aired 2023-10-18ROCK & ROLL BOOKSTORE $800: "Gold Dust Woman" can only be a biography of this member of Fleetwood Mac Stevie Nicks
#8942, aired 2023-10-03LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $400: A book about Poe "& the forging of American science" points out that in his one year at this school, Edgar was great at math West Point
#8942, aired 2023-10-03LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $800: Laura Dassow Walls tried to capture this many-sided man in a book published 200 years after his 1817 birth in Concord Thoreau
#8942, aired 2023-10-03LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $1600: Jenn Shapland's "My Autobiography of" this "Heart is a Lonely Hunter" writer looks at her sexuality Carson McCullers
#8942, aired 2023-10-03LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $2000: "Super-Infinite" is a bio of this man of Shakespeare's time known for sexy poems & later, strongly moral sermons John Donne
#8942, aired 2023-10-03LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $7,800 (Daily Double): Taken from the title of one of her poems, "Mad Girl's Love Song" is a biography about this 20th-century woman & her "Life Before Ted" Sylvia Plath
#8923, aired 2023-07-26DUAL BIOGRAPHIES $400: Gordon S. Wood's 2017 dual biography of these 2 feuding Founding Fathers & presidents is titled "Friends Divided" Jefferson & Adams
#8923, aired 2023-07-26DUAL BIOGRAPHIES $800: Delve into this country's history with "Big Fellow, Long Fellow: A Joint Biography of Collins & de Valera" Ireland
#11, aired 2023-05-16WOMEN IN HISTORY $1600: Last name of pioneering doctors & sisters Elizabeth & Emily, subjects of a recent biography on how they changed medicine Blackwell
#3, aired 2023-05-09EDITORS $1200: The documentary "Turn Every Page" is about the bond of editor Robert Gottlieb & this man working on an epic political biography Caro
#8862, aired 2023-05-02NONFICTION $2000: "Mountains Beyond Mountains" is a biography of this late physician known for his work in public health in Haiti & Rwanda Dr. Paul Farmer
#8859, aired 2023-04-27RECENT LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $400: "An Elusive Woman" is the subtitle of a biography of this mystery writer, born a proper Victorian but later an avid surfer Agatha Christie
#8859, aired 2023-04-27RECENT LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $800: In 2022 John Lahr published a new bio of this American playwright who was Arty from a young age--that's what his mom called him Arthur Miller
#8859, aired 2023-04-27RECENT LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $1200: For the centennial of its publication, Matthew Hollis' 2022 "Biography of a Poem" is about this culture-spanning one by T.S. Eliot The Waste Land
#8859, aired 2023-04-27RECENT LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $1600: Lucasta Miller gives us "A Brief Life" (& brief it was) of him "in Nine Poems" (including "Endymion") "& One Epitaph" Keats
#8859, aired 2023-04-27RECENT LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $2000: "I Used to Live Here Once" is about this author, who like the heroine of her "Wide Sargasso Sea" had Caribbean roots Jean Rhys
#8851, aired 2023-04-17IN THE BOOKSTORE $400: The biography "The Revolutionary" notes this Bostonian who wrote under pseudonyms like Populus & Candidus never went by Sam (Samuel) Adams
#8851, aired 2023-04-17IN THE BOOKSTORE $800: "Mr. B." by former ballerina Jennifer Homans is a biography of this great choreographer Balanchine
#8789, aired 2023-01-19ALL IN THE FAMILY $4,800 (Daily Double): "Good Brother, Bad Brother" is a dual biography of this assassin & his actor/brother Edwin John Wilkes Booth
#8741, aired 2022-11-14PRIMED FOR PRIME NUMBERS $1600: This man who served 37th president Richard Nixon later wrote a biography of 29th president Warren G. Harding John Dean
#8739, aired 2022-11-1021st CENTURY BESTSELLERS $200: A 2022 biography of this LIV Golf participant made news pre-publication with its quotes from him Mickelson
#8726, aired 2022-10-24CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: "Sometimes You Have to Lie" is a 2020 biography of Louise Fitzhugh, creator of this 11-year-old spy Harriet (the Spy)
#8717, aired 2022-10-11SUBTITLED NONFICTION $200: A winner of a Pulitzer Prize, "The Emperor of all Maladies" is "A Biography of" this disease cancer
#8717, aired 2022-10-11SUBTITLED NONFICTION $800: Volume one of Peter Wallner's biography of this president is subtitled "New Hampshire's Favorite Son" (Franklin) Pierce
#3, aired 2022-10-091992 IN BOOKS: 30 YEARS AGO $600: A biography subtitled "Her True Story" is journalist Andrew Morton's look at this princess Princess Diana
#8715, aired 2022-10-07RECENT LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $400: A biography of this medieval poet by Alessandro Barbero was a recent bestseller in Italy Dante
#8715, aired 2022-10-07RECENT LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $1200: In 800 pages Paul Auster's "Burning Boy" tells the story of this "Red Badge of Courage" author who died aged 28 (Stephen) Crane
#8715, aired 2022-10-07RECENT LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $1600: The unexpurgated transcript of the 1895 libel trial involving this author appeared in 2003 & a 2021 bio makes good use of it (Oscar) Wilde
#8715, aired 2022-10-07RECENT LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $2000: "Making Darkness Light" is about this poet who wrote his great work around 1660 in near or total blindness Milton
#8715, aired 2022-10-07RECENT LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $5,000 (Daily Double): 2022 brings the 150th b'day of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar & a bio calling him this creature that "sings" in his famous line the caged bird
#8672, aired 2022-06-28DUAL BIOGRAPHIES $2,000 (Daily Double): A biography of this pair includes chapters entitled "The Mikado" & "The Savoy Theatre" Gilbert & Sullivan
#8660, aired 2022-06-10NOTES FOR A BIOGRAPHY $400: George Monroe & William Robinson: 2 African-American riders in this horsepowered mail service in the 1860s the Pony Express
#8660, aired 2022-06-10NOTES FOR A BIOGRAPHY $800: Zhou Enlai: both prime minister & foreign minister of the country with this new name from its beginning in 1949 the People's Republic of China
#8660, aired 2022-06-10NOTES FOR A BIOGRAPHY $1200: Betty Friedan: the unhappy classmates at her Smith College 15th reunion inspired this 1963 nonfiction work The Feminine Mystique
#8660, aired 2022-06-10NOTES FOR A BIOGRAPHY $1600: King George I: from Hanover, Germany but had a claim on the British crown through this man, his great-granddad born a Scot James I
#8660, aired 2022-06-10NOTES FOR A BIOGRAPHY $2000: Jefferson Davis: as U.S. Secretary of War in 1853, he approved the import of these from Egypt to test in the Southwest camels
#8650, aired 2022-05-27BOOKS ABOUT CELEBS $400: "Laughing on the Outside" is a biography of this late, great funnyman John Candy
#8602, aired 2022-03-22RECENT BIOS OF WRITERS $2000: "Competing with Idiots" is a dual biography of these screenwriting giants, brothers Herman & Joe, by a grandson of Herman's Mankiewicz
#8591, aired 2022-03-07BIOGRAPHIES $1600: This man, considered by some Britain's greatest soldier is the focus of the biography subtitled "The Iron Duke" the Duke of Wellington
#17, aired 2022-02-22& NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT $1000: This 18th c. dictionary maker & subject of James Boswell's great biography liked to empty his pockets & roll down a hill Samuel Johnson
#8572, aired 2022-02-08READ THE ROOM! $1,200 (Daily Double): biography.com reports Frank Case, this hotel's "savvy manager, soon moved (the group) to a round table in the Rose Room" the Algonquin
#8546, aired 2022-01-03SUBTITLES $400: "Angel of the Slums": a biography about this sainted nun Mother Teresa
#8544, aired 2021-12-30DRAWING $800: William MacGillivray helped write "Ornithological Biography", the text that went along with this man's drawings Audubon
#8527, aired 2021-12-07NONFICTION $200: "Apple", "Cancer" & "Legacy" are chapters in a biography about him, "The Man Who Thought Different" (Steve) Jobs
#8486, aired 2021-10-11BIOGRAPHIES $400: "Hiding in Plain Sight" is the subtitle of Julia Sweig's biography of this first lady born in Karnack, Texas (Lady Bird) Johnson
#8462, aired 2021-08-10THE CANINES FILM FESTIVAL $600: "Immortal Beloved" is a biography of a composer while the 1992 movie with this one-word title is about a Saint Bernard Beethoven
#8441, aired 2021-07-12AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE $400: "Twilight Man" is a graphic novel biography about this writer & "the Birth of Television" Rod Serling
#8420, aired 2021-06-11NOTABLE WOMEN $2000: A 2021 biography says this first female doctor in the U.S. was originally admitted to medical school as a joke (Elizabeth) Blackwell
#8395, aired 2021-05-07MONKS $3,500 (Daily Double): A biography called "The Monk in the Garden" is subtitled "The Lost and Found Genius of" him, "The father of Genetics" Gregor Mendel
#8383, aired 2021-04-21FROM PAGE TO STAGE $800: Ron Chernow's biography of this man was adapted into a 2015 Broadway musical Alexander Hamilton
#8366, aired 2021-03-29WORD "OR"IGINS $1600: This verb meaning to induct someone into the ministry debuted in a medieval biography of Thomas Becket ordain
#8344, aired 2021-02-25ON THE SUBJECT $200: He's the subject of the biography subtitled "The Man, the Genius, & the Theory of Relativity" Albert Einstein
#8339, aired 2021-02-18PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $3,000 (Daily Double): The 2015 Biography Prize went to a study of Pope Pius XI's relations with this dictator down the street Mussolini
#8326, aired 2021-02-01THAT TITLE HAS A TITLE $1200: Siddhartha Mukherjee wrote a biography of cancer called this "of All Maladies" The Emperor
#8324, aired 2021-01-28BIOGRAPHIES $1200: Subtitled "How One Man Saved the British Monarchy", this biography has the same title as an Oscar-winning 2010 film The King's Speech
#8324, aired 2021-01-28BIOGRAPHIES $2000: "American Prometheus" is a biography of this atomic bomb scientist Oppenheimer
#8318, aired 2021-01-20EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD $200: "God's Shadow" is a biography of Ottoman Sultan Selim, whose conquests included this country, in a 1516 battle near Aleppo Syria
#8247, aired 2020-09-29NONFICTION $1600: Sarah Bradford's biography of this Renaissance Italian paints a more complete picture of her than the poisoner of myth Lucrezia Borgia
#8220, aired 2020-05-22I'D RATHER HAVE $800: I'd rather see this epic 1962 movie biography set in the desert in a theater at 70mm projection than on a cell phone Lawrence of Arabia
#8216, aired 2020-05-18NONFICTION $200: "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro is a biography of Robert Moses, an official who guided the growth of this city for 4 decades New York
#8162, aired 2020-02-18SPEAKING VOLUMES $400: "The Last Lion", a biography of this British PM, appeared in 3 volumes in 1983, 1988 & 2012 Churchill
#8088, aired 2019-11-06THIS TIME, IT'S PERSONAL $400: In her 1903 auto-biography: "I lived, up to the time of the illness that deprived me of my sight and hearing, in a tiny house" Helen Keller
#8060, aired 2019-09-27BIOGRAPHERS $400: W.E.B. Du Bois wrote a 1909 biography defending this abolitionist who was hanged 50 years earlier (John) Brown
#8054, aired 2019-09-19FERDINAND $200: This explorer was joined on his 4th voyage in 1502 by illegitimate son Ferdinand, who later wrote dad's biography Columbus
#8030, aired 2019-07-05BIOGRAPHIES OF NON-PEOPLE $400: The biography about "Lady" her tells of coppersmiths, plasterers & her unveiling in 1886 Lady Liberty
#8030, aired 2019-07-05HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: "Professional Angel" is a biography of this "angel of the battlefield" Clara Barton
#8030, aired 2019-07-05BIOGRAPHIES OF NON-PEOPLE $2000: "Biography of a Germ" focuses on the bacterium that causes this tick-borne disease identified in the 1970s Lyme disease
#8026, aired 2019-07-01COMPLETES THE NONFICTION TITLE $1000: A Pulitzer Prize-winning "Biography of Cancer": "The Emperor of All ____" maladies
#8009, aired 2019-06-06PEOPLE IN HISTORY $2000: A biography told of "The Prophet Outcast:" this October Revolution man & eventual Russian exile, "1929-1940" (Leon) Trotsky
#8005, aired 2019-05-31AFRICAN-AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY $200: Jonathan Eig's bio of this champ who passed away in 2016 is one of the "Greatest" sports biographies Ali
#8005, aired 2019-05-31AFRICAN-AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY $400: "The New Negro" is "The Life of Alain Locke", the first African American to earn this honor that sent him to Oxford a Rhodes Scholarship
#8005, aired 2019-05-31AFRICAN-AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY $800: "Talking at the Gates" is "A Life of" this "If Beale Street Could Talk" novelist James Baldwin
#8005, aired 2019-05-31AFRICAN-AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY $1000: Published in 2007, "Supreme Discomfort" is a portrait of this jurist Clarence Thomas
#8005, aired 2019-05-31AFRICAN-AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY $3,800 (Daily Double): "The Road to Freedom" is the subtitle of Catherine Clinton's bio of this 19th century woman Harriet Tubman
#7991, aired 2019-05-13BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $200: In 1991 William Martin called this North Carolina evangelist a "Prophet With Honor" Billy Graham
#7991, aired 2019-05-13BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $400: Robert Massie's detailed biography of this Russian ruler is subtitled "Portrait of a Woman" Catherine the Great
#7991, aired 2019-05-13BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $800: "The Professor and the Madman" is about the insane murderer who helped create this reference work the OED, or the Oxford Dictionary
#7991, aired 2019-05-13BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Peter Guralnick's book about "The Rise of Elvis Presley" is aptly titled "Last Train to" this city Memphis
#7991, aired 2019-05-13BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $1000: "The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters" is about "The Tragic and Glamorous Lives" of Jackie Kennedy & this sis, who died in 2019 Lee Radziwill
#7975, aired 2019-04-19AUTO-BIOGRAPHIES $800: "Billy (Durant), Alfred (P. Sloan) &" this Big 3 car company is a very specific biography General Motors
#7975, aired 2019-04-19AUTO-BIOGRAPHIES $1600: Chapter 26 in the biography of this muscle car builder is title "The Cobra is Born" (Carroll) Shelby
#7960, aired 2019-03-29LITERARY GENRES $1000: The American president boxed set from this master of biography includes "John Adams", "Truman" & "Mornings on Horseback" (David) McCullough
#7931, aired 2019-02-18TELL ALLS $400: This royal spoke "In Her Own Words" to Andrew Morton for a 1992 biography Princess Diana
#7894, aired 2018-12-27AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS $1200: She penned "Fighting Angel," a biography of her father, Absalom Sydenstricker, a missionary in China Pearl Buck
#7887, aired 2018-12-184th CENTURY BOOKSTORE $2000: A biography by Athanasius tells of the lures set by the devil, known ever since as this "of St. Anthony" The Temptations of St. Anthony
#7877, aired 2018-12-04BIOGRAPHIES $600: A biography of this burg is subtitled "Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West" Dodge City
#7864, aired 2018-11-15CELEBRITIES $1000: "Empire State of Mind" is a biography of this rapper & how he went "From Street Corner to Corner Office" Jay-Z
#7846, aired 2018-10-22HERSTORY $400: This woman in history is the subject of a biography called "Don't Ride the Bus on Monday" (Rosa) Parks
#7844, aired 2018-10-18A.P. BIOGRAPHY $400: This legendary golfer looked back on "A Life Well Played" Arnold Palmer
#7844, aired 2018-10-18A.P. BIOGRAPHY $800: "In Praise of Difficult Women" praises this "Parks & Rec" star & 28 other "Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules" Amy Poehler
#7844, aired 2018-10-18A.P. BIOGRAPHY $1200: His story was that of "The Life and Legacy of Chile's Controversial Dictator" Pinochet
#7844, aired 2018-10-18A.P. BIOGRAPHY $1600: "Swan: The Life and Dance of" this Russian is one bio of her; so is "Twentieth Century Ballerina" Anna Pavlova
#7844, aired 2018-10-18A.P. BIOGRAPHY $2000: One book examines the "Literary Life" of this 18th century English poet known for his savage wit & satire Alexander Pope
#7820, aired 2018-09-14NONFICTION $400: "A Curious Man" is a biography of this "Believe It or Not!" cartoonist Ripley
#7795, aired 2018-06-29TV SHOW ENCYCLOPEDIAS & COMPANIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): Chapter titles in the biography of this classic comedy include "Capri Pants" & "Stumbling" The Dick Van Dyke Show
#7778, aired 2018-06-06A HARRY CATEGORY $400: "Plain Speaking" is Merle Miller's biography of this man from Missouri Harry Truman
#7744, aired 2018-04-19GETTING HISTORICAL $600: Term for the edge of western U.S. settlement; it was in the title of an early biography of Wyatt Earp the frontier
#7733, aired 2018-04-04THE FICTION SECTION $800: Irving Stone's fictionalized biography of artist Vincent Van Gogh has this passionate 3-word title Lust for Life
#7729, aired 2018-03-29WE'RE ALL AMERICANS $400: Naturally, David Ritz titled his biography of this singer "Respect" Aretha Franklin
#7718, aired 2018-03-14BIOGRAPHIES $400: Walter Isaacson's 2017 biography of him says while painting Mona Lisa, he was studying lip muscles in the Florence morgue da Vinci
#7718, aired 2018-03-14BIOGRAPHIES $800: A 2009 biography of Frances Perkins is called "The Woman Behind" this set of programs to jumpstart the economy the New Deal
#7718, aired 2018-03-14BIOGRAPHIES $1600: Marquis James' biography "The Raven" isn't about Edgar Allan Poe but about this flamboyant pres. of early Texas Sam Houston
#7684, aired 2018-01-25THE PRODUCERS $800: The 2005 biography "Lion of Hollywood" tells the story of this legendary producer, the second "M" in MGM (Louis B.) Mayer
#7660, aired 2017-12-22FEARLESS GIRL $1200: Mark Twain said his favorite book of all those he had written was his fictional biography of this French lass Joan of Arc
#7649, aired 2017-12-07THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY $400: The 2003 winner, covering Lyndon Johnson from 1949 to 1960, was "Master of" this political body the Senate
#7649, aired 2017-12-07THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY $800: The first Pulitzer for Biography went to a book about this woman who wrote "Battle Hymn Of The Republic" Julia Ward Howe
#7649, aired 2017-12-07THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY $1,000 (Daily Double): Joseph Lash won for a dual biography of this presidential couple FDR & Eleanor
#7649, aired 2017-12-07THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY $1600: Samuel Eliot Morison won a 1960 Pulitzer for his bio of this reformed slaver & 18th c. American naval hero John Paul Jones
#7649, aired 2017-12-07THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY $2000: Margaret Coit won for an "American Portrait" of this South Carolinian veep who resigned after the Eaton affair John C. Calhoun
#7637, aired 2017-11-21TRUUUE $1,400 (Daily Double): Chapter 5 of David McCullough's 2015 biography of them is titled "December 17, 1903" the Wright brothers
#7617, aired 2017-10-24PROFESSORS $2000: He came out of UC Riverside (not Narnia) to publish "Zealot", a 2013 biography of Jesus (Reza) Aslan
#7579, aired 2017-07-20HISTORICAL CHESS PIECES $400: A 2007 biography of this young French warrior & saint calls her a pawn, ultimately sacrificed Joan of Arc
#7574, aired 2017-07-13"M"PORTANT PAINTERS $400: This painter of the Sistine Chapel was still alive when Vasari wrote a biography of him, a first Michelangelo
#7569, aired 2017-07-06BRIT LIT $400: This 18th c. Scotsman is famed for his diaries as well as for his biography of Samuel Johnson James Boswell
#7561, aired 2017-06-26I'VE GOT 3 NAMES $2000: William MacGillivray helped write "Ornithological Biography", the text that accompanied his "Birds of America" John James Audubon
#7560, aired 2017-06-23"CENTER"-TAINMENT $1600: A biography of Paul Lynde, or his usual position on a classic Hollywood game show Center Square
#7559, aired 2017-06-22RECENT HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY $200: This actor penned "Leonard", a memoir of his 50-year friendship with Leonard Nimoy William Shatner
#7559, aired 2017-06-22RECENT HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY $400: Sitric Silkbeard & his raiding friends from the north appear in Lars Brownworth's "The Sea Wolves: A History of" them the Vikings
#7559, aired 2017-06-22RECENT HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY $600: This story of the African-American women who helped launch the U.S. space program became a 2016 film Hidden Figures
#7559, aired 2017-06-22RECENT HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY $800: "The Midnight Assassin" lays out the 1880s "Hunt for America's First" one of these multiple murderers a serial killer
#7559, aired 2017-06-22RECENT HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY $1000: Boris Pasternak loved a girl named Olga but fictionalized her as this name, the title of a book on their romance Lara
#7543, aired 2017-05-31PRESIDENTIAL BIOGRAPHIES $400: A multivolume biography of this president begins with "The Engineer 1874-1914" Herbert Hoover
#7514, aired 2017-04-20RECENT BOOKS $1600: This Russian dynasty is chronicled from 1613 to 1918 in a biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore the Romanovs
#7504, aired 2017-04-06A LIBERAL LIBRARY $800: The biography "Notorious RBG" is subtitled "The Life and Times of" this Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
#7457, aired 2017-01-31THE SPORT'S BOOK $800: "Pistol", a biography by Mark Kriegel basketball
#7457, aired 2017-01-31JOHN DONNE $1600: The first biography of Donne was by this "Compleat Angler" author & appeared as a preface to Donne's "LXXX Sermons" Izaak Walton
#7448, aired 2017-01-18BIOGRAPHIES $1200: "Illustrations of Camp Life" is a chapter title in a biography of this 19th century photographer Mathew Brady
#7448, aired 2017-01-18BIOGRAPHIES $1600: Andre Maurois wrote a 1949 biography called "A la Recherche de" this other French author Proust
#7448, aired 2017-01-18BIOGRAPHIES $2000: If you didn't read John McCormick's 1987 biography on this philosopher, you may be condemned to repeat it Santayana
#7412, aired 2016-11-29LEANING CONSERVATIVE $1200: A 2015 biography of this former pro quarterback & GOP running mate called him a "bleeding-heart conservative" Kemp
#7408, aired 2016-11-23NONFICTION $1200: "The Lion of the West" is the subtitle of a biography of him, given a raccoon hat by Hollywood Davy Crockett
#7362, aired 2016-09-20FRIENDS $1600: Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote a campaign biography of this college pal, later the 14th U.S. president Franklin Pierce
#7335, aired 2016-07-01NONFICTION $800: Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee's "The Emperor of All Maladies" is a scientific "Biography" of this disease cancer
#7305, aired 2016-05-20MAD MEN $1200: The subtitle of a biography of this Russian mystic asks, "Holy Man or Mad Monk?" Rasputin
#7215, aired 2016-01-15THE SENATE MAJORITY LEADER $400: biography.com says this recent leader "is known for his blunt yet soft-spoken demeanor, love of boxing and Mormon faith" Harry Reid
#7212, aired 2016-01-12NONFICTION $400: "Vera" is a biography of his mrs., without whom he would not have written novels like "Pale Fire" & "Lolita" (Vladimir) Nabokov
#7191, aired 2015-12-14SOMETHING TO READ $400: Samuel Johnson comes to life in the biography by this man whom Johnson called "Bozzy" Boswell
#7174, aired 2015-11-19RECENT BESTSELLERS $200: It's the title of David McCullough's biography of 2 bicycle mechanics from Ohio The Wright Brothers
#7167, aired 2015-11-10NICKNAMES FOR FEMINISTS $1200: A biography of this 19th century woman includes the line "news of Vicky's candidacy traveled across the country" Victoria Woodhull
#7149, aired 2015-10-15BIOGRAPHIES $200: George Weigel's biography of this onetime archbishop of Krakow is titled "Witness to Hope" Pope John Paul II
#7149, aired 2015-10-15BIOGRAPHIES $800: "Wanted!" The real story of these 2 outlaw brothers in a 1981 biography of them the James Brothers (Frank & Jesse)
#7149, aired 2015-10-15BIOGRAPHIES $1000: Arianna Huffington's biography of this painter was the basis for a 1996 film starring Anthony Hopkins Pablo Picasso
#7149, aired 2015-10-15BIOGRAPHIES $1,600 (Daily Double): "Neither Shaken Nor Stirred" is the subtitle of Andrew Yule's biography of this actor Sean Connery
#7121, aired 2015-07-27BIOGRAPHIES $200: He was the subject of a 2013 biography called "A Curious Man"; believe it or not (Robert) Ripley
#7121, aired 2015-07-27BIOGRAPHIES $1,000 (Daily Double): A biography of this nobleman goes beyond the boxing rules he devised & his accusations against Oscar Wilde the Marquess of Queensberry
#7117, aired 2015-07-21PRINCELY NICKNAMES $400: A 1994 biography of this 19th century showman was titled "Prince of Humbugs" (P.T.) Barnum
#7113, aired 2015-07-15ALL THAT JAZZ $1200: "Ain't Misbehavin'" is a biography of this jazz great written by his manager Ed Kirkeby Fats Waller
#7095, aired 2015-06-19WE SUGGEST BIOGRAPHY TITLES $200: In 1682 he drew up a frame of government for a new American colony: "Quaker State of Mind" William Penn
#7095, aired 2015-06-19WE SUGGEST BIOGRAPHY TITLES $400: This Argentine, whose embalmed body was stolen in 1955 & secreted in Italy for 14 years: "On 2nd Thought, Do Cry for Me" Eva Perón
#7095, aired 2015-06-19WE SUGGEST BIOGRAPHY TITLES $600: The story of this inventor who was awarded a valuable patent on March 7, 1876: "It's for You" Alexander Graham Bell
#7095, aired 2015-06-19WE SUGGEST BIOGRAPHY TITLES $800: This general who was fired by Lincoln for not chasing Lee's army (again!) after Antietam: "Not-So-Curious George" McClellan
#7095, aired 2015-06-19WE SUGGEST BIOGRAPHY TITLES $1000: Only 10 of her nearly 1,800 poems were published in her 19th century lifetime: "Homebody" Emily Dickinson
#7085, aired 2015-06-05PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES $800: Chapters in Robert Massie's 1981 biography of this Russian czar include "The Prince of Orange" & "Polish Quagmire" Peter the Great
#7085, aired 2015-06-05PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES $1000: The first volume of Allan Nevins' 1933 biography of this president ended with his loss of the presidency in 1888 (Grover) Cleveland
#7057, aired 2015-04-28MONTY OR MONTGOMERY $2000: This 1960s sitcom actress was the subject of the biography "Twitch Upon a Star" Elizabeth Montgomery
#7054, aired 2015-04-23NONFICTION $400: A 2014 biography tells her "Untold Story" of dealing with flashbacks after her husband's 1963 assassination Jackie Kennedy Onassis
#7037, aired 2015-03-31BETTER KNOWN BY ONE NAME $600: "Behind the Candelabra" was an HBO biography of this flamboyant performer Liberace
#7012, aired 2015-02-24BIOGRAPHY $200: "Parting the Waters" is volume 1 in Taylor Branch's trilogy about this man's life & the civil rights movement Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
#7012, aired 2015-02-24BIOGRAPHY $400: "Titan: The Life of" this 19th century oil baron gushes with the tale of history's first billionaire (John D.) Rockefeller
#7012, aired 2015-02-24BIOGRAPHY $600: In 2012 Douglas Brinkley published a biography of this "most trusted man in America" Walter Cronkite
#7012, aired 2015-02-24BIOGRAPHY $800: "Dark Lover" smolders with "The Life and Death of" this silent-screen legend Rudolph Valentino
#7012, aired 2015-02-24BIOGRAPHY $1000: Written by his son Brian, "Dreamer of Dune" is a chronicle of the life of this sci-fi author (Frank) Herbert
#6958, aired 2014-12-10PULITZER WINNERS FOR BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY $200: 1944: Carleton Mabee, writing about this "American Leonardo", master of the dot & dash Morse
#6958, aired 2014-12-10PULITZER WINNERS FOR BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY $400: 1999: A. Scott Berg, writing about this pilot; 1954: the same pilot, writing about himself Charles Lindbergh
#6958, aired 2014-12-10PULITZER WINNERS FOR BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY $600: 1989: Richard Ellmann, writing about this "earnest" Irish wit Oscar Wilde
#6958, aired 2014-12-10PULITZER WINNERS FOR BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY $800: 1933: Allan Nevins, writing about this pres. (hint: Nevins won in non-consecutive years, for 1937's "Hamilton Fish") (Grover) Cleveland
#6958, aired 2014-12-10PULITZER WINNERS FOR BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY $1000: 1964: Walter Jackson Bate, writing about this "Endymion" poet Keats
#6952, aired 2014-12-02SEE TV $2000: "Biography" showed this Microsoft man's "Life--From Child Prodigy to Harvard Dropout to Billionaire" (Bill) Gates
#6920, aired 2014-10-17OCCUPATIONAL LAST NAMES $1200: "Jazz Cleopatra" is a biography of this U.S.-born dancer who became a sensation in 1920s Paris Josephine Baker
#6906, aired 2014-09-292014 BESTSELLERS $800: It's the Martin Sixsmith biography of a 1950s Irish woman forced to give up her baby for adoption Philomena
#6897, aired 2014-09-16WHAT ARE YOU READING? $400: Susan Orlean's biography of this movie star dog Rin Tin Tin
#6870, aired 2014-06-27DUAL BIOGRAPHIES $400: In a biography by James Flexner, "The Traitor And The Spy" are this American & John Andre Benedict Arnold
#6834, aired 2014-05-08SCIENCE & TECH BOOKS $2000: A biography of Michael Ventris is titled "The Man Who Deciphered" this ancient Cretan script Linear B
#6830, aired 2014-05-02ENGLISH LITERATURE $1600: This British author's 1922 novel "Jacob's Room" is said to be a fictional biography of her brother Thoby Virginia Woolf
#6796, aired 2014-03-17BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $200: "Nevermore: A Photobiography of" him (Edgar Allan) Poe
#6796, aired 2014-03-17BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $400: This man: "Billionaire Computer Genius" Bill Gates
#6796, aired 2014-03-17BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $800: "The General": this man "and the France He Saved" (Charles) de Gaulle
#6796, aired 2014-03-17BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $1,000 (Daily Double): By Joe McGinniss, "The Rogue: Searching for the Real" this politician Sarah Palin
#6796, aired 2014-03-17BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $1000: This woman: "Daring to Vote" Susan B. Anthony
#6763, aired 2014-01-29THE "RENT" IS DUE $600: This word can precede "Biography" or follow "Humboldt" Current
#6741, aired 2013-12-30BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $400: A botanist & chemist: "Wizard of Tuskegee" George Washington Carver
#6741, aired 2013-12-30BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $1200: A British film director: "The Dark Side of Genius" Alfred Hitchcock
#6741, aired 2013-12-30BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $1600: An American novelist: "Just One Catch" (Joseph) Heller
#6741, aired 2013-12-30BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $2000: A religious leader: "Here I Stand" Martin Luther
#6741, aired 2013-12-30BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $2,200 (Daily Double): An explorer: "The Man Who Presumed" Henry Morton Stanley
#6639, aired 2013-06-27AMERICAN LIVES $2000: The 1974 biography "Mr. Lincoln's Camera Man" brought this photographer into focus Mathew Brady
#6639, aired 2013-06-27AMERICAN LIVES $4,000 (Daily Double): Lois Scharf's biography of this 20th century woman is subtitled "First Lady of American Liberalism" Eleanor Roosevelt
#6609, aired 2013-05-16NONFICTION $200: After killing this outlaw, Pat Garrett co-wrote the first biography of him Billy the Kid
#6593, aired 2013-04-24NOT BY SHAKESPEARE $3,000 (Daily Double): After III, the only King Henry with no Shakespeare title is him, the subject of a 2007 Sean Cunningham biography Henry VII
#6579, aired 2013-04-04COMPLETES THE BESTSELLER TITLE $400: "____ ____": A biography of the tech entrepreneur who died in October 2011 Steve Jobs
#6549, aired 2013-02-21THE WIT OF OSCAR WILDE $1000: "Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always" this one "who writes the biography" Judas
#6541, aired 2013-02-11DISCOVERERS & INVENTORS $2000: "Reaching for the Stars" is a biography of this rocket scientist, the son of a German baron (Wernher) von Braun
#6512, aired 2013-01-01NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS $1000: I'm gonna read 100 books, including "Dearie", a biography of this woman who mastered the art of French cooking Julia Child
#6471, aired 2012-11-05BRITISH NOVELISTS $1200: The biography "Pat and Roald" covers his life with wife Patricia Neal Roald Dahl
#6460, aired 2012-10-19NONFICTION PULITZER WINNERS $400: A 2011 Pulitzer went to "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of" this disease cancer
#6439, aired 2012-09-20DUAL BIOGRAPHIES $800: "The Two American Presidents" is a dual biography of these 2 men who served at the same time in the 1860s Davis & Lincoln
#6428, aired 2012-07-25BIOGRAPHIES $400: Marquis James' 1929 biography "The Raven" was the story of this president of Texas, not Edgar Allan Poe Sam Houston
#6428, aired 2012-07-25BIOGRAPHIES $800: Norman Mailer wrote a biography of this screen goddess, & the 2 of them shared the July 16, 1973 cover of Time Marilyn Monroe
#6428, aired 2012-07-25BIOGRAPHIES $1,200 (Daily Double): Hertha Pauli's 1942 biography of this man was subtitled "Dynamite King, Architect of Peace" (Alfred) Nobel
#6428, aired 2012-07-25BIOGRAPHIES $1600: 1987's "Cory: Profile of a President" is a biography of this leader of the Philippines Corazon Aquino
#6428, aired 2012-07-25BIOGRAPHIES $2000: Einhard served this ruler for 23 years & wrote a 9th century biography of him, "Vita Karoli Magni" Charlemagne
#6426, aired 2012-07-23WHO'S THE "MAN"? $1600: This general was the subject of the biography "The White Tecumseh" (William T.) Sherman
#6425, aired 2012-07-20McWRITERS $2000: He moved in next door to Sarah Palin to research his 2011 biography of her Joe McGinniss
#6382, aired 2012-05-22GIVE ME A PRIZE! $200: Carleton Mabee won this literary prize for his Samuel Morse biography "The American Leonardo" a Pulitzer
#6364, aired 2012-04-26MEN $800: "A Passion for Nature" is a 2008 biography of this man, shown here on the left, out-bearded by John Burroughs John Muir
#6324, aired 2012-03-01IN THE BOOKSTORE $2000: If you're looking for a biography, try "Wendy and the Lost Boys", about this late Tony-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein
#6316, aired 2012-02-20McPEOPLE $800: Called the "Citizen Chronicler", he won his first Pulitzer in 1993 for his biography of "Truman" (David) McCullough
#6217, aired 2011-10-04THEY OUGHT TO MAKE A MOVIE $200: For Michael Korda's "Ike", a biography of this man, I'm thinking Brendan Fraser Eisenhower
#6170, aired 2011-06-10NONFICTION $200: In a book subtitled "A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation", the equation is this E = mc2
#6152, aired 2011-05-17RECENT NONFICTION $400: Stacy Schiff wrote a much-lauded 2010 biography of this Egyptian queen Cleopatra
#6146, aired 2011-05-09THE BOOKS OF DAVID McCULLOUGH $200: McCullough gave this 33rd U.S. president the biography treatment in 1992 & won a Pulitzer for his efforts Truman
#6139, aired 2011-04-28BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $400: Catherine Reef's biography of this Austrian is subtitled "Pioneer of the Mind" (Sigmund) Freud
#6139, aired 2011-04-28BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $800: Erin Arvedlund's "Too Good to be True" follows the rise & fall of this Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff
#6139, aired 2011-04-28BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $1600: "The Irregulars" chronicles this creator of Willy Wonka & "The British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington" Roald Dahl
#6139, aired 2011-04-28BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Noel Riley Fitch chronicled this chef's "Appetite for Life" Julia Child
#6139, aired 2011-04-28BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $2000: "We Two" calls this 19th century royal couple "rulers, partners, rivals" Victoria & Albert
#6088, aired 2011-02-16NONFICTION $2000: HBO's miniseries "John Adams" was based on this author's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography David McCullough
#6070, aired 2011-01-21WORLD LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): This South American's "The General in His Labyrinth" is a fictional biography of Simon Bolivar Gabriel García Márquez
#6036, aired 2010-12-06WELL, I NEVER! $200: I never wrote the biography "Mr. Playboy:" this man "and the American Dream"; the research would've killed me Hugh Hefner
#5982, aired 2010-09-21THE COMEDIC CALVIN COOLIDGE $600: When a biography critical of this man came out, Cal looked out the window and said "I see his monument is still there" Washington
#5937, aired 2010-06-08HUEY, DEWEY OR LOUIS $1600: "Pops", a 2009 biography of this trumpeter, breaks the stories of his run-ins with Chicago gangsters & President Eisenhower Louis Armstrong
#5937, aired 2010-06-08WOODY ALLEN MOVIE SYNOPSES $2000: "Sugary" biography of pimp turned jazz guitar hero; he likes to shoot rats Sweet and Lowdown
#5929, aired 2010-05-27TREES COMPANY $200: Parson Weems' 1806 biography of George Washington included the story of chopping down one of these trees a cherry tree
#5927, aired 2010-05-25BANDS IN MOVIES $1200: Los Lobos had a No. 1 hit with this song, also the title of a 1987 movie biography La Bamba
#5926, aired 2010-05-24BOOK SMART $1200: Sylvia Nasar wrote this biography of math genius & Nobel laureate John Nash A Beautiful Mind
#5897, aired 2010-04-13PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $400: 1997 for biography: This late author's "Angela's Ashes" (Frank) McCourt
#5853, aired 2010-02-10NONFICTION $2,500 (Daily Double): A 2009 biography of this builder of Grand Central Terminal calls him "the first tycoon" (Cornelius) Vanderbilt
#5852, aired 2010-02-09AFRICAN AMERICANS $1,200 (Daily Double): A biography of this former Cabinet secretary is subtitled "Soldier and Statesman" Colin Powell
#5840, aired 2010-01-22BIOGRAPHIES $400: The cleverly titled "Milestones" is a biography of this jazz trumpeter (Miles) Davis
#5830, aired 2010-01-08DUAL BIOGRAPHIES $1000: Michael Ainger wrote a dual biography of these 2 Victorians known for their Savoy fare Gilbert and Sullivan
#5823, aired 2009-12-30THE PULITZER FOR BIOGRAPHY/ AUTOBIOGRAPHY $200: 1939: Carl Van Doren, writing about this founding father known for kite flying (Ben) Franklin
#5823, aired 2009-12-30THE PULITZER FOR BIOGRAPHY/ AUTOBIOGRAPHY $400: 1970: T. Harry Williams, writing about this Louisiana "Kingfish" Huey Long
#5819, aired 2009-12-24"BLUE" MOVIES $1200: Diana Ross belts out "God Bless The Child" in this musical biography Lady Sings the Blues
#5803, aired 2009-12-02CURRENT BIOGRAPHY: 1970 $400: The biography for this Cuban leader says he likes classical music, baseball & skin diving Fidel Castro
#5803, aired 2009-12-02CURRENT BIOGRAPHY: 1970 $800: The oldest of 6 kids in a Catholic family; her father, John F. Fitzgerald, was a mayor of Boston Rose Kennedy
#5803, aired 2009-12-02CURRENT BIOGRAPHY: 1970 $1200: His "canon comprises more than 900 published pieces" including "Sophisticated Lady" Duke Ellington
#5803, aired 2009-12-02CURRENT BIOGRAPHY: 1970 $1600: "One Generation After", his tenth book, marked the 25th anniversary of his liberation from Buchenwald (Elie) Wiesel
#5803, aired 2009-12-02CURRENT BIOGRAPHY: 1970 $2000: This publisher & philanthropist's bio mentions his 1969 swearing in as U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain Walter Annenberg
#5787, aired 2009-11-10BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: This Gregory Maguire novel that inspired a musical is the biography of a certain Witch of the West Wicked
#5775, aired 2009-10-23ART BOOKS $800: Hayden Herrera's biography of this Mexican woman was the basis for a movie Frida Kahlo
#5662, aired 2009-03-31BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: This "Fight Club" author's book "Rant" is described as the "oral biography" of a serial killer Chuck Palahniuk
#5638, aired 2009-02-25THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $400: (Dr. Gates gives the clue.) In the "African American National Biography" series, which I co-edited with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, the second entry is a profile of this baseball great Hank Aaron
#5638, aired 2009-02-25SCIENCE $800: Termed "The Last Sorcerer" in a recent biography, in 1705 he became the first scientist to be knighted for his work Isaac Newton
#5622, aired 2009-02-03IT'S ALL ABOUT ME $1600: Self-referential prefix before -didact, -suggestion & -biography auto
#5597, aired 2008-12-30THE JOY OF TEXT $400: D.H. Donald's biography of this 19th century president made it onto a list of Bill Clinton's favorite books Abraham Lincoln
#5480, aired 2008-06-06THE WRITE STUFF $200: Dumas Malone won a Pulitzer Prize for his multi-volume biography of this Monticello resident Thomas Jefferson
#5473, aired 2008-05-28CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $400: High on Eva Marie Saint's list is a biography of this man who directed her in "On The Waterfront" Elia Kazan
#5442, aired 2008-04-15NONFICTION $600: Rheta Grimsley Johnson titled a 1989 biography "Good Grief: The Story of" this cartoonist Charles Schulz
#5392, aired 2008-02-05NONFICTION PEOPLE $400: A biography of him is subtitled "Man's Slave Becomes God's Scientist" George Washington Carver
#5392, aired 2008-02-05NONFICTION PEOPLE $800: He's called a "Rough Stone Rolling" in a 2005 "Cultural Biography of Mormonism's Founder" Joseph Smith
#5381, aired 2008-01-212007 BESTSELLERS $600: Walter Isaacson's biography of this scientist was based on the subject's personal letters Albert Einstein
#5308, aired 2007-10-10PREFIXES $600: Before -biography or -graph, it means self auto-
#5297, aired 2007-09-25SWEET "P" $200: Gene Fowler's biography of John Barrymore is called "Good Night, Sweet" this Prince
#5180, aired 2007-03-02ORDINAL PEOPLE $1000: J. Lucas-Dubreton's biography of Alexandre Dumas is titled this, like what d'Artagnan wants to be The Fourth Musketeer
#5178, aired 2007-02-28YOU WROTE IT $1600: As well as novels, he wrote rags-to-riches nonfiction like the James Garfield biography "From Canal Boy to President" Horatio Alger
#5176, aired 2007-02-26BEST PICTURES IN OTHER WORDS $2000: 1937: "A Biography Concerning Alfred Dreyfus' Defender" The Life of Emile Zola
#5154, aired 2007-01-25MATT-ICULOUS $200: A 1974 biography of this photographer is titled "Mr. Lincoln's Camera Man" Mathew Brady
#5135, aired 2006-12-29MAO INHIBITORS $2000: A 2005 biography says Mao was actually carried for much of this epic trek that began in 1934 The Long March
#5118, aired 2006-12-06BOOKS ABOUT AUTHORS $200: Chapter 20 of a biography of this Connecticut-born woman is entitled "Antislavery Activist: 1853-1854" (Harriet Beecher) Stowe
#5118, aired 2006-12-06"MIND" GAMES $600: Sylvia Nasar's biography of mathematical genius & Nobel laureate John Nash A Beautiful Mind
#5118, aired 2006-12-06BOOKS ABOUT AUTHORS $1000: This "Compleat Angler" author wrote a seminal biography of John Donne in 1640 (Izaak) Walton
#5090, aired 2006-10-27GAMES IN OTHER WORDS $1000: Biography Life
#5085, aired 2006-10-20THE NASTY CRITIC REVIEWS THE 19th CENTURY $1200: I'd say this man's "ornithological biography", written from 1831 to 1839, is for the birds Audubon
#5059, aired 2006-09-14IT'S JUST A FLESH WOUND $1200: Her biography includes losing half a leg in an accident; anti-landmine activism; & marrying a musician Heather Mills McCartney
#5041, aired 2006-07-10BIO SUBJECTS $1600: Joseph J. Ellis' biography of this 18th century man is called "His Excellency" Washington
#5016, aired 2006-06-05CALL ME IRVING $800: This author's lust for biography influenced him to pen works about Darwin & Van Gogh Irving Stone
#5004, aired 2006-05-18PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOS $3,200 (Daily Double): Glory, Hallelujah! She was the subject of the first Pulitzer Prize-winning biography in 1917 Julia Ward Howe
#4977, aired 2006-04-11ROCKET MAN $400: "First Man" is a 2005 biography of this quiet Ohioan Neil Armstrong
#4947, aired 2006-02-28BIO HAZARD $400: Ibn Ishaq scored in the 8th century with his biography of this Muslim leader Mohammed
#4947, aired 2006-02-28BIO HAZARD $600: "An American Rhapsody" is a biography of this American composer George Gershwin
#4947, aired 2006-02-28BIO HAZARD $1000: A co-biography of these two men tells of "The Battle of Waterloo and the Great Commanders Who Fought It" Napoleon & the Duke of Wellington
#4919, aired 2006-01-19FIRST NOVELS $1200: She wrote "White House Pets" & a biography of her father before turning to fiction with "Murder in the White House" Margaret Truman
#4892, aired 2005-12-13PHILOSOPHERS $1600: "Zarathustra's Sister" is a biography of Elisabeth & her brother, this philosopher Nietzsche
#4865, aired 2005-11-04BIO SUBJECTS $600: This writer's name precedes "and the Lost Boys" in the title of a biography by Andrew Birkin J.M. Barrie
#4855, aired 2005-10-21THE BOYS ARE BLUE $400: Of marital woes that led to a 1996 royal divorce, a biography said his "gaiety of spirit" was "stifled by melancholy" Prince Charles
#4845, aired 2005-10-07FILMS OF THE '40s $2000: Although this singer wanted to portray himself in a 1946 film biography, he was too old & Larry Parks was cast Al Jolson
#4827, aired 2005-09-13JOURNALISTS $600: "A Mighty Heart" is a 2003 biography of this slain Wall Street Journal reporter by his widow, Mariane (Daniel) Pearl
#4825, aired 2005-07-22CELEBRITY LIVES $400: "Dark Lover" by Emily Leider is the first fully documented biography of this early Hollywood heartthrob Valentino
#4825, aired 2005-07-22CELEBRITY LIVES $2000: "Mercy, Mercy Me", a biography of this singer, was published in 2004 to coincide with the 20th anniv. of his death Marvin Gaye
#4824, aired 2005-07-211980s BESTSELLERS $800: The bestselling biography of 1989 was "A Woman Named" this Jackie
#4823, aired 2005-07-20BIOGRAPHIES $400: While out of office in the 1930s, he knocked out a million-word biography of his ancestor the Duke of Marlborough Churchill
#4823, aired 2005-07-20BIOGRAPHIES $2000: A biography of this wife of James Joyce is subtitled "The Real Life of Molly Bloom" Nora Joyce
#4808, aired 2005-06-29BIOGRAPHY $200: She was one of the last stars in the studio system "The tobacco farmer's daughter from North Carolina was awed and intimidated by the luxury of the MGM system." Ava Gardner
#4808, aired 2005-06-29BIOGRAPHY $400: She's made countless moviegoers exclaim, "Che bella" "With 36 films to her credit, the 21-year-old actress soon overtook Gina Lollobrigida as Italy's reigning box office princess." Sophia Loren
#4808, aired 2005-06-29BIOGRAPHY $600: For the exact years of the Reagan administration, the woman seen here starred on this show "When I came to Hollywood and they gave me the glamor treatment, I learned how to do it quite well." Dynasty
#4808, aired 2005-06-29BIOGRAPHY $800: She's the enduring actress seen here "The 30-year-old had gone from a sheltered life with her family straight into a marriage and a fast-paced career." Susan Sarandon
#4808, aired 2005-06-29BIOGRAPHY $1000: Director seen here discussing his movie "10" "The most I liked about it was that everybody predicted it would be a major flop." Blake Edwards
#4787, aired 2005-05-31POKER FACE $600: In a memorable 1987 big screen biography, the poker face seen here played this 1950s music legend Ritchie Valens
#4690, aired 2005-01-14FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: Leon Wagener's biography of him is entitled "One Giant Leap" Neil Armstrong
#4656, aired 2004-11-291804 $800: A 2004 biography of this president born November 23, 1804 is subtitled "New Hampshire's Favorite Son" Franklin Pierce
#4653, aired 2004-11-24THE LIGHTER SIDE OF LIFE $200: "Lion on the Links" is the subtitle of a biography of him Tiger Woods
#4627, aired 2004-10-19VOCABULARY TEST $800: This word for another person's life story comes from Greek words meaning "life" & "written" biography
#4609, aired 2004-09-23NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE HONOREES $400: Robert Caro's "Means of Ascent", a biography of this Texan president, recounts his early Senate victories Lyndon Johnson
#4609, aired 2004-09-23NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE HONOREES $800: This writer won for his novel "The Counterlife" & for the biography "Patrimony", but not for "Portnoy" Philip Roth
#4609, aired 2004-09-23NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE HONOREES $1600: Edmund White wrote a definitive biography of this French thief, novelist & playwright of "The Maids" (Jean) Genet
#4598, aired 2004-09-08SPORTS GIANTS $2000: (I'm Hall of Famer Dan Hampton.) My Hall of Fame biography mentions this beastly nickname that came from my first name & my fierce attitude "Danimal"
#4581, aired 2004-07-05THE GOD SQUAD $2000: Neil Baldwin's 1998 book "Legends of the Plumed Serpent" is a "Biography of" this Mexican god Quetzlcoatl
#4565, aired 2004-06-11LEADING MEN $400: The A&E "Biography" show on the man seen here includes his stint as mayor of this city Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
#4558, aired 2004-06-02BIOGRAPHY SUBTITLES $200: A president: "Remembering Jack" John Kennedy
#4558, aired 2004-06-02BIOGRAPHY SUBTITLES $400: A Frenchman: "The Boy Who Invented Books for the Blind" (Louis) Braille
#4558, aired 2004-06-02BIOGRAPHY SUBTITLES $600: A Revolutionary War figure: "Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy" John Paul Jones
#4558, aired 2004-06-02BIOGRAPHY SUBTITLES $1000: A '60s civil rights leader: "By Any Means Necessary" Malcolm X
#4558, aired 2004-06-02BIOGRAPHY SUBTITLES $1,800 (Daily Double): An entrepreneur: "Bargain Billionaire" Sam Walton
#4556, aired 2004-05-31THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS $800: At the first National Book Awards, in 1950, Ralph Rusk won for his biography of this other Ralph, an essayist Emerson
#4531, aired 2004-04-26IN THE BOOKSTORE $800: "The Perfect Wife" is a biography of this Texas-born woman Laura Bush
#4517, aired 2004-04-06BOOK TITLES $800: A biography of the "Last Child of Camelot" is titled this, like a Neil Diamond song Sweet Caroline
#4517, aired 2004-04-06BOOK TITLES $1600: It's the appropriate 3-word title of a 1993 biography of Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing
#4508, aired 2004-03-24THE ROMANTICS $2000: The film seen here is a romanticized biography of this Romantic man Frederic Chopin
#4469, aired 2004-01-29BOOK MARKS $1000: Joan T. Mark's biography of this woman is subtitled "Coming of Age in America" Margaret Mead
#4467, aired 2004-01-27BIOGRAPHY $200: Wake up & identify this man often described as "sleepy-eyed" Robert Mitchum
#4467, aired 2004-01-27BIOGRAPHY $400: He first gained fame as a jazz pianist Nat King Cole
#4467, aired 2004-01-27BIOGRAPHY $600: For many years our own Johnny Gilbert was her announcer Dinah Shore
#4467, aired 2004-01-27BIOGRAPHY $800: He's the tough guy turned leading man profiled here Lee Marvin
#4467, aired 2004-01-27BIOGRAPHY $1000: "Turning Heads" is the subtitle of her Biography episode Linda Blair
#4456, aired 2004-01-12LETTER & LETTER $200: The Biography Channel was spun off from this one A&E
#4446, aired 2003-12-29KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES $800: A biography of this labor organizer called her "The Miner's Angel" Mother Jones
#4444, aired 2003-12-25BIOGRAPHIES $1,000 (Daily Double): T.J. Stiles' biography of this famous Old West outlaw is subtitled "The Last Rebel of the Civil War" Jesse James
#4441, aired 2003-12-22PULITZER PRIZE CATEGORIES $1000: David McCullough, twice Biography
#4438, aired 2003-12-17PRESIDENTS & CHERRIES $200: The story of him chopping down a cherry tree was first mentioned in a biography by Mason Weems George Washington
#4426, aired 2003-12-013 LITTLE WORDS $200: Weems' biography of George Washington contains the quote "I can't" do this. "I did cut it with my hatchet" "tell a lie"
#4408, aired 2003-11-05AWARD-WINNING AUTHORS $800: Adam Sisman won a National Book Critics Circle Award for his biography of this biographer of Dr. Johnson Boswell
#4402, aired 2003-10-28"E"ASY DOES IT $1000: Her biography is subtitled "From Sharecropper's Daughter to Surgeon General" Joycelyn Elders
#4399, aired 2003-10-23BEST SCREENPLAY OSCARS $400: 2002: Ronald Harwood for this biography of a Polish Jewish musician The Pianist
#4399, aired 2003-10-23BEST SCREENPLAY OSCARS $800: 2001: Akiva Goldsman for this biography of a schizophrenic math genius A Beautiful Mind
#4396, aired 2003-10-20MUSIC MEN $800: "Rhapsody in Blue", a piece by this composer, was used as the title of a 1945 movie biography of him George Gershwin
#4394, aired 2003-10-16BOOK TITLES $1200: Bruce Feiler's biography of this Biblical figure is subtitled "A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths" Abraham
#4346, aired 2003-06-23BOOKS TO LISTEN TO $400: Former U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky reads Jane Leavy's biography of this Jewish southpaw Sandy Koufax
#4345, aired 2003-06-20BIOGRAPHY $200: She's the political wife profiled here Ethel Kennedy
#4345, aired 2003-06-20BIOGRAPHY $400: Born in 1958, she's the actress discussed in the following Jamie Lee Curtis
#4345, aired 2003-06-20BIOGRAPHY $600: Man of God seen in the following Jimmy Swaggart
#4345, aired 2003-06-20BIOGRAPHY $800: He was profiled on Real Goodfellas Week Meyer Lansky
#4345, aired 2003-06-20BIOGRAPHY $1000: The episode seen here covered this "Ernest" young man of Irish birth Ernest Shackleton
#4332, aired 2003-06-03BIOGRAPHY $200: Born into Philadelphia's "High Society" in 1929, became a princess in 1956, lived happily ever after until 1982 Princess Grace/Grace Kelly
#4332, aired 2003-06-03BIOGRAPHY $400: Born in the West Indies in the 1750s, got involved in money matters, fatally wounded in a duel in 1804 Alexander Hamilton
#4332, aired 2003-06-03BIOGRAPHY $600: Turned on in 1920, tuned in to LSD in the '60s, dropped out in 1996 Dr. Timothy Leary
#4332, aired 2003-06-03BIOGRAPHY $800: Born in England in 1919, formed a famous partnership with Nureyev, died a dame in 1991 Margot Fonteyn
#4332, aired 2003-06-03BIOGRAPHY $1000: Born in Kenya in 1903, married Mary in 1936, dead & buried in 1972 Louis Leakey
#4329, aired 2003-05-2919th CENTURY AMERICANS $1200: Douglas Southall Freeman wrote a 4-volume biography of this Virginian & 3 volumes on his "Lieutenants" Robert E. Lee
#4319, aired 2003-05-15AUTHORS ON FILM $1600: "Cross Creek" is a biography of this author of "The Yearling" Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#4317, aired 2003-05-13FASHION DESIGNERS $200: A 1994 biography of him was called "Obsession" Calvin Klein
#4273, aired 2003-03-12BEFORE THEY WERE PRESIDENT $400: In 1957 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography John F. Kennedy
#4273, aired 2003-03-12FUN WITH THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM $800: Of 2 areas of the Dewey 900s, E.C. Bentley wrote that this "is about maps, but biography is about chaps" geography
#4199, aired 2002-11-28SAFARI SO GOOD $400: The biography "Dark Safari" tells the story of this man who sought Livingstone (Henry) Stanley
#4188, aired 2002-11-13ENGLISH LIT $800: His "Life of Samuel Johnson" is often considered the greatest biography in the English language James Boswell
#4176, aired 2002-10-28BIOGRAPHIES $400: "La Femme Peta" calls itself this type of "biography" of actress Peta Wilson unauthorized
#4110, aired 2002-06-14A & _ $600: The online Biography.com is a service of this cable channel A&E
#4081, aired 2002-05-06POETIC LICENSE $800: The 2001 biography "Savage Beauty" details the lustful life of this "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed" poet Edna St. Vincent Millay
#4060, aired 2002-04-05CHARLES IN CHARGE $1000: Ben Hecht's book "Charlie" is a biography of this man with whom Hecht wrote several plays Charles MacArthur
#4047, aired 2002-03-19FAMOUS FRENCH FOLKS $800: "The Last Great Frenchman" is a 1995 biography of this late general & statesman de Gaulle
#4044, aired 2002-03-14FRENCH LITERATURE $1200: In the early 1970s this existentialist wrote a 3-volume biography of Gustave Flaubert Sartre
#4014, aired 2002-01-31THE GOOD OLD U.S. OF A. $400: A biography of the young Elvis is titled "Last Train to" this Tennessee city Memphis
#4010, aired 2002-01-25READING $600: "Heavier Than Heaven" is a recent biography recounting the rise & fall of this late grunge rocker Kurt Cobain
#3967, aired 2001-11-27THE SANDBOX $1,000 (Daily Double): This American won 2 Pulitzer Prizes: one for his poetry & one for his 4-volume biography of Lincoln Carl Sandburg
#3945, aired 2001-10-26THE SUPREME COURT $1000: The biography "The Judge from Beacon Hill" covers his life & his 3 decades on the Supreme Court Oliver Wendell Holmes
#3937, aired 2001-10-16FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA $100: Francis won his first Oscar for co-writing this 1970 film biography starring George C. Scott Patton
#3934, aired 2001-10-11COURT TV $300: (Hi, I'm Catherine Crier.) This Court TV biography series shares its name with the suspect photos police show victims Mugshots
#3904, aired 2001-07-19"SWEET" SONGS $500: It's the title of a 1963 Patsy Cline song & of a 1985 film biography of Patsy Cline starring Jessica Lange "Sweet Dreams"
#3862, aired 2001-05-22MUSICALS! $1000: This 1968 musical was a biography of the composer of "Over There" & "Give My Regards To Broadway" George M!
#3855, aired 2001-05-11SCIENCE GUYS $600: This "Father of Genetics" is the subject of the biography "The Monk in the Garden" Gregor Mendel
#3806, aired 2001-03-05MOVIE ROLES $1000: As Bela Lugosi, Martin Landau wrestled a fake octopus in this 1994 film biography Ed Wood
#3791, aired 2001-02-12LITERATURE $1000: In 2000 Turkish author Andrew Mango published a new biography of this founder of modern Turkey Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#3787, aired 2001-02-06AIRPLANE READING $300: Eric Stoltz is heard here reading A. Scott Berg's biography of this man Charles Lindbergh
#3780, aired 2001-01-26NONFICTION $400: Shout Hallelujah! Come on "Get Happy", Gerald Clarke's biography of this entertainer Judy Garland
#3741, aired 2000-12-04I'M JUST WILD ABOUT HARRY $100: "Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography" was co-written by Merle Miller & this man Harry S. Truman
#3723, aired 2000-11-08HIS STORY $400: Smile! "Historian with a Camera" is a 1955 biography of this famous Civil War photographer Mathew Brady
#3722, aired 2000-11-07CLEO POTPOURRIO $400: A 1989 biography dubbed this singer-dancer "Jazz Cleopatra" Josephine Baker
#3693, aired 2000-09-27LEGENDS OF BASEBALL $200: In 1950, 3 years after he entered the major leagues, he played himself in his own movie biography Jackie Robinson
#3685, aired 2000-09-15PICK ME, PICASSO $400: This political pundit seen here wrote the biography "Picasso: Creator and Destroyer" Arianna Huffington
#3652, aired 2000-06-20BEFORE & AFTER $1000: Old West outlaw who wrote a biography of Dr. Johnson Jesse James Boswell
#3635, aired 2000-05-26NONFICTION $100: David McCullough won a 1993 Pulitzer for his biography of this Missouri-born president Harry S. Truman
#3597, aired 2000-04-04M.C.s $1000: It wasn't an impossible mission for him to become host of A&E's "Biography" Peter Graves
#3590, aired 2000-03-24AUTHORS $100: In 1852 this "Scarlet Letter" author wrote a campaign biography for his friend Franklin Pierce Nathaniel Hawthorne
#3584, aired 2000-03-16THE JIMMY STEWART FILM FESTIVAL $800: Jimmy convincingly played this popular bandleader in a sentimental 1954 musical biography Glenn Miller
#3539, aired 2000-01-13LEADING LADIES $1,500 (Daily Double): "As Time Goes By" is a biography of this leading lady Ingrid Bergman
#3513, aired 1999-12-08THE CINEMA $400: The music of Ritchie Valens was performed by Los Lobos in this 1987 biography of the rock star La Bamba
#3482, aired 1999-10-26BIOGRAPHIES $200: Noel Riley Fitch cooked up a fine biography of this "French Chef" called "Appetite for Life" Julia Child
#3482, aired 1999-10-26BIOGRAPHIES $400: William Manchester kept this soldier from fading away in his biography "American Caesar" Douglas MacArthur
#3482, aired 1999-10-26BIOGRAPHIES $1000: As well as fiction, he wrote "Marilyn: A Biography" of Marilyn Monroe Norman Mailer
#3480, aired 1999-10-22EVERYBODY LOVES RAY $300: "X-Ray" is the 1994 "Unauthorized Biography" of this leader of the Kinks Ray Davies
#3472, aired 1999-10-125 MOVIES $1000: Danny Kaye starred in this 1959 biography of Red Nichols named for his backing group The Five Pennies
#3441, aired 1999-07-19SIMPLY SIMON $300: Starring Ben Kingsley, "Murderers Among Us" was a TV biography of this Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal
#3407, aired 1999-06-01BIOGRAPHIES $100: Merle Miller's 1980 book "Lyndon" is "An Oral Biography" of this man Lyndon B. Johnson
#3407, aired 1999-06-01BIOGRAPHIES $300: Louis Harlan's biography of this Tuskegee educator won a 1984 Pulitzer Prize Booker T. Washington
#3378, aired 1999-04-21OH, DADDY! $500: "Big Daddy from the Pedernales" is a biography of this Texan Lyndon B. Johnson
#3363, aired 1999-03-31GANGSTERS $400: His fateful July 22, 1934 night at Chicago's Biograph Theater might be featured on "Biography" John Dillinger
#3348, aired 1999-03-10MOVIE HODGEPODGE $600: Ella Fitzgerald played herself in "St. Louis Blues", the film biography of this composer W.C. Handy
#3345, aired 1999-03-05POLITICIANS $400: Current biography calls this Missouri congressman "well-groomed with razor-cut red hair" Richard Gephardt
#3332, aired 1999-02-16BIOGRAPHY $100: Born an Air Force brat in Germany in 1959, he won his first Wimbledon in 1981 & married Tatum O'Neal in 1986 John McEnroe
#3332, aired 1999-02-16BIOGRAPHY $200: Born Garri Weinstein in Azerbaijan in 1963, he was a Soviet chess champ at 13 & world champ at 22 Garry Kasparov
#3332, aired 1999-02-16BIOGRAPHY $300: Born in Liverpool, he sang a bit, produced Monty Python movies & later became a Wilbury George Harrison
#3332, aired 1999-02-16BIOGRAPHY $400: Born near Ancona in 1870, she was Italy's first woman to get a medical degree & taught kids in a new way Maria Montessori
#3332, aired 1999-02-16BIOGRAPHY $500: This 1990 Nobel Peace Prize winner was born near Stavropol & in 1970 became that city's Communist party secretary Mikhail Gorbachev
#3317, aired 1999-01-26BEFORE & AFTER $500: Movie biography about Shirley Muldowney that starred Pat & Vanna "Heart Like A Wheel Of Fortune"
#3313, aired 1999-01-201957 $200: In May, John F. Kennedy was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Biography for this book Profiles in Courage
#3298, aired 1998-12-30OSCAR! $400: One biography of this lyricist is called "Getting To Know Him" Oscar Hammerstein
#3248, aired 1998-10-21ROCK SINGERS $500: In 1989 he re-recorded 8 of his classic hits for the film biography "Great Balls Of Fire!" Jerry Lee Lewis
#3217, aired 1998-09-08MTV $400: In 1997 this "Singled Out" hostess published her auto biography, "Jen-X" Jenny McCarthy
#3153, aired 1998-04-22PHONY EXPRESS $800: He served time for fraud after writing a fake Howard Hughes biography Clifford Irving
#3073, aired 1997-12-31BOOKS BY THEIR COVERS $400: Jerry Lewis appears in & out of clown makeup on this biography with the same name as his 1983 film The King Of Comedy
#3060, aired 1997-12-12TRUE LIVES $200: "In Her Sister's Shadow" is a biography of Lee Radziwill, sister of this woman Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
#3059, aired 1997-12-11ACTRESSES $600: Current biography says her "Film career began & nearly ended, with the 1976 remake of 'King Kong'" Jessica Lange
#2981, aired 1997-07-14PULITZER PRIZE BIOGRAPHIES $400: Marquis James won for 1930 with "The Raven", a biography of this Texas freedom fighter Sam Houston
#2981, aired 1997-07-14PULITZER PRIZE BIOGRAPHIES $600: Walter Jackson Bate, not James Boswell, won in 1978 for a biography on this man Samuel Johnson
#2972, aired 1997-07-01LITERARY CHARACTERS $800: In 1970 C. Northcote Parkinson wrote a biography of this naval hero created by C.S. Forester Horatio Hornblower
#2966, aired 1997-06-23"BIO"LOGY $100: These 2 types of nonfiction book share a Pulitzer Prize category biography & autobiography
#2952, aired 1997-06-03MAGAZINES $1000: Flashy journal of cyberspace that shares its name with a biography of John Belushi Wired
#2945, aired 1997-05-231996 BIOGRAPHIES $400: Lee Daniels & Rachel Robinson's biography of this first black major leaguer features 301 photographs Jackie Robinson
#2945, aired 1997-05-231996 BIOGRAPHIES $600: Geoffrey Perret titled his biography of this WWII general "Old Soldiers Never Die" Douglas MacArthur
#2945, aired 1997-05-231996 BIOGRAPHIES $1000: In 1996 Peter Ackroyd pubilshed a biography of this poet who wrote "Songs of Innocence" in 1789 William Blake
#2892, aired 1997-03-11WOMEN AUTHORS $500 (Daily Double): "The Exile" was her acclaimed biography of her missionary mother, Caroline Stulting Sydenstricker Pearl Buck
#2886, aired 1997-03-03SOUL & FUNK MUSIC $500: David Ritz' "Divided Soul" is a biography of this "Sexual Healing" singer Marvin Gaye
#2883, aired 1997-02-26BIOGRAPHIES $600: A 1928 biography on this religious figure was titled "Gotama The Man" Buddha
#2883, aired 1997-02-26BIOGRAPHIES $800: In 1978 Bob Thomas wrote "Joan Crawford: A Biography" & Christina Crawford wrote this "Mommie Dearest"
#2881, aired 1997-02-24CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $800: This "The Cradle Will Fall" author's first book was a biography of George Washington Mary Higgins Clark
#2860, aired 1997-01-24TELEVISION $300: This cable network's "Biography" won a 1995 Cableace Award for best documentary series A&E (Arts & Entertainment Network)
#2860, aired 1997-01-24AUTHORS $400: Douglas Southall Freeman won a Pulitzer Prize for his 4-volume biography of this Confederate general Robert E. Lee
#2818, aired 1996-11-27BIOGRAPHIES $100: "Rare Air" is a photo biography of this basketball star Michael Jordan
#2818, aired 1996-11-27BIOGRAPHIES $200: This actor-director is the subject of David Thomson's biography "Rosebud" Orson Welles
#2818, aired 1996-11-27BIOGRAPHIES $500: Known for his "Compleat Angler", he also wrote a biography of his friend, writer John Donne Izaak Walton
#2815, aired 1996-11-22BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: In 1831 this artist & naturalist began to write "The Ornithological Biography" John James Audubon
#2765, aired 1996-09-13HISTORY $400: Around 200 A.D., Soranus wrote the earliest known biography of this physician Hippocrates
#2764, aired 1996-09-12BIOGRAPHIES $600: Joe McGinniss' controversial 1993 biography "The Last Brother" tells of this man Edward Kennedy
#2764, aired 1996-09-12BIOGRAPHIES $800: This author of "The Lottery" was the subject of the biography "Raising Demons" Shirley Jackson
#2764, aired 1996-09-12BIOGRAPHIES $1,000 (Daily Double): 2-time Nobel Prize winner who's the subject of a biography subtitled "A Life in Science & Politics" Linus Pauling
#2759, aired 1996-09-05POTPOURRI $800: Commonly used title of clergyman Mason Weems, known for his 1800 biography of George Washington Parson
#2756, aired 1996-09-02NONFICTION $400: This family of anthropologists is the subject of the biography "Ancestral Passions" the Leakeys
#2750, aired 1996-07-121885 $1000: In 1885 this "Old Ironsides" poet published a biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson Oliver Wendell Holmes
#2724, aired 1996-06-06BIOGRAPHIES $400: A 1942 biography of this man was subtitled "Dynamite King, Architect of Peace" (Alfred) Nobel
#2724, aired 1996-06-06BIOGRAPHIES $1000: Carl Sandburg's biography of Abraham Lincoln consists of "The War Years" & this earlier period the Prairie Years
#2724, aired 1996-06-06BIOGRAPHIES $2,000 (Daily Double): It was the title of Bob Woodward's bestselling biography of John Belushi Wired
#2700, aired 1996-05-03BIOGRAPHIES $400: "The Happiest Man Alive" is a biography of this author of "Tropic of Cancer" Henry Miller
#2700, aired 1996-05-03BIOGRAPHIES $600: He wrote a biography of Earl Warren as well as biographical novels like "The Agony and the Ecstasy" Irving Stone
#2697, aired 1996-04-30"BLUE" MOVIES $100: Richard Pryor played piano man in this show biz biography, Diana Ross' film debut Lady Sings the Blues
#2677, aired 1996-04-02NATURALISTS $400: He & William MacGillivray wrote "The Ornithological Biography" to go with his "Birds of America" John James Audubon
#2673, aired 1996-03-27WOMEN $200: This author wrote a biography of actor-manager Gerald Du Maurier, her father Daphne Du Maurier
#2652, aired 1996-02-27WOMEN AUTHORS $200: Current Biography says she called her creation the vampire Lestat "the man I would love to be" Anne Rice
#2642, aired 1996-02-13BIOGRAPHIES $200: Noel B. Gerson called his biography of this marquis "Statue in Search of a Pedestal" the Marquis de Lafayette
#2642, aired 1996-02-13BIOGRAPHIES $300: "The Raven" is Marquis James' biography of this president of the Republic of Texas Sam Houston
#2642, aired 1996-02-13BIOGRAPHIES $500: "Jack's book" is an oral biography of this beat generation writer (Jack) Kerouac
#2637, aired 1996-02-06SAINTS $500: The principal source of information about this saint is a biography by the Welsh scholar Rhygyfarch (St.) David
#2607, aired 1995-12-26FIRST LADIES $200: In 1954 Alden Hatch published a biography of her titled "Red Carpet for Mamie" Mamie Eisenhower
#2599, aired 1995-12-14CLUBS $400: The Literary Club was founded in the 1760s by Sir Joshua Reynolds & this subject of a Boswell biography (Samuel) Johnson
#2569, aired 1995-11-02BIOGRAPHIES $200: Norman Mailer's biography of this screen goddess was published in 1973 & expanded in 1975 Marilyn Monroe
#2569, aired 1995-11-02BIOGRAPHIES $1,300 (Daily Double): Wilfrid Sheed's biography of this author of "The Women" was published in 1982 Clare Boothe Luce
#2544, aired 1995-09-28BIOGRAPHIES $800: "American Caesar" is William Manchester's 1978 biography of this WWII & Korean War general MacArthur
#2544, aired 1995-09-28BIOGRAPHIES $1000: Max Brod is remembered for his biography of this "Metamorphosis" writer, his friend (Franz) Kafka
#2526, aired 1995-09-04POETRY $1000: Izaak Walton wrote a moving but inaccurate biography of this "For Whom the Bell Tolls" poet John Donne
#2523, aired 1995-07-19THE ROYAL FAMILY $200: Current Biography says that as a child this princess royal "preferred her hobbyhorse to dolls" Princess Anne
#2512, aired 1995-07-04WOMEN AUTHORS $200: Anne Edwards' biography of this author is titled "Road to Tara" Margaret Mitchell
#2499, aired 1995-06-15ALEXANDER THE GREAT $1,000 (Daily Double): In "Parallel Lives", this Greek paired Alexander's biography with Julius Caesar's Plutarch
#2441, aired 1995-03-27FAMOUS WOMEN $500: A biography of this "maternal" labor organizer is subtitled "The Miner's Angel" Mother Jones
#2422, aired 1995-02-28WOMEN OF NOTE $200: Current biography says that conductor Sarah Caldwell "put" this Mass. capital "on the operatic map" Boston
#2421, aired 1995-02-27FILMS OF THE '70s $400: David Carradine starred in "Bound for Glory", a 1976 biography of this folk singer Woody Guthrie
#2415, aired 1995-02-17BIOGRAPHIES $200: Einhard's 9th century biography of this king was called "Vita Karoli Magni" Charlemagne
#2415, aired 1995-02-17BIOGRAPHIES $400: J.W.D. Trythall's "El Caudillo" was a political biography of this 20th century Spanish leader (Francisco) Franco
#2393, aired 1995-01-18NONFICTION $600: Born in 1860, she's the subject of a 1988 biography for children, "Who's That Girl With The Gun?" Annie Oakley
#2372, aired 1994-12-20EUROPEAN RULERS $800: Current Biography said this country's King Carl XVI Gustaf enjoys driving a tractor for relaxation Sweden
#2365, aired 1994-12-09BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ANIMALS $100: A biography of this finicky 9-Lives star was published in 1974 Morris the Cat
#2333, aired 1994-10-26FAMOUS NAMES $1000: A&E ran its biography of this performer March 15, 1994, a Tuesday, in his old time slot, 8 P.M. EST Milton Berle
#2326, aired 1994-10-17THE MOVIES $200: "Man of Conquest" was a 1939 biography of this president of Texas Sam Houston
#2319, aired 1994-10-06AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: "Adagio Dancer", a brief biography of Rudolph Valentino, appears in this John Dos Passos trilogy the U.S.A. Trilogy
#2270, aired 1994-06-17BIOGRAPHIES $200: "Call Her Miss Ross" is a tell-all biography of this singer Diana Ross
#2270, aired 1994-06-17BIOGRAPHIES $400: He's the subject of a 1955 biography subtitled "Historian with a Camera" Mathew Brady
#2270, aired 1994-06-17BIOGRAPHIES $1000: "Rebel Senator" is a 1966 biography of this South Carolina politician (Strom) Thurmond
#2263, aired 1994-06-08THE MOVIES $800: Joseph Ruttenberg's cinematography for "The Great Waltz", the film biography of this composer, won a 1938 Oscar Strauss
#2258, aired 1994-06-01BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: This Scottish queen was the subject of Antonia Fraser's first biography Mary (Queen of Scots)
#2252, aired 1994-05-24BIOGRAPHIES $200: He's the subject of the 1961 biography "First American Into Space" Alan Shepard
#2252, aired 1994-05-24BIOGRAPHIES $800: In 1993 David McCullough won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of this president Truman
#2252, aired 1994-05-24BIOGRAPHIES $1,000 (Daily Double): He's the subject of the recent biography "Swing, Swing, Swing" Benny Goodman
#2210, aired 1994-03-25WOMEN AUTHORS $200: In addition to mysteries, this presidential daughter has written a biography of her mother, Bess Margaret Truman
#2195, aired 1994-03-041980s FILMS $400: "Coal Miner's Daughter" was the film biography of this country music star Loretta Lynn
#2188, aired 1994-02-23WOMEN AUTHORS $800: She wrote "The Exile", a biography of her missionary mother, 5 years after "The Good Earth" Pearl Buck
#2177, aired 1994-02-08AROUND THE PUBLISHING HOUSE $300: It's the description that accompanies a photo the caption
#2174, aired 1994-02-03MUSIC TRIVIA $400: This onetime drummer with Benny Goodman was portrayed by Sal Mineo in a 1959 film biography Gene Krupa
#2160, aired 1994-01-14NONFICTION $800: Leon Edel won a 1963 Pulitzer for Volumes II & III of his biography of this "Turn of the Screw" author Henry James
#2147, aired 1993-12-28COMPOSERS $200: The 1945 film "Rhapsody in Blue" is a biography of this composer (George) Gershwin
#2145, aired 1993-12-24BOOKS ON AUDIOTAPE $400: Maria Riva reads her own intimate biography of this late German actress, her mother Marlene Dietrich
#2124, aired 1993-11-25BIOGRAPHIES $200: Christopher Anderson gives readers "Satisfaction" with his recent biography of this Rolling Stone Mick Jagger
#2124, aired 1993-11-25BIOGRAPHIES $600: She was the subject of a 1979 biography subtitled "Waxmaker Extraordinary" Madame Tussaud
#2124, aired 1993-11-25BIOGRAPHIES $2,000 (Daily Double): A 1791 book on the life of this Englishman is often considered the greatest biography ever written Samuel Johnson
#2100, aired 1993-10-22MODERN NOVELS $200: Gore Vidal's "Julian" is a fictional biography of Flavius Claudius Julianus, emperor of this Rome
#2098, aired 1993-10-20WOMEN AUTHORS $600: This author of "The Color Purple" also wrote a children's biography of Langston Hughes Alice Walker
#2069, aired 1993-09-09BIOGRAPHIES $200: "Loss of Eden" is a dual biography about this aviator & his wife Anne & their 45 years together (Charles) Lindbergh
#2069, aired 1993-09-09BIOGRAPHIES $600: Published in 1927, "The Girl in White Armor" is a biography of this saint Joan of Arc
#2069, aired 1993-09-09BIOGRAPHIES $1000: "Sassy" is a recent biography of this female jazz singer who died in 1990 Sarah Vaughan
#2061, aired 1993-07-19LITERARY BIOGRAPHIES $400: This author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was the subject of a 1941 biography "Crusader in Crinoline" (Harriet Beecher) Stowe
#2061, aired 1993-07-19LITERARY BIOGRAPHIES $700 (Daily Double): Max Brod was responsible for the publication of this author's "The Trial" & also wrote a biography of him Kafka
#2061, aired 1993-07-19LITERARY BIOGRAPHIES $1000: Quentin Bell wasn't "afraid of" this author, his aunt; he published a biography of her in 1972 Virginia Woolf
#2046, aired 1993-06-28POETS & POETRY $400: This poet's birthplace in Galesburg, Ill. displays a first edition of his Lincoln biography Sandburg
#2030, aired 1993-06-04AUTHORS $800: "Fighting Angel" was this author's 1936 biography of her father, a missionary in China Pearl Buck
#2028, aired 1993-06-02HISTORIC NAMES $600: Much of what we know about this king comes from a 9th c. biography, the "Vita Karoli Magni" Charlemagne
#2027, aired 1993-06-01AUTHORS $800: This British mystery writer also wrote a biography of jockey Lester Piggott Dick Francis
#2005, aired 1993-04-30AUTHORS $800: One biography of this journalist & critic is subtitled "Iconoclast from Baltimore" H.L. Mencken
#2002, aired 1993-04-27"SWEET" THINGS $300: In this 1985 film biography, Jessica Lange starred as country singer Patsy Cline Sweet Dreams
#1992, aired 1993-04-13LYRICISTS $800: In the 1948 film biography "Words and Music", Mickey Rooney portrayed this partner of Richard Rodgers (Lorenz) Hart
#1969, aired 1993-03-11BIOGRAPHIES $400: Kitty Kelley titled her unauthorized biography of this entertainer "His Way" Frank Sinatra
#1969, aired 1993-03-11BIOGRAPHIES $600: This host of "Cosmos" was the subject of a 1987 biography subtitled "Superstar Scientist" (Carl) Sagan
#1969, aired 1993-03-11BIOGRAPHIES $800: "Henry & Clare", a biography by Ralph G. Martin, is "An Intimate Portrait" of this couple the Luces
#1961, aired 1993-03-01BIOGRAPHIES $300: A double biography of Aaron Burr & this man is subtitled "Their Lives, Their Times, Their Duel" Hamilton
#1961, aired 1993-03-01BIOGRAPHIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Albert Schweitzer, an authority on this Baroque composer, published a biography of him in 1905 Johann Sebastian Bach
#1955, aired 1993-02-19BIOGRAPHIES $200: Not surprisingly, you can read all about this "Peanuts" creator in a biography titled "Good Grief" Schulz
#1955, aired 1993-02-19BIOGRAPHIES $400: He's the subject of a 1992 biography subtitled "The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist" (Charles) Darwin
#1955, aired 1993-02-19BIOGRAPHIES $600: "An American Rhapsody" is a 1988 biography of this American composer Gershwin
#1955, aired 1993-02-19BIOGRAPHIES $800: "The Polio Man", a 1962 biography, tells of this doctor who developed the first polio vaccine (Jonas) Salk
#1955, aired 1993-02-19BIOGRAPHIES $1000: Merle Miller's book "Plain Speaking" is "an Oral Biography of" this 33rd president Harry Truman
#1940, aired 1993-01-29AMERICAN NOVELISTS $800: Arthur Mizener's 1951 work "The Far Side of Paradise" is a biography of this author F. Scott Fitzgerald
#1925, aired 1993-01-08IN THE BOOKSTORE $100: "Mother India" is a "political biography of" this late prime minister Indira Gandhi
#1909, aired 1992-12-17BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: Graham Jenkins' 1988 biography of this Welsh actor is subtitled "My Brother" Richard Burton
#1908, aired 1992-12-16PRESIDENTS $800: "Profiles in Courage" won JFK the 1957 Pulitzer Prize in this category Biography
#1892, aired 1992-11-24NOTABLE NAMES $200: "Queen of Ice Queen of Shadows" is a biography of this late Olympic athlete & screen star Sonja Henie
#1883, aired 1992-11-11BIOGRAPHIES $200: "Equal Justice" is an aptly-titled biography of this first woman to sit on the Supreme Court Sandra Day O' Connor
#1883, aired 1992-11-11BIOGRAPHIES $1000: "Bitter Fame", a controversial 1989 biography, deals with this poet, her suffering & breakdown Sylvia Plath
#1859, aired 1992-10-08FAMOUS ACTORS $300: A biography of this actor was entitled "Heart to Heart", not "Hart to Hart", H-A-R-T Robert Wagner
#1831, aired 1992-07-13SHOW BIZ BIOGRAPHIES $300: "A Leap Into Madness" is Peter Ostwald's biography of this late Russian ballet star Nijinsky
#1831, aired 1992-07-13SHOW BIZ BIOGRAPHIES $400: One biography of this silent film comedian is subtitled "The Man on the Clock" Harold Lloyd
#1829, aired 1992-07-09NONFICTION $400: "In the Eye of the Storm" is a biography of this Desert Storm general Schwarzkopf
#1792, aired 1992-05-19BIOGRAPHIES $100: An unauthorized biography of this radio personality is entitled "The Man from Lake Wobegon" Garrison Keillor
#1792, aired 1992-05-19BIOGRAPHIES $400: The subtitle of Dan Kurzman's 1983 biography of this 1st Israeli prime minister is "Prophet of Fire" David Ben-Gurion
#1792, aired 1992-05-19BIOGRAPHIES $500: "The Lone Star" is James Reston Jr.'s biography of this former Texas governor & U.S. Sec'y of the Treasury (John) Connally
#1783, aired 1992-05-06BIOGRAPHIES $400: "Still Crazy After All These Years" is a biography of this former singing partner of Art Garfunkel Paul Simon
#1783, aired 1992-05-06BIOGRAPHIES $800: "Lincoln of Our Literature" is the apt subtitle of a biography of this Abraham Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg
#1774, aired 1992-04-23NONFICTION $400: Coinciding with the release of "Scarlett" was a new biography of this author titled "Southern Daughter" (Margaret) Mitchell
#1771, aired 1992-04-20PEOPLE $500: "In All His Glory" is a biography of this "Legendary" CBS "Tycoon and His Brilliant Circle" William Paley
#1771, aired 1992-04-20BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: Bob Thomas' 1983 biography "Golden Boy" was "The Untold Story of" this actor William Holden
#1736, aired 1992-03-02NONFICTION $600: "Angel of the Battlefield" by Ishbel Ross is a biography of this American Red Cross founder Clara Barton
#1656, aired 1991-11-11DAN QUAYLE $300: "Current Biography" claims Quayle's car once sported "AuH2O" plates, boosting this candidate Barry Goldwater
#1653, aired 1991-11-06JAZZ $600: The 1966 biography of this jazz pianist was titled "Ain't Misbehavin'" Fats Waller
#1630, aired 1991-10-04BIOGRAPHIES $100: Anne Edwards' biography of this former child star is called "American Princess" Shirley Temple
#1630, aired 1991-10-04BIOGRAPHIES $200: A biography subtitled "Patriot and Traitor" tells why he turned to the British cause Benedict Arnold
#1630, aired 1991-10-04BIOGRAPHIES $300: "Mr. Lincoln's Cameraman" is a biography of this photographer Mathew Brady
#1630, aired 1991-10-04BIOGRAPHIES $500: This network anchorwoman who died in 1983 is the subject of a biography called "Golden Girl" Jessica Savitch
#1608, aired 1991-09-04GUINNESS RECORDS $600: The longest biography in publishing history is that of this prime minister, by his son, Randall (Winston) Churchill
#1595, aired 1991-07-05PEOPLE $400: "If This Was Happiness" is Barbara Leaming's biography of this "Love Goddess" of the 1940s Rita Hayworth
#1573, aired 1991-06-05CELEBRITY BOOKS $100: "Call Her Miss Ross" is an unauthorized biography of this woman Diana Ross
#1571, aired 1991-06-03THE 1970's $800: In 1972 "Life" declared his biography of Howard Hughes a hoax & refused to publish excerpts Clifford Irving
#1536, aired 1991-04-15AUTHORS $800: This author of "The Bonfire of the Vanities" started writing a biography of Napoleon when was 9 Thomas Wolfe
#1529, aired 1991-04-04NONFICTION $200: D. S. Freeman won a 1935 Pulitzer Prize for his 4-volume biography of this Confederate general Lee
#1507, aired 1991-03-05CELEBRITY BIOGRAPHIES $300: Chapter titles in a biography of this director include "The Informer", "They Were Expendable" & "Stagecoach" John Ford
#1476, aired 1991-01-21NONFICTION $400: Some consider James Boswell's biography of this author to be the greatest in the English language Samuel Johnson
#1431, aired 1990-11-19BIOGRAPHIES $600: "You Might As Well Live" is a biography of this Round Table wit who used the line in one of her poems Dorothy Parker
#1431, aired 1990-11-19BIOGRAPHIES $1000: "I Got Rhythm" is a biography of this brassy Broadway belter Ethel Merman
#1424, aired 1990-11-08POETRY $400: This Illinois poet wrote what many consider to be the definitive biography of Abraham Lincoln Carl Sandburg
#1419, aired 1990-11-01WOMEN AUTHORS $200: Winston Churchill wrote the preface to her biography of her brother Ronald Cartland Barbara Cartland
#1409, aired 1990-10-18CELEBRITY BOOKS $500: "Your Cheatin' Heart" has been called the consummate biography of this singer Hank Williams
#1393, aired 1990-09-26CELEBRITY BOOKS $400: "Naked at the Feast" is a biography of this Black dancer who took Paris by storm in the '20s Josephine Baker
#1370, aired 1990-07-13MOVIE TRIVIA $300: Robert Cremer's biography of this horror star was subtitled "The Man Behind the Cape" Bela Lugosi
#1369, aired 1990-07-12REPUBLICANS $600: James Patterson's 1973 biography of this Ohio senator was entitled "Mr. Republican" Taft
#1368, aired 1990-07-11CELEBRITY BOOKS $400: Gene Fowler's biography of this Barrymore is "Good Night Sweet Prince" John Barrymore
#1343, aired 1990-06-06IN THE BOOKSTORE $200: "The Queen of Mean" is an unauthorized biography of this hotel queen (Leona) Helmsley
#1332, aired 1990-05-22BIOGRAPHIES $200: One biography of this author was called "The Man Who Wrote Dracula", which lacks a certain bite Bram Stoker
#1332, aired 1990-05-22BIOGRAPHIES $400: "Madame Sarah" is Cornelia Otis Skinner's biography of this woman Sarah Bernhardt
#1332, aired 1990-05-22BIOGRAPHIES $5,000 (Daily Double): He was a biographer himself, but he's best known as the subject of a 1791 biography Samuel Johnson
#1327, aired 1990-05-15ODDS & ENDS $300: He wrote a biography of his grandfather, the artist Ford Madox Brown Ford Madox Ford
#1324, aired 1990-05-10LITERARY RELATIVES $1000: Author of "The House of the Seven Gables", his son Julian published a biography of him in 1884 Nathaniel Hawthorne
#1269, aired 1990-02-22BOOKS $500: In the title of Lytton Strachey's most famous biography, this adjective precedes "Victorians" Eminent
#1252, aired 1990-01-30PUBLISHING $300: Deborah Davis' 1979 book "Katherine The Great" was a biography of this Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham
#1245, aired 1990-01-19BEST SELLERS $200: "A Woman Named Jackie" is C. David Hermann's biography of this woman Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
#1222, aired 1989-12-19CELEBRITIES $100: "Time" described "King of the Night" as "a scandal-mongering biography" of this talk show host Johnny Carson
#1192, aired 1989-11-07STARTS WITH "B" $400: Oscar Wilde said, "Every great man has his disciples, & it is always Judas who writes" this Biography
#1177, aired 1989-10-17COMPOSERS $800: "Till the Clouds Roll By", the film biography of this composer, includes scenes from "Show Boat" Jerome Kern
#1142, aired 1989-07-18POETS $1000: American poet Amy Lowell wrote a biography of this English poet known for his odes John Keats
#1141, aired 1989-07-17NEWSPAPERS $600: Title of W. A. Swanberg's 1961 biography of a publisher of the San Francisco Examiner Citizen Hearst
#1128, aired 1989-06-28CELEBRITY BOOKS $100: James Bacon called his biography of this TV star "How Sweet It Is" Jackie Gleason
#1128, aired 1989-06-28CELEBRITY BOOKS $300: Late "West Side Story" star whose sister Lana wrote her biography Natalie Wood
#1116, aired 1989-06-12AUTHORS $300: Shortly before his death, Washington Irving completed a 5-volume biography of this president Washington
#1115, aired 1989-06-09"LAST" $1000: Completes the title of the unauthorized biography of G. Vanderbilt's childhood "Little Gloria..." Little Gloria...Happy at Last
#1074, aired 1989-04-13BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: His 1961 book "The Agony & the Ecstasy" was a fictionalized biography of Michelangelo Irving Stone
#1063, aired 1989-03-29AMERICAN AUTHORS $300: William Manchester's "The Last Lion" is the 2nd volume of a biography of this Englishman (Winston) Churchill
#1016, aired 1989-01-23SHOW BIZ BIOGRAPHIES $500: "Mrs. Howard Hughes" is a biography of this "Viva Zapata!" co-star, not Terry Moore Jean Peters
#1015, aired 1989-01-2020th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $400: 1987 Current Biography listed this helicopter pilot's address as "Buckingham Palace, London SW 1, England" Prince Andrew (Duke of York)
#985, aired 1988-12-09BOOKS $1000: One biography of this woman is entitled "The Lonely Hunter" Carson McCullers
#979, aired 1988-12-01SINGERS $300: Current Biography called him the most famous British singer-drummer since Ringo Starr Phil Collins
#967, aired 1988-11-15DANCERS $1000: This ballerina wrote a biography of George Balanchine after taking off her "red shoes" Moira Shearer
#958, aired 1988-11-02ENGLISH LIT $200: In 1772 James Boswell told this author he intended to write his biography Doctor Samuel Johnson
#948, aired 1988-10-19AUTHORS $800: "Franny & Zooey" author who got an injunction in 1986 against the unauthorized use of his letters in a biography J.D. Salinger
#942, aired 1988-10-11BIOGRAPHIES $600: "Notes on a Cowardly Lion" Bert Lahr
#931, aired 1988-09-26AUTHORS $300: The 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Biography went to "Look Homeward: A Life of" this man Thomas Wolfe
#898, aired 1988-06-29"MAN"LY MOVIES $300: Film biography of silent screen star Lon Chaney Man of a Thousand Faces
#878, aired 1988-06-01CELEBRITY AUTHORS $600: This blonde's biography was called "Living With the Kennedys" Joan Kennedy
#878, aired 1988-06-01CELEBRITY AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): Mystery novelist who turned to non-fiction with a 1986 biography of Bess Truman Margaret Truman
#877, aired 1988-05-31WRITERS $600 (Daily Double): In 1807, Chief Justice John Marshall finished his 5-volume biography of this President George Washington
#865, aired 1988-05-13SINGERS $200: One biography of this Ziegfeld star is appropriately titled "the Fabulous Fanny" Fanny Brice
#808, aired 1988-02-24AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Paul Fatout's biography of this writer was called, "The Devil's Lexicographer" Ambrose Bierce
#806, aired 1988-02-22CELEBRITIES IN PRINT $600: George Will called this "auto"biography "the worst book since the invention of movable type" Iacocca
#806, aired 1988-02-22CELEBRITIES IN PRINT $800: Her biography "Lovely Me" claims she was a "love machine" who had affairs with Eddie Cantor & Georgie Jessel Jacqueline Susann
#799, aired 1988-02-11THE PULITZER PRIZE $200: Joseph P. Lash won for his biography of this historical couple, based on Eleanor's private papers The Roosevelts (Eleanor & Franklin)
#524, aired 1986-12-11THE SENATE $600: Longtime foe of gov't waste, his congressional directory biography reads it its entirety, "Wisconsin" Proxmire
#512, aired 1986-11-25OPERA $1000: General manager of the Met from 1950-72, his biography is titled "5000 Nights at the Opera" Rudolf Bing
#484, aired 1986-10-16AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: He penned a campaign biography for Franklin Pierce and pinned "The Scarlet Letter" on Hester Prynne (Nathaniel) Hawthorne
#476, aired 1986-10-06OPERA $1000: A biography of this composer is titled "Monsieur Butterfly" Puccini
#460, aired 1986-09-12"DR." MOVIES $1000: Film biography of the man who conquered syphilis, starring Edward G. Robinson without a gun Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
#414, aired 1986-04-10BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $800: In Japan alone, Lee Iacocca has sold 500,000 copies of this autobiography
#394, aired 1986-03-13"CLARK"s $200: Both his auto-biography & syndicated radio show are called "Rock, Roll & Remember" Dick Clark
#185, aired 1985-05-24"DO"s & "DON'T"s $300: Title of '67 Bob Dylan documentary & '81 movie biography of baseball's "Satchel" Paige Don't Look Back
#159, aired 1985-04-18COUNTRY MUSIC $100: His '64 film biography was called "Your Cheatin' Heart" Hank Williams
#157, aired 1985-04-16BEST PICTURES $400: Though they never met, the writers won a screenplay Oscar for this 1970 WWII military biography Patton

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#8665, aired 2022-06-1719th CENTURY CONTEMPORARIES: Congratulating her on the 1869 release of her biography, Frederick Douglass wrote, "I have wrought in the day--you in the night" Harriet Tubman
#8372, aired 2021-04-0620th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY: A biography of him: "In a sweltering, dimly lit cabin, its window shades closed... his first presidential decisions were made" Lyndon Johnson
#7631, aired 2017-11-13VICE PRESIDENTS: A biography of this 19th century VP traces his family to a German town made famous in a folk tale about children Hannibal Hamlin
#7567, aired 2017-07-04CLASSIC CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: A 2016 biography of a children's author is titled "In the Great Green Room", a line from this classic book Goodnight Moon
#7532, aired 2017-05-16SCULPTURE: The book "From Marble to Flesh" is a biography of this statue that was created from 1501 to 1504 David
#7045, aired 2015-04-10RUSSIANS: The subtitle of a biography about this early 20th century man is "The Saint Who Sinned" Rasputin
#6485, aired 2012-11-23BIOGRAPHIES ABOUT AUTHORS: Chapters in a biography on this author include "Declaring His Genius" and "A Late Victorian Love Affair" Oscar Wilde
#6384, aired 2012-05-24BIOGRAPHIES: "The Man who Invented the Twentieth Century" is a biography of this scientist born in the Balkans Nikola Tesla
#6320, aired 2012-02-24LITERARY BIOGRAPHIES: Quoting a famous line of his, a 2011 biography of this man was titled "And So It Goes" Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
#6267, aired 2011-12-1320th CENTURY LITERATURE: A 50th anniversary edition of this fictionalized biography featured the painting seen here on its cover Lust for Life
#5762, aired 2009-10-06BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS: One critic called Peter Martin's book about him "the best biography of the greatest biographer in the English language" James Boswell
#5677, aired 2009-04-21BOOKS ABOUT ACTORS: Stefan Kanfer's 2008 biography of this star is titled "Somebody", a nod to one of his most famous lines Marlon Brando
#5646, aired 2009-03-09HISTORIC PEOPLE: The life story of this man who died in 1801 was chronicled in an A&E biography DVD titled "Triumph and Treason" Benedict Arnold
#5595, aired 2008-12-26HISTORIC NAMES: A recent biography of this 13th century man is subtitled "From Venice to Xanadu" Marco Polo
#5096, aired 2006-11-06AUTHORS: John Dryden in 1683 was the first to use the term "biography"--appropriately, while writing about this Greek Plutarch
#5002, aired 2006-05-16SCIENTISTS: "American Prometheus" is a biography of this physicist who died in 1967 J. Robert Oppenheimer
#4858, aired 2005-10-26WOMEN IN POLITICS: Elected in 1916, she was the subject of a 1995 biography called "Bright Star in the Big Sky" Jeannette Rankin
#4190, aired 2002-11-15BIOGRAPHIES: A 2001 biography of this man is subtitled "Pioneer of the Mind" Sigmund Freud
#3896, aired 2001-07-09BOOKS: The accompanying text to this book was published separately as "Ornithological Biography" in the 1830s Birds of America
#3749, aired 2000-12-14BIOGRAPHIES: Carl Sandburg co-wrote a 1932 biography of this woman, "Wife and Widow" Mary Todd Lincoln
#3571, aired 2000-02-281999 BOOKS: This controversial biography of a famous American has a foreign nationality as its title "Dutch" (presidential biography of Ronald Reagan by Edmund Morris)
#3380, aired 1999-04-23THE NOBEL PRIZE: This Peace Prize winner financed his medical studies partly through royalties from his Bach biography Dr. Albert Schweitzer
#3144, aired 1998-04-09CABLE TV: Spawning a web site, videos & a magazine, this A&E series has taken on a life of its own Biography
#3115, aired 1998-02-27TELEVISION BIOGRAPHIES: The biography of this man on PBS' "American Masters" was subtitled "Submitted for Your Approval" Rod Serling
#1586, aired 1991-06-24AMERICAN AUTHORS: Named for a U.S. president, this author wrote a 5-volume biography of that president in the 1850s Washington Irving
#1145, aired 1989-07-21AMERICAN POETS: He wrote a biography that won Pulitzer Prize for history in 1940 & won for his poetry in 1951 Carl Sandburg

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