| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: A picture book from 2013 tells of "The Day" these drawing implements "Quit"; blue is tired of only being used on bodies of water Crayons |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | BLUE BOOKS $400: In "The Blue and the Gray" by John Leekley, the Geysers & the Hales are caught up in this war the U.S. Civil War |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | BLUE BOOKS $800: "The Blue Bird" by Madame d'Aulnoy is considered the source of this name used for the prince in "Cinderella" Charming |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | BLUE BOOKS $1200: The graphic novel "Blue is the Warmest Color" was originally published in this language French |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | BLUE BOOKS $1600: In this book Karana's Island looks like the title animal "lying on its side, with its tail pointing toward sunrise" The Island of the Blue Dolphins |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | BLUE BOOKS $2000: In "Pale Blue Dot" this late astronomer talks about humans in space Carl Sagan |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,500 (Daily Double): Hemingway's 1936 Esquire essay "On the Blue Water" formed the basis for this 1952 story The Old Man and the Sea |
| #6687, aired 2013-10-15 | TRAVEL BOOKS $400: In "Blue Latitudes", Tony Horwitz sailed on a replica of this English captain's ship to retrace his Pacific travels (Captain) Cook |
| #6343, aired 2012-03-28 | COLORFUL BOOKS $2,800 (Daily Double): Georgeanne Brennan wrote a cookbook that shares its title with this Dr. Seuss classic Green Eggs and Ham |
| #6064, aired 2011-01-13 | BLUE BOOKS $400: Appropriately, James Patterson followed up "Roses are Red" with this next Alex Cross mystery Violets are Blue |
| #6064, aired 2011-01-13 | BLUE BOOKS $800: In a classic children's book, a girl lives for years by herself on this title island Island of the Blue Dolphins |
| #6064, aired 2011-01-13 | BLUE BOOKS $1600: This gun-loving rocker has a "manifesto" called "Ted, White, and Blue" Ted Nugent |
| #6064, aired 2011-01-13 | BLUE BOOKS $2000: "A Pair of Blue Eyes" is one of this author's "Wessex novels" Thomas Hardy |
| #6064, aired 2011-01-13 | BLUE BOOKS $3,000 (Daily Double): This astronomer penned "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space" Carl Sagan |
| #5525, aired 2008-09-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: "Forever in" this color is Ann Brashares' third sequel to "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" blue |
| #4463, aired 2004-01-21 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: This tale for which Hemingway won a Pulitzer was a revision of his earlier story "On the Blue Water" The Old Man and the Sea |
| #4463, aired 2004-01-21 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: His Alex Cross thrillers include "Roses are Red" & "Violets are Blue" James Patterson |
| #4118, aired 2002-06-26 | HISTORIANS $800: His many books include "Citizen Soldiers", "Undaunted Courage" & 2001's "The Wild Blue" Stephen Ambrose |
| #3898, aired 2001-07-11 | TUBE TEST $1000: We have to cop to the fact he created "Police Story"; "The Blue Knight" was based on one of his books Joseph Wambaugh |
| #3722, aired 2000-11-07 | THE LIBRARY $1000: "Blue at the Mizzen" is the 20th of his books detailing the naval career of Jack Aubrey Patrick O'Brian |
| #3297, aired 1998-12-29 | BOOKS BY CELEBRITIES $800: Not surprisingly, the hero of this TV personality's "Murder Under Blue Skies" is a former weatherman Willard Scott |
| #3015, aired 1997-10-10 | BOOKS ABOUT TV SHOWS $400: In "True Blue" David Milch & Bill Clark relate true-life incidents that inspired this cop show NYPD Blue |
| #1393, aired 1990-09-26 | CELEBRITY BOOKS $100: This author of "Frank Sinatra My Father" is Ol' Blue Eyes' firstborn child Nancy Sinatra |
| #1273, aired 1990-02-28 | REFERENCE BOOKS $800: Webster's Elementary Spelling Book was better known by this more colorful name "The Blue-Back Speller" |
| #1045, aired 1989-03-03 | BOOKS $400: If you plan to sell a Maserati or Ferrari, you won't find either car's values in this standard directory Kelley Blue Book |
| #898, aired 1988-06-29 | COMIC BOOKS $100: We told you last year he changed his red & blue webbed costume for a b&w one, well, he's switched back Spider-Man |
| #748, aired 1987-12-02 | TESTS $300: When taking college exams, you often write your answers in "books" with this color cover blue |
| #690, aired 1987-09-11 | "GUIDE" $400: While the Red Guides show places to eat & stay, these Michelin books show places to see the Green Guides |
| #575, aired 1987-02-20 | COMIC BOOKS $400: The destruction of his red & blue suit has left him with just an all-black-with-white-arachnid model Spider-Man |
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