| #6758, aired 2014-01-22 | LITERATURE CATS WOULD LOVE $200: There are 4 servings of seafood in this Dr. Seuss title, & kitty doesn't mind at all One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish |
| #6190, aired 2011-07-08 | QUOTATIONS IN LITERATURE $400: Hans Christian Andersen story in which you'll read, "Heaven knows what was in that bed... I am black and blue!" "The Princess and the Pea" |
| #6126, aired 2011-04-11 | BLUE LITERATURE $400: In this detective's 1892 "Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", the carbuncle was a blue garnet hidden in a goose Sherlock Holmes |
| #6126, aired 2011-04-11 | BLUE LITERATURE $800: Created by Charles Perrault, this fairy tale villain who killed 6 wives may be based on real murderer Gilles de Rais Bluebeard |
| #6126, aired 2011-04-11 | BLUE LITERATURE $1200: 4 years after "The Red Badge of Courage", he wrote "The Blue Hotel", considered one of his finest short stories Stephen Crane |
| #6126, aired 2011-04-11 | BLUE LITERATURE $2000: Elizabeth Kata wrote the novel this "of Blue" on which a 1965 Sidney Poitier movie was based A Patch |
| #6126, aired 2011-04-11 | BLUE LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): In this 1908 romance by Henry de Vere Stacpoole, a pair of 8-year old cousins are marooned on a tropical island The Blue Lagoon |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Introduced in "Devil in a Blue Dress", Easy Rawlins is the hero of several mysteries by this author Walter Mosley |
| #5076, aired 2006-10-09 | FASHION HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1886 mothers began forcing their sons to wear silly velvet suits inspired by this titled tot of literature Little Lord Fauntleroy |
| #4058, aired 2002-04-03 | KANGAROOS IN LITERATURE $2000: In "I Love You, Blue Kangaroo", the title roo fears he'll be replaced when a girl is given new ones of these stuffed animals |
| #3480, aired 1999-10-22 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: He wrote "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky", "The Blue Hotel" & "The Red Badge of Courage" Stephen Crane |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In "Tom Sawyer" this newcomer to St. Petersburg is described as "a blue-eyed creature with yellow hair" Becky Thatcher |
| #2914, aired 1997-04-10 | BLUE LITERATURE $200: This detective solved 1892's "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", but didn't have the guilty party arrested Sherlock Holmes |
| #2914, aired 1997-04-10 | BLUE LITERATURE $400: "Any Woman's Blues" was a 1990 novel by this "Fear Of Flying" author Erica Jong |
| #2914, aired 1997-04-10 | BLUE LITERATURE $600: 1873's "A Pair Of Blue Eyes" was the first novel he put his name on; "Far From The Madding Crowd" was second Thomas Hardy |
| #2914, aired 1997-04-10 | BLUE LITERATURE $800: "To The Far Blue Mountains" was one of this western author's Sackett sagas Louis L'Amour |
| #2914, aired 1997-04-10 | BLUE LITERATURE $1000: "The Weary Blues" is a collection of verse by this Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes |
| #2405, aired 1995-02-03 | WORLD LITERATURE $200: Heinrich Mann, this novelist's brother, wrote the novel on which the film "The Blue Angel" was based Thomas Mann |
| #1857, aired 1992-10-06 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: Mme d'Aulnoy's "The Blue Bird" may be the source of this prince's name found in many fairy tales Prince Charming |
| #804, aired 1988-02-18 | LITERATURE $200: For the privilege of painting, Johnny Miller gave this boy a dead rat & a string to swing it on Tom Sawyer |
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