| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | NOTABLE NAMES $1600: A 1920 book by Thomas Looney & the movie "Anonymous" pushed the theory that this earl was the real Shakespeare the Earl of Oxford (Edward de Vere) |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | HISTORICAL FICTION $800: Eva preserves the real identities of Jewish children during the Holocaust in Kristin Harmel's "The Book of Lost" these Names |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | TRANSLATORS $800: In 2021 Jennifer Croft, translator of Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk, said translators' names belong here & she was insisting on it the cover of the book |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | PEN NAMES $400: Before it was published in book form, his "Treasure Island" appeared in a magazine under the pseudonym Captain George North Stevenson |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | 20th CENTURY NAMES $400: A Bible of sorts for members of the Red Guards, "The Little Red Book" is a collection of his quotations Mao (Tse-tung) |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | BIBLICAL FIRST NAMES $1000: Zeke is often short for this name of an Old Testament prophet whose book follows Lamentations Ezekiel |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | FIRST NAMES WITH CHARACTER $800: The daughter of Michelle Williams & Heath Ledger is named for this Roald Dahl book Matilda |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | 17th CENTURY NAMES $800: World Book says this author & soldier was "known for his skill in sword fighting and for his long nose" Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | MECCA & MEDINA $200: Mecca has 5 different names in this holy book the Quran |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | AMERICAN NAMES $400: Linus Pauling wrote a bestselling book called this vitamin "and the Common Cold" vitamin C |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | INFO PLEASE $2000: In Deuteronomy Moses names this successor, whose name is on the next book Joshua |
| #8316, aired 2021-01-18 | BUSINESS PAIRS $2000: Steakhouse founder Alan Stillman says he picked 2 names from the phone book: Smith & this Wollensky |
| #8239, aired 2020-09-17 | FAMOUS NAMES $400: A guide book called "Adventures in Good Eating" recommended the food at his Kentucky motel & changed his fortunes Colonel Sanders |
| #8079, aired 2019-10-24 | 20th CENTURY NAMES $800: Reading the book "The Rocket Into Interplanetary Space" changed the life of this German who went on to be a rocket scientist (Wernher) von Braun |
| #8003, aired 2019-05-29 | A LITTLE TROUBLE WITH NAMES $2000: (Finger snap)--1800s author wrote a book about a kid who runs with pickpockets--so the gal in that book, the one who ends up dead Nancy |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | BOOK TITLE NAMES $400: High school is complicated for "Me and" him "and the Dying Girl" Earl |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | BOOK TITLE NAMES $800: The title character of this E.B. White book is born 2 inches long, with a tail & whiskers Stuart Little |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | BOOK TITLE NAMES $1200: A Joseph Conrad novel was partly based on James Lingrad, a petty potentate on Borneo given this noble nickname Lord Jim |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | BOOK TITLE NAMES $1600: Last name of Ramona, the title 8-year-old in a novel by Beverly Cleary Quimby |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | BOOK TITLE NAMES $2000: "I spit on your happiness!" is a line from this Jean Anouilh tragedy about a daughter of Oedipus Antigone |
| #7463, aired 2017-02-08 | AND SO IT BEGINS... $800: "Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt" the book of Exodus |
| #7315, aired 2016-06-03 | MISSING MOVIE NAMES $800: A post-apocalyptic tale starring Denzel:
"The Book of ____" Eli |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | PEOPLE WITH BIBLE BOOK NAMES $200: Justice Ginsburg;
late screenwriter Prawer Jhabvala Ruth |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | PEOPLE WITH BIBLE BOOK NAMES $400: Pastor Osteen;
one of film's Coen brothers Joel |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | PEOPLE WITH BIBLE BOOK NAMES $600: Rock guitarist Buck;
shutterbug Parker Peter |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | PEOPLE WITH BIBLE BOOK NAMES $800: The real Mr. Law;
the fictional Mr. Fawley Jude |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | PEOPLE WITH BIBLE BOOK NAMES $1000: Nicaraguan President Ortega;
conductor Barenboim Daniel |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | THE BOOK OF EXODUS $3,000 (Daily Double): The names of these 2 current countries appear in the very first verse of Exodus Egypt & Israel |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | SOUNDS LIKE MAD LIBS, BUT REAL $1600: Before "Inside the Actors Studio", he wrote a book about animal group names & says he was a pimp in France James Lipton |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: In a 2000 book, 10-year-old Opal adopts a stray dog whom she names this, after the grocery store where she finds him Winn-Dixie |
| #6593, aired 2013-04-24 | HERE'S THE BEGINNING $200: At the start of this C.S. Lewis book: "Once there were 4 children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy" The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe |
| #6543, aired 2013-02-13 | BOOK TITLE CHARACTERS' LAST NAMES $200: 1861:
"Silas" Marner |
| #6543, aired 2013-02-13 | BOOK TITLE CHARACTERS' LAST NAMES $400: 1839:
"Nicholas" Nickleby |
| #6543, aired 2013-02-13 | BOOK TITLE CHARACTERS' LAST NAMES $600: 1989:
"Billy" Bathgate |
| #6543, aired 2013-02-13 | BOOK TITLE CHARACTERS' LAST NAMES $800: 1869:
"Lorna" Doone |
| #6543, aired 2013-02-13 | BOOK TITLE CHARACTERS' LAST NAMES $1000: 2008:
"Olive" Kitteridge |
| #6409, aired 2012-06-28 | PEN NAMES $200: This Narnia author's first published work was "Spirits in Bondage", a book of verse written as Clive Hamilton C. S. Lewis |
| #6409, aired 2012-06-28 | PEN NAMES $800: Comic book writer & guru Stanley Martin Lieber is better known by this "marvel-ous" pen name Stan Lee |
| #6179, aired 2011-06-23 | CHILDREN'S BOOK NAMES $200: Margaret & H.A. Rey:
"The Complete Adventures of Curious ____" George |
| #6179, aired 2011-06-23 | CHILDREN'S BOOK NAMES $400: Beatrix Potter:
"The Tale of ____ Bunny" (not "The Curious Case of ____ Bunny") Benjamin |
| #6179, aired 2011-06-23 | CHILDREN'S BOOK NAMES $600: Roald Dahl:
"____ and the Great Glass Elevator" (a sequel) Charlie |
| #6179, aired 2011-06-23 | CHILDREN'S BOOK NAMES $800: Jane O'Connor & Robin Preiss Glasser:
"Fancy ____" (it rhymes) Nancy |
| #6179, aired 2011-06-23 | CHILDREN'S BOOK NAMES $1000: Beverly Cleary:
"Runaway ____" (it's alliterative) Ralph |
| #6098, aired 2011-03-02 | FIRST THINGS FIRST $400: Issued in New Haven, Connecticut in 1878, the first one of these listed about 50 names & businesses a phone book |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | BOOK NAMES $200: Joseph Conrad:
"Lord ____" Jim |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | BOOK NAMES $400: Thomas Hardy:
"____ the Obscure" Jude |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | BOOK NAMES $600: Louise Fitzhugh:
"____ the Spy" Harriet |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | BOOK NAMES $800: Vicki Myron & Bret Witter:
"____: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World" Dewey |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | BOOK NAMES $1000: Charles Dickens:
"The Mystery of ____ ____" Edwin Drood |
| #6010, aired 2010-10-29 | BIBLE BOOK NAMES $400: 7 letters:
Phil Collins,
Mike Rutherford,
Tony Banks Genesis |
| #6010, aired 2010-10-29 | BIBLE BOOK NAMES $800: 4 letters:
Of a drama,
of contrition,
of mercy Acts |
| #6010, aired 2010-10-29 | BIBLE BOOK NAMES $1200: 10 letters: OMG! We learned Amy was Fabio's long-lost sister! & that's the only item we uncovered! The sole singular one! Revelation |
| #6010, aired 2010-10-29 | BIBLE BOOK NAMES $1600: 12 letters: Why?! Why didn't I buy Microsoft when it hit the market in 1986?! & wearing that Speedo?! What was I thinking?! Lamentations |
| #6010, aired 2010-10-29 | BIBLE BOOK NAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): 6 letters:
Learned Hand, Joseph Crater (once "the most missingest man in America") Judges |
| #5853, aired 2010-02-10 | BAND NAMES $400: This Madden Brothers band isn't named for a North Carolina city but for a kids' book written by Carol Beach York Good Charlotte |
| #5806, aired 2009-12-07 | NOTABLE NAMES $400: A book by Jan Parr calls her the "First Lady of Flight" Earhart |
| #5795, aired 2009-11-20 | BOOK NAMES $200: Charles Dickens:
"Little ____" Dorrit |
| #5795, aired 2009-11-20 | BOOK NAMES $400 (Daily Double): Alexander Solzhenitsyn:
"One Day in the Life of ____ ____" Ivan Denisovich |
| #5795, aired 2009-11-20 | BOOK NAMES $400: Theodore Dreiser:
"Sister ____" Carrie |
| #5795, aired 2009-11-20 | BOOK NAMES $600: George Bernard Shaw:
"Major ____" Barbara |
| #5795, aired 2009-11-20 | BOOK NAMES $800: Nietzsche:
"Thus Spoke ____" Zarathustra |
| #5421, aired 2008-03-17 | 19th CENTURY NAMES $400: "The Inquest of the Final Victim Mary Kelly" is the subtitle of a book about this late 19th century Londoner Jack the Ripper |
| #5380, aired 2008-01-18 | BOOK KNOWLEDGE $800: A colophon is a section at the end of a book that often names this, like 10-point Baskerville the font |
| #5048, aired 2006-07-19 | NAMES OF THE '70s $400: Big names in this type of book in the '70s include Tarnower & Pritikin a diet book |
| #4838, aired 2005-09-28 | AND TWINS! $2000: Guinness Book of Records creators born Aug. 12, 1925 Norris & Ross McWhirter |
| #4822, aired 2005-07-19 | 20th CENTURY NAMES $1000: In the '50s this obstetrician literally wrote the book on "Painless Childbirth" Lamaze |
| #4819, aired 2005-07-14 | BOOK TITLES $1200: David Sedaris' bestselling 2004 essay collection was "Dress Your Family in" these 2 fabrics denim & corduroy |
| #4589, aired 2004-07-15 | "S" TOUGH $2000: The 2 last names of R.L. & M.L., who formed a company in 1924 to publish a book of crosswords Simon & Schuster |
| #4362, aired 2003-07-15 | PEN NAMES $800: His first book, "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets", was so shocking that he published it under the name Johnston Smith Stephen Crane |
| #4358, aired 2003-07-09 | HISTORIC NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): With the Galileo brouhaha going on, this French philosopher killed his book about the Earth's movement Rene Descartes |
| #4230, aired 2003-01-10 | OLD TESTAMENT NAMES $2000: This woman from Moab has her own Old Testament book; it comes after Judges Ruth |
| #4229, aired 2003-01-09 | BOOK REPORT $1000: I was touched by the story of Opal & the dog she names after this Southern supermarket chain Winn-Dixie |
| #4229, aired 2003-01-09 | NOTABLE NAMES $1600: In an 1898 book this woman, whose real name was Clarissa, explained all about "The Red Cross in Peace & War" Clara Barton |
| #4052, aired 2002-03-26 | NOTABLE NAMES $200: International Children's Book Day is celebrated on the birthday of this Danish author Hans Christian Andersen |
| #3468, aired 1999-10-06 | THE BOOK OF RUTHS $100: George & Herman were the real given names of this legendary slugger Babe Ruth |
| #3371, aired 1999-04-12 | NAMES IN THE NOOSE $1,500 (Daily Double): Killers Perry Smith & Dick Hickock, whose crime inspired this Truman Capote book, were hanged in 1965 "In Cold Blood" |
| #3180, aired 1998-05-29 | TALES TO TELL $200: Arthur C. Clarke followed his book "The Nine Billion Names of God" with this other numerically titled tale 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| #3015, aired 1997-10-10 | BOOKS ABOUT TV SHOWS $600: "The Official Companion Book" of this sitcom names the stars who've called the title radio host for advice Frasier |
| #2913, aired 1997-04-09 | NAMES OF THE '60s $400: A 1966 book was entitled this person "Teaches Chess" Bobby Fischer |
| #2901, aired 1997-03-24 | FIRST NAMES $1000: Used for both men & women, the "Guinness Book of Names" calls it the "windiest name" Gale/gail |
| #2782, aired 1996-10-08 | DOUBLE TALK NAMES $400: Poet cummings, whose first book of poetry, "Tulips and Chimneys", came out in 1923 e.e. |
| #2409, aired 1995-02-09 | NAMES IN THE NEWS $400: His book "Crossing the Threshold of Hope" was a bestseller in November 1994 Pope John Paul II |
| #2352, aired 1994-11-22 | BACK OF THE BOOK $200: It's an alphabetical list of terms, names, & facts, along with the page numbers they appear on index |
| #2259, aired 1994-06-02 | BIBLICAL NAMES $400: This poet's first name was a book of the Old Testament; his last name meant "sixteen ounces" Ezra Pound |
| #2216, aired 1994-04-04 | NAMES $400: "The Ultimate Baby Name Book" claims the name of this Arthurian wizard is a variation of Irving Merlin |
| #2140, aired 1993-12-17 | NOTABLE NAMES $1000: His son Elliott wrote about his alleged romance with Missy LeHand in the 1973 book "An Untold Story" FDR |
| #2004, aired 1993-04-29 | HISTORIC NAMES $200: We assume this second president was called "Atlas of Independence" for the Titan, not the book (John) Adams |
| #1845, aired 1992-09-18 | ANGELS $400: In "Paradise Lost" Book I, line 392, Milton begins to list names of these disgraced beings the fallen angels |
| #1615, aired 1991-09-13 | GRAB BAG $600: Author of the 1633 book of English religious poems "The Temple", or our President's first 2 names George Herbert |
| #10, aired 1990-08-18 | FAMOUS NAMES $400: In 1922 she published her book on etiquette aftr reading one that was riddled with errors Emily Post |
| #1306, aired 1990-04-16 | HISTORIC NAMES $400: His book about Jesus made him famous long before he built a hospital in Africa Albert Schweitzer |
| #1175, aired 1989-10-13 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $600: Names of various champagne bottles larger than a magnum are taken from this book The Bible |
| #1028, aired 1989-02-08 | NAMES IN THE NEWS $800: A recent book by James Reston Jr. theorizes this Texas gov., not JFK, was Oswald's target (John) Connally |
| #913, aired 1988-07-20 | PEN NAMES $300: He dropped the "E" from his last name in 1786, when he published his 1st book of Scottish poetry Robert Burns |
| #913, aired 1988-07-20 | PEN NAMES $400: British sisters who published a book of poems under the names Currer, Ellis & Acton Bell the Bronte sisters |
| #845, aired 1988-04-15 | REFERENCE BOOKS $600: Their first names are Isaac & Adam; you can "look it up" in their reference book Funk & Wagnalls |
| #642, aired 1987-05-26 | INDIANS $400 (Daily Double): Of the 5 Great Lakes, World Book also lists these 2 as names of Indian tribes Erie & Huron |
| #599, aired 1987-03-26 | BIBLICAL TRIVIA $1,000 (Daily Double): 1 of the 2 books in the Old Testament whose titles are women's names the Book of Ruth or Esther |
| #97, aired 1985-01-22 | COLORS $200: A bachelor's might contain names and addresses of available women a little black book |
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