#9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $12,000 (Daily Double): This name of the first minor prophet in book order often comes before "can you see" in punny sermon titles Hosea |
#9041, aired 2024-02-19 | GEOGRAPHIC BOOK TITLES $400: Beautiful spy Tatiana Romanova is the perfect bait for this man in "From Russia with Love" James Bond |
#9041, aired 2024-02-19 | GEOGRAPHIC BOOK TITLES $800: Generations have loved Hubert Selby Jr.'s tale of dope fiends, hoodlums & thieves in "Last Exit to" this place Brooklyn |
#9041, aired 2024-02-19 | GEOGRAPHIC BOOK TITLES $1200: In this Giles Foden novel, a doctor working for Idi Amin is a witness to much of the dictator's madness The Last King of Scotland |
#9041, aired 2024-02-19 | GEOGRAPHIC BOOK TITLES $1600: In "The Boys from Brazil", a Nazi hunter chases clones of Hitler created by this fugitive doctor Dr. Mengele |
#9041, aired 2024-02-19 | GEOGRAPHIC BOOK TITLES $2000: Deep in the African rain forest, an ancient lost city holds a shocking secret in this Michael Crichton work Congo |
#9039, aired 2024-02-15 | JACKSON $400: Titles in the book series featuring this protagonist include "The Titan's Curse" & "The Battle of the Labyrinth" Percy Jackson |
#9016, aired 2024-01-15 | DISNEY FILM TITLES VISUALIZED $600: It's not exactly as it appears The Jungle Book |
#9015, aired 2024-01-12 | BOOK TITLES $400: The distance in this Verne title equals roughly 60,000 miles Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea |
#9015, aired 2024-01-12 | BOOK TITLES $1200: Shakespeare's Miranda salutes this Huxley title "that has such people in't!" Brave New World |
#9015, aired 2024-01-12 | BOOK TITLES $1600: This 1997 history bestseller postulates that the 3 things in its title enabled the European conquest of the Americas Guns, Germs and Steel |
#9015, aired 2024-01-12 | BOOK TITLES $2000: According to an old spiritual, "no more water," this title of James Baldwin's 1963 bestseller about racial tensions in America The Fire Next Time |
#9015, aired 2024-01-12 | BOOK TITLES $9,200 (Daily Double): You'll find this Steinbeck title in Genesis 4:16 East of Eden |
#8980, aired 2023-11-24 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $400: Douglas Adams:
"The ____'s Guide to the Galaxy" Hitchhiker |
#8980, aired 2023-11-24 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $800: Kurt Vonnegut:
"____'s Cradle" Cat |
#8980, aired 2023-11-24 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $1200: Philip Roth:
"____'s Complaint" Portnoy |
#8980, aired 2023-11-24 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $1600: Umberto Eco:
"____'s Pendulum" Foucault |
#8980, aired 2023-11-24 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $2000: Marcel Proust:
"____'s Way" Swann |
#8948, aired 2023-10-11 | BOOK CLUB $1600: 7th graders Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia & Stacey founded this club in a 1986 kids novel; around 250 titles later, it's still in business the Baby-Sitters Club |
#8931, aired 2023-09-18 | BOOK TITLES IN OTHER WORDS $200: 1957:
"A Feline Sporting a Bowler"; it's cute either way The Cat in the Hat |
#8931, aired 2023-09-18 | BOOK TITLES IN OTHER WORDS $400: 1850:
"Magician Whose 2019 Net Worth was Pegged at $875 Million" David Copperfield |
#8931, aired 2023-09-18 | BOOK TITLES IN OTHER WORDS $600: 1967:
"A Century of Chillin' Solo" One Hundred Years of Solitude |
#8931, aired 2023-09-18 | BOOK TITLES IN OTHER WORDS $800: 1973:
"A Wheaties Slogan" Breakfast of Champions |
#8931, aired 2023-09-18 | BOOK TITLES IN OTHER WORDS $1000: 1992:
"Actor Jeff or Beau Living in Huntsville, Alabama" The Bridges of Madison County |
#8923, aired 2023-07-26 | ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE $1000: Dylan Thomas' poem about these "Boys" who "in their ruin lay the gold tithings barren" has inspired book & song titles "The Boys of Summer" |
#8918, aired 2023-07-19 | TITLES WITH PUNCTUATION $400: (!) In this book "He took every present! Pop guns... bicycles! Roller skates! Drums! Checker-boards! Tricycles! Popcorn! and Plums!" How the Grinch Stole Christmas! |
#8918, aired 2023-07-19 | TITLES WITH PUNCTUATION $2000: (!) The title of this 1855 book about a young Brit sailing the Atlantic is used to mean "let's head in a certain direction" Westward Ho! |
#8895, aired 2023-06-16 | OPPOSITIONAL BOOK TITLES $400: A young woman reopens a closed homicide case with dangerous results in Holly Jackson's "A Good Girl's Guide to" this crime murder |
#8895, aired 2023-06-16 | OPPOSITIONAL BOOK TITLES $800: The subtitle of this nonfiction work by a Catholic sister is "An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States" Dead Man Walking |
#8895, aired 2023-06-16 | OPPOSITIONAL BOOK TITLES $1200: "Enormous Smallness" is Matthew Burgess' portrait of this poet who often used no uppercase letters e.e. cummings |
#8895, aired 2023-06-16 | OPPOSITIONAL BOOK TITLES $1600: This Harvard symbologist character first shows up in Dan Brown's "Angels & Demons" Robert Langdon |
#8895, aired 2023-06-16 | OPPOSITIONAL BOOK TITLES $2000: A page from this visionary English poet & artist's "The Marriage of Heaven & Hell" from around 1790 is seen here William Blake |
#8861, aired 2023-05-01 | TITLES WITH EXCLAMATION POINTS! $800: "Raise the Titanic!" is the fourth book featuring this author's action hero Dirk Pitt Clive Cussler |
#8845, aired 2023-04-07 | LIFE & DEATH IN LITERARY TITLES $1200: "Speaker for the Dead" by Orson Scott Card is the 2nd book in the series about this character & his genocidal "Game" Ender |
#8783, aired 2023-01-11 | QUESTIONABLE BOOK TITLES $400: Emma Corrigan unloads all her hidden truths on a stranger in Sophie Kinsella's novel "Can You Keep" one of these a secret |
#8783, aired 2023-01-11 | QUESTIONABLE BOOK TITLES $1200: Originally self-published in 1970, this guide for job-hunters & career-changers has sold more than 10 million copies What Color is Your Parachute? |
#8783, aired 2023-01-11 | QUESTIONABLE BOOK TITLES $1600: One answer to this Russian's 1902 title question "What is to Be Done?" was to form a core group of revolutionaries Lenin |
#8783, aired 2023-01-11 | QUESTIONABLE BOOK TITLES $2000: "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" was one of the autobiographical works that made this physicist famous way beyond Caltech Feynman |
#8783, aired 2023-01-11 | QUESTIONABLE BOOK TITLES $5,800 (Daily Double): Retelling nursery rhymes as if they were crimes, a humorous work asks "Who Pushed" him Humpty Dumpty |
#8757, aired 2022-12-06 | KIDS' BOOK TITLES IN LATIN $200: Keep it on the down low: "Harrius Potter et Camera Secretorum" Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets |
#8757, aired 2022-12-06 | KIDS' BOOK TITLES IN LATIN $400: The first in a series by Jeff Kinney:
"Commentarii de Inepto Puero" Diary of a Wimpy Kid |
#8757, aired 2022-12-06 | KIDS' BOOK TITLES IN LATIN $600: Hop to it:
"Fabella de Petro Cuniculo" The Tale of Peter Rabbit |
#8757, aired 2022-12-06 | KIDS' BOOK TITLES IN LATIN $800: I do like it:
"Virent Ova! Viret Perna!!" Green Eggs and Ham |
#8757, aired 2022-12-06 | KIDS' BOOK TITLES IN LATIN $1000: A French fable:
"Regulus" The Little Prince |
#8750, aired 2022-11-25 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $400: 2022 marks the 75th anniversary of this Margaret Wise Brown classic about putting a bunny to bed Goodnight Moon |
#8750, aired 2022-11-25 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $1200: Songs in the musical based on this Bret Easton Ellis novel include "Killing Time", "Killing Spree" & Huey Lewis' "Hip To Be Square" American Psycho |
#8750, aired 2022-11-25 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $1600: William Makepeace Thackeray not only wrote this novel but illustrated it when it was serialized in the 1840s Vanity Fair |
#8750, aired 2022-11-25 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $2000: Alliterative title of Richard Wright's book about racism & intellectual awakening in the segregated South Black Boy |
#8750, aired 2022-11-25 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $5,600 (Daily Double): Pitcher Jim Bouton issued 50 walks in the 1969 season, so 50 times he heard this title of his season diary Ball Four |
#8743, aired 2022-11-16 | BEASTLY BOOK TITLES $200: Feeding a small rodent a sweet baked good could probably lead to further & further requests If You Give a Mouse a Cookie |
#8743, aired 2022-11-16 | BEASTLY BOOK TITLES $400: An ambitious bird tries to fly free over the ocean rather than squabble over food scraps Jonathan Livingston Seagull |
#8743, aired 2022-11-16 | BEASTLY BOOK TITLES $600: A teen who is good with animals & numbers but bad at social situations tries to solve the killing of a neighborhood pet The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
#8743, aired 2022-11-16 | BEASTLY BOOK TITLES $800: A secret U.S. Army unit uses paranormal powers in its missions The Men Who Stare at Goats |
#8743, aired 2022-11-16 | BEASTLY BOOK TITLES $1000: An extended family of primitive humans adopts 5-year-old Ayla The Clan of the Cave Bear |
#8675, aired 2022-07-01 | ONE-WORD NONFICTION TITLES $1600: In "Eat, Pray, Love" Elizabeth Gilbert meets a guy from Brazil; soon she's ready to be this, her follow-up book all about marriage Committed |
#8675, aired 2022-07-01 | ONE-WORD NONFICTION TITLES $2,000 (Daily Double): This word for all kinds of distractions from clear thinking is the title of a book subtitled "A Flaw in Human Judgment" noise |
#8668, aired 2022-06-22 | ____ING BOOK TITLES $200: In a tale of hard luck in Sin City, this word precedes "Las Vegas" Leaving |
#8668, aired 2022-06-22 | ____ING BOOK TITLES $400: Named for young Danny Torrance's psychic gift The Shining |
#8668, aired 2022-06-22 | ____ING BOOK TITLES $600: A young adult bestseller that's kind of a twist on "The Breakfast Club": "One of Us is" this Lying |
#8668, aired 2022-06-22 | ____ING BOOK TITLES $800: Dedicated in part to "Malia and Sasha, my two most precious peas" Becoming |
#8668, aired 2022-06-22 | ____ING BOOK TITLES $1000: Irvine Welsh's debut novel about heroin addict Mark Renton & his pals Trainspotting |
#8651, aired 2022-05-30 | PUNNY MYSTERY TITLES $200: Book 1 of "An Ice Cream Parlor Mystery": "A Deadly Inside" this Scoop |
#8649, aired 2022-05-26 | NUMERICAL BOOK TITLES $400: It was Dodie Smith's first book about all those many pups The Hundred and One Dalmatians (101 Dalmatians) |
#8649, aired 2022-05-26 | NUMERICAL BOOK TITLES $800: The "Five Little Pigs" are the 5 suspects gathered together by this Belgian detective to reveal the killer, as he does (Hercule) Poirot |
#8649, aired 2022-05-26 | NUMERICAL BOOK TITLES $1200: A recent TV adaptation of this 1872 novel has David Tennant as the globe-trotting adventurer trying to win a wager Around the World in Eighty Days |
#8649, aired 2022-05-26 | NUMERICAL BOOK TITLES $1600: This author's "The Hundred Secret Senses" continues her explorations of Chinese-American families (Amy) Tan |
#8649, aired 2022-05-26 | NUMERICAL BOOK TITLES $2,000 (Daily Double): A strange discovery on the Moon sets off a secret mission to a moon of Saturn in this sci-fi novel 2001: A Space Odyssey |
#8586, aired 2022-02-28 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $200: "'Oh no, he isn't grown up', Wendy assured her confidently, 'and he is just my size"'; "he" is also the title of the book Peter Pan |
#8586, aired 2022-02-28 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $400: Like the autobiographical hero of this novel, just after WWII William Styron was a young southerner living in Brooklyn Sophie's Choice |
#8586, aired 2022-02-28 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $600: In this William Goldman novel, a graduate student must flee a Nazi & his henchmen Marathon Man |
#8586, aired 2022-02-28 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $800: Something is happening here in the barn in this 1945 anti-utopian satire but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones? Animal Farm |
#8586, aired 2022-02-28 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $1000: Balnibarbi is a continent & Glumdalclitch, a person, in this 18th century work Gulliver's Travels |
#8569, aired 2022-02-03 | MASHED-UP BOOK TITLES $200: "Horton Hears a Ham" Horton Hears a Who! & Green Eggs and Ham |
#8569, aired 2022-02-03 | MASHED-UP BOOK TITLES $400: "The Runaway Brief" The Runaway Jury & The Pelican Brief |
#8569, aired 2022-02-03 | MASHED-UP BOOK TITLES $600: "Pride and Sensibility" Pride and Prejudice & Sense and Sensibility |
#8569, aired 2022-02-03 | MASHED-UP BOOK TITLES $800: "Love in the Time of Solitude" Love in the Time of Cholera & The Hundred Years of Solitude |
#8569, aired 2022-02-03 | MASHED-UP BOOK TITLES $1000: "God Bless You, Mr. Cradle" God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater & Cat's Cradle |
#8542, aired 2021-12-28 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $400: This 1850 book was pure magic & Dickens' "favourite child" David Copperfield |
#8542, aired 2021-12-28 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $800: This 1936 novel was pure Faulkner, Faulkner! Absalom, Absalom! |
#8542, aired 2021-12-28 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $1200: This Thackeray book arrived in 1848; the first version of what is now the same-named magazine, 11 years later Vanity Fair |
#8542, aired 2021-12-28 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $1600: Published in the U.S. in 1962, this William S. Burroughs "meal" was not easily digested by some Naked Lunch |
#8542, aired 2021-12-28 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $2000: V-2 rockets play a crucial role in this "colorful", award-winning Pynchon novel Gravity's Rainbow |
#8516, aired 2021-11-22 | READING THE DETECTIVES $200: This novelist got right to the point with his book titles--"Detective Cross" & "Kill Alex Cross" (James) Patterson |
#8512, aired 2021-11-16 | BOOK TITLES EN FRANCAIS $200: Wreaking havoc: "Le chat chapeauté" The Cat in the Hat |
#8512, aired 2021-11-16 | BOOK TITLES EN FRANCAIS $400: A classic: "Le vieil homme et la mer" The Old Man and the Sea |
#8512, aired 2021-11-16 | BOOK TITLES EN FRANCAIS $600: It's murder! "Minuit dans le jardin du bien et du mal" Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil |
#8512, aired 2021-11-16 | BOOK TITLES EN FRANCAIS $800: Science fiction for all ages: "Un raccourci dans le temps" A Wrinkle in Time |
#8512, aired 2021-11-16 | BOOK TITLES EN FRANCAIS $1000: A book for the entire galaxy: "Salut, et encore merci pour le poisson" So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish |
#8484, aired 2021-10-07 | CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT $600: In book titles, his development saw him get "Rich" in 1981 & be "at Rest" 9 years later Rabbit |
#8481, aired 2021-10-04 | 4-LETTER BOOK TITLES $200: This 1981 novel is named for a sick 200-pound St. Bernard in Maine Cujo |
#8481, aired 2021-10-04 | 4-LETTER BOOK TITLES $400: In Chapter One of this book, "a great fish" severs a woman's femoral artery, the blood now "a beacon... clear and true" Jaws |
#8481, aired 2021-10-04 | 4-LETTER BOOK TITLES $600: Coming between "Night" & "Day", it's the middle title in Elie Wiesel's acclaimed trilogy Dawn |
#8481, aired 2021-10-04 | 4-LETTER BOOK TITLES $800: Named for a music genre, this Toni Morrison novel involves a Harlem love triangle Jazz |
#8481, aired 2021-10-04 | 4-LETTER BOOK TITLES $1000: It's the original title of Sapphire's novel about Claireece "Precious" Jones Push |
#8472, aired 2021-09-21 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $200: "Blood Type" & "The Cullens" are chapters in this book, the first in a series Twilight |
#8472, aired 2021-09-21 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $400: Jane Austen described the title character of this novel as "handsome, clever, and rich... with very little to distress or vex her" Emma |
#8472, aired 2021-09-21 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $600: In this book, the title girl is sent to live in an Alpine hut with her grandfather Heidi |
#8472, aired 2021-09-21 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $800: Stephen King said a dream gave him the idea for this novel about a woman who holds a writer prisoner Misery |
#8472, aired 2021-09-21 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $1000: Katniss & Peeta end up together in this avian-titled book Mockingjay |
#8433, aired 2021-06-30 | BIRDS IN BOOK TITLES $200: "Mockingbird" is Charles Shields' portrait of this author & the creation of her most acclaimed work Harper Lee |
#8433, aired 2021-06-30 | BIRDS IN BOOK TITLES $400: "Skylark" is Patricia MacLachlan's follow-up to her novel about this young woman who was "Plain & Tall" Sarah |
#8433, aired 2021-06-30 | BIRDS IN BOOK TITLES $600: Beatrix Potter wrote & illustrated "The Tale of" this puddle-duck Jemima |
#8433, aired 2021-06-30 | BIRDS IN BOOK TITLES $800: Henry James told a tale of a dying heiress in "The Wings of" this bird the Dove |
#8433, aired 2021-06-30 | BIRDS IN BOOK TITLES $1000: In "A Feast of Crows" by George R.R. Martin, this family of Jaime & Cersei rules from the iron throne Lannister |
#8418, aired 2021-06-09 | POETIC BOOK TITLES $400: For the title of this novel about World War I, Hemingway went back to a 16th century poem by George Peele A Farewell to Arms |
#8418, aired 2021-06-09 | POETIC BOOK TITLES $800: E.M. Forster admired Walt Whitman & quoted a poem in "Leaves of Grass" for the title of this 1924 subcontinental novel A Passage to India |
#8418, aired 2021-06-09 | POETIC BOOK TITLES $1,000 (Daily Double): From Sonnet 30 by Shakespeare: "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought / I summon up" this Marcel Proust title Remembrance of Things Past |
#8418, aired 2021-06-09 | POETIC BOOK TITLES $1200: "Rage, rage against" this title of George R.R. Martin's first novel, a quote from a poem by Dylan Thomas The Dying of the Light |
#8418, aired 2021-06-09 | POETIC BOOK TITLES $2000: The novel title "A Handful of Dust" by Evelyn Waugh comes from this T.S. Eliot poem about our decayed culture The Waste Land |
#8378, aired 2021-04-14 | BIBLICALLY INSPIRED BOOK TITLES $200: "Stranger in a Strange Land" refers to this leader exiled in Exodus; his son's name means "stranger there" Moses |
#8378, aired 2021-04-14 | BIBLICALLY INSPIRED BOOK TITLES $400: Faulkner's novel "Absalom, Absalom!" bears the name of a tragically rebellious offspring of this biblical king David |
#8378, aired 2021-04-14 | BIBLICALLY INSPIRED BOOK TITLES $600: Cain ended up living in Nod, which Genesis says is here, giving this Steinbeck novel its title East of Eden |
#8378, aired 2021-04-14 | BIBLICALLY INSPIRED BOOK TITLES $1,000 (Daily Double): Translating the name of a Philistine god mentioned in 2 Kings gives this 1954 novel about castaways its title Lord of the Flies |
#8378, aired 2021-04-14 | BIBLICALLY INSPIRED BOOK TITLES $1000: This Philip K. Dick sci-fi novel title is a twist on "Through a Glass Darkly", from Paul's letter to the Corinthians A Scanner Darkly |
#8350, aired 2021-03-05 | 3-WORD BOOK TITLES $400: This Huxley novel is set in the year 632 AF (after Ford) Brave New World |
#8350, aired 2021-03-05 | 3-WORD BOOK TITLES $800: In this novella, Marlow describes ivory trader Mr. Kurtz as "impressively bald" as "an ivory ball" Heart of Darkness |
#8350, aired 2021-03-05 | 3-WORD BOOK TITLES $1200: Don't be a birdbrain! Take wing with this fable by Richard Bach that has a bird in its title Jonathan Livingston Seagull |
#8350, aired 2021-03-05 | 3-WORD BOOK TITLES $1600: John Harmon is the title acquaintance in common in this Dickens novel Our Mutual Friend |
#8350, aired 2021-03-05 | 3-WORD BOOK TITLES $2000: Faulkner used "Dark House" as a working title for this novel whose title went in the opposite direction Light in August |
#8244, aired 2020-09-24 | OCCUPATIONAL SONG TITLES $2000: "Dear sir or madam will you read my book? It took me years to write, will you take a look?" goes this Beatles tune "Paperback Writer" |
#8161, aired 2020-02-17 | 3-WORD BOOK TITLES BY MIDDLE WORD $200: Elizabeth Gilbert:
"Pray" Eat Pray Love |
#8161, aired 2020-02-17 | 3-WORD BOOK TITLES BY MIDDLE WORD $400: Truman Capote:
"Cold" In Cold Blood |
#8161, aired 2020-02-17 | 3-WORD BOOK TITLES BY MIDDLE WORD $600: Jojo Moyes:
"Before" Me Before You |
#8161, aired 2020-02-17 | 3-WORD BOOK TITLES BY MIDDLE WORD $800: Dr. Seuss:
"in" Fox in Socks |
#8161, aired 2020-02-17 | 3-WORD BOOK TITLES BY MIDDLE WORD $1000: W. Somerset Maugham:
"Human" Of Human Bondage |
#8154, aired 2020-02-06 | SHAPELY BOOK TITLES $400: Written by Elliott Roosevelt, "Murder in" this room features his mom, Eleanor, solving a homicide in the White House the Oval Office |
#8154, aired 2020-02-06 | SHAPELY BOOK TITLES $800: Title of Charles Berlitz' 1974 bestseller about the ships & planes that have vanished in an area, of the Atlantic The Bermuda Triangle |
#8154, aired 2020-02-06 | SHAPELY BOOK TITLES $1200: This Dave Eggers novel about an uber-powerful Internet company that links everything became a Tom Hanks film (The) Circle |
#8154, aired 2020-02-06 | SHAPELY BOOK TITLES $1600: It's the 2-word title of a memoir by Shirley Temple Black, who was perhaps the most famous one ever the Child Star |
#8154, aired 2020-02-06 | SHAPELY BOOK TITLES $2000: In a children's classic by George Selden, Harry the Cat befriends Chester, "The Cricket in" this NYC location Times Square |
#8125, aired 2019-12-27 | MAIL-ORDER NOVELS $1200: In 1926 "The Sun Also Rises" was one of the first novels mailed by this club that lets you discover new titles 12 times a year the Book of the Month Club |
#8120, aired 2019-12-20 | BOOKS FILMED WITH DIFFERENT TITLES $2000: Harry Grey's book "The Hoods" inspired this 4-hour Sergio Leone film that starred Robert de Niro Once Upon a Time in America |
#8056, aired 2019-09-23 | FRUITFUL BOOK TITLES $800: A book about "remarkable stories of people overcoming adversity" is titled "When Life" does this Gives You Lemons |
#8056, aired 2019-09-23 | FRUITFUL BOOK TITLES $1200: Learning to count was never more fun than with this author's "Ten Apples Up On top!" Dr. Seuss |
#8056, aired 2019-09-23 | FRUITFUL BOOK TITLES $1600: It's Roald Dahl's 1961 book about a boy crossing an ocean on a very unusual vessel James and the Giant Peach |
#8056, aired 2019-09-23 | FRUITFUL BOOK TITLES $2000: British author Jeanette Winterson won a Whitbread Award for her first novel, called these "Are Not the Only Fruit" Oranges |
#8054, aired 2019-09-19 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $400: This book by Malcolm Gladwell subtitled "The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" is a real eye-opener Blink |
#8054, aired 2019-09-19 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $800: Born a slave, Sethe escapes to Ohio but is haunted by memories of a lost baby in this Toni Morrison novel Beloved |
#8054, aired 2019-09-19 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $1200: 2 psychics have a pyrokinetic child in this Stephen King work Firestarter |
#8054, aired 2019-09-19 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $2000: In this 1984 William Gibson cyberpunk classic, a data thief matches wits with a powerful artificial intelligence Neuromancer |
#8054, aired 2019-09-19 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $4,133 (Daily Double): This 1974 James Michener novel covers centuries, not just 1 significant year, in the history of Colorado Centennial |
#8004, aired 2019-05-30 | BOOK TITLES $200: In the title of a 1934 novel, he "Always Rings Twice" the postman |
#8004, aired 2019-05-30 | BOOK TITLES $400: In a classic kids' book by Judith Viorst, it follows "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible..." no good, very bad day |
#8004, aired 2019-05-30 | BOOK TITLES $600: The French title of this epic 7-part novel literally translates to "In Search of Lost Time" Remembrance of Things Past |
#8004, aired 2019-05-30 | BOOK TITLES $800: The title of this '70s Stephen King novel was inspired by a line in the chorus of John Lennon's "Instant Karma" The Shining |
#8004, aired 2019-05-30 | BOOK TITLES $1000: Stephen Crane considered calling this work "Private Fleming: His Various Battles" The Red Badge of Courage |
#7978, aired 2019-04-24 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $400: Brobdingnagian, meaning "of huge size", comes from this satire by Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels |
#7978, aired 2019-04-24 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $800: Meryl Streep played the title woman when this William Styron novel became a movie Sophie's Choice |
#7978, aired 2019-04-24 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $1200: Wragby Hall is a setting in this controversial novel by D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover |
#7978, aired 2019-04-24 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $1600: Somerset Maugham made himself a character in this novel with a sharp title The Razor's Edge |
#7978, aired 2019-04-24 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $2000: This work by Norman Mailer tells of convicted killer Gary Gilmore, who chose death by firing squad The Executioner's Song |
#7869, aired 2018-11-22 | AGATHA CHRISTIE BOOK TITLES $200: "____ on the Nile" death |
#7869, aired 2018-11-22 | AGATHA CHRISTIE BOOK TITLES $400: "And Then There Were ____" none |
#7869, aired 2018-11-22 | AGATHA CHRISTIE BOOK TITLES $600: "The ____ of Roger Ackroyd" murder |
#7869, aired 2018-11-22 | AGATHA CHRISTIE BOOK TITLES $800: "____ Under the Sun" evil |
#7869, aired 2018-11-22 | AGATHA CHRISTIE BOOK TITLES $1000: "The ____ in the Library" The Body in the Library |
#7860, aired 2018-11-09 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $400: The 1733 edition of this character's "Almanack" has wisdom like "Great talkers, little doers" Poor Richard |
#7860, aired 2018-11-09 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $800: Kids learn military skills to fight aliens called buggers--it's all this "Game" Ender's Game |
#7860, aired 2018-11-09 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $1600: 2016 brought the 41st edition of this medical work about the body Gray's Anatomy |
#7860, aired 2018-11-09 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $2,000 (Daily Double): E.B. White referred to this 1952 book of his as a "hymn to the barn" Charlotte's Web |
#7860, aired 2018-11-09 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $2000: This man's "Legacy" is subtitled "True Stories of the List Survivors" Schindler's List (or Oskar Schindler) |
#7675, aired 2018-01-12 | TITLES FROM POETRY $400: The title of M. Scott Peck's self-help book "The Road Less Traveled" has caused many to misquote this poet (Robert) Frost |
#7661, aired 2017-12-25 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $200: James Joyce's 15 stories about the metropolitan Irish around 1900 Dubliners |
#7661, aired 2017-12-25 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $400: The ex-Mrs. Butler rekindles her romance with Rhett Scarlett |
#7661, aired 2017-12-25 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $800: In 18th century Scotland, David Balfour seeks the return of his stolen inheritance Kidnapped |
#7661, aired 2017-12-25 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $1000: 1516 Thomas More work about a place governed by reason Utopia |
#7661, aired 2017-12-25 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $3,000 (Daily Double): Astrophysicists build a machine to talk back to aliens from Vega that have reached out to Earthlings Contact |
#7597, aired 2017-09-26 | MISREMEMBERED HARRY POTTER BOOK TITLES $200: "Harry Potter &" these poultry innards "of Fire" giblets |
#7597, aired 2017-09-26 | MISREMEMBERED HARRY POTTER BOOK TITLES $400: "Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's" this beer mug with a hinged lid a stein |
#7597, aired 2017-09-26 | MISREMEMBERED HARRY POTTER BOOK TITLES $600: "Harry Potter & the Deathly" these braided breads for the Jewish Sabbath challahs |
#7597, aired 2017-09-26 | MISREMEMBERED HARRY POTTER BOOK TITLES $800: "Harry Potter & the Prisoner of" this Mexican Pacific Ocean resort city of Sinaloa state Mazatlán |
#7597, aired 2017-09-26 | MISREMEMBERED HARRY POTTER BOOK TITLES $1000: "Harry Potter &" this Arizona-based online school that has had over 200,000 students at one time University of Phoenix |
#7395, aired 2016-11-04 | PUNNING POLITICAL TITLES $400: After abandoning conservative politics, David Brock titled a book "Blinded by" this Blinded by the Right |
#7395, aired 2016-11-04 | PUNNING POLITICAL TITLES $600: A book praising conservative donors as heroes calls them "funding" these fathers |
#7395, aired 2016-11-04 | PUNNING POLITICAL TITLES $1000: Canada's Allan Fotheringham chronicled the Pierre Trudeau years in a book called this quality "in Blunderland" malice |
#7373, aired 2016-10-05 | FLORAL BOOK TITLES $400: In Deborah Moggach's "Tulip Fever", a mania for the title bulbs sweeps this Dutch city in the 1630s Amsterdam |
#7373, aired 2016-10-05 | FLORAL BOOK TITLES $800: "The Mystery at Lilac Inn" was the fourth novel to feature this teen detective Nancy Drew |
#7373, aired 2016-10-05 | FLORAL BOOK TITLES $1200: A monk turns detective & investigates a murder at a medieval abbey in this Umberto Eco work The Name of the Rose |
#7373, aired 2016-10-05 | FLORAL BOOK TITLES $1600: "Daisy Miller", about a young American in Europe, brought this man international fame Henry James |
#7373, aired 2016-10-05 | FLORAL BOOK TITLES $2000: This Daniel Keyes title refers to offerings left on the backyard grave of a once smart mouse Flowers for Algernon |
#7367, aired 2016-09-27 | SELF-HELP BOOKS $400: It follows "Our Bodies" in a series of book titles Ourselves |
#7352, aired 2016-07-26 | BOOKS BY CHAPTER TITLES $600: "The Battle of Hogwarts" Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows |
#7352, aired 2016-07-26 | BOOKS BY CHAPTER TITLES $1000: "The Battle of the Fangs" White Fang |
#7285, aired 2016-04-22 | CHILDREN'S BOOK TITLES $200: "Cloudy with a Chance of" these edibles Meatballs |
#7285, aired 2016-04-22 | CHILDREN'S BOOK TITLES $400: "Don't Let" this bird "Drive the Bus!" the Pigeon |
#7285, aired 2016-04-22 | CHILDREN'S BOOK TITLES $600: "The Phantom" this structure Tollbooth |
#7285, aired 2016-04-22 | CHILDREN'S BOOK TITLES $800: This food pair "for Frances" Bread and Jam |
#7285, aired 2016-04-22 | CHILDREN'S BOOK TITLES $1000: "Make Way for" these baby birds Ducklings |
#7260, aired 2016-03-18 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $400: "Beware, the Snowman" & "Night of the Living Dummy" are 2 titles in this R.L. Stine book series Goosebumps |
#7242, aired 2016-02-23 | 1-WORD STEPHEN KING BOOK TITLES $200: Ultra-religious mother + tormenting classmates = memorable senior prom Carrie |
#7242, aired 2016-02-23 | 1-WORD STEPHEN KING BOOK TITLES $600: A rabid bat turns man's best friend into man's worst nightmare Cujo |
#7242, aired 2016-02-23 | 1-WORD STEPHEN KING BOOK TITLES $800: The government tries to locate & control a pyrokinetic child Firestarter |
#7242, aired 2016-02-23 | 1-WORD STEPHEN KING BOOK TITLES $1,000 (Daily Double): The full fury of a haunted 1958 Fury Christine |
#7242, aired 2016-02-23 | 1-WORD STEPHEN KING BOOK TITLES $1000: A shapeshifting, murderous clown returns to kill children It |
#7183, aired 2015-12-02 | WORKING BOOK TITLES $200: Tolstoy focused more on a major part of Russian history & changed "All's Well That Ends Well" to this title War and Peace |
#7183, aired 2015-12-02 | WORKING BOOK TITLES $400: She didn't want the title to focus on one character, so she didn't use the working title of "Atticus" for her 1960 novel Harper Lee |
#7183, aired 2015-12-02 | WORKING BOOK TITLES $600: J.K. Rowling considered "Harry Potter and the Three Champions" for this fourth book in the series The Goblet of Fire |
#7183, aired 2015-12-02 | WORKING BOOK TITLES $1,000 (Daily Double): John Steinbeck changed "Something That Happened" to this title, a reference to a Robert Burns poem Of Mice and Men |
#7183, aired 2015-12-02 | WORKING BOOK TITLES $1000: Jane Austen initially titled this novel "Elinor and Marianne" Sense and Sensibility |
#6966, aired 2014-12-22 | PAGING ALL PRIMATES $400: In book titles this monkey "Goes Camping" & hangs "at the Aquarium"; what could possibly go wrong? Curious George |
#6953, aired 2014-12-03 | COLORFUL BOOK TITLES $400: In a Dr. Seuss book title they are paired with ham green eggs |
#6953, aired 2014-12-03 | COLORFUL BOOK TITLES $800: "Black Beauty" is Anna Sewell's novel about one of these a horse |
#6953, aired 2014-12-03 | COLORFUL BOOK TITLES $1200: "The Silver Chair" is one of the books in these "Chronicles" Narnia |
#6953, aired 2014-12-03 | COLORFUL BOOK TITLES $1600: A true story inspired Scott O'Dell to write "The Island of" these aquatic mammals the blue dolphins |
#6953, aired 2014-12-03 | COLORFUL BOOK TITLES $2000: "Anne of Green Gables" by Lucy Maud Montgomery takes place on this Canadian island Prince Edward Island |
#6900, aired 2014-09-19 | VANILLA $600: It precedes "people" in book titles about a suicidal teen & about the Osbourne family ordinary |
#6871, aired 2014-06-30 | MASHED-UP BOOK TITLES $400: "Charlotte's Little" Charlotte's Web & Stuart Little |
#6871, aired 2014-06-30 | MASHED-UP BOOK TITLES $1200: "In Cold Tiffany's" In Cold Blood & Breakfast at Tiffany's |
#6871, aired 2014-06-30 | MASHED-UP BOOK TITLES $1600: "Mansfield Abbey" Mansfield Park & Northanger Abbey |
#6871, aired 2014-06-30 | MASHED-UP BOOK TITLES $2000: "The Pickwick Shop" Pickwick Papers & The Old Curiosity Shop |
#6871, aired 2014-06-30 | MASHED-UP BOOK TITLES $3,000 (Daily Double): " 'A' is for Trespass" " 'A' is for Alibi & 'T' is for Trespass |
#6831, aired 2014-05-05 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $200: Stephen King's first published book Carrie |
#6831, aired 2014-05-05 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $400: Hermann Hesse's tale of Harry Haller Steppenwolf |
#6831, aired 2014-05-05 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $600: 1980 nonfiction by Carl Sagan Cosmos |
#6831, aired 2014-05-05 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $800: By Leon Uris, it opens in 1946 Exodus |
#6831, aired 2014-05-05 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $1000: William S. Burroughs' first published book Junkie |
#6802, aired 2014-03-25 | HISTORICAL TITLES $1600: Book of Common Prayer
author Thomas Cranmer,
1533-1556 Archbishop of Canterbury |
#6759, aired 2014-01-23 | HARRY POTTER & THE CHAPTER TITLES $200: In book 1,
"The ____ Hat" Sorting |
#6759, aired 2014-01-23 | HARRY POTTER & THE CHAPTER TITLES $400: In book 4,
"The ____ World Cup" Quidditch |
#6759, aired 2014-01-23 | HARRY POTTER & THE CHAPTER TITLES $600: In book 6,
her "Helping Hand" Hermione |
#6759, aired 2014-01-23 | HARRY POTTER & THE CHAPTER TITLES $800: In book 7,
"The Elder ____" Wand |
#6759, aired 2014-01-23 | HARRY POTTER & THE CHAPTER TITLES $1000: In book 2,
"The Whomping ____" Willow |
#6568, aired 2013-03-20 | BOOK SERIES $400: Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales" included 3 "P" titles: "The Pathfinder", "The Prairie" & these brave folks The Pioneers |
#6519, aired 2013-01-10 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $400: The finale of the Millennium trilogy: "The Girl Who Kicked the ____'s Nest" Hornet |
#6519, aired 2013-01-10 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $800: Meta-fiction paying tribute to Melville: ____'s wife" Ahab |
#6519, aired 2013-01-10 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $1200: By Margaret Atwood: "The ____'s tale" Handmaid |
#6519, aired 2013-01-10 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $1600: A recent bestseller set in Paris in 1942 & 2002: "____'s Key" Sarah |
#6519, aired 2013-01-10 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $2000: Subtitled "A Natural history of Four Meals": "The "____'s Dilemma" Omnivore |
#6363, aired 2012-04-25 | JOHN GRISHAM TITLES $600: An 11-year-old witnesses a suicide, needs a lawyer & becomes the book's title:
"The ____" Client |
#6292, aired 2012-01-17 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $400: Douglas Adams:
"The ____'s Guide to the Galaxy" Hitchhiker's |
#6292, aired 2012-01-17 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $800: Kurt Vonnegut:
"___'s Cradle" Cat's |
#6292, aired 2012-01-17 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $1200: Philip Roth:
"____'s Complaint" Portnoy |
#6292, aired 2012-01-17 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $1600: Umberto Eco:
"____'s Pendulum" Foucault |
#6292, aired 2012-01-17 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $2000: Kim Edwards:
"The ____ ____'s Daughter" (2005) The Memory Keeper's Daughter |
#6270, aired 2011-12-16 | ANTONYMIC BOOK TITLES $200: 1913:
"Daughters & Haters" Sons & Lovers |
#6270, aired 2011-12-16 | ANTONYMIC BOOK TITLES $400: 1667:
"Hell Recovered" Paradise Lost |
#6270, aired 2011-12-16 | ANTONYMIC BOOK TITLES $600: 1813:
"Humility & Objectivity" Pride & Prejudice |
#6270, aired 2011-12-16 | ANTONYMIC BOOK TITLES $800: 1988:
"The King Of The Saved"` The Queen Of The Damned |
#6270, aired 2011-12-16 | ANTONYMIC BOOK TITLES $1000: 1997:
"Hot Valley" Cold Mountain |
#6205, aired 2011-07-29 | BOOK TITLES $400: A book subtitled "Who wrote Shakespeare?" is punningly titled "Contested" this Will |
#6205, aired 2011-07-29 | BOOK TITLES $800: A bestseller by Jamie Ford is "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and" this Sweet |
#6205, aired 2011-07-29 | BOOK TITLES $1200: "Why we expect more from technology and less from each other" has the oxymoronic title "Alone" this Together |
#6205, aired 2011-07-29 | BOOK TITLES $1600: A dog named Enzo narrates Garth Stein's "The Art Of Racing In" this The Rain |
#6205, aired 2011-07-29 | BOOK TITLES $2000: The true story of HeLa cells, long used in scientific research, is revealed in "The Immortal Life Of" her Henrietta Lacks |
#6132, aired 2011-04-19 | BIBLICAL BOOK TITLES $200: In Ecclesiastes this 1989 book title precedes "and a time to heal" A Time to Kill |
#6132, aired 2011-04-19 | BIBLICAL BOOK TITLES $400: One of Oprah's picks was Jane Hamilton's novel "The Book of" her; sounds just like an Old Testament book Ruth |
#6132, aired 2011-04-19 | BIBLICAL BOOK TITLES $600: Macon "Milkman" Dead is on a quest for his identity in this novel by Toni Morrison Song of Solomon |
#6132, aired 2011-04-19 | BIBLICAL BOOK TITLES $800: A collection of essays by Joan Didion is called "Slouching Towards" this biblical city Bethlehem |
#6132, aired 2011-04-19 | BIBLICAL BOOK TITLES $1000: "The Bear" is one of the stories in Faulkner's collection called "Go Down," him Moses |
#6077, aired 2011-02-01 | CHILDREN'S BOOK TITLES $400: Margery Williams' story of a stuffed toy that comes to life:
"The ____ Rabbit" Velveteen |
#6077, aired 2011-02-01 | CHILDREN'S BOOK TITLES $800: By Judith Viorst:
"Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, ____ ____ Day" Very Bad |
#6077, aired 2011-02-01 | CHILDREN'S BOOK TITLES $1200: By Dr. Seuss:
"The ____ Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins" 500 |
#6077, aired 2011-02-01 | CHILDREN'S BOOK TITLES $1600: By Maurice Sendak:
"In the ____ Kitchen" Night |
#6077, aired 2011-02-01 | CHILDREN'S BOOK TITLES $2000: A classic by Crockett Johnson:
"Harold and the ____ Crayon" Purple |
#5971, aired 2010-07-26 | ORIGINAL TITLES IN LITERATURE? $600: Homer's 24-book sequel:
"Tell Penny I'll Be Right Back" the Odyssey |
#5910, aired 2010-04-30 | NOVELS, BOOKS & LITERATURE $200: In book titles, this character has dealt with a stone, a prisoner, an order & a goblet Harry Potter |
#5734, aired 2009-07-09 | ORIGINAL TITLES $2000: Grace Metalious first titled this book "The Tree and the Blossom", but her publisher changed the title to its locale Peyton Place |
#5675, aired 2009-04-17 | BORROWED BOOK TITLES $400: This Steinbeck novel title comes from Genesis; Cain went there, to the land of Nod, after the murder East of Eden |
#5675, aired 2009-04-17 | BORROWED BOOK TITLES $800: The title of this Robert Penn Warren novel comes from a nursery rhyme All the King's Men |
#5675, aired 2009-04-17 | BORROWED BOOK TITLES $1600: This Hemingway title comes from poet John Donne's meditations about the inter-connectedness of people For Whom the Bell Tolls |
#5675, aired 2009-04-17 | BORROWED BOOK TITLES $2000: This Southern saga published in 1936 gets its title from a line in a poem called "Cynara" Gone With the Wind |
#5675, aired 2009-04-17 | BORROWED BOOK TITLES $3,800 (Daily Double): This title of John Grisham's first novel is from a passage in Ecclesiastes A Time To Kill |
#5287, aired 2007-09-11 | BOOK TITLES $400: Hemingway got the title for this 1926 novel from Ecclesiastes The Sun Also Rises |
#5287, aired 2007-09-11 | BOOK TITLES $800: Dickens: Let's see..."Martin Sweetledew"? No. "Martin Sweetleback"? No. I've got it... "Martin" this! Chuzzlewit |
#5287, aired 2007-09-11 | BOOK TITLES $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Rowan Oak Home) Faulkner was using "Dark House" as a novel title but on this porch, his wife said there was something about the light in this month August |
#5287, aired 2007-09-11 | BOOK TITLES $2000: James Jones considered "Old Soldiers Never Die" as a title for his WWII novel but settled on this, from a Kipling line From Here to Eternity |
#5287, aired 2007-09-11 | BOOK TITLES $4,200 (Daily Double): Shakespeare's Sonnet 30 says, "I summon up" this, which became the title of a Proust work remembrance of things past |
#5282, aired 2007-07-24 | LITERATURE $1600: Modern novels with biblical titles include Jane Hamilton's "The Book of Ruth" & Toni Morrison's "Song of" him Solomon |
#5229, aired 2007-05-10 | LEWIS CARROLL $200: In book titles, Lewis Carroll took Alice on "Adventures in Wonderland" & "Through" this the looking glass |
#5074, aired 2006-10-05 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $200: In book titles, this inquisitive monkey "Visits the Library", "Goes to the Beach" & "Goes to a Costume Party" Curious George |
#4978, aired 2006-04-12 | BOOK TITLES $400: As told to Alex Haley:
"The Autobiography of ___" Malcolm X |
#4978, aired 2006-04-12 | BOOK TITLES $800: Milan Kundera:
"The Unbearable ___" Lightness of Being |
#4978, aired 2006-04-12 | BOOK TITLES $1200: Henry James:
"The Turn of the ___" Screw |
#4978, aired 2006-04-12 | BOOK TITLES $1600: William Faulkner:
"Go Down, ___" Moses |
#4978, aired 2006-04-12 | BOOK TITLES $2000: Thomas Wolfe:
"You Can't ___" Go Home Again |
#4972, aired 2006-04-04 | LAYING THINGS N TO N $400: In book titles, it follows "Prozac" & "Fast Food" Nation |
#4947, aired 2006-02-28 | COLORFUL FILM TITLES $800: "Little ___ Book" Black |
#4897, aired 2005-12-20 | BOOK TITLES $400: T.S. Eliot's poetical classic:
"Old Possum's Book of Practical" these Cats |
#4897, aired 2005-12-20 | BOOK TITLES $800: Thomas Harris introduces Hannibal Lecter:
"Red" this Dragon |
#4897, aired 2005-12-20 | BOOK TITLES $1200: Jerzy Kosinski novel set during the Holocaust:
"The Painted" this Bird |
#4897, aired 2005-12-20 | BOOK TITLES $1600: Part one of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy:
"All the Pretty" these Horses |
#4897, aired 2005-12-20 | BOOK TITLES $2000: A tale by Madeleine L'Engle about a marine biology student:
"The Arm of" this sea creature the Starfish |
#4819, aired 2005-07-14 | BOOK TITLES $400: Sportswriter Rick Reilly wrote about lugging golf bags for Donald Trump & Jack Nicklaus in "Who's Your" this Caddy |
#4819, aired 2005-07-14 | BOOK TITLES $800: The title of this 1813 novel refers to the attitudes that characterize Mr. Darcy & Elizabeth Bennet Pride and Prejudice |
#4819, aired 2005-07-14 | BOOK TITLES $1200: David Sedaris' bestselling 2004 essay collection was "Dress Your Family in" these 2 fabrics denim & corduroy |
#4819, aired 2005-07-14 | BOOK TITLES $1600: A volume of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works is called "Welcome to" this place the Monkey House |
#4819, aired 2005-07-14 | BOOK TITLES $2000: Erskine Caldwell told the story of a Georgia sharecropper in this "Road" story Tobacco Road |
#4769, aired 2005-05-05 | BOOK TITLES $400: Steinbeck:
"____ Flat" Tortilla |
#4769, aired 2005-05-05 | BOOK TITLES $800: Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen:
"____ for the Soul" Chicken Soup |
#4769, aired 2005-05-05 | BOOK TITLES $1200: Sandra Cisneros:
"The House on ____ Street" Mango |
#4769, aired 2005-05-05 | BOOK TITLES $1600: Spencer Johnson:
"Who Moved My ____?" Cheese |
#4769, aired 2005-05-05 | BOOK TITLES $2000: Mark Leyner:
"Tooth Imprints on a ____" Corn Dog |
#4654, aired 2004-11-25 | BOOK BINDINGS $400: O'Neill, 1922 & Tolstoy, 1875-77:
"Anna ____" & "Anna ____" Christie & Karenina |
#4654, aired 2004-11-25 | BOOK BINDINGS $800: Tolkien (a trilogy), 1954-55 & Golding, 1954:
"Lord of the ____" Rings & Flies |
#4517, aired 2004-04-06 | BOOK TITLES $400: Riffing on a Ashton Kutcher film, it's the title of a Michael Moore bestseller Dude, Where's My Country? |
#4517, aired 2004-04-06 | BOOK TITLES $800: A biography of the "Last Child of Camelot" is titled this, like a Neil Diamond song Sweet Caroline |
#4517, aired 2004-04-06 | BOOK TITLES $1200: Oliver & Barbara Rose fight in the movie "War of the Roses"; Brian & Erica Tate battle in this novel The War Between the Tates |
#4517, aired 2004-04-06 | BOOK TITLES $1600: It's the appropriate 3-word title of a 1993 biography of Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing |
#4517, aired 2004-04-06 | BOOK TITLES $2,400 (Daily Double): After circling the globe between June 23 & July 1, 1931, aviator Wiley Post published a book called this Around the World in Eight Days |
#4474, aired 2004-02-05 | BIBLICAL QUOTATIONS $1000: The other 5 categories on the board all take their titles from chapter 3 of this book Ecclesiastes |
#4394, aired 2003-10-16 | BOOK TITLES $400: In 2002 Sue Grafton released "Q is for" this synonym for pit Quarry |
#4394, aired 2003-10-16 | BOOK TITLES $800: Sidney Sheldon wrote "The Other Side of" & "Memories of" this Midnight |
#4394, aired 2003-10-16 | BOOK TITLES $1200: Bruce Feiler's biography of this Biblical figure is subtitled "A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths" Abraham |
#4394, aired 2003-10-16 | BOOK TITLES $2000: Zora Neale Hurston relates Janie's 3 marriages in "Their Eyes Were" doing this Watching God |
#4394, aired 2003-10-16 | BOOK TITLES $7,000 (Daily Double): David Brock's book about "The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative" is called "Blinded by" this the Right |
#4235, aired 2003-01-17 | BEASTLY BOOK TITLES $400: A professional killer plots to assassinate Charles de Gaulle in this thriller by Frederick Forsyth "The Day of the Jackal" |
#4235, aired 2003-01-17 | BEASTLY BOOK TITLES $800: This '88 bestseller begins, "Behavioral science, the FBI section that deals with serial murder, is...at Quantico" "Silence of the Lambs" |
#4235, aired 2003-01-17 | BEASTLY BOOK TITLES $1200: One critic wrote that this memoir by Maya Angelou is "A Biblical study of life in the midst of death" "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" |
#4235, aired 2003-01-17 | BEASTLY BOOK TITLES $1600: Clarissa Pinkola Estes wrote this nonfiction work subtitled "Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype" Women Who Run with the Wolves |
#4235, aired 2003-01-17 | BEASTLY BOOK TITLES $2000: It's Scott O'Dell's Newbery Medal-winning tale of a 12-year-old Native American girl named Karana "Island of the Blue Dolphins" |
#4213, aired 2002-12-18 | "T" TIME AT THE LIBRARY $400: In book titles, this adjective precedes Gertrude Stein's "Buttons" & Fitzgerald's "is the Night" Tender |
#3730, aired 2000-11-17 | DYLAN THOMAS $1000: Dylan riffed on one of this author's titles in the book "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog" James Joyce |
#3563, aired 2000-02-16 | THE BIBLE $100: In Biblical book titles in English, the only "song" is the "Song of" this wise king Solomon |
#3538, aired 2000-01-12 | BIG WORDS $800: In book titles it precedes e.e. cummings' "Room" & Grace Paley's "Changes at the Last Minute" Enormous |
#3473, aired 1999-10-13 | ORIGINAL BOOK TITLES $100: Its working title was "Catch-18" "Catch-22" |
#3473, aired 1999-10-13 | ORIGINAL BOOK TITLES $200: Alex Haley used the working title "Before This Anger" for this bestseller "Roots" |
#3473, aired 1999-10-13 | ORIGINAL BOOK TITLES $300: He originally wanted to title his 1860s classic "All's Well That Ends Well", but settled for "War And Peace" Leo Tolstoy |
#3473, aired 1999-10-13 | ORIGINAL BOOK TITLES $400: This working title for "The Wizard of Oz" came from the Wizard's adopted hometown "The Emerald City" |
#3473, aired 1999-10-13 | ORIGINAL BOOK TITLES $500: "Twilight" was the original title of his "The Sound and the Fury" William Faulkner |
#3099, aired 1998-02-05 | THE BOOK BIZ $400: In 1997 Harper Collins canceled 100 new titles but let the authors keep these up-front payments advances |
#1534, aired 1991-04-11 | "ALL" OR "NOTHING" $200: 1 of 3 James Herriot book titles taken from a poem by Cecil F. Alexander (1 of) All Creatures Great And Small, All Things Wise And Wonderful, or All Things Bright And Beautiful |
#1070, aired 1989-04-07 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: This book about a Dutch boy was 1st published the year our Civil War ended The Silver Skates (Hans Brinker) |
#1046, aired 1989-03-06 | FAMOUS CONRADS $100: Called 'The King of the Innkeepers", he titles his book "Be My Guest" Conrad Hilton |
#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 |