| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | MOVIE INSPIRATIONS $800: Christopher Nolan said he got inspired to make "Oppenheimer" after this "Twilight" star gifted him a book of Oppie's speeches (Robert) Pattinson |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | PAGE TO SCREEN WITH A DIFFERENT TITLE $600: Dick King-Smith's book first published in the U.K. as "The Sheep-Pig" was adapted into this movie Babe |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | THE OFFICE $400: A platonic female best friend & confidante to a co-worker; it was the title of a 1930 book & movie The Office Wife |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | FROM BOOK TO MOVIE WITH A DIFFERENT TITLE $200: Before it was "Schindler's List" on film, the book was "Schindler's" this (meaning the one of the covenant) Ark |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | FROM BOOK TO MOVIE WITH A DIFFERENT TITLE $400: About a CIA analyst on the run, "Six Days of the Condor" was reduced to this many days in the movie version Three |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | FROM BOOK TO MOVIE WITH A DIFFERENT TITLE $600: Ben Mezrich's "The Accidental Billionaires" became this movie about the startup of Facebook The Social Network |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | FROM BOOK TO MOVIE WITH A DIFFERENT TITLE $800: Houston, we have a new title: "Lost Moon" by this astronaut was the basis for "Apollo 13" Jim Lovell |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | FROM BOOK TO MOVIE WITH A DIFFERENT TITLE $1000: "The Midwich Cuckoos" inspired this "Damned" 1960 film about children with frightening powers in a small town Village of the Damned |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | FROM BOOK TO RETITLED FILM $400: The movie "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" was based on a novel with this other character in the title Charlie |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | FROM BOOK TO RETITLED FILM $1200: Centered on an evil puzzle box, "The Hellbound Heart" by Clive Barker scared up this 1987 horror movie, you pinhead Hellraiser |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | MOVIE TO STAGE $1000: Tina Fey wrote the book for this musical adaptation about surviving high school cliques Mean Girls |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN MY MOVIE $200: As Charles Xavier, James McAvoy reads to his students from "The Once & Future King" in the "Apocalypse" film in this franchise the X-Men franchise |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN MY MOVIE $600: In this film that's near & dear to us, Rosie Perez reads the World Almanac to study for "Jeopardy!" White Men Can't Jump |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN MY MOVIE $800: In "Pleasantville" Reese Witherspoon goes from black & white to color after reading this novel by D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | THE NONFICTION BOOK'S SUBTITLE $1,000 (Daily Double): Made into a Jennifer Aniston movie, "The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys" He's Just Not That Into You |
| #7961, aired 2019-04-01 | THEY TURNED MY BOOK INTO A MOVIE $1200: "A Walk to Remember" (Nicholas) Sparks |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | LIT-POURRI $1,500 (Daily Double): The title of this World War II-set novel refers to Liesel Meminger, who learns to read what she has stolen The Book Thief |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | BOOK TO MOVIE $400: "Shoeless Joe" by W.P. Kinsella Field of Dreams |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | BOOK TO MOVIE $800: The novella "The Body" by Stephen King Stand By Me |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | BOOK TO MOVIE $1200: Starring Tom Cruise: "One Shot" by Lee Child Jack Reacher |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | BOOK TO MOVIE $1600: Earning young Tatum O'Neal an Oscar: "Addie Pray" by Joe David Brown Paper Moon |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | BOOK TO MOVIE $2000: Starring Montgomery Clift & Elizabeth Taylor: "An American Tragedy" by Theodore Dreiser A Place in the Sun |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | ZED'S DEAD, BABY $1600: Oy, I could just take the "Z" off the end of a word from Yiddish meaning "to burst" & get the story of a book or movie plotz & plot |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | POP CULTURE MICE $1600: A money-strapped duchy decides to declare war on the U.S. in the book & movie "The Mouse that" did this Roared |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | FROM BOOK TO FILM $1000: William Peter Blatty's novel "Legion" provided the basis for the third film in this diabolical movie series The Exorcist |
| #6950, aired 2014-11-28 | SLEEP $1600: Adjective for a drug that helps you sleep or a book or movie so boring it puts you to sleep soporific |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | READ THE BOOK, SAW IT ON HBO $1600: (Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times presents the clue.) Based on my book, the 2011 HBO movie "Too Big to Fail" starred William Hurt as this George W. Bush Treasury secretary known informally as Hank (Henry) Paulson |
| #6715, aired 2013-11-22 | USER NAME $600: In a 1949 comic book & a 1978 movie, he uses a chunk of kryptonite to mess with Superman Lex Luthor |
| #6597, aired 2013-04-30 | ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $1200: The subtitle to this book, a 2012 movie, is "How the CIA and Hollywood pulled off the most audacious rescue in history" Argo |
| #6589, aired 2013-04-18 | AUTHORS AGAINST ADAPTATIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): Winston Groom's sequel to this book says, "don't never let nobody make a movie of your life's story" Forrest Gump |
| #6380, aired 2012-05-18 | TV GUIDE MOVIE SYNOPSES $1,000 (Daily Double): 1953:
"Life on a Honolulu Army post just before the Pearl Harbor attack" From Here to Eternity |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | SLANG $400: This 2-word warning lets you know that crucial plot elements of a book or movie are about to be given away a spoiler alert |
| #6226, aired 2011-10-17 | YOU'VE GOT THE WRITE STUFF, JAMES $2000: Already a Joan Crawford movie, your "Mildred Pierce" came to TV in a 2011 version more faithful to the book James M. Cain |
| #6217, aired 2011-10-04 | THEY OUGHT TO MAKE A MOVIE $800: Get the rights to the original travel book this continent "on $5 a Day", from 1957; talk about nostalgia value! Europe |
| #5662, aired 2009-03-31 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: This Behrendt & Tuccillo book, now a movie, is subtitled "The no-excuses truth to understanding guys" He's Just Not That Into You |
| #5360, aired 2007-12-21 | FROM A TO E $1600: This 1970s book, later a movie, told the true & gripping tale of survival in the Andes after a 1972 plane crash Alive |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | COMEDY FILMS $1600: This Kate Hudson-Matthew McConaughey movie was based on a book subtitled "The Universal Don'ts of Dating" How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days |
| #4461, aired 2004-01-19 | BOOK TO MOVIE $400: 1905's "The Clansman" by Thomas Dixon, Jr. became this silent D.W. Griffith classic Birth of a Nation |
| #4461, aired 2004-01-19 | BOOK TO MOVIE $800: "Flowers for Algernon" became this Cliff Robertson movie Charly |
| #4461, aired 2004-01-19 | BOOK TO MOVIE $1600: Larry McMurtry's "Horseman, Pass By" inspired this 1963 Paul Newman film Hud |
| #4461, aired 2004-01-19 | BOOK TO MOVIE $2000: Kubrick filmed "Dream Story" by Arthur Schnitzler under this title Eyes Wide Shut |
| #4461, aired 2004-01-19 | BOOK TO MOVIE $3,400 (Daily Double): 1995 film based on "Lost Moon" by Jim Lovell & Jeffrey Kluger Apollo 13 |
| #3947, aired 2001-10-30 | FROM BOOK TO TV $400: In 1979 this James Jones novel was a miniseries with Steve Railsback in Montgomery Clift's movie role From Here to Eternity |
| #3807, aired 2001-03-06 | MOVIE REVIEWS $300: "The Return of the Blah Witch" was the L.A. Times' headline to this sequel subtitled "Blair Witch 2" Book of Shadows |
| #3577, aired 2000-03-07 | WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE? $200: Completes the title of a book & TV movie about heiress Barbara Hutton, "Poor Little..." Rich Girl |
| #3534, aired 2000-01-06 | "NEVER" AT THE MOVIES $600: This 1977 movie about a schizophrenic girl was adapted from Joanne Greenberg's book of the same name I Never Promised You a Rose Garden |
| #3310, aired 1999-01-15 | FROM BOOK TO SCREEN $2,000 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Jane Leeves.) I provided the voice of a ladybug in the movie "James and the Giant Peach", based on a book by this author Roald Dahl |
| #3289, aired 1998-12-17 | READ THE BOOK, SAW THE FILM $1000: Jack Burden is this book's central character; the 1949 movie switched it to Willie Stark All The King's Men |
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