| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | BOOKS BY REPORTERS $800: Newspaperman Ben Hecht wrote the novel "Erik Dorn" & then wrote for the movies with this director's "Spellbound" Hitchcock |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | NEW TO THE OED $800: It means to dress up (& maybe perform) as a character from comic books, video games, movies etc. cosplay |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Her novels "Show Boat", "Cimarron" & "Giant" were all turned into memorable Hollywood movies Edna Ferber |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | BOOKS & THEIR MOVIES $400: The first line of Winston Groom's novel about this guy mentions a box of chocolates; the Tom Hanks film mentioned them too Forrest Gump |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | BOOKS & THEIR MOVIES $800: The title of this Michael Ondaatje novel & film actually refers to a Hungarian count, badly burned after a plane crash The English Patient |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | BOOKS & THEIR MOVIES $1200: When Hitler saw this 1940 movie based on a Steinbeck novel, he saw Americans as pushovers; Stalin relished the misery of the proletariat The Grapes of Wrath |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | BOOKS & THEIR MOVIES $1600: This Ridley Scott film based on Eric Jager's true story of medieval France saw Matt Damon tilting against Adam Driver The Last Duel |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | BOOKS & THEIR MOVIES $3,000 (Daily Double): The title of this 2007 film adapted from a novel comes from a Yeats poem that says, "An aged man is but a paltry thing" No Country for Old Men |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1200: "About a Boy" & "Fever Pitch" are among his books that have been made into movies Nick Hornby |
| #7422, aired 2016-12-13 | BOOKS OF THE 1930s $1200: The title of this book that spawned several movies didn't refer to its detective hero but to lanky Clyde Wynant The Thin Man |
| #6945, aired 2014-11-21 | MEDIA $200: In 2011 Antonin Scalia wrote, "like...books, plays and movies," these games "communicate ideas" video games |
| #6892, aired 2014-07-29 | GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATIONS $2000: "Stardust" & "Coraline" are but 2 of this author's works that have made it as books, graphic novels & movies Neil Gaiman |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | AMERICAN NOVELS $2000: His books "Little Children" & "Election" have been made into movies Tom Perrotta |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | LUCY $1000: Lucy Pevensie is a character in the books & movies set in this fictional land Narnia |
| #6214, aired 2011-09-29 | SIDEKICKS $800: In books & the movies, Harry Potter has 2 sidekicks: Hermione Granger & this redheaded boy Ron Weasley |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | BOOKS & MOVIES $400: The Power and the
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Daze Glory |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | BOOKS & MOVIES $800: The Confessions of Nat
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and Hooch Turner |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | BOOKS & MOVIES $1200: The Painted
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on a Wire Bird |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | BOOKS & MOVIES $1600: Vanity
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Game Fair |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | BOOKS & MOVIES $2000: The Red and the
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Knight Black |
| #5838, aired 2010-01-20 | ABBREVIATED MAGAZINES $600: Covering movies, TV, books...:
EW Entertainment Weekly |
| #4449, aired 2004-01-01 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: His "Postman Always Rings Twice", "Double Indemnity" & "Mildred Pierce" were all made into movies James M. Cain |
| #4091, aired 2002-05-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: This novelist appropriately directed the third installment of "The Exorcist" movies William Peter Blatty |
| #3853, aired 2001-05-09 | WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE $800: They didn't make crazy movies into Broadway shows, they took books like this Artful Dodger Dickens classic "Oliver Twist" |
| #3625, aired 2000-05-12 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $600: Her books include "I Lost It At The Movies" & "5001 Nights At The Movies" Pauline Kael |
| #3326, aired 1999-02-08 | CELEBRITY BOOKS $400: In "In the Arena", he takes readers behind the scenes of such movies as "Ben-Hur" Charlton Heston |
| #2952, aired 1997-06-03 | BOOKS INTO MOVIES $200: "The Bible", with George C. Scott as Abraham, restricts itself to this Biblical book Genesis |
| #2952, aired 1997-06-03 | BOOKS INTO MOVIES $400: Book 9, chapter 5 of this Fielding novel became a famous erotic eating scene in the movie Tom Jones |
| #2952, aired 1997-06-03 | BOOKS INTO MOVIES $600: This Lorenzo Carcaterra book that became a 1996 movie was published as a true story; some doubted it Sleepers |
| #2952, aired 1997-06-03 | BOOKS INTO MOVIES $800: Cameron Crowe returned to high school to research the book that became this 1982 Sean Penn film Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| #2952, aired 1997-06-03 | BOOKS INTO MOVIES $1000: Francois Truffaut based 2 films on Henri-Pierre Roche love triangle tales: "Two English Girls" & this one Jules et Jim |
| #2743, aired 1996-07-03 | RECENT SHAKESPEARE MOVIES $1,300 (Daily Double): 1991's "Prospero's Books" with John Gielgud & Isabelle Pasco was based on this play The Tempest |
| #2357, aired 1994-11-29 | UNUSUAL BOOKS $200: Jewel Shepard's "Invasion of the B-Girls" is a collection of interviews with girls who appear in these B-movies |
| #1973, aired 1993-03-17 | BOOKS & ARTHURS $800: His "Hotel",
"Airport",
"Wheels" &
"The Moneychangers" have all become movies Arthur Hailey |
| #1379, aired 1990-09-06 | THE MOVIES $800: This New York critic titled one of her books of reviews, "I Lost It at the Movies" Pauline Kael |
| #1303, aired 1990-04-11 | REFERENCE BOOKS $200: Leslie Halliwell & Leonard Maltin are both known for writing guides to these movies |
| #1143, aired 1989-07-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Scottish author whose "The Guns of Navarone" & "Ice Station Zebra" have been made into movies Alistair MacLean |
| #447, aired 1986-05-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Movies made from his books include "The Last Picture Show", "Hud" & "Terms of Endearment" Larry McMurtry |
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