#8832, aired 2023-03-21 | BOOKS: THE FUTURE IS NOW $2000: He saw 2024 as a hellish wasteland in his 1969 short story "A Boy & His Dog" Harlan Ellison |
#8810, aired 2023-02-17 | STAY COOL $800: Riff in this Broadway musical suggests that despite the rocket you may have in your pocket, "Keep coolly cool, boy" West Side Story |
#8, aired 2022-11-13 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE & LEGENDS $300: A story goes that asked by his father if he'd chopped down a cherry tree, this boy admitted it, saying, "I cannot tell a lie" George Washington |
#8715, aired 2022-10-07 | RECENT LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $1200: In 800 pages Paul Auster's "Burning Boy" tells the story of this "Red Badge of Courage" author who died aged 28 (Stephen) Crane |
#8415, aired 2021-06-04 | BEHIND THE SONG $400: The ambiguously gendered name of "A Christmas Story" writer Jean Shepherd inspired Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named" this Sue |
#8408, aired 2021-05-26 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE $800: In a story by Mary Mapes Dodge, the sister of this title boy wins the silver skates Hans Brinker |
#8400, aired 2021-05-14 | HISTORICAL FICTION $1200: Mary Renault's "The Persian Boy" tells the story of a courtesan in love with this 4th century B.C. warrior king Alexander the Great |
#8073, aired 2019-10-16 | HER STORY $200: Her tale of a boy wizard was rejected by 12 publishers before Bloomsbury picked it up J.K. Rowling |
#7895, aired 2018-12-28 | BOY STORY $200: What, were you raised by wolves? well, if you're this "Jungle Book" boy, then yes, you were Mowgli |
#7895, aired 2018-12-28 | BOY STORY $400: Parzival is the avatar of a kid with an extremely good handle on '80s pop culture in this novel Ready Player One |
#7895, aired 2018-12-28 | BOY STORY $600: The name "Pip" is mentioned 3 times in the first 2 sentences of this novel--we get it, the guy's name is Pip Great Expectations |
#7895, aired 2018-12-28 | BOY STORY $800: R.J. Palacio said this bestseller about Auggie Pullman & his unique face was "a meditation on kindness" Wonder |
#7895, aired 2018-12-28 | BOY STORY $1000: It's Nick Hornby's novel concerning a 12-year-old lad & a man in his 30s & how the 2 bond About a Boy |
#7809, aired 2018-07-19 | O'BOY $400: A story from ancient Greece was the basis for Eugene O'Neill's trilogy "Mourning Becomes" her Electra |
#7745, aired 2018-04-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Mouselike boy in an E.B. White story traveling through the heavens as Ursa Minor Stuart Little Dipper |
#7657, aired 2017-12-19 | CHRISTMAS MOVIES WITH LEONARD MALTIN $800: (Film critic Leonard Maltin presents the clue.) In the perennial favorite "A Christmas Story", Peter Billingsley plays this boy who wants nothing more than a Red Ryder BB gun Ralphie |
#7415, aired 2016-12-02 | BROADWAY $1200: This play that first came to Broadway in 1974 was inspired by a story about a boy who had blinded several horses Equus |
#7179, aired 2015-11-26 | A LITTLE READING $200: First & last name of E.B. White's adventurous mouse-like boy from a 1945 story Stuart Little |
#7165, aired 2015-11-06 | A REAL CHARACTER $2000: This boy, voiced by John Morris, owns most of the "Toy Story" toys Andy |
#7159, aired 2015-10-29 | LAND OF ENCHANTMENT $400: "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis begins, "This is the story of an adventure that happened" here Narnia |
#6960, aired 2014-12-12 | "L"ITERATURE $200: Boy meets girl, boy loses girl in this tearjerker about Oliver & Jenny Love Story |
#6943, aired 2014-11-19 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1,800 (Daily Double): This Kipling character first appeared as an adult in the story "In the Rukh", then as a boy in "The Jungle Book" Mowgli |
#6836, aired 2014-05-12 | WE GET LETTERS $400: In a letter to a 5-year-old boy, she wrote the story of 4 little rabbits named Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail & Peter (Beatrix) Potter |
#6728, aired 2013-12-11 | THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY $1600: In 1957 Buddy topped the charts with a hit with this title, a line repeatedly spoken by John Wayne in "The Searchers" "That'll Be The Day" |
#6721, aired 2013-12-02 | A CHRISTMAS STORY $1000: In "The Polar Express", for the first gift of Christmas, a boy asks for one of these from Santa's sleigh a (silver sleigh) bell |
#6608, aired 2013-05-15 | NOVELLAS $800: Harlan Ellison won a Best Novella Nebula Award for his story about "a boy" & his intelligence-enhanced this a dog |
#6572, aired 2013-03-26 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $1600: This ex-minister's first novel for boys, "Ragged Dick", told the story of a poor shoeshine boy who rises to wealth Horatio Alger |
#6542, aired 2013-02-12 | ODD ENDS $800: In an O. Henry story, a boy kidnapped for this payment is so much trouble that in the end the kidnappers pay to return him ransom |
#6093, aired 2011-02-23 | QUICK LIT $200: This Twain boy tells the story of helping a slave named Jim escape Huck Finn |
#6039, aired 2010-12-09 | OPRAH'S FAVORITE BOOKS $2000: (Oprah gives the clue from a chair) One of my favorite books from the last decade is David Wroblewski's debut novel about the bond between a mute boy & his dogs called "The Story of" him Edgar Sawtelle |
#5925, aired 2010-05-21 | GERMAN LITERATURE $800: His 1922 novella "Siddhartha" tells the story of an Indian boy on a spiritual journey during the time of Buddha (Hermann) Hesse |
#5797, aired 2009-11-24 | LYRICS FROM MUSICALS $800: "A boy like that who'd kill your brother, forget that boy & find another, one of your own kind" West Side Story |
#5611, aired 2009-01-19 | SCIENCE FICTION $600: This 1969 novella by Harlan Ellison tells the story of Blood, a telepathic canine who teaches his master to read A Boy and His Dog |
#5464, aired 2008-05-15 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: "The story of Nat Turner had been long gestating in my mind, ever since I was a boy", said this novelist William Styron |
#5182, aired 2007-03-06 | AT THE MOVIES $1200: Don Johnson & a talking pooch were the stars of this 1975 film based on a Harlan Ellison story A Boy and His Dog |
#5144, aired 2007-01-11 | A 5-CHAPTER STORY ABOUT STORIES $400: Ch. 1: This Russian title boy meets girl (Lara) Doctor Zhivago |
#5144, aired 2007-01-11 | A 5-CHAPTER STORY ABOUT STORIES $800: Ch. 2: Rich boy (Oliver) falls for poor girl (Jenny) in this 1970 first novel Love Story |
#5144, aired 2007-01-11 | A 5-CHAPTER STORY ABOUT STORIES $1200: Ch. 3: Boy & girl have a family (well, an imaginary one, at least) & entertain Nick & Honey in this 1962 play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
#5144, aired 2007-01-11 | A 5-CHAPTER STORY ABOUT STORIES $2000: Ch. 5: This 1819 title boy gets girl (Rowena) & their pals leave England for Iberia Ivanhoe |
#5144, aired 2007-01-11 | A 5-CHAPTER STORY ABOUT STORIES $3,000 (Daily Double): Ch. 4: Boy poet loses this title girl when kinsmen "shut her up in a sepulchre / In this kingdom by the sea" Annabel Lee |
#5105, aired 2006-11-17 | JERSEY BOYS $400 (Daily Double): (Before the clue is given, Daniel Reichard, John Lloyd Young, Christian Hoff, and J. Robert Spencer from the Broadway hit Jersey Boys perform.)
"Big girls don't cry-y-y (they don't cry) /
Big girls don't cry (I wonder why) /
(Silly boy) Told my girl we had to break up /
(Silly boy) Thought that she would call my bluff /
(Silly boy) Then she said to my surprise /
'Big girls don't cry'"
"Jersey Boys" tells the rags-to-rock-to-riches story of this legendary group (Frankie Valli and) The Four Seasons |
#4760, aired 2005-04-22 | ENGLISH LIT $1600: In a D.H. Lawrence short story, a young boy rides himself to death on a demonic one of these title toys a rocking horse |
#4585, aired 2004-07-09 | BOX IT UP $400: This 1969 Simon & Garfunkel hit begins, "I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom told" "The Boxer" |
#4508, aired 2004-03-24 | SCANDALOUS STORY HEADLINES $200: "Police Arrest" this egg boy "After Drunken 'Jackass' Copycat Falling-Off-Wall Stunt!" Humpty Dumpty |
#4419, aired 2003-11-20 | THE CIVIL WAR $800: An 1860s song tells the story of "The Drummer Boy of" this battle site, also called Pittsburg Landing Shiloh |
#4248, aired 2003-02-05 | WE LOVE THE THEATRE $200: A '97 musical told the story of a kid who was half-boy & half-one of these bloodsucking flying animals bat |
#3849, aired 2001-05-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: This J.D. Salinger novel tells the story of 2 days in the life of a 16-year-old boy "The Catcher in the Rye" |
#3804, aired 2001-03-01 | THE STORY OF MY LIFE $1000: "Black Boy" Richard Wright |
#3721, aired 2000-11-06 | THE ADAM SANDLER STORY $200: In 1998 Adam Sandler was Bobby Boucher, this title "boy" at a Louisiana university The Waterboy |
#3721, aired 2000-11-06 | THE ADAM SANDLER STORY $500: Adam played Stick Pin Quinn & the Stud Boy on this hip, happening MTV game show Remote Control |
#3664, aired 2000-07-06 | STORY SONGS $400: In a Bobbie Gentry ode, Papa says this boy "Never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please" Billie Joe (McAllister) |
#3628, aired 2000-05-17 | GEORGIA SONGS $400: A boy named Johnny wins an important fiddlin' contest in this 1979 story song "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" |
#3519, aired 1999-12-16 | PLAY"BOY" $300: Madonna popularized the terms "Material Girl", "Vogue" & this phrase for a plaything "Boytoy" |
#3416, aired 1999-06-14 | FOREVER $500: Michael Ende's story of a boy who enters a fantasy world when he reads a book about it The Neverending Story |
#3338, aired 1999-02-24 | KIDDY LIT $600 (Daily Double): A boy rides a magical train to visit Santa on Christmas Eve in this story by Chris Van Allsburg The Polar Express |
#3192, aired 1998-06-16 | JOHN HUGHES FILMS $100: It's the 1990 story of an 8-year-old boy accidentally abandoned at Christmas Home Alone |
#2984, aired 1997-07-17 | LITERARY DISGUISES $600: In an Isaac Bashevis Singer story, she becomes a "Yeshiva Boy" Yentl |
#2953, aired 1997-06-04 | ON "MY" TV $400: The story of a boy, Ken McLaughlin, & his horse, whose name is in the title "My Friend Flicka" |
#2765, aired 1996-09-13 | CHILDREN'S LIT $400: This Roald Dahl story about a little boy & a big fruit was turned into a 1996 film James and the Giant Peach |
#2729, aired 1996-06-13 | LITERATURE $400: In the "Thousand and One Nights", Scheherazade tells the story of this poor Chinese boy & his magic lamp Aladdin |
#2671, aired 1996-03-25 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: This Mary Mapes Dodge novel contains the story of a boy who thrust his finger into a hole in a dike Hans Brinker |
#1836, aired 1992-09-07 | MUSICAL THEATRE $100: Originally it was to involve a Jewish boy & a Catholic girl & was to be called "East Side Story" West Side Story |
#1827, aired 1992-07-07 | FILMS OF THE '40s $2,000 (Daily Double): In "The Jolson Story" Scotty Beckett played Jolson as a boy & this actor played him as an adult Larry Parks |
#1771, aired 1992-04-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: Bob Thomas' 1983 biography "Golden Boy" was "The Untold Story of" this actor William Holden |
#1693, aired 1992-01-01 | MYSTERIES $700 (Daily Double): Wilkie Collins said this novel was inspired partly by the story of the Koh-i-Noor diamond The Moonstone |
#1688, aired 1991-12-25 | SHORT STORIES $800: D.H. Lawrence wrote a story about a boy who rides himself to death on 1 of these equine toys a rocking horse |
#1660, aired 1991-11-15 | FLORIDIANS $400: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for this story of a boy & his fawn The Yearling |
#1462, aired 1991-01-01 | ODDS & ENDS $500: Collier's Encyclopedia says wood lore forms a backdrop in her story of a boy & "The Yearling" (Marjorie Kinnan) Rawlings |
#874, aired 1988-05-26 | FOREIGN FILMS $200: The story of a 12-year-old boy coming of age, "My Life as a Dog" is from this country Sweden |
#659, aired 1987-06-18 | EARLY KIDS' TV $400: Peter Graves & Bobby Diamond starred in this "Story of a horse & the boy who loved him" Fury |
#636, aired 1987-05-18 | ODD JOBS $300: Before computer terminals, you called this person to carry your newspaper story to the editor copy boy |
#487, aired 1986-10-21 | SCOTLAND $400: Scottish highlander who gave us the story of a high-flying boy who won't grow up James Barrie |
#472, aired 1986-09-30 | NOVEL PLOTS $200: Missouri boy who uses friends to whitewash part of his story Tom Sawyer |
#352, aired 1986-01-14 | ATHLETIC SONGS $200 (Daily Double): Title of the following 1969 song by Simon & Garfunkel:
"I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told / I have squandered my resistance..." "The Boxer" |
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