| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | BRIT LIT $200: Thomas Hardy promised his editor a pastoral novel & indeed set it, as the title says, "Far from" this group the Madding Crowd |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | BRIT LIT $400: Passionate & a bit on the dark side, "The Giaour" in a poem by this lord & romantic is truly a him-ic hero Lord Byron |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | BRIT LIT $600: In "A Room with a View", the view isn't of England but of this country Italy |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | BRIT LIT $800: In Sir Walter Scott's "Castle Dangerous", which is book good, the castle is defended in 1306 against this Scottish king Robert the Bruce |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | BRIT LIT $1000: As the title suggests, this D.H. Lawrence novel recounts the romantic affairs of sisters Gudrun & Ursula Women in Love |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | A BIT OF BRIT LIT $200: Michael Bond published more than a dozen kids' novels about this beloved bear living in London Paddington |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | A BIT OF BRIT LIT $400: In this work Satan disguises himself as a cherub to sneak past an archangel to get to earth to corrupt Adam Paradise Lost |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | A BIT OF BRIT LIT $600: A character in "Ivanhoe" who's good with a bow & arrow is called Locksley; we know him better as this legendary guy Robin Hood |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | A BIT OF BRIT LIT $800: Because he serves a man, Bertie Wooster, & not a household, P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves has this job title, not butler valet |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | A BIT OF BRIT LIT $1000: "The Dong with a Luminous Nose" is one of the nonsense poems in his 1877 "Laughable Lyrics" collection Edward Lear |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BRIT LIT $400: You down with E.B.B., this poet who wrote "The Sleep" & "The Soul's Expression"? Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BRIT LIT $800: 50 years after slaying a monster & its mother, the hero of this Old English poem must battle a dragon Beowulf |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BRIT LIT $1,000 (Daily Double): Chapters in this H.G. Wells novel include "In the Golden Age" & "The Sunset of Mankind" The Time Machine |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BRIT LIT $1600: At a tea party, it's this Lewis Carroll character who asks Alice, "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" the Mad Hatter |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BRIT LIT $2000: Squire Allworthy finds a baby in his bed one night--the title character of this 1749 novel by Henry Fielding Tom Jones |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | A BIT O' BRIT LIT $200: An alternate title of this Agatha Christie mystery was "Murder in the Calais Coach" Murder on the Orient Express |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | A BIT O' BRIT LIT $400: This 14th century poet created the oft-widowed wife of Bath Chaucer |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | A BIT O' BRIT LIT $600: In a Thomas Hardy novel, this "Obscure" guy is warned that "the Fawleys were not made for wedlock" Jude |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | A BIT O' BRIT LIT $800: In 1907 this Bombay-born Englishman who celebrated the empire won the Nobel Prize for Literature Kipling |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | A BIT O' BRIT LIT $1000: Arrr! He's the leader of the pirates in Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" Long John Silver |
| #7749, aired 2018-04-26 | EXPRESSIONS FROM OLD BRIT LIT $200: Heaven's candle the sun |
| #7749, aired 2018-04-26 | EXPRESSIONS FROM OLD BRIT LIT $400: Bone-house your body |
| #7749, aired 2018-04-26 | EXPRESSIONS FROM OLD BRIT LIT $600: Word-hoard the vocabulary |
| #7749, aired 2018-04-26 | EXPRESSIONS FROM OLD BRIT LIT $800: Battle-sweat blood |
| #7749, aired 2018-04-26 | EXPRESSIONS FROM OLD BRIT LIT $1000: Treasure-seat a throne |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | BRIT LIT $400: This 18th c. Scotsman is famed for his diaries as well as for his biography of Samuel Johnson James Boswell |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | BRIT LIT $800: An adventure novel by H.Rider Haggard takes its hero to this Biblical king's mines Solomon |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | BRIT LIT $1200: "Aunts Aren't Gentlemen" was the last pairing of Jeeves & Wooster in a comedy novel by this Englishman (P. G.) Wodehouse |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | BRIT LIT $1600: This "colorful" English author's works include "Brighton Rock" & "The Quiet American" Graham Greene |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | BRIT LIT $2000: In 1910 E.M. Forster published this novel about British social divisions told through the Wilcox & Schlegel families Howards End |
| #7166, aired 2015-11-09 | A BIT O' BRIT LIT $200: The title character in "The Pilgrim's Progress" is named this, but nobody calls him Chris Christian |
| #7166, aired 2015-11-09 | A BIT O' BRIT LIT $400: This "Blithe Spirit" playwright published poems under the pen name Hernia Whittlebot Noël Coward |
| #7166, aired 2015-11-09 | A BIT O' BRIT LIT $600: Jane Eyre marries this mysterious man Rochester |
| #7166, aired 2015-11-09 | A BIT O' BRIT LIT $800: 1741's "Shamela" was a satire of Samuel Richardson's moralistic novel about this title girl Pamela |
| #7166, aired 2015-11-09 | A BIT O' BRIT LIT $1000: "The Holy Grail" & "The Last Tournament" are 2 of the 12 connected poems in this Tennyson work Idylls of the King |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | BRIT LIT $400: Christopher Marlowe gained fame for blank verse, iambic pentameter that doesn't do this rhyme |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | BRIT LIT $500 (Daily Double): Just because this Dickens novel has 2 consecutive "Z"s in the title doesn't mean you will fall asleep reading it The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | BRIT LIT $1200: Swift's "A Modest Proposal" satirically suggests that, to eliminate poverty, these should be eaten children |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | BRIT LIT $1600: His spooky 2013 effort "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" was voted National Book of the Year in England Neil Gaiman |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | BRIT LIT $2000: "Presents, I often say, endear absents", wrote this "sheepish" essayist in 1822 Charles Lamb |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | 19th CENTURY BRIT LIT $400: He set many of his works, beginning with "Far From the Madding Crowd", in an area of England called Wessex Thomas Hardy |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | 19th CENTURY BRIT LIT $800: "Ivanhoe" was an immediate success when released in 1819, & this author soon became a baronet Sir Walter Scott |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | 19th CENTURY BRIT LIT $1200: "A Novel Without a Hero" is the subtitle of this Thackeray work Vanity Fair |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | 19th CENTURY BRIT LIT $1600: This author's 1860 novel "The Woman in White" was loosely based on a French case Wilkie Collins |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | 19th CENTURY BRIT LIT $4,400 (Daily Double): Amy is the real name of this Dickens title character who was born in the Marshalsea debtor's prison Little Dorrit |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | BRITISH LIT $400: In part for his "virility of ideas", this "Jungle Book" author was the first Brit to win the Nobel Prize for literature Kipling |
| #6403, aired 2012-06-20 | A BIT OF BRIT LIT $400: She dedicated "Jane Eyre" to fellow author William Makepeace Thackeray Charlotte Brontë |
| #6403, aired 2012-06-20 | A BIT OF BRIT LIT $800: Edmund Clerihew Bentley once rhymed, "the novels of" this author "are the ones to get lost in" Jane Austen |
| #6403, aired 2012-06-20 | A BIT OF BRIT LIT $1200: Samuel Johnson gave this "philosophical" name to a group of 17th c. poets that included John Donne the metaphysical poets |
| #6403, aired 2012-06-20 | A BIT OF BRIT LIT $1600: Last name of Wilkie, whose writing formula was "make 'em laugh, make 'em cry, make 'em wait" Collins |
| #6403, aired 2012-06-20 | A BIT OF BRIT LIT $2000: He was the "venerable" early scholar who wrote "The Ecclesiastical History of the English People" the Venerable Bede |
| #5990, aired 2010-10-01 | 19th CENTURY LIT $1200: Known for his gloomy novels, this Brit also published 9 volumes of rhyming verse starting in 1898 Thomas Hardy |
| #5756, aired 2009-09-28 | BRIT LIT $400: He often worked with an illustrator known as "Phiz", but his "Great Expectations" had no Phiz Charles Dickens |
| #5756, aired 2009-09-28 | BRIT LIT $800: Liza, heroine of W. Somerset Maugham's first novel, is one of these Londoners--she says money is "'idden awy" a Cockney |
| #5756, aired 2009-09-28 | BRIT LIT $1200: For a greatt writer, he couldn't spell to save his life, as in his line about "the hooly blisful martir" Geoffrey Chaucer |
| #5756, aired 2009-09-28 | BRIT LIT $1600: In H. Rider Haggard's novel, this title pronoun is followed in the text by "-who-must-be-obeyed" She |
| #5756, aired 2009-09-28 | BRIT LIT $2000: The preface to this "Lyrical" collection by Wordsworth & Coleridge is a manifesto of Romanticism the Lyrical Ballads |
| #5092, aired 2006-10-31 | MEN OF TRINITY COLLEGE $800: This giant of Brit lit could first be called "Doctor" when Trinity made him an honorary doctor of laws in 1765 Dr. Samuel Johnson |
| #4952, aired 2006-03-07 | BRIT LIT $400: The full title of a Henry Fielding novel is "The History of" him, "a Foundling" Tom Jones |
| #4952, aired 2006-03-07 | BRIT LIT $800: Dona Inez is the mother of this Byron title character Don Juan |
| #4952, aired 2006-03-07 | BRIT LIT $1200: "Jacob's Room" & "A Room of One's Own" are by this member of the Bloomsbury Group Virginia Woolf |
| #4952, aired 2006-03-07 | BRIT LIT $1600: At the end of this novel, the contents of the note that George secretly gave Becky Sharp are finally revealed Vanity Fair |
| #4952, aired 2006-03-07 | BRIT LIT $2000: He served up "Cakes and Ale", a 1930 satire of English literary life Somerset Maugham |
| #4722, aired 2005-03-01 | BRIT LIT $400: Here's a twist: he created Clara Copperfield Charles Dickens |
| #4722, aired 2005-03-01 | BRIT LIT $800: In "The Canterbury Tales", "The Knight's Tale" is followed by this "floury" one "The Miller's Tale" |
| #4722, aired 2005-03-01 | BRIT LIT $1600: The creepy early novels of this author of "Atonement" got him dubbed "Ian Macabre" Ian McEwan |
| #4722, aired 2005-03-01 | BRIT LIT $2,000 (Daily Double): The alternate title of "Twelfth Night" means roughly the same as the title of this other Shakespeare play As You Like It |
| #4722, aired 2005-03-01 | BRIT LIT $2000: In 1728 Alexander Pope satirized his enemies not in "The Dopiad" or "The Fooliad", but in this mock-heroic poem The Dunciad |
| #4692, aired 2005-01-18 | BRIT LIT $400: In his 1845 work "Dramatic Romances", Robert Browning introduces us to this musical rat remover the Pied Piper |
| #4692, aired 2005-01-18 | BRIT LIT $800: Of a future land, a patent medicine, or an alien visitor, what H.G. Wells' "Tono-Bungay" is patent medicine |
| #4692, aired 2005-01-18 | BRIT LIT $1200: An early version of this D.H. Lawrence novel was published in 1972 as "John Thomas and Lady Jane" Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #4692, aired 2005-01-18 | BRIT LIT $1600: He did his freelance writing as Michael Angelo Titmarsh to keep his vanity fair Thackeray |
| #4692, aired 2005-01-18 | BRIT LIT $3,000 (Daily Double): His spy novels sure are manly: "The Third Man", "Our Man in Havana" & "The Human Factor" (Graham) Greene |
| #4197, aired 2002-11-26 | BRIT LIT $400: In a Dickens novel Mr. Murdstone is the cruel, tightfisted stepfather of this character David Copperfield |
| #4197, aired 2002-11-26 | BRIT LIT $800: His "Silmarillion", a prequel to "The Lord of the Rings", was published posthumously in 1977 J.R.R. Tolkien |
| #4197, aired 2002-11-26 | BRIT LIT $1200: This Evelyn Waugh novel chronicles 20 years in the lives of the Marchmain family "Brideshead Revisited" |
| #4197, aired 2002-11-26 | BRIT LIT $1600: George Eliot's first full-length novel told the tale of this carpenter Adam Bede |
| #4197, aired 2002-11-26 | BRIT LIT $2,000 (Daily Double): This Austen novel begins, "The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex" "Sense and Sensibility" |
| #4064, aired 2002-04-11 | BRIT LIT $400: In Pope's "The Rape of the Lock", "rape" means abduction & the lock is a lock of this hair |
| #4064, aired 2002-04-11 | BRIT LIT $800: This disappearing feline in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" tells Alice that "We're all mad here" the Cheshire cat |
| #4064, aired 2002-04-11 | BRIT LIT $1,600 (Daily Double): In George Orwell's "1984", it's the official language of Oceania Newspeak |
| #4064, aired 2002-04-11 | BRIT LIT $1600: Robin Hood & Friar Tuck are among the many characters in this 1819 Sir Walter Scott novel Ivanhoe |
| #4064, aired 2002-04-11 | BRIT LIT $2000: G.K. Chesterton is remembered for creating this mild-mannered priest & detective Father Brown |
| #3978, aired 2001-12-12 | BRIT LIT $400: "Sea and Sardinia" is a travel book by this "Sons and Lovers" author D.H. Lawrence |
| #3978, aired 2001-12-12 | BRIT LIT $800: Famous for a set of bawdy stories, he was the first to be buried in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner Geoffrey Chaucer |
| #3978, aired 2001-12-12 | BRIT LIT $1,000 (Daily Double): He returned to India at age 17 in 1882 & worked as a journalist; he published his first poems in 1886 Rudyard Kipling |
| #3978, aired 2001-12-12 | BRIT LIT $1600: This Walter Scott character is chieftain of the MacGregor clan Rob Roy |
| #3978, aired 2001-12-12 | BRIT LIT $2000: Published in 1985, "The Tenth Man" was a long-lost novella written by this "Third Man" author back in 1944 Graham Greene |
| #3556, aired 2000-02-07 | BRIT LIT $200: The man-eating Grendel, Grendel's mom & a fire-breathing dragon are slain in this epic from the 8th century Beowulf |
| #3556, aired 2000-02-07 | BRIT LIT $400: The second line of this Dylan Thomas poem says, "Old age should burn and rave at close of day" "Do not go gentle into that good night" |
| #3556, aired 2000-02-07 | BRIT LIT $600: His 1915 novel "The Rainbow" was declared obscene; so was his 1928 novel D.H. Lawrence |
| #3556, aired 2000-02-07 | BRIT LIT $700 (Daily Double): "The Lamb", one of his "Songs of Innocence", asks, "Little lamb, who made thee?" William Blake |
| #3556, aired 2000-02-07 | BRIT LIT $1000: This 1651 whale of a treatise on government by Thomas Hobbes is a defense of secular monarchy Leviathan |
| #3369, aired 1999-04-08 | BRIT LIT $200: She dedicated her book "The Mirror Crack'd" to Margaret Rutherford, who played Miss Marple in several films Agatha Christie |
| #3369, aired 1999-04-08 | BRIT LIT $400: When this heroine shrinks, she falls into a pool of tears she'd shed when she was 9 feet tall Alice in Wonderland |
| #3369, aired 1999-04-08 | BRIT LIT $600: This playwright, a "Blithe Spirit", wrote his "Chelsea Buns" poems under the pen name Hernia Whittlebot Noel Coward |
| #3369, aired 1999-04-08 | BRIT LIT $800: Cherry Pecksniff, Paul Sweedlepipe & Jonas Chuzzlewit are all characters in this novel Martin Chuzzlewit |
| #3369, aired 1999-04-08 | BRIT LIT $1000: Published in 1928, "All the Conspirators" was the first novel by this British author of "The Berlin Stories" Christopher Isherwood |
| #3150, aired 1998-04-17 | BRIT LIT $100: She had her lover & future husband Percy edit her first novel, "Frankenstein" Mary Shelley |
| #3150, aired 1998-04-17 | BRIT LIT $200: His own disastrous trip to the Congo in 1890 was the basis for his "Heart of Darkness" Joseph Conrad |
| #3150, aired 1998-04-17 | BRIT LIT $300: He wrote about Gunga Dass as well as Gunga Din Rudyard Kipling |
| #3150, aired 1998-04-17 | BRIT LIT $400: In 1914's "The World Set Free", he wrote of a war in 1958 involving atomic bombs H.G. Wells |
| #3150, aired 1998-04-17 | BRIT LIT $500: In 1816 she revised her "Northanger Abbey"; she originally planned to publish it in 1803 Jane Austen |
| #3082, aired 1998-01-13 | YET MORE BRIT LIT $200: Hurree Chunder Mookerjee is a Secret Service agent in this author's "Kim" Rudyard Kipling |
| #3082, aired 1998-01-13 | YET MORE BRIT LIT $400: To counter an unauthorized sequel to this 1678 work, John Bunyan wrote his own Pilgrim's Progress |
| #3082, aired 1998-01-13 | YET MORE BRIT LIT $600: The first name of this Sir Walter Scott title character is Wilfred Ivanhoe |
| #3082, aired 1998-01-13 | YET MORE BRIT LIT $800: Mr. Murdstone is the wicked stepfather of this Dickens lad David Copperfield |
| #3082, aired 1998-01-13 | YET MORE BRIT LIT $1000: Philip Carey is 9 when this Somerset Maugham novel begins Of Human Bondage |
| #3029, aired 1997-10-30 | BRIT LIT $200: In this novel, Mr. Rochester "has a fine bass voice, and an excellent taste for music" Jane Eyre |
| #3029, aired 1997-10-30 | BRIT LIT $400: Dorlcote Mill in her book "The Mill on the Floss" resembles Arbury Mill, where she played as a child George Eliot |
| #3029, aired 1997-10-30 | BRIT LIT $600: He wrote his semi-autobiographical novel "Sons and Lovers" in part as a tribute to his mother D.H. Lawrence |
| #3029, aired 1997-10-30 | BRIT LIT $800: The young man who wishes, "If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now!" Dorian Gray |
| #3029, aired 1997-10-30 | BRIT LIT $1,000 (Daily Double): In an Evelyn Waugh novel, one of Lord Marchman's children is known as Bridey, which is short for this Brideshead |
