| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: In his youth he was a chocolate tester for Cadbury, which no doubt inspired his "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" Dahl |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1200: This author who set many of his novels in Wessex also had a terrier named Wessex Thomas Hardy |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1600: Gilbert Keith were the given names of this author famous for his Father Brown detective stories Chesterton |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | BRITISH AUTHORS $2000: He's the bestselling author of "Utopia Avenue" & "Cloud Atlas" Mitchell |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | BRITISH AUTHORS $8,600 (Daily Double): First & last name of the lesser-known sibling who wrote the semi-autobiographical "Agnes Grey" Anne Bronte |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: At 14, this British author of "White Teeth" changed the first letter of her name from S to Z, thinking it sounded more exotic Zadie Smith |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | AUTHORS WHO SERVED IN THE MILITARY $2000: Ian Fleming served in British naval intelligence after an undistinguished stint in this U.K. military academy Sandhurst |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | AUTHORS $400: This British author was married to a woman also named Evelyn--they were called He-Evelyn & She-Evelyn by friends Waugh |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | HI, WELCOME TO 5 AUTHORS! $200: In 2006 a British high court ruled this author was not guilty of plagiarism in "The Da Vinci Code" (Dan) Brown |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: This British author of a famous dystopian novel was the grandson of a prominent biologist & the brother of 2 more biologists Huxley |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | BLACK WOMEN AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): This British author of "White Teeth" also wrote "Swing Time", a story of 2 childhood friends who dream of being dancers Zadie Smith |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: Hugh Lofting's letters to his kids from the WWI front evolved into the tales of this physician who talks to animals Dr. Dolittle |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): Following World War II, he built an estate in Jamaica called Goldeneye Ian Fleming |
| #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 |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1600: His first literary success, "Eye of the Needle" was originally published as "Storm Island" Ken Follett |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | BRITISH AUTHORS $2000: Banned upon publication, this author's "The Rainbow" was described by one magistrate as "utter filth" D.H. Lawrence |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | AUTHORS' SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS $1600: 2015:
"Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances" by this British author & comic book writer Neil Gaiman |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400 (Daily Double): "A Clockwork Counterpoint" is a 2010 study of this author's more than 250 musical compositions (Anthony) Burgess |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: You'll find Emma Watson in an unfinished work by her & Emma Woodhouse in a finished work by her Jane Austen |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800: 2012's "The Casual Vacancy" was her first published novel for adults J.K. Rowling |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1200: This detective author wrote 4 follow-ups to 1912's "The Lost World" Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | BRITISH AUTHORS $2000: He progressed from a youth of "vice and ungodliness" to writing "The Pilgrim's Progress" John Bunyan |
| #7211, aired 2016-01-11 | AUTHORS' LESSER KNOWN WORKS $800: This author's "The Diamond Smugglers" is nonfiction, but it's about a British secret agent who uses gadgets (Ian) Fleming |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | BRITISH AUTHORS $200: After marrying an American, he moved to the U.S., where he wrote the 2 "Jungle Books" (Rudyard) Kipling |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: He wrote "The War in the Air" as well as "The War of the Worlds" H.G. Wells |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | BRITISH AUTHORS $600: John Fowles' best-known work is this 1969 novel that was made into a movie starring Meryl Streep The French Lieutenant's Woman |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800: Here's this beloved author giving a reading circa 1860 (Charles) Dickens |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1000: Sharing the nickname "The Queen of Crime" are Agatha Christie & this author of the Adam Dalgliesh mysteries P.D. James |
| #6788, aired 2014-03-05 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: On occasion he humorously signed autographs "Dr. John Watson" Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #6788, aired 2014-03-05 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800: She's depicted
in the portrait seen here Jane Austen |
| #6788, aired 2014-03-05 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1200: Sadly, the daughter for whom he wrote the "Just So Stories" died at age 6 Rudyard Kipling |
| #6788, aired 2014-03-05 | BRITISH AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): In an 1890 letter, he called himself "a Polish nobleman, cased in British tar" Joseph Conrad |
| #6788, aired 2014-03-05 | BRITISH AUTHORS $2000: His novel "Atonement" was turned into a 2007 movie with Keira Knightley Ian McEwan |
| #6772, aired 2014-02-11 | 19th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: In 1893 this British man published his "initial" book, a "text-book of biology"; many sci-fi novels followed H.G. Wells |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: This "Treasure Island" author's "Silverado Squatters" was based on the journal he kept on his honeymoon Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800: "Just So Stories", his 1902 collection for children, was the only book he also illustrated Rudyard Kipling |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1200: Due to negative public reaction to "Jude the Obscure", he abandoned writing novels for the last 33 years of his life Thomas Hardy |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1600: A former spy himself, he described his spy George Smiley as "short, fat, and of a quiet disposition" John le Carré |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | BRITISH AUTHORS $4,000 (Daily Double): She always kept rabbits on her farm, Hill Top, so children wouldn't be disappointed if they stopped for a visit Beatrix Potter |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | BRITISH AUTHORS $200: His professor, Dr. Joseph Bell, a master of diagnostic deduction, was his model for Sherlock Holmes Conan Doyle |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: He originally wrote "The Hobbit" to entertain his kids Tolkien |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | BRITISH AUTHORS $600: After a fatwa was issued against him in February 1989, he went into hiding under police protection Salman Rushdie |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800: He helped cover the Apollo 12 & 15 space missions with Walter Cronkite & Wally Schirra Arthur C. Clarke |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1000: In his memoir "Experience", he explores his relationship with his author-father Kingsley Martin Amis |
| #5660, aired 2009-03-27 | OBSCURE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $2000: The Asian travels of 1944 winner Johannes Jensen got him dubbed Denmark's this British writer who won in 1907 Rudyard Kipling |
| #5609, aired 2009-01-15 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Disillusioned by the Spanish Civil War, this British author wrote against totalitarianism in "Animal Farm" (George) Orwell |
| #5527, aired 2008-09-23 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: He made recordings reading from some of his own works, including "Poems and Songs of Middle-earth" Tolkien |
| #5527, aired 2008-09-23 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800: As a youth, this "War of the Worlds" author studied biology under the great scientist Thomas H. Huxley H.G. Wells |
| #5527, aired 2008-09-23 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1200: His first novel, "Lord of the Flies", was rejected by 21 publishers before Faber & Faber bought the book (William) Golding |
| #5527, aired 2008-09-23 | BRITISH AUTHORS $2000: His short story "Rain" was inspired by a missionary & a prostitute who were passengers aboard his ship on a trip to Samoa (Somerset) Maugham |
| #5527, aired 2008-09-23 | BRITISH AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): She opened a 1938 novel with the line "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again" Daphne du Maurier |
| #5207, aired 2007-04-10 | BRITISH AUTHORS $200: Peter Rabbit & Benjamin Bunny are just a few of this British author's hare-brained protagonists Beatrix Potter |
| #5207, aired 2007-04-10 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: In "The Doors of Perception", he described the "Brave New World" of drug experimentation (Aldous) Huxley |
| #5207, aired 2007-04-10 | BRITISH AUTHORS $600: This 19th C. novelist's name gave us an adjective that's used to mean squalid or impoverished Charles Dickens |
| #5207, aired 2007-04-10 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800: The home in Haworth, seen here, is where these three sisters wrote novels the Brontës |
| #5207, aired 2007-04-10 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1000: From the early 1900s, his "The First Men in the Moon" & "The War in the Air" proved eerily prophetic H.G. Wells |
| #4822, aired 2005-07-19 | AUTHORS $1200: He based "The Moon and Sixpence" on the life of Gauguin, but his character was British Somerset Maugham |
| #4812, aired 2005-07-05 | AUTHORS $1600: He wrote the poem "Gunga Din" to honor the Bhisti, the natives who aided British soldiers in India Rudyard Kipling |
| #4784, aired 2005-05-26 | BRITISH AUTHORS $200: By age 23 she had written early versions of "Sense and Sensibility" and "Pride and Prejudice" (Jane) Austen |
| #4784, aired 2005-05-26 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: Byron was Lord Byron from age 10; this poet had to wait until his 70s, in 1884 Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #4784, aired 2005-05-26 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800: He explained the genesis of his masterpiece in the following passage
"It was on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the capital, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind." Edward Gibbon |
| #4784, aired 2005-05-26 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): This aging romantic lived to write an ode on the installation of Prince Albert as Chancellor of Cambridge William Wordsworth |
| #4784, aired 2005-05-26 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1000: In 2002 Christopher Hitchens published a book called "Why" this great anti-totalitarian writer "Matters" George Orwell |
| #4091, aired 2002-05-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: This prolific British mystery writer's last published novel was 1976's "Sleeping Murder" Agatha Christie |
| #4050, aired 2002-03-22 | INITIALED AUTHORS $400: "Women in Love" was the sequel to "The Rainbow" by this British author D.H. Lawrence |
| #3762, aired 2001-01-02 | BRITISH AUTHORS $100: While grading school papers, he came up with the line "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit" J.R.R. Tolkien |
| #3762, aired 2001-01-02 | BRITISH AUTHORS $200: Big Brother could tell you his real name was Eric Arthur Blair George Orwell |
| #3762, aired 2001-01-02 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: "The Little Drummer Girl" was his first novel to feature a female protagonist John le Carre |
| #3762, aired 2001-01-02 | BRITISH AUTHORS $500: He left his heart & the remains of 2 wives "Far From the Madding Crowd" at Stinsford Church near Dorchester Thomas Hardy |
| #3762, aired 2001-01-02 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800 (Daily Double): Princess Di's step-grandmother, this "Queen of Romance" passed away in 2000 at the age of 98 Barbara Cartland |
| #3644, aired 2000-06-08 | BRITISH AUTHORS $200: Of all his books, he said he liked "David Copperfield" the best Charles Dickens |
| #3644, aired 2000-06-08 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: In 1937 this "Brave New World" author left Europe for a new home in the United States Aldous Huxley |
| #3644, aired 2000-06-08 | BRITISH AUTHORS $600: While out of work, she wrote much of her first Harry Potter book at a cafe while her daughter napped J.K. Rowling |
| #3644, aired 2000-06-08 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1000: In 1912 he eloped with Freida von Richthofen, sister of the famed aviator D.H. Lawrence |
| #3644, aired 2000-06-08 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1,200 (Daily Double): Sadly, her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, died just 10 days after her birth Mary Shelley |
| #3546, aired 2000-01-24 | BRITISH AUTHORS $100: He originally intended his creation James Bond to be an "uninteresting man to whom things happened" Ian Fleming |
| #3546, aired 2000-01-24 | BRITISH AUTHORS $200: Like Dickens, this "Vanity Fair" contemporary left his last novel, "Denis Duval", unfinished William Makepeace Thackeray |
| #3546, aired 2000-01-24 | BRITISH AUTHORS $300: In a Robert Browning title, "The Book" is paired with this object -- but not the one Robert gave Elizabeth Ring (but not the ring he gave her) |
| #3546, aired 2000-01-24 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: Isaac D'Israeli, a critic & friend of Lord Byron's, named his oldest son this Benjamin |
| #3546, aired 2000-01-24 | BRITISH AUTHORS $500: Ask, don't tell the name of this 18th century author of "The Beggar's Opera" John Gay |
| #3520, aired 1999-12-17 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $1000: Barbara Vine is a pseudonym of this leading British mystery writer of today Ruth Rendell |
| #3476, aired 1999-10-18 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1000: No Sir! In 1918 this author of "The Forsyte Saga" refused a knighthood John Galsworthy |
| #2995, aired 1997-09-12 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $1000: The British born & bred Evelyn Waugh set this satirical 1948 novel in California The Loved One |
| #2974, aired 1997-07-03 | BRITISH AUTHORS $200: With the proceeds from "Animal Farm" he bought a home on the Hebridean island of Jura George Orwell |
| #2974, aired 1997-07-03 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: Her bestsellers "Chances", "Lucky" & "Lady Boss" all revolve around Lucky Santangelo Jackie Collins |
| #2974, aired 1997-07-03 | BRITISH AUTHORS $600: In 1996 this author of "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" spun a new story, "The Tailor of Panama" John le Carré |
| #2974, aired 1997-07-03 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800: Short story writer Hector Hugh Munro took this pseudonym from Omar Khayyam's "Rubaiyat" Saki |
| #2974, aired 1997-07-03 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1000: Like "Rebecca", her novel "My Cousin Rachel" was made into a film Daphne du Maurier |
| #2912, aired 1997-04-08 | BRITISH CHILDREN'S AUTHORS $100: He first wrote about Christopher Robin in the verse book "When We Were Very Young" A.A. Milne |
| #2912, aired 1997-04-08 | BRITISH CHILDREN'S AUTHORS $200: He began his "Jabberwocky" poem, " 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves..." Lewis Carroll |
| #2912, aired 1997-04-08 | BRITISH CHILDREN'S AUTHORS $300 (Daily Double): Though written in 1906, her story of "The Sly Old Cat" wasn't published until 1971 Beatrix Potter |
| #2912, aired 1997-04-08 | BRITISH CHILDREN'S AUTHORS $400: Richard Adams originally told this rabbit tale to amuse his young daughters Watership Down |
| #2912, aired 1997-04-08 | BRITISH CHILDREN'S AUTHORS $500: This author famous for her Mary Poppins books passed away in 1996 P.L. Travers |
| #2896, aired 1997-03-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: This author leaves "Gorky Park" for a British coal-mining town in his 1996 novel "Rose" Martin Cruz Smith |
| #2895, aired 1997-03-14 | AUTHORS $500: British barrister who brought us Rumpole of the Bailey John Mortimer |
| #2890, aired 1997-03-07 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: "Bad Man From Bodie" was the British title of this "Ragtime" author's first novel "Welcome To Hard Times" E.L. Doctorow |
| #2886, aired 1997-03-03 | AUTHORS $500: This author of "She" was an advisor to the British government on agriculture H. Rider Haggard |
| #2861, aired 1997-01-27 | BRITISH AUTHORS $200: She introduced Hercule Poirot in her very first novel, "The Mysterious Affair At Styles" Agatha Christie |
| #2861, aired 1997-01-27 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: This "Lord of the Flies" author was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1983 William Golding |
| #2861, aired 1997-01-27 | BRITISH AUTHORS $600: In 1990 this "Satanic Verses" author published the children's book "Haroun & the Sea of Stories" Salman Rushdie |
| #2861, aired 1997-01-27 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800: This "A Passage to India" author co-wrote the libretto for Benjamin Britten's opera "Billy Budd" E.M. Forster |
| #2861, aired 1997-01-27 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1,500 (Daily Double): She was famous for her mystery novels featuring Lord Peter Wimsey Dorothy Sayers |
| #2842, aired 1996-12-31 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1000: This British author dedicated her 1928 novel "Orlando" to Vita Sackville-West Virginia Woolf |
| #2797, aired 1996-10-29 | SUCCESSORS $1000: He preceded & succeeded Benjamin Disraeli as British prime minister William Gladstone |
| #2754, aired 1996-07-18 | AUTHORS $200: "Oliver Twist" & "A Tale of Two Cities" are among the classic novels by this British author Charles Dickens |
| #2727, aired 1996-06-11 | WOMEN AUTHORS $600: Queen of British romance novelists who wrote "The Wicked Marquis" & "The Impetuous Duchess" Barbara Cartland |
| #2690, aired 1996-04-19 | BRITISH AUTHORS $200: This James Bond creator was a Moscow correspondent for Reuters in the early 1930s Ian Fleming |
| #2690, aired 1996-04-19 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: He wrote "The Jungle Book" partly for his daughter Josephine while living in the U.S. (Rudyard) Kipling |
| #2690, aired 1996-04-19 | BRITISH AUTHORS $600: The initials P.G. in his name stood for Pelham Grenville Wodehouse |
| #2690, aired 1996-04-19 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800: In 1688-89 this "Moll Flanders" author participated in the Glorious Revolution Defoe |
| #2690, aired 1996-04-19 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1000: In 1958 he published a follow-up to "Brave New World", titled "Brave New World Revisited" Huxley |
| #2624, aired 1996-01-18 | AUTHORS $600: In 1971 this novelist was named Dame Commander in the Order of the British Empire Agatha Christie |
| #2597, aired 1995-12-12 | BRITISH AUTHORS $200: He had yet to complete "Oliver Twist" when he began writing "Nicholas Nickleby" Dickens |
| #2597, aired 1995-12-12 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: In 1995 he published "East, West", his first book of adult fiction since "The Satanic Verses" (Salman) Rushdie |
| #2597, aired 1995-12-12 | BRITISH AUTHORS $600: This author who wrote the Chronicles of Narnia died the same day as John F. Kennedy C.S. Lewis |
| #2597, aired 1995-12-12 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800: One of the last works by this "Pilgrim's Progress" author was a verse "Book for Boys and Girls" Bunyan |
| #2597, aired 1995-12-12 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1000: In 1954 this author of "The Razor's Edge" was named a companion of honour by Queen Elizabeth II (Somerset) Maugham |
| #2539, aired 1995-09-21 | BRITISH AUTHORS $200: He made recordings of his "Poems and Songs of Middle-Earth" & "The Lord of the Rings" Tolkien |
| #2539, aired 1995-09-21 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: She originally published "Jane Eyre" under the pen name Currer Bell Charlotte Bronte |
| #2539, aired 1995-09-21 | BRITISH AUTHORS $600: This author of "1984" was born in 1903 in Motihari, Bengal, India George Orwell |
| #2539, aired 1995-09-21 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800: This veterinarian who recalled his experiences in such books as "All Creatures Great and Small" died in 1995 (James) Herriot |
| #2539, aired 1995-09-21 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1000: An illustrated edition of his "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" was published in 1994 (Douglas) Adams |
| #2518, aired 1995-07-12 | AUTHORS $800: "The Story of Muhammad Din" is one of this British author's "Plain Tales from the Hills" Kipling |
| #2507, aired 1995-06-27 | BRITISH AUTHORS $200: During the Hundred Years' War, this "Canterbury Tales" author fought in France & was captured Geoffrey Chaucer |
| #2507, aired 1995-06-27 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, died only a few days after her birth Mary Shelley |
| #2507, aired 1995-06-27 | BRITISH AUTHORS $600: In 1958 this author reconsidered some of his prophecies in "Brave New World Revisited" Aldous Huxley |
| #2507, aired 1995-06-27 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800: He modeled Sophia Western in "Tom Jones" after his wife Charlotte Cradock (Henry) Fielding |
| #2507, aired 1995-06-27 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1000: C.S. Lewis' initials stood for Clive Staples & this author's stood for Cecil Scott C.S. Forester |
| #2381, aired 1995-01-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1000: In 1969 this "Rebecca" author was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire Daphne du Maurier |
| #2299, aired 1994-09-08 | AUTHORS $200: It "Just So" happens that he was the 1st British author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature Rudyard Kipling |
| #2236, aired 1994-05-02 | BRITISH AUTHORS $200: During the Spanish Civil War, this “Animal Farm” author was wounded fighting for the Loyalists Orwell |
| #2236, aired 1994-05-02 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: His Sherlock Holmes was partly based on a teacher at Edinburgh University Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #2236, aired 1994-05-02 | BRITISH AUTHORS $600: He first used the pseudonym Boz in the August 1834 issue of “The Monthly Magazine” Dickens |
| #2236, aired 1994-05-02 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800: The Samoans built a road to this novelist's house called “The Road of the Loving Heart” Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #2236, aired 1994-05-02 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1000: This “Lost Horizon” author won an Oscar for co-writing the 1942 film “Mrs. Miniver” (James) Hilton |
| #2227, aired 1994-04-19 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $1000: Last name of the aristocratic British authors Nancy & Jessica, who were sisters Mitford |
| #2200, aired 1994-03-11 | ACTORS PLAYING AUTHORS $600: Sydney Greenstreet appeared as Thackeray in "Devotion", a 1946 film about these British literary sisters the Brontes |
| #2200, aired 1994-03-11 | ACTORS PLAYING AUTHORS $800: Glenda Jackson portrayed this British poet onstage & on film in "Stevie" Stevie Smith |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | BRITISH AUTHORS $200: This author of "Robinson Crusoe" is regarded as one of the founders of the English novel (Daniel) DeFoe |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: Her futuristic novel "The Last Man" is considered her finest after "Frankenstein" Mary Shelley |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | BRITISH AUTHORS $600: He wrote "She" as well as "King Solomon's Mines" H. Rider Haggard |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800: "Under the Greenwood Tree" was the 1st of his novels set in what he would later call Wessex (Thomas) Hardy |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1000: After leaving the office of prime minister in 1880, he completed his final novel, "Endymion" Benjamin Disraeli |
| #2087, aired 1993-10-05 | AUTHORS $200: He was born in 1874 in Paris, where his father, Robert Ormond Maugham. worked at the British embassy Somerset Maugham |
| #2063, aired 1993-07-21 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: A British edition of his "Martian Chronicles" was called "The Silver Locusts" Ray Bradbury |
| #2056, aired 1993-07-12 | AUTHORS $200: This James Bond's creator's father, Valentine, was a member of the British parliament Ian Fleming |
| #2027, aired 1993-06-01 | AUTHORS $800: This British mystery writer also wrote a biography of jockey Lester Piggott Dick Francis |
| #1866, aired 1992-10-19 | AUTHORS $400: Pierre Boulle wrote this 1952 novel about British P.O.W.s building a bridge for the Japanese "The Bridge on/over the River Kwai" |
| #1866, aired 1992-10-19 | AUTHORS $800: One of the famous works by this British author is "The Loved One", about funerals in California Evelyn Waugh |
| #1861, aired 1992-10-12 | AUTHORS $200: British barrister & author John Mortimer created this barrister of "The Bailey" Rumpole |
| #1853, aired 1992-09-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Biographer William Manchester calls this British prime minister "The Last Lion" Churchill |
| #1843, aired 1992-09-16 | BRITISH AUTHORS $200: Both Robert Louis Stevenson & Sir Walter Scott were born in this Scottish capital Edinburgh |
| #1843, aired 1992-09-16 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: Her career as a children's book writer & illustrator effectively ended with her marriage in 1913 Beatrix Potter |
| #1843, aired 1992-09-16 | BRITISH AUTHORS $600: Contemptuous of "Peter Pan", he wrote "Androcles & the Lion" to show Barrie "how it's done" Shaw |
| #1843, aired 1992-09-16 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800: In Hampstead, Britain, you can visit the garden where he heard the nightingale that inspired his ode Keats |
| #1843, aired 1992-09-16 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1000: He took the title of his novel, "The Razor's Edge", from the Katha Upanishad, a Hindu text Somerset Maugham |
| #1782, aired 1992-05-05 | BRITISH AUTHORS $200: Compton's Ency. says, "For a fictionalized account of his early life, read 'David Copperfield'" Charles Dickens |
| #1782, aired 1992-05-05 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: In 1988 his controversial book "The Satanic Verses" won Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize Salman Rushdie |
| #1782, aired 1992-05-05 | BRITISH AUTHORS $600: The initials in the name of this "Winnie the Pooh" author stand for Alan Alexander A.A. Milne |
| #1782, aired 1992-05-05 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800: It's the pen name under which David John Moore Cornwell wrote "A Perfect Spy" John le Carré |
| #1782, aired 1992-05-05 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1000: In 1910 this author of "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" was awarded the Order of Merit Thomas Hardy |
| #1730, aired 1992-02-21 | BRITISH AUTHORS $200: His experiences in naval intelligence during WWII inspired his James Bond novels Ian Fleming |
| #1730, aired 1992-02-21 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: He did extensive research on Transylvania at the British Museum before writing "Dracula" Bram Stoker |
| #1730, aired 1992-02-21 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800: Many regarded this "Brideshead Revisited" author as the most brilliant satirist of his day Evelyn Waugh |
| #1730, aired 1992-02-21 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1000: This "Forsyte Saga" author began his writing career under the name John Sinjohn Galsworthy |
| #1730, aired 1992-02-21 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1,500 (Daily Double): While a student at Oxford, this author began to create his language called "Elvish" Tolkien |
| #1589, aired 1991-06-27 | AUTHORS $100: This author lived at 23 Montague Place facing the British Museum, not at 221B Baker Street Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #1539, aired 1991-04-18 | BRITISH AUTHORS $200: Milton's optimistic title for the sequel to "Paradise Lost" Paradise Regained |
| #1539, aired 1991-04-18 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: Just so you know, he illustrated his "Just So Stories" himself Kipling |
| #1539, aired 1991-04-18 | BRITISH AUTHORS $600: He published his Waverley Novels anonymously, so readers called him the Great Unknown Sir Walter Scott |
| #1539, aired 1991-04-18 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800: As Justice of the Peace, he organized London's first police force; as satirist, he wrote Tom Jones Henry Fielding |
| #1539, aired 1991-04-18 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1000: This rare Elizabethan playwright was imprisoned three times, once for killing an actor Ben Jonson |
| #1363, aired 1990-07-04 | AUTHORS $200: British author Rebecca West was given this title in 1959 dame |
| #1087, aired 1989-05-02 | AUTHORS $400: Younger brother of philosopher William, he became a British subject a year before he died Henry James |
| #1077, aired 1989-04-18 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: British author whose last completed novel was "Our Mutual Friend" Dickens |
| #1044, aired 1989-03-02 | AUTHORS $800: Satirical British author whose 1934 novel "A Handful of Dust" became a 1988 film Evelyn Waugh |
| #820, aired 1988-03-11 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: In 1987, the British government banned papers from printing excerpts from this Peter Wright bestseller Spycatcher |
| #694, aired 1987-09-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: "The Odyssey" in 1946 the 1st book in this British company's paperback classics line Penguin |
| #630, aired 1987-05-08 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: The darkest time of this British author's youth was his job of pasting labels on pots of stove blacking Dickens |
| #620, aired 1987-04-24 | MOVIE AUTHORS $800: In "Devotion", Nancy Coleman, O. de Havilland & Ida Lupino played these devoted British siblings the Bronte Sisters |
| #545, aired 1987-01-09 | SURPRISING AUTHORS $800: Before becoming British PM, he wrote an 1837 novel based on his own affair with a married woman Benjamin Disraeli |
| #358, aired 1986-01-22 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: In the Thomas Hardy novel, Tess was arrested at this ancient British landmark Stonehenge |
| #13, aired 1984-09-26 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Playwright Edward Albee asked "Who's afraid of" this respected British novelist Virginia Woolf |
