| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | A BIT OF LIT $2000: This Japanese-born British author of "The Remains of the Day" & "Never Let Me Go" won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature (Kazuo) Ishiguro |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | BRITISH LIT $400: The prologue to this 14th c. work says 29 pilgrims are gathered at the Tabard Inn; the knight is introduced first The Canterbury Tales |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | BRITISH LIT $800: This Jane Austen novel begins, "The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex" Sense and Sensibility |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | BRITISH LIT $1600: At the beginning of a Virginia Woolf novel, it's where Mrs. Ramsay tells her son James he may go if the weather is fine to the lighthouse |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | BRITISH LIT $2,000 (Daily Double): Hazel is the leader of the rabbits & the brother of Fiver in this beloved novel by Richard Adams Watership Down |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | BRITISH LIT $2000: You can be sure this David Mitchell novel consisting of 6 interlinked narratives was nominated for a 2004 Nebula Award Cloud Atlas |
| #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 |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | LIT-POURRI $800: Hughenden is not a typical author's home; this resident was British prime minister, an earl & a hugely popular writer (Benjamin) Disraeli |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | DYSTOPIAN LIT $1200: A state-sponsored program conditions Alex to abhor violence in this satire of British life A Clockwork Orange |
| #6844, aired 2014-05-22 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $2000: Sir George Frampton's most famous work is a sculpture of this kiddy lit character in Kensington Gardens Peter Pan |
| #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 |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | BRITISH LIT $800: The press called Rev. W. Awdry "the Puff Puff Parson" after the success of his children's books about this train car Thomas The Tank Engine |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | BRITISH LIT $1200: This military man lost the "Seven Pillars Of Wisdom" manuscript in a train station T.E. Lawrence |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | BRITISH LIT $1600: Titles about angst in sports include Handke's "The Goalie's Anxiety At The Penalty Kick" & Alan Sillitoe's "The Loneliness Of" him The Long Distance Runner |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | BRITISH LIT $2000: "Black Beauty", written toward the end of her life, was her only novel Anna Sewell |
| #6185, aired 2011-07-01 | CHILDREN'S LIT CHARACTERS $1000: Novels in a series from this British author include "The Last Battle" & "The Magician's Nephew" C. S. Lewis |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | DO YOU KNOW JACK ABOUT LIT? $800: Patrick O'Brian wrote this series of novels about British Capt. Jack Aubrey; Russell Crowe played the role on film Master and Commander |
| #5393, aired 2008-02-06 | HAM LIT $400: This British woman wrote "The Tale of Pigling Bland", a tale of the Christmas pig Beatrix Potter |
| #5016, aired 2006-06-05 | POSSESSIVE LIT $2000: 1857:
Besting a bully is part of a young boy's life at a British boarding school Tom Brown's School Days |
| #4939, aired 2006-02-16 | GREAT LIT $200: No adults? No problem! Oh wait, big problem for Simon & stranded British prep schoolers in this 1954 novel Lord of the Flies |
| #4760, aired 2005-04-22 | ENGLISH LIT $800: Anne Bronte wrote the novel "Agnes Grey" & this British statesman wrote "Vivian Grey" Disraeli |
| #4523, aired 2004-04-14 | BRITISH LIT $200: In 1726 Jonathan Swift published this work as "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World" Gulliver's Travels |
| #4523, aired 2004-04-14 | BRITISH LIT $400: It's Lewis Carroll's sequel to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" Through the Looking-Glass |
| #4523, aired 2004-04-14 | BRITISH LIT $600: Elizabeth Bennet eventually falls in love with Mr. Darcy in this classic by Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice |
| #4523, aired 2004-04-14 | BRITISH LIT $1,000 (Daily Double): Winston Smith is arrested by the Thought Police in this 1949 novel 1984 |
| #4523, aired 2004-04-14 | BRITISH LIT $1000: Dickens novel that ends, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done..." A Tale of Two Cities |
| #4298, aired 2003-04-16 | BRITISH LIT $200: He wrote the verse "Hush, hush, whisper who dares, Christopher Robin is saying his prayers" A. A. Milne |
| #4298, aired 2003-04-16 | BRITISH LIT $400: This author's "Lord of the Flies" has been turned into films directed by Peter Brook & Harry Hook (William) Golding |
| #4298, aired 2003-04-16 | BRITISH LIT $600: Near the end of this novel, Madame Defarge is killed with her own gun during a struggle with Miss Pross A Tale of Two Cities |
| #4298, aired 2003-04-16 | BRITISH LIT $800: The traveller in this 1895 tale finds himself in the year A.D. 802,701 The Time Machine |
| #4298, aired 2003-04-16 | BRITISH LIT $1000: It's J.G. Ballard's saga of a British boy separated from his parents & interned in a Japanese prison camp during WWII Empire of the Sun |
| #3733, aired 2000-11-22 | WORLD LIT $800 (Daily Double): British author Lawrence Durrell is most famous for his "quartet" of novels set in this Egyptian city Alexandria |
| #3599, aired 2000-04-06 | WORLD LIT $400: Virginia Woolf's "Flush" is about the pet spaniel of this 19th century female British poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #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 |
| #3034, aired 1997-11-06 | a little lit $400: British author who created Little Nell & Little Dorrit Charles Dickens |
| #1464, aired 1991-01-03 | KIDDIE LIT $100: The British novelist Eric Knight wrote only one children's book, the story of this collie Lassie |
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Aisha Tyler, a comedienne, host and actress from Talk Soup, Friends, The 5th Wheel and Ghost Whisperer
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Rebecca Maxfield, a freshman from Brown University
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Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
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Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University
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2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
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