| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | BRITISH LITERATURE $400: Chapter 43 of this novel explains "How the Artful Dodger Got into Trouble" Oliver Twist |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | BRITISH LITERATURE $800: The unexpected death of a small town council member is a mystery at the heart of "The Casual Vacancy" by this author J.K. Rowling |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1200: The 24 Pilgrim storytellers in "The Canterbury Tales" include this bawdy woman who tells of her 5 husbands the Wife of Bath |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1600: A man stopped on his way to a wedding feast is told of tragic events aboard a ship in this 1798 narrative poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | BRITISH LITERATURE $2000: 2020's "The Mirror & the Light" completed Hilary Mantel's trilogy about Thomas Cromwell that began with this lupine novel Wolf Hall |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | BRITISH LITERATURE $400: Thomas Hardy gave up writing fiction after this gloomy novel about Jude Fawley Jude the Obscure |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | BRITISH LITERATURE $800: Perhaps wandering lonely as a cloud, this poet was inspired to pen "Daffodils" about the flowers he saw at Lake Ullswater Wordsworth |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1200: Elizabeth Gaskell's 1855 novel "North & South" depicts this British city as a cotton-spinning hellmouth, calling it "Milton" Manchester |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | BRITISH LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): In the 1850s she published the book-length love poem "Aurora Leigh" Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | BRITISH LITERATURE $2000: Her scary story "The Birds" became a scary big-screen thriller (Daphne) du Maurier |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | BRITISH LITERATURE $400: Mary Margaret Kaye's novel "The Far Pavilions" takes place in this country during the time of the Raj India |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | BRITISH LITERATURE $800: This Robert Louis Stevenson novel recounts the adventures of Scottish orphan David Balfour Kidnapped |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1200: He created a heroine named Tess, who bears a child named Sorrow & later kills the man who seduced her Hardy |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1600: Name shared by a shortbread cookie & the title heroine in an R.D. Blackmore romance Lorna Doone |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | BRITISH LITERATURE $2000: For plays like "The Homecoming" & "The Birthday Party" this dramatist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005 Harold Pinter |
| #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 |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | BRITISH LITERATURE $200: Better known for his "Tales", in the 1390s he wrote a "Treatise on the Astrolabe" Chaucer |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | BRITISH LITERATURE $400: Benjamin Bunny convinces this other Beatrix Potter bunny to go back to Mr. McGregor's garden Peter Rabbit |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | BRITISH LITERATURE $600: Homophonic last names of Samuel & Ben, whom Samuel wrote about in "Lives of the Poets" Johnson/Jonson |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | BRITISH LITERATURE $800: This "Vanity Fair" author quarreled with Dickens but was able to "Makepeace" with him (William Makepeace) Thackeray |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1000: Set in the 12th c. Middle East, "The Wondrous Tale of Alroy" is a novel about a Jewish conqueror by this author/politician Disraeli |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | BRITISH LITERATURE $400: "All for Love" by John Dryden looks at the tragic lives of this ancient couple Shakespeare also wrote about Antony and Cleopatra |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | BRITISH LITERATURE $800: Dickens' first novel concerned a guy with this last name & the papers of his club Pickwick |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1200: In 1894 he published a collection of stories featuring the characters Baloo & Bagheera Kipling |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1600: In this controversial 1928 novel, passionate Constance is married to paralyzed Sir Clifford Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | BRITISH LITERATURE $7,000 (Daily Double): In this long 16th century poem, Queen Elizabeth I appears as Belphoebe & is represented by the title monarch The Faerie Queene |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | BRITISH LITERATURE $400: "Love is blind", sighs Jessica, a nice Jewish girl in this Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | BRITISH LITERATURE $800: Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in" this 2-word place is thought to be that of St. Giles', where the poet is now buried a country churchyard |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1200: A ruined statue in Egypt inspired this sonnet by Percy Shelley "Ozymandias" |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1600: In this novel by E.M. Forster, Lucy Honeychurch & her cousin visit Florence, Italy A Room with a View |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | BRITISH LITERATURE $2000: Dr. Primrose is the title priest living in the title parish with his wife & kids in this novel by Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | GREAT BRITS $2,000 (Daily Double): This British philosopher & mathematician was the logical choice to win the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature Bertrand Russell |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | FULL SENTENCE LITERARY TITLES $2000: "Never Let Me Go" is by this Japanese-born British writer, the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature Kazuo Ishiguro |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | MUSIC & LITERATURE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A John le Carre espionage novel hits the "Speed Of Sound" with a British band The Spy Who Came in From the Coldplay |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | I LOVE LITERATURE $1200: A 2015 BBC poll of literary critics said the greatest British novel is this George Eliot work named for a town Middlemarch |
| #7217, aired 2016-01-19 | LITERATURE $800: Born in Bombay in 1865, in 1907 he became the first British writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature Rudyard Kipling |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | BRITISH LITERATURE $400: In this H. G. Wells novel, a character is hurtled into the year 802,701 The Time Machine |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | BRITISH LITERATURE $800: His 1786 "Account of Corsica" gained him fame; "The Life of Samuel Johnson" cemented it Boswell |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1200: There are 7 books in the Harry Potter series, including this latest one The Deathly Hallows |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1600: 3-letter name of the narrator of Dickens' "Great Expectations" Pip |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | BRITISH LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): "Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth" are paired 1979 plays by this Bard-loving Brit Tom Stoppard |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: "David Copperfield" is one of this British author's classic novels Charles Dickens |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1600: This British author's 1922 novel "Jacob's Room" is said to be a fictional biography of her brother Thoby Virginia Woolf |
| #6777, aired 2014-02-18 | BRITISH LITERATURE $400: In 1816 this Lord left England for good; in 1818 he praised Italy in his poem "Beppo" Lord Byron |
| #6777, aired 2014-02-18 | BRITISH LITERATURE $800: The mysterious Kurtz is the object of Marlow's quest in this Joseph Conrad tale Heart of Darkness |
| #6777, aired 2014-02-18 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1200: Busy guy; this poet wrote love poems to a "Jean", a "Bonnie Lesley" & a "Highland Mary" (Rabbie) Burns |
| #6777, aired 2014-02-18 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1600: "They all agreed that it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral" is from this Arthur Conan Doyle work The Hound of the Baskervilles |
| #6777, aired 2014-02-18 | BRITISH LITERATURE $2000: Early in "1984" this character writes, "Down with Big Brother" over & over again in his diary Winston (Smith) |
| #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 |
| #6382, aired 2012-05-22 | GIVE ME A PRIZE! $1000: This prestigious British prize for literature was started in 1968 as a counterpart to France's Prix Goncourt the Booker Prize |
| #5577, aired 2008-12-02 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $400: 1953:
This British politician (Winston) Churchill |
| #5388, aired 2008-01-30 | FAMOUS PAIRS $2000: In literature & on British TV:
Jeeves & ____ Wooster |
| #5033, aired 2006-06-28 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $400: Encyclopedia Britannica calls his "The Hunting of the Snark" "nonsense literature of the highest order" Lewis Carroll |
| #4266, aired 2003-03-03 | WE THINK $2,000 (Daily Double): This British philosopher became an earl in 1931 & won the Nobel Prize for Literature 19 years later Bertrand Russell |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In this Hemingway WWI novel, ambulance driver Frederic Henry falls in love with British nurse Catherine Barkley A Farewell to Arms |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | WORLD LITERATURE $1600: The initials of this British author of "Crash" & "Memories of the Space Age" stand for James Graham J.G. Ballard |
| #3901, aired 2001-07-16 | WORLD LITERATURE $200: This British physician and novelist based his Holmes character on one of his university professors Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #3761, aired 2001-01-01 | LITERATURE $600: In 1953 this British politician won the Nobel Prize for his biographical & historical works & for his oratory Winston Churchill |
| #3684, aired 2000-09-14 | BRITISH LITERATURE $100: Concerning his "Alice in Wonderland" books, he said, "I meant nothing but nonsense" Lewis Carroll |
| #3684, aired 2000-09-14 | BRITISH LITERATURE $300: In this 1933 novel survivors of a plane wreck seek refuge in a utopia run by a 250-year-old high lama Lost Horizon |
| #3684, aired 2000-09-14 | BRITISH LITERATURE $400: In a free-for-all between 2 groups of knights, this title character is rescued from a tight spot by the Black Sluggard Ivanhoe |
| #3684, aired 2000-09-14 | BRITISH LITERATURE $500 (Daily Double): In a Christmas classic, his ghost says, "I wear the chain I forged in life" Jacob Marley |
| #3684, aired 2000-09-14 | BRITISH LITERATURE $500: He wrote his stories about Bertie Wooster & his manservant Jeeves over a period of about 50 years P.G. Wodehouse |
| #3315, aired 1999-01-22 | BRITISH LITERATURE $100: This great dramatist's works include "Tamburlaine the Great" & "The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus" Christopher Marlowe |
| #3315, aired 1999-01-22 | BRITISH LITERATURE $200: "The Fellowship of the Ring" is volume 1 of this Tolkien trilogy The Lord of the Rings |
| #3315, aired 1999-01-22 | BRITISH LITERATURE $300: This author of "The Man With Two Left Feet" & "My Man Jeeves" was a prisoner of the Germans during WWII P.G. Wodehouse |
| #3315, aired 1999-01-22 | BRITISH LITERATURE $400: A character in "The Rivals", this woman utters hilarities like "He is the very pineapple of politeness" Mrs. Malaprop |
| #3315, aired 1999-01-22 | BRITISH LITERATURE $500: This pre-Raphaelite poet & painter dug up some of his poems years after their burial with his wife Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
| #3023, aired 1997-10-22 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $200: He's the only British prime minister to win a Nobel Prize for Literature Winston Churchill |
| #2899, aired 1997-03-20 | MUSIC & LITERATURE $600: Donizetti wrote an opera based on this British lord's poem "Parisina" Lord Byron |
| #2776, aired 1996-09-30 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: While recovering from an illness, P.L. Travers wrote her first stories about this magical British nursemaid Mary Poppins |
| #2653, aired 1996-02-28 | LITERATURE $1000: "Fiesta" is the British title of this Hemingway novel The Sun Also Rises |
| #2459, aired 1995-04-20 | BRITISH HISTORY $200: In 1478 this Chaucer classic became the first original English work of literature set in type The Canterbury Tales |
| #2453, aired 1995-04-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: This British author modeled Adam Bede on her own father George Eliot |
| #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 |
| #2173, aired 1994-02-02 | LITERATURE $1000: In 1930 this British novelist published a satire of literary life called "Cakes and Ale" Somerset Maugham |
| #2090, aired 1993-10-08 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: This British lord helped initiate the Boy Scout movement with "Scouting for Boys" in 1908 Baden-Powell |
| #2011, aired 1993-05-10 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: In 1971 this author of "The Mousetrap" was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire Agatha Christie |
| #1991, aired 1993-04-12 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: One of the first American editions of this British book was titled "Schooldays at Rugby" Tom Brown's Schooldays |
| #1881, aired 1992-11-09 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: The adventures of Rat, Mole, Toad & Badger are told in this 1908 British book The Wind in the Willows |
| #1847, aired 1992-09-22 | LITERATURE $800: His novella, "Goodbye, Mr. Chips", was first published in 1934 in the British Weekly James Hilton |
| #1682, aired 1991-12-17 | LITERATURE $800: This 1989 John le Carre novel opens at a small British trade fair in Moscow The Russia House |
| #1482, aired 1991-01-29 | LITERATURE $200: This salaried member of the British royal household is honored for past poetic excellence poet laureate |
| #1442, aired 1990-12-04 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: His novel "The Moon and Sixpence" is based on Gauguin, but the hero is British, not French Somerset Maugham |
| #1427, aired 1990-11-13 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: British philosopher & mathematician who won the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature Bertrand Russell |
| #1322, aired 1990-05-08 | WORLD LITERATURE $1000: In the era of colonialism, this British author wrote, "Take Up the White Man's Burden" Rudyard Kipling |
| #1183, aired 1989-10-25 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: It's reported John F. Kennedy's favorite poem was "Ulysses" by this British poet laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| #1179, aired 1989-10-19 | CITIES IN LITERATURE $500: "Tom Brown's School Days" were spent at a British prep school in this town Rugby |
| #1006, aired 1989-01-09 | MODERN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): British miniseries based on Paul Scott's "The Raj Quartet" The Jewel in the Crown |
| #959, aired 1988-11-03 | HODGEPODGE $1000: In literature it's the American monetary equivalent to the British penny dreadful dime novel |
| #915, aired 1988-07-22 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: This British poet, a notorious "Don Juan", kept his ringlets fresh by wearing curlers to bed George Gordon Lord Byron |
| #779, aired 1988-01-14 | BRITISH LITERATURE $200: Of "Sir", "Reverend", or "Dr.", title Charles Lutwidge Dodgson could properly use Reverend |
| #779, aired 1988-01-14 | BRITISH LITERATURE $400: Mythical land mentioned by Samuel Johnson in his "Debates" & Jonathan Swift in his "Travels" Lilliput |
| #779, aired 1988-01-14 | BRITISH LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): The P.M.'s office offers a name to the sovereign, who then appoints the writer to this post Poet Laureate |
| #779, aired 1988-01-14 | BRITISH LITERATURE $800: Most famous work of Edward Gibbon, who became Commissioner of Trade & Plantations The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
| #779, aired 1988-01-14 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1000: Among this 19th-century writer's poems are "Pippa Passes" & "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" (Robert) Browning |
| #751, aired 1987-12-07 | BRITISH LITERATURE $100: When Rebecca, a nice Jewish girl, was accused of witchcraft, this Sir Walter Scott hero championed her Ivanhoe |
| #751, aired 1987-12-07 | BRITISH LITERATURE $200: James Hilton tale in which the high lama reveals himself to be 250-yr.-old founder of Shangri-La Lost Horizon |
| #751, aired 1987-12-07 | BRITISH LITERATURE $300: Daughter of dustman Alfred Doolittle Eliza |
| #751, aired 1987-12-07 | BRITISH LITERATURE $400: Among his title characters was Kimball O'Hara, a 13-year-old orphan in Lahore, India (Rudyard) Kipling |
| #751, aired 1987-12-07 | BRITISH LITERATURE $500: Book in which Joe Gargery reflects, "On the rampage, Pip, & off the rampage, Pip; such is life!" Great Expectations |
| #652, aired 1987-06-09 | BRITISH LITERATURE $200: In a Joseph Conrad novel, the natives of Patusan call Jim "Tuan", meaning this lord |
| #652, aired 1987-06-09 | BRITISH LITERATURE $400: To explain an imaginary map he drew for his stepson, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote this book Treasure Island |
| #652, aired 1987-06-09 | BRITISH LITERATURE $600: He wrote "Goodbye Mr. Chips" in just 4 days James Hilton |
| #652, aired 1987-06-09 | BRITISH LITERATURE $800: Century in which Daphne du Maurier did her writing the 20th century |
| #652, aired 1987-06-09 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1000: Author of "Idylls of the King", he was a favorite of Queen Victoria Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #329, aired 1985-12-12 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: In the British version their sizes are "little, small, wee", "middle--sized", & "great, huge" the Three Bears |
| #161, aired 1985-04-22 | LITERATURE $1000: This British lord wrote of the Spaniard, Don Juan, to satirize English life & customs Lord Byron |
| #151, aired 1985-04-08 | BRITISH HISTORY $200: The only British Prime Minister to win the Nobel Prize for Literature Winston Churchill |
| #143, aired 1985-03-27 | LITERATURE $200: Of "Hamlet", "Macbeth" & "King Lear", the one not set in the British isles Hamlet |
| #133, aired 1985-03-13 | LITERATURE $1000: Last name of British family of writers Sir Osbert, Sacheverell, & Dame Edith Sitwell |
| #94, aired 1985-01-17 | LITERATURE $1000: "Imperialist" author who coined phrase "The sun never sets on the British Empire" Kipling |
| #44, aired 1984-11-08 | LITERATURE $200: Nationality of children in “Lord of the Flies” British |
