#8726, aired 2022-10-24 | NEWS MAKERS & WRITERS '22 $800: Queen Elizabeth II's last appearance was to appoint this woman as the 15th prime minister of her majesty's reign Liz Truss |
#8606, aired 2022-03-28 | BRITISH WRITERS $400: Though best known for his James Bond novels, he also wrote the children's book "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" Fleming |
#8606, aired 2022-03-28 | BRITISH WRITERS $800: Published in 1724, "Roxana" was the last major work of fiction by this "Robinson Crusoe" author Defoe |
#8606, aired 2022-03-28 | BRITISH WRITERS $1200: He's the writer of comics, graphic novels & films seen here Neil Gaiman |
#8606, aired 2022-03-28 | BRITISH WRITERS $1600: This playwright who wrote "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" also co-wrote the movie "Shakespeare in Love" Tom Stoppard |
#8606, aired 2022-03-28 | BRITISH WRITERS $2000: This author of the "Wolf Hall Trilogy" has been called the queen of historical fiction (Hilary) Mantel |
#8561, aired 2022-01-24 | WRITERS DO RIGHT $200: This British mystery maven described thallium poisoning so well in a book, a nurse recognized the symptoms in a child Agatha Christie |
#8246, aired 2020-09-28 | WRITERS ANONYMOUS $400: This anonymous Old English poem about a hero fighting monsters survives in the Nowell Codex at the British Library "Beowulf" |
#8120, aired 2019-12-20 | WRITERS GO WAY BACK $600: This British dame sets the mystery in "Death Comes as the End" in Egypt way back in 2000 B.C. Agatha Christie |
#7338, aired 2016-07-06 | LITERARY GROUPS & MOVEMENTS $800: A group of mid-20th century British writers were these "Young Men"--it's not "Jolly" Angry |
#6914, aired 2014-10-09 | WRITERS ON THE PERIODIC TABLE $2000: British mistress of mystery
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#6878, aired 2014-07-09 | LONDON SPRAWLING $1200: The British Museum is in this London neighborhood once home to a famous writers' "group" Bloomsbury |
#6615, aired 2013-05-24 | WRITERS AT REST $600: This British author was buried in the Shire-- Oxfordshire, that is-- alongside wife Edith Tolkien |
#6177, aired 2011-06-21 | WRITERS' RELATIVES $1600: This acting son of British Poet Laureate Cecil won Oscars in 1990 & 2008 Daniel Day-Lewis |
#5654, aired 2009-03-19 | WRITERS ON FILM $800: Daniel Craig played this British poet in the biopic "Sylvia" Ted Hughes |
#4923, aired 2006-01-25 | THE BRITISH ISLES $1200: This island group that lies just north of the Scottish mainland was known to classical writers as the Orcades the Orkney Islands |
#4424, aired 2003-11-27 | WRITERS ON FILM $1200: Judi Dench got an Oscar nomination for playing this British writer who battled Alzheimer's Iris Murdoch |
#3634, aired 2000-05-25 | WRITERS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1902 Arthur Conan Doyle was knighted not for Sherlock Holmes but for defending British actions in this war the Boer War |
#3539, aired 2000-01-13 | WRITERS BY MIDDLE NAME $800: British novelist & satirist Makepeace William Makepeace Thackeray |
#3074, aired 1998-01-01 | WORLD CITIES $500: O! This city's Writers' Building on Dalhousie Square once housed the British East India Company's clerks Calcutta |
#133, aired 1985-03-13 | LITERATURE $1000: Last name of British family of writers Sir Osbert, Sacheverell, & Dame Edith Sitwell |
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