| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | BOOKS & THEIR MOVIES $800: The title of this Michael Ondaatje novel & film actually refers to a Hungarian count, badly burned after a plane crash The English Patient |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | GERMAN AUTHORS $1600: In the 1930s the Nazis burned the books of this "All Quiet on the Western Front" author & took away his citizenship (Erich Maria) Remarque |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | -OLA $2000: In the 1490s, this religious reformer led a puritanical regime in Florence that burned books & art Savonarola |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | BURNED BOOKS $400: This man's wife was so disturbed by the first draft of "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" that it was burned, forcing him to rewrite it Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | BURNED BOOKS $800: Future wife Nora saved "Stephen Hero" after this man threw it in a fire; it became "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" (James) Joyce |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | BURNED BOOKS $1200: After discovering her husband Ted Hughes' infidelity, this poet burned the manuscript to "Falcon Yard", her second novel (Sylvia) Plath |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | BURNED BOOKS $1600: This poet's manuscript of "Conversation at Midnight" burned at both ends in a hotel fire & she rewrote it from memory Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | BURNED BOOKS $2000: Ironically, Malcolm Lowry's "Under" this fiery place was almost lost when his cabin burned to the ground Volcano |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | BOOKS BY THE NUMBER $400: After not 1 but 2 nuclear wars, books are burned to prevent complicated thought in this 1953 sci-fi classic Fahrenheit 451 |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | LET'S ALL GO TO THE LIBRARY $400: Burned by the Brits in 1814, the Library of Congress was rebuilt with the purchase of 6,487 books from this man (Thomas) Jefferson |
| #5310, aired 2007-10-12 | THOMAS JEFFERSON $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1815 Thomas sold his collection of about 6,700 of these to the government for $23,950 books |
| #5203, aired 2007-04-04 | PAGE BURNERS $600: For 3 days in 1992 nationalists supporting this country burned Bosnian books Serbia |
| #5118, aired 2006-12-06 | BOOKS ABOUT AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1830 biographer Thomas Moore burned the memoirs of this aristocratic Brit to protect the poet's reputation Lord Byron |
| #4749, aired 2005-04-07 | LIFE AFTER DEATH $2000: This writer wanted his unpublished books burned, but Max Brod made sure they got to "Amerika" (Franz) Kafka |
| #3859, aired 2001-05-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $100: An 1853 fire at his publisher's warehouse burned the remaining stock of his books, including "Moby Dick" Herman Melville |
| #2349, aired 1994-11-17 | ANCIENT HISTORY $200: In 213 B.C., Ch'in Shih Huang-ti ordered all of these burned, except the ones in the imperial library books |
| #1372, aired 1990-07-17 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: This library has managed to acquire copies of all but 3 of the books the British burned in 1814 the Library of Congress |
| #1204, aired 1989-11-23 | RELIGIOUS LEADERS $200: The Emperor Ch'in ordered his books burned in the 3rd century B.C. Confucius |
| #905, aired 1988-07-08 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $100: Its 1st collection of books was destroyed when the British burned the Capitol in 1814 the Library of Congress |
| #288, aired 1985-10-16 | BANNED BOOKS $400: In 1923, 500 copies of this James Joyce novel were burned by the U.S. Post Office Ulysses |
