| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | THE MOVIES $400: In 2023 this book by Judy Blume finally became a movie, with Rachel McAdams as the title girl's mom Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: The Israelites' foes in the Book of Judges, these people were brought under Assyrian control by around 800 B.C. the Philistines |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | FICTION $1000: The title of this 2023 bestseller by Ann Patchett refers to a theater company, not a body of water Tom Lake |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | ART & CRIME $400: "Vanished Smile", a true crime book by R.A. Scotti, is subtitled "The Mysterious Theft of" this artwork the Mona Lisa |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | A WARMING TREND $2000: In this Bible book once alluded to by Samuel L. Jackson, "Another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the Lord" Ezekiel |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | NOTABLE NAMES $1600: A 1920 book by Thomas Looney & the movie "Anonymous" pushed the theory that this earl was the real Shakespeare the Earl of Oxford (Edward de Vere) |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | MOVIE SONGS $1600: "All Is Love", "Rumpus" & "Food Is Still Hot" are numbers by Karen O & the Kids for this kids' book adaptation Where the Wild Things Are |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: 3-letter last name of Johnny, a symbol of the typical southern soldier; in a 1905 book by a war veteran, he's paired with Billy Yank Reb |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | WORLD OF LIT $2000: The short story collection "Face to Face" was the first book by this South African woman who won a 1991 Nobel Prize Nadine Gordimer |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | GENDERED LANGUAGE $800: This term for a woman in charge is the title of a book by entrepreneur Sophia Amoruso a girlboss |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ITALIAN AMERICANS $1600: The screenwriting credits on the "Godfather" films are shared by these 2 men, the director & the original book's author Coppola & Puzo |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | GEOGRAPHIC BOOK TITLES $1600: In "The Boys from Brazil", a Nazi hunter chases clones of Hitler created by this fugitive doctor Dr. Mengele |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S NONFICTION $600: A 2005 book tells the chilling saga of this group that included 90% of German kids by 1939 the Hitler Youth |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | THE BOOK TITLE ANIMAL $200: A 1919 sequel by Thornton W. Burgess, "Mrs. Peter ____" Rabbit |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | THE BOOK TITLE ANIMAL $600: "____'s Eye" by Margaret Atwood Cat's |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | "LOL" $400: In 1955, a U.K. Sunday Express editor declared this novel by Vladimir Nabokov "the filthiest book I have ever read" Lolita |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | KITTY LIT $100: Shere Khan the tiger figures into tales by Rudyard Kipling which are set in this country India |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $1600: In Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose", murders at a 14th c. monastery center on a book on laughter by this ancient Greek Aristotle |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | JOHN GREEN $400: (John Green presents the clue.) Two books that I often recommend & that inspired me to write for teens are "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson & one by Walter Dean Myers; Steve is on trial for murder, but is he really this, the title of the book? a monster |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: A beloved 1964 book by him begins, "Once there was a tree... and she loved a little boy" Shel Silverstein |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | BOOK TOCK $200: Cinderella is warned by her godmother that if she stays at the ball after midnight, her coach will be one of these again a pumpkin |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | IT'S A VISION BOARD $600: In the first book in English by a woman, Julian of Norwich lists visions including the universe as the size of this a hazelnut |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | LITERARY TOURISM $400: Romantics at heart still come to see the covered bridges made famous by this 1992 book by Robert James Waller The Bridges of Madison County |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | POEMS ABOUT POETRY $600: If you read "If—", you'll be taking a look / At a poem by this author of "The Jungle Book" Kipling |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | NORDIC LITERATURE $1600: "Faceless Killers" was book No. 1 in the series about this soul-searching police inspector played on TV by Kenneth Branagh Wallander |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | "B"OOKS $200: This classic kids' book by Felix Salten is subtitled "A Life in the Woods" Bambi |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | OSCAR-WINNING SCREENPLAYS $5,400 (Daily Double): 1976:
William Goldman, from the book by Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward All the President's Men |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | ALL THE PRESIDENTS' CHILDREN $400: That's Abraham Lincoln looking at a book with son Thomas, who was better known by this 3-letter nickname Tad |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY CHARACTERS $1600: Mafala Hatimbi &
Elder McKinley The Book of Mormon |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | THE LITERARY CHARACTER WHO SAID... $2000: "Mother, if only you knew how cruelly I've been tricked by a conspiracy of sub-humans. Ironically, the book of Fortuna is itself bad luck" Ignatius J. Reilly |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | BOOK CLUB $2000: Lord Peter Wimsey frequents the Egotists' Club in mystery stories by this woman Dorothy L. Sayers |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | BOOK DEDICATIONS $1000: Toni Morrison dedicated this masterpiece to "sixty million and more"--the number of African victims claimed by slavery Beloved |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | RENAISSANCE LITERATURE $2000: Margaret of Navarre's 16th century book of stories "The Heptameron" was modeled on a longer work by this Italian Boccaccio |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: Saying he was instructed by an angel named Moroni, he translated the "Book of Mormon" from a set of gold plates Joseph Smith |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | HERE BE PIRATES! $1600: In a book by Rafael Sabatini, "Captain Blood" is a feared pirate of this "Spanish" area of New World seas the Spanish Main |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | A BY-THE-BOOK HOW TO $200: "They fight without shirts or shoes. The fights go on as long as they have to. Those are the other rules of" this the Fight Club |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | A BY-THE-BOOK HOW TO $400: When meeting this Dr. with a unique palate, "Do not reach through the bars... do not accept anything he attempts to hold out to you" Dr. Hannibal Lecter |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | A BY-THE-BOOK HOW TO $600: Michele Alexander & Jeannie Long put it right there in the title--"How to" do this "in 10 Days: The Universal Don'ts of Dating" Lose a Guy |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | A BY-THE-BOOK HOW TO $800: Wanna play God like him? "Make the being of a gigantic stature... eight feet in height, and proportionably large", or... don't (Dr. Victor) Frankenstein |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | A BY-THE-BOOK HOW TO $1000: How to re-educate violent people like Alex in this novel? "My top glazz-lids were pulled up & up & up & I could not shut my glazzies" A Clockwork Orange |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | MODERN FANTASY LIT $400: In a book by Gail Carson Levine, obedience is the curse of this title girl, "Enchanted"; she also pines for Prince Charmont Ella |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | FLOWERY POETRY & PROSE $3,100 (Daily Double): The Spike Jonze film "Adaptation" is about trying to bring this steal of a book by Susan Orlean to the big screen The Orchid Thief |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | READING WITH JENNA BUSH HAGER $800: (Jenna Bush Hager presents the clue.) One book that I have read multiple times & chose for my book club is "The Bluest Eye" by this woman, my all-time favorite author Toni Morrison |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | LET'S GO TO THE SPORTS BOOK $800: "Iron Ambition", by this heavyweight champ, is about his relationship with trainer Cus D'Amato ("Iron") Mike Tyson |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | THE SAILOR MAN $1,100 (Daily Double): Lord Drinian is captain of this title vessel in a book by C.S. Lewis the Dawn Treader |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | OPPOSITIONAL BOOK TITLES $800: The subtitle of this nonfiction work by a Catholic sister is "An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States" Dead Man Walking |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | 21st CENTURY HORROR NOVELS $600: The Scooby gang was often accused of being these, the title of a book by Edgar Cantero about 4 teens with a telepathic pooch meddling kids |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | LITERATURE $1200: In the 1920s "Along the Road" was a travel book by this writer; he'd write about a different kind of trip in "The Doors of Perception" Huxley |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: At the start of this Hemingway book, Santiago hasn't caught a fish in a long time; it ends with his fish being eaten by sharks The Old Man and the Sea |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: In this picture book by Janell Cannon, a fruit bat ends up in a bird's nest & is adopted by the mama bird Stellaluna |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $600: In a book by Paul Gallico, Thomasina is one of these pets that channels the Egyptian goddess Bastet & saves her owner's life a cat |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | BOOK-POURRI $800: An almost 12-year-old girl, last name Simon, is mentioned in the title of this classic by Judy Blume Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | HISTORICAL POTPOURRI $1,200 (Daily Double): He peaked in power as Lord Privy Seal in 1536, fell from power, was executed & had his reputation revived by the late Hilary Mantel Thomas Cromwell |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | THE BOOK OF ROMANS $800: "Ovid's Causes" by K. Sara Myers is a study of this poem of many mythic transformations Metamorphoses |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | ADAPTERS $1600: Neil Druckmann, creator of this video game partly inspired by the book "The World Without Us", helped adapt it for HBO in 2023 The Last of Us |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | LIFE & DEATH IN LITERARY TITLES $1200: "Speaker for the Dead" by Orson Scott Card is the 2nd book in the series about this character & his genocidal "Game" Ender |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | BIBLE BOOKS BY QUOTES $1000: "Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand" the Book of Daniel |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | THEIR LESSER-KNOWN BOOKS $2000: The imaginary country Boca Grande figures in "A Book of Common Prayer" by this late Californian better known for her essays (Joan) Didion |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | A RELIGIOUS SERVICE $1200: Everyone join in on "Have Thine Own Way, Lord", composed by Adelaide A. Pollard, in the book called the United Methodist this a hymnal |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | DISEASES $1600: Avril Lavigne's song "Head Above Water" & Meghan O'Rourke's book "The Invisible Kingdom" are by sufferers of this tick-borne disease Lyme disease |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | BOOK SEQUELS $200: Danny Torrance is still haunted by the Overlook Hotel in "Doctor Sleep", his sequel to "The Shining" King |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | BOOK SEQUELS $400: In the full title of a sequel, this is followed by "& What Alice Found There" Through the Looking-Glass |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | GIVE THAT BOOK A PRIZE! $800: Monkeys & rhinos were literally in the house & the game was afoot in this 1982 Caldecott Medal winner by Chris Van Allsburg Jumanji |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | GIVE THAT BOOK A PRIZE! $1200: 1972's Nebula for Best Novel was "The Gods Themselves"; it was written by this prolific "master of science fiction" Asimov |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $3,000 (Daily Double): It's a social ideal meant to motivate people toward success; a book by a N.Y. Times columnist is subtitled "Waking Up from" it the American Dream |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $2000: "1947: Where Now Begins" naturally takes note of an invention that year by this Russian gun designer Kalashnikov |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | THE BOOK WITH NO PICTURES $100: A line from this dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury: "The books leapt & danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze" Fahrenheit 451 |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | THAT BOOK TITLE IS MISLEADING $300: Where's the funny in "The Divine Comedy", an epic poem by this Italian that begins with a literal journey through hell Dante |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | THE BOOK WITH NO PICTURES $400: Locals call Kya the "Marsh Girl" in this recent bestseller by Delia Owens Where the Crawdads Sing |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | THAT BOOK TITLE IS MISLEADING $900: This "Story" by Michael Ende runs to just 400 pages in a hardback edition; the title made me think, you know, it was infinite The Neverending Story |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | THAT BOOK TITLE IS MISLEADING $1200: No, it's not about where Ken & Barbie live; the title of this trashy novel by Jacqueline Susann refers to uppers & downers, as in pills The Valley of the Dolls |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | YOU'RE MY INSPIRATION $800: In 1921 a Jewish woman named Edith Stein read a book by this woman of Avila & began a journey to sainthood under the same name Teresa |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | WRITE FOOT $200: Beginning readers may learn about trick feet & sick feet in "The Foot Book" by this author whose real name was Theodor Geisel Dr. Seuss |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES $800: Stuck with 2 bad options, you're this, the title of a book by trapped climber Aron Ralston between a rock & a hard place |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN THAT BOOK $800: In this novel, Winston is inspired by a copy of "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism" 1984 |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | SEQUELS $2000: Margaret Atwood won the Booker Prize for this sequel to "The Handmaid's Tale" that's narrated by Daisy, Agnes & Aunt Lydia The Testaments |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | KIDS' BOOK TITLES IN LATIN $400: The first in a series by Jeff Kinney:
"Commentarii de Inepto Puero" Diary of a Wimpy Kid |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $400: As mentioned at the start of this book, Pithom & Raamses were 2 treasure cities built by the Israelites for the Egyptian Pharaoh Exodus |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | MUSICAL THEATER $600: The Tony-winning Best Musical of 2011, it features the songs "Two by Two" & "Joseph Smith American Moses" The Book of Mormon |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | THE BIBLE $1000: This 5-letter word refers to the "bread from heaven" eaten by the Israelites as told in the Book of Exodus manna |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | 21st CENTURY BESTSELLERS $800: Jon Krakauer reported "A Story of Violent Faith" in this book, detailing 1984 murders by religious extremists in Utah Under the Banner of Heaven |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | ALL ABOUT ALLITERATIVE BOOK CHARACTERS $200: Peter Pevensie is one of the children who come to reign over this land created by C.S. Lewis Narnia |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BALLET & OPERA $1200: The 2021 nonfiction book "Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy" is by this prima ballerina Misty Copeland |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | CROCODILE POP $1000: In a book series by Bernard Waber, a family finds this friendly croc whose name rhymes with crocodile living in their new home Lyle (the Crocodile) |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | WITH AUTHOR-ITY $500: She showed "Sense & Sensibility" by starting that book with "The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex" Austen |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | CLASSIC KIDS' BOOKS $400: In a book by Johanna Spyri, this title orphan is sent to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps Heidi |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | PONY TALES $2000: You can't do the category without "The Red Pony", a book of stories by this American Steinbeck |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | THE WAIT OF THE WORLD $400: Folks have awaited the next book by him after 2011's "A Dance with Dragons" but it takes as long as it takes George R.R. Martin |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | JEOPARDY! & THE 10 RINGS $100: In a book by this man, the hobbit Frodo gets a ring granting invisibility from his cousin Bilbo Tolkien |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | A HUNGER FOR READING $600: Eric Schlosser's book about this "Nation" estimates that one in 8 workers in the U.S. has been employed by McDonald's Fast Food |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | WEATHER WORDS $800: A book about the underworld says Al Capone's rival Joe Aiello died in this type of storm "of lead" a hail |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | ECONOMICS $1600: Book III of a 1776 economic work by this man is "of the Different Progress of Opulence in different Nations" Adam Smith |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | KIDS' BOOKS $400: The title character of this classic by Eric Carle literally eats through the pages of the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | BOOK TITLE REFERENCES $800: In a novel by Khaled Hosseini, a boy named Hassan The Kite Runner |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $400: A risque work "written" by one of this queen's ladies in waiting, "1601" was first published anonymously by Mark Twain in 1880 Elizabeth I |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $600: A classic by a fellow Englishman inspired Anthony Burgess to write a book in response whose title is this, one year later 1985 |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $1000: "Daybreak-2250 A.D." is by prolific author Alice Mary Norton, better known to sci-fi fans by this first name Andre |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | NUMERICAL BOOK TITLES $800: The "Five Little Pigs" are the 5 suspects gathered together by this Belgian detective to reveal the killer, as he does (Hercule) Poirot |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | LIT BITS $400: In a classic book by Margery Williams, this title stuffed bunny is a Christmas gift The Velveteen Rabbit |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | THAT BOOK PLAGUES ME $400: An epidemic strikes Algeria in "The Plague" by this author Albert Camus |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | THAT BOOK PLAGUES ME $800: Boccaccio's finest poetry is in this collection of tales told by 10 people fleeing plague-stricken Florence The Decameron |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | THAT BOOK PLAGUES ME $1200: A mysterious microorganism from space wipes out most of an Arizona town in this thriller by Michael Crichton The Andromeda Strain |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | THAT BOOK PLAGUES ME $1600: A virulent disease targets only women in "The White Plague" by this author of "Dune" Herbert |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | THAT BOOK PLAGUES ME $2000: A flu pandemic leads to the collapse of civilization in this novel by Emily St. John Mandel, later an HBO Max miniseries Station Eleven |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | FROM BOOK TO MOVIE WITH A DIFFERENT TITLE $800: Houston, we have a new title: "Lost Moon" by this astronaut was the basis for "Apollo 13" Jim Lovell |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | PILLOW TALK $200: From around 1000 A.D., the "Pillow Book" of Sei Shonagon was written by a lady in waiting in this country Japan |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | BOOK 'EM $200: In 1897 this Bram Stoker horror novel was vastly outsold by another in the genre, "The Beetle", about a shape-shifting monster Dracula |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | PICTURE/BOOK $800: A landmark work of the 18th century The Wealth of Nations |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | BOWL-O-RAMA $800: "If Life is" this, asked a humorous book title by Erma Bombeck, "What Am I Doing in the Pits?" a Bowl of Cherries |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $2000: In an interview, this author said he prepared for writing "The Lincoln Highway" by reading many works set in the 1950s Amor Towles |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | FROM BOOK TO TV $800: John Cusack & Zoe Kravitz played the record store owner in the film & TV adaptations of this novel by Nick Hornby High Fidelity |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $400: Whitley Strieber's "2012" is a thriller based on apocalyptic events supposedly predicted by this Mesoamerican people's calendar the Mayans |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: In the book "New Hampshire" by Robert Frost, you'll read "Some say the world will end in fire, some say in" this ice |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | MILLENNIALS $2000: "Black Ballerinas: My Journey to our Legacy" is the latest book by this principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre (Misty) Copeland |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | NONFICTION $2,600 (Daily Double): This book by Rachel Carson is called "the classic that launched the environmental movement" Silent Spring |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | LITERATURE: "GOOD" OR "GREAT" $600: The world is ending this coming Saturday, just before dinner, in this book by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett Good Omens |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | HISTORY BOOKS $1200: "Blood & Iron", a history of Germany 1871-1918, gets its title from a quote by this chancellor who's big in the book Bismarck |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | ASSIGNED READING MATH $800: "Still Mad", feminist criticism by Gilbert & Gubar, is 3/5 as many pages as their 1979 book this person "in the Attic" The Madwoman |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | POETS & POETRY $1200: 1956's "Let Us Compare Mythologies" was the first book of poems by this man more famous for songs like "Hallelujah" (Leonard) Cohen |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: This feral character raised by jungle animals originally appeared in Rudyard Kipling's short story "In the Rukh" Mowgli |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): The title group discusses "Emma" in Chapter One of this novel by Karen Joy Fowler The Jane Austen Book Club |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | WORDS & PHRASES $1000: This expression, inspired by an event in the Book of Daniel, illustrated here, means "an effort is doomed to fail" the writing is on the wall |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | BOOK ALIKES $1200: "East of Eden" is a classic by Steinbeck; "Exit to Eden" is a novel she wrote under the pseudonym Anne Rampling Anne Rice |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | BOOK ALIKES $1600: "The Little Prince" is a fable by Antoine de Saint-Exupery; "A Little Princess" is a kids' classic by this 3-named woman Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $1600: Published in the U.S. in 1962, this William S. Burroughs "meal" was not easily digested by some Naked Lunch |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $1600: Janie, the 40ish heroine of this book by Zora Neale Hurston, sees her life as a tree with "dawn and doom" in the branches Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN $2000: Drawn to the sea before seeing it by a line of poetry, she became a marine biologist & 1941's "Under the Sea-Wind" was her first book (Rachel) Carson |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND $400: A 2017 book by Ian Dunt has a title many are asking--this 6-letter word: "What the Hell Happens Now?" Brexit |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | FAMOUS PROFESSORS $2000: "Nine Nasty Words" is a 2021 book by this man, who teaches linguistics at Columbia & hosts the podcast "Lexicon Valley" John McWhorter |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: "The Rose that Grew from Concrete" is a book of poems by this man better known as a rapper Tupac Shakur |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | BOOK TITLE MATH $1600: Khaled Hosseini's "Splendid Suns" divided by John Reed's "Days That Shook the World" 100 |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | ESSAYS $400: A book of essays by Joan Didion has this same title as a plain-covered Beatles LP The White Album |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | BOOK TITLES EN FRANCAIS $1000: A book for the entire galaxy: "Salut, et encore merci pour le poisson" So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | THE BOOK OF WHO $400: Written as a parable, a business classic by Spencer Johnson asks "Who Moved My" this Cheese |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | THE BOOK OF WHO $1200: "Who I Am" is a candid autobiography by this guitarist/songwriter for The Who Townshend |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | THE BOOK OF WHO $1600: Finally published in its entirety in 2021, "The Man Who Lived Underground" is by this late author of "Native Son" Richard Wright |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | 5 BURROS $600: In a book by Marguerite Henry, Brighty is a burro who roams the high cliffs of this Arizona landmark the Grand Canyon |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR $200: I swear by him; he swears by himself in the book of Jeremiah God |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | FOR YOUR REFERENCE $600: The first book with this repetitive title was published in London in 1849; today it's followed by "in Dentistry", among many others Who's Who |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | FROM BOOK TO RETITLED FILM $1200: Centered on an evil puzzle box, "The Hellbound Heart" by Clive Barker scared up this 1987 horror movie, you pinhead Hellraiser |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: In "Gub Gub's Book", by the creator of Dr. Dolittle, this type of animal tells of truffles & more pig |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | CHINA'S CULTURAL REVOLUTION $2,000 (Daily Double): Also called "Quotations from Chairman Mao", this colorful book was carried by the Revolution's most zealous adherents Little Red Book |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | BIRDING $1600: In 1934 Roger Tory Peterson put out this 2-word type of book "to the Birds", the first of many used by birders a field guide |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | MUSIC, IN THE CLASSICAL SENSE $1600: The "Bride's Book of Etiquette" suggests "Canon In D" by this 17th century German as the party heads down the aisle Pachelbel |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | DISNEY MOVIES BY SONGS $800: Performed by Baloo in the original & in the remake: "The Bare Necessities" The Jungle Book |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | LITERATURE $2000: In this A.S. Byatt novel, a scholar (Aaron Eckhart in the movie) finds letters in a book owned by a long-dead poet Possession |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | BOSTON: NEWS CLUES $1000: (Hi, I'm Steve Burton.) John McCain is among the public officials who've been honored at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library with an award for leadership, named for this Pulitzer Prize-winning book by JFK Profiles in Courage |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | BIRDS IN BOOK TITLES $1000: In "A Feast of Crows" by George R.R. Martin, this family of Jaime & Cersei rules from the iron throne Lannister |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | LIT-POURRI $1200: Sara Crewe is the title lass in this beloved children's book by Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | NOVELLAS $1600: Melville House Press offers classic novellas in book form, & of course included the tale of this title sailor by Melville himself Billy Budd |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | IN THE SCI-FI & FANTASY SECTION $200: "The Tributes" is part I of this 2008 book by Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | AUTHORS' THIRD BOOKS $1600: Marine officer & disciplinarian dad Bull Meecham in this third book by Pat Conroy calls himself this, the novel's title The Great Santini |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | DID YOU READ... $3,000 (Daily Double): ... This book by Mark Bowden chronicling a savage firefight in Somalia in 1993 Black Hawk Down |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | BOOK-BORNE WORDS & PHRASES $400: Let's get to the truth: To "de" this, meaning to expose something as false, comes from a 1923 novel by W.E. Woodward debunk |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | POETIC BOOK TITLES $400: For the title of this novel about World War I, Hemingway went back to a 16th century poem by George Peele A Farewell to Arms |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | POETIC BOOK TITLES $1,000 (Daily Double): From Sonnet 30 by Shakespeare: "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought / I summon up" this Marcel Proust title Remembrance of Things Past |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | POETIC BOOK TITLES $1200: "Rage, rage against" this title of George R.R. Martin's first novel, a quote from a poem by Dylan Thomas The Dying of the Light |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | POETIC BOOK TITLES $2000: The novel title "A Handful of Dust" by Evelyn Waugh comes from this T.S. Eliot poem about our decayed culture The Waste Land |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | 1920s GOOD READS $1200: Illustrated by the author, the voyages of this physician with animal pals, won a Newbery Medal as Most Distinguished Children's Book Dr. Dolittle |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | THE WITCH IS DEAD $1000: A death eater & dark witch, Bellatrix Lestrange killed Dobby before being killed herself by Molly Weasley in this book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | BOOKS FOR THE WEATHER CHANNEL $400: I was "struck by" the plot twists in Dean Koontz' book about Laura Shane with this 1-word title Lightning |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | AUTHORS' ROAD TRIPS $1600: A 2019 book tells the true tale of a 1927 road trip by this woman & Langston Hughes, including a Bessie Smith show in Macon Zora Neale Hurston |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THROWING THE BOOK AT YOU $800: Father & daughter go out at night in a children's classic by Jane Yolen titled this bird "Moon" Owl Moon |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | BOOK 'EM $1600: "Redhead By the Side of the Road" is a 2020 novel by this author of "The Accidental Tourist" (Anne) Tyler |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | NONFICTION $400: One chapter in this book by Stephen Hawking is "The Origin & Fate of the Universe" A Brief History of Time |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | ONE-SUBJECT NONFICTION $2000: Charles Seife wrote a book about it; ignored by the Romans & Greeks, it became "the most important tool in mathematics" zero |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $400: "Ali Cross", a book for young mystery fans, features the son of Alex Cross from novels by this author James Patterson |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: In a book by Beverly Cleary, Socks is this pet, suddenly having to share the house with a new baby a cat |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | THE CUBISTS $5,900 (Daily Double): "Tender Buttons", written by this American expatriate while she was living in Paris, is a book of Cubist still-life prose-poems Gertrude Stein |
| #8254, aired 2020-10-08 | DYE ANOTHER DAY $800: "Sweet Thursday" is the name of a book by John Steinbeck, very different from this nickname for October 24, 1929 on Wall Street Black Thursday |
| #8245, aired 2020-09-25 | GUYS NAMED DOUG $1000: "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul" is a 1988 book by this British humorist Douglas Adams |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: In a novel by Jonathan Franzen, Alfred Lambert & his son Chip face their failures to make these, the title of the book corrections |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION $2000: 1950 winner "The Wall" by John Hersey is about an escape from the ghetto of 400,000 Jews set up by the Nazis in this capital Warsaw |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | KEN JENNINGS ON WINNING STREAKS $800: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) 28 publishers rejected the first book by this legal thriller master, but he'd have the last laugh by writing 28 consecutive number one fiction bestsellers (John) Grisham |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | TABLE TALK $1000: "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table" is a book of essays by this writer & father of a Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | TV CATCHPHRASES BY SHOW $1000: "Book 'em, Danno" Hawaii Five-O |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: "The House on Mango Street" is the first book of fiction by this Mexican-American woman (Sandra) Cisneros |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | QUESTIONS FROM A 1927 QUIZ BOOK $200: With 10.3 million, it's the largest American state by population according to the 1920 Census New York |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | AWARDS & HONORS $1600: A silver lantern is given by the JFK Library with "The Profile in" this award to recipients who exemplify the spirit of JFK's book Courage |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | SHAPELY BOOK TITLES $400: Written by Elliott Roosevelt, "Murder in" this room features his mom, Eleanor, solving a homicide in the White House the Oval Office |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | SHAPELY BOOK TITLES $1600: It's the 2-word title of a memoir by Shirley Temple Black, who was perhaps the most famous one ever the Child Star |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | SHAPELY BOOK TITLES $2000: In a children's classic by George Selden, Harry the Cat befriends Chester, "The Cricket in" this NYC location Times Square |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | NUMBER THAT BOOK $1000: "___ Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis" Thirteen |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | BOOK MARKS $1200: Mark Haddon got the title of this novel from an observation made by Sherlock Holmes in an 1892 story The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | AUDIBLE $1600: Frances McDormand introduces us to a beloved character in this first book in a series by Armistead Maupin
Mary Ann Singleton was twenty-five years old when she saw San Francisco for the first time Tales of the City |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | POP CULTURE BOOKSHELF $1200: (Kevin Hart delivers the clue.) There's desert & snow & now, it's Danny Glover taking over my avatar in "Jumanji: The Next Level", the most recent film inspired by a book written & illustrated by this man Van Allsburg |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | MAIL-ORDER NOVELS $800: The Doubleday Book Club will mail you mystery novels "co-written" by Jessica Fletcher, based on this TV show Murder, She Wrote |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | MAIL-ORDER NOVELS $1200: In 1926 "The Sun Also Rises" was one of the first novels mailed by this club that lets you discover new titles 12 times a year the Book of the Month Club |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $1600: A novel by John Dos Passos titled this year includes a look at the negotiation of the Treaty of Versailles 1919 |
| #8110, aired 2019-12-06 | OLD BOOKS $400: The Domesday Book, a record of the value & ownership of land in 11th century England, was compiled by order of this king William the Conqueror |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | THE BOOK OF LAKE (& POND & RIVER) $400: Thoreau's goal in writing about his time by this body of water was to "front only the essential facts of life" Walden |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | THE BOOK OF LAKE (& POND & RIVER) $2,200 (Daily Double): Chapter XXV of "Le Morte d'Arthur" is "How Arthur By the Mean of Merlin Gat Excalibur His Sword of" this woman the Lady of the Lake |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | A WRITER'S LIFE FOR ME $3,000 (Daily Double): Echoing the title character of a book by his great uncle, he assumed the surname Melmoth after leaving prison in 1897 Oscar Wilde |
| #8089, aired 2019-11-07 | GHOSTWRITERS $3,600 (Daily Double): Speechwriter Ted Sorensen admitted that he wrote the first draft of most of this Pulitzer Prize-winning book by JFK Profiles in Courage |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | BAN THAT BOOK! $2000: The 1722 novel "Moll Flanders" by this author has been taken off shelves for lewdness Daniel Defoe |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | THE NONFICTION BOOK'S SUBTITLE $800: By Sheryl Sandberg: "Women, Work, and the Will to Lead" Lean In |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | READ ANY BESTSELLERS LATELY? $200: No. 1 on the New York Times' combined print & e-book nonfiction list in May 2019 was the long-awaited "Report" by this man (Robert) Mueller |
| #8055, aired 2019-09-20 | THE BOOK NOOK $1600: The title of this debut novel by Gillian Flynn is an allusion to cutting, part of Camille Preaker's traumatic past in the book Sharp Objects |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $400: This book by Malcolm Gladwell subtitled "The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" is a real eye-opener Blink |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE $800: Born off Queensland, Kath Walker, aka Oodgeroo Noonuccal, wrote "We Are Going", the 1st book of poems by a person of this ethnicity Aboriginal |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | HOTELS $1200: In a classic kids' book by Kay Thompson, Eloise lives at this NYC hotel the Plaza |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | THAT PLACE SOUNDS LEGENDARY $2000: This 1972 book is named for an actual hill in Hampshire, England; in the novel it's a utopia sought by rabbits Watership Down |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: 1938's "Uncle Tom's Children" was the first book by this "Native Son" author (Richard) Wright |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONGS $800: "I Am Africa" & "Joseph Smith American Moses" The Book of Mormon |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | YOUNG WRITERS $800: The humorous comic book series "Axe" this job was co-created by 5-year-old Malachai Nicolle Axe Cop |
| #8012, aired 2019-06-11 | LITERARY GREEN THUMB $800: "Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy", begins this book by Shel Silverstein The Giving Tree |
| #8008, aired 2019-06-05 | BOOK SERIES $400: In Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City", the city is this one "by the bay" San Francisco |
| #8008, aired 2019-06-05 | BOOK SERIES $800: In Volume 11 of this series by Meg Cabot, Mia Thermopolis is having a "royal wedding" The Princess Diaries |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | LITERATURE $400: In a 1923 book by Kahlil Gibran, Almustafa is this mystical title character the Prophet |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | BOOK TITLES $400: In a classic kids' book by Judith Viorst, it follows "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible..." no good, very bad day |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | BOOK TITLES $800: The title of this '70s Stephen King novel was inspired by a line in the chorus of John Lennon's "Instant Karma" The Shining |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | "GREEN" BOOK $400: A novel by Fannie Flagg is called this food "at the Whistlestop Cafe" fried green tomatoes |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | CHANGE YOUR M*I*N*D* $2000: To attach the part you shouldn't judge a book by bind |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | COMPLETE THE BOOK TITLE $2000: The first novel by Junot Diaz:
"The Brief Wondrous Life of" this title guy Oscar Wao |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | SOCIAL STUDIES $1600: A book by Matthew Desmond looks at some folks whose rent is 80% of their income & end up getting this, the book's title Evicted |
| #7978, aired 2019-04-24 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $2000: This work by Norman Mailer tells of convicted killer Gary Gilmore, who chose death by firing squad The Executioner's Song |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | THE AUNT HILL $200: A book by M.M. Manring analyzes this pancake mix symbol's roots in the mammy figure of the old South Aunt Jemima |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | BOOK TITLE NAMES $1600: Last name of Ramona, the title 8-year-old in a novel by Beverly Cleary Quimby |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | LITERARY GENRES $600: Tom Brady swears by the self-help book "The Four Agreements"; one is "don't take anything" this way personally |
| #7952, aired 2019-03-19 | THE BOOK TITLE TITLE $400: "The African ____" by C.S. Forester queen |
| #7950, aired 2019-03-15 | ERAS & AGES $1600: In a book title by historian Eric Hobsbawm, the Age of Revolution began in this year of big doings in France 1789 |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | CHILDREN'S LIT $1000: According to the title of a book by Giles Andreae, these animals "can't dance" giraffes |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | REFERENCE WORKS $1600: The first encyclopedia used by future Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales was this one aimed at 9- to 18-year-olds World Book |
| #7903, aired 2019-01-09 | THE BOOK'S CENSORED EDITIONS $1000: This first novel by Theodore Dreiser was reissued nearly a century after it was published to add back 40,000 words Sister Carrie |
| #7900, aired 2019-01-04 | CAUTIONARY MALE $1200: A book by Carol Bly is titled "Changing" this aggressive type of person (they're not all kids) "Who Rules the World" a bully |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | THAT BOOK IS MAKING ME SICK $2000: The symptoms of infatuation & a water-borne illness overlap in this 1985 novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | HIGHER EDUCATION $600: "The Book of Knowledge" is vied for by Carleton & Macalaster, called this state's top 2 liberal arts colleges Minnesota |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | 4th CENTURY BOOKSTORE $400: "Hymns on Paradise" by Ephrem the Syrian includes commentary on this book of the Bible in which paradise is lost Genesis |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | YOUNG PEOPLE IN BOOKS $800: In a book series by Rick Riordan, this main character joins the Olympians & also attends a summer camp for demigods Percy Jackson |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | NOT TO BE CONFUSED $1000: Diuretics are drugs that help rid the body of extra fluid; "Dianetics" is a book by him L. Ron Hubbard |
| #7849, aired 2018-10-25 | FICTIONAL BOOKS IN BOOKS $2000: A book of magic called the "Necronomicon" twists minds & souls in works by this author (H.P.) Lovecraft |
| #7837, aired 2018-10-09 | A BOOK BY ITS COVER $200: This beloved children's novel has twice been adapted for the big screen Charlotte's Web |
| #7837, aired 2018-10-09 | A BOOK BY ITS COVER $400: Secrets & conspiracies play out in this 2003 thriller graced by the eyes of the Mona Lisa The Da Vinci Code |
| #7837, aired 2018-10-09 | A BOOK BY ITS COVER $600: In China, it was used to popularize an ideology among the masses the Little Red Book (or Quotations from Chairman Mao) |
| #7837, aired 2018-10-09 | A BOOK BY ITS COVER $1000: Cosmic bestselling nonfiction from 1988 whose cover featured its author in a wheelchair A Brief History of Time |
| #7822, aired 2018-09-18 | I GOT YOUR BOOK $400: Using the pen name Robert Markham, Kingsley Amis wrote the first James Bond story not penned by this man (Ian) Fleming |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | FROM BOOK TO TV $800: Works by this author recently made into series include "Mr. Mercedes", "The Mist" & "11.22.63" Stephen King |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | FIRST LINES FROM NOVELS $200: 1884:
"You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'" Huckleberry Finn |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | BOOK OF THE MONTH $200: "The Ides of ____" by Thornton Wilder March |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | BOOK OF THE MONTH $400: "Light in ____" by William Faulkner August |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | BOOK OF THE MONTH $600: "All My ____s: My Memories of 12 World Series When the Yankees Ruled Baseball" by Mickey Mantle Octobers |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | BOOK OF THE MONTH $800: "Henry and ____" by Anais Nin Henry and June |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | BOOK OF THE MONTH $1000: "The Two Faces of ____" by Patricia Highsmith January |
| #7786, aired 2018-06-18 | EXPRESS-ING THEMSELVES $1200: This children's book series by W. Awdry inspired Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Starlight Express" Thomas the Tank Engine |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS BOOKS $200: Longtime friend & coworker Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the foreword to a book of speeches by this late justice Scalia |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | TO THE FUTURE $1600: Some misfires from this 1970 book by Alvin Toffler: paper clothes & the world's urban population doubling by 1981 Future Shock |
| #7779, aired 2018-06-07 | DICKENS BOOK BY CHARACTERS $2000: Association members Tracy Tupman & Augustus Snodgrass The Pickwick Papers |
| #7769, aired 2018-05-24 | AUDIBLE RECENT FICTION $800: This book for kids has a lesson for everyone: choose kind
"My name is August, by the way. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse..." Wonder |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | A MATTER OF BIBLICAL LIFE & DEATH $3,000 (Daily Double): The book of Daniel mentions false accusers in Babylon being devoured by these beasts lions |
| #7740, aired 2018-04-13 | 5 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR AUTHORS $2000: Liesel Meminger Markus Zusak |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | THE HOOPS DU JOUR $1000: "Loose Balls", a book about this league, details the 1976 slam dunk contest won by Dr. J, who got $1,000 & a stereo system the ABA (American Basketball Association) |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | HIDE AWAY IN A BOOK $800: The unnamed title character of this novel by Ralph Ellison lives in "a hole in the ground" in a basement Invisible Man |
| #7715, aired 2018-03-09 | SNAKES ON A BOOK $1600: Cadmus kills a giant serpent but later turns into one himself in this work by Ovid The Metamorphoses |
| #7702, aired 2018-02-20 | A WRINKLE IN TIME $400: (Oprah Winfrey gives the clue.) "Love may be stronger than all fears" is how the book is summed up by the American Library Association, which awarded this author the prestigious Newbery Medal Madeleine L'Engle |
| #7702, aired 2018-02-20 | NEW WORDS IN 1988 $800: Hyphenated term for a work by Camus or Clancy, but on the computer an e-book |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | LITERARY AWARDS $800: In 1938 "Animals of the Bible" by Dorothy P. Lathrop became the first picture book to win this medal the Caldecott |
| #7692, aired 2018-02-06 | GRAPHICS $1000: It sounds like a bad thing, but this empty "space" defines the image & is the title of a book by designer Noma Bar negative space |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | FOUND MY PLACE IN THE BOOK $1000: "Even Silence Has an End" by Ingrid Betancourt tells of 6 years as a captive of the FARC organization in this country Colombia |
| #7681, aired 2018-01-22 | A GOOD BOOK $200: In a Stendhal novel, Julien must choose between joining the army or the church, symbolized by these 2 colors the red and the black |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | BOOK SERIES $600: Played on TV by Anna Paquin, she's the telepathic barmaid & heroine of Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire novels Sookie Stackhouse |
| #7664, aired 2017-12-28 | NOW GET OUT! $200: "The Lord did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies" is in this Bible book Exodus |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | BYE, PHOENICIA! $1600: The word for the good book comes from this Phoenician town that was captured by Crusaders, who named it Gibelet Byblos |
| #7633, aired 2017-11-15 | BOOK SMARTS $800: The 8 books recommended by Neil deGrasse Tyson for smart people include the Bible & this book about Yahoos Gulliver's Travels |
| #7633, aired 2017-11-15 | BOOK SMARTS $1200: This popular genre is the title of an 1859 book by Samuel Smiles with chapters on "Perseverance" & "Character" self-help |
| #7619, aired 2017-10-26 | THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON $2,000 (Daily Double): In a Harry Potter book, Fleur faces a dragon after being selected for a contest by this title vessel the Goblet of Fire |
| #7613, aired 2017-10-18 | BOOK-POURRI $800 (Daily Double): The subtitle of this numerical book by Eliot Asinof is "The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series" Eight Men Out |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | BOOKS' FIRST LINES $2000: A '70s book: "I can see by my watch, without taking my hand from the left grip of the cycle, that it is 8:30 in the morning" Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
| #7591, aired 2017-09-18 | LITERARY WORK BY CHARACTER $800: Raksha, aka Mother Wolf The Jungle Book |
| #7587, aired 2017-09-12 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $200: This book by Tolkien begins by telling us the title figure lived in a hole in the ground The Hobbit |
| #7587, aired 2017-09-12 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $1,200 (Daily Double): A domesticated dog reverts to its wild state in "The Call of the Wild"; the opposite happens in this other book by Jack London White Fang |
| #7566, aired 2017-07-03 | WE "LOVE" TO READ $2000: In 2007 Oprah's Book Club included this novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera |
| #7555, aired 2017-06-16 | THE CONDEMNED MAN $2000: This Norman Mailer book tells how convicted killer Gary Gilmore lobbied for his own death by firing squad The Executioner's Song |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | SAILING STORIES $1200: This Laura Hillenbrand book tells of Louis Zamperini's 47 days in a life raft before his capture by the Japanese Unbroken |
| #7544, aired 2017-06-01 | BIBLE STUDY $800: The last book attributed to Moses, this fifth book is written in the form of a farewell address by him Deuteronomy |
| #7538, aired 2017-05-24 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $2,000 (Daily Double): Trotter is the last name of the title boy in this book by Roald Dahl James and the Giant Peach |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $1600: This book by dying college professor Randy Pausch based on a talk he gave to his class in 2007 The Last Lecture |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONGS $1600: "Making Things Up Again" & "Baptize Me" The Book of Mormon |
| #7523, aired 2017-05-03 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: Ponyboy gets acquitted of manslaughter, but Dally gets shot by the police after a robbery in this S.E. Hinton book The Outsiders |
| #7521, aired 2017-05-01 | THE BOOK OF VERBS $200: "____ the Rising Sun" by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard" Killing the Rising Sun |
| #7521, aired 2017-05-01 | THE BOOK OF VERBS $400: "The Cat Who ____ Through Walls" by Robert A. Heinlein walks |
| #7521, aired 2017-05-01 | THE BOOK OF VERBS $600: "____ with Scissors" by Augusten Burroughs Running |
| #7521, aired 2017-05-01 | THE BOOK OF VERBS $800: "Hannibal ____" by Thomas Harris Rising |
| #7521, aired 2017-05-01 | THE BOOK OF VERBS $1000: "We Need to ____ About Kevin" by Lionel Shriver talk |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | RECENT BESTSELLERS $200: On the nonfiction list, Phil Knight's book title says it all: "Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of" this Nike |
| #7482, aired 2017-03-07 | RELIGIOUS BOOKS $1200: (I'm David Gregory of CNN.) The title of my book "How's Your Faith?" came from that question being asked of me by this president when I covered the White House George W. Bush |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | THE SPORT'S BOOK $200: "Breakpoint" by William Brinkley tennis |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | THE SPORT'S BOOK $400: "Man on Spikes" by Eliot Asinof baseball |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | THE SPORT'S BOOK $600: "Semi-Tough" by Dan Jenkins football |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | THE SPORT'S BOOK $800: "Pistol", a biography by Mark Kriegel basketball |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | THE SPORT'S BOOK $1000: "Fever Pitch" by Nick Hornby soccer |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | COMPLETE THE BOOK TITLE $400: By Amy Schumer:
"The Girl with the Lower Back ____" Tattoo |
| #7428, aired 2016-12-21 | ____ THE ____ $2000: The title of this "touch and feel" board book by Dorothy Kunhardt is a command to babies, not the name of a hare Pat the Bunny |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | UNREAL ESTATE $1200: Most of this 1909 book by Frances Hodgson Burnett is set at Misselthwaite Manor in Yorkshire The Secret Garden |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | IT'S AMERICAN LIT $2000: Guilt, fear, photos & a diary are among the title possessions in this book by Tim O'Brien about the Vietnam War The Things They Carried |
| #7403, aired 2016-11-16 | SCI-FI NOVELS $400: Book 2 of "The Lunar Chronicles" is "Scarlet", which was inspired by this fairy tale & features a street fighter named Wolf "Little Red Riding Hood" |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | PUNNING POLITICAL TITLES $400: After abandoning conservative politics, David Brock titled a book "Blinded by" this Blinded by the Right |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | THE FILMS OF MERYL STREEP $800: This 1990 film in which Meryl plays a substance-addicted actress was based on a book by Carrie Fisher Postcards from the Edge |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | BOOKS BY MEN $400: The title of this book continues "and What Alice Found There" Through the Looking Glass |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | BOOKS BY MEN $1200: The idea of this Joyce novel is that history is cyclic; the book begins with a sentence that is unfinished on the last page Finnegans Wake |
| #7375, aired 2016-10-07 | NO DISCRIMINATION $1,500 (Daily Double): A book by the head of AARP urges everyone "to speak out against" this -ism ageism |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1000: A towering tale of the old west, "Cimarron" by this "Show Boat" author was the No. 1 book of 1930 Edna Ferber |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | BOOKS BY CHAPTER TITLES $600: "The Battle of Hogwarts" Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | BOOKS BY CHAPTER TITLES $1000: "The Battle of the Fangs" White Fang |
| #7347, aired 2016-07-19 | DUDE-ERONOMY $400: This Aerosmith song implores the unwary to "never judge a book by its cover" "Dude (Looks Like A Lady)" |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | BOOK TO MOVIE $800: The novella "The Body" by Stephen King Stand By Me |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | BOOK TO MOVIE $1200: Starring Tom Cruise: "One Shot" by Lee Child Jack Reacher |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | BOOK TO MOVIE $2000: Starring Montgomery Clift & Elizabeth Taylor: "An American Tragedy" by Theodore Dreiser A Place in the Sun |
| #7339, aired 2016-07-07 | GIANTS $1600: He's a giant colorful canine in a children's book series by Norman Bridwell Clifford the Big Red Dog |
| #7329, aired 2016-06-23 | THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS $1600: The largest book in the Library measures 5 feet by 7 feet & features color images of this small Himalayan kingdom Bhutan |
| #7318, aired 2016-06-08 | THE BOOK BOOK $400: "The Red Book of Guerrilla Warfare" by this Chinese revolutionary laid out his theories & tactics Mao Zedong |
| #7318, aired 2016-06-08 | THE BOOK BOOK $2000: "Steal This Book" by this Chicago Seven man is a handbook for the aspiring yippie revolutionary (Abbie) Hoffman |
| #7314, aired 2016-06-02 | TV MAPS $400: Map reading is a valuable skill on this CBS show; you can learn it in a book of the same title with an intro by Mark Burnett Survivor |
| #7313, aired 2016-06-01 | TELE-NOVELAS $1600: Sally Field soared as Sister Bertrille on this sitcom based on a book by Tere Rios The Flying Nun |
| #7312, aired 2016-05-31 | DRAMA $500 (Daily Double): The 1936 book "An Actor Prepares" was a methodical approach to the subject by this Russian (Konstantin) Stanislavsky |
| #7300, aired 2016-05-13 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: Chester Himes explored racism in this book whose 6-word title is in the rhyme "Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Mo" If He Hollers Let Him Go |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | NONFICTION $1200: This book by Rachel Carson was first published in 1962 as 3 serialized articles in the New Yorker Silent Spring |
| #7272, aired 2016-04-05 | ALL THE PRESIDENTS' CHILDREN $600: That's Abraham Lincoln looking at a book with son Thomas, who was better known by this three-letter nickname Tad |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | WORD ORIGINS $400: The first "nerd" was probably the creature seen here, named by this author in his 1950 book "If I Ran the Zoo" Dr. Seuss |
| #7259, aired 2016-03-17 | BEASTLY BOOK BLANKS $200: "Island of the Blue ____s" by Scott O'Dell Dolphins |
| #7259, aired 2016-03-17 | BEASTLY BOOK BLANKS $400: "The ____ Whisperer" by Nicholas Evans Horse |
| #7259, aired 2016-03-17 | BEASTLY BOOK BLANKS $600: "The Day of the ____" by Frederick Forsyth Jackal |
| #7259, aired 2016-03-17 | BEASTLY BOOK BLANKS $1000: "The ____ and the Motorcycle" by Beverly Cleary Mouse |
| #7249, aired 2016-03-03 | BOOK SONGS $200: 1968's "Bookends", the fourth album by this duo, included "Bookends Theme" & "Mrs. Robinson" Simon & Garfunkel |
| #7249, aired 2016-03-03 | BOOK SONGS $1000: This song alludes to "Lolita" when Sting sings, "just like the old man in that book by Nabokov" "Don't Stand So Close To Me" |
| #7227, aired 2016-02-02 | THE 1800s $400: 1843:
Contrary to William Miller's prediction influenced by the book of Daniel, this does not happen the end of the world (the apocalypse accepted) |
| #7219, aired 2016-01-21 | SCULPTURE $1600: His 1901 sculpture "The Cheyenne" was inspired by the photo book "Animals in Motion" Frederic Remington |
| #7203, aired 2015-12-30 | FAILED CHILDREN'S BOOK ANIMALS $2000: Terry Termite learns to read when he follows the line made by a pen whose ink mimics these chemicals pheromones |
| #7201, aired 2015-12-28 | KITTY LIT $400: In a book by E.B. White, Snowbell the cat does not have this title mouselike boy's best interests at heart Stuart Little |
| #7201, aired 2015-12-28 | KITTY LIT $800: "The Naming of Cats" is the first part of his book "of Practical Cats" by T.S. Eliot Old Possum |
| #7200, aired 2015-12-25 | KIDDY LIT $800: In this 1959 book whose title means a journey through the bush, 2 white children are saved by an Aboriginal boy Walkabout |
| #7189, aired 2015-12-10 | RELIGIOUS BELIEF $1200: This sacred text is said to be a translation of golden plates revealed by the angel Moroni The Book of Mormon |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | NEW EDITION $800: This scary book about 11-year-old Regan, who's possessed by a demon, was reincarnated for a 2011 edition The Exorcist |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | THE FIRST 10 BIBLE BOOKS $1200: "Now after the death of Moses", begins this, the first Bible book called by a man's name Joshua |
| #7151, aired 2015-10-19 | BRUTE, EH? $600: In this book, Lisbeth gets back at her tormentor Nils by tattooing "I'm a sadistic pig... and a rapist" on his stomach The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
| #7148, aired 2015-10-14 | READING BY THE NUMBERS $800: Pooh on you if you don't know that "Now We Are Six" is a book of light verse by this author A.A. Milne |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | NOVELS OF WORLD WAR II $400: Herman Wouk's book about this ship's mutiny was inspired by his experiences aboard a similar WWII vessel the Caine |
| #7135, aired 2015-09-25 | THE BOOK OF NORMAN $400: Norman Mailer's "The Gospel According to the Son" is in the form of a first-person memoir by him Jesus Christ |
| #7132, aired 2015-09-22 | "B"OOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): This classic kids' book by Felix Salten is subtitled "A Life in the Woods" Bambi |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | SMART PEOPLE $1200: A 2004 book collected these by Antonin Scalia, opinions where he was in the minority dissenting opinions (or dissents) |
| #7116, aired 2015-07-20 | "NOM" $400: This Bible book is in the form of a farewell address by Moses to the Israelites Deuteronomy |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | FACTA MORGANA $400: Helen Morgan wrote an entire book on the Blue Mauritius, a stamp issued in 1847 by an island in this ocean; 12 exist the Indian Ocean |
| #7035, aired 2015-03-27 | FONTS $800: The recently trendy font this "Sans" was inspired by this type of "book" Comic |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | HISTORICAL FICTION $2000: A novel about this artist is narrated by her younger sister Cristina, who, in the book, poses nude for Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo |
| #7003, aired 2015-02-11 | WOODEN PLOTS $800: "Dinosaurs Before Dark" is the first book in this series of kids' books by Mary Pope Osborne The Magic Tree House |
| #6972, aired 2014-12-30 | WRITTEN BY $400: The Dorlcote Mill is "The Mill on the Floss" in a book written by this woman George Eliot |
| #6972, aired 2014-12-30 | WRITTEN BY $1000: This book written by Norman Mailer focused on condemned killer Gary Gilmore The Executioner's Song |
| #6963, aired 2014-12-17 | HISTORIC AUTOMOBILES $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, OH.) Though most of the problems were worked out by the 1964 version, the Chevy Corvair was one of the main cars covered unfavorably in this man's book "Unsafe at Any Speed" (Ralph) Nader |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | THE END OF THE BOOK $1000: Lying sick in bed, Adam gives his son Caleb his blessing by saying the Hebrew word "timshel" East of Eden |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | GEOGRAPHY BY THE BOOK $200: Set on a coffee plantation:
"Out of ____" Africa |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | GEOGRAPHY BY THE BOOK $400: A classic:
"A Tree Grows in ____" Brooklyn |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | GEOGRAPHY BY THE BOOK $600: Forster told of a culture clash:
"A Passage to ____" India |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | GEOGRAPHY BY THE BOOK $800: Michael Chabon:
"The Mysteries of ____" Pittsburgh |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | GEOGRAPHY BY THE BOOK $1000: A thriller by Le Carre:
"The Tailor of ____" Panama |
| #6913, aired 2014-10-08 | THAT BOOK GAVE ME A NIGHTMARE $2000: Bearing the name of a Catholic rite, it's Whitley Strieber's supposedly true account of his abduction by aliens Communion: A True Story |
| #6912, aired 2014-10-07 | MAKE ROOM $2,000 (Daily Double): This French room completes the title of a book by the Marquis de Sade, "La Philopsophie dans le..." boudoir |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $1200: Book 1 of this epic narrative by Ovid begins with a story of the creation of the world Metamorphoses |
| #6890, aired 2014-07-25 | NONFICTION $1600: Shot by the Taliban, a teen activist from Pakistan lived to tell her story in the book, "I Am" her Malala |
| #6889, aired 2014-07-24 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $1,000 (Daily Double): As this book begins, Santiago had "gone eighty-four days... without taking a fish" The Old Man and the Sea |
| #6882, aired 2014-07-15 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $1200: The line about eating this & having it too was recorded in a 1546 book by John Heywood cake |
| #6880, aired 2014-07-11 | A BOOKISH CATEGORY $600: This book by Malcolm Gladwell is subtitled "How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference" The Tipping Point |
| #6867, aired 2014-06-24 | NONFICTION $1200: (I'm New York Times reporter James Risen.) In my book "State of War" I examined secret & controversial efforts made by the CIA to delay this country's nuclear arms program Iran |
| #6867, aired 2014-06-24 | NONFICTION $2000: Chapter 1 of this classic book by Norman Vincent Peale is "Believe in Yourself" The Power of Positive Thinking |
| #6866, aired 2014-06-23 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: On Dec. 29, 1890 more than 200 Lakota were killed by the U.S. Army near this South Dakota creek Wounded Knee |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | SUN OF A BOOK $800: In the short story "Nightfall" by this prolific sci-fi writer, a planet with 6 suns goes dark Isaac Asimov |
| #6849, aired 2014-05-29 | ENDS IN "SS" $800: In the title of a beloved book by Charles Schulz, this "Is a Warm Puppy" Happiness |
| #6844, aired 2014-05-22 | THE PART OF SPEECH IN THE BOOK TITLE $1,500 (Daily Double): A 1937 short novel by Steinbeck:
Preposition Of |
| #6842, aired 2014-05-20 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1000: "A Magician Among the Spirits" is a 1924 book by this man Houdini |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | RECENT NOVELS $800: "Persuader" by Lee Child featured the return of this ex-military cop, 6'5", 250 in the book series & not 6'5", 250 onscreen Jack Reacher |
| #6821, aired 2014-04-21 | THE CREW $1000: The book title "Band of Brothers" is from the St. Crispin's Day speech by this Shakespearean king Henry V |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | "WORD" WORDS $1200: In a book it's like an introduction but usually by someone other than the author the foreword |
| #6797, aired 2014-03-18 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $400: In the Book of Judges, this strongman is tempted & tamed by Delilah Samson |
| #6790, aired 2014-03-07 | OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB $400: Works by this fatherly TV star, including "The Meanest Thing To Say", made the club in 1997 Bill Cosby |
| #6790, aired 2014-03-07 | OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB $600: For Book Club 2.0, Oprah chose "The Invention of Wings" by this author who once explored the secret life of bees Sue Monk Kidd |
| #6790, aired 2014-03-07 | OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB $800: The club's 70 books in 15 years included this biblically titled book by Jane Hamilton The Book of Ruth |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1773 she put out the first book of poetry by an African American Phillis Wheatley |
| #6773, aired 2014-02-12 | THE HARVARD BOOK STORE TOP 100 $600: This first novel by Carson McCullers takes 35th place on the list The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | READ THE BOOK, SAW IT ON HBO $400: This tome by David McCullough came to the screen with David Morse as George Washington John Adams |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | READ THE BOOK, SAW IT ON HBO $800: A series of books by Charlaine Harris inspired this show about a group of supernatural misfits True Blood |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | READ THE BOOK, SAW IT ON HBO $1200: In the miniseries "Mildred Pierce", based on the novel by James M. Cain, she played the title role (Kate) Winslet |
| #6730, aired 2013-12-13 | A CASE OF WRITER'S BLOCK $800: In 1952 he hit it big with "Invisible Man"; he spent 40 years on novel No. 2 & did not complete the book by his 1994 death Ralph Ellison |
| #6726, aired 2013-12-09 | PLEASE, NOT CHAPTER 11 $200: Book 4, Chapter 3:
"Now, by 1482, Quasimodo was grown up" The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #6724, aired 2013-12-05 | ANIMATED MOVIES BY CHARACTER $400: 1967:
Shere Kahn, a tiger The Jungle Book |
| #6717, aired 2013-11-26 | CINDERELLA ON BROADWAY $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew strolls through the set of Cinderella in the Broadway Theatre in New York.) While Broadway's "Cinderella" has a clever & witty new book by Douglas Carter Beane, he drew on the original story by this French fairy tale author Charles Perrault |
| #6714, aired 2013-11-21 | BROADWAY SHOWS BY CHARACTER $800: Missionaries Elder Cunningham & Elder Price, from Salt Lake City The Book of Mormon |
| #6714, aired 2013-11-21 | NONFICTION $1,000 (Daily Double): This bestseller by Lynne Truss has been described as "a book for people who love punctuation" Eats, Shoots & Leaves |
| #6711, aired 2013-11-18 | SHORT STORIES $1600: "Dance of the Happy Shades" is the title story of the first book by this Canadian woman who won a 2013 Nobel Prize Alice Munro |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | STATE OF THE BOOK $600: "Centennial" by James Michener Colorado |
| #6693, aired 2013-10-23 | SPORTS BOOK $1000: "A Season on the Brink" by John Feinstein basketball |
| #6692, aired 2013-10-22 | WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE $400: What, were you raised by wolves? Actually, yes, this Indian boy was, in 1895's "The Jungle Book" Mowgli |
| #6674, aired 2013-09-26 | OSCAR-WINNING SCREENPLAYS $1600: 1976:
William Goldman, from the book by Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward All the President's Men |
| #6671, aired 2013-09-23 | BROADWAY $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Broadway, New York.) Originally airing on television, "Cinderella", which stepped out on Broadway for the first time in 2013, features a new book by Douglas Carter Beane & the classic songs of this pair Rodgers & Hammerstein |
| #6671, aired 2013-09-23 | BROADWAY $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Broadway, New York.) A treat for all ages, "Matilda" is based on a book by this beloved author of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" Roald Dahl |
| #6636, aired 2013-06-24 | READING BY THE NUMBERS $800: This book of poetry & wisdom has 150 chapters, the most in the Bible Psalms |
| #6616, aired 2013-05-27 | IT'S SECRET, DON'T TELL ANYONE $1600: In the Book of Judges, this anti-Israelite people found out the secret of Samson's power by bribing Delilah Philistines |
| #6603, aired 2013-05-08 | THE BOOK BOOK $800: In a Robert Barnard mystery, Scotland Yard det. Trethowan seeks a lost book ms. by one of these sisters the Brontë sisters |
| #6603, aired 2013-05-08 | THE BOOK BOOK $1600: The Necronomicon, an ancient evil Book of the Dead, wreaks havoc in several stories by this author who died in 1937 (H.P.) Lovecraft |
| #6603, aired 2013-05-08 | THE BOOK BOOK $2000: A hidden book by this ancient Greek is at the heart of the Umberto Eco thriller "The Name of the Rose" Aristotle |
| #6590, aired 2013-04-19 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $400: (I'm Dr. Jane Goodall.) As a child, I dreamed of living among wild animals, influenced by my favorite book characters, Dr. Dolittle & this "Lord of the Jungle" (I knew I'd be a better jungle companion for him than that other wimpy Jane) Tarzan |
| #6568, aired 2013-03-20 | BOOK SERIES $800: "Forever In Blue" is the fourth book in this "fashionable" series by Ann Brashares The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants |
| #6568, aired 2013-03-20 | BOOK SERIES $1200: This series by Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins deals with the rapture & the end times Left Behind |
| #6559, aired 2013-03-07 | LAWYER/ AUTHORS NOT JOHN GRISHAM $1600: This book by lawyer Louis Begley was about a retiring lawyer; the Jack Nicholson movie made him an insurance man About Schmidt |
| #6555, aired 2013-03-01 | THE E.U. COUNTRY THAT... $400: Is described by World Book as "a small country where western civilization started about 2,500 years ago" Greece |
| #6546, aired 2013-02-18 | NONFICTION $1600: Her "Unbroken" was hailed by Time magazine as the best nonfiction book of 2010 Laura Hillenbrand |
| #6541, aired 2013-02-11 | SECRETS $1600: In a book by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mary Lennox finds a key that she hopes will open this title place The Secret Garden |
| #6534, aired 2013-01-31 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $200: "G.E." by Charles Dickens Great Expectations |
| #6534, aired 2013-01-31 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $400: "T.T.M." by H.G. Wells The Time Machine |
| #6534, aired 2013-01-31 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $600: "G.T.I.O.T.M." by James Baldwin Go Tell It on the Mountain |
| #6534, aired 2013-01-31 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $800: "T.T.D." by Gunter Grass The Tin Drum |
| #6534, aired 2013-01-31 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $1000: "H.E." by E.M. Forster Howard's End |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | "ITCH"Y $800: This comical sci-fi book was inspired by a 1970s handbook for travelling Europe on a budget Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| #6519, aired 2013-01-10 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $1200: By Margaret Atwood: "The ____'s tale" Handmaid |
| #6492, aired 2012-12-04 | PHOTOGRAPHERS $1600: The photographs in this 1992 coffee-table book by Madonna were taken by Steven Meisel & members of his studio Sex |
| #6483, aired 2012-11-21 | THAT IS THE QUESTION $1200: In a kids' book by Bill Martin Jr. & Eric Carle, this question follows "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" "What do you see?" |
| #6475, aired 2012-11-09 | BOOK OF THE CENTURY $200: 18th:
His almanac, edited by Ben Franklin Poor Richard |
| #6475, aired 2012-11-09 | BOOK OF THE CENTURY $800: 17th:
"Tartuffe", by this actor & playwright Molière |
| #6450, aired 2012-10-05 | YOU HAD ME AT SHALOM $400: A memorial outside Israel's Knesset honoring Israel's fallen soldiers was inspired by the burning bush story in this Bible book Exodus |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | BOOK REPORT $1200: "Ghost Town at Sundown" is one of the many adventures Jack & Annie go on in this book series by Mary Pope Osborne Magic Tree House |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | BOOK REPORT $1600: Martians attack the Earth after landing outside of London in this 1898 sci-fi classic by H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds |
| #6426, aired 2012-07-23 | MOVIE FIGHTERS $1600: "Raging Bull" was based on a book by this boxer, the subject of the film (Jake) LaMotta |
| #6397, aired 2012-06-12 | AMBROSE-IA $800: This book by Stephen Ambrose covers the heroic WWII doings of Easy Company, 506th regiment Band of Brothers |
| #6396, aired 2012-06-11 | GEOGRAPHY BY THE BOOK $400: Washington Irving told "The Legend of" this "sequestered glen" Sleepy Hollow |
| #6396, aired 2012-06-11 | GEOGRAPHY BY THE BOOK $800: Betty Smith planted a story with "A Tree Grows In" this borough Brooklyn |
| #6396, aired 2012-06-11 | GEOGRAPHY BY THE BOOK $1200: Sherwood Anderson made his reputation with "Winesburg," this state Ohio |
| #6396, aired 2012-06-11 | GEOGRAPHY BY THE BOOK $1600: Jean Rhys called a novel this "Wide" sea, an area of the North Atlantic Sargasso Sea |
| #6396, aired 2012-06-11 | GEOGRAPHY BY THE BOOK $2000: Christopher Isherwood wrote "Goodbye to" this city & also penned its "Stories" Berlin |
| #6390, aired 2012-06-01 | THE WRIGHT STUFF $1200: The title of this book by Barack Obama was taken from a Jeremiah Wright sermon The Audacity of Hope |
| #6371, aired 2012-05-07 | BOOKS $400: Liesel Meminger steals "The Gravedigger's Handbook" & other tomes in this WWII-set novel narrated by Death The Book Thief |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | BOOK LEARNIN' $2000: Want to know how it was for a European woman running an African coffee plantation in the 1920s? Read this 1937 book Out of Africa |
| #6364, aired 2012-04-26 | MEN $400: "The Cowboy Philosopher on Prohibition" is a book by this humorist Will Rogers |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: Socks, who is owned by the Brickers in a book by Beverly Cleary a cat |
| #6336, aired 2012-03-19 | BY GEORGE $800: The 1993 book "Turmoil and Triumph: My Years As Secretary of State" George Shultz |
| #6287, aired 2012-01-10 | SLIM VOLUMES $600: You may want to enter this, a diet book & program by Barry Sears, who clarified with "Mastering" it The Zone |
| #6281, aired 2012-01-02 | RECENT BOOKS $1000: Book club alert--"Then Came You" is the latest novel by this author of "Good in Bed" & "In Her Shoes" Jennifer Weiner |
| #6277, aired 2011-12-27 | RED BOOK $1200: This Stendhal novel title was inspired by the colors worn by the Catholic clergy & the French military The Red and the Black |
| #6257, aired 2011-11-29 | -OLOGIES $200: The name of this -ology, the study of atmosphere & weather, comes from a book title by Aristotle meteorology |
| #6213, aired 2011-09-28 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $2000: This show created by the minds behind "South Park" is very different from the same-named religious text Book of Mormon |
| #6208, aired 2011-09-21 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: A book by him begins, "'The signora had no business to do it... she promised us south rooms with a view"' (E.M.) Forster |
| #6205, aired 2011-07-29 | BOOK TITLES $800: A bestseller by Jamie Ford is "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and" this Sweet |
| #6196, aired 2011-07-18 | AT HOME WITH A GOOD BOOK $600: Mr. Rochester's Thornfield Hall, burned down by the insane Bertha Mason Jane Eyre |
| #6196, aired 2011-07-18 | AT HOME WITH A GOOD BOOK $1,500 (Daily Double): Netherfield House, let by the rich, handsome & eligible Charles Bingley Pride & Prejudice |
| #6195, aired 2011-07-15 | THE WARDROBE $200: A book by Frances Hodgson Burnett inspired the velvet suit for boys called "Little Lord" this Fauntleroy |
| #6195, aired 2011-07-15 | BY THE "BOOK" $400: A bachelor may keep a "little" one of these with phone numbers of girls ranging from Ann to Zoe a little black book |
| #6195, aired 2011-07-15 | BY THE "BOOK" $800: On October 10, 1896 the New York Times published a section devoted to these for the very first time book reviews |
| #6195, aired 2011-07-15 | BY THE "BOOK" $1200: The first of these portable libraries was a horse-drawn cart driven by Joshua Thomas in Maryland in April 1906 a bookmobile |
| #6195, aired 2011-07-15 | BY THE "BOOK" $1600: Paper lice & silverfish are 2 examples of these bookworms |
| #6195, aired 2011-07-15 | BY THE "BOOK" $2000: Produced in Ireland between the mid-700s & the early 800s, it's an illuminated manuscript of the 4 gospels in Latin the Book of Kells |
| #6183, aired 2011-06-29 | FROM SPORTS BOOK TO FILM $200: As in the book "Shoeless Joe" by W.P. Kinsella, farmer Ray Kinsella hears voices in this film Field of Dreams |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | BOOK"S" $2000: An elderly devil instructs his young charge Wormwood in the art of temptation in this satire by C.S. Lewis The Screwtape Letters |
| #6169, aired 2011-06-09 | AUSTRALIAN MOVIES $800: Though this sheep-herding pig was created in a book by an Englishman, the movie was set in Australia Babe |
| #6167, aired 2011-06-07 | TIGERS BY THE TALE $400: Shere Khan is a terrible tiger in this 1894 work The Jungle Book |
| #6147, aired 2011-05-10 | O POURI $1000: (Oprah sits in her usual chair.) This autobiography by Maya Angelou was the first book I ever read that made me feel my life as a colored girl growing up in Mississippi deserved validation I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| #6140, aired 2011-04-29 | ARBOR DAY READING? $1600: "Dinosaurs Before Dark" is the first book in this kids' series by Mary Pope Osborne the Magic Tree House series |
| #6137, aired 2011-04-26 | BY THE NUMBERS $400: Arthur C. Clarke's final "Space Odyssey" book takes place in this year, 1,000 years after the first 3001 |
| #6110, aired 2011-03-18 | TAKE YOUR VITAMINS $800: Linus Pauling's 1970 book was on "Vitamin C and" this ailment; by 1979 he'd moved up to "Cancer and Vitamin C" the common cold |
| #6101, aired 2011-03-07 | HEARTS $1600: The Heart of Gold was the starship in this 1979 Douglas Adams book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| #6088, aired 2011-02-16 | NONFICTION $800: This book by Michael Lewis subtitled "Evolution of a Game" focused on left tackle prodigy Michael Oher The Blind Side |
| #6077, aired 2011-02-01 | CHILDREN'S BOOK TITLES $800: By Judith Viorst:
"Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, ____ ____ Day" Very Bad |
| #6077, aired 2011-02-01 | CHILDREN'S BOOK TITLES $1200: By Dr. Seuss:
"The ____ Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins" 500 |
| #6077, aired 2011-02-01 | CHILDREN'S BOOK TITLES $1600: By Maurice Sendak:
"In the ____ Kitchen" Night |
| #6077, aired 2011-02-01 | CHILDREN'S BOOK TITLES $2000: A classic by Crockett Johnson:
"Harold and the ____ Crayon" Purple |
| #6064, aired 2011-01-13 | BLUE BOOKS $800: In a classic children's book, a girl lives for years by herself on this title island Island of the Blue Dolphins |
| #6063, aired 2011-01-12 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $400: "L.H.O.T.P"
by Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House on the Prairie |
| #6063, aired 2011-01-12 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $1200: "S.C."
by William Styron Sophie's Choice |
| #6063, aired 2011-01-12 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $1600: "N.N."
by Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby |
| #6063, aired 2011-01-12 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $2000: "T.T.O.T.S."
by Henry James The Turn of the Screw |
| #6063, aired 2011-01-12 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $3,000 (Daily Double): "T.A.O.H."
by Barack Obama The Audacity of Hope |
| #6058, aired 2011-01-05 | TAKE A LETTER $1000: An old book says it's pronounced "by closing the lips... and letting the voice issue by the nose" M |
| #6054, aired 2010-12-30 | BOOK BY CHARACTERS $400: Melanie Wilkes,
Gerald O'Hara Gone With the Wind |
| #6052, aired 2010-12-28 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $400: Pasta falls from the sky in this 2009 animated film based on a kids' book by Ron & Judi Barrett Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs |
| #6052, aired 2010-12-28 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $1000: "The Informant!" starring him as real-life whistleblower Mark Whiteacre, was based on a book by Kurt Eichenwald Matt Damon |
| #5994, aired 2010-10-07 | CLUB TED $1000: The animated movie "The Iron Giant" was based on a children's book by this late British poet laureate Ted Hughes |
| #5989, aired 2010-09-30 | NOVEL HAIKU $400: Just like the old man /
In that book by Nabokov /
Young Dolores Haze Lolita |
| #5989, aired 2010-09-30 | OPRAH'S AHA! MOMENTS $1000: (Oprah reads the clue from a chair.) I'd always kept a journal, but often of complaints, not of gratitude; all of that changed for me with this book by Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance |
| #5988, aired 2010-09-29 | THE DOCTOR IS IN $1200: Take heart: the first children's book that he wrote was rejected by 27 publishers Dr. Seuss |
| #5973, aired 2010-07-28 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $400: "You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'" Huckleberry Finn |
| #5958, aired 2010-07-07 | BOOK WORMS $400: "Worm" by Jill Bailey focuses on this kind of worm found in the soil an earthworm |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE BOOK? $400: You wouldn't want to be operated on by Dr. Gonzo in Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing" here Las Vegas |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE BOOK? $600: "The Island of" this doctor by H.G. Wells concerns a man trying to turn animals into men Dr. Moreau |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: His 1940 novel "Native Son" was adopted by the Book of the Month Club (Richard) Wright |
| #5918, aired 2010-05-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CONTRIBUTORS $1000: (I'm New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.) The title of my book "Are Men Necessary?", exploring the implications of feminism, puts a twist on "Is Sex Necessary?", by E.B. White & this humorist James Thurber |
| #5910, aired 2010-04-30 | NOVELS, BOOKS & LITERATURE $400: Launched into TV & book success by Oprah, this Ph.D. is the author of "The Relationship Rescue Workbook" Dr. Phil |
| #5874, aired 2010-03-11 | BIBLICAL MEGADEATHS $800: This biblical book with a female name records the killing of 75,000 Persians by the Jews Esther |
| #5863, aired 2010-02-24 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $800: (Bill Clinton delivers the clue.) My favorite novel is this book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in which one sees the history of Latin America reflected in the town of Macondo One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| #5858, aired 2010-02-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: This book by Malcolm Gladwell is about the choices that are made in the blink of an eye Blink |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | BOOK OF... $3,800 (Daily Double): First published in 1830, it tells of a migration from Jerusalem to America led by the prophet Lehi The Book of Mormon |
| #5850, aired 2010-02-05 | NEW TESTAMENT PLACES $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in flowing water in Israel.) The book of Mark recounts how believers, including Jesus, were baptized in the Jordan River by this man John the Baptist |
| #5841, aired 2010-01-25 | WORD-BY-WORD BOOK SUMMARIES $400: 1831:
Paris.
Mega-scoliosis.
Ding-dong.
Gypsy.
Death.
Fin The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #5815, aired 2009-12-18 | COMIC BOOK VILLAINS $400: Incendiary pumpkin bombs are among the many weapons used by this "colorful" Spider-Man villain the Green Goblin |
| #5806, aired 2009-12-07 | NOTABLE NAMES $400: A book by Jan Parr calls her the "First Lady of Flight" Earhart |
| #5805, aired 2009-12-04 | "FACE" BOOK $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew turns around roughly in place.) This marching maneuver used by military formation can also mean a complete change of opinion an about-face |
| #5802, aired 2009-12-01 | POLAR OBSESSION $1600: (Paul Nicklen presents the clue.) It's easy to see why these mammals are called unicorns of the sea; that's not a horn, though--it's actually a grooved tooth a narwhal |
| #5791, aired 2009-11-16 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $1600: A 2009 book by David Cullen looks at the myths surrounding the April 1999 shootings at this high school Columbine |
| #5787, aired 2009-11-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: In a book by Trenton Lee Stewart, 4 gifted kids answer an ad & become "The Mysterious" this "Society" Benedict |
| #5771, aired 2009-10-19 | NONFICTION $1200: "Resilience" is the appropriate title of a book by this cancer-stricken political wife Elizabeth Edwards |
| #5767, aired 2009-10-13 | A PRINCELY CATEGORY $800: The narrator of this book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery has a plane accident in the Sahara desert The Little Prince |
| #5764, aired 2009-10-08 | LIST $800: This alphabetical roster of top-level celebs is the title of a book series by Zoey Dean the A-list |
| #5756, aired 2009-09-28 | THAT'S A PUZZLER $1200: This phrase is the title of a book by nutritionist Victor Lindlahr you are what you eat |
| #5744, aired 2009-07-23 | KILLED BY DEATH $800: Jim Fixx, author of "The Complete Book of" this, died in 1984 doing just that Running |
| #5742, aired 2009-07-21 | BIBLE QUOTES BY BOOK $800: "...The children of Israel came nigh: & he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him in Mount Sinai" Exodus |
| #5742, aired 2009-07-21 | BIBLE QUOTES BY BOOK $1200: "And the armies which were in heaven followed him on white horses" Revelation |
| #5742, aired 2009-07-21 | BIBLE QUOTES BY BOOK $2000: "Then Peter said, silver & gold I have none... in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk" Acts |
| #5730, aired 2009-07-03 | JUNGLE FEVER $2000: He wrote of the law of the jungle, "The wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die" Rudyard Kipling |
| #5681, aired 2009-04-27 | WRITTEN BY ANONYMOUS $1200: No author is credited for "Alcoholics Anonymous", known to AA members as this alliterative tome The Big Book |
| #5662, aired 2009-03-31 | TRICKY STUPID ANSWERS $600: A line from this book: "Spring now comes unheralded by the return of birds, & the early mornings are strangely silent" Silent Spring |
| #5652, aired 2009-03-17 | BOOK REVIEW $2000: "In the Belly of the Beast" is a prison memoir by Jack Henry Abbott, a protege of this writer who died in November 2007 Norman Mailer |
| #5639, aired 2009-02-26 | ANCIENT BOOKS $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a geometric diagram on the monitor.) The complex bridge of fools proof showing that the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal is the point beyond which only very clever students are said to go in this book by Euclid The Elements |
| #5626, aired 2009-02-09 | BROOKLYN IS BOOKLAND $1200: In a book by this author, "The Assistant" works in a Brooklyn grocery store Bernard Malamud |
| #5613, aired 2009-01-21 | BOOK REVIEWS BY TARZAN $600: McMurphy tries to break torpor of inmates by stage war on authority in this. Tarzan ponder who truly insane in world One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #5613, aired 2009-01-21 | BOOK REVIEWS BY TARZAN $1000: This 1976 novel, Manuel Puig write, published as "El Beso de la Mujer Araña". Wait. Tarzan speak Spanish? Kiss of the Spider Woman |
| #5602, aired 2009-01-06 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $400: "T.P.P."
by John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress |
| #5602, aired 2009-01-06 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $800: "B."
by Toni Morrison Beloved |
| #5602, aired 2009-01-06 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $1600: "B.R."
by Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited |
| #5602, aired 2009-01-06 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $2000: "M.N."
by Kurt Vonnegut Mother Night |
| #5602, aired 2009-01-06 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $3,000 (Daily Double): "A.T.P.H." by Cormac McCarthy All The Pretty Horses |
| #5600, aired 2009-01-02 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $400: This book by Arthur Golden says, "I wasn't born and raised to be a Kyoto geisha" Memoirs of a Geisha |
| #5600, aired 2009-01-02 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $2,000 (Daily Double): This book by Vincent Bugliosi tells "The True Story of the Manson Murders" Helter Skelter |
| #5597, aired 2008-12-30 | THE JOY OF TEXT $800: The book "Enola Gay" by Gordon Thomas & Max Morgan-Witts is subtitled "Mission To" this Japanese city Hiroshima |
| #5593, aired 2008-12-24 | ALBUMS $200: Arthur Koestler's book "The Ghost in the Machine" inspired the title of a 1981 album by this trio The Police |
| #5574, aired 2008-11-27 | THEOLOGY $2000: This "theology" from Latin America that calls for social justice is the title of a book by Rosemary Ruether Liberation Theology |
| #5563, aired 2008-11-12 | THE WORLD ALMANAC AND BOOK OF FACTS $400: Not surprisingly, by volumes held, it's the top library in the U.S. the Library of Congress |
| #5559, aired 2008-11-06 | THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN $800: This award-winning musical composed by Roger Miller was based on the book Big River |
| #5556, aired 2008-11-03 | THE "THE" $800: A self-help book by Dr. Mark Hillman is titled
this person "is Making Me Nuts!" My Therapist |
| #5550, aired 2008-10-24 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $200: "B.N.W."
by Aldous Huxley Brave New World |
| #5550, aired 2008-10-24 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $400: "T.W.A.T.G."
by John Irving The World According to Garp |
| #5550, aired 2008-10-24 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $600: "S.O.S."
by Toni Morrison Song of Solomon |
| #5550, aired 2008-10-24 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $800: "S.A.L."
by D.H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers |
| #5550, aired 2008-10-24 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $1000: "W., O."
by Sherwood Anderson Winesburg, Ohio |
| #5546, aired 2008-10-20 | THE GOOD BOOK $1,000 (Daily Double): In Egypt this young Hebrew slave was owned by Potiphar, captain of the royal guards Joseph |
| #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 |
| #5524, aired 2008-09-18 | KIDS IN LIT $800: A book by a great-great-uncle shows Jared, Simon & Mallory the hidden world around them in this series The Spiderwick Chronicles |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | COLOR MY WORLD $200: This TV co-hostess was recognized by "The Guinness Book of World Records" as television's most frequent clapper Vanna White |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $400: "A.Y.T.G.? I.M., M."
by Judy Blume Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $800: "J.A.T.G.P."
by Roald Dahl James and the Giant Peach |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $1200: "A.I.L.D." by
William Faulkner As I Lay Dying |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $1600: "E."
by Jane Austen Emma |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $2000: "T.K.R."
by Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner |
| #5487, aired 2008-06-17 | "TWO""THOUSAND" & "EIGHT" $400: This book by Eliot Asinof is subtitled "The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series" Eight Men Out |
| #5487, aired 2008-06-17 | FROM BOOK TO BIG SCREEN $400: This 2005 film in which aliens use tripod machines is based on a novel by H.G. Wells War of the Worlds |
| #5487, aired 2008-06-17 | FROM BOOK TO BIG SCREEN $1000: This 1962 novel by Ken Kesey was adapted for the big screen in 1975 & won 5 Academy Awards One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #5481, aired 2008-06-09 | BOOKS OF THE '70s $800: A book by Flora Screiber says, Mary, Peggy Lou, Vicky & Vanessa were 4 of this title character's 16 personalities Sybil |
| #5468, aired 2008-05-21 | CITY LITTER $800: Inspired by Thomas Malthus' food-supply ideas, his 1859 book was called "the book that shook the world" Charles Darwin |
| #5468, aired 2008-05-21 | AROUND THE BIBLE $2,200 (Daily Double): In the Book of Judges, she's the only female judge mentioned by name Deborah |
| #5466, aired 2008-05-19 | AMERICAN POETRY $1000: "For the Union Dead" is a 1964 book by this poet whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower Robert Lowell |
| #5461, aired 2008-05-12 | OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB $200: This novel by Pearl S. Buck tells the story of a Chinese farmer & his family The Good Earth |
| #5461, aired 2008-05-12 | OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB $400: In 2004 Oprah picked "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter", the first novel by this Southern woman Carson McCullers |
| #5459, aired 2008-05-08 | BY, THE BOOK $200: He wrote "Redburn", "Omoo" & a seafaring novel of some repute (Herman) Melville |
| #5459, aired 2008-05-08 | BY, THE BOOK $400: False advertising alert! In 1933 she penned "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" Gertrude Stein |
| #5459, aired 2008-05-08 | BY, THE BOOK $600: In addition to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", he penned "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" Douglas Adams |
| #5459, aired 2008-05-08 | BY, THE BOOK $800: The second part of his "The Sound and the Fury" is told by a neurotic on the day of his suicide Faulkner |
| #5459, aired 2008-05-08 | BY, THE BOOK $1000: The first book by this "Chocolate Factory" guy was "The Gremlins" in 1943, written for Walt Disney Roald Dahl |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: This non-James Bond book by Ian Fleming was subtitled "The Magical Car" Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
| #5450, aired 2008-04-25 | FEMALES, WOMEN & LADIES $200: Though not a continuation of the series, 2001's "Quidditch Through the Ages" was a short book by this woman J.K. Rowling |
| #5426, aired 2008-03-24 | NONFICTION $1,000 (Daily Double): "The Nine" in a 2007 book by CNN senior legal analyst Jeffery Toobin refers to the 9 of these Supreme Court justices |
| #5424, aired 2008-03-20 | A WOMAN OF DISTINCTION $1600: "The Last Man", a tale of the last man on Earth, is by this woman known for another book on creating a man Mary Shelley |
| #5406, aired 2008-02-25 | THROWING THE BOOK AT YOU $400: Heirs of billionaire Troy Phelan battle over his estate in "The Testament" by this author/lawyer Grisham |
| #5394, aired 2008-02-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: In 1977 her "Song of Solomon" became the first Book-of-the-Month Club selection by a black author in 37 years Toni Morrison |
| #5391, aired 2008-02-04 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $400: "O.T.R."
by Jack Kerouac On The Road |
| #5391, aired 2008-02-04 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $800: "A.R.W.A.V."
by E.M. Forster A Room With A View |
| #5391, aired 2008-02-04 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $1200: "T.H.O.T.S.G."
by Nathaniel Hawthorne The House Of The Seven Gables |
| #5391, aired 2008-02-04 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $1600: "T.E.W.W.G."
by Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| #5391, aired 2008-02-04 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $2000: "A.S.P."
by John Knowles A Separate Peace |
| #5390, aired 2008-02-01 | FINISH THE PROVERB $400: You can't judge a book... by its cover |
| #5346, aired 2007-12-03 | RELIGION $200: "Autobiography of a Yogi" was a popular book by this religion's first missionary to settle in the U.S. Hindu |
| #5336, aired 2007-11-19 | LERNER & LOEWE $2,400 (Daily Double): Alan Jay Lerner began writing this musical's book by studying the history & customs of 18th c. Highland Scots Brigadoon |
| #5310, aired 2007-10-12 | BOOKS $200: In a 1964 book by Louise Fitzhugh, this 6th grader spies on people & writes down her thoughts in a notebook Harriet the Spy |
| #5310, aired 2007-10-12 | BOOKS $1000: A book by George Selden related the adventures of Chester, this insect "in Times Square" a cricket |
| #5304, aired 2007-10-04 | THE POSITIVE $2,400 (Daily Double): Oprah has unlocked this, a book by Rhonda Byrne about using positive visualization to achieve success The Secret |
| #5300, aired 2007-09-28 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $400: "T.J."
by Henry Fielding Tom Jones |
| #5300, aired 2007-09-28 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $800: "J.T.O."
by Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure |
| #5300, aired 2007-09-28 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $1200: "A.A.T."
by Theodore Dreiser An American Tragedy |
| #5300, aired 2007-09-28 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $2000: "T.M.O.T.F."
by George Eliot The Mill On The Floss |
| #5300, aired 2007-09-28 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $2,200 (Daily Double): "T.B.A.D."
by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Beautiful And Damned |
| #5282, aired 2007-07-24 | LITERATURE $1200: People from the past appear to a brother & sister in "Rewards and Fairies" by this author of "The Jungle Book" Kipling |
| #5258, aired 2007-06-20 | EVERYONE'S A CRITIC $1600: "The Sacred Wood" was the first book of criticism by this Missouri-born "Four Quartets" poet T.S. Eliot |
| #5249, aired 2007-06-07 | NONFICTION $400: Oprah chose for her book club "The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography" by this Oscar winner Sidney Poitier |
| #5244, aired 2007-05-31 | GIVE ME AN "A" $1200: Richard Rhodes wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning book about "The Making of" this, which is powered by fission the atomic bomb |
| #5244, aired 2007-05-31 | AUDIO BOOKS $1600: This book by David Sedaris about attempting to speak French may be best experienced in the author's reading Me Talk Pretty One Day |
| #5241, aired 2007-05-28 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: "Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!" is a 1998 book by this author of "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe" Fannie Flagg |
| #5239, aired 2007-05-24 | TOUGH TIMES, KID $600: A dyslexic youth, he rewrote the book on TV by using satellites to make his small UHF channel national Ted Turner |
| #5168, aired 2007-02-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: In a book by Irene Hunt, 9-year-old Jethro Creighton lives during the Civil War, which lasts "Across Five" of these months Aprils |
| #5127, aired 2006-12-19 | INSPIRED CHARACTERS $1600: Duessa, who's executed in Book V on "The Faerie Queene", was inspired by this Scotswoman Mary, Queen of Scots |
| #5125, aired 2006-12-15 | STRUCTURES $800: Type of building that's the title of a 1981 book by New York Times architecture critic Paul Goldberger a skyscraper |
| #5116, aired 2006-12-04 | SIEGES $400: The book "Besieged" is subtitled "...From Jericho to" this city besieged by the Serbs in the 1990s Sarajevo |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | WE LOVE BROADWAY $400 (Daily Double): (Before the clue is given, Kate Reinders from the Broadway play Wicked helps with the clue.)
"Popular /
You're gonna be pop-u-lar /
I'll teach you the proper ploys /
When you talk to boys /
Little ways to flirt and flounce--woww! /
I'll show you what shoes to wear /
How to fix your hair /
Everything that really counts to be /
Popular /
I'll help you be pop-u-lar /
You'll hang with the right cohorts /
You'll be good at sports /
Know the slang you gotta know /
So let's start /
'Cause you've got an awfully long way to go"
"Wicked" is based on a modern novel inspired by this classic L. Frank Baum book that took us "over the rainbow" The Wizard of Oz |
| #5071, aired 2006-10-02 | COLORFUL LANGUAGE $200: Classified advertising section of the phone book listing subscribers by type of business the yellow pages |
| #5069, aired 2006-09-28 | ESTIMATED PROPHET $1200: The last book of the New Testament is a collection of prophetic visions by this man John (the Divine) |
| #5060, aired 2006-09-15 | THE KIDS LOVE THEIR MUSIC $2,000 (Daily Double): System of a Down played off a book title by this '60s activist with its 2002 CD "Steal This Album!" Abbie Hoffman |
| #5049, aired 2006-07-20 | BOOK SEQUELS? $600: Natty Bumppo discovers there's "The Penultimate Iroquois" in this man's 1820s sequel James Fenimore Cooper |
| #5040, aired 2006-07-07 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: In a classic book, d'Artagnan hopes to serve as a guard to King Louis XIII & is befriended by this title group The Three Musketeers |
| #5017, aired 2006-06-06 | 1959's BESTSELLERS $600: This book by Pasternak was No. 2 in the fiction bestseller rack Doctor Zhivago |
| #5014, aired 2006-06-01 | "BOOK"S $600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew demonstrates a novel book.) By changing one element on each page, we've created one of these, first patented in 1882 a flip book |
| #5012, aired 2006-05-30 | MYTH ADVENTURES $2000: Egyptians made sure tombs contained one of these tomes so the "soul" could get by Osiris & his 42 demons The Book of the Dead |
| #5004, aired 2006-05-18 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOS $800: The winning book of 1978 was a bio of this man by W. Jackson Bate, not Boswell (Samuel) Johnson |
| #5000, aired 2006-05-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $1000: His "A Man in Full" "contains passages as powerful and as beautiful as anything written... by any American novelist" Tom Wolfe |
| #4981, aired 2006-04-17 | COFFEE TABLE BOOKS $1200: Disney's first "animated screenplay" is this film's art book, which includes a foreword by James Earl Jones The Lion King |
| #4961, aired 2006-03-20 | CLOSING THE BOOK $800: Heller:
"Yossarian jumped... the knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off" Catch-22 |
| #4937, aired 2006-02-14 | NOVELS $2000: Billy, whose dogs are Old Dan & Little Ann, finds out "Where" this "Grows" in a book by Wilson Rawls the Red Fern |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew strolls a scenic walkway by a riverbank at Gorky Park.) Famous as the setting of a book & a movie, Gorky Park lies on the right bank of this river the Moscow River |
| #4913, aired 2006-01-11 | "BUSH"-ISMS $1,000 (Daily Double): A 2004 anti-Dubya book by Jim Hightower was titled "Let's Stop" this evasive behavior Beating Around the Bush |
| #4905, aired 2005-12-30 | NONFICTION $1000: The No. 1 nonfiction book of 1948 was "Crusade in Europe" by this American general Eisenhower |
| #4905, aired 2005-12-30 | NONFICTION $1,400 (Daily Double): This 1988 bestseller was subtitled "From the Big Bang to Black Holes" A Brief History of Time |
| #4897, aired 2005-12-20 | BOOK TITLES $2000: A tale by Madeleine L'Engle about a marine biology student:
"The Arm of" this sea creature the Starfish |
| #4873, aired 2005-11-16 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $1200: "Zathura" is from a book by Chris Van Allsburg, author of this "cool" story, later a Tom Hanks animated film The Polar Express |
| #4866, aired 2005-11-07 | DISNEY MOVIES BY CHARACTER $1000: 1967:
Baloo,
Bagheera,
King Louie The Jungle Book |
| #4865, aired 2005-11-04 | BABY BOOKS $800: This book by F.X. Toole was originally titled "Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner" Million Dollar Baby |
| #4855, aired 2005-10-21 | SPORTS U.S.A. $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew sports Boston ball club paraphernalia.) I'm a proud citizen of this, a phrase popularized & used in a book subtitle by sportswriter Dan Shaughnessy the Red Sox Nation |
| #4854, aired 2005-10-20 | HOME PAGES $2000: Beautiful but penniless Lily Bart overdoses on chloral in this not-so-jolly book by Edith Wharton The House of Mirth |
| #4848, aired 2005-10-12 | KID LIT $1200: In a 1964 book by this man, the mysterious Willy Wonka owns a unique chocolate factory Roald Dahl |
| #4838, aired 2005-09-28 | CHINESE HISTORY $800: In 868 this dynasty produced the world's first block-printed book, but not the drink favored by astronauts Tang |
| #4818, aired 2005-07-13 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $800: This book by Eric Schlosser has made some people rethink that double-cheese mongoburger Fast Food Nation |
| #4818, aired 2005-07-13 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $2000: Every 4 minutes in the U.S. someone buys a book by this woman who also writes as J.D. Robb Nora Roberts |
| #4814, aired 2005-07-07 | READ THE BOOK $800: Schoolboys survive a plane crash & create their own society on an island in this work by William Golding Lord of the Flies |
| #4814, aired 2005-07-07 | READ THE BOOK $1200: This novel by Thomas Hardy is subtitled "A Pure Woman" Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| #4814, aired 2005-07-07 | READ THE BOOK $2000: According to the title of a book by George Eliot, the Dorlcote Mill is on this river the Floss |
| #4813, aired 2005-07-06 | NONFICTION $400: In the 1960s both an inaugural edition & a memorial edition of this book by JFK were bestsellers Profiles in Courage |
| #4787, aired 2005-05-31 | SHAKESPEAREAN WORDS $1200: From Latin for "indecent", this word in "Love's Labour's Lost" is the type of book banned by the Comstock Law obscene |
| #4775, aired 2005-05-13 | SING A SONG OF SING SING $1000: A book by Warden Lewis Lawes titled this many years "in Sing Sing" helped make the prison a legend in American culture 20,000 |
| #4750, aired 2005-04-08 | WORLD HISTORY $1600: A record of all the land in England, this "Book" was commissioned by William the Conqueror in 1085 the Domesday Book |
| #4748, aired 2005-04-06 | HOT "ROD"s $800: The 1967 book "Listen to the Warm" featured song lyrics by this American poet Rod McKuen |
| #4747, aired 2005-04-05 | I REMEMBER... $2000: ...the book by this author that ends, "And the music of the pearl drifted to a whisper and disappeared" John Steinbeck |
| #4732, aired 2005-03-15 | THE BOOK REVIEW $200: "American Soldier" is a memoir by this general who led American & Coalition forces in Iraq Tommy Franks |
| #4710, aired 2005-02-11 | NONFICTION $1200: The book "Alcoholics Anonymous" is often called within AA by this alliterative name the Big Book |
| #4704, aired 2005-02-03 | TEENS IN BOOKS $2000: This 15-year-old Dutch skater is the title character of a classic book by Mary Mapes Dodge Hans Brinker |
| #4698, aired 2005-01-26 | AT THE ART MUSEUM $800: If you liked the exhibition, stop by the museum shop to buy this book about it, from the Greek for "to list" the catalog |
| #4697, aired 2005-01-25 | WORN OUT $1000: The book "Let There Be Clothes" says the corset was replaced in the 1950s by the panty-style one of these a girdle |
| #4667, aired 2004-12-14 | MILLIONS OF REASONS $1000: "What Are You Doing After the Orgy?" is a book by this man who played a millionaire on "Gilligan's Island" Jim Backus |
| #4663, aired 2004-12-08 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: "My Life on the Plains" was an 1874 book by this "boy general" & Indian fighter Custer |
| #4663, aired 2004-12-08 | '70s NONFICTION $800: In 1977 the Fixx was in with "The Complete Book of" this by James Fixx running |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | FRESHMAN COMPOSITION $400: A book by Lynne Truss warns against inserting this into the innocent panda description "eats shoots & leaves" a comma |
| #4646, aired 2004-11-15 | THE ENLIGHTENMENT $800: In 1745 this was done to a book by materialist thinker Julien La Mettrie; in 1445 it would have been done to Julien burning |
| #4644, aired 2004-11-11 | "DEEP" DISH $800: Oprah's first selection for her book club, in 1996, was this book by Jacquelyn Mitchard about a kidnapping The Deep End of the Ocean |
| #4643, aired 2004-11-10 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: The bestseller "The Rule of Four" was co-written by a graduate of this New Jersey school, also the book's setting Princeton |
| #4640, aired 2004-11-06 | OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB $1200: "Sula", in 2002, was the fourth book by this author to be selected Toni Morrison |
| #4640, aired 2004-11-06 | OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB $1600: This coming-of-age story by Jane Hamilton about a small-town Illinois girl sounds like an Old Testament book The Book of Ruth |
| #4626, aired 2004-10-18 | BOOK SERIES $600: "The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe" & "The Magician's Nephew" are books in this series by C.S. Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia |
| #4603, aired 2004-09-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,500 (Daily Double): "Sons", the second book in a trilogy begun with this work, traces the destinies of the 3 sons of Wang Lung The Good Earth (by Pearl Buck) |
| #4580, aired 2004-07-02 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $200: By age 13 this Microsoft co-founder had read the entire World Book Encyclopedia through volume P Gates |
| #4577, aired 2004-06-29 | HELLO, ETHAN $2000: "The Drunken Driver Has the Right of Way" is a book of poems by this man who produced "Miller's Crossing" Ethan Coen |
| #4573, aired 2004-06-23 | MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING $200: Completes the title of the 1939 book by Agatha Christie "And Then There Were..." None |
| #4566, aired 2004-06-14 | WOMEN WRITERS $800: "Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!" is a recent book by this Southern novelist & TV personality Fannie Flagg |
| #4535, aired 2004-04-30 | BY THE NUMBERS $200: A book titled this many "Keys" is about "The Making of a Steinway Piano" 88 |
| #4504, aired 2004-03-18 | NOVELS $1200: James Trotter escapes his 2 horrible aunts & becomes a hero to his new insect family in this book by Roald Dahl James and the Giant Peach |
| #4502, aired 2004-03-16 | EPICS $800: She, not the dairy queen, is the title character of a 6-book-long epic poem by Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene |
| #4499, aired 2004-03-11 | ALSO A BOOK OF THE BIBLE $200: By occupation, Scalia & Rehnquist are these Judges |
| #4463, aired 2004-01-21 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Tom Wolfe's award-winning book about our first astronauts, or what he proved he had by penning it The Right Stuff |
| #4461, aired 2004-01-19 | BOOK TO MOVIE $400: 1905's "The Clansman" by Thomas Dixon, Jr. became this silent D.W. Griffith classic Birth of a Nation |
| #4461, aired 2004-01-19 | BOOK TO MOVIE $1600: Larry McMurtry's "Horseman, Pass By" inspired this 1963 Paul Newman film Hud |
| #4447, aired 2003-12-30 | NOVEL TEASE $200: 1885:
"You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'" (The Adventures of) Huckleberry Finn |
| #4422, aired 2003-11-25 | WE "LOVE" LITERATURE $200: What can you say about a 33-year-old novel by Erich Segal? Perhaps just this, the book's title Love Story |
| #4422, aired 2003-11-25 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1600: In the title of a classic beginner book by PD Eastman, it comes before & after "Dog" Go |
| #4395, aired 2003-10-17 | OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS $800: It's sometimes referred to by the title "Sepher Tehillim", meaning "book of praises" Psalms |
| #4394, aired 2003-10-16 | BOOK TITLES $7,000 (Daily Double): David Brock's book about "The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative" is called "Blinded by" this the Right |
| #4393, aired 2003-10-15 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: This book by Virginia Woolf inspired Michael Cunningham's novel "The Hours" Mrs. Dalloway |
| #4382, aired 2003-09-30 | EDITH WHARTON PIECES $400: Edith Wharton was born not far from this New York square, also the title of a book by her friend Henry James Washington Square |
| #4379, aired 2003-09-25 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $400: Stanley Yelnats is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention facility, in this book by Louis Sachar Holes |
| #4372, aired 2003-09-16 | THE PELICAN BRIEF $400: This 1960s TV show starring Sally Field was based on the book "The Fifteenth Pelican" by Tere Rios The Flying Nun |
| #4348, aired 2003-06-25 | THE WIZARDS $2000: Ged is the title "Wizard of Earthsea" in a book by this sci-fi writer who uses her middle initial Ursula K. Le Guin |
| #4334, aired 2003-06-05 | THE SCIENCE SECTION $1,000 (Daily Double): "From the Big Bang to Black Holes" is the subtitle of this landmark book by physicist Stephen Hawking "A Brief History of Time" |
| #4331, aired 2003-06-02 | THE 3-DIGIT YEARS $2000: A Thomas Cahill book says this island people "saved civilization" by preserving writings Irish (Ireland) |
| #4328, aired 2003-05-28 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $1200: This book by journalist Mark Bowden about a 1993 military operation in Mogadishu became a 2001 film Black Hawk Down |
| #4322, aired 2003-05-20 | CHARLES DICKENS $1000: In 1836 Dickens published his stories & essays from magazines & newspapers in the book "Sketches by" him Boz |
| #4279, aired 2003-03-20 | MOVIES BY THE NUMBERS $600: The title of this 1970 Jack Nicholson film refers to a book of piano exercises Five Easy Pieces |
| #4275, aired 2003-03-14 | QUIPS $1000: Truman Capote reviewed this man's book "On the Road" by saying, "That's not writing. It's just typing" Jack Kerouac |
| #4273, aired 2003-03-12 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): "If You Give a Mouse a Muffin" is a follow-up to this 1985 book by Felicia Bond & Laura Joffe Numeroff If You Give a Mouse a Cookie |
| #4273, aired 2003-03-12 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1600: A classic book by George Selden tells of this noisy insect "in Times Square" The Cricket |
| #4271, aired 2003-03-10 | PILLOW TALK $400: Legend has it that each night Alexander the Great put his sword & a book by this epic poet under his pillow Homer |
| #4255, aired 2003-02-14 | TEEN BOOK SCENE $400: "Troy" by Adele Geras is a young adult novel reworking of this Homer epic "The Iliad" |
| #4245, aired 2003-01-31 | '80s ROCK $600: Title of a 1985 Bruce Springsteen hit, or a book about him by Dave Marsh "Glory Days" |
| #4237, aired 2003-01-21 | "WORLD" BOOK $800: This thriller by Michael Crichton is a follow-up to "Jurassic Park" "The Lost World" |
| #4237, aired 2003-01-21 | "WORLD" BOOK $2000: Sixth grader Karen Newman deals with her parents' divorce in this novel by Judy Blume "It's Not the End of the World" |
| #4235, aired 2003-01-17 | BEASTLY BOOK TITLES $400: A professional killer plots to assassinate Charles de Gaulle in this thriller by Frederick Forsyth "The Day of the Jackal" |
| #4235, aired 2003-01-17 | BEASTLY BOOK TITLES $1200: One critic wrote that this memoir by Maya Angelou is "A Biblical study of life in the midst of death" "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" |
| #4229, aired 2003-01-09 | BOOK REPORT $1000: I was touched by the story of Opal & the dog she names after this Southern supermarket chain Winn-Dixie |
| #4223, aired 2003-01-01 | DANIEL $1000: Much of the first half of the book of Daniel was written in this language spoken by Jesus, the rest in Hebrew Aramaic |
| #4213, aired 2002-12-18 | "T" TIME AT THE LIBRARY $1600: It's the third book of the autobiographical trilogy that began with "Tropic of Cancer" "Triopic of Capricorn" (by Henry Miller) |
| #4195, aired 2002-11-22 | BIBLE HEROES $600: In the first book of Samuel, David defeats this Philistine by hitting him with a rock Goliath |
| #4191, aired 2002-11-18 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $800: He played Will Freeman in "About a Boy", based on the book of the same name by Nick Hornby Hugh Grant |
| #4187, aired 2002-11-12 | AMERICAN LIT $400: This classic by Harriet Beecher Stowe sold 300,000 copies in the first year that it was published in book form "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
| #4187, aired 2002-11-12 | AMERICAN LIT $800: Upton Sinclair said of this book, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach" "The Jungle" |
| #4180, aired 2002-11-01 | UNREAL ESTATE $2000: Most of this kids' book by Frances Hodgson Burnett takes place at Misselthwaite Manor in Yorkshire The Secret Garden |
| #4176, aired 2002-10-28 | "G" WHIZ! $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew standing in front of the Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, Florida) The Flagler Museum exemplifies the style of this golden era, found in the title of a book by Charles D. Warner & Mark Twain "The Gilded Age" |
| #4147, aired 2002-09-17 | READING & 'RITING $800: "The Beginning" was the title of the 54th & final book in this sci-fi series by Katherine A. Applegate "Animorphs" |
| #4146, aired 2002-09-16 | KIDS IN BOOKS $400: This collie was the faithful friend of a kid named Joe in a book by British novelist Eric Knight Lassie |
| #4140, aired 2002-09-06 | MEET MY "EX" $400: Named shared by a Leon Uris novel, a Bob Marley album & a book of the Bible Exodus |
| #4127, aired 2002-07-09 | GONE WITH THE WIND $600: This organization of "hoods", prominent in the book, isn't mentioned by name in the movie Ku Klux Klan |
| #4097, aired 2002-05-28 | FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS $400: Abbreviated WWJD, this question was popularized by the book "In His Steps" What would Jesus do? |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | WORLD LITERATURE $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from San Francisco, CA.) If you really need a book by this poet, come here to City Lights Books, the store he founded in 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
| #4085, aired 2002-05-10 | RELIGION $4,000 (Daily Double): Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon from gold plates revealed to him by an angel named this Moroni |
| #4068, aired 2002-04-17 | DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS MOVIE $400: "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory |
| #4068, aired 2002-04-17 | DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS MOVIE $800: "Diary of a Young Girl" The Diary of Anne Frank |
| #4068, aired 2002-04-17 | DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS MOVIE $1600: "The 7 Pillars of Wisdom" Lawrence of Arabia |
| #4068, aired 2002-04-17 | DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS MOVIE $2000: "The Death and Life of Dith Pran" The Killing Fields |
| #4049, aired 2002-03-21 | BOOK NOOK $800: "Seize the Night" by this "Dean" of suspense was a sequel to his "Fear Nothing" Dean Koontz |
| #4041, aired 2002-03-11 | THE FICTION FILE $600: Don't let anyone spoil it by giving you the ending of her book "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" Dame Agatha Christie |
| #4027, aired 2002-02-19 | A NIGHT AT THE OPRAH $200: All selections of this club created by Oprah in 1996 have become instant bestsellers Oprah's Book Club |
| #4023, aired 2002-02-13 | GO READ A BOOK $400: It's no mystery, there's no Carolyn Keene; it's a pseudonym used by all the writers on this detective series Nancy Drew |
| #4001, aired 2002-01-14 | THE MUSICAL FABRIC STORE $800: George Winston wrote the music for an audio CD of this beloved bunny book by Margery Williams The Velveteen Rabbit |
| #3985, aired 2001-12-21 | __ OF THE __ $400: This 1954 book was the first published novel by Nobel Laureate William Golding Lord of the Flies |
| #3975, aired 2001-12-07 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $4,000 (Daily Double): Probably written by Jeremiah, this book is in the form of a 5-poem dirge Lamentations |
| #3964, aired 2001-11-22 | LITERA-SEA $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew is at the beach.) The birds remind me of this 1970 book by former Air Force pilot Richard Bach "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" |
| #3922, aired 2001-09-25 | BOOKS $100: The message "Some pig", spun by a spider, convinces a farmer to save Wilbur in this book Charlotte's Web |
| #3906, aired 2001-09-03 | FLIGHT $800: The hero of the first book by "Little Prince" author St.-Exupery is a pilot who delivers this the mail |
| #3904, aired 2001-07-19 | 20th CENTURY POETS $800: "For the Union Dead" is a 1964 book by this poet whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower Robert Lowell |
| #3885, aired 2001-06-22 | THE 1920s $200: This 1921 book by Edith M. Hull inspired the Rudolph Valentino film of the same name The Sheik |
| #3841, aired 2001-04-23 | JOG-RAPHY $400: The title character of the book "Marathon Man" trains by circling this in Central Park The reservoir |
| #3828, aired 2001-04-04 | WORD SMITHS $100: "The Frugal Gourmet Cooks With Wine" is a book by this chef Jeff Smith |
| #3821, aired 2001-03-26 | AT THE BOOKSTORE $500: The front cover of "Hooking Up" by this "Bonfire of the Vanities" author shows his name but not the book's title Tom Wolfe |
| #3815, aired 2001-03-16 | "GREEN" THINGS $1000: A precocious redhaired little girl is the heroine of this 1908 children's book by Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Green Gables |
| #3814, aired 2001-03-15 | FILMS OF THE '90s $800: John Travolta was the perfect candidate for this 1998 movie based on a book by "Anonymous" Primary Colors |
| #3812, aired 2001-03-13 | "AND" READ $400: Nursery-rhyme pair who are the title of a book by Louisa May Alcott & a less innocent book by James Patterson Jack And Jill |
| #3805, aired 2001-03-02 | BOOK LEARNIN' $1000: "Consider" these: "They toil not, neither do they spin," & they're the title of a novel by William E. Barrett "Lilies of the Field" |
| #3783, aired 2001-01-31 | RELIGION $400: The Biblical book bearing her name begins by saying it took place "in the days when the judges ruled" Ruth |
| #3768, aired 2001-01-10 | REPETITION AGAIN $600: It's the book of love poems by King Solomon "Song of Songs" |
| #3737, aired 2000-11-28 | ADVERBS $600: In a book by Mark Harris, it was how you had to "Bang the Drum" Slowly |
| #3736, aired 2000-11-27 | PRESIDENTIAL BOOKS $400: In a book by Nixon, the Alger Hiss case & Ike's heart attack were 2 of the "Six" these Crises |
| #3722, aired 2000-11-07 | THE DRAWING ROOM $400: Joe Shuster, who co-created this comic book hero in 1934, was destitute by the '70s Superman |
| #3722, aired 2000-11-07 | THE LADIES ROOM $600: A bestselling book by this woman seen here grew out of her commencement speech at Holy Cross Maria Shriver |
| #3717, aired 2000-10-31 | LIFE LINES $400: A book by Erma Bombeck asks, "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing" here? in the Pits |
| #3715, aired 2000-10-27 | AUDIO LITERATURE $300: It's the last name shared by the musician who wrote the book heard here & of his son who's reading it
"I can see men of all colors bouncing along in the boxcar..." Guthrie |
| #3683, aired 2000-09-13 | 1978 $1000: The World Book Yearbook article on the "dismal" state of this for 1978 was written by Sylvia Porter The economy |
| #3658, aired 2000-06-28 | KIDDY LIT $400: The spunky Ramona Quimby first appeared in "Henry Huggins", the first book by this woman Beverly Cleary |
| #3630, aired 2000-05-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $200: "You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down" is a book of stories by this Georgia-born author of "The Color Purple" Alice Walker |
| #3622, aired 2000-05-09 | IF I HAD A HAMMER $300: The comic book hero seen here goes by this metallic name: Steel (holding a hammer) |
| #3618, aired 2000-05-03 | WONDERERS OF THE WORLD $1000: A 1929 book by James Thurber & E.B. White is entitled "Is" this "Necessary?" Sex |
| #3615, aired 2000-04-28 | FOUR $200: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse appear in the book of Revelation, written by this "divine" saint Saint John the Divine |
| #3549, aired 2000-01-27 | WALTS-ING $200: His book of poems called "Drum-Taps" was inspired by the suffering he saw during the Civil War Walt Whitman |
| #3519, aired 1999-12-16 | BOOKS FOR YOUR DOG $200: Provide your dog with a role model by reading the book this pet "dictated" to Barbara Bush Millie |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | UFO REVIEW $1000: It was the colorful 21-year "project" conducted by the U.S. Air Force to examine UFO phenomena Project Blue Book |
| #3480, aired 1999-10-22 | WHO'S THE BOSS $500: Every week Danno Williams would "book 'em" for this boss Steve McGarrett (played by Jack Lord) |
| #3476, aired 1999-10-18 | PHRASES FROM THE GOOD BOOK $100: Deuteronomy 8:3 cautions, "Man doth not live by" this "only" Bread |
| #3467, aired 1999-10-05 | SOLDIERS $1000: Military strategists salute the book "On War" by this 19th century Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz |
| #3449, aired 1999-09-09 | BOOK SERIES $2,000 (Daily Double): In a series of books by Ann M. Martin, it's the title group organized by Kristy "The Baby-sitter's Club" |
| #3437, aired 1999-07-13 | NICE BUNNIES $500: The love of a boy brings a stuffed bunny to life in this classic book by Margery Williams The Velveteen Rabbit |
| #3432, aired 1999-07-06 | THE WRITE STUFF $800: Pyewacket was the musical & mysterious cat in this supernatural play by John Van Druten Bell, Book and Candle |
| #3379, aired 1999-04-22 | DISNEY FILMS BY SONGS $500: "I Wanna Be Like You" & "The Bare Necessities" The Jungle Book |
| #3370, aired 1999-04-09 | 20th CENTURY LIT $600: Ian Hamilton wrote a book on having his bio of this reclusive author blocked by the court J.D. Salinger |
| #3358, aired 1999-03-24 | EXPLORERS $600: A book by Thomas James, who searched for the Northwest Passage, inspired this Coleridge poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| #3357, aired 1999-03-23 | DOWN WITH THE SHIP $800: This book by Sebastian Junger details the loss of a fishing boat, the Andrea Gail, to bad weather The Perfect Storm |
| #3342, aired 1999-03-02 | IN THE BEGINNING $200: "You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'" "Huckleberry Finn" |
| #3330, aired 1999-02-12 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: Books consulted by an author in preparing his own book often appear on this list at the back of the book Bibliography |
| #3327, aired 1999-02-09 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $400: "The Cinnamon Peeler" is a book of poems by this Ceylon-born author of "The English Patient" Michael Ondaatje |
| #3310, aired 1999-01-15 | FROM BOOK TO SCREEN $2,000 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Jane Leeves.) I provided the voice of a ladybug in the movie "James and the Giant Peach", based on a book by this author Roald Dahl |
| #3308, aired 1999-01-13 | HATS ON! $100: Children's book title character who wears the hat seen here the Cat in the Hat |
| #3279, aired 1998-12-03 | CANTERBURY TALE TELLERS $1000: An album by Sting had 10 of his tales; the Chaucer book, 1 The Summoner |
| #3228, aired 1998-09-23 | BOOKS BY WOMEN $600: Laurie Garrett's 1994 science book about "The Coming" one of these makes the bubonic one sound mild Plague |
| #3228, aired 1998-09-23 | BOOKS BY WOMEN $1,200 (Daily Double): Judith Rossner's book about the month when psychoanalysts go on vacation & patients fend for themselves "August" |
| #3201, aired 1998-06-29 | ENGLISH LIT $100: The "Book of the Duchesse" is an elegy for the Duchess of Lancaster by this author of "The Canterbury Tales" Geoffrey Chaucer |
| #3200, aired 1998-06-26 | CELEBRITY BOOKS $400: "The Saga of Baby Divine" is a 1983 children's book by this "Divine" entertainer Bette Midler |
| #3196, aired 1998-06-22 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $200: A book by Jim O'Donnell chronicles July 6, 1957, the day these 2 Beatles first met John Lennon & Paul McCartney |
| #1, aired 1998-05-03 | INTELLIGENCE $1000: Bob Woodward's 1987 book "Veil" recounted deathbed confessions by this CIA director William Casey |
| #3125, aired 1998-03-13 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: "Our Exploits at West Poley" is a children's book by this "Tess of the D' Urbervilles" author Thomas Hardy |
| #3111, aired 1998-02-23 | DOCUMENTARIES $1000: Based on Erich Von Daniken's book, this 1970s film proposed that Earth was visited by aliens Chariots of the Gods |
| #3103, aired 1998-02-11 | WITH THE GOOD BOOK $1000: It begins "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus" Ephesians |
| #3101, aired 1998-02-09 | COME TO YOUR CENSUS $800: The census ordered by William the Conqueror & taken in 1086 was recorded in this "book" the Domesday Book |
| #3085, aired 1998-01-16 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $1000: "The Jewel in the Crown" is the first book in this "quartet" of novels by Paul Scott The Raj Quartet |
| #3079, aired 1998-01-08 | POETS $1000: "Double Persephone" was the first book of poetry by this Canadian author of "The Handmaid's Tale" Margaret Atwood |
| #3060, aired 1997-12-12 | TRUE LIVES $400: Despite its title, "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" is a book by & about this woman Gertrude Stein |
| #3052, aired 1997-12-02 | "A" PLUS $600: "The Left Handed Dictionary" defines this as "a man you can shut up by closing a book" author |
| #3032, aired 1997-11-04 | BOOK REPORT $800: "A Journey to the Center of the Earth" was first published in 1864 in this language French (written by Jules Verne) |
| #3027, aired 1997-10-28 | NONFICTION $1000: Betty J. Eadie recently embraced readers with "The Awakening Heart", a sequel to this inspiring book Embraced by the Light |
| #3023, aired 1997-10-22 | BY THE "BOOK" $200: "Book" that requires a "balancing act" every month Checkbook |
| #3023, aired 1997-10-22 | BY THE "BOOK" $400: In a 1958 hit record, the Monotones asked, "Tell me, tell me, tell me, oh, who wrote" this "The Book of Love" |
| #3023, aired 1997-10-22 | BY THE "BOOK" $600: Steve McGarrett's command to Danny Williams at the end of a "Hawaii Five-O" episode "Book 'em, Danno!" |
| #3023, aired 1997-10-22 | BY THE "BOOK" $800: In 1962 he led the MG's to a Top 10 hit with "Green Onions" Booker T. |
| #3023, aired 1997-10-22 | BY THE "BOOK" $1000: This ancient Egyptian collection was literally "The Chapters of Coming-Forth-By-Day" The Book of the Dead |
| #3000, aired 1997-09-19 | LOOK TO THE FUTURE $1000: This title of an Alvin Toffler book refers to the anxiety caused by swift technological change Future Shock |
| #2998, aired 1997-09-17 | THE BIBLE $1,000 (Daily Double): The book of Acts is also known by the longer title "The Acts of" these men The Apostles |
| #2992, aired 1997-09-09 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: This character in a book by Saint-Exupery leaves his tiny planet because of a prideful flower The Little Prince |
| #2951, aired 1997-06-02 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): Novels by Olivia Goldsmith include "Bestseller" & this book about 3 vengeful spouses "The First Wives Club" |
| #2945, aired 1997-05-23 | 1996 BIOGRAPHIES $200: This escape artist who died in 1926 is called the "World's Handcuff King" in a new book by Kenneth Silverman Harry Houdini |
| #2918, aired 1997-04-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: "The Education of Mr. Pipp" is a book of satirical drawings of high society by this artist known for his "girl" Charles Gibson |
| #2875, aired 1997-02-14 | BOOKS ABOUT TEENS $100: A recent book by Edward Humes covers "A Year in the Life of" this court for young offenders juvenile court |
| #2874, aired 1997-02-13 | POETRY $800: In 1590 the first 3 books of this proposed 24-book epic poem by Edmund Spenser were published The Faerie Queene |
| #2857, aired 1997-01-21 | LITERATURE $800: Published in 1923, "The Prophet" is a book of 28 poetic essays by this Lebanese-American Kahlil Gibran |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: "The Moon Lady" was the first children's book by this author of "The Joy Luck Club" Amy Tan |
| #2844, aired 1997-01-02 | CONTEMPORARY NOVELISTS $800 (Daily Double): The movie "Get Shorty" was based on a 1990 book by this crime novelist Elmore Leonard |
| #2827, aired 1996-12-10 | THE UNEXPLAINED $200: A 1961 book by Ivan T. Sanderson linked these 2 creatures of the Pacific Northwest & the Himalayas Sasquatch/Bigfoot & The Abominable Snowman/Yeti |
| #2826, aired 1996-12-09 | RIP VAN WINKLE $500: Rip's tale appears in "The Sketch Book" written by this man Washington Irving |
| #2823, aired 1996-12-04 | SUSAN SARANDON CINEMA $500: Sarandon played Southern attorney Reggie Love in this 1994 film "The Client" (based on the book by John Grisham) |
| #2809, aired 1996-11-14 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: This Tony-winning 1992 musical starring Chita Rivera is based on a book by Manuel Puig Kiss of the Spider Woman |
| #2783, aired 1996-10-09 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $200: The old saying about having this and eating it, too appeared in a 1546 book of proverbs your cake |
| #2766, aired 1996-09-16 | ETIQUETTE $500: "Colorful" designation of the most formal men's evening wear white tie |
| #2755, aired 1996-07-19 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: In a 1958 book by Michael Bond, the Brown family discovers this bear's fondness for marmalade Paddington |
| #2707, aired 1996-05-14 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: This book's first edition said it was "translated from the original equine, by Anna Sewell" Black Beauty |
| #2688, aired 1996-04-17 | THE MOVIES $400: This 1977 Steven Spielberg film drew its title from a book by Dr. J. Allen Hynek, "the UFO Experience" Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
| #2675, aired 1996-03-29 | NONFICTION $800: Anthony Burgess' 1973 book "Joysprick" is a study of the language used by this Irish author James Joyce |
| #2649, aired 1996-02-22 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Illustrated by his daughter Amy, "The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer" is this former president's 1st children's book Jimmy Carter |
| #2643, aired 1996-02-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1934 this president published a book, "On Our Way", reviewing the progress made by his New Deal Franklin Roosevelt |
| #2606, aired 1995-12-25 | THE MIDDLE AGES $1000: The 1086 survey ordered by William the Conqueror that registered all English landholders Domesday Book (Domesday Survey accepted) |
| #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 |
| #2591, aired 1995-12-04 | QUOTATIONS BY WOMEN $200: "Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed" is a line from this Erica Jong book Fear of Flying |
| #2588, aired 1995-11-29 | LITERATURE $1000: This 1847 book by Melville was subtitled "A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas" Omoo |
| #2573, aired 1995-11-08 | QUOTATIONS $300: "Nice Guys" do this was the title of a 1975 book by Leo Durocher Finish Last |
| #2548, aired 1995-10-04 | PSEUDONYMS $800: The book of poetry published in 1846 by these sisters under the name Bell sold only 2 copies the Brontes |
| #2532, aired 1995-09-12 | MOBY DICK $800: The sinking of this ship at the end of the book fulfills a prophecy by Fedallah, Ahab's Parsee servant the Pequod |
| #2479, aired 1995-05-18 | SPIELBERG FILMS $400: Oprah Winfrey made her big screen debut in this 1985 film based on a book by Alice Walker The Color Purple |
| #2475, aired 1995-05-12 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $600: The first book written by this president was "crusade in Europe" in 1948 Eisenhower |
| #2377, aired 1994-12-27 | JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS $400: Much of the initial research for this Pulitzer Prize-winning book by JFK was done by Jackie Profiles in Courage |
| #2376, aired 1994-12-26 | MEET THE MITCHELLS $400: The book she published in 1936 sold over 2,000,000 copies in the U.S. by 1939 Margaret Mitchell |
| #2373, aired 1994-12-21 | THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART $400: This book of the Bible inspired Rembrandt's painting "Joseph Accused by Potiphar's Wife" Genesis |
| #2355, aired 1994-11-25 | INITIALED AUTHORS $1000: "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" was the only book by this American horror writer published during his life H.P. Lovecraft |
| #2330, aired 1994-10-21 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: "Creatures of the Kingdom" is a book of animal stories by this author of "Hawaii" James Michener |
| #2322, aired 1994-10-11 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $200: This Indian boy is raised by wolves in Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" Mowgli |
| #2312, aired 1994-09-27 | THEATRE $400: Adapted from a book by Isabel Allende, "House of the Spirits" is set in this country Chile |
| #2293, aired 1994-07-20 | THE BIBLE $200: In the Book of Acts, this author of the first gospel is mentioned by name for the last time Matthew |
| #2285, aired 1994-07-08 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $800: Captain Singleton, the hero of a book by this Crusoe creator, is kidnapped as a child & later becomes a pirate Daniel Defoe |
| #2282, aired 1994-07-05 | RELIGION $200: This religious book used by the Latter-Day Saints is called "a sacred record of peoples in ancient America" the Book of Mormon |
| #2269, aired 1994-06-16 | MURDER, THEY WROTE $1000: "Murder By the Book" is one of over 40 Nero Wolfe books by this author Rex Stout |
| #2256, aired 1994-05-30 | ASSASSINATIONS $200: Ross McWhirter, co-editor of this book of records, was assassinated by the IRA in 1975 The Guinness Book of Records |
| #2231, aired 1994-04-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This book by Sherwood Anderson tells 21 tales about the "grotesque" inhabitants of an Ohio town Winesburg, Ohio |
| #2227, aired 1994-04-19 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $800: The Lilliputians created by this author in 1726 turned up 220 years later in a children's book by T.H. White (Jonathan) Swift |
| #2181, aired 1994-02-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: The title of this Amy Tan book refers to a social club formed by mothers who play mah jongg The Joy Luck Club |
| #2160, aired 1994-01-14 | NONFICTION $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1993 this self-help book by M. Scott Peck celebrated its 9th year on the New York Times bestsellers list The Road Less Traveled |
| #2149, aired 1993-12-30 | LITERARY CLASSICS $400: Dr. Slop is one of the offbeat characters in this book narrated by its title character, Tristram Tristram Shandy |
| #2128, aired 1993-12-01 | RELIGION $1000: Founded by a Persian prophet, its beliefs are contained in a sacred book called the Avesta Zoroastrianism |
| #2119, aired 1993-11-18 | FAMOUS SCIENTISTS $400: Much of our knowledge of ancient science comes from a 37-book work by this naturalist, The Elder Pliny |
| #2098, aired 1993-10-20 | WOMEN AUTHORS $200: The subtitle of this 1960 book by Joy Adamson is "A Lioness of Two Worlds" Born Free |
| #2062, aired 1993-07-20 | KIDDIE LIT $1000: Published in 1915, "The Lost Prince" was the last children's book by this author of "The Secret Garden" (Frances Hodgson) Burnett |
| #2045, aired 1993-06-25 | BY GEORGE $300: This choreographer's book "101 Stories of the Great Ballets" includes many of his own ballets (George) Balanchine |
| #2032, aired 1993-06-08 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the name of the "Little Helicopter" in a 1989 book by the Duchess of York Budgie |
| #2017, aired 1993-05-18 | BY THE "BOOK" $200: A judge who hands out the maximum sentence to a lawbreaker is said to have done this throw the book at him |
| #2017, aired 1993-05-18 | BY THE "BOOK" $400: Some men keep one of these "small" items containing the phone numbers & addresses of available women a little black book |
| #2017, aired 1993-05-18 | BY THE "BOOK" $600: In April 1926 "Lolly Willowes, or the Loving Huntsman" became its first selection the Book of the Month Club |
| #2017, aired 1993-05-18 | BY THE "BOOK" $800: Also known by this title, the "I Ching" is one of the central texts of Confucianism Book of Changes |
| #2017, aired 1993-05-18 | BY THE "BOOK" $1000: The first edition of this liturgy of the Church of England was published in 1549 The Book of Common Prayer |
| #2013, aired 1993-05-12 | MISCHIEF MAKERS $800: The first book published by Mark Twain's company was this sequel to "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| #2006, aired 1993-05-03 | MAGAZINES $400: With the death of William Gaines, the publishing of Mad Magazine will not be overseen by this comic book company DC |
| #2006, aired 1993-05-03 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: In 1815 he sold his 6,000 book library to Congress to replace those destroyed by the British Thomas Jefferson |
| #1961, aired 1993-03-01 | BIOGRAPHIES $200: "Glory Days" by Dave Marsh has been called "the most complete" book ever written about this rock star Bruce Springsteen |
| #1947, aired 1993-02-09 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $400: By the end of this book, Phileas Fogg has married Aouda, who "made him the happiest of men!" Around the World in 80 Days |
| #1922, aired 1993-01-05 | THE GRAPES OF WRATH $1,300 (Daily Double): The book's title came from a poem by this woman Julia Ward Howe |
| #1900, aired 1992-12-04 | RELIGION $100: Muslims have never sanctioned a translation of this holy book; it should be read in Arabic the Koran |
| #1888, aired 1992-11-18 | THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE $2,500 (Daily Double): Jefferson's draft was influenced by "Two Treatises of Government", a 1690 book by this English philosopher John Locke |
| #1887, aired 1992-11-17 | MYSTERIES $300: Her book, "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd", was inspired partly by a suggestion from Lord Mountbatten Agatha Christie |
| #1848, aired 1992-09-23 | THEATER $1000: With Russel Crouse, Howard Lindsay adapted this Clarence Day book for the stage & played the role of father himself Life with Father |
| #1844, aired 1992-09-17 | LEFTOVERS $400: The National Book Committee started National Library Week in 1958; now it's sponsored by this group the American Library Association |
| #1775, aired 1992-04-24 | FAMOUS ALICES $200: This 1865 Lewis Carroll book was inspired by Alice Liddell, the daughter of the dean of Christ Church Alice in Wonderland |
| #1738, aired 1992-03-04 | WOMEN AUTHORS $200: Her 1974 book "Blubber" told of the persecution of an overweight fifth grader by her classmates Judy Blume |
| #1721, aired 1992-02-10 | ORGANIZATIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): The "Blue Book" by Robert Welch, Jr. outlines the nature & purposes of this organization the John Birch Society |
| #1693, aired 1992-01-01 | MYSTERIES $700 (Daily Double): Wilkie Collins said this novel was inspired partly by the story of the Koh-i-Noor diamond The Moonstone |
| #1672, aired 1991-12-03 | NONFICTION $1,000 (Daily Double): This best-selling science book by Stephen Hawking is subtitled "From the Big Bang to Black Holes" A Brief History of Time |
| #1669, aired 1991-11-28 | ANNUAL EVENTS $500: This Jewish holiday is marked by reading the Biblical book of Esther Purim |
| #1646, aired 1991-10-28 | AUTHORS $200: "A View from the Bench" is a book of memoirs by this "People's Court" judge Wapner |
| #1624, aired 1991-09-26 | POETS & POETRY $500: He said his title for "The Waste Land" was suggested by a book on the Grail legend T.S. Eliot |
| #1615, aired 1991-09-13 | THE CIVIL WAR $200: It broke away from Virginia over the issue of secession in 1861 & became the 35th state in 1863 West Virginia |
| #1614, aired 1991-09-12 | MYTHOLOGICAL OPERAS $800: Henry Purcell's opera, "Dido & Aeneas", is based on Book IV of this the Aeneid |
| #1614, aired 1991-09-12 | WORLD LITERATURE $1000: "The Legend of the Knight of the Red Cross" is the first book of this epic poem
by Edmund Spencer The Faerie Queene |
| #1595, aired 1991-07-05 | BY THE "BOOK" $100: One who determines odds & receives & pays off bets, legally or illegally a bookmaker |
| #1595, aired 1991-07-05 | BY THE "BOOK" $200: It's a "colorful" registry of socially prominent persons the Blue Book |
| #1595, aired 1991-07-05 | BY THE "BOOK" $300: What Detective Steve McGarrett would say to Detective Danny Williams when he brought in the suspects Book 'em, Danno |
| #1595, aired 1991-07-05 | BY THE "BOOK" $400: In 1958 the Monotones asked, "I wonder, wonder who, who, who wrote" this the "Book Of Love" |
| #1595, aired 1991-07-05 | BY THE "BOOK" $500: A judge who gives you the maximum sentence permissible is said to do this throw the book at you |
| #1559, aired 1991-05-16 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: John Gunther took the title of this book about his late son from a poem by John Donne Death Be Not Proud |
| #1542, aired 1991-04-23 | FOR THE KIDS $200: He used many suggestions given to him by children in his book, "The Emerald City of Oz" (Frank) Baum |
| #1511, aired 1991-03-11 | “SEX” EDUCATION $500: After winning the Pulitzer for her book of poems "Live or Die", she chose to die by her own hand Anne Sexton |
| #1510, aired 1991-03-08 | LITERATURE $1000: "Revolt in the Desert" was a popular abridged edition of this book by Lawrence of Arabia the Seven Pillars of Wisdom |
| #1498, aired 1991-02-20 | LITERARY ANIMALS $3,000 (Daily Double): This wild horse from Arabia made its first appearance in a 1941 book by Walter Farley the Black Stallion |
| #1495, aired 1991-02-15 | TOM & HUCK $100: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in 1885 was the 1st book issued by this man's publishing co. Mark Twain |
| #1482, aired 1991-01-29 | BY THE NUMBERS $500: This John Reed book was his eyewitness account of the Bolshevik Revolution Ten Days That Shook the World |
| #1481, aired 1991-01-28 | THE MIDDLE AGES $400: "Venerable" historian who completed a translation of the Gospel of St. John hours before his death Bede |
| #1472, aired 1991-01-15 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: As of 1989 this C. McCullough book was the all-time best-selling paperback by a woman The Thorn Birds |
| #1428, aired 1990-11-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: "Millie's Book...", published in September 1990, is by the presidential dog, as dictated to her Barbara Bush |
| #1386, aired 1990-09-17 | QUOTES $300: The phrase "The War that Will End War" is the title of a 1914 book by this author of "The Time Machine" H.G. Wells |
| #1369, aired 1990-07-12 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: In the title of a 1911 book by Frances Hodgson Burnett, this adjective describes the garden secret |
| #1344, aired 1990-06-07 | THE MOVIES $300: This film about the original team of U.S. astronauts was based on a book by Tom Wolfe The Right Stuff |
| #1319, aired 1990-05-03 | LIBRARIES $400: This 7-day observance promoted by the American Library Association takes place in April National Library Week |
| #1303, aired 1990-04-11 | MARK TWAIN $500: When 1st published, this book of Twain's travels to Europe was sold mainly by door-to-door salesman The Innocents Abroad |
| #1291, aired 1990-03-26 | THE RENAISSANCE $400: The ruthless Cesare Borgia was the model for this book by Machiavelli "The Prince" |
| #1285, aired 1990-03-16 | TV TRIVIA $500: At the end of "Book II" of this miniseries, Rudy Jordache was shot by Falconetti "Rich Man, Poor Man" |
| #1280, aired 1990-03-09 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: "Reflections of a Public Man" is the controversial book written by this former Speaker of the House Jim Wright |
| #1273, aired 1990-02-28 | REFERENCE BOOKS $800: Webster's Elementary Spelling Book was better known by this more colorful name "The Blue-Back Speller" |
| #1245, aired 1990-01-19 | BEST SELLERS $600: The book subtitled "It Ain't Over..." is a collection of anecdotes by this man Yogi Berra |
| #1238, aired 1990-01-10 | FAMOUS AUSSIES $400: Set in Australia, this end-of-the-world film was based on a book by Aussie Nevil Shute On the Beach |
| #1199, aired 1989-11-16 | SCIENTISTS $400: Published in 1897, "Work of the Digestive Glands" was the only book by this Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov |
| #1196, aired 1989-11-13 | NEWSPAPERS $200: In 1868 the 1st edition of this annual reference book was published by the New York World The World Almanac |
| #1180, aired 1989-10-20 | COLORFUL TV SHOWS $800: This Robert Conrad series was loosely based on a book by Marine Corps ace "Pappy" Boyington The Black Sheep Squadron (or Baa Baa Black Sheep) |
| #1176, aired 1989-10-16 | BY THE "BOOK" $200: An insect larvae that literally feeds on books, or a person who does it figuratively a bookworm |
| #1176, aired 1989-10-16 | BY THE "BOOK" $400: A bachelor's "colorful" book, with listings from Abigail to Zelda a black book |
| #1176, aired 1989-10-16 | BY THE "BOOK" $600: What a judge is said to do when he gives an offender the maximum sentence throw the book at him |
| #1176, aired 1989-10-16 | BY THE "BOOK" $800: Jimmy Stewart was bewitched by Kim Novak in this 1958 comedy Bell, Book and Candle |
| #1176, aired 1989-10-16 | BY THE "BOOK" $1000: The other name for "I Ching", the ancient Chinese book of divination The Book of Changes |
| #1164, aired 1989-09-28 | LITERARY ISLANDS $800: A coral island, probably in the South China Sea, was the setting for this book by William Golding "Lord of the Flies" |
| #1145, aired 1989-07-21 | EVOLUTION $2,000 (Daily Double): The full title of Darwin's book is "On the Origin of Species by Means of" this Natural Selection |
| #1122, aired 1989-06-20 | MAKING THE ROUNDS $500: "Painted Ponies" by William Manns is a book on the history of these carousel horses |
| #1104, aired 1989-05-25 | BY THE NUMBERS $400: Kurt Vonnegut fictionalizes some of his own experiences in the firebombing of Dresden in this book Slaughterhouse-Five |
| #1028, aired 1989-02-08 | NAMES IN THE NEWS $800: A recent book by James Reston Jr. theorizes this Texas gov., not JFK, was Oswald's target (John) Connally |
| #1004, aired 1989-01-05 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $500: Also referred to as the Feast of Lots, this Jewish holiday is marked by the reading of the book of Esther Purim |
| #966, aired 1988-11-14 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $600: In "The Talk Book", Dr. Gerald Goodman figures 25% of all we say is followed by this punctuation mark a question mark |
| #961, aired 1988-11-07 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: The military & the clergy are represented by the 2 colors in the title of this book by Stendhal The Red and the Black |
| #961, aired 1988-11-07 | THE THREE R's $1000: The subtitle of this 1955 book by Rudolf Flesch is "& What You Can Do About It" Why Johnny Can't Read |
| #951, aired 1988-10-24 | THEATER BOOKS $600: Herman Buchman wrote the book on this subject, often yelled for by Milton Berle make-up |
| #946, aired 1988-10-17 | WORLD LITERATURE $600: The 1st book by Gertrude Stein to receive major critical attention was this "Autobiography" The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas |
| #934, aired 1988-09-29 | 20th C. AMERICANS $500: A book by Paul Samuelson is the standard text for this college class in many countries economics |
| #899, aired 1988-06-30 | SPORTS $100: The book "Diamonds Are Forever" contains works by artists & writers dealing with this sport baseball |
| #889, aired 1988-06-16 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $400: This book of the Bible contains songs by David, Asaph, the Korahites & others Psalms |
| #886, aired 1988-06-13 | "SUMMER" $500: 1972 book by Roger Kahn about the Brooklyn Dodgers of the early 1950s The Boys of Summer |
| #880, aired 1988-06-03 | NAME THE NOVEL $200: Mowgli, "the Frog", is raised by mother wolf The Jungle Book |
| #864, aired 1988-05-12 | WEAPONS $300: The oldest of all explosives, its formula appears in a 13th century book by Roger Bacon gunpowder |
| #861, aired 1988-05-09 | 20TH CENTURY THINKERS $400: The basic philosophy espoused by Jean-Paul Sartre in his book "Being & Nothingness" existentialism |
| #853, aired 1988-04-27 | 1974 $100: This book by Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward was released in 1974 All the President's Men |
| #845, aired 1988-04-15 | REFERENCE BOOKS $1000: The 1st edition of this book was published in 1868 by a newspaper, the New York World The World Almanac |
| #833, aired 1988-03-30 | BY THE NUMBERS $1000: Number of psalms in the Book of Psalms 150 |
| #808, aired 1988-02-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation" was based on this 1905 book by Thomas Dixon The Clansman |
| #759, aired 1987-12-17 | PENNSYLVANIA PEOPLE $1000: Her book "The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry" was followed up by "Tish" & then "More Tish" Mary Roberts Rinehart |
| #750, aired 1987-12-04 | AUTHORS $200: He was fired as a clerk by the Secretary of the Interior for his "immoral" book "Leaves of Grass" Whitman |
| #746, aired 1987-11-30 | WOMEN $1000: 2 children of efficiency expert Lillian Gilbreth wrote this book about how she raised her big family Cheaper by the Dozen |
| #739, aired 1987-11-19 | "OLD" & "NEW" $500: Annual award given by the American Library Association for the outstanding American children's book the Newbery Award/Medal |
| #701, aired 1987-09-28 | ROARING '20s $500: Her book "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", was called a handbook for golddiggers Anita Loos |
| #694, aired 1987-09-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Black author Julius Lester's new book retells animal folktales 1st collected in 1896 by this white author Joel Chandler Harris |
| #668, aired 1987-07-01 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: According to World Book, it was the cattle brand used by Conrad Kohrs CK |
| #665, aired 1987-06-26 | "BALL" 2 $400: This 1970 book by pitcher Jim Bouton has been called the most popular sports book in history Ball Four |
| #640, aired 1987-05-22 | BY THE NUMBERS $200: In popular paperback book title, it was the number of "Uses" given for "A Dead Cat" 101 |
| #640, aired 1987-05-22 | BY THE NUMBERS $300: Author David Wallechinsky's latest book gives a "Midterm Report" on the class of this year '65 (1965) |
| #574, aired 1987-02-19 | RELIGIOUS HISTORY $200: 1 of the oldest sections of this holy book was reportedly written by a judge named Deborah Old Testament (Judges) |
| #571, aired 1987-02-16 | THE LIBRARY $500: Shirley Jones played this part by the book in "The Music Man" (Marian the) librarian |
| #560, aired 1987-01-30 | GOVERNMENT $300: 31 pages of report by this commission detailed chapter by chapter the book "Tying Up Rebecca" The Commission on Pornography |
| #544, aired 1987-01-08 | LONDON $500: You've visited this London landmark at 13 Portsmouth Street; now read the book, by Dickens The Old Curiosity Shop |
| #504, aired 1986-11-13 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $400: Rebecca Randall is better known by the title of this Kate Douglas Wiggin children's book Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm |
| #504, aired 1986-11-13 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $1000: 1st & only president listed by "The Book of Lists" as having smoked marijuana in the White House John F. Kennedy |
| #493, aired 1986-10-29 | NEW TESTAMENT $600: From its first word in the original Greek version, the book of Revelation is often known by this name the Apocalypse |
| #479, aired 1986-10-09 | AVIATION $800: Done by the book, while reducing power, you go from a shallow dive to a steep glide, then flare out how do you land a plane |
| #423, aired 1986-04-23 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $200: While Encyclopedia Americana says this Old Testament book should be read as a parable, we say it’s a big fish story Jonah |
| #392, aired 1986-03-11 | BOOK TRIVIA $1000: Ulysses S. Grant was encouraged to write autobiography by this author, who also published it Mark Twain |
| #348, aired 1986-01-08 | "BOOK"S $600: Something set next to a volume, or something done according to the rules by the book |
| #338, aired 1985-12-25 | FLAGS $300: After his death, staffs flying Mohammed's flag often were capped by a hand holding this book the Koran |
| #337, aired 1985-12-24 | THE BIBLE $800: The book of Genesis refers to the promised land by this ancient name Canaan |
| #294, aired 1985-10-24 | MAGIC $800: Some Muslims believe they can cure illness by drinking ink that's been used to copy this book the Koran |
| #281, aired 1985-10-07 | PEOPLE $400: He blamed his stroke on stress caused by Peter Bogdanovich's book "The Killing of the Unicorn" Hugh Hefner |
| #280, aired 1985-10-04 | BEAR FACTS $400: Bear who was featured in an exercise book with drawings by Ernest Shepard Winnie-the-Pooh |
| #261, aired 1985-09-09 | DOGS IN LITERATURE $300: In this book, Nick Charles' Asta is a schnauzer, but in films was played by a wire-haired terrier The Thin Man |
| #191, aired 1985-06-03 | STARTS WITH "D" $200: This book by L. Ron Hubbard is considered the Bible of Scientology Dianetics |
| #136, aired 1985-03-18 | PSYCHOLOGY $1,000 (Daily Double): This song shares its title with a book by Dr. Eric Berne:
"I walk around / I can't hear a sound / Folks talking loud / But I don't see" "The Games People Play" |
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Laura Myers, a senior from the University of Missouri
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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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Prashant Raghavendran, a sophomore from the University of Texas, Dallas
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"Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
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Harry Shearer, a humorist, Spinal Tap bassist, and voice from The Simpsons
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Rebecca Lobo, a future Women\'s Basketball Hall of Famer and ESPN analyst originally from the WNBA
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Chuck Forrest, an attorney for the UN IFAD from Marino, Italy
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Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost
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"He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
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Jean Cui, a student originally from Garden City, New York
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Season 25 2-time champion: $14,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
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Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,401 + $2,000. Last 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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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA
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"In January, the State Department named this NBA Hall of Famer...
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Al Franken, an author and radio talk show host from New York City
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"One of the original writers on Saturday Night Live, he's done...
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Nate Austin, a student from Hutchinson Community College
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"His original plan was to own a chain of international hotels...
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Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester and camp counselor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
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Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
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Hill Harper, an author and actor from CSI: NY
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"As an award-winning author, he's written three New York Times best...
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David Faber, an anchor and reporter from CNBC's Squawk on the Street and The Faber Report
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"The winner of Emmy, Peabody, DuPont, and Loeb awards, he's a...
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Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Nick Yozamp, a junior from Washington University in St. Louis
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
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Amanda J. Ray, a sophomore at the University of Virginia from Harrisonburg, Virginia
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Lea Tottle, a junior from Florida State University from Oldsmar, Florida
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Emily Heaney, a freelance costume designer from White Bear Lake, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $2,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Scott Menke, a senior from Johns Hopkins University
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Flemington, New Jersey...
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Ryan Holznagel, a writer originally from Forest Grove, Oregon
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"He was the winner of the 1995 Tournament of Champions. Now,...
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA
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"He's one of the greatest NBA players in history. Here's Hall...
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Steve Schirripa, an actor from The Sopranos
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"Once the entertainment director at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas,...
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Clarence Page, a journalist from The Chicago Tribune
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"His nationally syndicated column began as a local column for the...
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
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"He served as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, and later as...
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Isaac Mizrahi, a fashion designer and TV personality from the QVC Network
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"His fashion designs are a favorite among celebrities on the red...
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Michael Braun, a junior from Silver Spring, Maryland
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2005 Teen...
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Bernard Holloway, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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"He was a 2002 Teen Champion. He's now a sophomore at...
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Aisha Tyler, an actress, comedian, author and reality-show host from Archer
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"In addition to film and TV roles, she performs comedy at...
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Chuck Forrest, a lawyer and CEO from London, United Kingdom
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\"He became a winner of the second-ever Tournament of Champions in...
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Chuck Todd, a journalist and chief White House correspondent from NBC News and Meet the Press
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"Chief White House correspondent and political director for NBC News, he...
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Bob Harris, an author, comedian, and radio commentator from Los Angeles, California
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"A 5-time champion and a finalist in the Tournament of Champions,...
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Babu Srinivasan, a history professor at Prairie View A&M University from Houston, Texas
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"A five-time champion in 2001, he's now a history professor at...
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Sandra Gore, a corporate researcher from Berkeley, California
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"After five wins in 1987, she fulfilled her dream of moving...
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Chuck Forrest, a lawyer from Bosnia and Herzegovina
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Bill Maher, a comedian and author from Politically Incorrect
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"A comedian and author, he hosts the lively discussion group called...
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Catherine Bell, an actress from JAG
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"Her Marine Corps attorney, Major Sarah 'Mac' MacKenzie, plays by the...
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Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
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Elizabeth Galoozis, a reference librarian from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 26 2-time champion: $38,801 + $2,000. Elizabeth Galoozis - A...
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Sanders Kleinfeld, a publishing technology specialist from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,597 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Mike Maheu, a high school teacher from San Diego, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,242 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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"He's received critical acclaim on Broadway and on TV, and his...
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Stacy Braverman, a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 26 1-time champion: $14,984 + $2,000. As detailed in a...
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Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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A.J. Schumacher, a radio show production intern from St. Paul, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $10,800 + $2,000. AJ Schumacher Saint Paul,...
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Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington
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Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
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Saad Hasan, a nanotechnology scientist from Nashville, Tennessee
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Season 26 1-time champion: $22,700 + $2,000. Saad Hasan Nashville, TN...
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Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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Season 25 1-time champion: $12,700 + $2,000. Inta Antler - A...
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Chris Rodrigues, a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Season 26 3-time champion: $41,498 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Lyndsey Romick, a sophomore from Lewis & Clark College
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Grants Pass, Oregon. Lyndsey Romick...
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Pat Sajak, a game show host from Wheel of Fortune
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"A former TV weatherman, he's gone on to become the world's...
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Janet Bradlow, an insurance agent from New York, New York
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Season 26 3-time champion: $58,000 + $2,000. Janet Bradlow New York,...
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Leah Anthony Libresco, a junior from Yale University
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Mineola, New York. Jeopardy!...
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Melanie Baker-Streevy, a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000. Melanie Baker-Streevy - A...
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Diane Wilshere, an actor and playwright from Manassas, Virginia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Maria Bartiromo, a business anchor from CNBC
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11). Charities: National Italian American Foundation...
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Dana Delany, an actress from Desperate Housewives
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"She won two Emmys for her work on China Beach. This...
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Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa
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Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
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Megan Fraedrich, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Springfield, Virginia
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"And she was recently an evil stepsister in a performance of...
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Frank Firke, a junior from Chicago, Illinois
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2007 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of...
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Grace Thomas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Raleigh, North Carolina
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"This captain of the Brain-Bowl team can name all the countries...
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Emily Riippa, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Grand Rapids, Michigan
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"She is a fast reader, and her mother says she was...
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Jonathan Franzen, a best-selling author from Purity and The Corrections
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"His best-selling novels are critically acclaimed and have won numerous honors,...
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Allan Long, a freshman from Tallahassee, Florida
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 14 at the time of the...
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Guy Tabachnick, from New York, New York
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"He wants to be a baseball announcer for the New York...
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Chuck Forrest, a law student from Grand Blanc, Michigan
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Chuck Forrest, a student from Grand Blanc, Michigan
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Chuck Forrest, a foreign service officer originally from Grand Blanc, Michigan
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Chuck Forrest, a lawyer from Marino, Italy
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Will Casper, a senior from Basin City, Washington
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2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of...
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Tucker Warner, from Fredericksburg, Virginia
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"At the beginning of the school year, he worked on a...
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Taylor Gailliot, from Woodbridge, Virginia
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"When asked what she wanted us to know about her, she...
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Nithya Kubendran, an 11-year-old seventh grader from Quartz Hill, California
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"When asked about her future plans, she said, 'World domination sounds...
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Gary Bechtold, a garage door company owner from St. Cloud, Minnesota
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Season 26 3-time champion: $42,001 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Carolyn Young, a homemaker from Marietta, Georgia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $30,000 + $2,000. Mother of Season 32...
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Sarah Marx, a junior from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
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Scott Turow, a bestselling novelist and practicing attorney from Chicago, Illinois
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"He's sold more than 25 million copies of his novels worldwide...
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Bob Fleenor, a newspaper copy editor from Martinsburg, West Virginia
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Harris Cohen, a family physician from Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 2-time champion: $17,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Arthur Phillips, an author from Brooklyn, New York
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"He was a speechwriter from Boston when he won five shows...
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Christy Gibson, a family medicine physician from Issaquah, Washington
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Season 28 player (2012-07-09). Christy's ending score of -$6,400 was the...
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Stephanie Hull, a graduate student of philosophy from Columbia, Missouri
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Season 31 player (2015-03-12). Stephanie's ending score of -$6,800 was the...
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Heather Chapman, a news assistant from Lexington, Kentucky
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Season 24 player (2008-01-04). Heather appeared on Master Minds on 2020-05-07....
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Ethan Waldman, a twelve-year-old from West Hills, California
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"This wizard of words wants to be a fantasy author when...
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Andrew Kreitz, a senior from Huntington Beach, California
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2006 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000.
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Lindsay Oxx, a senior from Longmeadow, Massachusetts
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2009 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Regina Merrill, from Lincoln, Nebraska
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"She's very good at writing stories and poetry, but her love...
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Michelle Chang, an 11-year-old from Suwanee, Georgia
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"This sixth grader picks the most unusual places to lose her...
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