| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $2,000 (Daily Double): In the early 20th c. these were given out for literature; Baron Pierre de Coubertin won one under a pen name for "Ode to Sport" Olympic medals |
| #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 |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $200: It's where "Native Son" & "A Raisin in the Sun" are set Chicago |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $400: Right before the epilogue to this novel, Raskolnikov confesses, "It was I killed the old pawnbroker woman and her sister" Crime and Punishment |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $600: This Jack London classic is considered one of the "books that shaped America" The Call of the Wild |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $800: In "East of Eden" this twin brother of Aron Trask reveals to him that their mother is a madam Caleb |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $1000: This Jonathan Franzen novel about the dysfunctional Lambert family won a National Book Award The Corrections |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $800: In this Greek comedic play from 405 B.C., the title characters form a chorus whose lines include "Brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax" The Frogs |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | LITERATURE $800: Poe's short story "The Murders" here marked the first appearance of the French detective C. Auguste Dupin in the Rue Morgue |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | A "C" IN LITERATURE $200: He calls Winnie-the-Pooh "silly old bear" Christopher Robin |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | A "C" IN LITERATURE $400: One of "The Chronicles of Narnia" is named for this prince & rightful heir to the throne Caspian |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | A "C" IN LITERATURE $600: Anthony Burgess claimed this, his best-known book, was "knocked off for money in 3 weeks" A Clockwork Orange |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | A "C" IN LITERATURE $800: From the works of Charles Dickens, it's the last name of the father & son seen here Cratchit |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | A "C" IN LITERATURE $1000: Chaucer had planned to write more than 100 stories for this work, but only got around to 24 The Canterbury Tales |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | VAMPIRES IN LITERATURE $2000: This 19th c. writer of historical novels, Pere, went goth in "The Pale Lady", a tale of a Polish woman & 2 adoring brothers Alexandre Dumas |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | SOUTHERN LITERATURE $800: 14-year-old Lily finds her way to Tiburon, S.C. & the Boatwright sisters in Sue Monk Kidd's "The Secret Life of" these Bees |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | LITERATURE $400: "The Young Giant" & "Little Red-Cap" were 2 of the more than 200 stories collected by these German brothers in a 19th c. anthology the Brothers Grimm |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | LITERATURE $400: All published in the 1950s, 7 books make up this series by C.S. Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1000: Set in the 12th c. Middle East, "The Wondrous Tale of Alroy" is a novel about a Jewish conqueror by this author/politician Disraeli |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | RELIGIOUS LITERATURE $1600: In addition to his books featuring talking lions, this author also wrote "Out of the Silent Planet", a book of religious sci-fi C.S. Lewis |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | WORLD WAR I LITERATURE $400: R.C. Sherriff's "Journey's End" is set in a dugout connected to one of these, which have come to symbolize the war a trench |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | "C" IN LITERATURE $400: This 1854 poem contains the lines "Theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die" "The Charge of the Light Brigade" |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | "C" IN LITERATURE $800: He's the very dramatic Russian seen here around 1900 Chekhov |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | "C" IN LITERATURE $1200: He's the only human in the "Winnie-the-Pooh" stories Christopher Robin |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | "C" IN LITERATURE $1600: This sci-fi author's "C" novels include "Childhood's End" & "Cradle", about contact with an alien civilization Arthur C. Clarke |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | "C" IN LITERATURE $2000: "Chirp the first" is the first chapter of this Dickens short novel The Cricket on the Hearth |
| #7149, aired 2015-10-15 | ANCIENT ROMAN LITERATURE $2000: Julius Caesar described his victories in the 50s B.C. in what's now France in his "Commentaries on" these "Wars" the Gallic Wars |
| #7106, aired 2015-07-06 | TASTY LITERATURE $400: In this 19th c. work, young Amy likes snacking on "pickled limes" & borrows money from her sister to buy some Little Women |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $2000: When war broke out between Athens & Sparta in 431 B.C., he began writing an 8-book history of the war Thucydides |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2,500 (Daily Double): C. Auguste Dupin is the hero of Edgar Allan Poe's first detective story, "The Murders" here in the Rue Morgue |
| #5729, aired 2009-07-02 | LITERATURE IN THE 1800s $800: In 1859 Edward Fitzgerald translated this Persian's 12th c. work into rhymed quatrains Omar Khayyam |
| #5241, aired 2007-05-28 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $800: In C.S. Lewis' "The Last Battle", this lion destroyed evil-ridden Narnia & guided the faithful to the next world Aslan |
| #5182, aired 2007-03-06 | IT'S ALL ACADEMIC $2000: In 1954 Cambridge appointed this children's author as a professor of Medieval & Renaissance literature C.S. Lewis |
| #4181, aired 2002-11-04 | WORLD LITERATURE $800: In the 18th C. Radischev protested the abuse of peasants in "Journey from St. Petersburg to" this big city Moscow |
| #4181, aired 2002-11-04 | WORLD LITERATURE $2000: Sherlock Holmes finds "as much sense in Hafiz", a 14th C. Persian poet, "as in" this Roman with an "H" name Horace |
| #3985, aired 2001-12-21 | THE FIRST MILLENNIUM A.D. $1000: In the 9th c. this "Great" king of Wessex invited foreign scholars to England to teach & translate great literature Alfred the Great |
| #2827, aired 1996-12-10 | LITERATURE $1000: Poe's "The Mystery of Marie Roget" was a sequel to this story featuring detective C. Auguste Dupin "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" |
| #2751, aired 1996-07-15 | WORLD LITERATURE $1000: Shakespeare's "Cymbelline" is based in part on a story from this 14th c. work by Bocaccio "The Decameron" |
| #2677, aired 1996-04-02 | LITERATURE $1000: "To Let" was the last novel in this John Galsworthy series "The Forsyte Saga" |
| #2674, aired 1996-03-28 | LITERATURE $200: In this 17th C. novel, Sancho Panza is promised, & eventually gets, the governorship of his own island "Don Quixote" |
| #2409, aired 1995-02-09 | 19th C. AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This Washington Irving character falls asleep in the Catskills while hunting with his dog, Wolf Rip Van Winkle |
| #2409, aired 1995-02-09 | 19th C. AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In this essay Thoreau asserted, "that government is best which governs not at all" "Civil Disobedience" |
| #1943, aired 1993-02-03 | LANGUAGES $100: The golden age of literature in this language lasted from the first century B.C. to about 14 A.D. Latin |
| #1642, aired 1991-10-22 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $600: "The Purloined Letter" opens in Paris in this detective's "little back library, or book-closet" C. Auguste Dupin |
| #1422, aired 1990-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "The Mystery of Marie Roget" followed this Poe story, both featuring detective C. Auguste Dupin "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" |
| #1382, aired 1990-09-11 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $200: Herodotus said this fabulist lived as a slave on Samos in the 6th century B.C. Aesop |
| #11, aired 1990-08-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: C. Auguste Dupin is an amateur detective who appears in 3 of his short stories (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #1240, aired 1990-01-12 | WORLD LITERATURE $1000: The Polish-born author of "The Painted Bird", set in Europe & "Being There", set in Washington, D.C. Jerzy Kozinski |
| #987, aired 1988-12-13 | LITERATURE $800: Detective who found "The Purloined Letter" in a pasteboard card rack just below the mantelpiece C. Auguste Dupin |
| #827, aired 1988-03-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $200: Stephen, Hart or Ichabod Crane |
| #827, aired 1988-03-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $400: "The Miller's Tale" & "The Wife of Bath's Tale", among others The Canterbury Tales |
| #827, aired 1988-03-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $600: In "A Christmas Carol", it's Tiny Tim's last name Cratchit |
| #827, aired 1988-03-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $800: This ex-music hall dancer wrote "Gigi" & "Cheri", cheri Colette |
| #827, aired 1988-03-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $1000: He won a Pulitzer Prize for his short stories 2 years after he wrote "Falconer" John Cheever |
| #705, aired 1987-10-02 | WORLD LITERATURE $600: In this early 19th c. novel, Elizabeth Bennet 1st rejects Darcy but finally marries him Pride and Prejudice |
| #480, aired 1986-10-10 | LITERATURE $800: The travellers in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" are on a pilgrimage to shrine of this 12th c. martyr Thomas à Becket |
| #480, aired 1986-10-10 | LITERATURE $1000: Probably the 19th c.'s largest single royalty check went to this president's widow in 1886 for his "Memoirs" Ulysses S. Grant |
| #448, aired 1986-05-28 | LITERATURE $400: He described his boyhood in Asheville, N.C., which he called Altamont, in "Look Homeward, Angel" Thomas Wolfe |
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