| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | LITERARY SHIPPING $2000: This word follows "Captains" in the title of a Rudyard Kipling tale about Atlantic Ocean fishermen out in the Grand Banks Courageous |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | A NOBEL LAUREATE WROTE THAT $800: "Captains Courageous" & "Kim" were penned by this 1907 winner Kipling |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | ALLITERATIVE LIT $1600: Rudyard Kipling took a break from his stories of South Asia to pen this tale of New England fishermen Captains Courageous |
| #7342, aired 2016-07-12 | MILITARY MEN? $5,000 (Daily Double): Looks like many brave officers are here! This Kipling tale is subtitled "A Story of the Grand Banks" Captains Courageous |
| #6691, aired 2013-10-21 | BOOKS ABOUT WOMEN $400: "A Remarkable Woman", about this late actress, says she saw Spencer Tracy in "Captains Courageous" 52 times (Katharine) Hepburn |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS $400: Edward J. Smith became captain of the Olympic in 1910 & of this sister ship 2 years later the Titanic |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS $800: On April 28, 1789 he wrote, "Just before sunrise, Mr. Christian" seized him & tied his "hands with a cord" Bligh |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS $1200: Isaac Hull captained this ship to victory over the British frigate Guerriere during the War of 1812 the Constitution |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS $1600: Captain Juan Sebastian del Cano completed the world circumnavigation this man got the credit for Magellan |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS $3,000 (Daily Double): In September 1835 Captain Robert FitzRoy anchored this ship in the Galapagos for a 5-week stay the Beagle |
| #6402, aired 2012-06-19 | AUTHORS $400: This Brit was living in Vermont in the 1890s when he wrote "Captains Courageous" & most of "Kim" Rudyard Kipling |
| #5643, aired 2009-03-04 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): Long Jack is one of the crew on a cod boat that rescues Harvey Cheyne in the Grand Banks in this Kipling novel Captains Courageous |
| #5220, aired 2007-04-27 | FICTIONAL SHIPS $2000: In this 1897 Kipling novel, the schooner "We're Here" rescues teenager Harvey Cheyne near the Grand Banks Captains Courageous |
| #4864, aired 2005-11-03 | "GEO"PARDY! $2000: This 1897 Kipling novel details a boy's coming of age on a fishing trawler Captains Courageous |
| #4787, aired 2005-05-31 | THE "CAPTAIN" $1200: For his role as Manuel, Spencer Tracy won an Oscar for this 1937 fish story Captains Courageous |
| #4356, aired 2003-07-07 | CORNHUSKER CINEMA $1,500 (Daily Double): Spencer Tracy gave his Best Actor Oscar for this 1938 film set in Nebraska to Father Edward J. Flanagan Boys Town |
| #4305, aired 2003-04-25 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $2000: 1937:
Spencer Tracy for this rollicking adventure Captains Courageous |
| #3299, aired 1998-12-31 | COURAGEOUS CAPTAINS $200: He finally won an Oscar in 1952 for playing a raffish yet courageous riverboat captain Humphrey Bogart (The African Queen) |
| #3299, aired 1998-12-31 | COURAGEOUS CAPTAINS $400: In a Herman Wouk novel, crazy Captain Queeg commanded this vessel Caine |
| #3299, aired 1998-12-31 | COURAGEOUS CAPTAINS $600: The British captured this courageous captain Sept. 21, 1776 on his return from a spy mission Nathan Hale |
| #3299, aired 1998-12-31 | COURAGEOUS CAPTAINS $800 (Daily Double): Killed by Communist forces 10 days after WWII, this U.S. Army captain has his own "Society" John Birch |
| #3299, aired 1998-12-31 | COURAGEOUS CAPTAINS $1000: The courageous captain of this spectral ship is condemned to sail the seas until judgment day the Flying Dutchman |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS $100: In an early account of Jamestown's first year, he made no mention of his rescue by Pocahontas John Smith |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS $200: A city & island in British Columbia are named for this sea captain who explored the area in 1792 Vancouver |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS $300: It took him & his crew 37 days to traverse the South American strait now named for him Magellan |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS $400: In 1642 & 1643 this Dutch captain circumnavigated Australia without seeing it (Abel) Tasman |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS $500: King Louis XVI gave this American a gold sword & made him a chevalier of France John Paul Jones |
| #2484, aired 1995-05-25 | CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS $200: While crossing the Pacific, this Portuguese sea captain's first landfall was Guam on March 6, 1521 Magellan |
| #2484, aired 1995-05-25 | CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS $400: On April 28, 1789, he & 18 crewmen were set adrift near Tonga; 48 days later he reached Timor (Captain) Bligh |
| #2484, aired 1995-05-25 | CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS $600: Before becoming a naval hero in the Revolutionary War. he was briefly an actor in the West Indies John Paul Jones |
| #2484, aired 1995-05-25 | CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS $800: In 1612 he published his "Map of Virginia, with a Description of the Country..." (Captain) John Smith |
| #2484, aired 1995-05-25 | CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS $1000: In 1804 he received a captain's commission for burning the Philadelphia in Tripoli's harbor Stephen Decatur |
| #1733, aired 1992-02-26 | LITERATURE $1000: "Captains Courageous" is set in the Grand Banks off the coast of this Canadian province Newfoundland |
| #1722, aired 1992-02-11 | ODDS & ENDS $800: In the phrase "Captains Courageous", Courageous is this part of speech an adjective |
| #1628, aired 1991-10-02 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1000: Saved from drowning, spoiled Harvey Cheyne is forced to spend a summer fishing in this Kipling novel Captains Courageous |
| #1083, aired 1989-04-26 | NOVELS $800: This seagoing saga is the only one of Kipling's novels with an American setting Captains Courageous |
| #397, aired 1986-03-18 | LITERATURE $300: While living in VT., he wrote "The 7 Seas", "Captains Courageous", & the 2 "Jungle Books" Rudyard Kipling |
