#8908, aired 2023-07-05 | MEMOIRS $1600: This 18th century lothario's memoir includes a prank with a corpse that goes too far & a duel over an Italian actress Casanova |
#8868, aired 2023-05-10 | STRAIGHT TO JAIL $800: For an "affront to religion & common decency", this famous lover was arrested in Venice in 1755 & imprisoned in the doge's palace Casanova |
#8670, aired 2022-06-24 | SPIES LIKE THEM $800: In the 1770s this famous lover & libertine acted as a spy for his native Venice Casanova |
#5, aired 2022-02-10 | OPERA $1600: Lorenzo da Ponte, librettist for this 1787 Mozart opera about a seducer, was friends with Casanova, who had the same hobby IRL Don Giovanni |
#8317, aired 2021-01-19 | HISTORICALLY SHAMELESS $600: (William H. Macy presents the clue.) His name has come to mean a great lover, & this 18th century Italian was quite shameless about his escapades, trysting with nuns & writing to one woman, "I have no reason to blush at having made a conquest of you" Casanova |
#8148, aired 2020-01-29 | LETTER MEN $1200: C: Giacomo was the first name of this 18th century man whose "History of My Life" recounts his many amores Casanova |
#7979, aired 2019-04-25 | ROGUES GALLERY $800: Born in Italy, this 18th-century man, whose name is synonymous with "great lover", wrote a scandalous autobiography Casanova |
#7900, aired 2019-01-04 | CAUTIONARY MALE $3,000 (Daily Double): Casanova embodied this 9-letter term whose name comes from the Latin for "free" libertine |
#7713, aired 2018-03-07 | LITERARY EPONYMS $2000: Casanova, Romeo & Don Juan are all synonyms for this eponymous seducer from a 1703 play Lothario |
#7558, aired 2017-06-21 | A CATEGORY OF FEW WORDS $400: Any seducer, or an 18th century Italian one Casanova |
#7449, aired 2017-01-19 | AUTHORS' OTHER JOBS $1200: Aristotle & Casanova both held this job AKA a bibliothecary a librarian |
#7269, aired 2016-03-31 | PUP QUIZ $800: Mickey Mouse's companion, he had his own cartoon shorts including 1945's "Canine Casanova" Pluto |
#7001, aired 2015-02-09 | LEAVES $2,000 (Daily Double): "Life is so beautiful", says this fictional Italian American before dying in his garden Don Vito Corleone ("The Godfather") |
#6960, aired 2014-12-12 | LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION! $2000: "History of My Life" by this 18th century Italian adventurer relates his (many) conquests as a lover Casanova |
#6557, aired 2013-03-05 | CARRIE $200: In 2009 she hit the charts with "Cowboy Casanova" Carrie Underwood |
#6555, aired 2013-03-01 | CONTEMPORARIES $1200: While Baron Munchhausen was lying about his exploits, this Italian was exploiting his lying around Casanova |
#6310, aired 2012-02-10 | SHH! LIBRARIANS $800: This 18th century Italian lover wrote his memoirs while working as the ubersexy librarian of a count Casanova |
#6004, aired 2010-10-21 | BLAME IT ON THE CASANOVA $200: This knight's forbidden love for the queen caused him to fail in his holy grail quest & busted up the round table Lancelot |
#6004, aired 2010-10-21 | BLAME IT ON THE CASANOVA $400: By late 32 B.C., he had divorced his wife Octavia for an Egyptian lady; ex-brother-in-law Octavian declared war on him Mark Antony |
#6004, aired 2010-10-21 | BLAME IT ON THE CASANOVA $600: This Hungarian & "Faust" composer was big with the ladies; Countess d'Agoult & George Sand were on his short this Liszt |
#6004, aired 2010-10-21 | BLAME IT ON THE CASANOVA $800: In 1809 this Corsican divorced his 46-year-old wife; a few months later, he married a 19-yr.-old Austrian archduchess Napoléon |
#6004, aired 2010-10-21 | BLAME IT ON THE CASANOVA $1000: A battleship in history & cinema was named for this prince, lover of Catherine the Great Potemkin |
#5973, aired 2010-07-28 | NFL QBs OFF THE FIELD $1000: Carrie Underwood denied her song "Cowboy Casanova" was about this Dallas QB (& ex-boyfriend) Tony Romo |
#5302, aired 2007-10-02 | THE SCINTALLATING 1700s $1600: Born into a family of actors, he was expelled from a seminary (big surprise!) before finding fame as a lusty libertine Casanova |
#5159, aired 2007-02-01 | THAT'S MY MOVIE! $1200: In 2005, Heath Ledger was this great lover; back in 1976, Donald Sutherland was the man in "Fellini's..." Casanova |
#5109, aired 2006-11-23 | RAKE $400: The name of this 18th c. Italian adventurer whose racy memoir ran 12 volumes became a synonym for a promiscuous lover (Giovanni) Casanova |
#5011, aired 2006-05-29 | I GOT TO BOOGIE $400: Famous for escaping marriages, this libertine was jailed in 1755 but escaped a Venetian prison (Giovanni) Casanova |
#4815, aired 2005-07-08 | LITERARY VENICE $400: This libidinous lord's Venetian exploits included an 1818 swim from the Lido "right to the end of the Grand Canal" Lord Byron |
#4449, aired 2004-01-01 | VENICE, AT LAST $800: On a Halloween night in the 1750s, this seducer made a daring escape from a cell beneath the Doge's Palace Casanova |
#4429, aired 2003-12-04 | THE 18th CENTURY $400: Denounced as a magician in Venice in 1755, this famous lover was sentenced to prison but escaped to Paris Casanova |
#3980, aired 2001-12-14 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $1200: Born in 1725, he created scandals in his home of Italy & in France, made love to a lot of women, & died in 1798 Casanova |
#3792, aired 2001-02-13 | THE VENETIAN $1,000 (Daily Double): Born the son of actors in 1725, this legendary Venetian lover originally planned a career in the priesthood Giacomo Casanova |
#3745, aired 2000-12-08 | FILMS OF THE '70s $1000: In a 1972 comedy Alan Arkin fancied himself a casanova in “The Last of” these the red hot lovers |
#3468, aired 1999-10-06 | GHASTLY OPERATIC DEMISES $800: In "The Stone Guest", this Spanish seducer mocks a statue, which retaliates by dragging him down to hell Don Juan |
#3155, aired 1998-04-24 | AND YOUR LITTLE DOG, TOO $400: He starred in the cartoon "Canine Casanova" without his master Mickey Mouse Pluto |
#2982, aired 1997-07-15 | CASANOVA $100: Casanova was director of this gambling game in Paris; it's now state-run in most of the U.S. Lottery |
#2982, aired 1997-07-15 | CASANOVA $400: Besides writing his popular autobiography, Casanova translated this Homer war work in 1775 the Iliad |
#2982, aired 1997-07-15 | CASANOVA $500: In 1755 he was denounced as a magician & sent to prison under the roof of the doge's palace in this city Venice |
#2881, aired 1997-02-24 | DANCE $500: Casanova thought this dance performed by sailors was "lascivious" Hornpipe |
#2586, aired 1995-11-27 | THE 1790s $400: When he died in 1798, this legendary lover was librarian to the Count von Waldstein Casanova |
#2360, aired 1994-12-02 | CONTEMPORARIES $300: In the 1780s Casanova wrote his steamy memoirs & this man invented a governor for the steam engine James Watt |
#2318, aired 1994-10-05 | DANCE $500: Casanova was once asked to perform this nautical dance in the nude but declined because he felt weak a hornpipe |
#2223, aired 1994-04-13 | WORD ORIGINS $500: A character in the Nicholas Rowe play "The Fair Penitent" gave us this term for a womanizer a lothario |
#2121, aired 1993-11-22 | VIOLINISTS $400: In the 1740s this Italian lover & adventurer was a violinist at the San Samueli Theater in Venice Casanova |
#1921, aired 1993-01-04 | POTPOURRI $400: 18th century Italian adventurer whose name is synonymous with "great lover" Casanova |
#1522, aired 1991-03-26 | MYTHOLOGICAL NAMES $200: This Disney dog's films include "Bone Bandit", "Canine Casanova" & "The Purloined Pup" Pluto |
#1366, aired 1990-07-09 | SENIORS IN HSITORY $600: This lusty Venetian libertine spent his last years as a librarian in Bohemia--maybe he was tired Casanova |
#1178, aired 1989-10-18 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $100: Byron wrote an epic poem about this Latin lover whose mother sent him abroad at age 16 after an "intrigue" Don Juan |
#1139, aired 1989-07-13 | AUTHORS $400: This Italian seducer was in his 60s when he began writing his 12 volume sexual memoirs Casanova |
#712, aired 1987-10-13 | LITERATURE $400: The "Memories" this Italian lover penned between 1826-38 were written in French & filled 12 volumes Casanova |
#692, aired 1987-09-15 | NOTORIOUS $400: This Italian introduced the lottery to Paris in 1757, but was more famous for his seductions Casanova |
#193, aired 1985-06-05 | FOREIGN FILMS $400: Italian director whose name appears in the titles:
-Casanova
-Roma
-Satyricon Fellini |
#145, aired 1985-03-29 | GREAT LOVERS $400: In 1926 movie starring John Barrymore as this lover, he bestowed 191 kisses, one every 53 seconds Don Juan |