| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | SMART ANSWERS $400: Both Cervantes & Ben Franklin wrote, "A word to" these people "is enough" the wise |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | BOOK SEQUELS $600: His second part to "Don Quixote" includes jabs at an unauthorized sequel by one Alonso Fernandez de Avellaneda Cervantes |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | QUICK LIT $200: Cervantes published the first volume of this novel about a delusional hero in 1605 Don Quixote |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): "La Galatea", his first novel, appeared in 1585, 20 years before his most famous one Cervantes |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | MEN OF LA MANCHA $400: A large, arid plateau in Central Spain, La Mancha was made famous in a 17th century novel by this man Cervantes |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | FROM PAGE TO STAGE $1600: This musical has a frame story: an imprisoned Miguel de Cervantes tells his fellow prisoners a story Man of La Mancha |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | AUTHORS WHO SERVED IN THE MILITARY $400: This creator of Don Quixote fought at the 1571 Battle of Lepanto, receiving a wound that maimed his left hand for life Cervantes |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $600: This author originated "tilting at windmills", meaning fighting imaginary foes Cervantes |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | THAT WORD IS QUITE A CHARACTER $800: This adjective based on a Cervantes character includes a hard "X" sound, unlike his name quixotic |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | MUSICALS BASED ON LITERATURE $400: It took only about 350 years for this musical "Man" to ride forth from Cervantes' "Don Quixote" Man of La Mancha |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | FOR ME & MIGUEL $400: He created the characters Sancho Panza & Aldonza, also called Dulcinea Cervantes |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | WRITERS WHO WENT TO JAIL $5,000 (Daily Double): He conceived his greatest novel while in prison for debt in Seville in 1597 Cervantes |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | YOU'RE SHOWING YOUR AGE $200: Of course, Cervantes was part of Spain's literary Siglo de Oro, or this age the Golden Age |
| #7793, aired 2018-06-27 | ALLUSIONS $800: Courtesy of Cervantes, to battle imaginary injustices is to tilt at these windmills |
| #7401, aired 2016-11-14 | VOCABULARY $400: "Quixotic", meaning capricious or impulsive, goes back to a literary character created by this author Cervantes |
| #7358, aired 2016-09-14 | AWARDS FOR WRITING $1200: Named for a 16th century luminary, this prize is awarded by the Spanish ministry of culture the Cervantes Award |
| #7309, aired 2016-05-26 | PROLOGUES $400: Cervantes wrote, "But though I seem to be the father, I am the stepfather of" him Don Quixote |
| #6988, aired 2015-01-21 | WHAT'S MY LINE? $600: This Spaniard wrote, "a knight without a lady is like a tree without leaves" Cervantes |
| #6730, aired 2013-12-13 | SILVER $400: Cervantes wrote in "Don Quixote" that "Every man was not born with" one of these "in his mouth" a silver spoon |
| #6685, aired 2013-10-11 | OH SO SERGIO $800: In 2005 Mexican author Sergio Pitol won the Spanish-language literary award named for this man born in 1547 Cervantes |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | I'M DYING HERE! $200: In April 1616 Miguel de Cervantes stopped tilting at windmills in this capital city Madrid |
| #6506, aired 2012-12-24 | AUTHORS AT WAR $400: In 1575 this "Don Quixote" author's ship was overtaken by pirates; he spent 5 years as a captive in Algiers Cervantes |
| #6464, aired 2012-10-25 | EURO COINS $400: This man, the father of Spanish literature, is on Spain's 50-cent coins Cervantes |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | WHO WROTE THE LINE? $3,000 (Daily Double): "Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago" (Miguel de) Cervantes |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | APRIL 23: BAD DAY FOR WRITERS $800: He was buried in Madrid April 23, 1616, not long after finishing "Don Quixote" Cervantes |
| #6159, aired 2011-05-26 | MUSICAL BY CHARACTERS $400: Miguel de Cervantes & Aldonza The Man of La Mancha |
| #6011, aired 2010-11-01 | A NOVEL SUM-UP $400: Cervantes at your service; long knight's journey into day; Rocinante is the horse he rode in on Don Quixote |
| #5999, aired 2010-10-14 | MY NAME IS HENRY, I'LL BE YOUR WRITER $2000: My 1742 novel "Joseph Andrews" was "written in imitation of the manner of Cervantes" Henry Fielding |
| #5883, aired 2010-03-24 | CERVANTES $400: The Cervantes Prize is awarded annually to an author who works in this dialect, the basis of modern Spanish Castillian |
| #5883, aired 2010-03-24 | CERVANTES $800: Cervantes' day job was securing provisions for this "invincible" naval force the Spanish Armada |
| #5883, aired 2010-03-24 | CERVANTES $1200: Cervantes' "La Galatea" was this type of romance that typically involves a society of shepherds a pastoral |
| #5883, aired 2010-03-24 | CERVANTES $1600: Cervantes' first published poems appeared in a volume about the passing of this king's wife, Elizabeth of Valois Philip II of Spain |
| #5883, aired 2010-03-24 | CERVANTES $2000: In 1575 Miguel was sold into slavery in this current North African capital on the Mediterranean Algiers |
| #5869, aired 2010-03-04 | WRITTEN BEHIND BARS $400: Cervantes is believed to have begun writing this classic in 1597 or 1598 while confined to a Seville jail Don Quixote |
| #5761, aired 2009-10-05 | NOVEL QUOTES $200: This Cervantes character is "otherwise called the Knight of the Rueful Countenance" Don Quixote |
| #5686, aired 2009-05-04 | NAME THE WORK $200: Cervantes:
"At a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to remember" Don Quixote |
| #5634, aired 2009-02-19 | KIDS DON'T REALIZE $1000: Just try to explain to kids the name of this puppet pal of Mister Rogers is a clever nod to Cervantes Donkey Hodie |
| #5614, aired 2009-01-22 | WORLD LITERATURE $1200: Born in 1547, this Spanish author always craved the fame of his contemporary Lope de Vega Cervantes |
| #5531, aired 2008-09-29 | SMART ANSWERS $400: Both Cervantes & Ben Franklin wrote, "A word to" these people "is enough" the wise |
| #5222, aired 2007-05-01 | THEATRE HISTORY $1600: In the 1580s this Spanish novelist reportedly wrote 20 to 30 plays, but only "The Traffic of Algiers" & "Numantia" survive Cervantes |
| #5218, aired 2007-04-25 | EARS TO YOU! $400: Cervantes & Tennyson both warned that these "have ears" the walls |
| #5169, aired 2007-02-15 | A LITTLE LIT $200: In this Cervantes novel, Alonso's plans never work out as he tries to be chivalrous Don Quixote |
| #5002, aired 2006-05-16 | WORLD AUTHORS $400: In a 1605 prologue, this Spaniard tells the reader that he has written an "invective against books of chivalry" Cervantes |
| #4930, aired 2006-02-03 | WORLD AUTHORS $1600: In "Exemplary Tales", a 1613 collection, he claimed to be the first to write short stories in Castilian Cervantes |
| #4705, aired 2005-02-04 | MAID $800: One of the best known "Exemplary Tales" by this "Don Quixote" author is "The Gypsy Maid" Miguel de Cervantes |
| #4661, aired 2004-12-06 | A LITERARY TOUR $800: A museum devoted to this author is inside a charming replica of his birthplace in Alcala de Henares, Spain Cervantes |
| #4620, aired 2004-10-08 | SPANIARDS $600: (Sofia of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Toledo, Spain.) This great Spanish writer was a soldier, slave & tax collector before publishing his most famous work (Miguel de) Cervantes |
| #4571, aired 2004-06-21 | WHAT'S NEW? $400: In 2003 Edith Grossman served up a new translation of this Cervantes work Don Quixote |
| #4461, aired 2004-01-19 | MI CASA ES SU CASA $1200: A reconstruction of this author's 1547 birthplace stands at 48 Calle Mayor in Alcala de Henares Cervantes |
| #4443, aired 2003-12-24 | TRAVEL SPAIN $400: (Video of Sarah in Toledo, Spain.) Windmills, like this one, inspired perhaps the most famous scene in all this writer's work Cervantes |
| #4410, aired 2003-11-07 | SOLDIER OF MISFORTUNE $600: This great Spanish author lost the use of his left hand at the 1571 Battle of Lepanto against the Turks Cervantes |
| #4277, aired 2003-03-18 | RENAISSANCE MEN $400: His experiences as a slave for 5 years in Algiers became episodes in "Don Quixote" Cervantes |
| #4262, aired 2003-02-25 | 17th CENTURY DRAMA $400: The 1620s comedy "The Spanish Gipsy" took its plot from this Spanish novelist Cervantes |
| #4252, aired 2003-02-11 | WRITERS $400: A poem on the death of Philip II's wife was one of the earliest works by this "Don Quixote" author Cervantes |
| #4243, aired 2003-01-29 | A LITERARY TOUR $400: In Madrid, a plaque marks the house where this "Don Quixote" author lived & died Cervantes |
| #4190, aired 2002-11-15 | LITERATURE IN SPANISH $400: It took him 10 years to come out with "Don Quixote Part II" Cervantes |
| #3884, aired 2001-06-21 | CAPITAL CITY HOTELS $600: Hostel La Macarena &
Hostel Cervantes Madrid |
| #3865, aired 2001-05-25 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $200: This "Don Quixote" author wrote his first novel, "La Galatea", in 1585 Cervantes |
| #3832, aired 2001-04-10 | LA LA $200: This region in south-central Spain is the setting for Cervantes' "Don Quixote" La Mancha |
| #3816, aired 2001-03-19 | AUTHORS $200: This "Don Quixote" author was called the "Maimed of Lepanto" for wounds suffered in battle Cervantes |
| #3803, aired 2001-02-28 | SHAKESPEARE, THEIR CONTEMPORARY $200: On April 23, 1616 Shakespeare died in England & this great writer died in Spain Cervantes |
| #3538, aired 2000-01-12 | A LOVELY PORT $500: 5 years as an unsold slave in this north African capital inspired Cervantes' play "El Trato de Angel" Algiers |
| #3482, aired 1999-10-26 | GIVE ME A "HAND" $100: Cervantes wrote that it's "worth two in the bush" a bird in the hand |
| #3434, aired 1999-07-08 | OPERA $100: "Master Peter's Puppet Show" -- a puppet opera (?!) -- is based on a passage from this Cervantes work Don Quixote |
| #3335, aired 1999-02-19 | CERVANTES $100: Cervantes called this title character "El Ingenioso Hidalgo", the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote |
| #3335, aired 1999-02-19 | CERVANTES $200: For a time, Cervantes supported himself by finding provisions for this Spanish fleet Spanish Armada |
| #3335, aired 1999-02-19 | CERVANTES $300: Cervantes relied on 2 financial supporters, the Count of Lemos & the archbishop of this city on the Tagus Toledo |
| #3335, aired 1999-02-19 | CERVANTES $400: As a young man, Cervantes lost the use of his left hand fighting against this empire at the battle of Lepanto Turkish Empire |
| #3335, aired 1999-02-19 | CERVANTES $500: With "Novelas Ejemplares", Cervantes became the first to write short stories in this Spanish dialect Castilian |
| #3290, aired 1998-12-18 | LITERARY ADJECTIVES $600: "Like the impractical idealist in a Cervantes satire" reduces to this adjective quixotic |
| #3280, aired 1998-12-04 | AROUND THE LITERARY WORLD $200: The literary prize named for this creator of "Don Quixote" is awarded to authors who write in Spanish Cervantes |
| #3258, aired 1998-11-04 | EUROPEAN AUTHORS $800: Langston Hughes translated this Spaniard's "Gypsy Ballads" of 1928 into English Federico Garcia Lorca |
| #3251, aired 1998-10-26 | MUSICALS $800: "Man of La Mancha" begins with this author arriving at a Spanish prison Cervantes |
| #3231, aired 1998-09-28 | THEATER $100: This 1-act musical that debuted in 1965 has Cervantes playing Don Quixote Man of La Mancha |
| #3118, aired 1998-03-04 | LITERATURE $400: Sancho Panza rides a donkey named Dapple in this Cervantes novel Don Quixote |
| #3060, aired 1997-12-12 | KNIGHTS $400: This adjective, a synonym for "wandering", describes the type of knight satirized by Cervantes Knight-errant |
| #3035, aired 1997-11-07 | MUSIC APPRECIATION $400: In the 1890s Richard Strauss wrote a tone poem based on this Cervantes novel Don Quixote |
| #3006, aired 1997-09-29 | SAUCE $300: In "Don Quixote", Cervantes asserted that this sensation "is the best sauce in the world" Hunger |
| #2933, aired 1997-05-07 | OPERA $400: Jules Massenet composed an opera based on this famous novel by Miguel de Cervantes "Don Quixote" |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | LITERATURE $100: Some say Cervantes wrote a portion of this 1605 novel in jail Don Quixote |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | PLAYS $200: This musical opens as Miguel de Cervantes is thrown into a dungeon for crimes against the church "Man of La Mancha" |
| #2845, aired 1997-01-03 | LITERATURE $600: Published in 1613, his "Exemplary Tales" are believed to be the first short stories written in Castilian Cervantes |
| #2632, aired 1996-01-30 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $200: This "Don Quixote" author's first published work was "La Galatea", a pastoral novel Cervantes |
| #2498, aired 1995-06-14 | QUOTATIONS $400: In 1700 Cervantes translator Peter Motteux used this adage about where not to place hen products (Don't put your eggs) all in one basket |
| #2458, aired 1995-04-19 | AUTHORS $200: Captured by pirates in 1575, this "Don Quixote" author was later ransomed for 500 escudos Cervantes |
| #2429, aired 1995-03-09 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: He wrote his 1742 novel "Joseph Andrews" "In imitation of the manner of Cervantes" Henry Fielding |
| #2393, aired 1995-01-18 | FILE UNDER "M" $500: The proverbial saying that this crime "will out" was quoted by Chaucer & Cervantes murder |
| #2378, aired 1994-12-28 | LITERATURE $200: Cervantes novel that tells us, "A knight errant without a lady is like...a body without a soul" "Don Quixote" |
| #2345, aired 1994-11-11 | LITERATURE $400: The hero of this Cervantes novel becomes obsessed with chivalry & decides to be a knight errant Don Quixote |
| #2326, aired 1994-10-17 | AUTHORS AT WAR $200: This author of "Don Quixote" lost his the use of his left hand at the 1571 Battle of Lepanto Cervantes |
| #2297, aired 1994-09-06 | WORLD LITERATURE $1000: This Spaniard finished writing "The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda" just 3 days before his death in 1616 Cervantes |
| #2125, aired 1993-11-26 | LITERATURE $400: Cervantes' Alonso Quijano changes his name to this, after reading romances of chivalry Don Quixote |
| #2108, aired 1993-11-03 | CONTEMPORARIES $200: While Galileo was working out the laws of falling bodies, he was writing about tilting at windmills Cervantes |
| #2093, aired 1993-10-13 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $300: Cervantes wrote, "Donde esta la verdad esta dios", "Where truth is, there is" this God |
| #2036, aired 1993-06-14 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $200: This Cervantes title character lives between Aragon & Castile Don Quixote |
| #1908, aired 1992-12-16 | 17th CENTURY LITERATURE $200: Cervantes wrote in "Don Quixote", "There are only two families in the world, the Haves and" these Have-Nots |
| #1906, aired 1992-12-14 | MUSIC $200: This tone poem by Richard Strauss was based on a book by Cervantes Don Quixote |
| #1746, aired 1992-03-16 | NOVELS $200: In 1615 he published a sequel to his 1605 work "Don Quixote" Cervantes |
| #1733, aired 1992-02-26 | WORLD CITIES $400: This capital city's Plaza de Espana contains a statue of Cervantes Madrid |
| #1718, aired 1992-02-05 | KNIGHTS $400: Cervantes satirized these knights who wandered around the world in search of adventure knights-errant |
| #1687, aired 1991-12-24 | LITERATURE $200: He worked provisioning the Spanish Armada long before writing "Don Quixote" Cervantes |
| #1610, aired 1991-09-06 | COLORFUL QUOTES $200: In "Don Quixote" Cervantes wrote, "The pot calls the kettle" this color black |
| #1490, aired 1991-02-08 | PILLOW TALK $600: Cervantes' squire who said, "Blessings light on him that first invented sleep" Sancho Panza |
| #1475, aired 1991-01-18 | NOVELS $400: Term for idealistic from a character in a Cervantes novel quixotic |
| #1430, aired 1990-11-16 | IMPRISONED AUTHORS $200: He used incidents from his captivity as a pirates' slave for "Don Quixote" Cervantes |
| #1417, aired 1990-10-30 | WORLD HISTORY $600: The author Cervantes lost the use of his left hand in the Christian war against this empire Ottoman Empire |
| #2, aired 1990-06-23 | LITERATURE $200: He spent 5 years as a slave in north Africa before he began work on the first modern Spanish novel Cervantes |
| #1188, aired 1989-11-01 | WALLS $300: CErvantes & Tennyson both warned "Walls have" these ears |
| #1106, aired 1989-05-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In 1605 Cervantes wrote about Don Quixote, & in 1969 Mario Puzo wrote about this Don Corleone |
| #1103, aired 1989-05-24 | "D" IN LITERATURE $400: Some say this classic Cervantes novel is a veiled attack on the Catholic Church Don Quixote |
| #1097, aired 1989-05-16 | AUTHORS $100: He was captured & enslaved by Barbary pirates years before he wrote "Don Quixote" Cervantes |
| #1029, aired 1989-02-09 | SPAIN $600: Cervantes' "Don Quixote" made this Spanish province famous La Mancha |
| #907, aired 1988-07-12 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: According to its full title, "Joseph Andrews" was written in imitation of this Spanish author's manner Cervantes |
| #825, aired 1988-03-18 | ARTISTS $1000: Like his hero Cervantes, this Mexican muralist had just one hand José Orozco |
| #786, aired 1988-01-25 | SPAIN $400: A statue of them, Cervantes' famous pair, rides through a plaza in Madrid Don Quixote & Sancho Panza |
| #674, aired 1987-07-09 | SPAIN $200: In 1547, this author was born near Madrid, which Spaniards call "the largest village in La Mancha" Cervantes |
| #626, aired 1987-05-04 | ADAPTATIONS $100: Basil the barber & Kitri are the romantic leads in a ballet based on this Cervantes novel Don Quixote |
| #433, aired 1986-05-07 | DON QUIXOTE $400: Of soldier, slave or prisoner, what Cervantes was when he began writing "Don Quixote" a prisoner |
| #381, aired 1986-02-24 | AUTHORS $1000: Most widely translated Spanish author besides Cervantes, he lost his life in Spanish Civil War Federico García Lorca |
| #327, aired 1985-12-10 | PROVERBIAL ANATOMY $100: Cervantes wrote in "Don Quixote", "A bird" here "is worth two in the bush" a hand |
| #193, aired 1985-06-05 | WARS $800: In naval victory over the Turks at Lepanto in 1571 this Spanish novelist lost his left hand Cervantes |
| #164, aired 1985-04-25 | LITERARY QUOTES $200: According to Cervantes, "Every dog has" it his day |
| #18, aired 1984-10-03 | SPAIN $500: Don Quixote's creator, he was the real "Man from La Mancha" Don Miguel de Cervantes |
