#8924, aired 2023-07-27 | BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT $400: One of the 2 middle verses of the King James Bible is this book 103:2, "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits" Psalms |
#6, aired 2022-10-30 | HI, FINANCE $7,000 (Daily Double): A chapter no one ever wants to read, this one is often called a "reorganization" bankruptcy, like J.C. Penney in 2020 Chapter 11 |
#8729, aired 2022-10-27 | THE SECOND CHAPTER $8,000 (Daily Double): Ralph says, "We've been on the mountain top and seen water all around" Lord of the Flies |
#8641, aired 2022-05-16 | IT'S GETTING WINDY $600: "The Cyclone", Chapter One of a beloved book, begins, this girl "lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies" Dorothy (Gale) |
#8607, aired 2022-03-29 | TV SHOWS' FIRST EPISODES $1000: "Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers" (2016) Stranger Things |
#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 |
#8551, aired 2022-01-10 | THE HUGO AWARDS $400: Khal Drogo & Dany are mentioned in chapter one of the Best Novella in 1997, "Blood of the Dragon" by this man George R.R. Martin |
#8481, aired 2021-10-04 | 4-LETTER BOOK TITLES $400: In Chapter One of this book, "a great fish" severs a woman's femoral artery, the blood now "a beacon... clear and true" Jaws |
#8334, aired 2021-02-11 | WHAT HAPPENS IN CHAPTER 1? $1000: Colonel Buendía faces a firing squad right off; Melquíades says hi; alchemy... why not take alchemy? One Hundred Years of Solitude |
#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 |
#8113, aired 2019-12-11 | ITALIAN AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): Chapter one of this Umberto Eco novel begins as a sphere "swayed back and forth with isochronal majesty" Foucault's Pendulum |
#8048, aired 2019-09-11 | NUMERIC LIT $200: This kid lit classic has a chapter called "The Puppies Arrive" One Hundred and One Dalmatians |
#8048, aired 2019-09-11 | THANK YOU $800: In Luke 17 Jesus healed 10 men with this skin disease but only one thanked him leprosy |
#8048, aired 2019-09-11 | NUMERIC LIT $1000: "The Science of Deduction" is chapter one of this Sherlock Holmes story The Sign of Four |
#8043, aired 2019-07-24 | KING JAMES BIBLE BIRDWATCHING $1000: Exodus chapter 16 recounts how flocks of these birds appeared one evening at sunset & fed the hungry Israelites quail |
#7926, aired 2019-02-11 | A CLASSIC SETTING $2,000 (Daily Double): Chapter one of this novel sets the scene:
it is Jan. 6, 1482 & church bells are ringing throughout Paris The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
#7832, aired 2018-10-02 | BOOKS OF THE 1940s $2,000 (Daily Double): In Chapter 1 of this Betty Smith novel, we're told that the one in Francie Nolan's yard "was neither a pine nor a hemlock" A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
#7748, aired 2018-04-25 | BALL $1,600 (Daily Double): One chapter of this tome includes "The Ball at Count Bennigsen's" & "Alexander's Letter to Napoleon" War and Peace |
#7658, aired 2017-12-20 | AUTHORS' BIOGRAPHIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Chapter 5 of Philip Nel's book about this author is "The Disneyfication of" him: "Faithful to Profit, One Hundred Percent?" Dr. Seuss |
#7515, aired 2017-04-21 | BROKE ENGLISH $800: Chapter 11 is known as a reorganization one of these a bankruptcy |
#7352, aired 2016-07-26 | BOOKS BY CHAPTER TITLES $600: "The Battle of Hogwarts" Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows |
#6727, aired 2013-12-10 | LITERARY QUOTES $1600: Chapter 15 of this novel reports that one day Lara "went out and did not come back. She... probably died somewhere" Doctor Zhivago |
#6564, aired 2013-03-14 | A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING $400: In one title of the U.S. federal bankruptcy code, chapter 7 is "liquidation"; "reorganization" is this chapter chapter 11 |
#6489, aired 2012-11-29 | CHAPTER 13 $800: "Her breast, with its badge of shame, was but the softer pillow for the head that needed one" The Scarlet Letter |
#6221, aired 2011-10-10 | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $200: One chapter in her book "Bossypants" is "30 Rock: An Experiment to Confuse Your Grandparents" Tina Fey |
#6148, aired 2011-05-11 | 2011 NEWS $200: Acting under Chapter VII of their charter, the U.N. voted to institute one of these over Libya, grounding Qaddafi's aircraft a no-fly zone |
#5895, aired 2010-04-09 | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $400: In chapter one of "On The Line", she says, "I saw a picture once of Venus pushing me in a stroller on the tennis court..." Serena Williams |
#5620, aired 2009-01-30 | A PLACE FOR MY STUFF $600: The first chapter of a C.S. Lewis novel is called "Lucy Looks Into" one of these a Wardrobe |
#5199, aired 2007-03-29 | STORIED HOTELS $2,000 (Daily Double): Chapter VI of this 1926 novel begins: "At five o'clock I was in the Hotel Crillon waiting for Brett" The Sun Also Rises |
#5144, aired 2007-01-11 | A 5-CHAPTER STORY ABOUT STORIES $1200: Ch. 3: Boy & girl have a family (well, an imaginary one, at least) & entertain Nick & Honey in this 1962 play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
#5020, aired 2006-06-09 | OZ $800: One chapter is called "The Magic Art of the Great" this 6-letter word meaning a hoax or fraud humbug |
#4990, aired 2006-04-28 | SOUNDS LIKE A SANDWICH $2000: One chapter of this Dumas book is entitled "The Secret Cave"; another is "The Pardon" The Count of Monte Cristo |
#4558, aired 2004-06-02 | ACTRESSES & PLAYWRIGHTS $5,000 (Daily Double): Chapter One of her life with Neil Simon began in 1973, when she was cast in his play "The Good Doctor" Marsha Mason |
#4354, aired 2003-07-03 | THE NEW TESTAMENT $800: In chapter 11, Luke reports that Jesus taught this to the disciples after one of them asked him to The Lord's Prayer |
#4318, aired 2003-05-14 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $2,000 (Daily Double): It begins with a voice over: "Chapter One. He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion" Manhattan |
#4203, aired 2002-12-04 | WITCH & FAMOUS $1,000 (Daily Double): Chapter one of this John Updike novel is called "The Coven" The Witches of Eastwick |
#4121, aired 2002-07-01 | LET'S GO EAT $1000: Chapter One is a restaurant housed in this world capital's Writers Museum off Parnell Square Dublin |
#3324, aired 1999-02-04 | LITERATURE $200: Chapter one of this book informs us that "There was unquestionably a Chuzzlewit in the Gunpowder Plot" Martin Chuzzlewit |
#3285, aired 1998-12-11 | ONCE UPON A DECEMBER $300: A DAR chapter in Massachusetts has one of the chests from this December 16, 1773 event Boston Tea Party |
#3189, aired 1998-06-11 | GIVING AWAY THE ENDING $400: Rochester regains the sight in one eye in this novel's last chapter "Jane Eyre" |
#3086, aired 1998-01-19 | CHAPTER ONE $100: "On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time", beginning his novel "The Deerslayer" James Fenimore Cooper |
#3086, aired 1998-01-19 | CHAPTER ONE $200: Marianne is described as "sensible and clever" in chapter one of this Jane Austen novel "Sense and Sensibility" |
#3086, aired 1998-01-19 | CHAPTER ONE $300: "Nobody tells fibs in Boston", says Mrs. Luna in chapter one of his 1880s novel "The Bostonians" Henry James |
#3086, aired 1998-01-19 | CHAPTER ONE $400: In chapter one of this E.M. Forster novel, Lucy complains that her window doesn't overlook the Arno A Room with a View |
#3086, aired 1998-01-19 | CHAPTER ONE $500: Willa Cather's "O Pioneers!" opens on a January day in the little town of Hanover in this U.S. state Nebraska |
#2787, aired 1996-10-15 | GENESIS $600: Until Chapter 11 there was only one of these for all earth's people; then God confounded it into many language |
#2525, aired 1995-07-21 | LITERATURE $400: Chapter one of this Boris Pasternak novel is entitled
The Five-O'Clock express Dr. Zhivago |
#760, aired 1987-12-18 | GENESIS $200: Before this construction project in Genesis chapter 11, there was only one language in the world the Tower of Babel (Tower of Babylon accepted) |
#580, aired 1987-02-27 | SCARY MOVIES $800: Number of "Friday the 13th" movies that have come out after "The Final Chapter"...so far 2 |
#358, aired 1986-01-22 | MOVIE FIRST LINES $200: "Chapter one: he adored N.Y. City", Woody Allen says at the start of this film Manhattan |