| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER $200: This character who married Melanie instead of Scarlett O'Hara was said to have been based on Doc Holliday Ashley (Wilkes) |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER $400: A 2023 movie was titled "The Three Musketeers--Part I:" this newcomer to Paris in the original 1844 novel D'Artagnan |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER $600: A handmaid in the republic of Gilead, she lives in the home of the commander & his bitter wife Serena Joy Offred |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER $800: This fairy in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" causes no end of trouble with his mischievous deeds Puck |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER $1000: In "1984", Julia meets with this man secretly, bringing him contraband chocolate & stirring forgotten memories Winston Smith |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | PAGING THE FICTIONAL DRIVER $200: Paging this 1925 title character who owns a cream Rolls-Royce "terraced with a labyrinth of windshields"; you're blocking a Prius Gatsby |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | KIDDY LIT $1000: In Chapter 1 of her first adventure, this character "Moves into Villa Villekulla" Pippi Longstocking |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | SOME TIMELY WORDS $1200: This 6-letter word means to go back in fictional time & rewrite the past of a character or narrative for a new work retcon |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: He wrote, "'It is impossible that the ape, Kala, was your mother... you are pure man... the offspring of highly bred... parents' " Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | REBOOTS & REMAKES $1200: Her character is still psychic, but now a single mother in San Francisco; she's home at "that's so" her Raven |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | NOVEL TITLE CHARACTERS $11,200 (Daily Double): The first name of this title character of a Defoe novel is an old word for a prostitute Moll Flanders |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | THINGS PEOPLE SAY $1200: Joe's no sidekick--he has this "syndrome" or "energy", thinking himself the most important person in any situation main character |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS $200: Frankie Valli, of course, is a character in this musical about the Four Seasons Jersey Boys |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS $600: The name of this "Wicked" character comes from the initials of "The Wizard of Oz" author Elphaba |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | PHOTOGRAPHERS $2000: Known for his black & white photos, he was a consultant for the film "Funny Face" & Fred Astaire's character was based on him Avedon |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | STARTS WITH 3 CONSECUTIVE LETTERS $400: Libel & slander can be this "of character" defamation |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $9,600 (Daily Double): In this Sophocles play, Orestes enlists the aid of his sister, the title character, to kill his mother & her lover Electra |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | CRUISE LINES $200: As this character, Tom Cruise radioed the tower, "This is Ghost Rider requesting a flyby" but was told the pattern was full Maverick |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | NAME THAT TOON $600: This character who debuted in 1967 was sort of a clueless Tarzan George of the Jungle |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | THE THEATER $600: Barbara Loden, seen here, played a character based on Marilyn Monroe when this playwright's "After the Fall" premiered Arthur Miller |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | NAME THAT TOON $800: In a 2008 film, the rotund character with this 2-letter name joins a tiger, crane, mantis, viper & monkey to defeat a snow leopard Po |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | MISSION: PLAUSIBLE $400: A 35-year Broadway run--unlikely, but Thelma Pollard did, doing makeup for the face behind the mask of this show's title character The Phantom of the Opera |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | FIRST NAMES $1000: Girls' names derived from the color white include Alba & this one, like a character in "The Taming of the Shrew" Bianca |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | TV DRAMA $1000: President Obama said his favorite character on "The Wire" was this stickup man portrayed by Michael K. Williams Omar (Little) |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | REAL NAMES OF UNREAL PEOPLE $600: Robert Underdunk Terwilliger is the real name of this vengeful "Simpsons" character Sideshow Bob |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | REAL NAMES OF UNREAL PEOPLE $1000: Please, Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs is so formal! Just call the character this the Wizard of Oz |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | THE KNIGHTLY NEWS $1200: This "colorful" poem dates to the 14th century & includes the main character being tempted by a lord's wife Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | SHAKESPEARE FOR EVERYONE! $400: This character says, "Make thick my blood; stop up the access & passage to remorse"; it's not her last experience with blood Lady Macbeth |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | WORDS IN COLONEL JESSUP'S BIG SPEECH $400: The spinal column, or firmness of character backbone |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | NUMERIC MOVIE TITLES $1600: After his character gets cancer in this 2011 film, Joseph Gordon-Levitt gets by with a little help from his friends 50/50 |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | ARTISTS ON FILM $1600: "Midnight in Paris" found Owen Wilson's character bumping into Salvador Dali, portrayed by this Oscar-winning actor (Adrien) Brody |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ALL THINGS DISNEY $200: Naturally, he was the first animated character to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Mickey |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ALL THINGS DISNEY $600: Inspired by "The Princess and the Frog", Disneyland has a new eatery featuring southern dishes & named for this character Tiana |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | TV COMEDY $1000: Jack & Chrissy are gone, but "Three's Company" lives as the nation's partygoers dress up like this character Mrs. Roper |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | TV CHARACTERS $400: "What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons", said this character played by Jon Hamm Don Draper |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | TV CHARACTERS $600: This 3-namer turns it up to eleven playing a superpower character of that name on "Stranger Things" Millie Bobby Brown |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | TV CHARACTERS $1000: Peyton was the last name of the title character Edie Falco played on this series that premiered in 2009 Nurse Jackie |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | MR. STEVE MARTIN $1200: This title Daryl Hannah character says to Steve, "You have a big nose! You have a beautiful, great, big, flesh-&-bone nose!" Roxanne |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | 4, 4 $400: Goldilocks falls asleep in the bed of this character Baby Bear |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | POP $1600: This main character of the God of War video game franchise has issues with his dad, Zeus, who hasn't done right by his mom, Callisto Kratos |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | GENIUS: MLK/X $200: (Kelvin Harrison Jr. presents the clue.) My character, MLK, felt a moral obligation to speak out regarding this conflict in Asia, although it would end up alienating him from Lyndon B. Johnson & his allies the Vietnam War |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | NUMERICAL TELEVISION $800: Working for the CTU, this character played by Kiefer Sutherland raced against time, often with just "24" hours to save the day (Jack) Bauer |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | ____ OF ____ $1200: This narrative writing style allows a character's thoughts & feelings to flow freely stream of consciousness |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | TV SHOWS BY CHARACTER $400: Ralph Wiggum,
Lenny Leonard,
Waylon Smithers The Simpsons |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | TV SHOWS BY CHARACTER $800: Maggie,
Michonne,
Negan The Walking Dead |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | TV SHOWS BY CHARACTER $1200: Susan Ross,
Uncle Leo,
David Puddy Seinfeld |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | TV SHOWS BY CHARACTER $1600: Will Graham,
Jack Crawford,
Dr. Chilton Hannibal |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | TV SHOWS BY CHARACTER $2000: Deputy Clementine Johnson,
Deputy Travis Junior, Deputy Trudy Wiegel Reno 911! |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | WHEN I'M 64 $400: In all 64 minutes of this 1941 Disney classic, the high-flying title character never speaks Dumbo |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | BRAINY QUOTES $400: In a book from 1900, this character says, "I don't know anything. You see, I am stuffed, so I have no brains at all" the Scarecrow |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | CANADIANS INVADE OUR LIVING ROOM! $400: Cobie Smulders says the writers of this sitcom told her they wanted to make her character Robin Canadian because it seemed exotic How I Met Your Mother |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | BRAINY QUOTES $800: This character is "a bear of very little brain, and long words bother" him Winnie-the-Pooh |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | OPERA $800: Here is Placido Domingo being a little nosy as this character Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS $800: (Robin Roberts presents the clue.) When the U.S. entered World War I, some Black Americans enlisted thinking it would better their station in life; at the same time, President Woodrow Wilson was a supporter of having the armed forces enforce these segregation laws bearing the name of a stereotypical minstrel character Jim Crow |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | WHAT'S IN A NAME $1200: After Romeo y Julieta cigars made a splash, in 1935 a competing brand was named this, after a Dumas character Monte Cristo |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | START TALKING, SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER $200: Her first line in "Othello" is "My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty" Desdemona |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | START TALKING, SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER $400: Falstaff's first line in this non-history play is "Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain of me to the king?" The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | START TALKING, SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER $600: Her first speech is "What, jealous Oberon? Fairies, skip hence. I have forsworn his bed and company" Titania |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | START TALKING, SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER $800: The opening line of this play is Orsino's "If music be the food of love, play on" Twelfth Night |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | START TALKING, SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER $1000: Title character Antonio begins this play saying, "In sooth I know not why I am so sad" The Merchant of Venice |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | WHOSE WHAT $1600: In Audrey Niffenegger's bestseller, Clare Abshire, Henry DeTamble's beloved, is this title character the Time Traveler's Wife |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | AUTHORS AS BOOK CHARACTERS $400: In Dan Simmons' novel "Drood", Wilkie Collins meets the perplexing title character while traveling with this author in 1865 Charles Dickens |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | BALLET $1600: In this 1912 ballet the title satyr-like character is tantalized by the scarf of a lovely nymph The Afternoon of a Faun |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | AUTHORS AS BOOK CHARACTERS $2000: This Nobel-winning Mexican poet is a character in the meta-graphic novel "Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires" Octavio Paz |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | KURT RUSSELL FILMS $500: Kurt has said that his most iconic character is "Snake" Plissken, the antihero of this film set in a dystopian Big Apple Escape from New York |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | A SEASONED FILM $400: Anthony Mackie's character Sam Wilson was introduced to the MCU in this 2014 "Captain America" sequel The Winter Soldier |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | WE HAVE OXY, GIVE US THE MORON $1200: In "The Spy Who Dumped Me", Kate McKinnon's wild, over-the-top character is told she's "a little" this 4-letter word much |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | OPERA, LIKE IT OR NOT $1200: Rossini's opera about this tragic title character is subtitled "Il Moro di Venezia" Otello |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | HEAR ME ROAR $1600: Akira Ifukube used a leather glove coated in pine-tar resin & a double bass to create this character's roar in 1954 Godzilla |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | NOVELS $1200: Cathy Queen of Cats is a character in "The House on Mango Street" by this author Sandra Cisneros |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | EPISODES OF THE SITCOM $5,000 (Daily Double): "The Two Mrs. Sheffields" &
"Where's Fran?" The Nanny |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES & TV SHOWS $1200: Taylor Swift named her cat Olivia Benson, after a character on this drama, one of her favorite TV shows Law & Order: Special Victims Unit |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: In this 1955 novel the title character impersonates Dickie Greenleaf The Talented Mr. Ripley |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | KITTY LIT $500: This high-strung cat character who likes to bounce was based on a stuffed animal belonging to young Christopher Robin Milne Tigger |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NON-MUSICAL THEATER $600: This famous author isn't a character in Edward Albee's best-known play, but her name is in the title Virginia Woolf |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NON-MUSICAL THEATER $800: Vladimir & Estragon wait and wait, but (spoiler alert!) the title character of this Samuel Beckett play never shows up Waiting for Godot |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | FAIRY TALE ADAPTATIONS $5,000 (Daily Double): "Ash," based on this fairy-tale character, falls for a huntress & not a prince so she'll need more practical footwear Cinderella |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | LINES IN CLASSIC NOVELS $400: In a 17th century classic, he tells the title character, "What we see there are not giants but windmills" Sancho Panza |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | WEIGHT, WEIGHT, DON'T TELL ME $600: Heavyweight Tyson Fury was 277 pounds for a 2021 fight; this character weighed but 190 against heavyweight Apollo Creed in 1976 Rocky |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | HAUNTING LITERATURE $800: In a sequel, this character plays for the New Orleans Saints, crashes the Exxon Valdez & sees the ghost of Jenny, his childhood friend Forrest Gump |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | TRIPLE INITIAL WRITERS $800: A.E.W. Mason's Gabriel Hanaud, "cleverest of the French detectives", inspired this character who debuted in 1920 Poirot |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | NEW TO THE OED $800: It means to dress up (& maybe perform) as a character from comic books, video games, movies etc. cosplay |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | OPERA $400: In this Rossini opera, the title character's son, Jemmy is quite the archer himself William Tell |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $600: Seen riding a flying gander, this character is usually traced back to a 1697 book by Charles Perrault Mother Goose |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | A DONUT SHOP DICTIONARY $1000: Surname of a late 1830s Dickens title character Twist |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | IT'S RAINING MENSA $2000: Leslie Charteris had the smarts for Mensa & also to come up with the character of Simon Templar, star of this book series The Saint |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | CLASSIC COMIC STRIPS $800: Even with inflation this "Peanuts" character was always willing to give her advice for 5 cents Lucy |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | CLASSIC COMIC STRIPS $2000: Though his original strip ended in 1975, this character lives on as Georgia's state 'possum Pogo |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | I WANT MY "M" TV $100: Ad executive Draper Daniels was the inspiration for the name of this drama's lead character, Don Draper Mad Men |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY INITIALS $100: The title character utters the famous line, "Et tu, Brute?":
J.C. Julius Caesar |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | HAIRSTYLES OF THE RICH & FAMOUS $300: "Cinnamon Buns" was Carrie Fisher's nickname for this character's iconic hairstyle Princess Leia |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | I WANT MY "M" TV $500: This TV character inspired a verb meaning, roughly, to make or repair something with what is conveniently on hand MacGyver |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | EVE 6 $1200: Eve is the first name of this character played by Naomie Harris in "Skyfall" Moneypenny |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | CANDLE CULTURE $200: Though no one on "Friends" knew what his job was, this character's first name suggests he could have been a candlemaker Chandler (Bing) |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | CAT'S A RISING STAR $600: If you know Mr. Bigglesworth is the pet of this character in a 1997 film, we'll give you... one million... uh, $600 Dr. Evil |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | CAT'S A RISING STAR $800: This character made petting a white Persian quite ominous in "You Only Live Twice" Blofeld |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | 2B OR NOT 2B $400: One who tells lies /
moral toughness & character fibber & fiber |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | NAME THE JAMES $800: In the 1820s, this author introduced his character Leatherstocking as an old man, depicting his youth in later novels James Fenimore Cooper |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | WHAT THE DICKENS! $1,000 (Daily Double): This title character becomes a successful author & marries Dora Spenlow David Copperfield |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | BABY BOOKS $1600: She's not sure if the father is Mark Darcy or Daniel Cleaver in this character's "Baby: the Diaries" Bridget Jones |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | GREENS $200: Joe Raposo wrote the words & music, but this character first sang, "It's Not Easy Being Green" Kermit the Frog |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | A LITTLE LEGALESE $2,600 (Daily Double): Libel & slander are both forms of this 10-letter term often found before "of character" defamation |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | YOU'RE GETTING VERY SLEEPY $2000: He's the Shakespearean character who muses, "...in that sleep of death what dreams may come..." Hamlet |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | COLORFULLY NAMED PEOPLE $400: By some accounts, a character from "Reservoir Dogs" was the inspiration for this stage name of singer Alecia Moore Pink |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | UNDER THE HAMMER $600: An Illinois auction house put this "Star Wars" character's trusty blaster on the block in 2022 & it fetched just over a cool mil Han Solo |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | MOB HITS $600: "But I'm funny how? Funny like a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh?" says Tommy De Vito in this film Goodfellas |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | GO SEE A MOVIE ABOUT A HORSE $1600: Robert Redford played the title character, a Montana rancher who is a mystical horse healer, in this 1998 film The Horse Whisperer |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | FAMILY DRAMA $3,000 (Daily Double): The title character of this Ibsen play is revolted to discover she's pregnant & commits suicide with her father's pistol Hedda Gabler |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | AUNTIE UP $400: Aunt Chloe is the long-suffering wife of this Harriet Beecher Stowe character Uncle Tom |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | CULINARY QUOTES $800: This president said, "You can tell a lot about a fellow's character" by his way of eating jellybeans Reagan |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | AUNTIE UP $1,800 (Daily Double): Betsey Trotwood is great-aunt & guardian to this Dickens title character David Copperfield |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB $4,000 (Daily Double): He won the 1984 Best Actor Oscar for a movie named for a different character F. Murray Abraham |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | DENZEL WASHINGTON $600: "No one would take on his case... until one man was willing to take on the system" was a tagline for this 1993 Washington film Philadelphia |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | THE LITERARY CHARACTER WHO SAID... $400: "Interesting, though elementary... it gives us the basis for several deductions" Holmes |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | THE LITERARY CHARACTER WHO SAID... $800: "He hasn't taught me anything, Miss Caroline. Atticus ain't got time to teach me anything" Scout Finch |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | THE LITERARY CHARACTER WHO SAID... $1200: "Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, & I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life" Jay Gatsby |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | THE LITERARY CHARACTER WHO SAID... $2000: "Mother, if only you knew how cruelly I've been tricked by a conspiracy of sub-humans. Ironically, the book of Fortuna is itself bad luck" Ignatius J. Reilly |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | THE LITERARY CHARACTER WHO SAID... $3,200 (Daily Double): "What did it matter where you lay once you were dead?... You were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that" Philip Marlowe |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE $400: This "SNL" character who is most definitely his own thing starred in a Halloween special in 2017; any questions?! David S. Pumpkins |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE $800: He debuted the character of Wayne Campbell with a "shwing!" & a prayer on "SNL" in 1989 Mike Myers |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | YOU'RE A HOMOPHONE, DIANE $1200: Dianne Wiest plays Peg Boggs in this 1990 film; Johnny Depp plays the title character who gets to cut peg's hair Edward Scissorhands |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | LITERARY POP $400: Welsh singer Thomas John Woodward took this name after his manager suggested this Henry Fielding character Tom Jones |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | THE VIRTUES $800: This virtue is also a name of a Rhode Island island & a "Dear" Beatles song character Prudence |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | PLEASE BEAR WITH ME $1000: Phil Harris provided the bear necessities as this character in 1967's "The Jungle Book" Baloo |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | WHAT A LOAD OF B.S. $200: Eat my shorts, Jay Gatsby! He was the only fictional character on Time's list of the most influential people of the 20th century Bart Simpson |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | COMPUTING MILESTONES $1000: One of the first search engines shared its name with this comic book character, inspiring successors named Veronica & Jughead Archie |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | FACTS ABOUT THE BEST PICTURE WINNER $400: James Earl Jones' father plays a mentor to Robert Redford's con artist character in this film The Sting |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | FACTS ABOUT THE BEST PICTURE WINNER $800: This actress gave the nickname "Vanguard" to her character Fern's means of conveyance in "Nomadland" Frances McDormand |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | BEASTLY LITERARY CHARACTERS $1,200 (Daily Double): The title character of this 19th c. tale had "a pretty white star on my forehead. I was thought very handsome" Black Beauty |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | GAMES PEOPLE PLAY $1200: The classic game Reversi is aka this game, like a Shakespearean title character Othello |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | "M"USICALS $400: The title character of this musical shows up at 17 Cherry Tree Lane, London & works her magic Mary Poppins |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | TRICKY QUESTIONS $800: Of Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney or Colin Clive, the one who played the title role in the 1931 film "Frankenstein" Colin Clive |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | POST-APOCALYPTIC POP CULTURE $600: Over 11 total seasons of "The Walking Dead", this "Z" word was surprisingly never used by a character zombie |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | IT "IS" WHAT IT "IS" $1200: Like a mythological character who loved his own reflection, people with this personality style are in love with themselves narcissism |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | YOU COULD PUT AN EYE OUT $400: In a 1996 film, the character Karl Childers wields a lawn mower blade as well as this title "Blade" a sling blade |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | SHATTERING ALLUSIONS $800: The double whammy goes back to Evil-Eye Fleegle, a character in this Al Capp strip Li'l Abner |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | WELCOME TO FANTASY ISLAND $2000: The pain of beast folk creations such as Leopard-Man means nothing to this 1896 title character, but that could prove... costly Dr. Moreau |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | OPERA $2000: How meta is this Puccini opera? Its title character is an opera singer, it's set in Rome in 1800 & premiered in Rome in 1900 Tosca |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | OPERA $3,000 (Daily Double): The title character of this Bellini opera set in ancient Gaul is a Druid priestess Norma |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | PHRASES & IDIOMS $2000: A James Thurber character who's full of expressions not only uses "the catbird seat" but "tearing up" this garden area the pea patch |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | RECONSTRUCTION $400: In 1872 the Union general this D.C. HBCU was named for wrote about "the cosmopolitan character of the university" Howard |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | I'M BLUE $400: In this novel, a character is described as having "the half-tint blue eyes that told of off-planet foods in his diet" Dune |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | LONG MOVIES $400: A year before her role in "Titanic", Kate Winslet played this doomed character in a 4-hour adaptation of "Hamlet" Ophelia |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | "DA" OR "BA" OR "DEE" $400: It's the last name of a film character played by both Gary Cooper & Adam Sandler Deeds |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | MAKEOVERS $2000: In season 5 of "Family Matters", Jaleel White's character takes an elixir & becomes this suave alter ego Stefan Urquelle |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | JULIE & JULIA $200: All in character at the Emmys, as Tony Hale stood nearby holding her clutch, she thanked all her "Veep" co-stars... except Tony Hale Julia Louis-Dreyfus |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | JULIE & JULIA $600: Early in her 30+ years voicing this character, Julie Kavner had it in her contract that she'd never do it live & spoil the illusion Marge Simpson |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | OPPENHEIMER $400: (Emily Blunt presents the clue.) My character Kitty Oppenheimer's marriage to Robert was tempestuous, & in the 1950s controversy over her one-time involvement with this political party helped bring an end to her husband's career in government communism (Communist Party) |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | WHAT'S THE NAME OF THAT TV SHOW? $400: Ms. Weissman is the maiden name of the title character of this show that ran for 5 seasons on Amazon Prime The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | WHAT'S THE NAME OF THAT TV SHOW? $1000: Adrian Zmed was the rookie partner of the title character on this '80s police drama T.J. Hooker |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | WALKING & TALKING $1200: The title character of this play says, "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player" Macbeth |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | CARTOON CRITTERS $200: Nicknamed "Taz", this voracious Warner Bros. character is named for a real creature off Australia's coast the Tasmanian Devil |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | A JOB IN TELEVISION $400: For 11 years, this character was miserable as a women's shoe salesman on "Married... with Children" Al Bundy |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | TOUCHED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME $5,000 (Daily Double): Finally touched with goodness, this literary character says, "I will live in the past, the present, and the future!" Ebenezer Scrooge |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | LIT-POURRI $1,000 (Daily Double): This enduring title character was introduced in an 1881 magazine called Giornale per i bambini Pinocchio |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | OPEN DOOR $200: There's nothing irregular about the door seen here, part of the museum devoted to this character Sherlock Holmes |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | ANIMATED MOVIE CHARACTERS $800: The character Po eats, shoots out of fireworks & leaves us laughing in this 2008 film, the start of a film franchise Kung Fu Panda |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | KIDS OF THE '70s, REJOICE! $400: "Aaaay!" This "Happy Days" character was the epitome of cool in the '70s (by way of the '50s) Fonzie (Arthur Fonzarelli) |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $2000: Inspired by Nichelle Nichols & her "Star Trek" character, she became the first African-American woman in space (Mae) Jemison |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | SHOE GAZING $800: On March 10, 2023, the Nintendo New York flagship store displayed a real-life version of the shoes worn by this character (Super) Mario |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | THE PLOT THICKENS $800: George Shelby arrives too late to save the life of the title character & resolves to dedicate his life to abolition Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | LET'S MAKE A MOVIE CROSSOVER! $400: A natural pair! A character who fought Ivan Drago & Clubber Lang "&" a moose who took on Jason Alexander's Boris Badenov Rocky and Bullwinkle |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | WHAT AN IDIOM! $1600: You can be as mad as a hatter or as mad as this, also a character in "Alice in Wonderland" March Hare |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | WHAT AN IDIOM! $2000: In a 1696 play, a character says, if I get a patent "I shall be as rich as" this proverbially rolling-in-it king Croesus |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | OPPOSITIONAL BOOK TITLES $1600: This Harvard symbologist character first shows up in Dan Brown's "Angels & Demons" Robert Langdon |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | J NOT SOUNDING LIKE JUH $4,000 (Daily Double): The name of this fictional character in many tales is followed by -ismo in a Spanish word for womanizing Don Juan |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | CLASSIC TOYS & GAMES $400: This animated character who "was once a little green slab of clay" became a bendable toy in the 1960s Gumby |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | WITH THIS RING $2000: Around 1850, Richard Wagner began writing a poem called "The Death of" this heroic character in the "Ring" cycle Siegfried |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | A NOVEL CHARACTER BREAKDOWN $800: Time to Tolstoy with you; title woman is shunned by Russian society for her adultery; surprise! The guy gets no flak Anna Karenina |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | A NOVEL CHARACTER BREAKDOWN $1200: An inspector never stops inspecting; a 19th century Gerard; the fugitive saves his life, he lets the guy go but meets a tragic end Javert |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | A NOVEL CHARACTER BREAKDOWN $1600: An (Oliver) twisted old man; manager of the Artful Dodger; it's all in the execution Fagin |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | A NOVEL CHARACTER BREAKDOWN $2000: An arrested development & legal issues on his 30th birthday; a letter-perfect life no more at 31; how Kafka-esque! Josef K. |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | WATERFOWL-POURRI $600: This gangly, black-feathered character often ran afoul of Porky Pig or Elmer Fudd in Warner Bros. cartoons Daffy Duck |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | MONTHLY PEOPLE, REAL & IMAGINED $800: Aubrey Plaza, getting married as this character on "Parks & Rec": "I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Is that cool?" April Ludgate |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | THAT BOOK CHARACTER DOES THINGS $400: Obeys instruction "Eat me"; sees a cat that's all smiles; lets the cards fall where they may Alice |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | THAT BOOK CHARACTER DOES THINGS $800: Moves to Forks; spoons with a vampire, at least metaphorically; tries to not get exsanguinated Bella Swan |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | THAT BOOK CHARACTER DOES THINGS $1200: Leaves town, suspected in Huck's murder; gets on a raft with the non-murdered Huck Jim |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | THAT BOOK CHARACTER DOES THINGS $1600: Likes being a sailor or foretopman, depending on the edition; kills Claggart; doesn't make it to the end of the story Billy Budd |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | THAT BOOK CHARACTER DOES THINGS $2000: Goes up the Congo; hears about "the horror"; questions western civilization Charlie Marlow |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | MICHAEL J. FOX $200: (Michael J. Fox presents the clue.) The song "At This Moment" became a hit after it was the backdrop on this show to show the romance of my character Alex P. Keaton & Ellen, played by Tracy Pollan, who, at this moment, has been my wife for almost 35 years Family Ties |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | MICHAEL J. FOX $600: (Michael J. Fox presents the clue.) An inspiration for my character in "The American President" was this advisor to Bill Clinton, a spin doctor in his own right; he also made a cameo on my show "Spin City" Stephanopoulos |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | HORROR MOVIES $400: This character drowning at Camp Crystal Lake leads to all kinds of murderous fallout in "Friday the 13th" Jason |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | THE MOVIES $200: Anya Taylor-Joy voiced this character in "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" Princess Peach |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | THE MOVIES $600: This Bill Murray "Ghostbusters" character has PhDs in parapsychology & psychology (Peter) Venkman |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | OH, WE HAVE '80s POP CULTURE REFERENCES $200: On Nov. 21, 1980 76% of Americans watching television tuned in to finally find out "who shot" this character J.R. |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $400: "International" cocoa concoction for the unmarried Clue character portrayed by Colin Jost's wife Swiss Miss Scarlet Johansson |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | THE WORLD OF HANNA-BARBERA $200: Joe Barbera often described this character as Yogi's conscience Boo-Boo |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER! $200: "Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections?" is a zinger from this proud Jane Austen guy Darcy |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER! $400: It's the first name of Ian Fleming's Mr. Goldfinger Auric |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER! $600: Walter Scott wrote of him, "conspicuous by his long gun, waving tartans, and the single plume" of "the Highland gentleman" Rob Roy |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER! $1000: The title character in "Humboldt's Gift" by this author is based on his friend, poet Delmore Schwartz (Saul) Bellow |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER! $2,000 (Daily Double): At the end of a Thomas Pynchon book, Oedipa Maas awaits the bidding on a stamp collection with this auction number lot 49 |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | LIFE IS PICARESQUE $400: Describing episodic exploits of a roaming character, the picaresque genre began in the literature of this country of Quixote Spain |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | LIFE IS PICARESQUE $1200: The picaresque "Adventures of Peregrine Pickle" features a character modeled after this "Tom Jones" author Henry Fielding |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | FUNNY LADIES $1200: According to the creators of "Hacks", this funny lady was one of the inspirations for Jean Smart's character Joan Rivers |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | WATCHING MY STORIES $1600: Caitriona Balfe plays the out-of-place & out-of-time title character of this series based on Diana Gabaldon's books Outlander |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | AFTER SCHOOL $600: Disney canine character who shares on-screen pasta the Tramp |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | THE LAST BOOKS YOU'LL READ $1200: The character of Monroe Stahr in this 1941 novel was based on Irving Thalberg The Last Tycoon (by Fitzgerald) |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | EPONYMOUS TELEVISION $1000: Green Gables Farm on Prince Edward Island is home to this show's title character played by Amybeth McNulty Anne with an E |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | TOUGH MOVIE STUFF $1200: Rudy Ray Moore made his film debut as this character in 1975, along with his "all-girl army of kung fu killers" Dolomite |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | TIME TO LAWYER UP $600: A defense that involves claiming one knew nothing, saw nothing & heard nothing is named for this "Hogan's Heroes" character Sergeant Schultz |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | "G.P." $1000: A character named Faith is the alter ego of this short story master who taught at Sarah Lawrence for decades Grace Paley |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | LITERARY DEMISES $1,400 (Daily Double): As this character created by Louisa May Alcott had hoped, "the tide went out easily" & "she quietly drew her last" breath Beth (March) |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | IT'S A TV MYSTERY $600: (I'm Zoë Chao.) I just murdered it on Apple TV+ in "The Afterparty", or did I? Either way, my character of Zoe was a suspect as well as the ex-wife of Brett, played by this man who was a "Celebrity Jeopardy!" champion in 2022 (Ike) Barinholtz |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | DUNCE, DUNCE $1200: Neither intellectual giants, Crabbe & Goyle were the cronies of this character in Harry Potter books Draco Malfoy |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $1600: (I'm Michael Cera.) I play bass guitar in real life, so it wasn't a stretch for me to pick up a cherry red Rickenbacker 4001 as the title character of this film based on a graphic novel Scott Pilgrim vs. the World |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | , SAID THIS LITERARY CHARACTER $200: "District Twelve. Where you can starve to death in safety" Katniss Everdeen |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | , SAID THIS LITERARY CHARACTER $400: "I didn't exactly flunk out... one of the biggest reasons I left Elkton Hills was because I was surrounded by phonies" Holden Caulfield |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | , SAID THIS LITERARY CHARACTER $600: "Listen to them--the children of the night. What music they make!" Dracula |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | , SAID THIS LITERARY CHARACTER $1000: "I do not know anybody who seems more to enjoy the power of doing what he likes than Mr. Darcy" Elizabeth Bennet |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | , SAID THIS LITERARY CHARACTER $2,000 (Daily Double): "Our evaluation of this intelligence data is that Red October is attempting to defect to the United States" Jack Ryan |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | TV & MOVIE COMEDIES $400: Seen here, Iain Armitage plays the gifted & geeky title character on this sitcom, a prequel to "The Big Bang Theory" Young Sheldon |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | TV & MOVIE COMEDIES $1200: He's the filmmaker behind the movies about Madea, a character he describes as "a cross between my mother & my aunt" Tyler Perry |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | LITERARY LIONS $400: The name of this Narnia character is a Turkish word for "lion" Aslan |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | LITERARY LIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): "Whenever there is danger my heart begins to beat fast", says this character in a 1900 book the Cowardly Lion |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | ANIMATED ENTERTAINMENT $1600: Bingo is the younger sister to this Australian pup, the title character of a beloved kids' show Bluey |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | TV DRAMA $200: The title character of this NBC series was an antagonist in "The Silence of the Lambs" Hannibal |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | CONFIDENCE $800: A Shakespeare character asks, "Does he not hold up his head, as it were, and" this 5-letter confident walk "in his gait?" strut |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | STATE NICKNAMES $600: Some say this Iowa nickname honors a Sauk leader; others, a character in "The Last of the Mohicans" "The Hawkeye State" |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | SPEAK OF THE DICKENS $800: Dora Spenlow was this title character's first wife; Agnes Wickfield was his second David Copperfield |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | SPEAK OF THE DICKENS $2000: "The Life and Adventures of" this alliterative character inspired an 8 1/2 hour long drama that premiered on Broadway in 1981 Nicholas Nickleby |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | LET'S GUESS YOUR WAIT $800: An elderly woman recognizes this now-old Washington Irving character & asks, "Where have you been these twenty long years?" Rip Van Winkle |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | NON-BOMB ROM COMS $600: You must remember that in 2008, Jason Segel tried "Forgetting" this Kristen Bell character by heading for Oahu Sarah Marshall |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | AMERICANA $400: A 1952 song inserted "the" into this character's name, but the Forest Service insists it's just two words Smokey Bear |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | POP CULTURE $1200: The TV series about this character that began NPH-mania has been shown in Latin America as "El Doctorcito" Doogie Howser |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | LIFE & DEATH IN LITERARY TITLES $1200: "Speaker for the Dead" by Orson Scott Card is the 2nd book in the series about this character & his genocidal "Game" Ender |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | POP CULTURE $1600: Kids of the '70s, this is for you! This character--"a man barely alive... we can rebuild him... better, stronger, faster" the Six Million Dollar Man (Steve Austin) |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | LIFE & DEATH IN LITERARY TITLES $2000: Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of" this character is the story of an inmate struggling to survive in a Soviet prison camp Ivan Denisovich |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | LIT-POURRI $400: This last name of James Thurber's character Walter can have -esque added to mean having fantasies far above your abilities Walter Mitty |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | BE ARTHUR $3,000 (Daily Double): Marilyn Monroe was the basis for the character of Maggie in his play "After the Fall" Arthur Miller |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | TARANTINO FILMS $1200: "The D is silent", says Jamie Foxx as the title character of this 2012 film Django Unchained |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | '80s MOVIE COMEDIES $400: This character was the lifeless of the party when Andrew McCarthy & Jonathan Silverman spent a "Weekend at" his place in 1989 Bernie |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | CRY UNCLE $1600: Real name Ivan, he's the bitter, aging title character of a Chekhov play Uncle Vanya |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | LOVE, IN SO MANY WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): In a play, this character says, "Ah, credulity of love! Roxane will think each word inspired by herself!" Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | POP CULTURE $1600: The name of his character in "Doctor Strange" is also his last name, a coincidence that made him seem fated for the part (Benedict) Wong |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | THE TITLE TV CHARACTER'S BUDDIES $200: Coach Beard, with an affinity for both soccer & chess Ted Lasso |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | THE TITLE TV CHARACTER'S BUDDIES $400: Willow Rosenberg, keeping Sunnydale safe in a bewitching manner Buffy the Vampire Slayer |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | THE TITLE TV CHARACTER'S BUDDIES $600: Cowboy Curtis & Miss Yvonne, playing for laughs in the Playhouse Pee-wee Herman |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | THE TITLE TV CHARACTER'S BUDDIES $800: Susie Myerson, the comic manager who works marvelously Mrs. Maisel |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | THE TITLE TV CHARACTER'S BUDDIES $1000: Gabrielle, bubbly bard bud of a warrior princess Xena |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | 'TIS SHAKESPEARE $200: In Act 3 Hamlet tells this other character to "Get thee to a nunnery" Ophelia |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | THERE'S A NAME IN THE TITLE $800: Annie is the real name of this Henry James title character who goes by a flowery nickname Daisy Miller |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | YOU, ROBOT $1600: On "The Mandalorian" IG-11 is a lethal robot performing tasks for this guild, the same one the title character belongs to the Bounty Hunter Guild |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | THERE'S A NAME IN THE TITLE $2000: This Aristophanes play is named for the character who inspires the women of Athens & Sparta to end a war between the cities Lysistrata |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | AUNTIE HERO $1600: This semi-autobiographical novel by Charles Dickens features Betsey Trotwood, an aunt of the title character David Copperfield |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | DISNEY MENAGERIE $400: This en"deer"ing character frolics in the forest with his animal friends Thumper & Flower Bambi |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | A LOVELY ACCENT $1600: An accent mark hovers over the name of Cate Blanchett's character in this 2022 film set in the world of classical music Tár |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | ACTION & ADVENTURE NOVELS $1600: A canine is the main character of this 1903 novel set in part in Canadian gold rush country The Call of the Wild |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | GIVE THAT BOOK A PRIZE! $1600: Hop to it! This John Updike character "is Rich" & also, a 1982 Pulitzer winner Rabbit |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | DANIEL RADCLIFFE ON HARRY POTTER $600: (Daniel Radcliffe presents the clue.) Life imitates art--my relationship on set with Gary Oldman very much paralleled Harry's relationship with this character, portrayed by Oldman, Harry's godfather & the titular "Prisoner of Azkaban" Sirius Black |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | VERY ARTISTIC $200: Matt Groening drew his own initials in the design of this TV character--the "M" is in his lower hairline, the "G", his ear Homer Simpson |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | TV SWITCHEROO $800: Dwight was perplexed when Randall Park, seen here, showed up in an "Office" episode impersonating this character Jim (Halpert) |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | TV SWITCHEROO $1200: Lacey Chabert voiced this character on the first season of "Family Guy", but Mila Kunis picked up the ball & ran with it Meg |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | TV CATCHPHRASES $600: This sitcom character: "How you doin'?" Joey Tribbiani |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | TV CHARACTER FIRST NAMES $400: "30 Rock":
unpredictable movie star Mr. Jordan Tracy |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | TV CHARACTER FIRST NAMES $800: "Mad Men":
once naive but intrepid copywriter Ms. Olson Peggy |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | TV CHARACTER FIRST NAMES $1200: "Eastbound & Down": rocket-armed, mullet-haired Mr. Powers Kenny |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | TV CHARACTER FIRST NAMES $1600: "Grey's Anatomy":
Dr. Grey, chief of surgery at long, long last Meredith |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | TV CHARACTER FIRST NAMES $2000: "Veep":
Vice president & then President Meyer Selina |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | GRIMM BROTHERS FAIRY TALES $200: Not a fairy godmother but a bird gives this character her dress & slippers for the big event Cinderella |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | COUNTRY SONGS $400: Inspired by an Oz character, Miranda Lambert sings, "Hey there, Mr." him, "Take it from me, darlin', you don't want a heart" Tin Man |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | CHARACTER/ACTOR $200: He's the roguish, rum-obsessed captain played by Johnny Depp in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise Jack Sparrow |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | CHARACTER/ACTOR $400: This actress was iconic as Holly Golightly in the film "Breakfast at Tiffany's" Audrey Hepburn |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | CHARACTER/ACTOR $600: Her roles have included Ma Rainey in film & Annalise Keating on "How to Get Away with Murder" Viola Davis |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | CHARACTER/ACTOR $800: In this 1982 movie comedy, Dustin Hoffman played Michael Dorsey & Dorothy Michaels Tootsie |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | CHARACTER/ACTOR $1000: As Anton Chigurh in this 2007 film, Javier Bardem & his haircut were both downright frightening No Country for Old Men |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | CLASSICAL IS IN $1600: A folk song that accompanied a pantomime character was the basis for this Debussy piece whose name means "moonlight" "Clair De Lune" |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | OPERA $800: The title character of this Bizet opera works at a cigarette factory Carmen |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | POP CULTURE GOES TO MARS $800: With the aid of a Kickstarter campaign, Kristen Bell was back on the case as this character in a 2014 feature Veronica Mars |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | "SIDE" EFFECTS $200: A straight man, like Gromit to Wallace a sidekick |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | MOONSTRUCK $600: In a popular manga series, schoolgirl Usagi Tsukino changes into this magical character to fight villains & save the world Sailor Moon |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | REPETITIVE MUSIC $1000: A few years before this band had its first Top 10 hit in 1983, it played a gig at a club called Barbarella's Duran Duran |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | ACRONYMS $800: This weapon that delivers an electric shock is an acronym made from the name of fictional character Tom Swift TASER |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | JOHNNY GILBERT IS THE TV CHARACTER $300: "You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not in danger, Skyler. I am the danger" Walter White |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | JOHNNY GILBERT IS THE TV CHARACTER $600: "The reason you haven't felt it is because it doesn't exist. What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons" Don Draper |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | JOHNNY GILBERT IS THE TV CHARACTER $900: "I'm a doctor, not a coal miner";
"...an engineer";
"...an escalator";
"...a mechanic";
"...a bricklayer" Dr. McCoy |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | JOHNNY GILBERT IS THE TV CHARACTER $1200: "You come at the king, you best not miss" Omar (Little) |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | JOHNNY GILBERT IS THE TV CHARACTER $1500: "I gotta get 2 children's life vests, abduct Jonathan Farrow... kill him, cut him to pieces, dump him in the ocean" Dexter |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | YOU'RE MY INSPIRATION $1000: Marie Duplessis, a courtesan & the lover of Alexandre Dumas fils, inspired the character of Violetta in this Verdi opera La traviata |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | FICTION'S FICTIONAL PLACES $400: In the illustration seen here, the title character is tied up on business in this land Lilliput |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | FICTION'S FICTIONAL PLACES $800: This shipwrecked character ends up on the island of Despair in 1659 Robinson Crusoe |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | LET THERE BE FROGS $600: This cartoon character was likely inspired by a reptile found alive inside a time capsule that was opened in 1928 Michigan J. Frog |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | LET THERE BE FROGS $800: In "The Jungle Book", the mother wolf calls this fur-less character "Little Frog" Mowgli |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | SHAKESPEARE'S CONTEMPORARIES $400: The title character & kids are murdered in John Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi", considered one of the greatest plays of this type a tragedy |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | LITERARY CHARACTER NAMES $400: Truman Capote changed the heroine of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" from Connie Gustafson to this, capturing her free spirit better Holly Golightly |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | LITERARY CHARACTER NAMES $1200: This Henry Fielding hero is adopted by the benevolent & benevolent-sounding Squire Allworthy Tom Jones |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | LITERARY CHARACTER NAMES $1600: He's a sensitive member of J.D. Salinger's Glass family; at one point, it's spelled as 2 words like "perceive extra" see more (Seymour Glass) |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | LITERARY CHARACTER NAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): wizardingworld.com tells us this villainous last name means "bad faith" Malfoy |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | LITERARY CHARACTER NAMES $2000: "You were never there", a girlfriend tells this hero of Bret Easton Ellis' "Less Than Zero"; other people just seem to mold him Clay |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | SYNONYMS $1600: A stain on one's character can be this, also beginning with "st" a stigma |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | THE OFFICE $200: Software such as Greetly can replace this person, like Ellie Kemper's character Erin on "The Office" a receptionist |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN THAT BOOK $1200: In a book by this man, "Misery's Return" was a hard-to-execute novel by his character Paul Sheldon Stephen King |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | DR. SEUSS BAKING CHALLENGE $200: (Tamera Mowry presents the clue.) Creations that hopefully taste better than they sound were natural for this book with an edible title & a hyphenated main character Green Eggs and Ham |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | DR. SEUSS BAKING CHALLENGE $600: (Tamera Mowry presents the clue.) It's the holiday season, so we had to include this book, whose grumpy main character was Dr. Seuss's long-time license plate How the Grinch Stole Christmas |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | MOVIE CHARACTERS $400: In 2022 this "Toy Story" character got his own origin movie Buzz Lightyear |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | TELEVISION THEN & NOW $600: Tatiana Maslany stars as this title character: "Attorney at Law" She-Hulk |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | MOVIE CHARACTERS $800: She's the kick-ass character played by Linda Hamilton in the "Terminator" films Sarah Connor |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | MOVIE CHARACTERS $2000: Audrey Hepburn & later Julia Ormond played this title character, a chauffeur's daughter Sabrina |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | RUSSIAN WRITERS $800: Anton Chekhov refashioned his bomb of a play "The Wood Demon" & its character Uncle George into this huge success Uncle Vanya |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | "P"OTPOURRI $1200: Here's a depiction of this French-named commedia dell'arte character Pierrot |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | A NIGHT AT THE OPERA $200: The title character in Antonin Dvořák's opera "Rusalka" is one of these water-dwelling creatures a nymph |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | PREPARING FOR THE ROLE $400: To get into character as Sebastian in this film, Ryan Gosling had to work on his dance moves & his piano playing La La Land |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | WHAT A NOVEL CHARACTER! $400: People who live in woodhouses... making her debut in 1815, this title woman tries to match Harriet with Mr. Elton Emma |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | WHAT A NOVEL CHARACTER! $800: As first mate on the Pequod, he considers killing Ahab before what happens, happens & never gets to open his own java place Starbuck |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | WHAT A NOVEL CHARACTER! $1200: In France, a Roma woman is framed for murder... but Phoebus is still alive! & she loves the guy! Does her name ring a bell? Esmeralda |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | WHAT A NOVEL CHARACTER! $1600: Things are looking up for this Bernard Malamud ballplayer when he strikes out "The Whammer" early in "The Natural" (Roy) Hobbs |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | WHAT A NOVEL CHARACTER! $2000: He is described as "Prometheus who changed his mind"; now you say the first sentence of "Atlas Shrugged" (John) Galt |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | AN "ARM" $400: This 2-word term for a perfect, idealized suitor is modeled on a royal character in a 17th century fairy tale Prince Charming |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | DOCTOR-ING UP LITERATURE $200: Stevenson probably intended for the last name of this character to rhyme with treacle, as in the Fredric March version of the film Jekyll |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | DOCTOR-ING UP LITERATURE $400: Winding your way down on Baker Street, you'll realize this character narrates 56 of the 60 stories about his flatmate Watson |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | SOMETHING TO READ $800: Acclaimed as "The One-Eyed!" & "The Bandy-Legged!", this character in a 19th century novel is elected "Pope of the Fools" Quasimodo |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | YOU CAN QUOTE "ME" $4,000 (Daily Double): After hearing an orator speak in a foreign language, a Shakespeare character admits, "It was" these 3 words Greek to me |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | UNFRIEND $1600: An enemy of the main character in a play, it also refers to a type of muscle antagonist |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | CHARACTER ACTORS $200: Bill Camp played the janitor who teaches a girl to play chess, on this streaming show The Queen's Gambit |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | CHARACTER ACTORS $400: The Olivier & Tony-nominated Colman Domingo plays Victor Strand on the AMC zombie spin-off show Fear the Walking Dead |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | CHARACTER ACTORS $600: You may know Fred Melamed from "The Morning Show", "Superstore" or this Disney+ show with the Scarlet Witch & family WandaVision |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | CHARACTER ACTORS $800: Lance Reddick played a cop on "The Wire" & on this Amazon Prime drama as Chief Irvin Irving Bosch |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | CHARACTER ACTORS $1000: This veteran of TV comedy & time travel movies picks up a big gun in the 2021 action film "Nobody" (Christopher) Lloyd |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | AN "F" IN OPERA $400: An opera named for this character is based on "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Falstaff |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | BATMAN VILLAINS $800: Sharing his name with a "Wizard of Oz" character, this fear-obsessed foe also known as Dr. Jonathan Crane first appeared in 1941 Scarecrow |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | BATMAN VILLAINS $1600: Raised in a prison & frequently hopped up on venom, this masked enemy broke Batman's back in a 1990s story arc Bane |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $800: "The Curious Case of" this title Fitzgerald short story character is that he ages backwards Benjamin Button |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1200: Telepathic Patrick Stewart character shows you the exact place he hid the treasure, a bit of Earl Grey Professor X marks the spot of tea |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | OPERA CHARACTERS $400: Even after she dumps him for a matador, a soldier still loves this character & begs her to start a new life with him Carmen |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | NOW STREAMING ON DuMONT+ $1200: Watch "Cavalcade of Stars", on which Jackie Gleason introduced this bus driver character, with Pert Kelton as his wife Alice Ralph Kramden |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | MUSICAL THEATER $200: In "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown", this character sings "My Blanket and Me" Linus |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | THE EDWARDIAN ERA $500: Vincent Price's last appearance on the big screen was this 1990 film starring Johnny Depp as the title character with unusual appendages Edward Scissorhands |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | THE ARTS $800: The title character of "Petrouchka" is one of these that comes to life & is immortal--terrifying! a puppet |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | HOPE YOU READ MIDDLEMARCH $2000: The name of this character writing about world myth has become synonymous with dry, out-of-touch scholarship Edward Casaubon |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | HERBAL & SPICY NAMES $800: The full name of this "Peanuts" character is Patricia Reichardt Peppermint Patty |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BALLET & OPERA $300: The Sugar Plum Fairy is a character in this ballet that's a favorite at Christmas The Nutcracker |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | LOST IN EXPLORATION $400: Percy Fawcett, who disappeared searching for a lost jungle city in the 1920s, is often called "the real life" this movie character Indiana Jones |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | REAL-DEAL RHYME TIME $1000: George Carlin had a character named Al Sleet, this type of weatherman Hippy Dippy |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | NOVEL NURSES $2000: Hana reads to Almasy, the title character of this 1992 novel; Hana's lover Kip later wants to murder him The English Patient |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | CROCODILE POP $800: Crocubot is a half-crocodile, half-robot character on this cartoon about a mad scientist & his grandson Rick and Morty |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | WITH AUTHOR-ITY $200 (Daily Double): Bootlegger Max Gerlach was one of the people F. Scott Fitzgerald may have used as the model for this title character Gatsby |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | THE STRONGEST LINK $1000: In the "Skyward Sword" edition of this video game, Link searches for the title character after she's knocked out of the sky Zelda |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | DANIEL RADCLIFFE COLLAGE $2000: (Daniel Radcliffe presents the clue.) Um, I'd basically only done one small part in a school play when, at age 10, I played the title character, as a boy, in a BBC adaptation of this Dickens novel, the author’s own favorite child; the part really was magical as it led to me being cast as Harry Potter David Copperfield |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | ANIMAL-TITLED MOVIES $800: Dr. Robotnik returns to menace Earth in the 2022 sequel starring this furry blue video game character Sonic the Hedgehog |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | TV CARTOONS $800: A close-up of the clenched fist of this PBS character before he punched D.W. became a giant meme of anger expression Arthur |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | RECENT MOVIES $1600: "F9"
brought this Sung Kang character back from getting blown to bits in "Tokyo Drift"; #justiceforhim! Han |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | SAY WHAT? $1600: It's the word of incomprehension invariably used by the character Manuel in "Fawlty Towers" qué |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | CLASSIC KIDS' BOOKS $300: After a journey from Peru to England, this character was discovered on a railway platform in London, sitting on his suitcase Paddington Bear |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | POETS & POETRY $400: How meta--Dante is a character in this 3-part epic poem of his The Divine Comedy |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" $400: A '90s dance was named for this "Family Matters" character whose catchphrase was "Did I do that?" Urkel |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | MASCOTS $600: A character named Pow was a buddy of this elfin trio that represents Rice Krispies Snap, Crackle & Pop |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | THAT MOVIE'S GOT LEGS $800: Golden Leg Fung is a character in the movie about spreading this title style of Kung Fu through soccer Shaolin |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | TV AS OF LATE $1600: As Ava Coleman, Janelle James is quite a principal character on this "educational" ABC sitcom Abbott Elementary |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | TV AS OF LATE $2000: She's the ex-"SNL" performer seen here whose character on "I Love That for You" somehow both had & also fakes having cancer (Vanessa) Bayer |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | PONY TALES $400: The title character of this Anna Sewell novel is instructed by his mother Duchess, "Lift your feet up well when you trot" Black Beauty |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | HODGEPOURRIPODGE $1000: Attend the tale of this character, Broadway's "Demon Barber of Fleet Street" Sweeney Todd |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | PONY TALES $1600: Growing up on a Wyoming horse ranch, Kevin is tasked with making a good pony out of "My Friend" her Flicka |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | IDINA MENZEL ACTS & SINGS $800: (Idina Menzel presents the clue.) In 1996, I made my Broadway debut in "Rent"; my character, a performance artist named Maureen, was based on Musetta in this Puccini opera La bohème |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | PLACES IN MOVIE TITLES $2000: The drug adrenochrome gives Johnny Depp's character Raoul Duke a hard time in this film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: He invented the word "manxome" to describe a character in "Jabberwocky" (Lewis) Carroll |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | FIRST EPISODES $1000: Chidi's character is established pretty fast on this comedy--"I'm in a perfect utopia &... I have a stomachache" The Good Place |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | HATCHET MAN $400: This Marvel Comics character was deemed unworthy by the hammer Mjolnir, so he took up the axe Jarnbjorn & bided his time Thor |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | HATCHET MAN $600: This "Game of Thrones" character portrayed by Peter Dinklage is adept with a battle axe Tyrion Lannister |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | CREDITS $200: In an end credits scene, Matthew Broderick as this character who has enjoyed a day off tells viewers, "It's over. Go home" Ferris Bueller |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | FRIENDS $200: Matthew Perry has said he got this character's "Could it be?" catchphrase from 2 brothers he knew as a kid Chandler |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | FRIENDS $400: Some scenes with this character & her twin sister Ursula were shot using Lisa Kudrow's sister Helene as a double Phoebe |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | FASHION WITH BUZZY COHEN $1200: (Buzzy Cohen delivers the clue.) You can turn the brim up on a porkpie as well as this felt hat immortalized by Indiana Jones & actually named for a 19th century play character a fedora |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | SO GALLANTLY STREAMING $800: Going from the movies to Prime Video, he grew as a character, as Alan Ritchson is about 6'2" & Tom Cruise... is not Jack Reacher |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | OLD FASHIONED $400: A 19th century depiction of this nursery rhyme character is seen here in all her austere predicament Old Mother Hubbard |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $600: E.B. White wrote that this character "had ...a mouse's tail, a mouse's whiskers" Stuart Little |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | SHOES! $600: These shoes are named for an old comic strip character, Buster Brown's sister Mary Janes |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | CLEANUP $400: Flat, steam & string are types of this cleanup device used by a trademark Carol Burnett character a mop |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | LETTER-PERFECT BOOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): Lin Haire-Sargeant's novel "H" imaginatively fills in the blanks in this character's 3-year absence from a Bronte novel Heathcliff |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: The action begins in a children's tale when this character blows into London's Cherry Tree Lane on the east wind Mary Poppins |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | MUSIC $400: Sorbetto is one type of this solo song in an opera; the audience would get sorbets as a supporting character sang an aria |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $800: Part I of a 17th century novel is titled "The Ingenious Hidalgo" this character "of La Mancha" Don Quixote |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | "C"HARACTER STUDY $800: Dickens based this title character of an 1850 novel on his own life David Copperfield |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | FICTION $600: Protesting the Jim Crow system, Richard Wright's first book was titled this Stowe character's "Children" Uncle Tom |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | FROM FILM TO TV $1600: In the TV version of "The Exorcist", Geena Davis was this character all grown up, but with a possessed daughter of her own Regan |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | LITERATURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES $800: In a 2021 movie version of a medieval tale, Dev Patel plays Sir Gawain, journeying to meet this title character the Green Knight |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | THE TV TITLE CHARACTER SPEAKS $200: "Guilty of being the god of mischief? Yes. guilty of finding all this incredibly tedious? Yes" Loki |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | THE TV TITLE CHARACTER SPEAKS $400: I spy this spy said, "Lana... Lana... Lana... Lanaaaaaaaaa...! Danger zone" (Sterling) Archer |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | THE TV TITLE CHARACTER SPEAKS $600: This psychiatrist liked his brother's wife "from a distance... like the Sun. Maris is like the Sun. Except without the warmth" Frasier |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | THE TV TITLE CHARACTER SPEAKS $800: "I can kill a man, dismember his body, & be home in time for Letterman. But knowing what to say when my girlfriend's feeling insecure..." Dexter |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | THE TV TITLE CHARACTER SPEAKS $1000: This physician: "I need 36 vicodin & change for a dollar" House (M.D.) |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | CLOSING STATEMENTS $400: "I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of Dean Moriarty" On the Road |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | DOUBLE TALK $1000: Something fancy & frilly, or the name of a character in "The Aristocats" froufrou |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | ROLE CALL $400: In 2022's "The Batman", Zoë Kravitz brought a new take on this character with a secret identity of her own Catwoman |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | MOVIE MAGIC & WIZARDRY $400: At age 78, Ian McKellen said this character "is over 7,000 years old, so I'm not too old" Gandalf |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | LITERARY DOCTORS $1200: Charles, a dull country doctor, is the husband of excitement-craving Emma, this Flaubert title character Madame Bovary |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | THE ARTS $400: The title character of this fairy tale ballet pretends a broom is her dance partner at the ball Cinderella |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | A NOVEL DEATH $800: Sadly, the "Flowers for" this tiny Daniel Keyes character are for his grave Algernon |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | A NOVEL DEATH $1000: After one character says this miss is "past her prime", this miss is a lot worse off than that Miss Jean Brodie |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | OLD MOVIES $2000: In an Oscar winner, Piletti is the last name of Ernest Borgnine's butcher character; this first name is the title Marty |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | JOURNALISM $400: Because they both attracted readers, a 19th century character in newspaper comics lent his name to this sensational type of journalism yellow (journalism) |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS $1600: Gamekeeper Oliver Mellors is this title character & by book's end, also a soon-to-be baby daddy Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS $2000: This Edith Wharton character is unhappily married to the sickly Zenobia Ethan Frome |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | IT CAME FROM A GRAPHIC NOVEL $1600: Adaptations of the "Kick-Ass" series gave this 3-named actress her breakout role as a spunky character named "Hit-Girl" Chloë Grace Moretz |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | KIDS' BOOKS $200: Despite his mother's warning, this title character does get into mischief, eating from Mr. McGregor's garden Peter Rabbit |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | KIDS' BOOKS $400: The title character of this classic by Eric Carle literally eats through the pages of the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | ORPHANS IN BOOKS $400: This character lost his parents in a boating accident & was adopted by Bilbo Frodo Baggins |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | ORPHANS IN BOOKS $800: This Beverly Cleary girl has a mom & dad; Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 character of the same name does not Ramona |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | ORPHANS IN BOOKS $1200: At the beginning of this Bronte novel, this orphaned title character is sent to the Lowood Institution, where she is mistreated Jane Eyre |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | THEY PLAYED THE TITLE CHARACTER $400: The coal miner's daughter who went on to become "The Queen of Country Music" Sissy Spacek |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | THEY PLAYED THE TITLE CHARACTER $800: A paratrooper whom an army squad is sent to find after D-Day (Matt) Damon |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | THEY PLAYED THE TITLE CHARACTER $1600: An enslaved Jewish prince who gets his revenge in a chariot race (Charlton) Heston |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | THEY PLAYED THE TITLE CHARACTER $2000: A female televangelist known for her impressive eyelashes Jessica Chastain |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | THEY PLAYED THE TITLE CHARACTER $3,800 (Daily Double): A competitive ice skater who falls into disgrace after an attack on a rival (Margot) Robbie |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | GOING "PRO" $400: If they gain the readers' sympathy, even a villain can be this main character of a story a protagonist |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $2000: To retcon is to go back & fill in a fictional character's history & comes from these 2 words of 4 & 5 syllables retroactive continuity |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | MOVIE SUPERVILLAINS $400: Really, this Alfred Molina character only had 4 tentacles, but having "Quadro-" as part of his name wouldn't work Doctor Octopus |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | LITERATURE $800: This Thomas Hardy title character is described as "a fine and picturesque country girl" Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | LITERATURE $1,200 (Daily Double): This Shakespeare character says, "When I was about thy years, Hal, I was not an eagle's talon in the waist" (Sir John) Falstaff |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | TV $1200: Lux is the L.A. nightclub owned by this title character, last name Morningstar Lucifer |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | ADJECTIVES $1200: This synonym for gigantic is derived from the name of a Rabelais character gargantuan |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | BLOOPERMAN $600: In a blooper this late actor has trouble (even more than the character does) saying, "I am inspector Clouseau of the Sûreté" Peter Sellers |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | IT'S A WORD! IT'S A NAME! $600: This "Thousand and One Nights" character gave his name to a type of paraffin lamp Aladdin |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | IT'S A WORD! IT'S A NAME! $800: If a character in a British novel says, "I've dropped my Biro", she means one of these, after its inventor a ballpoint pen |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | BEASTLY BOOK CHARACTERS $200: Polynesia is the parrot who teaches this title character how to talk to the animals Doctor Dolittle |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | BEASTLY BOOK CHARACTERS $1,000 (Daily Double): This rabbit relative character shows up at a party in "Alice in Wonderland" & dips his watch into his tea the March Hare |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | TALK TO THE HAND $1000: A porcine character like Babe or Wilbur can be called this hyphenated term meaning clumsy or inept ham-handed |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | OPERA $400: After this character learns her lover has married another, she commits seppuku using the same knife her father had used to kill himself Madame Butterfly |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | THE NAPOLEONIC WARS $200: A Russian general killed at the 1812 Battle of Borodino, Prince Bagration found immortality as a character in this Tolstoy tome War and Peace |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | IT'S TV MOTHER'S DAY $2000: When not helping special victims in about 500 episodes, this "Law & Order: SVU" character adopted an orphan named Noah Olivia Benson |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $1600: In a Kafka novella, the charwoman said to him, "Come along, then, you old dung beetle!" Gregor Samsa |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $2000: In a Virginia Woolf novel that spans over 300 years, this title character, a poet & nobleman, awakes one day to find he's a woman Orlando |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | FELINES IN FICTION $1200: In "The House at Pooh Corner", Rabbit & Piglet hatch a plot to unbounce this feline character Tigger |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | THE 18th CENTURY $1600: Similar to Uncle Sam, this character represents England, first appearing in the 1712 satirical pamphlet, "Law is a Bottomless-Pit" John Bull |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | 1980s TV $200: Tom Selleck privately investigated as this character in more than 150 episodes from 1980 to 1988 Magnum (P.I.) |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | WHINE $400: This tormented Shakespeare title character moans, "O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I" the Hamlet |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | AT THE MOVIES $200: Ellen DeGeneres voiced this character in "Finding Nemo" & its sequel Dory |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNGER READERS $400: This Dr. Seuss character shows up one boring rainy day when "our mother was out of the house" the Cat in the Hat |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNGER READERS $800: Shere Khan, the Bengal tiger in "The Jungle Book", threatens that this character "is mine & to my teeth he will come in the end" Mowgli |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | MOVIE CRITICS $400: This character tells Agent Starling she has cheap shoes & looks like a rube, & he's just getting started Hannibal Lecter |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: In "Treasure Island ", this character signs on as the ship's cook, but his signature dish is piracy Long John Silver |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | ON TV IN THE YEAR 2000 $2000: This James Marsters character had a love/hate relationship with Buffy the Vampire Slayer Spike |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | A BIT OF BRIT LIT $600: A character in "Ivanhoe" who's good with a bow & arrow is called Locksley; we know him better as this legendary guy Robin Hood |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | INCREDIBLY ELF-CENTERED $800: Tolkien wrote that this character was "able swiftly to draw a great war-bow" & had the "tremendous vitality of Elvish bodies" Legolas |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | CHARACTERS NAMED ALEX $800: In 2020 this medical drama's character Dr. Alex Karev left after 15 years on the series Grey's Anatomy |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | CHARACTERS NAMED ALEX $2000: This James Patterson character is a profiler who is a liaison between the Washington, D.C. police & the FBI Alex Cross |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | FILMS OF THE 1990s $600: Character actor J.T. Walsh told a story that made Billy Bob Thornton's Karl very ill at ease in this 1996 film Sling Blade |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | ANALYZING THE SEUSS CHARACTER $200: An angry mob's near murder of an entire village via beezle-nut juice dunking traumatizes this horrified & helpless elephant Horton |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | EASY PEASY $400: The title of this 1970 Jack Nicholson film refers to a book of piano exercises his character practiced as a child Five Easy Pieces |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | ANALYZING THE SEUSS CHARACTER $400: "You stay in your place while I sit here and rule", says this turtle king, pulling a serious top 1% job on a poor turtle named Mack Yertle (the Turtle) |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | ANALYZING THE SEUSS CHARACTER $600: Freud said rivalry with the father is basic--for the young'uns in this book, that includes jumping onto his belly Hop on Pop |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | ANALYZING THE SEUSS CHARACTER $1,000 (Daily Double): Pro-environment & perhaps with a savior complex, he "was shortish. And oldish... and mossy", & kinda looked like Wilford Brimley the Lorax |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | ANALYZING THE SEUSS CHARACTER $1000: This title guy gets a death sentence--via beheading!--then overcomes his hoarding & sells his "500 Hats" to the king Bartholomew Cubbins |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | BALLET $200: Stravinsky slyly used Russian folk idioms for the music of his 1922 ballet "Renard", with this animal being the title character fox |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | ONLINE & TEXTING ABBREV. $1200: Making an OTP, one true this, means figuring out ideal character matches pairing |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | MOVIE MADNESS $400: In "The Dark Knight", this character says, "Madness... is like gravity: all it takes is a little push" the Joker |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: This word that starts & ends with "U" means freedom in Swahili; it's one letter off from a classic TV character's name uhuru |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | MOVIE MADNESS $1600: This 1960 film character: "A madhouse?... My mother there? But she's harmless!" (welllllll... yes & no) (Norman) Bates |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | AUTHORS $2000: Sharing his pen name with a Hemingway character, he wrote the "Wheel of Time" fantasy series (Robert) Jordan |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | '70s TELEVISION $200: The alien Mork came to Earth to study humans like this other title character he bonds with Mindy |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | SAYS ANN(E) $800: "But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne spelled with an E", says the title character in this novel, the first of a series Anne of Green Gables |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BRIT LIT $1600: At a tea party, it's this Lewis Carroll character who asks Alice, "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" the Mad Hatter |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BRIT LIT $2000: Squire Allworthy finds a baby in his bed one night--the title character of this 1749 novel by Henry Fielding Tom Jones |
| #8594, aired 2022-03-10 | WOMEN MAKE PASSES $800: On "Parks & Rec", this character's mom, played by Pamela Reed, makes a pass at Ben (Adam Scott) Leslie Knope |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | LITERARY CHARACTER SPOILERS $200: We'd say this title arachnid in a 1952 E.B. White tale went off to live on a farm, buuut... Charlotte |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | NAMES IN POP CULTURE $400: This character on "Dawson's Creek" was named after the heroine of "Little Women" Joey |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | LITERARY CHARACTER SPOILERS $400: "He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage" & also very dead on the floor, but man, that portrait nearby looked fantastic! Dorian Gray |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | LITERARY CHARACTER SPOILERS $800: "The arm seized a loaf of bread and carried it off" & spoiler, he doesn't even get to eat it! What he does get is 19 years in prison Jean Valjean |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | LITERARY CHARACTER SPOILERS $1000: Gatsby says this woman is "leaving you"; Tom replies, "Nonsense", & Tom is correct Daisy Buchanan |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | LITERARY CHARACTER SPOILERS $1,400 (Daily Double): She is promised to Robert Canler, but the man also called Lord Greystoke asks, "If you were free, would you marry me?" Yep! in a later book Jane (Porter) |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | THE ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE $400: In a work by L. Frank Baum, the Scarecrow & this character are captured by a female giant & turned into a bear & an owl the Tin Man |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | BOOK CHARACTERS $1600: Hunting a whale, Starbuck orders this character, "There, there, give it to him!" meaning to throw a harpoon Queequeg |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | TV CATCHPHRASES $800: On "Game of Thrones", Ygritte told this character, "You know nothing" Jon Snow |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | LAST LINE OF A SHAKESPEARE ACT $2,500 (Daily Double): This title character declares, "He shall have every day a several greeting, or I'll unpeople Egypt" Cleopatra |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | FROM P TO Y $1200: It's the pseudoscience of examining the shape of the head to determine intelligence & character phrenology |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | ALLITERATIVE PHRASES $500 (Daily Double): This literary character was also known as the "Galloping Hessian of the Hollow" the Headless Horseman |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | DIGESTING SOME LITERATURE $200: At a Manhattan eatery, this character enjoys bacon & eggs & toast (perhaps rye?) Holden Caulfield |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | DIGESTING SOME LITERATURE $600: A true glutton, this "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory" character gets sent up the (chocolate) river Augustus Gloop |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | BAD PEOPLE IN BOOKS $2000: This character tells Paul Sheldon, "You're going to use this typewriter to write a new novel! Your best novel! 'Misery's Return!"' Annie Wilkes |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | SCIENCE FICTION $200: The character of chaos theorist Ian Malcolm was introduced in this Michael Crichton novel about a unique island attraction Jurassic Park |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | A HARD CATEGORY $4,000 (Daily Double): This brand with a biblical character in its name offers hardside luggage with a polycarbonate composite shell Samsonite |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | TV FINALES $800: On the finale of the original "Gilmore Girls", this character met her heroine, CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour Rory Gilmore |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | EXIT STAGE LEFT $800: In this ballet the Mouse King's wintry attack on the title character leads to rodent demise The Nutcracker |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | FANG SHUI $1600: First seen in "The Sorcerer's Stone", a gigantic black boarhound named Fang is this character's pet Hagrid |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | 6-LETTER ADVERBS $1000: This good-natured adverb is repeated in the name of a "Guys and Dolls" character nicely |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | PICK A MAJOR $2000: The title character of this George Bernard Shaw play is an officer in the Salvation Army Major Barbara |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | WHO WAS THAT MASCARA-ED MAN? $1200: As Tobias Fünke on "Arrested Development", this actor took on an alter ego as cheery maid Mrs. Featherbottom (David) Cross |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | TV CHARACTER ANALYSIS $200: "Stranger Things" have happened;
name her number Eleven |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | TV CHARACTER ANALYSIS $400: Headin' Westeros;
a mother of 3 (dragons) Daenerys |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | TV CHARACTER ANALYSIS $600: The Penn Badgley is mightier;
him or "You", take your pick Joe (Goldberg) |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | TV CHARACTER ANALYSIS $800: Rick's granddaughter;
quite an animated character Summer Smith |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | TV CHARACTER ANALYSIS $1000: A Sterling (K. Brown) performance;
NBC, FYI Randall Pearson |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | "S.T." ON THE TV $2000: John Bradley played this "better with a book than a sword" character on "Game of Thrones" Sam Tarly |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | TV, STREAMED $200: A "Mandalorian" character is named Grogu & is also called the Child, but viewers dubbed him "Baby" this Yoda |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | ALL SORTS OF BOOKS $1000: The title character in this Paulo Coelho novel turns lead into gold for young Santiago The Alchemist |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | HORROR FILMS $1200: Stephen Lang played a character simply known as "The Blind Man" in this 2016 film & returned for its 2021 sequel Don't Breathe |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | DOCTOR $1600: This Steinbeck work that's set in Monterey is dedicated to Ed Ricketts, on whom the character of Doc is partly based Cannery Row |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | AMUSING CANADIANS $200: Mike Myers came up with this character after hearing "The Look Of Love" & wondering, "Where have all the swingers gone?" Austin Powers |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | THE 1990s $200: She inspired a popular hairstyle called "The Rachel", named after her TV character Jennifer Aniston |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | COMEDIANS' ROLES $400: Awkwafina's time growing up in this Big Apple borough inspired her character Nora in a Comedy Central series Queens |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | THIS PARTY IS LIT $800: This Dickens character excitedly watches his younger, better self make merry at Mr. Fezziwig's ball (Ebenezer) Scrooge |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | THIS PARTY IS LIT $2,000 (Daily Double): At his wake, this title character is laid out with a barrel of Guinness at his head & a bottle of whiskey at his feet Tim Finnegan |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | SHAKESPEARE $800: In 1889 John Singer Sargent painted "Ellen Terry as" this ambitious character Lady Macbeth |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | ANGELS & DEMONS & INSURANCE AGENTS $2000: A demon in early English folklore, it became the name of a character in a Shakespeare comedy Puck |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | POETRY $800: This poetry character is seen here as depicted by Gustave Doré the Ancient Mariner |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: This feral character raised by jungle animals originally appeared in Rudyard Kipling's short story "In the Rukh" Mowgli |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | A QUICK & DIRTY CATEGORY $2000: Harry Truman said, "It is not the American way to" this fancy word "the character of the innocent" besmirch |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | ACTION MOVIE! $200: Tokyo does not appreciate this 1954 title character coming to town--talk about bad breath! Godzilla |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | ESCAPIST LITERATURE $1600: In "Great Expectations" , the escaped convict Abel Magwitch is revealed to be this character's benefactor Pip |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | CHARACTER TEST $400: Bernadine, Gloria, Robin & Savannah are "Waiting to" do this, the title of a Terry McMillan novel exhale |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | CHARACTER TEST $800: He's Ahab's No. 2; that & $4.65 will get you a grande mocha Starbuck |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | CHARACTER TEST $1200: Rodion Romanovich are the first & middle names of this abundantly alliterative Dostoyevsky character Raskolnikov |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | CHARACTER TEST $1600: This "A Tale of Two Cities" hero goes to his death in place of his lookalike Charles Darnay Sydney Carton |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | CHARACTER TEST $2000: The title of this Salman Rushdie novel refers to Saleem Sinai & other babies born at the stroke of 12 on August 15, 1947 Midnight's Children |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | STRIPES $200: Trying to locate this title character in books by illustrator Martin Handford? Look for his 2-toned striped shirt & hat Waldo |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | POP CULTURE MONIKERS $1600: The main character on this HBO comedy was called "Grizzly Madam" & "The Wicked Witch of the West Wing" Veep |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: This character known for its grin tells Alice that everyone in Wonderland is mad the Cheshire Cat |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $2000: This main character of "Native Son" by Richard Wright ends up in prison for committing 2 murders Bigger Thomas |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | HISTORY PLAYS $800: Shimon Peres is a character in this J.T. Rogers play, named for a Scandinavian capital & its 1993 peace accords Oslo |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | POETRY IN MOTION PICTURES $400: Playing this title character in "Wild Nights with Emily", Molly Shannon recites "I Can Wade Grief" Dickinson |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | TV TALK $1000: Rachel Dratch came up with this buzzkill character while on vacation with a real-life one Debbie Downer |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | CLASSIC NOVELS $200: It's said that the character of Snowball the pig in this novel represents Leon Trotsky Animal Farm |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | ARKANSAS $400: If you call yourself the spinach capital of the world, you better have a statue of this character, & Alma, Arkansas does, in his own park Popeye |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | NASTY, BRITISH $800: Actor Tobias Menzies says Black Jack Randall in this time-traveling TV show is a sadist & character Jamie would agree Outlander |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | WHAT DO YOU KNOW? $600: This play character says when the wind is southerly, he knows a hawk from a handsaw Hamlet |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | PLAYING PROFESSOR $200: This Harrison Ford character tells a class, "Forget any ideas you got about lost cities, exotic travel" Indiana Jones |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | POP CULTURE MR. OR MRS. $1600: & here's to you, this character who seduces Dustin Hoffman in "The Graduate" Mrs. Robinson |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | 19th CENTURY LIT $200: This children's classic tells us that the title character was made from a very ordinary piece of firewood Pinocchio |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | BRITISH HUMOR $400: David Bowie sang about this man's "Extras" character: "chubby little loser... pathetic little fat man..." Ricky Gervais |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | LITERARY PROFESSORS $400: Doctor Pangloss is the unfailingly optimistic mentor of the title character in this Voltaire work Candide |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE TURNS 75 $1000: The schemes of this wealthy, cackling character include offering George a job Potter |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | POP CULTURE-POURRI $1600: First name of Mr. Youssef, who plays the title character in a Hulu series he also created Ramy |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | HUNTER/GATHERER $600: Hunter S. Thompson was the inspiration for the quirky character of Uncle Duke in this comic strip Doonesbury |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | JOHNNY GILBERT IS THE ACTION MOVIE CHARACTER $200: "I'm a friend of Sarah Connor. I was told that she's here. Could I see her please?... Where is she?... I'll be back" the Terminator |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | JOHNNY GILBERT IS THE ACTION MOVIE CHARACTER $400: "Oh, I'm very sorry, Hans... I figured since I waxed Tony & Marco & his friend here I figured you & Karl & Franco might be a little lonely" (John) McClane |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | JOHNNY GILBERT IS THE ACTION MOVIE CHARACTER $600: "No retreat. no surrender. That is Spartan law & by Spartan law we will stand & fight & die" King Leonidas |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | JOHNNY GILBERT IS THE ACTION MOVIE CHARACTER $800: "You're thinking, 'did he fire 6 shots or only 5?'... You've gotta ask yourself a question. 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" Dirty Harry |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | JOHNNY GILBERT IS THE ACTION MOVIE CHARACTER $1000: "Servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius... husband to a murdered wife, & I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next" Maximus |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | PLAY CHARACTERS $1000: This title character helps fellow soldier Christian de Neuvillette with his love letters Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | STORY TIME $600: Readers discovered "The Secret Life of" this James Thurber character in the March 18, 1939 issue of the New Yorker Walter Mitty |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | STORY TIME $800: This rabbit-loving character calls a woman "purty"; that relationship ends in an extremely awful way, as does his life Lennie |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | READERS, DIGEST $400: This character "had been trying to get the honey-jar off his head. The more he shook it, the more tightly it stuck" Winnie-the-Pooh |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | READERS, DIGEST $2000: Split cod is on an earlier menu for this Dinesen title character but after winning the French lottery, her feast is in order Babette |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | AMERICAN IDLE $600: Movie character Jeffrey Lebowski, a slacker mainly interested in drinking & bowling, prefers to be addressed as this "The Dude" (Duderino) |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | SITCOMS $400: This series came to an end in 2021 with Allison Janney's character still sober Mom |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | FIRST NAMES WITH CHARACTER $400: This sister of Rumer & Tallulah Willis was named for a character in "To Kill a Mockingbird" Scout |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | MOVIE REWARDS $600: In a 1994 film this character receives a Medal of Honor from LBJ after being wounded "in the buttocks" Forrest Gump |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | FIRST NAMES WITH CHARACTER $800: The daughter of Michelle Williams & Heath Ledger is named for this Roald Dahl book Matilda |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | FIRST NAMES WITH CHARACTER $1200: In the U.S., this first name from "Gone with the Wind" is more often given to girls, but boy band & Broadway star Parker Angel has it Ashley |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | FIRST NAMES WITH CHARACTER $1600: Dwayne Johnson named a daughter this, also the first Black Disney princess Tiana |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | FIRST NAMES WITH CHARACTER $2000: Known for period dramas like George Eliot adaptations, actress Garai has this first name of an Eliot title character Romola |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | WRITING THE GOVERNESS $400: This title Austen character claims credit for the marriage of Mr. Weston to Miss Taylor, her former governess Emma |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | MOVIE STARS $1200: In "Interstellar", a character wishes he could see the collapsed star inside Gargantua, one of these a black hole |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | BOREDOM $1600: Madame Bovary is a famously bored literary character; in the original, her look "full of boredom" is full of this French word ennui |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | WRITTEN IN THE DUST $1200: Lucas Beauchamp, a character in this southern author's "Intruder in the Dust", is also in his story collection "Go Down, Moses" Faulkner |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | POPPING OUT POP CULTURE $800: Alan Tudyk crash lands on Earth & his character assumes the form of local doctor Harry Vanderspeigle on this SYFY show Resident Alien |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | DRAFTS $200: In one draft Tolkien had this character stab & kill Smaug, then nearly drown in the dragon's blood Bilbo Baggins |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | FICTIONAL AFRICA $1200: This character had just 2 hours to deal with a coup in Sangala in the TV movie
"24: Redemption" Jack Bauer |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | FICTIONAL AFRICA $2000: In the first movie allowed to shoot inside the U.N., Nicole Kidman had this title job, playing a character from Matobo The Interpreter |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | NOW READ THIS! $1000: Stella Kowalski's sister is this play character who has always depended on the kindness of strangers Blanche DuBois |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | OLD SLANG $1000: From a character in popular entertainment, a Peck's this was a man who didn't obey social norms Peck's Bad Boy |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | THE FLYING... $1600: In 2005 she won a TV Land Award as "Favorite Airborne Character" for her 1960s work as "The Flying Nun" (Sally) Field |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT $200: In an 1843 story, paranormal activity around the holidays convinces this business owner to stop making his employee's life hell (Ebenezer) Scrooge |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT $400: Not actually much development for this man who plots revenge against the Earnshaws, can't get past Cathy's death & also dies Heathcliff |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT $600: In book titles, his development saw him get "Rich" in 1981 & be "at Rest" 9 years later Rabbit |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | COMPOUND WORDS $600: This "Wizard of Oz" character says the only thing he's afraid of is "a lighted match" the Scarecrow |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT $800: He gets a new job with a Mancha, Mancha man who promises future land ownership, but things don't exactly work out Sancho Panza |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT $1000: He tinkers with history at the Ministry of Truth, gets a girlfriend & has a very bad year Winston Smith |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE PEOPLE $1000: Her character Mary Catherine Gallagher was based on her own Catholic school experience Molly Shannon |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | ALLITERATION $1200: To have fun, to enjoy oneself; a character in Shakespeare "must" do this "with the duchess' gold" make merry |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | FROM BOOK TO RETITLED FILM $400: The movie "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" was based on a novel with this other character in the title Charlie |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | THAT ANIMAL HAD A NAME $400: Hotfoot Teddy, a cub that survived a fire, was renamed this for a character who promoted fire safety & became his living symbol Smokey Bear |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | LADIES & GENTLEMEN $1000: We're big fans of this 1892 Oscar Wilde title character who has some serious mother issues Lady Windermere |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | & IN A SUPPORTING ROLE $400: Jurnee Smollett was fantabulous as Black Canary in "Birds of Prey: and the fantabulous emancipation of one" this lead character Harley Quinn |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | NO. 5 $600: In "Monty Python & the Holy Grail", this character tries to toss the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch by counting, "One, two, five!" (King) Arthur |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | ROYALTY AROUND US $800: This novelist switched to his paternal ancestors in the book "Queen", with his enslaved grandma the title character (Alex) Haley |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | TOUGH VOCABULARY $2000: A hillside cable railway; in the novel "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh", it's one of a character's favorite words funicular |
| #8474, aired 2021-09-23 | LITERARY TERMS $600: A sheet of thin metal shares its name with this, a character who contrasts with the hero or heroine foil |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | INSPIRED CHARACTERS $400: Sailor Alexander Selkirk was likely one of several inspirations for this 1719 shipwrecked character Robinson Crusoe |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | MOVIE TIME $600: Marge Champion, the model for this title character of a 1937 Disney film, was briefly married to the animator who developed Goofy Snow White |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | INSPIRED CHARACTERS $2000: Samuel Clemens' own sweetheart Laura Hawkins was the inspiration for this "Tom Sawyer" character (Becky) Thatcher |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | INSPIRED CHARACTERS $4,800 (Daily Double): Leon Rom, a leader of King Leopold's Congo death squad, is thought by some to have inspired this 1902 Joseph Conrad character Kurtz |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $400: Jane Austen described the title character of this novel as "handsome, clever, and rich... with very little to distress or vex her" Emma |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | NEW TO THE OED $2000: If you're acting in a manner meant to win approval for your good character, you're engaging in this 2-word action virtue signaling |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | VENTRILOQUISM FOR DUMMIES $1000: Edgar Bergen's most famous dummy, this character was based on a newsboy but classed up with a monocle & top hat (Charlie) McCarthy |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | ACTION & SUSPENSE NOVELS $200: Truly on a voyage of self-discovery, this Robert Ludlum character has a realization--"The J was for Jason!" (Jason) Bourne |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | THINK BIG! $400: As part of a 2017 promotion, a pair of briefs with a 76-foot-wide waistband was made for this Dav Pilkey kids' book character Captain Underpants |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | EVENTS OF THE 1850s $800: Later the model for a musical character, Buddhist scholar Mongkut was crowned King Rama IV of the nation then called this Siam |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $1600: Micawber, meaning an irresponsible optimist, comes from the name of a character in this Dickens novel David Copperfield |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | NOVELS SINCE 1900 $600: The name of this realtor & Sinclair Lewis title character has come to mean a witless booster (George) Babbitt |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | I'M YOUR HUCKLEBERRY $400: This character was introduced in a classic 1876 novel & got his own book 8 years later Huckleberry Finn |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | HOWDY, SHERIFF $800: Nucky Johnson, who inspired Steve Buscemi's character on this HBO show, was a corrupt sheriff of Atlantic County, New Jersey Boardwalk Empire |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS $1600: Killing her rival & her own kids is how this Euripides title character takes her revenge Medea |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | FROM TV TO FILM $800: In 2 film versions of a TV sitcom, Shelley Long played this character Carol Brady |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | PLAYS $1600: In a Ben Jonson play Voltore ("vulture") hopes to inherit the fortune of this title character whose name means "fox" Volpone |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | POETRY IN MOTION PICTURES $2000: This South American poet is a character in "Il Postino" & his poems like "Ode to the Sea" are featured in it Neruda |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | PLAYING THE PART $800: Alfonso Ribeiro's character of Carlton Banks on this sitcom inspired a famous dance The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | LISTEN UP! $1000: Known for its use in "Star Wars" films, this "scream" wasn't named for a kaiser but for a 1953 film character who got an arrow in the leg Wilhelm (the Wilhelm scream) |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | MINNEAPOLIS: NEWS CLUES $1000: (Hi, I'm Rena Sarigianopoulos.) Returning to the city sidewalk in 2017 after two years of street construction, the statue of this TV character again reminded residents "You're gonna make it after all" Mary Richards |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | OSCAR ACCEPTANCE SPEECHES $1600: Winning for this "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" character, Louise Fletcher said, "I've loved being hated by you" Nurse Ratched |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | WE NEED NEW YOGI BEARS $800: The star of "Justified" needs to get a trunk & tusks to become this character Timothy Elephant |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | LET'S GET SERIOUS $400: In a 2008 superhero film, this character naturally asks, "Why so serious?" the Joker |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | COYOTE $800: A character in the country song "Coyotes" would "sit out under the stars" & "listen while the coyotes" do this howl |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | FICTIONAL BOOKS $800: This Sarah Jessica Parker character wrote the books "Menhattan" & "A Single Life" Carrie Bradshaw |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | FICTIONAL BOOKS $2000: This John Irving character wrote "Procrastination" & "Second Wind of the Cuckold"; mother Jenny wrote "A Sexual Suspect" T.S. Garp |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | & I TOOK THAT PERSONALLY $200: In Act I this Shakespeare character is told to "revenge" his dad's "foul and most unnatural murder" & in Act V, he does Hamlet |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | TV ANIMATION $200: Kaley Cuoco voices this title DC character who wants to become the "Queenpin" of Gotham City Harley Quinn |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | TOYS & GAMES $400: This Sega video game character originally was a hedgehog named Mr. Needlemouse; things have sped up since then Sonic |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | LITERATURE $800: At a dinner party in Shakespeare, Banquo's ghost shows up to torment this title character Macbeth |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | 'TIS SHAKESPEARE $1,000 (Daily Double): "Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me", declares this character before taking her own life Cleopatra |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | THE MASKED MUSICIAN $1600: This Broadway musical title character began haunting the Majestic on Jan. 26, 1988 & stuck around for a while the Phantom of the Opera |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | POP CULTURE RELATIVES? $800: We'd actually love to see a wacky family sitcom with Al Pacino's "Scarface" character & Miley Cyrus' TV one Tony Hannah Montana |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | LIT-POURRI $1600: In this novel by Edith Wharton, the title character & Mattie Silver crash their sled in the woods Ethan Frome |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | AROUND THE GARDEN? $400: It's the mysterious dying utterance of the title character of "Citizen Kane" Rosebud |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | SOME RANDOM INFO $200: Sticky fruits, not blood, are the diet of this type of parrot named for a classic character; check out that hairline Dracula |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | POP CULTURE $400: In 2020 this character was back in "Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime..." Borat |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | CINEMAPOURRI $800: In this film Bogie's character says that Katharine Hepburn's had "ten absurd ideas for my one" The African Queen |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | POP CULTURE TIDBITS $400: This "Sesame Street" character fittingly appears as a census taker in a 2020 public service announcement The Count |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | A MESSY CATEGORY $400: This "Peanuts" character fits the category Pig-Pen |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | TIME LINES $800: "The time has come", this character says, "to talk of many things: of shoes--and ships--and sealing wax--of cabbages--and kings" the Walrus |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | DEUCE $1000: A character in a 2019 film about Le Mans, this executive known as "The Deuce" is shown at that race in the '60s Henry Ford II |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | TV COMEDY CHARACTER NAMES $400: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, playing D.C. politics really, really dirty Selina Meyer |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | TV COMEDY CHARACTER NAMES $800: Julie Bowen, relating to her relatives Claire Dunphy |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | TV COMEDY CHARACTER NAMES $1200: Jon Cryer, 1 of 2.5 men Alan Harper |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | TV COMEDY CHARACTER NAMES $1600: Zach Galifianakis--what a clown or "cloon" Chip Baskets |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | TV COMEDY CHARACTER NAMES $2000: Oh, brother! After some analysis, David Hyde Pierce takes 4 Emmys Niles Crane |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | SUMMER MOVIES $800: Steve Carell voiced the main character & also his twin brother Dru, who was up to no good in this "3" Despicable Me |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | DEATH OF A LITERARY CHARACTER $200: "Upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him... lying on the floor was a dead man... withered" Dorian Gray |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | DEATH OF A LITERARY CHARACTER $400: "The harpoon was darted... (he) stooped to clear it... but the flying turn caught him round the neck" Captain Ahab |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | DEATH OF A LITERARY CHARACTER $600: Nobody at the fair "knew that a grey spider had played the most important part of all. No one was with her when she died" Charlotte |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | DEATH OF A LITERARY CHARACTER $800: "On the bosom where she had drawn her first breath, she quietly drew her last... when morning came... Jo's place was empty" Beth (March) |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | DEATH OF A LITERARY CHARACTER $1000: "'For the rabbits', (he) shouted... George raised the gun and steadied it... the crash of the shot rolled up the hills" Lennie |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | MOVIES ABOUT THE MOVIES $1600: In 1978 this mustachioed actor was the title character in "Hooper", billed as "The Greatest Stuntman Alive" Burt Reynolds |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER FOOTBALL TEAM $200: Scouting report on this title guy: very indecisive hitting holes but has great vision--even of his own father's ghost Hamlet |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER FOOTBALL TEAM $400: At QB, she audibles to get her husband to commit murder & win the title but she literally sleepwalks through the 4th quarter Lady Macbeth |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER FOOTBALL TEAM $600: Starting at WR, as no one catches grief better than her, this Lear daughter does get benched from the play in Acts 2 & 3 Cordelia |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER FOOTBALL TEAM $800: After a big scramble, this guy "of Athens" retires to the wilderness & coaches Alcibiades on sacking the city Timon |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER FOOTBALL TEAM $3,400 (Daily Double): A very outside LB, this guy plays on an island; the son of a witch & a devil, he's a total beast out there! Caliban |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE $200: The name of this quirky alliterative character was inspired by a boomerang toy Roald Dahl had as a boy Willy Wonka |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | 3 "D" $2000: This breed of terrier was named for a character in a 19th century novel the Dandie Dinmont terrier |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | MANE'S THE SAME $800: Eeyore
& Puzzle donkeys |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | DEMONYMS $400: A Haligonian isn't a "Star Wars" TV character, it's a native of this capital of a Canadian province Halifax |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | THE WITCH IS DEAD $800: The White Witch Jadis was killed in battle by this character who appeared to be dead a short time before Aslan |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | POP CULTURE $1000: Mobster & assassin Frank Sheeran is the title character of this 2019 Martin Scorsese mob epic The Irishman |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | YE OLDE SCIENCE $2,000 (Daily Double): Phrenology was based on the idea that a person's character could be determined by feeling the shape of this body part skull |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | CHARACTER-TITLED NOVELS $400: The title teen's prom night is extra-excitiing in this 1974 debut novel Carrie |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | CHARACTER-TITLED NOVELS $800: At 6'6" & 242 pounds this Alabaman is bigger on the page than on the screen but the near-70 I.Q. is about right Forrest Gump |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | CHARACTER-TITLED NOVELS $1200: The narrator of this Nabokov novel tells us that at age 13 he loved a girl named Annabel Lolita |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | CHARACTER-TITLED NOVELS $1600: Husband Alexei is the odd man out in this novel that ends with a terrible way to catch a train Anna Karenina |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | CHARACTER-TITLED NOVELS $2000: This title Defoe heroine has 5 weddings but no funeral Moll Flanders |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | RADIO ON THE TV $400: This title character hosted a psychology advice radio show on KACL in Seattle Frasier (Crane) |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | LEADING FEMALE TV $1600: "Angel of Mercy" is an episode of the show that tells the origin story of this character from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Nurse Ratched |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: When this Bronte character says, "Reader, I married him", she means Mr. Rochester Jane Eyre |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1200: In a 1960 novel Jem Finch says this character "dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch" Boo Radley |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | ACTION FIGURES $200: Fact: This "Office" star sees plenty of action as the title character on Amazon's "Jack Ryan" John Krasinski |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | FUNNY TV SONGS $800: On "How I Met Your Mother", this character redresses all he sees with the jaunty "Nothing Suits Me Like A Suit" Barney Stinson |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | WHAT A BUNCH OF CHARACTERS! $400: If Luke had spoken Dutch, he wouldn't have been so surprised, since part of this character's name is "father" in Dutch Darth Vader |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | LITERARY ANIMALS $800: This "Fantastic" character from a 1970 tale is the bane of poultry farmers Boggis & Bunce Fantastic Mr. Fox |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | WHAT A BUNCH OF CHARACTERS! $1600: On TV in 2020, Tom Ellis had a devil of a time doing double duty as Michael (with an American accent!) as well as this title character Lucifer |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | LITERARY SETTINGS $800: In Thomas Keneally's "Schindler's Ark", the title character is a factory owner in this country Poland |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | TV & FILM $400: Played by Ben Stiller, the character Greg had this last name in the movie "Meet the Parents" Focker |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | ENGLISH DRAMA THAT AIN'T SHAKESPEARE $800: Every character in Ben Jonson's "Volpone" is based on an animal; Corvino on a crow & Volpone on this canine a fox |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | KIM $400: Kim Novak said the way Jimmy Stewart tries to mold her character in this film is similar to what Hollywood did to actresses Vertigo |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | KIPLING CHARACTERS $1000: Kipling knew that this is the Hindi word for "bear"; a character of his sounds just like it bhalu |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | THE PLAY'S THE THING $200: Estragon & Vladimir meet up with Lucky & Pozzo but not the title character of this play, a real Beckett of laughs Waiting for Godot |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | EGG $200: In "Through the Looking-Glass" this nursery rhyme character is depicted as an egg in human form Humpty Dumpty |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | MacGUFFIN $600: A soldier played by Matt Damon in a 1998 movie, this title character is a walking, talking MacGuffin Private Ryan |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | TERRIFIC TV $400: This actor says Logan Roy, his character on "Succession", has become my evil twin Brian Cox |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | TV FINALES $1600: The title character leaves Miami Metro Police Department behind to become a lumberjack Dexter |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | DETECTIVE FICTION $600: (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar presents the clue.) With my co-author, Anna Waterhouse, I've written three mystery novels featuring a very smart man named Mycroft, the older brother of this great literary character Sherlock Holmes |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | LARGE & IN CHARGE $400: This Marvel character was modeled on Frankenstein's monster crossed with Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde the Hulk |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | OPERA SONGS $5,000 (Daily Double): Sung first by Clara, not by either title character, "Summertime & the livin' is easy" in this 20th century opera Porgy and Bess |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | CHICKEN NUGGETS $400: After getting hit on the head with an acorn, this character warns that "The sky is falling" Chicken Little |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | CRACKER JACKS $600: In a 2007 film this character asks, "Why should I sail with any of you? 4 of you have tried to kill me in the past--and one of you succeeded!" Jack Sparrow |
| #8342, aired 2021-02-23 | THE LEGEND OF BAGGY PANTS $600: Here's this golfer, a 5-time U.S. amateur champ, & a character in "The Legend of Bagger Vance" in his baggy pants Bobby Jones |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | PAGING DR. TV! $1600: Freddie Highmore plays Shaun Murphy, the title character on this series The Good Doctor |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | POP CULTURE $1000: Jane is this character's real first name on "Stranger Things" Eleven |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | WHAT DOES NOT KILL US... $800: This Shakespeare character drinks a potion that imitates outward death, but the plan doesn't go as desired Juliet |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | WHAT DOES NOT KILL US... $1000: At the end of this 1982 movie, a replicant spares Harrison Ford's character, perhaps appreciating life in any form Blade Runner |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $400: Man Friday, a devoted helper, originated as a character in this novel Robinson Crusoe |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | FILMS WITH SMALL CASTS $1600: This acting legend plays the only character in 2013's "All Is Lost", about a solo sailor in big trouble on the high seas Robert Redford |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | LITERATURE $200: Former NFL tight end Roberta Muldoon is a character in this John Irving novel The World According to Garp |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | LITERATURE $400: Griffin, the main character in this Wells novel, describes himself as "almost an albino", if he could have been seen The Invisible Man |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | LITERARY VACATIONS $2000: This author married a man she met on a Caribbean vacation; her character Stella has a similar experience (Terry) McMillan |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | TV-POURRI $1200: Nick Offerman played this gruff but lovable mustachioed character on "Parks and Recreation" Ron Swanson |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | LETTER PERFECT CINEMA $600: In a 2006 film Natalie Portman is rescued by Hugo Weaving, who played this mask-wearing character V |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | 5 "E" $1200: In sociology this term describes the basic character of a culture ethos |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $800: "1984" begins with this character entering the glass doors of Victory Mansions (Winston) Smith |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $2000: This novel with a biblical title by Toni Morrison follows the life of a character named Milkman Dead Song of Solomon |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | POLY ESTHER $2,200 (Daily Double): She used her experiences as a Smith college student for the character of Esther Greenwood in "The Bell Jar" Plath |
| #8316, aired 2021-01-18 | THE FICTIONAL HOUSEWIVES OF NEW YORK $800: In a 1945 E.B. White kids' book, Eleanor is the mom of this tiny title character who can crawl inside a piano to fix keys Stuart Little |
| #8316, aired 2021-01-18 | BRITISH SPYCRAFT $1000: This alliterative author served in MI6 & used his real code number for a character in "Our Man in Havana" Graham Greene |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | THE NAME IS THE TV TITLE $800: It's not set in fairy tale Germany but in Portland & the lead character is Burkhardt Grimm |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | RICK'S ROLE $1600: In 2016 Ricky Gervais was back as this "Office" character in "Life on the Road" David Brent |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | TELEVISION $400: Taking its name from a George Orwell character, this show with housemates under surveillance has watchers all over the world Big Brother |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | LITERARY KINGS $2,200 (Daily Double): As a title character he's only a prince, but Caspian eventually becomes a king in this fantasy land Narnia |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | CAVEAT SCULPTOR $800: Sir George Frampton did the statue of this J.M. Barrie character that's in Kensington Gardens Peter Pan |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | THE LITERARY CHARACTER'S OCCUPATION $200: Ms. Ratched; also Catherine Barkley in "A Farewell to Arms" a nurse |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | THE LITERARY CHARACTER'S OCCUPATION $400: Hannibal Lecter, before he's put away--this kind of doctor a psychiatric doctor |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | THE LITERARY CHARACTER'S OCCUPATION $600: Kinsey Millhone in 25 novels a detective |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | THE MOVIES $600: (I'm Ryan Reynolds.) In my 2020 movie, "Free Guy", I play a bank teller who comes to realize that he's really an NPC, short for this kind of character in an open-world video game a non-player character |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | THE LITERARY CHARACTER'S OCCUPATION $800: Howard Roark in "The Fountainhead" an architect |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | THE LITERARY CHARACTER'S OCCUPATION $1000: Nathan Zuckerman, created by Philip Roth a writer |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | LITERATURE $400: The lead character of this 2008 novel owes her last name to the heroine Bathsheba Everdene in "Far From the Madding Crowd" The Hunger Games |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | AUDIO DRAMAS $1200: "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?"--this radio title character aka Lamont Cranston knew The Shadow |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | TV COMEDIES $200: In 2001 this "Friends" character married Chandler Bing Monica |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | THIS & THAT $600: Sanrio created this character with a feline name in 1974; her status as a cat--it's complicated Hello Kitty |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | AT THE MOVIES $400: Chad Stahelski, stunt double for the character Neo in this 1999 film, went on to direct John Wick movies The Matrix |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | FICTIONAL PLACES $200: The sole survivor of a shipwreck, this title character washes up on a desolate island on Sept. 30, 1659 Robinson Crusoe |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | LITERARY VIDEO GAMES $400: Based on "Hamlet", "Elsinore" has you play as this character; perhaps you might not drown Ophelia |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | MOVIE GOOFS $1200: In "Tombstone", rain pours down on this Kurt Russell character but just ahead up the street, we see it's completely dry Wyatt Earp |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | DOLL "R"s $400: A Disney doll of this "Tangled" character comes with a brush Rapunzel |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | JUMP $400: Before a big jump in a 1969 film, the Sundance Kid says, "I can't swim" & this character says, "The fall will probably kill ya" Butch Cassidy |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | JUMP $2000: Pedro gets "3 feet of air" in a sweet jump off a bicycle ramp in this 2004 comedy; the title character meets his Waterloo, wiping out Napoleon Dynamite |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | BIG ADJECTIVES $400: It comes before "Mouse" in the name of an animated character of great strength & courage Mighty |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Smitten with the title character, a Polish refugee, Stingo narrates this William Styron novel Sophie's Choice |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | EVERYTHING'S JAKE $1000: Surname of the Jake character played by John Belushi Blues |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | MASKS $200: "Who Was That Masked Man?" is a book about this title character from radio, TV & movies the Lone Ranger |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | MASKS $2,000 (Daily Double): In this French novel, a singer named Christine longs to see beneath the mask of the title character The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | 37 IS HEAVEN $800: The character of Rick Blaine in this classic movie is 37 years old Casablanca |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | BOOKS BY SUBTITLE $400: 1995:
"The Life and Times of" a certain "Wizard of Oz" character Wicked |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | YOUNG MAN OR WOMAN $400: In a 1985 film the "Young" this character fences against Moriarty in boarding school Young Sherlock Holmes |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | YOUNG MAN OR WOMAN $1200: "The Young" this character "Chronicles" TV series featured the adventurer in his pre-college & pre-movie days Indiana Jones |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | YOUNG MAN OR WOMAN $2000: This actor, not Peter Boyle, is the title character in "Young Frankenstein" Gene Wilder |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | 3-NAMED MARYS $600: On "24", Mary Lynn Rajskub was the very efficient Chloe O'Brian, helping this Kiefer Sutherland character Jack Bauer |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | TV NOIR $1200: In the 1963 first episode of this drama, the fleeing title character tends bar in Tucson & falls for the piano player The Fugitive |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | MOVIE SEQUELS $400: In the Spanish language version of this 1991 sequel, the title character says, "Sayonara, baby" before defeating his foe The Terminator (Terminator 2) |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | OPERA $1600: The title character of "Norma" is a high priestess of this Celtic class the Druids |
| #8264, aired 2020-10-22 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1,000 (Daily Double): This title character says, "I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose?" Dorian Gray |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | LITERARY QUOTES $400: This title character: "On the first of September 1651, I went on board a ship bound for London" Robinson Crusoe |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | POP CULTURE $1000: This "Simpsons" character once sold haggis from a booth for 50 cents a serving (Groundskeeper) Willie |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $400: Tennessee Williams modeled the character of Laura Wingfield in this play after his own sister The Glass Menagerie |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | 2-WORD TV TITLES $800: In this 2020 reboot, Matthew Rhys as the title character starts out as a private eye, then becomes a defense lawyer Perry Mason |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | BEHIND THE VOICES $400: Charles Martinet says, "It's-a me!", the catchphrase of this video game character Mario |
| #8254, aired 2020-10-08 | BEER/ME! $600: A "Streetcar" character came to life when a vendor at Phillies games shouted this first name, trying to sell a Belgian beer Stella |
| #8254, aired 2020-10-08 | JAMES BOND $800: After playing this character in 17 Bond films, Desmond Llewelyn made his final exit through a laboratory trap door Q |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | THE LIBRARIAN INVASIONS $400: Rupert Giles was watcher & trainer to the title character of this TV series--Sunnydale High librarian was more of a side job Buffy the Vampire Slayer |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | ANIMATED FILMS $400: The wife of this "Toy Story" character says, "I'm packing you an extra pair of shoes, & your angry eyes, just in case" Mr. Potato Head |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | BRITISH ACTRESSES $1600: Character actress Margaret Rutherford was known in later life for playing this sleuth in several films of the 1960s Miss Marple |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | MOVIE THRILLERS $800: This 2020 thriller based on an H.G. Wells novel had the title character as an abusive ex stalking Elisabeth Moss The Invisible Man |
| #8245, aired 2020-09-25 | GUYS NAMED DOUG $600: Magician Doug Henning played this title character in a Broadway musical about a medieval magician Merlin |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | FANGS A LOT! $400: You can get custom designer fangs of this classic lit character for $19.99 at Party City, just like the author intended Dracula |
| #8243, aired 2020-09-23 | TV INSPIRATIONS $600: The name of Idris Elba's character on this HBO show comes from Baltimore criminals Bernard "Stringer" Reed & Roland Bell The Wire |
| #8243, aired 2020-09-23 | TV INSPIRATIONS $800: Preet Bharara was reportedly an inspiration for Paul Giamatti's character on this Showtime drama set in the financial world Billions |
| #8243, aired 2020-09-23 | TV INSPIRATIONS $1000: Women's wrestling director Matt Cimber is an inspiration for Marc Maron's character on this show set in the 1980s GLOW |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | 6-LETTER WORDS $2000: A common character flaw in ancient Greek tragedy was this, meaning excessive pride hubris |
| #8236, aired 2020-09-14 | ROLE WITH THE CHANGES $2000: In "Roots" LeVar Burton played the younger version of this character; John Amos played the adult Kunta Kinte |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | PLAYING THE VILLAIN $1200: Played with cackling excellence by Ian McDiarmid, this character returned from the dead in "Star Wars: Episode IX" Emperor Palpatine |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | EMMA-NATION $600: Diana Rigg's character on this show got her name from the "man appeal" or "M. appeal" the producers wanted The Avengers |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | FORGETFUL SEQUELS $400: This 2018 horror movie is a sequel to the 1978 original & skips over the 2002 sequel where Jamie Lee Curtis' character is killed Halloween |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | WE MISS YOU, MISTER ROGERS $600: Margaret Hamilton visited Mr. Rogers in 1975 to help kids understand make-believe & not fear this "Wizard of Oz" character the Wicked Witch of the West |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | SUMMER READING $800: In the prequel novel "Summer & the City", this Candace Bushnell character discovers New York City Carrie Bradshaw |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | OPERA & BALLET $1200: Pat Garrett is a character in the ballet named for this outlaw Billy the Kid |
| #8222, aired 2020-05-26 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $600: When "One Shot" by Lee Child came to the big screen, it was named this, after the main character Jack Reacher |
| #8222, aired 2020-05-26 | SCHOOLHOUSE ROCKS $1200: We learned that this rock is pretty cool, like the recent Eddie Murphy movie character with the sound-alike name dolomite |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | THAT WORD IS QUITE A CHARACTER $400: A form of Dolores, this name is now associated with "nymphet" thanks to Nabokov Lolita |
| #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 |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | THAT WORD IS QUITE A CHARACTER $1200: This character played by Anne Bancroft is now a term for an older woman dating a younger man Mrs. Robinson |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | THAT WORD IS QUITE A CHARACTER $1600: This alliterative "SNL" character is a term for a habitually negative person Debbie Downer |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | THAT WORD IS QUITE A CHARACTER $2000: This Woody Allen character became a word for a chameleon-like person who turns up everywhere Zelig |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | TOTALLY AWESOME '80s TV $1600: Not Hawkeye but this "M*A*S*H" tentmate became the title character of an '80s drama Trapper John |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | I'M JUST WILD ABOUT HARRY $1600: This late character actor played "Repo Man" Bud & Molly Ringwald's dad in "Pretty in Pink" Harry Dean Stanton |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $400: Sick of this character who talks to animals, Hugh Lofting tried to end the series with him "in the Moon"; didn't work Doctor Dolittle |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | FICTIONAL TV TOWNS & CITIES $400: On this show, the title character slayed them, she really slayed them in Sunnydale, California Buffy the Vampire Slayer |
| #8208, aired 2020-04-22 | A MARRIAGE MADE IN LITERATURE $200: Anna Oblonsky is the maiden name of this title character Anna Karenina |
| #8208, aired 2020-04-22 | A MARRIAGE MADE IN LITERATURE $1000: This 1966 novel is about the first marriage of the character Mr. Rochester from "Jane Eyre" Wide Sargasso Sea |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: On "Game of Thrones", Peter Dinklage's character was called this word, which means a mischievous child imp |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | LITERARY TERMS $600: From Greek words for "first" & "actor", it's the main character in a story protagonist |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | WHAT A CHARACTER $400: AKA Padfoot, this man didn't let taking the fall for Peter Pettigrew get in the way of being a good godfather to Harry Potter Sirius Black |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | WHAT A CHARACTER $800: Jonathan & Mina Harker are characters in this classic novel from 1897 Dracula |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | WHAT A CHARACTER $1200: The oldest of the Three Musketeers, he is a mentor to d'Artagnan Athos |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | WHAT A CHARACTER $1600: Taking the job as Lord Chamberlain of Denmark was not very fortunate for this man, nor for his children Ophelia & Laertes Polonius |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | WHAT A CHARACTER $2000: In a novel by Charlotte Bronte, Bertha Mason, first wife of this man, didn't get out of the house much Rochester |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | FILM SCHOOLS $1200: East Los Angeles College, not the University of Alabama, is where this Tom Hanks character shows his football prowess Forrest Gump |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | FILM CHARACTERS $800: This character sings, "Do you want to build a snowman? Come on, let's go and play" Anna |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | SHOOTING THE GODFATHER MOVIES $400: In the 1972 film "The Godfather", this actor as the title character is hit by 5 bullets but survives Marlon Brando |
| #8193, aired 2020-04-01 | HUGH JACKMAN $200: In "Les Miserables" Hugh hit the high notes as on-the-run prisoner 24601, better known as this character Jean Valjean |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | MOVIE TITLE FEMALES $400: In 2019 Angelina Jolie returned as this title character: "Mistress of Evil" Maleficent |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | MOVIE TITLE FEMALES $1200: As this 2007 title character, Ellen Page remarks, "I could, like, have this baby and give it to someone who totally needs it" Juno |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | COMEDIA DELL'ARTE CHARACTERS $800: The word "pants" comes from the name of this villainous character who wore long red trousers Pantalone |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | "CH" SQUARED $1200: Alan Moore created this "Watchmen" character as a bad version of Batman, & cringed a bit when fans idolized him Rorschach |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | THE OSCARS $400: This longtime TV character was originally orange but he said a vacation to swamp mushy muddy turned him green overnight Oscar the Grouch |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | RUNNING GAGS $600: Running gags on "How I Met Your Mother" included Marshall having the right to slap this smarmy character, even at his wedding Barney |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | TV STARS $400: Media moguls Rupert Murdoch & Sumner Redstone were inspirations for Brian Cox' character on this HBO family drama Succession |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | TV STARS $800: After 12 seasons, in 2011 Christopher Meloni said goodbye to his character Elliot Stabler on this drama Law and Order: SVU |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | 1940s LITERATURE $400: Mollie the mare is a minor character in this George Orwell novel Animal Farm |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | THE COMICS $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Cartoonist Mort Walker called the stars over a drunken character "squeans", and gave the name "waftaroms" to the wavy lines indicating this smell |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | MUSICALS $800: (I'm Iain Armitage.) The Broadway musical "Hamilton" runs in my family--my dad, Euan Morton, played King George III & I got to rap as the title character while sitting on this composer's shoulders! (Lin-Manuel) Miranda |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: Seen here is the title character of this 2017 book, also the title of a 1954 novel about a very evil little girl The Bad Seed |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | HIGH WATER $200: A lake high on Mount Kenya shares its name with this main character in "The Lion King" Simba |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | HELLER $1000: Like his character Yossarian, "Catch-22" author Joseph Heller was this 10-letter type of airman who must be on target a bombardier |
| #8172, aired 2020-03-03 | LITERARY TWINS $1000: This alliterative title Dickens character works for the wealthy Cheeryble twins & his sister Kate marries their nephew Nicholas Nickleby |
| #8172, aired 2020-03-03 | IMPOSTOR! $2000: In this Molière play AKA "The Impostor", the title character wreaks havoc on Orgon's family Tartuffe |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $800: Aunt Chloe is married to the title character of this 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $1000: This character begins his story with his own conception, so his father, Walter Shandy, is an important figure Tristram Shandy |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | CRANKY TV CHARACTERS $1200: Tentacles is the last name of this character, SpongeBob's cantankerous co-worker at the Krusty Krab Squidward |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | CRANKY TV CHARACTERS $1600: This cranky TV news director character on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" later got his own show Lou Grant |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | "INCH" WORD, "INCH" WORD... $600: Boris Karloff voiced this animated character in 1966 the Grinch |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | ONLY THE GOOD CHARACTERS DIE YOUNG $7,000 (Daily Double): After saving some kids' lives in "The Outsiders", Johnny tells this main character to stay gold, then joins our category Ponyboy |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | KEROUAC $400: In Kerouac's novel "The Subterraneans", a version of this beat poet & friend appears as the character Adam Moorad Ginsberg |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | GEOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING $800: The main character in this musical is a Vietnamese bargirl named Kim Miss Saigon |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | TV DRAMA $1000: Eddie Marsan, Dash Mihok & Jon Voight play family members of this Showtime title character Ray Donovan |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | KNICKKNACK $1200: Your nursery rhyme character figurines are adorable, especially this "merry old soul" Old King Cole |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | KEROUAC $2000: In the novel "On the Road", this "heavenly" character is the narrator & Kerouac's alter ego Sal Paradise |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | TRIAL MIX $400: A minor character in "The Crucible", the real Martha Corey was tried, excommunicated & hanged for this in 1692 witchcraft |
| #8157, aired 2020-02-11 | GOT A DeVITO $200: As this character in "Batman Returns", Danny DeVito kidnaps, murders &, even worse, enters politics! the Penguin |
| #8157, aired 2020-02-11 | GOT A DeVITO $800: Voicing this title Dr. Seuss character in a 2012 animated film, DeVito said, "I speak for the trees!" the Lorax |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | THE ILIAD $800: The main character & the greatest Greek warrior, he leads the Myrmidons against the Trojans Achilles |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | CIVIL RIGHTS & WRONGS $1200: In 1828 actor Thomas Rice began playing a blackface character named this, a term later used to describe racist laws Jim Crow |
| #8152, aired 2020-02-04 | MONUMENTAL TELEVISION $200: A Milwaukee statue of Henry Winkler's "Happy Days" character is rhymingly called "The Bronze" this Fonz |
| #8152, aired 2020-02-04 | MONUMENTAL TELEVISION $400: A statue in Salem, Massachusetts honoring this 1960s sitcom has the main character riding a broomstick Bewitched |
| #8152, aired 2020-02-04 | MONUMENTAL TELEVISION $1000: A statue of this Jackie Gleason character graces the New York Port Authority Bus Terminal Ralph Kramden |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | UNFILMED NOVELS $400: Jerry Lewis was among those who desperately wanted to play him, J.D. Salinger's most famous character Holden Caulfield |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | RUSSIAN ART & CULTURE $2000: In this Stravinsky ballet, the title character gives Prince Ivan a magical feather after he captures & releases her The Firebird |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA? $2000: From the Greek for "moral character", this discipline is concerned with right & wrong ethics |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $400: Geryon, a character in one of this hero's labors, falls in love with him in Anne Carson's "The Autobiography of Red" Hercules |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $1600: The title character of Margaret Atwood's "The Penelopiad" tells the story of running this kingdom while waiting for Odysseus to get back Ithaca |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | ROCK OPERAS $1600: Pink Floyd is the band & the main character in this 1979 rock opera The Wall |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | NUMERICAL CHARACTERS $2000: On "Star Trek: Voyager", this techno-species designated Jeri Ryan's character Seven of Nine & it sorta stuck the Borg |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | FROM THE GREEK $200: A dramatic play in which the main character is brought to ruin in an unhappy ending a tragedy |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | IT'S THE GIELGUD MOVIE OF THE YEAR $2000: 1981 was the year of Gielgud's Oscar-winning turn as this character's butler Arthur |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | "I" WROTE $800: Doctor Stockmann is the crusading title character in this playwright's "An Enemy of the People" Ibsen |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | MUSIC & LEGEND $1200: She's the title character singing in a Purcell opera after Aeneas has left her Dido |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | AUDIBLE $1600: Frances McDormand introduces us to a beloved character in this first book in a series by Armistead Maupin
Mary Ann Singleton was twenty-five years old when she saw San Francisco for the first time Tales of the City |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | LITERALLY STUPID ANSWERS $600: Archie Bunker called Edith this, also an ornamental typographical character dingbat |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | NOT AN ARMCHAIR EXPERT $200: (Dax Shepard delivers the clue.) Paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews, who may have inspired the character of Indiana Jones, discovered the first of these objects that never got to hatch a dinosaur egg |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | A LITERARY NEW YEAR $3,000 (Daily Double): This character's January 1 diary entry counts Bloody Marys as food ("as contain Worcester sauce & tomatoes") Bridget Jones |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | IT'S CHARLIE! $200: This character first appeared in a comic strip called "Li'l Folks" Charlie Brown |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | EDIBLE POP CULTURE $400: In a 1982 film a trail of Reese's Pieces draws this marooned title character out from hiding E.T. |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | WORDS SHAKESPEARE ONLY USED ONCE $400: In conspiring against Othello, this character utters the only instance of "favourably" Iago |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | WORDS SHAKESPEARE ONLY USED ONCE $1600: This character complains to Antony about Cleopatra's "contestation" Octavius |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | WORDS SHAKESPEARE ONLY USED ONCE $2000: In this character's fight with Hermia in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", she utters the bard's only use of "bashfulness" Helena |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | THE TV SHOW MUST GO ON $200: Edith was killed off, but the series called this character's "Place" endured for a couple more seasons Archie Bunker's Place |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | CHRISTMAS RAPPING $400: Tyler, the Creator raps, "I am" this character, "Tell your homeboy in a red suit to chill, before I ban him from Who-ville" the Grinch |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | MOVIE EXCHANGES $400: Young Jenny: "What's wrong with your legs?" This character: "Nothin' at all, thank you. My legs are just fine and dandy" Forrest Gump |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | TV MOMS $400: This character was mom to Marcia, Jan, Cindy, Greg, Peter & Bobby Carol (Brady) |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | TV MOMS $1000: During the run of this comedy, actress Debra Jo Rupp & her character Kitty Forman both quit smoking That '70s Show |
| #8111, aired 2019-12-09 | POKÉMON $200: Pikachu, the most iconic Pokémon character, has shown up as a 50' balloon in this annual U.S. parade Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade |
| #8106, aired 2019-12-02 | TV PEOPLE $600: This children's character played by Bob Keeshan wasn't Australian; he was named for the large pouches in his coat Captain Kangaroo |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | I GOT THE BLUES $800: Katy Perry voiced this blue animated movie character with blonde hair Smurfette |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | KLAUS ENCOUNTERS $800: Klaus Baudelaire is a character in this 13-book "Series" A Series of Unfortunate Events |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | CHARACTERS IN THE AENEID $400: The main character, Aeneas survives the fall of Troy & is destined to be the ancestor of this great civilization Rome |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | CLASSIC AMERICAN PLAYS $400: This Arthur Miller character makes his way "on a smile and a shoeshine" Willy Loman |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1200: "Rug-cutting" 1984 Bruce Springsteen tune about Sophie Turner's title X-Men character who plays NBA hoops in Arizona "Dancing In The Dark" Phoenix Suns |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | FEMALE FIRSTS $8,600 (Daily Double): Kathryn Bigelow became Oscar's first female Best Director for this film with only one named female character The Hurt Locker |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | MOVIE MONSTERS $200: In this 1941 monster movie, Lon Chaney Jr. is transformed into the hirsute title character The Wolf Man |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | A WRITER'S LIFE FOR ME $3,000 (Daily Double): Echoing the title character of a book by his great uncle, he assumed the surname Melmoth after leaving prison in 1897 Oscar Wilde |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $1000: Don Woods, the first weatherman on KTUL, created Gusty, the official cartoon character of this tornado-prone state Oklahoma |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | HAIL, CAESAR! $400: The character King Kaiser is based on Sid Caesar in this 1982 Peter O'Toole film set in the world of 1950s TV My Favorite Year |
| #8089, aired 2019-11-07 | SINGERS $200: This redhead is in the film "Yesterday", telling Himesh Patel's character to change "Hey Jude" to "Hey Dude" Ed Sheeran |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT! $400: The only actor to perform in all the "Star Wars" movies is Anthony Daniels, who plays this character C-3PO |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | POP CULTURE $800: Helga in her horned helmet is the demanding wife of this comic strip character Hägar the Horrible |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $1600: Hemingway's collections "In Our Time" & "Men Without Women" feature this character based partly on Hemingway Nick Adams |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $5,400 (Daily Double): Jilted on her wedding day, this Dickens character teaches her ward Estella to despise men Miss Havisham |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | FICTIONAL FLAGS FLYING $4,000 (Daily Double): After arriving by submarine, this character claims the South Pole with a black flag bearing a gold "N" Captain Nemo |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | AMERICAN GOTHIC $800: In 1798's "Wieland", the 1st Amer. Gothic novel, a character seems to die from this: "In a moment, the whole was reduced to ashes" spontaneous combustion |
| #8079, aired 2019-10-24 | BEHIND THE MUSICAL TITLE $1600: "Professor" Harold Hill is the title character of this 1957 show The Music Man |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | A TREE GROWS IN BOOK LAND $1000: After this title character accepts Rochester's proposal, lightning splits a chestnut tree at Thornfield Hall Jane Eyre |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | GAME OF CLONES $1600: This author was able to revive the character Duncan Idaho when he introduced clones called ghola in "Dune Messiah" (Frank) Herbert |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | KURT VONNEGUT $2,800 (Daily Double): Sci-fi author Theodore Sturgeon was the inspiration for this recurring Vonnegut character who also had a fishy name (Kilgore) Trout |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew at Texas Beeworks in Austin.) In the story "His Last Bow", this fictional character says of his retirement, "I live and keep bees upon the South Downs," and shows Dr. Watson the book he wrote on beekeeping Sherlock Holmes |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1200: The title character of this Thomas Hardy novel has the last name Fawley & works as a stonemason Jude the Obscure |
| #8061, aired 2019-09-30 | FUN-TO-SAY QUOTATIONS $400: In an Edward Lear poem, this character says to the Owl, "O let us be married! too long we have tarried" the Pussycat |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | HIP-HOP MUSICIANS' REAL NAMES $400: A "Peanuts" character is the source of this stage name that Calvin Broadus uses Snoop Dogg |
| #8055, aired 2019-09-20 | 2019 MOVIES $400: Tyler Perry said this woman's "Family Funeral" would be the last time he plays the iconic character Madea |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Alfred Uhry based the character of Hoke in this play on the black chauffeur of his childhood Driving Miss Daisy |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | ART & ARTISTS $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) For "The Judgment of Paris", a collaboration with the engraver Raimondi, Raphael depicted one reclining figure by reversing the posture of this title character in a famous work by Michelangelo Adam |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | FANTASY ISLAND $400: This title character travels to the islands of Laputa & Lilliput Gulliver |
| #8046, aired 2019-09-09 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY CHARACTER $400: Fraulein Schneider & the Master of Ceremonies Cabaret |
| #8046, aired 2019-09-09 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY CHARACTER $800: Velma Kelly & her lawyer Billy Flynn Chicago |
| #8046, aired 2019-09-09 | PARTS OF SPEECHES $800: MLK, 1963:
"They will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of..." their character |
| #8046, aired 2019-09-09 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY CHARACTER $1200: Laurey,
Curly,
Jud Fry Oklahoma! |
| #8046, aired 2019-09-09 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY CHARACTER $1600: Danny,
Sandy,
Rizzo Grease |
| #8046, aired 2019-09-09 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY CHARACTER $2000: Max von Mayerling,
Norma Desmond Sunset Boulevard |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | INFAMOUS WOMEN $2000: A character on "Black Sails", this real-life pirate escaped execution by hanging when it was discovered that she was pregnant Anne Bonny |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | THE POWERS THAT BE $200: This character remarked to Elizabeth Hurley in a 1997 movie, "Danger's my middle name", baby Austin Powers |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | ENTRANCE MUSIC $2000: Bellini wrote a dramatic march for the entrance of this opera title character, a Druid priestess Norma |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | ENTRANCE MUSIC $4,000 (Daily Double): An authentic Japanese song was adapted into "Miya Sama", sung at the entrance of this Gilbert & Sullivan title character Mikado |
| #8039, aired 2019-07-18 | COMIC STRIPS $1200: Lincoln Peirce created this character, who's actually just 4 1/2 feet tall Big Nate |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | FICTION $400: Near the end of this Ray Bradbury novel, a character talks about the phoenix, a mythical bird reborn from the ashes of fire Fahrenheit 451 |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN $600: Nucky Johnson, who inspired Steve Buscemi's character on "Boardwalk Empire", became sheriff of this city in 1908 Atlantic City |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | POTPOURRI $400: A misheard word may have led Charles Perrault to make this character's shoes verre, "of glass", not vair, "of fur' Cinderella |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! $1000: The 2003 novel "Gilligan's Wake" gives this TV character a backstory as a WWII PT boat captain hanging with JFK the Skipper |
| #8036, aired 2019-07-15 | KILLED OFF THE TV SHOW $400: In 2015 Dr. Derek Shepherd, Patrick Dempsey's character on this show, could not be resuscitated Grey's Anatomy |
| #8036, aired 2019-07-15 | KILLED OFF THE TV SHOW $800: After getting impaled on "South Park", this Isaac Hayes character was the meal for a bear & a mountain lion Chef |
| #8036, aired 2019-07-15 | KILLED OFF THE TV SHOW $1000: Dean Norris played this character who ended up on the wrong end of the gun on "Breaking Bad" Hank |
| #8033, aired 2019-07-10 | LITERATURE $600: The name of this Moliere character was based on a word for "truffle" Tartuffe |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | SECOND BOOK IN THE SERIES $800: This character's "Supremacy" reigned following his "Identity" Jason Bourne |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | LITERATURE FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE $3,000 (Daily Double): Unseen in the Shakespeare play, Rosaline gets her story told in the book titled this character's "Ex" Romeo |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | A GEM OF A TALE $1600: The Crystal Gems on this Cartoon Network show are Pearl, Amethyst, Garnet & Steven, who is half gem & the title character Steven Universe |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | SHAKESPEARE'S CONTEMPORARIES $800: Thomas Kyd's "The Spanish Tragedy" started a trend in plays about this need to get even; a character in it is even named that revenge |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | IN THE TV ROOM $600: Here's Peyton Elizabeth Lee, who plays the title character of this Disney Channel series Andi Mack |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | THE DC UNIVERSE $1000: In "Justice League", this Jason Momoa character admits, "I don't want to die. I'm young. There's (stuff) that I want to do" Aquaman |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | "O" IS FOR OPERA $200: A moving scene in Ambroise Thomas' opera "Hamlet" includes the funeral procession of this character Ophelia |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | MEERKAT MANNERS $400: A meerkat at the San Diego zoo served as an animator's model for this character in "The Lion King" Timon |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | "O" IS FOR OPERA $800: Richard Strauss' "Elektra" has a big recognition scene between the title character & him Orestes |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | QUOTING THE SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER $400: "Tell me, my daughters... which of you shall we say doth love us most" King Lear |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | QUOTING THE SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER $1200: "For Brutus is an honourable man; so are they all, all honourable men" Marc Antony |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | QUOTING THE SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER $1600: "Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'" Henry V |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | QUOTING THE SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER $2000: "Come unto these yellow sands, and then take hands" Ariel |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | QUOTING THE SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER $3,000 (Daily Double): "I see their knavery. This is to make an ass of me" Bottom |
| #8012, aired 2019-06-11 | LITERARY GREEN THUMB $4,200 (Daily Double): In "Through the Looking-Glass", Alice meets a talking one of these flowers, also a character's name in "Peter Pan" a tiger lily |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | ACCENT MARKS & SPECIAL LETTERS $1200: The German eszett character seen here is often represented by two of these letters in a row S's |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | AMERICAN INGENUITY $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a trade figure at the Mercer Museum.) Trade figures were designed to draw attention to stores; a popular one was this character every kid knew from puppet shows Punch |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1000: John the Savage is a central character in this classic novel set in the year 632 AF (After Ford) Brave New World |
| #8008, aired 2019-06-05 | VANS $600: She's the bossy but beloved character seen here Lucy van Pelt |
| #8008, aired 2019-06-05 | SLEEPWALKING THROUGH LIFE $1200: This young Johanna Spyri character begins to sleepwalk due to her homesickness for the Swiss Alps Heidi |
| #8008, aired 2019-06-05 | BOOK SERIES $1600: Diana Gabaldon gave Lord John Grey, an important recurring character in this series, a series of his own Outlander |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | LITERATURE $400: In a 1923 book by Kahlil Gibran, Almustafa is this mystical title character the Prophet |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | "B" SPOKE SHAKESPEARE $2000: Appropriately, this "Romeo & Juliet" character whose name means "good will" says, "I do but keep the peace" Benvolio |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | ACTORS WE MISS $400: John Mahoney came into our homes as Martin Crane, father of this sitcom title character Frasier |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | QUASI-RELATED PAIRS $800: Title for a lord's wife & Charlie Chaplin's classic character Lady and the Tramp |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | ACTORS WE MISS $1200: Tessio in "The Godfather", on the small screen he spun off his show "Fish" from a character he played on "Barney Miller" Abe Vigoda |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | LET'S GO TO THE OPERA $1200: Joan Sutherland used to really nail this character's big mad scene in Lammermoor Castle Lucia |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | A DEGREE IN LITERATURE $200: "'M.D.' means that" this character "was a proper doctor and knew a whole lot"--including animal language Dr. Dolittle |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | ART SCHOOL OF FISH $800: E.S. Hardy's 19th-century depiction of this Hans Christian Andersen character is seen here the Little Mermaid |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | "NEW" ENTERTAINMENT $400: Jess Day was the title character on this Fox sitcom New Girl |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1200: Robert Bloch used serial killer Ed Gein as the basis for this character in "Psycho" Norman Bates |
| #7987, aired 2019-05-07 | SITCOMEDY $400: This Jim Parsons character said, "Howard, you know me to be a very smart man. Don't you think if I were wrong, I'd know it?" Sheldon Cooper |
| #7986, aired 2019-05-06 | CLASSIC NOVELS $400: Mark Twain's childhood sweetheart Laura Hawkins was the basis for Becky Thatcher, beloved of this title character Tom Sawyer |
| #7986, aired 2019-05-06 | IOWA IN ENTERTAINMENT $2000: George Reeves from Woolstock, Iowa was a trained boxer & in 1952 became the first actor to play this character on TV Superman |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | SCI-FI STUFF $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Profiles in History in Calabasas, California.) This maquette was a model for the alien queen who in a classic movie moment faces off against this character, played so powerfully by Sigourney Weaver (Ellen) Ripley |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | VAMPIRE-POURRI $800: This Marvel character from a 1998 movie is described as "Part man. Part vampire. All hero" Blade |
| #7982, aired 2019-04-30 | STAGE CRAFT $2000: The title character of this opera loves a man who serves in the U.S. Navy on the Abraham Lincoln Madame Butterfly |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | MOVIE STORES $400: Some forces were beyond control as Natalie Portman managed this 243-year-old character's "Wonder Emporium" Mr. Magorium |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | INSPECTORS $800: "I thought you said your dog did not bite", says this Peter Sellers film character; he's told in reply, "That is not my dog" (Inspector) Clouseau |
| #7978, aired 2019-04-24 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $1600: Somerset Maugham made himself a character in this novel with a sharp title The Razor's Edge |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | POTPOURRI $400: "Rabbit of Seville" & "Rabbitson Crusoe" are cartoons both featuring this character Bugs Bunny |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | THE AUNT HILL $1000: As Aunty Entity, Tina Turner has some issues in the Thunderdome with this title character Mad Max |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | FEATURE FILM DEBUTS $1200: Tommy Lee Jones first appeared on the big screen as the roommate of Ryan O'Neal's character in this 1970 romance Love Story |
| #7972, aired 2019-04-16 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $800: A 19th century character gives us this word for a penny-pincher scrooge |
| #7972, aired 2019-04-16 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $11,381 (Daily Double): Meaning extremely large, this adjective comes from the name of Rabelais' giant of a 16th century character gargantuan |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This Washington Irving character "fell asleep on the mountain...and every thing's changed--and I'm changed" Rip Van Winkle |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | LOGGER $200: Also the surname of a Twain character, this term refers to someone who processes wood a sawyer |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | STOUT $1000: Here's Herbert Beerbohm Tree as this Shakespeare character Falstaff |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | BOOK TITLE NAMES $800: The title character of this E.B. White book is born 2 inches long, with a tail & whiskers Stuart Little |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | MOVEABLE FEASTS? $400: In 1935 Mickey Mouse was the first cartoon character to appear on these meal containers for kids lunch boxes |
| #7954, aired 2019-03-21 | DICKENS WILL BE THE DEATH OF ME $200: Scrooge starts seeing ghosts following the death of this character Jacob Marley |
| #7954, aired 2019-03-21 | THE ARTS $2,000 (Daily Double): The title character of this drama by Henrik Ibsen is bored by her marriage to Jorgen Tesman Hedda Gabler |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | ALL BETS ARE OFF $2000: This character is in the French title of the fairy tale "Beauty & The Beast" Belle |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | HOLLYWOOD MEMORABILIA $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Profiles in History in Calabasas, CA.) Unseen in "The Wizard of Oz", an elastic chin strap kept the iconic hat on Margaret Hamilton's head during her flying sequences as this character the Wicked Witch of the West |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | NORMAN LEAR, THE FIRST 96 YEARS $400: (Norman Lear delivers the clue.) On "All in the Family", Archie Bunker was based in part on my father & this other character was based in part on my mother Edith Bunker |
| #7944, aired 2019-03-07 | ILLEGAL BABY NAMES $400: We understand Sonora, Mexico banning Robocop, as a name, but this "Harry Potter" character played by Emma Watson? Hermione |
| #7944, aired 2019-03-07 | NATIVE AMERICAN $1 COINS $400: The belt named for this Onondaga title character of a Longfellow poem symbolized the Iroquois Confederacy Hiawatha |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | AROUND THE PACIFIC $2000: Chile's Juan Fernandez Islands include Alejandro Selkirk Island & 1 named for this literary character Robinson Crusoe |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | WHAT'S YOUR NUMBER? $1600: Smaller than pica, this 12-character-per-inch type sounds like it's the best Elite |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | NAME THAT TUNA $200: This tuna character first appeared in a Starkist commercial in 1961 Charlie |
| #7939, aired 2019-02-28 | GO PLAY $2,600 (Daily Double): At Circle in the Square in 1975, George C. Scott earned raves as this Arthur Miller character (Willy) Loman |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | QUOTES OF NOTE $600: In a much-anticipated 2013 TV interview, this cyclist apologized, saying, "I'm a flawed character" Lance Armstrong |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | TV REBOOTED $800: In a 2018 reboot this Candice Bergen character has Corky & Miles back, plus her grown-up son Avery Murphy Brown |
| #7928, aired 2019-02-13 | A REAL HORROR STORY $600: A N.Y. Times review said this Stephen King title character "runs psychically amok" & things go south for her & everyone Carrie (White) |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | BUGS BUNNY CARTOONS $600: Usually chasing a fast-moving bird, this character pursues Bugs in "To Hare is Human" Wile E. Coyote |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | BUGS BUNNY CARTOONS $800: As a mostly unseen animator, Bugs abuses this character in "Duck Amuck" Daffy Duck |
| #7925, aired 2019-02-08 | AVENGERS DISASSEMBLE! $200: Before dealing with the Black Panther, Paul Rudd told this "Anchorman" character about a fragrance called Sex Panther Ron Burgundy |
| #7925, aired 2019-02-08 | WHAT'S IN YOUR BENTO? $400: Who cares what's in the box when you have this iconic Japanese character on the outside? Hello Kitty |
| #7925, aired 2019-02-08 | BYE AGAIN, GEORGE! $800: 2000's reader, Daniel Moynihan, noted this king called Washington "the greatest character of the age" George III |
| #7924, aired 2019-02-07 | EASY LISTENING $200: "It's Not Easy Being Green" is a signature song of this TV character (& it's not the Hulk) Kermit the Frog |
| #7924, aired 2019-02-07 | EPIC POETRY $1600: Blake & Shelley saw this character as the real hero in Milton's "Paradise Lost" & applauded his rebellion against tyranny Satan |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | BRUSHED UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE $600: In "The Merry Wives of Windsor", this comic character courts both Mistress Ford & Mistress Page Falstaff |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | GENERATION "Y" $800: The OED added the name of this "Star Wars" character in 2016 Yoda |
| #7904, aired 2019-01-10 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $4,000 (Daily Double): The name of a 1775 play character gave us this word for an error like "there is no anecdote for the poison" a malapropism |
| #7903, aired 2019-01-09 | THE BOOK'S CENSORED EDITIONS $800: Many passages depicting Basil's love for the title character were cut from editions of this Oscar Wilde book Picture of Dorian Gray |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | CHARACTER MASHUPS $200: Huckleberry Finch
(1884 & 1960) Huckleberry Finn and Scout Finch |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | CHARACTER MASHUPS $400: Fredo Baggins
(1969 & 1954) Fredo Corleone and Bilbo Baggins |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | CHARACTER MASHUPS $600: Holden Copperfield
(1951 & 1850) Holden Caulfield and David Copperfield |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | CHARACTER MASHUPS $800: Rhett Smiley
(1936 & 1961, '62, etc.) Rhett Butler and George Smiley |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | CHARACTER MASHUPS $1000: Sansa Panza
(1996 & 1605) Sansa Stark and Sancho Panza |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | FAMILY TIES $400: In 1893 Nancy Green hit the world stage as this "syrupy" character & spokesperson Aunt Jemima |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS $1200: This Celtics point guard plays the title character in "Uncle Drew" & performs "Ridiculous" on its soundtrack Kyrie Irving |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | LITERARY CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $1200: Murder victim Mary Rogers had her name Frenchified as this character in an Edgar Allan Poe mystery Marie Rogêt |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | LITERARY CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $1600: Daniel Boone was a basis for this character in the "Leatherstocking Tales" by James Fenimore Cooper Natty Bumppo |
| #7889, aired 2018-12-20 | CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $800: (Hi, I'm Ashley Afonso from 22 News.) I'm in Amherst, Massachusetts at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art with this famous character who as of 2019 has enchanted generations of children for 50 years the Very Hungry Caterpillar |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | ROALD DAHL $200: This character "can make marshmallows that taste of violets" Willy Wonka |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | 75 YEARS AT THE NEW YORK CITY CENTER $1000: In "Little Shop of Horrors", Taran Killam is the dentist, & Jake Gyllenhaal is "suddenly" this lead character Seymour |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | THE ARTS $7,000 (Daily Double): Here is Eugene Delacroix's depiction of the death of this Shakespeare character Ophelia |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS $400: In 1947's "Miracle on 34th Street" Edmund Gwenn plays a character called this who claims to be the real Santa Kris Kringle |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | POSTHUMOUS BOOKS $2000: This character gets one last story in "The Blythes Are Quoted", published after Lucy Maud Montgomery died Anne of Green Gables |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | EPONYMS $400: This word for photographers who might follow a celeb around comes from the name of a Fellini character paparazzi |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | ALL KINDS OF BOOKS $800: An 1833 collection of nursery rhymes was called this character's "Melodies" Mother Goose |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | DESCRIBING THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $1,200 (Daily Double): 1996:
What they don't realize is that Ralph Fiennes' character is really Hungarian The English Patient |
| #7879, aired 2018-12-06 | LITERARY CADS $400: It takes the sliminess of Wickham for Elizabeth to see Darcy's true character in this novel Pride and Prejudice |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | FERRY TALES $400: During this Twain character's "Adventures", he implores a ferryman to save Miss Hooker Huckleberry Finn |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | FERRY TALES $2000: This title Hesse character meets a ferryman who says, "I have learned from the river: everything is coming back!" Siddhartha |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | BROTHERS GRIMM FAIRY TALES $200: In the Grimms' version of this character's fairy tale, she wears golden slippers, not glass Cinderella |
| #7875, aired 2018-11-30 | BOOKS WITH ANIMAL POVs $1200: The title character in "Tailchaser's Song" is this kind of animal a cat |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MOVIES $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a journey on the monitor.) Leaving the West Coast, we retrace the movie journey of this 1981 adventure film character on his way to Nepal Indiana Jones |
| #7872, aired 2018-11-27 | THE WRITER SPEAKS $200: "When I first began 'The Handmaid's Tale' it was called 'Offred,' the name of its central character" Margaret Atwood |
| #7871, aired 2018-11-26 | TV TITLE CHARACTERS $600: With his "Whoa!", Joey Lawrence stole the show from this Mayim Bialik title character Blossom |
| #7871, aired 2018-11-26 | TV TITLE CHARACTERS $1000: Miriam Weissman is the maiden name of the title character of this alliterative Amazon series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel |
| #7868, aired 2018-11-21 | SUCH NOVEL CHARACTERS $400: "Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates" are the first words of this title character Forrest Gump |
| #7868, aired 2018-11-21 | "DEAD" $1200: As this character, Ryan Reynolds says, "I'm about to do to you what Limp Bizkit did to music in the late '90s" Deadpool |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | NOT-SO-ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: In 1995 Colin Firth played this character in "Pride & Prejudice" on a TV miniseries--ask your mom about it (Fitzwilliam) Darcy |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | YOUNG PEOPLE IN BOOKS $800: In a book series by Rick Riordan, this main character joins the Olympians & also attends a summer camp for demigods Percy Jackson |
| #7862, aired 2018-11-13 | GAMES OF THE VIDEO VARIETY $200: The main character's all-new car hit the streets in this hero: "Arkham Knight" Batman |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | IN THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY $400: The OED added the name of this "Winnie-the-Pooh" character to mean any gloomy person Eeyore |
| #7860, aired 2018-11-09 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $400: The 1733 edition of this character's "Almanack" has wisdom like "Great talkers, little doers" Poor Richard |
| #7855, aired 2018-11-02 | THE ELEPHANT $400: This Seuss character was in the jungle of Nool, enjoying the jungle's joys, when he heard a small noise Horton |
| #7853, aired 2018-10-31 | HALLOWEEN WITH GENE SIMMONS $1200: (Gene Simmons presents the clue.) In the original 1978 "Halloween", a Captain Kirk mask was the perfect disguise for this positively homicidal character Michael Myers |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | EPONYMOUSE $200: The name of this Disney character can mean rundown or rinky-dink, as in "What kind of a ____ ____ outfit are you running?" Mickey Mouse |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | '60s MUSIC POTPOURRI $200: This late '60s music & art fair in Bethel, New York lent its name to a Charles Schulz character Woodstock |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE $2,000 (Daily Double): Max Klinger (a German Symbolist, not a "M*A*S*H" character) is among painters of this 5-letter theme of a grieving Mary the pietà |
| #7851, aired 2018-10-29 | LITERARY WORDS & PHRASES $1000: Often building suspense, it's the device of hinting at coming events, as when a doomed character's plant dies foreshadowing |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | RELATIONSHIPS $1000: Novel & movie title character Rachel to Philip cousin |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | NAME GAME $600: The name of this character in "Moby Dick" is Hebrew for "father's brother" Ahab |
| #7844, aired 2018-10-18 | FICTIONAL WRITERS $2000: "Deadly Heat" was an actual 2013 bestselling novel by this TV title character played by Nathan Fillion Castle |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | BIBLICALLY INSPIRED LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): In "Moby Dick" a man named Elijah warns this character not to sail on Ahab's boat Ishmael |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | OPERA $400: Verdi's "Falstaff" takes place in this town, where the title character has his eye on some merry wives Windsor |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | HELLO! $600: Created in 1974, this Japanese character epitomizes the cuteness culture called "Kawaii" Hello Kitty |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | COMPOUND WORDS $800: The stuff you'll gradually learn about a movie or TV character's prior life; flashbacks can fill it in a backstory |
| #7837, aired 2018-10-09 | CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR $600: (Christiane Amanpour gives the clue.) In a case of art imitating life, my journalism career was an inspiration to the character Rory & we got to meet in person in the finale of this TV series Gilmore Girls |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | COLORFUL LANGUAGE $1200: A Steinbeck character whose stomach hurts when he gets an unwanted telegram calls himself "a cowardly" this a yellow-belly |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | WORLD THEATER: This 1867 play has a reindeer hunt & a king dwelling in snowy mountains but its title character also spends time in Morocco & Egypt Peer Gynt |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | NOVEL CHARACTERS: It's this character who's spoken of in the line "Reader, I forgave him at the moment & on the spot" Mr. Rochester |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: A 1902 work says an enigmatic character has a half-English mom & a half-French dad, but this name of his is German for "short" Kurtz |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | HISTORICAL FICTION: Stan Lee said the alias-using title character of this novel set during the French Revolution "was the 1st superhero I... read about" The Scarlet Pimpernel |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | 1980s MOVIE CHARACTERS: Oliver Stone, screenwriter of this 1983 movie, named its main character to honor the Super Bowl-winning QB from 1982 Scarface |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | ON THE STAGE: Paul Robeson said that even as this character "kills, his honor is at stake... the honor of his whole culture is involved" Othello |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | BOOK CHARACTERS: Early on in a 1966 novel, this title character beats the protagonist in maze races; later on he bites him Algernon |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | NAME'S THE SAME: This first name is shared by a character introduced in 1941 & a member of royalty who is sixth in line to the British throne Archie |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | OPERA SOURCE MATERIAL: Henri Murger, who was broke & lived in a freezing attic apartment in Paris, wrote the source material for this 1896 opera La bohème |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | 19th CENTURY BRITISH POEMS: The author of this unfinished epic poem was unsure if he wanted the title character to "end in Hell--or in an unhappy marriage" Don Juan |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | THE MOVIES: Centenarian ceramic artist Beatrice Wood helped inspire one of the main characters & the narrator of this film from the 1990s Titanic |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | FEMALE AUTHORS: At age 9 in 1883 she moved west, where she met Annie Pavelka, a young pioneer on whom she would later model a title character Willa Cather |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | BRITISH NOVELS: Midway through this 1928 novel, the title character briefly takes "their" instead of his or her Orlando |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | REAL PEOPLE IN SHAKESPEARE: In Shakespeare this man is a rival of Prince Hal; in real life he was older than Hal's father Hotspur |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | 18th CENTURY LITERATURE: The first name of this title character is from Hebrew for "devoted to God"; his last name suggests he can be easily duped (Lemuel) Gulliver |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | TV HISTORY: The 1980s "Magnum, P.I." used a soundstage of this long-running drama that had just ended, & even referred to its lead character Hawaii Five-O |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | MOVIE THEME SONGS: Monty Norman, the composer of this character's theme, said the staccato riff conveyed sexiness, mystery & ruthlessness (James) Bond |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | THEATER HISTORY: In 1904, wearing a harness, actress Nina Boucicault became the first to play this character onstage Peter Pan |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: Its title character is told "By the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off... your eyes drop out & you get... shabby" The Velveteen Rabbit |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | AMERICAN POEMS: In an 1847 poem this character sees her town of Grand-Pré burned, but finally reunites with her beau for a kiss before his death Evangeline |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | 19th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: This character from an 1859 novel symbolizes the Fates, who in mythology spin the web of life, measure it & cut it off Madame Defarge |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | ANNUAL EVENTS: In 1986 Larry Harvey called a friend & said, let's do this, no one knows exactly why; it evolved into an annual festival in the desert Burning Man |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: In a later part of the epic named for him, this character becomes king after his cousin Heardred dies in battle Beowulf |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | LITERARY ANIMALS: This children's book character, introduced in 1926 & a friend of the title creature, gets his name from the sound he might make Eeyore |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | LITERARY CHARACTERS ON SCREEN: Per Guinness, this character who debuted in 1887 is the most portrayed human literary character in film & television Sherlock Holmes |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | NOVEL QUOTES: Referring to the book's title, this character says, "I know it's a poem by Robert Burns" Holden Caulfield |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS: Johnny Mercer's lyrics to this 1961 Oscar-winning song once began, "I'm Holly" "Moon River" |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | SAY IT IN ITALIAN: It's an Italian word for "mercy", but also the name of a movie character who kills Stracci & Carlo clemenza |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | FILMS OF THE 1950s: The title character of this film has the same name as the Roman goddess of the dawn Sleeping Beauty |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | PLAY CHARACTERS: A 1949 review noted the "wrong formulas for success" of this character & "fatal misconceptions about his place in the scheme of things" Willy Loman |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | CHARACTERS IN BANNED BOOKS: Introduced in 1928, this character has a disappointing affair with a writer before she begins a more satisfying relationship Lady Chatterley |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | LONG-RUNNING TV SHOW CHARACTERS: This character who has been on the air for more than 50 years is only 6 1/2 years old Big Bird |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: Introduced in 1938 & inspired by movie character Torchy Blane of the Morning Herald, she has since gone on to win a fictional Pulitzer Lois Lane |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS: He has studied Cordon Bleu cooking, but is known for his 1981 creation of a character with unconventional taste in cuisine Thomas Harris |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | LITERATURE & THE ANIMAL KINGDOM: In 2020 scientists named Trimeresurus salazar, a new species of this, after a character in a book series a snake |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | BOOK CHARACTERS: Trying to emulate the title character, he fails & is told "You lack a set of spinnerets, & you lack know-how" Wilbur |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | MOVIE CHARACTERS: A character who was going to be called Lunar Larry became him, inspired by the name of a real person Buzz Lightyear |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | NOBEL-WINNING NOVELISTS: Falsely accused of murder, a character in his 1948 novel becomes "tyrant over the whole county's white conscience" (William) Faulkner |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: The year before his 1809 birth, his parents acted in "King Lear", leading scholars to believe he was named for a "Lear" character Edgar Allan Poe |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | MOVIE TITLE CHARACTERS: In this 2012 film set just before the Civil War, a German dentist declares that the title character's surname is Freeman Django Unchained |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS: Representing its outspoken tone, this newspaper founded in the 19th century has the name of a free-spirited opera character Le Figaro |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | LITERARY CHARACTERS OF THE 1600s: When the title character tells him that a great adventure may win him an island he can govern, he leaves his family Sancho Panza |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | PLAY CHARACTERS: This title character says, "Who find my visage's center ornament a thing to jest at--it is my wont... to let him taste my steel" Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #8293, aired 2020-12-02 | NOVEL CHARACTERS: This character from an 1851 novel "was intent on an audacious, immitigable, and supernatural revenge" Captain Ahab |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | FRENCH LITERATURE: An 1862 novel says this character "would have arrested his own father... and would have denounced his mother" Javert |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | FAIRY TALE CHARACTERS: In French, this fairy tale character is La Petite Poucette, in Spanish, Pulgarcita & in English, this Thumbelina |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | 18th CENTURY NOVELS: The title character of this 1726 novel reaches 4 different lands as a result of a shipwreck, a storm at sea, pirates & a mutiny Gulliver's Travels |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | CLASSIC AMERICAN NOVELS: Lady Duff Twysden was the basis for a character in this 1926 novel set partly in Spain The Sun Also Rises |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | ADVERTISING CHARACTERS: Jack Keil's team created this animal character rolled out in 1980, the year of the USA's highest recorded murder rate McGruff (the Crime Dog) |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES: He has 272 speeches, the most of any non-title character in a Shakespeare tragedy Iago |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | CLASSIC BRITISH NOVELS: The title character of this novel says of his home, "The wind breathes cold through the broken battlements and casements" Dracula |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | THE 1940s: This nickname for a history-changing weapon of 1945 came from a character in "The Maltese Falcon" Fat Man |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | WOMEN ON TV: This character featured in a 1992 Time magazine cover story on "Hollywood & Politics" returned to television in 2018 Murphy Brown |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | ON BROADWAY: This play opens in Vienna in 1823, 32 years after the death of its title character Amadeus |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | ANIMATED CHARACTERS: This cartoon character was based on a character in the educational comic "The Intertidal Zone" SpongeBob SquarePants |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | AMERICAN PLAYS: A character in this 1944 play is said to be like a piece in her own collection, "too exquisitely fragile to move from the shelf" The Glass Menagerie |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: The title character of this 1841 novel says he got his name because he kills bucks & does, but not people The Deerslayer |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | NOVEL QUOTES: A boy at the end of this 1952 novel says to the main character, "Say it ain't true, Roy" The Natural |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LIT: Memories of refugees in British train stations before & after WWII helped inspire the creation of this character Paddington Bear |
| #7844, aired 2018-10-18 | CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LIT: This winged character from an early 20th century work is so named "because she mends the pots and kettles" Tinker Bell |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | CLASSIC FILMS: In this '70s Oscar-winning film, the title character's 1st words are "Why did you go to the police? Why didn't you come to me first?" The Godfather |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: He got a real N.Y. Times obit in 1975; it said he wore "false mustaches to mask signs of age that offended his vanity" Hercule Poirot |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | LITERATURE & MYTHOLOGY: The "very name embodies the idea of flight", says one analysis of a 20th century novel in describing this main character Stephen Dedalus |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | LITERARY BROTHERS: This character first appeared in "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter", an 1893 story in London's Strand Magazine Mycroft Holmes |
| #7668, aired 2018-01-03 | OPERA: This character's famed entrance aria actually introduces him as a handyman, repeats his name & adds "la-la-la-la-las" Figaro |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | PRIMETIME TV ACTRESSES: On the beat since 1999, she plays the longest-running female character currently on TV in a primetime non-animated series Mariska Hargitay |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | AMERICAN PLAYS: The latitude & longitude given by the narrator of this 1938 play would set it in Massachusetts, not New Hampshire Our Town |
| #7597, aired 2017-09-26 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: At the Women in I.T. Awards in 2017, the head of MI-6 said today the real version of the character known by this letter is female Q |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | COMIC BOOKS: Told to create a character called this, Len Wein learned the real animal is short, hairy & will attack an enemy 10 times its size Wolverine |
| #7474, aired 2017-02-23 | SHAKESPEARE CHARACTERS: About himself he says, "Since the heavens have shap'd my body so, let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it" Richard III |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: When we first meet her in the novel, she's wearing a green dress with 12 yards of fabric & matching slippers from Atlanta Scarlett O'Hara |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | 20th CENTURY PLAYWRIGHTS: He said of his 1949 play & its main character, "I could write about failure only because I could deal with it...I knew how he felt" Arthur Miller |
| #7403, aired 2016-11-16 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS' LAST WORDS: In a British novel this young character's last words are, "Which is better--to have rules & agree, or to hunt & kill?" Piggy |
| #7380, aired 2016-10-14 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: This character says, "Let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee" Captain Ahab |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | POP CULTURE CHARACTERS: In 2015 this character was made an honorary citizen of Japan after over 60 years of residence there Godzilla |
| #7290, aired 2016-04-29 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: In 1929 London's Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital was given all rights to this character created 27 years earlier Peter Pan |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOK CHARACTERS: The name of this character who lives in a forest is a shortening of an Italian word for a newborn Bambi |
| #7233, aired 2016-02-10 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS: At 24 he began a verse retelling the Cupid & Psyche myth, including a character named Caspian C.S. Lewis |
| #7143, aired 2015-10-07 | MOVIE CHARACTERS: Charlton Heston's wardrobe in 1954's "Secret of the Incas" inspired the clothes worn by this adventurous character 27 years later Indiana Jones |
| #7122, aired 2015-07-28 | TELEVISION IN THE 2000s: Blanco is the last name of the main character in "Metástasis", a Colombia-set version of this show Breaking Bad |
| #7110, aired 2015-07-10 | 19th CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE: "I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel" is spoken to this title character by his creation Frankenstein |
| #7091, aired 2015-06-15 | 19th CENTURY POETRY: He rhymed the title character of one of his best-known poems with "drew on", "threw on" & "ruin" Lord Byron |
| #7086, aired 2015-06-08 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: This name made famous in a 17th century novel is derived from the Spanish for "sweet" Dulcinea |
| #7075, aired 2015-05-22 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: In a recent British poll, the 1926 book about this title character was named the favorite children's book of the past 150 years Winnie the Pooh |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | LITERATURE: Interestingly, at the start of this novel, Prince Oblonsky, the title character's brother, has been unfaithful Anna Karenina |
| #7043, aired 2015-04-08 | SHAKESPEARE'S CHARACTERS: One of the Bard's few plays with children on stage is this one with 2 brothers who last appear alive in Act III, Scene i Richard III |
| #7029, aired 2015-03-19 | LITERARY ANAGRAMS: Vivian Darkbloom, a minor character in a 1955 novel by this foreign-born author, is an anagram of his name Vladimir Nabokov |
| #7026, aired 2015-03-16 | KIDS' TV CHARACTERS: Marquez is the last name of this character who debuted in 2000 Dora the Explorer |
| #6957, aired 2014-12-09 | LITERARY INSPIRATIONS: The peat bogs of Dartmoor, England inspired the fictional home of the beastly title character in this 1902 tale The Hound of the Baskervilles |
| #6951, aired 2014-12-01 | TV CHARACTERS: This 8'2" character who made his debut in 1969 is still going strong Big Bird |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | LITERATURE: A chapter heading in this 19th century work calls the title character "one-eyed, lame", another calls him "deaf" The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #6900, aired 2014-09-19 | MOVIES ABOUT MOVIES: The title character of this 2013 film was played by David Tomlinson, who was actually seen only in clips from a 1964 film Saving Mr. Banks |
| #6898, aired 2014-09-17 | MUSICAL THEATER: In "Godspell" this character leads the company in singing, "Prepare Ye The Way Of The Lord" John the Baptist (or Judas Iscariot) |
| #6888, aired 2014-07-23 | LITERARY HEROINES: Fittingly, this character is named for a plant also known as arrowhead that belongs to the genus Sagittaria Katniss Everdeen |
| #6848, aired 2014-05-28 | OPERA: In a bit of foreshadowing, the title character's dad has committed suicide before the action of this 1904 opera Madame Butterfly |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | TITLE MOVIE ROLES: In 1984, in the first of the films featuring this character, he only has 21 lines, for a total of 133 words the Terminator |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | WORD ORIGINS: This word for a timid person comes from the last name of a character in a 1920s newspaper comic called "The Timid Soul" milquetoast |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | SHAKESPEARE CHARACTERS: He has the most speeches of any character with 471 in 3 plays, of which 2 are histories & 1 is a comedy Falstaff |
| #6734, aired 2013-12-19 | TV CHARACTERS: Jerry Jones, Mark Cuban & Mayor Mike Rawlings were 3 of the real folks at the 2013 memorial for this TV character J. R. Ewing |
| #6733, aired 2013-12-18 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Joy, Nellie & Aranea are 3 of the many children of this title character Charlotte |
| #6696, aired 2013-10-28 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: This 19th century character talks about his own writings about tattoo marks & on the tracing of footsteps Sherlock Holmes |
| #6684, aired 2013-10-10 | LITERARY ILLUSTRATIONS: Emile Bayard's illustration of this character seen here first appeared in the 1860s Cosette |
| #6638, aired 2013-06-26 | MOVIES & THE BIBLE: In this crime drama, a 1994 Oscar nominee for Best Picture, a character misquotes Ezekiel 25:17 twice Pulp Fiction |
| #6602, aired 2013-05-07 | CHARACTERS IN SHAKESPEARE: This character said to represent Shakespeare's philosophy has a name that means "fortunate" in Latin Prospero |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | BRITISH NOVELS: Fittingly, this Thomas Hardy character is introduced near the Pure Drop Inn Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| #6557, aired 2013-03-05 | CLASSIC NOVELS: In this novel the title character says, "It is a bad omen" after a guard does not hear a train & is crushed Anna Karenina |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | 19th CENTURY LITERARY INTRODUCTIONS: Title character who's "clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere" Dracula |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | CHILDREN'S RHYMES: Oddly, this mammalian character with a rhyming name suffers from alopecia Fuzzy Wuzzy |
| #6434, aired 2012-08-02 | BOOK SERIES: In the 8th book in a series by L. Frank Baum, this character begins to speak; he simply chose not to before Toto |
| #6427, aired 2012-07-24 | '80s SITCOM CHARACTERS: Creator Gary David Goldberg wrote this Republican character as unsympathetic, but the actor made him lovable Alex Keaton |
| #6415, aired 2012-07-06 | OPERA CHARACTERS: In a play subtitle, she's called "the Chinese Sphinx"; in a later opera her suitor calls her "Principessa di Morte" Turandot |
| #6395, aired 2012-06-08 | CLICHES: In an 1873 Thomas Hardy serial, a chapter ends with a character dangling from an "enormous sea-bord" this a cliff |
| #6348, aired 2012-04-04 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS: A. cavaticus, the scientific name of the barn spider, inspired the middle initial & last name of a character in this book Charlotte's Web |
| #6315, aired 2012-02-17 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: The only title character in her creator's 6 major novels, she was portrayed in a 1996 film & a 2009 miniseries Emma (Woodhouse) |
| #6308, aired 2012-02-08 | COMIC BOOKS: An inspiration for this character introduced in 1929 was 15-year-old Palle Huld's 1928 44-day voyage around the world Tintin |
| #6295, aired 2012-01-20 | ENGLISH LITERATURE: This title character of an 18th century novel was the son of a man named Kreutznaer, but his name gets Anglicized Robinson Crusoe |
| #6268, aired 2011-12-14 | POPULAR BABY NAMES: Character names in a book & movie series, the top names for 2009 & 2010 were Isabella for girls & this biblical one for boys Jacob |
| #6253, aired 2011-11-23 | AMERICAN WOMEN: Geraldine Doyle, who in 1942 took a job at a Michigan metal factory, helped inspire the look & job of this iconic character Rosie the Riveter |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: In the original 1883 work, this title character kills a talking cricket, has his feet burned off & nearly starves Pinocchio |
| #6222, aired 2011-10-11 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: "'How are you getting on?' said" this animal character, "as soon as there was mouth enough for it to speak with" the Cheshire Cat |
| #6195, aired 2011-07-15 | TRADEMARKS: In 1987 a maker of fiberglass insulation became the first company to trademark a color--this color pink |
| #6186, aired 2011-07-04 | ADVERTISING ICONS: Introduced in 1963, this internationally known character wears a size 29EEE shoe Ronald McDonald |
| #6176, aired 2011-06-20 | MOVIE CHARACTER NAMES: This last name of the speech therapist in the 2010 Oscar winner for Best Picture is also a suffix meaning "speech" Logue |
| #6046, aired 2010-12-20 | 20th CENTURY NOVELISTS: A critic said that a character of his, "yearning for the moon... never saw the sixpence at his feet"; he made that into a title Somerset Maugham |
| #6022, aired 2010-11-16 | OPERA: The title character of this opera addresses his son in the aria "Sois immobile" ("hold yourself still") William Tell |
| #6012, aired 2010-11-02 | CHARACTERS IN NOVELS: Debuting in a 1960 novel, this character dies following a heart attack on a basketball court in a 1990 book Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: In an 1877 novel Mrs. Gordon initially suggests the name Ebony for this title character Black Beauty |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | THE AFI's 50 GREATEST FILM HEROES: Of the 50 on the list, the only character that wasn't portrayed by a human Lassie |
| #5807, aired 2009-12-08 | LITERATURE OF THE 1800s: This character said, "I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me" Ebenezer Scrooge |
| #5669, aired 2009-04-09 | NAME'S THE SAME: This cartoon character debuted in 1930, the same year the object he shares a name with was discovered Pluto |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: The name of this character from an 18th century French work is from the Greek for "all tongues" Dr. Pangloss |
| #5630, aired 2009-02-13 | CLASSIC MOVIE CHARACTERS: The parents of this 1942 film character are an unnamed mother & a father known as "the great prince of the forest" Bambi |
| #5571, aired 2008-11-24 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN: The last words spoken by this character are "What's done cannot be undone: to bed, to bed, to bed" Lady Macbeth |
| #5549, aired 2008-10-23 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: This character, created in Europe in the 19th c., has a name that can be translated as "eye of pine" Pinocchio |
| #5548, aired 2008-10-22 | THE EMMY AWARDS: A former Screen Actors Guild president, he's the only actor to win both comedy & drama Emmys for playing the same character Ed Asner |
| #5543, aired 2008-10-15 | MUSICALS: Profession of the title character of "Little Johnny Jones", featuring the song "The Yankee Doodle Boy" jockey |
| #5541, aired 2008-10-13 | HISTORICAL SHAKESPEARE: In "Henry VI, Part I" this woman is described as "a holy prophetess new risen up" Joan of Arc |
| #5533, aired 2008-10-01 | 1960s OSCAR NOMINATIONS: One of the 2 male actors nominated in the '60s for playing more than one character in the same film (1 of) Peter Sellers or Lee Marvin |
| #5528, aired 2008-09-24 | NOVELS: This title character of an 1851 work doesn't show up until Chapter 133 Moby-Dick |
| #5510, aired 2008-07-18 | CHARACTERS IN SHAKESPEARE: This character is described as "a howling monster", "a most scurvy monster" & "some monster of the isle" Caliban |
| #5397, aired 2008-02-12 | CHARACTERS IN BOOKS: This character says, "It's Christmas Day! I haven't missed it. The Spirits have done it all in one night" Ebenezer Scrooge |
| #5352, aired 2007-12-11 | SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY CHARACTERS: To the consternation of the title character, we learn that this character was born by C-section Macduff |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | 1920s LITERATURE: This character "believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us" Jay Gatsby |
| #5222, aired 2007-05-01 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: He's the character mentioned in the first line of "Atlas Shrugged" John Galt |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | PHRASE ORIGINS: Meaning "not working properly", it may date back to a character in the comic strip "The Katzenjammer Kids" on the fritz |
| #5167, aired 2007-02-13 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: This author was born in 1926, the daughter of Amasa, an Alabama lawyer, & Frances, whose maiden name was Finch Harper Lee |
| #5111, aired 2006-11-27 | FIRST NAMES: The first name of both a naval hero & a character in "Hamlet", it's from the Latin for "timekeeper" Horatio |
| #5100, aired 2006-11-10 | ACTORS & PLAYS: Robert Armin played the role of the fool in "As You Like It", in "Twelfth Night" & in this tragedy 1st published in 1608 King Lear |
| #5087, aired 2006-10-24 | MOVIE VILLAINS: Introduced in a 1981 novel, this big-screen character tops the AFI's 2003 list of all-time great movie villains Hannibal Lecter |
| #5051, aired 2006-07-24 | OSCAR-NOMINATED MOVIES: One of the 2 Best Picture nominees in which CBS newsman & "60 Minutes" producer Don Hewitt is a character (1 of) The Insider & Good Night, and Good Luck. |
| #5015, aired 2006-06-02 | EUROPEAN LITERARY CLASSICS: In this 1832 German work, the title character is followed home by a poodle that changes into something evil Faust (by Goethe) |
| #5014, aired 2006-06-01 | PLAYWRIGHTS: In 2005 Broadway's Virginia Theatre was renamed to honor this late author, the first African-American so honored August Wilson |
| #4998, aired 2006-05-10 | CHARACTERS IN SHAKESPEARE: Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge referred to the "motiveless malignity" of this character Iago |
| #4968, aired 2006-03-29 | 20th CENTURY THEATER: This play ends with 1 character asking, "Well? Shall we go?"; the other replies, "Yes, let's go", but they do not move Waiting for Godot |
| #4962, aired 2006-03-21 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE: "Annie" Sadilek, an immigrant girl from Bohemia, inspired the title character in this 1918 novel of the Great Plains My Antonia (by Willa Cather) |
| #4929, aired 2006-02-02 | CHARACTERS IN 18th CENTURY PLAYS: This Englishwoman's name comes from the French for "badly suited to the purpose" Mrs. Malaprop |
| #4915, aired 2006-01-13 | LITERARY HISTORY: Mary Roberts Rinehart's 1930 mystery novel "The Door" turned blaming this character into a cliche the butler |
| #4914, aired 2006-01-12 | CLASSIC MOVIE CHARACTERS: Appropriately, this villainous movie character's name comes from the Dutch word for "father" Darth Vader |
| #4900, aired 2005-12-23 | SHAKESPEAREANA: A knight in "Henry VI, Part I" who flees battle to save his life is an early version of this great character Sir John Falstaff |
| #4855, aired 2005-10-21 | 19th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: Hanged in an 1837 novel, he so angered some Londoners that his creator toned him down in future editions Fagin |
| #4846, aired 2005-10-10 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: This one-word name is derived from the fact that the character used to sit among the ashes Cinderella |
| #4828, aired 2005-09-14 | 18th CENTURY LITERATURE: This character studied medicine, "knowing it would be useful in long voyages" Gulliver |
| #4824, aired 2005-07-21 | LITERARY FIREARMS: The "Polizei Pistole Kurz" model was often used very effectively by this literary character introduced in 1953 James Bond |
| #4770, aired 2005-05-06 | FICTIONAL ANIMALS: The name of this character, introduced in 1894, is from the Hindi for "bear" Baloo |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | LITERARY INSPIRATIONS: This real man inspired a 1719 novel character & a poem that says, "I am monarch of all I survey" Alexander Selkirk |
| #4695, aired 2005-01-21 | FICTIONAL CHILDREN: This boy introduced in a 1902 book flew away from his mother when he was 7 days old Peter Pan |
| #4644, aired 2004-11-11 | BRITISH NOVEL CHARACTERS: W.E. Henley, the amputee who wrote the brave poem "Invictus", inspired this character in an 1883 book Long John Silver |
| #4579, aired 2004-07-01 | FRUIT: This fruit of North America shares its name with a literary character who debuted in an 1876 novel the huckleberry |
| #4577, aired 2004-06-29 | CHILDREN'S LIT: This title character's full name is Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs the Wizard of Oz |
| #4564, aired 2004-06-10 | ENTERTAINMENT: This title character who debuted in 1999 was created by former marine biology educator Steve Hillenburg SpongeBob SquarePants |
| #4465, aired 2004-01-23 | LITERARY FEMALES: She's the only female character in all the A.A. Milne "Winnie The Pooh" stories Kanga |
| #4389, aired 2003-10-09 | MOVIE CHARACTERS: On the AFI's 2003 lists of favorite movie heroes & villains of all time, this character appears on both lists the Terminator |
| #4375, aired 2003-09-19 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: This title character was based on a man who bravely served the Guides Regiment at the 1857 Siege of Delhi Gunga Din |
| #4354, aired 2003-07-03 | OPERA: Title character of a 1787 opera who says he needs women "more than the food I eat,... than the very air I breathe" Don Juan (or Don Giovanni) |
| #4334, aired 2003-06-05 | FIRST NAMES: This name of a character in a 1904 play was inspired by a real little girl's way of saying the word "friend" Wendy (from Peter Pan) |
| #4325, aired 2003-05-23 | FILM ROLES: Dick Powell, Robert Mitchum & Elliott Gould have all played this character on film Philip Marlowe |
| #4303, aired 2003-04-23 | CHARACTERS: Person missing from: Rossweisse, Ortlinde, Siegrune, Grimgerde, Helmwige, Gerhilde, Waltraute & Schwertleite Brunhilde (one of the Valkyries) |
| #4255, aired 2003-02-14 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: James Fenimore Cooper based the character of Natty Bumppo on this man who was born in 1734 Daniel Boone |
| #4244, aired 2003-01-30 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: A Nagasaki geisha who had a child with a man named Glover was the model for this title character Madame Butterfly |
| #4225, aired 2003-01-03 | CLASSIC LITERATURE: In this 3-part work, the main character encounters Nimrod, Ulysses, Muhammad & Thomas Aquinas "The Divine Comedy" |
| #4136, aired 2002-09-02 | STATUES: On May 8, 2002 the city of Minneapolis placed a statue of this fictional character at the corner of 7th St. & Nicollet Mall Mary Richards |
| #4119, aired 2002-06-27 | LITERARY HEROINES: This literary character was inspired by Delphine Delamare, whose adultery led to her 1848 suicide Madame Bovary |
| #4112, aired 2002-06-18 | 19th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: This character was inspired by Adam Worth, who masterminded crimes including tunneling into a bank vault Professor Moriarty |
| #4078, aired 2002-05-01 | ESPIONAGE: He was born in India; his father worked for the British government & he was nicknamed for a Kipling character Kim Philby |
| #4044, aired 2002-03-14 | RECENT FILMS: The name of this character means "fear" in Yiddish Shrek |
| #3992, aired 2002-01-01 | CLASSIC TV CHARACTERS: In a real ceremony in 2001, the Marines promoted this character to Lance Cpl. after he was a private for over 30 years Gomer Pyle |
| #3976, aired 2001-12-10 | THE OSCARS: One of 4 men nominated twice for playing the same character (1 of) Bing Crosby, Paul Newman, Al Pacino & Peter O'Toole |
| #3953, aired 2001-11-07 | LEGENDARY CHARACTERS: Led by Nicholas, a German boy, the Children's Crusade of 1212 may have been the inspiration for this character The Pied Piper (of Hamelin) |
| #3952, aired 2001-11-06 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: Character from an 18th century tale who felt "Above an hundred arrows discharged on my left hand" Gulliver |
| #3851, aired 2001-05-07 | SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS: He's the last character to die in "Julius Caesar" Brutus |
| #3844, aired 2001-04-26 | THE MOONS OF URANUS: Pixie Chasma & Sprite Vallis are features on this moon of Uranus named for a character in "The Tempest" Ariel |
| #3825, aired 2001-03-30 | CARTOON CHARACTERS: This cartoon character was based in part on the woman who introduced the song "I Wanna Be Loved By You" Betty Boop (based on Helen Kane) |
| #3638, aired 2000-05-31 | CLOTHING: Article of clothing named for an old character who dressed in loose trousers in Commedia Dell'arte Pantaloons (named for Pantalone) |
| #3620, aired 2000-05-05 | CLASSIC SITCOMS: This '70s character was given his last name because he talked ignorant nonsense Archie Bunker |
| #3602, aired 2000-04-11 | NURSERY RHYME CHARACTERS: This nursery rhyme character's name goes back to the Jacobites' satiric nickname for the Prince of Orange Wee Willie Winkie |
| #3580, aired 2000-03-10 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: In a 1963 book this character found out his family motto in Latin would be "Orbis Non Sufficit" James Bond ("The World Is Not Enough") |
| #3537, aired 2000-01-11 | TELEVISION HISTORY: In the late '60s this character was created to show children it's okay to be grumpy Oscar the Grouch (from "Sesame Street") |
| #3531, aired 2000-01-03 | FROM PLAY TO BALLET: This character became the heroine of the dramatic ballet "The Moor's Pavane" Desdemona |
| #3485, aired 1999-10-29 | 19th CENTURY FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: This title horror character was created by its author at 6 Royal Crescent in the resort of Whitby in Yorkshire Dracula (created by Bram Stoker) |
| #3448, aired 1999-09-08 | HOLIDAY QUOTES: In the end this Dickens character says, "I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" Ebenezer Scrooge |
| #3424, aired 1999-06-24 | RECENT MOVIES: The young John Webster, who grew up to write "The Duchess of Malfi", is a character in this 1998 film Shakespeare in Love |
| #3400, aired 1999-05-21 | MOVIE CHARACTERS: Rand Brooks, Carroll Nye & Clark Gable played this character's 3 husbands Scarlett O'Hara |
| #3397, aired 1999-05-18 | TV CHARACTERS: The first name of this TV title character whose show debuted in 1998 is a synonym for "happiness" or "good fortune" Felicity |
| #3357, aired 1999-03-23 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: A 1993 anthology of contemporary Asian-American fiction is titled this character "is Dead" Charlie Chan |
| #3344, aired 1999-03-04 | TELEVISION ACTORS: Starting in 1984, he's played the same character continuously on 2 primetime shows over the last 15 seasons Kelsey Grammer (Dr. Frasier Crane on Cheers & Frasier) |
| #3301, aired 1999-01-04 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: This title character was inspired by a girl who'd had her appendix out in a French hospital run by nuns Madeline |
| #3237, aired 1998-10-06 | AMERICAN SYMBOLS: In 1944 Smokey Bear replaced this Disney character as the symbol of the U.S. Forest Service Bambi |
| #3191, aired 1998-06-15 | MACBETH: Macbeth says to this character, "Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold" Banquo's ghost |
| #3124, aired 1998-03-12 | MEDIEVAL DRAMA: The name of this title character of a morality play has become a synonym for the average, ordinary person Everyman |
| #3046, aired 1997-11-24 | SOUTHERN NOVELISTS: She based the character of Dill Harris on her childhood friend Truman Capote Harper Lee (author of To Kill a Mockingbird) |
| #2911, aired 1997-04-07 | GERMAN OPERA: The swan that pulls this title character's boat is actually Elsa's enchanted brother, Gottfried Lohengrin |
| #2769, aired 1996-09-19 | FILM DIRECTORS: This actor-writer-director born in 1963 was named for a Burt Reynolds TV character Quentin Tarantino |
| #2765, aired 1996-09-13 | AMERICAN FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: An 1850 edition put the 5 novels about this variously-named character in the chronological order of his life Natty Bumppo (or Hawkeye or Deerslayer) |
| #2654, aired 1996-02-29 | AUTHORS: He created his most famous character in 1952 at Goldeneye, a holiday home he bought in Jamaica Ian Fleming |
| #2651, aired 1996-02-26 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: Olga Ivinskaya, who passed away in Moscow in 1995, was the inspiration for this character Lara |
| #2591, aired 1995-12-04 | SHAKESPEARE: The most recent British monarch who's the title character of a Shakespeare play Henry VIII |
| #2582, aired 1995-11-21 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: This character in an 1838 novel was based on Ikey Solomon, a British thief & fence Fagin |
| #2573, aired 1995-11-08 | VOCABULARY: This term for the ludicrous misuse of a word is from the name of a character in an 18th century play malapropism |
| #2483, aired 1995-05-24 | ENGLISH LITERATURE: Though not named in the title, Oliver Mellors is the title character of this 1928 novel Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #2427, aired 1995-03-07 | MYSTERY FICTION: The title character in this 1932 detective story is a missing inventor, not the detective looking for him The Thin Man |
| #2399, aired 1995-01-26 | CLASSIC TV: Sitcom whose title character was born in Baghdad in 64 B.C. I Dream of Jeannie |
| #2280, aired 1994-07-01 | OPERETTAS: In this operetta, the title character has made flirting a capital offense; violators will be beheaded The Mikado |
| #2258, aired 1994-06-01 | WORD ORIGINS: This term for one who exposes political corruption comes from a character in "The Pilgrim's Progress" a muckraker |
| #2234, aired 1994-04-28 | OPERA: In Act I of this 1875 opera, the title character stabs a fellow factory worker Carmen |
| #2130, aired 1993-12-03 | WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS: 1 of 3 women who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in the 1980s (1 of) Beth Henley (for Crimes of the Heart), Marsha Norman (for 'night, Mother) & Wendy Wasserstein (for The Heidi Chronicles) |
| #2057, aired 1993-07-13 | FAMOUS AUTHORS: He used his fishing boat, the Pilar, for counter-intelligence work during World War II Ernest Hemingway |
| #2051, aired 1993-07-05 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: Chile's Juan Fernandez islands include a pair named for Alexander Selkirk & this fictional character Robinson Crusoe |
| #1869, aired 1992-10-22 | FAMOUS SHIPS: This research vessel named for a character in the "Odyssey" is a former WWII minesweeper the Calypso |
| #1855, aired 1992-10-02 | HISTORICAL OPERAS: This queen is a leading character in Donizetti's opera "Roberto Devereux, Conte d'Essex" Elizabeth I |
| #1780, aired 1992-05-01 | OSCAR WINNING FILMS: It ends as the main character, Don Birnam, begins work on a new novel, "The Bottle" The Lost Weekend |
| #1731, aired 1992-02-24 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: You'll find this Martin Hanford character is Charlie in France & Ubaldo in Italy Waldo |
| #1595, aired 1991-07-05 | SHAKESPEARE: In "Hamlet", this character says, "The apparel oft proclaims the man" Polonius |
| #1548, aired 1991-05-01 | SHAKESPEARE: Character who says, "The evil that men do lives after them" Marc Antony |
| #1473, aired 1991-01-16 | OPERA CHARACTERS: This German author is a character in Offenbach's last opera, which was based on his stories (E.T.A.) Hoffmann |
| #1384, aired 1990-09-13 | POETRY: The last words spoken by this title character were "I 'ope you liked your drink" Gunga Din |
| #1332, aired 1990-05-22 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Merlin the Magician cast a spell putting this title character to sleep for 1,300 years A Connecticut Yankee (In King Arthur's Court) |
| #1285, aired 1990-03-16 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: He first appeared as the title character in the 1630 drama "The Seducer of Seville" Don Juan |
| #1260, aired 1990-02-09 | SHAKESPEARE: Tho Shakespeare wrote many plays about kings, she is the only title character who is a queen Cleopatra |
| #1238, aired 1990-01-10 | PLAYS: 1949 Pulitzer Prize play in which the title character commits suicide for the insurance money Death of a Salesman |
| #1176, aired 1989-10-16 | DISNEY FEATURE FILMS: This 1940 Disney title character wore a Tyrolean hat Pinocchio |
| #1092, aired 1989-05-09 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: This character, created about 1850, has an artificial leg made of white polished bone Captain Ahab |
| #1031, aired 1989-02-13 | FILMS OF THE '80s: Oscar-winning film whose title character was played at age 3 by Richard Vuu & as an adult by John Lone The Last Emperor |
| #973, aired 1988-11-23 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: Alice in Wonderland character named after the county in which Lewis Carroll was born Cheshire Cat |
| #484, aired 1986-10-16 | ACTORS AND ROLES: 2 stars who have portrayed author/reporter Carl Bernstein or a character directly based on him in film Jack Nicholson & Dustin Hoffman |
| #459, aired 1986-09-11 | ACTORS & ROLES: In a 3-year period, 2 actors won Oscars for playing this character in different films The Godfather |
| #434, aired 1986-05-08 | CARTOONS: After debuting in opening credits of a 1963 film, this character got his own theatrical cartoon series the Pink Panther |
| #63, aired 1984-12-05 | SHOW BUSINESS: Barrymore, Rathbone, Roger Moore & Larry Hagman are among 61 actors to play this character Sherlock Holmes |
