| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | SCI-FI CHARACTERS $1200: Paul Atreides is the messiah-like Kwisatz Haderach in the novels named for this desert-like planet Dune |
| #7279, aired 2016-04-14 | 6 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR NOVELS $400: Boo Radley To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #7279, aired 2016-04-14 | 6 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR NOVELS $800: Augustus Gloop &
Veruca Salt Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| #7279, aired 2016-04-14 | 6 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR NOVELS $1600: Baseball player Roy Hobbs The Natural |
| #7279, aired 2016-04-14 | 6 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR NOVELS $2000: Arthur Dent (his first novel appearance) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| #7279, aired 2016-04-14 | 6 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR NOVELS $3,800 (Daily Double): Young Civil War soldier Henry Fleming The Red Badge of Courage |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | AUTHORS ON THEMSELVES $800: "Sometimes I don't know whether Zelda and I are real or whether we are characters in one of my novels" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #6272, aired 2011-12-20 | CLASSIC NOVELS $400: Boris (Drubetskoy) & Natasha (Rostova) are 2 of the many characters in this Tolstoy tome War and Peace |
| #6210, aired 2011-09-23 | CHARACTERS IN AMERICAN BOOKS $3,600 (Daily Double): Kilgore Trout, the fictional author of several cleverly ironic sci-fi novels, is a character in many of his books Kurt Vonnegut |
| #6185, aired 2011-07-01 | CHILDREN'S LIT CHARACTERS $1000: Novels in a series from this British author include "The Last Battle" & "The Magician's Nephew" C. S. Lewis |
| #5503, aired 2008-07-09 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $1200: Title nickname of Harry Angstrom, a character in several of John Updike's novels Rabbit |
| #5469, aired 2008-05-22 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $200: Mick, a sensitive tomboy, is one of the longing-filled characters in the 1940 novel "The Heart Is" this The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter |
| #5293, aired 2007-09-19 | CHARACTERS IN LITERATURE $4,000 (Daily Double): This ex-CIA agent who's in search of his identity has appeared in 3 novels by Robert Ludlum & 2 by Eric Van Lustbader (Jason) Bourne |
| #4876, aired 2005-11-21 | LITERARY LINGO $400: Some novels have this added section about characters' later lives; the one in Ellison's "Invisible Man" is called this an epilogue |
| #4336, aired 2003-06-09 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $400: The brooding Dmitri is the oldest of the title characters in this 1879 work The Brothers Karamazov |
| #3810, aired 2001-03-09 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $100: Louisa May Alcott based the main characters in this novel on herself & 3 sisters Little Women |
| #3796, aired 2001-02-19 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $300: He does quite a bit of bed-hopping in the 4 John Updike novels featuring him Rabbit Angstrom |
| #3796, aired 2001-02-19 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: WWII spymaster Vera Atkins inspired this secretary of M in James Bond novels Miss Moneypenny |
| #2769, aired 1996-09-19 | NOVELS $600: Casper Gutman & his gunsel Wilmer are characters in this Dashiell Hammett novel The Maltese Falcon |
| #2629, aired 1996-01-25 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $200: Like Quincy on TV, Kay Scarpetta in novels by Patricia Cornwell has this profession Medical Examiner |
| #2527, aired 1995-09-05 | THE OLD WEST $400: Deadwood Dick & Hurricane Nell were typical characters in these pulp novels dime novels |
| #2358, aired 1994-11-30 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $1000: Savonarola & Machiavelli are characters in George Eliot's "Romola", set in the 1490s in this city Florence |
| #2243, aired 1994-05-11 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $800: CIA analyst Jack Ryan appears in several bestselling novels by this author (Tom) Clancy |
| #2164, aired 1994-01-20 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: In a series of novels by Rex Stout, Archie Goodwin is the office assistant of this obese sleuth Nero Wolfe |
| #2052, aired 1993-07-06 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $200: This hard-hitting defense lawyer appears in about 80 of Erle Stanley Gardner's novels Perry Mason |
| #1818, aired 1992-06-24 | CHARACTERS IN NOVELS $200: The title foundling turns out to be Squire Allworthy's nephew in this Fielding work Tom Jones |
| #1818, aired 1992-06-24 | CHARACTERS IN NOVELS $400: Jesus is the title character in this Nikos Kazantzakis novel The Last Temptation of Christ |
| #1818, aired 1992-06-24 | CHARACTERS IN NOVELS $600: He is shocked to learn that the convict Magwitch is the source of his "Great Expectations" Pip |
| #1818, aired 1992-06-24 | CHARACTERS IN NOVELS $800: The title of this Theodore Dreiser novel is the family nickname for Caroline Meeber Sister Carrie |
| #1818, aired 1992-06-24 | CHARACTERS IN NOVELS $1000: Julien Sorel, the main character of this "colorful" Stendahl novel, is also its villain The Red and the Black |
| #1507, aired 1991-03-05 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1000: In a trio of novels by James T. Farrell, this is William Lonigan's nickname Studs |
| #1091, aired 1989-05-08 | NOVELS $600: Some of the characters he introduced in "Dubliners" reappeared in "Ulysses" (James) Joyce |
| #923, aired 1988-09-14 | NOVELS $600: 1 of 2 characters in "Tom Sawyer" who have "Joe" in their names (1 of) Injun Joe (or Joe Harper) |
