#12, aired 2023-05-16 | INTERNATIONAL LIT $800: He wrote more than 50 plays, but his most famous is "Six Characters in Search of an Author" Pirandello |
#8, aired 2022-02-11 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Luigi Pirandello is best remembered for this numerical play from 1921 Six Characters in Search of an Author |
#8385, aired 2021-04-23 | SUPPORTING TV CHARACTERS $1000: Harvey Guillen plays Guillermo, a familiar to a vampire living on Staten Island in this comedy What We Do in the Shadows |
#7836, aired 2018-10-08 | BRITISH PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: The working class characters in a 1957 John Osbourne play "Look Back" this title way at British society in anger |
#7344, aired 2016-07-14 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Pirandello's "Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore", known as this in English, invented "theater within the theater" Six Characters in Search of an Author |
#4516, aired 2004-04-05 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $400: At the end of a Shaw play, she runs off & marries Freddy Eynsford Hill Eliza Doolittle |
#4516, aired 2004-04-05 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $1200: Katrin Hanson "Remembers" this family member by writing stories about her Mama |
#4516, aired 2004-04-05 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $1600: Mad at his captain, this title Navy lieutenant dumps the captain's favorite potted plant overboard Mister Roberts |
#4516, aired 2004-04-05 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $2000: His companion, Harvey, is a pooka, a fairy spirit in the form of a 6-foot white rabbit Elwood P. Dowd |
#4516, aired 2004-04-05 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $7,000 (Daily Double): This plantation owner has 2 sons: Gooper, a lawyer, & Brick, a former football player Big Daddy |
#4353, aired 2003-07-02 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $400: This Shaw character is a professor of phonetics Henry Higgins |
#4353, aired 2003-07-02 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $800: During a typhoon off the Philippines, Lt. Stephen Maryk relieves this captain of his command Captain Queeg |
#4353, aired 2003-07-02 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $1200: In "A Doll's House", she forges a check to help her sick husband Torvald but he scolds her for doing it Nora |
#4353, aired 2003-07-02 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $2,000 (Daily Double): In a Eugene O'Neill play, this former Pullman porter & ex-convict imposes himself as an emperor on a West Indian island Brutus Jones (The Emperor Jones) |
#4353, aired 2003-07-02 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $2000: Salesman Willy Loman's 2 sons Biff & Happy |
#4292, aired 2003-04-08 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $400: This Tennessee Williams cotton plantation patriarch is unaware that he is dying of cancer Big Daddy |
#4292, aired 2003-04-08 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $800: In a 1960 musical, this Elvis-like rock star gets his draft notice from Uncle Sam -- bye, bye Conrad Birdie |
#4292, aired 2003-04-08 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $1200: Seymour, a clerk at Mushnik's Skid Row Florists, names his carnivorous plant after this lover Audrey |
#4292, aired 2003-04-08 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $1600: In this play Veta Simmons tries to get her brother Elwood P. Dowd committed to a sanitorium Harvey |
#4292, aired 2003-04-08 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $2000: Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" focuses on the romance & marriage of Emily & him George Gibbs |
#4134, aired 2002-07-18 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $400: Herschel Bernardi opened on Broadway in 1968 in this role made famous by Anthony Quinn in a 1964 film Zorba the Greek |
#4134, aired 2002-07-18 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $800: On Feb. 10, 1949 Lee J. Cobb originated this "Death of a Salesman" role on Broadway Willy Loman |
#4134, aired 2002-07-18 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $1200: This Cockney flower girl takes elocution lessons from Professor Henry Higgins Eliza Doolittle |
#4134, aired 2002-07-18 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $2,000 (Daily Double): He's the resident milkman in the village of Anatevka Tevye |
#4134, aired 2002-07-18 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $2000: When his "Le Misanthrope was first produced, he played the role of Alceste; his wife played Celimene Molière |
#3203, aired 1998-07-01 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Thomas More & Thomas Cromwell are characters in this Robert Bolt drama A Man For All Seasons |
#3110, aired 1998-02-20 | G.B. SHAW PLAYS $400: John & Ann in "Man And Superman" were inspired by characters in this composer's "Don Giovanni" W.A. Mozart |
#2731, aired 1996-06-17 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: This Pirandello play about a sextet of strange personages premiered in 1921 Six Characters in Search of an Author |
#2564, aired 1995-10-26 | TV SITCOMS $200: It's the series on which Michael Richards plays the wacky neighbor Kramer Seinfeld |
#2377, aired 1994-12-27 | SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS $600: In Shakespeare's "Henry IV" plays, this future king is known as Prince Hal Henry V |
#1655, aired 1991-11-08 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: Pirandello play in which the father says, "We are here in search of an author" Six Characters In Search of an Author |
#1475, aired 1991-01-18 | SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS $800 (Daily Double): Octavia Caesar appears as a character in these 2 plays Julius Caesar & Antony and Cleopatra |
#1206, aired 1989-11-27 | PLAYS $500: In Italy this Pirandello play is known as "Sei Personaggi in Cerca D' Autore" "Six Characters in Search of an Author" |
#1184, aired 1989-10-26 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $100: In Schiller's play "the Maid of Orleans", she dies on the battlefield not at the stake Joan of Arc |
#1184, aired 1989-10-26 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $200: At the end of "The Odd Couple", he moves in with the Pigeon sisters Felix Unger |
#1184, aired 1989-10-26 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $300: "The Lady's not for Burning" & "The Crucible" are both about women accused of being these witches |
#1184, aired 1989-10-26 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $400: In "Pygmalion", he's the counterpart of the legendary sculptor Pygmalion Henry Higgins |
#1184, aired 1989-10-26 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $500: In Burtolt Brecht's play, Anna Fierling is better known by this "maternal" nickname Mother Courage |
#964, aired 1988-11-10 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $200: Shaw character who thinks she's descended from a sacred cat and that her blood is made with Nile water Cleopatra |
#964, aired 1988-11-10 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $400: The first line of this Strindberg play tells us that the title "miss" is "absolutely wild!" Miss Julie |
#964, aired 1988-11-10 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $600: In Euripides' tragedy, Jason's new wife is burned alive by a wedding gift from this woman Medea |
#964, aired 1988-11-10 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $800: Violet Venable's son, who never appears in the play "Suddenly Last Summer" because he's been eaten Sebastian (Venable) |
#964, aired 1988-11-10 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $1000: At the end of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" he realizes that George and Martha's son is imaginary Nick |
#941, aired 1988-10-10 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $200: The full name of the title character in this Chekhov play is Ivan Petrovitch Voynitsky Uncle Vanya |
#941, aired 1988-10-10 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $400: George & Martha & Nick & Honey Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
#941, aired 1988-10-10 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $600: Arthur Miller character who has a wife named Linda & sons name Biff & Happy Willy Loman |
#941, aired 1988-10-10 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $1000: Aristophanes title character whose name means "she who disbands the armies" Lysistrata |
#941, aired 1988-10-10 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $1,600 (Daily Double): Her last line in "A Streetcar Named Desire" is "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" Blanche DuBois |
#932, aired 1988-09-27 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $200: Oscar Madison
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Felix Unger The Odd Couple |
#932, aired 1988-09-27 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $400: Roxane
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Christian Cyrano de Bergerac |
#932, aired 1988-09-27 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $600: Alonzo,
Rumpleteazer & Bustopher Jones Cats |
#932, aired 1988-09-27 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $800: Brick & Maggie
Pollitt Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
#932, aired 1988-09-27 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $1000: Lady Bracknell
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Algernon Moncrieff The Importance of Being Earnest |
#909, aired 1988-07-14 | PLAYS $800: Characters in this Greek drama include Force, Violence, & the title Titan, who's all tied up Prometheus Bound |
#909, aired 1988-07-14 | PLAYS $1,000 (Daily Double): Despite its title, this Pirandello play has over 17 characters Six Characters in Search of an Author |
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