#8802, aired 2023-02-07 | LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS $400: Lord Henry tells him, "to get back my youth (I'd) do anything... except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable"; Wilde! Dorian Gray |
#8059, aired 2019-09-26 | CHARACTERS IN THE WORK $400: Hrothgar, Wiglaf Beowulf |
#8059, aired 2019-09-26 | CHARACTERS IN THE WORK $800: Lennie Small, George Milton Of Mice and Men |
#8059, aired 2019-09-26 | CHARACTERS IN THE WORK $1200: Don Fernando, Dulcinea Don Quixote |
#8059, aired 2019-09-26 | CHARACTERS IN THE WORK $1600: Richard Parker, Orange Juice, Santosh Patel Life of Pi |
#8059, aired 2019-09-26 | CHARACTERS IN THE WORK $2000: By Cormac McCarthy: the Kid, Judge Holden Blood Meridian |
#7751, aired 2018-04-30 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1,000 (Daily Double): In this 17th c. work God says the fallen angels are subject to free will & therefore the authors of their own fate Paradise Lost |
#7416, aired 2016-12-05 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $600: Flora & Miles are the charges of the unnamed governess in this spooky work by Henry James The Turn of the Screw |
#7263, aired 2016-03-23 | FELINE LIBRARY $400: Thing 1 & Thing 2 are characters in this Seussical work about finding something to do on a rainy day The Cat in the Hat |
#6125, aired 2011-04-08 | 6 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR $2,000 (Daily Double): Paul Baumer, a young German soldier Erich Maria Remarque |
#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 |
#3501, aired 1999-11-22 | FUN WITH OPERA $800: Lord Lechery, Madam Wanton & Madam Bubble are all characters in the 1951 opera based on this John Bunyan work "Pilgrim's Progress" |
#3485, aired 1999-10-29 | THE "LAST" BOOKS ON EARTH $600: Larry McMurtry introduced characters in this work who turn up again in "Duane's Depressed" & "Texasville" The Last Picture Show |
#2445, aired 1995-03-31 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: Sal Paradise & Dean Moriarity travel around the county in this Jack Kerouac work On the Road |
#2322, aired 1994-10-11 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $800: Characters in this John Bunyan work include Christian, Evangelist & Faithful The Pilgrim's Progress |
#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 |
#1815, aired 1992-06-19 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $1000: Father Latour is the archbishop in the title of this Willa Cather work Death Comes for the Archbishop |
#1733, aired 1992-02-26 | LITERATURE $1,300 (Daily Double): Edward Tudor & Tom Canty are the title characters in this Mark Twain work The Prince and the Pauper |
#1679, aired 1991-12-12 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $3,000 (Daily Double): The horse-like Houyhnhnms keep the man-like Yahoos as beasts of burden in a work by this author Jonathan Swift |
#1654, aired 1991-11-07 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $200: A 1962 Solzhenitsyn work describes one day in the life of this prisoner Ivan Denisovich |
#1584, aired 1991-06-20 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1000: In this Kafka work Gregor Samsa turns into a giant insect the Metamorphosis |
#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 |
#1263, aired 1990-02-14 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $800: The pilgrims in this poetic work include a knight, a cook, a squire, a miller & a merchant "The Canterbury Tales" |
#1258, aired 1990-02-07 | LITERARY ANIMALS $1000: Among the characters in this Richard Adams work are Hazel, Fiver & Blackberry Watership Down |
#906, aired 1988-07-11 | FRENCH LITERATURE $200: Characters in this 1845 Prosper Merimee work include a soldier, a cigar worker, & a picador Carmen |
#744, aired 1987-11-26 | GILBERT & SULLIVAN $200: Among the characters in this work are Pish-Tush, Pooh-Bah & Peep-Bo The Mikado |
#534, aired 1986-12-25 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $800: In 1912 Thomas Mann novella, Gustav von Aschenbach is killed by an epidemic in this city Venice |
#528, aired 1986-12-17 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $400: In 1925 Anita Loos novel, hair color of Lorelei Lee blonde |
#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 |
#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 |
#6710, aired 2013-11-15 | PLAY CHARACTERS: In Peter Roach's phonetics glossary, this alliterative guy is "the best-known fictional phonetician" Henry Higgins |
#5263, aired 2007-06-27 | LITERATURE: Maris, Lycon, Laogonus, Erymas, Sarpedon, Erylaus & Patroclus die in Book 16 of this work the Iliad |
#3294, aired 1998-12-24 | CLASSIC MOVIES & TELEVISION: Bert & Ernie of "Sesame Street" are named after characters in this classic Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life |
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