| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | THEY WROTE 'EM $400: "The Nun's Priest's Tale" (circa 1400) Chaucer |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | YOU, KNIGHT $5,600 (Daily Double): Part of a larger work, "The Knight's Tale" by this author begins, "Whilom, as olde stories tellen us" Chaucer |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | OLD WORDS $1600: Chaucer's "Miller's Tale" used this word for part of a roof centuries before a Hawthorne novel title did gable |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MILITARY HISTORY $2000: An impressment ordinance got this author of "The Pilgrim's Progress" caught up in the English Civil Wars John Bunyan |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | WRITERS, WITH STYLE $3,000 (Daily Double): Heere bigynneth owr joorny onn his "Summoner's Tale", a titl mayde moderne, as he speld it "Somonours" Chaucer |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: To Chaucer it was the belly; now it's the gaping mouth of a hungry creature maw |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | BIRDS OF A FEATHER $1200: Chaucer wrote a poem called this assembly "of Fowls"; it's also a term for an assembly of owls a parliament |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | LET'S ALL GO TO THE LIBRARY $800: California's Huntington Library holds the precious Ellesmere manuscript of this medieval English poet's work Chaucer |
| #6947, aired 2014-11-25 | CHICK LIT $1000: In Chaucer's "Nun's Priest's Tale", a proud & foolish rooster escapes one of these predators by the skin of his beak a fox |
| #6926, aired 2014-10-27 | STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON'S ENCYCLOPEDIA $800: "(About 1340-1400). Called the father of the English language and the Morning Star of Song" Chaucer |
| #6847, aired 2014-05-27 | MOVIES INSPIRED BY LITERATURE $200: "A Knight's Tale", starring Heath Ledger, was inspired by this Chaucer classic The Canterbury Tales |
| #6838, aired 2014-05-14 | FEEL THE "RG" $600: Chaucer's "Knight's Tale" mentions this woolen fabric serge |
| #6796, aired 2014-03-17 | THE TWO-THOUSAND YEAR OLD MAN $800: (Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks present the clue.)
"What was your most annoying job?"
"Well, I was a scrivener for this poet who couldn't spell. The first line of his prologue, he spells 'April' like this-A-P-R-I-L-L-E. That's--that's how he spelled 'April'" Chaucer |
| #6789, aired 2014-03-06 | ON THE BOOKSHELF $1000: In the "Nun's Priest's Tale", Chaucer used some of the French material about this fox of medieval French fable Reynard |
| #6728, aired 2013-12-11 | AUDIO BOOK PERFORMERS $400: Monty Python's Terry Jones says of this pre-Shakespeare poet, "Once you get past the spelling, he speaks so clearly" Geoffrey Chaucer |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | THE STORY OF ENGLISH $600: In Chaucer's day, "boot" was pronounced "boat"; the change to modern speech is called the GVS, "great" this "shift" vowel |
| #6041, aired 2010-12-13 | LITERATURE SEQUELS? $400: He jazzed up one of his stories, "The Wife of Bath's Tale", with "The Desperate Housewife of Bath's Revenge!" Chaucer |
| #5858, aired 2010-02-17 | PERMANENTLY AT WESTMINSTER ABBEY $200: He's at the abbey because he was Clerk of Works to the Palace of Westminster, not for writing "The Canterbury Tales" Chaucer |
| #5856, aired 2010-02-15 | POLYHYMNIA $2000: Bede recorded this earliest-known Anglo-Saxon Christian poet's "Hymn" in prose Cædmon |
| #5811, aired 2009-12-14 | HEN TRICKS $800: In "The Nun's Priest's Tale", this author tells us of the fowl Chanticleer, who tricks the fox into releasing him Chaucer |
| #5650, aired 2009-03-13 | GETTING MEDIEVAL WITH ENGLISH LIT $400: His 1380s poem "The Parlement of Foules" isn't about idiots in government; it's about birds choosing mates Geoffrey Chaucer |
| #5496, aired 2008-06-30 | LITERATURE $800: In Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" , this bawdy wife tells of her 5 husbands & her desire for a sixth the Wife of Bath |
| #5192, aired 2007-03-20 | POET-POURRI $800: In 1400 Geoffrey Chaucer became the first poet buried in this London locale's Poets' Corner Westminster Abbey |
| #5151, aired 2007-01-22 | A FEW GOOD MEN $1000: Many of Geoffrey Chaucer's works were first printed around 1477 by this man, England's first printer William Caxton |
| #5106, aired 2006-11-20 | LITERATURE $600: "The Miller's Tale" is one of the naughtiest of these famous Chaucer stories The Canterbury Tales |
| #5057, aired 2006-09-12 | WRITERS ON FILM $800: Paul Bettany plays this author in the medieval-set "A Knight's Tale" Chaucer |
| #5008, aired 2006-05-24 | POTENT POTABLE POTPOURRI $1000: This fermented honey-&-water beverage was a favorite of Chaucer's miller & of the god Thor mead |
| #4846, aired 2005-10-10 | I SEE LONDON, I SEE FRANCE $2000: After his capture during this long war with France, Chaucer's ransom was paid by King Edward III & he was released the Hundred Years' War |
| #4766, aired 2005-05-02 | SPELLINGE WYTH GEOFFREY CHAUCER $1200: Chaucer spells this word to end in D-E-L; it's where a child of "half yeer age" lies a cradle |
| #4766, aired 2005-05-02 | SPELLINGE WYTH GEOFFREY CHAUCER $1600: One Chaucer poem is about "The Parliament" of these (spelled with a U in place of the W) Fowls |
| #4696, aired 2005-01-24 | BY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT $1200: Longfellow's sonnet about this 14th century British tale spinner calls him "the poet of the dawn" Chaucer |
| #4607, aired 2004-09-21 | YOU HAD TO EXPECT SHAKESPEARE $800: About 230 years B.S. (before Shakespeare), Chaucer wrote an 8,000-line poem about this title Homeric pair Troilus and Criseyde |
| #4352, aired 2003-07-01 | "V"ARIETY $200: In Chaucer's "Parliament of Fowls", the fowls gather to choose their mates on this day Valentine's Day |
| #4158, aired 2002-10-02 | CHAUCER & FRIENDS $1200: Chaucer's poem about this man & woman, that old Trojan war horse of a story, was inspired by Boccaccio Troilus and Cressida |
| #4158, aired 2002-10-02 | CHAUCER & FRIENDS $1600: In 1389 Chaucer became clerk of the King's Works, the king being the doomed second one of this name Richard II |
| #4031, aired 2002-02-25 | CHAUCER'S $400: Chaucer's life & career took a complicating turn in 1386 when he was appointed to this house of Parliament the House of Commons |
| #4031, aired 2002-02-25 | CHAUCER'S $1200: In Chaucer's masterpiece "The Canterbury Tales", this bawdy wife tells of her 5 husbands & her desire for a sixth the Wife of Bath |
| #4024, aired 2002-02-14 | ISN'T IT ROMANTIC? $1000: In a poem, this "Canterbury Tales" author wrote about birds choosing their mates on Valentine's Day Chaucer |
| #3978, aired 2001-12-12 | BRIT LIT $800: Famous for a set of bawdy stories, he was the first to be buried in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner Geoffrey Chaucer |
| #3943, aired 2001-10-24 | HISTORICAL NOVELS $200: Anya Seton's novel "Katherine" is based on John of Gaunt's affair with this "Canterbury Tales"-spinner's sister-in-law Geoffrey Chaucer |
| #3474, aired 1999-10-14 | HISTORIC NAMES $100: He's buried in Westminster Abbey even though he's most famous for his "Canterbury Tales" Geoffrey Chaucer |
| #3433, aired 1999-07-07 | SHAKESPEAREAN COMEDIES $200: The source of "The Two Noble Kinsmen", probably co-written by Shakespeare, was this author's "The Knight's Tale" Geoffrey Chaucer |
| #3272, aired 1998-11-24 | POETS' RHYME TIME $400: Geoffrey's
cup holders Chaucer's saucers |
| #3271, aired 1998-11-23 | FOR HE'S A JOLLY LONGFELLOW $400: "Tales Of A Wayside Inn" was modeled in part on this Chaucer work The Canterbury Tales |
| #2940, aired 1997-05-16 | LOVE $500: Chaucer, Shakespeare & Blake are among the poets who have written that love has this disability It's blind |
| #2927, aired 1997-04-29 | LITERATURE $400: "The Miller's Tale" is one of the bawdiest stories in this collection of Chaucer "Tales" "The Canterbury Tales" |
| #2866, aired 1997-02-03 | LITERATURE $500: The Man of Law's Tale in this Chaucer work tells the story of Constance, an emperor's daughter The Canterbury Tales |
| #2801, aired 1996-11-04 | MEDIEVAL WORDS $800: A knight's overcoat, or the name of the inn where Chaucer's pilgrims stop Tabard Inn |
| #2538, aired 1995-09-20 | POETRY $1000: Probably written around 1373, his "Saint Cecilia" later appeared as the "Second Nun's Tale" Chaucer |
| #2378, aired 1994-12-28 | LITERATURE $800: "The Knight's Tale" by this 14th century author is based on Boccaccio's poem "Teseida" (Geoffrey) Chaucer |
| #2371, aired 1994-12-19 | ENGLISH LIT. $1000: It's believed that he began writing his unfinished dream-poem "The House of Fame" in the 1370s Geoffrey Chaucer |
| #2369, aired 1994-12-15 | POETS $800: This poet modeled his "Tales of a Wayside Inn" on Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| #2286, aired 1994-07-11 | AUTHORS $200: Longfellow's sonnet about this author of "The Canterbury Tales" calls him "The Poet of the Dawn" Chaucer |
| #2271, aired 1994-06-20 | POETS $600: This English poet's c. 1369 work "The Book of the Duchess" was an elegy on John of Gaunt's first wife Chaucer |
| #1932, aired 1993-01-19 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $100: Russell, a fox, appears in "The Nun's Priest's Tale" of this Chaucer work The Canterbury Tales |
| #1558, aired 1991-05-15 | ANATOMICAL QUOTES $800: Chaucer's "Un air it heard, a tother out it went" is commonly quoted as this "In one ear and out the other" |
| #1543, aired 1991-04-24 | FICTIONAL CLERGY $400: John, the Nun's Priest, tells the story of the Cock & the Fox in this Chaucer collection The Canterbury Tales |
| #1391, aired 1990-09-24 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $500: In his "Assembly of Fowls", Chaucer wrote, "It's when every fowl comes to choose his mate" St. Valentine's Day |
| #1254, aired 1990-02-01 | PROVERBS $800: Chaucer's version of this proverb was "It is nought good a slepying hound to wake" Let sleeping dogs lie |
| #1219, aired 1989-12-14 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $2,100 (Daily Double): In Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" she starts her story with a rambling prologue about her 5 husbands the Wife of Bath |
| #1045, aired 1989-03-03 | THE MIDDLE AGES $4,000 (Daily Double): Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are "told" by a group of pilgrims on their way to this martyr's shrine St. Thomas à Becket |
| #920, aired 1988-09-09 | WORLD CITIES $200: Using this town's ancient Roman name, Chaucer's work might have been called "The Durovernum Tales" Canterbury |
| #480, aired 1986-10-10 | LITERATURE $800: The travellers in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" are on a pilgrimage to shrine of this 12th c. martyr Thomas à Becket |
| #403, aired 1986-03-26 | THE RENAISSANCE $800: Tales from this Italian's "Decameron" were adapted by Chaucer & Shakespeare Giovanni Boccaccio |
| #91, aired 1985-01-14 | "C" CITIES $200: The destination of Chaucer's travelers in his "tales" Canterbury |
