#9059, aired 2024-03-14 | BOOKS BY REPORTERS $1200: Willard Motley wrote novels as well as Bud Billiken newspaper columns for this city's Black weekly The Defender Chicago |
#9052, aired 2024-03-05 | 5 FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $800: "The Broken Heart of America", about St. Louis & American violence, ends with a 2014 police shooting in this Missouri city Ferguson |
#9046, aired 2024-02-26 | HISTORY $600: In 1546 the council of this Italian city added Judith, Tobit & other books to the Catholic Bible Trent |
#9016, aired 2024-01-15 | PORTLANDIA $1000: This iconic "City of Books" covers a full city block of Portland's Pearl District Powell's |
#22, aired 2023-12-06 | ROAD TRIP "I SPY" $400: I spy...
Powell's City of Books,
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Timberline Lodge Oregon |
#8921, aired 2023-07-24 | INTERNATIONAL BOOKS $1200: "Ghost Stories", a graphic novel from Canadian Jeff Lemire is set in a town outside this city, across the river from Detroit Windsor |
#8886, aired 2023-06-05 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): A line in this book says, "Take my apples, boy, and sell them in the city. Then you will have money and you will be happy" The Giving Tree |
#8873, aired 2023-05-17 | "X" IN THE CITY $1000: In 2002 a library designed to hold 8 million books opened in this city, close to where the Ancient Royal Library stood Alexandria |
#6, aired 2023-05-10 | THE LAST BOOKS YOU'LL READ $400: Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote the historical novel "The Last Days of" this doomed city near Naples Pompeii |
#6, aired 2023-05-10 | LITTLE $1,000 (Daily Double): This city in Java gave its name to small chickens, boxers & books Bantam |
#8832, aired 2023-03-21 | BOOKS: THE FUTURE IS NOW $800: This 1925 novel about a futuristic city in 2026 became an art deco sci-fi silent movie by Fritz Lang Metropolis |
#8574, aired 2022-02-10 | RECENT BOOKS $2000: With four Hugo Awards on her mantel, this author wrote about the Big Apple in "The City We Became" N.K. Jemisin |
#8573, aired 2022-02-09 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $400: First published in 1931, "The Story of" this elephant includes his escape to the city where he becomes cultured & educated Babar |
#8455, aired 2021-07-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Christopher Isherwood is known for stories based on life in this European city in the 1930s; here's how he looked in that decade Berlin |
#8411, aired 2021-05-31 | HATS IN BOOKS $800: This colorfully dressed guy took Curious George from a life in the jungle to one in the city the Man in the Yellow Hat |
#8399, aired 2021-05-13 | NUMBERING THE NONFICTION BOOKS $800: "13 Hours" is a tale of loss & heroism in the 2012 terrorist attack on a U.S. compound in this Libyan city Benghazi |
#8382, aired 2021-04-20 | BOOKS FOR THE WEATHER CHANNEL $1600: Dennis Lehane's "Prayers for Rain" is about a P.I. based in this East Coast city Boston |
#8243, aired 2020-09-23 | ON THE GLOBE $400: The Libreria Acqua Alta or "High Water Bookshop" keeps its books in waterproof basins just in case this Italian city floods Venice |
#8238, aired 2020-09-16 | TV SHOWS BASED ON BOOKS BY WOMEN $200: This show & its prequel "The Carrie Diaries" were based on books by Candace Bushnell Sex and the City |
#8205, aired 2020-04-17 | NOTE BOOKS $2000: This Brit's "American Notes" tells of his 1842 visit to the United States, calling out slavery and "grimy New York City" Charles Dickens |
#8189, aired 2020-03-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: Author-run bookstores include Ann Patchett's Parnassus Books in Nashville & his Booked Up Inc. in Archer City, Texas Larry McMurtry |
#8144, aired 2020-01-23 | BOOKS ABOUT ANCIENT HISTORY $800: This Punic city "Must Be Destroyed" covers its epic battle with Rome Carthage |
#8144, aired 2020-01-23 | BOOKS ABOUT ANCIENT HISTORY $1600: A history of this 2-letter Sumerian city is subtitled "The City of the Moon God" Ur |
#8100, aired 2019-11-22 | WINDY CITY POLITICS $2000: Chicago's most famous community organizer before Barack Obama, he wrote books like "Rules for Radicals" Saul Alinsky |
#8043, aired 2019-07-24 | HISTORY BOOKS $400: "City of Dreams" is Tyler Anbinder's epic history of 400 years of this U.S. metropolis' immigrant experience New York |
#8011, aired 2019-06-10 | BOOKS $400: The first woman to win the Pulitzer for Fiction, Edith Wharton won for this 1920 novel about 1870s New York City The Age of Innocence |
#7950, aired 2019-03-15 | THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2018 $4,000 (Daily Double): "Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of" this Midwest capital city includes "Its Chaotic Founding" on April 22, 1889 & much more Oklahoma City |
#7923, aired 2019-02-06 | INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES $400: With its main store at Broadway & 12th Street, Strand Books in this city boasts "18 miles of books" New York |
#7892, aired 2018-12-25 | BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS $1600: In Azar Nafisi's bestseller, a group of students are secretly "Reading Lolita in" this Middle Eastern capital city Tehran |
#7777, aired 2018-06-05 | TRUE CRIME BOOKS, SWEETHEART $200: Including 1922's unsolved murder of director William Desmond Taylor, "Fallen Angels" spills secrets from this city Los Angeles |
#7722, aired 2018-03-20 | BOOKS ABOUT ASIA $2,000 (Daily Double): An early 2000s bestseller was a memoir about a secret book club in this city that discussed works like "Lolita" Tehran |
#7510, aired 2017-04-14 | LITERARY CHICAGO $2,000 (Daily Double): This Windy City lawyer sets books like "The Burden of Proof" in Kindle County, a stand-in for the Chicago area Scott Turow |
#7393, aired 2016-11-02 | TV SHOWS BASED ON BOOKS $1200: A nonfiction book subtitled "The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City" was source material for this HBO series Boardwalk Empire |
#7368, aired 2016-09-28 | CITY BOOKS $400: The 1910 novel "The Phantom of the Opera" is set in this city Paris |
#7368, aired 2016-09-28 | CITY BOOKS $800: Not Yangon, but this city is where "The Road" leads to in the title of a 2015 Lucy Cruickshanks book Rangoon |
#7368, aired 2016-09-28 | CITY BOOKS $1200: Andrei Bely's novel about socialist revolt in 1905 is named after this Russian city but the title drops the "St." Petersburg |
#7368, aired 2016-09-28 | CITY BOOKS $2,000 (Daily Double): A trilogy by Yasmina Khadra includes "The Swallows of Kabul" & "The Sirens of" this other capital Baghdad |
#7368, aired 2016-09-28 | CITY BOOKS $2000: City preceding "Alexanderplatz" in the title of an Alfred Doblin novel Berlin |
#7354, aired 2016-07-28 | CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $600: (Here with the clue is Angelica Thornton of KATU.) Covering a city block & housing a million volumes, Powell's Books covers the whole universe on its shelves, but it also has books of local interest, like this one by Fred Armisen & Carrie Brownstein that shares its name with their TV show Portlandia |
#7348, aired 2016-07-20 | OUR GREAT COUNTRY $800: The swan boats featured in books like "The Trumpet of the Swan" are a popular attraction in this city Boston |
#7334, aired 2016-06-30 | WHERE AM I? $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports.) I'm at Powell's Books, a 68,000-square-foot mecca for readers in this Western U.S. city Portland, Oregon |
#7315, aired 2016-06-03 | POLITICAL BOOKS $400: In 2002 this former New York City mayor published "Leadership" Giuliani |
#7249, aired 2016-03-03 | CLEVER LOGOS $400: An imprint of Penguin, Gotham Books has a logo of 3 stacked books that form this type of building seen in New York City a skyscraper |
#7028, aired 2015-03-18 | BOOKS OF THE YEAR $1200: 1914:
This city-centric James Joyce collection Dubliners |
#6986, aired 2015-01-19 | POWERFUL BOOKS $1200: Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" depicted the gory world of this city's meatpacking industry Chicago |
#6955, aired 2014-12-05 | BOOKS $2000: Besides editing the Rodent's Gazette, the newspaper of New Mouse City, this mouse goes on adventures with his sister Thea Geronimo Stilton |
#6924, aired 2014-10-23 | LITERARY SAN FRANCISCO $5,600 (Daily Double): This bookstore on Columbus Avenue at Broadway is also a publisher whose books include "Howl" City Lights |
#6838, aired 2014-05-14 | BOOKS OF THE LATIN VULGATE BIBLE $200: "Judicum" Judges |
#6770, aired 2014-02-07 | 1980s BOOKS $3,000 (Daily Double): Drug-fueled debauchery in New York City takes up much of this Jay McInerney debut novel Bright Lights, Big City |
#6630, aired 2013-06-14 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $800: Born in Russia in 1920; died some 500 books & 72 years later in New York City Isaac Asimov |
#6597, aired 2013-04-30 | ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $400: "Eden on the Charles" shows how the 19th century growth of this city influences us today Boston |
#6597, aired 2013-04-30 | ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $2000: "The ten-year search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to" this Pakistani city is detailed in "Manhunt" Abbottabad |
#6181, aired 2011-06-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: "Meet Carrie before Sex and the City" says the cover of "The Carrie Diaries" by this author (Candace) Bushnell |
#6091, aired 2011-02-21 | OLD BOOKS $400: Virgil's "Aeneid" tells the story of the founder of this city Rome |
#5814, aired 2009-12-17 | PEOPLE BOOKS $1600: A review of "South of Broad" says Pat Conroy's "first novel in 14 years begins where he left off:" this So. Carolina city Charleston |
#5625, aired 2009-02-06 | GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $1200: This Egyptian city earned the nickname "Mother of Books" from the library that was there in ancient times Alexandria |
#5609, aired 2009-01-15 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: This Edith Frome New York City penned "Ethan Frome" in 1911 (Edith) Wharton |
#5481, aired 2008-06-09 | BOOKS OF THE '70s $600 (Daily Double): In a 1972 book, Hunter S. Thompson sent Raoul Duke & Dr. Gonzo to this city to cover the Mint 400 race Las Vegas |
#5134, aired 2006-12-28 | MILLER'S CROSSING $2000: He changed the world of comic books with "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns" & "Sin City" Frank Miller |
#5033, aired 2006-06-28 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $600: The expression "Banned in" this city came from that city's enthusiastic censorship of books in the 1920s Boston |
#4981, aired 2006-04-17 | COFFEE TABLE BOOKS $2000: "The Architecture and Design of a Midcentury Oasis" highlights the houses in this California city 114 miles from L.A. Palm Springs |
#4686, aired 2005-01-10 | FIRST THINGS FIRST $3,000 (Daily Double): City Lights Books helped folks lacking space &/or money as the USA's first bookstore to sell only these paperbacks |
#4281, aired 2003-03-24 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Vatican City) The scenes down the center of the Sistine Chapel ceiling come from this book of the Bible Genesis |
#4203, aired 2002-12-04 | I'M GONNA "B" $600: (Jimmy in San Francisco) Naturally City Lights Books has a section for this literary group and Kerouac, Ginsberg & Burroughs are in it Beat Generation |
#4136, aired 2002-09-02 | BOOKSTORES $400: Blackwell's, in this British university city since 1879, has a 10,000-square-foot room of books Oxford |
#4087, aired 2002-05-14 | WORLD LITERATURE $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from San Francisco, CA.) If you really need a book by this poet, come here to City Lights Books, the store he founded in 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
#3988, aired 2001-12-26 | UNREAL ESTATE $1000: In books by Garth Nix, the only place that gets sun is a castle city with this title number of towers 7 |
#3042, aired 1997-11-18 | READ ANY GOOD BOOKS? $1000: The city Armistead Maupin did "Tales", "More Tales" & "Further Tales" about San Francisco |
#2816, aired 1996-11-25 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the city in Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City" San Francisco |
#2474, aired 1995-05-11 | LIBRARIES $1000: Disraeli was one of the foreign authors who gave books to this city's library after the 1871 fire Chicago |
#2371, aired 1994-12-19 | THE MACCABEES $600: In "The City of God", he wrote that the church preserved the 4 books of the Maccabees as martyr tales St. Augustine |
#2055, aired 1993-07-09 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Margaret Truman's "Murder at the National Cathedral" opens in this city on a hot August morning Washington, D.C. |
#1998, aired 1993-04-21 | LIBRARIES $400: After the 1871 fire, Queen Victoria donated books to help start this U.S. city's Public Library Chicago |
#1981, aired 1993-03-29 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: E.M. Forster set this novel in the city of Chandrapore, on the banks of the Ganges A Passage to India |
#1948, aired 1993-02-10 | LIBRARIES $300: This city's Enoch Pratt Free Library has Maryland's largest collection of books Baltimore |
#1832, aired 1992-07-14 | LIBRARIES $200: This city's public library system is Wisconsin's largest with more than 1.5 million books Milwaukee |
#1467, aired 1991-01-08 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: A father dooms his daughter's romance, then dies in this Henry James novel named for a New York City locale Washington Square |
#13, aired 1990-09-08 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $500: John Bunyan's dreamlike allegory of Christian's journey to the celestial city Pilgrim's Progress |
#1, aired 1990-06-16 | REFERENCE BOOKS $5,000 (Daily Double): "The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire" ends in 1453 with the fall of this city Constantinople |
#1195, aired 1989-11-10 | LIBRARIES $100: According to ancient rumor, Mark Antony donated 200,000 books to this city's library Alexandria |
#1143, aired 1989-07-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: In this book Christian journeys from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City The Pilgrim's Progress |
#1095, aired 1989-05-12 | LIBRARIES $500 (Daily Double): In 1731 the 1st library to circulate books in what's now the U.S. was founded in this city Philadelphia |
#898, aired 1988-06-29 | COMIC BOOKS $400: Steel yourself--in 1987, this city was totally destroyed in Marvel's New Universe comics Pittsburgh |
#623, aired 1987-04-29 | BEACHES $300: Guide books now warn against swimming in the polluted water at this city's Copacabana Beach Rio |
#157, aired 1985-04-16 | U.S. CITIES $600: About 1/3 of all U.S. books are published in this city New York City |
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Season 26 3-time champion: $58,000 + $2,000. Janet Bradlow New York,...
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Prairie Village,...
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Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
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Season 25 1-time champion: $30,000 + $2,000. Mother of Season 32...
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
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Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room
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"Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
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Season 27 3-time champion: $65,981 + $2,000. Brother of Season 30...
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Austin, Texas. Prashant Raghavendran Blog...
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,399 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,400 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Huntington, WV at...
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"Representing Texas A&M, he won the 2002 College Championship. Now he's...
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Season 26 1-time champion: $14,984 + $2,000. As detailed in a...
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Season 26 1-time champion: $19,410 + $2,000. Jen McFann Astoria, New...
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Season 26 player (2010-02-26). Season 25 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000....
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Farmington, Connecticut. Daniel D'Addario...
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"In 2004 he entered the Guinness Book of Records as having...
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