| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | U.S. CAPITAL AIRPORT CODES $400: LIT:
A wee city in this state Arkansas |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | MODERN FANTASY LIT $600: S.A. Chakraborty's "City of Brass" has Nahri team up with Dara, one of these mystical creatures whose name starts with a silent "D" a djinn |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | THE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD $1,000 (Daily Double): The Pharos of Alexandria was one of these that stood on an island in the city harbor, with a fire lit at the top every night a lighthouse |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | LIT IN THE FUTURE TENSE $800: "1984" is set in the pretend country Oceania & in the made-up province Airstrip One, but in this actual city London |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | GLOBAL LIT $1200: Miles Franklin's sequel to "My Brilliant Career", called "My Career Goes Bung", is set among the literati of this big city Sydney |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | LIT-POURRI $400: Alexander Rostov is under house arrest in the Metropol, a hotel across from the Kremlin, in the novel "A Gentleman in" this city Moscow |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | COLORFUL LIT $600: By Erik Larson, about "Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair": "The Devil in the ____ City" White |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | FANGS A LOT! $400: You can get custom designer fangs of this classic lit character for $19.99 at Party City, just like the author intended Dracula |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | CHILDREN'S LIT $800: In "Make Way for Ducklings", Mr. & Mrs. Mallard settle down in this U.S. city's public garden Boston |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | ALLITERATIVE LIT $400: Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes" takes place in part in this city that shares its name with a type of humorous verse Limerick |
| #7351, aired 2016-07-25 | ANATOMICALLY TITLED LIT $1600: "City of Bones" is the first book in this fantasy series about teenage demon hunters in New York City The Mortal Instruments |
| #7341, aired 2016-07-11 | LIT-POURRI $200: Samuel Johnson said, "When a man is tired of" this city that contains his only surviving residence, "he is tired of life" London |
| #7122, aired 2015-07-28 | LIT BLITZ $1200: The murder & guilt of "Crime and Punishment" play out in this former capital city Saint Petersburg |
| #7092, aired 2015-06-16 | WORLD LIT $1200: Euripides wrote a tragedy about these title "Women" & their fate after their city falls The Trojan Women |
| #6612, aired 2013-05-21 | URBAN LIT $200: Paule Marshall's 1950s growing-up tale "Brown Girl, Brownstones" is set in this metropolis New York City |
| #6612, aired 2013-05-21 | URBAN LIT $400: "Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker" by S. Weir Mitchell is a novel about Colonial life mainly in this city Philadelphia |
| #6612, aired 2013-05-21 | URBAN LIT $600: Life in this city where the 2 met fills much of Gertrude Stein's "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" Paris |
| #6612, aired 2013-05-21 | URBAN LIT $800: Filmed as "There Will Be Blood", Upton Sinclair's "Oil!" takes place in & around this West Coast city Los Angeles |
| #5950, aired 2010-06-25 | CHICK LIT $1000: Her classics of the genre include "Lipstick Jungle", "4 Blondes" &, of course, "Sex and the City" Candace Bushnell |
| #4972, aired 2006-04-04 | CHICK LIT $1000: This HBO series originated with Candace Bushnell's newspaper column Sex and the City |
| #4796, aired 2005-06-13 | HENCE THE TITLE $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the brightly-lit nighttime streets of New York.) John Rechy wrote, "I would think of America as one vast city of" this "stretching gaudily from Times Square" night |
| #4717, aired 2005-02-22 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $800: Jean Toomer's "Cane" (1923) is one of the major works of this New York City movement the Harlem Renaissance |
| #4193, aired 2002-11-20 | WORLD LIT $800: Reinaldo Arenas called "Journey to" this Cuban city "A Novel in Three Trips" Havana |
| #3881, aired 2001-06-18 | CITY LIT $100: En Francais, the title of an 1831 work is "Notre-Dame de" zis city Paris |
| #3881, aired 2001-06-18 | CITY LIT $200: Betty Smith wrote about her hometown in the classic "A Tree Grows in" this borough Brooklyn |
| #3881, aired 2001-06-18 | CITY LIT $300: In his first novel, Michael Chabon revealed "The Mysteries of" this steel city Pittsburgh |
| #3881, aired 2001-06-18 | CITY LIT $500 (Daily Double): In a middle English classic, travelers make a pilgrimage from Southwark to this city in Kent Canterbury |
| #3881, aired 2001-06-18 | CITY LIT $500: An author succumbs to cholera, leading to his "Death in" this Italian city Venice |
| #3733, aired 2000-11-22 | WORLD LIT $800 (Daily Double): British author Lawrence Durrell is most famous for his "quartet" of novels set in this Egyptian city Alexandria |
| #3136, aired 1998-03-30 | 19th CENTURY LIT $200: The urbane Brazilian author Machado de Assis set most of his works among the wealthy of this city Rio |
| #3065, aired 1997-12-19 | BEATNIK LIT $100: This 1957 Kerouac novel begins in New York City & ends thousands of miles later south of the border On The Road |
| #2064, aired 1993-07-22 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: In 1900 this company lit up New York City with an electric sign--a 40' pickle Heniz |
| #1330, aired 1990-05-18 | OPERA $1000: In the last scene of "The Maid Of Orleans", a fire is lit in this city Rouen |
| #809, aired 1988-02-25 | IDAHO $600: On July 17, 1955 Arco, Idaho became the 1st U.S. city to be lit by electricity from this source nuclear power |
| #10, aired 1984-09-21 | TOURIST TRAPS $400: Seaside resort that has a monopoly on East Coast gambling Atlantic City, New Jersey |
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