| #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 |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | NONFICTION $1200: In Jo Walton's novel "The Just City", Athene creates a community based on this Plato work of philosophy The Republic |
| #8196, aired 2020-04-06 | ART HISTORY $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) In 1654, the city of Delft was devastated by a gunpowder explosion depicted here; Rembrandt's student Carel Fabritius didn't survive, but this now-famous painting of his did, and went on to inspire a best-selling novel of the same name The Goldfinch |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | LITERATURE $1600: A 2014 biographical novel about this author opens with his "Passage to India" aboard the SS City of Birmingham E.M. Forster |
| #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 |
| #7763, aired 2018-05-16 | CITY OF THE NOVEL $400: "Thank You for Smoking" & "Murder in the Smithsonian" Washington, D.C. |
| #7763, aired 2018-05-16 | CITY OF THE NOVEL $800: "Interview with a Vampire" & "A Confederacy of Dunces" New Orleans |
| #7763, aired 2018-05-16 | CITY OF THE NOVEL $1200: "The Jungle" & "The Man with the Golden Arm" Chicago |
| #7763, aired 2018-05-16 | CITY OF THE NOVEL $2,000 (Daily Double): "Fifty Shades of Grey" & "The Art of Racing in the Rain" Seattle |
| #7763, aired 2018-05-16 | CITY OF THE NOVEL $2000: "Tales of the City" & "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore" San Francisco |
| #7744, aired 2018-04-19 | FICTIONAL STUDENTS $400: The "Me" of this novel title is "a senior a Benson High School in lovely inner-city Pittsburgh" Me and Earl and the Dying Girl |
| #7639, aired 2017-11-23 | AFRICAN LITERATURE $1200: Naguib Mahfouz' novel "Midaq Alley" brings to life the bustling atmosphere of this largest north African city Cairo |
| #7464, aired 2017-02-09 | MUNICIPAL LITERATURE $1200: Willa Cather's 1931 novel "Shadows on the Rock" details the lives of French colonists in the "rock" that is this Canadian city Quebec City |
| #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 $2000: City preceding "Alexanderplatz" in the title of an Alfred Doblin novel Berlin |
| #7334, aired 2016-06-30 | HOW NOVEL! $800: The setting for most of the fictional "Twilight" series is this real Washington city Forks |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | LITERARY NEW YORK CITY $400: In this novel we see the city through the eyes of young Holden Caulfield The Catcher in the Rye |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | LITERARY NEW YORK CITY $2000: This Jay McInerney novel evoked the yuppie party scene of 1980s New York City Bright Lights, Big City |
| #7065, aired 2015-05-08 | THE SETTING, SON $200: Nelson Algren grew up in this "Second City" & made it the setting of his second novel, "Never Come Morning" Chicago |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | NOVELS $2000: This first novel by Theodore Dreiser is the story of a small-town girl who comes to the big city Sister Carrie |
| #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 |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | BOOK COVERS $1000: An iconic cover for an iconic novel:
The title in yellow & a line drawing of a carousel horse dominating a slice of New York City The Catcher in the Rye |
| #6519, aired 2013-01-10 | VICTOR HUGO $200: One of the effects of this Hugo novel was to shame the city of Paris into restoring a much-neglected cathedral The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #6322, aired 2012-02-28 | CITY FOLK $200: She was the oldest of the novel-writin' Bronte sisters Charlotte |
| #6304, aired 2012-02-02 | TALES OF THE WINDY CITY $200: Frank Norris' 1903 novel about the Chicago board of trade is just called this--no "& the Pendulum" The Pit |
| #6304, aired 2012-02-02 | TALES OF THE WINDY CITY $600: Henry Fuller's 1893 novel "The Cliff-Dwellers" deals with "The Tribe" inhabiting a lofty Chicago one of these a skyscraper |
| #6304, aired 2012-02-02 | TALES OF THE WINDY CITY $800: This Richard Wright work about a racially charged murder trial was the first best-selling novel by an African American Native Son |
| #6260, aired 2011-12-02 | MIDDLE INITIAL C. $600: This author of the 1956 sci-fi novel "The City and the Stars" was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1998 Arthur C. Clarke |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | LITERARY STUPID ANSWERS $400: An epidemic of the bubonic plague overwhelms a city in this 1947 novel by Albert Camus The Plague |
| #5713, aired 2009-06-10 | WELCOME TO LISBON $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a city square in Lisbon, Portugal.) Portugal's great writers include José Saramago, who grew up in Lisbon & who wrote this novel adapted into a 2008 movie with Julianne Moore Blindness |
| #5468, aired 2008-05-21 | CITY LITTER $1600: Surely you know her spooky novel "The Haunting of Hill House" was filmed in 1999 with Liam Neeson Shirley Jackson |
| #5206, aired 2007-04-09 | LITERARY GEOGRAPHY $400: The title of the novel "The Heart Of Midlothian" refers to an old prison in this Scottish city Edinburgh |
| #5099, aired 2006-11-09 | NOVELS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Charles Bridge in Prague, Czech Republic.) This Milan Kundera novel says "the saints were shaking their fists and lifting their stone eyes to the clouds. Prague was the most beautiful city in the world" The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
| #4990, aired 2006-04-28 | WHO'S THE BOSS $800: James Curley inspired the novel "The Last Hurrah" as a political boss & mayor of this city Boston |
| #4945, aired 2006-02-24 | THE FOUNTAINS OF EUROPE $400: Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers in this city is featured in the novel "Angels & Demons" Rome |
| #4560, aired 2004-06-04 | GONE WITH THE WIND $400: Fans of the film love the museum devoted to it in this city, steps away from the home where the novel was written Atlanta |
| #4531, aired 2004-04-26 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $400: Robert Harris' historical novel about the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius is named for this ancient city Pompeii |
| #4275, aired 2003-03-14 | PORGY-POURRI $1000: The opera is based on a novel inspired by a real crime of passion committed in this Southern city Charleston, South Carolina |
| #4270, aired 2003-03-07 | LITERARY HEROINES $400: A 1983 novel by Christa Wolf focuses on Cassandra, the disbelieved prophetess of this ancient city Troy |
| #4053, aired 2002-03-27 | THE SUN ALSO RISES $800: The early part of the novel focuses on a group of expatriates in this capital city Paris |
| #3966, aired 2001-11-26 | GOOD TOMES $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew is at the Plaza Hotel in New York City.) This man's second novel, 1922's "The Beautiful and Damned", features scenes in the Plaza's Grill Room F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #3922, aired 2001-09-25 | MARS $200: In the H.G. Wells novel "War of the Worlds", invading Martians attack this capital city of England London |
| #3881, aired 2001-06-18 | CITY LIT $300: In his first novel, Michael Chabon revealed "The Mysteries of" this steel city Pittsburgh |
| #3865, aired 2001-05-25 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $400: The 1803 book "Thaddeus of" this Polish city is called one of the first historical novels Warsaw |
| #3560, aired 2000-02-11 | LITERARY TRILOGIES $400: "Palace of Desire" is the second novel in Naguib Mahfouz' trilogy about an Egyptian family in this capital city Cairo |
| #3463, aired 1999-09-29 | WOMEN OF THE WORLD $600: Muriel Spark was born in this capital city, the setting for her novel "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" Edinburgh |
| #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 |
| #2836, aired 1996-12-23 | LITERATURE $800: This E.M. Forster novel is set in the fictional city of Chandrapore "A Passage To India" |
| #2734, aired 1996-06-20 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $1000: This author of "The Manchurian Candidate" completed his 3rd novel, "Some Angry Angel", in Mexico City Richard Condon |
| #2486, aired 1995-05-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Geo. Washington Cable's 1880 novel "The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life" is set in this city New Orleans |
| #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 |
| #1716, aired 1992-02-03 | AMERICAN NOVELS $400: The Reverend L.M. Birkhead of Kansas City was advisor to Sinclair Lewis on this 1927 novel Elmer Gantry |
| #1600, aired 1991-07-12 | LITERARY "LAST"s $600: 1956 Edwin O'Connor novel about the demise of F. Skeffington, an aging big city mayor The Last Hurrah |
| #1138, aired 1989-07-12 | SPEAK OF THE DICKENS $800: 1854 novel about tough goings in the industrial city of Coketown Hard Times |
| #906, aired 1988-07-11 | FRENCH LITERATURE $600: In the Stendhal novel, Fabrizio spends his last years in "The Charterhouse of" this Italian city Parma |
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