#8636, aired 2022-05-09 | PREPOSITIONAL LITERATURE $200: A boy comes of age during this 19th century conflict in Irene Hunt's young adult classic "Across Five Aprils" the Civil War |
#8441, aired 2021-07-12 | FRENCH LITERATURE $400: One of the most popular novels among soldiers on both sides in the U.S. Civil War was this 1862 Victor Hugo novel Les Misérables |
#8033, aired 2019-07-10 | LITERATURE $800: Stephen Crane's "War Memories" were not about the Civil War but this later war, including the taking of Guantanamo Bay the Spanish-American War |
#8013, aired 2019-06-12 | WAR IN LITERATURE $200: In "Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, a soldier makes a perilous journey home in the end stages of this U.S. war the Civil War |
#7932, aired 2019-02-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: In a 1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs tale, Civil War vet John Carter is magically transported here Mars |
#7420, aired 2016-12-09 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $400: This "directional" trilogy by John Jakes looks at the Civil War from the viewpoints of 2 families on opposite sides North and South |
#7420, aired 2016-12-09 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $800: "Manhunt" by James Swanson is an account of the multi-day chase to find this killer John Wilkes Booth |
#7420, aired 2016-12-09 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $1200: It's the "snaky" title of Bernard Cornwell's novel about a Confederate officer jailed as a Yankee spy Copperhead |
#7420, aired 2016-12-09 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $1600: Begun in 1863 & published in 1994, John Ransom's diary is his eloquent account of survival in this notorious prison Andersonville |
#7420, aired 2016-12-09 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $2000: A Union officer is killed but not in warfare in "Murder at" this Virginia town, name of the war's first major battle Manassas |
#6500, aired 2012-12-14 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $400: Michael Shaara's 1975 Pulitzer Prize winner "The Killer Angels" tells the story of this 3-day battle Gettysburg |
#6500, aired 2012-12-14 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $800: This 1895 classic follows the story of a young man from naive patriotism to fear to bravery The Red Badge Of Courage |
#6500, aired 2012-12-14 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Geraldine Brooks' "March" imagines the war exploits of Mr. March, the father of the 4 girls in this work Little Women |
#6500, aired 2012-12-14 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $1600: E.L. Doctorow's "The March" depicts this general's campaign through the South Sherman |
#6500, aired 2012-12-14 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $2000: A 1952 novel by Shelby Foote recounts an 1862 battle at this title Tennessee place with a Biblical name Shiloh |
#6447, aired 2012-10-02 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $1200: This general's "Commentaries" were reports to the Romans about his campaigns in Gaul & the Civil War Julius Caesar |
#5729, aired 2009-07-02 | LITERATURE IN THE 1800s $200: Stephen Crane subtitled this novel "An Episode of the American Civil War" The Red Badge of Courage |
#4645, aired 2004-11-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This classic by Stephen Crane is subtitled "An Episode of the American Civil War" The Red Badge of Courage |
#3739, aired 2000-11-30 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $200: MacKinley Kantor's 1956 novel takes place in this notorious prison Andersonville |
#3739, aired 2000-11-30 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $400: The last line of this novel is "After all, tomorrow is another day." "Gone With The Wind" |
#3739, aired 2000-11-30 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $600: According to the title of an Allan Gurganus novel, Lucy Marsden, the "Oldest Living" one of these, "Tells All" Confederate widow |
#3739, aired 2000-11-30 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $800: In Thomas Dyja's 1997 novel "Play for A Kingdom", soldiers from both sides take a break to play this sport Baseball |
#3739, aired 2000-11-30 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $1000: This verse narrative of the Civil War won Stephen Vincent Benet a Pulitzer Prize "John Brown's Body" |
#3409, aired 1999-06-03 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $200: Henry Fleming shares a tent with a loud soldier & a tall soldier in this Stephen Crane novel The Red Badge of Courage |
#3409, aired 1999-06-03 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $400: Joanna Higgins' 1998 novel "A Soldier's Book" tells the story of Ira Stevens, a Union P.O.W. in this notorious prison Andersonville |
#3409, aired 1999-06-03 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $500 (Daily Double): He drew on his wartime nursing experience for the poem "The Wound-Dresser" Walt Whitman |
#3409, aired 1999-06-03 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $800: His works about the war include the essay "What I Saw of Shiloh" & the story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" Ambrose Bierce |
#3409, aired 1999-06-03 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $1000: Jeff Shaara has written a prequel & a sequel to this 1974 novel about Gettysburg by his father Michael The Killer Angels |
#3337, aired 1999-02-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Stephen Crane published this classic book about the Civil War when he was 23 "The Red Badge of Courage" |
#3115, aired 1998-02-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This Stephen Crane classic is subtitled "An Episode of the American Civil War" The Red Badge of Courage |
#2872, aired 1997-02-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Union soldier Henry Fleming is the hero of this 1895 Civil War novel "The Red Badge of Courage" |
#2841, aired 1996-12-30 | LITERATURE $400: Ernest Hemingway's novel "For Whom The Bell Tolls" takes place during this country's Civil War Spain |
#2836, aired 1996-12-23 | LITERATURE $1000: In his 1938 work "The Unvanquished", the Sartoris family copes with the Civil War William Faulkner |
#2469, aired 1995-05-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In this novel the father of Meg, Jo, Beth & Amy is an Army chaplain in the Civil War Little Women |
#2282, aired 1994-07-05 | LITERATURE $400: One of the sources Stephen Crane used to write this book was "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War" The Red Badge of Courage |
#2190, aired 1994-02-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In his "For Whom the Bell Tolls", American Robert Jordan enters the Spanish Civil War on the Loyalist side Hemingway |
#2043, aired 1993-06-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Civil War historian Shelby Foote's favorite Civil War novel is this one by Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage |
#1961, aired 1993-03-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This novel by Stephen Crane is subtitled "An Episode of the American Civil War" The Red Badge of Courage |
#1896, aired 1992-11-30 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: MacKinlay Kantor's bestselling novel "Andersonville" is set during this war the Civil War |
#1562, aired 1991-05-21 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: "Raintree County" opens in this Hoosier State in 1892 & then flashes back to pre-Civil War days Indiana |
#1382, aired 1990-09-11 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $400: This general wrote commentaries on the Roman Civil War & on his campaigns in Gaul Julius Caesar |
#1099, aired 1989-05-18 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: This country's 1930s civil war was the setting for Graham Greene's "The Confidential Agent" Spain |
#1070, aired 1989-04-07 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: This book about a Dutch boy was 1st published the year our Civil War ended The Silver Skates (Hans Brinker) |
#911, aired 1988-07-18 | LITERATURE $800: In this novel, an idealistic American teacher, Robert Jordan, fights in the Spanish Civil War For Whom the Bells Tolls |
#484, aired 1986-10-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: "Little Women" is set during this war the Civil War |