#8935, aired 2023-09-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $600: This Jack London classic is considered one of the "books that shaped America" The Call of the Wild |
#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 |
#8614, aired 2022-04-07 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNGER READERS $1000: Billy has a pair of hounds named Old Dan & Little Ann in the kids' classic "Where" this plant "Grows" the Red Fern |
#17, aired 2022-02-22 | DIGESTING SOME LITERATURE $3,400 (Daily Double): Revenge is served cold--courtesy of an ex-prison inmate--in "The Dinner", chapter 63 of this Dumas classic The Count of Monte Cristo |
#8526, aired 2021-12-06 | THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM FOR CANADA $2000: On Prince Edward Island, you can visit the farm that inspired this 1908 novel, a classic of Canadian literature Anne of Green Gables |
#8478, aired 2021-09-29 | SOUTHERN LITERATURE $400: Inspired by the author's hometown of Monroeville, Maycomb, Alabama is the setting for this 1960 classic To Kill a Mockingbird |
#8420, aired 2021-06-11 | 1930s LITERATURE $400: In a classic story for children, this title bull ignores the matador & enjoys smelling flowers Ferdinand |
#8417, aired 2021-06-08 | A LITERATURE SAMPLER $800: In a classic tale about this title guy, "John, Lord Greystoke... vanished from the eyes and from the knowledge of men" Tarzan |
#8295, aired 2020-12-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: This Stevenson classic is divided into 6 parts including "The Old Buccaneer" & "Captain Silver" Treasure Island |
#8274, aired 2020-11-05 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: This bedtime classic is set in "the great green room" Goodnight Moon |
#8027, aired 2019-07-02 | LITERATURE FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE $400: 2018's "The Silence of the Girls" tells this classic story from the perspective of Briseis, Achilles' concubine the Iliad |
#7985, aired 2019-05-03 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $200: "The horror! The horror!" are Mr. Kurtz' dying words in this novella Heart of Darkness |
#7985, aired 2019-05-03 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $400: From this French novel: "'But you're one against four!' cried Jussac. 'Stop fighting! I order you to stop fighting!'" The Three Musketeers |
#7985, aired 2019-05-03 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $600: He wrote such classics as "The Bostonians", "The Portrait of a Lady" & "The Wings of the Dove" Henry James |
#7985, aired 2019-05-03 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $800: This tale by Robert Louis Stevenson says, "I learned to recognize the thorough and primitive duality of man" Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
#7985, aired 2019-05-03 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Part one of "Les Miserables" is "Fantine"; part two is named for this daughter of hers Cosette |
#7909, aired 2019-01-17 | THE WORLD THROUGH LITERATURE $1200: This classic work recounts 100 stories told by 3 men & 7 women fleeing the plague in 14th century Italy the Decameron |
#7867, aired 2018-11-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Scout is a curious little girl still trying to figure out life in the American South in this classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird |
#7861, aired 2018-11-12 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $400: "Hester at Her Needle" is a chapter in this Hawthorne novel The Scarlet Letter |
#7861, aired 2018-11-12 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $1200: In this novel Miss Havisham lives in a decaying mansion called Satis House Great Expectations |
#7861, aired 2018-11-12 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $1600: This Holocaust survivor based "Night" on his own experiences in Nazi death camps (Elie) Wiesel |
#7861, aired 2018-11-12 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $2000: This 1958 Chinua Achebe novel depicts the struggles of the Igbo people in Nigeria before independence Things Fall Apart |
#7861, aired 2018-11-12 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $2,200 (Daily Double): When these 2 boys & their pal Joe Harper are presumed dead, they hide in the church & hear their own funerals Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn |
#7816, aired 2018-09-10 | LITERATURE $400: In this H.G. Wells classic, the narrator is "drawn on by the...Earth's fate" & sees it in "strides of a thousand years" The Time Machine |
#7787, aired 2018-06-19 | MARRIED LITERATURE $1200: A kids' classic pairs this title Mrs. "and the Rats of NIMH" Mrs. Frisby |
#7666, aired 2018-01-01 | MUSIC & LITERATURE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A song by Coolio from "Dangerous Minds" goes back in time to become a 1667 John Milton classic "Gangsta's Paradise Lost" |
#7624, aired 2017-11-02 | LITERATURE FOR THE YOUNG $800: A boy asks Santa for a reindeer's silver bell in this classic by Chris Van Allsburg The Polar Express |
#7486, aired 2017-03-13 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $800: (I'm Juliana Mazza with 22News.) Leaping from the pages of the Dr. Seuss memorial sculpture are Thing 1 & Thing 2, agents of mayhem from this 1957 classic The Cat in the Hat |
#7465, aired 2017-02-10 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $1000: In a Katherine Paterson classic, an elder twin is taunted with this title, "but Esau have I hated" Jacob Have I Loved |
#7454, aired 2017-01-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: This classic by Maurice Sendak was turned into a 1980 opera Where the Wild Things Are |
#7439, aired 2017-01-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: The Pequod was the whalers' doomed ship in this classic Moby-Dick |
#7386, aired 2016-10-24 | CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: This classic is subtitled "The Tale of a Puppet" Pinocchio |
#7204, aired 2015-12-31 | 1940s FICTION $1600: A classic of African-American literature, his 1940 novel "Native Son" was adapted into a play the following year Richard Wright |
#7202, aired 2015-12-29 | WORLD LITERATURE $2000: Richard Llewellyn wrote 3 sequels to this 1939 classic; in the third one, Huw Morgan returns to Wales How Green Was My Valley |
#7164, aired 2015-11-05 | GOTHIC LITERATURE $400: Starting the genre was Horace Walpole's 1765 novel titles this classic Gothic structure "of Otranto" castle |
#7164, aired 2015-11-05 | GOTHIC LITERATURE $2000: This Gothic classic was penned as part of a ghost story writing competition held in a mansion on Lake Geneva in 1816 Frankenstein |
#7149, aired 2015-10-15 | ANCIENT ROMAN LITERATURE $1600: Dating from the 2nd century, this Roman emperor's "Meditations" is a classic of stoic philosophy Marcus Aurelius |
#7115, aired 2015-07-17 | PUNNY CLASSIC LITERATURE TITLES $400: Jack London's tale of the place where feral creatures stop at the food court before hitting Old Navy The Mall of the Wild |
#7115, aired 2015-07-17 | PUNNY CLASSIC LITERATURE TITLES $800: Thackeray's novel about a woman inordinately proud of her flowing tresses Vanity Hair |
#7115, aired 2015-07-17 | PUNNY CLASSIC LITERATURE TITLES $1200: It's the story of a weaving apparatus equipped with a pleasant panorama A Loom with a View |
#7115, aired 2015-07-17 | PUNNY CLASSIC LITERATURE TITLES $1600: Huxley's yarn concerning cemetery crypts in the Americas A Grave New World |
#7115, aired 2015-07-17 | PUNNY CLASSIC LITERATURE TITLES $2000: Mississippi-set novel about a place where stray dogs are kept that becomes the object of intense anger The Pound and the Fury |
#6952, aired 2014-12-02 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: "David Copperfield" is one of this British author's classic novels Charles Dickens |
#6860, aired 2014-06-13 | LITERATURE $600: Sal Paradise & Dean Moriarty decide to "beat" it across America in this modern classic On The Road |
#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 |
#6830, aired 2014-05-02 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: Thomas De Quincey's 1821 "Confessions of an English" eater or user of this drug is a classic of addiction lit opium |
#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 |
#6197, aired 2011-07-19 | ADVENTURES IN LITERATURE $600: Actually the third book in the series, this kids' classic recounts the Ingalls family's move to Kansas Little House on the Prairie |
#6190, aired 2011-07-08 | QUOTATIONS IN LITERATURE $600: In this 1883 children's classic, a parrot named Captain Flint squawks, "Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!" Treasure Island |
#5965, aired 2010-07-16 | A MINOR IN LITERATURE $200: In a classic story this little girl is sent to bring food & drink to her grandmother, but a wolf has gotten there first Little Red Riding Hood |
#5729, aired 2009-07-02 | LITERATURE IN THE 1800s $400: The first chapter of this Carlo Collodi classic appeared in an Italian children's magazine in 1881 Pinocchio |
#5482, aired 2008-06-10 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $3,400 (Daily Double): H.G. Wells subtitled this 1895 classic "An Invention" The Time Machine |
#5401, aired 2008-02-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Chapter 14 of this classic American novel is entitled "Hester and the Physician" The Scarlet Letter |
#5358, aired 2007-12-19 | LITERATURE $400: Published in Spain in 1605, this classic of world literature was an instant hit Don Quixote |
#5357, aired 2007-12-18 | LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In the 19th century, literature about these Argentine cowboys was popular, with Jose Hernandez' "Martin Fierro" a classic gauchos |
#5106, aired 2006-11-20 | LITERATURE $800: The prep school classic "A Separate Peace" takes place during this war the Second World War |
#4975, aired 2006-04-07 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $200: "The Honor and Glory of Whaling" is a chapter in this American masterpiece Moby-Dick |
#4975, aired 2006-04-07 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $400: He's the teenage narrator of "The Catcher in the Rye" Holden Caulfield |
#4975, aired 2006-04-07 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Kremlin in Moscow, Russia.) Novel in which Moscow was without its inhabitants & the soldiers were sucked into her, radiating from the Kremlin War and Peace |
#4975, aired 2006-04-07 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $800: 1815's "Emma" was the last of her novels published in her lifetime (Jane) Austen |
#4975, aired 2006-04-07 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $1000: Some early reviewers objected to the realistic depiction of Archdeacon Frollo's death in this classic The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
#4968, aired 2006-03-29 | LITERATURE $200: Chapter 13 of this classic novel is called "Another View of Hester" The Scarlet Letter |
#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 |
#4494, aired 2004-03-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: The Mock Turtle sings a song about the Lobster Quadrille in this classic children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
#4380, aired 2003-09-26 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $200: The horseman that terrorized Sleepy Hollow was this, not legless or armless headless |
#4380, aired 2003-09-26 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $400: This character concocted the potion that created Mr. Hyde Dr. Jekyll |
#4380, aired 2003-09-26 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $600: Another name for a mirror; Alice went "through" one looking-glass |
#4380, aired 2003-09-26 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $800: After picking up his book "Moby Dick", you might be relieved to know he wrote short stories too Herman Melville |
#4380, aired 2003-09-26 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $1000: This character's squire was Sancho Panza Don Quixote |
#4273, aired 2003-03-12 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1600: A classic book by George Selden tells of this noisy insect "in Times Square" The Cricket |
#4150, aired 2002-09-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: The whaling ship in this classic novel had 3 harpooners: Tashtego, Daggoo & Queequeg "Moby Dick" |
#4133, aired 2002-07-17 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $2000: In this classic, Christian travels from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City Pilgrim's Progress |
#4037, aired 2002-03-05 | FILMED LITERATURE $800: The film seen here is an adaptation of this classic American novel The Last of the Mohicans |
#3941, aired 2001-10-22 | LITERATURE $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is in New Orleans.) This author of the classic American novel "Winesburg, Ohio" once lived here in the Pontalba Apartments on Jackson Square Sherwood Anderson |
#3876, aired 2001-06-11 | LITERATURE, JERRY SPRINGER-STYLE $500: Don't "count" on missing "You Stole My Life, I'm Paying You Back!" featuring this 1844-45 Dumas classic The Count of Monte Cristo |
#3838, aired 2001-04-18 | TEENS IN LITERATURE $100: Flirtatious 15-year-old Lydia Bennet elopes with Mr. Wickham in this Jane Austen classic Pride and Prejudice |
#3838, aired 2001-04-18 | TEENS IN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Thinking home is no "paradise", Cathy fakes her own death & runs away in this classic Steinbeck novel East of Eden |
#3684, aired 2000-09-14 | BRITISH LITERATURE $500 (Daily Double): In a Christmas classic, his ghost says, "I wear the chain I forged in life" Jacob Marley |
#3677, aired 2000-09-05 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Thing One & Thing Two are characters in this 1957 Seuss classic "The Cat in the Hat" |
#3677, aired 2000-09-05 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: A young rabbit gets ready for bed in this classic by Margaret Wise Brown "Goodnight Moon" |
#3624, aired 2000-05-11 | WORLD LITERATURE $200: The Panchatantra, a collection of Indian animal fables, was originally written in this classic language Sanskrit |
#3475, aired 1999-10-15 | LITERATURE $400: The first sequel to this classic French novel was titled "Twenty Years After" The Three Musketeers |
#3475, aired 1999-10-15 | LITERATURE $600: He penned the classic line "There was an old man with a beard, who said 'It is just as I feared'" Edward Lear |
#3401, aired 1999-05-24 | CHINESE LITERATURE $800: The Taoist masterpiece "The Classic of the Way & the Virtue" was probably written by this man Lao-Tzu |
#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" |
#3337, aired 1999-02-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Reading is out as books go up in smoke in this Ray Bradbury classic "Fahrenheit 451" |
#3161, aired 1998-05-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In 1991 Robert Pirsig published "Lila", a follow-up to his classic "Zen and the Art of" this Motorcycle Maintenance |
#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 |
#3054, aired 1997-12-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: He wrote the short story "Nightfall", a science fiction classic, in 1941 when he was 21 years old Isaac Asimov |
#2857, aired 1997-01-21 | LITERATURE $200: Chapter 6 of this Hawthorne classic is titled "Pearl" The Scarlet Letter |
#2845, aired 1997-01-03 | LITERATURE $200: The final chapter of this classic book is entitled "Quasimodo's Marriage" The Hunchback of Notre-Dame |
#2807, aired 1996-11-12 | 18th CENTURY LITERATURE $600: "It's Not Unusual" to just "Help Yourself" to this 1749 Henry Fielding classic "Tom Jones" |
#2751, aired 1996-07-15 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: This classic story collection includes "The Tales of Sinbad", "Aladdin" & "Ali Baba" "Arabian Nights" |
#2742, aired 1996-07-02 | LITERATURE $200: One book calls it "The Classic Novel about a Scientific Experiment to Create a Man-Made Human" Frankenstein |
#2479, aired 1995-05-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,500 (Daily Double): Henry Fleming, hero of a classic 1895 novel, is a grandfather in this author's 1896 story "The Veteran" (Stephen) Crane |
#2459, aired 1995-04-20 | BRITISH HISTORY $200: In 1478 this Chaucer classic became the first original English work of literature set in type The Canterbury Tales |
#2446, aired 1995-04-03 | WORLD LITERATURE $200: In 1851 this classic was published in England under the title "The Whale" Moby Dick |
#2396, aired 1995-01-23 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: Kenneth Grahame considered calling this 1908 classic "The Wind in the Reeds" The Wind in the Willows |
#2383, aired 1995-01-04 | LITERATURE $400: This Johann Wyss classic was inspired by "Robinson Crusoe" The Swiss Family Robinson |
#2349, aired 1994-11-17 | LITERATURE $200: In F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, Nick Carraway lives next door to this title character the Great Gatsby |
#2297, aired 1994-09-06 | WORLD LITERATURE $200: Natasha Rostova, one of Tolstoy's most compelling characters, is the heroine of this classic novel War and Peace |
#2261, aired 1994-06-06 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: He wrote about the devastating 1755 Lisbon earthquake in a 1756 poem & in his classic novel "Candide" Voltaire |
#2219, aired 1994-04-07 | WORLD LITERATURE $200: Chapter I of this classic begins, "In a certain village in La Mancha, which I do not wish to name..." Don Quixote |
#2207, aired 1994-03-22 | LITERATURE $600: Natasha Rostova marries Pierre Bezukhov in this classic Tolstoy novel War and Peace |
#2179, aired 1994-02-10 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: Under the pseudonym Felix Salten, Siegmund Salzmann wrote this 1923 classic about a deer Bambi |
#1998, aired 1993-04-21 | RUSSIAN LITERATURE $1000: He began writing his classic verse novel "Eugene Onegin" while stationed in Kishinev in 1823 Aleksandr Pushkin |
#1886, aired 1992-11-16 | "B" IN LITERATURE $200: Her book "All Men Are Brothers" is actually a translation of a Chinese classic Pearl S. Buck |
#1872, aired 1992-10-27 | WORLD LITERATURE $200: The knight is the first character to tell his story in this Chaucer classic The Canterbury Tales |
#1786, aired 1992-05-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In 1851 this Herman Melville classic was first published in England as "The Whale" Moby-Dick |
#1614, aired 1991-09-12 | WORLD LITERATURE $600: In Jane Austen's classic novel of two sisters, Eleanor represents "Sense" & Marianne this Sensibility |
#1312, aired 1990-04-24 | LITERATURE ON FILM $200: Ray Bradbury & producer-dir. John Huston co-wrote the screenplay based on this Melville classic "Moby Dick" |
#1312, aired 1990-04-24 | LITERATURE ON FILM $400: In a 1941 film based on R.L. Stevenson's horror classic, Spencer Tracy played these 2 title characters Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde |
#1182, aired 1989-10-24 | LITERATURE $600: Classic novel about Emma, her husband, Charles, & her lovers, Rodolphe & Leon Madame Bovary |
#1123, aired 1989-06-21 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: Lady Sei Shonagon wrote "Pillow Book", gossipy stories considered a classic in this country Japan |
#1103, aired 1989-05-24 | "D" IN LITERATURE $400: Some say this classic Cervantes novel is a veiled attack on the Catholic Church Don Quixote |
#1027, aired 1989-02-07 | TEENS IN LITERATURE $800: His foster child, Eppie, chooses to stay with him at the end of this classic novel by George Eliot Silas Marner |
#991, aired 1988-12-19 | THE ADAMS FAMILY $1000: "The Education of" this "Adams" is considered a classic in American literature Henry Adams |
#986, aired 1988-12-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: Eric Knight is probably best remembered for this 1940 canine classic for kids Lassie Come Home |
#972, aired 1988-11-22 | LITERATURE $600: At 16 Frances Hodgson Burnett moved from England to U.S. & later wrote this children's classic The Secret Garden (or Little Lord Fauntleroy) |
#969, aired 1988-11-17 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $500: Richard Henry Dana's 1840 classic based on a voyage he took around Cape Horn Two Years Before the Mast |
#944, aired 1988-10-13 | LITERATURE $200: A classic 1826 novel by Sir Walter Scott, or a classic 1969 rock concert in upstate New York Woodstock |
#944, aired 1988-10-13 | LITERATURE $300: This pivotal animal from "Alice in Wonderland" became the title of a classic 1967 acid rock hit White Rabbit |
#924, aired 1988-09-15 | LITERATURE $200: 1st book in Latin to make U.S. best seller lists was a translation of this A.A. Milne classic Winnie-the-Pooh |
#839, aired 1988-04-07 | LITERATURE $1000: In his 1940 classic Western novel, Walter Van Tilburg Clark sets his "Incident" in this valley the Ox-Bow |
#571, aired 1987-02-16 | LITERATURE $500 (Daily Double): Narrator of classic tales translated by Sir Richard Burton, or title of this "suite" music Scheherezade |
#448, aired 1986-05-28 | LITERATURE $200: While exploring, Daniel Boone & his companions sometimes read this Jonathan Swift classic to one another Gulliver's Travels |
#141, aired 1985-03-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: "Death Comes for" him Willa Cather's classic the Archbishop |