| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | THEIR OCCUPATIONAL SURNAMES $1000: Keeper of the cupboard who wrote the classic baseball stories collected in "You Know Me Al" (Ring) Lardner |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | BRISK LIT $1,500 (Daily Double): The Wife of Bath & The Summoner have stories to tell in this classic work The Canterbury Tales |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | SCARY STORIES $800: Critics have long debated the "reality" of the ghosts that visit 2 children in this classic Henry James novella The Turn of the Screw |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | SCARY STORIES $1600: In a classic tale by M.R. James, a man is cursed when he's given a slip of paper written with these Old Nordic letters runes |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | SHORT STORIES $2000: This Pulitzer winner from Mississippi published her first short story in 1936; her classic "The Petrified Man", 5 years later Welty |
| #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 |
| #7382, aired 2016-10-18 | WHAT CAN YOU BUY FOR A BUCK? $1000: For your Kindle a "megapack" of 15 classic stories in this genre by Philip K. Dick science fiction |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | PRISON ESCAPES $200: In classic movie fashion, Jeffrey McCoy escaped a Manhattan jail in 1983 climbing down 9 stories on a rope made of these bedsheets |
| #5592, aired 2008-12-23 | BEDTIME STORIES $1200: (Adam Sandler delivers the clue again.) This classic about a bunny at bedtime begins, "In the great green room, there was a telephone and a red balloon" "Goodnight Moon" |
| #5369, aired 2008-01-03 | COUNTRY COOKBOOKS $800: "The Little House Cookbook" features Frontier foods from this woman's classic stories (Laura Ingalls) Wilder |
| #5226, aired 2007-05-07 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: The stories that Kenneth Grahame told his son about a mole & a toad became this 1908 classic The Wind in the Willows |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | 23 $400: 23 different pilgrims tell their stories in this late-14th century classic The Canterbury Tales |
| #4645, aired 2004-11-12 | MONKEY BUSINESS $200: This title character of classic children's stories lived in Africa until he met the Man with the Yellow Hat Curious George |
| #4552, aired 2004-05-25 | SHORT STORIES $1600: In the title of a Hemingway classic, a late-night cafe is praised as being "A Clean" & this type of "Place" "Well-Lighted" |
| #4392, aired 2003-10-14 | LITERARY PLACES $600: Celesteville is the capital of this elephant king's realm in classic children's stories Babar |
| #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 |
| #4212, aired 2002-12-17 | SHORT STORIES $800: His classic short stories include "The Undefeated" & "The Killers" Ernest Hemingway |
| #4205, aired 2002-12-06 | THE AFI'S 100 GREATEST LOVE STORIES $200: "Here's looking at you, kid" & at this 1942 classic which tops the list Casablanca |
| #3697, aired 2000-10-03 | REQUIRED READING $100: In 2 classic survival stories, it's the last name of a Swiss family & the first name of Mr. Crusoe Robinson |
| #3416, aired 1999-06-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: His 1950 classic "I, Robot" contains 9 related stories about (what else?) robots Isaac Asimov |
| #1534, aired 1991-04-11 | FRUITY STORIES $1000: Ingmar Bergman's classic 1957 film that's noted for its use of flashbacks Wild Strawberries |
| #1123, aired 1989-06-21 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: Lady Sei Shonagon wrote "Pillow Book", gossipy stories considered a classic in this country Japan |
| #370, aired 1986-02-07 | WAR STORIES $100: Classic children's novel & Disney movie, "Johnny Tremain", is set during this war the Revolutionary War |
