| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $400: Plutarch quoted this Greek philosopher as saying he was not "an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world" Socrates |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $800: Menander, known for his comedic plays, wrote that "Marriage, if one will face the truth, is" this, "but a necessary" this an evil |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $1600: Prior to writing his "Odes" & "Epodes", this Roman lyric poet fought alongside Brutus in Asia Minor Horace |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $2000: In 66 A.D. he took part in the Jewish revolt against Rome; later, he worked for the Romans writing the history of it Josephus |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $9,600 (Daily Double): In this Sophocles play, Orestes enlists the aid of his sister, the title character, to kill his mother & her lover Electra |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $400: This poetic work by Homer ends, "Such was the burial of Hector, breaker of horses" the Illiad |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $800: Aristophanes' "The Clouds" satirizes this philosopher as the representative of Atheism Socrates |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $1200: Book 1 of this epic narrative by Ovid begins with a story of the creation of the world Metamorphoses |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $1600: This Roman satirist whose name sounds like a word meaning "childish" asked, "But who is to guard the guards?" Juvenal |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $2000: When war broke out between Athens & Sparta in 431 B.C., he began writing an 8-book history of the war Thucydides |
| #6693, aired 2013-10-23 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $200 (Daily Double): The "lives" of Aristides & Cato the Elder were among those this biographer covered Plutarch |
| #6693, aired 2013-10-23 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $400: In the "Aeneid" Virgil wrote, "Whatever it is, I fear" them "even when they bring gifts" the Greeks |
| #6693, aired 2013-10-23 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $800: Philippic, meaning a bitter rant, comes from the speeches Demosthenes made against this kingdom's Philip II Macedon |
| #6693, aired 2013-10-23 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $1200: This poetess of Lesbos was known as the "tenth muse" Sappho |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | AFRICA $800: Most of the literature of this Horn of Africa country is written in either classical Ge'ez or modern Amharic Ethiopia |
| #6447, aired 2012-10-02 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $400: Herodotus described this "fabled" teller of tales as a slave from Thrace Aesop |
| #6447, aired 2012-10-02 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $800: He may have been an illiterate bard who sang the "Iliad" & the "Odyssey" to others who wrote them down Homer |
| #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 |
| #6447, aired 2012-10-02 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $1600: Both Euripedes & Sophocles wrote tragedies about this woman known for her devotion to her father Agamemnon Electra |
| #6447, aired 2012-10-02 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $2000: The word "satyr" begins the title of this work that satirizes Rome of the 1st century the Satyricon |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: Shortly after "The House of the Seven Gables", he wrote a book of classical myths, "A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys" Hawthorne |
| #3719, aired 2000-11-02 | POETS & POETRY $1,000 (Daily Double): Tennyson's "The Lotos-Eaters" is based on an episode from this work of classical literature The Odyssey |
| #2405, aired 1995-02-03 | WORLD LITERATURE $1000: The epic poem "Raghuvamsa", which traces the lineage of Rama, was written in this classical language Sanskrit |
| #1775, aired 1992-04-24 | WORLD LITERATURE $300: The title of this classical tale of India means "Great Epic of the Bharata Dynasty" the Mahabharata |
| #1652, aired 1991-11-05 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $600: This Hungarian wrote two program symphonies based on literature, "Faust" & "Dante" Liszt |
| #1616, aired 1991-09-16 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $200: In ancient Greece, lyric poetry was usually sung to the accompaniment of this stringed instrument a lyre |
| #1616, aired 1991-09-16 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $400: This epic poem by Homer of adventures after the Trojan War used modern techniques, like the flashback the Odyssey |
| #1616, aired 1991-09-16 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $600: The "Father of History" who wrote a 9-volume work on the wars between Greece & Persia Herodotus |
| #1616, aired 1991-09-16 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $800: Cicero's and Demosthenes' were among the lives this Greek biographer reviewed Plutarch |
| #1616, aired 1991-09-16 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $1000: Tradition says this "Prometheus Bound" author was killed when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head Aeschylus |
| #1382, aired 1990-09-11 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $200: Herodotus said this fabulist lived as a slave on Samos in the 6th century B.C. Aesop |
| #1382, aired 1990-09-11 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $400: This general wrote commentaries on the Roman Civil War & on his campaigns in Gaul Julius Caesar |
| #1382, aired 1990-09-11 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $600: In Virgil's "Aeneid" the Trojan priest Laocoon says, "I fear them, even when they bring gifts" the Greeks |
| #1382, aired 1990-09-11 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $800: He's called the most powerful Roman satirist & he doesn't seem childish in his attacks on government Juvenal |
| #1382, aired 1990-09-11 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $1000: He took part in the Peloponnesian War & later wrote his famous history of it Thucydides |
| #4, aired 1990-07-07 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $500: The people Aeneas led to Italy to found Rome were the losers in this war the Trojan War |
| #4, aired 1990-07-07 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $1000: The Elder wrote natural history & the Younger, his nephew & adopted son, was known for his books of letters Pliny |
| #4, aired 1990-07-07 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $1500: Philosopher who was grossly caricatured in Aristophanes' "The Clouds" Socrates |
| #4, aired 1990-07-07 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $2000: This first Greek historian attempted to write a history of the world up to his own time Herodotus |
| #4, aired 1990-07-07 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $2500: This Roman poet fought for Brutus before settling down to write his epodes & odes Horace |
| #1354, aired 1990-06-21 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $200: Collier's Ency. calls him the "semihistorical semimythical author of moralizing beast fables" Aesop |
| #1354, aired 1990-06-21 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $400: Federico Fellini based a 1969 film on this first century satire by Petronius Satyricon |
| #1354, aired 1990-06-21 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $600: "Philippic", meaning an angry speech, is from Demosthene's orations against this region's king Philip Macedonia |
| #1354, aired 1990-06-21 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $800: Shakespeare based several of his plays on North's translation of this Greek's "Parallel Lives" Plutarch |
| #1354, aired 1990-06-21 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $1000: Seeking to end Peloponnesian War, Aristophanes wrote this comedy about a sex strike Lysistrata |
| #1277, aired 1990-03-06 | GEOGRAPHY $300: In classical literature these Scottish islands were known as the Orcades the Orkneys |
| #1224, aired 1989-12-21 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $200: In the opening chapter of this Homerian epic, Athena urges Telemachus to look for his father, Odysseus the Odyssey |
| #1224, aired 1989-12-21 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $400: In classical Greek & Roman poetry, this goddess was often described as rosy-fingered Aurora, the goddess of dawn |
| #1224, aired 1989-12-21 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $600: His epic poem on the founding of Rome starred Aeneas & Dido as lovers Virgil |
| #1224, aired 1989-12-21 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $800: Both Sophocles & Euripides wrote tragedies about this mythological figure noted for her loyalty to her father Electra |
| #1224, aired 1989-12-21 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $1000: Commander of Galilee in the Jewish revolt against Rome, he later wrote a history of the revolt Josephus |
| #889, aired 1988-06-16 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $200: If you read Ovid's "Metamorphoses" in English, it was metamorphosized from this, its original language Latin |
| #889, aired 1988-06-16 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $400: This book of the Bible contains songs by David, Asaph, the Korahites & others Psalms |
| #889, aired 1988-06-16 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $600: His epic, the "Aeneid", describes the founding of Rome Virgil |
| #889, aired 1988-06-16 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $800: One encyclopedia says his portrait of Socrates is the best drawn character in Greek literature Plato |
| #889, aired 1988-06-16 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $1000: Writing during army campaigns, Marcus Aurelius originally titled this self-reflective work "to himself" The Meditations |
| #579, aired 1987-02-26 | SPELLING $1000: From Latin "to be born again", it was European revival of classical art & literature from 14th -16th century R-E-N-A-I-S-S-A-N-C-E |
