| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | CLIFFS NOTES: DRAMA $400: Willy: "I'm tired."
Howard: "Oh yeah? You're fired" Death of a Salesman |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | CLIFFS NOTES: DRAMA $800: Martha:
"I'm drunk."
Nick: "I'm confused." Honey: "I'm mousy." George: "I'm going to bed" Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | CLIFFS NOTES: DRAMA $1600: Act One,
"Daily Life":
Stage Manager:
"My God, is this place boring" Our Town |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | CLIFFS NOTES: DRAMA $2000: Estragon: "Is he here yet?"
Vladimir: "Nope"
(curtain) Waiting for Godot |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | CLIFFS NOTES: DRAMA $4,000 (Daily Double): Laura: "You broke my unicorn!"
Gentleman Caller: "whoops" The Glass Menagerie |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | CLIFF NOTES $400: Looking out atop some cliffs, this Shakespeare ruler refers to himself as "Goneril with a white beard" King Lear |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | CLIFF NOTES $1200: "Dizzy sunless cliffs above the great abyss" paints a picture in H.P. Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of" this Madness |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | CLIFF NOTES $1600: In an Alistair MacLean novel, Keith Mallory must scale the cliffs of this island & quell the title "Guns" there Navarone |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | CLIFF NOTES $2,000 (Daily Double): Alice Duer Miller's "The White Cliffs", a prose poem about WWI & WWII, mentions this town in its third line Dover |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | CLIFF NOTES $2000: A scene from "The Final Problem" finds Sherlock Holmes tussling with Moriarty on cliffs above these falls Reichenbach Falls |
| #5396, aired 2008-02-11 | CLIFFS NOTES $400: Preppie runs away from school; spends memorable weekend in New York; gets even more depressed The Catcher in the Rye |
| #5396, aired 2008-02-11 | CLIFFS NOTES $800: Massachusetts man spends 2 years living alone in a cabin in the woods; writes book Walden |
| #5396, aired 2008-02-11 | CLIFFS NOTES $1200: Poor family makes big move from Oklahoma to California; it doesn't work out The Grapes of Wrath |
| #5396, aired 2008-02-11 | CLIFFS NOTES $2000: 700 B.C.: Greek warrior takes epic 10-year journey to get home The Odyssey |
| #5396, aired 2008-02-11 | CLIFFS NOTES $8,400 (Daily Double): London physician creates new designer drug; has way too much fun; pays dearly Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
| #4867, aired 2005-11-08 | CLIFFS NOTES: DRAMA $400: Willy: "I'm tired."
Howard: "Oh yeah? You're fired" Death of a Salesman |
| #4867, aired 2005-11-08 | CLIFFS NOTES: DRAMA $800 (Daily Double): Martha: "I'm drunk."
Nick: "I'm confused."
Honey: "I'm mousy."
George: "I'm going to bed" Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #4867, aired 2005-11-08 | CLIFFS NOTES: DRAMA $1200: Laura: "You broke my unicorn!"
Gentleman caller: "Whoops" The Glass Menagerie |
| #4867, aired 2005-11-08 | CLIFFS NOTES: DRAMA $1600: Act One, "Daily Life":
Stage manager: "My God, is this place boring" Our Town |
| #4867, aired 2005-11-08 | CLIFFS NOTES: DRAMA $2000: Estragon: "Is he here yet?"
Vladimir: "Nope"
(curtain) Waiting for Godot |
| #4651, aired 2004-11-22 | CLIFFS NOTES $400: The poet & his buddy Virgil spend some time in Hell, a fate you avoided by buying our version of this classic The Divine Comedy |
| #4651, aired 2004-11-22 | CLIFFS NOTES $800: John Bunyan classic that we suspect has sold more "Cliffs Notes" copies than the real thing Pilgrim's Progress |
| #4651, aired 2004-11-22 | CLIFFS NOTES $1200: Any 1 of the 3 Moliere plays which--admit it--you've only read in "Cliffs Notes" (1 of) The Misanthrope, Tartuffe or Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme |
| #4651, aired 2004-11-22 | CLIFFS NOTES $1600: Unlike Pangloss, this title character finally wises up, like you did when you got our version of this classic Candide |
| #4651, aired 2004-11-22 | CLIFFS NOTES $2000: Joyce classic about the Earwicker family... uh, maybe... okay, we admit it; we haven't read it either Finnegan's Wake |
| #4417, aired 2003-11-18 | CLIFFS NOTES $400: Thomas Hardy novel in which Jude Fawley lives to see all his childhood hopes & dreams dashed...then he dies Jude the Obscure |
| #4417, aired 2003-11-18 | CLIFFS NOTES $800: Hardy novel in which the title heroine makes a series of unfortunate decisions...then she's hanged Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| #4417, aired 2003-11-18 | CLIFFS NOTES $1,200 (Daily Double): Hardy novel in which the drunken Henchard sells his wife & baby, with truly ghastly results...then he wanders off, dies The Mayor of Casterbridge |
| #4417, aired 2003-11-18 | CLIFFS NOTES $1200: Hardy novel in which Clym returns to the heath where his mom dies from a snakebite... then his wife drowns The Return of the Native |
| #4417, aired 2003-11-18 | CLIFFS NOTES $2000: Finally, a Hardy book that (sorta) ends happily! Bathsheba marries Gabriel! (everyone else is dead or institutionalized) Far from the Madding Crowd |
| #4186, aired 2002-11-11 | CLIFFS NOTES $200: Depressed prince can't decide whether to kill nasty uncle until the end of Act V (should have done it sooner) Hamlet |
| #4186, aired 2002-11-11 | CLIFFS NOTES $400: Lady arrives in New Orleans for an extended visit with her sister; her brother-in-law throws a real hissy fit A Streetcar Named Desire |
| #4186, aired 2002-11-11 | CLIFFS NOTES $600: Spoiler warning! We're about to give away the ending! She throws herself under a train! In Russia! Anna Karenina |
| #4186, aired 2002-11-11 | CLIFFS NOTES $800: Swordsman makes guys pay through the (ahem) nose if they dare to mention his incredibly long honker Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #4186, aired 2002-11-11 | CLIFFS NOTES $1000: American college professor goes to Spain & blows up a bridge For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| #4021, aired 2002-02-11 | CLIFFS NOTES $400: Mysterious count visits London; people start acting funny Dracula |
| #4021, aired 2002-02-11 | CLIFFS NOTES $800: Man makes visits to the small, the tall, the immortal & to a land of talking horses Gulliver's Travels |
| #4021, aired 2002-02-11 | CLIFFS NOTES $1200: Young French soldier is the main character, but a trio of his buddies gets the title billing The Three Musketeers |
| #4021, aired 2002-02-11 | CLIFFS NOTES $2000: Ship's captain really, really doesn't want to hang a nice sailorboy; he does it anyway Billy Budd |
| #4021, aired 2002-02-11 | CLIFFS NOTES $3,000 (Daily Double): Guy from the boonies reads too much, freaks out; says he's a medieval knight; others strangely go along with it Don Quixote |
| #3892, aired 2001-07-03 | CLIFFS NOTES AT THE MOVIES $100: Tom Hanks is Fed-Exed to a deserted island & befriends a volleyball Cast Away |
| #3892, aired 2001-07-03 | CLIFFS NOTES AT THE MOVIES $200: Julia Roberts uses sass, brains & cleavage to punish polluters Erin Brockovich |
| #3892, aired 2001-07-03 | CLIFFS NOTES AT THE MOVIES $300: Ben Stiller spends time with his potential in-laws; hijinx ensue Meet the Parents |
| #3892, aired 2001-07-03 | CLIFFS NOTES AT THE MOVIES $500 (Daily Double): People in Tijuana, San Diego & Cincinnati have drug problems Traffic |
| #3892, aired 2001-07-03 | CLIFFS NOTES AT THE MOVIES $500: Mel Gibson fights his inner demons & the Redcoats The Patriot |
| #3734, aired 2000-11-23 | MAGAZINES $400: Attention, cheaters: A Michigan magazine for new parents is cleverly titled these "notes" Crib Notes |
| #3727, aired 2000-11-14 | CLIFFS NOTES $100: Girl falls asleep, has some really weird dreams, wakes up, goes to tea "Alice in Wonderland"/"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" |
| #3727, aired 2000-11-14 | CLIFFS NOTES $200: The Cliffs of Moher, 5 miles long & over 700 feet high, are a highlight of County Clare in this country Ireland |
| #3727, aired 2000-11-14 | CLIFFS NOTES $200: Young Civil War soldier has dreams of glory, but in his first battle he runs in the wrong direction "The Red Badge of Courage" |
| #3727, aired 2000-11-14 | CLIFFS NOTES $300: Monster & mom munch; devour drinking Danes; hearty hero hacks; deadly duo dies "Beowulf" |
| #3727, aired 2000-11-14 | CLIFFS NOTES $400: A New Mexico national monument preserves cliff dwellings near this "monstrous" river Gila River |
| #3727, aired 2000-11-14 | CLIFFS NOTES $400: Man kills his dad & marries his mom, & that's before the play even begins! "Oedipus Rex" |
| #3727, aired 2000-11-14 | CLIFFS NOTES $500: Sea captain cares more about his cargo of breadfruit trees than he does about his crew; crew senses this "Mutiny on the Bounty" |
| #3727, aired 2000-11-14 | CLIFFS NOTES $600: If you own a cliff with a broad, steep face, it's what you might "call your" this Bluff |
| #3727, aired 2000-11-14 | CLIFFS NOTES $1,000 (Daily Double): This point seen here in extreme southwestern England shares its name with a clothing catalogue Land's End |
| #3727, aired 2000-11-14 | CLIFFS NOTES $1000: 1,000-foot cliffs line the Arkansas River above this gorge near Colorado Springs Royal Gorge |
| #3563, aired 2000-02-16 | CLIFFS NOTES $100: Preppie runs away from school; spends memorable weekend in New York; gets even more depressed "Catcher in the Rye" |
| #3563, aired 2000-02-16 | CLIFFS NOTES $200: Man loses leg; loses mind; loses battle with large cetacean "Moby Dick" |
| #3563, aired 2000-02-16 | CLIFFS NOTES $300: Achilles goes into a snit when the king steals his babe; he doesn't get over it for several hundred pages "The Iliad" |
| #3563, aired 2000-02-16 | CLIFFS NOTES $400 (Daily Double): Boy grows up in Dublin; argues a lot, has an epiphany; leaves Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| #3563, aired 2000-02-16 | CLIFFS NOTES $500: Wang Lung & O-Lan suffer through 34 chapters of war, pestilence, famine, floods, drought, disease & even locust swarms "The Good Earth" |
| #3387, aired 1999-05-04 | CLIFFS NOTES $100: Poor family makes big move from Oklahoma to California; it doesn't work out "The Grapes of Wrath" |
| #3387, aired 1999-05-04 | CLIFFS NOTES $200: Massachusetts man spends 2 years living alone in a cabin in the woods; writes book "Walden" |
| #3387, aired 1999-05-04 | CLIFFS NOTES $400: English schoolboys crash-land on a deserted island; real bad things happen "Lord of the Flies" |
| #3387, aired 1999-05-04 | CLIFFS NOTES $500 (Daily Double): London physician creates new designer drug; has way too much fun; pays dearly "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" |
| #3387, aired 1999-05-04 | CLIFFS NOTES $500: German soldier goes to fight in World War I; gets killed; end of story "All Quiet on the Western Front" |
| #3319, aired 1999-01-28 | HELP! $300: These "Notes" used as helpful guides to famous books are "your key to the classics" Cliffs Notes |
| #3211, aired 1998-07-13 | CLIFFS NOTES $100: Napoleon invades Russia; causes problems for Natasha; leaves War and Peace |
| #3211, aired 1998-07-13 | CLIFFS NOTES $200: Poet goes to hell; then purgatory (where he meets an old flame); then heaven! The Divine Comedy |
| #3211, aired 1998-07-13 | CLIFFS NOTES $300: George & Martha throw an after-party for Nick & Honey; play games; start for bed at dawn Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #3211, aired 1998-07-13 | CLIFFS NOTES $500: Mysterious rich guy throws lavish parties to impress old flame; gets shot; dies The Great Gatsby |
| #3211, aired 1998-07-13 | CLIFFS NOTES $1,000 (Daily Double): Bored French housewife commits adultery; commits herself to huge debt; commits suicide Madame Bovary |
| #3162, aired 1998-05-05 | CLIFFS NOTES $100: Unlucky Cuban fisherman catches huge fish; sharks eat it "The Old Man and the Sea" |
| #3162, aired 1998-05-05 | CLIFFS NOTES $200: Greek sailor wanders around for 10 years & finally finds his way home; his wife isn't angry "The Odyssey" |
| #3162, aired 1998-05-05 | CLIFFS NOTES $300: Bad day for a wedding: Jane's fiancee is already married, and his wife is nuts! "Jane Eyre" |
| #3162, aired 1998-05-05 | CLIFFS NOTES $400: Socrates & pals hang around Cephalus' house talking about the ideal state... & talking... & talking the Republic |
| #3162, aired 1998-05-05 | CLIFFS NOTES $500: Leopold makes breakfast, walks around Dublin all day; goes home; goes to bed Ulysses |
