| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | BUILDING IN LAGOS $200: With collections of art & archaeology, the Nigerian National this was founded by Kenneth Murray, grandson of the OED's 1st editor a museum |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | PRIDE OF THE MUSEUM $1000: The New York City museum named for this man holds one of the world's largest collections of paintings by Vasily Kandinsky Solomon Guggenheim |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | GET A JOB! $600: At New York City's Guggenheim Museum, Naomi Beckwith holds this job, one who assembles & manages artistic collections a curator |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | POETRY COLLECTIONS $400: Borrowing a title from David Bowie, Tracy K. Smith won a 2012 Pulitzer Prize for her collection "Life on" this planet Mars |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | POETRY COLLECTIONS $800: He wrote many of the poems in "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" for his godchildren Eliot |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | POETRY COLLECTIONS $1200: "Sunflower Sutra" is one of the "Other Poems" in his "Howl and Other Poems" Ginsberg |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | POETRY COLLECTIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): The title of this Elizabeth Barrett Browning collection does not come from her nationality, but from her nickname Sonnets from the Portuguese |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | POETRY COLLECTIONS $2000: "Song of Myself" is the longest & best known poem in this Walt Whitman collection first published in 1855 Leaves of Grass |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | A REAL PRIZE $1,600 (Daily Double): 300,000 euros go to the winner of the LVMH Prize for someone under 40 in this profession with at least 2 collections a fashion designer |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | PROSE BY BROS $400: Rod, short story collections as well as "The Twilight Zone"; Richard, "The President's Plane is Missing" Serling |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | BENGAL $1000: Our favorite Rabindranath is this poet-seer whose Bengali verse collections were hailed by Yeats Rabindranath Tagore |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $1600: Hemingway's collections "In Our Time" & "Men Without Women" feature this character based partly on Hemingway Nick Adams |
| #7952, aired 2019-03-19 | U.S. CITIES $800: The U.S. Space & Rocket Center in this Alabama city has one of the world's largest collections of space memorabilia Huntsville |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | LET'S GET ORGANIZED $200: catalog.loc.gov organizes the more than 17 million items in its collections into searchable form the Library of Congress |
| #7445, aired 2017-01-13 | CASTLES $400: This city's Rosenborg Castle houses the Danish crown jewels & has one of the finest collections of Venetian glass Copenhagen |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | AUTHORS' SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS $400: 1914:
"Dubliners" James Joyce |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | AUTHORS' SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS $800: 1951:
"The Illustrated Man" Ray Bradbury |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | AUTHORS' SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS $1200: First published in 1837, this New Englander's "Twice-Told Tales" Hawthorne |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | AUTHORS' SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS $1600: 2015:
"Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances" by this British author & comic book writer Neil Gaiman |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | AUTHORS' SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS $2000: 1968:
"Welcome to the Monkey House" Kurt Vonnegut |
| #7269, aired 2016-03-31 | THE WINE CELLAR $2,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Viticulture & Enology Department at UC Davis.) A treasure of the special collections room is a 1934 vintage from Chateau Latour, one of the four chateaux that in 1855 received first growth status in this French region Bordeaux |
| #7122, aired 2015-07-28 | YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS $1000: This Ivy League college's Rauner Special Collections Library is home to the Robert Frost collection Dartmouth |
| #7011, aired 2015-02-23 | DURING THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH I $800: Incorporating earlier collections of books, the Bodleian Library opened at this university in 1602 Oxford |
| #6789, aired 2014-03-06 | NEBRASKA $800: Pawnee City is home to one of the largest collections of this kind of fencing material barbed wire |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | THE GREAT LIBRARIES OF EUROPE $400: The national library of this U.K. country in Aberystwyth is noted for its collections of Celtic materials Wales |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | LET'S VISIT A MUSEUM $2,000 (Daily Double): The Prado in this country is home to one of the world's finest art collections Spain |
| #6493, aired 2012-12-05 | TO THE LIBRARY! $1,000 (Daily Double): Some of its collections were housed in the Serapeum, a temple dedicated to the god Serapis the Alexandria library |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | COLLECTIONS $400: Doug Arbittier's collection of medical antiques in York, Pa. includes colorful jars that held these bloodsuckers leeches |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | COLLECTIONS $800: This talk show host's car collection ranges from a 1906 Stanley Steamer to a 2006 Corvette Leno |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | COLLECTIONS $1200: A chrome pop-up one from the 1950s was the first in Jens Veerbeck's collection of about 600 of these kitchen appliances toasters |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | COLLECTIONS $1600: Ralph Isham was more interested in his mss. than his mrs.--his passion was collecting these, including James Boswell's manuscripts |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | COLLECTIONS $2000: This editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland turned his L.A. mansion into a museum of sci-fi memorabilia Forrest Ackerman |
| #6235, aired 2011-10-28 | LIBRARIES $3,500 (Daily Double): Robert Frost & Daniel Webster collections are housed at a special collections library at this Ivy League school Dartmouth |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | THE LADIES' ROOM $1200: Both Katy Perry & Justin Bieber have collaborated on collections for this 3-letter brand of nail polish O.P.I. |
| #5980, aired 2010-09-17 | SEPTEMBER'S HERE ALREADY $200: I'm off to London to see the spring 2011 collections shown as part of this "week" Fashion |
| #5918, aired 2010-05-12 | ESSAYS $800: "Just Looking" & "Still Looking" are 2 collections of art essays by this "Rabbit, Run" author (John) Updike |
| #5650, aired 2009-03-13 | GETTING MEDIEVAL WITH ENGLISH LIT $1600: The Chester, Wakefield & York cycles are the major surviving collections of these popular religious dramas mystery plays |
| #5630, aired 2009-02-13 | TURKISH LITERATURE $2000: Seyid Imadeddin Nesimi wrote 2 of these poetry collections, also a word from Turkish for a couch divan |
| #5539, aired 2008-10-09 | BROTHERS & SISTERS $200: These brothers are known for their collections of folk songs & tales, like "Kinder-und Hausmarchen" the Brothers Grimm |
| #5533, aired 2008-10-01 | FLASH! $1200: His collections include "My Camera in Yosemite Valley" & "Portfolio II: The National Parks & Monuments" Ansel Adams |
| #5432, aired 2008-04-01 | AT TIFFANY'S $1,200 (Daily Double): This daughter of an artist has had her jewelry collections at Tiffany since 1980 Paloma Picasso |
| #5224, aired 2007-05-03 | POETS & POETRY $2000: Among his poetry collections is 1942's "Shakespeare in Harlem" Langston Hughes |
| #5167, aired 2007-02-13 | LET'S GO SHOPPING $2000: (Hi, I'm Isaac Mizrahi.) Look fabulous & live fabulous with my clothing & home collections for this retailer that hit the bull's-eye Target |
| #4774, aired 2005-05-12 | COMMUNICATION $400: In the 1680s William Dockwra set up a system of hourly collections of letters within London at a cost of this much a penny |
| #4768, aired 2005-05-04 | THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA $2000: Most of the series is collections, but this 1925 Dreiser novel has its own 972-page volume An American Tragedy |
| #4592, aired 2004-07-20 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $200: Popularly called the Met, this museum's collections range from European armor to baseball cards the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| #4578, aired 2004-06-30 | BROWN $600: Brown's John Hay Library has one of the world's most renowned collections of writings about & by this 16th pres. Abe Lincoln |
| #4446, aired 2003-12-29 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: Her stories, in collections like "Friend of My Youth", often concern women of small-town Canada Alice Munro |
| #4399, aired 2003-10-23 | STORY COLLECTIONS $400: The tellers in this classic collection include the Knight & the Wife of Bath The Canterbury Tales |
| #4399, aired 2003-10-23 | STORY COLLECTIONS $800: The history of Ali Baba & the history of Sinbad the Sailor were told by her over many, many nights Scheherazade |
| #4399, aired 2003-10-23 | STORY COLLECTIONS $1200: 10 people fleeing Florence to escape the plague each tell 10 tales in this Boccaccio book The Decameron |
| #4399, aired 2003-10-23 | STORY COLLECTIONS $1600: If you like summer reruns, check out this 1837 Hawthorne collection (which was also reissued in 1842) Twice-Told Tales |
| #4399, aired 2003-10-23 | STORY COLLECTIONS $2000: Humans changing into plants, animals & other things are found in this 15-volume collection of tales by Ovid Metamorphoses |
| #4282, aired 2003-03-25 | I LOVE NEW YORK $400: (New York Yankees manager Joe Torre) You'll find collections of roses & tulips in the New York Botanical Garden in this borough where I work Bronx |
| #4242, aired 2003-01-28 | ENGLISH "T" $1000: 4 museums in England that house national collections bear the name of this sugar magnate Sir Henry Tate |
| #4201, aired 2002-12-02 | SCARY BOOKS $200: This novelist's story collections include "Nightmares and Dreamscapes" & 2002's "Everything's Eventual" (Stephen) King |
| #4110, aired 2002-06-14 | WHO'S A SAINT? $2000: Saint Basil was famous for these collections of tales about creature like the griffin bestiaries |
| #3715, aired 2000-10-27 | SPACE SCIENTISTS $400: Edouard Stephan's "quest" for these collections of stars & gas got his name on a quintet of them galaxies |
| #3661, aired 2000-07-03 | TITLE REFERENCES $1000: In the collections "My Man Jeeves", "Very Good, Jeeves" & "Thank You, Jeeves", he's Jeeves' employer Bertie Wooster |
| #3535, aired 2000-01-07 | STUCK ON "U" $800 (Daily Double): Designed by Vasari, this palace in Florence houses one of the world's great art collections Uffizi Palace |
| #3415, aired 1999-06-11 | POETS & POETRY $500: "Crossing the Water" & "Winter Trees" are 2 posthumous collections by this "Bell Jar" author Sylvia Plath |
| #3338, aired 1999-02-24 | ART & ARTISTS $800: His collections include "My Camera in Yosemite Valley" & "Portfolio Two: The National Parks" Ansel Adams |
| #3281, aired 1998-12-07 | I SAW IT IN VOGUE $500: Vogue's editor was turned off by the reactionary 1998 fall collections in these 2 European cities Milan & Paris |
| #3219, aired 1998-09-10 | MUSEUMS $200: This Madrid museum's first holdings consisted of art collections of the Hapsburg & Bourbon kings The Prado |
| #3219, aired 1998-09-10 | SPACY BOOKS $300: Ray Bradbury's collections include "S is for Space" & "R is for" this way you get there Rocket |
| #3059, aired 1997-12-11 | BANKRUPTCY $600: Filing for bankruptcy will stop this agency's collections, but it can still audit you IRS (Internal Revenue Service) |
| #2987, aired 1997-09-02 | BIG BOOKS $600: Building & penal are types of these collections of laws Codes |
| #2973, aired 1997-07-02 | MUSEUMS $800: The Prince of Wales Museum of Western India in this city has large collections of jade & china Bombay (Mumbai) |
| #2888, aired 1997-03-05 | MUSEUMS $200: Several museums in Salzburg house collections of this "Magic Flute" composer's manuscripts Mozart |
| #2878, aired 1997-02-19 | LIBRARIES $600: Included in this London library's collections are 2 copies of the Magna Carta British Library |
| #2878, aired 1997-02-19 | LIBRARIES $1000: Washington, D.C. school that houses the Moorland-Spingarn & Channing Pollock collections Howard University |
| #2875, aired 1997-02-14 | AROUND THE LIBRARY $800: Term for extensive arrangements of bookshelves; they may be opened or closed to the public stacks |
| #2762, aired 1996-09-10 | IN THE NEWS $100: A bill signed in July 1996 allows taxpayers to sue this agency for up to $1,000,000 for reckless collections the IRS |
| #2725, aired 1996-06-07 | POETS $800: Collections by this humorist include "The Bad Parents' Garden of Verse" & "I'm A Stranger Here Myself" Ogden Nash |
| #2677, aired 1996-04-02 | LITERATURE $400: Early collections of his stories include "Flappers And Philosophers" & "Tales Of The Jazz Age" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #2652, aired 1996-02-27 | MUSEUMS $200: The Rhode Island School of Design in this city has one of the nation's best college art collections Providence |
| #2602, aired 1995-12-19 | MUSEUMS $600: This Chicago Natural History Museum's first collections were from the Columbian Exposition of 1893 the Field Museum |
| #2592, aired 1995-12-05 | HOBBIES $200: Any lidded glass or plastic container can be used to make these enclosed collections of small plants a terrarium |
| #2533, aired 1995-09-13 | ART MUSEUMS $1,200 (Daily Double): The Kunsthestorisches Museum in Vienna originated with the collections of this ruling family the Hapsburgs |
| #2438, aired 1995-03-22 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $500: This Illinois poet wrote 3 collections of nonsense tales about the Rootabaga country (Carl) Sandburg |
| #2408, aired 1995-02-08 | LIBRARIES $400: The Bibliotheque nationale in this European capital has about 400,000 coins among its collections Paris |
| #2347, aired 1994-11-15 | COLLECTIONS $200: Ted Schuler of Tennessee has 3,997 full bottles of this on his walls; take one down, pass it around & he has 3,996 Beer |
| #2347, aired 1994-11-15 | COLLECTIONS $400: This Kentucky fort has a collection of World War II German vehicles & weapons worth its weight in gold Fort Knox |
| #2347, aired 1994-11-15 | COLLECTIONS $600: This St. Petersburg museum has the largest collection of Scythian jewelry The Hermitage |
| #2347, aired 1994-11-15 | COLLECTIONS $800: Known for its Hebraica collection, Hebrew University of Jerusalem bought 3 of these, found in 1947 Dead Sea Scrolls |
| #2347, aired 1994-11-15 | COLLECTIONS $1000: This Oxford museum of art & archaeology opened in 1683 as Britain's first public museum the Ashmolean Museum |
| #2337, aired 1994-11-01 | LIBRARIES $1,000 (Daily Double): The State Library of New South Wales in this city has one of the world's richest collections of Australiana Sydney |
| #2190, aired 1994-02-25 | ART $600: Though his "Mother" is in Paris, the best collections of his work are in Washington & Glasgow Whistler |
| #2129, aired 1993-12-02 | "OLD" NEWS $500: The Eddas, 2 collections of Scandinavian mythology, were written in this language Old Norse |
| #2068, aired 1993-09-08 | LIBRARIES $300: This Illinois city's Newberry Library is world famous for its rare book & Indian culture collections Chicago |
| #2046, aired 1993-06-28 | POETS & POETRY $500 (Daily Double): Before he died this poet requested that "Crossing the Bar" appear last in his collections Tennyson |
| #1983, aired 1993-03-31 | LITERATURE $800: One of his last collections of tales, "Uncle Remus and the Little Boy", was published posthumously in 1910 Joel Chandler Harris |
| #1968, aired 1993-03-10 | FAMOUS BAKERS $400: Collections of his New York Times columns include "All Things Considered" & "So This Is Depravity" Russell Baker |
| #1957, aired 1993-02-23 | FAMOUS SAILORS $100: Most collections of "The Arabian Nights" include the tale of this "sailor" Sinbad |
| #1948, aired 1993-02-10 | LIBRARIES $1,300 (Daily Double): Outstanding collections of William Faulkner & Stark Young can be found at the library of this university University of Mississippi |
| #1937, aired 1993-01-26 | ARIZONA $500: Arizona State University in this city has one of the world's largest meteorite collections Tempe |
| #1900, aired 1992-12-04 | ENGLAND $400: The Ashmolean museum houses this univ.'s collections of fine & applied arts, archaeology & numismatics Oxford |
| #1872, aired 1992-10-27 | PHOTOGRAPHY $300: His collections include "My Camera in Yosemite Valley" & "Portfolio Two: The National Parks" Ansel Adams |
| #1799, aired 1992-05-28 | MUSEUMS $300: When opened in 1819, this Madrid museum consisted of art collections of the Hapsburg & Bourbon kings the Prado |
| #1765, aired 1992-04-10 | "A"UTHORS $1000: "Without Feathers", "Getting Even" & "Side Effects" are collections of his humorous pieces Woody Allen |
| #1666, aired 1991-11-25 | MUSEUMS $1000: Dumbarton Oaks in this city boasts one of the world's finest collections of Byzantine art Washington, D.C. |
| #1587, aired 1991-06-25 | MUSEUMS $300: This Madrid museum has the art collections of the Spanish Hapsburgs & Bourbon monarchs the Prado |
| #1535, aired 1991-04-12 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: His short story collections include "Dandelion Wine" & "The Martian Chronicles" Ray Bradbury |
| #1476, aired 1991-01-21 | LEONARDO $500: This British castle's library has one of the finest collections of his drawings in the world Windsor Castle |
| #1383, aired 1990-09-12 | LIBRARIES $500: One of the world's greatest collections of Celtica is in this country's National Library in Aberystwyth Wales |
| #1362, aired 1990-07-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "Flowering Judas" & "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" are collections of short stories by this author Katherine Anne Porter |
| #1121, aired 1989-06-19 | FICTION $800: His "Mosses from an Old Manse" is called one of the finest collections of stories in American lit (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #732, aired 1987-11-10 | STORYTELLERS $500: He wrote two collections of modern fables, several fairytales, and "My World and Welcome to It" James Thurber |
| #651, aired 1987-06-08 | ART $1000: It was founded in 1753 after botanist Sir Hans Sloane willed his collections to his nation the British Museum |
| #612, aired 1987-04-14 | STAMPS $800: Among the most complete stamp collections in the U.S.is that which this famous cardinal collected Cardinal Spellman |
| #490, aired 1986-10-24 | ASTRONOMY $600: Stars & these vast collections of stars are called the building blocks of the universe galaxies |
| #455, aired 1986-06-06 | WASHINGTON D.C. $300: Its museums' collections include Charles Lindbergh's plane & George Washington's false teeth the Smithsonian |
| #356, aired 1986-01-20 | MUSEUMS $400: In 1793, the French gov't declared that the royal collections here should be open to the public the Louvre |
| #55, aired 1984-11-23 | RELIGION $100: At Christmas its officers conduct street corner collections the Salvation Army |
