#9056, aired 2024-03-11 | WORLD OF LIT $2000: The short story collection "Face to Face" was the first book by this South African woman who won a 1991 Nobel Prize Nadine Gordimer |
#8244, aired 2020-09-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: In a novel by Jonathan Franzen, Alfred Lambert & his son Chip face their failures to make these, the title of the book corrections |
#8019, aired 2019-06-20 | BOOKS OF MYSTERY $1200: A book series was launched when 15-year-old Janie, at lunch in the cafeteria, saw her own "Face on" this the milk carton |
#7445, aired 2017-01-13 | UP ON MT. LUSHMORE $400: Drunk for his 1865 inaugural as VP, he said, "I kiss this book in the face of my nation of the United States" & smooched a Bible (Andrew) Johnson |
#7310, aired 2016-05-27 | SURPRISE $2000: One-word title of R.J. Palacio's book about Auggie, a 5th grader with a different kind of face Wonder |
#6778, aired 2014-02-19 | RECENTLY BANNED OR CHALLENGED BOOKS $1000: A Katy, Texas school district didn't have a Jane Smiley face after complaints about this numerically titled book A Thousand Acres |
#6329, aired 2012-03-08 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: This South African put out her first book in 1949, the collection "Face to Face" Nadine Gordimer |
#6271, aired 2011-12-19 | FACE BOOKS $2000: A 1950s picture book:
"The Face of" this Asian part of Turkey aka Asia Minor Anatolia |
#6228, aired 2011-10-19 | IT'S IN THE PAPERS $400: A book from Princeton Univ. Press is titled his "Miraculous Year: Five Papers That Changed the Face of Physics" Einstein |
#6203, aired 2011-07-27 | FACE BOOK $200: Making him a revolutionary martyr, the Bolivian Army tracked down this man and killed him in 1967 (Che) Guevara |
#6203, aired 2011-07-27 | FACE BOOK $400: After the death of her husband in 1861, she did not go out in public again for three years, and refused to wear anything but black Queen Victoria |
#6203, aired 2011-07-27 | FACE BOOK $600: The original head shrinker, he fled to London in 1938 following the Nazi annexation of Austria Sigmund Freud |
#6203, aired 2011-07-27 | FACE BOOK $800: This Four Quartets poet was awarded both the Nobel Prize and the Order of Merit in 1948 T.S. Eliot |
#6203, aired 2011-07-27 | FACE BOOK $1000: Now retired, this foreign-born American influenced U.S. national policy for decades Henry Kissinger |
#6175, aired 2011-06-17 | WHICH BIBLE BOOK? $1000: "But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face" Job |
#6121, aired 2011-04-04 | FACE BOOK $200: Possessing 5 faces & 15 eyes, Pancanana is a demon god of this Asian religion Hinduism |
#6121, aired 2011-04-04 | FACE BOOK $400: According to Christopher Marlowe, hers was "The face that launched a thousand ships" Helen of Troy |
#6121, aired 2011-04-04 | FACE BOOK $600: This military marching command to reverse is the title of Col. David H. Hackworth's "Odyssey of an American Warrior" about-face |
#6121, aired 2011-04-04 | FACE BOOK $800: In Catholic lore, when this female saint wiped the sweat from Jesus' face with her veil, an image of him remained there Veronica |
#6121, aired 2011-04-04 | FACE BOOK $1000: In 1910 this man published his story collection "Lost Face", which includes "To Build a Fire" Jack London |
#5904, aired 2010-04-22 | "FACE"/"OFF" $800: An introductory essay in a book a preface |
#5805, aired 2009-12-04 | "FACE" BOOK $200: To mar or spoil the appearance of something to deface |
#5805, aired 2009-12-04 | "FACE" BOOK $400: A style of type with thick, heavy lines to draw attention boldface |
#5805, aired 2009-12-04 | "FACE" BOOK $600: JFK & other newsmakers have often been seen on "FTN", this news program Face the Nation |
#5805, aired 2009-12-04 | "FACE" BOOK $800: To connect a peripheral machine with a computer interface |
#5805, aired 2009-12-04 | "FACE" BOOK $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew turns around roughly in place.) This marching maneuver used by military formation can also mean a complete change of opinion an about-face |
#5790, aired 2009-11-13 | LET'S GO FOR A SWIM $600: World Book says it's "a restful stroke because your face is always out of the water and breathing is easy" the backstroke |
#5532, aired 2008-09-30 | FACE BOOK $400: A young woman named Latifa wrote the memoir "My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under" this Afghan group the Taliban |
#5532, aired 2008-09-30 | FACE BOOK $800: Robert Louis Wilken's "The Spirit of Early Christian Thought" is subtitled "Seeking the Face of" him God |
#5532, aired 2008-09-30 | FACE BOOK $1200: Teen Jane Johnson realizes she was kidnapped in Caroline Cooney's "The Face on" this, where missing kids are pictured a milk carton |
#5532, aired 2008-09-30 | FACE BOOK $1600: After penning "My Stroke of Luck", this Hollywood legend shared "90 Years of Living, Loving, & Learning" in "Let's Face It" Kirk Douglas |
#5532, aired 2008-09-30 | FACE BOOK $2000: "Cover Her Face" is an Adam Dalgliesh mystery by this British woman P.D. James |
#5222, aired 2007-05-01 | FACE BOOK $400: "Gone with the Wind" opens with a description of her "arresting" face Scarlett O'Hara |
#5222, aired 2007-05-01 | FACE BOOK $800: Use your plastic to pick up "Beauty Junkies: Inside Our $15 Billion Obsession with" this type of "Surgery" cosmetic |
#5222, aired 2007-05-01 | FACE BOOK $1200: This author wrote that Dorian Gray had "finely-curved scarlet lips" Oscar Wilde |
#5222, aired 2007-05-01 | FACE BOOK $1600: Pride & terror mix on Mr. Kurtz' face before he makes this final exclamation The horror! |
#5222, aired 2007-05-01 | FACE BOOK $2000: The heroine of Toni Morrison's first novel wants the blondest hair & this feature, the book's title the bluest eye |
#4852, aired 2005-10-18 | ROMANCE NOVELIST HISTORY BOOK $800: June 20, 1791. She and Louis fled in the night. But a man recognized Louis, whose face was literally on the money Marie Antoinette |
#2432, aired 1995-03-14 | SHAKESPEARE $300: This woman tells her husband, "Your face, my thane, is as a book where men may read strange matters" Lady Macbeth |
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