#8918, aired 2023-07-19 | TITLES WITH PUNCTUATION $1200: (?) This phrase completes the bestselling Erma Bombeck title "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing" here... in the Pits |
#8625, aired 2022-04-22 | WHINE $400: This tormented Shakespeare title character moans, "O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I" the Hamlet |
#8598, aired 2022-03-16 | BOWL-O-RAMA $800: "If Life is" this, asked a humorous book title by Erma Bombeck, "What Am I Doing in the Pits?" a Bowl of Cherries |
#8509, aired 2021-11-11 | DOGGONE CINEMA $1200: In a lousy future, this title hard-driving drifter's only friend is an Australian cattle dog Mad Max |
#8206, aired 2020-04-20 | "I AM" A TITLE $800: Robert Cormier's young adult thriller with a very dairy title I Am the Cheese |
#8206, aired 2020-04-20 | "I AM" A TITLE $1200: The titles of these 2 Leonard Nimoy memoirs contradict each other I Am Spock and I Am Not Spock |
#8206, aired 2020-04-20 | "I AM" A TITLE $1600: Richard Matheson pits Robert Neville against lots & lots of vampires in this sci-fi classic I am Legend |
#8206, aired 2020-04-20 | "I AM" A TITLE $2000: Tom Wolfe satirizes 21st century college life in this 2004 novel I am Charlotte Simmons |
#8143, aired 2020-01-22 | A HIGHER ROYALTY $1200: My title is this, & I am funky, but in Japanese, it's kÅshaku prince |
#7853, aired 2018-10-31 | SONG TITLE WOMEN BY LYRIC $400: "She's just a girl who claims that I am the one" "Billie Jean" |
#7710, aired 2018-03-02 | THAT BOOK TITLE MAKES ME HUNGRY $400: Erma Bombeck's classic wit:
"If Life Is a Bowl of ____, What Am I Doing in the Pits?" cherries |
#7562, aired 2017-06-27 | SEUSS SYNOPSIZES HIMSELF $200: I will eat them with a filbert! I will eat them with Johnny Gilbert! / Sam-I-Am, a deal's a deal! So I will eat this title meal! green eggs and ham |
#7520, aired 2017-04-28 | I AM A CATEGORY $800: A 2015 documentary about David Prowse, the actor who played Darth Vader, has this 4-word title I Am Your Father |
#7520, aired 2017-04-28 | I AM A CATEGORY $2000: This classic young adult novel by Robert Cormier gets its title from an allusion to the song "The Farmer in the Dell" I Am the Cheese |
#7454, aired 2017-01-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: A character known as Sam-I-Am is the persistent purveyor of this title paired offering green eggs and ham |
#6838, aired 2014-05-14 | ADVERBS IN SONGS $1600: This Smiths song with an adverb-filled title says, "I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar" "How Soon Is Now" |
#6343, aired 2012-03-28 | A CLASSICAL MIXUP $800: I was convinced Rossini wrote an 1829 opera about one of the Black Eyed Peas & this was the title, complete with dots will.i.am Tell |
#6289, aired 2012-01-12 | IT'S GOOD TO BE "KING" $2000: This tragic title character laments, "I am a man more sinned against than sinning" King Lear |
#6228, aired 2011-10-19 | BESTSELLERS $1600: In the title of one of her bestsellers, Erma Bombeck asked, "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries--What Am I Doing" here in the pits |
#6182, aired 2011-06-28 | INCLUDES A PAPAL NAME $800: "Oh Yes I Am" this, just like in the title of a 1983 Billy Joel album & song an innocent man |
#5615, aired 2009-01-23 | NEIL DIAMOND'S GEMS $800: It's the title line that follows, "L.A.'s fine but it ain't home, New York's home but it ain't mine no more" "I am," I said |
#5585, aired 2008-12-12 | IT'S GOT GROOVE $600: This title girl "is not my lover, she's just a girl who claims that I am the one, but the kid is not my son" Billie Jean |
#5321, aired 2007-10-29 | PORK & MINDY $1200: On vacation, Mindy saw a '95 film about this title porker, known in Taiwan as "I am not Stupid, I have Something to Say" Babe |
#5127, aired 2006-12-19 | WHERE IN LONDON AM I? $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a London park.) This famous London park is named for the title of the future George IV & was designed by his friend John Nash Regent's Park |
#4936, aired 2006-02-13 | MOVIE TITLE TRANSLATIONS $400: Hong Kong titled the second movie about this creature "I May Be A Pig, But I Am Not Stupid" Babe |
#4894, aired 2005-12-15 | ON THE JOB TRAINING $700 (Daily Double): A line in Job, "and I only am escaped alone to tell thee", is the title of the epilogue to this 19th century novel Moby Dick |
#4805, aired 2005-06-24 | I AM I SAID $400: In "Goodbye to Berlin", Isherwood wrote, "I am" this "with its shutter open", giving the later play version its title a camera |
#3610, aired 2000-04-21 | CLOWN SONGS $500: This title of a Stealers Wheel song completes the line "Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am..." "Stuck in the Middle With You" |
#3487, aired 1999-11-02 | UNIVERSAL STUDIOS ISLANDS OF ADVENTURE $200: Sam-I-Am knows Universal has a cafe named for this "colorful" title breakfast "Green Eggs and Ham" |
#2813, aired 1996-11-20 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $1000: Title character who says, "Here I am noble, I am Boyer", meaning he belongs to a privileged class in Romania Count Dracula |
#2666, aired 1996-03-18 | STATE MOTTOES $400 (Daily Double): Word that's the motto of Texas & the title of the following:
"If you're ever in a jam, here I am. / If you ever need a pal, I'm your gal. / If you ever feel so happy, you'll land in jail." "Friendship" |
#2430, aired 1995-03-10 | RANK & TITLE QUOTES $200: W.S. Gilbert wrote, "I am the very model of a modern" one of these a major-general |
#1853, aired 1992-09-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: In the title of Erma Bombeck's 1978 bestseller, "If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing" here the pits |
#1323, aired 1990-05-09 | SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS $800: This title king says, "I am a man more sinn'd against than sinning" King Lear |
#352, aired 1986-01-14 | ATHLETIC SONGS $200 (Daily Double): Title of the following 1969 song by Simon & Garfunkel:
"I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told / I have squandered my resistance..." "The Boxer" |
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