| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | MUSIC $600: In 1953 he became the first American to conduct at La Scala in Milan; 4 years later, he helped tell a "West Side Story" Bernstein |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | FROM PAGE TO STAGE $1600: This musical has a frame story: an imprisoned Miguel de Cervantes tells his fellow prisoners a story Man of La Mancha |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | IT'S A LONG STORY $400: You will definitely lose some time delving into his 7-volume "A la recherche du temps perdu" Proust |
| #6810, aired 2014-04-04 | BALLET BELLES $1200: "La Bayadere" tells the story of Nikiya, a dancer in a temple of this faith Hinduism |
| #5878, aired 2010-03-17 | "LA" STORY $400: Risque D.H. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #5878, aired 2010-03-17 | "LA" STORY $800: Edgar Rice Burroughs pulp novel about a lost world of dinosaurs The Land that Time Forgot |
| #5878, aired 2010-03-17 | "LA" STORY $1200: Romantic Sir Walter Scott poem about a gal on an island in Loch Katrine Lady of the Lake |
| #5878, aired 2010-03-17 | "LA" STORY $1600: Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel about the eruption of Vesuvius The Last Days of Pompeii |
| #5878, aired 2010-03-17 | "LA" STORY $2000: Creepy Bram Stoker novel about a big pale snake Lair of the White Worm |
| #5287, aired 2007-09-11 | L.A. STORY $1000: Docents at L.A.'s Page Museum are in a sticky situation-- "La Brea" means this substance in Spanish tar |
| #4501, aired 2004-03-15 | CINDERELLA $2000: This great Italian opera composer told the story in 1817's "La Cenerentola" (Gioachino) Rossini |
| #3667, aired 2000-07-11 | MASKS $700 (Daily Double): This hero first donned his mask in the 1919 story "The Curse of Capistrano" Zorro (Don Diego de la Vega) |
| #2766, aired 1996-09-16 | OPERETTAS $100: Offenbach's operetta "La Belle Helene" spoofs the story of this mythological beauty Helen of Troy |
| #2182, aired 1994-02-15 | OPERA $200: Debussy never finished his opera "La chute de la maison Usher", based on this Poe story The Fall of the House of Usher |
| #1976, aired 1993-03-22 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: Perrault's version of this fairy story was published in 1696 as "La Belle au Bois Dormant" Sleeping Beauty |
| #1584, aired 1991-06-20 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1,500 (Daily Double): The opera "La traviata" is based on the story of this French courtesan the Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias) |
| #1010, aired 1989-01-13 | HISPANIC AMERICA $200 (Daily Double): Group heard here, from the soundtrack of a popular 1987 film:
"Para bailar la bamba /
Para bailar la bamba /
Se necesita una poca de gracia..." Los Lobos |
| #722, aired 1987-10-27 | THE BEATLES $500: Song that tells the story of Desmond & Molly Jones "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" |
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