| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $400: Plutarch quoted this Greek philosopher as saying he was not "an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world" Socrates |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $2000: In 66 A.D. he took part in the Jewish revolt against Rome; later, he worked for the Romans writing the history of it Josephus |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $9,600 (Daily Double): In this Sophocles play, Orestes enlists the aid of his sister, the title character, to kill his mother & her lover Electra |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | WORLD LITERATURE $1600: In 1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz, author of this tale of ancient Rome, became the first Polish person to win a Nobel Prize in lit Quo Vadis |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | WORLD LITERATURE $2000: This Chilean author of "The Savage Detectives" has gained wide fame in English translation since his early death in 2003 Roberto Bolaño |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | WORLD LITERATURE $11,400 (Daily Double): In this Hermann Hesse novel, Harry Haller reads a treatise about his dual inner self, caught between a man & a lupine creature Steppenwolf |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | LITERATURE BINGO $600: "O" (No!), 1898: William S. Porter was convicted of embezzlement; after prison, he put out short stories under this name O. Henry |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | BRITISH LITERATURE $400: Chapter 43 of this novel explains "How the Artful Dodger Got into Trouble" Oliver Twist |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | BRITISH LITERATURE $800: The unexpected death of a small town council member is a mystery at the heart of "The Casual Vacancy" by this author J.K. Rowling |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1200: The 24 Pilgrim storytellers in "The Canterbury Tales" include this bawdy woman who tells of her 5 husbands the Wife of Bath |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1600: A man stopped on his way to a wedding feast is told of tragic events aboard a ship in this 1798 narrative poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | LITERATURE $2000: William Styron wrote the historical novel "The Confessions of" this leader of a slave rebellion Nat Turner |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | LITERATURE $2,200 (Daily Double): Britannica describes this type of literature as "pseudomedieval", with "a prevailing atmosphere of mystery & terror" Gothic |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | MOUNTAINS OF LITERATURE $400: Peter Matthiessen climbed mountains in Nepal to see the snow type of this creature, the title of his National Book Award winner a leopard |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | MOUNTAINS OF LITERATURE $800: After accepting a drink of liquor in a Washington Irving tale, Rip Van Winkle falls asleep for 20 years in these mountains the Catskills |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | MOUNTAINS OF LITERATURE $1200: In the novel "Lost Horizon", the Kunlun Range is thought to be home to this lamasery whose name has become a synonym for utopia Shangri-La |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | MOUNTAINS OF LITERATURE $1600: "Der Zauberberg" in German, this Thomas Mann novel tells the story of a man who stays in a TB clinic for 7 years Magic Mountain |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | MOUNTAINS OF LITERATURE $2000: A Miskatonic Univ. team uncovers horrific artifacts in Antarctica in this author's "At the Mountains of Madness" Lovecraft |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $400: Matteo Bandello's short stories inspired a number of Shakespeare's plays, including this Verona-set tragedy Romeo and Juliet |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $800: Lorenzo Da Ponte wrote the librettos to 3 of this man's most famous operas, including "Cosi fan tutte" Mozart |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $1200: This genre of Italian comedy popular from the 1500s to the 1700s was characterized by stock characters & situations commedia dell'arte |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $1600: In Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose", murders at a 14th c. monastery center on a book on laughter by this ancient Greek Aristotle |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $2000: Around 1224 this Italian saint composed the poetic "Canticle of the Creatures" St. Francis of Assisi |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | HAUNTING LITERATURE $200: Scrooge hears from this man that even after being dead for 7 years, he found "no rest, no peace. incessant torture of remorse" Jacob Marley |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | HAUNTING LITERATURE $400: The ghost of Delbert Grady advises Jack Torrance on family matters in this novel; that does not work out well for anybody The Shining |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | HAUNTING LITERATURE $600: The ghost of Catherine haunts Heathcliff until he himself exits the land of the living in this 1847 novel Wuthering Heights |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | HAUNTING LITERATURE $800: In a sequel, this character plays for the New Orleans Saints, crashes the Exxon Valdez & sees the ghost of Jenny, his childhood friend Forrest Gump |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | HAUNTING LITERATURE $1000: 166 ghosts, one the president's son, exist in a sort of pre-afterlife in George Saunders' "Lincoln in" this space the Bardo |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: A Newbery Medal winner, "The One and Only" him tells the story from the perspective of a captive gorilla Ivan |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: In "Ghost Boys" the ghost of 12-year-old Jerome meets that of this real teen whose 1955 murder helped launch the civil rights movement (Emmett) Till |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | LITERATURE $200: Homer begins this epic poem by telling us it's about the anger of Achilles the Iliad |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | LITERATURE $600: For telling the truth about a town's contaminated water supply in an Ibsen play, Dr. Thomas Stockmann becomes this title foe An Enemy of the People |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | LITERATURE $800: "A drowsy numbness pains my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk" is a line from his "Ode to a Nightingale" Keats |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: "Now We Are Six" is a collection of rhymes from this "Winnie-the-Pooh" author Milne |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: David McKee's stories of this patchwork elephant subtly convey the message that it's OK to be different Elmer |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1,600 (Daily Double): An out-of-control dog meets his match in John Grogan's him "and the Kittens" Marley |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | WRITERS' WORDS $600: From the French for "kind", it's a distinctive category of literature like comedy or horror genre |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | NORDIC LITERATURE $400: There are no singing Jamaican crabs in the original version of this Andersen tale about a sea-dweller who comes ashore The Little Mermaid |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | NORDIC LITERATURE $1200: Sweden is a grim place in this first book of the "Millennium" series in which Lisbeth & Mikael solve a 40-year-old crime The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | SPOOKY LITERATURE $200: (Justin Long presents the clue.) To pass the time on a rainy day in Geneva, she & her husband & friends were telling each other ghost stories; she came up with "Frankenstein"--not bad for starting your first novel at age 18 (Mary) Shelley |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | SPOOKY LITERATURE $600: (Justin Long presents the clue.) "Welcome to Dead House" from 1992 was the first of the books in the "Goosebumps" series by this author that by now has sold a spooky number of copies (R.L.) Stine |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | SPOOKY LITERATURE $800: (Justin Long presents the clue.) The burial of Stephen King's daughter's cat Smucky helped inspire this novel that the author has said is just as dark as can be Pet Sematary |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | SPOOKY LITERATURE $1000: (Justin Long presents the clue.) "The story had held us round the fire, sufficiently breathless", is how this author began "The Turn of the Screw", about a governess trying to protect children from the effects of malevolent spirits (Henry) James |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | FRENCH LITERATURE $400: "Be our guest" & know French novelist Madame Leprince de Beaumont wrote a version of this often adapted fairy tale Beauty and the Beast |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $600: This Jack London classic is considered one of the "books that shaped America" The Call of the Wild |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $800: In "East of Eden" this twin brother of Aron Trask reveals to him that their mother is a madam Caleb |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | THINKING OF UKRAINE $1200: The seminal work of modern Ukrainian literature, "Eneïda" transmutes this ancient writer's Trojans into Cossacks Virgil |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | RENAISSANCE LITERATURE $400: Influenced by Petrarch, Joachim du Bellay brought this poetic form into French with a collection of 50 of them sonnets |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | RENAISSANCE LITERATURE $800: The play "Antonius", Mary Sidney's translation of a French work, helped revive this form of "lone speaking" monologue the soliloquy |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | RENAISSANCE LITERATURE $1600: Poet Henry Vaughan wrote a book of religious devotions bearing the name of this "Mount" near Jerusalem the Mount of Olives |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | RENAISSANCE LITERATURE $2000: Margaret of Navarre's 16th century book of stories "The Heptameron" was modeled on a longer work by this Italian Boccaccio |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE $200: The fairy tale about this brother & sister inspired an 1893 opera by the German composer Engelbert Humperdinck Hansel & Gretel |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE $400: Seaside police chief Martin Brody fights a corrupt politician & a ferocious predator in this Peter Benchley bestseller Jaws |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE $600: "Bowman could bear no more. He jerked out the last unit, & Hal was silent forever" is a line from this sci-fi work 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE $800: It's him, last name Spier, "vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" in a young adult favorite Simon |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE $1000: Dylan Thomas' poem about these "Boys" who "in their ruin lay the gold tithings barren" has inspired book & song titles "The Boys of Summer" |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | 2001 $2000: This Trinidad-born author of "A House for Mr. Biswas" won the Nobel Prize for Literature V.S. Naipaul |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | LITERATURE $400: The medieval Muslim text "Alive, the Son of Awake", about a man on a deserted island, is a likely inspiration for this 1719 work Robinson Crusoe |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | LITERATURE $1200: In the 1920s "Along the Road" was a travel book by this writer; he'd write about a different kind of trip in "The Doors of Perception" Huxley |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | LITERATURE $1600: Chapters in this debut novel by Zadie Smith include "Two Families", "Molars" & "Of Mice & Memory" White Teeth |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | NUMERICAL LITERATURE $800: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez' World War I bestseller named for this mounted quartet became a hit movie with Rudolph Valentino the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | NUMERICAL LITERATURE $1200: Its subtitle includes "Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841" 12 Years a Slave |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | NUMERICAL LITERATURE $2000: A story of rich kids & their reckless, listless lives in 1980s Los Angeles, "Less than Zero" is by this author Bret Easton Ellis |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $200: In Dodie Smith's tale, Pongo & Missis are the parents of 15 puppies, but the 17 of them becomes this title number by the end 101 (Dalmatians) |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $400: Rudyard Kipling's Hathi, one of these animals, helps Mowgli by trampling a village of evildoers an elephant |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $600: In a book by Paul Gallico, Thomasina is one of these pets that channels the Egyptian goddess Bastet & saves her owner's life a cat |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | SUBTITLED LITERATURE $1200: The long subtitle of "Hidden Figures" ends with this rhyming phrase Space Race |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | SUBTITLED LITERATURE $1600: These 2 words finish the subtitle of "Frankenstein" Modern Prometheus |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | SUBTITLED LITERATURE $5,000 (Daily Double): This word meaning "narrow-minded" is in the subtitle of "Middlemarch" Provincial |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | LIFE IS PICARESQUE $400: Describing episodic exploits of a roaming character, the picaresque genre began in the literature of this country of Quixote Spain |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | MEDIEVAL LITERATURE $1200: Created circa 800 & also called the Book of Columba, this illuminated manuscript illustrates the Gospels in Latin the Book of Kells |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | MEDIEVAL LITERATURE $1600: A play by the nun Roswitha tells the story of Gallicanus, a pagan general of this great emperor who converts Constantine |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | MEDIEVAL LITERATURE $2000: French poet Chrétien de Troyes wrote romances including one about this brash knight that introduces the story of the grail Percival |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | MEDIEVAL LITERATURE $15,400 (Daily Double): While in a prison in Genoa in the 1290s, Rustichello da Pisa began jotting down this man's account of his "Travels" Marco Polo |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | LITERATURE $800: Poe's short story "The Murders" here marked the first appearance of the French detective C. Auguste Dupin in the Rue Morgue |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | LITERATURE $1200: Lewis Carroll was the pen name of this mathematician turned children's author Charles Dodgson |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | LITERATURE $1600: A letter this author began writing to her grandfather evolved into her first novel "The House of the Spirits" Allende |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | LITERATURE $2000: Created by Edith Pargeter, this monk solves crimes in the Middle Ages in mysteries like "The Leper of Saint Giles" Brother Cadfael |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | WOMEN WRITERS $2000: The author of more than 50 books including "The Golden Notebook", she was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature (Doris) Lessing |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | GERMAN LITERATURE $1200: Cornelia Funke sold millions of a trilogy beginning with this book & continuing with "Inkspell" & "Inkdeath" Inkheart |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | GERMAN LITERATURE $1600: After a boat trip in 1775, this Johann-of-all-trades--so many trades!--wrote the lovely poem "On the Lake" Goethe |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | THE GOLDEN AGE $400: A golden age of literature is named for this queen who saw Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost" & "Merry Wives" first run Elizabeth I |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | LITERATURE: BLANK IT & BANK IT $800: "The deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the 'House of ____!'" Usher |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: The hero of this Stevenson novel finds himself on a ship he had no intention of sailing on--yup, he's been this title Kidnapped |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $1200: This oldest member of the 3 Musketeers in Dumas' novel is revealed to be the Comte de la Fere Athos |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $2000: The Duke of Ferrara is the possibly murderous narrator of this Robert Browning poem My Last Duchess |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | DOCTOR-ING UP LITERATURE $200: Stevenson probably intended for the last name of this character to rhyme with treacle, as in the Fredric March version of the film Jekyll |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | DOCTOR-ING UP LITERATURE $400: Winding your way down on Baker Street, you'll realize this character narrates 56 of the 60 stories about his flatmate Watson |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | DOCTOR-ING UP LITERATURE $2,200 (Daily Double): Tired of having this guy talk to the animals, Hugh Lofting sent him to the moon in 1928 but fan demand had him "return" in 1933 (Doctor) Dolittle |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $400: The last novel of 1998 winner Jose Saramago of Portugal portrayed this killer in Genesis as a rebel against god Cain |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $2000: 1988 winner Naguib Mahfouz set many of his works like "Palace of Desire" in this North African capital Cairo |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: In an oft-cited example of false memory, many folks firmly but wrongly remember this inquisitive monkey as having a tail Curious George |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: "Sometimes You Have to Lie" is a 2020 biography of Louise Fitzhugh, creator of this 11-year-old spy Harriet (the Spy) |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: The collaborations of writer Jon Scieszka & illustrator Lane Smith include the 1992 tale of this odoriferous man the Stinky Cheese Man |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: In a Mo Willems tale, the first words little Trixie says are the name of this stuffed rabbit she lost & found Knuffle Bunny |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | FRENCH LITERATURE $400: In 1950 Ionesco's "The Bald Soprano" helped launch what is now known as the "Theatre of" this the Absurd |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | FRENCH LITERATURE $800: These French-named epic poems, like the one named for Roland, are composed of irregular stanzas called laisses chanson |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | FRENCH LITERATURE $2000: Meursault, the narrator of this Camus work, says he doesn't believe in God after being arrested for murder The Stranger |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | A "C" IN LITERATURE $400: One of "The Chronicles of Narnia" is named for this prince & rightful heir to the throne Caspian |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | A "C" IN LITERATURE $800: From the works of Charles Dickens, it's the last name of the father & son seen here Cratchit |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | BRITISH LITERATURE $400: Mary Margaret Kaye's novel "The Far Pavilions" takes place in this country during the time of the Raj India |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | BRITISH LITERATURE $800: This Robert Louis Stevenson novel recounts the adventures of Scottish orphan David Balfour Kidnapped |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | LITERATURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES $400: Some of the earliest known examples of these 14-line poems are by Giacomo da Lentini, who wrote in the 1200s a sonnet |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | LITERATURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES $800: In a 2021 movie version of a medieval tale, Dev Patel plays Sir Gawain, journeying to meet this title character the Green Knight |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | LITERATURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES $1200: The allegory "Everyman" from the late 1400s is one of the best known of these "plays" that stressed salvation & personal virtues morality plays |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | LITERATURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES $1600: The "Chanson de" or "Song of" this hero tells of his death & the vengeance taken on the traitor Ganelon Roland |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | LITERATURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES $2000: This "venerable" guy completed his "Ecclesiastical History of the English People" around 731 Bede |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | VAMPIRES IN LITERATURE $800: In 2012 the Horror Writers Assoc. said Richard Matheson's "I Am" this lived up to its name as "vampire novel of the century" I Am Legend |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | VAMPIRES IN LITERATURE $1200: In 2021, the mayor of New Orleans paid tribute to this author of vampire tales, saying, "We have lost an icon" Anne Rice |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | VAMPIRES IN LITERATURE $2000: This 19th c. writer of historical novels, Pere, went goth in "The Pale Lady", a tale of a Polish woman & 2 adoring brothers Alexandre Dumas |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | A BIT OF LIT $2000: This Japanese-born British author of "The Remains of the Day" & "Never Let Me Go" won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature (Kazuo) Ishiguro |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | LITERATURE $800: This Thomas Hardy title character is described as "a fine and picturesque country girl" Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | LITERATURE $2000: This Jonathan Swift title "suggestion" prevented "the children of poor people from being a burthen to their parents" A Modest Proposal |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | SWEDISH HISTORY $2000: "Talent & Taste" is the motto of the Swedish this institution, founded in 1786, which hands out the Nobel Prize for Literature the Academy |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | PREPOSITIONAL LITERATURE $200: A boy comes of age during this 19th century conflict in Irene Hunt's young adult classic "Across Five Aprils" the Civil War |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | PREPOSITIONAL LITERATURE $600: This Jon Krakauer nonfiction work told the story of Chris McCandless & his efforts to escape the modern world & survive in nature Into the Wild |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | PREPOSITIONAL LITERATURE $800: African-American detective Virgil Tibbs must solve a murder in the Deep South in this John Ball novel from 1965 In the Heat of the Night |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | PREPOSITIONAL LITERATURE $1000: "On the Banks of Plum Creek" is the fourth book in this series about a pioneering family The Little House (on the Prairie series) books |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | 1870s LITERATURE $400: The story "Carmilla" features an early appearance of one of these creatures in fiction; it's dispatched with a stake to the heart a vampire |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | 1870s LITERATURE $1200: His rags-to-riches tales included "Paul the Peddler", the adventures of a young street merchant Horatio Alger |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | 1870s LITERATURE $1600: The ancient Greek fusion of passion & restraint was probed in "The Birth of Tragedy" by this German philosopher Nietzsche |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | 1870s LITERATURE $2000: A baker, a banker & a butcher are all on the lookout for this creature in Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem "The Hunting of" this the Snark |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | EUROPEAN LITERATURE $400: Also known for his detective fiction, French author Gaston Leroux wrote this 1910 "operatic" work The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | EUROPEAN LITERATURE $1200: The author of "My Brilliant Friend" uses this Italian pseudonym & will stop publishing if her identity is revealed Elena Ferrante |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | EUROPEAN LITERATURE $1600: Percy Shelley wrote the poem "Adonais" in honor of this other poet & friend Keats |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | EUROPEAN LITERATURE $2000: In addition to a devilish masterwork, this German wrote "The Sorrows of Young Werther" Goethe |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | LITERATURE $400: Michel Tournier's "Friday, or the Other Island" is a modern retelling of this 18th century novel Robinson Crusoe |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | LITERATURE $1200: "Dead Until Dark" by Charlaine Harris introduced this female telepath & a community of Louisiana vampires Sookie Stackhouse |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | LITERATURE $2000: At the end of this first F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, Amory Blaine is lonely, broke & traveling back to Princeton on foot This Side of Paradise |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNGER READERS $200: In the story of this pair, the witch asks, "Nibble, nibble little mouse, who is nibbling at my house?" Hansel & Gretel |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNGER READERS $400: This Dr. Seuss character shows up one boring rainy day when "our mother was out of the house" the Cat in the Hat |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNGER READERS $1000: Billy has a pair of hounds named Old Dan & Little Ann in the kids' classic "Where" this plant "Grows" the Red Fern |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | THE ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE $200: The short story collection "Dead Neon" envisions strange, post-apocalyptic possibilities in this desert mecca Las Vegas |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | THE ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE $400: In a work by L. Frank Baum, the Scarecrow & this character are captured by a female giant & turned into a bear & an owl the Tin Man |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | THE ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE $600: Daniel Wallace's "Supergirl" is subtitled "Daughter of" this planet Krypton |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | THE ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE $800: D'Artagnan & the 3 Musketeers are up for adventure again in this 1850 work about a mysterious prisoner The Man in the Iron Mask |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | THE ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE $1000: "The Silver Chair" is the fourth book in the series about this fantasy land Narnia |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | DIGESTING SOME LITERATURE $400: In a Thomas Harris book, the conductor of the philharmonic could not recall the fare at this doctor's dinner Hannibal Lecter |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | DIGESTING SOME LITERATURE $3,400 (Daily Double): Revenge is served cold--courtesy of an ex-prison inmate--in "The Dinner", chapter 63 of this Dumas classic The Count of Monte Cristo |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: The title of this Laura Esquivel bestseller refers to a sweet recipe but also a state of passion or anger Like Water for Chocolate |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | PSYCHOLOGY LITERATURE $1200: Named for a fallen angel, this "Effect" is the title of Philip Zimbardo's book on "How Good People Turn Evil" Lucifer (The Lucifer Effect) |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | PSYCHOLOGY LITERATURE $1600: To help us be more productive, Charles Duhigg explores why we do what we do in "The Power of" this The Power of Habit |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | PSYCHOLOGY LITERATURE $2000: This man's book "Walden Two" is a fictional account of a society based on his theories of behaviorism B.F. Skinner |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | ESCAPIST LITERATURE $400: "The Wooden Horse" by Eric Williams is the fact-based story of escaping Stalag Luft III, this type of place a POW camp |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM FOR CANADA $2000: On Prince Edward Island, you can visit the farm that inspired this 1908 novel, a classic of Canadian literature Anne of Green Gables |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | OLD LITERATURE $800: The Panchatantra animal fables were written in this ancient language of India & used to teach princes Sanskrit |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | OLD LITERATURE $1200: This hero of Virgil's famous work escapes with a handful of survivors after the fall of Troy Aeneas |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | OLD LITERATURE $1600: Spell 125 in this collection of funerary texts involves Anubis weighing the deceased's heart in the hall of truth the Egyptian Book of the Dead |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | OLD LITERATURE $2000: In an ancient Mesopotamian epic, this king of Rruk meets the goddess Ishtar Gilgamesh |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | FAMILIAR SOUNDING TRIOS $200: Slang for money, literature's Mr. Bradbury, the objective case of I dough, Ray, me |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | SOUTHERN LITERATURE $400: Inspired by the author's hometown of Monroeville, Maycomb, Alabama is the setting for this 1960 classic To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | SOUTHERN LITERATURE $800: 14-year-old Lily finds her way to Tiburon, S.C. & the Boatwright sisters in Sue Monk Kidd's "The Secret Life of" these Bees |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | I NOMINATE YOU FOR A NOBEL PRIZE! $800: Pearl Buck, W.H. Auden & C.S. Lewis all nominated this "North of Boston" poet for Literature, but he never won (Robert) Frost |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | SOUTHERN LITERATURE $2000: Originally in a Savannah cemetery, a mysterious statue called "Bird Girl" appears on the cover of this John Berendt bestseller Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | SOUTHERN LITERATURE $6,000 (Daily Double): Set in rural Georgia, this novel told in the form of letters won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction The Color Purple |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | QUOTH THE MAVEN $2000: In an essay, this Brit seen here wrote, "Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes" (George) Orwell |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | LITERATURE $400: Seen here is an engraving for the 12th & final segment of the Edmund Spenser work known as "The Shepheardes" this Calendar |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | LITERATURE $800: The title domicile of this Hawthorne novel is halfway down Pyncheon Street The House of the Seven Gables |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | NAMES IN LITERATURE $1200: In "Gulliver's Travels", some of these greedy & violent humanoids have been tamed by the Houyhnhnms Yahoo(s) |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | FRENCH LITERATURE $400: One of the most popular novels among soldiers on both sides in the U.S. Civil War was this 1862 Victor Hugo novel Les Misérables |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | LITERATURE $1600: In his 50s Tom Wolfe wrote his first novel, this one about the downfall of a Manhattan bond trader The Bonfire of the Vanities |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | WORLD LITERATURE $1,500 (Daily Double): Written by the 11th century poet, Ferdowsi, "Shahnameh" is considered the national epic of this country Iran |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | WORLD LITERATURE $1600: Novels in the horror genre by Bram Stoker include "The Lair of" this colorful snakelike creature the White Worm |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | WORLD LITERATURE $2000: The author of works like "Cevdet Bey & His Sons", Orhan Pamuk was the first Nobel literature prize winner from this country Turkey |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | ASIAN LITERATURE & DRAMA $400: The traditional Korean form of drama known as talchum involves singing, dancing & the donning of these masks |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | ASIAN LITERATURE & DRAMA $1600: A collection of verses first translated into English in the 19th century, "The Rubaiyat" is by this Persian poet Omar Khayyam |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | ASIAN LITERATURE & DRAMA $2000: Also called "Lunyu", this work is a collection of the sayings & teachings of the philosopher Confucius the Analects |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | A LITERATURE SAMPLER $800: In a classic tale about this title guy, "John, Lord Greystoke... vanished from the eyes and from the knowledge of men" Tarzan |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | A LITERATURE SAMPLER $1200: TB, or not TB, there is no question tuberculosis killed this "Eve of St. Agnes" romantic poet at age 25 (John) Keats |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | A LITERATURE SAMPLER $1600: In a legendary tale, the "Galloping Hessian of the Hollow" is better known as this, which is certainly more terrifying the Headless Horseman |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | A LITERATURE SAMPLER $2000: This book about surviving the great recession of 2008 is the basis for a 2020 film starring Frances McDormand Nomadland |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE $200: The name of this quirky alliterative character was inspired by a boomerang toy Roald Dahl had as a boy Willy Wonka |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE $600: "Last Sacrifice" was the finale of Richelle Mead's series about special young people attending this school the Vampire Academy |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE $800: In a story by Mary Mapes Dodge, the sister of this title boy wins the silver skates Hans Brinker |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE $1000: Melinda Sordino is the heroine of this novel by Laurie Halse Anderson; the last name Sordino can mean "mute" Speak |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | REESE'S PIECES OF LITERATURE $400: "The Proposal" at the beginning of Jasmine Guillory's novel happens on the JumboTron of this Los Angeles baseball stadium Dodger Stadium |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | REESE'S PIECES OF LITERATURE $800: "From Scratch" is Tembi Locke's memoir of marrying a chef & eating great food on this Italian island Sicily |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | REESE'S PIECES OF LITERATURE $1200: Reese picked "The Giver of Stars" by this woman who got the name Jojo from the Beatles' song "Get Back" Jojo Moyes |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | REESE'S PIECES OF LITERATURE $1600: Not only did Reese put this Celeste Ng novel about drama in the suburbs on her list, she produced & starred in the Hulu adaptation Little Fires Everywhere |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | REESE'S PIECES OF LITERATURE $2000: The nonfiction "Braving the Wilderness" is by this alliterative woman whose "Call to Courage" special is on Netflix Brené Brown |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | TYPES OF NARRATIVE LITERATURE $200: You can bet "The Lottery" is a good example of this genre of brief narratives, usually under 10,000 words a short story |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | TYPES OF NARRATIVE LITERATURE $400: The story of the Good Samaritan in the Bible's book of Luke is one of these simple narratives with a moral or religious purpose a parable |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | TYPES OF NARRATIVE LITERATURE $600: Alliterative 2-word name for fanciful stories about folks like Paul Bunyan with unbelievable elements presented as true & factual a tall tale |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | TYPES OF NARRATIVE LITERATURE $800: E.L. James gained fame with this type of writing that puts the writer's favorite characters from books, TV, etc. in new adventures fan fiction |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | TYPES OF NARRATIVE LITERATURE $1000: Meaning not proceeding from event A to event B to event C, this "non" word applies to "Tristram Shandy" & "House of Leaves" nonlinear |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | LITERATURE $400: "The Young Giant" & "Little Red-Cap" were 2 of the more than 200 stories collected by these German brothers in a 19th c. anthology the Brothers Grimm |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | LITERATURE $1200: The only surviving complete poem from 2,600 years ago by Sappho is an "Ode to" this Greek goddess of love Aphrodite |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | LITERATURE $1600: Dylan Thomas' best-known poem urges his father, "Do not" do this. "Rage, rage against the dying of the light" go gentle into that good night |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | LITERATURE $2000: This French-titled book about the round table knights begins, "It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon..." Le Morte d'Arthur |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | LITERATURE $400: Griffin, the main character in this Wells novel, describes himself as "almost an albino", if he could have been seen The Invisible Man |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | LITERATURE $600: Perhaps the devil made him do it, but Part II of this dramatic Goethe work wasn't published until 1832, 24 years after Part I Faust |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | LITERATURE $1000: The title of this 14th century work may have been modeled on Hexameron The Decameron |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): An unfinished sequel to "The 3 Musketeers", Dumas' "The Red Sphinx" continues the story of this real-life cardinal Richelieu |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: The Washington Post editorialized that "If You Give a Mouse" this was a criticism of the welfare state a Cookie |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1600: The "World's Greatest Detective", this kid, rhymingly "the Great", solves all sorts of crimes, often in a deerstalker cap Nate (Nate the Great) |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $2000: A children's literature prize first given in 2003 is named for this Swedish creator of Pippi Longstocking (Astrid) Lindgren |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | NEW YORK SOCIETY $1000: Crusading against "obscene" literature from the 1870s to the 1950s, the NYSSV was the New York Society for the Suppression of this vice |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | LITERATURE $400: The lead character of this 2008 novel owes her last name to the heroine Bathsheba Everdene in "Far From the Madding Crowd" The Hunger Games |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | LITERATURE $800: In a Jane Austen novel, Northanger is this title type of structure that Catherine wants to be exciting, but turns out to be dull an abbey |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | LITERATURE $1600: Henry Fielding said Colley Cibber, who held this official literary post, was guilty of "high crimes... against the English language" Poet Laureate |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | LITERATURE TITLES BY LAST WORD $800: An 1820 story: "Hollow" "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | LITERATURE TITLES BY LAST WORD $2000: A 1939 Hollywood tale: "Locust" The Day of the Locust |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $1200: In 1863 he published a novel about "The Cossacks", who also get plenty of mention in his next, more epic, work (Leo) Tolstoy |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $2000: His first book of poems, "The Black Riders" was published in 1895, the same year as his "Red Badge of Courage" (Stephen) Crane |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: A tiny one of these dinosaurs has a big problem: an impossible hug, because of his short arms! a Tyrannosaurus |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: "One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and--pop!--out of the egg came" this title larva the very hungry caterpillar |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | LITERATURE ON THE MAP $400: In "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", Maya Angelou lives in the small town of Stamps near Texarkana in the SW corner of this state Arkansas |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | LITERATURE ON THE MAP $1600: Centennial, a suburb of Denver, is named for the title town in this man's 1974 novel "Centennial" (James) Michener |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | LITERATURE ON THE MAP $2000: Many think Frances Hodgson Burnett based the overgrown wild of this 1911 novel on Great Maytham Hall in Kent The Secret Garden |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | WOMEN IN LITERATURE $800: This William Makepeace Thackeray novel deals with the interwoven fortunes of 2 women: the passive Amelia & the scheming Becky Vanity Fair |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | WOMEN IN LITERATURE $1000: Rosalind from this comedy has the most lines of any of Shakespeare's women As You Like It |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Washington Irving's tale of this farmer who takes a big snooze was based on a German folktale Rip Van Winkle |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Willa Cather's novel about this title girl is set around the town of Black Hawk, Nebraska My Antonia |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: The title of this first Philip Marlowe novel is a euphemism for death The Big Sleep |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | "THAN" WORDS $1000: Euphuism, an artificially elegant prose style, came into fashion in this royal period of English literature Elizabethan |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In 1997 this famously reclusive author published a fictionalized tale of surveyors "Mason & Dixon" (Thomas) Pynchon |
| #8226, aired 2020-06-01 | 19th CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: Lewis Carroll mirrored the success of his "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" with this 1872 sequel Through the Looking-Glass |
| #8226, aired 2020-06-01 | 19th CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE $1600: He wrote a critique of prison life, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", after spending time in the prison; it was his last published work Oscar Wilde |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | RUSSIAN TO THE BOOKSHELF $1200: This 19th century poet, playwright and unsuccessful duelist is considered a founder of modern Russian literature Alexander Pushkin |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | LITERATURE $400: All published in the 1950s, 7 books make up this series by C.S. Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia |
| #8208, aired 2020-04-22 | A MARRIAGE MADE IN LITERATURE $200: Anna Oblonsky is the maiden name of this title character Anna Karenina |
| #8208, aired 2020-04-22 | A MARRIAGE MADE IN LITERATURE $800: The title of this Daphne du Maurier novel refers to the first Mrs. de Winter; the second Mrs. de Winter is obsessed with her Rebecca |
| #8208, aired 2020-04-22 | A MARRIAGE MADE IN LITERATURE $1000: This 1966 novel is about the first marriage of the character Mr. Rochester from "Jane Eyre" Wide Sargasso Sea |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | NOBEL LITERARY NOMINEES $800: In 1963 this then-president of France received nominations for literature, not peace Charles de Gaulle |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | 1940s LITERATURE $800: The first words of this faded southern belle are "They told me to take a streetcar named Desire" Blanche DuBois |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | 1940s LITERATURE $1600: Her 1948 novel "Peony" told the story of a Jewish family living in China in the 1800s Pearl Buck |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | 1940s LITERATURE $2000: Some of this American poet's "Pisan Cantos" was penned in 1945 while he was in prison for fascist radio broadcasts (Ezra) Pound |
| #8157, aired 2020-02-11 | MAGIC IN LITERATURE $400: In Glen Cook's "Black Company" series, Soulcatcher flies around on one of these, just like in the "Thousand and One Nights" a magic carpet |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | LITERATURE: THE SUBTITLE $400: A 1970s special Pulitzer winner: "The Saga of an American Family" Roots |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | LITERATURE: THE SUBTITLE $800: By Monsieur Flaubert, "A Story of Provincial Life" Madame Bovary |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | LITERATURE: THE SUBTITLE $1000: Robert Pirsig's 2-wheeled traveling tale: "An Inquiry into Values" Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $400: Geryon, a character in one of this hero's labors, falls in love with him in Anne Carson's "The Autobiography of Red" Hercules |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $800: W.H. Auden wrote a famous poem about a painting of him, described as "a boy falling out of the sky" Icarus |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $1200: In a Shelley work this fire bringer is not happy to be nailed to a "wall of eagle-baffling mountain" Prometheus |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $1600: The title character of Margaret Atwood's "The Penelopiad" tells the story of running this kingdom while waiting for Odysseus to get back Ithaca |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | BEHIND THE LITERATURE $400: William Brodie, craftsman by day & criminal by night, was the inspiration for this Robert Louis Stevenson tale The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | BEHIND THE LITERATURE $1000: Mr. Ramsay in her 1927 novel "To the Lighthouse" is a portrait of her father Leslie Stephen Virginia Woolf |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | LITERATURE $200: In this Steinbeck work, George kills his friend Lennie to spare him from a lynch mob Of Mice and Men |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | LITERATURE $400: In this novel, after learning there are no grownups, Jack says, "We'll have to look after ourselves" the Lord of the Flies |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | LITERATURE $800: Lila & Elena are pals in this first book of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet My Brilliant Friend |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | LITERATURE $800: In this Pierre Boulle novel, chimps & gorillas rule & men live like beasts Planet of the Apes |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | LITERATURE $1200: It's the name of the half-sheepdog, half-St. Bernard in "The Call of the Wild" Buck |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | LITERATURE $1600: A 2014 biographical novel about this author opens with his "Passage to India" aboard the SS City of Birmingham E.M. Forster |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | 1890s LITERATURE $800: Edmond Rostand set this 1897 play about the pursuit of the lovely Roxane in 17th century Paris Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | 1890s LITERATURE $1200: A collection of this controversial German philosopher's thoughts & essays was titled "The Anti-Christ" Nietzsche |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | 1890s LITERATURE $1600: In "Trilby", a young singer falls under the trance of this man whose name became a synonym for a hypnotic controller Svengali |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE $800: Born off Queensland, Kath Walker, aka Oodgeroo Noonuccal, wrote "We Are Going", the 1st book of poems by a person of this ethnicity Aboriginal |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE $1200: Gabriel Sundukian wrote this language's greatest dramas in what's now the country of Georgia Armenian |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE $2000: Son of a Polish patriot, he was born in what's now Berdychiv, Ukraine & wrote works like "Typhoon" in English (Joseph) Conrad |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | BRITISH LITERATURE $600: Homophonic last names of Samuel & Ben, whom Samuel wrote about in "Lives of the Poets" Johnson/Jonson |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1000: Set in the 12th c. Middle East, "The Wondrous Tale of Alroy" is a novel about a Jewish conqueror by this author/politician Disraeli |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | RUSSIAN LITERATURE $1200: His imprisonment & subsequent exile to Siberia led to the writing of "The House of the Dead" Dostoevsky |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | RUSSIAN LITERATURE $1600: Just 10 days before he became a dead soul, this author burned sequels he had written for his "Dead Souls" Nikolai Gogol |
| #8033, aired 2019-07-10 | LITERATURE $600: The name of this Moliere character was based on a word for "truffle" Tartuffe |
| #8033, aired 2019-07-10 | LITERATURE $800: Stephen Crane's "War Memories" were not about the Civil War but this later war, including the taking of Guantanamo Bay the Spanish-American War |
| #8033, aired 2019-07-10 | LITERATURE $1000: Mentor Ezra Pound convinced this poet to cut half of "The Waste Land" (T.S.) Eliot |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | BRITISH LITERATURE $400: "All for Love" by John Dryden looks at the tragic lives of this ancient couple Shakespeare also wrote about Antony and Cleopatra |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | BRITISH LITERATURE $800: Dickens' first novel concerned a guy with this last name & the papers of his club Pickwick |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1200: In 1894 he published a collection of stories featuring the characters Baloo & Bagheera Kipling |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | LITERATURE FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE $400: 2018's "The Silence of the Girls" tells this classic story from the perspective of Briseis, Achilles' concubine the Iliad |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | LITERATURE FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE $1200: The servants who work downstairs for this "Pride & Prejudice" family are the focus of "Longbourn" Bennet |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | LITERATURE FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE $2000: "Foe" by J.M. Coetzee depicts the final days of these 2 men as seen by a woman shipwrecked with the pair (Robinson) Crusoe and Friday |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | WAR IN LITERATURE $200: In "Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, a soldier makes a perilous journey home in the end stages of this U.S. war the Civil War |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | WAR IN LITERATURE $400: Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" recounted events from this 19th century war the Crimean War |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | WAR IN LITERATURE $600: Family members fight on opposite sides of WWI in this Vicente Blasco Ibáñez novel that shares its title with a Biblical quartet The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | WAR IN LITERATURE $800: This oft-filmed second of the "Leatherstocking Tales" sees Natty Bumppo battle the Huron in the French & Indian War Last of the Mohicans |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | WAR IN LITERATURE $1000: This Boris Pasternak novel takes place against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution Doctor Zhivago |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | LITERATURE $200: Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" is subtitled "A Story of" this street of finance Wall Street |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | LITERATURE $800: In a novel Simone de Beauvoir depicted herself as Anne & this author of "The Stranger" as Henri (Albert) Camus |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): The title peak of this Thomas Mann novel is home to a Swiss sanatorium The Magic Mountain |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | MUSICALS BASED ON LITERATURE $400: It took only about 350 years for this musical "Man" to ride forth from Cervantes' "Don Quixote" Man of La Mancha |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | MUSICALS BASED ON LITERATURE $800: In 2018 "Fiddler on the Roof" was staged in NYC in this language of Sholem Alechiem's original stories Yiddish |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | MUSICALS BASED ON LITERATURE $1200: Characters from "War and Peace" populate "Natasha", him "and the Great Comet of 1812" Pierre |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | MUSICALS BASED ON LITERATURE $1600: Show your luck & name this musical based on Damon Runyon stories including "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" Guys and Dolls |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | A DEGREE IN LITERATURE $400: Preacher Elmer Gantry earns his B.D., or bachelor of this, a quality he lacks divinity |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | A DEGREE IN LITERATURE $600: The title of the novel "The Paper Chase", made into a movie & TV series, refers to a diploma from this Harvard institution Harvard Law School |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | A DEGREE IN LITERATURE $1000: In this author's "Brideshead Revisited", a father says of his son's univ. degree, "No use to me. Not much use to you either" Evelyn Waugh |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $200: "The horror! The horror!" are Mr. Kurtz' dying words in this novella Heart of Darkness |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $600: He wrote such classics as "The Bostonians", "The Portrait of a Lady" & "The Wings of the Dove" Henry James |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $800: This tale by Robert Louis Stevenson says, "I learned to recognize the thorough and primitive duality of man" Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Part one of "Les Miserables" is "Fantine"; part two is named for this daughter of hers Cosette |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: George & Nick are professors in the college town of New Carthage in this play by Edward Albee Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: "More obscene than anything is inertia" is a line from this Henry Miller book some consider obscene Tropic of Cancer |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This O. Henry story about a poor husband & wife trying to buy each other Christmas presents has a twist ending "Gift of the Magi" |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, Sweden):
At the Nobel Museum shop, you can pick up our own chocolate medal with Alfred Nobel on the front or admire a replica of the literature one on which a young writer listens to one of these mythic inspirations singing. a muse |
| #7944, aired 2019-03-07 | DRUNK ON LITERATURE $400: A med. journal said this Ian Fleming man's "alcohol intake puts him at high risk of multiple alcohol related diseases" James Bond |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | BRITISH LITERATURE $400: "Love is blind", sighs Jessica, a nice Jewish girl in this Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | BRITISH LITERATURE $800: Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in" this 2-word place is thought to be that of St. Giles', where the poet is now buried a country churchyard |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | BRITISH LITERATURE $2000: Dr. Primrose is the title priest living in the title parish with his wife & kids in this novel by Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: In one version the last speech of a play by him says, "Nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof" Tennessee Williams |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: John Steinbeck's "East of Eden" plays out its Cain & Abel parable in this California valley the Salinas Valley |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | RELIGIOUS LITERATURE $800: A poem by Richmond Lattimore titled this holiday says, "Our April is the lamb who died / to paint the year in tones of pride" "Easter" |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | RELIGIOUS LITERATURE $1200: This wife of Abraham is the first subject in Orson Scott Card's "Women of Genesis" series Sarah |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | RELIGIOUS LITERATURE $1600: In addition to his books featuring talking lions, this author also wrote "Out of the Silent Planet", a book of religious sci-fi C.S. Lewis |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | RUSSIAN LITERATURE $1600: This 1973 work is an account of prisons & labor camps scattered across Russia like islands in a sea The Gulag Archipelago |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | POPULAR LITERATURE $200: A barnesandnobie.com list of the best works of this type of fiction includes "Outlander", "Pope Joan" & "Fever 1793" historical fiction |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | POPULAR LITERATURE $600: In "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", Nag & Nagaina are 2 of these plotting against a human family & the title mongoose cobras |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | POPULAR LITERATURE $1000: This book with a lamb-free title marked the first appearance of Dr. Hannibal Lecter Red Dragon |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | THE WORLD THROUGH LITERATURE $400: In Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things", Rahel & Estha forge a childhood in Kerala in this country India |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | THE WORLD THROUGH LITERATURE $800: Nadine Gordimer's final novel, 2012's "No Time Like the Present", is the story of an interracial couple in this country South Africa |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | THE WORLD THROUGH LITERATURE $1600: A bold English adventurer helps a Japanese warlord become the title of this James Clavell saga of feudal Japan Shogun |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | THE WORLD THROUGH LITERATURE $2000: In "In the Time of Butterflies", rebels in this country pay the ultimate price for standing up to Trujillo the Dominican Republic |
| #7903, aired 2019-01-09 | PLACES $1600: It's been called Australia's "Second City" & was the second city named a UNESCO City of Literature Melbourne |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS $400: His "Green Hills of Africa" is an account of big game hunting in Tanganyika in the 1930s Hemingway |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS $800: "The Times They Are A-Changin"', from his 1964 album of the same name, became an instant anthem Bob Dylan |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS $1200: She penned "Fighting Angel," a biography of her father, Absalom Sydenstricker, a missionary in China Pearl Buck |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): This "colorful" Toni Morrison work follows a black girl's struggle to achieve white ideals of beauty The Bluest Eye |
| #7890, aired 2018-12-21 | DREAMY LITERATURE $1200: This Freud work quotes Plato:
"The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming of that which the wicked man does" The Interpretation of Dreams |
| #7890, aired 2018-12-21 | DREAMY LITERATURE $1600: This Romantic poet gave us the strange dream vision of pale warriors in "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" John Keats |
| #7890, aired 2018-12-21 | DREAMY LITERATURE $2000: The first line of this Daphne du Maurier novel is "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again" Rebecca |
| #7872, aired 2018-11-27 | TROPHY HUNTER $400: A young man sits under a tree & writes down the song of a muse on the Nobel Medal for this field Literature |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Part 3 of this novel by Ray Bradbury is called "Burning Bright" Fahrenheit 451 |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: The narrator & protagonist of "The Catcher in the Rye" also appeared in other stories by J.D. Salinger Holden Caulfield |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Kidnapped & sold into slavery, Solomon Northup told of his experiences in this memoir that became a movie 12 Years a Slave |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $2000: This 1958 Chinua Achebe novel depicts the struggles of the Igbo people in Nigeria before independence Things Fall Apart |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | LITERATURE $1200: One of his most famous works is called "Du Côte de Chez Swann" in the original French (Marcel) Proust |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | LITERATURE $2000: John Kennedy Toole won a posthumous Pulitzer for this New Orleans-set comic novel A Confederacy of Dunces |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | BIBLICALLY INSPIRED LITERATURE $400: In Mark Twain's "Diaries of" this couple, she says he's really bad at naming creatures & wanted to call the dodo a wildcat Adam and Eve |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | BIBLICALLY INSPIRED LITERATURE $1200: She took time off from vampires to write "Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt" about Jesus' youth (Anne) Rice |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | LITERATURE $400: In this H.G. Wells classic, the narrator is "drawn on by the...Earth's fate" & sees it in "strides of a thousand years" The Time Machine |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | LITERATURE $800: Oddly, the protagonist of "The Tin Drum" stops doing this at age 3 growing |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | MARRIED LITERATURE $400: At the end of chapter 3, Emma Rouault marries & becomes the title Madame of this 1857 novel Madame Bovary |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | MARRIED LITERATURE $800: Trying to get into their purses & skirts, Falstaff writes love letters to 2 married women in this play; the plan backfires The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | MARRIED LITERATURE $1200: A kids' classic pairs this title Mrs. "and the Rats of NIMH" Mrs. Frisby |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | MARRIED LITERATURE $1600: "The Paris Wife" is a fictional account of Hadley Richardson, first wife of this novelist Hemingway |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | MARRIED LITERATURE $2000: This novel by Virginia Woolf is one day in the life of a woman married to a member of Parliament Mrs. Dalloway |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | COMIC BOOKS WITHOUT CAPES $1200: Just as in literature, you can get this type of collection, from Latin for "all", for comic books omnibus |
| #7758, aired 2018-05-09 | LITERATURE IN SPANISH $500 (Daily Double): Mario Vargas Llosa based "The Time of the Hero" on his harsh treatment in military school in this South American capital Lima |
| #7758, aired 2018-05-09 | LITERATURE IN SPANISH $800: Not the tower but this place of Babel in a Borges story contains every possible book with every arrangement of letters library |
| #7758, aired 2018-05-09 | LITERATURE IN SPANISH $1200: 1949's "The Kingdom of This World", an early work in this style blending naturalism & fantasy, includes a manifesto of it magical realism |
| #7749, aired 2018-04-26 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $2000: The author of "The Leopard" was Giuseppe, prince of this, also the name of an island now a haven for hopeful migrants Lampedusa |
| #7747, aired 2018-04-24 | LITERATURE ON THE MAP $800: Jack Kerouac & Henry Miller both penned books with this "Big" stretch of Pacific coast in their titles Big Sur |
| #7747, aired 2018-04-24 | LITERATURE ON THE MAP $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map of Chicago on the monitor.) In Chicago, there's a big economic difference between the mansion where Bigger Thomas worked & his family's apartment just a few blocks away in this novel Native Son |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | LETTER MEN $2000: This author of Indian descent released "Half a Life" in 2001, the year he won the Nobel Prize for Literature V.S. Naipaul |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | FULL SENTENCE LITERARY TITLES $2000: "Never Let Me Go" is by this Japanese-born British writer, the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature Kazuo Ishiguro |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: This author of "Kindred" & "Xenogenesis" combined African-American culture with science fiction themes Octavia Butler |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | HAVE A GREAT ONE! $1200: Written by a woman in the early 1000s, "The Tale of Genji" is considered this country's greatest work of literature Japan |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | WORLD WAR I LITERATURE $400: R.C. Sherriff's "Journey's End" is set in a dugout connected to one of these, which have come to symbolize the war a trench |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | WORLD WAR I LITERATURE $1600: This Michael Morpurgo novel showed the triumphs & the horrors of the war through equine eyes War Horse |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | WORLD WAR I LITERATURE $4,000 (Daily Double): Roald Dahl wrote, "Constant twitching & jerking & snorting" were all signs of this alliterative disorder shell shock |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | LITERARY AWARDS $400: Not surprisingly, Selma Lagerlof of this country was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature Sweden |
| #7680, aired 2018-01-19 | TWO-WAY ADJECTIVES $1600: This word refers to works of William in psychology or brother Henry in literature Jamesian |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | MUSIC & LITERATURE BEFORE & AFTER $400: She sang "Summer Nights" with Travolta before becoming an author of legal thrillers & "Calico Joe" Olivia Newton-John Grisham |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | MUSIC & LITERATURE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: A Black Eyed Peas man meets up with a Shakespearean style of writing will.i.ambic pentameter |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | MUSIC & LITERATURE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A John le Carre espionage novel hits the "Speed Of Sound" with a British band The Spy Who Came in From the Coldplay |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | UNESCO CITIES OF LITERATURE $400: Named by UNESCO in 2004, this city is the literary & literal capital of Scotland Edinburgh |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | UNESCO CITIES OF LITERATURE $800: This major city is recognized for its excellence in publishing both Spanish & Catalan literature Barcelona |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | UNESCO CITIES OF LITERATURE $1200: Thanks to its pioneering writers' program, the only American city honored is in this Midwest state Iowa |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | UNESCO CITIES OF LITERATURE $1600: Literature about this Pampas cowboy helped get Montevideo recognized the gaucho |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | UNESCO CITIES OF LITERATURE $2000: Thomas Bracken & Janet Frame are 2 authors from Dunedin in this country who bring that city to the forefront New Zealand |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $200: (Hi, I'm Rob Fowler of News 2.) This literary character from Charleston tells Scarlett he may go back to his hometown because he misses "the calm dignity life can have when it's lived by gentle folks" Rhett Butler |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $600: (Hi, I'm Mike Davis from 10TV.) I'm at the Columbus, Ohio house of James Thurber, who went on to write "The Secret Life of" this daydreamer Walter Mitty |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $800: (Hi, I'm Mark Allan from WDTN.) In his poem "Sympathy", Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote "I know why the caged bird sings"... giving this other African-American poet the title of her 1969 memoir (Maya) Angelou |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | LITERATURE $400: Drop "the" from an H.G. Wells title to get the name of this 1952 novel narrated by a nameless young black man Invisible Man |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | LITERATURE $800: Published posthumously in 1870, Dickens' only true mystery novel was "The Mystery of" him Edwin Drood |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | LITERATURE $1600: This Allen Ginsberg poem begins, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness" "Howl" |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | LITERATURE $2000: Elizabeth Strout won a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for her book of stories, set in coastal Maine, about this title woman Olive Kitteridge |
| #7639, aired 2017-11-23 | AFRICAN LITERATURE $800: Joseph Mbele's "Matengo Folktales" includes a story about one of these long-eared beasts outwitting a lion a hare |
| #7639, aired 2017-11-23 | AFRICAN LITERATURE $1200: Naguib Mahfouz' novel "Midaq Alley" brings to life the bustling atmosphere of this largest north African city Cairo |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | LITERATURE, SCIENCE & THE ARTS $400: This liquid straw-colored part of blood consists of about 90% water plasma |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | LITERATURE, SCIENCE & THE ARTS $800: Known for his portraits of full-figured ladies, this 17th c. Flemish artist painted 20+ large pictures of Marie de Medicis Rubens |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | LITERATURE, SCIENCE & THE ARTS $1000: In 1704 Newton published a groundbreaking treatise on this science of light optics |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | "N" TITLED TO LITERATURE $200: With this book Jane Austen satirized the fashion for novels like those of Ann Radcliffe Northanger Abbey |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | "N" TITLED TO LITERATURE $400: The father of the title character of this Dickens novel dies & leaves the family penniless Nicholas Nickleby |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | "N" TITLED TO LITERATURE $600: This one-act drama by Sartre sounds like a barrel of laughs: an existential portrayal of hell No Exit |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | "N" TITLED TO LITERATURE $1000: Tennessee Williams set this play in a seedy Mexican hotel Night of the Iguana |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | "N" TITLED TO LITERATURE $3,400 (Daily Double): Wonderboy is the name of a bat, not a superhero, in this 1952 novel The Natural |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | LITERATURE FOR THE YOUNG $200: Young Mia Thermopolis suddenly finds herself the Royal Highness of Genovia in this book The Princess Diaries |
| #7590, aired 2017-09-15 | THE STATE OF LITERATURE $400: "Twilight" Washington state |
| #7590, aired 2017-09-15 | THE STATE OF LITERATURE $1200: "Inherent Vice" California |
| #7590, aired 2017-09-15 | THE STATE OF LITERATURE $1600: "A Confederacy of Dunces" Louisiana |
| #7590, aired 2017-09-15 | THE STATE OF LITERATURE $2000: "A River Runs Through It" Montana |
| #7590, aired 2017-09-15 | THE STATE OF LITERATURE $4,000 (Daily Double): "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" Georgia |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | THE LITERATURE OF ISRAEL $400: Holocaust survivor Aharon Appelfeld wrote of the impending horror in "Badenheim" this year 1939 |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | THE LITERATURE OF ISRAEL $800: The title of a 1958 Leon Uris novel about Israel's birth isn't "Genesis", but this Exodus |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | THE LITERATURE OF ISRAEL $1200: In Amos Oz' novel "The Hill of Evil Counsel", 2 boys grow up in Jerusalem under this country's post-WWI mandate the United Kingdom |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | THE LITERATURE OF ISRAEL $1600: This "Tales of the South Pacific" author's novel "The Source" is a tale of Israel from ancient times up to the 20th century (James) Michener |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | THE LITERATURE OF ISRAEL $2000: Aharon Megged's "Foiglman" looks at the conflicts between fathers & sons, Israel & the Diaspora & these 2 languages Hebrew and Yiddish |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | RUSSIAN CULTURE $2000: The "Father of Russian Literature", this poet & dramatist was mortally wounded in a duel in 1837 Pushkin |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | I LOVE LITERATURE $400: The White Rabbit is running late, leading to all kinds of trouble at the start of this 1865 book Alice in Wonderland |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | I LOVE LITERATURE $1200: A 2015 BBC poll of literary critics said the greatest British novel is this George Eliot work named for a town Middlemarch |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | I LOVE LITERATURE $2000: In the '60s this controversial novelist wrote journalistic works like "Miami and the Siege of Chicago" Norman Mailer |
| #7525, aired 2017-05-05 | LITERATURE $200: George & Lennie have dreams of living off the fat of the land in this Steinbeck tale Of Mice and Men |
| #7525, aired 2017-05-05 | LITERATURE $400: In "Les Miserables" he's imprisoned for 19 years after stealing a loaf of bread (Jean) Valjean |
| #7525, aired 2017-05-05 | LITERATURE $800: This character says, "I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye" (Holden) Caulfield |
| #7525, aired 2017-05-05 | LITERATURE $1000: This novel is about Ignatius J. Reilly, the Don Quixote of the French Quarter A Confederacy of Dunces |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | LITERATURE $400: She won a Pulitzer Prize not for "My Antonia" but for another Nebraska novel, "One of Ours" Willa Cather |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | LITERATURE $600: His "Sevastopol Sketches" were based on the defense of Sevastopol in the Crimean War, in which he served Tolstoy |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | LITERATURE $1000: At age 25 in 1774, young Goethe had a bestseller with "The Sorrows of" this young man Werther |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | AVIAN LITERATURE $1200: Rebecca West's "Black Lamb & Grey Falcon" is a study of this troubled Balkan country that broke apart in the 1990s Yugoslavia |
| #7490, aired 2017-03-17 | 'TIS IRISH LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Spoiler alert: the title character of this absurd 1950s play sends word that he will arrive, but never does Waiting for Godot |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $400: (I'm M.J. Acosta from NBC 7 San Diego.) This man resided at the Hotel Del Coronado for months at a time & wrote parts of several books here including "Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz" Frank Baum |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $800: (I'm Juliana Mazza with 22News.) Leaping from the pages of the Dr. Seuss memorial sculpture are Thing 1 & Thing 2, agents of mayhem from this 1957 classic The Cat in the Hat |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $1200: (Hi. I'm Mark Allan from WDTN.) I'm at the Dayton home of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, the son of former slaves; he wrote in Black dialect, including this 2-word question used by the New Orleans Saints, among others "Who dat?" |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $1600: (Hi. I'm Ryan Kristafer from News 8.) This author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lived in this Hartford home from 1873 until her death in 1896 (Harriet Beecher) Stowe |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $2000: (I'm Julie Nelson from Kare 11.) The Minnesota State Fair is the setting of the 1928 story "A Night at the Fair" by this author born in St. Paul Fitzgerald |
| #7484, aired 2017-03-09 | AUDITIONS FOR A NEW MUSTACHE $1000: An Asian villain of literature & film lends his name to this mustache Fu Manchu |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $200: "Some pig" is one of the lifesaving slogans woven by a spider in this work Charlotte's Web |
| #7464, aired 2017-02-09 | MUNICIPAL LITERATURE $1200: Willa Cather's 1931 novel "Shadows on the Rock" details the lives of French colonists in the "rock" that is this Canadian city Quebec City |
| #7464, aired 2017-02-09 | MUNICIPAL LITERATURE $1600: Herbert Asbury's "The Barbary Coast" is an informal history of the underworld of this West Coast city San Francisco |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | 14-LETTER WORDS $2000: Mais oui, it was the philosophy of the man who turned down the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature existentialism |
| #7455, aired 2017-01-27 | LITERATURE $400: "Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause", the title of a 1961 novel Catch-22 |
| #7455, aired 2017-01-27 | LITERATURE $600: This 1922 Hermann Hesse novel about a young Brahmin in India parallels the life of Buddha Siddhartha |
| #7455, aired 2017-01-27 | LITERATURE $800: In this Huxley novel, a major character is said to have "been the first to reveal the appalling dangers of family life" Brave New World |
| #7455, aired 2017-01-27 | LITERATURE $1000: In 1904 James Joyce wrote "The Sisters" for the Irish homestead newspaper; the story later became part of this work the Dubliners |
| #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 |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: Here's an illustration of this title girl and her pet monkey, Mr. Nilsson Pippi Longstocking |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: In this 1997 play it's shampoo, set & socialize for a group of women passing time in a Louisiana beauty salon Steel Magnolias |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: He's the giant of American lit seen here near the end of his life Robert Frost |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: "In Cold Blood" recounts the murder of the Clutter family in a small town in this state Kansas |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | LITERATURE IN ACTION $200: The action-packed Book 7 of this ancient poem features the duel of Hector & Ajax the Iliad |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | LITERATURE IN ACTION $400: This Vietnam vet & action hero sprang form the pages of "First Blood" by David Morrell Rambo |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | LITERATURE IN ACTION $800: "The Last of the Mohicans" takes place against the backdrop of this 18th century war the French and Indian War |
| #7433, aired 2016-12-28 | ANTE "BELL" UM $1600: Hyphenated French term for study of fine literature belles-lettres |
| #7431, aired 2016-12-26 | LITERARY TERMS $1,000 (Daily Double): It can mean a decorative border of vines, or, in literature, a short anecdote a vignette |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $400: This "directional" trilogy by John Jakes looks at the Civil War from the viewpoints of 2 families on opposite sides North and South |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $800: "Manhunt" by James Swanson is an account of the multi-day chase to find this killer John Wilkes Booth |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $1200: It's the "snaky" title of Bernard Cornwell's novel about a Confederate officer jailed as a Yankee spy Copperhead |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $1600: Begun in 1863 & published in 1994, John Ransom's diary is his eloquent account of survival in this notorious prison Andersonville |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $2000: A Union officer is killed but not in warfare in "Murder at" this Virginia town, name of the war's first major battle Manassas |
| #7417, aired 2016-12-06 | CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $1000: (Hi, I'm Juliana Mazza with 22 News.) Many beloved characters from children's literature are features in a Springfield sculpture garden dedicated to Dr. Seuss, the pen name of this man (Theodor) Geisel |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | CONTINENTS OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $400: For Literature,
Pablo Neruda South America |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: This classic is subtitled "The Tale of a Puppet" Pinocchio |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: The man in this identifying piece of headwear brings Curious George over from Africa the yellow hat |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: The title of this Frances Hodgson Burnett book refers to Sara Crewe, who goes from privileged to pauper A Little Princess (The Little Princess accepted) |
| #7375, aired 2016-10-07 | LITERARY FACTS $2,000 (Daily Double): The first Bombay-born winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1907, he wasn't Hindi (Rudyard) Kipling |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | REMEMBERING WORLD WAR I $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Nat'l WWI Museum & Memorial in Kansas City, MO.) Even before the U.S. entry into the war, Americans were volunteering to drive Red Cross ambulances; one such adventurer was this 18-year-old, who was badly wounded in a mortar attack in Italy, nearly costing the U.S. a future Nobel Prize in Literature (Ernest) Hemingway |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: August Wilson chronicled the Black experience in his cycle of plays set in the Hill District of this Pennsylvania city Pittsburgh |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: Langston Hughes wrote, "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like" this, later the title of a play A Raisin in the Sun |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: This novel by Zora Neale Hurston tells the story of Janie Crawford & her 3 marriages Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| #7325, aired 2016-06-17 | TEEN LITERATURE $400: 1919 saw "Ten Days that Shook the World", John Reed's firsthand account of this historic upheaval the Russian Revolution |
| #7325, aired 2016-06-17 | TEEN LITERATURE $2000: This German author published "Demian", a novel of a troubled young man seeking enlightenment Herman Hesse |
| #7325, aired 2016-06-17 | TEEN LITERATURE $5,200 (Daily Double): A famous collection of Freud's theories was 1917's "Introductory Lectures on" this process psychoanalysis |
| #7313, aired 2016-06-01 | THE 2015 IG NOBEL PRIZES $800: Literature: for finding this 3-letter palindrome of bafflement "seems to exist in every human language" huh |
| #7293, aired 2016-05-04 | BESTSELLERS $800: Azar Nafisi's bestselling memoir of life & literature in revolutionary Iran is called "Reading" this "in Tehran" Lolita |
| #7291, aired 2016-05-02 | DETENTION IN LITERATURE $800: Due to a tattoo, Devil's Island prisoner Henri Charriere was called this, also the title of a book he wrote Papillon |
| #7290, aired 2016-04-29 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $200: Akela the wolf & Baloo the brown bear are 2 of the animals featured in this collection of stories The Jungle Book |
| #7290, aired 2016-04-29 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: Early in this Jules Verne tale, professor Otto Lidenbrock, his nephew & a guide descend into a volcano Journey to the Center of the Earth |
| #7270, aired 2016-04-01 | LITERARY LATIN AMERICA $1200: Gauchesco is literature about the South American equivalent of this American job cowboy |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: "Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light" is a description of her in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (Blanche) DuBois |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: "The Luck of" this noisy-sounding "Camp" is a not-so-cheery story by Bret Harte Roaring |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): This book begins, "Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure... a man-child was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte" Roots |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: The narrator of this Poe story says, "The disease had sharpened my senses... Above all was the sense of hearing acute" "The Tell-Tale Heart" |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | LITERATURE IS FOR THE BIRDS $800: In this author's "Lonesome Dove", a motley assortment of heroes, outlaws & more live & die in the title Texas town (Larry) McMurtry |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | LITERATURE IS FOR THE BIRDS $1600: A young woman's passion for a priest drives much of this epic saga of 3 generations of Australian sheep farmers The Thorn Birds |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: "If You Give a" child this 1985 Laura Numeroff book, he's liable to ask for another If You Give a Mouse a Cookie |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | "C" IN LITERATURE $400: This 1854 poem contains the lines "Theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die" "The Charge of the Light Brigade" |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | "C" IN LITERATURE $2000: "Chirp the first" is the first chapter of this Dickens short novel The Cricket on the Hearth |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | COLLEGE-SET LITERATURE $400: "Cambridge was a desert", begins Chapter 1 of Andre Aciman's this "Square" Harvard |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | COLLEGE-SET LITERATURE $800: This author of "Lolita" also wrote "Pnin", about a Russian prof at a U.S. college, like himself (Vladimir) Nabokov |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | COLLEGE-SET LITERATURE $1200: An errant throw by a Westish College baseball star plays a major role in Chad Harbach's "The Art of" this Fielding |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | COLLEGE-SET LITERATURE $2000: Murder breaks the peace of Hampden College in this novel by Donna Tartt The Secret History |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | STATELY LITERATURE $400: "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" Missouri |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | STATELY LITERATURE $800: "East of Eden" California |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | "O" IN LITERATURE $400: A cycle of plays by Sophocles includes the dramas him "Rex" & him "at Colonus" Oedipus |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | "O" IN LITERATURE $600: In this memoir Isak Dinesen wrote that her farm was "at the foot of the Ngong Hills" Out of Africa |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | "O" IN LITERATURE $1000: Herman Melville wrote this "Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas" Omoo |
| #7217, aired 2016-01-19 | LITERATURE $200: In "Oliver Twist" Fagin teaches his young followers this type of theft pickpocketing |
| #7217, aired 2016-01-19 | LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): On the "fifth day", as recounted in this 14th century collection by Boccaccio, the storytellers must tell tales of love The Decameron |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | FIRST ISSUES $2000: With James Russell Lowell as editor, in 1857 this monthly called itself "a magazine of literature, art, and politics" Atlantic Monthly |
| #7204, aired 2015-12-31 | 1940s FICTION $1600: A classic of African-American literature, his 1940 novel "Native Son" was adapted into a play the following year Richard Wright |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | WORLD LITERATURE $1600: Tolstoy titled a story after these horsemen of the steppes, based on his travels as a soldier the Cossacks |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: The quiet joys of fishing are described in Izaak Walton's 1653 work "The Compleat" this Angler |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: On Dec. 9, 1854, just 45 days after the event, The Examiner published this Tennyson poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1600: The subject of 52 G.K. Chesterton stories, this cleric had a simple face "as round and dull as a Norfolk dumpling" Father Brown |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $5,000 (Daily Double): Dickens' artist Luke Fildes said Dickens told him the solution to this was that John Jasper strangled his nephew The Mystery of Edwin Drood |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM $1000: 800-899: Columbia has a department of English & comparative this literature |
| #7186, aired 2015-12-07 | LITERATURE $200: Published in 1826, the second of the "Leatherstocking Tales" is "The Last of" these people the Mohicans |
| #7186, aired 2015-12-07 | LITERATURE $600: "Of all who give gifts these two were the wisest", says "The Gift of the Magi" by this author O. Henry |
| #7186, aired 2015-12-07 | LITERATURE $1000: Works like the novel "Dead Souls" made him one of the founders of Russian realism Gogol |
| #7168, aired 2015-11-11 | MEDIEVAL LITERATURE $800: Our primary source for ancient Norse pagan beliefs is the Poetic Edda of this island nation Iceland |
| #7168, aired 2015-11-11 | MEDIEVAL LITERATURE $1200: "The Dream of the Rood" tells the story of Jesus' crucifixion from the perspective of the rood, this the cross |
| #7168, aired 2015-11-11 | MEDIEVAL LITERATURE $2000: Blow that horn--this French knight and subject of "The Song of" him Roland |
| #7164, aired 2015-11-05 | GOTHIC LITERATURE $400: Starting the genre was Horace Walpole's 1765 novel titles this classic Gothic structure "of Otranto" castle |
| #7164, aired 2015-11-05 | GOTHIC LITERATURE $1200: "The Supper at Elsinore" is one of "Seven Gothic Tales" by this author also known for her tales of Africa (Isak) Dinesen (Karen Blixen) |
| #7164, aired 2015-11-05 | GOTHIC LITERATURE $1600: Edgar Allan Poe fed a 19th century Gothic revival with stories like this supernatural tale about Roderick & his doomed family The Fall of the House of Usher |
| #7164, aired 2015-11-05 | GOTHIC LITERATURE $2000: This Gothic classic was penned as part of a ghost story writing competition held in a mansion on Lake Geneva in 1816 Frankenstein |
| #7164, aired 2015-11-05 | GOTHIC LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): Lady Caroline Lamb featured a version of this ex-lover in her Gothic novel "Glenarvon", calling him Ruthven Lord Byron |
| #7161, aired 2015-11-02 | SPORTS IN LITERATURE $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Boathouse Row in Philadelphia, PA.) Organized competitive rowing dates back thousands of years, with the first known literary mention in this work by Virgil, who wrote, "the whole sea gapes, torn by the oars" the Aeneid |
| #7161, aired 2015-11-02 | SPORTS IN LITERATURE $1000: "Ball Four" by this pitcher begins, "I signed my contract today to play for the Seattle pilots at a salary of $22,000" Jim Bouten |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | FRENCH LITERATURE $800: In Chapter I of this Gaston Leroux novel, we learn of a private box in the theatre always reserved for the title figure Phantom of the Opera |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | FRENCH LITERATURE $2000: A collection of about 90 tales, "The Human Comedy" by this author paints a vivid portrait of 19th c. France (Honoré de) Balzac |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | FRENCH LITERATURE $5,000 (Daily Double): One of the chief aims of this 1831 novel was to "inspire the nation with a love of its national architecture" The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #7149, aired 2015-10-15 | ANCIENT ROMAN LITERATURE $1200: Better known name of Titus Livius, author of a history of Rome from its founding to 9 B.C. Livy |
| #7149, aired 2015-10-15 | ANCIENT ROMAN LITERATURE $1600: Dating from the 2nd century, this Roman emperor's "Meditations" is a classic of stoic philosophy Marcus Aurelius |
| #7133, aired 2015-09-23 | LITERATURE OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC $800: He wrote of snowy climes in books like "White Fang", then traveled to balmy Tahiti & later penned "South Sea Tales" (Jack) London |
| #7133, aired 2015-09-23 | LITERATURE OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Pitcairn Island.) In "The Long Voyage", this author mentions Pitcairn Island & Thursday October Christian, Fletcher's son Charles Dickens |
| #7133, aired 2015-09-23 | LITERATURE OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC $1600: This author of "Tales of the South Pacific" called Bora Bora the Bali Ha'i of the spirit (James) Michener |
| #7133, aired 2015-09-23 | LITERATURE OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew walks the beach in Tahiti.) In "The Signature of All Things" by this "Eat, Pray, Love" author, Alma Whittaker sails to Tahiti to discover the mysterious fate of her husband (Elizabeth) Gilbert |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | WORLD OF BOOKS $400: Called the father of Roman literature, Livius Andronicus translated this Homeric travel tale into Latin the Odyssey |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | WORLD OF BOOKS $800: 4 Nobel Prize literature winners were born on the Emerald Isle: Yeats, Beckett, Heaney & this playwright (George Bernard) Shaw |
| #7118, aired 2015-07-22 | FEMALE NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $400: South African literature laureate Nadine Gordimer was part of the struggle against this policy of segregation apartheid |
| #7115, aired 2015-07-17 | PUNNY CLASSIC LITERATURE TITLES $400: Jack London's tale of the place where feral creatures stop at the food court before hitting Old Navy The Mall of the Wild |
| #7115, aired 2015-07-17 | PUNNY CLASSIC LITERATURE TITLES $800: Thackeray's novel about a woman inordinately proud of her flowing tresses Vanity Hair |
| #7115, aired 2015-07-17 | PUNNY CLASSIC LITERATURE TITLES $1200: It's the story of a weaving apparatus equipped with a pleasant panorama A Loom with a View |
| #7115, aired 2015-07-17 | PUNNY CLASSIC LITERATURE TITLES $2000: Mississippi-set novel about a place where stray dogs are kept that becomes the object of intense anger The Pound and the Fury |
| #7106, aired 2015-07-06 | TASTY LITERATURE $1000: Madame Bovary gets all tingly at her first taste of this tropical fruit: "Elle n'avait jamais... mangé d'ananas" a pineapple |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | LITERATURE OF THE EARLY 1800s $400: Friedrich Schiller's drama about William Tell includes the scene where he shoots one of these off his son's head an apple |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | LITERATURE OF THE EARLY 1800s $800: The first volume of a work by these brothers contained 86 stories, including "The Frog King" & "Sleeping Beauty" the Brothers Grimm |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | LITERATURE OF THE EARLY 1800s $1200: Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels include "A Legend of Montrose" & one about this alliterative Scottish outlaw Rob Roy |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | LITERATURE OF THE EARLY 1800s $2000: This romantic poet who penned "To a Skylark" also waxed political with essays like "The Necessity of Atheism" Shelley |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | LITERATURE OF THE EARLY 1800s $4,000 (Daily Double): A father, a mother & 4 sons are shipwrecked on a desert isle in this Johann David Wyss adventure tale The Swiss Family Robinson |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | LITERATURE $800: James Fenimore Cooper depicted the changing frontier in "The Last of" them the Mohicans |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | LITERATURE $1000: This Jazz Age author epitomized his time with works like "Tender is the Night" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | LITERATURE $800: Britannica describes this type of literature as "pseudomedieval", with "a prevailing atmosphere of mystery & terror" Gothic |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | LITERATURE $1200: This 1997 short story tells of ranch hands Jack Twist & Ennis del Mar, who tend sheep in Wyoming Brokeback Mountain |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | LITERATURE $1600: William Styron wrote the historical novel "The Confessions of" this leader of a slave rebellion Nat Turner |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: This 1906 novel was meant to be a companion piece to "The Call of the Wild" White Fang |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | BRITISH LITERATURE $800: His 1786 "Account of Corsica" gained him fame; "The Life of Samuel Johnson" cemented it Boswell |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | EVERYBODY'S TALKIN' 'BOUT THEM $800: William Dean Howells called him "sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature" Mark Twain |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1600: 3-letter name of the narrator of Dickens' "Great Expectations" Pip |
| #7023, aired 2015-03-11 | THE EMERALD AISLE $1200: The emerald is an appropriate birthstone for this author who created an emerald city of literature Frank Baum |
| #7012, aired 2015-02-24 | 1950s BESTSELLERS $2000: "Across the River & Into the Trees" was a 1950 bestseller by this giant of American literature Ernest Hemingway |
| #7011, aired 2015-02-23 | A "LITTLE" LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): In this 1933 Erskine Caldwell novel, a character sets aside a small piece of land, the income of which is to go to the church God's Little Acre |
| #7002, aired 2015-02-10 | FEMALE AUTHORS $800: Author of more than 200 works, Nora Roberts was the first inductee of the Hall of Fame for writers in this genre romance |
| #6958, aired 2014-12-10 | A RENAISSANCE LITERATURE TIMELINE $400: "The Defence and Illustration of" this language that gave us the word "renaissance" appeared in 1549 French |
| #6958, aired 2014-12-10 | A RENAISSANCE LITERATURE TIMELINE $1200: In 1516 Sir Thomas More broke away from his dry histories of kings like Richard III to produce this "what-if" work Utopia |
| #6958, aired 2014-12-10 | A RENAISSANCE LITERATURE TIMELINE $2000: Lady Penelope Rich was the "star" of Sir Philip Sidney's sonnet cycle "Astrophel and" her, published in 1591 Stella |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: "David Copperfield" is one of this British author's classic novels Charles Dickens |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | WORLD LITERATURE $1200: Concerning the lives of Alyosha, Dmitry & Ivan, "The Brothers Karamazov" takes place in this country Russia |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | WORLD LITERATURE $1600: "Z" marks the spot for this crime-fighting swordsman of colonial Spanish America Zorro |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | WORLD LITERATURE $2000: The 7 voyages of this sailor bring him many perils, like being carried by a giant bird, the ROC Sinbad |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | IN MEMORIAM 2014 $1000: Called "South Africa's grande dame of literature", she passed away at 90 Nadine Gordimer |
| #6937, aired 2014-11-11 | LITERARY AWARDS $400: This French writer was just 44 when he got the Nobel Prize for Literature for works like "The Myth of Sisyphus" (Albert) Camus |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: Consisting of 24 books, this ancient poem tells of a homecoming after the fall of Troy The Odyssey |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | WORLD LITERATURE $800: In the 1990s a group of women inspired the bestseller "Reading Lolita In" this city Tehran |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | WORLD LITERATURE $1600: Last name of the life-loving Alexis, "the Greek" in a novel by Nikos Kazantzakis Zorba |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | WORLD LITERATURE $2000: His "The Unbearable Lightness Of Being" was banned in his native Czechoslovakia until 1989 Milan Kundera |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | O CAPTAIN! MY LITERATURE CAPTAIN! $4,000 (Daily Double): He "went content to the crocodile"; instead of "Bad form", his last words should have been "Here's seconds!" Captain Hook |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $400: This poetic work by Homer ends, "Such was the burial of Hector, breaker of horses" the Illiad |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $800: Aristophanes' "The Clouds" satirizes this philosopher as the representative of Atheism Socrates |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $1200: Book 1 of this epic narrative by Ovid begins with a story of the creation of the world Metamorphoses |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $2000: When war broke out between Athens & Sparta in 431 B.C., he began writing an 8-book history of the war Thucydides |
| #6903, aired 2014-09-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: A poem of his says grass is "the beautiful uncut hair of graves" (Walt) Whitman |
| #6903, aired 2014-09-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This Poe story tells of a prisoner's torture during the Spanish Inquisition "The Pit and the Pendulum" |
| #6903, aired 2014-09-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: The "winner" of the title event of this Shirley Jackson story is stoned to death "The Lottery" |
| #6869, aired 2014-06-26 | THE IRON AGE $400: Iron Age literature includes this epic poem that begins, "Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles" the Iliad |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | LITERATURE $200: This Tolstoy tome centers on the 1812 invasion of Russia & the ensuing Russian resistance War & Peace |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | LITERATURE $1000: 12th century England is the setting of Ken Follett's historical novel these "of the Earth" Pillars |
| #6847, aired 2014-05-27 | MOVIES INSPIRED BY LITERATURE $600: You Goethe go back to this 2-part 19th century work to see the origins of "Damn Yankees" Faust |
| #6838, aired 2014-05-14 | WORLD LITERATURE $1600: The 2 great Sanskrit epic poems are the Mahabharata & this tale of an avatar of Vishnu the Ramayana |
| #6838, aired 2014-05-14 | WORLD LITERATURE $2000: In 1907 the performance of this John Millington Synge play set off riots in Dublin Playboy of the Western World |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: Thomas De Quincey's 1821 "Confessions of an English" eater or user of this drug is a classic of addiction lit opium |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1600: This British author's 1922 novel "Jacob's Room" is said to be a fictional biography of her brother Thoby Virginia Woolf |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $2000: This D.H. Lawrence novel continued the stories of sisters Ursula & Gudrun Brangwen, who 1st appeared in "The Rainbow" Women in Love |
| #6813, aired 2014-04-09 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: Last name of Dorothy Sayers' detective Lord Peter Wimsey |
| #6813, aired 2014-04-09 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: Criticism of this gloomy novel & its loser title hero put Thomas Hardy off writing novels forever Jude the Obscure |
| #6813, aired 2014-04-09 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: This "Volpone" author admired his contemporary Shakespeare but did find the Bard sometimes "full of wind" (Ben) Jonson |
| #6813, aired 2014-04-09 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: Of Irish descent but raised in India, this Kipling title youngster joins the English Secret Service Kim |
| #6777, aired 2014-02-18 | BRITISH LITERATURE $800: The mysterious Kurtz is the object of Marlow's quest in this Joseph Conrad tale Heart of Darkness |
| #6777, aired 2014-02-18 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1600: "They all agreed that it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral" is from this Arthur Conan Doyle work The Hound of the Baskervilles |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | WORLD LITERATURE $1200: Tolstoy's "Death of" this title character initially deals with others' reactions to his passing Ivan Ilyich |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | WORLD LITERATURE $2000: Igbo proverbs are found throughout this 1958 Chinua Achebe novel that sounds like a bad game of Jenga Things Fall Apart |
| #6758, aired 2014-01-22 | LITERATURE CATS WOULD LOVE $200: There are 4 servings of seafood in this Dr. Seuss title, & kitty doesn't mind at all One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish |
| #6758, aired 2014-01-22 | LITERATURE CATS WOULD LOVE $600: Kitty's ears perk up when she hears the title of this Daphne du Maurier tale of fierce finches & robins "The Birds" |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | CHANGE ONE LETTER $2000: An individual's style of speaking morphs into a class of literature that includes novels diction & fiction |
| #6735, aired 2013-12-20 | LITERATURE $800: Richard Wright wrote "Native Son"; this African-American writer put out "Notes Of A Native Son" James Baldwin |
| #6726, aired 2013-12-09 | THE ____ OF ____ $400: Fabled weapon precariously suspended over a leader in Greek literature the Sword of Damocles |
| #6720, aired 2013-11-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: The plot of Dubose Heyward's "Porgy" is Porgy meets her, Porgy gets her, Porgy loses her Bess |
| #6720, aired 2013-11-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: In Chapter 2 of "Moby Dick", he tucked his carpetbag under his arm & "started for Cape Horn and the Pacific" Ishmael |
| #6720, aired 2013-11-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: His 1942 story "The Bear" relates the story of Ike McCaslin & his companions as they hunt a bear named Old Ben Faulkner |
| #6720, aired 2013-11-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: Her first publications were accounts of the travels of her & husband Almanzo in the De Smet News in South Dakota Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #6693, aired 2013-10-23 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $200 (Daily Double): The "lives" of Aristides & Cato the Elder were among those this biographer covered Plutarch |
| #6693, aired 2013-10-23 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $800: Philippic, meaning a bitter rant, comes from the speeches Demosthenes made against this kingdom's Philip II Macedon |
| #6693, aired 2013-10-23 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $1200: This poetess of Lesbos was known as the "tenth muse" Sappho |
| #6686, aired 2013-10-14 | LITERATURE $800: Tolstoy thought the masterpiece of this fellow countryman was the 1860s work "The House of the Dead" Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| #6686, aired 2013-10-14 | LITERATURE $1200: The 2012 book "Portrait of a Novel" is about "Henry James & the Making of" this "American masterpiece" Portrait of a Lady |
| #6686, aired 2013-10-14 | LITERATURE $1600: The daydreams of this James Thurber character include being a surgeon & the world's greatest pistol shot Walter Mitty |
| #6686, aired 2013-10-14 | LITERATURE $2000: In a Goethe novel "The Sorrows of" this man include the fact that Lotte is engaged Werther |
| #6684, aired 2013-10-10 | MY NEXT MUSTACHE $800: A sinister villain of literature inspired this style Fu Manchu |
| #6683, aired 2013-10-09 | IRISH LITERATURE $400: The narrator of this satire says, "I found my arms and legs were strongly fastened on each side to the ground" Gulliver's Travels |
| #6683, aired 2013-10-09 | IRISH LITERATURE $1200: This Irish-born writer's most famous novel is partly narrated by Jonathan Harker in the form of a journal (Bram) Stoker |
| #6683, aired 2013-10-09 | IRISH LITERATURE $1600: Prolific short story writer Frank O'Connor once served in the I.R.A. & on the board of directors of this playhouse the Abbey Playhouse |
| #6683, aired 2013-10-09 | IRISH LITERATURE $2,800 (Daily Double): "The Boarding House" & "The Sisters" are 2 of the 15 stories appearing in this 1914 James Joyce collection Dubliners |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | LA LITERATURE FRANÇAISE $200: The title character of this novel is the former Emma Rouault Madame Bovary |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | LA LITERATURE FRANÇAISE $600: In the original French, the first line of this Camus novel is "Aujourd'hui, maman est morte" L'Ètranger |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | LA LITERATURE FRANÇAISE $800: Don't forget that "Swann's Way" is the first part of this epic by Proust In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past) |
| #6638, aired 2013-06-26 | WORLD LITERATURE $800: In 1835 he published a pamphlet containing 4 of his fairy tales, including "The Tinder Box" Hans Christian Andersen |
| #6638, aired 2013-06-26 | WORLD LITERATURE $1600: This Chilean novelist's "Portrait in Sepia" continues the story begun in her "Daughter of Fortune" Isabel Allende |
| #6638, aired 2013-06-26 | WORLD LITERATURE $2000: In this Henry James tale, a governess is in charge of 2 children who are controlled by evil ghosts The Turn of the Screw |
| #6638, aired 2013-06-26 | WORLD LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): The last chapter of this 16th century work is "An Exhortation to Liberate Italy from the Barbarians" The Prince |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | SCOTLAND $1200: This work of literature is known as "the Scottish play" Macbeth |
| #6621, aired 2013-06-03 | ROMANCE IN LITERATURE $800: A photographer finds brief but unforgettable love in Iowa in this '90s novel The Bridges of Madison County |
| #6621, aired 2013-06-03 | ROMANCE IN LITERATURE $2000: In a Madrid taxi, Jake & Lady Brett dream of what might have been at the end of this Hemingway tale The Sun Also Rises |
| #6617, aired 2013-05-28 | MUSIC & LITERATURE $2000: Heard here is Ralph Vaughan Williams' fitting music to accompany this Aristophanes play Wasps |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | BRITISH LIT $400: In part for his "virility of ideas", this "Jungle Book" author was the first Brit to win the Nobel Prize for literature Kipling |
| #6584, aired 2013-04-11 | DOGS & CATS IN LITERATURE $1200: A feline about town, Bustopher Jones is a character in "Old Possum's Book of" these title critters Practical Cats |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | LITERATURE: THE END OF THE LINE $200: Moby Dick "had gained his distinctive appellation of" this colorful creature the White Whale |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | LITERATURE: THE END OF THE LINE $400: "Come, Watson, come! The game is" this 5-letter word afoot |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | LITERATURE: THE END OF THE LINE $600: "'Who were you then?' said Scrooge... 'In life I was your partner,"' him Jacob Marley |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | LITERATURE: THE END OF THE LINE $1000: "Peyton Farquhar was dead... beneath the timbers of" this bridge the Owl Creek bridge |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | LITERATURE: THE END OF THE LINE $1,200 (Daily Double): "He bequeathed... property, both here and in England, to little Pearl, the daughter of" her Hester Prynne |
| #6539, aired 2013-02-07 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: In chapter 16 of this novel, Friday's father is rescued from cannibals Robinson Crusoe |
| #6539, aired 2013-02-07 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1200: She took part of her pen name from her friend, journalist George Henry Lewes George Eliot |
| #6539, aired 2013-02-07 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $2000: In "Kidnapped", this young boy discovers that his uncle Ebenezer has cheated him out of his inheritance David Balfour |
| #6538, aired 2013-02-06 | SLICES OF ORANGE $1600: Created because of perceived sexism in the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize is awarded to women in this endeavor literature (writing) |
| #6521, aired 2013-01-14 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: Chapter 13 of this story is "Do you believe in fairies?" Peter Pan |
| #6521, aired 2013-01-14 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1600: The Marchmain family in "Brideshead Revisited" shares the Catholic faith of this author of the book (Evelyn) Waugh |
| #6521, aired 2013-01-14 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $2,400 (Daily Double): Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1834 novel set in 79 A.D. is titled "The Last Days of" this place Pompeii |
| #6510, aired 2012-12-28 | I LOVE "L.A." $400: Literature, history & philosophy are included in this type of modern college curriculum the Liberal Arts |
| #6500, aired 2012-12-14 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $400: Michael Shaara's 1975 Pulitzer Prize winner "The Killer Angels" tells the story of this 3-day battle Gettysburg |
| #6500, aired 2012-12-14 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $800: This 1895 classic follows the story of a young man from naive patriotism to fear to bravery The Red Badge Of Courage |
| #6500, aired 2012-12-14 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Geraldine Brooks' "March" imagines the war exploits of Mr. March, the father of the 4 girls in this work Little Women |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Langston Hughes called this Harriet Beecher Stowe novel "the most cussed & discussed book of its time" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: His 1949 collection of stories "Knight's Gambit" features Gavin Stevens, a county attorney from Yoknapatawpha Faulkner |
| #6487, aired 2012-11-27 | A BUNCH OF "S.B." $1000: This author of "Herzog" received the 1976 Nobel Prize for Literature Saul Bellow |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE $200: Joyce Carol Oates' "Blonde" is a reimagining of this starlet's life Marilyn Monroe |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE $600: Michael Cunningham's "The Hours" drew from the life & work of this author Virginia Woolf |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | AFRICA $800: Most of the literature of this Horn of Africa country is written in either classical Ge'ez or modern Amharic Ethiopia |
| #6470, aired 2012-11-02 | EUROPEAN LITERATURE $800: Between 1933 & 1943 Germany's Thomas Mann wrote a series of 4 novels about this Old Testament figure "and his brothers" Joseph |
| #6470, aired 2012-11-02 | EUROPEAN LITERATURE $1200: This author's "Vanity Fair" has been subtitled "Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society" Thackeray |
| #6470, aired 2012-11-02 | EUROPEAN LITERATURE $1600: After years of mourning the loss of this Guy De Maupassant title object, Mathilde Loisel discovers it was a fake a necklace |
| #6470, aired 2012-11-02 | EUROPEAN LITERATURE $2000: The continuation of "Orlando innamorato" is this Ariosto work in which Orlando goes mad Orlando furioso |
| #6464, aired 2012-10-25 | EURO COINS $400: This man, the father of Spanish literature, is on Spain's 50-cent coins Cervantes |
| #6459, aired 2012-10-18 | ESCAPIST LITERATURE $400: A magician himself, Sid Fleischman penned "Escape!: The Story of" this legend Houdini |
| #6459, aired 2012-10-18 | ESCAPIST LITERATURE $800: "The Road to En-Dor" (during WWI) & "Midnight Express" (later) are accounts of escaping a prison in this country Turkey |
| #6459, aired 2012-10-18 | ESCAPIST LITERATURE $1000: This 1950 Paul Brickhill book that inspired a film tells of a mass breakout from Stalag Luft III The Great Escape |
| #6450, aired 2012-10-05 | LITERATURE QUOTES: ONE WORD OFF $800: "The deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the 'House of Pancakes'" "Usher" |
| #6447, aired 2012-10-02 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $400: Herodotus described this "fabled" teller of tales as a slave from Thrace Aesop |
| #6447, aired 2012-10-02 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $1600: Both Euripedes & Sophocles wrote tragedies about this woman known for her devotion to her father Agamemnon Electra |
| #6447, aired 2012-10-02 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $2000: The word "satyr" begins the title of this work that satirizes Rome of the 1st century the Satyricon |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | "A" IN LITERATURE $200: In Milton's "Paradise Lost", Gabriel sends 2 of these beings to watch over Paradise, & Satan flees angels |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | "A" IN LITERATURE $600: Chapter 1 of this Tolstoy novel tells us, "Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house" Anna Karenina |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | "A" IN LITERATURE $800: The oldest of the 3 Musketeers, he was once married to the evil Milady de Winter Athos |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | "A" IN LITERATURE $1000: Theodore Dreiser based this novel on the case of Chester Gillette, who murdered Grace Brown on Big Moose Lake An American Tragedy |
| #6405, aired 2012-06-22 | LESSER-KNOWN NOBEL PRIZE LIT WINNERS $400: The Nobel folks said the tales of Patrick White "introduced" this continent "into literature" Australia |
| #6394, aired 2012-06-07 | AUTHORS' TRILOGIES $400: The "Night" trilogy of holocaust literature (Elie) Wiesel |
| #6366, aired 2012-04-30 | SCARY LITERATURE $400: Decades before Bram Stoker, J. Sheridan le Fanu wrote "Carmilla", a tale about a female one of these creatures a vampire |
| #6366, aired 2012-04-30 | SCARY LITERATURE $1200: "The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories" is by this "Alice in Wonderland" movie director Tim Burton |
| #6366, aired 2012-04-30 | SCARY LITERATURE $1600: Thomas Harris first gave readers a taste of this creepy cannibal in the novel "Red Dragon" Hannibal Lecter |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | HOW SOON WE FORGET! $800: The native country of the poet who won the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature Sweden |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | AROUND THE LITERARY WORLD $1600: One of the first epics in Spanish literature was "The Poem of" this hero, from around 1140 El Cid |
| #6306, aired 2012-02-06 | ASIAN LITERATURE $400: Written in Farsi, the "Shah-Nameh", or "book of kings", is a medieval epic of this nation Iran |
| #6306, aired 2012-02-06 | ASIAN LITERATURE $800: The Pali canon is a collection of the oldest & most sacred texts of the Theravada branch of this religion Buddhism |
| #6306, aired 2012-02-06 | ASIAN LITERATURE $1600: The ancient "I Ching" of China is also known as the "Book of" these Changes |
| #6252, aired 2011-11-22 | OLD TESTAMENT WOMEN $1000: The victory song of Aaron & this sister of Moses at the Red Sea is one of the earliest pieces of Hebrew literature Miriam |
| #6215, aired 2011-09-30 | LITERATURE $400: A line from this 1894 Kipling book says, "Rikki-Tikki had a right to be proud of himself; but he did not grow too proud" The Jungle Book |
| #6215, aired 2011-09-30 | LITERATURE $2000: This 1930 William Faulkner novel deals with the death & burial of Addie Bundren As I Lay Dying |
| #6209, aired 2011-09-22 | "DA" $2000: Life hung by a thread for this guy of Greek literature who sat beneath a sword Damocles |
| #6208, aired 2011-09-21 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: In this epic poem about leaving heaven, John Milton created Pandemonium, the capital of Hell Paradise Lost |
| #6208, aired 2011-09-21 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1,500 (Daily Double): A line in this 1954 novel reads, "Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart" Lord of the Flies |
| #6197, aired 2011-07-19 | ADVENTURES IN LITERATURE $200: One adventure of these 2 Twain boys: attempting to cure warts with a dead cat out in the cemetery at midnight Huck Finn & Tom Sawyer |
| #6197, aired 2011-07-19 | ADVENTURES IN LITERATURE $400: The epilogue of this novel says, "I have now told the singular, but veracious story of the opera ghost" Phantom of the Opera |
| #6197, aired 2011-07-19 | ADVENTURES IN LITERATURE $1000: Almost 60, John Steinbeck set out in search of America with his dog & chronicled the adventure in this book Travels with Charley |
| #6196, aired 2011-07-18 | CALL ME SHIRLEY $2000: Her "The Haunting of Hill House" is considered a treasure of Gothic horror literature Shirley Jackson |
| #6190, aired 2011-07-08 | QUOTATIONS IN LITERATURE $600: In this 1883 children's classic, a parrot named Captain Flint squawks, "Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!" Treasure Island |
| #6190, aired 2011-07-08 | QUOTATIONS IN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): In a 1900 book, one character tells her, "I'm really a very good man; but I'm a very bad wizard" Dorothy |
| #6183, aired 2011-06-29 | LITERATURE $400: Henry Fielding called a 1749 novel "The History of" him, "a Foundling" Tom Jones |
| #6183, aired 2011-06-29 | LITERATURE $800: An 1894 Anthony Hope romance was titled this "of Zenda" the Prisoner |
| #6183, aired 2011-06-29 | LITERATURE $2000: Sophocles wrote a tragedy about this self-sacrificing daughter of Oedipus Antigone |
| #6171, aired 2011-06-13 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $400: His use of Tuscan dialect in the "Divine Comedy" helped make it the standard form of modern Italian Dante |
| #6171, aired 2011-06-13 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $2000: Dario Fo's plays include "Accidental Death of" this person of anti-government views an Anarchist |
| #6126, aired 2011-04-11 | BLUE LITERATURE $400: In this detective's 1892 "Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", the carbuncle was a blue garnet hidden in a goose Sherlock Holmes |
| #6126, aired 2011-04-11 | BLUE LITERATURE $1200: 4 years after "The Red Badge of Courage", he wrote "The Blue Hotel", considered one of his finest short stories Stephen Crane |
| #6126, aired 2011-04-11 | BLUE LITERATURE $2000: Elizabeth Kata wrote the novel this "of Blue" on which a 1965 Sidney Poitier movie was based A Patch |
| #6126, aired 2011-04-11 | BLUE LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): In this 1908 romance by Henry de Vere Stacpoole, a pair of 8-year old cousins are marooned on a tropical island The Blue Lagoon |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: "The Deerslayer" was the last written, but first chronologically, of his "Leatherstocking Tales" James Fenimore Cooper |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: His 1988 book "A Different Kind of Christmas" was based on a story outline for the TV film "Roots: The Gift" Alex Haley |
| #6073, aired 2011-01-26 | THE WRITER $600: Peru's version of "Super Mario", he won the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature Mario Vargas Llosa |
| #6070, aired 2011-01-21 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: Richard Llewellyn set his novel about a mining family, "How Green Was My Valley", in this country of his birth Wales |
| #6070, aired 2011-01-21 | WORLD LITERATURE $800: Nikos Kazantzakis wrote "The Greek Passion" & the tale of him, "The Greek" Zorba |
| #6070, aired 2011-01-21 | WORLD LITERATURE $1600: This series of tales by Ovid was written in hexameters in 15 books Metamorphoses |
| #6070, aired 2011-01-21 | WORLD LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): This South American's "The General in His Labyrinth" is a fictional biography of Simon Bolivar Gabriel García Márquez |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: An out-of-control dog meets his match in John Grogan's him "and the Kittens" Marley |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: David McKee's stories of this patchwork elephant subtly convey the message that it's OK to be different Elmer |
| #6041, aired 2010-12-13 | LITERATURE SEQUELS? $400: He jazzed up one of his stories, "The Wife of Bath's Tale", with "The Desperate Housewife of Bath's Revenge!" Chaucer |
| #6041, aired 2010-12-13 | 1901-1910 $800: Literature of 1902 included this Owen Wister novel of life in Wyoming The Virginian |
| #6041, aired 2010-12-13 | LITERATURE SEQUELS? $1200: Florentino Ariza's nephew falls for a young woman in this Marquez novel's sequel, "Love in the Time of the Sniffles" Love in the Time of Cholera |
| #6041, aired 2010-12-13 | LITERATURE SEQUELS? $1600: This playwright's title guy takes on a new troll king in "Trollbusters! The Return of Peer Gynt" Ibsen |
| #6038, aired 2010-12-08 | LITERATURE ALIASES $600: In an 1844 novel, Edmond Dantes disguises himself as Abbe Busoni & this title noble the Count of Monte Cristo |
| #5965, aired 2010-07-16 | A MINOR IN LITERATURE $400: Richard Rowe's 1869 adventure tale "The Boy in the Bush" follows the exploits of a 14-year-old settler in this country Australia |
| #5965, aired 2010-07-16 | A MINOR IN LITERATURE $800: This Swedish girl's "hair, the color of a carrot, was braided in two tight braids that stuck straight out" Pippi Longstocking |
| #5965, aired 2010-07-16 | A MINOR IN LITERATURE $1000: In a 17th century children's tale, the captain of the Unicorn sells this boy's cat to the king of Barbary Dick Whittington |
| #5946, aired 2010-06-21 | LATIN AUTHORS $2000: The Golden Age of Roman literature runs from Cicero to this "Art of Love" author Ovid |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | RUSSIAN LITERATURE $800: By 1890 this author & playwright had written hundreds of short stories, including "The Steppe" Chekhov |
| #5934, aired 2010-06-03 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: Edmund Spenser & Sir Philip Sidney were part of the flowering of English literature during her reign Elizabeth I |
| #5934, aired 2010-06-03 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1600: A series of novels covering a long period; Anthony Trollope wrote a set "of Barsetshire" chronicles |
| #5934, aired 2010-06-03 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $8,400 (Daily Double): This children's novel begins, "These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket" Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| #5925, aired 2010-05-21 | GERMAN LITERATURE $800: His 1922 novella "Siddhartha" tells the story of an Indian boy on a spiritual journey during the time of Buddha (Hermann) Hesse |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: His 1940 novel "Native Son" was adopted by the Book of the Month Club (Richard) Wright |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: His "Souls of Black Folk" expressly attacked Booker T. Washington, the most powerful black American of that time (W.E.B.) Du Bois |
| #5910, aired 2010-04-30 | NOVELS, BOOKS & LITERATURE $400: Launched into TV & book success by Oprah, this Ph.D. is the author of "The Relationship Rescue Workbook" Dr. Phil |
| #5910, aired 2010-04-30 | NOVELS, BOOKS & LITERATURE $800: Title vessel the Vera sails from Veracruz in this Katherine Anne Porter novel Ship of Fools |
| #5910, aired 2010-04-30 | NOVELS, BOOKS & LITERATURE $1000: Helen Graham is "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" in a novel by this youngest Bronte sister Anne Brontë |
| #5902, aired 2010-04-20 | LITERARY AWARDS $400: In 1901, French poet Sully Prudhomme became the first recipient of this the Nobel Prize for Literature |
| #5882, aired 2010-03-23 | PLACES IN LITERATURE $200: Jean Valjean's flight through Paris' sewers is one of the most famous scenes in this novel Les Miserables |
| #5882, aired 2010-03-23 | PLACES IN LITERATURE $400: Chicago's Packingtown is the scene of this muckraking novel The Jungle |
| #5882, aired 2010-03-23 | PLACES IN LITERATURE $1000: With the help of his wife O-Lan, Wang Lung goes from peasant to rich landowner in China in this novel The Good Earth |
| #5864, aired 2010-02-25 | ELEPHANTS IN LITERATURE $200: Tantor the elephant is a childhood companion of this Edgar Rice Burroughs character Tarzan (of the apes) |
| #5852, aired 2010-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This 1961 Joseph Heller novel was set on the island of Pianosa during WWII Catch-22 |
| #5852, aired 2010-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Old Stony Phiz in "The Great Stone Face" by this author of "Twice-Told Tales" is said to be based on Daniel Webster Hawthorne |
| #5852, aired 2010-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: A 1936 operetta, "The Headless Horseman", was based on this 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" |
| #5852, aired 2010-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This 1929 Thomas Wolfe novel is subtitled "A Story of the Buried Life" Look Homeward, Angel |
| #5845, aired 2010-01-29 | GERMAN LITERATURE $400: Many of the fairy tales compiled by them came from Dorthea Viehmann, a widow who came to town to sell produce the Brothers Grimm |
| #5819, aired 2009-12-24 | NOBEL LAUREATES IN LITERATURE $200: 1938:
"For her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" Pearl S. Buck |
| #5819, aired 2009-12-24 | NOBEL LAUREATES IN LITERATURE $600: 1970:
"For the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions" of Russian literature Solzhenitsyn |
| #5819, aired 2009-12-24 | NOBEL LAUREATES IN LITERATURE $1000: 1932:
"For his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in 'The Forsyte Saga'" John Galsworthy |
| #5819, aired 2009-12-24 | NOBEL LAUREATES IN LITERATURE $2,200 (Daily Double): 1958:
"For his important achievement... in the field of the great Russian epic tradition" Pasternak |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: Shortly after "The House of the Seven Gables", he wrote a book of classical myths, "A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys" Hawthorne |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: A hard journey through Mississippi with a smelly corpse is the subject of his "As I Lay Dying" Faulkner |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2,500 (Daily Double): C. Auguste Dupin is the hero of Edgar Allan Poe's first detective story, "The Murders" here in the Rue Morgue |
| #5772, aired 2009-10-20 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $400: 1988 Literature winner Naguib Mahfouz is best known for tales of this African capital Cairo |
| #5729, aired 2009-07-02 | LITERATURE IN THE 1800s $200: Stephen Crane subtitled this novel "An Episode of the American Civil War" The Red Badge of Courage |
| #5729, aired 2009-07-02 | LITERATURE IN THE 1800s $400: The first chapter of this Carlo Collodi classic appeared in an Italian children's magazine in 1881 Pinocchio |
| #5729, aired 2009-07-02 | LITERATURE IN THE 1800s $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Rosenborg Castle Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark.) In one translation of an 1868 work, this author calls Denmark's Rosenborg "the Castle of the Roses, as beautiful as the flower that gave it its name" Hans Christian Andersen |
| #5729, aired 2009-07-02 | LITERATURE IN THE 1800s $800: In 1859 Edward Fitzgerald translated this Persian's 12th c. work into rhymed quatrains Omar Khayyam |
| #5729, aired 2009-07-02 | LITERATURE IN THE 1800s $1000: This 1898 Henry James novella is considered one of the greatest ghost stories ever written The Turn of the Screw |
| #5708, aired 2009-06-03 | WORLD OF LITERATURE $400: As a medical student in this city, Chekhov wrote short stories to help support his family Moscow |
| #5708, aired 2009-06-03 | WORLD OF LITERATURE $800: His "L'Ile mysterieuse" , published in 1874, foresaw the submarine, the aqualung, TV & space travel (Jules) Verne |
| #5708, aired 2009-06-03 | WORLD OF LITERATURE $1600: "Demian" is a Bildungsroman by this German novelist & poet Hermann Hesse |
| #5708, aired 2009-06-03 | WORLD OF LITERATURE $2000: Iraklion-born Nikos Kazantzakis is best known for this 1946 novel Zorba the Greek |
| #5708, aired 2009-06-03 | WORLD OF LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): First & last name of the writer whose uncle became the president of Chile in 1970 Isabel Allende |
| #5702, aired 2009-05-26 | LITERARY MOVEMENTS $800 (Daily Double): Alejo Carpentier used this term for Latin American literature that has elements of the fantastic & the mundane Magical Realism |
| #5689, aired 2009-05-07 | LITERATURE $400: In 1917 L. Frank Baum wrote about "The Lost Princess of" this place Oz |
| #5689, aired 2009-05-07 | LITERATURE $800: When he first saw Becky Thatcher, "a certain Amy Lawrence vanished out of his heart and left not even a memory" Tom Sawyer |
| #5689, aired 2009-05-07 | LITERATURE $1200: "I never liked long walks", says the heroine of this Charlotte Bronte novel Jane Eyre |
| #5689, aired 2009-05-07 | LITERATURE $2000: Her 1942 novel "Dragon Seed" was yet another tale of Chinese peasant farmers (Pearl) Buck |
| #5688, aired 2009-05-06 | COMPARATIVE LIT $1600: Of Nobel Prize literature laureates, this documenter of the Gulag has the longest one-word surname Solzhenitsyn |
| #5655, aired 2009-03-20 | LITERATURE $800: This experimental novelist named William published a 1953 account of drug addiction under the name William Lee (William) Burroughs |
| #5655, aired 2009-03-20 | LITERATURE $1200: This novel by Richard Wright tells of Bigger Thomas, the product of a Chicago slum Native Son |
| #5655, aired 2009-03-20 | LITERATURE $1600: This series of tales by Ovid with a plural title begins with the creation of the world Metamorphoses |
| #5655, aired 2009-03-20 | LITERATURE $2000: Isabel Archer is the title woman of this Henry James masterpiece Portrait of a Lady |
| #5653, aired 2009-03-18 | 18th CENTURY LITERATURE $600: A chief source of transcendentalist ideas was Immanuel Kant's 1781 "Critique of" this Pure Reason |
| #5653, aired 2009-03-18 | 18th CENTURY LITERATURE $1000: Samuel Richardson's "Pamela" is this type of novel, written in the form of letters epistolary |
| #5645, aired 2009-03-06 | GRAY MATTER $400: In literature Basil Hallward is the artist who paints the picture of him Dorian Gray |
| #5643, aired 2009-03-04 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1200: In part II of this allegory, Christian's wife, Christiana, sets out on a pilgrimage Pilgrim's Progress |
| #5643, aired 2009-03-04 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1600: In "Ivanhoe" the crusading knight is disinherited by his father because of his love for her Rowena |
| #5643, aired 2009-03-04 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): Long Jack is one of the crew on a cod boat that rescues Harvey Cheyne in the Grand Banks in this Kipling novel Captains Courageous |
| #5630, aired 2009-02-13 | TURKISH LITERATURE $400: The poem called the "Garibnameh" contains 11,000 masnavi, which we know as these rhymed 2-line units of verse couplets |
| #5630, aired 2009-02-13 | TURKISH LITERATURE $1600: Peter Ustinov directed & starred in the film version of the Yasar Kemal novel "Memed, My" this predatory bird Hawk |
| #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 |
| #5614, aired 2009-01-22 | WORLD LITERATURE $800: The last of Andre Chenier's moving poems "Iambes" date from just before his death by this in July 1794 guillotine |
| #5614, aired 2009-01-22 | WORLD LITERATURE $1200: Born in 1547, this Spanish author always craved the fame of his contemporary Lope de Vega Cervantes |
| #5613, aired 2009-01-21 | BOOK REVIEWS BY TARZAN $800: This 1856 Flaubert novel introduce new element of realism in western literature; Tarzan shocked by title woman immorality Madame Bovary |
| #5612, aired 2009-01-20 | AMERICAN, LIT $400: 5 of the 7 American winners of this literary honor have been diagnosed as alcoholics the Nobel Prize (for Literature) |
| #5604, aired 2009-01-08 | GEORGES THE BELGIAN WAFFLER $1600: For Georges, when it comes to Belgian detectives of literature, it's this Agatha Christie guy or... that's kinda it (Hercule) Poirot |
| #5594, aired 2008-12-25 | FRENCH LITERATURE $1200: Marcel Proust began writing this 7-part, 3,000-page novel in 1909 & continued working on it until his death in 1922 Remembrance of Things Past |
| #5594, aired 2008-12-25 | FRENCH LITERATURE $1600: This central character of "The Three Musketeers" was a real person; much of the material is drawn from his memoirs D'Artagnan |
| #5594, aired 2008-12-25 | FRENCH LITERATURE $2000: Except for a brief section, book V of his "Gargantua and Pantagruel" was most likely written by someone else Francois Rabelais |
| #5578, aired 2008-12-03 | LITERATURE IN OTHER WORDS $10,800 (Daily Double): A Miller's tale:
"23 Degrees, 27 Minutes North of the Equator" Tropic of Cancer |
| #5566, aired 2008-11-17 | WORLD LITERATURE $200: In 1831 he published a book of poems called "Les Feuilles d'automnes", as well as that hunchback novel (Victor) Hugo |
| #5566, aired 2008-11-17 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: Johanna Spyri sent her heroine Heidi to live in the Alps of this country, her own homeland Switzerland |
| #5566, aired 2008-11-17 | WORLD LITERATURE $600: "Bleak House" opens in this city, where, "at the very heart of the fog, sits the Lord High Chancellor" London |
| #5566, aired 2008-11-17 | WORLD LITERATURE $800: Isabel Allende writes novels like "Ines of My Soul" in this language Spanish |
| #5554, aired 2008-10-30 | THE IG NOBEL PRIZE $800: An Aussie woman's study of this 3-letter word & the alphabetical order problems it creates won a literature award "the" |
| #5533, aired 2008-10-01 | UPDATED LITERATURE? $200: Quasimodo gets plastic surgery & really rings Esmeralda's bell The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #5533, aired 2008-10-01 | UPDATED LITERATURE? $400: Scarlett wins "Project Runway" with her fierce design of a dress made from green velvet curtains Gone With the Wind |
| #5533, aired 2008-10-01 | UPDATED LITERATURE? $1000: Gregor Samsa awakes one day transformed into a gigantic insect; family sprays him with industrial-sized can of Raid Metamorphosis |
| #5496, aired 2008-06-30 | LITERATURE $200: Our copy of this 1865-69 Tolstoy work is 1,444 pages long War and Peace |
| #5496, aired 2008-06-30 | LITERATURE $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from New York's Central Park.) Central Park's Literary Walk features Robert Burns & this great novelist & countryman, both sculpted by John Steell of Aberdeen Sir Walter Scott |
| #5496, aired 2008-06-30 | LITERATURE $800: In Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" , this bawdy wife tells of her 5 husbands & her desire for a sixth the Wife of Bath |
| #5494, aired 2008-06-26 | WOMEN WRITERS $2,000 (Daily Double): A graduate of Howard University, she won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993 Toni Morrison |
| #5488, aired 2008-06-18 | LITERATURE $400: The full title of this Spanish novel includes "de la Mancha, El Ingenioso Hidalgo" Don Quixote |
| #5488, aired 2008-06-18 | LITERATURE $1200: New Zealand-born Dame Ngaio Marsh became famous for her work in this field of fiction mystery writing |
| #5482, aired 2008-06-10 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: After slaying Grendel, the title character of this epic poem becomes King of the Geats & rules for 50 years Beowulf |
| #5482, aired 2008-06-10 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1200: It's the last name of father & son novelists Kingsley & Martin Amis |
| #5482, aired 2008-06-10 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1600: Part of this E.M. Forster novel takes place at the Pensione Bertolini in Italy A Room with a View |
| #5458, aired 2008-05-07 | LITERATURE $500 (Daily Double): Chapter 48 of this English novel deals with "The Flight of Sikes"--Bill Sikes Oliver Twist |
| #5458, aired 2008-05-07 | LITERATURE $1000: The NYC murder of Mary Rogers inspired Poe, who changed the setting to Paris & created "The Mystery of" her Marie Roget |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: At the end of this Henry Fielding novel, the title character marries Squire Western's daughter Sophia Tom Jones |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1200: Book I of this Edmund Spenser work relates the adventures of the Redcrosse Knight of Holiness The Faerie Queene |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $2000: Chapter 1 of this 1932 novel begins at the Central London Hatching & Conditioning Centre Brave New World |
| #5449, aired 2008-04-24 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: The heroine of her 1849 novel "Shirley" was inspired by her sister Emily Charlotte Brontë |
| #5449, aired 2008-04-24 | WORLD LITERATURE $800: In English, the title of this Hermann Hesse novel means "The Prairie Wolf" Steppenwolf |
| #5423, aired 2008-03-19 | LITERATURE $400: At the end of this novel, Reverend Dimmesdale reveals publicly that he is the father of Hester Prynne's daughter The Scarlet Letter |
| #5423, aired 2008-03-19 | LITERATURE $800: This character's first literary appearance was in the tragic drama "The Seducer of Seville" Don Juan |
| #5423, aired 2008-03-19 | LITERATURE $1600: This Nevil Shute novel depicts the coming annihilation of the human race after a nuclear war On the Beach |
| #5423, aired 2008-03-19 | LITERATURE $2000: The 2-word title of this 1985 Bobbie Ann Mason novel refers to the time a soldier spent in Vietnam In Country |
| #5408, aired 2008-02-27 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): For 14 years, the Abbe Faria was his fellow prisoner in the Chateau d'If Edmond Dantès, the Count of Monte Cristo |
| #5408, aired 2008-02-27 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $1600: The last name of the title character of this Thomas Hardy novel is actually Durbeyfield Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| #5407, aired 2008-02-26 | OLD MAJOR $800: One of the 2 courses of study that Harvard offered in 1906 as its first "concentrations" history or literature |
| #5404, aired 2008-02-21 | THEM LITERATURE TYPE FACTS $600: The Knight's Tale, the Friar's Tale, & the Nun's Priest's Tale are part of this larger group The Canterbury Tales |
| #5401, aired 2008-02-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Chapter 14 of this classic American novel is entitled "Hester and the Physician" The Scarlet Letter |
| #5401, aired 2008-02-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Henry Fleming, the hero of "The Red Badge of Courage", reappeared in his short story "Lynx-Hunting" Stephen Crane |
| #5370, aired 2008-01-04 | PULP FICTION $800: Frederick Schiller Faust wasn't a big name in this genre, but his pen name of Max Brand was Westerns |
| #5369, aired 2008-01-03 | LITERATURE $400: As this 1931 novel begins, Wang Lung travels to the house of Hwang to fetch his bride The Good Earth |
| #5369, aired 2008-01-03 | LITERATURE $1,200 (Daily Double): Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel "Oil!" was based on this presidential scandal of a few years earlier Teapot Dome |
| #5369, aired 2008-01-03 | LITERATURE $1600: In this title "incident", vigilantes hang 3 men falsely accused of cattle rustling Oxbow |
| #5369, aired 2008-01-03 | LITERATURE $2000: The title of this Steinbeck novel refers to a district above Monterey inhabited by Paisanos Tortilla Flat |
| #5358, aired 2007-12-19 | LITERATURE $400: Published in Spain in 1605, this classic of world literature was an instant hit Don Quixote |
| #5358, aired 2007-12-19 | LITERATURE $800: Of 50, 200 or 500, the one closest to the number of characters in "War and Peace" 500 |
| #5358, aired 2007-12-19 | LITERATURE $2000: In a Thomas Hardy novel, Michael Henchard is this title mayor the Mayor of Casterbridge |
| #5356, aired 2007-12-17 | HOT "ROD"s $600: A humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature a parody |
| #5340, aired 2007-11-23 | LITERATURE A LA SEUSS $400: George said, "No, Lennie, No! / I won't get you a guppy! / You think I've forgotten / what you did to that puppy?" Of Mice And Men |
| #5340, aired 2007-11-23 | LITERATURE A LA SEUSS $800: No Brontes, just Dantes / Got sent off to D'if / But with Danglars, that Danglars! / He had a big beef The Count Of Monte Cristo |
| #5320, aired 2007-10-26 | THE INDIANS $800: The winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature, Rabindranath Tagore was born in this former capital in 1861 Calcutta |
| #5307, aired 2007-10-09 | LITERATURE FOR KIDS $1600: This loving relative who takes care of Tom Sawyer was inspired by Mark Twain's own mother Aunt Polly |
| #5295, aired 2007-09-21 | NIGERIA $800: Known for his satire, Wole Soyinka became the first Black African winner of this prize for literature in 1986 the Nobel Prize |
| #5293, aired 2007-09-19 | CHARACTERS IN LITERATURE $800: A gray spider named Charlotte brings about a series of miracles to keep this pig from the butcher's knife Wilbur |
| #5293, aired 2007-09-19 | CHARACTERS IN LITERATURE $4,000 (Daily Double): This ex-CIA agent who's in search of his identity has appeared in 3 novels by Robert Ludlum & 2 by Eric Van Lustbader (Jason) Bourne |
| #5282, aired 2007-07-24 | LITERATURE $400: In chapter 52 of this novel, a boisterous crowd is gathering for Fagin's execution Oliver Twist |
| #5282, aired 2007-07-24 | LITERATURE $1200: People from the past appear to a brother & sister in "Rewards and Fairies" by this author of "The Jungle Book" Kipling |
| #5282, aired 2007-07-24 | LITERATURE $1600: Modern novels with biblical titles include Jane Hamilton's "The Book of Ruth" & Toni Morrison's "Song of" him Solomon |
| #5282, aired 2007-07-24 | LITERATURE $2000: Even Grendel would love Seamus Heaney's new translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic about this title Geat Beowulf |
| #5241, aired 2007-05-28 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $400: He lost his shoes & new jacket when Mr. McGregor chased him out of the vegetable garden Peter Rabbit |
| #5233, aired 2007-05-16 | LINES FROM LITERATURE $800: In this novel, one of the inhabitants of Brobdingnag is described as being "as tall as an ordinary spire-steeple" Gulliver's Travels |
| #5233, aired 2007-05-16 | LINES FROM LITERATURE $1600: Chapter 1 of it begins, "'Camelot--Camelot,' said I to myself. 'I don't seem to remember hearing of it before'" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #5205, aired 2007-04-06 | ISLANDS IN LITERATURE $400: Joseph Heller used the Mediterranean island of Pianosa as the setting for this 1961 WWII novel Catch-22 |
| #5205, aired 2007-04-06 | ISLANDS IN LITERATURE $600 (Daily Double): The city of Mildendo on this island is encompassed by a wall 2 1/2 feet high Lilliput |
| #5182, aired 2007-03-06 | LITERATURE OF THE 19-OUGHTS $400: Throughout the decade, he cranked out sequels like "Ozma of Oz" (Frank) Baum |
| #5182, aired 2007-03-06 | LITERATURE OF THE 19-OUGHTS $800: Also in the title, it's the last word of the Joseph Conrad tale about the mysterious Mr. Kurtz darkness |
| #5182, aired 2007-03-06 | LITERATURE OF THE 19-OUGHTS $1200: Date in 1900 on which Thomas Hardy wrote, "The land's sharp features seemed to be / The century's corpse" December 31st |
| #5182, aired 2007-03-06 | LITERATURE OF THE 19-OUGHTS $2,000 (Daily Double): 1903 Irish literary works included Synge's "In the Shadow of the Glen" & this poet's "In the Seven Woods" (William Butler) Yeats |
| #5182, aired 2007-03-06 | IT'S ALL ACADEMIC $2000: In 1954 Cambridge appointed this children's author as a professor of Medieval & Renaissance literature C.S. Lewis |
| #5182, aired 2007-03-06 | LITERATURE OF THE 19-OUGHTS $2000: Frank Norris titled his 1901 novel about a railroad that's strangling farmers after this marine mollusk the octopus |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Alex Haley described this 1976 blockbuster as "faction", a combination of fact & fiction Roots |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This poet & author called the first volume of her autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" Maya Angelou |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: His autobiography "Black Boy" was originally the first section of a longer work called "American Hunger" Richard Wright |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Introduced in "Devil in a Blue Dress", Easy Rawlins is the hero of several mysteries by this author Walter Mosley |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: While serving time in prison, he wrote "Soul on Ice", a series of essays on prejudice & racism Eldridge Cleaver |
| #5170, aired 2007-02-16 | LITERATURE $1600: If you're in the "hobbit" of reading his books, try his non-hobbit tale "Farmer Giles Of Ham" Tolkien |
| #5170, aired 2007-02-16 | LITERATURE $2000: In "Little Women", this youngest of the 4 sisters is "a most important person, in her own opinion at least" Amy |
| #5170, aired 2007-02-16 | LITERATURE $6,000 (Daily Double): Dickens divided this book into staves instead of chapters; Stave IV is called "The Last of the Spirits" A Christmas Carol |
| #5154, aired 2007-01-25 | SOUTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: It shouldn't take "100 Years" to figure out this Colombian wrote "News of a Kidnapping" Gabriel García Márquez |
| #5154, aired 2007-01-25 | SOUTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Shaw was "GBS"; this Argentine writer of "Ficciones" & "Labyrinths" could've gone by "JLB" Jorge Luis Borges |
| #5154, aired 2007-01-25 | SOUTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: The first novel by "Kiss of the Spider Woman" author Manuel Puig was "Betrayed By" this screen siren Rita Hayworth |
| #5146, aired 2007-01-15 | ROYAL BRITANNIA $400: Seen here, she had an age of literature named after her Elizabeth I |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | UNIQUELY AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: A brutal 1959 mass murder was the basis of this Truman Capote nonfiction novel In Cold Blood |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | UNIQUELY AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: A battle to keep a girl from the clutches of Satan takes place in this William Peter Blatty novel that turned heads in '71 The Exorcist |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | UNIQUELY AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: One of the 2 Erskine Caldwell novels of the 1930s that were censored for their portrayals of poor whites Tobacco Road (or God's Little Acre) |
| #5106, aired 2006-11-20 | LITERATURE $200: Of Pastism, Presentism or Futurism, the literary movement that began around 1909 Futurism |
| #5106, aired 2006-11-20 | LITERATURE $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew stands next to a statue in the harbor of Copenhagen, Denmark.) This author once said that "The Little Mermaid" was the only one of his stories he felt moved by when he wrote it Hans Christian Andersen |
| #5106, aired 2006-11-20 | LITERATURE $600: "The Miller's Tale" is one of the naughtiest of these famous Chaucer stories The Canterbury Tales |
| #5106, aired 2006-11-20 | LITERATURE $1000: This scary Edgar Allan Poe story takes place at a spooky masked ball given by a prince "The Masque of the Red Death" |
| #5081, aired 2006-10-16 | LITERATURE $800: This Melville character's artificial leg is carved from the jawbone of a sperm whale Ahab |
| #5081, aired 2006-10-16 | LITERATURE $1600: At the start of this Dickens novel, Pip meets an escaped convict who threatens to eat him Great Expectations |
| #5081, aired 2006-10-16 | LITERATURE $2000: This governor of a Southern state asks his aide to dig up dirt on Judge Irwin, a man of integrity Willie Stark |
| #5076, aired 2006-10-09 | FASHION HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1886 mothers began forcing their sons to wear silly velvet suits inspired by this titled tot of literature Little Lord Fauntleroy |
| #5039, aired 2006-07-06 | IT'S ALL A LEGEND $1000: These legendary histories of Norse literature include a famous one about Njall & his adventures sagas |
| #5033, aired 2006-06-28 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $400: Encyclopedia Britannica calls his "The Hunting of the Snark" "nonsense literature of the highest order" Lewis Carroll |
| #5029, aired 2006-06-22 | HEROES OF LITERATURE $400: Spanish thinker Ortega y Gasset said that heroism is within all of us in "Meditations on" this literary character Don Quixote |
| #5029, aired 2006-06-22 | HEROES OF LITERATURE $800: "A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much" is attributed to this Homeric hero Achilles |
| #5029, aired 2006-06-22 | HEROES OF LITERATURE $1200: This bread-stealing criminal & fugitive from justice is the hero of Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables" Jean Valjean |
| #5029, aired 2006-06-22 | HEROES OF LITERATURE $1600: This "haloed" hero is the perpetual thorn in Inspector Teal's side in works by Leslie Charteris The Saint (Simon Templar) |
| #5029, aired 2006-06-22 | HEROES OF LITERATURE $2000: Ernest J. Gaines wrote a fictional autobiography of this heroic 110-year-old ex-slave Miss Jane Pittman |
| #5023, aired 2006-06-14 | ROYAL LITERATURE $400: 1956: By J.R.R. Tolkien The Return of the King |
| #5023, aired 2006-06-14 | ROYAL LITERATURE $1200: 1988: By Anne Rice Queen of the Damned |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from outside of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL.) A vision of little scraps of Sunday dresses in this author's "Song of Solomon" refers to the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church Toni Morrison |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): This 1983 Pulitzer Prize winner is written in the form of letters, mostly from Celie to her sister & to God The Color Purple |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: In the title of the late August Wilson's Tony-nominated play, this man's "Come and Gone" Joe Turner |
| #4976, aired 2006-04-10 | LET'S GO TO HARVARD $800: English 115b takes us to the 1390s in a study of this "most famous work of English literature before Shakespeare" The Canterbury Tales |
| #4975, aired 2006-04-07 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $200: "The Honor and Glory of Whaling" is a chapter in this American masterpiece Moby-Dick |
| #4975, aired 2006-04-07 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $400: He's the teenage narrator of "The Catcher in the Rye" Holden Caulfield |
| #4975, aired 2006-04-07 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Kremlin in Moscow, Russia.) Novel in which Moscow was without its inhabitants & the soldiers were sucked into her, radiating from the Kremlin War and Peace |
| #4975, aired 2006-04-07 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $800: 1815's "Emma" was the last of her novels published in her lifetime (Jane) Austen |
| #4975, aired 2006-04-07 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $1000: Some early reviewers objected to the realistic depiction of Archdeacon Frollo's death in this classic The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #4968, aired 2006-03-29 | LITERATURE $200: Chapter 13 of this classic novel is called "Another View of Hester" The Scarlet Letter |
| #4968, aired 2006-03-29 | LITERATURE $400: He published the first 4 of his fairy tales in an 1835 pamphlet; "The Tinder Box" was among them Hans Christian Andersen |
| #4968, aired 2006-03-29 | LITERATURE $600: Nicodemus Frapp is a narrow-minded evangelist in "Tono-Bungay", a 1909 novel by this author of "The Time Machine" H.G. Wells |
| #4968, aired 2006-03-29 | LITERATURE $800: This author of "The Good Earth" based the heroine of her 1938 novel "This Proud Heart" on herself Pearl Buck |
| #4968, aired 2006-03-29 | LITERATURE $1000: In Wonderland, Alice comes across a large one of these with a snooty caterpillar atop it a mushroom |
| #4965, aired 2006-03-24 | LITERATURE $1200: This Jane Austen novel begins, "The family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex" Sense and Sensibility |
| #4955, aired 2006-03-10 | LITERATURE $400: Britannica states that the name "Agora" was first found in the work of this ancient Greek poet Homer |
| #4955, aired 2006-03-10 | LITERATURE $1200: In 1900 he wrote the line, "The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick" L. Frank Baum |
| #4955, aired 2006-03-10 | LITERATURE $1600: This 1952 Pulitzer-winning book grew out of Herman Wouk's experiences on a WWII destroyer-minesweeper The Caine Mutiny |
| #4955, aired 2006-03-10 | LITERATURE $2000: Elizabeth Barrett Browning gave this volume of 44 sonnets to Robert in 1847, a year after they eloped Sonnets from the Portuguese |
| #4953, aired 2006-03-08 | 2005 IG NOBEL PRIZES $1000: For Literature, the African entrepreneurs of this country were honored for their attempts to con via e-mail Nigeria |
| #4938, aired 2006-02-15 | I'M DOWN WITH HOMEWORK $1600: Literature: In this book, Emma's sick of her husband; next thing, she's macking with Leon, Rodolphe & a crucifix Madame Bovary |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Chapter 2 in a 1932 work of his begins, "The bullfight is not a sport in the Anglo-Saxon sense of the word" Ernest Hemingway |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Pyncheon Street, previously called Maule's Lane, was the location of this title home The House of the Seven Gables |
| #4860, aired 2005-10-28 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: When this title slat bridge with vine handrails broke, 5 victims were hurled to their death The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
| #4860, aired 2005-10-28 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE $1600: This 1946 Nikos Kazantzakis novel was narrated by a Crete mine owner who's drawn out of his shell by an elderly employee Zorba the Greek |
| #4860, aired 2005-10-28 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE $2000: This most popular of Zane Grey's books featured a gunslinger named Lassiter & Jane Withersteen, a Mormon heiress Riders of the Purple Sage |
| #4860, aired 2005-10-28 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): While traveling from Oklahoma to California during the Depression, she says, "All we got is the family unbroke" Ma Joad |
| #4840, aired 2005-09-30 | WORLD LITERATURE $200: Tolstoy's first full-length novel, it includes a cast of more than 500 characters War and Peace |
| #4840, aired 2005-09-30 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: Chapter 8 of this 17th century work begins, "They came in sight of thirty, forty windmills" Don Quixote |
| #4840, aired 2005-09-30 | WORLD LITERATURE $800: This Albert Camus novel begins with the discovery of a dead rat outside Dr. Bernard Rieux' door; more dead rats follow The Plague |
| #4840, aired 2005-09-30 | WORLD LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Buried treasure found on an islet in the Tuscan Archipelago makes this character wealthy the Count of Monte Cristo |
| #4840, aired 2005-09-30 | WORLD LITERATURE $1000: In 1902 Kipling published a volume of these "Stories", including "The Cat that Walked by Himself" the Just So Stories |
| #4823, aired 2005-07-20 | COLOMBIA $1000: In 1982 this Colombian who led Latin America's literary boom of the '60s won the Nobel Prize for Literature García Márquez |
| #4812, aired 2005-07-05 | BELIEFS $800: Also a caste, it's a Hindu priest or scholar of Vedic literature a Brahman |
| #4810, aired 2005-07-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: 1926's top 2 fiction sellers were John Erskine's "The Private Life of Helen of Troy" & this Anita Loos book Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
| #4810, aired 2005-07-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: This 140-pound character in "The Call of the Wild" is a cross between a St. Bernard & a Scotch Shepard Buck |
| #4808, aired 2005-06-29 | LITERATURE $400: "Tai-Pan" was a "Novel of Hong Kong" by James Clavell, & this was his 1975 "Novel of Japan" Shogun |
| #4808, aired 2005-06-29 | LITERATURE $800: In Pierre Boulle's "Planet of the Apes", Zira & Cornelius are this species of ape chimpanzees |
| #4808, aired 2005-06-29 | LITERATURE $2000: Completes the title of Eldridge Cleaver's 1968 memoir "Soul on..." Ice |
| #4802, aired 2005-06-21 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: In the early 1900s Argentine writers Benito Lynch & Ricardo Guiraldes wrote novels about the lives of these cowboys the gauchos |
| #4802, aired 2005-06-21 | WORLD LITERATURE $1600: Jacobean who wrote the ghoulish & violent plays "The White Devil" & "The Duchess of Malfi" John Webster |
| #4802, aired 2005-06-21 | WORLD LITERATURE $2000: Czar Boris Godunov inspired an 1825 drama by this writer, Russia's equivalent of Shakespeare Pushkin |
| #4779, aired 2005-05-19 | "W"HO CAN IT BE NOW? $1000: Sean O'Casey described this author of "The Inimitable Jeeves" as "English Literature's Performing Flea" P.G. Wodehouse |
| #4668, aired 2004-12-15 | GERMAN LITERATURE $400: This musical instrument is the prized possession of Gunter Grass' dwarfish hero Oskar the tin drum |
| #4668, aired 2004-12-15 | GERMAN LITERATURE $800: Sadly, this final act of Goethe's infatuated hero young Werther was widely imitated by young romantic readers committing suicide |
| #4668, aired 2004-12-15 | GERMAN LITERATURE $1200: The title vessel of a 1494 poem by Sebastian Brant & of the painting of the same period by Hieronymus Bosch the ship of fools |
| #4668, aired 2004-12-15 | GERMAN LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): The Peter Weiss play known by this 2-word title is "performed by the inmates of the asylum of Charenton" Marat/Sade |
| #4668, aired 2004-12-15 | GERMAN LITERATURE $2000: The original title of this author's "Magister Ludi" means "The Glass Bead Game" (Hermann) Hesse |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: This Mary Shelley tale is told through the letters of an Arctic explorer named Walton Frankenstein |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: The activities of a certain London club form the basis of this Dickens novel, his first The Pickwick Papers |
| #4645, aired 2004-11-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This classic by Stephen Crane is subtitled "An Episode of the American Civil War" The Red Badge of Courage |
| #4645, aired 2004-11-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: This first novel by Bernard Malamud is considered one of the best baseball books of all time The Natural |
| #4633, aired 2004-10-27 | CHILDREN IN LITERATURE $400: Lewis Carroll created this heroine to amuse the daughter of his dean at Christ Church Alice |
| #4633, aired 2004-10-27 | CHILDREN IN LITERATURE $800: This "parish boy" hero is born in a workhouse & becomes one of Fagin's thieves Oliver Twist |
| #4627, aired 2004-10-19 | LITERATURE $200: "Child of the Morning" is the story of Hatshepsut, a woman who ruled this country as a pharaoh Egypt |
| #4627, aired 2004-10-19 | LITERATURE $400: This Danish fairy tale author wrote an autobiography called "The Fairy Tale of My Life" Hans Christian Andersen |
| #4627, aired 2004-10-19 | LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Chapter 25 of this book is called "The First Wedding" & it described Meg's marriage to John Brooke Little Women |
| #4627, aired 2004-10-19 | LITERATURE $1000: This author said that he was acting in a play with his kids when he came up with the idea for "A Tale of Two Cities" Charles Dickens |
| #4613, aired 2004-09-29 | LITERATURE $800: Gom Gut & Plick et Plock were pseudonyms of this Inspector Maigret creator Georges Simenon |
| #4613, aired 2004-09-29 | LITERATURE $1200: Hmm... he dedicated his 1820 poem "The Witch of Atlas" to his wife Mary (Percy Bysshe) Shelley |
| #4613, aired 2004-09-29 | LITERATURE $1600: Lloyd Brown, once an inmate of this city's Alleghany County jail, based his novel "Iron City" on life there Pittsburgh |
| #4603, aired 2004-09-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This "Age of Innocence" author made her debut in society in 1879 (Edith) Wharton |
| #4603, aired 2004-09-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,500 (Daily Double): "Sons", the second book in a trilogy begun with this work, traces the destinies of the 3 sons of Wang Lung The Good Earth (by Pearl Buck) |
| #4603, aired 2004-09-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: In the prologue of a 1952 novel, this author wrote, "I am an invisible man" (Ralph) Ellison |
| #4588, aired 2004-07-14 | LITERATURE IN THE JAZZ AGE $1200: This bestselling Western author's 1920s novels included "The Call of the Canyon" & "The Mysterious Rider" Zane Grey |
| #4588, aired 2004-07-14 | LITERATURE IN THE JAZZ AGE $2000: This 1927 Thornton Wilder novel begins, "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke" The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
| #4570, aired 2004-06-18 | INSECTS $1600: Acheta domesticus, the house species of this, is the one "on the hearth" in literature the cricket |
| #4549, aired 2004-05-20 | FRENCH LITERATURE $2000: Known as a master of the short story--he wrote over 300 of them--he did write 6 novels including "Bel-Ami" in 1885 Guy de Maupassant |
| #4540, aired 2004-05-07 | STUFF TO DO AT RECESS $1000: Dash off a major piece of literature like this 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe novel Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #4512, aired 2004-03-30 | I PITY THE FOOL $1200: This title character of Spanish literature is called "A muddled fool, full of lucid intervals" Don Quixote |
| #4501, aired 2004-03-15 | LITERATURE $400: "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys is the story of the mad wife of this "Jane Eyre" character Rochester |
| #4501, aired 2004-03-15 | LITERATURE $800: A fling with the valet is one of the escapades of this Strindberg title "Miss" Miss Julie |
| #4501, aired 2004-03-15 | LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1856 Revue de Paris readers followed this tale of the miserable wife of a boring doctor Madame Bovary |
| #4496, aired 2004-03-08 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: The Joad family in "The Grapes of Wrath" leaves this Dust Bowl state & heads to California Oklahoma |
| #4496, aired 2004-03-08 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: In the midst of writing his 5 Natty Bumppo tales, he paused to write a "History of the Navy of the United States" (James Fenimore) Cooper |
| #4494, aired 2004-03-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: His unladylike horror story "The Cask of Amontillado" was first published in Godey's Lady's Book, in 1846 (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #4494, aired 2004-03-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $1600: "The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish" is this author's 1829 novel about King Philip's War James Fenimore Cooper |
| #4494, aired 2004-03-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $2000: The title gem in this Wilkie Collins novel was once in the handle of a dagger owned by Tippoo, the sultan of Seringapatam The Moonstone |
| #4493, aired 2004-03-03 | 2003 NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $400: Of both Boer & English descent, J.M. Coetzee of this country won the Nobel for Literature South Africa |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | LITERATURE $400: In the Brothers Grimm version of this fairy tale, the 7 small miners don't have names "Snow White (and the Seven Dwarfs)" |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | LITERATURE $1200: This author took us "Around the World in Eighty Days" & on a "Journey to the Center of the Earth" Jules Verne |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | LITERATURE $1600: In "The Jungle Books" Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is one of these critters who heroically fights evil cobras a mongoose |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | LITERATURE $2000: Books about this Belgian adolescent seen here have sold millions of copies worldwide Tintin |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Like many of his works, Steinbeck's story "Flight" takes place along the coast of this state's Monterey County California |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: A year before "Little Women" was published, she became editor of a juvenile magazine called Merry's Museum (Louisa May) Alcott |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: "A sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit" on glimpsing the title home in this Poe tale The Fall of the House of Usher |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: About this book Emerson wrote to Whitman, "I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy" Leaves of Grass |
| #4470, aired 2004-01-30 | FAMOUS NIGERIANS $1600: In 1986 Wole Soyinka made headlines as the first black recipient of this the Nobel Prize for Literature |
| #4448, aired 2003-12-31 | THE LAWYER WHO... $600: ...wrote "The Power of Literature and its Connection with Religion" & some little national anthem Francis Scott Key |
| #4422, aired 2003-11-25 | WE "LOVE" LITERATURE $400: (Video of Cheryl in Providence, RI.) This is the original 1920 manuscript of a horror story by this author, whose initials stood for Howard Phillips H.P. Lovecraft |
| #4422, aired 2003-11-25 | WE "LOVE" LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): Despite war & outbreaks of disease, the love of Florentino for Fermina endures in this Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel Love in the Time of Cholera |
| #4408, aired 2003-11-05 | AWARD-WINNING AUTHORS $400: 1 of the 2 Irishmen to win a Nobel Prize for Literature in the 1920s (1 of) William Butler Yeats or George Bernard Shaw |
| #4380, aired 2003-09-26 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $1000: This character's squire was Sancho Panza Don Quixote |
| #4377, aired 2003-09-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: His scary 1842 story "The Masque of the Red Death" begins, "The 'Red Death' had long devastated the country" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #4377, aired 2003-09-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Jim Smiley kept this "celebrated" animal of a Mark Twain story in "a little lattice box" the jumping frog of Calaveras county |
| #4366, aired 2003-09-08 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $200: It may ring a bell that he had "a huge head sprouting red hair; between the two shoulders an enormous hump" the Hunchback (of Notre Dame) |
| #4366, aired 2003-09-08 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: The title wrongdoing in this novel is the murder of a pawnbroker & her sister by Raskolnikov Crime and Punishment |
| #4366, aired 2003-09-08 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): "Knitting", "Still Knitting" & "The Knitting Done" are chapters in this 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities |
| #4356, aired 2003-07-07 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $200: Squealer, this type of "Animal Farm" animal, gets so fat he can barely see pig |
| #4356, aired 2003-07-07 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $400: Karait is a little one of these killed by Rikki-Tikki-Tavi snake |
| #4356, aired 2003-07-07 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $600: Dinah, the name of a real cat that belonged to the Liddell children, is the cat of this fictional girl Alice (of "Alice in Wonderland") |
| #4356, aired 2003-07-07 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $1000: Blake asks, "And was" this holy animal "of God on England's pleasant pastures seen?" lamb |
| #4347, aired 2003-06-24 | FRENCH LITERATURE $1200: Charles Perrault's 1697 work "Contes de Ma Mere l'Oye" was a collection of these Mother Goose stories |
| #4341, aired 2003-06-16 | LADIES OF LITERATURE $400: In the original tale, Elizabeth, the bride of this man, is strangled by the monster Frankenstein |
| #4341, aired 2003-06-16 | LADIES OF LITERATURE $800: S'posin a fella was to meet the lady that birthed Tom Joad; he could jus' call her this Ma |
| #4341, aired 2003-06-16 | LADIES OF LITERATURE $1200: Robert Jordan could sing, "I've just met a girl named Maria / she was brutalized by Fascists" in this Hemingway novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls" |
| #4341, aired 2003-06-16 | LADIES OF LITERATURE $1600: Ladies, don't be like this Rostand heroine; make sure your suitor's great letters are really his own Roxanne |
| #4341, aired 2003-06-16 | LADIES OF LITERATURE $2000: Albertine, created by a man named Marcel, dallies with a man named Marcel in this work "Remembrance of Things Past" |
| #4290, aired 2003-04-04 | LITERATURE $400: This title character's ship, the Antelope, went down off the coast of Lilliput Gulliver |
| #4290, aired 2003-04-04 | LITERATURE $1200: Hamlet's most famous one of these speeches includes the following lines
Whether tis' nobler in the mind to suffer the slings & arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles & by opposing... soliloquy |
| #4290, aired 2003-04-04 | LITERATURE $1600: John Kennedy Toole immortalized the Lucky Dog vending carts in this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "A Confederacy of Dunces" |
| #4273, aired 2003-03-12 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: An adaptation of this Grimm tale includes the line "Who is gnawing at my house?" "Hansel and Gretel" |
| #4273, aired 2003-03-12 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Amsterdam.) Mary Mapes Dodge had never been to Holland when she wrote this 1865 tale set on Dutch canals "Hans Brinker" or "The Silver Skates" |
| #4273, aired 2003-03-12 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1600: A classic book by George Selden tells of this noisy insect "in Times Square" The Cricket |
| #4264, aired 2003-02-27 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: Hans Christian Andersen's "The Nightingale" sang its sweet melodies for the emperor of this country China |
| #4264, aired 2003-02-27 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $6,000 (Daily Double): In an 1883 fantasy by Carlo Collodi, Mr. Cherry, a carpenter, gives a piece of talking wood to this old man Geppetto |
| #4246, aired 2003-02-03 | THE 1400s $800: A key part of the Italian Renaissance was the discovery of literature in these 2 languages Greek & Latin |
| #4239, aired 2003-01-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: It's the pale dry sherry in the title of an 1846 Edgar Allan Poe tale Amontillado |
| #4239, aired 2003-01-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This 1925 Anita Loos book was subtitled "The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady" Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
| #4190, aired 2002-11-15 | LITERATURE IN SPANISH $800: "Barrabas came to us by sea" is how this female author began "The House of the Spirits" Isabel Allende |
| #4190, aired 2002-11-15 | LITERATURE IN SPANISH $1200: Pablo Neruda's website is on the server of the university of this country of his birth Chile |
| #4181, aired 2002-11-04 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: Fernando Pessoa of Lisbon & Machado de Assis of Rio de Janeiro were great writers in this language Portuguese |
| #4181, aired 2002-11-04 | WORLD LITERATURE $800: In the 18th C. Radischev protested the abuse of peasants in "Journey from St. Petersburg to" this big city Moscow |
| #4181, aired 2002-11-04 | WORLD LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): A 1623 Walloon drama was literally one of these preachy "plays" -- that was the title morality play |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This Mark Twain character's father "Pap" briefly held him prisoner in a cabin on the Illinois side of the Mississippi Huckleberry Finn |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): In this Steinbeck novel, a few buddies get drunk & make a shambles of the Western Biological Lab in Monterey Cannery Row |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: It's the nickname of William Lonigan, the 15-year-old hero of a 1930s trilogy written by James T. Farrell "Studs" |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: This captain of the Ghost rescues literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden & poet Maude Brewster from a shipwreck Wolf Larsen |
| #4157, aired 2002-10-01 | LAST ACTION HERO $200: The first major work of English literature is about this brave hero who took on Grendel & his mom "Beowulf" |
| #4156, aired 2002-09-30 | WILLIAM, TELL $400: William Wordsworth told us this form of literature "is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge" poetry |
| #4150, aired 2002-09-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: The title of this 1939 John Steinbeck novel was taken from a Julia Ward Howe song "The Grapes of Wrath" |
| #4133, aired 2002-07-17 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: J.R.R. Tolkien came up with the sequel, "The Lord of the RIngs", 17 years after this book was published The Hobbit |
| #4133, aired 2002-07-17 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: Part of this E.M. Forster novel takes place at the Pensione Bertolini in Italy A Room with a View |
| #4133, aired 2002-07-17 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1200: His wife Charlotte was the model for Sophia in "Tom Jones" & for the heroine of "Amelia" (Henry) Fielding |
| #4133, aired 2002-07-17 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $2000: In this classic, Christian travels from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City Pilgrim's Progress |
| #4128, aired 2002-07-10 | COLON $800: In this form of literature, a colon is a certain sequence of feet poetry |
| #4113, aired 2002-06-19 | RUSSIAN LITERATURE $800: His 1863 novel "The Cossacks" grew out of his service in the Russian Army in the Caucasus Tolstoy |
| #4102, aired 2002-06-04 | REAL ROMANTICS $400: Wordsworth defined this form of literature as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" poetry |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | WORLD LITERATURE $800: Muhammad Yamin was one of the great poets of this largely Islamic island republic Indonesia |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | WORLD LITERATURE $1200: A 1985 movie covered the life of this Japanese writer who dramatically committed suicide in 1970 Mishima |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | WORLD LITERATURE $1600: The initials of this British author of "Crash" & "Memories of the Space Age" stand for James Graham J.G. Ballard |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | WORLD LITERATURE $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from San Francisco, CA.) If you really need a book by this poet, come here to City Lights Books, the store he founded in 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
| #4058, aired 2002-04-03 | KANGAROOS IN LITERATURE $400: "Elmer & the Kangaroo" tells of Elmer the Elephant's efforts to convince a kangaroo it can do this jump |
| #4058, aired 2002-04-03 | KANGAROOS IN LITERATURE $1200: Looking at photos of this in a book, a kangaroo thinks she's upside-down in Crockett Johnson's "Who's Upside Down?" the Earth |
| #4058, aired 2002-04-03 | KANGAROOS IN LITERATURE $2000: In "I Love You, Blue Kangaroo", the title roo fears he'll be replaced when a girl is given new ones of these stuffed animals |
| #4044, aired 2002-03-14 | FRENCH LITERATURE $1200: In the early 1970s this existentialist wrote a 3-volume biography of Gustave Flaubert Sartre |
| #4044, aired 2002-03-14 | FRENCH LITERATURE $1600: Under this title Balzac linked about 90 of his works that explored society's influence on the individual The Human Comedy (La Comédie humaine |
| #4044, aired 2002-03-14 | FRENCH LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): During his 15-year exile on the island of Guernsey, Victor Hugo completed this, the longest of his novels Les Misérables |
| #4044, aired 2002-03-14 | FRENCH LITERATURE $2000: His prolific production included almost 300 short stories, including "The Necklace" & "Ball-of-Fat" Guy de Maupassant |
| #4038, aired 2002-03-06 | WOMEN WRITERS $1,000 (Daily Double): A graduate of Howard University, she won the Nobel prize for Literature in 1993 Toni Morrison |
| #4037, aired 2002-03-05 | FILMED LITERATURE $200: Before "Titanic", Kate Winslet was Marianne in the film of this "sense"-itive Austen novel Sense and Sensibility |
| #4037, aired 2002-03-05 | FILMED LITERATURE $400: Title characters are seen here in a '90s version of this work Little Women |
| #4037, aired 2002-03-05 | FILMED LITERATURE $600: Clara Blandick played Auntie Em in "The Wizard of Oz" & Aunt Polly in a film based on this novel Tom Sawyer |
| #4037, aired 2002-03-05 | FILMED LITERATURE $800: The film seen here is an adaptation of this classic American novel The Last of the Mohicans |
| #4037, aired 2002-03-05 | FILMED LITERATURE $1000: Burgess Meredith was nominated for an Oscar for the Hollywood version of this Nathanael West Hollywood novel Day of the Locust |
| #4027, aired 2002-02-19 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: His novel "The Pioneers" has been called the "finest detailed portrait of frontier life in American literature" James Fenimore Cooper |
| #4024, aired 2002-02-14 | TEENS IN LITERATURE $400: In "The Playmaker", set in 597, young actor Richard Malory gets to work with this "Bard of Avon" Shakespeare |
| #4024, aired 2002-02-14 | TEENS IN LITERATURE $800: A teen outcast mysteriously disappears in "The Body of Christopher Creed", set in this "Garden State" New Jersey |
| #4024, aired 2002-02-14 | TEENS IN LITERATURE $1600: "Stuck in Neutral" is a journey into the world of a teen with CP, this disorder cerebral palsy |
| #3985, aired 2001-12-21 | THE FIRST MILLENNIUM A.D. $1000: In the 9th c. this "Great" king of Wessex invited foreign scholars to England to teach & translate great literature Alfred the Great |
| #3979, aired 2001-12-13 | AMERICAN DRAMATISTS $800: In the '30s this "Our Town" dramatist was a lecturer on literature at the University of Chicago Thornton Wilder |
| #3973, aired 2001-12-05 | LEGENDS $1000: The "Literature Lover's Book of Lists" says this engineer "blew his train whistle in a special way" Casey Jones |
| #3970, aired 2001-11-30 | OLD POETIC FORMS $800: The Cielito, "darling", is associated with this cowboy literature of Argentina & Uruguay gaucho |
