Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (57 results returned)

#8595, aired 2022-03-11BRIT LIT $800: 50 years after slaying a monster & its mother, the hero of this Old English poem must battle a dragon Beowulf
#8432, aired 2021-06-29LIT-POURRI $400: His follow-up to "A Christmas Carol" was "The Chimes", a "story of some bells that rang an old year out and a new year in" (Charles) Dickens
#8320, aired 2021-01-22LIT-POURRI $800: This Ian McEwan novel follows the consequences of a lie 13-year-old Briony Tallis tells & her attempts to make up for it Atonement
#8320, aired 2021-01-22LIT-POURRI $1600: In books by Eoin Colfer, this 12-year-old is a millionaire, a genius & a criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl
#8207, aired 2020-04-21LIT-POURRI $600: The title felony in this Dostoyevsky novel is the murder of a mean old woman who supposedly no one will miss Crime and Punishment
#8024, aired 2019-06-27A BIT OF LIT $400: Among his great works of fiction are "The Sun Also Rises" & "The Old Man and the Sea" Hemingway
#7749, aired 2018-04-26EXPRESSIONS FROM OLD BRIT LIT $200: Heaven's candle the sun
#7749, aired 2018-04-26EXPRESSIONS FROM OLD BRIT LIT $400: Bone-house your body
#7749, aired 2018-04-26EXPRESSIONS FROM OLD BRIT LIT $600: Word-hoard the vocabulary
#7749, aired 2018-04-26EXPRESSIONS FROM OLD BRIT LIT $800: Battle-sweat blood
#7749, aired 2018-04-26EXPRESSIONS FROM OLD BRIT LIT $1000: Treasure-seat a throne
#7687, aired 2018-01-30THIS IS "TH" PLACE $2000: In old lit, "ultima" this meant the furthest possible place Thule
#7227, aired 2016-02-02ENGLISH LIT $3,000 (Daily Double): This character says, "How sad it is! I shall grow old... but this picture will remain always young" Dorian Gray
#7201, aired 2015-12-28KITTY LIT $800: "The Naming of Cats" is the first part of his book "of Practical Cats" by T.S. Eliot Old Possum
#7116, aired 2015-07-20AMERICAN LIT $600: The old money & new money Long Island neighborhoods in this novel are East Egg & West Egg The Great Gatsby
#6970, aired 2014-12-26AMERICAN LIT $1600: Hawthorne based this novel about a cursed home in Salem on an old family legend The House of the Seven Gables
#6951, aired 2014-12-01KIDS IN LIT $1200: First name of young Master Fowl, the 12-year-old millionaire/genius who kidnaps a fairy Artemis
#6951, aired 2014-12-01KIDS IN LIT $2000: Atticus Finch's 6-year-old daughter Jean Louise is better known by this nickname "Scout"
#6907, aired 2014-09-30LIGHTHOUSES $5 (Daily Double): First lit in 1792, Virginia's Old Cape Henry Lighthouse on this bay was the first authorized by the federal government the Chesapeake Bay
#6749, aired 2014-01-09KIDDY LIT $1600: This Morgan Rice series tells the tales of Thorgrin, a 14-year-old who strives to become a warrior in the Kingdom of the Ring The Sorcerer's Ring
#6182, aired 2011-06-2819th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $1600: Chapter 1 of this Hawthorne novel is titled "The Old Pyncheon Family" The House of the Seven Gables
#5990, aired 2010-10-0119th CENTURY LIT $1,500 (Daily Double): This "Old Ironsides" poet was also a doctor. You might recall that his son became a lawyer (Oliver Wendell) Holmes
#5953, aired 2010-06-30KITTY LIT $2000: Jennyanydots is the subject of "The Old Gumbie Cat", one of 13 poems in this collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
#5851, aired 2010-02-08LIT MY FIRE $2000: His 1963 bestseller "The Fire Next Time" took its title from an old spiritual James Baldwin
#5844, aired 2010-01-28KIDDY LIT $2,200 (Daily Double): This 9-year-old redhead is an orphan who lives in Villekulla Cottage "at the end of a little Swedish town" Pippi Longstocking
#5666, aired 2009-04-06AMERICAN LIT $2000: In Faulkner's "The Bear", Ike McCaslin hunts down this legendary bear Old Ben
#5524, aired 2008-09-18KIDS IN LIT $400: This boy, about 14 years old, escapes from his alcoholic father & helps a slave who's on the run Huckleberry Finn
#5507, aired 2008-07-15"MAN"-LY LIT $400: A Manolin (a person) & a marlin (a fish) appear in this Hemingway tale The Old Man and the Sea
#5291, aired 2007-09-17PSEUDO SPORT LIT $1600: I picked up this Faulkner work hoping the title referred to Rex Grossman, but it was about Old Ben The Bear
#5277, aired 2007-07-17CLASSIC LIT $200: In a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 7-year-old Cedric Errol inherits a title & is known as "Little Lord" this Fauntleroy
#5270, aired 2007-07-06LITERARY THEATRE $2000: In 2007 a new play based on her 80-year-old novel "To the Lighthouse" lit up the stage at the Berkeley Rep Virginia Woolf
#4995, aired 2006-05-05O' $400: She "lit a lantern... her cow kicked it over, then winked... & said, 'There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight'" (Mrs.) O'Leary
#4519, aired 2004-04-08CHILDREN'S LIT $200: When this lumberjack was 3 years old, he rolled around so much in his sleep that he destroyed 4 sq. mi. of timber Paul Bunyan
#4334, aired 2003-06-05BASEBALL TERMS $400: The "H" in the old Schaeffer sign in Ebbets Field lit up for a hit; an "E" was lit when one of these occurred error
#4106, aired 2002-06-10KIDDY LIT $400: Robert Louis Stevenson drew a map with his 12-year-old stepson that inspired him to write this story Treasure Island
#3993, aired 2002-01-02CHILDREN'S LIT $1000: The old woman who lived in a shoe gave her children this without any bread broth
#3931, aired 2001-10-08OLD & MIDDLE ENGLISH LIT $200: After slaying Grendel, the title character of this epic poem becomes king of the Geats & rules for 50 years Beowulf
#3931, aired 2001-10-08OLD & MIDDLE ENGLISH LIT $400: The general prologue of this masterpiece is heard here The Canterbury Tales
#3931, aired 2001-10-08OLD & MIDDLE ENGLISH LIT $600: The titular hero of this allegory is a simple plowman Piers Plowman
#3931, aired 2001-10-08OLD & MIDDLE ENGLISH LIT $800: This Arthurian hero stars in an alliterative Middle English poem in which he battles the Green Knight Sir Gawain
#3931, aired 2001-10-08OLD & MIDDLE ENGLISH LIT $1000: This venerable monk quoted Caedmon's Hymn in his "Ecclesiastical History of the English People" Bede
#3818, aired 2001-03-21KITTY LIT $600: Your cat gives "2 paws up" to this poet's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" T.S. Eliot
#3767, aired 2001-01-09CLASSIC KIDDY LIT $300 (Daily Double): 18th century writer Madame Villeneuve is credited with writing this classic "tale as old as time" "Beauty and the Beast"
#3696, aired 2000-10-02KID LIT $500: After moving from "The Big Woods", Laura Ingalls Wilder set up her "Little House on" this area of the Old West the Prairie
#3658, aired 2000-06-28KIDDY LIT $100: These brothers have delved into "The Secret of the Old Mill" & "The Tower Treasure" The Hardy Boys
#3649, aired 2000-06-15AMERICAN LIT $1000: Old Ben, not Gentle Ben, is the title character in this William Faulkner novelette The Bear
#3556, aired 2000-02-07BRIT LIT $400: The second line of this Dylan Thomas poem says, "Old age should burn and rave at close of day" "Do not go gentle into that good night"
#3148, aired 1998-04-154 EASY LIT QUESTIONS... $200: An angler named Santiago is the main character in this Hemingway tale The Old Man and the Sea
#2903, aired 1997-03-26"OLD" LIT $600: Because of gambling, Little Nell's grandfather loses this title business to the evil dwarf Quilp The Old Curiosity Shop
#2903, aired 1997-03-26"OLD" LIT $800: Though T.S. Eliot wrote it, the title says it's this character's "Book of Practical Cats" Old Possum
#2903, aired 1997-03-26"OLD" LIT $1000: In a 1979 Allan Gurganus bestseller, 99-year-old Lucy Marsden "tells all" as this title character The Oldest Living Confederate Widow
#2839, aired 1996-12-26AMERICAN LIT $400: He wrote that in Oz he eliminated the stereotyped genie, dwarf & fairy of old-time tales L. Frank Baum
#1772, aired 1992-04-21KIDDIE LIT $400: It isn't Hans Brinker but his 12-year-old sister Gretel who wins these title objects the silver skates
#1557, aired 1991-05-14KIDDIE LIT $500: Elephant befriended by a rich old lady who understands right away he was "longing for a fine suit" Babar
#1121, aired 1989-06-19FICTION $800: His "Mosses from an Old Manse" is called one of the finest collections of stories in American lit (Nathaniel) Hawthorne
#461, aired 1986-09-15KIDDIE LIT $500: He said, "I've run away from a little old woman, a little old man & I can run away from you, I can" the Gingerbread Man
#346, aired 1986-01-06KIDDIE LIT $800: Very strong girl who lives alone in an old house called Villa Villekulla Pippi Longstocking

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (2 results returned)

#8860, aired 2023-04-28U.S. LANDMARKS: In April 1975, to symbolize the start of America's Bicentennial, President Ford lit a third lantern at this landmark the Old North Church
#5074, aired 2006-10-05CHILDREN'S LIT: This Roald Dahl book begins, "These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket" Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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