#8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BRIT LIT $800: 50 years after slaying a monster & its mother, the hero of this Old English poem must battle a dragon Beowulf |
#8432, aired 2021-06-29 | LIT-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 2021-01-22 | LIT-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 2021-01-22 | LIT-POURRI $1600: In books by Eoin Colfer, this 12-year-old is a millionaire, a genius & a criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl |
#8207, aired 2020-04-21 | LIT-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 2019-06-27 | A BIT OF LIT $400: Among his great works of fiction are "The Sun Also Rises" & "The Old Man and the Sea" Hemingway |
#7749, aired 2018-04-26 | EXPRESSIONS FROM OLD BRIT LIT $200: Heaven's candle the sun |
#7749, aired 2018-04-26 | EXPRESSIONS FROM OLD BRIT LIT $400: Bone-house your body |
#7749, aired 2018-04-26 | EXPRESSIONS FROM OLD BRIT LIT $600: Word-hoard the vocabulary |
#7749, aired 2018-04-26 | EXPRESSIONS FROM OLD BRIT LIT $800: Battle-sweat blood |
#7749, aired 2018-04-26 | EXPRESSIONS FROM OLD BRIT LIT $1000: Treasure-seat a throne |
#7687, aired 2018-01-30 | THIS IS "TH" PLACE $2000: In old lit, "ultima" this meant the furthest possible place Thule |
#7227, aired 2016-02-02 | ENGLISH 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 2015-12-28 | KITTY LIT $800: "The Naming of Cats" is the first part of his book "of Practical Cats" by T.S. Eliot Old Possum |
#7116, aired 2015-07-20 | AMERICAN LIT $600: The old money & new money Long Island neighborhoods in this novel are East Egg & West Egg The Great Gatsby |
#6970, aired 2014-12-26 | AMERICAN 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 2014-12-01 | KIDS IN LIT $1200: First name of young Master Fowl, the 12-year-old millionaire/genius who kidnaps a fairy Artemis |
#6951, aired 2014-12-01 | KIDS IN LIT $2000: Atticus Finch's 6-year-old daughter Jean Louise is better known by this nickname "Scout" |
#6907, aired 2014-09-30 | LIGHTHOUSES $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 2014-01-09 | KIDDY 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 2011-06-28 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $1600: Chapter 1 of this Hawthorne novel is titled "The Old Pyncheon Family" The House of the Seven Gables |
#5990, aired 2010-10-01 | 19th 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 2010-06-30 | KITTY 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 2010-02-08 | LIT MY FIRE $2000: His 1963 bestseller "The Fire Next Time" took its title from an old spiritual James Baldwin |
#5844, aired 2010-01-28 | KIDDY 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 2009-04-06 | AMERICAN LIT $2000: In Faulkner's "The Bear", Ike McCaslin hunts down this legendary bear Old Ben |
#5524, aired 2008-09-18 | KIDS 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 2007-09-17 | PSEUDO 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 2007-07-17 | CLASSIC 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 2007-07-06 | LITERARY 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 2006-05-05 | O' $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 2004-04-08 | CHILDREN'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 2003-06-05 | BASEBALL 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 2002-06-10 | KIDDY 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 2002-01-02 | CHILDREN'S LIT $1000: The old woman who lived in a shoe gave her children this without any bread broth |
#3931, aired 2001-10-08 | OLD & 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 2001-10-08 | OLD & MIDDLE ENGLISH LIT $400: The general prologue of this masterpiece is heard here The Canterbury Tales |
#3931, aired 2001-10-08 | OLD & MIDDLE ENGLISH LIT $600: The titular hero of this allegory is a simple plowman Piers Plowman |
#3931, aired 2001-10-08 | OLD & 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 2001-10-08 | OLD & MIDDLE ENGLISH LIT $1000: This venerable monk quoted Caedmon's Hymn in his "Ecclesiastical History of the English People" Bede |
#3818, aired 2001-03-21 | KITTY LIT $600: Your cat gives "2 paws up" to this poet's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" T.S. Eliot |
#3767, aired 2001-01-09 | CLASSIC 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 2000-10-02 | KID 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 2000-06-28 | KIDDY LIT $100: These brothers have delved into "The Secret of the Old Mill" & "The Tower Treasure" The Hardy Boys |
#3649, aired 2000-06-15 | AMERICAN LIT $1000: Old Ben, not Gentle Ben, is the title character in this William Faulkner novelette The Bear |
#3556, aired 2000-02-07 | BRIT 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 1998-04-15 | 4 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 1996-12-26 | AMERICAN LIT $400: He wrote that in Oz he eliminated the stereotyped genie, dwarf & fairy of old-time tales L. Frank Baum |
#1772, aired 1992-04-21 | KIDDIE LIT $400: It isn't Hans Brinker but his 12-year-old sister Gretel who wins these title objects the silver skates |
#1557, aired 1991-05-14 | KIDDIE LIT $500: Elephant befriended by a rich old lady who understands right away he was "longing for a fine suit" Babar |
#1121, aired 1989-06-19 | FICTION $800: His "Mosses from an Old Manse" is called one of the finest collections of stories in American lit (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
#461, aired 1986-09-15 | KIDDIE 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 1986-01-06 | KIDDIE LIT $800: Very strong girl who lives alone in an old house called Villa Villekulla Pippi Longstocking |
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