| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | POETS OF LOVE $400: "Love Song" by this Algonquin Round Table member goes full vicious circle: "He is all my heart, & I wish somebody'd shoot him" (Dorothy) Parker |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | POETS & POETRY $800: "Song of Myself" was in the first edition of this collection of poems by Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | POETS & POETRY $800: This Chilean who wrote "20 Love Poems And A Song Of Despair" won the Nobel Prize in 1971 Pablo Neruda |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | NAME THAT INSECT $400: Poets write of the evening "song" of this grasshopper relative, as in Archibald Lampman's "The homely" this "gossips at my feet" a cricket |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | QUOTING POETS $800: In "Song of Myself" this poet sounds his "barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world" (Walt) Whitman |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | POETS & POETRY $200: In an ode, John Keats called this bird, renowned for its song, light-winged Dryad of the trees a nightingale |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | POETS & POETRY $400: "Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?" asks T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of" him J. Alfred Prufrock |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | POETS & POETRY $1600: "The Song of Hiawatha" says, "From the water-fall he named her" this, "Laughing Water" Minnehaha |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | THE ROMANTIC POETS $800: Keats was inspired to write an ode to this bird by the song of one that nested in Charles Brown's garden a nightingale |
| #6828, aired 2014-04-30 | POETS & POETRY $3,000 (Daily Double): The longest poem in "Leaves of Grass", called this since 1881, consists of 52 sections "Song of Myself" |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | POETS OF SONG $200: This Dylan song asked, "How many times must the cannonballs fly, before they're forever banned" "Blowin' In The Wind" |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | "SONG" OF POETS $400: Sections of this 1855 poem include "The Peace Pipe", "The White-Man's Foot" & "Blessing the Corn Fields" The Song of Hiawatha |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | POETS OF SONG $400: His song told of "People talking without speaking... people writing songs that voices never share" Paul Simon |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | POETS OF SONG $600: This rock god wrote, "Am I sitting in a tin can? Far above the world, planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do" David Bowie |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | "SONG" OF POETS $800: Read during Passover, it's also referred to as the "Canticle of Canticles" Song of Songs |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | POETS OF SONG $800: English major Lou Reed wrote lyrics like "Whiplash girlchild in the dark" for this 1960s band the Velvet Underground |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | POETS OF SONG $1000: "Love is a banquet on which we feed" is from "Because The Night", co-written by this poetess of punk Patti Smith |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | "SONG" OF POETS $1200: Before the 1881 edition, it was simply titled "Poem of Walt Whitman, an American" "Song of Myself" |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | "SONG" OF POETS $1,500 (Daily Double): William Blake published this collection in 1789; "Experience" would come a few years later Songs of Innocence |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | "SONG" OF POETS $2000: An insignificant battle between Charlemagne & the Basques at Roncesvalles is the basis for this French epic poem The Song of Roland |
| #5570, aired 2008-11-21 | POETS & POETRY $400: Part I of Longfellow's "Song of" this man is entitled "The Peace Pipe" Hiawatha |
| #5336, aired 2007-11-19 | POETS $1200: His "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" says, "In the room the women come and go/ talking of Michelangelo" T.S. Eliot |
| #5152, aired 2007-01-23 | POETS & POETRY $1000: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons," wrote T.S. Eliot in "The Love Song of" this man J. Alfred Prufrock |
| #4984, aired 2006-04-20 | POETS & POETRY $2000: It's the personal 3-word title of the longest poem in Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" "Song of Myself" |
| #4871, aired 2005-11-14 | POETS & POETRY $800: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" asks, "Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat" this fruit a peach |
| #3869, aired 2001-05-31 | POETS & POETRY $800: In T.S. Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", "The women come and go talking of" him Michelangelo |
| #3848, aired 2001-05-02 | POETS & POETRY $800: He wrote "Song of the Broad-Axe" & "Song of Myself" Walt Whitman |
| #3719, aired 2000-11-02 | POETS & POETRY $200: Taking its title from "Song of Myself", the book "Containing Mutitudes" traces his influence on recent poetry Walt Whitman |
| #3230, aired 1998-09-25 | POETS & POETRY $600: In the second edition of "Leaves Of Grass", this piece was titled "Poem of Walt Whitman, An American" "Song Of Myself" |
| #2191, aired 1994-02-28 | POETS & POETRY $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the longest poem in Walt Whitman's collection "Leaves of Grass" "Song of Myself" |
| #1834, aired 1992-07-16 | POETS & POETRY $400: John Donne's "Song" begins, "Go and catch a falling" one of these a star |
