| #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 |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | WELCOME TO FANTASY ISLAND $3,000 (Daily Double): Thomas More created this island in 1516, from Greek for "no place"; based on rational thought & no poverty, is it beyond man's reach? Utopia |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | BRITISH AUTHORS $2000: He's the bestselling author of "Utopia Avenue" & "Cloud Atlas" Mitchell |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | THE PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS ARE THE THING $1200: After taking Rosencrantz & his pal to unexpected places in the '60s, this playwright visited "The Coast of Utopia" in 2002 Tom Stoppard |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | FICTION'S FICTIONAL PLACES $200: Now a term for any dreamy society, this Thomas More land from a 1516 work was Communist & populated by pagans Utopia |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" $600: Everything is perfect in this type of imaginary land Utopia |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | FIRST EPISODES $1000: Chidi's character is established pretty fast on this comedy--"I'm in a perfect utopia &... I have a stomachache" The Good Place |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | A VOW OF NO VOWELS $1600: An impossibly perfect spot:
TP a utopia |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | BROADWAY IS BACK $1600: "American Utopia" features songs from this man's days in Talking Heads & from his solo career (David) Byrne |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | META"FOR"S $2000: Erasmus referred to Thomas More as "omnium horarum homo", this play title A Man for All Seasons |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | PLACES IN TEXAS $800: This word for a perfect human society is from words meaning "no place", but it's a real place west of San Antonio Utopia |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | ALL ABOUT ADAM & EVE $400: This synonym for the Garden of Eden or any ideal place is from an ancient Persian word meaning "enclosed park" paradise |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | INVENTED LANGUAGES $2000: Not only did this man create a "Utopia", he also created a language & alphabet for its inhabitants to speak (Thomas) More |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | SUMMARIZING THE NOVEL $2000: Utopia (not!); I ain't goin' nowhere; the Butler did it (in 1872) Erewhon |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | ATLANTIS $1200: Some think the purported orderly society of Atlantis was an inspiration for this 1516 work by Thomas More Utopia |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | RAPPER'S DELIGHT $1600: Atlanta rapper Killer Mike tries to build one of these Thomas More title communities on an episode of his show "Trigger Warning" a utopia |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | THE NEXT WORD AFTER $400: After Uto-Aztecan: an ideal place utopia |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | THAT PLACE SOUNDS LEGENDARY $2000: This 1972 book is named for an actual hill in Hampshire, England; in the novel it's a utopia sought by rabbits Watership Down |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | FICTIONAL PLACES $2,000 (Daily Double): In a 1516 work Sir Thomas More coined this word for an ideal place utopia |
| #7780, aired 2018-06-08 | "U" KNOW IT! $400: Wanting to emulate Thomas More, H.G. Wells wrote of a "modern" one utopia |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $1000: 1516 Thomas More work about a place governed by reason Utopia |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | AUTHORS' BIOGRAPHIES $1200: "Eden's Outcasts" tells how her dad's transcendentalist utopia failed and how her writing paid the bills Louisa May Alcott |
| #7479, aired 2017-03-02 | SIR THOMAS MORE $200: More's "Utopia" advocates this form of government with all resources shared Communism |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | PAPER TOWNS $1600: In this sci-fi novel by Ernest Cline, teen Wade Watts is devoted to solving puzzles in the virtual utopia known as Oasis Ready Player One |
| #7350, aired 2016-07-22 | TECHNO-THRILLERS $800: Theme park robots are hijacked in this Lincoln Child thriller that shares its name with Thomas More's ideal land Utopia |
| #7167, aired 2015-11-10 | CRYPTIC CROSSWORD CLUES $2000: More work from 1516
(6) Utopia |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | UTOPIA $400: In 1516 this author coined the word "Utopia" as the name of a fictional land (Sir Thomas) More |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | UTOPIA $800: John Hadley joined a Kansas utopia based on this, but got sick in 1855, needed protein & had to ditch his principles vegetarianism |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | UTOPIA $1200: Lutherans led by George Rapp left Pennsylvania to found a utopia in 1814 at New Harmony in this state Indiana |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | UTOPIA $1600: He described a libertarian utopia in his 1966 sci-fi novel "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress" Robert Heinlein |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | UTOPIA $2000: Better known for its flatware, this N.Y. community was founded in 1848 as a religious utopia Oneida |
| #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 |
| #6934, aired 2014-11-06 | THE ORIGIN $1000: Naturally this word for a perfect place is from the Greek for "not a place" utopia |
| #6917, aired 2014-10-14 | "DIRTY" ENTERTAINMENT $2000: Trying to act tough in a bar in "The Road to Utopia", Bob Hope said, "I'll take lemonade in" one of these a dirty glass |
| #6808, aired 2014-04-02 | AMERICAN IDYLL $1000: In 1524 Giovanni da Verrazzano described the U.S. Atlantic coast as this, a mythic Greek term for an unspoiled utopia Arcadia |
| #6651, aired 2013-07-15 | VWLLSS $1000: An ideal place, like a certain literary island:
tp utopia |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | POISON $2000: Jim Jones promised his followers a utopia in this country; it ended in mass suicide by poison Guyana |
| #6301, aired 2012-01-30 | HOPE "U" CAN MAKE IT $1600: John Stuart Mill wrote the book on this philosophy that says an action is right if it promotes happiness utilitarianism |
| #6115, aired 2011-03-25 | IMAGINARY PLACES $1000: Aircastle is the capital of this title island in a political work by Sir Thomas More Utopia |
| #5975, aired 2010-07-30 | UNREAL ESTATE $1600: This name of the imaginary island in Sir Thomas More's classic work is from the Greek for "nowhere" Utopia |
| #5836, aired 2010-01-18 | IT'S ALL ABOUT "U" $1,000 (Daily Double): This word for a perfect world comes from a 1516 book utopia |
| #5647, aired 2009-03-10 | THEATRE $1000: Tom Stoppard's drama "The Coast of" this ideal place was ideal indeed, winning the 2007 Tony for Best Play Utopia |
| #5347, aired 2007-12-04 | HISTORIC NAMES $1600: Margaret Roper, who died in 1544, is said to have been buried with the head of this "Utopia" author, her father Saint Thomas More |
| #5043, aired 2006-07-12 | HERE'S LOOKING AT "U", KID $200: This term for any ideal or perfect place comes from the title of Sir Thomas More's opus utopia |
| #4423, aired 2003-11-26 | HISTORICAL QUOTES $1000: In this work Plato said that eventually "Democracy passes into despotism" "The Republic" |
| #4280, aired 2003-03-21 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $600: Chapter 1 of "The Scarlet Letter" uses this synonym for an ideal place that was coined by Sir Thomas More in the 1500s Utopia |
| #4256, aired 2003-02-17 | "U" GOTTA BELIEVE ME! $200: Talking animals supplemented Bob & Bing's antics in the Klondike in the "Road to" this imaginary locale Utopia |
| #4236, aired 2003-01-20 | FICTIONAL PLACES $1200: In a Thomas More book, Raphael Nonsenso tells of this land Utopia |
| #3914, aired 2001-09-13 | HOW "U" DOING? $1000: Philosophy that holds the highest good is the happiness of the greatest number utilitarianism |
| #3911, aired 2001-09-10 | OOH, A WISE GUY $800: He coined the term "utopia" now meaning "an ideal place" & used it for the title of a 1516 satire Thomas More |
| #3684, aired 2000-09-14 | BRITISH LITERATURE $300: In this 1933 novel survivors of a plane wreck seek refuge in a utopia run by a 250-year-old high lama Lost Horizon |
| #3597, aired 2000-04-04 | ENGLISH LIT $500: On this fictional Sir Thomas More island, the interests of the individual are subordinate to those of society Utopia |
| #3387, aired 1999-05-04 | IT'S A LEAP $300: In 1958 this country predicted its Great Leap Forward would establish a Communist utopia China |
| #3290, aired 1998-12-18 | LITERARY ADJECTIVES $200: Things are this if they are like Sir Thomas More's perfect island utopian |
| #3051, aired 1997-12-01 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $400: This fictional place was known as Sansculottia until a man named Utopos gave it a new name Utopia |
| #3013, aired 1997-10-08 | MAD ABOUT "U" $400: Thomas More's perfect place Utopia |
| #2960, aired 1997-06-13 | UTOPIAS $600: In 1516 he coined the term "utopia" from the Greek words for "not" & "place" Thomas More |
| #2960, aired 1997-06-13 | UTOPIAS $800: In 1873 she wrote "Transcendental Wild Oats", a sketch of her father Bronson's failed utopia Louisa May Alcott |
| #2769, aired 1996-09-19 | NOVELS $800: This American's first novel "Player Piano", was reissued as "Utopia 14" in 1954 Kurt Vonnegut |
| #2697, aired 1996-04-30 | SAINTS $800: St. John Fisher shares his feast day with this friend & author of "Utopia" who was beheaded the same year St. Thomas More |
| #2683, aired 1996-04-10 | SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI $800: It's believed Shakespeare wrote part of a 1595 play about this "Utopia" author St. Thomas More |
| #2544, aired 1995-09-28 | HISTORIC THOMASES $800: This author of "Utopia" was a close friend of the great Renaissance humanist Erasmus Sir Thomas More |
| #2349, aired 1994-11-17 | SAINTS $800: This man who added utopia to our vocabulary was made a saint in 1935 St. Thomas More |
| #2290, aired 1994-07-15 | SAINTS $800: Before his martyrdom, this author of "Utopia" took the time to carefully adjust his beard St. Thomas More |
| #2176, aired 1994-02-07 | SCIENCE FICTION $400: His last novel, 1962's "Island", is about a tropical utopia, sort of a "Brave New World" Aldous Huxley |
| #2037, aired 1993-06-15 | PERFECT PLACES $300: The name of this imaginary island created by Sir Thomas More is synonymous with a perfect place Utopia |
| #1980, aired 1993-03-26 | ART $600: About 1527 Hans Holbein the Younger completed his portrait of this "Utopia" author and his family Sir Thomas More |
| #1870, aired 1992-10-23 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $600: This novelist invented the kingdom of Shangri-La, & it became a synonym for utopia James Hilton |
| #1781, aired 1992-05-04 | DISNEY WORLD $400: Walt Disney saw it as his answer to Sir Thomas More's Utopia EPCOT Center |
| #1595, aired 1991-07-05 | LITERATURE $200: Of a state, a Creole woman or a fictional utopia, what Indiana is in George Sand's novel "Indiana" a Creole woman |
| #1435, aired 1990-11-23 | THE TOWER OF LONDON $400: Some say this saint welcomed his imprisonment in the Tower in 1534, but it was still no Utopia Thomas More |
| #1392, aired 1990-09-25 | WORD ORIGINS $800: This word for a utopia came from the paradise in James Hilton's "Lost Horizon" Shangri-La |
| #1316, aired 1990-04-30 | WORD ORIGINS $300: From the Greek for "not a place", it's a place where mankind lives in peace & harmony utopia |
| #1300, aired 1990-04-06 | CINEMA $800: In "The Road to Utopia", Bob Hope acted macho by saying, "I'll take lemonade - - in" one of these a dirty glass |
| #1247, aired 1990-01-23 | VOCABULARY $400: An ideal community, from the title of a Thomas More work Utopia |
| #1138, aired 1989-07-12 | MOVIE CLASSICS $600: Singapore, Zanzibar, Morocco, Utopia, Bali & Hong Kong "Road" pictures |
| #966, aired 1988-11-14 | IN OTHER WORDS... $500: Buffoon's Utopia "A Fool's Paradise" |
| #949, aired 1988-10-20 | IMAGINARY ISLANDS $100: Sir Thomas More created this idyllic island 15 miles off the coast of the Americas Utopia |
| #784, aired 1988-01-21 | WORLD LITERATURE $800: Language in which Sir Thomas More wrote "Utopia" Latin |
| #605, aired 1987-04-03 | FANTASY ISLANDS $800: You'll probably never find Thomas More's "Utopia", because its name literally means this no place (nowhere) |
| #444, aired 1986-05-22 | FICTION $300: Samuel Butler's tale of utopia that went "nowhere" backwards Erewhon |
| #403, aired 1986-03-26 | UNREAL ESTATE $600: From Greek for "not a place", Thomas More devised this name for his paradise Utopia |
| #343, aired 1986-01-01 | ARTISTS $1000: Hans Holbein the younger illustrated this author's' "Utopia" & also painted his famous portrait Sir Thomas More |
| #274, aired 1985-09-26 | UNREAL ESTATE $600: Plato's ideal state, it was not a democracy a republic |
| #153, aired 1985-04-10 | PHILOSOPHY $1000: Philosophy portrayed in More's "Utopia" & personified in Don Quixote's tilting at windmills idealism |
