#8421, aired 2021-06-14 | TIME LINES $1,500 (Daily Double): This book of the Bible mentions "a time to weep, a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance" Ecclesiastes |
#8185, aired 2020-03-20 | AMERICAN POETRY $1000: In her poem "Solitude", Ella Wheeler Wilcox followed this line with "Weep, and you weep alone" Laugh, and the world laughs with you |
#7908, aired 2019-01-16 | UNLIKELY POP CULTURE PAIRINGS $2000: Not content to make us weep with her ASPCA ads, she sang "Cat's In The Cradle" in a mash-up with rapper DMC Sarah McLachlan |
#7898, aired 2019-01-02 | YOUR BLESSINGS $800: "Blessed are you that weep now, for you shall laugh" isn't from this on the mount but from the one in Luke on the plain the sermon |
#7892, aired 2018-12-25 | 13-LETTER PHRASES $800: Don't forget it's always the shortened version of "them" in this statement made on showing a winning hand read 'em and weep |
#7847, aired 2018-10-23 | THE "HEART" OF COUNTRY $600: Take heed before you fool around: Hank Williams warned that this title thing "will make you weep" your cheating heart |
#7739, aired 2018-04-12 | COLLEGE SLASHES $400: In 2010 SUNY Albany cut 5 humanities majors; dropping this one made Homer & Ovid weep classics |
#7652, aired 2017-12-12 | ____ING ON POETRY $2000: "Oh, weep for ____! Though our tears thaw not the frost" Adonais |
#7576, aired 2017-07-17 | HODGEPODGE $400: Like Matthew, Luke includes these blessings such as "Blessed are ye that weep now; for ye shall laugh" the Beatitudes |
#7479, aired 2017-03-02 | THE POET WRITES $2000: "Oh weep for Adonais--he is dead! Wake, melancholy mother, wake and weep!" Shelley |
#7273, aired 2016-04-06 | THE PEPYS SHOW $800: Describing "the cracking of houses at their ruine", Pepys wrote of this event that "it made me weep to see it" the Fire of London |
#6644, aired 2013-07-04 | SIMILES $400: It's been said "life is like" one of these veggies: "you peel it off one layer at a time, & sometimes you weep" onion |
#6554, aired 2013-02-28 | "WEE"! $200: To shed tears weep |
#6490, aired 2012-11-30 | END OF THE LINE $800: Ella Wheeler Wilcox:
"Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you ____ ____" weep alone |
#6078, aired 2011-02-02 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: Weep aloud, or cry uncontrollably sob |
#5717, aired 2009-06-16 | BALLETS ALEX COULD STAR IN $800: I'm perfect for Tybalt in this ballet; I love swordfighting, & my death scene will make 'em weep Romeo and Juliet |
#5288, aired 2007-09-12 | LEAVE 'EM LAUGHING $1200: In an Ella Wheeler Wilcox poem, they're the 7 words that precede "weep and you weep alone" laugh and the world laughs with you |
#5248, aired 2007-06-06 | POP LYRICS $800: It's the song in which Sarah McLachlan sings, "Don't let your life pass you by, weep not for the memories" "I Will Remember You" |
#4713, aired 2005-02-16 | YOU GOT MY LITERARY NUMBER $2000: Weep not for this 1966 Thomas Pynchon book that detailed the Tristero system The Crying of Lot 49 |
#4506, aired 2004-03-22 | ROLLING STONE'S 100 GREATEST GUITARISTS $600: It's said of No. 3, "His string-bending & vibrato made his famous guitar, Lucille, weep like a real-life woman" B.B. King |
#4402, aired 2003-10-28 | WHAT DID YOU SAY? $1200: In "Solitude" Ella Wheeler Wilcox followed this line with "Weep, and you weep alone" "Laugh, and the world laughs with you" |
#4258, aired 2003-02-19 | TIME FOR A "BRU" $400: In a play, this character reveals, "As Caesar loved me, I weep for him...but, as he was ambitious, I slew him" Brutus |
#4228, aired 2003-01-08 | "P" ENDINGS $400: It means to shed tears to weep |
#4104, aired 2002-06-06 | SEE 'EM & WEEP $200: This actress copes with cancer & overbearing mom Shirley MacLaine in "Terms of Endearment" Debra Winger |
#4104, aired 2002-06-06 | SEE 'EM & WEEP $400: This actress copes with cancer & pouty daughter Renee Zellweger in 1998's "One True Thing" Meryl Streep |
#4104, aired 2002-06-06 | SEE 'EM & WEEP $600: Who isn't moved to tears when the people of Bedford Falls come to George Bailey's rescue in this 1946 holiday classic? It's a Wonderful Life |
#4104, aired 2002-06-06 | SEE 'EM & WEEP $800: Ricky Schroeder took on the Jackie Cooper role in the remake of this 3-hankie classic about a washed-up fighter The Champ |
#4104, aired 2002-06-06 | SEE 'EM & WEEP $1000: Robin Williams leaves heaven to save wife Annabella Sciorra from hell in this 1998 weepie What Dreams May Come |
#3282, aired 1998-12-08 | COCKNEY RHYMING SLANG $500: We hope you never weep into your weeping willow -- this Pillow |
#3134, aired 1998-03-26 | READ 'EM & WEEP $200: As America sobbed, Oliver & Jenny sorted out their lives in this Erich Segal bestseller Love Story |
#3134, aired 1998-03-26 | READ 'EM & WEEP $400: The tears flow as Aurora comes to "terms" with the terminal illness of her daughter Emma in this 1975 novel Terms Of Endearment |
#3134, aired 1998-03-26 | READ 'EM & WEEP $600: This Shaw play burns with the tragic details of the life & death of the maid of Orleans St. Joan |
#3134, aired 1998-03-26 | READ 'EM & WEEP $800: Dalton Trumbo's 1939 novel about an incapacitated soldier is titled this man "Got His Gun" Johnny |
#3134, aired 1998-03-26 | READ 'EM & WEEP $1000: This playwright chronicled the troubled Tyrone family in "Long Day's Journey Into Night" Eugene O' Neill |
#3076, aired 1998-01-05 | PROVERBS $400: It precedes "weep and you weep alone" "Laugh and the world laughs with you" |
#2941, aired 1997-05-19 | DESSERTS $200: This whipped egg white topping for lemon pies will "weep" or turn rubbery if you're not careful Meringue |
#2723, aired 1996-06-05 | QUOTATIONS $100: In "Solitude" Ella Wheeler Wilcox wrote, "Laugh, and" this happens; "weep, and you weep alone" "the world laughs with you" |
#1998, aired 1993-04-21 | WORD ORIGINS $500: From lacrima, Latin for "tear", it means weeping or inclined to weep lachrymose |
#1775, aired 1992-04-24 | PROVERBS $600: It precedes "Weep, and you weep alone" Laugh, and the world laughs with you |
#1407, aired 1990-10-16 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1000: "Weep No More, My Lady" & "While My Pretty One Sleeps" are among her bestsellers Mary Higgins Clark |
#1373, aired 1990-07-18 | LITERARY QUOTES $1,000 (Daily Double): Poet who wrote of his friend John Keats, "I weep for Adonais--he is dead!" Shelley |
#1221, aired 1989-12-18 | SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTES $200: He said, "As Caesar loved me, I weep for him...but, as he was ambitious, I slew him" Brutus |
#1168, aired 1989-10-04 | FINE CHINA $200: Don't "weep" for Thomas Minton, the 18th century potter who popularized this arboreal pattern still used today a weeping willow |
#1028, aired 1989-02-08 | PROVERBS $800: In "Solitude" Ella Wheeler Wilcox followed this line with "Weep, and you weep alone" Laugh, and the world laughs with you |
#905, aired 1988-07-08 | TREES $2,000 (Daily Double): Arboreal title of the following:
[Instrumental music plays.] "Willow Weep For Me" |
#470, aired 1986-09-26 | WOOD LIVES! $100: In song, it's asked to "weep for me" a willow |
#183, aired 1985-05-22 | GREEK MYTHOLOGY $1000: With snakes for hair & eyes that weep blood, the "Eumenides" pursued & tormented sinners the Furies (or the Erinyes) |
#100, aired 1985-01-25 | FAMOUS QUOTES $400: Completes the quote "Laugh & the world laughs with you, weep..." and you weep alone |