| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | LGBTQ+ WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $200: "Tomorrow Will Be Different" is by Sarah McBride, the first openly trans state senator from this state, known for being first Delaware |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | LGBTQ+ WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $400: "The House of Hidden Meanings" is a 2024 memoir from this TV host & pop culture icon, both far from & totally a drag RuPaul |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | LGBTQ+ WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $600: This writer's "test" on gender disparity in Hollywood movies began as "The Rule" in a 1985 comic strip (Alison) Bechdel |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | LGBTQ+ WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $800: Oscar Wilde wrote 2 plays of "importance" but sadly, also a "Ballad" about this place of confinement Reading Gaol |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | LGBTQ+ WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $1000: This playwright has used his uniquely gravelly voice to speak about gay rights & wrote the book for "La Cage aux Folles" Fierstein |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | TYPES OF POEMS $1,000 (Daily Double): A villanelle is a 19-line poem consisting of 5 tercets & a concluding (do the math) one of these a quatrain |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | LITERARY AWARDS $600: Octavia Butler got the inaugural Infinity Award by the Science Fiction & Writers Association at these star-studded awards the Nebula Awards |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | CANADIANS INVADE OUR LIVING ROOM! $400: Cobie Smulders says the writers of this sitcom told her they wanted to make her character Robin Canadian because it seemed exotic How I Met Your Mother |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | NYMING -NYMS $200: Writers once had some pizzazz using these -nyms! Ben Franklin was Silence Dogood & Washington Irving, Jonathan Oldstyle a pseudonym |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | TV WRITERS $200: Noah Kloor has written for "The Mandalorian" as well as "The Book of" this "Star Wars" bounty hunter Boba Fett |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | TV WRITERS $400: FYI, Bill Diamond & Korby Siamis were 2 of the talented writers behind this series with Candice Bergen as the title TV journalist Murphy Brown |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | TV WRITERS $600: Joshua Allen Griffith co-wrote the finale of the miniseries "Mrs. America", about the failed effort to pass this amendment the Equal Rights Amendment |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | TV WRITERS $800: Writers like Matt Groening & Michael Saikin brought us this animated Netflix series, sort of an anti-fairy tale Disenchantment |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | TV WRITERS $1000: Ben Edlund & Susan Hurwitz Arneson put words into the mouth of this title blue superhero, as well as his sidekick Arthur The Tick |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | TRIPLE INITIAL WRITERS $400: Writing as Michael Innes, J.I.M. Stewart created John Appleby, a detective at this HQ of London's Metropolitan Police Scotland Yard |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | TRIPLE INITIAL WRITERS $800: A.E.W. Mason's Gabriel Hanaud, "cleverest of the French detectives", inspired this character who debuted in 1920 Poirot |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | TRIPLE INITIAL WRITERS $1200: He was on staff at the Oxford English Dictionary, taught Middle English & got into another Middle area J.R.R. Tolkien |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | TRIPLE INITIAL WRITERS $2000: The "A" that's the 3rd initial of this German writer was originally W--for Wilhelm--but he changed it to honor Mozart's Amadeus E.T.A. Hoffmann |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | TRIPLE INITIAL WRITERS $5,000 (Daily Double): From 1910 to 1934 this writer & activist edited the NAACP's magazine The Crisis W.E.B. Du Bois |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE $300: Many Harlem Renaissance writers contributed to "The Crisis", the official magazine of this civil rights organization the NAACP |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | WRITERS' WORDS $200: The formal, concise statement of the meaning of a word; I worked out for weeks to get it for my muscles definition |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | WRITERS' WORDS $400: It's a French word for a trite phrase, & the French have their own, like "J'ai dormi comme une souche", "I slept like a stump" a cliché |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | WRITERS' WORDS $600: From the French for "kind", it's a distinctive category of literature like comedy or horror genre |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | WRITERS' WORDS $800: The use of only a few words to convey meaning, it's said to be "the soul of wit" brevity |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | WRITERS' WORDS $1000: "Pathetic" or not, it's a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning a fallacy |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | UP ABOVE $600: In film budgeting, writers, producers & talent are idiomatically considered this above the line |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | ADVENTUROUS WOMEN $100: One of history's first travel writers, the 4th-century pilgrim Egeria explored the Holy Land using this book as a guide the Bible |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FAILING HISTORY $300 (Daily Double): A poll of historical writers named this Tudor king the worst monarch in history and his six wives would probably agree Henry VIII |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | HISTORICAL MARKERS $300: William Faulkner and Eudora Welty are featured on markers along a writers trail in this U.S. state Mississippi |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | WORLD WRITERS $400: In Vladimir Nabokov's "The Luzhin Defense", a master of this game loses his grip on reality chess |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | WORLD WRITERS $800: Long a bestseller in this native land, Olga Tokarczuk found a world audience after her 2018 Man Booker & Nobel Prizes Poland |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | WORLD WRITERS $1200: Bertolt Brecht fled Germany in 1933 & left the U.S. in 1947 after being required to testify before this committee HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | WORLD WRITERS $1600: Honoré was the first name of this French "Human Comedy" author Balzac |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | WORLD WRITERS $2000: The first non-European winner of the Nobel Prize for lit, this Calcutta-born man is seen here with another Nobel winner Rabindranath Tagore |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | THE 2023 TIME 100 $400: This novelist "was able to describe the attack on him" in 2022 "as he was speaking about the U.S. as a safe place for exiled writers" Salman Rushdie |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | WORKING WORDS $2,400 (Daily Double): Referring to writers & others who are self-employed & work job to job, it was first used of mercenary knights freelance |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | MYTHOLOGY $1600: Athena's Roman equivalent, this goddess had a shrine on the Aventine that was a meeting place for writers & actors Minerva |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | FAMOUS SIBLINGS $800: It's the last name of Shawn & Marlon, writers & stars of "Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood" Wayans |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: Swedish author Astrid Lindgren created strong characters like Ronja, the Robber's Daughter, & this redhead with braids (Pippi) Longstocking |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | WOMEN WRITERS $1200: In addition to creating & starring in "Abbott Elementary", she's published the essay collection "She Memes Well" Quinta Brunson |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | WOMEN WRITERS $1600: This magazine contributor, short-story author & poet once said, "I can't write five words but that I change seven" Dorothy Parker |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | WOMEN WRITERS $2000: The author of more than 50 books including "The Golden Notebook", she was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature (Doris) Lessing |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | WOMEN WRITERS $8,000 (Daily Double): Min Jin Lee's novel "Pachinko" follows generations of a Korean immigrant family overcoming bias in this other Asian nation Japan |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | WRITERS: BORN & DIED $400: Born in 1899 in what is now Oak Park, Illinois, the bell tolled for him in Ketchum, Idaho in 1961 Hemingway |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | WRITERS: BORN & DIED $800: From a southern family, his "Fable" began in 1897 & ended in 1962, both in Mississippi Faulkner |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | WRITERS: BORN & DIED $1200: This romantic poet was born in England in 1792 & drowned off the coast of Italy in 1822 Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | WRITERS: BORN & DIED $1600: This "Trees" poet was born in New Jersey in 1886 & was killed in action in World War I Joyce Kilmer |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | WRITERS: BORN & DIED $2000: Born in Paris in 1905, he went from being to nothingness in 1980 Sartre |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | GLOBETROTTING $400: The first Bloomsday celebration was on June 16, 1954 when 2 writers visited Davy Byrne's pub & other sites in this city, reading & drinking Dublin |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST $1200: Of the New Testament's 4 gospel writers John |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | ADAPTERS $2000: This novelist did not adapt his own novel "About a Boy" as a movie but did adapt other writers' "Wild" & "Brooklyn" Nick Hornby |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | WRITERS & POETS $200: You want tales? Oh, we got some tales to tell! "The Clerk's", "The Manciple's", "The Reeve's"... all part of this The Canterbury Tales |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | WRITERS & POETS $400: Always seeming to find large amounts of trouble, this CIA agent is the protagonist in "Clear & Present Danger" Jack Ryan |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | WRITERS & POETS $600: Consecutive chapters in this book are "The Minister's Vigil" & "Another View of Hester" The Scarlet Letter |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | WRITERS & POETS $800: The many travails of the title hero of this Dumas novel include an involuntary swim after being tossed into the sea The Count of Monte Cristo |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | WRITERS & POETS $1000: Sethe is haunted by the ghost of her nameless baby, described by the title adjective of this Toni Morrison novel Beloved |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WRITERS OF THE CLOTH $400: Priest Andrew Greeley's first novel, about an archbishop with secrets such as a daughter, was called "The Cardinal" these Sins |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WRITERS OF THE CLOTH $800: This transcendentalist essayist & poet was ordained a Unitarian minister in Boston in 1829, but resigned in 1832 Emerson |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WRITERS OF THE CLOTH $1200: Metaphysical poet John Donne was ordained a priest in 1615 & became a dean at this London cathedral 6 years later St. Paul's |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WRITERS OF THE CLOTH $1600: Rabbi Chaim Potok's novel "The Chosen" is a coming-of-age story within this Orthodox Jewish sect the Hasidic Jews |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WRITERS OF THE CLOTH $2000: An influential writer on spiritual themes, Thomas Merton was a member of this order known for emphasizing silence & austerity the Trappists |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | LITERARY MOVEMENTS $5,200 (Daily Double): Gertrude Stein is credited with giving this bleak nickname to a group of young writers alienated from post-World War I society the Lost Generation |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $400: Of fairy tale author Hans Andersen Christian |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $800: Of Nobel Prize winner William Yeats Butler |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $1200: Of the author of 1841's "Self-Reliance" Waldo |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $1600: Of H.G. Wells; his first name was Herbert George |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $2000: Of C.S. Lewis; his first name was Clive Staples |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | 3-NAMED WRITERS $200: Not surprisingly this author of "Little Women" was an early feminist Louisa May Alcott |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | 3-NAMED WRITERS $400: His short story collection "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque" was published in 1839 (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | 3-NAMED WRITERS $600: "I do not worry about dying" were the prophetic words of Federico García Lorca, who was put to death in 1936 during this conflict the Spanish Civil War |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | 3-NAMED WRITERS $1000: Shortly before her death in 1924, this author of "The Secret Garden" wrote, "As long as one has a garden, one has a future" (Frances Hodgson) Burnett |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | 3-NAMED WRITERS $3,000 (Daily Double): In his 1843 essay "A Winter Walk", he mentions "the wonderful purity of nature at this season" Henry David Thoreau |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | RUSSIAN WRITERS $400: Vladimir Nabokov's books never earned more than a few hundred dollars until this 1955 novel about a young girl became a hit Lolita |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | RUSSIAN WRITERS $800: Anton Chekhov refashioned his bomb of a play "The Wood Demon" & its character Uncle George into this huge success Uncle Vanya |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | RUSSIAN WRITERS $1200: In Turgenev's "Fathers & Sons", Bazarov has this world view whose name comes from Latin for "nothing" nihilism |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | RUSSIAN WRITERS $1600: This author saw conflict & harmony firsthand serving in the Russian army at the Siege of Sevastopol in the 1850s Tolstoy |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | RUSSIAN WRITERS $2000: His 1995 autobiography "Invisible Allies" described his last years in the Soviet Union before he got deported Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | WHO LIVES IN... $200: This state? Stephen King, who's turning one of his properties into a writers' retreat Maine |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $200: Geraldine Brooks' "March" is narrated by the father from this classic 1860s novel Little Women |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $400: More than a decade before "A Wrinkle in Time", she wrote her first book for kids, "And Both Were Young" L'Engle |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $600: About Robert Moses & by Robert Caro, this 1,300-page tome is a must-have for bookshelf backgrounds during Zoom interviews The Power Broker |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $1000: In "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri, a couple names their baby after this author of "Dead Souls" Gogol |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $2,600 (Daily Double): Left unfinished at his death, "Juneteenth", his second novel, was published in 1999 Ralph Ellison |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | NEWS MAKERS & WRITERS '22 $400: Profession of Pat Cipollone ("Patsy Baloney" to some), who testified on July 8 to the January 6 Committee lawyer (White House Counsel) |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | NEWS MAKERS & WRITERS '22 $800 (Daily Double): Turkish President Erdogan got enough concessions to drop his opposition to letting Sweden & Finland do this join NATO |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | NEWS MAKERS & WRITERS '22 $800: Queen Elizabeth II's last appearance was to appoint this woman as the 15th prime minister of her majesty's reign Liz Truss |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | NEWS MAKERS & WRITERS '22 $1600: Josh Gerstein of this news organization-o got the big leaked Supreme Court draft opinion story of the year Politico |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | NEWS MAKERS & WRITERS '22 $2000: California Governor Gavin Newsom denied parole to this man guilty of a 1968 assassination Sirhan Sirhan |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $200: Natty Bumppo creator James ____ Cooper Fenimore |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $400: Romantic poet Percy ____ Shelley Bysshe |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $600: "Anne of Green Gables" scribe Lucy ____ Montgomery Maud |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $800: Creator of "The Runaway Bunny" Margaret ____ Brown Wise |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $1000: Novelist, essayist & short story maven Joyce ____ Oates Carol |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | STAY HEALTHY $400: One of our writers recalls doing this healthy, leaping & alliterative 2-part exercise as his gym teacher smoked a pack of Camels jumping jacks |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $200: One-name title of Alexandra Ripley's sequel to "Gone with the Wind"; Ashley finally proposes, but she says no Scarlett |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $400: This novel by Andy Weir about a stranded astronaut was originally self-published The Martian |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $600: "The Sicilian" by this author is another novel set in his universe of the criminal Corleone clan Mario Puzo |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $1000: This poet wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" on the back of an envelope when he was just 17 Langston Hughes |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $4,000 (Daily Double): Like the narrator of "The Little Prince", the book's author, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, chose this as his profession pilot |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | VAMPIRES IN LITERATURE $800: In 2012 the Horror Writers Assoc. said Richard Matheson's "I Am" this lived up to its name as "vampire novel of the century" I Am Legend |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | GRAMMY-WINNING SONGS $2000: Writers Donald Glover, Ludwig Goransson & Jeffery Lamar Williams shared a 2019 award for this Childish Gambino smash "This Is America" |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: In 1956, Kay Thompson, on the left, appeared in a TV production about this little girl of hers who lives at the Plaza Hotel Eloise |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | WOMEN WRITERS $800: Sadly, she died at the age of 30, just a year after her "Wuthering Heights" was published Emily Brontë |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | WOMEN WRITERS $1200: She set "Little Fires Everywhere" in her hometown of Shaker Heights, Ohio Celeste Ng |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | WOMEN WRITERS $1600: In 2022 this late poet, author & activist became the first Black woman to appear on a U.S. quarter Maya Angelou |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | WOMEN WRITERS $2000: She holds honorary doctorates from the University of Chile, the University of Santiago, & Harvard, among others (Isabel) Allende |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | BRITISH WRITERS $400: Though best known for his James Bond novels, he also wrote the children's book "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" Fleming |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | BRITISH WRITERS $800: Published in 1724, "Roxana" was the last major work of fiction by this "Robinson Crusoe" author Defoe |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | BRITISH WRITERS $1200: He's the writer of comics, graphic novels & films seen here Neil Gaiman |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | BRITISH WRITERS $1600: This playwright who wrote "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" also co-wrote the movie "Shakespeare in Love" Tom Stoppard |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | BRITISH WRITERS $2000: This author of the "Wolf Hall Trilogy" has been called the queen of historical fiction (Hilary) Mantel |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | RECENT BIOS OF WRITERS $400: "The Life She Wished to Live" is a bio of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, who at 32 moved her life to a backwoods citrus grove in this state Florida |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | RECENT BIOS OF WRITERS $1200: Claire Tomalin's bio "The Young" him tells us that in the family of this early sci-fi writer, Herbert was called Bertie H.G. Wells |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | RECENT BIOS OF WRITERS $1600: "Red Comet" says the unsung hero of Sylvia Plath's life was her benefactor Olive Prouty, author of the novel "Now," this personage Voyager |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | RECENT BIOS OF WRITERS $2000: "Competing with Idiots" is a dual biography of these screenwriting giants, brothers Herman & Joe, by a grandson of Herman's Mankiewicz |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | RECENT BIOS OF WRITERS $3,000 (Daily Double): "The Sinner and the Saint" tells how a real-life egotistical murderer inspired this Russian novelist Dostoevsky |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | PLUS $600: Britain's eleven plus exams are basically entrance tests to admits kids to this kind of school that not our writers, obviously grammar school |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | LOST $2,000 (Daily Double): John Dos Passos & Archibald MacLeish were among the 1920s writers known collectively as this the Lost Generation |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | THE 1920s $1000: Gertrude Stein used this 2-word term to describe a group of disillusioned American writers in Europe the Lost Generation |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | WRITERS DO RIGHT $200: This British mystery maven described thallium poisoning so well in a book, a nurse recognized the symptoms in a child Agatha Christie |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | WRITERS DO RIGHT $400: John Grisham is on the board of the organization known as this Project, which helps right wrongful convictions the Innocence Project |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | WRITERS DO RIGHT $600: This prolific author, seen here, who wrote of London's seedier side, spent years helping destitute girls there Dickens |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | WRITERS DO RIGHT $800: Dave Eggers' book about this group that shares a name with Peter Pan's gang led to building a school in South Sudan the Lost Boys |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | WRITERS DO RIGHT $1000: This author of vampire novels donated $1 from each sale of "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner" to the Red Cross Stephenie Meyer |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | THE MUPPET NAME $800: Blyleven & Campaneris, because our writers absolutely love old-school baseball Bert |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | TV TALK $800: The "Simpsons" writers thought they'd invented this word meaning to enlarge, but it had actually been coined in the 1880s embiggens |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | WRITERS, WITH STYLE $400: & All the rooblicks & yooblicks / Ev'ry 'blick alive / Knew he wrote "Your Job in Germany" / Frank Capra directed! / In 1945! (Dr.) Seuss |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | WRITERS, WITH STYLE $800: Was I nervous?--true!--nervous, yes, waiting, wondering, if it was known that he wrote "The Premature Burial" in 1844? or was I mad? Poe |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | WRITERS, WITH STYLE $1200: & They asked if I'd say his 1901 "Day of the Rabblement" essay went after the Irish literary theatre & yes I said yes I will yes James Joyce |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | WRITERS, WITH STYLE $2000: He didn't use sci-fi in 1961's "Mother Night", about an American playwright spying on the Nazis. He passed away in 2007. So it goes Vonnegut |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | WRITERS, WITH STYLE $3,000 (Daily Double): Heere bigynneth owr joorny onn his "Summoner's Tale", a titl mayde moderne, as he speld it "Somonours" Chaucer |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | SWEDISH WRITERS $400: In "Return to Ithaca", Nobel Prize winner Eyvind Johnson retold this ancient epic & set it in the 20th century The Odyssey |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | SWEDISH WRITERS $800: Seen here, Astrid Lindgren appears on a 20-krona note along with this girl, her most famous creation Pippi Longstocking |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | SWEDISH WRITERS $1200: This author's estate chose journalist David Lagercrantz to continue the "Millennium" series Stieg Larsson |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | SWEDISH WRITERS $1600: "Mitt liv som hund" by author Reidar Jönsson became this movie My Life as a Dog |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | SWEDISH WRITERS $2000: Bestsellers by this contemporary author include "Bear Town" & "A Man Called Ove" Fredrik Backman |
| #8474, aired 2021-09-23 | REVIVAL $400: Nationality name for the literary revival that included writers like Yeats & O'Casey Irish |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | FAREWELL TO THE AUTHOR $1600: In 1881, some 30,000 mourners turned out in St. Petersburg for the funeral of this man, one of the greatest writers of all time Dostoevsky |
| #8342, aired 2021-02-23 | DUNCAN $1600: Artist Duncan Grant was a member of this London-named group of the 20th century writers & artists of whom he painted portraits the Bloomsbury Group |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | POP CULTURE $200: The writers of this man's show called his careful way of speaking with children "Freddish" Mister Rogers |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | JOHN BROWN $800: Brown was supported by transcendentalist writers like Emerson & this friend who gave a "Plea for Captain John Brown" Thoreau |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | BANDS OF THE 21st CENTURY $2000: This hit by Panic! at the Disco had no fewer than 9 writers; Tayla Parx contributed the "mama said" part "High Hopes" |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $400: To write her play "Twilight", Anna Deavere Smith interviewed 350 people who experienced the 1992 riots in this city Los Angeles |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $800: Sarah M. Broom's New Orleans family home, this kind of narrow house with a firearm name, inspired her memoir "The Yellow House" a shotgun shack |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $1200: Novelist Marita Golden paid homage to this woman in an essay called "Zora & Me" Hurston |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $1600: This creator of TV's "Grey's Anatomy" revealed how saying yes changed her life in her book "Year of Yes" Shonda Rhimes |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $2000: In the novel "Black Betty" by this author, P.I. Easy Rawlins is hired to find a missing woman Walter Mosley |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | WRITERS ANONYMOUS $200: The anonymous author of the 2019 book "A Warning" is listed as a senior official in this administration the Trump Administration |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | WRITERS ANONYMOUS $400: This anonymous Old English poem about a hero fighting monsters survives in the Nowell Codex at the British Library "Beowulf" |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | WRITERS ANONYMOUS $600: These 85 essays were attributed to "Publius" when they appeared in New York newspapers from 1787 to 1788 the Federalist Papers |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | WRITERS ANONYMOUS $800: Tender-Conscience is the hero of an anonymous author's "Third Part" of this work, tacked on to John Bunyan's parts 1 & 2 The Pilgrim's Progress |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | WRITERS ANONYMOUS $1000: In 1827 this 18-year-old American anonymously published "Tamerlane and Other Poems", including "Visit of the Dead" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | RAISE THE FLAG $800: Gonfalon, an old name for a flag, was once used by baseball writers to mean this, what every team wants to win the pennant |
| #8242, aired 2020-09-22 | AMERICANS IN PARIS $1200: She ran a salon out of her home for some of the leading artists and writers of the day Gertrude Stein |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $200: Louisa Alcott May |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $400: Poet & dramatist William Yeats Butler |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $600: Oz creator Lyman Baum Frank |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): Cecil Forester & Francis Fitzgerald Scott |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $1000: Borrowing his middle name from his grandfather, an artist, Ford Ford Madox |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | WE'D LIKE TO MAKE A CORRECTION $1000: Time's early version of "The 100 Most-Read Female Writers in College" included this "Brideshead Revisited" author, "who was a man" Evelyn Waugh |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | MALE WRITERS $400: 25 years after writing memorably about a talking mouse-y boy, he penned a tale about a mute trumpeter swan E.B. White |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | MALE WRITERS $800: Melquíades is an old writer who represents García Márquez, the actual author of this 1960s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | MALE WRITERS $1200: He wrote, "Dr. Lecter watched Chilton's eyes moving over the straps that held on the mask...come, doctor. Come close" (Thomas) Harris |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | MALE WRITERS $1600: Me, Alex. Him, this serial novelist who oldest WWII correspondent in South Pacific theatre at age 66 Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | MALE WRITERS $2000: "Charcoal Joe" was the 14th novel by Walter Mosley featuring this private investigator Easy Rawlins |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | THE WRITERS ARE TRYING TO BE CLEVER $200: H.L. Mencken wrote that this gloomy historical -ism is "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy" Puritanism |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | THE WRITERS ARE TRYING TO BE CLEVER $400: Oscar Wilde once quipped that this other Irish wit "has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by all his friends" George Bernard Shaw |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | THE WRITERS ARE TRYING TO BE CLEVER $600: "Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits", he wrote in "Pudd'nhead Wilson" Twain |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | THE WRITERS ARE TRYING TO BE CLEVER $800: Seen here, this Florida humorist wrote a defense of his homeland in the book "Best State Ever" Dave Barry |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | THE WRITERS ARE TRYING TO BE CLEVER $1000: In "Santaland Diaries", this humorist wrote about his stint as a Christmas elf at Macy's David Sedaris |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | PSEUDONYMOUS WRITERS $800: Francois-Marie Arouet used this one name on works like "Candide" Voltaire |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | PSEUDONYMOUS WRITERS $1200: Using the 3 laws of robotics in his "Lucky Starr" Y.A. novels should have alerted folks that Paul French was him Isaac Asimov |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | PSEUDONYMOUS WRITERS $1600: "Lethal White" is the fourth Cormoran Strike novel J.K. Rowling has written using this pseudonym Robert Galbraith |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | PSEUDONYMOUS WRITERS $2,000 (Daily Double): Gabriela Mistral (a pseudonym) encouraged this other Chilean Nobel Prize-winning poet (also a pseudonym) Pablo Neruda |
| #8120, aired 2019-12-20 | WRITERS GO WAY BACK $400: This Victor Hugo novel begins in 1482 The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #8120, aired 2019-12-20 | WRITERS GO WAY BACK $600: This British dame sets the mystery in "Death Comes as the End" in Egypt way back in 2000 B.C. Agatha Christie |
| #8120, aired 2019-12-20 | WRITERS GO WAY BACK $800: Michael Crichton put a 10th c. Muslim traveler into the events of this Old English epic to prove he could make it entertaining Beowulf |
| #8120, aired 2019-12-20 | WRITERS GO WAY BACK $1000: This 1880 Lew Wallace novel takes place during the life of Christ Ben-Hur |
| #8120, aired 2019-12-20 | WRITERS GO WAY BACK $2,000 (Daily Double): This Shakespeare play is set in 44 B.C. Julius Caesar |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | THE HARVARD LAMPOON $1000: Writers and performers who've gone from the "Lampoon" to "Saturday Night Live" include this young fellow who co-hosts "Weekend Update" with Michael Che Colin Jost |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | PART-TIME WRITERS $400: This action star co-wrote the "Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding" with Bill Dobbins Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | PART-TIME WRITERS $800: While running "Top Chef", this Indian-born woman wrote "The Encyclopedia of Spices & Herbs" Padma Lakshmi |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | PART-TIME WRITERS $1200: Beatrix Potter's estate asked this actress & "Sense & Sensibility" screenwriter to pen new Peter Rabbit stories Emma Thompson |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | PART-TIME WRITERS $1600: Long after she was Winnie Cooper on this show, Danica McKellar wrote the book "Girls Get Curves" about geometry The Wonder Years |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | PART-TIME WRITERS $2000: James Lipton wrote "An Exaltation of Larks", about animal group names, before he hosted this Bravo acting show Inside the Actors Studio |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | LITERARY LADIES $800: On Ursula Le Guin's passing, George R.R. Martin called her one of the great writers of these paired genres of the past century science fiction & fantasy |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | BEFORE & AFTER: SINGERS & WRITERS $200: "The Heart Of Rock & Roll" lead singer who also wrote "Alice in Wonderland" Huey Lewis Carroll |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | BEFORE & AFTER: SINGERS & WRITERS $600: Folk trio that was "Blowin' In The Wind" with the writer of "Frankenstein" Peter, Paul and Mary Shelley |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | BEFORE & AFTER: SINGERS & WRITERS $800: "Super Freak" singer who also told "Tales of the South Pacific" Rick James Michener |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | BEFORE & AFTER: SINGERS & WRITERS $1,000 (Daily Double): "Hit The Road Jack" with the singer & pianist who also came up with the theory of evolution by natural selection Ray Charles Darwin |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | BEFORE & AFTER: SINGERS & WRITERS $1000: "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" singer who takes up a pen & creates "The Mayor of Casterbridge" B.J. Thomas Hardy |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | LITERARY GROUPS $400: Gertrude Stein gave post-WWI writers like E.E. Cummings & Ernest Hemingway the group name this Generation the Lost Generation |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | AMERICAN WRITERS $200: The pen name he used for "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" was a wink to his unfinished doctorate Dr. Seuss |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | AMERICAN WRITERS $400: Margaret Mitchell was recovering from an ankle injury when she wrote this Pulitzer winner Gone With the Wind |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | AMERICAN WRITERS $600: He drew from his own background when writing "The Prince of Tides" Pat Conroy |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | AMERICAN WRITERS $800: In a story by this sci-fi master, "I Sing the Body Electric!" is the title of a pamphlet for a robot grandmother Ray Bradbury |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | AMERICAN WRITERS $1000: "Miss Lonelyhearts" was one of his satiric novels of the 1930s (Nathanael) West |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | YOUNG WRITERS $400: A Netflix film titled this "Booth" was based on a book Beth Reekles wrote at 15 on the story-sharing app Wattpad The Kissing Booth |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | YOUNG WRITERS $800: The humorous comic book series "Axe" this job was co-created by 5-year-old Malachai Nicolle Axe Cop |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | YOUNG WRITERS $1200: This author began what became "Sense and Sensibility" at about age 19 Jane Austen |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | YOUNG WRITERS $1600: Christopher Paolini was only 15 when he began this epic with a title one letter different from "dragon" Eragon |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | YOUNG WRITERS $2000: Carson McCullers started writing this novel when she was 19, bedridden & perhaps "Lonely" The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | ADVERBS $400: Merriam-Webster points out that writers like Thackeray have used it to mean its opposite, "figuratively" literally |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | STATE SCHOOL, THAT GREAT SCHOOL $1000: In 1965 John Irving entered this Midwest school's prestigious writers workshop & worked with Kurt Vonnegut Iowa |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | LITERARY GENRES $1,600 (Daily Double): The Nebula Awards are given by the Science Fiction & this genre Writers of America fantasy |
| #7942, aired 2019-03-05 | WRITERS ON THE STORM $400: Lindsay Starck writes of a minister & his spouse who face a flood of Biblical proportions in this man's "Wife" Noah |
| #7942, aired 2019-03-05 | WRITERS ON THE STORM $800: Very cold weather descends on 2 WASPy New England families in the 1970s in this Rick Moody novel Ice Storm |
| #7942, aired 2019-03-05 | WRITERS ON THE STORM $1200: In a Melville story a salesman tries to sell a copper type of this title item in the middle of a thunderstorm a lightning rod |
| #7942, aired 2019-03-05 | WRITERS ON THE STORM $1600: In a Poe story a fisherman is pulled into this Norwegian whirlpool by a hurricane the maelstrom |
| #7942, aired 2019-03-05 | WRITERS ON THE STORM $2000: The first novel by this "Burr" & "Lincoln" author is called "Williwaw", after a windstorm off Alaska (Gore) Vidal |
| #7923, aired 2019-02-06 | GOOD FELLOWS $1200: AKA Poputchiks, fellow travelers were writers Leon Trotsky considered to be neutral about this 1917 the Russian Revolution |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | OXYMORONS $2000: It was an art style in the 1920s before it was the literary genre of Latin American writers like Jorge Luis Borges magical realism |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | EDIBLE HOMOPHONES $1000: It's what bilge water comes from a leak |
| #7907, aired 2019-01-15 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: In 1918 Columbia U. student Minna Lewinson became the first woman to win this journalism award the Pulitzer |
| #7907, aired 2019-01-15 | WOMEN WRITERS $800: She wrote the screenplay to 7 of the 8 films she directed, including "You've Got Mail" & "Julie & Julia" Nora Ephron |
| #7907, aired 2019-01-15 | WOMEN WRITERS $1200: "The Minister's Wooing" & "Dread" are lesser-known novels written in 1850s by this American Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #7907, aired 2019-01-15 | WOMEN WRITERS $1600: This Ayn Rand book ends with the line "Then there was only the ocean and the sky and the figure of Howard Roark" The Fountainhead |
| #7907, aired 2019-01-15 | WOMEN WRITERS $2,500 (Daily Double): An auction of this poet's possessions included her copy of "Joy of Cooking" with "Ted likes this" next to a veal recipe Sylvia Plath |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | WRITERS WHO WENT TO JAIL $400: Irish author Brendan Behan was sentenced to 3 years in jail in 1940 for being a member of this outlawed group the IRA |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | WRITERS WHO WENT TO JAIL $800: For 4 years in the 1980s, Communist authorities jailed this playwright & later Czech president Václav Havel |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | WRITERS WHO WENT TO JAIL $1200: Accused of harming women & children, this French nobleman was jailed for 12 years beginning in 1777 the Marquis de Sade |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | WRITERS WHO WENT TO JAIL $1600: In 1846, as part of an act of protest against the U.S. war with Mexico, he spent a night in the Concord jail Thoreau |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | WRITERS WHO WENT TO JAIL $5,000 (Daily Double): He conceived his greatest novel while in prison for debt in Seville in 1597 Cervantes |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | NOT QUITE OSCAR-NOMINATED FILMS $400: Calling it an "infamous failure", even one of the writers admitted this Halle Berry pic was not purr-fect Catwoman |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | WRITERS EXPOSED $200: Jerome David (J.D.) Salinger |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | WRITERS EXPOSED $400: Elwyn Brooks (E.B.) White |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | WRITERS EXPOSED $600: Clive Staples Lewis |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | WRITERS EXPOSED $800: Kids' author Robert Lawrence (R.L.) Stine |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | WRITERS EXPOSED $1000: Poet Wystan Hugh (W.H.) Auden |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | JACK THE RIPPER SUSPECTS $800 (Daily Double): This 19th c. author has been looked at; later writers pitted his creation against the Ripper in books like 2009's "Dust and Shadow" Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | THE MEDICAL FILE OF ALEX TREBEK $800: I'm not one of the writers, but sure enough developed this wrist condition due to pressure on the median nerve carpal tunnel |
| #7877, aired 2018-12-04 | SONGWRITING TEAMS $2000: Her co-writers on 2010's "Your Love Is My Drug" include her mom, Pebe Sebert Kesha |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | WRITERS' OTHER GIGS $400: In 1909 this future novelist opened Dublin's first movie theater James Joyce |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | WRITERS' OTHER GIGS $800: In "Breakfast of Champions", Dwayne Hoover sells these, just like Kurt Vonnegut once did cars |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | WRITERS' OTHER GIGS $1200: He gave up a dental practice to write Western novels like "Riders of the Purple Sage" Zane Grey |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | WRITERS' OTHER GIGS $2000: Early on, Chuck Palahniuk worked as a journalist & a diesel mechanic in this city with which he's associated Portland, Oregon |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | WRITERS' OTHER GIGS $4,600 (Daily Double): His first novel, "Presumed Innocent", was penned while he was an assistant U.S. attorney in Chicago Scott Turow |
| #7844, aired 2018-10-18 | FICTIONAL WRITERS $400: Hired as a hotel caretaker, Jack Torrance hopes to work on his play in this Stephen King classic The Shining |
| #7844, aired 2018-10-18 | FICTIONAL WRITERS $1200: Some say "truth is" this, a movie with Emma Thompson as a novelist writing Will Ferrell's life Stranger than Fiction |
| #7844, aired 2018-10-18 | FICTIONAL WRITERS $1600: His alter ego, the sci-fi writer Kilgore Trout, appears in many of his books, like "Breakfast of Champions" Vonnegut |
| #7844, aired 2018-10-18 | FICTIONAL WRITERS $2000: "Deadly Heat" was an actual 2013 bestselling novel by this TV title character played by Nathan Fillion Castle |
| #7839, aired 2018-10-11 | EXOPHONES $400: Exophonic writers, like this Polish-born author of "Lord Jim", write in languages other than their native one Conrad |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: Each year the Horror Writers Association presents awards named in honor of this "Dracula" author (Bram) Stoker |
| #7812, aired 2018-07-24 | WRITERS OF COLONIAL AMERICA $400: Diarist William Byrd portrayed life in this colony where he owned a large James River plantation Virginia |
| #7812, aired 2018-07-24 | WRITERS OF COLONIAL AMERICA $800: Thomas Morton so mocked the "piety" of his Mass. neighbors, he was exiled to this future "Pine Tree State" up north Maine |
| #7812, aired 2018-07-24 | WRITERS OF COLONIAL AMERICA $1200: A pioneer of religious liberty, he wrote "The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution" & founded his own colony in 1636 Roger Williams |
| #7812, aired 2018-07-24 | WRITERS OF COLONIAL AMERICA $1600: Mary Rowlandson wrote an account of her captivity by Native Americans during the 1676 war named for this Wampanoag "king" King Philip |
| #7812, aired 2018-07-24 | WRITERS OF COLONIAL AMERICA $2000: Born Anne Dudley, she expressed her Puritan faith in her poetry Anne Bradstreet |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | GERMAN WRITERS $1200: This author of "Steppenwolf" observed, "Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke" Hesse |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | GERMAN WRITERS $2000: In the drama "The Deputy", Rolf Hochhuth accused the XII pope of this name of tolerating Nazi policies Pope Pius XII |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | GERMAN WRITERS $3,200 (Daily Double): E.T.A. Hoffmann's tale entitled this device "and the Mouse King" evolved into a popular ballet the nutcracker |
| #7800, aired 2018-07-06 | WRITERS ON SPORTS $200: In 1996 Jim Murray said it was up to Shaq & Olajuwon to stop this guy; short of that, "an anti-aircraft battery" Michael Jordan |
| #7800, aired 2018-07-06 | WRITERS ON SPORTS $400: A.J. Liebling, an unathletic boxing writer who used bacon as a bookmark, wrote of this Rocky's "prehistoric style" Rocky Marciano |
| #7800, aired 2018-07-06 | WRITERS ON SPORTS $600: In 1960 Updike wrote, "Gods do not answer letters" when this man didn't tip his cap after his last Fenway Park homer Ted Williams |
| #7800, aired 2018-07-06 | WRITERS ON SPORTS $800: Jimmy Cannon said this "Brown Bomber" "was a credit to his race--the human race" Joe Louis |
| #7800, aired 2018-07-06 | WRITERS ON SPORTS $1000: In 1960 Shirley Povich noted that this Cleveland runner "integrated the Redskins' goal line with more than deliberate speed" Jim Brown |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | CONFUSING AUTHORS $800: (Kelly shows two writers on the monitor.) You might have confused playwright Arthur Miller & novelist Henry Miller on a walking tour--they had homes 500 feet apart in New York City's first commuter suburb, the heights of this borough Brooklyn |
| #7781, aired 2018-06-11 | NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN $2,000 (Daily Double): She coined the term "Lost Generation" for expatriate writers like Ernest Hemingway Gertrude Stein |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Whistler gave musical titles to his paintings; twilight & night scenes were called this, from the French for "night" a Nocturne |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | WRITERS NOT WRITING $400: Ernest Hemingway & John Dos Passos both spent time as ambulance drivers during this war World War I |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | WRITERS NOT WRITING $800: Michael Grant's novels "Precinct" & "Officer Down" were informed by his 23 years on this city's police force New York |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | WRITERS NOT WRITING $1200: As a youth, Jack London was a pirate--stealing these mollusks from farms in San Francisco Bay oysters |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | WRITERS NOT WRITING $1600: After this "Gift of the Magi" author did time for embezzlement, he reinvented himself & changed his name O. Henry |
| #7765, aired 2018-05-18 | HOME ROOM $800: About 19th century female writers, a 1979 classic of literary criticism is titled "The Madwoman in" this room the attic |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | MacARTHUR GENIUS WRITERS $400: David Simon was recognized for murder; actually this synonym, the title of a Baltimore-set NBC show Homicide |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | MacARTHUR GENIUS WRITERS $800: This other "Mac" hadn't yet written "All the Pretty Horses" when the foundation honored him Cormac McCarthy |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | MacARTHUR GENIUS WRITERS $1200: This "Amazing" skeptic fellow seeks to debunk the paranormal, but also worked as a magician James Randi |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | MacARTHUR GENIUS WRITERS $1600: This author who won in 2002 went on to write the bestselling novel "The Underground Railroad" Colson Whitehead |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | MacARTHUR GENIUS WRITERS $2000: In 1995 this Chicago author won for "The House on Mango Street" and other works Sandra Cisneros |
| #7719, aired 2018-03-15 | LITERARY STYLES & MOVEMENTS $2000: Ellen Glasgow coined the term "Southern" this to describe works by writers like William Faulkner gothic |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | LITERARY AWARDS $1600: In 1881 a literary prize named for this "Eugene Onegin" author was established to honor Russian writers Pushkin |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | EVERY YEAR $400: The convention of these Writers of America takes place on the frontier & gives the Lariat Award Western Writers of America |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | JEOPARDY! WRITERS' ONLINE GO-TOs $400: This agency may be clandestine, but its World Factbook is online & the writers love its up-to-date info on nations the CIA |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | JEOPARDY! WRITERS' ONLINE GO-TOs $800: Biblehub is a good source to compare translations of passages from many different Bibles, like this one, the KJV the King James Version |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | JEOPARDY! WRITERS' ONLINE GO-TOs $1200: We have many fine books from this U.K. enterprise, OUP for short, & we can also access more than 400 of them online the Oxford University Press |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | JEOPARDY! WRITERS' ONLINE GO-TOs $1,600 (Daily Double): For legends & suspect claims, the writers may check snopes.com, named for a family in this man's novels William Faulkner |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | JEOPARDY! WRITERS' ONLINE GO-TOs $1600: The Tech, a newspaper at this eastern college, maintains the first online edition of Shakespeare's works & we love it MIT (or Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| #7670, aired 2018-01-05 | FEAR FACTOR $800: Sometimes I accuse the writers of ergophobia, or fear of this--but it is a serious anxiety condition fear of work |
| #7654, aired 2017-12-14 | IT WAS SO COLD... $200: Hitchhikers were holding up photos of this digit the thumb |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | WRITERS & WRITING $400: This author of the letter "J'accuse", which sparked the exoneration of Alfred Dreyfus, died of carbon monoxide poisoning (Émile) Zola |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | WRITERS & WRITING $800: 1820's "Melmoth the Wanderer" by a great-uncle of Oscar Wilde was in this spooky genre of the Romantic novel gothic |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | WRITERS & WRITING $1200: Born in 1812, this writer of limericks was the 20th of 21 children Edward Lear |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | WRITERS & WRITING $1600: Paula Hawkins' follow-up to "The Girl on the Train", it concerns a creepy "drowning pool" Into the Water |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | WRITERS & WRITING $2000: The title of a work by Aldous Huxley inspired the name of this 1960s L.A. rock band The Doors |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | UNESCO CITIES OF LITERATURE $1200: Thanks to its pioneering writers' program, the only American city honored is in this Midwest state Iowa |
| #7634, aired 2017-11-16 | CARD GAMES $600: This game similar to Go Fish was originally played with special cards featuring pictures of famous writers Authors |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | WRITERS WHO SELF-PUBLISHED $400: Before Warner Books picked it up, James Redfield self-published this "Prophecy" about a mysterious manuscript The Celestine Prophecy |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | WRITERS WHO SELF-PUBLISHED $800: Along with creating Ms. Gale & her little dog too, he self-published a book on interior decorating (L. Frank) Baum |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | WRITERS WHO SELF-PUBLISHED $1600: With her husband Leonard, she founded Hogarth Press in 1917 & published her own work with it (Virginia) Woolf |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | WRITERS WHO SELF-PUBLISHED $2000: In 1827 he paid a printer to publish 50 copies of "Tamerlane and Other Poems" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | WRITERS WHO SELF-PUBLISHED $7,000 (Daily Double): In the 1700s, this poet published his own books, made his own ink & hand-printed the pages like the one seen here William Blake |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | WELSH WRITERS $400: Son of Norwegian immigrants, this "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory" author was born in Llandaff, Wales Roald Dahl |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | WELSH WRITERS $800: Works by Welsh mystery novelist Dorothy Simpson include "Dead and Gone", "Dead by Morning" & this one, aka "D.O.A." Dead on Arrival |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | WELSH WRITERS $1600: Emlyn Williams set the autobiographical "The Corn is Green" in a village dependent on these mines coal |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | WELSH WRITERS $2000: "Silks" & "Even Money" are 2 bestselling murder mysteries by this Welshman & former Grand National jockey Dick Francis |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | WELSH WRITERS $2,500 (Daily Double): The poem "Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines" was written in 1934, when this Welshman was 19 Dylan Thomas |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | WRITERS ON FILM $200: In "Shakespeare in Love", she was a writer's love interest; in "Sylvia" she was the poet Gwyneth Paltrow |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | WRITERS ON FILM $400: In 2010's "Howl", James Franco as this poet defends his most famous work against obscenity charges (Allen) Ginsberg |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | WRITERS ON FILM $600: Louis Negin, Toby Jones & Philip Seymour Hoffman all played this writer on film (Truman) Capote |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | WRITERS ON FILM $800: Kathy Bates played this expat in "Midnight in Paris" Gertrude Stein |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | WRITERS ON FILM $1000: In "Reds" Jack Nicholson hit the boards as this American playwright Eugene O'Neill |
| #7516, aired 2017-04-24 | WRITERS $400: He had a volume of Keats' poetry in his pocket when he drowned during a storm that engulfed his sailboat in 1822 Shelley |
| #7516, aired 2017-04-24 | WRITERS $1200: This "Good Earth" author founded Welcome House, an adoption agency Pearl S. Buck |
| #7516, aired 2017-04-24 | WRITERS $1600: This late author's mother, Sally Wallace, invented words like "greebles" that he used in his books David Foster Wallace |
| #7516, aired 2017-04-24 | WRITERS $2000: This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Anne Tyler sounds like a tutorial about keeping oxygenated Breathing Lessons |
| #7516, aired 2017-04-24 | WRITERS $5,000 (Daily Double): Jay McInerney, Tama Janowitz & other 1980s writers shared this nickname with a group of young 1980s actors the Brat Pack |
| #7490, aired 2017-03-17 | COLLEGE COLLAGE $1000: This U. is home to its state Writers Hall of Fame; honorees include Joel Chandler Harris & Alice Walker the University of Georgia |
| #7488, aired 2017-03-15 | PRO TEAMS ARE FOR THE BIRDS $400: Jose Bautista went north to become Joey Bats, author of an iconic 2016 bat flip for this team the Toronto Blue Jays |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | WRITERS' VOCABULARY $400: It's a list of all source material used in preparation of a text a bibliography |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | WRITERS' VOCABULARY $800: "He was alone in this noisy hive with no place to roost" is a mixed one of these figures of speech a metaphor |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | WRITERS' VOCABULARY $1200: It's the French term for an expression that can have multiple meanings, though the name implies just 2 a double entendre |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | WRITERS' VOCABULARY $1600: "Animal Farm" uses anthropomorphism while "the walls have ears" is an example of this similar literary device personification |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | WRITERS' VOCABULARY $2000: This word can refer to a punctuation mark or a type of imagery, like "O Death, where is thy sting" an apostrophe |
| #7484, aired 2017-03-09 | LITERARY AWARDS $400: The Spur & the Lariat awards are given by the WWA, or these Writers of America Westerns |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: For 10 years she wrote for Entertainment Weekly; since she published "Gone Girl", EW covers her Gillian Flynn |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | WOMEN WRITERS $800: Her book "The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding & Other Stories" featured Miss Jane Marple & Hercule Poirot (Agatha) Christie |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | WOMEN WRITERS $1200: In 1950 she published her first kids' book, "Henry Huggins"; in 2016 she celebrated her 100th birthday (Beverly) Cleary |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | WOMEN WRITERS $2,000 (Daily Double): In "Letter from Peking", she wrote of an American woman separated from her Chinese-American husband Pearl S. Buck |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | WOMEN WRITERS $2000: According to tradition, Plato referred to this female poet from Lesbos as "the tenth Muse" Sappho |
| #7443, aired 2017-01-11 | LETTERS FROM WRITERS $200: In a letter to Marlon Brando:
"I'm praying that you'll buy 'On the Road' and make a movie of it" (Jack) Kerouac |
| #7443, aired 2017-01-11 | LETTERS FROM WRITERS $400: To wife Zelda in 1930:
"If I have failed you is it just barely possible that you have failed me" (F. Scott) Fitzgerald |
| #7443, aired 2017-01-11 | LETTERS FROM WRITERS $600: To a kind critic:
"I'm not like my characters, given to vapors and swooning and 'states', but I was... in a 'state"' Margaret Mitchell |
| #7443, aired 2017-01-11 | LETTERS FROM WRITERS $800: Ray Bradbury to this "Stranger in a Strange Land" author:
"Your influence on us all... cannot be measured" (Robert) Heinlein |
| #7443, aired 2017-01-11 | LETTERS FROM WRITERS $1000: To Frank Lloyd Wright:
"I would like to tell you now that Howard Roark represents my conception of man as God" Ayn Rand |
| #7440, aired 2017-01-06 | WRITERS ON FILM $400: In "Kill Your Darlings", a murder draws together Allen Ginsberg & other figures of this movement the Beat movement |
| #7440, aired 2017-01-06 | WRITERS ON FILM $800: "Quills" stars Geoffrey Rush as this irrepressible 18th century author during his days in an insane asylum the Marquis de Sade |
| #7440, aired 2017-01-06 | WRITERS ON FILM $1200: Starring Johnny Depp, this film tells the story of J.M Barrie's friendship with the family that inspired "Peter Pan" Finding Neverland |
| #7440, aired 2017-01-06 | WRITERS ON FILM $1600: In "Becoming Jane" this actress starred as Jane Austen pre-fame & entangled in a desperate romance Anne Hathaway |
| #7440, aired 2017-01-06 | WRITERS ON FILM $2000: (I'm Louis C.K.) In a 2015 film I played Arlen Hird, a composite character who is blacklisted along with this screenwriter played by Bryan Cranston (Dalton) Trumbo |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | GEOGRAPHIC FOOD & DRINK $800: It's the favorite county of some of our writers Bourbon County |
| #7397, aired 2016-11-08 | ANCIENT GREEK WRITERS $400: Even the author of the book "Why" this Trojan War poet "Matters" says to think of him as a culture, not a person Homer |
| #7397, aired 2016-11-08 | ANCIENT GREEK WRITERS $800: Socrates speaks in his own defense in this Plato work, & despite the title he's not really sorry Apology (or Apologia) |
| #7397, aired 2016-11-08 | ANCIENT GREEK WRITERS $1200: The wedding songs of this lyric poet known as the "tenth Muse" were likely written for the weddings of her pupils Sappho |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | LETTER WORDS $400: Letter writers must really mean what they say, as they often sign off pairing this 9-letter adverb with "yours" sincerely |
| #7380, aired 2016-10-14 | SCRAMBLED HARRY POTTER CHARACTERS $800: A convict, for awhile:
A BULK CRISIS Sirius Black |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | IN PRAISE OF OLDER WRITERS $400: Goethe was 59 when he completed the first part of this devilish play Faust |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | IN PRAISE OF OLDER WRITERS $800: This author of "The Big Sleep" didn't publish his first short story until he was 45 (Raymond) Chandler |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | IN PRAISE OF OLDER WRITERS $1600: She did not publish her only novel, "Black Beauty", until she was 57 (Anna) Sewell |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | IN PRAISE OF OLDER WRITERS $2,000 (Daily Double): In his 90s, this Irish playwright was still writing comedies like "Far-Fetched Fables" (George Bernard) Shaw |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | IN PRAISE OF OLDER WRITERS $2000: The inspiration for the movie "Barfly", he put out his debut novel "Post Office" in 1971 when he was 50 (Charles) Bukowski |
| #7364, aired 2016-09-22 | INQUISITIVE WRITERS $200: These Dostoyevsky brothers are always being asked questions like "Is there a God?" the Brothers Karamazov |
| #7364, aired 2016-09-22 | INQUISITIVE WRITERS $600: Alice B. Toklas quotes her asking, "What is the answer?"; getting none, she asked, "In that case, what is the question?" (Gertrude) Stein |
| #7364, aired 2016-09-22 | INQUISITIVE WRITERS $800: This Poe tale begins, "True!...Nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?" "The Tell-Tale Heart" |
| #7364, aired 2016-09-22 | INQUISITIVE WRITERS $1000: This 3-named woman wrote the 1966 short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" Joyce Carol Oates |
| #7364, aired 2016-09-22 | INQUISITIVE WRITERS $2,600 (Daily Double): R.L. Stevenson wrote, “I had gone to bed” this man, “I had awakened” this other man. “How was this to be explained?” Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde |
| #7358, aired 2016-09-14 | AWARDS FOR WRITING $800: The Newbery Medal goes to writers in this genre; Eleanor Estes won for 1952 with "Ginger Pye" children's writing |
| #7358, aired 2016-09-14 | LANGUAGES $1200: Computer fonts are now available to writers of this most widely spoken Native American language in the United States Navajo |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $600: This playwright of "The Misanthrope" is said to be the greatest of all writers of French comedy Molière |
| #7341, aired 2016-07-11 | SIGNATURES $400: Wang Xizhi was so renowned as one of these "beautiful writers" that his signature was deemed priceless a calligrapher |
| #7338, aired 2016-07-06 | LITERARY GROUPS & MOVEMENTS $800: A group of mid-20th century British writers were these "Young Men"--it's not "Jolly" Angry |
| #7319, aired 2016-06-09 | STOCKS $1600: A stock order of less than 100 shares, or a 2-word term for our writers an odd lot |
| #7314, aired 2016-06-02 | VIRGINIA IS FOR WRITERS $400: This writer of creepy tales grew up largely in Richmond & one of his last readings was in 1849 at the Exchange Hotel (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #7314, aired 2016-06-02 | VIRGINIA IS FOR WRITERS $800: Earl Hamner's story about a large extended family's life on a Virginia mountain became this popular TV show The Waltons |
| #7314, aired 2016-06-02 | VIRGINIA IS FOR WRITERS $1200: "Drawing Out the Man" by Henry Wise is a history of this military college in Lexington VMI |
| #7314, aired 2016-06-02 | VIRGINIA IS FOR WRITERS $2,000 (Daily Double): She was born in Virginia in 1873, but at age 9 moved to Nebraska, where her best known works are set Willa Cather |
| #7314, aired 2016-06-02 | VIRGINIA IS FOR WRITERS $2000: This native of Newport News wrote about Virginia history in "The Confessions of Nat Turner" William Styron |
| #7313, aired 2016-06-01 | NAME'S THE SAME $200: Writers Kilmer &
Carol Oates Joyce |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | LITERARY GROUPS $400: "Misplaced" term for Hemingway & other writers who came of age during World War I the Lost Generation |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | EYES ON THE PRIZE $600: Writers who explore the human condition can win a Humanitas Prize; Larry Kramer did for this drama about AIDS The Normal Heart |
| #7292, aired 2016-05-03 | WRITERS ON FILM $400: Fred Ward in "Henry & June":
This "Tropic"al author (Henry) Miller |
| #7292, aired 2016-05-03 | WRITERS ON FILM $800: Corey Stoll in "Midnight in Paris":
This American in Paris Hemingway |
| #7292, aired 2016-05-03 | WRITERS ON FILM $1600: Emma Thompson in "Saving Mr. Banks":
This kids' author P.L. Travers |
| #7292, aired 2016-05-03 | WRITERS ON FILM $2,000 (Daily Double): Catherine Keener in "Capote":
This Southern author Harper Lee |
| #7292, aired 2016-05-03 | WRITERS ON FILM $2000: Daniel Craig in "Sylvia":
This husband & poet Ted Hughes |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | WRITERS BY INITIALS $200: A play-full Dublin native:
GBS George Bernard Shaw |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | WRITERS BY INITIALS $400: Bestselling author of Jurassic proportions:
MC Michael Crichton |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | WRITERS BY INITIALS $600: Content with little:
HDT Henry David Thoreau |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | WRITERS BY INITIALS $800: Portrayed in the 1990s-set movie "The End of the Tour":
DFW David Foster Wallace |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | WRITERS BY INITIALS $1000: A Peruvian Nobelist:
MVL Mario Vargas Llosa |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | FOUNDERS $1,500 (Daily Double): Roger Baldwin, co-founder of this "Union", was its director when its clients included John Scopes & James Joyce the ACLU (the American Civil Liberties Union) |
| #7211, aired 2016-01-11 | AUTHORS' LESSER KNOWN WORKS $1200: F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote 17 "Pat Hobby" stories about a down-&-out one of these writers, a job Scott knew well scriptwriter |
| #7205, aired 2016-01-01 | LITERARY AWARDS $400: These awards presented by the Mystery Writers of America are named for Mr. Poe the Edgars |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | IN THE STATE'S HALL OF FAME $400: Alice Walker & Margaret Mitchell are in its Writers Hall of Fame Georgia |
| #7175, aired 2015-11-20 | WRITERS MAKE PRETTY GOOD FRIENDS $200: Ezra Pound was a friend & mentor to him, arranging for the serialization of his "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" James Joyce |
| #7175, aired 2015-11-20 | WRITERS MAKE PRETTY GOOD FRIENDS $400: This writer of "J'Accuse" was friends with Paul Cezanne & encouraged him to pursue his art studies in Paris (Émile) Zola |
| #7175, aired 2015-11-20 | WRITERS MAKE PRETTY GOOD FRIENDS $600: In "A Moveable Feast", he says Gertrude Stein had been very cordial & friendly to him Hemingway |
| #7175, aired 2015-11-20 | WRITERS MAKE PRETTY GOOD FRIENDS $800: Charles Dickens & this "Vanity Fair" author were 19th century frenemies Thackeray |
| #7175, aired 2015-11-20 | WRITERS MAKE PRETTY GOOD FRIENDS $1000: Though close with this novelist, Edith Wharton said, "Don't ask me what I think of 'The Wings of the Dove"' Henry James |
| #7162, aired 2015-11-03 | MARY, MARY $1,800 (Daily Double): One of the first sci-fi writers; her novels include 1826's "The Last Man", about a world destroyed by plague Mary Shelley |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | WRITING FOR TELEVISION $200: A 2015 Writers Guild Award went to Brian Kelley for "Brick Like Me", a Lego-themed episode of this series--excellent The Simpsons |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | SAME LETTER BEGINNING, MIDDLE & END $400: It's a storage place for water, dog reservoir |
| #7134, aired 2015-09-24 | OSCAR-WINNING WRITERS $1200: 2010, adaptation:
"The Social Network" (Aaron) Sorkin |
| #7134, aired 2015-09-24 | OSCAR-WINNING WRITERS $1600: 2003, original:
"Lost in Translation" Sofia Coppola |
| #7134, aired 2015-09-24 | OSCAR-WINNING WRITERS $2000: 1999, adaptation:
"The Cider House Rules" (John) Irving |
| #7084, aired 2015-06-04 | WRITERS FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $200: Eliot &
Sand George |
| #7084, aired 2015-06-04 | WRITERS FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $400: Sitwell &
Wharton Edith |
| #7084, aired 2015-06-04 | WRITERS FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $600: McCullough &
Sedaris David |
| #7084, aired 2015-06-04 | WRITERS FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $800: Wise Brown &
Atwood Margaret |
| #7084, aired 2015-06-04 | WRITERS FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $1000: Chopin &
DiCamillo Kate |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | WRITERS BY MIDDLE NAMES $200: Allan, who was "nevermore" as of Oct. 7, 1849 (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | WRITERS BY MIDDLE NAMES $400: Bronson's daughter:
May Louisa May Alcott |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | WRITERS BY MIDDLE NAMES $600: Wordsworth was his BFF:
Taylor (Samuel Taylor) Coleridge |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | WRITERS BY MIDDLE NAMES $800: Wrote "The Master of Ballantrae":
Louis Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | WRITERS BY MIDDLE NAMES $1000: Their eyes were watching her:
Neale Zora Neale Hurston |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | POTPOURRI $1200: Now, our writers are messing with me--Xiuhtecuhtli, Mictlantecuhtli & Xochiquetzal were gods of this civilization the Aztecs |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | NEW ENDINGS FOR CLASSIC LIT $1000: "...and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes". Then again no maybe not I don't think so I said no Ulysses |
| #7018, aired 2015-03-04 | BOOKS ABOUT WRITERS $400: She's "The Mockingbird Next Door" Harper Lee |
| #7018, aired 2015-03-04 | BOOKS ABOUT WRITERS $800: Thomas Beller calls this reclusive man of letters "The Escape Artist" (J.D.) Salinger |
| #7018, aired 2015-03-04 | BOOKS ABOUT WRITERS $1200: Scholar Rosamund Bartlett dissected "Scenes from a Life" of this Russian playwright (Anton) Chekhov |
| #7018, aired 2015-03-04 | BOOKS ABOUT WRITERS $1600: "The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans" paints a portrait of this author George Eliot |
| #7018, aired 2015-03-04 | BOOKS ABOUT WRITERS $3,000 (Daily Double): There's an entire book just about him & the Church of Ireland, 1710-1724 Jonathan Swift |
| #7002, aired 2015-02-10 | FEMALE AUTHORS $800: Author of more than 200 works, Nora Roberts was the first inductee of the Hall of Fame for writers in this genre romance |
| #6979, aired 2015-01-08 | BODY CHECK $800: 2 prominences on either side of its lower end form the upper half of the knee joint; you give me this bone the femur |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | POP CULTURE RELATIVES? $400: Homer & Marge's older daughter & Nick Lachey's ex-"Newlywed" wife Lisa & Jessica Simpson |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | THE BIBLE $400: The 4 gospel writers of the New Testament were Matthew, Mark & these 2 John & Luke |
| #6937, aired 2014-11-11 | ABOVE $600: In film budgeting, writers, producers & talent are idiomatically considered this above the line |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | LETTERS FROM WRITERS $200: In a letter to a friend in 1845: "I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year" Emily Dickinson |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | LETTERS FROM WRITERS $600: To Anais Nin: "I think I have discovered a title for the book. How do you like... 'Tropic of Cancer' or 'I Sing the Equator'" Henry Miller |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | LETTERS FROM WRITERS $800: To Marlon Brando: "I wrote a book called 'The Godfather'... and I think you're the only actor who can play the part" Mario Puzo |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | LETTERS FROM WRITERS $1,000 (Daily Double): To F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925: "We are going in to Pamplona tomorrow. Been trout fishing here" Ernest Hemingway |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | LETTERS FROM WRITERS $1000: T.S. Eliot divulged in a letter that a difficult marriage "brought the state of mind out of which came" this poem in 1922 "The Waste Land" |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | WRITERS ON THE PERIODIC TABLE $400: ___ ___ Wells mercury (Hg) |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | WRITERS ON THE PERIODIC TABLE $800: ___ ___ Lewis cesium (Cs) (or chlorine (Cl)) |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | WRITERS ON THE PERIODIC TABLE $1200: ___ ___ Shelley lead (Pb) |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | WRITERS ON THE PERIODIC TABLE $1600: ___ ___ Hinton selenium (Se) |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | WRITERS ON THE PERIODIC TABLE $2000: British mistress of mystery
___ ___ James palladium (Pd) |
| #6902, aired 2014-09-23 | THE ALL-WRITERS BASKETBALL TEAM $400: 6'4'' from the University of Maine, this "Dead Zone" author Stephen King |
| #6902, aired 2014-09-23 | THE ALL-WRITERS BASKETBALL TEAM $800: 6'9'' from Harvard, this man who wrote thrillers under the name John Lange (Lange is "tall" in German) Michael Crichton |
| #6902, aired 2014-09-23 | THE ALL-WRITERS BASKETBALL TEAM $1200: 6'6'' from the Repton School in Derbyshire, this children's author seen with wife Patricia Neal Roald Dahl |
| #6902, aired 2014-09-23 | THE ALL-WRITERS BASKETBALL TEAM $1600: 6'3'' from Fairfax High, this author of crime books like "L.A. Confidential" James Ellroy |
| #6902, aired 2014-09-23 | THE ALL-WRITERS BASKETBALL TEAM $2000: 6'8'' from Ontario Agricultural College, this economist who wrote "The New Industrial State" John Kenneth Galbraith |
| #6893, aired 2014-07-30 | CREATIVE WRITERS $400: Mark Twain created this title character also found in "Huckleberry Finn" Tom Sawyer |
| #6893, aired 2014-07-30 | CREATIVE WRITERS $800: Anthony Horowitz created this teen spy found in books like "Snakehead" Alex Rider |
| #6893, aired 2014-07-30 | CREATIVE WRITERS $1200: George Orwell created this "Police" force that sound like they even read your mind the Thought Police |
| #6893, aired 2014-07-30 | CREATIVE WRITERS $2000: For a play, he created Rosmersholm, a manor house in west Norway Ibsen |
| #6893, aired 2014-07-30 | CREATIVE WRITERS $2,600 (Daily Double): He created Edmond Dantes but based him on falsely accused Francois Picaud Alexandre Dumas |
| #6878, aired 2014-07-09 | LONDON SPRAWLING $1200: The British Museum is in this London neighborhood once home to a famous writers' "group" Bloomsbury |
| #6865, aired 2014-06-20 | WHAT AN ARTIST DIES IN ME! $2000: On Feb. 23, 1792 it was a "wrap" for this English portrait painter whose subjects included "William Robertson" (Joshua) Reynolds |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | ORGANIZATIONS $800: This club that uses the slogan "We Serve" is "feline" good about fighting blindness the Lions Club |
| #6813, aired 2014-04-09 | STATE SCHOOLS $400: This university is home to its state's Writers Hall of Fame, which includes Alice Walker & Margaret Mitchell the University of Georgia |
| #6808, aired 2014-04-02 | "SELF-E"s $400: Status in common of freelance writers, sole business proprietors & contract killers self-employed |
| #6788, aired 2014-03-05 | MAKE A FAMOUS PHRASE $2000: Result when a player at each poker table has raised an opponent one fowl there's a chicken in every pot |
| #6787, aired 2014-03-04 | SCIENCE TIMELINE $777 (Daily Double): In 1576 King Frederick II granted him title to the island of Ven to build an observatory Tycho Brahe |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | WRITERS HATIN' ON WRITERS $400: Twain said, "Every time I read 'Pride and Prejudice', I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin bone" (Jane) Austen |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | WRITERS HATIN' ON WRITERS $800: Virginia Woolf said this 1922 Joyce novel was by "a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples" Ulysses |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | WRITERS HATIN' ON WRITERS $1200: Hemingway asked about this Mississippi novelist, "does he really think big emotions come from big words?" Faulkner |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | WRITERS HATIN' ON WRITERS $1600: Oscar Wilde said, "there are two ways of disliking poetry...to dislike it (&) to read" this author of "An Essay on Man" Alexander Pope |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | WRITERS HATIN' ON WRITERS $2000: This writer famously said of Jack Kerouac's output, "it isn't writing at all--it's typing" Truman Capote |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | WRITERS IN PRISON $400: Alexander Solzhenitsyn spent years in the Gulag after criticizing this leader he called "the whiskered one" Stalin |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | WRITERS IN PRISON $1200: An author, statesman & saint, he was jailed in 1534 & later executed for an act of religious defiance Thomas More |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | WRITERS IN PRISON $1600: "Le Morte d'Arthur" author Sir Thomas Malory was jailed often, the last time for favoring the Lancastrians in these wars the War of the Roses |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | WRITERS IN PRISON $2000: The "idiot"! He got mixed up with the Petrashevsky Circle of socialists & did 8 months in 1849 Dostoyevsky |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | WRITERS IN PRISON $7,200 (Daily Double): He spent 30 days in jail for vagrancy in 1894 before heading to the Klondike, the setting for some of his best stories Jack London |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | ACTORS PLAYING WRITERS $400: In "The Raven" a serial killer is inspired by the works of this author played by John Cusack (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | ACTORS PLAYING WRITERS $800: Opposite Toby Jones as Truman Capote, Sandra Bullock played this author, famed for her sole novel Harper Lee |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | ACTORS PLAYING WRITERS $1200: In "Misery" this actress gives novelist James Caan the agony of da feet Kathy Bates |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | ACTORS PLAYING WRITERS $1600: Everyone nose this actress wasn't afraid to play Virginia Woolf in "The Hours" Nicole Kidman |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | ACTORS PLAYING WRITERS $2000: Chris O'Donnell was "In Love and War" as a young version of this U.S. novelist who falls for a nurse in WWI Hemingway |
| #6685, aired 2013-10-11 | WET BAR GLOSSARY $400: Here come the "Jeopardy!" writers; better tap this cask that can hold 165 12-ounce beers a keg |
| #6680, aired 2013-10-04 | INDOOR DRAMAS $400: Martha said she'd murder me if my sneezes made this fluffy French egg dish fall, but I couldn't hold back a souffle |
| #6660, aired 2013-07-26 | WRITERS IN WARTIME $400: The "Sir" before this mystery author's name came after his work as an army doctor during the Boer War Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #6660, aired 2013-07-26 | WRITERS IN WARTIME $800: Jockey & author Dick Francis flew a spitfire when he served with this group during World War II the RAF (Royal Air Force) |
| #6660, aired 2013-07-26 | WRITERS IN WARTIME $1200: George Orwell was wounded while fighting for the losing Leftist side in this 1930s Civil War the Spanish Civil War |
| #6660, aired 2013-07-26 | WRITERS IN WARTIME $1600: His time in the 488th Bombardment Squadron, 340th Bombardment Group inspired a classic satirical novel Joseph Heller |
| #6660, aired 2013-07-26 | WRITERS IN WARTIME $2000: His time comforting wounded soldiers during the Civil War helped inspire his collection "Drum-Taps" Walt Whitman |
| #6652, aired 2013-07-16 | WRITERS' HOBBIES $200: Charles Dickens enjoyed doing these for guests, like making a plum pudding appear in a hat magic tricks |
| #6652, aired 2013-07-16 | WRITERS' HOBBIES $400: This author enjoyed a good game of billiards and had a table for it in his house Mark Twain |
| #6652, aired 2013-07-16 | WRITERS' HOBBIES $600: Lord Byron enjoyed this athletic activity & crossed the Hellespont that way (about a mile) in 1810 swimming |
| #6652, aired 2013-07-16 | WRITERS' HOBBIES $800: It proved fatal for Percy Shelley, but he enjoyed this nautical pursuit until the very end sailing |
| #6652, aired 2013-07-16 | WRITERS' HOBBIES $1000: This "Delta Wedding" author's photos of rural Mississippi are as evocative as her stories (Eudora) Welty |
| #6615, aired 2013-05-24 | WRITERS AT REST $200: Ray Bradbury's headstone calls him the author of this 1953 classic Fahrenheit 451 |
| #6615, aired 2013-05-24 | WRITERS AT REST $400: This Irish author is buried with his wife Nora in Zurich's Fluntern Cemetery James Joyce |
| #6615, aired 2013-05-24 | WRITERS AT REST $600: This British author was buried in the Shire-- Oxfordshire, that is-- alongside wife Edith Tolkien |
| #6615, aired 2013-05-24 | WRITERS AT REST $800: Notables in Paris' Pere Lachaise include Jean de Brunhoff, who created this "little elephant" of kids' books Babar |
| #6615, aired 2013-05-24 | WRITERS AT REST $1000: This author of "Light In August" was laid to rest in Saint Peter's cemetery in Oxford, Mississippi (William) Faulkner |
| #6581, aired 2013-04-08 | EUROPE $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) 2,000 years ago, because the peninsula was believed to be a large island with reefs & sandbanks, writers like Pliny the Elder called the region by this name, meaning "dangerous island" Scandinavia |
| #6538, aired 2013-02-06 | HEY, I JUST MET YOU $200: This "Call Me Maybe" singer got together with Matthew Koma, one of her co-writers on her album "Kiss" Carly Rae Jepsen |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | WRITERS ON FILM $400: Philip Seymour Hoffman won the best actor Oscar for his role as this author Truman Capote |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | WRITERS ON FILM $800: Nicole Kidman won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as this author in "The Hours" Virginia Woolf |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | WRITERS ON FILM $1200: It's the better-known pen name of Karen Blixen, who's portrayed in "Out of Africa" Isak Dinesen |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | WRITERS ON FILM $2000: She was portrayed by both Kate Winslet & Dame Judi Dench in the 2001 biopic "Iris" Iris Murdoch |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | WRITERS ON FILM $4,000 (Daily Double): The movie "Nora" tells of the relationship between Nora Barnacle & this writer played by Ewan McGregor James Joyce |
| #6497, aired 2012-12-11 | THE BEAT MOVEMENT $400: Many beat writers such as Gary Snyder were involved in this eastern religion, particularly the Zen form Buddhism |
| #6482, aired 2012-11-20 | LITERARY RELATIVES $400: This novelist's sister Catharine & brother Henry Ward Beecher were both writers (Harriet Beecher) Stowe |
| #6474, aired 2012-11-08 | WEIRDPODGE $1200: Swiss writers of this language generally ignore the weird "B" that sometimes replaces a double "S" German |
| #6472, aired 2012-11-06 | LITERARY AWARDS $400: Since 1953, the Spur Awards have been presented annually to writers of this genre Western |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | "SEP"-TEMBER $2000: As its name suggests, this early version of the Old Testament was translated by 70 writers the Septuagint |
| #6412, aired 2012-07-03 | SEE "INSIDE" FOR DETAILS $800: Actors, writers & directors reminisce about their careers on this James Lipton-hosted TV show Inside the Actors Studio |
| #6405, aired 2012-06-22 | COMMON BONDS $400: Janet Evanovich,
Lilian Jackson Braun,
Sue Grafton mystery writers |
| #6404, aired 2012-06-21 | BAD ENDINGS FOR WRITERS $400: Irish poet Padraic Pearse was executed by firing squad after helping lead 1916's Easter Rebellion in this capital Dublin |
| #6404, aired 2012-06-21 | BAD ENDINGS FOR WRITERS $800: Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca was killed in 1936 by this general's forces Franco |
| #6404, aired 2012-06-21 | BAD ENDINGS FOR WRITERS $1200: This Roman orator & writer was executed on Dec. 7, 43 B.C.; his head & hands were then put on display at the forum Cicero |
| #6404, aired 2012-06-21 | BAD ENDINGS FOR WRITERS $2,000 (Daily Double): This courtier & author of a "History of the World" was executed at the Tower of London in 1618 Sir Walter Raleigh |
| #6404, aired 2012-06-21 | BAD ENDINGS FOR WRITERS $2000: A romantic tale says this Austrian poet of "Sonnets to Orpheus" died from a scratch he got picking a rose--actually, leukemia (Rainer Maria) Rilke |
| #6402, aired 2012-06-19 | AUTHORS $1200: She described the difficulties of female writers in a man's world in her 1929 essay "A Room of One's Own" Virginia Woolf |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $400: He popularized the term "The Jazz Age" in a 1922 book title Fitzgerald |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $800: World Book says this "Main Street" author "died lonely and unhappy in Italy on Jan. 10, 1951" Sinclair Lewis |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $1200: In 2005 Britain's National Portrait Gallery acquired the only known drawing of Ted Hughes by this writer, his wife Sylvia Plath |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $2,000 (Daily Double): From 1962 until his death in 1967, he was Poet Laureate of Illinois Carl Sandburg |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $2000: 3's the charm for this playwright whose "Three Tall Women" earned him his third Pulitzer Edward Albee |
| #6377, aired 2012-05-15 | TRANSLATE, PLEASE $1200: From the Spanish, our writers' favorite:
la cerveza beer |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | APRIL 23: BAD DAY FOR WRITERS $800: He was buried in Madrid April 23, 1616, not long after finishing "Don Quixote" Cervantes |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | APRIL 23: BAD DAY FOR WRITERS $1200: David Halberstam, author of books about this event like 1965's "Anatomy of a Quagmire", died April 23, 2007 the Vietnam War |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | APRIL 23: BAD DAY FOR WRITERS $1600: This English poet laureate died April 23, 1850 at Rydal Mount in his beloved Lake District Wordsworth |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | APRIL 23: BAD DAY FOR WRITERS $2000: Before his April 23, 1915 death abroad, he wrote, "There's some corner of a foreign field / That is for ever England" Rupert Brooke |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | WRITERS' WORDS $200: The formal, concise statement of the meaning of a word; I worked out for weeks to get it for my muscles definition |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | WRITERS' WORDS $400: It's a French word for a trite phrase, & the French have their own, like "J'ai dormi comme une souche", "I slept like a stump" a cliché |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | WRITERS' WORDS $600: "Pathetic" or not, it's a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning fallacy |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | WRITERS' WORDS $800: The use of only a few words to convey meaning, it's said to be "the soul of wit" brevity |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | WRITERS' WORDS $1000: It can be someone who embodies a certain quality or idea, or a term for attributing human qualities to animals or things personification |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | SAME-NAMED WRITERS $200: Pynchon &
Hardy Thomas |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | SAME-NAMED WRITERS $400: Werfel &
Kafka Franz |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | SAME-NAMED WRITERS $600: Ferber &
St. Vincent Millay Edna |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | SAME-NAMED WRITERS $800: Harte &
Easton Ellis Bret |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | SAME-NAMED WRITERS $1000: Chandler &
Feist Raymond |
| #6306, aired 2012-02-06 | ASIAN LITERATURE $1200: Derenik Demirjyan & Hrant Matevosyan are 20th century writers from this former Soviet republic Armenia |
| #6216, aired 2011-10-03 | FOR YOUR REFERENCE $600: Every year our writers get excited by new editions of these books that originally carried astronomical data almanacs |
| #6207, aired 2011-09-20 | SIBLING REVELRY $2000: Last name of writers & siblings Amy & David, who collaborated on the play "The Book of Liz" Sedaris |
| #6191, aired 2011-07-11 | WRITERS ON FILM $400: In "Capote", Catherine Keener portrayed this Southern novelist, on the cusp of publication Harper Lee |
| #6191, aired 2011-07-11 | WRITERS ON FILM $800: Christopher Plummer was nominated for an Oscar for playing this Russian author in 2009's "The Last Station" Tolstoy |
| #6191, aired 2011-07-11 | WRITERS ON FILM $1200: "Devotion" starred Ida Lupino & Olivia de Havilland as these writing sisters Charlotte & Emily Bronte |
| #6191, aired 2011-07-11 | WRITERS ON FILM $1600: In "Gothic", Gabriel Byrne was this lord of poetry (Lord) Byron |
| #6191, aired 2011-07-11 | WRITERS ON FILM $2000: Gwyneth Paltrow portrayed her in the early days of her marriage to fellow poet Ted Hughes Sylvia Plath |
| #6179, aired 2011-06-23 | "N" THE MIDDLE $600 (Daily Double): In June 1919 a group of writers that included Edna Ferber began lunching together at this New York City hotel the Algonquin |
| #6177, aired 2011-06-21 | WRITERS' RELATIVES $400: While director of scientific affairs for this company, Joyce Kilmer's father invented its baby powder Johnson & Johnson |
| #6177, aired 2011-06-21 | WRITERS' RELATIVES $800: The state song "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away", was written by the brother of this "Sister Carrie" author (Theodore) Dreiser |
| #6177, aired 2011-06-21 | WRITERS' RELATIVES $1200: This "Naked Lunch" author was named for his paternal grandfather, who invented the adding machine (William) Burroughs |
| #6177, aired 2011-06-21 | WRITERS' RELATIVES $1600: This acting son of British Poet Laureate Cecil won Oscars in 1990 & 2008 Daniel Day-Lewis |
| #6177, aired 2011-06-21 | WRITERS' RELATIVES $2000: His father Nathaniel was a successful writer & his grandfather Robert was a noted humorist & drama critic Peter Benchley |
| #6147, aired 2011-05-10 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $400: Ralph ____ Ellison &
Ralph ____ Emerson Waldo |
| #6147, aired 2011-05-10 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $800: James ____ Cooper Fenimore |
| #6147, aired 2011-05-10 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $1200: Henry ____ Longfellow Wadsworth |
| #6147, aired 2011-05-10 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $1600: Joyce ____ Oates Carol |
| #6147, aired 2011-05-10 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $2000: David ____ Wallace Foster |
| #6103, aired 2011-03-09 | OF ORDER $800 (Daily Double): Writers, from earliest to latest:
C.S. Lewis,
Sir Walter Scott,
Christopher Marlowe Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Scott, C.S. Lewis |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | TV SHOW BY CAST $2000: Robert Buckley,
James Lafferty One Tree Hill |
| #6031, aired 2010-11-29 | GUILDING $400: It's what WGA stands for in Hollywood the Writers Guild of America |
| #6019, aired 2010-11-11 | WRITERS ON THE MOVE $400: In 1790 William Wordsworth spent his summer vacation in this revolution-torn country France |
| #6019, aired 2010-11-11 | WRITERS ON THE MOVE $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.) This American novelist, more associated with whales, visited the Galapagos & mused on the tortoise as a symbol of the two sides of existence, with its dark topside & bright underside Herman Melville |
| #6019, aired 2010-11-11 | WRITERS ON THE MOVE $1,000 (Daily Double): In this country D.H. Lawrence started a novel called "Quetzalcoatl", later "The Plumed Serpent" Mexico |
| #6019, aired 2010-11-11 | WRITERS ON THE MOVE $1200: "A Cook's Tour" narrates the strange journeys & meals of this chef & TV personality Anthony Bourdain |
| #6019, aired 2010-11-11 | WRITERS ON THE MOVE $2000: Composer Rachmaninoff lent this Russian-born novelist the money to come to the U.S. in 1940 Vladimir Nabokov |
| #6011, aired 2010-11-01 | FRONTWORDS & BACKWORDS $400: Bosses do this, to writers' dismay; also, what happens at sea twice a day edit/tide |
| #5976, aired 2010-09-13 | GHOST WRITERS $400: You know her 1852 antislavery novel, but maybe not her 1870 "The Ghost in the Mill" Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #5976, aired 2010-09-13 | GHOST WRITERS $800: Marley & Co. weren't his only spirits; he also wrote about ghosts in "The Haunted House" Dickens |
| #5976, aired 2010-09-13 | GHOST WRITERS $1200: In addition to "A Study in Scarlet" & "The White Company", his stories include the spooky "The Brown Hand" Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #5976, aired 2010-09-13 | GHOST WRITERS $1600: Before he disappeared in 1914, this "Dictionary" writer penned such ghost stories as "The Haunted Valley" Ambrose Bierce |
| #5976, aired 2010-09-13 | GHOST WRITERS $2000: There's a ghost story within a story in "The Open Window" by H.H. Munro, better known by this single pen name Saki |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | ENGLISH LIT $1000: In her 1929 feminist essay "A Room of One's Own", she paid tribute to women writers Virginia Woolf |
| #5914, aired 2010-05-06 | AMERICANS IN PARIS $2000: Sherwood Anderson & Ernest Hemingway were among the expatriate writers who hung out at her Paris salon Gertrude Stein |
| #5906, aired 2010-04-26 | OFF THE ____ $600: "Off the" this, also one of the writers of the 4 Gospels, means inaccurate the mark |
| #5900, aired 2010-04-16 | GRAMMY SONG OF THE YEAR $2000: 1986:
"That's What Friends Are For"
(1 of 2) Burt Bacharach (or Carole Bayer Sager) |
| #5876, aired 2010-03-15 | STORY PROBLEMS $1200: The "Jeopardy!" writers drank 72 beers after work yesterday: 20 in the 1st round, 26 in the 2nd & this many at last call 26 |
| #5862, aired 2010-02-23 | INTERNET FAVORITES $400: Our writers visit search.eb.com, which brings you to the website for this reference work that's been around since 1768 Encyclopedia Britannica |
| #5817, aired 2009-12-22 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $400: A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet:
St. Vincent (Edna St. Vincent) Millay |
| #5817, aired 2009-12-22 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $800: He wrote "O.T.: A Danish Romance" & lived a fairy tale life:
Christian Hans Christian Andersen |
| #5817, aired 2009-12-22 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $1200: A poet & a 6-year member of the Irish Senate:
Butler (William Butler) Yeats |
| #5817, aired 2009-12-22 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $1600: A Polish-born writer of short stories:
Bashevis Singer |
| #5817, aired 2009-12-22 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $2000: "Cross Creek" chronicler:
Kinnan Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
| #5792, aired 2009-11-17 | 40 YEARS OF SESAME STREET $1000: Will Lee played this store owner; in 1982 the writers incorporated his death into the show to help kids deal with loss Mr. Hooper |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | QUESTION, MARK $1200: When asked if he has any writers, this piano-playing comic says, "Yes, I have 535 writers. 100 in the Senate & 435 in the House…" (Mark) Russell |
| #5753, aired 2009-09-23 | WRITERS ON FILM $400: In 2008's "Twilight" she had a cameo as a woman at a diner who orders a vegetarian plate Stephenie Meyer |
| #5753, aired 2009-09-23 | WRITERS ON FILM $800: When Rodney Dangerfield needs help on a paper about Vonnegut in this 1986 movie, he hires Vonnegut himself Back to School |
| #5753, aired 2009-09-23 | WRITERS ON FILM $1200: Gore Vidal plays incumbent senator Brickley Paste, who's running against this title Tim Robbins guy Bob Roberts |
| #5753, aired 2009-09-23 | WRITERS ON FILM $1600: In "Annie Hall" Woody has this "medium is the message" writer rebuke a pontificating media professor (Marshall) McLuhan |
| #5753, aired 2009-09-23 | WRITERS ON FILM $2000: A frequent talk show guest, this alliterative film critic acted in "Superman" & "Myra Breckinridge" Rex Reed |
| #5713, aired 2009-06-10 | WELCOME TO LISBON $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a city square in Lisbon, Portugal.) Portugal's great writers include José Saramago, who grew up in Lisbon & who wrote this novel adapted into a 2008 movie with Julianne Moore Blindness |
| #5706, aired 2009-06-01 | HIDDEN AGENDA $200: For letter-writers of any age ND and SD are the postal abbreviations of these 2 states South Dakota & North Dakota |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | WRITERS' RHYME TIME $400: Actress-novelist Fannie's satchels Flagg's bags |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | WRITERS' RHYME TIME $800: McMurtry's fencing moves Larry's parries |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | WRITERS' RHYME TIME $1200: Playwright Harold's slivers of wood Pinter's splinters |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | WRITERS' RHYME TIME $1600: Philip's tree-hanging mammals Roth's sloths |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | WRITERS' RHYME TIME $2000: Graham's legumes Greene's beans |
| #5688, aired 2009-05-06 | COMPARATIVE LIT $400: Among the writers in this movement, Byron is more highly esteemed than Darley the Romantic movement |
| #5660, aired 2009-03-27 | OBSCURE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $1200: Writers from Norway, Sweden & Denmark had already won; in 1939 it was the turn of someone from this country Finland |
| #5654, aired 2009-03-19 | WRITERS ON FILM $200: Danny Kaye played a cobbler who gained fame as this writer of fairy tales Hans Christian Andersen |
| #5654, aired 2009-03-19 | WRITERS ON FILM $400: Nicole Kidman spent "The Hours" in a fake nose as her Virginia Woolf |
| #5654, aired 2009-03-19 | WRITERS ON FILM $800: Daniel Craig played this British poet in the biopic "Sylvia" Ted Hughes |
| #5654, aired 2009-03-19 | WRITERS ON FILM $1,000 (Daily Double): "In Love and War" showed this author as an ambulance driver wounded in WWI & falling for his nurse Ernest Hemingway |
| #5654, aired 2009-03-19 | WRITERS ON FILM $1000: "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle" included Lili Taylor as this "Show Boat" author Edna Ferber |
| #5630, aired 2009-02-13 | TURKISH LITERATURE $1200: Sultan Abdulhamid II's censorship hindered Ottoman writers until this "youthful" group's 1908 revolution the Young Turks |
| #5590, aired 2008-12-19 | TRANSPLANT $400: After WWII black American writers Richard Wright & Chester Himes moved to this country France |
| #5579, aired 2008-12-04 | YOU GO, GIRL! $1200: This witty woman who helped found the Screen Writers Guild left her estate to Martin Luther King Jr. (Dorothy) Parker |
| #5569, aired 2008-11-20 | TIME TO HIT THE BOOKS $800: (Harry Shearer reads the clue as Mr. Burns.) I had 1,000 monkeys at 1,000 type-writers; I could only pen, "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times", like this novel's start... stupid monkey! A Tale of Two Cities |
| #5566, aired 2008-11-17 | FIRST NAMES $400: The name of this one of the 4 gospel writers means "gift of God" Matthew |
| #5531, aired 2008-09-29 | ANCIENT GREEK WRITERS $400: In his History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides wrote that history does this... does this repeats itself |
| #5531, aired 2008-09-29 | ANCIENT GREEK WRITERS $800: "Poetics" by this founder of the Lyceum has been called the single most influential work in all of literary criticism Aristotle |
| #5531, aired 2008-09-29 | ANCIENT GREEK WRITERS $1200: The playwright Menander wrote, "Marriage, if one will face the truth, is... a necessary" this evil |
| #5531, aired 2008-09-29 | ANCIENT GREEK WRITERS $1600: He argued in "The Republic" that the state had 3 parts: the rulers, the soldiers & the workers Plato |
| #5531, aired 2008-09-29 | ANCIENT GREEK WRITERS $2,000 (Daily Double): The tune of "The Star-Spangled Banner" came from a drinking song about this lyric poet Anacreon |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | THE NEW YORK TIMES 2008 NEWS $800: A tentative deal with producers reported on February 10 proved to be the end of this labor action the Writers Guild strike |
| #5494, aired 2008-06-26 | WOMEN WRITERS $200: J.K. Rowling wrote her first novel at a cafe in this Scottish capital Edinburgh |
| #5494, aired 2008-06-26 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: Professor Bhaer, introduced in this 1868 novel, may have been based on William Rimmer, a teacher Louisa May Alcott knew Little Women |
| #5494, aired 2008-06-26 | WOMEN WRITERS $600: She departed from the theme of Chinese-American mothers & daughters with 2005's "Saving Fish From Drowning" Amy Tan |
| #5494, aired 2008-06-26 | WOMEN WRITERS $1000: This author of "Orlando" based her 1922 novel "Jacob's Room" on the life & death of her brother Thoby (Virginia) Woolf |
| #5494, aired 2008-06-26 | WOMEN WRITERS $2,000 (Daily Double): A graduate of Howard University, she won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993 Toni Morrison |
| #5471, aired 2008-05-26 | WRITERS $400: Samuel Langhorne Clemens first used this pen name in 1863 while with the Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City, Nev. Mark Twain |
| #5471, aired 2008-05-26 | WRITERS $800: This "Roses are Red" author also inspired a TV show with his "Women's Murder Club" series James Patterson |
| #5471, aired 2008-05-26 | WRITERS $1600: "The Hundred Days" is one of his books detailing the naval career of Jack Aubrey (Patrick) O'Brian |
| #5471, aired 2008-05-26 | WRITERS $2000: In 1939 he wrote,
"O tell me all
about Anna Livia!
I want to hear all
about Anna Livia...
Tell me all.
Tell me now" James Joyce |
| #5471, aired 2008-05-26 | WRITERS $2,200 (Daily Double): Richard Wright wrote "Native Son"; this fellow African-American author wrote "Notes of a Native Son" James Baldwin |
| #5417, aired 2008-03-11 | WOMEN WRITERS $200: Troubled by the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, she wrote what became an immediate bestseller Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #5417, aired 2008-03-11 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: This author created the Vampire Lestat, the "bad boy of the bloodsucking world" Anne Rice |
| #5417, aired 2008-03-11 | WOMEN WRITERS $600: Recently published, "Suite Francaise" is by Irene Nemirovsky, who died in this concentration camp in 1942 Auschwitz |
| #5417, aired 2008-03-11 | WOMEN WRITERS $800: It was curtains for Hercule Poirot in her 1975 mystery "Curtain" Agatha Christie |
| #5417, aired 2008-03-11 | WOMEN WRITERS $1000: She wrote the 1970 novel "Play it as it Lays" & the 2005 memoir "The Year of Magical Thinking" Joan Didion |
| #5402, aired 2008-02-19 | REALLY OLD MOVIES $800: Have some Reese's and enjoy this golden oldie from Steven Spielberg about aliens in America E.T. |
| #5388, aired 2008-01-30 | WRITERS AT REST $400: Her headstone at West Cemetery in Amherst says she was "BORN
DEC. 10, 1830
CALLED BACK
MAY 15, 1886" Emily Dickinson |
| #5388, aired 2008-01-30 | WRITERS AT REST $800: His grave is marked
"REV. CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON.
FELL ASLEEP JAN. 14, 1898.
AGED 65 YEARS" Lewis Carroll |
| #5388, aired 2008-01-30 | WRITERS AT REST $1200: Buried at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Mass., she died 2 days after her father, Bronson Louisa May Alcott |
| #5388, aired 2008-01-30 | WRITERS AT REST $1600: This author of "Metamorphosis" rests at a Jewish cemetery in Prague beneath a tombstone inscribed in Hebrew (Franz) Kafka |
| #5388, aired 2008-01-30 | WRITERS AT REST $2,000 (Daily Double): A little detective work in a Hampshire churchyard & you'll find the grave of this "PATRIOT, PHYSICIAN & MAN OF LETTERS" Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #5351, aired 2007-12-10 | HOW DO THEY WORK? $400: Magazine writers often work this way, a term that goes back to unaffiliated pillaging soldiers freelance |
| #5349, aired 2007-12-06 | "A" IN SCIENCE $1000: This inert gas is atomic number 18; you should "naut" search any further argon |
| #5349, aired 2007-12-06 | ROMAN $2,000 (Daily Double): In 71 B.C. this "great" man tried to take credit for ending Spartacus' slave revolt; maybe him & circumstance Pompey |
| #5342, aired 2007-11-27 | "PLAY" ALONG $600: Alan Ball & Budd Schulberg came up with great ones screenplays |
| #5319, aired 2007-10-25 | A GAME OF NUMBERS $1600: A famous group of blacklisted writers of the 1950s was known as the "Hollywood" this 10 |
| #5315, aired 2007-10-19 | PHILOSOPHY $800: A "Jeopardy!" game has 13 of these; medieval writers believed there were exactly 10, including place & time categories |
| #5314, aired 2007-10-18 | QUAY TO THE CITY $2000: We wonder whether a "steamroller" was used to form the many quays of this German city chartered in 1607 Mannheim |
| #5277, aired 2007-07-17 | THAT'S COMEDY $1000: "From two of the six writers of 'Scary Movie'" comes this parody of Willy Wonka, Narnia, etc. Epic Movie |
| #5270, aired 2007-07-06 | NOTABLE NAMES $400: Isabel Allende, Gabriela Mistral & Pablo Neruda are among this country's most famous writers Chile |
| #5264, aired 2007-06-28 | WRITERS NAMED JAMES $400: He published "Hawaii" the same year Hawaii became a state James Michener |
| #5264, aired 2007-06-28 | WRITERS NAMED JAMES $800: This author who was captured by the Japanese during WWII later wrote about feudal Japan in "Shogun" James Clavell |
| #5264, aired 2007-06-28 | WRITERS NAMED JAMES $1200: "Cross", a 2006 bestseller, is his 12th thriller featuring Alex Cross James Patterson |
| #5264, aired 2007-06-28 | WRITERS NAMED JAMES $1600: In a childhood archery mishap, this Walter Mitty creator lost an eye James Thurber |
| #5264, aired 2007-06-28 | WRITERS NAMED JAMES $2000: He adapted his novel "Deliverance" for the big screen & played a sheriff in the 1972 movie James Dickey |
| #5255, aired 2007-06-15 | "B" WRITERS $200: This English minister made some real "Pilgrim's Progress" in the 1670s and 1680s (John) Bunyan |
| #5255, aired 2007-06-15 | "B" WRITERS $400: This Scottish playwright's initials stood for James Matthew (James Matthew) Barrie |
| #5255, aired 2007-06-15 | "B" WRITERS $600: This author of "Humboldt's Gift" received the gift of a Guggenheim fellowship (Saul) Bellow |
| #5255, aired 2007-06-15 | "B" WRITERS $800: This author of "Erewhon" went "The Way of All Flesh" in 1903 Samuel Butler |
| #5255, aired 2007-06-15 | "B" WRITERS $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1928 he moved to Paris & met fellow Irish writer James Joyce, with whom he formed a lasting friendship (Samuel) Beckett |
| #5252, aired 2007-06-12 | ANCIENT GREEK WRITERS $400: He dedicated his "Parallel Lives" to Sosius Senecio, a friend of the emperor Plutarch |
| #5252, aired 2007-06-12 | ANCIENT GREEK WRITERS $800: Aristophanes' style is called "old" this; Menander's, less high-spirited, is "new "this comedy |
| #5252, aired 2007-06-12 | ANCIENT GREEK WRITERS $1200: He wrote more than 120 plays, but only 7 complete ones survive, including "Oedipus Rex" & "Oedipus at Colonus" Sophocles |
| #5252, aired 2007-06-12 | ANCIENT GREEK WRITERS $1600: Only one complete poem, 28 lines in length, remains from the poetry of this lyric poet from Lesbos Sappho |
| #5252, aired 2007-06-12 | ANCIENT GREEK WRITERS $2000: The U.S. Post Office can thank this "father of history" for writing "neither snow nor rain", etc. Herodotus |
| #5211, aired 2007-04-16 | ALPHABETICALLY LAST $800: ...of writers buried in Paris' Pantheon (Emile) Zola |
| #5195, aired 2007-03-23 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: She dedicated "Jane Eyre" to William Makepeace Thackeray Charlotte Brontë |
| #5195, aired 2007-03-23 | WOMEN WRITERS $800: "Memnoch The Devil" is the fifth book in this author's "Vampire Chronicles" Anne Rice |
| #5195, aired 2007-03-23 | WOMEN WRITERS $1600: In "Emma" she wrote, "Half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other" Jane Austen |
| #5195, aired 2007-03-23 | WOMEN WRITERS $2000: 2 of her dramas are "Watch on the Rhine" & "The Children's Hour" Lillian Hellman |
| #5195, aired 2007-03-23 | WOMEN WRITERS $4,000 (Daily Double): She wrote for the Nebraska State Journal & the Pittsburgh Leader before penning "My Antonia" Willa Cather |
| #5191, aired 2007-03-19 | WRITERS AT REST $400: Writers resting at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Mass. include Emerson & this Walden Pond ponderer Thoreau |
| #5191, aired 2007-03-19 | WRITERS AT REST $800: Simone de Beauvoir & this boyfriend share a grave at the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris Sartre |
| #5191, aired 2007-03-19 | WRITERS AT REST $1200: The most-visited grave site at St. Mary's cemetery in Rockville Maryland is that of this author & his wife Zelda (Scott) Fitzgerald |
| #5191, aired 2007-03-19 | WRITERS AT REST $2000: Her epitaph "Excuse My Dust" is famous; fewer know that it's on a plaque at NAACP HQ, where her ashes are buried Dorothy Parker |
| #5191, aired 2007-03-19 | WRITERS AT REST $2,100 (Daily Double): After his death in 1968, some of his ashes were scattered along the California coast, the rest were buried in Salinas (John) Steinbeck |
| #5119, aired 2006-12-07 | DUOS $1000: In 1959 this pair gave would-be writers "The Elements of Style" Strunk & White |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | FOUR-PLAY $1000: These 4 Biblical writers are symbolized by a man, a lion, an ox & an eagle Matthew, Mark, Luke & John |
| #5088, aired 2006-10-25 | NEW DEAL PROGRAMS $1200: 3 letters in the New Deal's "alphabet soup", it oversaw the federal art, theatre & writers' projects the WPA |
| #5063, aired 2006-09-20 | MATH JOKES $600: Lumberjacks make good musicians because of these exponents required to produce a given number logarithms |
| #5057, aired 2006-09-12 | WRITERS ON FILM $400: Philip Seymour Hoffman was him, writing "In Cold Blood" Truman Capote |
| #5057, aired 2006-09-12 | WRITERS ON FILM $800: Paul Bettany plays this author in the medieval-set "A Knight's Tale" Chaucer |
| #5057, aired 2006-09-12 | WRITERS ON FILM $1600: Gwyneth Paltrow was this poet, struggling with depression & hubby Ted Hughes Sylvia Plath |
| #5057, aired 2006-09-12 | WRITERS ON FILM $2000: Bette Midler went beyond the "Valley of the Dolls" to play this novelist Jacqueline Susann |
| #5057, aired 2006-09-12 | WRITERS ON FILM $3,000 (Daily Double): 1990's "Frankenstein Unbound" had Michael Hutchence as this poet Percy Shelley |
| #5029, aired 2006-06-22 | NAMES OF THE 12 APOSTLES $400: Last name of 2 19th c. brother teams, 1 of writers, 1 of robbers James |
| #5024, aired 2006-06-15 | STATES' FORMER GOVERNORS $1600: Charles Thone &
Bob Kerrey Nebraska |
| #4996, aired 2006-05-08 | LET US WORSHIP $600: Almost a cult with "Jeopardy!" writers & lexicographers, epeolatry is the worship of these words |
| #4976, aired 2006-04-10 | DEAF & BLIND $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Alabama Institute for Deaf & Blind.) Students at Alabama Institute for Deaf & Blind have talking computers & these note-taking writers named for a famous Frenchman Braille writers |
| #4923, aired 2006-01-25 | THE BRITISH ISLES $1200: This island group that lies just north of the Scottish mainland was known to classical writers as the Orcades the Orkney Islands |
| #4904, aired 2005-12-29 | MAGAZINES $1000: Ray Bradbury & Ogden Nash were among the non-food writers featured in this magazine founded in 1941 Gourmet |
| #4853, aired 2005-10-19 | ABBREVIATED $800: A TV & film labor organization:
The WGA the Writers Guild of America |
| #4842, aired 2005-10-04 | CHAD IS RAD $2000: The capital & largest city N'Djamena |
| #4835, aired 2005-09-23 | WRITERS' RELATIVES $400: Since Judith Krantz was this puppeteer's sister-in-law, guess that made her Lamb Chop's aunt (Shari) Lewis |
| #4835, aired 2005-09-23 | WRITERS' RELATIVES $800: Catharine Beecher, a promoter of higher education for women, was the sister of this famous author Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #4835, aired 2005-09-23 | WRITERS' RELATIVES $1200: His father Emmet, a country doctor, gave him much of the background for Dr. Kennicott in his novel "Main Street" Sinclair Lewis |
| #4835, aired 2005-09-23 | WRITERS' RELATIVES $2000: Kentucky's first governor, Isaac Shelby, was a direct ancestor of this "Civil War: A Narrative" author Shelby Foote |
| #4835, aired 2005-09-23 | WRITERS' RELATIVES $2,600 (Daily Double): Graham Greene was born 10 years after this distant writer relative of his died in the South Seas Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #4810, aired 2005-07-01 | SIMILES $1600: Many writers have used Shakespeare's simile "bestride the narrow world like" this a colossus |
| #4802, aired 2005-06-21 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: In the early 1900s Argentine writers Benito Lynch & Ricardo Guiraldes wrote novels about the lives of these cowboys the gauchos |
| #4799, aired 2005-06-16 | WRITERS AT REST $200: She & Alice B. Toklas are buried next to each other at Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris Gertrude Stein |
| #4799, aired 2005-06-16 | WRITERS AT REST $400: In Asheville his gravestone bears the line "The last voyage, the longest, the best" from "Look Homeward, Angel" Thomas Wolfe |
| #4799, aired 2005-06-16 | WRITERS AT REST $600: It doesn't take a P.I. like his Sam Spade to find this man's grave at Arlington; it's in Section 12, Lot 508 Dashiell Hammett |
| #4799, aired 2005-06-16 | WRITERS AT REST $800: She's buried at her Penn. farm, & the name on her tombstone is written in Chinese rather than English Pearl Buck |
| #4799, aired 2005-06-16 | WRITERS AT REST $1000: In 1851 she was laid to rest in an English churchyard along with husband Percy's heart & a copy of his "Adonais" Mary Shelley |
| #4743, aired 2005-03-30 | OSCAR NIGHT 2005 $800: Original Screenplay honors went to... I can't remember... ah, yes, the writers of this Jim Carrey-Kate Winslet film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
| #4687, aired 2005-01-11 | WRITERS JOURNAL $400: While writing "Crime and Punishment", he quickly penned "The Gambler" to meet a publisher's obligation Dostoevsky |
| #4687, aired 2005-01-11 | WRITERS JOURNAL $800: Shortly after writing "Catriona", a sequel to "Kidnapped", he died on the island of Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #4687, aired 2005-01-11 | WRITERS JOURNAL $1200: In 1941, before taking her final dip, she wrote her sister Vanessa, "I am certain now that I am going mad again" Virginia Woolf |
| #4687, aired 2005-01-11 | WRITERS JOURNAL $1600: Rejected in 1863 when its autos & subways seemed too fantastic, his "Paris au XXIeme Siecle" was finally published in 1994 Jules Verne |
| #4687, aired 2005-01-11 | WRITERS JOURNAL $2000: His 1898 letter to the president of France accused "the War Office of having led a vile campaign in the press" Emile Zola |
| #4681, aired 2005-01-03 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: Milkman is the son of Ruth & Macon Dead in her novel "Song of Solomon" Toni Morrison |
| #4681, aired 2005-01-03 | WOMEN WRITERS $800: In 2004 Oprah picked this author's "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" for her book club Carson McCullers |
| #4681, aired 2005-01-03 | WOMEN WRITERS $1200: Her 1997 bestseller "violin" might keep you up nights; not the playing of it, the reading of it Anne Rice |
| #4681, aired 2005-01-03 | WOMEN WRITERS $1600: "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" is a 1968 collection of essays by her Joan Didion |
| #4681, aired 2005-01-03 | WOMEN WRITERS $2000: Born in Fort Worth, Texas, she wrote "Strangers on a Train" & "The Talented Mr. Ripley" Patricia Highsmith |
| #4675, aired 2004-12-24 | SHORT STORY WRITERS $400: While in Paris in the 1820s, this "Rip Van Winkle" author co-wrote plays with John Howard Payne Washington Irving |
| #4675, aired 2004-12-24 | SHORT STORY WRITERS $800: He set 2 of his stories, "The Balloon Hoax" & "The Gold-Bug", on Sullivan's Island, S.C., where he'd served in the army Edgar Allan Poe |
| #4675, aired 2004-12-24 | SHORT STORY WRITERS $1200: Is 1906 collection "The Four Million" contained some of his best-known stories, including "The Gift of the Magi" O. Henry |
| #4675, aired 2004-12-24 | SHORT STORY WRITERS $2,000 (Daily Double): A 1900 collection of his short stories was titled "The Son of the Wolf" Jack London |
| #4675, aired 2004-12-24 | SHORT STORY WRITERS $2000: The "Old Manse" in Concord where he & his wife Sophia lived from 1842 to 1845 was rented from Ralph Waldo Emerson Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #4674, aired 2004-12-23 | ORGANIZATIONS $400: The Ellery Queen Award is bestowed by the MWA, which stands for this the Mystery Writers of America |
| #4655, aired 2004-11-26 | AWARDS $800: The Hugo & Nebula awards are presented to writers in this genre science fiction |
| #4619, aired 2004-10-07 | THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO $800: Writers & editors couldn't do without the University Press' "Chicago Manual of" this, now in its 15th edition Style |
| #4597, aired 2004-09-07 | HODGEPODGE $400: This adjective can be applied to writers like Shelley & Hugo as well as to a "getaway" for 2 Romantic |
| #4595, aired 2004-07-23 | DEAR JUNTA $6,200 (Daily Double): The "Juntas Provinciales" organized the Spanish resistance to this man's 1808 invasion Napoleon (Bonaparte) |
| #4590, aired 2004-07-16 | AMERICAN WRITERS $200: 8 days after publishing his first novel, "This Side of Paradise", he married Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald |
| #4590, aired 2004-07-16 | AMERICAN WRITERS $400: His ability to imitate the family doctor earned this playwright the nickname "Doc" Neil Simon |
| #4590, aired 2004-07-16 | AMERICAN WRITERS $600: This poet who wrote "Trees" was killed in action during WWI Joyce Kilmer |
| #4590, aired 2004-07-16 | AMERICAN WRITERS $800: This author of "The Joy Luck Club" was born in California shortly after her parents immigrated to the U.S. Amy Tan |
| #4590, aired 2004-07-16 | AMERICAN WRITERS $1000: His "Tales of the South Pacific" was the basis for a Broadway musical Michener |
| #4573, aired 2004-06-23 | MEASURE FOR MEASURE $400: Also a verb, writers know it's 500 sheets of paper a ream |
| #4566, aired 2004-06-14 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: A sonnet by this poet ends, "And, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death" Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #4566, aired 2004-06-14 | WOMEN WRITERS $800: "Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!" is a recent book by this Southern novelist & TV personality Fannie Flagg |
| #4566, aired 2004-06-14 | WOMEN WRITERS $1200: "The Window" & "Time Passes" are sections of her stream-of-consciousness novel "To the Lighthouse" Virginia Woolf |
| #4566, aired 2004-06-14 | WOMEN WRITERS $1600: "Middlemarch" is one of her masterpieces George Eliot |
| #4566, aired 2004-06-14 | WOMEN WRITERS $2000: Her 1899 book "The Awakening" shocked critics with its frankness about women's emotional lives Kate Chopin |
| #4561, aired 2004-06-07 | RUSSIAN WRITERS $400: Perhaps best known for his plays, such as "Uncle Vanya", he was also a famed short-story writer Chekhov |
| #4561, aired 2004-06-07 | RUSSIAN WRITERS $800: After winning the Nobel Prize for Literature for "Doctor Zhivago", he was expelled from the Soviet Writers Union Pasternak |
| #4561, aired 2004-06-07 | RUSSIAN WRITERS $1200: His novella "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" was based on his own struggles in a Siberian labor camp Solzhenitsyn |
| #4561, aired 2004-06-07 | RUSSIAN WRITERS $1600: One of this poet's great-grandfathers was a Black Ethiopian courtier to Peter the Great (Alexander) Pushkin |
| #4561, aired 2004-06-07 | RUSSIAN WRITERS $2000: Novelist & short-story writer Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov used this pseudonym (Maxim) Gorky |
| #4532, aired 2004-04-27 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $400: Raymond Chandler's middle name; it was playwright Wilder's first Thornton |
| #4532, aired 2004-04-27 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $800: "Ship of Fools" author Katherine Porter may have had as many as 5 middle names, but she used only this one Anne |
| #4532, aired 2004-04-27 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $1600: It was the middle name of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet William Williams Carlos |
| #4532, aired 2004-04-27 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): His middle names were Ronald Reuel J.R.R. Tolkien |
| #4532, aired 2004-04-27 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $2000: It's no big mystery that her middle initial "L." stood for Leigh Dorothy Sayers |
| #4468, aired 2004-01-28 | WOMEN WRITERS $200: Her initials stand for Joanne Kathleen J.K. Rowling |
| #4468, aired 2004-01-28 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: Some skeptics said that her novel "Wuthering Heights" must have been actually written by her brother Branwell Emily Bronte |
| #4468, aired 2004-01-28 | WOMEN WRITERS $600: Sue Monk Kidd's debut novel is called "The Secret Life of" these insects Bees |
| #4468, aired 2004-01-28 | WOMEN WRITERS $800: Her 1960 classic begins, "When he was nearly 13, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow" Harper Lee |
| #4468, aired 2004-01-28 | WOMEN WRITERS $1000: The name of this Ann Patchett bestseller about a soprano is an Italian musical term Bel Canto |
| #4464, aired 2004-01-22 | WRITERS ON CAPE COD $200: (Sofia of the Clue Crew in Cape Cod, Massachusetts) In the years after leaving Walden Pond, he made four walking trips to Cape Cod, wishing to get a better view of the ocean (Henry David) Thoreau |
| #4464, aired 2004-01-22 | WRITERS ON CAPE COD $400: This "Breakfast of Champions" author once put breakfast on the table by selling Saabs on Cape Cod Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
| #4464, aired 2004-01-22 | WRITERS ON CAPE COD $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew) Though part of it was written in one of these Cape Cod dune shacks, his 1957 work "On the Road" begins & ends in New York City Jack Kerouac |
| #4464, aired 2004-01-22 | WRITERS ON CAPE COD $800: This 4-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright launched his career with the Provincetown Players Eugene O'Neill |
| #4464, aired 2004-01-22 | WRITERS ON CAPE COD $1000: In January 2003 Provincetown proclaimed this "Naked and the Dead" author's day, in honor of his 80th birthday Norman Mailer |
| #4458, aired 2004-01-14 | CLARK BAR $1200: In 1987 she became president of the Mystery Writers of America Mary Higgins Clark |
| #4455, aired 2004-01-09 | AH, SWEET MISTER"E" $200: It comes before "Queen" in the pen name of a king of mystery writers Ellery |
| #4455, aired 2004-01-09 | AH, SWEET MISTER"E" $600: A 1991 bio on Poe won this award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Critical/Biographical Work the Edgar |
| #4440, aired 2003-12-19 | WRITERS' RELATIVES $400: Heading it in the 1930s, her father Eugene was the second president of the Atlanta Historical Society Margaret Mitchell |
| #4440, aired 2003-12-19 | WRITERS' RELATIVES $800: He was grandpapa to actresses Margaux & Mariel Ernest Hemingway |
| #4440, aired 2003-12-19 | WRITERS' RELATIVES $1200: In 1914 she trekked to east Africa to marry her cousin, a baron named Bror Isak Dinesen |
| #4440, aired 2003-12-19 | WRITERS' RELATIVES $1600: His father Donald, a Marine Colonel, took his nickname the "Great Santini" from an aerial acrobat he once saw Pat Conroy |
| #4440, aired 2003-12-19 | WRITERS' RELATIVES $2000: Name of the father, an English Poet Laureate, whose son Daniel starred in "In the Name of the Father" Cecil Day-Lewis |
| #4424, aired 2003-11-27 | WRITERS ON FILM $400: Daniel Day-Lewis portrayed Irish writer Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, in this 1989 film My Left Foot |
| #4424, aired 2003-11-27 | WRITERS ON FILM $800: The name of this witty writer precedes "and the Vicious Circle" in the title of a 1994 film Dorothy Parker |
| #4424, aired 2003-11-27 | WRITERS ON FILM $1200: Judi Dench got an Oscar nomination for playing this British writer who battled Alzheimer's Iris Murdoch |
| #4424, aired 2003-11-27 | WRITERS ON FILM $2,000 (Daily Double): Rupert Everett appeared as this playwright & rival in "Shakespeare in Love" Christopher Marlowe |
| #4424, aired 2003-11-27 | WRITERS ON FILM $2000: This exiled Chilean poet becomes friends with "The Postman" in a 1994 film Pablo Neruda |
| #4423, aired 2003-11-26 | ODD WORDS $2000: Gonfalon, a type of banner, was once used by baseball writers as a synonym for this pennant |
| #4362, aired 2003-07-15 | PEN NAMES $200: This crayon brand also makes Click Em On markers & Spider Writers Crayola |
| #4325, aired 2003-05-23 | CREATIVE WRITERS $400: Laertes,
a hotheaded Dane William Shakespeare |
| #4325, aired 2003-05-23 | CREATIVE WRITERS $800 (Daily Double): The unimaginative Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #4325, aired 2003-05-23 | CREATIVE WRITERS $1200: Topsy,
an impish black girl Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #4325, aired 2003-05-23 | CREATIVE WRITERS $1600: The ambitious Sammy Glick Budd Schulberg |
| #4325, aired 2003-05-23 | CREATIVE WRITERS $2000: The fashionable but suffering Clarissa Dalloway Virginia Woolf |
| #4319, aired 2003-05-15 | OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS $1600: As our writers know, eyestrain is one hazard of working at a VDT, short for this video display terminal |
| #4276, aired 2003-03-17 | IRISH WRITERS $400: His preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray" says, "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book" Oscar Wilde |
| #4276, aired 2003-03-17 | IRISH WRITERS $800: His play "Man and Superman" is subtitled "A Comedy and a Philosophy" George Bernard Shaw |
| #4276, aired 2003-03-17 | IRISH WRITERS $1200: Ezra Pound gave an enthusiastic review to "Dubliners", a collection of short stories by this Irish author James Joyce |
| #4276, aired 2003-03-17 | IRISH WRITERS $1600: His poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" says, "I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above" William Butler Yeats |
| #4276, aired 2003-03-17 | IRISH WRITERS $2000: His plays include "In the Shadow of the Glen", "Riders to the Sea" & "Playboy of the Western World", his masterpiece John Millington Synge |
| #4263, aired 2003-02-26 | WRITERS' PLOTS $400: He's interred at his former home at 18354 Ventura Blvd. in Encino, not Tarzana, California Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| #4263, aired 2003-02-26 | WRITERS' PLOTS $800: Saint Martin's Churchyard in Laugharne, Wales is where this poet wound up after drinking himself to death Dylan Thomas |
| #4263, aired 2003-02-26 | WRITERS' PLOTS $1200: In Manhattan's Trinity Cemetery, you can visit John J. Audubon as well as this "Visit From St. Nick" poet Clement Clarke Moore |
| #4263, aired 2003-02-26 | WRITERS' PLOTS $1600: Henrik Ibsen is with his family in the Cemetery of Our Savior in this world capital Oslo, Norway |
| #4263, aired 2003-02-26 | WRITERS' PLOTS $2000: He's buried in Oxfordshire under a headstone that says "Here Lies Eric Arthur Blair" George Orwell |
| #4252, aired 2003-02-11 | WRITERS $200: In 1836 he marries his 13-year-old cousin Virginia Clemm, for whom it is thought he wrote "Annabel Lee" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #4252, aired 2003-02-11 | WRITERS $400: A poem on the death of Philip II's wife was one of the earliest works by this "Don Quixote" author Cervantes |
| #4252, aired 2003-02-11 | WRITERS $800: This "Tender is the Night" author was one of the many writers who had a crack at the script for "Gone with the Wind" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #4252, aired 2003-02-11 | WRITERS $1000: He knew firsthand about "Crime and Punishment"; he spent 4 years in a Siberian prison labor camp Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| #4252, aired 2003-02-11 | WRITERS $1,400 (Daily Double): Enjoying some fishing near Havana, Cuba, he's the writer seen here Ernest Hemingway |
| #4222, aired 2002-12-31 | ANAGRAMMED AUTHORS $800: A scandalous Irishman, my parents were also writers:
I lace words Oscar Wilde |
| #4186, aired 2002-11-11 | AWARDS & HONORS $1,000 (Daily Double): The Mystery Writers of America named an award for this American, the creator of the detective story Edgar Allan Poe |
| #4181, aired 2002-11-04 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: Fernando Pessoa of Lisbon & Machado de Assis of Rio de Janeiro were great writers in this language Portuguese |
| #4162, aired 2002-10-08 | WRITERS' PEN NAMES $400: Richard Bachman Stephen King |
| #4162, aired 2002-10-08 | WRITERS' PEN NAMES $800: Diedrich Knickerbocker Washington Irving |
| #4162, aired 2002-10-08 | WRITERS' PEN NAMES $1200: Elron L. Ron Hubbard |
| #4162, aired 2002-10-08 | WRITERS' PEN NAMES $1600: O. Henry William Sydney Porter |
| #4162, aired 2002-10-08 | WRITERS' PEN NAMES $2000: A.A. Fair Erle Stanley Gardner |
| #4121, aired 2002-07-01 | LET'S GO EAT $1000: Chapter One is a restaurant housed in this world capital's Writers Museum off Parnell Square Dublin |
| #4115, aired 2002-06-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: "I'm gonna tell Aunt Mary 'bout Uncle John"; he's romancing the host with the red glasses on Long Tall Sally Jessy Raphael |
| #4113, aired 2002-06-19 | TCHOTCHKES $1000: Who's a good puppy? He's the cute little doggy-schmoggy seen here, from this factory near Dresden-Wesden Meissen |
| #4102, aired 2002-06-04 | REAL ROMANTICS $2000: This first name of several Romantic writers was the last name of Caspar David, whose artwork is seen here Friedrich |
| #4079, aired 2002-05-02 | LITERARY MOVEMENTS $2000: James Weldon Johnson & Zora Neale Hurston were writers associated with this 1920s movement the Harlem Renaissance |
| #4069, aired 2002-04-18 | WRITERS' RELATIVES $400: This poet's grandfather, Gen. Peleg Wadsworth, built the first brick home in Portland, Maine (Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow |
| #4069, aired 2002-04-18 | WRITERS' RELATIVES $800: He traced his roots back to a slave from West Africa named Kunta Kinte Alex Haley |
| #4069, aired 2002-04-18 | WRITERS' RELATIVES $1200: Maybe one day "Burr" author Gore Vidal will write a book about this cousin, the 45th vice president Al Gore |
| #4069, aired 2002-04-18 | WRITERS' RELATIVES $1600: Oh! say can you see F. Scott Fitzgerald was named for this famous relative Francis Scott Key |
| #4069, aired 2002-04-18 | WRITERS' RELATIVES $2000: This "Ship of Fools" author was a descendant of Daniel Boone's brother & a cousin of O. Henry Katherine Anne Porter |
| #4038, aired 2002-03-06 | WOMEN WRITERS $200: Lydia & Kitty Bennett & Fitzwilliam Darcy are characters in a book by this woman Jane Austen |
| #4038, aired 2002-03-06 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: She intended her novel "Shirley" to be as "unromantic as Monday morning", as opposed to her previous novel "Jane Eyre" Charlotte Bronte |
| #4038, aired 2002-03-06 | WOMEN WRITERS $600: Offred tells "The Handmaid's Tale" in a novel by this woman Margaret Atwood |
| #4038, aired 2002-03-06 | WOMEN WRITERS $1,000 (Daily Double): A graduate of Howard University, she won the Nobel prize for Literature in 1993 Toni Morrison |
| #4038, aired 2002-03-06 | WOMEN WRITERS $1000: This French author chose Audrey Hepburn to play Gigi onstage Colette |
| #4023, aired 2002-02-13 | GO READ A BOOK $400: It's no mystery, there's no Carolyn Keene; it's a pseudonym used by all the writers on this detective series Nancy Drew |
| #4011, aired 2002-01-28 | PLACE $400: In the 1920s African American artists & writers had a "Renaissance" in this New York City neighborhood Harlem |
| #4007, aired 2002-01-22 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Year in which the writers of the Mayflower Compact set pen to paper 1620 |
| #3995, aired 2002-01-04 | YES, SIR! $400: Voltaire was one of the first writers to report that a falling apple inspired this man's laws of gravity Newton |
| #3986, aired 2001-12-24 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $800: It's said that this "is mightier than the sword"; our writers would agree the pen |
| #3969, aired 2001-11-29 | SIGNS OF THE TIMES $2000: Marian the Librarian could have used this warning hill ahead (incline accepted) |
| #3886, aired 2001-06-25 | WRITERS' HUSBANDS $200: In 1947 future feminist firebrand Betty Goldstein married a man named this Carl Friedan |
| #3886, aired 2001-06-25 | WRITERS' HUSBANDS $300 (Daily Double): This wealthy future Senate candidate wed Arianna Stassinopoulos in 1986 Michael Huffington |
| #3886, aired 2001-06-25 | WRITERS' HUSBANDS $800: In 1914 she married her cousin Bror Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) |
| #3839, aired 2001-04-19 | OLD HAT $100: It's the ancient empire whose forces wore hats like the one seen here Roman Empire |
| #3834, aired 2001-04-12 | WRITERS CUBED $200: In 1845 he published "The Raven and Other Poems"; the other poems include "The Conqueror Worm" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #3834, aired 2001-04-12 | WRITERS CUBED $400: In 1977 a reconstruction of her "Little House" was put on the original site 13 miles southwest of Independence Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #3834, aired 2001-04-12 | WRITERS CUBED $600: 19th century minister of the Second Church of Boston, known for essays like "Self-Reliance" Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| #3834, aired 2001-04-12 | WRITERS CUBED $800: Her 2000 novel "Blonde" is, of course, about Marilyn Monroe Joyce Carol Oates |
| #3834, aired 2001-04-12 | WRITERS CUBED $1000: "Before I Say Good-Bye" is her 22nd romantic thriller, so it's no mystery -- she's good Mary Higgins Clark |
| #3822, aired 2001-03-27 | WRITERS BY QUOTE $200: "I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me" A.A. Milne |
| #3822, aired 2001-03-27 | WRITERS BY QUOTE $400: "Bred en bawn in a brier-patch, Brer Fox" Joel Chandler Harris |
| #3822, aired 2001-03-27 | WRITERS BY QUOTE $600: "I am Tarzan of the apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine" Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| #3822, aired 2001-03-27 | WRITERS BY QUOTE $800: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" Emma Lazarus |
| #3822, aired 2001-03-27 | WRITERS BY QUOTE $1000: "Peyton Farquhar was dead; his body...swung gently from...the Owl Creek Bridge" Ambrose Bierce |
| #3785, aired 2001-02-02 | WORDS FROM "JEOPARDY!" $500: Odd that this is the only one of Disney's 7 Dwarfs whose name is contained in "Jeopardy!" Dopey |
| #3768, aired 2001-01-10 | WORD PUZZLES $200: Financial status of our writers before joining "Jeopardy!":
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| #3760, aired 2000-12-29 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $600: In the 1800s Argentinean cowboys called this inspired the works of many writers & artists gauchos |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | CASHMERE $1000: Fashion writers have given Italian designer Laura Biagiotti this royal title "Queen of Cashmere" |
| #3634, aired 2000-05-25 | WRITERS $200: In November 1959 he arrived in Holcomb, Kansas to begin 6 years of research for "In Cold Blood" Truman Capote |
| #3634, aired 2000-05-25 | WRITERS $400: The 1676 revised edition of his "Compleat Angler" included a new section on trout fishing Izaak Walton |
| #3634, aired 2000-05-25 | WRITERS $600: To research "Hotel", he spent 6 weeks as a paying guest in an old New Orleans hotel Arthur Hailey |
| #3634, aired 2000-05-25 | WRITERS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1902 Arthur Conan Doyle was knighted not for Sherlock Holmes but for defending British actions in this war the Boer War |
| #3634, aired 2000-05-25 | WRITERS $1000: This "Doctor Zhivago" author's father, Leonid, was a painter & illustrator of Tolstoy's works Boris Pasternak |
| #3631, aired 2000-05-22 | ANTHOLOGIES $1,200 (Daily Double): Stella could groove on "Breaking Ice", an anthology of fiction by black writers edited by this author Terry McMillan |
| #3629, aired 2000-05-18 | JACOBEAN DRAMA $200: This author of "Volpone" inspired a generation of younger writers called the "Sons of Ben" Ben Jonson |
| #3627, aired 2000-05-16 | ODD WORDS $1000: Meaning clear or transparent, it's often used by writers to describe eyes as "pools" limpid |
| #3622, aired 2000-05-09 | WRITERS ON FILM $200: Ralph's younger brother, he played the title role in "Shakespeare In Love" Joseph Fiennes |
| #3622, aired 2000-05-09 | WRITERS ON FILM $400: In 1994 Ferber & Fitzgerald also appeared when Jennifer Jason Leigh played this witty writer Dorothy Parker |
| #3622, aired 2000-05-09 | WRITERS ON FILM $600: The movie "Barfly" was based on the life & work of this California poet Charles Bukowski |
| #3622, aired 2000-05-09 | WRITERS ON FILM $800: Radical journalist played by Warren Beatty in "Reds" John Reed |
| #3622, aired 2000-05-09 | WRITERS ON FILM $1000: In the TV movie "RKO 281", John Malkovich was this man who co-wrote "Citizen Kane" with Orson Welles Herman Mankiewicz |
| #3618, aired 2000-05-03 | STRIKING $100: Abbreviated the WGA, this entertainment union went on strike in 1981, 1985 & 1988 Writers Guild of America |
| #3615, aired 2000-04-28 | TV MOVIES $600: "Dash and Lily" paired Sam Shepard & Judy Davis as these 2 writers who were longtime lovers Dashiell Hammett & Lillian Hellman |
| #3600, aired 2000-04-07 | STRAIGHT "F"s $600: Many writers start a screenplay with this 2-word phrase. Then they have a drink. Enough work for one day. Fade in |
| #3578, aired 2000-03-08 | WOMEN WRITERS $200: Last name of Anne, sister of Emily & Charlotte, who wrote "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" Bronte |
| #3578, aired 2000-03-08 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: Anne has been convinced not to marry Wentworth in this woman's novel "Persuasion" Jane Austen |
| #3578, aired 2000-03-08 | WOMEN WRITERS $600: A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, her "Black and Blue" was selected for Oprah's Book Club in 1998 Anna Quindlen |
| #3578, aired 2000-03-08 | WOMEN WRITERS $800: Money & "A Room of One's Own" are needed if a woman is to be a writer, she asserted in a 1929 essay Virginia Woolf |
| #3578, aired 2000-03-08 | WOMEN WRITERS $1000: In 1899 readers awakened to "The Awakening", written by this woman Kate Chopin |
| #3576, aired 2000-03-06 | AMERICAN WRITERS $100: In 1843 his story "The Gold-Bug" won a $100 prize from the "Dollar Newspaper" in Philadelphia Edgar Allan Poe |
| #3576, aired 2000-03-06 | AMERICAN WRITERS $200: From 1862 to 1864 he wrote for the Territorial Enterprise newspaper in Virginia City, Nevada Mark Twain |
| #3576, aired 2000-03-06 | AMERICAN WRITERS $300: He was born in Salinas, California; his father was treasurer of Monterey County John Steinbeck |
| #3576, aired 2000-03-06 | AMERICAN WRITERS $500 (Daily Double): The land on which he built a small cabin in 1845 was owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau |
| #3576, aired 2000-03-06 | AMERICAN WRITERS $500: In his "Devil's Dictionary", a bore is defined as "A person who talks when you wish him to listen" Ambrose Bierce |
| #3574, aired 2000-03-02 | WRITERS BY MIDDLE NAME $100: Frontier writer Fenimore James Fenimore Cooper |
| #3574, aired 2000-03-02 | WRITERS BY MIDDLE NAME $200: "Wayside" writer Wadsworth Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| #3574, aired 2000-03-02 | WRITERS BY MIDDLE NAME $300: 19th century American essayist & novelist David Henry David Thoreau |
| #3574, aired 2000-03-02 | WRITERS BY MIDDLE NAME $400: 20th century American critic & novelist Carol Joyce Carol Oates |
| #3574, aired 2000-03-02 | WRITERS BY MIDDLE NAME $500: Novelist & editor Madox Ford Madox Ford |
| #3569, aired 2000-02-24 | REAL U.S. LOCALES $400: It's the only town in Illinois bearing the name of a mid-'70s dance craze Disco |
| #3539, aired 2000-01-13 | WRITERS BY MIDDLE NAME $200: The Jazz Age's Scott F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #3539, aired 2000-01-13 | WRITERS BY MIDDLE NAME $400: "Lyrical" English poet Taylor Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| #3539, aired 2000-01-13 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACHES $400: The Football Writers Assoc. never named this FSU legend Coach of the Year though son Terry was named in '93 Bobby Bowden |
| #3539, aired 2000-01-13 | WRITERS BY MIDDLE NAME $600: American poet Carlos William Carlos Williams |
| #3539, aired 2000-01-13 | WRITERS BY MIDDLE NAME $800: British novelist & satirist Makepeace William Makepeace Thackeray |
| #3536, aired 2000-01-10 | CZECHS $500: Prominent 20th C. Czech writers include Jaroslav Seifert & this "Unbearable Lightness of Being" author Milan Kundera |
| #3533, aired 2000-01-05 | HAVE A (COUNTY) SEAT $400: How do you pronounce the seat of Franklin County, Kentucky? Not "Lewisville" or "Louieville", but this Frankfort |
| #3532, aired 2000-01-04 | MISSISSIPPI WRITERS $200: A library at Mississippi State University has a room honoring this "Pelican Brief" author John Grisham |
| #3532, aired 2000-01-04 | MISSISSIPPI WRITERS $400: He ventured from Oxford to Hollywood to write for the movies, including "The Big Sleep" William Faulkner |
| #3532, aired 2000-01-04 | MISSISSIPPI WRITERS $600: His given names were Thomas Lanier, but he adopted a more "stately" name Tennessee Williams |
| #3532, aired 2000-01-04 | MISSISSIPPI WRITERS $800: This "Native Son" was born near Natchez in 1908 & died in Paris in 1960 Richard Wright |
| #3509, aired 1999-12-02 | PLAY TIME $1000: In 1928 writers Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur made big news with this play "The Front Page" |
| #3481, aired 1999-10-25 | WOMEN WRITERS $200: 10 years after this novel, Harriet Beecher Stowe was shocking again with "Lady Byron Vindicated" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #3481, aired 1999-10-25 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: John Murray, Lord Byron's publisher, also put out this woman's "Emma" & "Mansfield Park" Jane Austen |
| #3481, aired 1999-10-25 | WOMEN WRITERS $600: Virginia Woolf used this technique to convey the "river"like flow of a character's thoughts Stream of consciousness |
| #3481, aired 1999-10-25 | WOMEN WRITERS $800: Hannah Arendt's book on Adolf Eichmann presented her theory known as "The Banality Of" this Evil |
| #3481, aired 1999-10-25 | WOMEN WRITERS $1000: Offred is this title character whose "tale" is told in a Margaret Atwood novel The Handmaid's Tale |
| #3457, aired 1999-09-21 | THAT'S "GREAT" $400: Philip Roth titled a 1973 book this, the goal of U.S. fiction writers for decades "The Great American Novel" |
| #3451, aired 1999-09-13 | SILENT G $300: Last name shared by writers Ted & Langston & chief justice Charles Evans Hughes |
| #3411, aired 1999-06-07 | AUSTEN-TATIOUS $600: This author of "Orlando" said, "Of all the great writers" Jane "is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness" Virginia Woolf |
| #3387, aired 1999-05-04 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: A passionate preacher who holds public services, or any one of the 4 Gospel writers Evangelist |
| #3382, aired 1999-04-27 | STAR TREK WRITERS $100: He created the original series & co-wrote the first episodes of "The Next Generation" Gene Roddenberry |
| #3382, aired 1999-04-27 | STAR TREK WRITERS $200: David Gerrold wrote a book about writing the classic episode featuring these little fuzzies Tribbles |
| #3382, aired 1999-04-27 | STAR TREK WRITERS $300: This ventriloquist co-wrote "The Lights of Zetar" with her husband Jeremy Tarcher, not Lamb Chop Shari Lewis |
| #3382, aired 1999-04-27 | STAR TREK WRITERS $400: Sci-fi novelist Theodore Sturgeon wrote the episode where Spock & this character duel to the "death" Kirk |
| #3382, aired 1999-04-27 | STAR TREK WRITERS $500: This actor who played Chekov wrote "The Infinite Vulcan" for the animated "Star Trek" series Walter Koenig |
| #3359, aired 1999-03-25 | WRITERS' RHYME TIME $200: Chayefsky's golf assistants Paddy's caddies |
| #3359, aired 1999-03-25 | WRITERS' RHYME TIME $400: Buck's ringlets Pearl's curls |
| #3359, aired 1999-03-25 | WRITERS' RHYME TIME $600: Germaine's lachrymations Greer's tears |
| #3359, aired 1999-03-25 | WRITERS' RHYME TIME $800: Graham's limas Greene's beans |
| #3359, aired 1999-03-25 | WRITERS' RHYME TIME $1000: Playwright David's collection of Dashiell's detective stories Mamet's Hammetts |
| #3319, aired 1999-01-28 | PAPERBACK WRITERS $100: The paperbacks in this writer's "Goosebumps" series have numbers as well as titles R.L. Stine |
| #3319, aired 1999-01-28 | PAPERBACK WRITERS $200: This writer's "Foundation" was published in a one-volume paperback with a novel by Poul Anderson Isaac Asimov |
| #3319, aired 1999-01-28 | PAPERBACK WRITERS $300: This "Daddy" & "Zoya" writer's first 6 romance novels were originally published in paperback Danielle Steel |
| #3319, aired 1999-01-28 | PAPERBACK WRITERS $400: Stephen King started this 1996 paperback serial with Volume 1: "The Two Dead Girls" The Green Mile |
| #3319, aired 1999-01-28 | PAPERBACK WRITERS $500: This thriller writer was set when she earned $1 million for the paperback rights to "A Stranger is Watching" Mary Higgins Clark |
| #3281, aired 1998-12-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $200: She was a senior editor at Random House while she was writing the novel "Beloved" Toni Morrison |
| #3281, aired 1998-12-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $400: In 1997 this "Fences" playwright debated the state of black theater with critic Robert Brustein August Wilson |
| #3281, aired 1998-12-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $800: Octavia Butler writes novels like "Clay's Ark" & "Patternmaster" in this genre Science fiction |
| #3281, aired 1998-12-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $1000: It completes the title of Walter Mosley's 1997 short story collection "Always Outnumbered, Always" this Outgunned |
| #3281, aired 1998-12-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $2,000 (Daily Double): She co-wrote the screen adaptation of her 1996 novel "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" Terry McMillan |
| #3267, aired 1998-11-17 | BERNSTEINS $400: In the '50s Walter Bernstein joined other Hollywood writers on this most unwanted list Blacklist |
| #3265, aired 1998-11-13 | TASTE TREATS $500: Our writers like this cereal grain whether it's in succotash or bourbon corn |
| #3239, aired 1998-10-08 | FUN WITH WORDS $200: Phrase our writers used a lot before they started work here
JOB I'M JOB I'm between jobs |
| #3239, aired 1998-10-08 | FUN WITH WORDS $600: It's the aspect of a bar that our writers always desire
HOUR
HOUR OPEN
HOUR open after hours |
| #3237, aired 1998-10-06 | WRITERS' PRIVATE LIVES $200: Before he was famous he drove around with a license plate that read "Garp" John Irving |
| #3237, aired 1998-10-06 | WRITERS' PRIVATE LIVES $400: During WWII this Tarzan creator worked as a correspondent for the L.A. Times Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| #3237, aired 1998-10-06 | WRITERS' PRIVATE LIVES $600: He wrote "A Time To Kill" while serving in the Mississippi House of Representatives John Grisham |
| #3237, aired 1998-10-06 | WRITERS' PRIVATE LIVES $800: This author of "Terminal" & "Toxin" is a graduate of Columbia University's medical school Robin Cook |
| #3237, aired 1998-10-06 | WRITERS' PRIVATE LIVES $1000: This "Kiss The Girls" author also wrote the jingle "I don't want to grow up, I'm a Toys 'R' Us kid" James Patterson |
| #3221, aired 1998-09-14 | ANTONYMS $800: Adjectives used to tell your ancient Pliny writers apart "Elder" & "Younger" |
| #3216, aired 1998-09-07 | LABOR $200: Abbreviated WGA, it provides many services to members, including script registration Writers Guild of America |
| #3205, aired 1998-07-03 | CROSSWORD CLUES "H" $300: Tall baby sitter
(9) highchair |
| #3172, aired 1998-05-19 | SHORT STORY WRITERS $100: He wrote "The Murders In The Rue Morgue" shortly after becoming editor of Graham's Magazine Edgar Allan Poe |
| #3172, aired 1998-05-19 | SHORT STORY WRITERS $200: It's thought that this "Gift Of The Magi" author partly took his pen name from a prison guard O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) |
| #3172, aired 1998-05-19 | SHORT STORY WRITERS $300: "The Celestial Railroad" from his "Twice-Told Tales" is a parody of John Bunyan's works Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #3172, aired 1998-05-19 | SHORT STORY WRITERS $400: Sunnyside, the old Dutch home he remodeled in Tarrytown, N.Y., was made a public shrine in 1947 Washington Irving |
| #3172, aired 1998-05-19 | SHORT STORY WRITERS $500: Of this author of "The Necklace", Flaubert said, "He's my disciple and I love him like a son" Guy de Maupassant |
| #1, aired 1998-05-03 | ROOMIES $1,600 (Daily Double): (Vivian and Marian, the San Francisco Twins, deliver the clue in person and in unison.) These co-stars & co-writers of "Good Will Hunting" were co-renters of a place in L.A. Ben Affleck & Matt Damon |
| #3155, aired 1998-04-24 | FROM BEOWULF TO VIRGINIA WOOLF $1000: In this essay Virginia Woolf said women need money & privacy to develop as writers "A Room of One's Own" |
| #3152, aired 1998-04-21 | SPURS $800: A Western Writers' of America Spur Award went to the screenplay of this Best Picture of 1992 Unforgiven |
| #3141, aired 1998-04-06 | PUNCHY WRITERS $200: "By George" is an appropriate title for this boxer's 1995 autobiography George Foreman |
| #3141, aired 1998-04-06 | PUNCHY WRITERS $400: In this Hemingway story, the title thugs come to Henry's diner looking to bump off a prizefighter "The Killers" |
| #3141, aired 1998-04-06 | PUNCHY WRITERS $800: He was boxing editor for Sports Illustrated before writing the script for "On the Waterfront" Budd Schulberg |
| #3141, aired 1998-04-06 | PUNCHY WRITERS $1000: Based on a play by Clifford Odets, it's the 1939 boxing film seen here:
"Well, I've made up my mind to win the middleweight crown."
"But your heart's in music!" Golden Boy |
| #3141, aired 1998-04-06 | PUNCHY WRITERS $1,900 (Daily Double): He discussed Ali vs. Foreman in his book "The Fight" & in the 1996 film "When We Were Kings" Norman Mailer |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | LET'S TALK ENGLISH GOOD $1000: Using this adverb to mean "it is desirable that" has been much debated by writers on language hopefully |
| #3117, aired 1998-03-03 | OUR WRITERS' FAVORITE COMIC BOOKS $100: Both of these female friends of Archie Andrews have their own comics & share a third Betty & Veronica |
| #3117, aired 1998-03-03 | OUR WRITERS' FAVORITE COMIC BOOKS $200: He's Donald Duck's rich uncle & he has his own comic book Scrooge McDuck |
| #3117, aired 1998-03-03 | OUR WRITERS' FAVORITE COMIC BOOKS $300: This superhero's debut in a 1939 issue of Detective Comics also introduced Commissioner Gordon Batman |
| #3117, aired 1998-03-03 | OUR WRITERS' FAVORITE COMIC BOOKS $400: Half-human, half-alien crime fighter seen here: Hawkman |
| #3117, aired 1998-03-03 | OUR WRITERS' FAVORITE COMIC BOOKS $500: In January 1997 Acclaim Comics began reissuing this series with "A Tale of Two Cities" & "Tom Sawyer" Classics Illustrated |
| #3109, aired 1998-02-19 | CARD GAMES $400: Similar to fish, this game is played with special cards featuring pictures of writers Authors |
| #3106, aired 1998-02-16 | GERTRUDE STEIN SAYS... $400: She popularized this term for writers living in Europe & generally, those who fought in WWI "The Lost Generation" |
| #3095, aired 1998-01-30 | OUR WRITERS' FAVORITE POEMS $200: In "Invictus", W.E. Henley is "The master of my fate" & "the captain of" this my soul |
| #3095, aired 1998-01-30 | OUR WRITERS' FAVORITE POEMS $400: William Blake rhymed, "I was angry with" this person. "I told my wrath, my wrath did end" my friend |
| #3095, aired 1998-01-30 | OUR WRITERS' FAVORITE POEMS $600: She wrote, "Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed" Emily Dickinson |
| #3095, aired 1998-01-30 | OUR WRITERS' FAVORITE POEMS $800: In "A Refusal To Mourn the Death" of a child, he wrote, "After the first death, there is no other" Dylan Thomas |
| #3095, aired 1998-01-30 | OUR WRITERS' FAVORITE POEMS $1000: In "Spring and Fall: To a Young Child" this "Manley" poet told Margaret, "It is Margaret you mourn for" (Gerard Manley) Hopkins |
| #3074, aired 1998-01-01 | WORLD CITIES $500: O! This city's Writers' Building on Dalhousie Square once housed the British East India Company's clerks Calcutta |
| #3059, aired 1997-12-11 | YOU CAN LOOK IT UP $800: "Onymous" is the obvious opposite of this word, used to describe some artists & writers Anonymous |
| #3035, aired 1997-11-07 | "PICK" ME! $300: Literally meaning to pluck lice eggs, it also means to complain about the smallest details a nitpick |
| #2997, aired 1997-09-16 | WRITERS NAMED WILLIAM $200: He was baptized in the parish church of Stratford-On-Avon April 26, 1564 William Shakespeare |
| #2997, aired 1997-09-16 | WRITERS NAMED WILLIAM $400: "A Rose For Emily" is a well-known short story by this author of "The Sound And The Fury" William Faulkner |
| #2997, aired 1997-09-16 | WRITERS NAMED WILLIAM $600: In 1996 this "Exorcist" author published "Demons Five, Exorcists Nothing: A Fable" William Peter Blatty |
| #2997, aired 1997-09-16 | WRITERS NAMED WILLIAM $800: His newspaper column "On Language" is syndicated around the world William Safire |
| #2997, aired 1997-09-16 | WRITERS NAMED WILLIAM $1000: In 1990's "Darkness Visible", this "Sophie's Choice" author wrote of his struggle with depression William Styron |
| #2978, aired 1997-07-09 | WOMEN IN THE ARTS $800: In the 1920s, her home at 27 Rue de Fleurus in Paris was a gathering place for other writers & artists Gertrude Stein |
| #2976, aired 1997-07-07 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $1000: You can visit D.H. Lawrence's ranch & shrine in this New Mexico town, home to many writers & artists Taos |
| #2971, aired 1997-06-30 | ANCIENT HISTORY $600: This war dated to the 12th century B.C. has inspired writers from Homer to the present Trojan War |
| #2967, aired 1997-06-24 | WOMEN WRITERS $200: Mary Chesnut's take on this U.S. war was part of a Ken Burns TV documentary the Civil War |
| #2967, aired 1997-06-24 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: Her "Little House in the Big Woods" begins in Wisconsin Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #2967, aired 1997-06-24 | WOMEN WRITERS $600: A young adult series by Madeleine L'Engle begins with the novel "A Wrinkle in" this Time |
| #2967, aired 1997-06-24 | WOMEN WRITERS $800: Male pen name used by Danish baroness Karen Blixen for "Out Of Africa" Isak Dinesen |
| #2967, aired 1997-06-24 | WOMEN WRITERS $2,000 (Daily Double): In August 1996, Cross Creek, Florida & nearby Micanopy celebrated the 100th anniversary of her birth Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
| #2920, aired 1997-04-18 | LITERARY GROUPS $200: In the 1920s, a "generation" of young American writers were "lost" in this European city Paris |
| #2920, aired 1997-04-18 | LITERARY GROUPS $600: City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco was a 1950s hangout for these itinerant writers & poets "Beat" writers |
| #2920, aired 1997-04-18 | LITERARY GROUPS $1000: Jay McInerney, Tama Janowitz & other '80s writers shared this label with a group of young actors "The Brat Pack" |
| #2908, aired 1997-04-02 | THE EMMYS $200: It's the only game show whose writers have won more than 1 Daytime Emmy Jeopardy! |
| #2881, aired 1997-02-24 | ART $200: Renaissance writers gave medieval architecture this barbarian name because they thought it ugly Gothic |
| #2865, aired 1997-01-31 | RUSSIAN WRITERS $200: He insisted "The Cherry Orchard" was "A comedy, in places even a farce"; some may disagree Anton Chekhov |
| #2865, aired 1997-01-31 | RUSSIAN WRITERS $400: He completed "The Brothers Karamazov" shortly before his 1881 death in St. Petersburg Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| #2865, aired 1997-01-31 | RUSSIAN WRITERS $600: Boris Pasternak's only novel, it was rejected by Soviet publishers for its critical approach to communism "Doctor Zhivago" |
| #2865, aired 1997-01-31 | RUSSIAN WRITERS $800: This "Gulag Archipelago" writer taught mathematics while in exile in central Asia Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
| #2865, aired 1997-01-31 | RUSSIAN WRITERS $1000: He began his most famous work, "Eugene Onegin", in 1823 & completed it in 1831 Aleksandr Pushkin |
| #2821, aired 1996-12-02 | INSPIRATIONS $400: While Dante has inspired many writers, this woman was his love & inspiration Beatrice |
| #2803, aired 1996-11-06 | HISTORIC NAMES $600: A lover of the arts, this Prussian king played the flute & patronized many writers, including Voltaire Frederick the Great |
| #2791, aired 1996-10-21 | CONTEMPORARY WOMEN AUTHORS $1000: This creator of V.I. Warshawski co-founded Sisters in Crime, an organization for women mystery writers Sara Paretsky |
| #2785, aired 1996-10-11 | MYSTERIES $1000: Last name of husband & wife mystery writers Faye & Jonathan the Kellermans |
| #2729, aired 1996-06-13 | AWARDS $600: In 1995 this Mike Hammer creator was named a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America Mickey Spillane |
| #2686, aired 1996-04-15 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $200: It reportedly took him about 10 years to write "The Catcher in the Rye" J.D. Salinger |
| #2686, aired 1996-04-15 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $400: In 1905 this "Call of the Wild" author ran for mayor of Oakland, California as a Socialist Jack London |
| #2686, aired 1996-04-15 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $600: This poet's annual Christmas greeting for 1949 featured "On a tree fallen across the road" Robert Frost |
| #2686, aired 1996-04-15 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $800: He was admonished by the LAPD in 1971 for not getting permission to publish "The New Centurions" Joseph Wambaugh |
| #2686, aired 1996-04-15 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $1000: "The Godwulf Manuscript" in 1974 was his first book about Boston policeman-turned-private eye Spenser Robert Parker |
| #2630, aired 1996-01-26 | WRITERS NAMED JAMES $200: His book "Hawaii" traces the islands' development from their geological creation until the 1950s James Michener |
| #2630, aired 1996-01-26 | WRITERS NAMED JAMES $400: He's known for kids' books like "The 13 Clocks" as well as "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" James Thurber |
| #2630, aired 1996-01-26 | WRITERS NAMED JAMES $600: At school in Scotland, this author of "Peter Pan" joined a make-believe pirate crew of boys (James) Barrie |
| #2630, aired 1996-01-26 | WRITERS NAMED JAMES $800: After 1948 this black American author of "Go Tell It on the Mountain" lived mostly in France (James) Baldwin |
| #2630, aired 1996-01-26 | WRITERS NAMED JAMES $1000: The works of this "Mildred Pierce" author are said to have influenced Camus' "The Stranger" James M. Cain |
| #2616, aired 1996-01-08 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Award seen here: the Edgar |
| #2558, aired 1995-10-18 | AUTHORS $800: In 1959 this "Farewell My Lovely" author became president of the Mystery Writers of America Raymond Chandler |
| #2524, aired 1995-07-20 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $200: During WWII this author of 'The Naked and the Dead" was an infantry rifleman Norman Mailer |
| #2524, aired 1995-07-20 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $400: In 1965 he was overheard telling mafia stories & was offered $5,000 for a book about the underworld (Mario) Puzo |
| #2524, aired 1995-07-20 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $600: His "The Carpetbaggers" has gone through over 80 printings, selling over 10 million copies (Harold) Robbins |
| #2524, aired 1995-07-20 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $800: This author of "North and South" wrote the lyrics to the 1970 musical comedy "Dracula, Baby" John Jakes |
| #2524, aired 1995-07-20 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $1000: As of 1994, 5 of his novels had been filmed, 4 with Helena Bonham Carter, including "A Room with a View" (E.M.) Forster |
| #2378, aired 1994-12-28 | AMERICAN HISTORY $500: Of the 3 writers of the Federalist papers, 2 were New Yorkers & he was a Virginian (James) Madison |
| #2367, aired 1994-12-13 | POP MUSIC $100: These 2 writers won a 1966 Song of the Year Grammy for "Michelle" Lennon & McCartney |
| #2306, aired 1994-09-19 | WRITERS NAMED JAMES $200: A fact in one of his daughter's school books sparked his interest in writing about a "Shogun" James Clavell |
| #2306, aired 1994-09-19 | WRITERS NAMED JAMES $400: Before tackling Samuel Johnson's entire life, he published a journal of their tour "To the Hebrides" (James) Boswell |
| #2306, aired 1994-09-19 | WRITERS NAMED JAMES $600: "Only One Woof" & "Christmas Day Kitten" are among the books this veterinarian has written for kids James Herriot |
| #2306, aired 1994-09-19 | WRITERS NAMED JAMES $800: While a student in Dublin, he wrote an essay titled "My Favourite Hero"; his hero was Ulysses James Joyce |
| #2306, aired 1994-09-19 | WRITERS NAMED JAMES $1000: Books like "The Postman Always Rings Twice" earned him a reputation as a "tough-guy" writer (James M.) Cain |
| #2301, aired 1994-09-12 | CLASSIC TELEVISION $500: Rob Petrie, Buddy Sorrell & Sally Rogers were comedy writers for this fictional TV show The Alan Brady Show |
| #2175, aired 1994-02-04 | LITERARY MOVEMENTS $200: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac & Lawrence Ferlinghetti were part of this group of writers the Beats |
| #2171, aired 1994-01-31 | LONDON POTPOURRI $500: This area of London became synonymous with a "group" of writers & artists that included Virginia Woolf Bloomsbury |
| #2134, aired 1993-12-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: She referred to the many American writers in Paris after World War I as the "Lost Generation" Gertrude Stein |
| #2059, aired 1993-07-15 | WRITERS $200: This horror writer's title char. "Dolores Claiborne" admits that she murdered her husband Stephen King |
| #2059, aired 1993-07-15 | WRITERS $400: Hume Cronyn co-wrote scripts for 2 of this director's films, "Under Suspicion" & "Rope" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #2059, aired 1993-07-15 | WRITERS $600: She wrote a series of short stories about a traveling saleswoman several years before "So Big" Edna Ferber |
| #2059, aired 1993-07-15 | WRITERS $800: He gave readers a choice of alternate endings in "The French Lieutenant's Woman" John Fowles |
| #2059, aired 1993-07-15 | WRITERS $1000: He wrote about Navajos who turn away from their people & practice witchcraft in "Skinwalkers" Tony Hillerman |
| #2041, aired 1993-06-21 | AUTHORS $600: The first president of the Soviet writers' union, his name is shared by a city & a park Gorky |
| #2034, aired 1993-06-10 | TV PROFESSIONS $500: Buddy Sorrell,
Sally Rogers &
Rob Petrie TV comedy writers |
| #2022, aired 1993-05-25 | WRITERS $200: Poe's foster father disowned him shortly before he was expelled from this military academy in 1831 West Point |
| #2022, aired 1993-05-25 | WRITERS $400: Tama Janowitz was a protegee of this pop artist known for his silkscreens (Andy) Warhol |
| #2022, aired 1993-05-25 | WRITERS $600: Colleen McCullough collaborated on a cookbook based on the cuisine of this, her native ctry. Australia |
| #2022, aired 1993-05-25 | WRITERS $800: This author of "The Other" was a descendant of William Tryon, a colonial governor of North Carolina Tom Tryon |
| #2022, aired 1993-05-25 | WRITERS $1,200 (Daily Double): This erudite conservative's first Blackford Oakes novel was the 1976 spy thriller "Saving the Queen" William F. Buckley, Jr. |
| #2021, aired 1993-05-24 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $200: Last name shared by writers Edwin, Frank & Flannery O'Connor |
| #1998, aired 1993-04-21 | RUSSIAN LITERATURE $400: Boris Pasternak was ejected from the union of Soviet writers because of the furor caused by this novel Doctor Zhivago |
| #1975, aired 1993-03-19 | WOMEN WRITERS $200: In 1970 this Cosmopolitan editor offered her views on "Sex and the New Single Girl" Helen Gurley Brown |
| #1975, aired 1993-03-19 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: This bestselling author of "Jewels" & "Fine Things" has also written several children's books Danielle Steel |
| #1975, aired 1993-03-19 | WOMEN WRITERS $600: She began her first novel, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles", while working at a hospital during WWI Agatha Christie |
| #1975, aired 1993-03-19 | WOMEN WRITERS $800: She dedicated the second edition of "Jane Eyre" to novelist William Makepeace Thackeray Charlotte Bronte |
| #1975, aired 1993-03-19 | WOMEN WRITERS $1000: On winning his 1954 Nobel Prize, Ernest Hemingway said it should have gone to this "Beautiful" Danish writer instead Isak Dinesen |
| #1970, aired 1993-03-12 | LITERARY TRIVIA $200: Giving advice to detective story writers, Dashiell Hammett claimed this "is the plural of 'you'" youse |
| #1918, aired 1992-12-30 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $600: Ancient writers called this militaristic Greek state Lacedaemon Sparta |
| #1913, aired 1992-12-23 | WRITERS $200: Richard Condon's 1986 novel "Prizzi's Family" was a prequel to this novel he wrote 4 years earlier Prizzi's Honor |
| #1913, aired 1992-12-23 | WRITERS $400: Before becoming a novelist, Sidney Sheldon adapted this musical about Annie Oakley for the screen Annie Get Your Gun |
| #1913, aired 1992-12-23 | WRITERS $600: In 1983 this mother of 3 published the 20th anniversary edition of her book "The Feminine Mystique" Betty Friedan |
| #1913, aired 1992-12-23 | WRITERS $800: Sara Paretsky created this female P.I. whose first 2 initials stand for Victoria Iphigenia V.I. Warshawski |
| #1913, aired 1992-12-23 | WRITERS $1,500 (Daily Double): John Grisham, who wrote "The Firm", lives on a large farm in this town where William Faulkner resided Oxford, Mississippi |
| #1905, aired 1992-12-11 | CARD GAMES $400: A popular "Jeopardy!" category, or a children's game with pictures of writers on the cards Authors |
| #1891, aired 1992-11-23 | ORGANIZATIONS $1000: International Pen, an organization of writers, was founded by this author of "The Forsyte Saga" in 1921 Galsworthy |
| #1884, aired 1992-11-12 | WRITERS $200: "Sister Carrie" was Theodore Dreiser's first novel & "Carrie" was this author's Stephen King |
