| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | ALSO A NEW WAVE BAND $1000: Here's this group at the beach A Flock of Seagulls |
| #9283, aired 2025-03-05 | THE DESIRED OPERA CATEGORY $400: Figaro! Figaro Figaro Fiii-gaaa-ro! is who I'm talking about & he sings the aria "Largo al factotum" in this 1816 comic opera The Barber of Seville |
| #9283, aired 2025-03-05 | REALITY TV $800: This show slayed in 2024, winning the Emmy for Outstanding Reality Competition Program & one for its host, Alan Cumming The Traitors |
| #9281, aired 2025-03-03 | IN YE OLDE 18th CENTURY BOOKSHOPPE $1200: This Jean-Jacques Rousseau work of "Social" science says, "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains" The Social Contract |
| #9281, aired 2025-03-03 | IN YE OLDE 18th CENTURY BOOKSHOPPE $2,200 (Daily Double): "Of the division of labour" kicks off Chapter One in "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of" the rest of this 1776 title The Wealth of Nations |
| #9279, aired 2025-02-27 | POP CULTURE 2000 $800: Eminem released this "LP", his follow-up to "The Slim Shady LP", & often considered his best album The Marshall Mathers LP |
| #9276, aired 2025-02-24 | SOME ART, SOME SCIENCE $600: A year after finishing this iconic painting featuring a glowing yellow crescent moon, van Gogh was van gone The Starry Night |
| #9275, aired 2025-02-21 | PROLOGUES $2000: This poem has a general prologue that introduces the pilgrims, beginning with the Knight The Canterbury Tales |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | NONFICTION $800: In this treatise Sun Tzu says, "The impact of your army may be like a grindstone dashed against an egg" The Art of War |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | LET ME TELL YOU A STORY $200: A traveling salesman wakes to find he has a carapace & numerous legs, alarming his family The Metamorphosis |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | THE ARTS $400: A 1912 review of this ballet based on Russian folklore said ornithologists would be interested in a new discovery that flew on stage The Firebird |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | THE THEATER $1000: The title guys of this Shakespeare play leave home & head to Milan; various love plots ensue The Two Gentlemen of Verona |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | MOVIES WITH SUBTITLES $600: Rebels on the run: "Catching Fire" The Hunger Games |
| #9250, aired 2025-01-17 | "B" PICTURES $1000: A masterpiece by Cézanne is titled not "Swimmers" but these The Bathers |
| #9249, aired 2025-01-16 | SHORT STORIES $400: The Manor of Canterville Chase is where the ghost of Sir Simon lives in a short story by this Irish-born wit Wilde |
| #9249, aired 2025-01-16 | SHORT STORIES $1200: This O. Henry classic tells the story of a young, poor couple who try to get the perfect Christmas presents for each other "The Gift of the Magi" |
| #9243, aired 2025-01-08 | 5 RANDOM WORDS FROM THE NOVEL $2000: Agerstown,
crumby,
school,
Phoebe,
at The Catcher in the Rye |
| #9236, aired 2024-12-30 | BOOK "OF" $600: Curly, a sweet Newfoundland, is put to work as a sled dog along with Buck in this classic The Call of the Wild |
| #9226, aired 2024-12-16 | TV FOURSOMES $800: Sophia & Dorothy, mother & daughter, were half of the quartet of a certain age in this 1985 to 1992 sitcom The Golden Girls |
| #9225, aired 2024-12-13 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $200: Around 1475 William Caxton printed some of the first books in English, including a history of Troy & these Chaucer tales The Canterbury Tales |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONGS $1600: "Angel Of Music" & "All I Ask Of You" The Phantom of the Opera |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | THE QUOTABLE OSCAR WILDE $400: In this novel Lord Henry says, "I like men who have a future and women who have a past" The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| #9169, aired 2024-09-26 | CLASSIC NOVELS $800: Chester Gillette's murder of his pregnant girlfriend on New York's Big Moose Lake inspired this Theodore Dreiser novel An American Tragedy |
| #9159, aired 2024-09-12 | ANIMATED FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $800: 1999:
The ferrous leviathan The Iron Giant |
| #9135, aired 2024-06-28 | INTERNET CELEBRITIES $800: Before "SNL" this comedy troupe featuring Andy Samberg made the web series "The 'Bu", a parody of "The O.C." The Lonely Island |
| #9118, aired 2024-06-05 | ALLITERATIVE TELEVISION SHOWS $400: "Thank You For Being a Friend" was the theme song for this sitcom that co-starred Estelle Getty The Golden Girls |
| #9115, aired 2024-05-31 | SCIENCE-Y BOOKS $1600: Primo Levi's memoir of his life as a young chemist is titled this, after something developed by another chemist, Dmitri Mendeleyev The Periodic Table |
| #9110, aired 2024-05-24 | LITERARY SIMILES $600: "Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears" is a chapter of this book in which Mr. Toad gets some bad news The Wind in the Willows |
| #9107, aired 2024-05-21 | TV $400: "Bartlet's Third State of the Union" was a Season 2 episode of this series The West Wing |
| #27, aired 2024-05-10 | OSCARS FOR MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING $800: Frances Hannon & Mark Coulier won the award for this 2014 Wes Anderson film set in Zubrowka The Grand Budapest Hotel |
| #27, aired 2024-05-10 | LIKE THERE WOULDN'T BE SHAKESPEARE $1000: The settings in this play are Milan, a forest near Milan & the title city The Two Gentlemen of Verona |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | HOLLYWOOD LEGACIES $800: (Michael Douglas delivers the clue.) Not many families have 3 generations of Oscar winners, but Angelica Huston is the third generation in her family; her father, the great director John, & her grandfather Walter both won for this 1948 film about gold prospecting in Mexico The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | LITERARY NORTH CAROLINA $1200: Raleigh minister Thomas Dixon espoused racial purity in novels like "The Clansman", basis of this 1915 film The Birth of a Nation |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | MUSIC FROM 10 YEARS AGO $1600: This EDM duo with great "American Spirit" had a "Lucky Strike" with the addictive hit "#Selfie" The Chainsmokers |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | AND THE ROLE ALMOST GOES TO... $1200: "Keanu was perfect", said Will Smith of this 1999 film, which he passed on for "Wild Wild West"; "I would've ruined it" The Matrix |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | COMPOSERS $1200: Felix Mendelssohn composed music to accompany this Shakespeare comedy, including the familiar "Wedding March" A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | MISSION: PLAUSIBLE $400: A 35-year Broadway run--unlikely, but Thelma Pollard did, doing makeup for the face behind the mask of this show's title character The Phantom of the Opera |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | SHAKESPEARE FOR EVERYONE! $1000: This early play features Proteus & Valentine in the title roles (& it's not "Proteus & Valentine Take Manhattan") The Two Gentlemen of Verona |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 2 BOOKS IN 1 $600: "A Room to India" A Room with a View & A Passage to India |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | FRAILTY, THY NAME IS MAN $1600: At one point in this novel, Ignatius Reilly regales his mom with an anecdote about his carsickness A Confederacy of Dunces |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES & TV SHOWS $400: (I'm Ellie Kemper.) Growing up, I wanted to be a nun due in part to my love of this 1965 movie about a young woman at an Austrian convent The Sound of Music |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | POETRY ABOUT PROSE $400: A tale of London / In times that were hard / Detailing the far north / & a shepherd-St. Bernard The Call of the Wild |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | POETRY ABOUT PROSE $1000: A disfigured guy / Falls for a woman in Paris, it's true / Sounds like it's "Hunchback" / But it's by a man named Leroux The Phantom of the Opera |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | MOVIE INSPIRATIONS $400: A series of articles in the L.A. Times about people dying in their sleep, perhaps during bad dreams, inspired this 1984 film A Nightmare on Elm Street |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | MOVIES AS TV NEWS STORIES $600: 2 musicians dressed like undertakers led police on a wild chase through Chicago. Their car, & many others, did not survive the trip The Blues Brothers |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BIG-SCREEN BALLADS $800: A rare pop song that features an oboe solo, this cryptic ballad by Seal became a smash hit after appearing in "Batman Forever" "Kiss From A Rose" |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | FACTS ABOUT THE BEST PICTURE WINNER $1200: Raymond A. Mendez is credited as "moth wrangler & stylist" for this 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $600: This Jack London classic is considered one of the "books that shaped America" The Call of the Wild |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | TALK LIKE A PIRATE $600: "It is, it is a glorious thing to be a pirate king", says a song from this Gilbert & Sullivan show The Pirates of Penzance |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | KISS & TELL $800: The musical "Kiss Me, Kate" was based on this Shakespeare play The Taming of the Shrew |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | "B" MOVIE QUOTES $1200: "It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas... it's dark & we're wearing sunglasses"; "Hit it" The Blues Brothers |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | BOOKS BY CHAPTERS $1200: By Gaston Leroux:
"At the Masked Ball", "The End of the Ghost's Love Story" The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: In this novel, Holden Caulfield observes, "All morons hate it when you call them a moron" The Catcher in the Rye |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | CHAPTER & VERSE $2000: Most of the stanzas in this Coleridge poem have 4 lines; a single 9-line stanza mentions a steersman The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | NARRATOR OF THE NOVEL $200: This novel:
16-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster, who has cancer The Fault in Our Stars |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | THE OPERETTAS OF GILBERT & SULLIVAN $400: At the start of this operetta, a chorus of nobles sings, "If you want to know who we are, we are gentlemen of Japan" The Mikado |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER $800: (Andrew Lloyd Webber presents the clue.) I am proud to have created this longest-running musical on Broadway; it opened in 1988 & after almost 14,000 performances, the chandelier dropped for the last time in 2023 The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | AUTHORS' FIRST NOVELS $1000: This first novel from James Joyce sounds like it could be a painting of him from when he was a wee lad A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | THESE BROS ARE LIT $400: Collectively, Dmitry, Ivan & Alyosha live up to the title of this 19th century novel The Brothers Karamazov |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | ACTION & ADVENTURE NOVELS $1600: A canine is the main character of this 1903 novel set in part in Canadian gold rush country The Call of the Wild |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: A work by James Fenimore Cooper sometimes called the first espionage novel has this simple title The Spy |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | PREPARING FOR THE ROLE $1200: To play Hawkeye in this 1992 film, Daniel Day-Lewis learned how to hunt, build canoes & throw tomahawks The Last of the Mohicans |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | MOVIE TITLE FUN $800: The title of this Ron Stallworth book that became a movie has only 2 Ks The Black Klansman |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | BEASTLY BOOK TITLES $1000: An extended family of primitive humans adopts 5-year-old Ayla The Clan of the Cave Bear |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | HEARD IN THE MOVIE $2000: "Fred C. Dobbs ain't a guy likes bein' taken advantage of--do the mug in, I say" The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: This Pulitzer Prize winner by Colson Whitehead begins, "The first time Caesar approached Cora about running north, she said no" The Underground Railroad |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | THE SECOND CHAPTER $400: Holden's history teacher says, "I flunked you in history because you knew absolutely nothing" The Catcher in the Rye |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | THE SECOND CHAPTER $1200: Chapter 2 concludes, "Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" The Hound of the Baskervilles |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | OCTOBERFEST $2000: Led by Orson Welles, the Mercury Theatre panicked the U.S. with a live radio dramatization of this work on October 30, 1938 The War of the Worlds |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | CHAPTER $600: Chapter 2:
"The Law of Club and Fang" The Call of the Wild |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | 20th CENTURY POP MUSIC $1000: "Time" & "Money" can both be found on this Pink Floyd album from 1973 The Dark Side of the Moon |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | HAIKU THAT NOVEL! $400: Dust Bowl to Cali /
No kicks on Route 66 /
The Joad to ruin The Grapes of Wrath |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | TV SHOWS TO BINGE $400: This limited series starring Anya Taylor-Joy about a chess prodigy The Queen's Gambit |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | READ IT OR EAT IT? $1600: Play in which a working class African-American family moves into an all-white Chicago neighborhood A Raisin in the Sun |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | NEW YORK-SET FICTION $1000: Edith Wharton wrote of upper-class New York society during the Gilded Age in this Pulitzer Prize winner The Age of Innocence |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | SIDEKICKS $2000: Arthur Dent's pal, Ford Prefect is a reporter for this title publication of a sci-fi series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | '38 $600: On October 31, 1938 the New York Times reported, "Radio listeners in panic" after a broadcast of this H.G. Wells story The War of the Worlds |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $200: This novel could have been called "2 1/2 Days in the Life of Holden Caulfield" The Catcher in the Rye |
| #8505, aired 2021-11-05 | CLASSIC ALBUMS $2000: U2 turned to the desert for this classic 1987 album The Joshua Tree |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | WRITTEN IN THE DUST $2,000 (Daily Double): Chapter 1 of this 1939 novel has quite a lot to say about dust, like "In the morning" it "hung like fog" The Grapes of Wrath |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | CELLO $800: An excellent piece for the cello is "The Swan", from this work by Camille Saint-Saens The Carnival of the Animals |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | DISNEY SONGS $200: This song says, "I can open your eyes, take you wonder by wonder" "A Whole New World" |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | NATIONAL LITERARY TITLES $1600: Meryl Streep starred in a film of this John Fowles novel The French Lieutenant's Woman |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | TALES OF HORROR $400: "Horror" is in the title of this book in which the Lutz family learned that, sometimes, buying a murder home isn't worth it The Amityville Horror |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | WE ARE TV FAMILY $400: Dan Castellaneta to Julie Kavner on this show: "It takes 2 to lie. One to lie, & one to listen" The Simpsons |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | WE ARE TV FAMILY $800: Since 2013 Jeff Garlin has been like a father to Hayley Orrantia on this ABC comedy The Goldbergs |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | FROM BOOK TO RETITLED FILM $800: Released in 1961, this live-action Disney film that was remade in 1998 was based on the German novel "The Double Lottie" The Parent Trap |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | SOUTHERN LITERATURE $6,000 (Daily Double): Set in rural Georgia, this novel told in the form of letters won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction The Color Purple |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | BOOKS FOR KIDS $600: The Truffula tree is on the verge of extinction in this classic by Dr. Seuss The Lorax |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | SIGNATURE SONGS $1200: Charlie Daniels spun the tale of a confident fiddle player in this tune he called his signature song "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | MOVIE TIME $800: In this film, Morgan Freeman says the prison library should file "The Count of Monte Cristo" with the educational books The Shawshank Redemption |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | 2 BOOKS IN 1 $2000: "The Turn of the Miller" The Turn of the Screw & Daisy Miller |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | ACTION & SUSPENSE NOVELS $5,400 (Daily Double): "Marko Ramius of the Soviet navy was dressed for the Arctic conditions normal to the... submarine base" in this book The Hunt for Red October |
| #8462, aired 2021-08-10 | TV ROLES $2000: Lee Majors played a stuntman who had a side hustle as a bounty hunter on this 1980s series The Fall Guy |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | LITERATURE $800: The title domicile of this Hawthorne novel is halfway down Pyncheon Street The House of the Seven Gables |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | LITERATURE $1600: In his 50s Tom Wolfe wrote his first novel, this one about the downfall of a Manhattan bond trader The Bonfire of the Vanities |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | REAL PEOPLE ON FILM $600: Prison cellmate Tommy Chong convinced Jordan Belfort to pen a memoir, which led to this Scorsese movie The Wolf of Wall Street |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | THE U.K. IN THE 1980s $600: The Brits exported New Wave bands like this "Wishing" & "Space Age Love Song" group whose singer had a wing-style haircut A Flock of Seagulls |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | POP CULTURE $400: Playing himself, William Shatner made a guest appearance in "The D & D Vortex" episode of this sitcom The Big Bang Theory |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | DEALING WITH THE PAINT $600: Unafraid to give another shout-out to a good idea, Edvard Munch did versions of this in 1893, 1895 & around 1910 The Scream |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | PIRATE FLAGS $1000: Act I of this Gilbert & Sullivan operetta has the lyric "Oh, better far to live and die/ Under the brave black flag I fly" The Pirates of Penzance |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | AT THE END OF THE SCARY MOVIE $800: "I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner" The Silence of the Lambs |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | PEOPLE OF THE BOOK $1000: Lucie Manette,
Madame Defarge A Tale of Two Cities |
| #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 |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | ON THE BOOKSHELF $800: Lisbeth Salander has a Chinese symbol inked on her hip & a wasp on her neck as well as the design mentioned in the title of this novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | LITERARY TITLE BEVERAGES $2000: Naturally, apple picking is featured in this 1985 John Irving novel The Cider House Rules |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | AMERICAN PLAYS $1200: "Raisin" is a musical version of this classic drama Raisin in the Sun |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | OPERA & BALLET $2000: The 2 parts of this Stravinsky ballet are "Adoration of the Earth" & "The Sacrifice" The Rite of Spring |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | PICTURE THE MOVIE $600: A Kubrick classic A Clockwork Orange |
| #5, aired 2020-01-09 | PREQUELS & SEQUELS $800: Edited by the author's son Christopher & published in 1977, it's a history of Middle-earth before "Lord of the Rings" The Silmarillion |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | THEY'RE BACK! $200: Submitted for your approval, Jordan Peele as host & narrator of the reboot of this anthology series The Twilight Zone |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | AUDIBLE $1200: Naturally, Colin Farrell read this novel by a fellow countryman
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named Baby Tuckoo A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | ART & ARTISTS $800: This 1863 Manet masterpiece caused a scandal, as one of the women picnicking in what may be the Bois de Boulogne is nude The Luncheon on the Grass |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $1200: This Japanese business paper shares its name with a Japanese stock index The Nikkei |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY, & I QUOTE... $800: Christopher Sly,
Act I, scene i:
"Yes" The Taming of the Shrew |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): The title peak of this Thomas Mann novel is home to a Swiss sanatorium The Magic Mountain |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | THE MONTHLY MOVIE TITLE $800: In 1990 Sean Connery could have sung, "We all live in a non-yellow submarine" in this film, but thankfully, did not The Hunt for Red October |
| #7635, aired 2017-11-17 | WORLD THEATER $2000: This Ibsen drama is the story of a medical inspector who refuses to be silenced An Enemy of the People |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | ART $400: This 1889 van Gogh work depicts a crescent moon in a swirling sky, a church spire & a cypress tree The Starry Night |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | SHAKESPEAREAN YARD SALE $600: This comedy makes use of the mask seen here A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7407, aired 2016-11-22 | IN THE RED $1600: Stephen Crane was 25 when he wrote this novel, "An Episode of the Civil War" The Red Badge of Courage |
| #7172, aired 2015-11-17 | TOUGH BALLET $800: (I'm Sarah Lane.) Requiring great balance & strength, one of the most challenging moments for a ballerina dancing Aurora is the extended sequence en pointe from the "Rose Adagio" in this Tchaikovsky ballet based on a fairy tale The Sleeping Beauty |
| #7170, aired 2015-11-13 | '80s FICTION $800: This 1988 novel:
"A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans" The Silence of the Lambs |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | NEW ENDINGS FOR CLASSIC LIT $200: A voice called out. "Hold up there, Tamenund! I'm Mohican! So are my wife & 3 kids! Take a better look, Mr. Census!" The Last of the Mohicans |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES $1600: Christopher Sly has the first line of this comedy The Taming of the Shrew |
| #7026, aired 2015-03-16 | THE LONDON STAGE $400: This musical opened in 1986 with Michael Crawford & Sarah Brightman in the lead roles, & it's still going strong The Phantom of the Opera |
| #7026, aired 2015-03-16 | THE LONDON STAGE $1600: In 2012 this murder mystery snared a record 60th year on the London stage The Mousetrap |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | THE BLACKLIST $1200: Urged on by his priest, Billy Wilkerson of this Variety rival published "Billy's Blacklist" in 1946 The Hollywood Reporter |
| #6893, aired 2014-07-30 | POP CULTURE $1000: It's the group heard here
"So let me ho-o-o-o-ld / Both your hands / In the holes of my sweater" The Neighbourhood |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | NONFICTION $2000: This Neil Sheehan book focuses on Lt. Col. John Paul Vann to illuminate America's failures & disillusionment in Vietnam A Bright Shining Lie |
| #6838, aired 2014-05-14 | WORLD LITERATURE $2000: In 1907 the performance of this John Millington Synge play set off riots in Dublin The Playboy of the Western World |
| #6834, aired 2014-05-08 | MOVIES BY ONE-WORD QUOTE $1000: 1948:
"Badges?" The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | AN ODD CAST OF CHARACTERS $1200: The 1975 film:
Magenta,
Columbia,
Janet Weiss The Rocky Horror Picture Show |
| #6758, aired 2014-01-22 | LITERATURE CATS WOULD LOVE $400: This Agatha Christie play that features Detective Sergeant Trotter is something most cats would love to have The Mousetrap |
| #6574, aired 2013-03-28 | THE WRITE OF SPRING $1200: It's the title of Rachel Carson's landmark 1962 work warning of the dangers of pesticide use Silent Spring |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | MOVIE MONEY $800: This 1964 Sergio Leone film starring Clint Eastwood introduced the spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | BOOK REPORT $1600: Martians attack the Earth after landing outside of London in this 1898 sci-fi classic by H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds |
| #6246, aired 2011-11-14 | NOVELS $800: The hero escapes from a dungeon by sewing himself into the burial sack of a fellow prisoner in this Dumas work The Count of Monte Cristo |
| #6242, aired 2011-11-08 | BOOK 'EM! $600: Phoebe Caulfield The Catcher in the Rye |
| #5551, aired 2008-10-27 | A BOOK OF POEMS $2000: Critic Hippolyte Babou suggested the title of Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du mal", which translates as this The Flowers of Evil |
| #5540, aired 2008-10-10 | HARDY $1000: Clym Yeobright comes back home to Egdon Heath & marries Eustacia Vye, with tragic results, in this novel The Return of the Native |
| #5481, aired 2008-06-09 | BOOKS OF THE '70s $600: Victor Henry of the U.S. Navy & his family are at the center of this 1971 Herman Wouk epic The Winds of War |
| #4621, aired 2004-10-11 | I NEED BACKUP $400: Claire Torry is a backup singer but her vocals were up front for Pink Floyd's song "Great Gig in the Sky" on this album The Dark Side of the Moon |
| #4580, aired 2004-07-02 | "SUMMER" FUN $1600: Cowabunga! 2 surfers travel the world looking for the perfect wave in this 1966 documentary The Endless Summer |
| #4566, aired 2004-06-14 | NAME THAT MOVIE $200: 1991:
"Well, Clarice, have the lambs stopped screaming?" The Silence of the Lambs |
| #4396, aired 2003-10-20 | A "LITTLE" LIT $1000: Regina Giddens is the vixenish lead character of this 1939 Lillian Hellman play The Little Foxes |
| #4298, aired 2003-04-16 | BRITISH LIT $600: Near the end of this novel, Madame Defarge is killed with her own gun during a struggle with Miss Pross A Tale of Two Cities |
| #4175, aired 2002-10-25 | DOGS $2000: Dave was one of Buck's sled-dog companions in this book The Call of the Wild |
| #4073, aired 2002-04-24 | CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS $200: The forbidden love of Lun Tha & Tuptim inspires Anna to sing "Hello, Young Lovers" in this musical The King and I |
| #4012, aired 2002-01-29 | BOOK SEQUELS $1000: "War and Remembrance"
(1978) The Winds of War |
| #3630, aired 2000-05-19 | NEW GAME SHOWS? $100: On this revival Tom Bergeron explains that you have to get 3 stars in a row, across, up & down or diagonally The Hollywood Squares |
| #3464, aired 1999-09-30 | 13-LETTER WORDS $700 (Daily Double): Kafka's title "Die Verwandlung" was changed to this The Metamorphosis |
| #3270, aired 1998-11-20 | FILMS OF THE 1980s $400: Stephen Hopkins, more recently "Lost in Space", directed the fifth installment of this Freddy Krueger series A Nightmare on Elm Street |
| #3103, aired 1998-02-11 | OPERA $800: This Offenbach grand opera which premiered after his death in 1881 contains the popular "Barcarolle" The Tales of Hoffmann |
| #2806, aired 1996-11-11 | SHAKESPEARE $800: Mickey Rooney said he'd "never read Shakespeare before or since" he played Puck in a film version of this comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #2766, aired 1996-09-16 | "LAST" FILMS $200: Daniel Day-Lewis played Hawkeye in the 1992 version of this James Fenimore Cooper tale The Last of the Mohicans |
| #2427, aired 1995-03-07 | THE MOVIES $400: Film in which Walter Huston said, "I know what gold does to men's souls" The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| #2370, aired 1994-12-16 | 18th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1766 America's first permanent theatre opened in Phil. with "Katharine and Petruchio", based on this play The Taming of the Shrew |
| #2360, aired 1994-12-02 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: The Martian invasion in this 1898 work takes place in Woking, England, not New Jersey The War of the Worlds |
| #2253, aired 1994-05-25 | THE OSCARS $200: This 1991 "Best Picture" winner starring Jodie Foster was the first to appear on home video prior to its win The Silence of the Lambs |
| #2247, aired 1994-05-17 | SHAKESPEAREAN "T" TIME $200: The next to last line in this play is "Now go thy ways; thou hast tamed a curst shrew" The Taming of the Shrew |
| #2214, aired 1994-03-31 | THE "LONG" & "SHORT" OF IT $500: Released in 1970, it was The Beatles' last No. 1 hit "The Long And Winding Road" |
| #2095, aired 1993-10-15 | '40s FILM FACTS $500: This 1945 film was shot mainly in black & white, but the Metamorphic title portrait is in color The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| #2074, aired 1993-09-16 | DISASTER MOVIES $500: Steve McQueen played fire chief Michael O'Hallorhan in this "incendiary" 1974 movie The Towering Inferno |
| #2073, aired 1993-09-15 | SHAKESPEARE $300: The great 19th c. actor Sir Henry Irving was noted for his portrayal of Shylock in this play The Merchant of Venice |
| #1942, aired 1993-02-02 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: The first English version of this adventure novel was called "The Family Robinson Crusoe" The Swiss Family Robinson |
| #1903, aired 1992-12-09 | SPY FICTION $600: This 1971 bestseller by Frederick Forsyth centers on a plot to murder Charles de Gaulle The Day of the Jackal |
| #1787, aired 1992-05-12 | DRAMA $800: Mikhail Baryshnikov gave an "insectifying" performance as Gregor Samsa in an adaptation of this Kafka work The Metamorphosis |
| #1743, aired 1992-03-11 | POT LUCK $1000: This Jay Anson book told of supernatural occurrences at 112 Ocean Avenue in a town on Long Island The Amityville Horror |
| #1721, aired 1992-02-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Morris West's Vatican trilogy began in 1963 with this novel & ended in 1990 with "Lazarus" The Shoes of the Fisherman |
| #1718, aired 1992-02-05 | THEATRE $400: As a schoolboy, Laurence Olivier played the role of Kate in this Shakespeare play The Taming of the Shrew |
| #1713, aired 1992-01-29 | THE MOVIES $100: The film that inspired the 1991 headline "'Lambs' Chops Competition at B.O." The Slence of the Lambs |
| #1644, aired 1991-10-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: 1 of 2 Thomas Harris best sellers that feature Hannibal the Cannibal The Silence of the Lambs (or Red Dragon) |
| #1632, aired 1991-10-08 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1,000 (Daily Double): Tony-winning Broadway show that gave us the following song:
"Nighttime sharpens, heightens each sensation / Darkness wakes and stirs imagination..." The Phantom of the Opera |
| #1577, aired 1991-06-11 | 1940s TV $500: This 1949 sitcom with Jackie Gleason, not William Bendix, won an Emmy as Best Film Made for & Viewed on TV The Life of Riley |
| #1575, aired 1991-06-07 | NONFICTION $1000: Norman Mailer won his first Pulitzer Prize for this 1968 account of the Peace March on the Pentagon Armies of the Night |
| #1053, aired 1989-03-15 | COLORS $200: 1930 German film that made Marlene Dietrech a star The Blue Angel |
| #935, aired 1988-09-30 | CARNIVALS $500 (Daily Double): 19th c. French composer Camille Saint-Saens gave us this musical menagerie:
[Instrumental music plays.] The Carnival of the Animals |
| #928, aired 1988-09-21 | LITERATURE $600: Lucie Manette is the heroine of this novel A Tale of Two Cities |
| #900, aired 1988-07-01 | FICTION $200: This classic centers on a story-telling contest among pilgrims vying for a free meal at Tabard Inn The Canterbury Tales |
| #701, aired 1987-09-28 | ROARING '20s $300: Henry E. Huntington picked up this Gainsborough painting, it was reported, for a mere $640,000 The Blue Boy |
| #529, aired 1986-12-18 | LITERARY "LADY"s $400: Sir Walter Scott's poem about Ellen Douglas, who lived near Loch Katrine The Lady of the Lake |
| #516, aired 1986-12-01 | LITERATURE $500: Set in Hollywood, this Nathanael West novel ends with a riot at a movie premiere The Day of the Locust |
| #397, aired 1986-03-18 | MOVIES $300: 1980 movie of Brooke Shields stranded on the sand The Blue Lagoon |
| #354, aired 1986-01-16 | DRAMA $800: This 1959 Black family portrait was 1st Broadway play written by a Black woman A Raisin in the Sun |
| #264, aired 1985-09-12 | "DANCE" SONGS $500: "Men Without Hats" should have worn hard hats to sing this '84 hit "The Safety Dance" |
| #134, aired 1985-03-14 | AUTHORS $1000: Jewish author Franz Werfel "composed" this story of a modern saint from Lourdes The Song of Bernadette |
| #100, aired 1985-01-25 | SPACE $300: In this book, the Martians attack Chobham, England, not Grovers Mills, New Jersey The War of the Worlds |
