Literature ALL SOLUTION LATEST 2023/24 EDITION 100% CORRECT GUARANTEED GRADE A+

POETS & POETRY | 1600 | He began a famous poem, ""I celebrate myself, and sing myself"" Walt Whitman 19th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS | 800 | In 1893 this British man published his ""initial"" book, a ""text-book of biology""; many sci-fi novels followed H.G. Wells FRENCH LITERATURE | 2000 | A collection of about 90 tales, ""The Human Comedy"" by this author paints a vivid portrait of 19th c. France (Honoré de) Balzac CONSERVATIVE BOOKSHELF | 400 | Cartoonist Michael Ramirez inked the humorous ""Give Me Liberty or Give Me"" this program aka the Affordable Care Act Obamacare ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS | 1600 | This Watergate reporter examined how our leaders dealt with the recent economic woes in ""The Price of Politics"" (Bob) Woodward A RENAISSANCE LITERATURE TIMELINE | 2000 | Lady Penelope Rich was the ""star"" of Sir Philip Sidney's sonnet cycle ""Astrophel and"" her, published in 1591 Stella C'EST LA VEEP | 200 | Before he became Nixon's first VP, this son of a Greek immigrant won a Bronze Star for his service in WWII in France Spiro Agnew A BUNCH OF BOOKS | 1000 | Tom Wolfe, 1987:""The ___ of the ___s"" The Bonfire of the Vanities BOOKS & AUTHORS | 1200 | Due to fear U.S. readers wouldn't pronounce its title properly, this first James Bond book was published as ""You Asked For It"" Casino Royale BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS | 1000 | This woman: ""Daring to Vote"" Susan B. Anthony BOOKS & AUTHORS | 1600 | A character known as Oliver Stone is the leader of the Camel Club in political thrillers by this former attorney David Baldacci 19th CENTURY FEMALE AUTHORS | 2000 | The youngest of the sisters, Anne Bronte penned ""The Tenant of"" this residence in 1848 but died from TB a year later Wildfell Hall POETRY TERMS | 200 | An epithalamium is a poem for this occasion; one by Sappho ends, ""Happy bridegroom, seek your bride"" a wedding IT'S IN THE BOOK | 800 | From 1922, Dubliner Molly Bloom Ulysses IN PRAISE OF OLDER WRITERS | 1200 | In his 90s, this Irish playwright was still writing comedies like ""Far-Fetched Fables"" (George Bernard) Shaw THE BOOK BOOK | 800 | In a Robert Barnard mystery, Scotland Yard det. Trethowan seeks a lost book ms. by one of these sisters the Brontë sisters MONEY MATTERS | 800 | In 2012 this former Argentine first lady was honored on that country's 100-peso note Eva Perón POETRY | 400 | In a 1916 poem Edgar Guest wrote, ""It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it"" one of these a home 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 1990s FICTION | 200 | In 1990 his ""Bourne Ultimatum"" was a bestseller (Robert) Ludlum BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS | 1000 | A book about this 13th chief executive is subtitled ""The Unbelievable Life of a Forgotten President"" Millard Fillmore COMPLETES THE BESTSELLER TITLE | 600 | What if? ""11/__/63"" 22 COMIC BOOKS | 2000 | Also a ring bearer, Sinestro is chiefly a foe of this ""colorful"" superhero the Green Lantern THE NEW YORK TIMES: POLITICS | 800 | David Brooks said a scandal like Bridgegate makes this governor ""look unpleasant, but not unelectable"" Chris Christie POLITICAL CONVENTION KEYNOTERS | 800 | Democrats, 2004:This Illinois senatorial candidate Barack Obama BOOKS ABOUT WOMEN | 800 | Daphne du Maurier remembered her original idea for this book as ""A beautiful home... a first wife... jealousy..."" Rebecca A LOOK AT BOOKS | 400 | In 1932 Pearl Buck's ""Sons"" was a No. 3 bestseller; this other Buck book held the top spot The Good Earth BOOKS BY MEN | 400 | The title of this book continues ""and What Alice Found There"" Through the Looking Glass WRITERS FIRST NAME'S THE SAME | 400 | Sitwell &Wharton Edith MEDIEVAL LITERATURE | 800 | Our primary source for ancient Norse pagan beliefs is the Poetic Edda of this island nation Iceland BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS | 400 | This man: ""Billionaire Computer Genius"" Bill Gates WHO WROTE THESE KIDS' BOOKS? | 600 | ""A Swiftly Tilting Planet"" & ""A Wind in the Door"" Madeleine L'Engle POLITICAL BOOKS | 400 | In 2002 this former New York City mayor published ""Leadership"" Giuliani 1980s BESTSELLERS | 400 | In 1986 he celebrated his 82nd birthday with the publication of ""You're Only Old Once!"" Dr. Seuss THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION | 2000 | Touting the ""Massachusetts Miracle"" didn't help this Democratic nominee Dukakis AUTHOR-IZED BIOGRAPHIES | 1000 | This woman from Nohant, France took a male pen name & a piano-playing lover George Sand AUTHORS' LESSER-KNOWN WORKS | 2000 | ""La Vita Nuova"" tells of his first sight of Beatrice when they were both 9 Dante POETS & POETRY | 400 | The first stanza of this poem mentions ""Some visitor... tapping at my chamber door--only this and nothing more"" ""The Raven"" WOMEN AUTHORS | 400 | In 2011 this muggle topped Forbes' list of ""the 10 most powerful women authors"" J.K. Rowling ENGLISH LITERATURE | 200 | John Donne wrote, ""Death, be not"" this, ""though some have called thee mighty & dreadful, for though art not so"" proud MONEY | 800 | Most of these bills showing Ben Franklin are held in other countries hundreds HAIKU ABOUT THE POET | 800 | ""Aurora Leigh"", whoa! /19th century lady /Let me count the ways Elizabeth Barrett Browning 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 POLITICAL TERMS | 800 | Once a word for Irish outlaws, it came to mean a member of the British Conservative Party the Tories AMERICAN AUTHORS | 600 | His first published novel, ""The Notebook"", was inspired by the relationship of his wife's grandparents Nicholas Sparks NONFICTION | 400 | Dame Judi Dench wrote the foreword to this expose on the role of the Catholic church in forced adoptions Philomena COMPLETE THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD TITLE | 200 | William Styron, 1980:""____ Choice"" Sophie's BESTSELLERS BY PARTIAL TITLE | 1000 | Mary Karr joined this ""Club"" The Liars' Club BRITISH AUTHORS | 1600 | In an 1890 letter, he called himself ""a Polish nobleman, cased in British tar"" Joseph Conrad NAME THE POET | 800 | ""My little horse must think it queer to stop without a farmhouse near"" Robert Frost POETS & POETRY | 1000 | Spawning the Romantic Movement, 1798's ""Lyrical Ballads"" was penned by Wordsworth & this other poet (Samuel Taylor) Coleridge BOOKS & AUTHORS | 800 | There's no excuse for not knowing that Sue Grafton began her Alphabet Mysteries with this book A is for Alibi LAW | 800 | A 2010 Irish law bans this, calling it speech ""insulting... to matters held sacred by any religion"" blasphemy BOOKS & AUTHORS | 2000 | This Upton Sinclair novel with a 3-letter title was inspired by the Teapot Dome scandal Oil BILLBOARD'S TOP MONEY MAKERS OF 2011 | 600 | When you make nearly $16 million like this New Jersey band, you're livin' on more than a prayer Bon Jovi OUTLAWS | 1600 | ""Bonanza"" star Lorne Greene had a No. 1 hit about this outlaw, the ""fastest gun in the West"" Johnny Ringo NONFICTION | 2000 | The chapters in his ""Cosmos"" corresponded to episodes of his TV show Carl Sagan REFERENCE BOOK MAKERS | FINAL | In 1863 he used the epigraph ""I have gathered other... men's flowers, & nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own"" ... 1990s FICTION | 600 | This debut novel by Charles Frazier was a take on Homer's ""Odyssey"" set during the Civil War Cold Mountain GOVERNMENT JOBS | 800 | Oversees the executive office of the president to help the big man make decisions the Chief of Staff GOVERNMENT & TV | 1600 | Seen here, Yvonne Strahovski played a CIA agent helping a nerdy newbie on this show Chuck WRITERS BY MIDDLE NAMES | 600 | Wordsworth was his BFF:Taylor (Samuel Taylor) Coleridge PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS | 800 | Yo! at Philadelphia's Barclay Prime, this sandwich is $100 (it's made with Wagyu ribeye & Fontina) cheesesteak WRITERS FIRST NAME'S THE SAME | 600 | McCullough &Sedaris David SPY FICTION | 1600 | 1991 's ""The Secret Pilgrim"" was the last of John le Carre's 8 novels featuring this spy (George) Smiley POETIC WOMEN | 2000 | On April 6, 1348, 21 years to the day after Petrarch first saw her, she died in Avignon, possibly of the plague Laura LITERATURE OF THE EARLY 1800s | 1600 | A father, a mother & 4 sons are shipwrecked on a desert isle in this Johann David Wyss adventure tale The Swiss Family Robinson THE BOOK BOOK | 400 | In a Margaret Truman novel, a lost diary of one of Columbus' men is linked to a ""Murder at"" this D.C. library the Library of Congress BOOKS ABOUT WOMEN | 400 | ""A Remarkable Woman"", about this late actress, says she saw Spencer Tracy in ""Captains Courageous"" 52 times (Katharine) Hepburn AUTOBIOGRAPHIES | 400 | The price is right for ""Priceless Memories"", the autobiography of this game show host Bob Barker POLITICAL BOOKS | 800 | ""Justice for All"" is the subtitle of a tribute to this man & his ground-breaking 1967 appointment to the Supreme Court (Thurgood) Marshall COUNTRIES' POLITICAL PARTIES | 800 | The Communist Party of Bohemia & Moravia the Czech Republic BOOKS' MISSING ADJECTIVES | 800 | ""Sarah, ____ and ____"" Plain & Tall AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES | 1200 | Panem Suzanne Collins LAWFUL IDIOMS | 800 | A judge handing down a light sentence is giving this 4-word gentle blow a slap on the wrist CONSERVATIVE BOOKSHELF | 800 | A 2016 title is ""The Intimidation Game: How the Left is Silencing"" this 2-word First Amendment right free speech JOHN LAW | 1600 | John Campbell opposed secession but concurred with this 1857 Supreme Court decision that pushed the U.S. toward war Dred Scott GOVERNMENT & POLITICS | 1600 | On Nov. 6, 2012 voters in Maine & Maryland said yes, Adam & Steve can do this marry AMERICAN LITERATURE | 800 | In Stephen Vincent Benet's story ""The Devil and"" him, Mr. Scratch has come to collect a debt Daniel Webster POETIC WOMEN | 1200 | Longfellow called her the ""handsomest of all the women in the land of the Dacotahs"" Minnehaha BOOKS' SUBTITLES | 400 | This horse: ""An American Legend"" by Laura Hillenbrand Seabiscuit LAWYERING UP ON TV | 400 | Fighter pilot to navy lawyer was the career path for Harmon Rabb on this drama, for 10 years on 2 different networks JAG AUTHORS: BORN & DIED | 1600 | Born in Scotland in 1850; died in Samoa in 1894 Robert Louis Stevenson THE BOOK OF NUMBERS | 400 | Anthony Burgess one-upped Orwell with this title 1985 FICTIONAL LOCALES | FINAL | Featured in a 1933 novel, it may have been inspired by the 1920s Tibetan travel writings of explorer Joseph Rock ... GEO-POLITICIANS | 1000 | This 5'4"" ""Little Giant"" who debated Abraham Lincoln has an 11,300' mountain named for him in Montana Stephen Douglas AUTHORS | FINAL | ""The American Tolkien"" was what Time magazine called this author with the same 2 middle initials as Tolkien ... THE LAW | 1200 | A curator ad litem may represent the interests of someone who's very young & even those who haven't been this yet born THE BOOK OF MERMEN | 800 | The Marvel character known as Sub-Mariner lives undersea in this fabled ""lost"" land Atlantis A 1980s BOOKSTORE | 1600 | Evil is alive & inhabiting a 1958 Plymouth Fury in this Stephen King tale Christine IT'S AN ELECTION YEAR | 1200 | In 1984 Democratic nominee Walter Mondale chose this running mate, a historic selection Geraldine Ferraro GOVERNMENT & POLITICS | 400 | Patty Murray chairs the Senate Committee on this spending document the budget A LOOK AT BOOKS | 600 | ""GEB"" is devotees' name for Douglas Hofstadter's ""Godel, Escher,"" this composer Bach AUTHORS | 200 | ""Slaughterhouse-Five"" was the first of his novels to feature his own drawings (Kurt) Vonnegut FOREIGN PRAISEBOOK | 2000 | In Japanese, it's yoku yatta; in the film ""Whiplash"" it's called the most harmful 2-word phrase in English good job WRITERS IN WARTIME | 1600 | His time in the 488th Bombardment Squadron, 340th Bombardment Group inspired a classic satirical novel Joseph Heller POETS & POETRY | 2000 | Yeats: ""I will arise and go now, and go to"" this place Innisfree RULE OF LAW | 1600 | In California it enforces rules of professional conduct for lawyers the (state) bar (association) BIOGRAPHIES | 2000 | If you didn't read John McCormick's 1987 biography on this philosopher, you may be condemned to repeat it Santayana NONFICTION | 2000 | He challenged Booker T. Washington's leadership in his 1903 collection of essays ""The Souls of Black Folk"" W.E.B. Du Bois AMERICAN LITERATURE | FINAL | This 1884 novel begins in the fictional town of St. Petersburg & ends in Pikesville, 1,100 miles down the Mississippi ... LAWRENCE OF ARABIA | 1200 | Director David Lean makes a cameo as a motorcyclist on the far bank of this man-made Egyptian waterway the Suez Canal POLITICAL DICTIONARY | 400 | We may vote for the president, but it's actually this body that formally makes the selection the Electoral College WOMEN AUTHORS | 2000 | Appropriately ""The Finishing School"" was the final novel by this author of ""The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"" Dame Muriel Spark 19th CENTURY LITERATURE | FINAL | This character says, ""Let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee"" ... CHILDREN'S LITERATURE | 400 | In a work by Crockett Johnson, he draws his own world with his purple crayon Harold POETRY & BRIDGES | 400 | In ""The Waste Land"", ""A crowd flowed over"" this; good thing it wasn't falling down London Bridge AUTHOR! AUTHOR! | 1000 | This author who said welcome to ""The Jungle"" organized the epic (end poverty in Calif.) movement in the 1930s Upton Sinclair 19th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS | 1600 | Before ""Downton Abbey"", there was this, the shortest of Jane Austen's 6 major novels Northanger Abbey COMIC BOOK WOMEN | 1600 | She is first mentioned in ""Amazing Spider-Man #15"", & Peter eventually marries her Mary Jane WOMEN AUTHORS | 1200 | In 2013 this author of the memoir ""Eat Pray Love"" turned to historical fiction with ""The Signature of all Things"" Elizabeth Gilbert POLITICAL VOCABULARY | 600 | Alliterative term for a procedure counting up spoken yeas & nays voice vote BASED ON THE COMIC BOOK | 600 | In 2012 Nicolas Cage reprised this title role as Johnny Blaze, a motorcyclist who gives up his soul to become a vigilante Ghost Rider 1980s BESTSELLERS | 2000 | The top fiction book of 1985 was Jean Auel's novel about these Ice Age ""Hunters"" The Mammoth Hunters AMERICAN LITERATURE | 400 | ""Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light"" is a description of her in ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" (Blanche) DuBois ESCAPIST LITERATURE | 200 | Clark Howard's novel ""Six Against the Rock"" examines an ingenious plan for escape from this prison Alcatraz THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW | 400 | In 2014 a U.S. fugitive was nabbed in Nepal after his picture clicked with this ""recognition"" software facial recognition AUTHORS' LESSER-KNOWN WORKS | 1600 | ""St, George and the Godfather"" is Norman Mailer's take on the presidential campaign of this year 1972 POETS & POETRY | 800 | Anne Sexton's elegy for this fellow doomed poet recalls the time ""we downed three extra dry martinis in Boston"" Sylvia Plath AUTHORESS! AUTHORESS! | 1200 | In 1983 those awaiting her 2nd novel made do with ""Romance And High Adventure"", an essay about Alabama history Harper Lee BESTSELLERS | 1200 | Naturally this singer/songwriter titled her memoir ""A Natural Woman"" Carole King PHILOSOPHY | 1600 | 1789's ""Principles of Morals"" by this man defined utilitarianism as the greatest good for the greatest number (Jeremy) Bentham EUROPEAN LITERATURE | FINAL | ""Episodes"" in this 1922 work include the Lotus Eaters & Ithaca ... THAT BOOK GAVE ME A NIGHTMARE | 400 | Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi's ""Helter Skelter"" is an account of the crimes of this man & his followers (Charles) Manson BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS | 800 | Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the JFK administration is called this many ""Days"" A Thousand SCI-FI BOOKS | 800 | To win a big prize, the hero of ""Ready Player One"" must play virtual arcade games, like this one with rideable ostriches Joust NONFICTION | 1200 | Thanks to a 2009 film, Julia Child's 48-year-old ""Mastering the Art of"" this reentered the bestseller lists French Cooking WHO WROTE THAT BOOK? | 1600 | ""The Call Of The Wild"" Jack London 21st CENTURY BOOKS | 400 | We bit on Charlaine Harris' ""After Dead: What Came Next In The World Of"" this ""True Blood Waitress"" Sookie INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS | 800 | Born in Lebanon, Khalil Gibran titled books in English ""The Madman"", ""The Forerunner"" & this foreteller The Prophet AMERICAN AUTHORS | 800 | Her indignation over the Fugitive Slave Act led to the writing of her most famous novel, published in 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe POLITICS | 800 | Senators Snowe & Bayh both cited this nasty ""ship"" sailing into Congress as a reason for retiring partisanship BOOKS' FIRST LINES | 600 | ""Renowned curator Jacques Sauniere staggered through the vaulted archway of the museum's grand gallery"" The Da Vinci Code AUTHORS' MUSEUMS | 600 | Appropriately, a tower in Ireland that was a setting in ""Ulysses"" houses a museum devoted to this author (James) Joyce WOMEN AUTHORS | 2000 | This 18th century feminist author of ""A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"" died after giving birth to Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft 19th CENTURY POLITICIANS | 400 | Taking office in 1809, he was the first U.S. president who had previously served in Congress Madison C'EST LA VEEP | 400 | This former Veep who helped broker the Kyoto Protocol met with Francois Hollande in 2015 in an effort to do more Al Gore IT'S AN ELECTION YEAR | 800 | In 1976 this man beat Gerald Ford to win the White House Jimmy Carter WORLD LITERATURE | 1200 | Concerning the lives of Alyosha, Dmitry & Ivan, ""The Brothers Karamazov"" takes place in this country Russia INTERNATIONAL LAW | 1200 | The 1982 Law of the Sea says for these groupings, like Indonesia, water between islands is for all states' ships an archipelago ROMANCE IN LITERATURE | 400 | ""Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now"", he said in ""Gone with the Wind"" Rhett Butler AMERICAN LITERATURE | 1600 | This 1906 novel was meant to be a companion piece to ""The Call of the Wild"" White Fang LITERATURE | 600 | Sal Paradise & Dean Moriarty decide to ""beat"" it across America in this modern classic On The Road LITERATURE | 200 | Published in 1826, the second of the ""Leatherstocking Tales"" is ""The Last of"" these people the Mohicans RECENT FICTION | 800 | ""Siracusa"" is a summer 2016 page-turner by her, Nora Ephron's little sis Delia Ephron BOOK COVERS | 200 | Part I of a trilogy:A gold mockingjay pin The Hunger Games LAWYERING UP ON TV | 800 | Richard Fish, on this Calista Flockhart show: ""Objection, your honor! This is boring"" Ally McBeal RECENT BOOKS | 600 | From this novel: ""'I've killed him,' 'More will come,' Abe had already begun to walk away, 'Then I shall need more stakes""' Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter CIA WORLD FACTOBOOK ABBREV. | 2000 | OSCE: ""Organization for"" these 2 things ""in Europe"" security and co-operation BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG | 600 | He illustrated ""The Very Hungry Caterpillar"" & ""Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?"" Eric Carle AUTHORS | FINAL | In 1948 he wrote he had an idea for a novel in which 2 guys hitchhike to California ""in search of something they don't really find"" ... FICTION | 800 | Of Jane Austen's 6 complete novels, this one has the shortest title Emma LAWRENCE OF ARABIA | 800 | One of cinema's great entrances is the long shot that introduces Sherif Ali, played by this similarly named man Omar Sharif FLORAL BOOK TITLES | 400 | In Deborah Moggach's ""Tulip Fever"", a mania for the title bulbs sweeps this Dutch city in the 1630s Amsterdam WE HAVE LAWS | 600 | Vancouver, Canada bans these in new housing; levers are easier on the arthritic hands of an aging populace doorknobs AUTOBIOGRAPHIES | 800 | This first memoir of Maya Angelou became a bestseller I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings KIDS' BOOKS | 800 | This 1982 Roald Dahl work about a large fellow became a 2016 film BFG GOVERNMENTAL BEFORE & AFTER | 1000 | Capitol Hill newspaper that's also a Jack London novel about a dog Roll Call of the Wild AUTHORS AGAINST ADAPTATIONS | 1600 | Winston Groom's sequel to this book says, ""don't never let nobody make a movie of your life's story"" Forrest Gump BESTSELLERS OF THE 13th CENTURY | 400 | Geoffrey de Villehardouin's ""Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade"" recounted the sack of this Byzantine capital city Constantinople WRITERS | 1600 | This late author's mother, Sally Wallace, invented words like ""greebles"" that he used in his books David Foster Wallace LA LITERATURE FRANCAISE | 1200 | This term for light, sophisticated literature is French for ""beautiful letters"" belles-lettres AUTHORS | 600 | As a teenager in Missouri, he got a job as a writer on his brother's newspaper, the Hannibal Western Union Mark Twain 3-NAMED AUTHORS | 1200 | In 1936 he published an autobiography titled ""Across Spoon River"" Edgar Lee Masters OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB | 1000 | Things got a little dicey after Oprah selected this maybe not-so-autobiographical James Frey memoir A Million Little Pieces A RENAISSANCE LITERATURE TIMELINE | 800 | Printing in England was still a novelty in the 1470s when William Caxton printed this work about 30 pilgrims The Canterbury Tales A BUNCH OF BOOKS | 200 | John Steinbeck, 1937:""Of ___ and ___"" Of Mice and Men AUTHORS ON THEMSELVES | 1600 | ""I choose to be a... New Hampshire farmer with an income in cash of say a thousand (from...a publisher in New York City)"" Robert Frost ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES | 400 | Hermann Hesse's tale of Harry Haller Steppenwolf PERFORMERS' AUTOBIOGRAPHIES | 800 | ""Dancing with Myself""(2014) Billy Idol AUTHORS' MUSEUMS | 800 | Items at her museum include Pa's fiddle, tools made by Almanzo & handwritten manuscripts for her novels Laura Ingalls Wilder WORLD LITERATURE | 1200 | The last chapter of this 16th century work is ""An Exhortation to Liberate Italy from the Barbarians"" The Prince NONFICTION | 2000 | This Neil Sheehan book focuses on Lt. Col. John Paul Vann to illuminate America's failures & disillusionment in Vietnam ""Bright Shining Lie"" THE SUPREME COURT | FINAL | After Washington & FDR, he is, perhaps fittingly, the president who appointed the most Supreme Court justices ... POLITICAL MEMOIRS | 1600 | This Secretary of State wrote ""The Politics of Diplomacy: Revolution, War and Peace, "" James Baker POETIC LICENSE | 400 | ""I dwell in possibility, a fairer house than prose"" begins one of her poems Emily Dickinson EUROPEAN POETS & POETRY | 800 | Seamus Heaney's 1999 translation of this 1,000-year-old Anglo-Saxon poem was a bestseller Beowulf BESTSELLERS | 600 | In 1967 Ira Levin delivered this novel about a satanic birth Rosemary's Baby HISTORICAL FICTION | 1600 | ""That Fateful Lightning"" is ""a novel of"" this Civil War general looking back on his life while he's dying of cancer (Ulysses) Grant DEAD POETS | 400 | ""There was an old man in a tree, who was horribly bored by a bee"" Edward Lear FICTIONAL ORGANIZATIONS | 1000 | In the Marvel universe, Baron Wolfgang von Strucker was instrumental in creating this evil organization Hydra FILL IN THE AUTHOR | 1000 | Clive ____ Lewis Staples THE PART OF SPEECH IN THE BOOK TITLE | 600 | A 1937 Tolkien tale:Article The BOY SCOUT LAW WORDS | 600 | Immaculate is a synonym for this word that can precede ""getaway"" or a ""sweep"" clean BOOK TALK | 600 | After ""Madeline"" went to the hospital, ""all the little girls cried, 'boohoo', we want to have our"" this ""out, too!"" our appendixes BOOKS' FIRST LINES | 800 | By Joyce:""Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road..."" Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man LITERATURE ACROSS AMERCA | 1200 | (Hi. I'm Mark Allen from WDTN.) I'm at the Dayton home of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, the son of former slaves; he wrote in Black dialect, including this 2-word question used by the New Orleans Saints, among others ""Who dat?"" AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES | 400 | Brobdingnag Jonathan Swift 3-NAMED AUTHORS | 2000 | This Yiddish writer's short story ""Gimpel the Fool"" was translated into English in 1953 Isaac Bashevis Singer WOMEN AUTHORS | FINAL | This woman who passed away in 2015 wrote what is billed as Australia's ""Gone with the Wind"" ... BRITISH POETS | 1600 | Sylvia Plath encouraged him to enter his first book, ""The Hawk in the Rain"", into a contest & he won first prize Ted Hughes POLITICAL SHORTHAND | 400 | Don't want a landfill in your neighborhood? Then you know that NIMBY stands for this not in my backyard ____ LAW | 800 | Governing shipping, it's also called admiralty law maritime law NONFICTION | 800 | This book of the human body was first published in London in 1858 Gray's Anatomy THE HARVARD BOOK STORE TOP 100 | 600 | This first novel by Carson McCullers takes 35th place on the list The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter WOMEN AUTHORS | 1200 | In 2013 Helen Fielding published her third novel featuring this now-50-something diarist Bridget Jones CHILDREN'S LITERATURE | 1000 | During WWII the Pevensie children are evacuated from London to an old professor's country estate in this 1950 book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe HOW'D THEY MAKE THEIR MONEY? | 1200 | (Here's Mark Cuban.) In the late 1300s Giovanni made this family wealthy in the schmatte business; his son Cosimo began the rise to political power the Medicis BOOKS & AUTHORS | 400 | Norman Mailer was one of the founders of this alternative NYC tabloid in 1955 The Village Voice DETENTION IN LITERATURE | 800 | Due to a tattoo, Devil's Island prisoner Henri Charriere was called this, also the title of a book he wrote Papillon HAIKU ABOUT THE POET | 600 | Talkin' 'bout lilacs /A Civil War caregiver /The good gray poet Whitman BOOKS ABOUT POLITICS | 800 | Lawrence Wright chronicled the ""13 Days in September"" 1978, when Pres. Carter got these 2 men to sign a peace treaty Sadat & Begin BOOKS ABOUT POLITICS | 2000 | ""Mayor for a New America"" is a memoir by this late beloved long-time mayor of Boston Thomas Menino GOVERNMENT AGENCIES | 800 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Leaving Wall St. & heading to Washington D.C., a lawyer never has to go outside, as D.C.'s Union Station connects directly to this regulatory commission on F Street the SEC FICTIONAL HUNCHBACKS | 2000 | It's Igor's 2-word question in ""Young Frankenstein"" when Dr. Frankenstein tells him he can help him ""with that hump"" What hump? WOMEN AUTHORS | 800 | Ponyboy gets acquitted of manslaughter, but Dally gets shot by the police after a robbery in this S.E. Hinton bok The Outsiders NONFICTION | 200 | ""Going Clear"" is subtitled this religion, ""Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief"" Scientology 2014 BESTSELLERS | 200 | A wealthy man hangs himself from a sycamore tree as this author of legal thrillers takes us back to Clanton, Miss. John Grisham WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE BOOK | 400 | This lord of the jungle books swung into print in October 1912 Tarzan BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS | 400 | ""The unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought"", it may be involuntary manslaughter BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS | 2000 | A religious leader: ""Here I Stand"" Martin Luther BOOKS BY THE NUMBER | 2000 | Khaled Hosseini:""A ___ Splendid Suns"" thousand 19th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS | 2000 | Between 1872 & 1882 she wrote 6 volumes of ""Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag"" Louisa May Alcott LAW | 600 | This kind of ""troll"" is a company that buys a bunch of these just to extract money by threatening infringement suits a patent troll THE SUPREME COURT | 1600 | The court calls a case up for review from a lower court by granting this document ""of certiorari"" a writ BOOKS' BEGINNINGS | 800 | ""Anna Karenina"":""Happy ____ are all alike..."" families AUTHOR-IZED BIOGRAPHIES | 600 | He served 2 kings as a diplomat & lived his last year, , in a house in the garden of Westminster Abbey Geoffrey Chaucer NONFICTION | 1600 | Shot by the Taliban, a teen activist from Pakistan lived to tell her story in the book, ""I Am"" her Malala LITERATURE | 600 | This 1922 Hermann Hesse novel about a young Brahmin in India parallels the life of Buddha Siddhartha GOVERNMENTAL BEFORE & AFTER | 400 | John Roberts' job that's a team of comic book superheroes Chief Justice League BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE | 1000 | Meaning ""differing"", it's Veronica Roth's first book about Beatrice Prior's rebellious choices Divergent POLITICS | 600 | On Monday, Feb. 29, 2016, voters in 12 states saw plenty of ads because the next day was known as this Super Tuesday NONFICTION | 800 | This author of ""The Blind Side"" & ""The Big Short"" has been called one of the ""premier chroniclers of our age"" Michael Lewis WORLD LITERATURE | 1600 | Tolstoy titled a story after these horsemen of the steppes, based on his travels as a soldier the Cossacks AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL CATEGORY | 1200 | This leader's ""My Life: A Spoken Autobiography"" mentions his relations with Nikita Khrushchev & Hugo Chavez (Fidel) Castro POLITICALLY INCORRECT | 600 | ""I am not a crook"" Richard Nixon WE HAVE LAWS | 1000 | N.Y. penal law, Section 255.17, says this act, spousal infidelity, is a Class B misdemeanor adultery THE SOUND OF MONEY | 400 | It can mean strange as well as amusing funny THE BOOK OF NORMAN | 800 | Jack Anderson used this rhyming title for his heroic tale of General Schwarzkopf Stormin' Norman PHILOSOPHY | 800 | Thomism, based on the ideas of this Dominican friar, combined Greek philosophy & Christian theology Thomas Aquinas (Thomas of Aquinas accepted) ENGLISH LITERATURE | 400 | This 1897 novel was influenced by ""Carmilla"", an 1872 novella about a female vampire Dracula ENGLISH LITERATURE | 400 | Last name of Dorothy Sayers' detective Lord Peter Wimsey AFTER I LOST THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION | 2000 | I helped my wife run for president & later, successfully, for the Senate (Robert) Dole AUTHORS: BORN & DIED | 400 | Born in 1932 in Boston, she died by her own hand in London in 1963 Sylvia Plath ON THE MONEY | 600 | The sage of Monticello the $2 bill GOVERNMENT & POLITICS | 200 | In October 2015 this Californian heir apparent to John Boehner suddenly withdrew his candidacy for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy A CASE OF WRITER'S BLOCK | 1600 | ""A whole year passed... O sorrow and shame... I have done nothing!"" he managed to write; Albatross, meet neck Samuel Taylor Coleridge MONEY MUSIC | 400 | In 1983 this singer told us, ""She works hard for the money, so hard for it, honey"" Donna Summer SCI-FI BOOKS | 800 | Thomas in this James Dashner sci-fi book awakens being ""jerked upward like an old lift in a mine shaft"" The Maze Runner 19th CENTURY WRITERS | FINAL | After his death, he was given full military honors in Greece before his body was returned home for burial at his baronial seat ... 1995 BESTSELLERS | 600 | More regenerated dinosaurs were on the prowl in this bestselling follow-up to ""Jurassic Park"" The Lost World 19th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS | 400 | He noted, ""I had sent my heroine... down a rabbit-hole... without the least idea what was to happen afterwards"" (Lewis) Carroll BOOK 'EM | 600 | In 2009's ""Homicide in Hardcover"", a woman hunts a murderer among book collectors & hippies in this California city San Francisco SUPREME COURT JUSTICES | 800 | This justice who served for 35 years shares his first two names with apostles John Paul Stevens NO. 1 BESTSELLERS IN THE ZERO YEARS | 1600 | 2000: This John Grisham novel concerns 3 disgraced judges who hatch another scam while in jail The Brethren 1950s BESTSELLERS | 1200 | Grace Metalious shocked America with her novel of secrets, sex & hypocrisy in this fictional N.H. title town Peyton Place POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES | 800 | Meta-fiction paying tribute to Melville: ____'s wife"" Ahab PHILOSOPHY | 400 | In the 5th century B.C., Protagoras (not Pythagoras) wrote, ""there are"" this many ""sides to every question"" two THE NAME OF THE LAW | 2000 | Named for an Illinois representative, 1910's White Slave Traffic Act is better known as this ""Act"" the Mann Act GOVERNMENTAL BEFORE & AFTER | 800 | Conflict between the U.S. & the Soviet Union from the 1940s to the 1990s that's a science fiction novel by H.G. Wells the Cold War of the Worlds BRITISH LITERATURE | 1600 | 3-letter name of the narrator of Dickens' ""Great Expectations"" Pip AMERICAN LIT | 600 | The old money & new money Long Island neighborhoods in this novel are East Egg & West Egg The Great Gatsby THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW SCHOOL | 1000 | ""California Coast: Science, Policy and Law"" can be of local interest at this u. whose campus is known as ""The Farm"" Stanford BOOKS ABOUT WRITERS | 2000 | There's an entire book just about him & the Church of Ireland, Jonathan Swift 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) AMERICAN POETRY | 1200 | ""I never turned anyone into a pig. Some people are pigs"", Louise Gluck wrote in this enchantress' ""Power"" Circe BESTSELLERS | 200 | This ""Survival Guide"" tells how to have ""complete protection from the living dead"" The Zombie Survival Guide AMERICAN POETRY | 2000 | 4-word title of the Robert Frost poem that ends, ""I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference"" ""The Road Not Taken"" PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SONGS | 400 | In 1996 Sam & Dave's ""Soul Man"" was retitled ""I'm A"" this for the GOP nominee ""I'm A Dole Man"" DUAL BIOGRAPHIES | 800 | In his book on ""The Parallel Lives Of Two American Warriors"", Stephen Ambrose took on Custer & this Sioux chief Crazy Horse WOMEN AUTHORS | 400 | Mildred Wirt Benson wrote more than 100 books for young readers including many about this young female detective Nancy Drew MONEY, MONEY, MONEY | 200 | The name of this British monetary unit comes from a unit of weight a pound BESTSELLERS BY AUTHOR | 800 | ""All the Pretty Horses""(1992) Cormac McCarthy 1950s BESTSELLERS | 800 | This Steinbeck novel follows the destinies of 2 generations of California brothers East of Eden LITERATURE | 200 | George & Lennie have dreams of living off the fat of the land in this Steinbeck tale Of Mice and Men IN THE BOOKSTORE | 1200 | In one volume, ""The Complete Novels"" by her, including ""Mansfield Park"" Jane Austen A BOOKISH CATEGORY | 200 | ""1Q84"" by Haruki Murakami is set in 1984 in this city Tokyo BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS | 1000 | In this Roald Dahl work, the title edible eventually comes to rest on top of the Empire State Building James and the Giant Peach BESTSELLERS | 800 | A plant-based diet is extolled for reducing heart disease in the recent nonfiction bestseller called ""Forks Over"" these Knives SERIOUS NONFICTION | 400 | Charles Darwin used personal experience to write ""The Voyage of"" this vessel the Beagle THE SUPREME COURT | 2000 | This chief justice wrote that Congress did not have the power to abolish slavery in the territory Roger Taney POETS & POETRY | 1200 | This Tennyson poem begins, ""Half a league, half a league, half a league onward"" ""The Charge of the Light Brigade"" AMERICAN AUTHORS | FINAL | Published for the first time in 2014, her ""Pioneer Girl"" was initially rejected, revised & transformed into a fictional series ... PULITZER WINNERS FOR BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY | 1000 | 1964:Walter Jackson Bate, writing about this ""Endymion"" poet Keats IT'S IN THE BOOK | 1600 | A truth-telling alethiometer, the title object The Golden Compass WOMEN AUTHORS | 200 | A manuscript by this ""Good Earth"" author was lost for 40 years, found in a storage unit in Texas & published in 2013 (Pearl) Buck A 1980s BOOKSTORE | 2000 | This 1980 novel by Jean Auel is a saga of the dawn of modern humans Clan of the Cave Bear 2014 BESTSELLERS | 600 | ""Carsick"" is this cult film director's tale of hitchhiking from Baltimore to California John Waters POLITICAL DEFINITIONS | 400 | It's the taking of an industry or business into state ownership nationalizing LITERATURE | 800 | Richard Wright wrote ""Native Son""; this African-American writer put out ""Notes Of A Native Son"" James Baldwin COMPLETE THE BOOK TITLE | 800 | About the Titanic:""A Night to ____"" Remember POETIC LAST LINES | 2000 | His poem about a ""dream deferred"" ends, ""maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?"" (Langston) Hughes AUTHORS ON THEMSELVES | 1200 | ""Somewhere in Germany is a stream called the Vonne, that is the source of my curious name"" Kurt Vonnegut BOOK REVIEWS | FINAL | A 2008 review of this novel, later filmed, compared it to ""Battle Royale"" & said it's ""a future we can fear"" ... POETRY & BRIDGES | 1600 | There's a John Greenleaf Whittier Bridge over the Merrimack River in this, the poet's home state in New England Massachusetts U.S. GOVERNMENT PEOPLE | FINAL | A committee chaired by the official in this job released the influential 1964 report ""Smoking and Health"" ... AUTHORS ON THEMSELVES | 2000 | Not the modest type, in 1882 he told a U.S. Customs official, ""I have nothing to declare except my genius"" Oscar Wilde BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS | 200 | ""Those Who Love"" by Irving Stone is a biographical novel of this president & his wife Abigail John Adams POETIC WOMEN | 2000 | Born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga in Vicuna, Chile, she was the first Latin American woman to win a Nobel Prize in literature Gabriela Mistral PUNNING POLITICAL TITLES | 1000 | Canada's Allan Fotheringham chronicled the Pierre Trudeau years in a book called this quality ""in Blunderland"" malice FICTIONAL PLACES | 800 | This title guy travels to a flying island called Laputa, as well as the nearby city of Lagado Gulliver DEATH OF A VEEP | 1000 | This fiery veep from South Carolina died March 31, 1850 & was laid to rest in Charleston's Cemetery of St. Philip's Calhoun BOOKS OF THE 1930s | 1200 | The title of this book that spawned several movies didn't refer to its detective hero but to lanky Clyde Wynant The Thin Man WORKING BOOK TITLES | 800 | John Steinbeck changed ""Something That Happened"" to this title, a reference to a Robert Burns poem Of Mice and Men BOOK TALK | 1000 | Following a plane crash in the wilderness, Brian Robeson doesn't ""bury"" this title tool but uses it to survive a hatchet INITIALITERATURE | 800 | ""T.S.A.R.""by Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises U.S. GOVERNMENT | FINAL | Recently in the news, this agency traces its origins to an 1803 act helping Portsmouth, N.H. after a fire ... LITERATURE OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC | 800 | He wrote of snowy climes in books like ""White Fang"", then traveled to balmy Tahiti & later penned ""South Sea Tales"" (Jack) London THE WORLD FACTBOOK SAYS... | 200 | ""Democracy returned"" to this country ""after a failed bid to seize the Falkland Islands"" Argentina MONEY IN OTHER WORDS | 800 | Former Red Sox ace Curt Schilling WRITERS AT REST | 200 | Ray Bradbury's headstone calls him the author of this 1953 classic Fahrenheit 451 INQUISITIVE WRITERS | 200 | These Dostoyevsky brothers are always being asked questions like ""Is there a God?"" the Brothers Karamazov POLITICIAN AUTHORS | 200 | Books by this president include ""Where's the Rest of Me?"", a title from a line in the movie ""King's Row"" Ronald Reagan BOOK SYNOPSES | 400 | Presumed dead, Roger Chillingworth finds out his wife, Hester, has cheated on him The Scarlet Letter WORLD LITERATURE | 400 | In 1703 this ""Robinson Crusoe"" author offended each side in a religious dispute & was sentenced to Newgate Prison Daniel Defoe BOOKS BY PROFESSORS | 1600 | Illinois professor & librarian Dee Brown changed the field of Native American history with ""Bury My Heart"" here Wounded Knee POETIC LINES | 800 | ""10,000 eyes were on him as he rubbed his hands with dirt; 5,000 tongues applauded when he wiped them on his shirt"" ""Casey at the Bat"" 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"" MEDIEVAL LITERATURE | 2000 | Blow that horn--this French knight and subject of ""The Song of"" him Roland GEO-POLITICIANS | 200 | This first signer of the Declaration of Independence has his name on several towns & a Boston Univ. student village John Hancock AVIAN LITERATURE | 1200 | Rebecca West's ""Black Lamb & Grey Falcon"" is a study of this troubled Balkan country that broke apart in the 1990s Yugoslavia 19th CENTURY POETRY | FINAL | He rhymed the title character of one of his best-known poems with ""drew on"", ""threw on"" & ""ruin"" ... BOOK COVERS | 1000 | An iconic cover for an iconic novel:The title in yellow & a line drawing of a carousel horse dominating a slice of New York City The Catcher in the Rye ANCIENT ROMAN LITERATURE | 1200 | Better known name of Titus Livius, author of a history of Rome from its founding to 9 B.C. Livy WRITERS IN PRISON | 400 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn spent years in the Gulag after criticizing this leader he called ""the whiskered one"" Stalin LITERATURE | 800 | Born in Bombay in 1865, in 1907 he became the first British writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature Rudyard Kipling LITERATURE ACROSS AMERCA | 800 | (I'm Juliana Mazza with 22News.) Leaping from the pages of the Dr. Seuss memorial sculpture are Thing 1 & Thing 2, agents of mayhem from this 1957 classic The Cat in the Hat STATE OF THE BOOK | 1000 | ""The Grapes of Wrath""--2 states please, where the story begins & ends Oklahoma & California WOMEN POETS | 800 | In 2003 & 2004 Louise Glück held this esteemed position poet laureate 16th CENTURY BOOKSHELF | 1600 | This author became a monk but broke his vows to study medicine & pen his masterpiece ""Gargantua and Pantagruel"" Rabelais NONFICTION | 2000 | Classic by Studs Terkel in which ""people talk about what they do all day & how they feel about what they do"" Working TEXTBOOKS | 1000 | First published in 1858, this textbook was based on dissections performed on unclaimed corpses Gray's Anatomy IRISH LITERATURE | 800 | This ""Waiting for Godot"" playwright wrote a novel trilogy that included ""Molloy"", ""Malone Dies"" & ""The Unnamable"" (Samuel) Beckett POETRY & THEE | 200 | He explained, ""The naming of cats is a difficult matter, it isn't just one of your holiday games"" (T.S.) Eliot IN THE BOY SCOUT HANDBOOK | 2000 | This founder of scouting said, ""I don't consider a boy is a real scout till he has passed his First Class Scout"" Lord Robert Baden-Powell AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES | 800 | Lake Wobegon Garrison Keillor THE POLITICS OF TV | 1000 | As Chief of Staff Teddy Sykes, Patton Oswalt was unafraid to give Jonah a hand on this comedy Veep BOOKS OF THE YEAR | 2000 | 1984:His ""Neuromancer"" (William) Gibson THE MONEY MAN | 1000 | He's worth 40% of Ulysses S. Grant Andrew Jackson POLITICAL JARGON | 1200 | ""FLOTUS"" is an acronym for this title; its holder is not elected but has to serve anyway First Lady of the United States POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK | 600 | Sandburg: ""The fog comes on little ____ feet"" cat LITERATURE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE | 600 | Before the euro, this royal children's book character appeared on the French 50-franc note the Little Prince IT'S AMERICAN LIT | 1200 | Ernest Hemingway took the title of this novel set during the Spanish Civil War from a line by John Donne For Whom the Bell Tolls IN-LAWS | 400 | Oregon State basketball coach Craig Robinson, an MBA from the U. of Chicago, has this very famous brother-in-law Barack Obama PHILOSOPHIC PHIL IN | 1200 | Hobbes:""The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and ____"" short AMERICAN AUTHORS | FINAL | Celebrated in April, National Robotics Week honors this man who coined the word ""robotics"" in a 1941 story ... MONEY SLANG | 1000 | To pocket the cue ball scratch AMERICAN POETRY | 800 | In ""Paul Revere's Ride"", these 9 words precede ""and I on the opposite shore will be"" ""one if by land, and two if by sea"" 1920s BESTSELLERS | 400 | In 1923 her ""Etiquette"" book was sitting pretty at the top of the nonfiction list Emily Post HOW'D THEY MAKE THEIR MONEY? | 1600 | (Robert Herjavec delivers the clue.) In 1783 John Jacob Astor boarded a ship for the U.S. with $25 & 7 flutes; someone on board told him about this trade, which made him the richest man in America fur trading DETENTION IN LITERATURE | 400 | Cold Mountain Penitentiary houses many killers in this Stephen King book, & most have a date with ""Old Sparky"" The Green Mile PHILOSOPHIC PHIL IN | 2000 | Albert Camus:""There is only one really serious philosophical question, and that is ____"" suicide PRESIDENTIAL BOOKS | 600 | Frederic Remington illustrated this future president's 1888 book ""Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail"" Teddy Roosevelt AUTHOR-IZED BIOGRAPHIES | 800 | This Dublin native moved to London, discovered socialism & playwriting & died aged 94 in 1950 (George Bernard) Shaw THE BOOK OF MERMEN | 1600 | DC Comics has a merman--this guy in the Justice League, who married the undersea queen Mera Aquaman AMERICAN POETRY | 1200 | Not Rachel Lindsay but this man was famous in the early 1900s for writing & reciting ""The Congo"" Vachel Lindsay NONFICTION | 1000 | ""Between the Dying and the Dead"" chronicles this doctor's ""Life and the Battle to Legalize Euthanasia"" Kevorkian CHILDREN'S BOOKS | 800 | This character's tale is a story of a mouse, a princess, some soup,and a spool of thread Despereaux ON FACEBOOK & TWITTER | 800 | George Takei, who played Sulu on this '60s TV show, often posts about marriage equality & his book ""Oh Myyy!"" Star Trek 20th CENTURY LITERATURE | 200 | Joyce Carol Oates' ""Blonde"" is a reimagining of this starlet's life Marilyn Monroe POLITICALLY INCORRECT | 1000 | ""There is no Soviet domination of eastern Europe"" (Gerald) Ford ON THE BOOKSHELF | 800 | This Italian literary critic wrote the 1988 novel ""Foucault's Pendulum"" (Umberto) Eco BOOKS' SUBTITLES | 1200 | ""Endurance"": this Antarctic explorer's ""Incredible Voyage"" Sir Ernest Shackleton AUTHORS | FINAL | In 1990 he said, ""I would like to do what Faulkner did; carve out a little piece of Mississippi territory & claim it for my own"" ... FICTIONAL PLACES | 1000 | Quadling Country is one of the 5 regions of this 2-letter land Oz 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"" 1995 BESTSELLERS | 400 | ""My American Journey"" by this soldier-statesman was a No. 1 nonfiction bestseller that year Colin Powell ON THE MONEY | 400 | This Moscow theatre appears on Russia's 100-ruble note the Bolshoi PHILOSOPHY | 400 | This word's Greek etymology tells you it's a political system ""without a ruling power"" anarchy AMERICAN LITERATURE | 2000 | ""In Cold Blood"" recounts the murder of the Clutter family in a small town in this state Kansas COMPLETES THE BOOK TITLE | 400 | Lois Lowry:""Number the ____"" Stars POLITICS | 200 | Formerly Speaker, she represents most of San Francisco in the House Nancy Pelosi PICTURE THE POLITICAN | 600 | Class president & prom king, he doesn't look much different today than he did in high school Paul Ryan AUDIO BOOK PERFORMERS | 400 | Monty Python's Terry Jones says of this pre-Shakespeare poet, ""Once you get past the spelling, he speaks so clearly"" Geoffrey Chaucer ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES | 600 | 1980 nonfiction by Carl Sagan Cosmos WOMEN AUTHORS | 400 | Like much of her Vampire Chronicles, her ""Feast of All Saints"" is set in New Orleans Anne Rice BOOKS & AUTHORS | 1000 | ""The Mufti Who Tried to Close Our School"" is a chapter in the memoir ""I Am"" this person Malala FACTS ABOUT AUTHORS | 1600 | As a boy, Kahlil Gibran wore a cross for 40 days for a splint; as a man he wrote this 1923 mystical work The Prophet BOOK COVERS | 400 | A sci-fi novel:A man in a newspaper suit is on fire Fahrenheit 451 ON THE BOOKSHELF | 400 | With ""geometric"" precision, this work by Plutarch pairs up bios of noble Greeks & Romans Parallel Lives WHO WROTE THAT BOOK? | 2000 | ""Dracula"" Bram Stoker 20th CENTURY LITERATURE | 600 | Michael Cunningham's ""The Hours"" drew from the life & work of this author Virginia Woolf POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK | 400 | Nash: ""Behold the duck. / It does not cluck. / A cluck it lacks. It ____"" quacks FLORAL BOOK TITLES | 2000 | This Daniel Keyes title refers to offerings left on the backyard grave of a once smart mouse Flowers for Algernon NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS | 600 | He had ""The Right Stuff"" to win for his book about Chuck Yeager, Alan Shepard & others Tom Wolfe NONFICTION | 1600 | This author and historian was researching abook about the 1958 NFL championship when he was killed in a 2007 car crash David Halberstam PHILOSOPHY | 800 | According to Hegelian dialectic, this is the solution to the 2 opposites thesis & antithesis synthesis RECENT HISTORICAL FICTION | 1600 | In 2011's ""Caleb's Crossing"", a man strives to become the first Native American to graduate from this college Harvard CIVIL WAR LITERATURE | 1600 | E.L. Doctorow's ""The March"" depicts this general's campaign through the South Sherman BOOKS BY CHAPTER TITLES | 600 | ""The Battle of Hogwarts"" Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows WORLD POLITICS | FINAL | When these 2 men swapped jobs in 2012, their country's media described the move as ""castling"" ... POETRY TERMS | 600 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew displays some poetry on the monitor.) By marking the stressed & unstressed syllables in a line, we're engaging in scansion, the analysis of this rhythmic element in a poem the meter AUTHORS | FINAL | In 1937 his sister said he had ""hats of every description"" which he would use as a ""foundation of his next book"" ... 1-WORD STEPHEN KING BOOK TITLES | 400 | The full fury of a haunted 1958 Fury Christine NONFICTION PULITZER WINNERS | 1200 | This astronomer nabbed the prize in 1978 for ""The Dragons Of Eden"" (Carl) Sagan WRITERS HATIN' ON WRITERS | 1200 | Hemingway asked about this Mississippi novelist, ""does he really think big emotions come from big words?"" Faulkner GOVERNMENTAL BEFORE & AFTER | 200 | Hillary Clinton's former job that's an annual piece of presidential oratory Secretary of the State of the Union POETIC LINES | 400 | ""And before him on the upland he could see the shining wigwam of the Manito of Wampum"" ""The Song of Hiawatha"" BIOGRAPHIES | 200 | He was the subject of a 2013 biography called ""A Curious Man""; believe it or not (Robert) Ripley LITERATURE OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC | 1600 | This author of ""Tales of the South Pacific"" called Bora Bora the Bali Ha'i of the spirit (James) Michener NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS | 1000 | He said his novel ""Main Street"" was his first ""to rouse the embattled peasantry"" (Sinclair) Lewis NONFICTION PULITZER WINNERS | 800 | ""The Looming Tower"" examines this terrorist group & ""The Road To 9/11"" al-Qaeda BESTSELLING BOOKS | 600 | In this novel by Emma Donoghue, 5-year-old Jack lives in the title place with his ma (Brie Larson in the film) Room BESTSELLERS BY PARTIAL TITLE | 200 | A 1988 scientific success, ""Brief"" A Brief History of Time IN-LAWS | 800 | Frederic Joliot, winner of a Nobel with wife Irene, could hold his own at the dinner table with her, his mother-in-law Marie Curie AMERICAN POETRY | 200 | Walt Whitman put this word in a book title & said it grows ""among black folks as among white"" grass PLAYING POLITICS | 1000 | Rep. Michael Grimm, whose district encompassed this NYC borough, threatened to toss a reporter off a balcony Staten Island IT'S ALL POLITICS | 1600 | This young senator is a rising star of the Grand Old Party Marco Rubio THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION | 400 | In the 2013 winner ""The Orphan Master's Son"", young Pak Jun Do comes of age in this totalitarian nation North Korea BIOGRAPHIES | 600 | ""Neither Shaken Nor Stirred"" is the subtitle of Andrew Yule's biography of this actor Sean Connery 2014 BESTSELLERS | 800 | It's the Martin Sixsmith biography of a 1950s Irish woman forced to give up her baby for adoption Philomena FRENCH POETS | 400 | Captain Rouget de Lisle wrote this one work that is remembered; it begins, ""Allons, enfants de la patrie"" The Marseillaise THERE'S A BUG IN MY BOOK TITLE | 1000 | Set in Hollywood during the Great Depression:""The Day of the ____"" Locust NONFICTION | 800 | Malcolm Gladwell used this Biblical duo in a title to show how disadvantages can actually work for us David & Goliath 1920s FICTION BESTSELLERS | 400 | The first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for a novel was Edith Wharton, for this 1920 bestseller Age of Innocence LAWYERING UP ON TV | 1000 | This man played both law (a sage small-town sheriff) & order (wily lawyer Ben Matlock) Andy Griffith PHILOSOPHY | 400 | The wise ruler seen as ideal in Plato's ""Republic"" is known as the philosopher-this a philosopher-king POLITICAL TERMS | 600 | A legislator who abandons the party line & votes for the other party's bill is said to be ""crossing"" this the aisle I WON THAT STATE IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION | 1600 | Arkansas in 1968:This third party candidate (George) Wallace FICTIONAL CAPTAINS | 400 | In comic books Bucky Barnes was the sidekick of this super soldier Captain America INQUISITIVE WRITERS | 400 | 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 MONEY MUSIC | 1200 | This '80s hit also offered ""chicks for free"" ""Money For Nothing"" PULITZER WINNERS FOR BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY | 800 | 1933:Allan Nevins, writing about this pres. (hint: Nevins won in non-consecutive years, for 1937's ""Hamilton Fish"") (Grover) Cleveland PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES | 800 | Chapters in Robert Massie's 1981 biography of this Russian czar include ""The Prince of Orange"" & ""Polish Quagmire"" Peter the Great POLITICALLY INCORRECT | 200 | ""I have previously stated & I repeat now that the United States intends no military intervention in Cuba"" Kennedy AUTHORS WITH PRESIDENTIAL NAMES | 1600 | This title of Stephen Carter's Cuban Missile Crisis thriller means a secret avenue of communication between nations Back Channel CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT | 800 | The original London Police Commissioner's office at 4 Whitehall Place abutted the street called ""Great"" this Scotland Yard MORE POETRY, PLEASE | 2000 | ""Do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day, rage, rage..."" against the dying of the light THE POET WRITES | 1200 | ""The souls did from their bodies fly,-- they fled to bliss or woe! And every soul, it passed by, like the whizz of my cross-bow!"" Samuel Taylor Coleridge A POETIC CATEGORY | 1200 | (I'm Melissa Harris-Perry.) At Wake Forest University, I hold the presidential chair named for this author who delivered a poem at Bill Clinton's inauguration (Maya) Angelou U.S. POLITICS | 2000 | Chairmen of this body have included Bob Dole, Lee Atwater &, currently, Reince Priebus Republican National Committee AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS | 400 | The year he turned 32, William Blake published ""Songs of"" this; by 37 he ""lost"" his & made ""Songs of Experience"" Innocence WORLD LITERATURE | 800 | In the 1990s a group of women inspired the bestseller ""Reading Lolita In"" this city Tehran GOVERNMENT & TV | 400 | Mulder & Scully returned to the X-Files in 2016, still agents of this organization the FBI RECENT HISTORICAL FICTION | 2000 | Made into a successful TV miniseries, this Philippa Gregory novel dramatized the life of the wife of Edward IV The White Queen PUNNY CLASSIC LITERATURE TITLES | 2000 | Mississippi-set novel about a place where stray dogs are kept that becomes the object of intense anger The Pound and the Fury AUTHORS | 1200 | English poet Matthew Arnold was the great-uncle of this author of ""Brave New World"" (Aldous) Huxley BOOKS OF THE YEAR | 1600 | 1963:This harrowing Sylvia Plath novel The Bell Jar HISTORY BOOKSHELF | 800 | Antony Beevor's study of the WWII battle of this Russian city is subtitled ""The Fateful Siege, "" Stalingrad POETRY TERMS | 400 | One verse of a poem is called a stave or this word also beginning with ""st"" stanza QUOTH THE POET | 2000 | ""Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle"" Walt Whitman BASED ON THE COMIC BOOK | 800 | Gerard Christopher played the young hero in this TV series; Stacy Haiduk was Lana Lang The Adventures of Superboy NONFICTION | 2000 | His ""A Brief History of Time"" was subtitled ""From the Big Bang to Black Holes"" Stephen Hawking U.S. GOVERNMENT | 1600 | In 45 states this official is the second highest-ranking in the state, following only the governor lieutenant governor THE BOOK OF VERBS | 600 | ""____ With Scissors"" by Augusten Burroughs running AUTHORS ON THEMSELVES | 400 | ""When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'"" (Joseph) Heller CONSERVATIVE BOOKSHELF | 1200 | This former running mate has published ""Going Rogue"" & the more tender ""Sweet Freedom: A Devotional"" Sarah Palin BIOGRAPHY | 800 | ""Dark Lover"" smolders with ""The Life and Death of"" this silent-screen legend Rudolph Valentino A FICTIONAL DEATH | 400 | This author said, ""I killed Ned in the first book and it shocked a lot of people""; he was far from finished with the shocking George R.R. Martin PHILOSOPHY | 2000 | This English philosopher said it's ""necessary to distinguish...the business of civil government from that of religion"" John Locke A TEXTBOOK CATEGORY | 400 | David Klein's ""organic"" this covers stereoisomerism & aromatic compounds chemistry WOMEN AUTHORS | 1600 | In ""Delta Wedding"" Eudora Welty told the tale of a large Southern plantation family in this state Mississippi BOOKS ABOUT WOMEN | 2000 | Marjane Satrapi's heroine in this graphic novel has to deal with the overthrow of the shah Persepolis LITERATURE IN ACTION | 1000 | Brian Garfield's wife had her purse stolen, so Brian wrote this novel about a vigilante whose wife has been murdered Death Wish 1990s FICTION | 1000 | Roddy Doyle's bestseller about a young Irish lad growing up in the '60s is called this boy ""Ha Ha Ha"" Paddy Clarke MASHED-UP BOOK TITLES | 1200 | ""In Cold Tiffany's"" In Cold Blood & Breakfast at Tiffany's WRITERS BY MIDDLE NAMES | 800 | Wrote ""The Master of Ballantrae"":Louis Robert Louis Stevenson 3-NAMED AUTHORS | 800 | Tarzana, in California's San Fernando Valley, is named for this resident's most famous creation Edgar Rice Burroughs MOVIES & POLITICS | 800 | Will Ferrell's opponent in ""The Campaign"" was played by this usually bearded comedian Zach Galifianakis FACTS ABOUT AUTHORS | 2000 | In 1945 she & Jean-Paul Sartre founded a monthly review called Les Temps Modernes Simone de Beauvoir 19th CENTURY AUTHORS | 400 | Her ""Wuthering Heights"" was published just 2 months after sister Charlotte's ""Jane Eyre"" Emily Brontë PRESIDENTIAL PARTY POLITICS | 1000 | John Adams was elected president as a member of this party the Federalist Party ALSO PART OF A BOOK | 800 | A ceremony celebrating the opening of a building a dedication LAWYER/ AUTHORS NOT JOHN GRISHAM | 1600 | This book by lawyer Louis Begley was about a retiring lawyer; the Jack Nicholson movie made him an insurance man About Schmidt PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION HISTORY | FINAL | In 1948 he won South Carolina with 72% of the vote & 3 other states but finished a distant third overall ... PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS | 400 | At N