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Yogi Berra 11 Richard Nixon 11 Will Rogers 10 Winston Churchill 10 money 9 George Bernard Shaw 9 It's a Wonderful Life 9 John the Baptist 8 death 8 Abraham Lincoln 8

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Must-Know (6)

Yogi Berra 11x $500 avg J:6 DJ:5

J $100 1986 "I usually take a 2-hour nap, from 1 o'clock to 4" said this great Yankee catcher

J $600 2007 He made "Bartlett's" with "If people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them"

DJ $1,200 2023 This great Yankee catcher took credit for some of what he said, including "90% of the game is half mental"

Richard Nixon 11x $273 avg J:7 DJ:4

J $100 1994 In 1973 Senator George Aiken said, "Either impeach him or get off his back"

DJ $800 1993 In 1952, he said, "Pat doesn't have a mink coat. But she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat"

J $100 1993 In November 1973 he said, "People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook"

Will Rogers 10x 30.0% stumper $440 avg J:4 DJ:6

J $200 1996 His comments on politics included "All politics is apple sauce"

DJ $600 1996 In 1923 this humorist said, "If you ever injected truth into politics, you have no politics"

J $200 1996 This humorist said, "Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with"

money 9x 11.1% stumper $1,122 avg J:3 DJ:6

J $200 2018 "For the love of ____ is the root of all evil"

J $500 1999 "No man can serve two masters... ye cannot serve God and" this

DJ $2,000 2016 J.K. Galbraith: This "ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And... with death as his greatest source of anxiety"

John the Baptist 8x $475 avg J:7 DJ:1

J $100 1995 The daughter of Herodias told Herod, "Give me here" this man's "head in a charger"

J $500 DD 1992 In Matthew 3:2 he urged, "Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand"

J $1,000 DD 2009 Herod thought that Jesus was this man "whom I beheaded: he is risen from the dead"

Abraham Lincoln 8x 28.6% stumper $429 avg J:3 DJ:4 FJ:1

J $100 1998 On April 15, 1865 Edwin Stanton said this man "belongs to the ages"

DJ $800 2003 His first inaugural address gave us the phrase "the better angels of our nature"

FJ 1989 President who said, "The ballot is stronger than the bullet"

Should-Know (39)

Ronald Reagan 7x 14.3% stumper $357 avg J:3 DJ:4

J $200 2007 "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

J $500 1994 His 11th commandment was "Thou shalt not criticize other Republicans"

DJ $200 1990 When he was wounded in 1981, he jokingly said to his doctors, "Please tell me you're Republicans"

Napoleon 7x $529 avg J:3 DJ:4

J $100 1995 This French emperor's last words were "Tete d'Armee", or "Chief of the Army"

DJ $2,000 DD 2018 In 1798 he told his men, "From the summit of yonder pyramids forty centuries look down upon you"

J $200 1991 This emperor reportedly described Talleyrand as "a silk stocking filled with mud"

Mae West 7x $400 avg J:4 DJ:3

J $100 1995 This co-star of "My Little Chickadee" once said, "I used to be Snow White--but I drifted"

DJ $600 1991 She's quoted as saying, "I used to be Snow White--but I drifted"

DJ $1,000 1998 "Between 2 evils, I always pick the one I've never tried before"

Hollywood 7x 14.3% stumper $214 avg J:5 DJ:2

J $100 1997 Lillian Gish described this cinema city as "an emotional Detroit"

J $100 1996 Walter Winchell called it "a city where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors"

J $100 1992 Morton Thompson called this Tinsel Town a "state of mind surrounded by Los Angeles"

Boston 7x 14.3% stumper $714 avg J:4 DJ:3

J $200 1991 William Cooper Brand wrote this city "runs to brains as well as to bread and baked beans"

DJ $600 1985 "The home of the bean & the cod, where the Lowells talk to the Cabots, & the Cabots talk only to God"

J $1,200 DD 2002 This city is "where the Lowells talk to the Cabots, and the Cabots talk only to God"

King Solomon 7x $629 avg J:7

J $200 1995 In 1 Kings 3:12 God said to him, "I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart"

J $1,000 DD 1991 "Divide the living child in two & give half to the one & half to the other"

J $1,200 DD 2009 It is said that he "loved many strange women"; strange meaning foreign, like the Queen of Sheba

Lyndon Johnson 7x $350 avg J:2 DJ:4 FJ:1

DJ $200 2000 In 1966 he told us, "The Great Society leads us along three roads--growth and justice and liberation"

DJ $600 1985 Accepting presidential nomination, he said, "this nation... has man's 1st chance to build a Great Society"

FJ 1985 In '60s speech to Congress he said, "All I have I would have gladly given not to be standing here today"

Chicago 6x $283 avg J:5 DJ:1

J $100 1992 William G. Shepherd called it "the winded city"

J $600 2002 It's the "Stormy, Husky, Brawling City of the Big Shoulders"

J $200 1995 Heywood Broun called this Illinois city "a double Newark"

Job 6x 16.7% stumper $467 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $400 1984 Truman said it's a recession when your neighbor loses his job, but thisis a depression

J $500 1995 In his sorrow this Old Testament figure said, "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away"

DJ $400 2019 In the book of this much-suffering Biblical man, he "answered the Lord, and said, behold, I am vile"

Thomas Jefferson 6x 16.7% stumper $667 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $300 1991 In 1774 this future president wrote, "the God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time"

J $500 1995 On July 3, 1826, the day before he died, this U.S. president asked, "Is it the fourth?"

DJ $1,000 1986 President who said, knowingly, "A little rebellion, now & then is a good thing"

Bob Hope 6x $367 avg J:5 DJ:1

J $100 1993 In "Road to Rio", he asked Dorothy Lamour, "How did you get into that dress--with a spray gun?"

J $500 1991 He said, "I came to Hollywood in 1937 to make 'The big broadcast of 1938' for Paramount"

J $200 1990 In "An Essay on Man" Pope wrote this "springs eternal in the human breast"

power 5x 20.0% stumper $580 avg J:4 DJ:1

J $200 2016 "Absolute (work divided by time) corrupts absolutely"

J $500 1989 Henry Kissinger called it "the great aphrodisiac"

J $1,000 2014 Lord Acton famously said, this "tends to corrupt"

Mussolini 5x $280 avg J:4 DJ:1

J $100 1985 After he first met Hitler, this Italian called him "a silly clown"

J $200 1995 In 1934 this Italian leader said, "We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty"

J $300 1993 In a 1920 editorial, this future leader wrote, "The Italian proletariat needs a bloodbath"

Henry Kissinger 5x $540 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $100 1985 Nixon's Secretary of State who said, "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac"

J $500 1987 He said in 1970 of invasion of Cambodia, "We are all the President's men"

DJ $1,000 DD 1987 He said "power is the great aphrodisiac," 8; Nancy Maginnes must have believed him

Gertrude Stein 5x $980 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 1995 She said, "Too few is as many as too many" as well as "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose"

DJ $600 1995 "Remarks are not literature" is a line from her "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas"

DJ $1,900 DD 1997 In 1936's "An American And France", she wrote, "America is my country and Paris is my hometown"

David 5x 40.0% stumper $520 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $200 2003 This Biblical shepherd asked, "Shall I go and smite these Philistines?"

DJ $500 DD 1988 The women of Israel said he "hath slain... his ten thousands" when he'd only killed 1 person

J $1,000 2010 "For unto you is born this day in the city of ___ a saviour"

Daniel 5x 20.0% stumper $460 avg J:2 DJ:3

DJ $400 2009 "They brought" him, "and cast him into the den of lions"

J $500 DD 1996 He was asked, "Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen...?"

J $400 2006 "My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths"

Citizen Kane 5x 20.0% stumper $220 avg J:5

J $100 1993 The first line spoken in this 1941 film is 1 word, "Rosebud"

J $600 DD 1999 1941:"I think it would be fun to run a newspaper"

J $100 1992 "I guess Rosebud is just a piece in a jigsaw puzzle---a missing piece"

Casablanca 5x 20.0% stumper $360 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $200 2008 Contrary to popular belief, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam" in this 1942 film

J $800 2009 Julius Epstein, Philip Epstein & Howard Koch are grouped together for quotes from this classic 1942 film

J $200 1993 Humphrey Bogart film in which he tells Paul Henreid, "I'm a saloon keeper"

Airplane! 5x $840 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $200 2009 Captain Oveur:"Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?" & "Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?"

DJ $800 2007 "I'm sorry, son, but you have me confused with someone else. My name is Roger Murdock. I'm the co-pilot"

DJ $1,200 2008 1980:"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue"

(Douglas) MacArthur 5x $640 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 2008 In 1952, after being relieved of command in Korea, he said, "It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"

J $800 2007 "And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away"

DJ $1,600 DD 1992 In May 1962 he delivered his "Duty, Honor, Country" speech

All About Eve 5x 20.0% stumper $460 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $200 2006 "The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat"

DJ $800 2001 1950:"Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night"

DJ $800 1985 Carries the Bette Davis warning: "Fasten your seat belts; it's going to be a bumpy night"

W.C. Fields 4x $475 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 1988 Film comedian quoted as saying, "Somebody left the cork out of my lunch"

DJ $500 DD 1989 His famous quote heardhereis from the 1932 film "The Fatal Glass of Beer":"It's not a fit night out for man nor beast."

DJ $400 1987 "Say anything you like about me except that I drink water," quipped this comic

Vince Lombardi 4x $525 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 1987 Green Bay Packer coach who said, "If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm"

DJ $1,200 2018 What this Packers coach actually said was "Winning isn't everything, but making the effort to win is"

J $300 1989 A player said of this late Green Bay coach, "He treats every man the same; he treats us all like dogs"

The Graduate 4x $1,300 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 2009 No. 42:"Plastics"

DJ $4,000 DD 2004 1967:"I think you're the most attractive of all my parents' friends"

DJ $400 2006 1967:"I just want to say one word to you--just one word... plastics!"

The Godfather 4x $225 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $100 1997 1972 film re-released in 1997; its last line is "Don Corleone"

J $100 1997 This 1972 movie begins with a funeral director telling Don Corleone, "I believe in America"

J $300 2000 1972:"Someday, and that day may never come, I'll call upon you to do a service..."

television 4x $400 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $100 1994 Fred Allen called this medium "radio fluoroscoped"

DJ $800 2011 A 1939 editorial:The problem with this is "people must sit and keep their eyes glued... the average American family hasn't time"

J $300 1991 In a 1955 interview John Mason Brown called it "chewing gum for the eyes"

Muhammad Ali 4x $200 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $100 1987 Prior to a 1980 fight, he said "If Holmes don't C-sharp, he'll B-flat"

J $100 1984 Boxing champ noted for predicting: "They must all fall, in the round I call"

J $200 1993 In 1962 he said, "Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round"

liberty 4x 25.0% stumper $900 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 1985 Orator Wendell Phillips said “Eternal vigilance is the price of” this

DJ $1,000 1985 A watchword among founding fathers was "Where" this "dwells, there is my country"

DJ $800 1992 Daniel Webster said God grants this "only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it"

Knute Rockne 4x $350 avg J:4

J $200 1989 This legendary Notre Dame coach said, "Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure"

J $400 2009 This coach of the Gipper: "I've found that prayers work best when you have big players"

J $400 1996 The inspirational quote "Win this one for the Gipper" is attributed to him

Joseph 4x $825 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $300 1995 Jacob referred to him when he said, "It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him"

J $1,000 2006 "Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither"

J $1,000 2003 Genesis 37:31 says that siblings took his "coat and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood"

Groucho Marx 4x 25.0% stumper $375 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $300 1997 He remarked to Esther Muir in "A Day At The Races", "If I hold you any closer, I'll be in back of you"

DJ $400 1991 In "Horse Feathers", he said, "I'd horse whip you, if I had a horse"

J $400 1989 This mustachioed comic quipped, "I've been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin"

Ghostbusters 4x $950 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $600 2011 "Why worry? Each of us is wearing an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back"

DJ $1,200 2007 "We've been going about this all wrong. This Mr. Stay-puft's okay, he's a sailor, he's in New York"

DJ $800 2002 1984: "He slimed me"

heal thyself 4x $450 avg J:4

J $100 1991 In Leviticus 19:18 God commanded, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as" this

J $600 2010 Jesus told those in the synagogue, "Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, physician" do this

J $300 1996 A passage from Luke says, "ye will surely say unto me this proverb, physician," do this

bread 4x 25.0% stumper $350 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 1991 Eccles. 11:1 says cast this "upon the waters: For thou shalt find it after many days"

DJ $600 1991 Ecclesiastes says, "Cast" this "upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days"

J $400 2017 "Cast thy ____ upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days"

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 4x $950 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 1986 Film in which Bogart claims, "Fred C. Dobbs don't say nuthin' he don't mean"

DJ $1,200 2019 This film: "Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!"

DJ $800 1991 "I don't have to show you any stinking badges."

Sigmund Freud 4x $525 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1989 Jakob Freud said of him, "That boy will never amount to anything"

J $500 1995 "At bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father", he wrote in "Totem and Taboo"

DJ $1,000 DD 1988 Last quote listed under this Austrian's name is "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar"

Friedrich Nietzsche 4x 25.0% stumper $750 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $500 1996 German who wrote, "I teach you the Superman. Man is something that is to be surpassed"

DJ $1,000 1995 This philosopher asked, "Is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?"

J $500 1990 This philosopher who died 90 years ago said, "God is dead"

Geraldine Ferraro 4x 25.0% stumper $1,075 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $600 1995 Gloria Steinem said of her candidacy for VP, "What has the women's movement learned?...never get married"

DJ $1,200 2005 Accepting Walter Mondale's 1984 invitation, she said, "Vice President--it has such a nice ring to it!"

J $500 1994 When named as Walter Mondale's running mate, she said, "Vice president--it has such a nice ring to it!"

Worth Knowing (222)

Woody Allen 3 Woodrow Wilson 3 Variety 3 unbowed 3 Top Gun 3 This is Spinal Tap 3 The Maltese Falcon 3 the flesh 3 The African Queen 3 Sunset Boulevard 3 Star Wars 3 Socrates 3 Rodney Dangerfield 3 Queen Victoria 3 Pygmalion 3 Psycho 3 possession 3 Peter 3 Paul 3 Patton 3 Patrick Henry 3 Orson Welles 3 Nancy Reagan 3 Malcolm X 3 Love & War 3 Karl Marx 3 Julius Caesar 3 John Foster Dulles 3 John Brown 3 Joan Rivers 3 Jimmy Carter 3 Jesse Jackson 3 history 3 Hillary Clinton 3 Gladiator 3 Gerald Ford 3 function 3 Fred Astaire 3 Feet 3 everything in its place 3 dust 3 Dorothy Parker 3 Disraeli 3 Dirty Dancing 3 Die Hard 3 dead 3 charity 3 Cary Grant 3 Caddyshack 3 Bob Dole 3 Adam 3 work 3 Lenin 3 a dog 3 Yellow bricks 2 Wuthering Heights 2 wine 2 William Jennings Bryan 2 Whistle 2 Wall Street 2 U.S. Steel 2 Tootsie 2 tooth for tooth 2 Thomas Paine 2 the wind 2 the United States 2 The summer soldier 2 The Social Network 2 the Queen of Sheba 2 The Producers 2 the pope 2 the past 2 The Gettysburg Address 2 the Constitution 2 The Big Lebowski 2 The Berlin Wall 2 Ted Turner 2 Ted Kennedy 2 teach 2 Stripes 2 Somerset Maugham 2 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 2 Sesame Street 2 Scarlett O'Hara 2 satire 2 rules the world 2 rubies 2 Rainbow 2 Rain Man 2 rain 2 Raiders of the Lost Ark 2 Rachel Carson 2 put asunder 2 pride 2 Planet of the Apes 2 Picasso 2 Philadelphia 2 Pete Rose 2 Peoria 2 Patty Hearst 2 patriotism 2 Pancho Villa 2 oysters 2 open 2 On Golden Pond 2 Oliver Cromwell 2 Noah 2 New York 2 Nelson Mandela 2 Napoleon Bonaparte 2 Monica Lewinsky 2 Misery 2 Midnight Cowboy 2 Mary 2 Martin Luther King, Jr. 2 Martin Luther 2 Margaret Thatcher 2 Marathon Man 2 Mao Tse-tung 2 Maine 2 mad dogs & Englishmen 2 loose lips 2 live 2 lipstick 2 Leo Durocher 2 Last 2 king 2 Khrushchev 2 Kahlil Gibran 2 Jurassic Park 2 Joshua 2 Joseph Campbell 2 Jonah 2 John Wayne 2 John Marshall 2 John F. Kennedy 2 John Ehrlichman 2 Joe Louis 2 Joe DiMaggio 2 Jimmy Hoffa 2 Jerry Maguire 2 Jefferson Davis 2 Jacob 2 it might have been 2 His only begotten son 2 his mother 2 his duty 2 his country 2 Hippocrates 2 Helen of Troy 2 hallowed be thy name 2 H.L. Mencken 2 Gulliver's Travels 2 Greta Garbo 2 green pastures 2 God 2 Germany 2 French 2 Franklin Delano Roosevelt 2 Frank Lloyd Wright 2 fools 2 Field of Dreams 2 Ferris Bueller's Day Off 2 fear itself 2 every minute 2 Elijah 2 Eleanor Roosevelt 2 Eisenhower 2 Einstein 2 Egypt 2 Edgar Rice Burroughs 2 drop out 2 Dr. Strangelove 2 Don't tread on me 2 Dizzy Dean 2 Dirty Harry 2 desperation 2 Delilah 2 Death of a Salesman 2 Cyrano de Bergerac 2 Corazon Aquino 2 Confucius 2 Charles Darwin 2 Casey Stengel 2 camel 2 Caesar's wife 2 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 2 business 2 Bull Durham 2 Bonnie and Clyde 2 Bill Gates 2 Bette Davis 2 Benjamin Franklin 2 Ben Franklin 2 Beethoven 2 baseball 2 Ayn Rand 2 Auld Lang Syne 2 at the top 2 art for art's sake 2 Arsenic and Old Lace 2 Apocalypse Now 2 Anwar Sadat 2 Andy Warhol 2 Andrew Carnegie 2 America 2 Amelia Earhart 2 Ambrose Bierce 2 All the President's Men 2 Al Gore 2 adultery 2 Adolf Hitler 2 Adam Smith 2 acting 2 Abraham 2 A Streetcar Named Desire 2 a stone wall 2 a gun 2 (Émile) Zola 2 "Bond, James Bond" 2 wine, women and song 2 to travel with them 2

Poetry

34 answers | 111 clues

Must-Know (2)

Winston Churchill 10x $530 avg J:4 DJ:6

DJ $200 1990 Actor N. Shelley says he gave the famous speech on the retreat at Dunkirk as this man wasn't available

J $600 2003 "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it", once quipped this British prime minister & he did!

DJ $1,600 2015 Decades after leading England through WWII, he declared, "I'm so bored with it all"

death 8x $414 avg J:4 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $100 1986 According to Romans 6:23 "The wages of sin is..." this

J $500 1991 In I Corinthians 15:55 Paul asks of this, "Where is thy sting?"

FJ 1995 Last word of a 1775 speech that includes "Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in illusions of hope"

Should-Know (8)

the truth 7x $457 avg J:4 DJ:3

J $100 1990 Byron called this "stranger than fiction"

DJ $800 2010 "Glory, glory hallelujah, his _____ is marching on"

J $100 1989 George Braque said this "exists, only falsehood has to be invented"

Paris 6x $533 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $100 1995 The 15th c. poet Francois Villon claimed, "There's no good speech save in" this French city

DJ $600 1991 Nietzsche said, "As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in this city"

DJ $1,200 2012 "America is my country", wrote Gertrude Stein, "and" this "is my home town"

Voltaire 5x $560 avg J:4 DJ:1

J $300 1989 He wrote in "Candide", "If this the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?"

J $500 1996 Francois-Marie Arouet, known by this name, wrote, "If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him"

DJ $1,000 1999 Wordsworth called this author's "Candide" a "dull product of a scoffer's pen"

Rome 5x 20.0% stumper $280 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $100 1997 Napoleon said, "The history of" this Italian city "is the history of the world"

DJ $200 1991 "When falls the Colosseum, this city shall fall & when it falls, the world"

J $300 1997 To Ausonius it was "First among cities, home of the gods"

love 5x 20.0% stumper $480 avg DJ:5

DJ $200 1991 Ambrose Bierce called this emotion "a temporary insanity curable by marriage"

DJ $600 1992 H.L. Mencken defined this emotion as "the triumph of imagination over intelligence"

DJ $400 2024 Among the quotations engraved in the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial is "Hate cannot drive out hate, only" this "can do that"

time 5x $440 avg J:4 DJ:1

J $300 1994 Ralph Waldo Emerson called it "the surest poison", but others say it's "of the essence"

J $500 1994 Tennyson called it "a maniac scattering dust"—don't waste it

J $300 1990 In a speech on a reform bill, Gladstone said, "You cannot fight against the future." This "is on our side."

London 4x $475 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1998 Thomas Carlyle described this British capital as a "monstrous tuberosity of civilized life"

J $500 1995 Samuel Johnson said, "When a man is tired of" this city, "he is tired of life"

DJ $400 2011 The first word of "Bleak House" is this city; the next paragraph begins, "Fog everywhere"

Dylan Thomas 4x 25.0% stumper $775 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $400 2009 This disciple wouldn't believe Jesus' resurrection until he saw "in his hands the print of the nails"

J $500 1999 A poet, 1953:"I've had 18 straight whiskies, I think that's the record"

DJ $1,600 2013 Before lapsing into a coma, this Welsh poet supposedly said, "I've had 18 straight whiskies; I think that's the record"

Worth Knowing (24)

Sylvia Plath 3 red 3 Leaves of Grass 3 beauty 3 wait 2 Venice 2 the reader 2 spring 2 silence 2 Robert Browning 2 poetry 2 nothing 2 kiss 2 Heart 2 hands 2 green 2 Goethe 2 George Eliot 2 eyes 2 England 2 Daffodils 2 Carl Sandburg 2 Walt Whitman 2 Vanna White 2

British Literature

15 answers | 46 clues

Should-Know (3)

Oscar Wilde 7x 14.3% stumper $871 avg J:2 DJ:5

J $400 2008 Asked if he had anything to declare on his first visit to the U.S. in 1882, this wit said, "Nothing but my genius"

J $500 1989 In "The Picture of Dorian Gray" this author claimed, "All art is quite useless"

DJ $1,200 2019 From his "Lady Windermere's Fan":"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes"

the Cold War 6x $333 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $100 1991 Thomas Hardy said this "makes rattling good history, but peace is poor reading"

DJ $600 1991 To describe the deep freeze in U.S.-Soviet relations in 1947, Bernard Baruch coined this phrase

J $100 1991 Georges Clemenceau called this "much too important a matter to be left to the generals"

Adlai Stevenson 4x $850 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 1992 In a 1952 campaign speech, this Illinois Democrat said, "A hungry man is not a free man"

DJ $1,000 1985 2-time pres. candidate who said, "a free society is one where it's safe to be unpopular"

DJ $800 1994 Accepting the Democratic nomination in 1952, he said, "Let's talk sense to the American people"

Worth Knowing (12)

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 3 The Jungle 3 temptation 3 religion 3 Lord Nelson 3 the stars 2 roses 2 Milton Friedman 2 George Orwell 2 Dickens 2 broken 2 Washington 2

American Literature

10 answers | 37 clues

Must-Know (1)

It's a Wonderful Life 9x 11.1% stumper $978 avg J:3 DJ:6

J $100 1994 In this film Jimmy Stewart asks Clarence the Angel, "What happened to your wings?"

J $800 2012 1946: "Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings"

DJ $1,000 1991 "Well, you look about the kind of angel I'd get. Sort of a fallen angel, aren't you?"

Should-Know (3)

Mark Twain 5x 80.0% stumper $520 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 2021 This writer: "Always do right. This will gratify some people, & astonish the rest"

J $600 2006 He wrote, "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society"

DJ $1,000 1989 The man who wrote, "Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to."

golf 5x 20.0% stumper $460 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $300 1995 The National Lampoon called this "not so much a sport as an insult to lawns"

DJ $600 1989 Mark Twain called this sport "a good walk spoiled"

J $300 DD 1987 Mark Twain said this game "is a walk spoiled"

Thoreau 5x $620 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $400 1991 "In the long run", he wrote in "Walden", "men hit only what they aim at"

DJ $1,200 2009 "That government is best that governs least" was said not by Jefferson but by this "Civil Disobedience" author

J $100 1994 "How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book", he pondered at Walden Pond

Worth Knowing (6)

Washington, D.C. 3 never 2 F. Scott Fitzgerald 2 Christopher Columbus 2 a weed 2 a star 2

Shakespeare

8 answers | 27 clues

Must-Know (1)

George Bernard Shaw 9x 22.2% stumper $578 avg J:3 DJ:6

DJ $200 2001 This "Saint Joan" playwright hated Shakespeare so much it would "Be a relief to...dig him up and throw stones at him"

J $500 1992 "The golden rule is that there are no golden rules", said this "Pygmalion" playwright

J $1,000 2005 "But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth", he wrote in "Man and Superman"

Worth Knowing (7)

Hamlet 3 black 3 angels 3 the night 3 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 2 Shakespeare 2 John Wilkes Booth 2

Children's Literature

5 answers | 18 clues

Should-Know (3)

The Wizard of Oz 6x $233 avg J:2 DJ:4

DJ $200 1987 "And remember, never let those ruby slippers off your feet for a moment"

J $200 2009 (1939)Ray Bolger:"Oh, no!"

DJ $200 2000 1939:"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!"

Moses 4x $275 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $100 1991 "Who am I that I should go unto Pharaoh"

DJ $200 1991 He asked God, "Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh and... bring forth the children of Israel"

DJ $400 2005 The Lord told him to "Lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it"

Groundhog Day 4x $600 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 2019 "I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster, drank pina coladas...why couldn't I get that day over & over?"

DJ $1,400 DD 2006 "I've been stabbed, shocked, poisoned, frozen, hung, electrocuted & burned... I am an immortal"

J $400 2011 "I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl... that was a pretty good day. Why couldn't I get that day over & over?"

Worth Knowing (2)

The Sixth Sense 2 Marie Antoinette 2

Mystery / Thriller

2 answers | 4 clues

Worth Knowing (2)

Raymond Chandler 2 an enigma 2

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