Literature
POETS & POETRY | 400 | The first stanza of this poem mentions ""Some visitor... tapping at my chamber door--only this and nothing more""
""The Raven""
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
IN PRAISE OF OLDER WRITERS | 1200 | In his 90s, this Irish playwright was still writing comedies like ""Far-Fetched Fables""
(George Bernard) Shaw
SPY FICTION | 1600 | 1991 's ""The Secret Pilgrim"" was the last of John le Carre's 8 novels featuring this spy
(George) Smiley
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
BOOKS ABOUT WOMEN | 400 | ""A Remarkable Woman"", about this late actress, says she saw Spencer Tracy in ""Captains Courageous"" 52 times
(Katharine) Hepburn
AUTHORS | 200 | ""Slaughterhouse-Five"" was the first of his novels to feature his own drawings
(Kurt) Vonnegut
1990s FICTION | 200 | In 1990 his ""Bourne Ultimatum"" was a bestseller
(Robert) Ludlum
POETS & POETRY | 1000 | Spawning the Romantic Movement, 1798's ""Lyrical Ballads"" was penned by Wordsworth & this other poet
(Samuel Taylor) Coleridge
WRITERS BY MIDDLE NAMES | 600 | Wordsworth was his BFF:Taylor
(Samuel Taylor) Coleridge
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
THE BOOK OF NUMBERS | 400 | Anthony Burgess one-upped Orwell with this title
1985
COMPLETES THE BESTSELLER TITLE | 600 | What if? ""11/__/63""
22
BOOKS & AUTHORS | 800 | There's no excuse for not knowing that Sue Grafton began her Alphabet Mysteries with this book
A is for Alibi
THE BOOK OF MERMEN | 800 | The Marvel character known as Sub-Mariner lives undersea in this fabled ""lost"" land
Atlantis
A LOOK AT BOOKS | 600 | ""GEB"" is devotees' name for Douglas Hofstadter's ""Godel, Escher,"" this composer
Bach
POLITICAL CONVENTION KEYNOTERS | 800 | Democrats, 2004:This Illinois senatorial candidate
Barack Obama
BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS | 400 | This man: ""Billionaire Computer Genius""
Bill Gates
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES | 400 | The price is right for ""Priceless Memories"", the autobiography of this game show host
Bob Barker
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
NONFICTION | 2000 | The chapters in his ""Cosmos"" corresponded to episodes of his TV show
Carl Sagan
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
THE NEW YORK TIMES: POLITICS | 800 | David Brooks said a scandal like Bridgegate makes this governor ""look unpleasant, but not unelectable""
Chris Christie
A 1980s BOOKSTORE | 1600 | Evil is alive & inhabiting a 1958 Plymouth Fury in this Stephen King tale
Christine
GOVERNMENT & TV | 1600 | Seen here, Yvonne Strahovski played a CIA agent helping a nerdy newbie on this show
Chuck
1990s FICTION | 600 | This debut novel by Charles Frazier was a take on Homer's ""Odyssey"" set during the Civil War
Cold Mountain
AMERICAN LITERATURE | 800 | In Stephen Vincent Benet's story ""The Devil and"" him, Mr. Scratch has come to collect a debt
Daniel Webster
AUTHORS' LESSER-KNOWN WORKS | 2000 | ""La Vita Nuova"" tells of his first sight of Beatrice when they were both 9
Dante
WRITERS FIRST NAME'S THE SAME | 600 | McCullough &Sedaris
David
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
1980s BESTSELLERS | 400 | In 1986 he celebrated his 82nd birthday with the publication of ""You're Only Old Once!""
Dr. Seuss
JOHN LAW | 1600 | John Campbell opposed secession but concurred with this 1857 Supreme Court decision that pushed the U.S. toward war
Dred Scott
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION | 2000 | Touting the ""Massachusetts Miracle"" didn't help this Democratic nominee
Dukakis
WRITERS FIRST NAME'S THE SAME | 400 | Sitwell &Wharton
Edith
HAIKU ABOUT THE POET | 800 | ""Aurora Leigh"", whoa! /19th century lady /Let me count the ways
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
MONEY MATTERS | 800 | In 2012 this former Argentine first lady was honored on that country's 100-peso note
Eva Perón
AUTHOR-IZED BIOGRAPHIES | 1000 | This woman from Nohant, France took a male pen name & a piano-playing lover
George Sand
IT'S AN ELECTION YEAR | 1200 | In 1984 Democratic nominee Walter Mondale chose this running mate, a historic selection
Geraldine Ferraro
POLITICAL BOOKS | 400 | In 2002 this former New York City mayor published ""Leadership""
Giuliani
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
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE | 800 | Our primary source for ancient Norse pagan beliefs is the Poetic Edda of this island nation
Iceland
POETS & POETRY | 2000 | Yeats: ""I will arise and go now, and go to"" this place
Innisfree
WOMEN AUTHORS | 400 | In 2011 this muggle topped Forbes' list of ""the 10 most powerful women authors""
J.K. Rowling
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
OUTLAWS | 1600 | ""Bonanza"" star Lorne Greene had a No. 1 hit about this outlaw, the ""fastest gun in the West""
Johnny Ringo
BRITISH AUTHORS | 1600 | In an 1890 letter, he called himself ""a Polish nobleman, cased in British tar""
Joseph Conrad
WRITERS IN WARTIME | 1600 | His time in the 488th Bombardment Squadron, 340th Bombardment Group inspired a classic satirical novel
Joseph Heller
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
WHO WROTE THESE KIDS' BOOKS? | 600 | ""A Swiftly Tilting Planet"" & ""A Wind in the Door""
Madeleine L\'Engle
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
BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS | 1000 | A book about this 13th chief executive is subtitled ""The Unbelievable Life of a Forgotten President""
Millard Fillmore
POETIC WOMEN | 1200 | Longfellow called her the ""handsomest of all the women in the land of the Dacotahs""
Minnehaha
AMERICAN AUTHORS | 600 | His first published novel, ""The Notebook"", was inspired by the relationship of his wife's grandparents
Nicholas Sparks
CONSERVATIVE BOOKSHELF | 400 | Cartoonist Michael Ramirez inked the humorous ""Give Me Liberty or Give Me"" this program aka the Affordable Care Act
Obamacare
BOOKS & AUTHORS | 2000 | This Upton Sinclair novel with a 3-letter title was inspired by the Teapot Dome scandal
Oil
NONFICTION | 400 | Dame Judi Dench wrote the foreword to this expose on the role of the Catholic church in forced adoptions
Philomena
BOOKS' MISSING ADJECTIVES | 800 | ""Sarah, ____ and ____""
Plain & Tall
BOOKS ABOUT WOMEN | 800 | Daphne du Maurier remembered her original idea for this book as ""A beautiful home... a first wife... jealousy...""
Rebecca
NAME THE POET | 800 | ""My little horse must think it queer to stop without a farmhouse near""
Robert Frost
AUTHORS: BORN & DIED | 1600 | Born in Scotland in 1850; died in Samoa in 1894
Robert Louis Stevenson
BIOGRAPHIES | 2000 | If you didn't read John McCormick's 1987 biography on this philosopher, you may be condemned to repeat it
Santayana
BOOKS' SUBTITLES | 400 | This horse: ""An American Legend"" by Laura Hillenbrand
Seabiscuit
COMPLETE THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD TITLE | 200 | William Styron, 1980:""____ Choice""
Sophie\'s
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 RENAISSANCE LITERATURE TIMELINE | 2000 | Lady Penelope Rich was the ""star"" of Sir Philip Sidney's sonnet cycle ""Astrophel and"" her, published in 1591
Stella
GEO-POLITICIANS | 1000 | This 5'4"" ""Little Giant"" who debated Abraham Lincoln has an 11,300' mountain named for him in Montana
Stephen Douglas
BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS | 1000 | This woman: ""Daring to Vote""
Susan B. Anthony
AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES | 1200 | Panem
Suzanne Collins
A BUNCH OF BOOKS | 1000 | Tom Wolfe, 1987:""The ___ of the ___s""
The Bonfire of the Vanities
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
BESTSELLERS BY PARTIAL TITLE | 1000 | Mary Karr joined this ""Club""
The Liars\' Club
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
BOOKS BY MEN | 400 | The title of this book continues ""and What Alice Found There""
Through the Looking Glass
IT'S IN THE BOOK | 800 | From 1922, Dubliner Molly Bloom
Ulysses
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
POETS & POETRY | 1600 | He began a famous poem, ""I celebrate myself, and sing myself""
Walt Whitman
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 | 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
LAWFUL IDIOMS | 800 | A judge handing down a light sentence is giving this 4-word gentle blow
a slap on the wrist
POETRY TERMS | 200 | An epithalamium is a poem for this occasion; one by Sappho ends, ""Happy bridegroom, seek your bride""
a wedding
LAW | 800 | A 2010 Irish law bans this, calling it speech ""insulting... to matters held sacred by any religion""
blasphemy
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
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
CONSERVATIVE BOOKSHELF | 800 | A 2016 title is ""The Intimidation Game: How the Left is Silencing"" this 2-word First Amendment right
free speech
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
MONEY | 800 | Most of these bills showing Ben Franklin are held in other countries
hundreds
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS | 1600 | On Nov. 6, 2012 voters in Maine & Maryland said yes, Adam & Steve can do this
marry
ENGLISH LITERATURE | 200 | John Donne wrote, ""Death, be not"" this, ""though some have called thee mighty & dreadful, for though art not so""
proud
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
RULE OF LAW | 1600 | In California it enforces rules of professional conduct for lawyers
the (state) bar (association)
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
GOVERNMENT JOBS | 800 | Oversees the executive office of the president to help the big man make decisions
the Chief of Staff
COUNTRIES' POLITICAL PARTIES | 800 | The Communist Party of Bohemia & Moravia
the Czech Republic
COMIC BOOKS | 2000 | Also a ring bearer, Sinestro is chiefly a foe of this ""colorful"" superhero
the Green Lantern
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
POLITICAL TERMS | 800 | Once a word for Irish outlaws, it came to mean a member of the British Conservative Party
the Tories
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS | 400 | Patty Murray chairs the Senate Committee on this spending document
the budget
