Speaking as a Boomer Revolutionary, SCREW THE KIDS! There’s a reason why we write the Jeopardy questions. 
Er, whether we have a larger base of reading is another thread.
i actually did wrestle my way through the whole of kapital over my summer between first & second years.
i can quote nary a line of any volume, nor can i be certain the sun actually rose a day that whole season.
but tackle, head on, even, i did.
I would have guessed Marx no problem, but he references political power and class so often in his theoretical work that Capital is a perfectly respectable guess if you don’t know the Manifesto intimately.
As an aside, i’m always vaguely amused by the insistence on calling the larger work Das Kapital rather than simply Capital. I mean, the Communist Manifesto was also originally published in German, but no-one who is speaking English goes around calling it Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei.
That’s because Das Kapital sounds so damn cool.
Yeah, Komrade, stop spoiling our fun!
I knew it was Marx and which book it was, but I couldn’t for the life of me remember the title. Total brain freeze.
Uh yeah, I got the answer and I’ve never read it either. But hey, I answered it without having T.V. cameras trained on me under the looming, condescending eye of Alex Trebek.
I would have guessed Communist Manifesto because it wouldn’t have occured to me to guess Das Kapital.
I would not have gloated about it on a message board the next day, insinuating something about the players’ intelligences.
I saw an episode of Millionaire the other day and the question was, “Which line from a nursery rhyme was considered by Margaret Mitchell as a possible title for the book Gone With the Wind?”
A. Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
B. Rockabye Baby
C. Little Jack Horner
D. Three Little Kittens
Truthfully, I had to make up three of the answers above because I couldn’t remember the actual choices, but it does seem to me that only one of them could be connected to GWTW in any way. I’d have thought anyone could have figured out the answer without even reading the book or seeing the movie, just by general knowledge and process of elimination. And this was a $50,000 question. Anyone want to try it?
(Re the OP, I also guessed The Prince.)
Weren’t there three sisters in the O’Hara household? My guess would be “Three Little Kittens.”
gasp And you live in Atlanta! You ought to be ashamed! 
No, I get your reasoning, but I’d counter that the book wasn’t about all three sisters, and besides, someone unfamiliar with the book or movie wouldn’t have ever heard of Suellen or Carreen.
Then who knows? “Baa Baa Black Sheep” could refer to Rhett Butler - scoundrel and black sheep that he was.
“Rockabye Baby” could refer to Rhett and Scarlet’s bad luck with offspring.
The only one that doesn’t make any sense is “Little Jack Horner” who sat in the corner and dug plums out of pies with his thumb.
But inasmuch as Margaret Mitchell originally called Scarlet “Pansy” ( :eek: ), who knows what her thinking was with regard to nursery rhyme titles? She had an excellent editor!
Well, hell. I figured it was obvious that it referred to Scarlett, black sheep of the family (and of the county, etc.) but I see it’s open to interpretation. Okay, then, never mind the hijack!
I still say the Millionaire player could have tried it with his 50/50 instead of his Switch the Question.
Sometimes Margaret Mitchell said droll things to interviewers, such as recommending Groucho Marx to be cast as Rhett Butler. Something tells me that if she said she had considered titling her novel Baa Baa Black Sheep, she may have been kidding.
Nitpick: The answer was given and the correct question was in the spoiler box.
I would have gueesed Night at the Opera.
I knew it was Marx, I knew it wasn’t Das Kapital, but I couldn’t come up with the title of Communist Manifesto to save my life before the music ended.
No, sorry, The Hammers …
I was far from gloating. I honestly thought it was too easy of a question but only because I was ignorant of the subject matter. Had I actually known about Das Kapital, then I wouldn’t have started the thread. I see know why it was a tricky question.
Fair enough; apologies for sounding harsh there.