| 1938 "The War of the Worlds" narrator | 47 |
| 1938 AFL offshoot | 17 |
| 1938 Austria-Germany union | 26 |
| 1938 Bette Davis classic | 24 |
| 1938 Daphne du Maurier novel | 28 |
| 1938 DuPont invention | 21 |
| 1938 graduate of Cairo's Royal Military Academy | 51 |
| 1938 hit "I ___ Anyone Till You" | 42 |
| 1938 Horse of the Year | 22 |
| 1938 Kurt Weill melody | 22 |
| 1938 Literature Nobelist | 24 |
| 1938 Nobel physicist | 20 |
| 1938 Nobel-winning physicist Enrico | 35 |
| 1938 nonfictional title | 23 |
| 1938 Oscar nominee for "You Can't Take It With You" | 65 |
| 1938 Physics Nobelist | 21 |
| 1938 play with only chairs, tables and ladders as props | 55 |
| 1938 portrayer of Robin | 23 |
| 1938 Robin portrayer | 20 |
| 1938 Rodgers-Hart tune | 22 |
| 1938 Ronald Reagan film | 23 |
| 1939 #1 hit for the Ink Spots | 29 |
| 1939 Academy Award nominee Brian | 32 |
| 1939 Academy Award-winning short | 32 |
| 1939 Agatha Christie classic | 28 |
| 1939 Andrews Sisters hit | 24 |
| 1939 Best Actor Oscar winner | 28 |
| 1939 Best Actress role | 22 |
| 1939 Best Picture nominee banned in the Soviet Union | 52 |
| 1939 Bette Davis drama | 22 |
| 1939 blockbuster film, for short | 32 |
| 1939 Bogart title role | 22 |
| 1939 Bolger co-star | 19 |
| 1939 Boris Karloff horror film | 30 |
| 1939 Buck Rogers player | 23 |
| 1939 classic co-star | 20 |
| 1939 classic set at Fort Zinderneuf | 35 |
| 1939 co-star of Haley and Bolger | 32 |
| 1939 Cooperstown inductee George | 32 |
| 1939 costar of Garland | 22 |
| 1939 debut | 10 |
| 1939 epic film | 14 |
| 1939 epic, informally in print | 30 |
| 1939 film | 9 |
| 1939 film home | 14 |
| 1939 film plantation | 20 |
| 1939 film setting | 17 |
| 1939 film taglined "Garbo laughs" | 43 |
| 1939 film with a Best Actor performance | 39 |
| 1939 Garbo role | 15 |
| 1939 Garland co-star | 20 |
| 1939 Gary Cooper adventure | 26 |
| 1939 Giraudoux play | 19 |
| 1939 Glen Gray hit "___ Night" | 40 |
| 1939 Glenn Miller hit | 21 |
| 1939 Greta Garbo Best Picture nominee (it lost to "Gone With the Wind") | 81 |
| 1939 Henry Miller book | 22 |
| 1939 hit "___ for That" | 33 |
| 1939 hit for Glenn Miller | 25 |
| 1939 Humphrey Bogart role | 25 |
| 1939 invasion site | 18 |
| 1939 James Joyce novel | 22 |
| 1939 James Stewart title role | 29 |
| 1939 John Garfield drama | 24 |
| 1939 John Wayne classic | 23 |
| 1939 Judy Garland film | 22 |
| 1939 Leigh role | 15 |
| 1939 Lugosi role | 16 |
| 1939 movie canine | 17 |
| 1939 movie mansion | 18 |
| 1939 movie setting | 18 |
| 1939 novel about residue from King KongÂ’s dinner? | 53 |
| 1939 novel by John Steinbeck | 28 |
| 1939 Oscar winner on an island? | 31 |
| 1939 Pol. invader | 17 |
| 1939 retiree who said "Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth" | 99 |
| 1939 Robert Donat film | 22 |
| 1939 Roberta Donat film? | 24 |
| 1939 role for Clara Blandick | 28 |
| 1939 Shearer/Gable movie | 24 |
| 1939 Stewart role | 17 |
| 1939 tile role for James Stewart | 32 |
| 1939 title role for Frank Morgan | 32 |
| 1939 title role for Robert Donat | 32 |
| 1939 Vivien Leigh/Clark Gable film | 34 |
| 1939 Wayne film | 15 |
| 1939 William Holden film | 24 |
| 1939 Wimbledon winner | 21 |
| 1940 aerial war | 15 |
| 1940 Alfred Hitchcock movie | 27 |
| 1940 Arthur Koestler novel that inspired George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" | 93 |
| 1940 Broadway hit "_____for the Show" | 47 |
| 1940 cartoon in which Woody Woodpecker debuted | 46 |
| 1940 Crosby/Lamour/Hope comedy | 30 |
| 1940 Crosby/Lamour/Hope film that was the first of a "travel" series | 78 |
| 1940 Disney classic | 19 |
| 1940 Disney film | 16 |
| 1940 Douglas Fairbanks Jr. film | 31 |
| 1940 Fields co-star | 19 |
| 1940 Fonda role | 15 |