JAQR - 12/10/23 Recap Quiz (Special Edition)

Test your knowledge of previous editions of JAQR

Thank you for reading another issue of the Jeopardy Answer & Question Recap, or JAQR [“jacker”] for short. This special edition will include 135 questions based on previous editions of JAQR. The recap will ask about content from the following regular issues: 6/4, 6/11, 6/18, 6/25, 7/2, 7/16, 7/23, 7/30, 8/6, 8/13, 8/20, 8/27, 9/3, 9/17, 9/24, 10/1, and 10/8.

There are 5-10 questions in each of these categories: Academic, American Literature, Books, Eastern Hemisphere Geography, Fine Arts, Miscellaneous, Movies, Music, North American History, Popular Culture, Science, Sports, Western Hemisphere Geography, World History, and World Literature. Many of the questions are pretty hard, so I’d say a score of around 68 correct answers or more is very good. For even more questions, check out previous Recap Quizzes from 3/26/23 and 7/9/23.

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Academic

1. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is in what city, which names the "Accords" that ended the Bosnian War?

2. What country's national anthem is called “La Dessalinienne," which is named for a man who ruled as Emperor Jacques I from 1804-1806?

3. The story of Gideon is recounted in chapters 6-8 of what book of the Bible?

4. What first published work of Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard discusses the distinction between the aesthetic and ethical life?

5. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz argued that the actual word is the best of all possible worlds in what 1710 work?

6. What island off the coast of Albania and Greece was the birthplace of Queen Elizabeth II's husband, Prince Philip?

7. Handel's suite Music for the Royal Fireworks was composed to celebrate what treaty that ended the War of the Austrian Succession?

8. Medea tricked the daughters of what King of Iolcus into cutting him up and putting him in a boiling pot, since they thought their elderly father would emerge young and rejuvenated?

9. What man, who is the namesake of the most populous city in the Philippines, served as the second president of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944?

10. Mongolia’s capital of Ulaanbaatar has a name meaning “Red Hero,” which refers to what man (pictured below) who helped defeat the Chinese in the 1920s?

1. ***DAYTON***

2. ***HAITI***

3. ***JUDGES***

4. ***EITHER/OR***

5. ***THEODICY*** [thee-AH-dih-see]

6. ***CORFU***

7. ***TREATY OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE*** [eks lah shuh-pel]

8. ***PELIAS***

9. ***MANUEL QUEZON***

10. ***DAMDIN SUKHBAATAR***

American Literature

1. John Steinbeck's novel Cannery Row is set in the sardine cannery district of what California city?

2. What novel by Richard Powers, which is divided into four sections (Roots, Trunk, Crown, and Seeds) and is partially set during the Pacific Northwest timber wars, won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction?

3. What poet co-founded the City Lights bookstore in San Francisco?

4. Jean Latour organizes a new Roman Catholic diocese in Nebraska the territory of New Mexico in what author’s 1927 novel Death Comes for the Archbishop?

5. What 1979 novel by Cormac McCarthy is named for a voluntarily impoverished character who lives on a dilapidated houseboat and also includes a character named Gene Harrogate (“The Moonlight Melonmounter”), who has sex with watermelons?

6. What protagonist of Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye is tricked into giving a dog poisoned meat by a self-proclaimed healer named Soaphead Church?

7. What woman, who was the subject of Paula McLain's 2011 historical fiction novel The Paris Wife, was Ernest Hemingway's first wife, and had The Sun Also Rises dedicated to her?

8. The character Ulgine Barrows uses expressions like “are you tearing up the pea patch?" in what 1942 story by James Thurber?

9. What female poet (pictured below) wrote the sonnet "The New Colossus" to help raise money for the construction of The Statue of Liberty's pedestal?