Thank you for reading another issue of the Jeopardy Answer & Question Recap, or JAQR [“jacker”] for short. This special edition will include 120 questions based on previous editions of JAQR. The recap will ask about content from the following regular issues: 10/15, 10/22, 10/29, 11/5, 11/12, 11/19, 11/26, 12/3, 12/17, 12/24, 12/31, 1/7, 1/14, and 1/21.
There are 5-10 questions in each of these categories: Academic, American Literature, Auditory Fine Arts, Authors, Eastern Hemisphere Geography, Miscellaneous, Movies, Music, North American History, Popular Culture, Science, Sports, Visual Fine Arts, Western Hemisphere Geography, World History, and World Literature. Many of the questions are pretty hard, so I’d say a score of around 60 correct answers or more is very good. For even more questions, check out previous Recap Quizzes from 3/26/23, 7/9/23, and 12/10/23.
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Academic
What last to be built Space Shuttle shares its name with a ship used by James Cook on his first expedition to the Pacific Ocean?
The quote “the love of money is the root of all evil” is from an epistle addressed to what disciple of St. Paul?
What element, number 67 on the periodic table, is named for Sweden's capital city?
A painting by Pablo Picasso is titled "Night Fishing at" what town on the French Riviera located between Cannes and Nice?
The radical French activist Jean-Paul Marat was taking a medicinal bath when he was stabbed to death by what woman (depicted below)?
***ENDEAVOUR***
***TIMOTHY***
***HOLMIUM*** [Holmia is the Latinized form of Stockholm.]
***ANTIBES***
***CHARLOTTE CORDAY***
American Literature
What 1906 muckraking novel is set in Chicago’s Packingtown neighborhood and centers on Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus?
What 1944 play is named for a collection of small glass animals that belongs to Laura Wingfield?
Ignatius J. Reilly is the main character of what John Kennedy Toole novel set in New Orleans?
Who wrote the 1862 poem "Battle Hymn of the Republic"?
Who wrote a modern retelling of Shakespeare’s King Lear titled A Thousand Acres, which concerns the inheritance of a large Iowa farm?
The novel Moby-Dick is primarily set aboard what whaling vessel owned by Quakers named Peleg and Bildad?
Paul Robeson played the title character, whose first name is Brutus, in what Eugene O’Neill play?
What author (pictured below) wrote about a timber strike in Wakonda, Oregon in a 1964 novel and set a 1962 novel in a psychiatric hospital run by Nurse Ratched?
***THE JUNGLE***
***THE GLASS MENAGERIE***
***A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES***
***JULIA WARD HOWE***
***JANE SMILEY***
***PEQUOD***
***THE EMPEROR JONES***
***KEN KESEY*** [The novels are Sometimes a Great Notion and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.]
Auditory Fine Arts
First, middle, and last name required. What composer of the Pulitzer-winning orchestral piece Become Ocean is not to be confused with the composer of the opera Nixon in China?
Georges Bizet's opera Carmen is set in what Spanish city?
Eisenstein attends a glamorous ball and tries to seduce a Hungarian countess, who is actually his wife Rosalinde in disguise, in what 1874 comic operetta by Austrian composer Johann Strauss II?
Words from the Book of the Dead are sung in what minimalist opera by Philip Glass that premiered in 1984?
A 1913 ballet with music by Igor Stravinsky was commissioned by what founder of the Ballets Russes [ROOS], pictured below?
***JOHN LUTHER ADAMS***
***SEVILLE***
***THE BAT*** (or ***DIE FLEDERMAUS***)
***AKHNATEN***
***SERGEI DIAGHILEV*** [The ballet is The Rite of Spring.]