JAQR - 3/2/25 Recap Quiz (Special Edition)

100+ questions based on previous editions of JAQR

Thank you for reading another issue of the Jeopardy Answer & Question Recap, or JAQR [“jacker”] for short. This issue will ask about content from these previous regular issues: 4/21, 4/28, 5/5, 5/12, 5/19, 5/26, 6/2, 6/9, 6/16, 6/30, and 7/21.

There are 5-10 questions in each of these categories: Academic, Books, Fine Arts, General Knowledge, Geography, History, Literature, Miscellaneous, Movies, Music, Pop Culture, Science, and Sports.

Some of the questions are hard, so I’d say a score of around 50 correct answers or more is very good. For hundreds of more questions, check out previous Recap Quizzes:

• 3/26/23 = https://jaqr.substack.com/p/jaqr-recap-quiz-special-edition

• 7/9/23 = https://jaqr.substack.com/p/jaqr-7923-recap-quiz-special-edition

• 12/10/23 = https://jaqr.substack.com/p/jaqr-121023-recap-quiz-special-edition

• 3/17/24 = https://jaqr.substack.com/p/jaqr-31724-recap-quiz-special-edition

• 6/23/24 = https://jaqr.substack.com/p/jaqr-62324-recap-quiz-special-edition

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ACADEMIC

1. Zora Neale Hurston (and Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead) studied anthropology under what man, who established the USA's first department of anthropology (at Columbia) and wrote the 1911 book The Mind of Primitive Man?

2. What city, the birthplace of José Eduardo dos Santos, is the most populous Portuguese-speaking capital city in the world?

3. Iowa's largest county by area is named for what Hungarian revolutionary?

4. What city in Tennessee was the site of the Scopes Monkey Trial and is named for a city in Ohio?

5. What longest-serving king of Saudi Arabia (1982-2005) is the namesake of a 15-mile-long causeway that connects Saudi Arabia to the island country of Bahrain?

6. The photo Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima taken by Joe Rosenthal depicts six Marines performing the title action on what mountain?

7. George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., the inventor of the Ferris wheel, attended a "Polytechnic Institute" in Troy, NY named for what man? Peggy Schuyler was married to this man, whose death sparked the Anti-Rent War.

8. What 18th century Italian author helped revive commedia dell'arte and wrote the plays L'amore delle tre melarance and Turandot, which inspired Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges and an opera by Giacomo Puccini?

9. Belize's highest point is a "delight"ful peak in the Maya Mountains named for what man, who wrote the 1912 sci-fi novel The Lost World?

10. What president of a military junta called the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland has been the leader of Niger since July 2023?

1. ***FRANZ BOAS***

2. ***LUANDA***

3. ***LAJOS KOSSUTH***

4. ***DAYTON***

5. ***KING FAHD***

6. ***SURIBACHI***

7. ***STEPHEN VAN RENSSELAER*** [namesake of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute]

8. ***CARLO GOZZI***

9. ***ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE*** [the peak is Doyle’s Delight]

10. ***ABDOURAHAMANE TCHIANI*** [CHAH-NEE]

BOOKS

1. Who created the fictional Boston detective Spenser, who first appeared in the 1973 crime novel The Godwulf Manuscript?

2. What author wrote the Boston-set novels Gone, Baby Gone and Mystic River?

3. What author wrote the 1997 book Déjà Dead and many others centering on the forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan?

4. What title character of a 1978 novel is the son of a brain-damaged ball turret gunner, marries his wrestling coach's daughter named Helen, and is killed after attending a memorial for his mom that was intended only for women?

5. What author fictionalized John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry in the 2013 book The Good Lord Bird? and wrote the 2023 book The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store?

6. City of Bones is the first novel in what author's series The Mortal Instruments?

7. "Great Rock and Roll Pauses by Alison Blake," which is composed of PowerPoint slides, is a section of what 2010 book by Jennifer Egan?

1. ***ROBERT B. PARKER***

2. ***DENNIS LEHANE***

3. ***KATHY REICHS***

4. ***T. S. GARP*** [from John Irving’s novel The World According to Garp]

5. ***JAMES MCBRIDE***

6. ***CASSANDRA CLARE***

7. ***A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD***

FINE ARTS

1. What husband of Helen Frankenthaler created a series of ~150 paintings titled Elegy to the Spanish Republic?

2. In a sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, what Spanish Carmelite mystic and nun is about to have her heart pierced by an angel?

3. The poet Francesco Maria Piave [PYAH-vay] wrote the libretti for what composer's operas Rigoletto and La traviata?

4. Rembrandt's painting Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee was stolen from what eponymous Boston museum in 1990 by two men posing as police officers?

5. Ignatius of Loyola is a character in what Virgil Thomson opera whose libretto was written in 1927 by Gertrude Stein?

6. The knight Antonius Block (played by Max von Sydow) plays a game of chess against Death in what 1957 film directed by Ingmar Bergman?

7. Georges Bizet's opera Carmen was inspired by an 1845 novella by what French author, who also wrote the story "Mateo Falcone"?

8. In 1954, what member of the Osage Nation played the Sugar Plum Fairy in the New York City Ballet’s first annual performance of George Balanchine's reworked staging of The Nutcracker?

1. ***ROBERT MOTHERWELL***

2. ***SAINT TERESA (OF ÁVILA)***

3. ***GIUSEPPE VERDI***

4. ***ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM***

5. ***FOUR SAINTS IN THREE ACTS***

6. ***THE SEVENTH SEAL***

7. ***PROSPER MÉRIMÉE*** [mey-ree-MEY]

8. ***MARIA TALLCHIEF*** [or ***ELIZABETH MARIE TALL CHIEF***]

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. What eponymous university in DeLand, Florida has sports teams nicknamed the Hatters?

2. What device invented by Jack Cover was patented in 1974 and is named for the fictional boy inventor Tom A. Swift?

3. What college located west of Philadelphia has a name meaning “big hill” in Welsh?

4. Andorra's 1, 2 and 5 cent coins show an eagle and what goat-like animal, which shares its name with a type of cloth that inspired the name of the ShamWow?

5. What two countries hosted for the first two Winter Olympics in 1924 and 1928?

6. An international airport named for Chuck Yeager serves what state capital?

7. What woman, who served as CEO of CVS from 2022-2024, was replaced by David Joyner?