JAQR - 3/30/25 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: 7/28, 8/4, 8/11, 8/25, 9/8, 9/15, 9/22, 9/29, 10/6, 10/13, and 10/20.

There are 5-10 questions in each of these categories: Academic, American History, Books, Film, Fine Arts, Geography, Literature, Miscellaneous, Movies, Music, Pop Culture, and World History.

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 these 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

• 3/2/25 = https://jaqr.substack.com/p/jaqr-3225-recap-quiz-special-edition

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ACADEMIC

1. Stibium is the Latin name of what chemical element, which is found (along with hydrogen and fluorine) in the world's strongest acid?

2. What state's Capitol is topped by a statue called The Sower and houses a unicameral legislature?

3. The cathedral in Belgium that contains the Ghent Altarpiece is named for what 7th century saint who once lived in a hollowed tree?

4. What day of mourning for Shia Muslims occurs on the tenth of Muharram and commemorates the martyrdom of Muhammad's grandson Husayn and his followers at the Battle of Karbala in 680 CE?

5. How many phalanges are in each hand?

6. The epsilon cells of the islets of Langerhans produce what "hunger hormone" that stimulates appetite?

7. The politician William Jennings Bryan was nicknamed the “Boy Orator of” what river that is located about 10 miles south of Omaha?

8. In addition to depicting a rural utopia in the 1890 work News from Nowhere, what Brit created many wallpaper designs, including one named Trellis?

1. ***ANTIMONY*** (The acid is fluoroantimonic acid)

2. ***NEBRASKA***

3. ***BAVO***

4. ***ASHURA***

5. ***FOURTEEN***

6. ***GHRELIN***

7. ***PLATTE***

8. ***WILLIAM MORRIS***

AMERICAN HISTORY

1. The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral occurred in what year that included three different U.S. presidents?

2. In 1978, Dan White murdered San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk and what mayor?

3. What member of the Kaw Nation served as Herbert Hoover's vice-president?

4. Sam Houston served as governor of what two states?

5. Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution changed the voting age to 18 (from 21)?

6. What woman, who served from 1981-1985, is missing from this list: Madeleine Albright, Susan Rice, Samantha Power, Nikki Haley, Kelly Craft, and Linda Thomas-Greenfield?

1. ***1881*** [The presidents were Hayes, Garfield (assassinated), and Arthur]

2. ***GEORGE MOSCONE***

3. ***CHARLES CURTIS***

4. ***TENNESSEE & TEXAS***

5. ***26TH***

6. ***JEANE KIRKPATRICK***

BOOKS

1. What book, which is part of a quartet along with The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz, centers on the unsolved 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short?

2. What title character of a 2008 book by Elizabeth Strout is a retired math teacher who lives in the small coastal town of Crosby, Maine with her pharmacist husband Henry?

3. Wht’s th lst nm f th wrtr f th 2017 nvl Lttl Frs vrywhr?

4. The cellist Mia, who has an out-of-body experience while in a coma, deliberates between attending Juilliard or remaining in Oregon with her boyfriend in what Gayle Forman YA novel?

5. A military nurse from the 20th century named Claire Randall time travels to 18th century Scotland and has a romance with the warrior Jamie Fraser in a series of historical fantasy novels by what woman?

6. Along Came a Spider and Kiss the Girls were the first two books in what James Patterson series named for a detective?

7. What author spawned a new literary genre called "girlfriend fiction" with her 1992 book Waiting to Exhale?

8. Colonel Mikhail "Misha" Filitov is the title character of what author's 1988 espionage thriller The Cardinal of the Kremlin?

9. The Duke and I (centering on Daphne) and The Viscount Who Loved Me (centering on Anthony) are the first two books in a Regency romance series by what woman?

1. ***THE BLACK DAHLIA*** (by James Ellroy)

2. ***OLIVE KITTERIDGE***

3. ***NG***

4. ***IF I STAY***

5. ***DIANA GABALDON***

6. ***ALEX CROSS***

7. ***TERRY MCMILAN***

8. ***TOM CLANCY***

9. ***JULIA QUINN***

FINE ARTS

1. What woman photographed a naked Keith Haring wearing only black and white body paint in 1986?

2. Two men named Jacques and Pierre founded what architecture firm that designed Hamburg's concert hall Elbphilharmonie and a stadium in Beijing nicknamed “The Bird's Nest”?

3. The lower half of what El Greco painting depicts the saints Augustine and Stephen laying the title 14th century mayor in his tomb?

4. What character declares "I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore, / And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore" in a song from an 1879 comic opera?

5. The first three movements of the third Brandenburg Concerto appears on what debut album by Wendy Carlos?

6. What artist created a collage titled Some Living American Women Artists, which was based on Leonardo's The Last Supper and included Georgia O’Keeffe in the role of Jesus?

7. What co-founder of the cooperative Magnum Photos was responsible for a group of photos from D-Day known as The Magnificent Eleven?

8. Located in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, what painting by John Singer Sargent depicts four young girls near two tall Japanese vases?

9. Who composed the 12-tone opera Don Rodrigo and the ballet Estancia (“cattle ranch”), the latter of which was inspired by José Hernández's epic poem about the gaucho (“cowboy”) Martín Fierro?

10. What Leonardo da Vinci painting, the only one on public view in the U.S., depicts a young Florentine woman and was sold by Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein to D.C.'s National Gallery of Art in 1967?