JAQR - 5/25/25 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 from the end of 2024:

10/27, 11/3, 11/10, 11/17, 11/24, 12/1, 12/8, 12/15, 12/22, and 12/29

There are 5-10 questions in each of these categories: Academic, Books, Fine Arts, Geography, History, Literature, Miscellaneous, Movies, Music, Poetry, 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 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

• 3/30/25 = https://jaqr.substack.com/p/jaqr-33025-recap-quiz-special-edition

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ACADEMIC

1. What 1973 book by Lillian Hellman, which discusses her life together with Dashiell Hammett, shares its name with the term for a visible trace of earlier painting beneath a layer of paint on a canvas?

2. What realm from Norse mythology is guarded by Surt and is home to the fire giants?

3. What 11-letter term for speaking in tongues comes from Greek words meaning tongue and speech?

4. What current capital of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate is where Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press?

5. The violinist Jascha Heifetz was born in 1901 in Vilnius, which is the present-day capital of what country?

6. The original French title for Jules Verne’s novel Around the World in Eighty Days is missing what hyphenated plural word: Le Tour du monde en *BLANK* jours

7. The common Spanish name for the Falkland Islands derives from the name of what French city in Brittany on the English Channel that was a primary setting of the Anthony Doerr novel All the Light We Cannot See?

8. In 2009, Hugo Chávez gave Barack Obama a copy of what Eduardo Galeano book subtitled "Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent"?

9. In Greek myth, the Minotaur was the offspring of a bull and what wife of Minos?

10. In the Sikh religion, which of the five Ks refers to a small sword?

1. ***PENTIMENTO***

2. ***MUSPELHEIM***

3. ***GLOSSOLALIA***

4. ***MAINZ***

5. ***LITHUANIA***

6. ***QUATRE-VINGTS*** (literally meaning “four-twenties”)

7. ***SAINT-MALO***

8. ***OPEN VEINS OF LATIN AMERICA***

9. ***PASIPHAË***

10. ***KIRPAN***

BOOKS

1. Mariam is publicly executed by the Taliban after killing her abusive husband Rasheed with a shovel in what author's 2007 novel A Thousand Splendid Suns?

2. Not to be confused with the protagonist of an Ernest Hemingway novel set during the Spanish Civil War, what author wrote most of The Wheel of Time series?

3. What man’s picture books from the 1940s include Make Way for Ducklings and Blueberries for Sal?

4. "The Mastodon's Molars" and "Welcome to the Anthropocene" are chapters in Elizabeth Kolbert's 2014 book titled The Sixth what?

5. What bisexual woman, who was recently described on the cover of Time magazine as "Book Smart" and "the brains behind best sellers loved by readers and Hollywood," wrote the 2019 bestseller Daisy Jones & the Six?

1. ***KHALED HOSSEINI***

2. ***ROBERT JORDAN*** [The Hemingway novel is For Whom the Bell Tolls]

3. ***ROBERT MCCLOSKEY***

4. ***EXTINCTION***

5. ***TAYLOR JENKINS REID***

FINE ARTS

1. What Italian Renaissance painter depicted her three sisters Lucia, Minerva, and Europa in the 1555 work The Game of Chess?

2. What amputee and brother of the author of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus commissioned Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand?

3. What Italian man wrote the libretto for Ponchielli's opera La Gioconda and Verdi's operas Otello and Falstaff?

4. There are four Tate museums in the UK: Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool, and what other Tate located in a seaside town in Cornwall in South West England?

5. Three questions comprise the title of what large 1897 Paul Gauguin painting that proceeds from right to left and begins with a sleeping infant and ends with an old woman near death?

6. Arguably the most influential art dealer of the 20th century, what Italian-American was so skilled that he could sell two beer cans, according to a snide remark by Willem de Kooning that inspired the painting Ale Cans by Jasper Johns?

7. Works by what Italian artist include America (a solid gold toilet) and Comedian (a banana duct taped to a wall)?