JAQR - 6/23/24 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 the following regular issues: 1/28, 2/4, 2/11, 2/18, 2/25, 3/3, 3/10, 3/24, 3/31, 4/7, 4/14.

There are 5-10 questions in each of these categories: Academic, Books, Films, Fine Arts, Geography: Cities & Countries, History, Literature of the Americas, Miscellaneous, Misc. Geography, Movies, Music, Pop Culture, Science, Sports, and World Lit.

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

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ACADEMIC

1. Tammy Duckworth served what state's 8th congressional district, which includes parts of Cook County?

2. The Lighthouse of Alexandria was one of the Wonders of the Ancient World and was located on what island in Alexandria's harbor?

3. What French artist depicted a banished poet in the 1862 painting Ovid among the Scythians?

4. The element holmium is named for the Latin term for what city?

5. The book The Economic Consequences of the Peace was written by John Maynard Keynes the same year that what treaty was signed in the Hall of Mirrors?

6. What cosmonaut flew on Vostok 6 and was the first woman in space?

7. What first Deputy Prime Minister of India is depicted in the Statue of Unity, which is the world’s tallest statue?

8. Barcelona, Spain is home to what phallic-shaped 72-foot-tall sculpture by Joan Miró that is covered in colorful tiles and has a Catalan title meaning “Woman and Bird”?

9. The Gariep Dam on the Orange River was formerly named for what man, who served as PM of South Africa from 1958-1966 and is known as the "father of apartheid"?

10. Hawaii's two senators are Brian Schatz and what Japanese-born woman (pictured below) who was the first Asian immigrant and Buddhist to serve in the U.S. Senate?

1. ***ILLINOIS***

2. ***PHAROS***

3. ***EUGÉNE DELACROIX***

4. ***STOCKHOLM***

5. ***TREATY OF VERSAILLES***

6. ***VALENTINA TERSHKOVA*** [ter-esh-KOH-vah]

7. ***VALLABHBHAI PATEL***

8. ***DONA I OCELL***

9. ***HENDRIK VERWOERD*** [fair-VURT]

10. ***MAZIE HIRONO***

BOOKS

1. A woman travels to the Galápagos Islands by herself at the start of the coronavirus pandemic in what female author's 2021 novel Wish You Were Here?

2. Hulu's miniseries Black Cake was a based on a 2022 novel by what Caribbean-American writer?

3. Who wrote a 1934 crime novel in which Frank helps Cora kill her husband but is later wrongly convicted of a murder he didn't commit?

4. What middle book of The Chronicles of Narnia is titled for an object that Prince Rilian is bound to by the Lady of the Green Kirtle?

5. What author who grew up in New Zealand has written three novels: The Rehearsal, The Luminaries (which won the Booker Prize in 2013), and Birnam Wood?

6. What woman (pictured below with many of her books), whose two most recent novels are The Dutch House and Tom Lake, also wrote a 2001 novel based on the Japanese embassy hostage crisis in Peru titled Bel Canto?

1. ***JODI PICOULT*** [PEE-koh]

2. ***CHARMAINE WILKERSON***

3. ***JAMES M. CAIN*** [the novel is The Postman Always Rings Twice]

4. ***THE SILVER CHAIR***

5. ***ELEANOR CATTON***

6. ***ANN PATCHETT***

FILMS

1. The 1983 crime drama Scarface was a loose remake of a 1932 film. Name the director of either film.

2. What 1961 movie, the final one for both Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe, was directed by John Huston and featured a screenplay by Arthur Miller?

3. British composer John Barry won two Oscars (Best Original Music Score and Best Song) for what 1966 movie that starred the real-life married pair Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as a couple who raise an orphaned lion cub named Elsa?

4. What movie directed by Orson Welles starred Rita Hayworth as the title character and features a climactic shoot-out in a hall of mirrors?

5. What woman (pictured below), nicknamed "America's Sweetheart," starred in the 1929 movie The Taming of the Shrew with her husband Douglas Fairbanks?

1. ***BRIAN DE PALMA*** or ***HOWARD HAWKS***

2. ***THE MISFITS***

3. ***BORN FREE***

4. ***THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI***

5. ***MARY PICKFORD***

FINE ARTS

1. A young disabled woman in a pink dress stares at a distant farmhouse in what 1948 painting by Andrew Wyeth?

2. What 1821 work, originally titled Landscape: Noon, depicts the title farm wagon being pulled by three horses, and was painted by John Constable?

3. English painters Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Everett Millais were members of what group that was partly named for an earlier Italian painter?

4. The drummer Art Blakey was the leader of what hard bop jazz combo whose members over the years included Terence Blanchard and Wayne Shorter?

5. What mountain near Aix-en-Provence was depicted in more than 30 paintings by the French artist Paul Cézanne [say-ZAHN]?

6. Lester Young’s tendency to wear pork pie hats inspired the title of the 1959 elegy "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" by what jazz bassist (pictured below)?

1. ***CHRISTINA'S WORLD***

2. ***THE HAY WAIN***

3. ***PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD***

4. ***THE JAZZ MESSENGERS***

5. ***MONT SAINTE-VICTOIRE*** [mawn sant-vik-twar]

6. ***CHARLES MINGUS***

GEOGRAPHY (CITIES & COUNTRIES)

1. Located 92 feet below sea level, what lowest capital city by elevation is on the Absheron Peninsula, which juts into the Caspian Sea?

2. Spain has two autonomous cities, both of which are in North Africa. Name either.

3. What city on the north shore of Great Slave Lake is the capital of the Northwest Territories?

4. Jane Goodall conducted research on chimpanzees in what country's Gombe Stream National Park?

5. What is the capital of mainland Italy's largest region by area?

6. The Sea of Marmara is surrounded by what country?

7. Of the 15 countries formed by the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, what two are alphabetically first? Their flags are depicted below.

1. ***BAKU***

2. ***CEUTA*** [say-OO-tah] or ***MELILLA*** [meh-LEE-yah]

3. ***YELLOWKNIFE***

4. ***TANZANIA***

5. ***TURIN*** [the region is Piedmont]

6. ***TURKEY***

7. ***ARMENIA & AZERBAIJAN***

HISTORY

1. What man, who was the first vice-president not born in one of the original 13 states, was Martin Van Buren’s VP? He claimed to have personally killed the Shawnee leader Tecumseh.

2. What military operation with a colorful name, which was ordered in 1984 by Indira Gandhi, involved removing Sikh separatists from the Golden Temple in Amritsar?

3. What eponymous war, which included the Battle of Stillman’s Run and the Battle of Bad Axe, was fought in 1832?

4. What king of the Khmer Empire, who ruled from 1113-1150, was responsible for building the temple complex Angkor Wat?

5. The social reformer Margaret Sanger lobbied for overturning the birth control provisions of what 1873 act, which was named for an anti-vice activist and outlawed the transportation of “obscene” matter in the mail?

6. Louisiana politician Huey Long was assassinated by what physician in 1935?

7. Andrew Jackson's first term as U.S. president included what affair, in which John C. Calhoun’s wife Floride led the social ostracization of Peggy Eaton (the wife of the Secretary of War)? It shares its name with an article of clothing.

8. Nero’s reign as Roman emperor included a failed revolt in Britain in ~60 CE that was led by what queen of the Iceni people?

9. Samuel Tilden lost the U.S. presidential election of 1876 to what governor of Ohio?

10. Pictured below, what daughter of Menelik II was Empress of Ethiopia from 1916 to 1930 and was succeeded by Haile Selassie?

1. ***RICHARD MENTOR JOHNSON***

2. ***OPERATION BLUE STAR***

3. ***BLACK HAWK WAR***

4. ***SURYAVARMAN II***

5. ***COMSTOCK ACT***

6. ***CARL WEISS***

7. ***PETTICOAT AFFAIR***

8. ***BOUDICA***

9. ***RUTHERFORD B. HAYES***

10. ***ZEWDITU*** (or ***ZAUDITU***)

LITERATURE OF THE AMERICAS

1. What poem by Claude McKay ends with the lines “Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack, / Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!”

2. What novella by Henry James centers on a governess who struggles to save two children (Miles and Flora) from the apparitions of two former servants in the household (Miss Jessel and Peter Quint)?

3. “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” is from what poet's 1923 collection Harmonium?

4. The visceral realist poets Arturo Belano (the author’s alter ego) and Ulises Lima travel around the world in an attempt to track down the vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero in what 1998 novel by Chilean author Roberto Bolaño [boh-LAHN-yoh]?

5. What poet wrote "Maud Muller," which includes the lines “For of all sad words of tongue or pen / The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’”?

6. What object (depicted below), the subject of an ode by Pablo Neruda, is described by the following lines: “With a tender heart / Dressed up like a warrior, / Standing at attention, it built / A small helmet / Under its scales"?